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The Differences between Blown, Cast, and Pre-stretched Stretch Film
Originally, all palletwrap was Blown Film and, a process much like blowing a large bubble. Resin is heated and passed over an opening through which air is blown. Blown materials are strong and ideally suited for cold room applications. The following link on You Tube shows the process.
Conventional Blown Palletwrap characteristics are:
- Hazy, dull in appearance
- Excellent puncture resistance
- Very noisy unwind
- High force on load
Cast Stretch Film
This is also called Cast Film or Cast Stretch Film and is manufactured using the cast extrusion process. It is extruded through rollers and "laid out" in sheets. This process allows the film to be made in multiple layers. The layers allow the film to be made with cling on only one side. This onesided cling film is great in situations where you don't want one pallet to stick to the one next to it, these film layers can make the film stronger by adding tough layers to the inside.
Conventional characteristics of Cast Palletwrap are:
- Good transparency
- Clear and glossy film
- Superior tear resistance
- Quiet unwind
- Consistent cling and film thickness
Pre-stretched Stretch Film
Pre-stretched Film or Pre-Programmed Film as it is sometimes known, is a half-way house between Blown and Cast Film. The product is made as co-extruded Blown Film with its main characteristics being its hazy, dull appearance with a certain amount of 'tack' although not as much as with Blown Film but more than with Cast. It has excellent puncture resistance, and is easier to apply than conventional Blown and Cast Films. Pre-stretched Film is stretched before being applied to the load and it's main advantages are:
- Customer uses less film per wrapped load so cost to wrap each pallet is reduced
- Quicker and easier to wrap load, thus saving time and money
- Less post film waste is generated, reducing packaging waste obligation
- Excellent film memory creating superior wrapped loads.
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Speciality Stretch Film
Tinted Stretch Film and Opaque Stretch Wrap is also available for more specialised packaging needs that more general purpose stretch packaging solutions cannot accommodate. For example, tinted stretch wrap can be used to differentiate between pallets of products in a warehouse and blue tint is often specified by companies in the Food Industry as it is more likely to be noticed if film comes into contact with produce during packing. Opaque wrap is used in situations where the client does not wish the wrapped products to be visible. Both available in variety of colours.
Machine Rolls
Machine palletwrap is primarily made of Cast material although in more recent years low noise Blown and Pre-Stretched co-extruded film have been alternative options for customers looking to down spec but without compromising quality and strength.
Cast Machine Stretch Film
Available in Standard Stretch (stretches up to 150%) and Power Pre-Stretch (stretches up to 300% where machinery allows). Cast Stretch Film is quierter when being unwound due the nature of it being 'tacky' only on one side.
Cast Film width is 500mm wide and thickness of film varies between 12 to 34 mu. Often sold price per tonne, however, more and more suppliers are charging per roll as this can make their film appear cheaper.
Both have the same price per tonne but the lighter roll has less meterage making it appear a more economical film to purchase.
Blown Machine Film
High strength low noise Blown Stretch Film has developed considerably over the last five years. Thinner grades of film offering excellent strength and superior puncture resistance compared to Cast Stretch Film have seen sales increase. Although low noise, they are still noisey when unwinding compared to Cast Stretch Film and care should be taken when recommending Blown if being used in confined areas. Price per tonne for Blown Stretch Film is usually more. However when comparing price to wrap each pallet with Cast Stretch Film the savings to the customer can often be worthy of consideration.
Pre-Stretch Machine Stretch Film
Pre-Stretch Films of between 6 to 12 mu are now available, however, they can only be used on Standard Core Brake machines. For customers currently using 17-20 mu Standard Cast Stretch Film it is worth talking to them about Pre-Stretch Machine Film as cost savings can be made. It offers outstanding performance, durability and consistency and is rapidly becoming more popular with customers.
How to Wrap a Pallet using Blown and Cast Stretch Film Hand Rolls
The following instructions outline the correct way to use Blown or Cast Stretch Film. By following these instructions, it will not only significantly reduce any danger of injury or risks involved in wrapping pallets and ensure goods leaving your establishment will be sent in a safe and secure manner.
General Instructions
- Ensure that the pallet to be used is 'fit for purpose' prior to any product being loaded on to it.
- Always ensure that the area around the pallet to be wrapped is clear of any obstacles to avoid risk of tripping over.
- Always walk forward when going around a pallet to ensure you are aware of any potential dangers.
- To avoid dizziness when wrapping a pallet, always look straight ahead and do not look at the pallet itself.
- Before starting to wrap the pallet, ensure that the goods are stable and will not fall as you wrap the pallet itself.
- Wherever possible ensure heavy goods are loaded at the bottom of the pallet.
Specific Instructions to Wrap a Pallet
- If using Cast Film (tacky one side) ensure the outside of the film is placed to the surface of the pallet. This ensures pallets do not stick together when loaded onto a truck.
- Tie film to the base corner of the pallet. This ensures an effective hold when you start to wrap the goods.
- Conventional Blown or Cast Film needs to be stretched whilst walking round the pallet.
- To avoid goods sliding off the pallet during transit, you must ensure that the film covers the base of the pallet and also the bottom layer of the load. The bottom layer must be wrapped twice to ensure load is secure to the pallet.
- When wrapping the goods the film must be kept taut and then 'stretched' at the corners to maximise the film's strength. The film should be overlapped by 50% to ensure the goods are held securely at all levels.
- The top of the load should be wrapped twice, again to ensure stability.
- Work back down the load until reaching the bottom of the pallet where the film should then be cut or torn.
- Stretch film by hand and 'tuck' the end under bottom layer of film by one of the corners to ensure film retains its strength and does not cause film to 'flap'.
How to Wrap a Pallet using Pre-Stretched Film Hand Rolls
The following instructions outline the correct way to use Pre-programmed Stretch Film. By following these instructions, it will not only significantly reduce any danger of injury or risks involved in wrapping pallets, but will also maximise the benefits of the film.
General Instructions
- Ensure that the pallet to be used is 'fit for purpose' prior to any product being loaded on to it.
- Always ensure that the area around the pallet to be wrapped is clear of any obstacles to avoid risk of tripping over.
- Always walk forward when going around a pallet to ensure you are aware of any potential dangers.
- To avoid dizziness when wrapping a pallet, always look straight ahead and do not look at the pallet itself.
- Before starting to wrap the pallet, ensure that the goods are stable and will not fall as you wrap the pallet itself.
- Wherever possible ensure heavy goods are loaded at the bottom of the pallet.
Specific Instructions to Wrap a Pallet
- Always place the outside of the film to the surface of the pallet. This ensures pallets do not stick together when loaded onto a truck.
- Always tie the pre-programmed stretch film to the base corner of a pallet. This ensures an effective hold when you start to wrap the goods.
- The film does not need to be stretched like conventional Blown or Cast film. It should simply be held taut whilst wrapping the goods and 'tugged' at each corner to activate the films memory.
- To avoid goods sliding off the pallet when in transit, you must ensure that the film covers the base of the pallet and also the bottom layer of the load to be wrapped.
- Again to ensure stability of the load, the bottom of the pallet must be wrapped twice to secure the load.
- When wrapping the goods, the film should be overlapped by 50% to ensure that the goods are held securely at all levels.
- For additional strength the film can be used horizontally to create a 'strapping' effect. Please note however that this procedure can crush or damage boxes.
- The top of the load should be wrapped twice, again to ensure stability of the load.
- Check the pallet load is wrapped securely prior to despatch.
Can I Recycle Stretch Film?
Stretch Film is one of the largest components of a warehouse/distribution centres waste management system. Those that do not recycle plastics must pay to have it disposed of. A large distribution centre can generate thousands of pounds of Palletwrap per year.
Recycling Stretch Film offers an attractive alternative to disposal. There are ready markets for clean waste material. Stretch Film is easy to identify and recover, it arrives at the dock in a fairly clean uncontaminated state and if kept that way has a real market value. In fact pound for pound, Stretch Film may be the most valuable scrap material a warehouse/Distribution centre can recover.
With environmental issues being at the forefront of today's government agendas an environmental legislation concerning recycling (ISO1400) has been introduced urging all companies with a large Palletwrap waste to conform to an Industry Standard. Heavy fines have been established to those that do not conform to the new legislation.
What Is The Difference Between Stretch Film And Shrink Wrap?
Stretch Film/Palletwrap is often confused with Shrinkwrap, however the two films are very different products and applied in different ways and for different applications.
Stretch Film
This type of product is formulated from Polyethylene Plastic and generally, comes in 400mm and 500mm widths although smaller rolls known as Bundling Film measuring 150mm wide are also available. Palletwrap Machines speed up the process of wrapping goods, controls the amount of material used and maintains the stretch to a consistent level. It is an elastic film much like a wide rubber band and relies on self-adherence to keep it together on the pallet. Palletwrap is widely used in the warehouse and is considered a shipping tool.
Shrink Film
This is a packaging technique whereby the plastic film is applied loosely around an item and shrinks with the application of heat (see diagram below). Shrink-wrap is primarily used for keeping a product safely loaded and clean, from despatch to delivery, and is available in a variety of widths and thicknesses. Pre-made Pallet Covers designed to cover a whole load are quick, convenient and, although sometimes expensive, offer excellent load restraint when applied correctly.
Hand Palletwrap: Potential Problems
|Telescoping Rolls
|Film moves towards one end of roll. Caused by too much tack and roll wound too tightly when made. Happens more during summer/warmer months.
|Replace rolls, they can no longer be used.
|No Tack on Film (Blown Film)
|Mainly occurs during winter, cold weather reduces tack levels. Alternatively, film may not have been 'hot boxed' prior to leaving factory.
|Place a box of film in a warm room overnight near a radiator. This should bring the tack out of film. Keep film in a draft-free area if possible.
|Frayed Edges
|Film is poorly wound or has been damaged/dropped causing nicks on edge of rolls. Makes unwinding of film very difficult.
|Check stock for damage/misuse. Replace film if found to be faulty during manufacture.
|Load becomes unstable during transit, goods move on pallet.
|Incorrect film used to secure load. Either wrong type of film or product not fit for purpose, ie., film too thin.
|Try different types of film, i.e., Cast, Blown or Pre-Stretch and thicker grade film.
|Film breaks on bottom of pallet when wrapping.
|Pallet is incorrectly stacked. Wrong film has been used.
|Change film. Cast has poor puncture resistance whereas Blown and Pre-Stretch are better suited. Move loads to edge of pallet where possible.
|Outer products are crushed when wrapped.
|Tension of film too tight when wrapped.
|Consider different types of film, trials needed.
Stretch Film and Stretch Wrap Packaging Terms Defined
Applying multiple wraps of stretch film to reinforce a specific area of a pallet or to band together multiple units.
Blown Films
Stretch Films manufactured by the Blown Film Extrusion process are called Blown Films. Stretch film extruded by the blown method typically produces greater puncture resistance but less aesthetic values than Cast Films.
Cast Film
Stretch films manufactured by the Cast Film Extrusion process are called Cast Films. Stretch film extruded by the cast method typically have greater tear resistance, greater aesthetic values, are quiet to unwind, which is not typically found in film manufactured by the blown method.
Cling provides the sticking to self but not to the product attribute. Fioms will be designed as a singleside cling or a two-sided cling. The cling bonding agent is typically added in as a single side or twosided layer in the co-extrusion process.
The process of taking materials that are: fed, melted and or pumped in through other extruders, which are then merged to create a multi-layer film.
Elastic Recovery
When the stretch film is stretched, strained and/or deformed its ability to recover and return to its original form indicates its elastic recovery capacity.
Film Memory
This is the memory of the stretch film trying to return to its original un-stretched form and in the process makes the load tighter and more consistently secure. This prevents loosening of the load that can occur later as the load settles. To achieve optimal film memory and film efficiency, proper film and application settings are essential.
An imperial measurement used to measure stretch film thickness or calliper. An example value would read as: 70 gauge, 80 gauge or 100 gauge. Also note: often used as a synonym for film thickness. To convert gauge to micron divide by 4, i.e., 100g = 25 mu
LLDPE Stretch Film
Linear Low Density Polyethylene Stretch Film
New polyethylene resins developed using 'Metallocene' change the polytheylene chain structure resulting in a new breed of stretch films. Metallocene stretch films can achieve increased puncture resistance and clarity while blends offer balanced film properties and universal stretch percentage applications (ex: machine film, hand film)
Neckdown is when a film loses its dispensing roll width / breadth and narrows down while being stretched. Neckdown reduces the coverage each wrap provides thereby making it likely that more wrap rotations and more film will be needed to wrap a load or pallet.
Post-stretch (Machine Application)
Post-stretching is stretching a film by using the load to pull the film out at the same time as it applies film. Although this allows for the benefit of film tension, the tension levels are inconsistent and as such can damage many load types. Attempts to attain higher tension stretch can be done but can increase risk of damaging some load types and increase chances of stretch film breakage.
Prestretch (Machine Application)
Prestretching is stretching the film prior to application. The process can increase film strength, improve load integrity, reduce amount of stretch wrap film needed and save on stretch film packaging costs. Today many stretch films are designed to achieve optimal prestretching values that can be attained with leading edge high performance stretch wrap machines as well as pre-stretched films for manual application operations.
Bunching the stretch films full width to create a rope is known as roping. Stretch film roping is extremely strong and is often used to further secure a pallet to its load. Bunching stretch film is a feature function of many stretch wrap machines (ex. Turntable stretch wrappers)
Additives used in the material fabrication process to increase the 'tack' of the film or material.
Tension Stretch
Tension stretch is a pulling force that stretches materials. For example, stretching a rubber band will make it longer, as it gets longer its tension increases. Also referred to as 'post-stretch'


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Erin's Flowery Vale One evening fair when Venus bright her radiant beams displayed, And Flora in her verdant gale those fragrant hills arrayed, As I did rove through out each grove, no cares did me assail, Till a pair I spied by a river side on Erin's flow'ry vale. As I sat down for to behold, beneath a spreading tree, And the liquid streams around me rolled, conveyed those words to me "Adieu, fair maid," the youth he said. "Tomorrow I set sail. I'll bid adieu to love and you, and Erin's flowery vale." "O youth, forbear," the maiden said. "That brings a treble dart, And hurries me to sad surprise and wounds my bleeding heart! It's here alone to sigh and moan, my trouble to bewail It's here lament, my grief to vent on Erin's flowery vale." "It's hard to part with you, my love, but then I must away, For Freedom calls me! At demand, her ties I must obey On foreign isles where fortune smiles, and waft' by many's the gale; Then I'II come home, no more to roam from Erin's flowery vale." I greatly fear," thc maiden says, "that I must part with you. Young men are false, I know, alas, and seldom does prove true; And when you reach Columbia's shore some pretty maid you'll see. You'll soon forget the home you left and the vows you made to me." "Oh, now l'm goin' to sail away and leave my love behind, And there's not a breeze of wind that blows but'll bring her to my mind There's not a flower nor a shady bower that grows o'er hill or dale, But'll me remind of that girl behind on Erin's flowery vale." "Now, there's many's the youth has left his home to sail for Freedom's shore That lies beneath the ocean deep where the foaming billows roar. My advice you take--don't me forsake nor leave me to bewail, But here remain with your fond dame on Erin's flowery vale!" Those youthful loves together drew, all in one fond embrace, And the tears like purling drops of dew did trickle down each face She strove in vain him to detain. "My love!" He bid her adieu. Then I withdrew from Erin's flowery vale. From Shantymen and Shanty Boys, Doerflinger DT #484 Laws O29 RG oct96
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For any human, one of the basic things is the shelter and you can have them only from the house. It is also a dream to build their own house for most of the people. On building such houses it is important to be concerned to have certain things in them. Here are such must haves when building a new home.
- Water heater: It is important to have the water heater in a house. Based on the climate, people prefer to take a bath in cold or hot water. At the time you may not keep preparing the hot water when there is a heater you can easily have water from the heater and take bath from them.
- Controlled outlets: For any houses, there will be a need for the outlet for the wastewater that discharges form kitchen and bathrooms. If they are not maintained properly, there can be chances for some diseases since such water can invite some mosquitoes and other insects.
- Elevators: In case the building that you are building is the multi-story building it may need some elevators. Not all people will be physically fit and travel through the steps. So to avoid those inconveniences in the later stage you may have the right elevators in the time of construction.
- Place for your pets: The new generation of people is highly concern about the pets and showing more interest in growing pets at their houses. Based on the animal, you need to allocate the space for their stay, bathing, etc.
- Electric connection: It is very important to be careful with the electric connection at all the necessary places in the house. If you are not bothered at the connection in the earlier stage, it may be harder to have them in the later stage.
- Plumbing: Similar to the electric connection it is also important to take care of the pipeline connection all over the house because these are the connections that are hidden inside the wall. When you need to make any alteration in them you need to make a huge expense and also you need to damage the wall.
Make sure you take appropriate steps to maintain the temperature of the hours as well. To these, you can have some cool things to include when building a house. Once you build the house, be concentrated with each and every small thing and make sure you are bringing up a beautiful home.


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Do you feel as if your human resource department has turned into a mess of administrative work? Is senior management questioning how HR adds value to the organization? Is it becoming harder to get additional budget assigned to your department? If "yes" is the answer to any of these questions, it may be time to look at getting out of the "paper pushing" business so that you can focus more time on "Strategic HR", such as recruiting, training/development, quality employee retention and succession planning. These are the functions of HR that are core to making the most of human capital. Improving in these areas can be a reality if your department deploys the right technology that will minimize administrative work, easily ensure compliance, and allow access and reporting capabilities to meaningful data points across the entire organization.
Putting an HRIS in place with employee and manager self-service may prove to be the answer to your administrative challenges. Since payroll is the most accurate data in any organization, it only makes sense to build an HR database off of this data. To enjoy further benefits of automation, I suggest utilizing a fully integrated payroll/HRIS system in order to ensure utmost data integrity. With most systems on the market today, role based security is deployed. This means that certain employees including managers, employees, and non-HR executives have access rights to certain data points that are central to their role. The system becomes a universal tool that benefits the entire workforce, not just HR.
The main key benefits that an HRIS is designed to improve are:
- Improved responsiveness to employees and management with a workflow process that streamlines HR record-keeping and maintains proper audit trails
- Maintain a competitive workforce by simplifying and speeding up hiring, training and retention programs with an accessible, integrated database
- Gain greater control real time payroll processing by eliminating the need to transfer files back and forth, reduce errors and payroll corrections
- Ensure government and payroll tax compliance with automatic updates that keep you up-to-date on the latest regulations
- Plan for talent succession by identifying top talent and key positions for keeping the business fluid and healthy
- Increased employee retention by deployment of self-service tools that keep employees involved with the employment life cycle
- Enhance your reporting capabilities with workforce decision data that helps you lower benefit costs, spot organizational trends and take clear action
- Containment of costs including insurance premiums, controlled labor expenses such as overtime, Travel and Expense, IT and disparate system related costs
- Improved employee communications through centralized intranet portals and employee survey capabilities
- Create and leverage a standardized infrastructure that will enable executives to better analyze costs associated with their organizational structure for budgeting and forecasting purposes
Technology is the framework behind the success of a well-functioning HR department. The advancements that have been made with functionality delivered in a Software as a Service model are making these types of systems more affordable and more customized than ever before.


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Winthrop Harbor Education Enrichment
The Winthrop harbor Education Enrichment Fund (WHEEF) was established in 2013 with the vision to provide unique educational opportunities to enable staff and students to reach their greatest potential through diverse programs and experiences. The WHEEF operates as a designated fund of the Lake County Community Foundation. The Community Foundation operates under strict laws and guidelines established by the IRS and has been incorporated, and its bylaws approved, by the state of Illinois. Donations to the WHEEF are tax deductible.Annually, Winthrop Harbor teachers can apply for grants for innovative projects and ideas for their classrooms.Revenue for the WHEFF is generated through the annual vacation raffle, through VIGEO membership and new this year, through a Foundation Sponsor Spotlight Wall at Westfield School.FOUNDATION SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT WALLSupport the fund by purchasing a leaf, boulder, gold, silver or bronze sponsor level. Sponsorship form can be found here.HOW THE RAFFLE WORKS:Each vacation raffle ticket costs $100. Two thirds of the proceeds go toward funding the prizes and one third goes toward building the foundation fund. Vigeo membership provides money for you and the foundation. Shop at local businesses and a percentage of the sale goes to you and the foundation. All donations made to the Spotlight wall are deposited in the fund.The foundation fund principal continues to build year after year via donations and the annual vacation raffle, tand the accrued interest is used to provide creative grants to teachers. Since the fund's principal is never touched, it will permanently provide grants to our teachers, more and more as the principal grows!
If you'd like to purchase a vacation raffle ticket, become a Vigeo member or be a Spotlight Sponsor, please click on the links below or contact the Winthrop Harbor district office at (847) 731-3085, or e-mail Grayson Gilbert at email@example.com
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Immaculate formally announces independence, Lugo as coach
Immaculate will return to an independent ice hockey program for the 2019-20 season, the school announced in a press release.
Brian Lugo will serve as coach of the Division I Mustangs, who will practice and play at the Danbury Ice Arena. The team played as a co-op for several years with New Fairfield and were moved from a Division III to a Division I classification after compiling a 13-5-3 record two years ago.
Lugo has coached from mite level hockey through the junior level. When he was the coach for J.W. Mitchell High School in Port Richey, Florida, the team won the state championships two out of three years, and the team also went on to win a national and now has many players currently playing DI and DIII college hockey, with one player drafted into the NHL. Also, in 2013 his U16 travel team won nationals, and he coached the first Midget team in Florida to ever win nationals.
Back up in the Northeast, Lugo coached for the Yale Youth team in 2018 and his U12 team won states while his U14 team won states and then went on to win New England regionals.
"The co-op team was a great experience and allowed student-athletes to play on a high school team, and we are grateful for all that New Fairfield High School athletics and players contributed to the team and its high level of play," Lugo said in the release. "The goal now is to build the chemistry in one school and one place the players can call home and find the perfect balance between academics and athletics. Being an independent team allows the players the opportunity to better compete for State titles."
Lugo said in a release his goal for the first year is to teach the new systems and style of hockey the team will be playing.
"Immaculate High School has a great reputation for academics; my goal is to bring and build up a program the school can be proud of," Lugo said in the release. "'Will always beats skill, unless skill works with will.' I want to build a program that supports the school as well as have huge community involvement, including among alumni. We want the community to see what the players are doing, and come out and support a program the city, as well as parents and alumni, can be proud of and see the legacy continue."
Lugo pointed out that the team already has some great assets in place, including a "fantastic" locker room, an equipment repair and sharpening center and a nutrition area, and an arena that will be refurbished under new management.
"We will train harder than ever before, and we take players that want to succeed and put them in a system that gives them the opportunity to succeed, and make everyone proud," he said.
Lugo began coaching ice hockey 18 years ago when his son, who now plays for Post University, began playing the sport.


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Gadget, PingPong, and Boomerang's Biography
Gadget was rescued in 2015 as a spunky young guy. He became best buds with our senior glider, Gizmo, and we were thrilled since both were in need of companionship. Gizmo passed away in spring of 2019 and Gadget is in the process of being introduced to two new companions, PingPong and Boomerang!
Gadget and his new friends enjoy eating treats and kids love watching them hold their food and munch on it in delight. Sugar gliders have a special way of welcoming you into their group by scent marking (peeing) all over you. Sometimes a lucky audience member gets to be the object of their affection.
All three sugar gliders are estimate to be around the same age, born between 2014-2015, they are wonderful ambassadors teaching about nocturnal marsupials of the rain forest, and the challenges and responsibility of caring for an exotic animal as a pet. We hope they continue teaching for years to come!
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How can fire turn to chocolate turn to metal, and is that something we want in a vodka?
I told the store clerk that I wanted something local, but he shook his head and mumbled something that sounded like there wasn't any. Then he handed me this bottle. When I went to the cash register, though, the lady there told me that I was too late. They weren't going to sell any alcohol after a certain time, it was the law. Then she took another look at me, paused, and decided to sell me the bottle..


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Community Canvas
For the seventh consecutive year, Community Canvas is giving young artists at area elementary schools a chance to display their passion for healthy living and their talent for art.
A partnership between Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital and Lehigh Valley Art Spark – and in conjunction with the Kellyn Foundation – Community Canvas gives students at 14 schools the opportunity to create artwork based on healthy eating habits and all-around wellness.
To begin, Kellyn Foundation conducts a classroom program series in the schools. In these classroom sessions, we discuss the connection between good health and good nutrition through programs created especially for third, fourth and fifth graders. Students learn differences between fresh, healthy, whole food and drink compared to processed unhealthy products. Students also learn how to read food labels and find the amount of sugar and fat in products. In addition, students learn how to make the healthiest choices when they are out at restaurants or away from home with friends.
Following these presentations, children are asked to take home a packet of materials for their parents that explains Community Canvas. Parents also are asked for consent for their child to be considered as an artist contestant at an upcoming art event.
Once the classroom education has taken place, Lehigh Valley Art Spark conducts an assembly at the school where the students dance, play games and refresh the lessons learned. During the assembly, eight contestants are randomly selected for their school's Community Canvas art event.
Fourteen Community Canvas preliminary art events will take place through April 2020, with the grand finale in June. Children of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) employees are not eligible to compete as artists.
Families and friends are encouraged to capture the excitement with photos at each Community Canvas preliminary event and to promote our local schoolchildren's talent by uploading them to social media using our official hashtag #CommunityCanvas.
Third and fourth grade students at several participating schools get even closer to their food by planting, growing and harvesting produce from their own school garden, creating a year-round healthy food experience.
Third and fourth grade students are challenged to change how they feel about foods, and shown how to teach their bodies to like healthier foods. Here's another trick – it works for adults too!
Participating Schools
Allentown School District
Bethlehem School District
Easton Area School District
Whitehall-Coplay School District
Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital, Kellyn Foundation and Buy Fresh Buy Local are partnering with neighborhood corner stores to make it easier for families to make healthy choices by offering affordable fresh, local produce.
At Community Canvas preliminary events, our artists are given a lunchbox full of art supplies and 45 minutes to create a piece of artwork based on what they've learned in the classroom and school assemblies. The artwork is then voted on by the audience to select two winners, who quality for the Grand Finale. The most important artistic talent needed is creativity and a passion for healthy living. Everyone who participates in a Community Canvas preliminary event gets a prize.
While the artists create their masterpieces, top chefs from local restaurants will be offering free and delicious healthy meal samples for everyone in attendance.
After the 14 preliminary events are completed, the work of all artists who did not advance to the Grand Finale will be entered into a Facebook poll so the public can select additional contestants to advance to the finale event.
Similar to the preliminary events, each artist at our Grand Finale will receive a mystery lunchbox of art materials and have 45 minutes to create their artwork based on a healthy theme. Audience members each get one vote to select an overall winner, who earns the opportunity to be featured in local media and on the LVHN website and in publications. In addition, the winner takes home a basket filled with brand new art supplies and gift certificates. Second and third place artists will also receive prizes.
Participating chefs compete in a "cook-off" by creating healthy dishes using three ingredients supplied by the Kellyn Foundation's Eat Real Food Mobile Market. The winning chef will be voted on by the audience, including the child artists, and will be awarded the Reilly Children's Hospital's "golden spoon" trophy.
The Community Canvas program costs you nothing but your time and support for what we hope you'll find to be a tasty and inspiring experience for your entire family. Artwork from all Community Canvas events can be seen at Reilly Children's Hospital art galleries throughout LVHN facilities.
Adi McLean, a fourth-grader at Forks Elementary School in Easton, was crowned the overall champion Saturday in the sixth annual Community Canvas Grand Finale at Lehigh Valley Mall.
The 10-year-old McLean bested 20 other third-, fourth- and fifth-grade artists to take home the top prize in the competition which gave youngsters from 10 area elementary schools the chance to display their passion for healthy living and their talent for art.
Ariadni Chatzopoulos, 10, a fifth-grader from Shawnee Elementary School, was the runner up. Kadence Haspil, 9, a fourth-grader from Paxinosa Elementary School, placed third. Other participants in the grand finale were: Iyana Ebram, 9, and Zavier Washington, 8, third-graders from Mosser Elementary School; Ahmed Eltahhan, 9, and Joleeanis Olavarria, 8, third-graders from Sheridan Elementary School; Jahleel Garcia, 10, fifth-grader, and Jezalena Gunderman, 9, fourth-grader, from Zephyr Elementary School; Danna Gomez, 8, third-grader from Cheston Elementary School; Madelyn Kline, 10, fifth-grader, and Andrei Pacheco, 9, third-grader at Shawnee Elementary School; Sawyer Lamas, 8, third-grader, and Angela Strohl, 10, fifth-grader, Tracy Elementary School; Xabdiel Ortiz, 8, third-grader at Central Elementary School; Makenna Reichenbach, 9, Logan Tehonica, 8, and Vera Ayala, 8, third-graders at Steckel Elementary School; Arica, 8, and Elizabeth Sodtalbers, 8, third-graders at Paxinosa Elementary School; Pamela Szabuniewicz, 11, fifth-grader at Forks Elementary School.
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Last week, I attended one of Wyre Councils regular management meetings. These meetings are a great opportunity for the Wyre MPs to be updated on local issues and for Wyre Council's Cabinet Members and Senior Officers to highlight concerns directly to MPs. Maintaining a good working relationship with the local authority means that I can try and get the best outcomes for my constituents. It also enables me to feed back to Ministers how the Government's policies are working on the ground.
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The orchestra is the core ensemble of the orchestral program at California State University San Bernardino. Membership is comprised primarily of music majors, in addition to instrumentalists from the CSUSB and greater San Bernardino communities. This ensemble provides the opportunity for string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard musicians to become well versed with masterworks of the symphony orchestra repertory, in addition to occasional works for chamber and string orchestra. Community engagement and educational outreach opportunities, and a yearly tour are also a part of this ensemble's offerings.
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Students, CSUSB faculty members, and community artists are all invited to participate in the California State University San Bernardino Orchestra. Membership in the CSUSB Orchestra is open to all students regardless of major; you do not have to be a music major to participate. Auditions are held on the first week of each quarter. To view the audition requirements and sign up for an audition time for Fall Quarter 2019.
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Arctic Air represents great value and performance in refrigeration. Few manufacturers have been able to bring to market a quality refrigeration solution at an affordable price, but Arctic Air has done that while increasing the aesthetic appeal of your product. Their glass door merchandisers are a thing of beauty.
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- Total enrollment: 6000
- Undergraduate enrollment: 6000
- Graduate enrollment: 0
- International Student Enrollment: 60
- Male 66% Female 44%
- Faculty-student ratio: 20 to 1
- Faculty: Full-Time 150, Part-Time: 28
- Number of countries represented on campus: 23
- Top five countries represented on campus: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Canada
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Does your institution have an Intensive English Program?
The Intensive English Program combines levels three and four of ESL into one semester. A TOEFL PBT score of 437-497, TOEFL CBT of 123-170, TOEFL IBT of 41-60 or an IELTS of 5 is required for acceptance into the IEP.
Can your institution issue an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility for F-1 Student Status to a student who has been admitted only to the Intensive English Program?
Does your institution provide courses of English as a Second Language to admitted students?
Does your institution conditionally admit students to degree programs if they have not met the English proficiency requirement?
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First Year, Transfer, and Graduate Students
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Does your institution issue DS-2019 for J-1 visa status? YES
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Room and Board: $9,970
Fees: $896
Health Insurance: $1,577
Books/Supplies: $2,000
Total: $21,335
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Is financial aid available for international students?
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The Happiest Day Granted - Mother's Day
Author: Maranda Berkley
The happiest day granted
For the best mother in the world
The one who gave me life
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For a woman I truly adore
The one who dries my tears
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I love you mom.
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Periods of natural climate change have occurred for millennia, but human industry since the 20th-century has contributed to change at an unprecedented rate, primarily due to our increased consumption of fossil fuels. (A fossil fuel is a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed from the remains of living organisms).
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1. Unplug electronics when not in use
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- Replacing old, inefficient appliances that must remain running (i.e. refrigerators) with newer, more energy-efficient models
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Don't worry, I'm not asking you to go vegetarian. A simple reduction in the amount of meat you eat can have a tangible effect on your carbon footprint. In fact, eating just one less burger a week is the equivalent of taking your car off the road for about 515 kilometres! Consider taking the Meatless Monday pledge—committing to meatless meals just one day of the week.
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You may be just one person making what seem like small choices for the health of the planet, but by serving as a good example and passing on what you know, there's no telling how big of an impact you could have.
- Meatless Monday Infographic, https://www.meatlessmonday.com/earth-day-2015/
- Fast Fashion, https://phys.org/news/2019-01-fast-fashion-environment-workers-society.html
- Foodland Ontario Logo, http://www.foodland.gov.on.ca/media/
- "About Meatless Monday." Earth Day Network, www.earthday.org/take-action/about-meatless-monday/
- "Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?" Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet, NASA, 5 Feb. 2019, www.climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
- Environment." Meatless Monday, www.meatlessmonday.com/research/environment/
- Holth, Jesse. "7 Instant Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint." The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 6 June 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/7-instant-ways-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint_us_59321992e4b00573ab57a383
- Milman, Oliver. "Why Eating Less Meat Is the Best Thing You Can Do for the Planet in 2019." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 21 Dec. 2018, www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/21/lifestyle-change-eat-less-meat-climate-change
- Perry, Patsy. "The Environmental Costs of Fast Fashion." The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 8 Jan. 2018, www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/environment-costs-fast-fashion-pollution-waste-sustainability-a8139386.html


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By Kseniia S•
Nov 12, 2019
A good course in addition to Graphic Design. There are minor problems with the sound, it is interrupted between phrases and slightly cuts off the beginning of phrases, for a non-native English speaker, this complicates the process of listening.
By Minjeong K•
Mar 10, 2020
This is the course I wish I had taken before I pursued a career in design! My education and work has primarily been in designing for (digital / mechanical) functionalities, and I have been wishing to become more articulate in understanding art direction and style. This course taught me how to approach looking at a piece of visual design and how to talk about it. Now that I understand the approaches, I feel more confident moving onto making work that consciously uses specific languages of visual design to convey meaning.
By Indrakumar•
Apr 07, 2020
I like this course because as a graphic designer, I learned a few important subjects and it's will very use full, well designed and explained by our tutors, I will suggest this other also for learning sole of graphic design,
note: thank you for CALARTS & Coursera
By J-Man•
Oct 15, 2019
A deeper lok into graphic design which helps create a language for assessing other peoples work as well as your own. The examples used here show range of interesting works and assessing thier elements was both helpful and inspiring.
By Trupti B•
Apr 07, 2020
Crisp and clear course for improving on vocabulary and design critique style.
By Shivali M M•
Mar 28, 2020
very useful in developing my lexicons and understanding how to review a work.
By Blake M•
Apr 06, 2020
Very informative lecture. All the supporting material was top notch.
By Maral Y•
Apr 09, 2020
Great Course! comprehensive and interesting with original insight.
By Sahejdeep k•
Apr 08, 2020
Very helpful
By Pankhuri B•
Nov 19, 2019
The course has been great in terms of content covered and assignment case studies. I liked the faculty Jasmine's tone however the guy was an annoying distraction. I would recommend this course for anyone in touch with graphic design!
By Rohan H•
Mar 28, 2020
During this course i learned the language of design and my perspective to see design changed a bit.
mentors also done a good job.the course is interesting and clear.


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As mobile applications have come to occupy our time, so have the complexities of various participants. This package is designed to give you a complete overview of the main agreements for mobile applications, from application development through the sale of the app. The Mobile App Development Agreement and the Mobile App Purchase & Sale Agreement are particular standouts.


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I write this in the aftermath of the really uplifting and wonderfully diverse conference which I had the privilege to host and chair recently in my home city, under the auspices of the International Academy of Mediators. Nearly 120 mediators from over 20 countries attended and shared deep discussions about how we as mediators can… Continue reading The Edinburgh Declaration of International Mediators, May 2018
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Day 6: Dingwall
Saturday morning marked the end of the Better Conversations Bus Tour 2017. The final meeting took place in Dingwall. Participants from the area around Dingwall came along because of an interest in how to conduct better conversations. Whether participants had a background in public administration, private businesses or politics, most could relate to how conducting… Continue reading Day 6: Dingwall
Day 5: Ullapool and Gairloch
The last full day of the Better Conversations Bus Tour began, like many other days, with a Business Breakfast – this time in Ullapool. The meeting was well attended and had a different feel to other similar meetings. The group was diverse and each participant came with a different set of experiences and knowledge of… Continue reading Day 5: Ullapool and Gairloch
Day 1 on the Better Conversations Bus Tour
Before dawn-break, our Rabbies bus embarked from Inverness on the Better Conversations Bus Tour 2017. All members of the team felt the excitement of the unknown on the first day of a project like this, where our ability to connect and engage with local communities on the North Coast 500 would be so important. Our… Continue reading Day 1 on the Better Conversations Bus Tour
Interview with John Sturrock on Good Morning Scotland
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Our Better Conversations Bus Tour takes off today, offering free events and workshops for communities across the north and west of Scotland. This is part of a new project aiming to build real dialogue and problem-solving capacity, while helping to take some of the heat out of difficult decisions about contentious matters in Scotland's communities,… Continue reading On the road with the Better Conversations Bus Tour
Reframe on climate change, by Charlie Woods
Over the past 300 years or so humankind has developed a system for producing, distributing and exchanging goods and services, which has been based on human ingenuity in the design and development of tools and systems, alongside the extraction and exploitation of natural resources built up over millions of years, in particular sources of energy.… Continue reading Reframe on climate change, by Charlie Woods
On this referendum day in Scotland, by John Sturrock
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What Works Scotland, by Charlie Woods
Collaboration was probably the word most used by those that spoke at the launch of What Works Scotland (WWS) http://whatworksscotland.ac.uk/. WWS is an initiative led by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and funded by the Scottish Government and ESRC aimed at improving what has become known as the Scottish model of public service delivery.… Continue reading What Works Scotland, by Charlie Woods
The Outcomes of Respectful Dialogue, by Linda Jane McLean
I reluctantly attended the meeting on 21st May of Collaborative Scotland. Why was I reluctant? I didn't know if it was "worth it". I was unsure if what I was going to achieve or learn would be worthwhile. I was uncertain whether it was worth the journey from Motherwell to Edinburgh. I was irresolute about… Continue reading The Outcomes of Respectful Dialogue, by Linda Jane McLean


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It's been the decade of Facebook, frenzied growth and falling flat on our faces. It seems as if it was only yesterday that we were getting ready to party like it was 1999 and the world was due to implode as the Y2k bug was to take us back to the Stone Age. Nigel Cosgrave, Harry Leech and Nick Webb look back on a decade where the rich got very rich -- and then lost it all
THE decade started with a boom (or rather a fizzle) as the world woke up on January 1 with a hangover and a trillion-dollar bill for a Y2k bug that never happened.
No planes fell out of the sky, no power stations melted down, and the hysteria of '99 looked foolish in retrospect.
But the money lost on the non-event of the decade was mere pocket change compared with what was to come as the air began to drain rapidly from the dot-com bubble.
AOL and Time Warner merged in January amid much hype, Microsoft launched Windows 2000 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq peaked in March; by the end of the year the dot-coms became dot-bombs as hundreds of highly leveraged Silicon Valley start-ups collapsed, taking some old world companies with them.
US energy company Enron's share price peaked at $90 in August 2000.
In Ireland, the government promised to review the roles of bank auditors after the issues highlighted by the previous year's Dirt inquiry, and the taxi industry was deregulated in November.
Paddy Power was the biggest Irish name to go public, with a valuation of £100m.
Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy's SSIA scheme, announced in the 2000 budget, launched on May 1 amid much fanfare.
Eircom sold off Eircell, Ireland's first mobile operator, to Vodafone amid charges of asset stripping, and shortly afterwards a bidding war for Eircom itself broke out. The company was taken private by the Valentia Consortium for €1.35 per share, just a third of the flotation price paid by investors two years earlier.
Foot and mouth disease devastated the Irish agriculture and tourism industries. To prevent it from spreading, the Six Nations fixture versus England was delayed and the St Patrick's Day Festival postponed until May.
The website MyHome.ie was launched as a collaboration between a group of estate agents to promote the Irish property market.
The terrorist attack of September 11 resulted in the then single biggest one-day drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average when markets reopened on September 17 and led to more than 140,000 redundancies in the US airline industry alone.
The business news of the year in the US was the collapse of Enron, where shares tumbled to less than a dollar after the uncovering of widespread fraud in the company.
Euro notes and coins were launched on January 1 in 12 countries around the eurozone, including Ireland.
On February 9, the Irish punt was no longer accepted in businesses. Despite fears of confusion and hyper-inflation the transfer was, broadly speaking, a smooth one.
By the time the government's SSIA "scheme" closed on April 30, over 1.1 million Irish people had signed up.
Internationally, the dot-com bubble was estimated to have cost $5trn between March 2000 and October 2002. Time Warner dropped AOL from its title but insisted that it regretted nothing.
In Ireland, the steep rise in house prices that seemed to have slowed down in 2001 started to take off with an estimated rise of 14 per cent.
It was a gloomy year for international stock markets, which were not helped by the $9bn fraud uncovered at US firm Worldcom.
First Active was bought by the Royal Bank of Scotland for €887m, one of the biggest Irish business deals of the year and a high-profile shake up of the Irish banking industry.
In the US, John Rusnak was sentenced to seven-and-a- half years in jail for a foreign exchange fraud that cost AIB's US arm $691.2m.
Ireland's oldest department store, Arnotts, was taken private by a consortium led by Richard Nesbitt, but drinks company Cantrell & Cochrane failed to float on the Irish stock exchange.
Comreg told Eircom to cut the price at which it allowed rivals access to its network, in an attempt to stimulate competition.
The property market continued to grow unabated, with a house in Dublin now costing approximately 10 times the average industrial wage, twice what it did in 1995.
In the US the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at a 19-month high in spite of the US invasion of Iraq.
US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to investigators examining suspicious stock trades that she had made. She was sentenced to five months in a minimum security prison.
In Ireland the workplace smoking ban came into place in March, amid predictions of mass revolt by smokers. As it turns out the Irish are actually a compliant lot and, while pubs and restaurants suffered, workers could now work free of second-hand smoke.
The return of Eircom to the stock market contributed to a 26 per cent increase in the Irish stock market, as did the eventual flotation of C&C.
The dollar tumbled in value against the euro, hurting exports from the eurozone.
The Irish housing market continued its seemingly unstoppable upward spiral, rising 9 per cent and no doubt contributing towards CRH's reported €1bn profit.
It was a year of audacious deals for some of the leading lights of Irish business.
The most sensational of these was Sean Dunne's €379m purchase of sites at Jury's Hotel and the Berkeley Court in Ballsbridge. Later, Ray Grehan outbid Dunne by paying a record-breaking €83m per acre for the Veterinary College site on Shelbourne Road.
Buoyed by the €7bn Jefferson Smurfit Kappa merger, Michael Smurfit bought the K Club with Gerry Gannon for €115m. It allowed him to build a €10m mansion at the Ryder Cup venue.
Horse-racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus played hardball with Malcolm Glazier over the Manchester United takeover and sold their 29 per cent stake for €120m.
Fyffes lost the first round of the insider trading case with Jim Flavin's DCC group. Meanwhile, the workers at Irish Ferries lost out in an ugly industrial dispute.
In 2006, the conspicuous consumption of Celtic Tiger Ireland went into overdrive when the first batch of SSIAs matured. However, some made deals that they would later regret.
Sean Dunne continued his Ballsbridge expansion by buying half of AIB Bank Centre in a €378m leaseback deal. Liam Carroll wasted no time in snapping up Dermot Desmond's 22 per cent stake of Greencore.
Babcock & Brown became the latest owner of Eircom in a deal worth €2.36bn, while The Irish Times bought property website myhome.ie for up to €50m with the money it made from selling its former offices in D'Olier Street.
Internationally, markets became nervous about growth as more interest rate hikes were announced. Commodity prices rose sharply as investors sought safer havens.
As cash registers chimed throughout Christmas 2006, Bupa retreated from the Irish health insurance market over an enforced €161m equalisation payment.
The Celtic Tiger started to feel the asthmatic effects of the credit crunch as the property boom began to fizzle out.
Initially, things seemed to be fine. Derek Quinlan bought the Jurys Inn division of the hotel group for €1.16bn. The Quinn group took over Bupa's operations -- and promptly filed court proceedings against the government over equalisation. Companies like Paddy Power, Kingspan and Elan were still doing well.
However, the first drop in house prices in five years was reported in April. The PDs called for an abolition of stamp duty, which only made things worse.
Then in August, Wall Street hit the skids after a spate of subprime mortgage defaults in America. This reverberated around the world, since these subprime mortgages had been packaged together and sold as triple-A-rated securities to nearly all the major financial institutions of the world.
For a country like Ireland, which had been bingeing on credit for years, the credit crunch would bring a period of cold turkey which would last way past Christmas 2007.
Financial stories were box office in 2008 with the massive fallout from the global financial crisis.
Jim Flavin resigned after the decision in the insider-dealing case with Fyffes was reversed. Sean Quinn resigned as chairman of Quinn Insurance over an unauthorised €288m loan.
Despite the Government predicting modest growth and a deficit of less than €5bn at the start of the year, international and domestic financial markets took a hammering after Bear Stearns almost collapsed on St Patrick's Day.
In September, markets went into freefall when the US government allowed Lehman Brothers to go to the wall.
While the US pumped in $700bn to save its financial system, Brian Lenihan introduced a two-year unconditional deposit guarantee after the value of Irish banks plummeted by a third in one day.
Things got even worse when it was discovered that Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick had misled shareholders over €87m of loans made to him personally. He and David Drumm, Anglo chief executive, resigned just before the Government was forced to put €7.5bn of capital into the three big banks.
The year ended with the Government unsure as to whether it could rely on its own figures for the extent of the budget deficit.
It was the year of the hairshirt -- and a borrowed one at that.
The banks dominated proceedings in Ireland as the State was forced to nationalise Anglo Irish Bank and then plough €7bn into rescuing AIB and Bank of Ireland. Brian Goggin, Eugene Sheehy, Denis Casey, Michael Fingleton and Mark Duffy all left their jobs as chief executives of banks. Most were replaced by insiders.
The National Asset Management Agency (Nama) good bank/bad bank debate seemed to go on for ever before being finally greenlighted, with the next couple of generations on the hook for billions of euro in loans to property developers.
Just two eggs were thrown at AIB chairman Dermot Gleeson at the bank's AGM in May.
Property prices continued to tank, and so did the state coffers. Suddenly we discovered that we had a deficit of more than €20bn. After years of kow-towing to the unions, the Government stuck it to them big time, with major public sector pay cuts as part of a savage Budget.
Carnage in the construction sector continued with Liam Carroll's empire the big casualty as foreign banks began to get snotty about being repaid.
Eircom was taken over for the zillionth time, with CRH ending the year as the country's most valuable company.
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Thank you for all your prayers and support of Oasis de la Gracia, the before-and-after-school program in Diriamba, Nicaragua. We are so thankful for God's continued provision of such a dedicated staff. After three years in place, the program is bearing spiritual and academic fruit. As an example of this, we are delighted to share the following update from Pastor Ramon (he and his wife are pictured above) from last October:
Dear brothers in Christ,
We would like to share with you what happened last week. On Wednesday, October 25th, during Bible class at Oasis, after the teachers finished the lesson, they began to talk to the kids personally. Four of the students who seemed very serious, approached the teachers to tell them that they wanted to accept Christ into their hearts. The teachers, who wanted to be sure that they understood, continued to explain what it means to accept Jesus. But they stayed firm in their decision. That day they all prayed and asked Jesus into their hearts. Afterward, they all publicly declared that they had received Jesus. During the classes on Sunday, I had them all go forward in the service and I asked them again what decision they had made that week. They all, with confidence, repeated what they declared in the school, "We accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior!" The names and ages of these children are Eleazar Bermúdez (9), Erwin Gonzales (9), José Sanchéz (12), and Walter Palacios (9).
Your brother in Christ,


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Innovative Collaboration for Platform as a Service (PAAS) By PAN ASIAN E-COMMERCE ALLIANCE
Hong Kong, 4 December 2015 –The 51st Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance ("PAA") Steering Committee meeting, hosted by Tradelink, was held from 3rd to 4th December 2015 in Hong Kong. Members from 11 economies contributed to high-level networking, strategic debate and knowledge sharing. Through the collaboration among members, PAA successfully established PAAS, as a comprehensive road map of members' business solutions, which targeted to fill the market niche.
Mr. K.K. Tse, CEO of Tradelink, expressed a warm welcome to Mr. Edward Yu, Principal Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (Commerce and Industry) of the Government of Hong Kong SAR as a guest of honour. Mr Tse appreciated that PAA enables members to have more regional exposure and provide a solid base for going global through the fruitful discussion and the enhancement of situational awareness. He also thanked all members for their expert contributions in the Pan Asia Exchange (PAE) eMarketplace which has proven the strength of cross border collaboration. This will help PAA members and our clients to look into the opportunities created by the One Belt One Road initiative and the Internet Plus national policy introduced in China.
PAA Chairman, Mr. Francis Lopez, in his speech drew attention to the PAA members nurtured the PAA to step into the new era and successfully developed the e-Marketplace. PAE had already become part of a suite of offerings in the new APEC MSME Portal as the platform for buyer-seller matching. Moreover, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) continued to tap the expertise of PAA members to provide inputs for initiatives on Regional Arrangement on Cross Border Paperless Trade Facilitation.
"We were pleased to hold the first PAA Certification Authorities meeting to focus on internet and mobile security. In addition, the inaugural PAA Expo was organised for PAA members to share our solutions and services, leading to a collaborative arrangement among the members. And I look forward to our continuing innovation and take the advantage of new opportunities created by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)." Mr. Lopez said.
The 52nd PAA Steering Committee Meeting will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea on 21st to 22nd April 2016.
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About Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance
The Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance ("PAA") aims to promote and provide secure, trusted, reliable and value-adding IT infrastructure and facilities to enhance seamless trade globally. PAA was founded in 2000. Current PAA Members comprise CAT of Thailand, CIECC of China, CrimsonLogic of Singapore, Dagang Net of Malaysia, InterCommerce of the Philippines, KTNET of Korea, NACCS of Japan, TEDMEV of Macao SAR, Tradelink of Hong Kong SAR, Trade-Van of Taiwan and PT EDI-I of Indonesia. Combined customer base of the PAA members now exceeds 340,000 organisations, representing almost all active trading enterprises in the Asian market. For more information about PAA, visit http://www.paa.net.
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