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2015 Human Rights Film Series: Daisy & Max Screening and Q&A
Room 602, American University Washington School of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016
Set in the part of L.A. popularly known as South Central, Daisy & Max explores the world of gang violence intervention workers, the long shadows of mass incarceration on families and children, and the lives of Latina and African American women who will risk everything to make their communities just a little safer.
As a teenager, Daisy watched her sister get shot to death in the driveway of her family house's, and Max was in and out of gangs and prison before changing his life. Now they work as a team, intervening in street violence and gang disputes before they turn deadly – all while raising a new baby. But when Max's past brings the FBI to their door and he suddenly disappears into the federal prison system, Daisy must fight – like never before – to save her family.
Daisy & Max was commissioned for Al Jazeera America Presents, an original series featuring provocative, timely documentaries and series for acclaimed filmmakers around the globe.
The Center is pleased to announce that Daisy & Max will open this year's Human Rights Film Series, the Center's flagship film event that showcases the year's predominant human rights documentaries throughout the month of October.
Dir. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. Presented by Al Jazeera America.
The screening will be followed a Q&A following.
American University is committed to providing accessible programs and services. For accommodations, contact [email protected]
Watch the trailer below, check out the Human Rights Film Series page, and visit the Daisy & Max website for information.
Daisy & Max will premiere on Al Jazeera America Presents on Sunday, October 25th at 10pm ET and re-airs Saturday, October 31th at 10pm ET.
About Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America is the U.S. news channel that provides both domestic and international news for American audiences. Headquartered in New York City with bureaus in 12 cities across the United States, Al Jazeera America carries an award-winning mix of live news, special programming, documentaries and more. Al Jazeera America is available in more than 64 million homes in the U.S. on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Channel 347, Dish Network Channel 216, Verizon FiOS Channel 614 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 1219. To find Al Jazeera America in your area, visit www.aljazeera.com/getajam. Visit Al Jazeera America online athttp://www.aljazeera.com/america for the latest updates. Like us on Facebook and follow @AJAM, @AJAMCorp on Twitter for the latest news and updates. Join the conversation using #AJAM.


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This cute dress has a Japanese style to it.
Katy Perry wore a neon glowing dress this night.
This is a funny political dress.
This is a clever dress that says "Admit One."
Here's a skin tight leather blue dress.
This is a cool & funky creme colored dress with musical notes on it.
Which dress do you like best on Katy Perry?


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Hidden Messages inside a DeLorean. Many owners are finding hidden treasures tucked away inside their cars. Anything from Magic Marker drawings and words to British / Irish Money hidden in the panels. Click the link to the left to see what we have discovered so far. (guaranteed to be more exciting than Geraldo's opening of Al Capone's tomb.
DeLorean License Plates - some pretty creative ideas!


Dead by Daylight is a 3D survival horror game that features assymetric 4vs1 PvP gameplay. One player assumes the role of a psycho killer and the others must work together to escape.
Pros: +4v1 Horror Play. +Procedurally generated levels. +Character progression. +Multiple playable Killers.
Live out scenes straight from your favorite slasher movies in Dead by Daylight, a 4v1 horror game where one player assumes the role of a psychotic killer and the four remaining players must escape the killing ground. Survivors play in third-person view, allowing them to hide and survey the environment, while the killer stalks them in first-person. Maps are procedurally-generated so even veterans will have to relearn the maps to survive. As a Survivor, use tall grass, lockers, crates and barricades to carefully navigate the killing ground. Remain calm and tactical. Panic is a sure way to get killed. Discover and utilize items to aid in your survival or team up with other players to outwit the monster. As the Killer, predict Survivor movements and use a myriad of sinister abilities to trap them and offer them up as sacrifices to the Entity.
Progression - in-game characters have a deep progression system which can be customized for unique strategies.
Items - search the killing grounds to discover items that will aid you in survival or carry them with you to your next match.
First-Person Killer - the killer's camera is confined to the first-person while survivors are given a third-person view to help them evade the monster.
Procedural Levels - each game requires players to relearn the environment so that no experienced player can gain a significant advantage from map awareness.
Multiple Killers - choose to play one of several iconic horror movie motifs, from the slasher to the silent wraith.
Dead by Daylight is a PvP survival horror game set in the year 1956 in the fictional town of Weeks, a backwater place with an unusually high number of missing persons reports. One player assumes the role of a psycho killer while up to four other players play as survivors. The survivors' goal is to escape from the enclosed area while the killer tries to stop them and sacrifice them to an evil force known as The Entity.
The game features great-looking graphics with character models and artwork similar to that of Left 4 Dead 2. The dark and grim procedurally-generated environments are nicely detailed and the effects, along with the blood and gore, work really well to immerse you in the game. The sound effects and background music is where Dead by Daylight really shines and takes its cue from your favorite horror movies. As a survivor, the game's audio can get your your adrenaline pumping, and have you just about ready to jump out of your skin with a few high-pitched notes and a steadily quickening heartbeat that indicates that the killer is getting closer.
Players assume the role of Killer or team up with up to three other players as a Survivor. There are four survivors to choose from, each with their own strengths: Dwight, who works best with a team of players; Meg, who is both fast and quiet; Jake, who excels in sabotage; and Meg, who can heal herself without a healing item. As Survivors, players must escape a procedurally-generated enclosed space by repairing the required number of generators. Once the generators are repaired, survivors must then activate a switch which opens the doors to the outside. Players can escape through one of two doors or through a hidden hatch that appears randomly when only one survivor is left.
Survivors play the game in third-person which gives them better situational awareness as opposed to Killers who are limited to first-person view. They can also use the environment to escape and evade the killer, such as vaulting through windows and toppling over barricades, or hiding in tall grass and inside closets. Now we've all learned from watching horror movies that hiding in closets is a sure way to get you killed. Fortunately, maps in Dead by Daylight have a good number of closets to choose from to keep the killer guessing. Well, most of the time anyway.
Killers can choose from one of three slasher flick inspired psycho killers: Chuckles, a masked, bear trap loving Jason look-a-like; Hillbilly, a deformed chainsaw-wielding maniac straight out of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie; and Wraith, a paranormal being reminiscent of Sinister and The Conjuring, with the power to go invisible and adept at hunting down wounded survivors. Killers must stop the Survivors from escaping by incapacitating them and hanging them on meat hooks as sacrifices to The Entity. They make up for their limited POV with the ability to see the position of generators and meat hooks, as well as the ability to detect noises, footprints, and blood trails.
Aside from being limited to first person view, Killers also lack the ability to run and crouch but can walk at a slightly faster pace than a sprinting survivor. They are also slower at climbing through windows and must either destroy or walk around barricades that survivors throw into their path. Killers also stop for a few moments after they strike a player regardless of whether they successfully hit them and must ensure that hooked Survivors aren't rescued by their comrades or that the others don't escape while you're focused on one Survivor. Although hook camping is frowned upon, there are other more sinister ways to make sure that hooked Survivors stay put (e.g. well-hidden bear traps).
Bloodpoints are used to unlock skill, perk, and item nodes in the Bloodweb, the game's version of a skill tree. Players earn Bloodpoints by performing certain actions during the match with more Bloodpoints awarded for critical actions such as escaping as a Survivor, or successfully Sacrificing a player as a Killer. Players can also earn additional Bloodpoints by completing Daily Rituals which function the same as Daily Quests in MMORPG's.
Each character is given a separate procedurally-generated Bloodweb which starts at level 1. Purchasing a node unlocks adjacent ones for purchase, with nodes closer to the edge of the web costing more and offering rarer rewards. Once a Bloodweb is filled, the character gains a level and a new Bloodweb. Higher levels offer more nodes as well as better overall rewards. Bloodpoints, however, can be used to unlock any node on any character regardless of who earned them. I could, for example, play as a Survivor and use the points I earn to level up my Killer of choice without once having to play as a Killer.
Like all games with an earnable perk system, this drastically affects the balance of the game especially when newbies find themselves going up against a Survivor who can sabotage all the meat hooks in the map (except for a few invulnerable ones), or a Killer who can kill Survivors on site without needing the hooks. Another fault with the point system is that being good at the game and finishing a match quickly rewards you with a unreasonably low amount of Bloodpoints. What's more, is that you can even lose a rank for not earning enough points. This encourages point farming and extremely long matches.
One of Dead by Daylight's glaring problems is its matchmaking and party system, or lack thereof. Getting a match started takes anywhere from 5 to 40 minutes because players are constantly lobby-jumping in the hopes of getting into a game with their friends. While the game features a Kill Your Friends mode that allows you to play with your friends, matches in this mode will not allow you to earn Bloodpoints or count towards your progression. The Bloodweb, along with any perks, skills, or items, you've earned, is also unavailable in Kill Your Friends mode.
Assuming that you do get into a match, other players can decide to quit at any time without being penalized. Losing Survivors can quit in the middle of a match and the Killer's efforts become fruitless. This also works the other way around. Having the Killer host the match instead of a dedicated server also makes matches prone to lag and freezes. Joining a match hosted by someone with a less than stellar ISP, or someone from halfway around the world will have you cursing with every stutter step that gets you killed, which is probably a good way to check whether your anger management bills are finally paying off.
Dead by Daylight is a thoroughly fun and addictive game, especially when playing against your friends, which is probably one of the only ways you can play without lag. Playing as a Survivor will scare you witless and will have you screaming like a little girl, while playing as a Killer will unleash your sadistic side as you hunt the Survivors down one by one (insert maniacal laugh here), both of which make you want to play the game again and again. The matchmaking system, however, leaves much to be desired. And the perks system messes up the game's balance. Overall, a good game with lots of potential, although one that I wouldn't recommend unless the obvious problems are fixed, or if you'll be playing solely with friends.
Dead by Daylight is developed by Canada-based game development studio Behaviour Digital Inc. and is published by Starbreeze Studios. The game entered closed beta on May 29, 2016, which was only open to players who pre-ordered the deluxe edition of the game. Dead by Daylight runs on Unreal Engine 4. The game was released on Steam on June 14, 2016.


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UN Gaza Rebuilding to Halt at End of January Due to Lack of Funds
By Sarah Helm	 On 1/22/15 at 8:14 AM EST
Palestinians warm themselves by a fire as they sit in a makeshift shelter outside their house, which witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, on a stormy day in the east of Gaza City January 8, 2015. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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A United Nations programme to rebuild Gaza and give aid and shelter to more than 100,000 Gazans made homeless by the 50-day summer war will be suspended at the end of January because world donors have reneged on promises to pay.
After the war, known as Operation Protective Edge in Israel, world donors, meeting in Cairo in October, pledged $5.4 billion to reconstruct the bombed-out Strip but only a small proportion has been paid.
A sum of $720 million was set aside for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, for rebuilding the homes of Gaza's refugees, who make up more than two thirds of the population. To date the UNRWA program is $580 million short.
During the war, which broke out on July 17th, more than 2,200 Palestinians were killed, including 500 children as Israel bombarded the strip. The conflict left 64 Israeli soldiers dead as well as seven Israeli civilians, killed mostly by Hamas rockets fired into Israel.
Since the temporary ceasefire in August the homeless have been forced to live in makeshift shelters, UN schools, and under canvas set up amidst acres of craters and rubble.
Aid workers had hoped to begin reconstruction before winter hit the Strip but the lack of cash and commitment from donors have dashed such hopes.
"So many months after the devastating summer conflict, people are living in freezing temperatures under tarpaulins in the ruins of what were their homes, with children reported to have died from exposure to the cold, so the lack of reconstruction is leading to anger and frustration," said Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA.
"The gap between expectations after the October Cairo conference and present reality is widening. There are genuine fears that if UNRWA halts this programme, the consequences could be dramatic," said Gunness.
A total of 110,000 houses or flats are now known to have been destroyed or damaged, according to figures produced by UNRWA. Some of those affected are still living in their half-destroyed houses but up to 19,600 families have lost homes entirely and are living in the makeshift shelters, caravans, tents and in UN schools.
The entry to Gaza of reconstruction materials has also been slow due to the continuing siege, enforced by Israel and by Egypt at the Rafah crossing.
The reconstruction crisis comes amid growing concern about the failure to establish a permanent ceasefire for Gaza and fears of further conflict.
Attempts earlier this month by United Nations war crimes investigators to gain access to Gaza in order to gather evidence of alleged war crimes during the summer war have also stalled.
For the second time in six months, the head of the Commission of Inquiry, William Schabas, professor of international law at London's Middlesex University, was refused entry to the strip and also to Israel and was obliged to take evidence instead in the Jordanian capital Amman.
During the visit to Amman many victims and witnesses recounted "deeply traumatic events", said a Commission spokesman. However, the inquiry team are understood to be "extremely frustrated" by Israel's refusal to allow them to speak to victims inside Gaza or to view the destruction themselves.
The UN team are also investigating allegations of war crimes by Hamas.
A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said yesterday that Britain "regretted" Israel's decision not to allow the Commission of Inquiry to visit Gaza or Israel. "We believe that all states should co-operate with the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council as a matter of course," he said.
The Aftermath, an ebook telling the story of one correspondent's return to Gaza by Sarah Helm is available now from Newsweek Insights.
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Vassilios Adrahtas, "Prolegomena to the History of Indigenous Australian Prophetic Consciousness."
Zoe Alderton, "Nick Cave: A Journey from an Anglican God to the Creative Christ."
Zoe Alderton, "The Limits of Taste: Politics, Aesthetics, and Christ in Contemporary Australia."
Sarah K. Balstrup, "Sentient Symbols: The Implications of Animal Cruelty Debates in Contemporary Australian Art."
Gary Bouma, "Globalization and Localization: Anglicans and Pentecostals in Australia and the United States."
Annabel Carr, "Beauty, Myth and Monolith: Picnic at Hanging Rock and the Vibration of Sacrality."
Carole M. Cusack, "Mysterious Ways: Some Reflections on the "Religion, Literature and the Arts Project," 1994-1996."
Carole M. Cusack,"Religion in Australian Society: A Place for Everything, and Everything in Its Place."
Carole M. Cusack, "The Virgin Mary at Coogee: A Preliminary Investigation."
Justine Digance and Carole M. Cusack, "Secular Pilgrimage Events: Druid Gorsedd and Stargate Alignments."
D. W. DockRill, "Archbishop Gough and the Sydney Philosophers: Religion, Religious Studies, and the University."
Lucy Ellem, "My Colour Country: Landscape and Spirituality in the Art of Ginger Riley Muduw Alawala."
Jan Epstein, "Jews and Films in Australia."
Christopher Hartney, "Open Temple, Open Eyes: Viewing Caodaism."
Lynne Hume, "New Religious Movements: Current Research in Australia."
Patrick Hutchings, "Australian Aboriginal Art."
Richard Ingold, "God, the Devil and You: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of the Language of Hillsong."
Janet Kahl, "Miracle Image of Mary at Yankalilla, South Australia."
Suzanne Langford, "In Search of an Australian Soul: Reflections on Religion and Spirituality in Rabbit-Proof Fence and Japanese Story."
Renee Lockwood, Sacrifice and the Creation of Group of Identity: Case Studies of Gallipoli and Masada
Sheila McCreanor, "The Construction of an Australian Saint."
Lyn McCredden, "Symbol-Making in Australia."
Trevor Melksham, "What Manner of Men are These? Peter Weir's Gallipoli as an Expression of Australian Civil Religion."
Jane Magon, "Spirituality in Australian Art."
Susan Murphy, "The Ordinary Street, The Storehouse of Treasure."
Rod Pattenden, "Artists do the Big Picture."
Peter Pierce, "The Problem of Consolation in the Country of Lost Children."
Adam Possamai, "Alternative Spiritualities, New Religious Movements, and Jedism in Australia."
James T. Richardson, "New Religions in Australia: Public Menace or Societal Salvation?"
Maurice Ryan, "Religion Courses in Australian Schools"
Marian de Souza and Richard Rymarz, "The Transmission of a Religious Heritage to Younger Members of Small Ethnic Communities in a Pluralistic Society: The Perceptions of Young Austalian Copts."
Stephen John Carthew. 2012. A World within a World within "The World": The Origins of the Universal Brotherhood, an Australian Countercultural, Back-to-the-land, New Age, Alternative Society and New Religious Movement Community. University of South Australia.
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For that, I present to you our very own Amici (woman/sister/confidant/a-shoulder-to-cry-when-we-get-rejected/bully of X Arts). Her name is Femme Fatale.
Girls are naturally state-dependent, the key is to make her FEEL GOOD because when she's feeling good, her state of rationality disappears. That little checklist of what she wants in a guy (car, money, beach house, whatever) just completely take a back seat and what's important is the HERE AND NOW WITH YOU.
You're addicting like a drug. Give her a slight taste of the narcotic and pull it away before her mind even gets to register the sinful bliss. Teasing her, taunting her and keeping it "just" out of reach till she's crazy for it.
The push/pull(s) you do only intensify her craving of you. Take your time because it takes a little longer to heat up a woman than it would a guy, but start your engines because once you turn her on, you better hold on for the ride.
vibe is very important, for all the Ross Jeffries students out there..... I cannot stress the importance of showing up attractive even before you speak. Body language is a major part, but it's more your actual presence and being-in-the-moment-fun-daring-Casanova-and-f***ing-owning-it that matters. I'm telling you nothing is sexier than a guy who's on fire and who's having fun. Incorporate playfulness. Don't take anything seriously and like the song lyrics go "we don't even have to try, it's always a good time".


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Before heading to London, Varun Dhawan and the cast of the film kick-started the first schedule of Street Dancer 3D in Amritsar, and now, for the second schedule, Prabhudheva will be joining the cast of the film. Helmed by Remo D'Souza, Street Dancer 3D is the third installment of the ABCD franchise and features Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Nora Fatehi in lead roles. In the film, it is being reported that while Varun will play a dancer from Punjab, Shraddha will be seen as a dancer from Pakistan. Street Dancer 3D will release on 8th November, 2019.


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On the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day, the Māori Party is pleased to see that a number of communities are accessing funds it secured for Māori youth suicide prevention.
"We feel the pain of whānau and communities who've been ripped apart from suicide and we applaud those who've put their hand up to do all they can so others don't suffer the same dilemma," said Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox.
The Māori Party secured from the Government about $2 million, which has been allocated to 28 organisations throughout the country to run Māori youth suicide prevention initiatives this year and next year. The focus of those initiatives will be on cyber bullying and takatāpui.
"Maori youth do more social networking online than any other group in this country, but cyber bullying is hurting too many of them as is the discrimination of our beautiful takatāpui from some quarters of society," said Ms Fox.
"Our rangatahi are two and a half times more likely to commit suicide than non-Māori youth. This is an abhorrent statistic and unacceptable this is why the Māori Party pushed to get this funding."
The Māori Party is also pleased to know that youth must be actively involved in the design and delivery of the funded initiatives.
"We've got a lot more work to do but for now, this funding will provide a level of support to communities in need."
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We take a look at 12 of the best vegetarian recipes including meatless meals like soup and lasagna.
Learn to make 12 easy vegetarian meals from scratch in this article on meatless meals |.
Being a vegetarian doesn't mean that you have to eat boring food. There are so many tasty vegetarian recipes that are also healthy, and they could even help you to lose weight.
A weekly menu of meatless meals could include dishes like vegetarian pasta with pesto sauce, black bean, and corn salad, or even veggie burgers. Plus, all of these foods are vegetarian-friendly.
In this article, we'll teach you how to prepare 12 easy vegetarian recipes that are quick meals to make for lunch or dinner. Besides, we explain how to eat a balanced diet as a vegetarian with some guidelines for those who don't eat meat.
Vegetarian recipes: what do vegetarians eat?
On top of these guidelines, there are also different types of vegetarianism such as ovolactovegetarian. With this kind of diet, you can consume egg and dairy products including milk and cheese.
Another related, yet stricter way of eating is a vegan diet. This dietary regimen excludes all animal products including dairy and honey and even certain refined sugars filtered with bone char.
Usually, the most common ingredients in vegetarian cuisine are grains, fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, spices, lactose products, eggs, and honey.
Also, other products derived from soy like tofu, meat substitutes and textured vegetable protein (TVP) form a part of this diet.
Being vegetarian doesn't have to mean preparing fancy time-consuming meals. Below we'll show you 12 different easy vegetarian recipes that you can make in no time right at home.
These are simple meatless meals that you can add to any weekly menu since they are so easy to prepare and perfect for beginner vegetarians.
Here you'll find everything from desserts and lunches to tasty dinners for the whole family, and all of these are a great fit as a part of any healthy balanced diet for people trying to lose weight.
This vegetarian meal is perfect for any diet, and it's even heart healthy. You just need 1 zucchini, 1 onion, 3 cloves garlic, 200 g mushrooms, 600 g spinach, 8 sheets of precooked lasagna, 200 g tomato paste, 500 g crushed tomato, oregano, and 150 g low-fat cheese.
To start, chop the veggies and sautée them with oil on low, first slowly adding the zucchini for 5 minutes with a little bit of salt and pepper, and then adding the rest of the vegetables.
Meanwhile, cook the spinach in another pan and then set it aside. After, put a few tablespoons of tomato paste in a pan and a layer of lasagna noodles per person.
After, add the cooked vegetables and the crushed tomato on top. This then gets sprinkled with cheese and then add two more levels to your lasagna. On the next layer, add more tomato paste and a little bit of dried oregano plus more low-fat cheese. Finally, put this in the oven (preheated to 180 ºC) and let it cook for 20 minutes.
To prepare this vegetarian dessert you'll just need: 4 eggs, 100 g sugar, 200 g cake flour and pumpkin, yeast, ground cinnamon, vanilla, butter, oil, and salt.
First, we'll beat the eggs and add the sugar -plus a little bit of salt- mixing everything well and then add oil. After, put the flour and yeast in with a strainer and stir it well.
Keep adding all of the ingredients -vanilla, cinnamon, and pumpkin- and remix it. Pour the mix into a greased cake pan and put it into a preheated oven at 180º. Let the pumpkin bread bake for 35 minutes or until you can stick a toothpick in and pull it out clean.
If you're looking for a hot vegetarian recipe, this one is for you. Chickpeas and spinach are nutritious, and this dish also contains a lot of plant-based protein as well as other essential nutrients. You'll need 400 g of chickpeas, 300 g of spinach, 2 carrots, 2 cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of sweet paprika, and tomato paste.
The night before put the chickpeas to soak with a little bit of salt. The next day strain out the water, wash them and put them in a pot with paprika, a carrot chopped up into small pieces, and diced garlic, along with a splash of olive oil and plenty of water.
Let this simmer on medium for an hour and a half to two hours, until the chickpeas are soft. Once cooked, add a tablespoon of tomato, paprika, and spinach. Mix well and let it cook for 3 more minutes until the spinach cooks down and mixes in well.
This delicious Italian meal is totally vegetarian-friendly, and even vegans can eat it if you don't add parmesan cheese. To start, you need 400 g of spaghetti, 150 g fresh basil, 300 g of parmesan cheese, 2 cloves of garlic, 100 g of pine nuts, 200ml of olive oil, and some salt.
For this vegetarian recipe, first, boil water with a little bit of salt and throw in the spaghetti to cook. Meanwhile, prepare your pesto sauce in a blender or food processor with basil, cheese, garlic, pine nuts, and olive oil. Blend this mixture well until it forms a dense sauce.
When the spaghetti is al dente -after about 10 minutes- keep about 2 tablespoons of the water from the pot where it is boiling. Strain the spaghetti and mix it with the pesto and the juice that you got from the boiling water.
Vegetarian pasta with pesto sauce is one tasty vegetarian meal that's on our vegetarian food list. |.
If you love cold veggie salads with legumes, try this vegetarian recipe. You just need 350 gr cooked black beans, 6 tablespoons of sweet corn, 2 tomatoes, 1 red pepper, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 scallion, chia seeds, lime, oil, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, and chives.
For the vinaigrette, you've got to mix the juice of 2 limes with a tablespoon of vinegar and 3 of olive oil. Then add the grated garlic with the salt and pepper and then mix everything with the blender.
In a separate bowl, throw in the chia seeds, chopped onion, red pepper, and chopped tomato. Add the other ingredients and a little bit of diced scallion. Mix it all together and serve it with a dash of olive oil.
For this recipe, you just need 8 eggs, 4 carrots, 4 mushrooms, 1 onion, salt, pepper, oregano, and mayonnaise.
First, when the eggs are cooked -for 10 minutes in a pot with boiling water- peel them and let them cool off. Meanwhile, in another pot put water to boil to cook the vegetables for 10 minutes.
Take the yolks out of the boiled eggs and smash them with a fork. Then, add the mayonnaise, salt and pepper, and oregano.
Finally, stir everything together with the vegetables and add the mixture to the eggs again. If you want to try a different type of filling, consider homemade guacamole.
To prepare this tasty vegetarian recipe that you could find on any weekly menu, first, you have to wash the eggplants and cut them lengthways. Then place them on a baking sheet with the skin on the bottom. Rub them with oil and season them.
Roast the eggplant for 40 minutes at 190ºC. After this, remove the fleshy part of the veggie, chop it up and put it in a food processor with the diced garlic, tahini, cumin, a little bit of salt, sesame oil, and a tablespoon of olive oil.
Once this mix is well blended, set it aside. To make the dipping sticks, you just have to peel the carrots and cut them into sticks so that they're easily dippable in the baba ganoush.
Homemade vegetarian meatballs are another great meatless meal. To make this delicious and simple meal, you just need 450 g cauliflower, 1 onion, 4 mushrooms, 2 carrots, 80 g grated cheese, 1 clove of garlic, 1 egg, flour, 150 g rice, olive oil, salt, and parsley.
For the sauce, you'll need 3 scallions, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, honey, water, salt, and olive oil. First, to prepare the sauce, chop up the ingredients and fry the scallions first. When they are golden brown, add the Worcestershire sauce, a tablespoon of mustard, honey, and 250 ml water.
Let this mixture reduce for 10 minutes and then put it in the food processor. After, for the vegetarian meatballs cook the rice. Then shred the cauliflower and carrots, and meanwhile chop the onion and mushrooms. After, poach the vegetables for 10 minutes and set them aside.
Now you just have to add the rice, cheese, egg, and a clove of diced garlic and mix it all together. Finally, you just need to make the meatballs, first, dip them in flour and fry them in a pan with oil and then serve them with sauce on top.
If you want to put a twist on a regular omelet, try this Spanish tortilla recipe which is perfect for any ovolactovegetarian. You'll need 6 eggs, 3 potatoes, 1 small onion, olive oil, and salt.
Once you've cut and peeled the vegetables -into fine half-moon shape pieces of about 1/2 cm- put the potatoes into the pan. Then, season everything and fry it slowly for a half an hour.
After, crack the eggs and beat them in a bowl and then pour them in with the fried potato and onion, mixing everything well. Later, when it's done on one side, flip it onto a plate or the lid of a saucepan of the same size.
You can also add other ingredients like garlic, red pepper, or any other kind of vegetable that you like to make this recipe even tastier.
Burgers don't necessarily need to be made of meat; they can also contain vegetarian ingredients. To make this vegetarian food first you need 200 g of cooked lentils, 100 g of cooked white rice, 1 leek, 1 carrot, 1 green pepper, 2 tablespoons of sweet corn, salt, pepper, and olive oil. For the chips, we'll use a half of a sweet potato.
To make this vegetarian recipe, first chop all of the vegetables and sautée them in olive oil. Then, season them and mix them with lentils and cooked rice. Add vegetables and stir, then salt and pepper the mixture again. Add the corn and meanwhile toast the seeds without oil and add them to the mix. After, let this sit in the refrigerator.
After, shape the veggie burgers with your hands and then fry them in oil.
Finally, to make the sweet potato chips, you just have to peel them and cut them into fine strips, and then fry them. Drain the oil and add salt and pepper.
If you're a fan of bechamel and you're a vegetarian, then you'll love this idea for meatless Monday. The bechamel adds a little bit of fat to the recipe, but the added flavor is totally worth it. To make this recipe, you'll need 1 large head of cauliflower, 600 g of flour, 700 ml of milk, 60 g of butter or margarine and 200 g of cheese to melt on top, and of course, salt and pepper.
The first step is to cook the cauliflower once you've washed it and removed the green leaves. Cut it into 4 pieces and cook it in a pot of boiling water with a pinch of salt for 15 minutes. In the time being, you can prepare the bechamel.
For this, you need to put the butter in a saucepan on low and then add the flour and let this cook for about 3 minutes. After, add the hot milk slowly and don't stop stirring.
Salt and pepper this and let it cook for about 10 minutes approximately. Then, place the cauliflower in a baking dish cut into smaller pieces and pour the bechamel over it, making different layers. Put cheese on top, this can also be vegan cheese if you choose. Finally, put the cauliflower in the oven for 5 minutes until it takes on a toasted texture.
This cream of vegetable is a vegetarian soup that's quick and easy to make. To prepare it you need 8 carrots, 1 zucchini, 2 leeks, 1 clove of garlic, 300 g mushrooms, salt, pepper, and olive oil. To make this recipe you just need to wash, cut and poach the vegetables.
The mushrooms get added later along with the salt and pepper so that everything has time to brown. Cover this with water and let it cook for 20 minutes.
Once it's ready, blend the mix and put the cream of vegetable soup in a pot to keep it warm. For a different twist on this recipe, sautée some mushrooms in a separate pan with a little bit of oil and put them on top of the creamy soup.
Eating a vegetarian diet with meatless meals is healthy if you know how to meet your nutritional needs. |.
The American Dietetic Association supports a vegetarian diet and states that it believes that it can truly be healthy for people from a nutritional stand point. A vegetarian diet that's well planned is healthy and meets dietary needs. Also, they affirm that it can even benefit health and work towards the prevention and treatment of certain health conditions as long as this is done under the guidance of a professional dietitian.
It's important to reflect on your reasons for following this diet.
Be conscious of the body's nutritional requirements.
Can you lose weight on a vegetarian diet?
You can lose weight as a vegetarian, just like with any other diet if you follow certain basic health rules with meals. The quantity and the quality of the products that you eat is key here.
Eating 5 meals a day is vital when it comes to maintaining an active metabolism, as well as eating a healthy breakfast to give your body energy and the calories it needs to start the day.
One great example of a vegetarian breakfast could be a piece of whole grain toast with tomato and/or avocado, coffee with plant-based milk, and a piece of seasonal fruit.
Besides, lunches and dinners should contain a limited amount of fried and breaded food which can instead be grilled or steamed.
Craig, W. J., & Mangels, A. R. (2009). Position of the American Dietetic Association: vegetarian diets. Journal of the American dietetic association, 109(7): 1266-1282.
Messina, V., Melina, V., & Mangels, A. R. (2003). A new food guide for North American vegetarians. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 64(2): 82-86.


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Noble Feats
Some topics we looked into while you were reading last month's issue
By Texas Co-op Power Staff January 2016
Bob "Daddy-O" Wade's boots at San Antonio's North Star Mall stand 35 feet 3 inches tall.
Image: Julia Robinson
The Better Business Bureau tries to alert donors to charities that might engage in bad practices.
Image: Tatiana Tychina | Dollar Photo Club
Appliances that are always plugged in and sucking power are also always sucking money out of your wallet.
Image: Tim Carroll
Artist Bob "Daddy-O" Wade leaves his footprint in Guinness World Records. There's another kernel of truth about the benevolence of bats. And tread carefully when planning your own benevolence.
Perfect Fit for Guinness
Whoever tries to top artist Bob "Daddy-O" Wade will have some big boots to fill—the biggest boots in the world.
Wade's supersized cowboy boots, which have been turning heads at San Antonio's North Star Mall since 1980, are now turning pages in the 2016 edition of Guinness World Records. The faux ostrich-skin boots, standing 35 feet 3 inches tall, are listed as the biggest cowboy boot sculpture in the world.
Wade has made a career of dreaming up eccentric, oversized pieces of art. (Read The Curious Creations of Daddy-O Wade, February 2015.) Dino Bob in Abilene, Big Six Shooter in Del Rio and the Carl's Corner dancing frogs that used to amuse travelers on Interstate 35 near Hillsboro are Wade creations.
The boots, though, step to the front of the line. As Wade told Guinness, "I'm mighty proud to have the world's biggest cowboy boots, and for anyone that thinks I'm totally crazy—well, I am, just a little!"
Bats … Good
How good? They're worth more than $1 billion to the worldwide corn industry. Bats eat pests that threaten corn crops, most notably the corn earworm, whose larvae feed on ears, directly damaging a crop's yield, according to a recent report about a two-year experiment at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The larvae also contribute to the infection of corn by fungi that produce compounds toxic to humans and livestock.
Vampires … Bad
How bad? They could cost you hundreds of dollars a year. Vampire devices—appliances that are always plugged in and sucking power, even when they're not in use—account for 10 percent of the average American electric bill. The vampires in your house are everywhere. They include: electric shavers, hair dryers, curling irons, coffee makers, microwaves, toasters, cable TV boxes, DVRs, laptops, desktop computers, printers and cellphone chargers. Eliminate the vampires by using power strips or unplugging devices until they are needed.
Choose Trustworthy Charities
VERIFY When you donate money to charities, you'd like to believe it provides the help you intended, but that isn't always the case. As you think about what charitable organizations fit into your 2016 budget, the Better Business Bureau can help verify whether they are trustworthy stewards of your money. The BBB produces reports about national charities based on detailed questionnaires and copies of supporting documents.
BE LEERY Charities that refuse to disclose the requested information could be hiding something. The BBB advises donors to steer clear of charities that do not disclose. To see these reports and get advice on charitable giving, visit give.org.


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Summertime isn't just for kids or students! Kendra and I start a new series here on how we can make the most out of our own summers, even if we've got kids at home, or even if not much as changed in our working day-to-day.
In this first installment, we talk about bucket lists… in that's fun to have our own. Sure, we make one with the kids, but who's to say we can't do our own? It all comes down to reasonable expectations — no remodeling the entire house or spontaneous 3,000 mile road trips here.
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Education expands share-in-savings
By Diane Frank
"Davis readies next take on acquisition reform"
"An equal slice of success"
"Dusting off a contract idea"
"Cracking the top 10"
The Education Department has moved into increasingly turbulent waters as one of the few federal agencies to use innovative share-in-savings contracting, while Congress and the Bush administration try to encourage more agencies to do likewise.
Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs (OSFAP) signed two new share-in-savings contracts with Accenture last month. The contracts are expected to save the agency more than $173 million across the next 10 years by consolidating its systems and moving applications to the Internet. OSFAP has been working with Accenture on share-in-savings contracts since 1999.
In a share-in-savings contract, the vendor puts up all or most of the funds for a new system and is then "paid back" by the agency across a predetermined number of years according to an agreed-on percentage of the savings the agency realizes through the use of the new technology.
Saving money is the key to a share-in-savings contract, and measuring those savings is the most difficult element. The agency and the contractor must determine a baseline — how much time and money the agency now spends on a certain function — and a goal — how much the agency wants to spend — so that the difference can be measured and shared.
The Bush administration called on agencies to expand the use of share-in-savings in the fiscal 2002 budget. The concept is popular for outsourcing payment collections. In the Energy Department's Federal Energy Management Program, for example, contractors contribute all the upfront costs to identify a federal agency's energy needs and make the improvements in return for a share of the savings.
The General Services Administration and Clinton administration procurement officials championed share-in-savings for IT contracts in the past three years, but only Education tried the idea.
Share-in-savings contracts can be daunting for agency and industry alike, said Steve Shane, the Accenture partner responsible for the Education account — not only because of the difficulty of setting baselines for measuring the savings but also because of the high level of commitment and partnership required by this type of contract. It's "a bit of a Ph.D. in contracting," he said.
Some larger federal integrators are working share-in- savings provisions into larger contracts, said Olga Grkavac, executive vice president of the Information Technology Association of America's Enterprise Solutions Division.
But many companies are struggling to understand how to use share-in-savings, which is "not the answer for every firm, [and] it's not the only answer for every procurement," she said.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy, added a section encouraging the use of share-in- savings to his draft Services Acquisition Reform Act in November 2001.
Angela Styles, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, questioned whether Davis was taking the right step at a hearing before the subcommittee that month. "We want to ensure that the methodology proves beneficial before it is expanded governmentwide or otherwise made permanent," Styles testified. "To date, we have not seen demonstrable results."
In its first OSFAP contract, Accenture developed a new Central Data System to replace multiple legacy systems. Already, the office is saving almost $1 million per month, and a much smaller contract to migrate the office and its users from a proprietary wide-area network to the Internet brought ad.ditional savings, Shane said.
The two new contracts are a continuation of the office's modernization effort, he said.
Davis' legislation may be the best way to get other agencies moving forward toward these types of partnerships, Shane and Grkavac agreed.
"Some people are waiting for it not to be just encouraged, but more blessed," Shane said.
*** Accenture's Education share-in-savings deals
* Integration and retirement of the legacy Central Data System, starting the modernization of the Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs. Awarded 1999.
* Migrating OSFAP and its customers, including schools and financial institutions, from the office's proprietary wide-area network to an Internet application for communication. Awarded 2000.
* Developing and deploying a Common Origination and Disbursement system, which will consolidate the many legacy systems used to disburse more than $50 billion in financial aid payments. Awarded December 2001.
* Integrating Web applications, such as electronic bill payment and online self-service, into the Direct Loan programs administered by OSFAP and its partners. Awarded December 2001.


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Notes from the May, 2000 Conference of the
California Association of Toxicologists
1:15 pm -- "The Prosecution of Rave Parties and Drug Facilitated Rape"
Karla Kerlin of the sex-crimes division & John Ramseyer of the narcotics division of the LA District Attorney's office.
Karla Kerlin talked most, talking about the role of different drugs in what is commonly called "Date Rape". She said she is trying to get people to use the term "drug facilitated rape" or similar terms. She argued for this to make it clear that drug-rapes are usually far less consensual than people normally think of "date rapes" as being.
She said that they are often quite hard to prosecute because the women (she only talked about women) because of the reporting problem, women need to come in right away but often wait a few days before reporting anything.
A common indicator that something has been slipped into someone's drink is that the person becomes impaired beyond what she has consumed and then wakes up at home, at someone else's house, or during sex. "symptoms not consistent with one or two drinks".
"Drugs are now ideal for sexual assaults." For 1-2 days afterwards, the woman may have self-doubt, "did I drink too much", confusion, memory loss, so they hesitate to report because they have zero memory or flash memories.
The problem is that many of these drugs pass through the system so quickly that there is usually no positive toxicology, meaning that the urine tests don't show anything.
Another confounding factor is that people don't tell all the drugs they've used recently, not wanting to admit drug use, so they complicate the toxicology analysis. People also do a lot of drugs and alcohol consensually together. You have to tell the victims that they "must be absolutely candid with us about your recent drug use and consensual sexual behavior".
She said that some of the sexual assault victims show up at the emergency rooms still intoxicated and so they are treated as drug overdoses and evidence is lost. More educational work needs to be done with emergency professionals to make them aware of the problems.
A big GHB rape case in LA recently which ended up with multiple life sentences where some DJ was knocking both women and men out at parties and having sex with them.
She said that if a suspect has a recipe on their computer for GHB, that helps their prosecution case.
She also said that friends will testify that their friend became far more sexually aggressive than usual: "while they may appear to outsiders as the sexual aggressor, they are only reacting that way because of the drug."
They described a game where people were all given glasses to drink from and then sometime during the cocktail party, someone went around and put stickers on peoples glasses to show them how easy it would be to slip something in their drink undetected.
"I've seen no rohypnol in LA-- virtually non existent as a date rape drug-- the problem is GHB."
Someone in the audience said that tetrahydrozoline (visine) is also added to drinks. [ I looked into this a little by asking around and was told by several people that visine added to drinks supposedly causes diarrhea, but does not cause any psychoactive effects. ]
She said that their office had no estimates at all of the total number of drug-related rape cases reported or prosecuted, nor any data on how common GHB related rapes are.
Michael Robertson, another presenter, said that the Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SoFT) has formed a committee to look at drug facilitated rape.
He said in San Diego "less than 1% of the drug facilitated rape are flunatrazepam [rohypnol, ruffies]".
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Geez, I liked the concept announced last week at Lion's Head & at Bruce Peninsula District School.
The Ontario Hockey Federation has approved BPDS to become a Hockey Canada Skills Academy beginning this fall.
Bruce Peninsula Students involved in the program will get close to 40 hours of on ice sessions plus, on other days, the students will do dry land training and complete assignments for the Leadership credit.
The Leadership credit includes Community Service work which could entail organizing intramural hockey for both secondary and elementary students at Lion's Head plus establishing activities and tournaments for Lion's Head Minor Hockey.
The level of community support for the initiative has been fantastic, as the municipality and the Oldtimers Hockey Club are among the boosters & why not, the arena should be far busier than ever.
Finally, as part of the course, Bruce Peninsula District School will ice both a boys hockey team & a girls hockey team in the Bluewater Athletic Association Hockey Leagues for 2009/10.


Several years ago, members of University Baptist Church embarked upon the task of restoring the grounds of University Baptist Church. Their efforts included the planting of hundreds of perennials, shrubs, and plants of all types to have the grounds complement the beautiful buildings of the church. The restoration project was finally completed in the summer of 2014 when all beds and other areas of the exterior were landscaped and fully planted. This operation was completed at little or no cost to the church, as members donated long hours of effort and plants were either donated or purchased at minimal costs. It was truly a labor of love!
The final product is one of beauty and reverence. Each spring, the church grounds explode in a riot of color and growth. Each week during the growing season, a new show begins as flowers and plants bloom while others recede. The grounds are alive with color after the last frost of spring until and after the first frost of autumn. Of particular focus is the "prayer garden" at the rear entrance to the church which is heavily planted and is a center of attraction for the showy display of many perennials and other plantings. Church members, visitors and neighbors alike, can be found "pausing in the prayer garden" to soak in the beauty of God's creation. If you are ever "in the neighborhood," please stop by and tour our grounds. For the Beauty of the Earth!


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This website about the United States Electoral College from the National Archives is an excellent resource for both students and teachers. It is divided into sections that include: answers to frequently asked questions about the Electoral College; historical election results, state by state electoral information, and an Electoral College calculator for younger students. Also included is an entire section devoted solely to teaching resources.
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Congratulations to Sarah Leo on her scholarship award. I visited OpenBook Howden in Adelaide a couple of years ago and was mightily impressed by the company, particularly its continual investment in its people, both blue collar and white collar.
Welcome to the Print21 Newsletter, from the premier news and information service for Australia and New Zealand printers. Enjoy the long weekend, and good luck to all the finalists this weekend; win, lose or draw it's the lucky country.
No less than nine state and federal MPs have reportedly been sending print to Zion Graphics, a print management company owned by a Liberal branch president, who is also Liberal party donor.
The MPs include three federal and six NSW representatives, only two of whom – Alex Hawke and David Elliot – have Zion Graphics in their constituencies.
Questions have been raised regarding the cosy arrangement where Liberal MPs from all over Sydney are sending their print to a Liberal party donor, especially one who doesn't do any actual printing but just takes a clip – reportedly eye-watering – for handling the work.
Zion Graphics, owned by Bella Vista Liberal branch president Rudy Limantono, has handled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of print for the nine MPs.
Limantono has personally donated $9399 to the Liberal Party, while Hillsview Pacific, which owns Zion Graphics, and of which Limantono is the sole director, has also donated, to the tune of $19,254.
Zion Graphics has no website, no facebook, and the phone number is registered at the McMansion residence in Bella Vista of Limantono. The company is operating as a print management business, with design and mailing also part of the service. It has no inhouse printing facility.
Local MP Alex Hawke is believed to have spent more than $500,000 with Zion Graphics over the past 11 years.
Zion Graphics owner Limantono is the Bella Vista Liberal branch president, and as well as being a donor to the Liberal party, is reportedly a major backer of Hawke in his battle to keep his seat from a different faction in the local Liberal party.
Limantono's business is located within Mitchell, Hawke's federal electorate, and Baulkham Hills, Elliott's state electorate.
However it is more then 25kms from the office of the NSW state Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, a similar 24kms from Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres Penrith office, and 20km from social services Minister Paul Fletcher's Pymble office, all of whom have reportedly used its services.
Records show that Hawke, NSW social services minster Paul Fletcher, and another Federal Liberal MP who uses Zion, Julian Leeser, spend significantly more on printing than neighbouring MPs, despite being in safe seats.
In the last period for which records are available April 2017 to June 2018, of those MPs that used Zion Graphics, Fletcher was the biggest user of print, spending $309,056.27 on printing and communication. During the same period Hawke spent $298,808.32, while Leeser spent $207,705.13 on print and communication for his Berowra constituency.
By way of comparison Scott Morrison spent $179,063.10 in Cook during the same period, while Tony Abbott spent $184,905.91 in Warringah, both of them having smaller majorities than the big spending trio above..
The MPs using Zion Graphics include Federal families and social services minister Paul Fletcher; federal backbencher Julian Leeser; NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet; NSW minister for mental health, women and ageing Tanya Davies; NSW minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres; NSW minister for innovation and better regulation Matt Kean; NSW member for Seven Hills Mark Taylor; and NSW member for Baulkham Hills David Elliott use Zion Graphics to print documents including newsletters, flyers and community surveys.
All parties involved have denied any wrongdoing.
Sarah Leo, general manager at SA printing business Openbook Howden, and the SA Board member at the PIAA, has been awarded an Industry Leaders Fund Scholarship towards her MBA at the University of Adelaide.
The process in achieving this scholarship was a rigorous, with a three-stage assessment process, including a panel interview with Industry Leaders Fund Board Members.
Openbook Howden started life as a two-colour printer in 1986, today it has more than 50 staff producing print, design, interactive and e-comms solutions, stock management, distribution and mail services. Leo and chief operating officer Michael Richards run the business.
Andrew Macaulay, CEO of the Printing Industries Association, said that South Australian members were delighted with the leadership that Leo had been showing, especially with PIAA's recent achievement in securing increased vocational education funding for the State.
It's wonderful to get a response to the Verdigris blogs, especially responses pointing out mistakes. We've had a correction relating to the serial rant about how industry associations don't do enough to support sustainability and the environment, so we would like to set the record straight.
Our serial rant accuses industry associations of doing too little to encourage awareness of what members can do to improve their sustainability and environmental awareness. The rants apply to printer and publisher associations alike, for instance newspaper industry associations or ones for book publishers. And of course printing and manufacturer associations.
The Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) is however a welcome exception to the apathy. PIAA set up the nationally recognised Sustainable Green Print (SGP) programme in 2009, and it has grown to become Australia's best recognised and widest implemented industry sustainability programme. It has been implemented in hundreds of print businesses in Australia and crucially, is required in government procurement for tendering.
Accreditation is even better than setting up guidance for association members. The SGP scheme provides three levels of accreditation for print businesses in Australia and elsewhere. The top level is comparable to requirements for ISO14001 (environmental management systems) and the other two are less demanding to provide a pathway to the top level. Accredited auditors look for scheme compliance based on achieving key deliverables over several months. Companies must also demonstrate monthly that they meet their sustainability targets, and they report annually to maintain their certification.
PIAA's programme is open to printers around the world keen to improve their sustainability and get the commercial benefits it delivers. SGP is an excellent example for other industry associations to follow, and PIAA's work should rightly be celebrated. Hats off to you!
This article was produced by the Verdigris Project, an industry initiative intended to raise awareness of print's positive environmental impact. This weekly commentary helps printing companies keep up to date with environmental standards, and how environmentally friendly business management can help improve their bottom lines. Verdigris is supported by Agfa Graphics, EFI, Fespa, HP, Kodak, Kornit, Ricoh, Spindrift, Splash PR, Unity Publishing and Xeikon.
Quality: Jay Miller, SWS Signage, shows off the window films at the University of Newcastle.
SWS Signage, together with media suppliler Starleaton, has created an innovative solution to hide building works inside the University of Newcastle, printing one way films with images that reflect the heritage of building.
To hide the interior refurbishment works, the university turned to SWS Signage, based in nearby Sandgate. SWS printed archival photos from the 1920s and '30s onto Starleaton's new ContraVision HD window film, designed for one-way viewing. "They wanted a solution that created some privacy for them, and also made sure that the artwork displayed in the windows reflected the heritage of the building," said Jay Miller, sales executive at SWS.
ContraVision HD was used to bring the archival photos to life without compromising on image quality.
New design: John Buitenkamp, Starleaton.
The university has given the result the thumbs-up, with a spokesperson telling Print21 that SWS had delivered a high-quality project, on time and on budget. "The images, reproduced and installed by SWS Signage, make a charming feature of all the ground floor windows and doors, and have received much appreciation from the community," they said.
University House, formerly Nesca House, was designed by architect Emil Sodersten and built in the late 1930s. Over the past two years, the university has been carefully restoring the building both inside and out, including updating the façade with hundreds of tonnes of new sandstone and reinstalling curved windows on the ground floor.
Demand for anti-counterfeiting technology including holograms is increasing among packaging brand owners, according to a new report.
Those involved in the packaging sector, including converters, will benefit from the commercial opportunities built around anti-counterfeit packaging technologies identified in the report, says the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA).
The Global Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Market Professional Survey Report 2018 forecasts that the worldwide market for anti-counterfeiting packaging technology will exceed US$357bn (AU$491bn) by 2026.
With fake products continuing to emerge from regions such as Asia and Eastern Europe, brand owners are looking to methods such as track-and-trace security holograms to ensure confidence in their products, says the IHMA, which comprises 100 hologram companies from around the world.
According to Manoj Kochar, chair of the IHMA, holographic technology is an effective method to ensure the security of packaging. "Holography has a key role as an effective, highly flexible weapon in the ongoing battle to thwart counterfeiters and fraudsters," he said.
Innovations by Avery Dennison, Hamillroad Software and RotoMetrics were among the category winners honored at this year's Label Industry Global Awards, which took place this week at Joe's Live in Rosemont, Chicago, as part of Labelexpo Americas 2018.
Now in its 15th edition, the awards celebrate the most innovative, creative and successful work from the label and package printing industry across the globe in the last twelve months. The 2018 award ceremony brought together 330 guests featuring some of the biggest names from the international label community, and those working behind the scenes to constantly innovate and push this dynamic sector forward.
The Award for Innovation (for companies with up to 300 employees), sponsored by Flint Group Narrow Web, was presented to Hamillroad Software for its new product solution, Bellissima, which combines the best-of-breed technologies of plate, anilox and screen. The system is a set of Digitally Modulated Screens (DMS), developed and optimised specifically for flexo. Imaged at 4,000dpi, Bellissima provides a high level of image reproduction (over 300lpi equivalent), with no screen or content moiré.
The Award for Innovation (for companies with more than 300 employees), also sponsored by Flint Group Narrow Web, went to RotoMetrics for its RotoRepel, a non-stick coating that is available on its solid and flexible cutting dies. This technology minimises adhesive pick-up and transfer and has resulted in significant benefits, including improved press efficiency, presses running faster, significant reduction in downtime, longer tool life, waste reduction and lower tool costs.
Avery Dennison won the Award for Sustainability, sponsored by Labels & Labelling magazine. Avery Dennison partnered with EcoVadis, a leading sustainability performance rating solution, to operate a collaborative dashboard providing sustainability ratings and performance improvement tools for their global supply chain. The platform delivers simple and reliable scorecards to monitor supplier best practices. A total of 21 internationally recognised sustainability criteria are reviewed and separated into four criteria themes: environment, social, ethics and supply chain.
The final award of the night, the R Stanton Avery Pioneer Award, which was previously announced in June, went to Alex Knott, of the Dow Chemical Company. This award, sponsored by Avery Dennison, honours the contribution an individual has made which has impacted the label and package printing sector, whether their pioneering work has spanned two years or two decades. Knott is a senior scientist in the company and leader of a global team that has pioneered the latest innovations in pressure-sensitive silicone release liner coating technology, including the introduction of Dow's Flat Release Systems.
This technology has impacted high speed, low coating weight, high performance and labelstock release liner production, and has also been a key factor in helping to drive down silicone coating costs. For the label converter and end-user, this has contributed to superior waste stripping performance at ever-increasing press running speeds, as well as enabling much higher label application line speeds on the latest automated product decoration systems. This work has helped build Knott's global reputation as a leading authority on silicone pressure-sensitive systems.
He joins fellow winners of the individual award including: Professor Tan of PEIAC, Tomas Rink of Ritrama, Helmut Schreiner of Schreiner Group, Suzanne Zaccone of GSI Technologies, and Neil McDonough of FlexCon.
The other members of the judging panel for this year's awards were: Chris Ellison, president of FINAT; Dan Muenzer, president of TLMI; James Quirk, group managing editor, Labels & Labeling; Rosina Obermayer, editor of NarrowWebTech; and Steve Katz, editor of Label & Narrow Web.
The Label Industry Global Awards were created in 2004 to celebrate innovation and excellence within the label and package printing sector. The Awards ceremony alternates each year between Labelexpo Europe (Brussels) and Labelexpo Americas (Chicago).
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The New Zealand Court of Appeals has knocked back NZME's attempt to buy out Stuff, the New Zealand arm of Fairfax Media. The ruling upholds previous decisions by the New Zealand Commerce Commission and High Court.
NZME prints the New Zealand Herald, and six regional daily papers, and also prints several Stuff newspapers using its presses in Auckland.
Under the proposed merger, NZME would have paid $NZ55 million ($A38m) for Fairfax's New Zealand operations and issued new shares to allow Fairfax to hold a 41% stake in NZME.
NZME and Stuff launched the appeal after the New Zealand High Court knocked back their last appeal in December 2017, which sought to overturn the NZCC's May 2017 decision to block the merger on the grounds that it could substantially lessen competition in advertising and reader markets in New Zealand. The court denied the request and ordered both parties to pay the appeal costs.
Disappointed: Sinead Boucher, CEO Stuff.
NZCC deputy chair Sue Begg welcomed the ruling. In its initial decision, the commission expressed concern that the merger would concentrate media ownership in New Zealand to an unprecedented extent for a modern liberal democracy. "We are pleased the Court has again upheld our decision and look forward to reviewing the judgment," she said.
the NZME radio network and e-commerce sites GrabOne, HeraldHomes and driven.co.nz; it also prints some Stuff newspapers using its presses in Auckland. Stuff's assets include stuff.co.nz, more than 60 metro, Sunday, regional and community newspapers, and a share of neighbourly.co.nz.
Liquidating: Jack Rosner, Monet Press.
Dandenong printer Monet Press has entered voluntary liquidation, after more than 50 years in the industry.
Jack Rosner, who has owned Monet Press since 1990, declined to comment. His LinkedIn profile describes the printing house as a 'well established printing company that has an enviable reputation within the industry, thanks to a long list of multinational companies that have traded with Monet Press for more than 50 years'.
Monet Press was based in the industrial area of Dandenong South in Melbourne, and as of March last year, had recently invested in digital printing equipment.
The account is being managed by Isabella Cardaci at Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants in Melbourne, who refused to divulge any information to Print21.
The Digicon Series 3 with Digilase laser finisher.
ABG, distributed in Australia by Currie Group, is showcasing 14 label finishing solutions with a heavy focus on digital equipment across four booths at Labelexpo in Chicago this week.
The ABG booth features the flagship Digicon Series 3 finishing line in a new beverage configuration, including a fast flatbed screen printing module, Big Foot 50-tonne flatbed hot foil unit, and a 25-tonne flatbed hot foil unit with a new swivel head that allows foil to be fed both along and across the web.
At the HP booth, ABG is exhibiting an inline Digicon Series 3 with Fast Track die and fully-integrated AutoSet glueless turret rewinder, as well as an inline coater for the wide-web HP Indigo 20000 digital press, designed for shrink sleeve and in-mould label production. The HP Indigo 20000, along with the rest of the HP Indigo range, is also distributed by Currie Group in Australia and New Zealand.
Additionally, ABG is launching its new Digilase laser system at the show. Billed as perfect for direct from web sticker printing, ABG has reduced the web path and the material necessary for lead-in and lead-out, which it says will slash waste by 85 percent. "The minimum job length is 50 per cent shorter, and file downloading takes just milliseconds, allowing a number of jobs to be processed on the machine at the same time – from unwind, to laser cutting, to rewinding," said the company.
The Jetfx digital embellishment module is another drawcard, an offline system for varnishing and foiling. The unit on display at Labelexpo includes two Jetfx inkjet bars, as well as an overlaminator for cold foiling.
ABG equipment is also on display at the Domino and REA stands.
Grab Bag – definition: a miscellaneous collection: a potpourri.
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A change at the top of the funky-named media group, HTE, hasn't rattled the shareholders too much. Shares have slumped from a year high of $2.95 to $2.73. The company previously known as APN sold its outdoor media arm Adshel to oOH!Media this year with the transaction waved through by ACCC last month. Seizing the moment to step off at the top as the company took the $570 million cash, interim chairman, Chairman Robert Kaye, took off. Paul Connolly, who is titled as acting chairman, replaces him. The difference between interim and acting is a fine one I don't pretend to understand.
Readers will perhaps know the company better as APN News & Media, the provincial newspaper and printing group before it changed its name to Here There & Everywhere. It's now mainly a radio business with its eye on eSports for gamers.
Mark your diary and prepare to do your bit. International Print Day is coming up on October 17. According to the organisers, Print Media Centre, the day kicks off 9AM in Australia (AED). Sorry New Zealand, the US-centric organisers appear to have missed you, but don't let that stop you joining in.
Using the hashtag, #IPD18, print enthusiasts are urged to engage with the event by using #PrintWith as part of this year's focus on collaboration and working together.
As to how real the event is? Last year, it generated almost 30 million social media impressions in 24 hours across six continents. I suppose that's a lot but who knows in the internet swamp? So let's get engaged and generate some local activity to help promote print.
German guillotine manufacturer, Schneider Senator, is in and out of admin for the past six months. Now there's a skeleton staff handling spare parts inquiries. At one stage local distributor, Tom Ralph, Graph-Pak fielded queries from Germany about buying the business, but he declined the offer.
The company is a victim of its own success, a not uncommon fault in German-built equipment.
"There are a lot of guillotines in use throughout Australia, some of them dating back to the 1960s and 70s. I had a call from a printer a while ago with a 1972 Schneider guillotine. The clutch had finally gone and he was at his wits end. I called Schneider and they came good with a new one. Unbelievable!" said Ralph.
"That's part of the company's problems, the machines never break down.
Ralph is waiting on a response from Schneider's parent company Busch on the situation for spare parts. He's currently travelling in Europe so watch this space.
So what does Berlin mean to you … The Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag, the remaining bits of the Wall? For the new combined press manufacturer, manroland Goss, visitors to the IFRA World Publishing Expo in October, will want to fit in a visit to the Currywurst sausage museum. The invitation reads … get to know more about the exciting history of Germanies (sic) favourite dish – the "Currywurst". Try the different variations of the one and only timeless classic.
I fear the wurst is yet to come.
And staying in Germany, good to see Heidelberg broadening its mindset as it transitions to a digital future. No more engineers elevated to management positions where they struggle to adapt to a changing world. People from outside the company and the industry have filled all the new top management positions. Sonja Mechling is joining the company from a stint Robert Bosch Smart Home and is taking over as Chief Marketing Officer at Heidelberg. She is also set to become Managing Director of the Heidelberg Digital Unit. She's an acknowledged expert in e-commerce and in building up new business units and has many years of experience in Asia and around Europe.
Dr. Stefan Heizmann will be the company's new head of IT. He was in charge of IT for the Gühring Group and in 2017 won the Industrial Internet Award for digital innovation.
Finally Robert Franz is a sales manager from Rittal. He'll oversee global sales at Heidelberg and by extension for refocusing the organization at Heidelberg on digital omnichannel sales.
And finally, how about the guy who claimed to have invented a new word … plagiarism?
The Australian team crowned champions at F1 in Schools 2018.
The Visual Connections partnership with Re-Engineering Australia (REA) is introducing school students to the opportunities available in print and graphics careers, with a number of events this month raising the profile of print.
This month REA has participated in events including Visual Impact Sydney, and the Royal Adelaide Show, where its booth saw an average of 5000 students per day over ten days.
Opportunities: Dr Michael Myers, REA.
REA takes its programs to around 35,000 students every year, and has so far connected with 700,000 kids around the country. "We've changed a lot of students' attitudes towards their career options," said Myers.
Asia's largest containerboard packaging printer Rengo will be the first company in the Asia Pacific to install the new HP digital corrugated press.
The Japanese based company is planning to put in the HP Pagewide T1190 midway through next year and will start full scale digital printing for Japan's corrugated market.
Rengo has 170 manufacturing operations in Asia and America. It currently offers paperboard products ranging from general-purpose to high-graphics decorative corrugated packaging and point-of-purchase displays, and serve leading brands in a variety of industries, including confectionaries, food and beverages, and sundries.
According to HP the PageWide T1190 is the world's most productive digital packaging press. HP says the installation will allow Rengo to create new value and actively propose solutions to fulfil all the packaging needs of various industries.
HP says the benefits of the HP PageWide T1190 include greater flexibility in inventory management, faster time-to-market, consistent colour reproduction, and versatility in media selection.
Compared to the current PageWide T1100S, the new press has 67 per cent more throughput productivity, with 305-meter/minute throughput capacity.
It uses water-based inks that are designed specifically for pre-print corrugated packaging business and meet worldwide regulatory requirements. It also addresses a broad range of health and environmental considerations throughout the entire life cycle of a print from production to disposal.
These are formulated to address food and beverage packaging and other sensitive applications in which the risk of odour may concern brands and consumers. These sensitive packaging applications include pet food, infant care, toys, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
Anyone trying to raise funds to invest in print equipment knows the local market has not looked kindly on printers for the last ten years, so good luck to Richard Celarc and the Opus team as they look overseas for investment.
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Print group Opus has exited the ASX and will be relisting on the Hong Kong stock market, as the assets in the group have been transferred to Left Field Print Group in a three for one share deal.
Current Opus Group executive chairman Richard Celarc will become executive chairman of Left Field Print Group. He will have the largest individual shareholding in the group, with Lion Rock Group the controlling shareholder.
Trading as TopCo the Left Field Print Group listing in Hong Kong will enable Opus to raise capital, with the company saying it will be making major investments in plant and equipment for its Australian business over the next two years. It will also provide higher liquidity to its shares.
Left Field Print Group – which will be domiciled in Bermuda – is 75 per cent owned by Hong Kong based Lion Rock, which also owns 1010 Print Group.
The company's share price on the ASX has stayed within the 30c-45c band for the past five years. Its price on departure from the ASX was 43.5c, up 3.7 per cent on the day.
The latest Opus figures – the last on the ASX – showed its profit almost doubling in its first half, profit after tax almost doubling to $6.3m, with the company saying its book printing activity was the reason. Sales slipped by two per cent to $38.8m.
The PIAA says Scott Morrison's decision to move the Jobs and Industrial Relations Ministerial Portfolio into Cabinet is a welcome move for the nation's print businesses.
The printing and packaging industry's peak body says that there is a lot to do in the field of industrial relations, including delivering certainty to businesses on wage rates, entitlements, casual employees and inconsistent decisions coming out of the Fair Work Commission.
The PIAA says Morrison's decision to move this portfolio into Cabinet long reflects PIAA's advocacy that industrial relations reform needs to be at the forefront of the Government's policy agenda. The Association has also congratulated Kelly O'Dwyer on her appointment to the role of Minister.
The PIAA is also welcoming the appointment of former Fair Work deputy president, Graeme Watson, as the Minister O'Dwyer's senior advisor on Industrial Relations. Watson spectacularly resigned from the Fair Work Commission in early 2017, citing unfairness with the current Fair Work system.