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If a time trial specialist does win this year's Tour, it's a fair bet that he will be among the top three or four finishers today. Initially announced as 38km, this stage is now another 3.5km longer. It's a test of two halves, with the first 20 kilometres much more rolling than those near to the finish. However, there is not much here that will worry the stronger time trialists, such as Wiggins, Martin and Cancellara. They will power up the climbs and should gain three to four seconds a kilometre on Frank Schleck and the other climbers – some two and three minutes by the end. If it's any less than that, the RadioShack-Nissan leader will be very happy.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host and manage collected data as part of the National Children's Study (NCS), the largest long-term examination of children's health and development ever conducted in the United States.
The NCS study, announced this week, is being led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nationally, the study will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to learn how the environment influences children's health, development, and quality of life.
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"These children and their families will be followed for 25 years, with enough detail about their specific household environments to learn what causes, as well as what may prevent, common serious conditions such as childhood asthma, diabetes, obesity, autism, and mental illness," according to co-principal investigator Christina Chambers, associate professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. "We will finally be able to create a national sample to help us confirm, for example, whether suspected contaminants such as pesticides and other chemicals are actually the cause of birth defects or metabolic disease."
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Ten Reasons Why I'm Opposed to Animal Experiments
#1. I'm a great believer in informed consent. Animals are neither informed nor do they consent.
#2. If what we seek to learn is directly beneficial to the animal, that is a happy byproduct. It is almost never the goal.
#3. Animals, who cannot speak or understand human speech suffer more, not less, precisely because they lack the mediation of language that can explain the duration of the suffering, its intensity, and its reason. No animal, I would guess, has ever understood the purpose of an experiment.
#4. When I look at those experiments in psychology that I can understand, I see that what they proved was something already known to commonsense - that you can make a dog give up hope, that an infant monkey prefers his real mother to a wire surrogate.
#5. Despair and loneliness is, in my view, more intensely felt by animals than it is by human animals. Who can look into the eyes of a dog in head injury experiments, and not be overwhelmed by the degree of incomprehension. Even in these circumstances, dogs do not blame us. This inability to correctly assess our motives is tragic for the life of the dog. It is a nobility beyond what we can recognize in our own species.
#6. The mind of the vivisector is not a place I wish to visit, nor would I want to explore his dreams. When his karma has ripened, I would hate to be there to pick it.
#7. Some scientists enjoy the suffering they witness.
#8. Some scientists do not enjoy the suffering they witness, but they do it anyway.
#9. Some scientists who do not enjoy the suffering and do not do the experiments, nevertheless stand by silently while their colleagues do it. By not voicing their dissent, they are complicit in the creation of the suffering that they deplore.
#10. What do we teach students when they see men in white coats laughing at a monkey in despair, or when they watch their professors invade the body of an immobilized animal in their attempt to learn about human aggression?
Ten Reasons Why Animals are Superior to Research Scientists
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#5. Animals do not occupy their time inventing speciesist reasons why they are superior to the animals they destroy.
#7. Animals do not hide what they do in underground fortresses.
#8. No animal believes you can discover the origins of animal unhappiness by drilling holes into the brains of other animals.
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By all rights, her story should have been over almost as soon as it began...
"Once upon a time there was a puppy. The puppy had an accident and broke her neck. She was given no chance of recovery, and was put to sleep."
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Natural Art at Cable Bay
Cable Bay is an interesting place. The receding water leaves paintings or carvings over the entire beach. I have never seen this on a beach before.
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Self-Drive Traveling in New Zealand gives you that extra opportunity to find those hidden gems - at your own pace, while ensuring you choose what to see and do. I was extremely fortunate to explore places that I hadn't planned to.
Travelling between Abel Tasman and Picton and 10km from Nelson I accidently turned off SH6 and was greeted by the gorgeous Cable Bay.
Cable Bay is an interesting place. With the ocean on one side, Delaware Bay tidal mud flats on the other and a separating bank of boulders in between. As the tide recedes the remarkable sandy shoreline of Cable Bay converts into a natural art museum. In my own words - 'It's a natural sand sculpture'.
The receding water leaves paintings or carvings over the entire beach. Wow, I have never ever seen this on any beach. For me the masterpieces looked like big Kaori Trees on canvas.
Feeling so spoilt with this beauty we stayed the evening at the Cable Bay Holiday Park - easy and hassle free.
Another gem - Cable Bay Walkway is a marked track which ascends the hill above the bay and it is described as an 8km one-way track to Glenduan Bay. An easy 45 minute climb following the pole markers, the walk overlooks the huge expanse of Tasman Bay while enjoying spectacular views of Cable Bay and privately owned Pepin Island.
The Cable Bay Holiday Park is managed by a friendly kiwi couple. With limited sites available my advise is to book early so you don't miss out.
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The goal of this page, is to consolidate all answers collected via the TG mailinglist, simple mails, ... or any findings you think relevant for other TG users.
Try to be as consise as possible and use, as much as possible, links (to mailing list for example).
If you checkout TG from svn you can run CatWalk in to ways:
By mounting it to your controller like this:
from turbogears.catwalk import CatWalk
import model
class Root(controllers.Root):
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...... your controllers method ....
CatWalk will now run on http://localhost:8080/catwalk
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- Deploying your TG application with an Egg and Easy Install: wiki
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So since the start of January, I have been on a roll with finishing off old sewing projects and bringing festering ideas into fruition. In the last four days I have completed the following and I attribute my immense drive and perserverence to the extreme cold we are having here in NYC. (8 degrees the other day!)
I got this Vogue vintage 1950's pattern about a year ago and I was excited to use it with some blue floral cotton. The blue made me think of Grace Kelly and a delicate tea party. Finding the pattern pieces were very oddly shaped and I might not have enough, I improvised by using a lovely lipstick red cotton I salvaged from an old dress I never wore. The dress' skirt was full and cut on the bias, so I had a lot of fabric to work with. I actually like the combination of the two and the red brings a more modern look to the shape, in my eyes. I am five hours into the project and it's looking nice. I have a long way to go, as there are eight gussets in all, a full lining, horsehair braid to put into the hem, a zipper and hemming!
Another garment I made was this simple silk blouse from some flocked cheetah print fabric a client of mine had me make a custom dress from in like… 2008. I have been sitting on this small piece for about seven years so it was nice to make a little shirt with a built in scarf. The pattern is original and I sewed a scarf piece into the shoulder seam and then it wraps around the neckline. French seams throughout and simple hemming. I would like to do one or two more in a different fabric ;o)
So I started this draped jacket from some awesome pink wool Kollabora generously donated to me last year and then I just stopped. The pattern is a plus size Burdastyle pattern that took me like six hours to grade down because of all of the angles of it and it was exhausting and I guess I therefore gave up. I bought that purple woven fabric at Paron six months ago with the intention of using it on the lapel of this jacket, yet the whole project sat in storage for months and months until this week. I hand-sewed the binding on the cuffs and tacked the collar facing throughout. I am pretty happy with how happy-looking the jacket is. It's so damn bright, but who cares, it's fun. I love pink.
I also used this awesome Western shirt I got in Texas last year to make a much less masculine and heavy blouse with some shaping, waist cinching and a Peter Pan collar. I completely took apart the men's shirt and used the flat fabric to cut out a vintage 1960's pattern from it. I had just the right amount of fabric, and was even able to re-use the buttons and cut a smaller sleeve from the existing sleeves! The new shirt features a bowtie front, buttons down the back, and short sleeves. I loved the print of the old shirt, but that coupled with the back cape yoke and front cape and large bulbous sleeves was a bit…much. Hooray for re-imagining clothing!
I also made this pillow from this awesome Indian shirt I have had for about six years and never wear because it's skin-tight. I love the embroidery on it and the intense pink, but it was too darn small. I love Eastern textiles and have a lot of them in my home, so this made sense. I only used the sleeves to make the pillow, added some vintage purple pom pom trim and that was it.
Now,I have to finish the 50's dress and I want to alter an amazing French suit I picked up at a thrift shop recently. It's a wild suit. I'm excited to share what else I make in the next few weeks! Be back soon!
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Laura McIntoshAs host and executive producer of the fun and informative traveling cooking program Bringing it Home with Laura McIntosh, Laura McIntosh is living her dream. Having grown up in the small farming town of Linden in Northern California, it was only natural that she developed a love of the soil and passion for food that was nurtured by a close-knit family that had been farming for five generations. Today, Laura continues her lifelong commitment to sharing fun and easy ways to enjoy food at its peak of freshness while, at the same time, educating consumers about the cultural and heritage aspects of where our food comes from.
As a young adult, Laura left her small town to pursue yet another passion – theater arts – that would later serve her well as a lively, educated and spontaneous on-air host. After studying Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she was accepted into the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre program in San Francisco. Then, after gaining valuable acting and voiceover experience working for a range of reputable local and national companies such as Dodge, The Oppenheimer Group International, Dupont and E&J Gallo Winery, Laura had the opportunity to host and produce The Full Bloom Show which aired on the ABC affiliate in the Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto media market.
Newly married and wanting to settle down and start a family, Laura found herself drawn back to her home town and roots in farming. Tapping into her devotion to food, theatrical ability and her steadfast love of Sunday dinners with family, she and her brother Daniel Moznett founded M.Entertainment in Lodi, California in 2001. Working alongside her brother – who shares her same passion for seasonal ingredients and culinary pursuits – the team launched the half-hour television program Bringing It Home with Laura McIntosh in 2002. After five successful years in production and an ever-expanding on-air distribution, the program stands out among other cooking programs as the cast and crew literally go the extra mile to shoot on-location at farms, orchards and vineyards near and far in order to spotlight various commodities at their very peak of freshness. In addition to hosting the popular program, Laura is instrumental in the development of stories and is responsible for contacting and coordinating with local and world-renown chefs, growers and farmers in her role as the show's executive producer. In their spare time, the talented team is also working on content development and oversight for a Bringing It Home cookbook that became available nationally in 2008. In addition, M.Entertainment has launched a winemaking endeavor as well – M.Winery, a boutique winery in Lodi carrying the label "Idol" wines.
And, it is important to note, even while traveling all over the world to research food topics and shoot segments for Bringing It Home, Laura – along with her husband, their two children and her extended family – always manages to share Sunday dinner together at home to celebrate life, food and family.
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Mozilla has announced that its Firefox browser application now runs on millions more Android devices than it did previously. The company has added support for a number of smartphones that run on the ARMv6 architecture. Previously, while available for Android 2.2 and above, it would only work on ARMv7 handsets.
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By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College students Htar Htar, Zohra, Bilal, Mahmoud and Chinyere gathered last Thursday to talk to a small audience about their childhoods. From four very different countries one thing tied them together: all five grew up in war zones.
The panel discussion was part of a week-long symposium on Sex and War, sponsored by the college's Women and Gender Studies Department, that intended to highlight how women and men experience and participate in war differently.
Junior Htar Htar Yu grew up in an armed conflict area in southern Burma, where a civil war has raged for the past 13 years. Her parents were a soldier and a nurse in the Tavoyan United Front, a militia formed by what she called a "sub-Burmese" ethnic group to which her family belongs.
BRANDON — The Brandon Fire Department hasn't operated out of its original firehouse on Franklin Street near the town hall for almost 10 years now. But in the building's second story, where the Dunmore Hose Company held its meetings since the building was constructed in 1888, relics of another time remain untouched.
On a dusty round table is a roll of tickertape tangled up in a contraption that once controlled the horn on top of the building. Various combinations of horn signals were assigned to each street in town, so firemen knew where to go when they heard the alarm. The horn was taken down in the 1970s, but the last number it called is still punched into the tape.
Scanning a finger down the list of street numbers on an old chart recently, longtime Brandon firefighter Gene Pagano looked at the tape and said, "13. It must have been on Grove Street."
April 26, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Local members of the Vermont House on Monday sharply criticized a Senate-passed legislation calling for annual caps on school budget increases.
The measure — devised by Gov. James Douglas — calls for public school budget increases to be limited to 4 percent in the first year, and at 3.5 percent during ensuring years, unless a "super majority" of at least 60 percent of the local electorate decides to override the cap.
Douglas has touted the cap as a means of limiting education-related property tax increases during an era in Vermont's history when school populations are declining.
The Vermont Senate on April 17 voted 15-15 — with Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie breaking the tie — to endorse a series of amendments (including Douglas's spending cap) to H.526, the so-called "act relating to education quality and cost control."
April 26, 2007
By HARRIETTE BRAINARD
MIDDLEBURY — The annual cost of attending Middlebury College will hit $46,910, a 5.25 percent increase over the prior year, for the 2007-08 academic year. The increase includes a 5 percent bump in the comprehensive fee and a 50 percent jump in the student activities fee set by the Student Government Association (SGA).
College officials this week said the increase reflects the commitment their institution has made to increasing faculty size and student aid as outlined in the strategic plan approved last May.
"With the federal government taking less of a role in providing scholarships to college students all of us who are involved in educating students are trying to reduce the loan component for the sake of the student," said Vice President for Communications Mike McKenna.
April 23, 2007
LEICESTER — With 64 students enrolled this academic year, Leicester Central School is more than twice the size of neighboring elementary schools in Whiting and Sudbury, which have tentatively planned to merge in the fall of 2008. Even still, the Leicester School Board is now considering joining in the merger.
"Leicester is shopping for a dancing partner," said Bill Mathis, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent.
School Board Chair Dorothy Jerome stressed that Leicester is still in the "talking stages" of a merger, but that declining enrollment was a top issue for the board.
"It's getting very hard to operate a school, and getting very expensive," Jerome said. "Our concern is getting the best possible education to the children. Is that truly feasible with one or two students in a grade?"
MIDDLEBURY — In response to last week's shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech, in which a 23-year-old English major killed 32 people and injured at least a dozen more before turning the gun on himself, Middlebury College officials are evaluating how they could contain a rogue shooter.
Among the options being investigated is installing a siren that would fit into an overall plan to make campus-wide communications more effective.
College President Ronald Liebowitz sent a written statement to members of the college community on Tuesday, assuring them that his administration is taking steps to refine the way it prepares for emergencies.
MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) is exploring the possibility of building a new headquarters near the Vermont Agency of Transportation's District 5 garage off Creek Road in Middlebury.
April 19, 2007
BRANDON — A vicious Nor'easter blew through southern Addison County like a freight train on Sunday evening and early Monday morning, leaving more than 3,200 area households and businesses — and the entire town of Brandon — without power for more than two days.
Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CVPS) crews were still working feverishly on Tuesday morning to repair the Walnut Street substation that helps power all of Brandon.
Wind gusts reported in excess of 70 miles per hour in Rutland, along with wet snow, toppled scores of trees onto power lines and other electric utility infrastructure throughout Rutland County and into southern Addison County. Dozens of roads — including Route 7 — were rendered impassable for long stretches, until they were liberated by chainsaw wielding workers and volunteers.
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Tim Luther, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Office Phone: (951) 343-4283 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Office Location: W.E. James Building, Room 273 Office Hours: MWF: 8.00 am - 9.50 amTR: 11.00 am - 12.20 pmAnd by appointment
|Major Emphasis
|Political Science
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|Political Science
|University of Illinois
|Political Science
|Blackburn College
Courses Taught
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
State and Local Government
Classical Political Philosophy
Modern Political Philosophy
Critical Political Philosophy and Postmodernism
American Political Thought
American Government
Senior Research Project
Scope and Methods of Political Science
International Relations
Comparative Government
Christianity, Ethics and Politics
Political Economy
World Geography
Money, Media, and Politics
International Organizations and Law
National Security and Nuclear Weapons
Campaigns and Elections
Christianity and Citizenship
Political Parties and Interest Groups
Principles of Public Administration
Public Personnel Administration
Public Budgetary Process
Theories of Justice
Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Democracy and Education
Public Policy
Congress & The Presidency
Academic Areas & Scholarly Interests
Political Theory and Philosophy
American Government and Politics
International Relations
Democratic Theory
Public Administration
Teaching Experience
California Baptist University, 25 years
Claremont Graduate University Visiting Scholar, one year
University of La Verne, one year
Lincoln Land College, one year
University of Idaho, two years
Research, Presentations, & Publications
Sarkis, J. Khoury (with Timothy C. Luther), U.S. Banking Regulation in the Political Context (Landham: University Press of America, 1996).
Luther, Timothy C. Hegel's Critique of Modernity: Reconciling Individual Freedom and the Community (Landham: Lexington Books Division of Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Luther, Timothy C. Hegel and Marx: Economics and Democracy. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2002).
Luther, Timothy C. Congress, Interest Groups, and Democracy: Private Money v. Public Interest. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2002).
Luther, Timothy C. The Political Philosophy of Democracy: Its Origins, Promises, and Perils. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
Remembering John Stuart Mill with the First Amendment, A Report from the Capital, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, April, 1991.
"Paul Ricoeur's Critical Hermeneutics: Narrative and the Philosophical Experience," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 14, 2010, Honolulu, HI.
"Habermas, Rationality, and Democracy: Between Cartesian Certainty and Postmodern Skepticism," at the annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 25, 2010, Chicago, Illinois.
"Baudrillard and the Consumer Society: From Critical to Fatal Theory," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 6, 2009, at California State University, San Francisco, CA.
"Aesthetics and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory: Assessing Popular Culture and the Risks," Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference, May 23, 2009, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI.
"Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: Church-State Relations and Toleration," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 4, 2009, at Chicago, IL.
"Levinas, Derrida, and the Totalization of War," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 7, 2008, at Claremont, CA.
"The Pirates of the Caribbean: Privateers as Agents of Foreign Policy," Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference, May 25, 2008, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI.
"Hegel's Conception of Ethical Life: From Family to Political Economy," at the Southeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference, March 13, 2008, at Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Autonomy and Solidarity: Hegel's Rechtsstaat," at the Northeast Political Science Association Annual Conference, November 16, 2007, at Philadelphia, PA.
"Hegel and Epistemology: An Anti-Foundational Response to Relativism," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 12, 2007, at Chicago, Illinois.
"Jean Baudrillard and the System of Objects: From Symbolic Exchange to Hyperreality," Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference, May 26, 2007, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI.
"Hegel's Dialectic: Intersubjectivity and the Community of Reason," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 20, 2006, at Chicago, Illinois.
"Hegel's Rechsstaat: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Community," NEPSA conference, 2007.
"Jean Baudrillard and the System of Objects: From Symbolic Exchange to Hyperreality," Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference, 2007.
"Hegel and Epistemology: An Anti-Foundational Response to Relativism," MPSA conference, 2007.
"Dialectic of Aristotle and Kant: Hegel's Sittlichkeit," at the Northeast Political Science Association Annual Conference, November 10, 2006, at Boston, MA.
"The Dialectic of Aristotle and Kant: Hegel's Ethical Life," NEPSA, 2006.
"Hegel's Dialectic: Intersubjectivity and Community of Reason," MWPSA Conference, 2006.
"Immanuel Kant and Political Judgement: From the Metaphysics of Right to Post-Metaphysical Politics," SEPSA Conference, 2005.
"Hegel's Critique of Modernity: Reconciling the Individual and Community," MWPSA Conference, 2005.
"Hegel's Sittlichkeit: Classical Community v. Modern Freedom," Fall Colloquium on Religion and Philosophy, School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, 2005.
"Sittlichkeit and Burgerliche Gesellschaft: Hegel's Dialectic of Economy and Morality," NEPSA Conference, 2005.
"Michel Foucault and Rationalism: From Oppositional Politics to Democracy," SWPSA Conference, 2004.
"Autonomy and Solidarity: Democratic Rights in Context," MWPSA Conference, 2004.
"Diversity and Political Judgement: Justice in an Age of Pluralism," NEPSA Conference, 2004.
"What Comes After the Subject? Intersubjectivity, Political Rights, and Democracy," NEPSA Conference, 2003.
"Jacques Derrida and Political Philosophy: The Unrelenting Voice of the Other," MPSA Conference, 2003.
"Jean-Francois Lyotard's Political Philosophy: Diversity and Democracy," NYSPA Conference, 2003.
"Deconstructing Democracy: Derrida and the Other," SWPSA Conference, 2003.
"The Contributions of Roger Williams: Christianity, Liberty, and Democracy," Politics and Religion Seminar, School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, 2003.
"What Comes After the Subject? Intersubjectivity, Rights, and Democracy," NEPSA Conference, 2003.
"Diversity, Gender, and Justice: Lyotard's Differend '" SWSSA Conference, 2002.
"Between Liberalism and Communitarianism: Habermas's Deliberative Democracy," NYSPA Conference, 2002.
"Martin Heidegger's Critique of Liberalism: Mitsein and Democracy," NEPSA Conference, 2002.
"Philosophical Hermeneutics: A Heideggerian Defense of Democracy," SWPSA Conference, 2001.
"Derridean Democracy: Deconstruction as Justice," NYSPA Conference, 2001.
"Trustee Distinguished Scholarship Award," for "Hegel and Christianity: God and Geist in Philosophical Inquiry and Politics." California Baptist University, 2007.
"Distinguished Professor Award," California Baptist University, 2001.
"Outstanding Teaching in Political Science," The American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society, 2001.
"Faculty of the Year," California Baptist University, 2000.


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Set of 4 Traveler's Notebook Inserts – Surf
From: $16.96
Retro-style surf prints in bold aqua, lemon, and black.
Retro-style surf prints in bold aqua, lemon, and black.
Set of 4 Inserts / refills designed to fit refillable traveler's notebooks in a variety of popular sizes!!
Each insert is filled with your choice of high quality paper, covered with a beautiful high-resolution print, and hand sewn with strong waxed thread.
*These prints are not foiled/metallic and any glitter effect is simulated gloss print only.
140gsm Cartridge Paper
An excellent quality all-purpose paper suitable for writing, drawing, fountain pens, and mixed-media journalling. It is soft white in colour and uncoated with a very light tooth. This is our most popular choice, offering the least amount of show-through from front to back and still a good number of pages. If you have purchased from us in the past, this is likely the paper you are used to from us.
120gsm Extra Smooth Cartridge
Our newest paper option! This beautiful extra smooth paper is ideal for juicy fountain pens and brush lettering without wearing on your nibs. With 20% cotton blended in, the surface is buttery smooth but uncoated so there is no unpleasant slickness or long drying times. Page counts are the same as our 140gsm paper, but the finished books and inserts are a little thinner due to the lighter weight.
100gsm Cartridge Paper
The same quality and surface as our 140gsm cartridge paper in a thinner package! This lighter-weight option offers the maximum number of pages per journal while still boasting minimal show-through with most inks. If you want the maximum number of pages we can pack into a book and you don't mind a little more show-through then this is the paper for you!
All of our writing papers are available in a variety of patterns:
- Blank
- Ruled (Fine 5mm or Wide 6.5mm)
- Dot Grid (Micro 3.5mm, Standard 5mm or Large 7mm)
- Full Grid (Micro 3.5mm, Standard 5mm or Large 7mm)
- Isometric (Dot or Full Grid)
- French Grid
- Calligraphy Practice (5mm or 7mm baseline)
140gsm Cartridge Paper
Our popular cartridge paper is also an excellent choice for artists! The surface is uncoated so it grabs dry media without loosing depth, but the paper has also been internally sized for wet strength so watercolours and other paints also perform beautifully.
225gsm Watercolour Paper
A superb acid-free paper suitable for watercolour and other wet-media. Our watercolour paper has a NOT finish (slightly rough) and is a mid-white shade. It holds without fraying even through repeated layering and scrubbing.
Still not sure? Try our sampler paper pack!
All four paperweights, and all of our available patterns in one handy little A6 package.
This is the size of the insert that fits in the cover – the cover itself will be taller and wider to protect the pages.
- B5 – 176 x 250 mm (7 x 10 in)
- A5 – 148 x 210 mm (6 x 8 ¼ in)
- Cahier – 127 x 210 mm (5 x 8 ¼ in)
- Classic Slim – 110 x 210 mm (4 ¼ x 8 ¼ in)
- B6 – 125 x 176 mm (5 x 7 in)
- Personal – 95 x 171 mm (3 ¾ x 6 ¾ in)
- A6 – 105 x 148 mm (4 x 6 in)
- Field Notes – 89 x 140 mm (3 ½ x 5 ½ in)
- Passport – 89 x 122 mm (3 ½ x 4 ¾ in)
- Micro A7 – 74 x 105 mm (3 x 4 in)
Page counts in our inserts vary by paper weight:
100gsm – 68 pgs
120gsm – 48 pgs
140gsm – 48 pgs
225gsm watercolour – 28 pgs
calendars – 36 pgs
* all page counts consider both the front and back of each leaf of paper
Some of our designs will be sewn with multiple colours of thread, which adds to the time it takes to make each one. Journals with higher starting prices will have this multicolour binding!
- 100gsm Standard- 204 pgs
- 120gsm Extra Smooth – 144 pgs
- 140gsm Standard- 144 pgs
- 225gsm Watercolour – 84 pgs
- 100gsm Standard – 272 pgs
- 120gsm Extra Smooth – 192 pgs
- 140gsm Standard – 192 pgs
- 225gsm Watercolour – 112 pgs
- 100gsm Standard – 340 pgs
- 120gsm Extra Smooth – 240 pgs
- 140gsm Standard – 240 pgs
- 225gsm Watercolour – 140 pgs
- 100gsm Standard- 408 pgs
- 120gsm Extra Smooth – 288 pgs
- 140gsm Standard- 264 pgs
- 225gsm Watercolour – 168 pgs
Insert/Refill Page Counts*
- Our 100gsm inserts/refills have 68 pages.
- 120gsm and 140gsm inserts/refills have 48 pages.
- Calendars have 36 pages.
- Watercolour inserts/refills have 28.
* all page counts consider both the front and back of each leaf of paper
If you have an existing order that has not completed, and would like to add more items, please send us a message first! We can work with you on shipping discounts and revise your completion date as needed.
(We would ask that you please not place your new order and then ask us to combine the shipping after, as these extra refunds can be harmful over time to our reputation with our credit card processor!)
HOLIDAY PROCESSING TIMES: Please note that current processing times are about 2 weeks for the holiday / new year season.
We aim to post all orders in about a weeks time, though this can take longer during busy times of the year. Once posted, UK orders are typically received in 1-3 business days, EU orders are about a week on average, and orders to the US and the rest of the world are normally 7-10 business days. (Please understand, however, that customs can cause long delays with international orders.)
We are happy to add a name, personal message, your favourite quote, etc. to the first interior page of traditional journals. Please reach out to us prior to placing your order to discuss your options.
Ribbon page markers and some sort of closure (elastic or ribbon depending on the aesthetic style) are standard on nearly all of my journals. We can remove the page markers or swap ribbon / elastic closures if you like - just let us know your preferences when placing your order!
All of my solid colour notebooks, journals, and traveler's notebooks have been designed with coordinating ribbons, elastics, threads, etc - but I love mixing them up! There are too many possibilities for me to list them all, so please feel free to request your favourite color combination!
Some great examples: Purple/Teal, Ebony/Poppy, Steel/Meadow, Royal/Peel, Dove/Pink, Sky/White
If you don't see the colours you want, send me a message first and I may still be able to accommodate your request!
Still have questions? You can use our contact page to send us a message!
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Hello Guys, It's been a looonng time since my last post i think its september last year, yeah yeah i know it's kinda busy at work. But anyway I'm back. 🙂
For this first post for 2012 year of the dragon. I will give you cool 30 Photoshop Tutorials that will give you jump start for this year to inspire you and be creative.
Here are the 30 Photoshop Tutorials For 2012 Year of the Dragon that i gathered and extremely hot and useful to give you more idea for your project design etc.
Share It Guys If you like this post.
Many thanks! Cheers!, Anthony from iapdesign blog.
1). Lonely – Manipulation Tutorial
This time we will use less stock images and focus more on the effects, blend modes, and illumination. This is medium-advanced tutorial but I think you can do it because I will give you as many details as I can.
2). 2012 Year of The Water Dragon Wallpaper in Photoshop
So starting from this point we'll create a Photoshop illustration with 2012 made out of two cute water dragons.
3). Photo Manipulate an Explosive Magical Reading Scene
4). How to Develop a Handmade Illustration with Photoshop
This tutorial will give you a general workflow overview of how to create traditional illustrations on paper and then refining it further in Photoshop.
5). Photo Manipulate a Scenic Natural Spa Scene
6). Stamp Photoshop Tutorial
7). Amazing Water & Light Splash Effect in PhotoShop
8). Create a Chained Arm with Blood Stain Effect in Photoshop
9). Photoshop Tutorial: Make smashing glass effects
10). Design an Professional Admin/Control Panel Template in Photoshop
Learn how to design a Sleek & Professional Admin/Control Panel Website Layout in Photoshop!
11). Photoshop Tutorial: Paint a multilayered surreal portrait
12). Hopeless – Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial
13). Dying Planet
14). Design a Futuristic Abstract Portrait
15). Design a Diary/Journal Web Layout in Photoshop
16). Create a Sleek Coming Soon Page in Photoshop
17). Learn How To Create A Rosette In Photoshop From Scratch
18). Create a Stunning Parrot Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
19). Glossy Snow Globe Text Effect
20). How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop
Learn through simple steps how to montage many different elements in one picture and make it look really good with lightning, shadows and image grading.
21). Make Photos More Suggestive Tutorial
Subtle effects, great outcome, easy to follow up steps! Enjoy!
22). How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial, we're going to create a photo manipulation using different techniques. We'll be adjusting each layer and element to make a compact final image. We'll be using multiple photos and a handful of effects to create this work. Let's get started!
23). Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color
Combine reality with line art in beautiful poster and learn advanced techniques from this high quality tutorial!
24). Change Hair Color With Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to change the hair color easily with Photoshop. You can experiment yourself with color tones to achieve different outcomes.
25). Design a Sleek Facebook Fan Page in Photoshop
In this tutorial I'll teach you how to create a sleek & stylish Facebook Fan Page! We'll be using the Shape Tool, Filters, Custom Brush, Text Tool & Blending Options to create this cool layout!
26). Create a Realistic Vault Icon in Photoshop
Learn how to create a realistic Vault/Safe using Adobe Photoshop. We'll be creating this vault using shapes, blending options and various techniques.]
27). Design a Personal Vcard Mini-Site in Photoshop
Learn how to create a fun & eye-catching Personal Vcard Mini-Site Template in Adobe Photoshop! We'll be using a number of handy techniques for creating the background effect, gallery section & page layout of the vcard.n]
28). Design a Food/Cafe Website Template in Photoshop (+Free PSD)
29). Electrifying Energy Beam Photoshop Tutorial
Great and very easy to archieve effect I really love to use in many works I create as well!
30. Displacement effects tutorial
You'll learn here how to use several filters and techniques to show you the way how to experiment, use lightning effects and recreate those effects in your own style.


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Audi Might Build A Diesel-Hybrid Supercar
Few vehicles can match the efficiency and power of a combination diesel-electric hybrid. Audi has proved as much with a multitude of wins at the always-epic 24 Hours of Le Mans. Now one of the chief executives wants to unite the Audi motorsports and passenger car efforts with a diesel-electric supercar based heavily on the Le Mans champion.Read more


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Updated Solar Resource Maps Available for India
July 15, 2013
Through funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of State, and in collaboration with India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, NREL has updated its 10-kilometer (km) solar resource maps for India.
The new maps incorporate updated 10-km hourly solar resource data developed using weather satellite measurements combined with site-time specific solar modeling. Additionally, the maps expand the time of analysis by four years, from 2002-2007 to 2002-2011 and include enhanced aerosols information to improve estimates of direct normal irradiance.
The data is available in both geographic information system and static map formats on NREL's website for both global horizontal irradiance and direct normal irradiance.
Learn more about NREL's international activities and work with federal agencies.
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Located on the Big Island of Hawaii on the beautiful Kona coast, Halemalu has become a world premier individual, family, group or retreat vacation rental property. Located directly above Kealakekua Bay, the Halemalu Vacation Villa is situated on a private five acre Botanical Garden Estate in Captain Cook and is ready to welcome you or your group. Our two bedroom suites offer a better value and are far more spacious compared to any hotel, lodge, inn or bed & breakfast. Plus our facilities are designed to accommodate all of your needs. Please browse our website, using the links at the top of the page, and see what Halemalu has to offer.
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889 / London / England)
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Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build,
Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work,
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Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk,
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We'll soon be making our New Year's resolutions, something like charting our course for the New Year facing us.
We'll soon be making our New Year's resolutions, something like charting our course for the New Year facing us.
Actually, I won't be making any New Year resolutions; all I plan to do is pray for more patience. I'm in short supply of patience. At this particular time in my life, I need an ample supply and making a resolution to that effect just won't cut it. I need to pray for more, and that I plan to do. So, maybe with all the resolution stuff out of the way I can concentrate on what I need the most. Wish me luck.
Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once said, "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Hogwash! I think the future belongs to those who survive the present.
Just a "for instance:" I never dreamed I'd live as long as I have just to have aches and pains that mostly only the elderly have. Okay, so I belong to the group called the "elderly." Yes, and maybe I should be having aches and pains, but does it have to hurt just to bend over to put my slippers on? Or, to get out of a chair? I don't like to depend on pain medication — and mostly I don't, but sometimes when the pain is overbearing I take a pain pill. One thing is for sure — I'll never become an addict to pain pills.
The eldest of our eight sons just told me, "Mom, you never know what you'll do when you get old." There's consolation in that statement. That kid, who is now 65, obviously doesn't realize I'm old already. I guess it's time to be grateful for small favors, wouldn't you say? Wow! Come to think of it, he's getting old, too. There's consolation in that also. We don't get old alone. A few months ago one of our kids reminded us that we now have three children over the age of 60. Imagine that.
It won't be difficult to pass up the resolution thing this year. While I'm concentrating on having more patience I probably won't even notice the scale registering higher or lower, mostly according to what I eat, and in my case it's mostly higher. I really don't care all that much anymore, only when I go shopping and need to buy a larger size. I used to love to go shopping. Nowadays I mostly go shopping for groceries. That figures. Groceries and larger sizes go together like bread and butter. Shut my mouth. Just talking about food makes me hungry.
Let's change the subject — almost. I plan on cooking cabbage and black-eye peas for New Year's Day. I always invite the children over for New Year's lunch. The chairs around the table are usually empty.
Cabbage and black-eye peas are not a treat for them, bless their little cotton-picking hearts. As for me, I can hardly wait for New Year's Day to get here. I love the menu for the day.
So, you may wonder: Why am I not rich? I've been eating that on New Year's Day for my entire life. The superstition is that the cabbage is for green money; the black-eye peas mean you'll also have change in your pocket. I think I'm living proof that it's all superstition.
I think it's time to rest my mind. William Penn once said, "True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." It seems my mind needs nourishment and refreshment.
Irene C. Michel, a native of
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Edible cars could solve a lot of the world's problems. We can't make space for more cars. They pile up in junkyards when we discard them. And there are many people going hungry.
Of course, if you ate your car, you'd have nothing to drive.
Today we (OK, Jason) wondered if anyone was going to eat a car. Arch Duke Maxyenko, The Great! thought the Velorex above "might be the most digestible," considering it's made of leather and is basically beef jerky anyway. I mean, it has to be more edible than a Slim Jim.
But then Maxaxle had an even bigger idea:
Actually, what if a car was intentionally designed to be digestible? For food-safety's sake, it would probably be powered by compressed air (to reduce the amount of horrific stuff involved in the engine and exhaust system).
Arch Duke Maxyenko, The Great!:
Coming soon from Taco Bell: The Doritos Locos Car! The body is made entirely from real Nacho Cheese Doritos with the interior made from fresh lettuce and tomato The car is steam powered by the boiling hot taco meat steam turning a Doritos Locos Turbine that is hooked up to the Crunch Wrap Supreme wheels via a 2 lb. Cheesy Potato Burrito.
A perfect idea for car-hating, poor Millennials: Taco Bell you can drive.
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NetIDs in the Libraries
NetID's in the University Libraries
The University's NetID can be used to access various electronic services on campus. For more information about NetID, see IT Accounts.
Students, faculty, and staff can use their NetIDs to access the following library services.
- Off-campus access to databases and online journals: patrons must use their NetID to connect to the Libraries databases and online journals from off campus; detailed instructions can be found at http://library.albany.edu/db/access/.
- My Library Account allows patrons to access their library account to review current materials checked out, review their loan history, and renew materials within Minerva, the online catalog.
- ILLiad is the software used to request materials through Interlibrary Loan and UA Delivery. Illiad can be accessed at https://library.albany.edu/ill
- Electronic Reserves provides 24/7 online access to course-related readings, lecture notes, PowerPoints, and more. The Electronic Reserves system can be accessed at http://library.albany.edu/ares.
How to Use NetID's in the University Libraries
Patrons can gain access to these services with their NetID and Unix cluster password. Note that this password may differ from the MyUAlbany password and must be configured separately. It is recommended that patrons configure the Unix cluster password to be the same as their MYUAlbany password.
Forgot your Unix cluster password or want to change it? Configure your password online by connecting to:
Questions and Assistance with NetIDs
For questions and further assistance with NetIDs and passwords, call the Information Technology Services Help Desk at 442-3700 or go to http://www.albany.edu/its/help-request.html.
For further assistance with library services, call University Libraries Reference services at 518-442-3600, option 3, or use the University Libraries "Ask a Librarian" service online at http://library.albany.edu/help/im/.


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Steven Claydon
Omar (Emergent)
Steven Claydon
Omar (Emergent)
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2012 Warehouse/DC Operations Survey: Mixed signals
A record response reveals that readership is divided in terms of investment: one side remains cautious, while the other is on the verge of making significant changes to their warehouse/DC operations. How have your operations emerged from the Great Recession?
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After years of slow economic progress, the results of Logistics Management's (LM) 2012 Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Operations Survey show that there appears to be two schools of thought emerging from the ashes: There are those companies that remain cautious, staying conventional with minimal plans for expansion; and there are those on the verge of making significant investments and changes to their distribution operations.
Designed to gauge activities and trends in warehousing and DCs, our annual survey offers a first-hand look into the state of today's DC and warehouse operations. In September, a survey questionnaire was sent via invitation to LM readers. The survey gleaned 805 qualified responses (a new record for this survey) from upper-level managers to CEOs—all personally involved in decisions regarding their company's warehouse and DC operations.
Most participating companies came from manufacturing (44 percent), followed by distributors (28 percent), third party providers (9 percent) and retailers (8 percent). An assortment of products handled in the DC was once again well-represented with food and grocery leading the pack at 11 percent, followed by industrial/chemical at 10 percent, and electronics and building materials, tied for third, at 8 percent each.
This year's findings revealed mixed signals coming from opposite ends of the spectrum. About 52 percent of respondents are adopting a more cautious approach, spending less than $250,000 for warehousing equipment and technology in 2012.
"That's a predominant statistic," says Norm Saenz, senior vice president and principal of TranSystems, a supply chain consulting firm and our partner for this survey. "It supports how tough economic times have controlled spending to less than $250,000 for a majority of respondents. That's only good for minor improvements to operations, such as racking or the purchase of a lift truck, versus opening a new facility or implementing new technologies."
However, Don Derewecki, senior management consultant also from TranSystems, prefers to focus on the other end of the spectrum: those 17 percent of respondents who are spending $1 million or more this year, and another 16 percent planning to spend that same amount next year.
"That's for significant projects—an indicator that companies are doing more than just replacing worn out equipment," says Derewecki. "These stronger companies have diligent managers who have probably been continuously shaving points off their operating costs over the past few years. By now all the low hanging fruit is gone, so they're starting to get more aggressive and finally looking to squeeze the trigger on investments in mechanization and automation."
Over the next few pages, we'll dig into the high-level findings of the 2012 Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Operations Survey to share more detail on how the warehousing and distribution landscape has changed over the past year. This year we've updated portions of the survey to capture emerging trends while continuing to track the critical measures of warehousing activities we've charted over the past six years. Let's see how your operations compare to what your peers are doing inside the four walls.
What's trending?
Despite the mixed signals, there's one clear conclusion that both Derewecki and Saenz derived from this year's survey: Corporate is making its presence felt inside the warehouse and DC.
"There's an increasing recognition of the importance of the supply chain and how much money is being spent on it," says Derewecki. "Corporate managers have become increasingly focused on the details that make the difference, even at the DC level."
According to Saenz, this fact is never more evident than in the number of respondents who say they're using their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system's warehouse management system (WMS) functionally in the DC (27%)—twice the number of respondents using best-of-breed WMS (13 percent). "Corporate does not want to play around with expensive WMS packages," speculates Saenz.
"They made a commitment to use an ERP system, so they want to use everything these systems can offer—even though it may not be the best thing for the warehouse."
Derewecki agrees, adding that the WMS being offered today by the big ERP players "isn't as bad for the warehouse as it used to be." He says that 10 years ago some of his clients were forced to use ERP at the DC level because corporate wanted everyone to integrate with the company's ERP system. "All of the functionalities that managers used to have with their stand-alone WMS just weren't there," says Derewecki. "In some cases, they had to switch back to more manual operations." But these days, he adds, developers have significantly improved the functionality of ERP's WMS packages.
"As more companies run their businesses with an ERP system, it's easier and less costly to simply use that ERP's WMS," adds Saenz. "I think this is a trend that's going to continue."
There's also a trend towards a more consolidated network. Since 2010, the percentage of respondents with three or fewer buildings has been steadily increasing, while the percentage with four or more buildings has been steadily decreasing. Saenz believes that it's all part of a continuing push by companies to do more with less.
"However, with fewer facilities, you may achieve savings in operating costs, but you may be potentially increasing your freight," Saenz cautions. "This is not a particularly good move with today's inflating gasoline prices."
Even more mixed signals surface from this year's findings. While some networks may be contracting to fewer facilities, about 60 percent of respondents are planning to do some sort of expansion this year. Twenty-six percent are increasing their number of SKUs, and 25 percent are increasing the number of employees.
Despite these plans for expansion, average inventory turns have not improved and remain steady at 8.2. Derewecki offers a possible explanation: "At many companies, in spite of the emphasis on inventory control and the improvement in information systems tools, the proliferation of SKUs has prevented the overall turn ratios from improving."
The multi-channel effect
For the first time, we decided to track how companies use market channels—or how they make product available to their customers.
Most of the respondents (84 percent) report servicing more than one channel: 67 percent report shipping to wholesalers; 57 percent to retailers; and 29 percent are e-commerce based, shipping products directly to customers.
"I would be most interested in tracking e-commerce penetration over the coming years," says Derewecki. "It seems that despite what industry our clients are in, if they are not using the Internet now, they have a plan to get into it." He notes that more consumers are now using brick-and-mortar stores merely as "showrooms" to see a particular model, confirm its looks and functions, but then head back home to compare costs among web retailers before ordering that model online.
How are multi-channel respondents fulfilling their orders? Forty percent are filling their orders themselves from one main DC, designating separate areas for retail or e-commerce or scheduling specific pick waves for certain channels.
"Almost 25 percent of respondents have already decided to put it in a separate DC," notes Saenz. "It would be interesting to see how these results change as each channel grows. I predict more separate DCs and the use of more third-party logistics providers."
2012 DC network profile
The profile of this year's distribution network remains mostly the same as the past few years.
Sixty percent of respondents operate less than 250,000 square feet of space in their distribution network, with most common clear heights of 20 to 29 feet. Derewecki predicts that, over time, the mix is going to shift towards taller, higher buildings. "Lift truck technology is making higher buildings very practical," he says. "Newer, double-deep reach trucks, for example, can lift to a height of over 36 feet."
Seventy percent of respondents report undertaking some kind of distribution network optimization and location studies, mostly on an "as-needed" basis. As a result of these studies, half of respondents (50 percent) report "moving inventory among warehouses" as it is the easiest and quickest option among all the other network improvement actions. For those adding DCs as a result of these studies, most cite "improved customer service" (70 percent) and "the penetration of new markets" (36 percent) as their top two drivers.
Tracking previous trends
Recycling continues to dominate sustainability efforts at 76 percent. This year however, slightly more respondents are "reusing shipping containers" and "using metal and/or plastic pallets."
Derewecki notes that he's seeing more plastic pallets in use at pharmaceutical manufacturing because of FDA requirements. "Wherever you have a requirement of a sterile or cleanroom environment, then that's one good way you can use reusable plastic pallets."
Fortunately, fewer respondents (only 15 percent versus last year's 28 percent) experienced catastrophic events this year compared to last year. Open-ended responses show many operations being hit by hurricanes and tornadoes; but to protect against these particular threats, survey takers have installed back-up generator and data retrieval systems, set plans in place to re-route demand to another DC, and have established multiple sources for parts and raw materials.
To reduce operating costs, "improving warehouse processes" (64 percent) and "improving inventory control" (61 percent) remains the top two actions preferred most by respondents. "It makes sense because both do not necessarily involve a high level of investment," says Derewecki. "However, the better operators have already done all the process improvements that they can do without making capital investments. They are at the next stage. To improve, they may need to invest in mechanization and automation."
About the AuthorMaida Napolitano Maida Napolitano has worked as a Senior Engineer for various consulting companies specializing in supply chain, logistics, and physical distribution since 1990. She's is the principal author for the following publications: Using Modeling to Solve Warehousing Problems (WERC); Making the Move to Cross Docking (WERC); The Time, Space & Cost Guide to Better Warehouse Design (Distribution Group); and Pick This! A Compendium of Piece-Pick Process Alternatives (WERC). She has worked for clients in the food, health care, retail, chemical, manufacturing and cosmetics industries, primarily in the field of facility layout and planning, simulation, ergonomics, and statistic analysis. She holds BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, respectively. She can be reached at
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The rhetorical failure of the week belonged to state Rep. Craig Miner who, in handing down the lame list of Republican proposals from a working group on gun violence, said, "We believe it's not the gun that kills the person. It's the person that actually kills the person. That sounds kind of cold, but that's the way it is."
Dude, it doesn't sound cold. It sounds old. All you did was reword a 30-year-old NRA bumper sticker. You might as well have said: "We believe that, having said 'Budweiser,' one can be averred to have made an all-encompassing statement."
"People kill people" doesn't really cut it. Take a group of 100,000 people in Ireland or Germany or Spain. In a year, using guns, people will kill one of those people. In the U.K. or Japan, people will kill, on average, close to zero of those people that way. Take 100,000 people in the U.S. In a year, people will kill 10 of those people using guns. Are Japanese and German and Spanish and British people 10 times saner and nicer than we are, or do we just have a lot more guns?
Take 100,000 people in Connecticut and the same number in Louisiana, where there are loosey-goosey gun laws. In an average year, people using firearms will kill five people here and 18 there. People kill people but not at the same rate. Take care of business, and the rate goes down.
Let's talk about cars. Forty years ago, people killed 54,000 people every year that way. In 2011, with way more cars on the road, people killed about 32,000 people. It's still bad, but it's awesome progress. With guns, we have made no progress. The gun death rate stays flat at 10 per 100,000. The body count just keeps pace with population growth. The car and gun death totals are nearly identical, but one number is falling and the other creeping up.
We did a lot of things to make that car number go down. Using Miner's logic, we should have done nothing to mandate safer cars, because cars don't kill people. But we made cars safer, made seat belts a given, cracked down on drunks and speeders, added graduated licensing.
Some of the bipartisan proposals from last week's working committee report essentially treat guns more like cars — at least in the sense that the state would try a lot harder to know who owns any given gun at any given time and would punish more harshly people who sell or transfer guns off the books. Good.
But the real doozy was buried near the bottom of the Democratic report: a law that would determine when "personalized" handguns are truly available on the market and then limit all handgun purchases henceforth to the personalized variety. Personalized handguns are designed to be operated only by somebody who, say, punches a five-digit code into a wristwatch or who has been biometrically matched — hand-to-grip — with the gun.
Those guns already exist. The law would be tough to pass, but it would save thousands of lives every year.
You see, when people kill people with guns, two-thirds of the time, they kill themselves. Thirty-two thousand gun deaths mean almost 20,000 suicides. Gun suicide attempts are far more successful than any other type. Often the suicide is a young person using an adult's gun. You really want guns to be hard to use by somebody who's not supposed to be using them.
When I was 14, my dad was found in a coma. It seemed like a suicide attempt, but we didn't know for sure. My mom sent me out to his car to check for clues. I reached under the seat and my hand closed around a gun. I walked back in the house numbly holding a .38 and freaking out my already freaked-out family.
When he woke up in the hospital, he told me he brought the gun to finish himself off in case he hated the way the pills felt. I enjoyed his company for another 30 years. I was glad he passed out before getting the gun. Making him punch in a five-digit code sounds like one hell of an idea.
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The flashback that the film essentially is, delivers a glimpse into the life of a renowned film director Suresh Sinha (Guru Dutt). Suresh and his wife divorce partly because of his in-laws' apathy to films and filmmaking. He has extremely limited access to his daughter Pammi, who plays a critical role later in the film, when an orphaned Shanti (Waheeda Rehman) forays into his life. Suresh and Shanti enjoy tremendous success with his next film (fittingly, Devdas), in which he casts her as Paro, propelling her to stardom. Decisions on their togetherness follow, initiated primarily by Shanti, who suspends her career for reasons you must discover with your viewing.
This leads to Suresh losing control of his career, until he has a decision to make when Shanti offers to use her leverage to his benefit upon her return. Will he accept? Where will his decision lead him? And how will perceptions of his art continue to impact his life? Watch Kaagaz Ke Phool to discover. The outcome will most certainly leave you thinking, as will some tremendous imagery that requires no accompanying dialogue, with not a shadow out of place, and not a light used in excess.
It's hardly all serious, though. Seldom can be when Rocky (Johnny Walker) is around! And look who has the upper hand (pun intended) in this handshake with Dr. Singh (Minoo Mumtaz)!
Aside: So this is the second film in which I've really enjoyed Minoo Mumtaz's performance, the first being a guest appearance in Naya Daur (1957). If you have any specific recommendations (of films and songs), do let me know.
Paper flowers symbolize a lot more than a title would ordinarily suggest. At the surface, they address how fragile human relationships are. Dig deeper, and they present a valid viewpoint which equates the exploitation of vulnerabilities in relationships to selfish tendencies inherent in being human. There is an obvious correlation to the challenges that lie in pursuit of happiness, with allusions to questions such as: What price are we willing to pay? Do we account for others' interests when making decisions (in something as trivial as choice of words to articulate thoughts)? Where do our priorities lie?
But think scalability to humanity, and the deeper meaning to the message the paper flowers carry could well be interpreted to be that being on either extreme of any scale only spells trouble (and the absolute nature of this is only applicable in its relevance to every scale). The film doesn't say this explicitly, but it doesn't need to. I think its accuracy and validity are pretty obvious.
Having said that, I am curious to learn of the viability of my thoughts (scales, two extremes to each, and that it's good to be somewhere in the middle) expressed in the previous paragraph, specifically within the scope of this film. Am I the only one who is caught between agreeing with the treatment of Suresh Sinha (with the response of the producers to his film after Devdas, for example) being sad and arguably unfair, on the one hand, but finding it difficult to feel sorry for Suresh's response to the treatment he received? To take a stance either way would initially appear straightforward, but what adds complexity to answering this is that I do not believe Suresh was insecure of his position. There's something to be said of the maturity of thought that led to his decision-making. In how it is packaged in the film, almost a rare, assured understanding of what played out around him, a resolution to not be part of it, and a willingness to accept the consequences.
Each of these are also indirectly alluded to in the brilliant title track with which the film opens. Mohammad Rafi in absolutely phenomenal form here:
The soundtrack, with music by S. D. Burman and lyrics by Kaifi Azmi, is rather good, and contains the ever-popular Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam by Geeta Dutt. (A quick search on YouTube leads to this user-generated rendition of the great tune.) San San San Chali Hawaa is a fun car song by Asha Bhosle, Rafi, and Sudha Malhotra. A rather good kid song, Ek Do Teen by Geeta Dutt, is an excellent example of the wide-ranging improvisational skills of the one and the only Waheeda Rehman! I wonder if Guru Dutt ever sang this to her. (Excuse the tangent, but I love that song! :)
My huge expectations going into this film were met. I try to refrain from discussing the personal lives of our actors, but this film challenges that. I kept thinking while viewing whether Dutt was summarizing his experiences and rivalries within the film industry. If you are aware of any fact-based sources of information that would help answer this question (with specific mention of the film), please share the references. In any case, Kaagaz Ke Phool excels where it matters, and for that, I think it's well worth checking out when you're in the mood for some quality cinema that is best consumed in a quiet setting that serves as an incubator for reflection.
Movie rating: 4.5/5 (Excellent!)
Pyaasa is a more complete product, but that it is used in the same sentence as Kaagaz Ke Phool is compliment enough for the latter.
My classification: PG
Music rating: 4/5
Two outstanding tracks in a surprisingly pleasant soundtrack which is well-integrated in the film.


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Double for Al Ketbi in Abu Dhabi
Trainer Mohamed Al Ketbi was the man in form at Abu Dhabi on Sunday evening when saddling a double, including Mudallal Al Reef who won the featured 1600m handicap under Jesus Rosales.
It was third win from eight career starts for the six-year-old and Rosales said: "It looked a hot race so we have to be delighted with the outcome. The trainer has some nice horses and it is nice to ride him a winner."
Al Ketbi initiated his double in the opening 1200m maiden which was won by stable companion Bango, having only his second career start and the four-year-old won nicely under Ted Durcan from stable companion Dig Dagon.
Durcan said: "He is a nice young horse and that was only his second start. He has clearly improved a lot from the first one and showed a nice turn of foot when I asked him. Hopefully he can build on that."
The Ernst Oertel-trained Marjan Al Asayl then made nearly all the running in the 1200m handicap under 2011 Dubai World Cup winning jockey Mirco Demuro who said: "We had a good low draw and once he broke well I was happy to go to the front on him. The Oertel yard have some very nice horses and it is great to be associated with such a powerful team."
Trainer and jockey were then thwarted a quick double when their Noor Einy was denied close home in a 1400m handicap by Kareem W`Rsan who was produced with a telling late challenge by Richard Mullen.
It was a second win of the campaign for Jaci Wickham`s horse and Mullen said: "He was a horse we thought a lot of but missed a year through injury before winning at Jebel Ali when Jaci had the 1-2-3. He ran well enough in a conditions race here last time and has run on strongly to win this evening. It was only his fifth start and it would be nice to think he can improve again."
Rabah De Carrere has taken a massive drop in class on this and his last start to contest conditions races, and took full advantage this time to win the 2200m event for trainer Gill Duffield with Tadhg O`Shea in the saddle.
O`Shea said: "He has a lot of ability this horse but it was a long time since he had won having contested some very good races and Gill found a good race for him to get his head back in front. Hopefully that will do his confidence the power of good and I am sure Gill be trying to find another good opportunity for him."
Taiseer looks a nice prospect after his winning debut in the 1600m maiden. He is trained by Julio Peromingo and was ridden by Wayne Smith who was impressed and said: "I thought we were flat out at halfway and going to really struggle but Julio said he was a nice horse and has been proved right. He really picked up well in the straight and was stopping at the line to look at the winning post."
The only Thoroughbred race on the card was the concluding 1200m handicap and Pat Dobbs drove Cinderkamp to a narrow victory for trainer Doug Watson. Having his second UAE start, the four-year-old led close home under Dobbs who said: "He ran on well to get there close home and is a nice new young horse in the yard."