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The best travel companion is a beautiful (and funny) woman (or man) by your side. Barring that, the second best travel companion is endless top shelf alcohol served in first class. And barring that, the next best travel companion is a great piece of luggage. Here are our picks for ten of the most best holdall bags for your next weekend away:
Weekend Bag #1 – Valextra Logo Embroidered Holdall
Founded in Milan in 1937, Valextra became an internationally renowned luxury maison. Artisanal techniques, timeless style, fresh color palettes, and fine leather come together to create pieces like the Logo Embroidered Holdall. The blend of a black and white pattern with orange grained leather trim makes for a very sophisticated travel accessory. (Price: $2,302.00 BUY)
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Personally, for a first bike I'd get something older and cheaper! You ARE going to drop it, and typically the larger engined bikes weigh more... so they go down harder and are tougher to lift up again.
Some mid-range bikes I've tried that I loved;
Suzuki SV-650 (S version is more sporty, but regular version is nice and upright)
Suzuki V-Strom (taller than the SV-650 but upright again)
Honda Nighthawk 750 (rode one of these for years, but they're old now!)
Yamaha FZ-6 (awesome first bike)
Honda 599 (spiritual successor to the Nighthawk)
Those are the basic ones I can think of off the top of my head that meet your requirements. They're all pretty easy to ride, and aren't "all out" sport bikes.
That was and is my first street bike! Best bike I have ridden and will keep it for years to come! Best thing about it is as your ability grows you will not have out grown this bike!
I have a 07 Sv650S bought it Spring of 08 has roughly 2000k on it, so I dont ride it as much as I'd like. But to give you an idea of cost, if I were to sell it today I'd only want $5200 Idk if that's too high, seems fair.
But you can NOT go wrong with an SV!
Just my .02cents!
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - It seems size does matter, at least when it comes to serving wine.
Some U.S. wine producers are taking a tip from their European cousins and are shipping restaurants and bars wine in kegs, instead of bottles. For consumers it should mean better wines at cheaper prices.
"I got the idea from my trip to Italy," said Chris Hall, general manager and co-owner of the Long Meadow Ranch winery in Napa California. He uses 19-liter, stainless steel kegs to serve his organic wines at his tasting room and to ship them to restaurants.
"In Italy, it is not uncommon to have good wine on draft in a casual restaurant. It's how they pour it into a carafe. And the real surprise to me was how good the wine was. There wasn't really any pretense about it. It was good, honest wine," Hall said.
His Napa neighbor, David Graves of Saintsbury Vineyard, is also shipping Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in similar sized kegs that hold the equivalent of 26 bottles to restaurants and hotels.
"The delivery truck looks pretty much like any beer truck. And this way the customer gets a fresh glass every time," Graves explained.
To push the wine from the keg, both producers use a blend of nitrogen with "just a scoosh" of carbon dioxide, the so-called Guinness blend.
"All CO2 would make it get too fizzy. This way the wine is kept at an equilibrium," said Graves, adding that the kegs are reusable. Continued...


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Puthan Panam 1st Day Box Office Collection : After creating box office records with 'The Great Father' this year, Malayalam Megastar Mammootty's another film 'Puthan Panam' released grandly on Wednesday, April 12th as pre-Vishu Special to Kerala Audience.
Puthan Panam movie written and directed by Ranjith. It is jointly produced by Ranjith, Abraham Mathew and Arun Narayanan under the Three Colour Cinema Cinema.
November 8, 2016, is an unforgettable day for Indians as it was on this day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes to curb the flow of black money.
Now, Mollywood filmmaker Ranjith and his team have come up with a movie that narrates the chaos faced by people across the country.
Puthan Panam Movie First / 1st Day Collections
Mammootty movie deals with the black money issue, Mammootty will be seen in the role of Nithyananda Shenoy and his Kasaragod dialect. Mammootty who is a middle-aged businessman based in Kasaragod district and the film portrays his struggle to tackle black money.
Now everyone eyes on Puthan Panam box office collections, As the megastar previous film 'The Great Father' is highest grosser at Kerala box office. The Great Father has grossed Rs 4.31 crores on the first day at Kerala box office. According to early reports, Puthan Panam got the decent opening and expected to collect between 3 to 4 crores on the first day.
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The Immigration Department has been accused of a massive failure in its handling of Cornelia Rau and aggravating her mental illness by 10 months of mistreatment.
In a damning report to the Federal Government, the department was criticised for failing to provide proper care to Ms Rau, "who was simply a person who desperately needed help".
The draft report by former police commissioner Mick Palmer found that the wrongly held woman was denied proper health care during her odyssey through prison, hospital and a detention centre.
The report found:
· Had Ms Rau received proper medical attention earlier, she would have been diagnosed as mentally ill and admitted to hospital.
· Ms Rau was held in a Queensland prison for six months, when the department's own instructions direct that this should be a "last resort".
· The standard of mental health care at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia, where Ms Rau was sent, was "inadequate by any standards".
· Ms Rau might have revealed her true identity had she spent less time in detention, which would have put her under less stress.
The report was commissioned by Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone after Ms Rau, a permanent Australian resident, was discovered languishing in Baxter.
German-born Ms Rau was picked up by police in far north Queensland in March 2004. She identified herself as "Anna Brotmeyer and/or Anna Schmidt" and was put into detention after immigration officials said she might be an "unlawful non-citizen".
Sections of the report were tabled in a Queensland parliamentary committee yesterday by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. Mr Beattie has pre-empted the Federal Government's receipt of the final report next week, and provided his own responses in a bid to divert blame from Queensland authorities. Senator Vanstone's office had no knowledge of Mr Beattie's action yesterday.
Mr Palmer said the department had clear instructions for dealing with detainees but "instructions were not followed. It was a serious failure of management process and corporate insight".
The report poses the question for the Immigration Department: "Why was Anna detained in a prison for six months when (the department's) own instructions direct that this should be a 'last resort', and urgent action was not taken to transfer her to a more appropriate facility consistent with the detention environment clearly specified?"
The report recommends the time detainees spend in prisons should be minimised and extensive changes made to improve their health care. It says clinicians should be more assertive in the treatment of detainees and should pay more attention to "odd presentation features". Data collection should be improved.
According to Mr Palmer, there was an "assumption" culture surrounding Ms Rau that limited efforts to provide proper health care. For example, one psychiatrist assumed she was about to be deported to Germany immediately after her mental health assessment, so there was no follow-up.
He said Ms Rau's treatment raised serious issues for the health profession. "No senior health professional took personal responsibility for ensuring that Anna was provided with adequate and appropriate care or exercised assertiveness" to ensure a proper assessment that would have led to a sound diagnosis.
The report says the department and GSL, the company that runs Baxter, should be accountable for allowing flawed and overly complex systems to provide health care without independent external review.
The sections of the report provided to Queensland authorities related to Ms Rau's treatment in the state. Mr Palmer is much less critical of those authorities than of the Immigration Department.
Mr Beattie told a Queensland parliamentary committee: "Mr Palmer is not critical of any Queensland employee. However, no agency comes up smelling like roses."
He said that "crucially, Palmer makes it crystal clear that the Commonwealth had responsibility for Ms Rau at all times when she was in the Queensland prison system".
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About 300 Delaware mothers and their babies have their sights set not only on breaking the record for simultaneous breastfeeding, but also on boosting breastfeeding rates in the First State.
Next month, the moms will take part in what's called the "Delaware Big Latch On," part of a worldwide event where breastfeeding women latch on their children for one minute. According to thebiglatchon.org, 8,862 mothers and their children participated last year; the world record for simultaneous breastfeeding was set in October 2010, when 9,826 nursing mothers at 325 locations in 16 countries nursed their children.
"Families, mothers can attend to build a sense of community and support for breastfeeding in Delaware with the added bonus of trying to break the record of the most women breastfeeding simultaneously," said lactation consultant, and organizer of Delaware's Big Latch On, Katie Madden.
The Delaware chapter will hold its Big Latch On on Aug. 3 at the University of Delaware Laboratory Preschool between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Babies are scheduled to latch on at exactly 10:30 a.m. kicking off World Breastfeeding Week.
"A lot of women feel very isolated by breastfeeding... and this allows women to be around other women who are breastfeeding," Madden said. "In Delaware in particular, I think it's really important because our breastfeeding rates are very low compared to the rest of the country, so the more we can do to encourage breastfeeding in Delaware, the better it'll be for breastfeeding rates overall."
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breastfeeding for at least six months; however, the Centers for Disease Control's 2012 Breastfeeding Report Card shows only 13.1 percent of Delaware's moms exclusively breastfeeding for that long.
"I think it's important that the community see that there are events like this, to know that there's a lot of women out there that are breastfeeding and that breastfeeding in public, in particular, is a normal thing that everybody should accept and embrace," Madden said.
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The Big Latch On comes after a couple of controversial incidents involving nursing mothers occurred earlier this year. Back in January, a local woman said she was harassed for nursing in public at the Concord Mall in Wilmington. A month later, a Dover-area high school made news after it said it would not accommodate a teen mother's need to pump and later store her breastmilk during school hours.
"The more we're asking women to leave public places and go into the bathroom, the more we're saying that breastfeeding is something that is inconvenient, and something that should be done out of sight," Madden said, adding because breasts are "hypersexualized" in the U.S. compared with other countries, "people feel uncomfortable seeing it, that it's something that should be done in private or something that's dirty."
The CDC describes breastfeeding as "one of the most highly effective preventive measures a mother can take to protect the health of her infant."
No matter one's opinion about breastfeeding, nursing moms are entitled to nurse in public, covered up or not, according to Delaware law.
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Mike Piazza: Well, I think it's evident that they threw their best at us tonight, and they were on top of their game.
Defensively obviously we gave them a few runs, which against a team like Venezuela, you're not going to get away with. On one hand we're disappointed, obviously, we didn't get anything going.
Last night I was a little concerned about, tonight I should say, and then last night obviously scoring a lot of runs, it's unusual we came out a little bit flat offensively. But obviously when you're facing guys like they put out there tonight, that's understandable.
So what can you say? They put their best at us and they threw very well.
Mike, big wins against Australia and today it's different. What do you think in Italy the Italian fans are really following this game and rooting for the team?
Mike Piazza:: Well, it's tough to say. I think that the reason why we are playing, I mean, the players of Italian decent, is we're trying to get some interest to try to grow the game in Italy. And it has to start somewhere. If we gain a few more fans because of our participation, then that's what we want to do. It takes time.
Baseball in Venezuela didn't develop over one day. One year even. It was along many years of history. It started with the children. You have to start at a grass roots level, and that's the only way baseball in Italy will grow. And it starts with something like this and but it does take time.
So whatever fans are watching us, we're honored that they are following us and hopefully we'll play a little better for them tomorrow.
It was a pretty partisan crowd tonight in favor of Venezuela out there. But did you enjoy playing in that kind of lively environment with the crowd at the park tonight?
Mike Piazza:: Well, I totally agree with that. But again, I think that especially for the Italian baseball fans, I mean, they may -- it may not happen this year or the next World Classic but maybe in 20, 25 years from now, if we have the fan response like that, then we have, we'll have accomplished what we set out to do.
So like I said, we're looking down the line and hopefully one day we really love our Italian fans that have come here to follow us, but we know that our goal is to try to increase that, and that's what I think the whole idea of this tournament is. We'll see where it is 25 years from now.
Hopefully we're still all around for that, but nonetheless, that's what we're working for. And with the kid that pitched tonight, if we can get a couple of national Italian guys to pitch in the major leagues, that's what we want to do to inspire the children of Italy to believe that they can compete at a major league level. So that's obviously what our goals are.
A lot of pitchers have had reservations about playing in this tournament, but as a hitter, do you think you're going to benefit from seeing such sharp pitching this early in the season?
Mike Piazza:: Well, if tonight is benefiting, I don't know what not benefiting would be.
Actually, yeah, I mean, you know, as far as I'm concerned I felt like the stuff that I saw tonight personally was stuff I would see in June, July and August. So it is going to accelerate your development at least at this point in the season. So I look at that as a positive personally from a season standpoint. Once you get into April facing this type of competition and these type of major league arms, this early and the stuff that they're throwing and obviously the tenacity and as determined as they were tonight, I'm looking at that as something from a personal standpoint to get myself ready for the season as well.


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Sunday, October 10, 3:00 p.m. EDT
The fourth leg of NASCAR Sprint Series Chase for the Cup will take place Sunday at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. This will be the last year that this track will hold two Sprint Series races. Starting in 2011, Auto Club Speedway will hold only one race and will not hold a Chase race. The race will also be shortened from 500 miles to 400. Qualifying may not be that important at California, as only one polesitter has won at California in 20 all-time races — Jimmie Johnson in 2008. That's the lowest win percentage by a polesitter at any active NSCS track. Furthermore, the Lap 1 leader at California has never gone on to win the race.
CURRENT STANDINGS (Through 3 races)
Jimmie Johnson took the lead from Denny Hamlin last week and is eight points ahead of Hamlin heading into this weekend. Greg Biffle was the winner last week at Kansas, and jumped to 8th in the Chase standings, 85 points behind Johnson. It was Biffle's 7th career Chase race win, the 2nd most in Chase history behind Johnson's 19. Sports scores.
1. Jimmie Johnson 5303
2. Denny Hamlin 5495 (-8)
3. Kevin Harvick 5473 (-30)
4. Carl Edwards 5450 (-53)
5. Jeff Gordon 5445 (-58)
6. Kurt Busch 5433 (-70)
7. Kyle Busch 5423 (-80)
8. Greg Biffle 5418 (-85)
9. Jeff Burton 5402 (-101)
10. Tony Stewart 5376 (-127)
11. Matt Kenseth 5354 (-149)
12. Clint Bowyer 5251 (-252)
Jimmie Johnson 2/1
Johnson is the three-time defending champion in this race. In 15 races at Fontana, he has finished no worse than 11th and has an average finish of 5.5, which leads all drivers. Johnson has finished in the top-3 in four of the last five races this season.
Carl Edwards 8/1
Edwards has been running well the last few weeks and he does have the second-best average finish of 7.2 with one win and numerous other victories at tracks similar to this one. Baseball scores.
Kyle Busch 12/1
He is fourth on the list with a 10.8 average finish in his 12 races. In his last 10 races at Fontana, he has a so-so finish at 24th and then a 14th earlier this year. The remaining eight of the last 10 races were 1st, 10th, 8th, 9th, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 3rd.
Kevin Harvick 10/1
Harvick has finished in the top-10 in four of his last five races at Fontana. The other race he had engine failure and smashed into the wall, so that gives Harvick a 6.0 average in races that he has finished in the last two years at Fontana. He has raced very well lately, finishing in the top-10 in three of his last four races.
Matt Kenseth 15/1
In his 17 career races at Fontana, Kenseth has finished in the top-7 in 12 of them, winning three times. After finishing no better than 14th in his previous three races, Kenseth placed a strong seventh last week. Basketball scores.
Joe Gibbs Racing: only active NSCS track where they've never won
Denny Hamlin: finished 29th and 37th in last two California races
Jeff Burton: 1 top-10 finish in last five California races.
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Hi friends, is the Macbook 15" retina worth the purchase? I intend on using it for my music (hooked to my korg triton keyboard) and also for design purposes.
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Hi friends, is the Macbook 15" retina worth the purchase? I intend on using it for my music (hooked to my korg triton keyboard) and also for design purposes.
Your thoughts?Thanks
I think it comes with its own keyboard Sherman
My son and son in law both have one. They swear by them, must admit very envious.
I meant my piano/keyboard
It depends on what Mac devices are you using at the moment?
I just read a test few weeks ago. They have a really good test and an interesting conclusion regarding the retina laptop. If you buy with the strongest high end CPU thats fine, but bloody expensive. If the CPU is just the basic one, more than likely you will got speed issues because of the high resolution.
I would say yes. They're expensive, but you get quite some power packed into a tiny machine – and the screen is just something else!
Of course, it completely depends on what you want to use it for, but I couldn't imagine myself with a better laptop.
If you're going to be carting it around to gigs in your bag and such like, it's lightness & thinness to power ratio is something you'll definitely appreciate.
In fact, it's so light, quite often I leave coffee shops and have to double check 2 minutes down the street that I definitely put it back in my bag!
I find that it handles large files and 3D rendering simultaneously with web browsing, iTunes, Skype etc without breaking a sweat. Doing so with some of the same files that my previous MBP struggled with. I have however had the 16GB Ram upgrade.
I can't give you any feedback on how it would handle music – and maybe you could use a smaller inch model or different model computer altogether and achieve the same / better results, and maybe if it's just for music you could skip the Retina screen.
All I can say is that I highly recommend this computer, you definitely get what you pay for
Quickandeasy: For 3D rendering, well i would suggest to go try the render farm. There is no home based computer could compite with that speed. Not mentioned the cost. The new series of apple products became more expensive (not only the inflation) compare it to the 2009-2010 prices. That time it was a good deal. Now i think Apple is became very tricky with the prices. Just think about the iPhone4 <-> iPone5 price comare to their feautre. I have a late 2009 late MBP 2.66. Now i am replace the battery, throw out the Superdrive, will buy an SSD and a Hybrid drive. I have 8G memory upgraded. All this together cost me around 400 USD. I know this MBP will be never sold, i already late with that. But if i will need a stronger box, i think thats will be a Hackintosh. I was never thinking in this way before, but now i have to.
I'm bought 1/1/2013, recent the product had price reduction about 200$!!!!


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Stephen Hurley has worked in the Canadian education space for over three decades. After a long and exciting career (exciting for him!) as a teacher and consultant in Ontario, Stephen continues to work to open up public spaces for vibrant conversations about transformation of education systems across Canada. While Stephen acknowledges the successes of our Canadian education system, he believes that our current way of "doing school" is in need of some bold new ideas--ideas that will breathe more fire into the learning lives of students and teachers alike. You can contact Hurley by email at email@example.com or visit http://stephenhurley.ca.
The Art of Conversation
I have developed a practice in my own life that, as it turns out, is good for both my body and my mind. I head off to the gym each morning at about 5:00 with a bottle of water, my iPhone and two or three TEDTalks loaded into my playlist. I've tried the music thing but it just doesn't keep me going in the same way that fresh, provocative ideas do. TEDTalks are perfectly keyed to my workout routine—a twenty minute session on the weight machines, followed by twenty minutes on the treadmill. And none of this "every-other-day" thing for me. Unless I make my journey to the gym a daily routine, I find excuses! That means I listen to quite a few Talks over the course of a year!
This morning, I listened to two inspiring pieces. The first was by singer/songwriter, Meklit Hadero who encouraged us to be attentive to the music around us: in nature, language and even in silence. But it was the talk by NPR Host, Celeste Headlee that had me thinking well beyond my 20 minutes on the treadmill. In 10 Ways To Have A Better Conversation, Ms. Headlee reminds us of that, while many of us are great talkers and some of us are great speakers, not many of us are great conversationalists. She points out that, when properly combined, the elements of honesty, brevity, clarity—and a generous scoop of listening will invariably result in good conversation.
Living in a connected world does not automatically mean that the quality of communication has gone up. Some would argue that it has actually gone down or, at least, flatlined. Sure, Twitter might force us into brevity and clarity. Blog writing may encourage a certain level of honesty and a culture of "listening in" to what others are thinking, but it's the combination of Headlee's elements in a personal and personalized context that makes for good conversation. As a seasoned NPR broadcaster, Celeste Headlee has interviewed a whole lot of people and she uses what she has learned to give us some sobering insights into conversational practices in our 21st century world.
In my own household, mornings are usually a hectic time. As I prepare breakfast for the family, Zoe gets lunches ready. We're often working in the same space and, although we share words with each other, we have rarely engaged in conversation that has really connected us. In fact, we normally begin our days rather disconnected—never a great way to begin the day!
This morning, however, was different. I made a point of sitting down with Zoe and, applying some of what I learned from Celeste, attempted to engage in conversation. But it wasn't until Zoe was heading out the door for the day, that I realized the power of the experience—for both of us. I felt a little more connected and I knew that she did as well. Her last words to me: "By the way, thanks for the conversation!"
I can't help but wonder about how some of this might apply to our work as people dedicated to nurturing the health and well-being of our young people. You know, Communication appears as one of the "C's" in whatever list of 21st Century Competencies you encounter. Most often, however, the focus is on the "push" of communication—getting your message out there in a coherent, compelling way. Rarely do we hear about Conversation as a type of "push-pull" process. So, in listening to Celeste Headlee's TEDTalk I'm left with some questions of possibility:
What might happen if we spent time in our schools exploring the art of the conversation? What might happen to our online conversations—many of which can become polarized very quickly—if we tried to apply Ms. Headlee's 10 principles for good conversation? How might our family lives be enhanced and enlivened if quality conversation became something around which we gathered? What would it look like if conversation found its way into our approaches to assessment?
I realize that some of you are likely already playing with some of these ideas. I would love to hear about what you are doing! I would also like to hear what ideas others have for engaging in the powerful conversations that could result in our spouses, our colleagues and our children declaring at the end of the day, "Thanks for the conversation!"
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HealthSource director: More sign-ups than expected
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The head of Rhode Island's health insurance marketplace says more individuals and small business have signed up for coverage under the federal health care overhaul than she expected.
Director Christine Ferguson said at a Senate briefing Wednesday that close to 2,000 have signed up through HealthSource RI during its first two weeks.
She says 7,000 accounts have been created. There have been 9,000 calls to the customer service center, 550 walk-ins and more than 53,000 unique website visits.
Ferguson has not publicly released an enrollment target for Jan. 1, when most Americans will be required to have coverage.
Ferguson says HealthSource RI has had "relatively few" glitches compared with the rest of the country. The rollout of the federally-run marketplaces has been plagued with technology problems.
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Now it can be told: David Cronenberg was once asked to direct one of the entries in the Star Wars franchise.
Best known for his sci-fi thrillers and intense character studies, the iconic Canadian director made the revelation during his appearance at the Provincetown International Film Festival, where he was being honoured, fittingly enough, with the Filmmaker on the Edge award.
And while it's difficult to imagine the man responsible for such disturbing cinema contributions as Videodrome and The Fly wrangling wookies and Imperial stormtroopers on a film set, Cronenberg told the story as matter-of-factly as could be imagined.
"I got a phone call once asking if I was interested in directing one of the Star Wars sequels," said the Toronto-born director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "And instead of saying, 'Oh, my God, yes!' I said, 'Well you know, I don't really do other people's material.' Click. I don't know how far it would have gone, but it ended there."
Cronenberg did not elaborate further on which Star Wars film he was approached about or who made the offer.
At the same event, Cronenberg also told attendees that he was briefly on board to direct the 2012 sci-fi thriller Total Recall, which was a remake of the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the end, the remake starring Colin Farrell was handed to journeyman director Len Wiseman (whose wife Kate Beckinsale co-starred in the film), received tepid reviews.
"This is a big studio movie that's going to cost $200 million," mused Cronenberg. "They're going to give to a guy who's directed a couple of rock videos because he's someone they can control. But it's not in my nervous system to do something like that."
In the final tally, Cronenberg continues to explore his creative muse in his own films – his latest, Maps to the Stars was warmly received at last month's Cannes Film Festival – while the Star Wars franchise marches on.
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Still December 25th when I posted this, so I'm still not too late 🙂
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Called Joneh, Cindy and Kay yesterday but couldn't get any of them!
At least the person who picked up Joneh's phone (was it you Mrs J?) did mention he's busy. And I did get SMSs from Kay and Cindy later that night.
Now back to spending time with the family 🙂


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St. Patty's dinner
A St. Patrick's Day dinner to benefit the U19 Girls Rugby team will be at 5:30 p.m. today at the Elk's Lodge. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children.
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The Capital Improvement Projects business meeting will be at 5:15 p.m. today at the Community Building Council Chambers.
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ZAO, Japan — Japan deployed military helicopters, high-pressure water cannons and fire trucks in an increasingly desperate attempt to cool an overheated nuclear complex as U.S. officials warned the situation was deteriorating.
While the choppers flew combat-style missions to dump batch after batch of seawater onto a stricken reactor, plant operators said they were close to finishing a new power line that could restore cooling systems and ease the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex on the country's northeast coast.
SANTA FE — The Legislature is sending Republican Gov. Susana Martinez a $5.4 billion state budget that will cut government spending by 2.7 percent next year.
The measure cleared its final legislative hurdle late Wednesday when the House voted 36-32 to accept a Senate-passed version of the budget.
The budget will cut spending on education and general government programs by about $152 million in the fiscal year that starts in July.
Martinez has until early April to decide whether to sign or veto the bill or reject specific spending items.
Difficulties encountered in wiring a temporary traffic signal at the intersection of Diamond and Trinity compounded by sinkhole repairs on the Main Hill Road were the culprits behind long traffic delays plaguing drivers in Los Alamos early Wednesday afternoon.
Around noontime, cars attempting to go west were lined up from Diamond Drive to Knecht Street on Trinity and also along Central Avenue on the westbound side to Knecht Street.
A major reason for the extensive delay in wrapping up local police cases is the fact that the state's forensics lab is dealing with a backlog of 500 cases, according to police.
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Snakes and ladders
As if handing down risibly nonsensical judgments and doing nothing about it were not enough, the courts of law, defenders and arbiters of our Constitution and dispensers of justice, have once again been knocked sideways by two scandals, quite unrelated this time, that have seriously undermined what remains of the standing and prestige these courts once enjoyed.
This is a very dangerous trend. If the courts lose credibility altogether then the very structures on which our society is built will come crashing down. Enough said about the cases themselves apart from the fact that it is obvious to us all that it is Mammon and not the Almighty who now rules the roost and all vestiges of professional integrity and moral backbone seem to be as remote as something in Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.
What a tragedy!
So now we have an election date which is fixed. Franco Debono carried out his threat and, at the end of the legislature, threw (hopefully) his final Violet Elizabeth Bott style tantrum. Attempting to hijack Xarabank last Friday was the utter limit and I am nonplussed and disappointed that the Labour Party allowed itself to be used in this way. Can we not wait for the Phoney War to become a real one on January 7?
Although we were assured that we would have a Christmas season without being bothered by electioneering, within minutes of Lawrence Gonzi's formal announcement, three people at a dinner party I was at, myself included, received an SMS urging us to attend a strategic meeting at a certain hotel to determine electoral strategies to re-elect a particular minister! As can be imagined we were all highly amused; so much for spending a peaceful politics-free Christmas.
The unseasonably cold weather coincided with the so called soft-opening of whatever the Government has seen fit to replace the once glorious Royal Opera House with. I was, of course, not asked despite my being one of the longest established music critics and writers in Malta, ergo I haven't a clue what the soft opening consisted of. Maybe my turn will come for the hard opening!
Not being a glutton for punishment I had absolutely no intention of attending voluntarily despite the temporary roofing that was placed over what was described as a sea of pea-green seats; temporary roofing that had Facebook and his wife hooting in derision. It is a total waste of time and energy to even attempt explaining how what has resulted instead of the opera house site is an insult to culture and a waste of taxpayers' money for I will probably be told to 'sod off!' by the minister concerned.
The opera house site will therefore remain roofless out of pique, with no particular function and draped in swathes of bubblewrap for most of the year. Ridiculous when one thinks that Bernard Plattner, who is Renzo Piano's partner, roundly admitted in front of the whole of Malta that a much-needed closed and hermetically sealed auditorium for orchestral music with perfect acoustic was feasible on the opera house footprint but that Renzo Piano had had no brief.
When Malta has a philharmonic orchestra which, since its divorce from the Manoel Theatre in 1997, has had no fixed abode, the mind boggles at the sheer crassness of a decision to create this open-air 'space' of indeterminate function when, for 16 years, our orchestra has led a pathetically nomadic existence but, then, please remember that Minister Austin Gatt had told the late Fr Peter Serracino Inglott and all the 127 of us artists who had signed the letter protesting about this cockeyed decision that "as we live in a democratic country, what the Government says, goes".
As they say, en Maltaise bien entendu, 'x'jibqa' fik?' which roughly translated means that the stuffing will be knocked out of you.
In another life and in another era, my family were great aficionados of the horse races at the Marsa. Secure in our enclosure from having to rub shoulders with hoi polloi, unless we needed to consult the bookies, we proudly affixed the metal members' badges to our binoculars with their multicoloured silken cords; the one with the largest bunch was obviously accorded the greatest respect.
One uncle was a steward and another was a starter while my mother and my aunts, duly hatted and gloved, were frequently selected to present trophies with the inevitable Hip Hip Hurrahs followed by tea and toast in the committee room. I loved my Sunday afternoons there and, in time, became quite an expert as I was frequently asked to accompany one of the track judges, a retired major whose eyesight had become a trifle dodgy, to verify whether the trotters were hooking or breaking and gaining.
I did, however, love flat races best. Riding on a horse as opposed to behind it in a sulkie bears no comparison. I still remember the great Derby winners of my time, Sailing Free and Waterloo Boy, whose graceful gallops to a glorious win never failed to thrill and exhilarate me.
It was the sheer unpredictability of who was going to win which made these particular races so special. I can still recall Major Stanley Clews' voice on the tannoy "as they turn round canteen corner now and into the strait..." whereupon we all craned to see who was leading the frenetic rush to the finish line gripped by a surge of adrenaline, which makes horseracing one of the most exciting pastimes in history.
I would like the elections to be just like that; however, that would be wishful thinking. In today's grim, utilitarian world we have been drawn into a maelstrom of nauseating backbiting and pettiness that makes one feel as if one is playing poisonous Snakes and slippery Ladders with our own lives and with our own futures, which, like a storm in a teacup, has consequences that are so much worse.
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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone
The second amendment is the reset button of our Constitution.
CSI Miami is another good show to watch for Sigs and HK's....
"Ray Nagin is a colossal disappointment" - NRA/ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox.
"...be water, my friend."
Emily Proctor can test fire my guns anytime!!
Same reason you don't see advertisements for Maybach and Bentley I suppose. They are clearly intended for those who crave, and can afford, the finer things in life.
I have seen local ads for firearms on West Virginia TV stations so I do not think there is any law against it, at least not in WV.
I don't know why companies don't do ads (it's not illegal) because the local stations run ads for the local range all the time.
It would be nice to see ads from Kimber, Sig, etc.. Just like you never seen alcohol (liquor) ads until a couple of years ago. (at least I never did before).
Regardless of laws, media people would refuse ads for firearms due to liability ramifications.
In the litigious society we live in, when someone is shot (even armed robbers) their fast layers sue anything and anyone who is somehow connected to the case. They are especially aggressive with those with deep pockets, such as media outlets.
I can hear in my head a lawyer blaming the TV station for airing a commercial for a gun and by that convincing someone they are in danger and encouraging them to shoot, and so on and so on
Shoot Straight
Is there anyone here that works for a TV station?
I can not imagine that a TV station has that much control over what they can allow as a paid advertisement.
I have heard this before on this forum that the TV Stations would not allow that kind of ad when I asked about doing a Armed Citizens News Cast as an advertisement during the news, and I just don't think they can turn down advertisements for legal products, other than Cigarettes and that is by law.
I know there are a lot of people that are anti gun and that is exactly why I would like to see gun ads on TV, but TV stations thrive on the 1st amendment.
Timmy Jimmy
If it is not in the US Constitution then the Federal Government should not be doing it.
"Carrying a gun is a social responsibility."
Yes, they can refuse any advertisment. I worked for the largest newspaper publisher in the US, and the local publisher has refused all kinds of ads that didn't meet certain criteria.
The "criteria" could be anything from questionable products, to language, to pictures, to products competing with other well-paying advertisers...
Shoot Straight
TV stations are licensed by the FCC, newspapers aren't, they, t.v., have to grant equal access. The target market for guns can be reached at a cheaper more cost effective way by other means, such as sporting mag's etc.. Much like a few years ago when liqour companies started advertising on t.v. people were questioning the legallity, stations questioned, no laws prohibiting they just didn't want to. Things changed, money needed to be made, and now they advertise. It's all about the money!
thank you jt, i owe dakotaranger and opoligy. about 4 oclock this morning i whipped out season 3, and there was the ol' h&k. my bad
I never thought about that. I'm sure that it is less expensive to print an add in a gun mag (since gun nuts read gun mags so they know they are getting their targetted customers) then have a t.v. commercial. (see how many bad puns that I can make in one sentence ).The target market for guns can be reached at a cheaper more cost effective way by other means, such as sporting mag's etc..
OK, we the American people, have a problem that we are losing our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms slowly but surely.
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
You and I do not have the money to wake up the people of the US, the NRA does not seem to care about changing the hearts and minds of the general public and without changing the hearts and minds of the general public we will fail. We have a country to lose but bit by bit. The gun industry has the most to lose in the short range and they have the money to make changes in the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans.
Maybe there are some television stations out there that will not take an ad from Smith and Wesson on the virtues of owning a gun for your protection, but some will I am sure. If Glock would run some ads telling armed citizens stories, and Mossberg would tout the families that were saved with there products maybe the general public would start to get the picture that CHL holders are really not just the good guys but the great guys.
There is quite a bit of talk about sheeple in this forum, but why are there so many sheeple? You think that just maybe the sheeple are really just people that need to be taught some fundamental truths. Do you think they are going to get those fundamental truths from Larry King, and CNN?
I don't know if this post makes any sense, I am sure that someone understands what I am trying to say and can say it better.
Timmy Jimmy
If it is not in the US Constitution then the Federal Government should not be doing it.
"Carrying a gun is a social responsibility."
the major media, TV being the majority of that is run by gun grabbing liberals. They love to place the blame on the gun and not the degenerate punk using it. They would never allow kimber or anyone else to advertise on their stations. that would cause killing, destruction, and mayhem in the streets.
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Cookery star ... MasterChef runner-up Poh Ling Yeow.
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LIKE Tetsuya or Nigella, she's famous enough to go by one name now. Yet Adelaide artist Poh Ling Yeow – known to the 2 million Australians who watched MasterChef (and most of the rest of the country) as just Poh – has so far navigated her route through instant culinary stardom with grace and aplomb.
This could be due to maturity: Yeow is 35 and an established, commercially successful painter. Before MasterChef rewrote the reality TV rules, most of the genre's "stars" were on the sunny side of 25 and selected mainly for a profound absence of talent. It's safe to say we're not going to see Yeow stumbling out of a B-list party or appearing on Celebrity Big Brother. Perhaps her art career gave her some preparation for the limelight, dealing with the media and knowing when to say no. Or perhaps it's simply that when it comes to food – and to borrow a favourite cliche from the MasterChef judges – Poh cooks from the heart.
"I'm very proud of the fact that I've grown up with these two cultures and it's good that my food would reflect that," she says. "It does speak of who I am, which is a Chinese Australian."
Yeow is a new addition to the World Chef Showcase, a headline event in October's Sydney International Food Festival. Director Joanna Savill says she is fascinated with Yeow's play with tradition and innovation, citing Yeow's famous cubic squid ink noodles dish from MasterChef: "I think she's utterly fantastic."
"Although she's obviously not a professional like everybody else in the Showcase program, her creative approach and her technical skill are absolutely up there," Savill says. "[In food circles] there's always this debate, see-sawing between tradition and innovation or creativity. She's going to fit right in."
The outline of Yeow's story is well known, thanks to her dramatic path to the MasterChef final where she was ultimately defeated by Julie Goodwin. Her parents, Christina and Steven Yeow, moved to Adelaide from Kuala Lumpur with Poh, then nine, and her 12-year-old brother, Casper. Her great aunt, Kim Thoo, lived with the family and it was she and Yeow's mother who taught the young girl how to cook.
The culture shock of emigration impacted heavily on the young children, who were caught somewhere between their relatively strict, traditionalist Malay Chinese parents and their footy-loving, pie-eating, Anglo-Aussie peers.
"I'm not going to have some weepy story because I had an amazing childhood," Yeow says. "[But] I always grew up wanting to be tall and blond – bit weird looking the way I did. I just wanted to be an all-Aussie kid."
If she didn't find that acceptance as a child, she has now. To the Adelaide Advertiser, her local newspaper, Yeow is invariably "our Poh". Her vernacular is unimpeachably Australian ("A lot of people have asked me, aren't you spewing to miss out on the $100,000?") – but, through food, her connection with Chinese culture is just as strong.
She tells a nice story about a visit to relatives in Kuala Lumpur with younger, Australian-born cousins some years ago.
"My grandfather came in and he was all depressed," she remembers, "saying 'Look at my genes, getting watered down, my culture's lost, I can't even speak to my grandchildren!' This big speech . . . and I was laughing my head off but it did make me feel a bit sad for him. Then we all sat down to lunch and he walked around and patted us all on the back and said, 'At least they eat the bloody food'. That still bonded us. [Food] crosses language barriers."
Reconciling that feeling of being between two cultures and of not fitting in is something Yeow has long explored in her painting and more recently in her cooking techniques.
"I love the fact that when I'm making a dumpling, it's something that's been done for aeons," she says. "Ancestors I never knew have gone through the same process of crimping the edge of a dumpling the way I'm doing it, because it's been handed down all these generations."
At the World Chef Showcase, Yeow plans to demonstrate three desserts, two of which will be Malaysian rice cakes called kuih. Her mother is also coming along for the ride.
Yeow may deviate slightly from traditional recipes, she says, but that is who she is.
"It's an interesting junction in food history because there's enough migrants here now that we can think about legitimately modernising dishes without thinking we're wrecking a tradition," she says. "It's actually acknowledging who we are – living in Australia with all these amazing ingredients at our disposal."
If it wasn't already obvious, Yeow is no typical reality TV star. Nor is she "spewing" to have missed out on the $100,000 MasterChef prizemoney. Back at home in Adelaide with her dog Zed for the first real moments of downtime since the MasterChef whirlwind, Yeow is taking time out to contemplate her good fortune – and to work on paintings for an exhibition she has scheduled for the end of the year.
"I'm really wary about what's not going to make me happy," she says. "I'm not making any hasty decisions. I really want to make something good of this and not just cash in on the immediate hype. Food is first in line for me and I don't want to do anything to turn it into something I don't love anymore."
Poh Ling Yeow appears in program 2 of the World Chef Showcase on Saturday, October 10. http://www.siff.com.au/showcase/program.
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An Iraqi military official on Sunday shrugged off a warning from US secretary of state-designate Colin Powell that President Saddam Hussein's rule was coming to an end.
"Powell's threats do not frighten us and they will not make us bow," the commander of Iraq's air defenses, General Shahin Mohammad Yassin, said at a news conference in Baghdad.
"Let him make threats. Others have done the same before him," Yassin said, referring to the outgoing administration of US President Bill Clinton. Such threats only "make us (Iraq) more determined."
On Saturday, president-elect George W. Bush, who is to take office in January, nominated Gulf War hero and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, retired General Colin Powell, as his secretary of state.
Powell, joining a team that also includes vice president-elect Dick Cheney, who was defense secretary during the 1991 war against Iraq, promptly delivered a blunt warning to Iraq's leadership.
"Saddam Hussein is sitting on a failed regime that is not going to be around in a few years' time," he said. "The world is going to leave him behind, and that regime behind", Powell added.
"I don't know what it will take to bring him (Saddam) to his senses, but we are in the strong position, he is in the weak position," Powell said -- BAGHDAD (AFP)
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SLIDESHOW: Chief Sealth soccer wins division outright with 1-0 victory over Nathan Hale (updated)
The seniors of the Chief Sealth International High School boys varsity soccer team are a smart bunch.
With a 1-0 victory over division rival Nathan Hale on May 2, the Seahawks capped their regular season with another win and became Metro Sound Division champs, fulfilling a Nostradamus-esque prophecy by the seniors four years ago.
"Amazing season," Sealth coach Ron Johnson said after the game. "I've been here fifteen years and we started out with nothing, and in the last four years (that has changed). The seniors here were the kids that came out … and told me they were going to be champions in four years and I said, 'OK, I've heard it before.'"
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Smart bunch, and only fitting their prediction would come to fruition on Senior Night.
The Seahawks sewed up the season with a perfect division record of 12-0. Overall, they finished 13-1-1.
The hard fought battle against Nathan Hale was a story of rock solid Seahawk defense (including another shutout for goalkeeper Kristian Nilssen) to keep the ball out of their net, and good pressure on the opposite end with some bad luck keeping the scoreline limited to one.
The game winner came courtesy of striker Abel Madrigal, a scoring machine in the second half of the season, courtesy of Sealth's central midfielder and orchestrator of ball distribution, Mori Tsuchiya.
Fifteen minutes into the match Tsuchiya found Madrigal at the 18-yard line with a forward pass from just beyond midfield. With a defender at his back, Madrigal took a touch that perfectly set the ball up with a small bounce. He swiveled on it and coolly chipped a lofted shot at goal. Hale's keeper could only stand and watch, as if set in stone, as the ball arched over his head and into the net.
Sealth goalkeeper Kristian Nilssen picked a good game to be unstoppable, and proved his point several times in the first half, including a fully stretched save 30 minutes in on a Hale shot headed to the far post. Nilssen worked in tandem with defender Antonio Garcia to keep the shutout alive minutes later when a Hale striker broke free for a one-on-one opportunity. Nilssen was able to slow the shot just enough with a reflex-charged arm and Garcia came sliding in behind him to clear the ball before it crossed the line.
The second half was marked by a suffocating Seahawk defense that would simply not allow Nathan Hale to create or get bodies forward before breaking up plays and switching the flow.
With that shifted momentum Sealth had several shots on goal, but a possible shift in the earth's magnetism drew nearly every shot to the crossbar as balls careened of the post left and right, followed by "Uuggs" and "Aarghs" from the Chief Sealth bench and crowd.
The final whistle blew and the Seahawk crowd erupted in elation. Coach Johnson rounded up his team to tell them it was the best season he'd had in 15 years, and how proud he was to be their coach.
"It's been a great season so far, but it's not over …" Johnson said to his formidable squad, firing them up for the upcoming Metro playoffs and a potential ticket to state.
In winning the Metro Sound division, Chief Sealth attains a number one seed, giving them a bye to the Metro semifinals. They will find out next Monday, May 7, who they will play in that game (it will likely be against a private school from the Metro Mountain division and certainly a tough matchup).
Playoff games happen at the Interbay Athletic Complex at 3027 17th Ave W. and we'll keep you posted on the specific time and date.
Chief Sealth seniors, that smart bunch honored with pizza, soda and proud parents after the game, include Neville Mensur, Simon Crean, Brandon Rosario, Jordan Luna, Quang Nguyen, Aden Fidow, Logan Smith and Antonio Garcia.
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Jok's Daily Diary: Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
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NORTH TEXAS -- Penn senior guard Dau Jok enjoyed a busy weekend in North Texas for the 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four, as a guest of both the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).
As one of five members of the 2014 Allstate NABC Good Works Team, Jok attended the Allstate Welcome Dinner at the Crescent Club on Friday night. On Saturday, the Good Works Team was recognized on court during the second semifinal between Kentucky and Wisconsin at AT&T Stadium.
On Sunday morning, the Good Works Team participated in a basketball clinic at the Valley View Sportsplex with members of the Special Olympics of Texas and special guest, Allstate NABC Good Works Team ambassador Grant Hill. That afternoon, the group was recognized and participate in an autograph session at the Buick Arena inside the NCAA Bracket Town. On Sunday evening, the Good Works Team attended the NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show and will be recognized at that event.
Allstate hosted a brunch on Monday morning, but Jok will not be able to attend. Instead, that morning he was off collecting his Most Courageous Award from the USBWA at its awards brunch at the Omni Hotel in downtown Dallas.


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Palin may be related to Princess Diana, Roosevelt
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.
The governor of Alaska and the princess are tenth cousins, while Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed, said Ancestry.com, online genealogists based in Provo, Utah.
The genealogical connections are not the first to gain attention in the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Lynne Cheney said she found while tracing her family roots that her husband Vice President Dick Cheney was a distant cousin of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Other researchers discovered Obama is distant cousins with actor Brad Pitt.
"When you've got candidates who have deep roots in America, there's a good chance that they're going to have some famous cousins," said Ancestry.com's chief family historian Megan Smolenyak.
"We've all got literally millions of cousins. The trick is finding that one little connection that results in something like Sarah Palin being related to FDR or Diana," she said.
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Integracolor Group--Growing a Bountiful Business
"Asleep" isn't the typical description of a 42-year-old, $50 million printing operation. But that's how Larry C. King, president and COO of the IntegraColor Group (formerly Horticultural Printers), fondly described his business…until two years ago, that is.
"We've been referred to as a sleeping giant—but we're not sleeping anymore," says King, comparing the company's steady growth over the past decade (from $15 million in 1988 to $30 million in 1996) to its explosive 57-percent growth over the past two years.
IntegraColor's self-imposed wake-up call came in the form of a "dedicated decision," which was made by the company's management team to expand business at a rate of 16 percent per year beginning in 1996.
The success of meeting—and greatly exceeding—that goal was the jolt IntegraColor needed. Robert Grooms, IntegraColor's vice president of sales, projects that 1999 sales could grow more than 30 percent, adding another $15 million in revenues by the turn of the century.
In the race to grow its business, IntegraColor is setting its own pace with each step it takes. The first step was to update its image in a way that would reflect "the progressive, innovative and high-tech company we are today," says King.
So after 42 years, the company changed its beloved name. In June, Horticultural Printers (HPI) was "recommissioned" the IntegraColor Group.
"One of the ways we decided to grow the business was by growing beyond the HPI name," notes King, emphasizing that the company still uses the name, which is retained as a division under the IntegraColor Group banner. "We believed we had grown on our name as much as we could, and we wanted to dispell the stigma that horticultural printing is all we do. Our other services—commercial printing, Christian schoolbook publishing and point-of-
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