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A Quick Look at Paper Cosmetic Packaging

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Paper was once considered a safe substitute for plastic. People were encouraged to use paper more and reduce the use of plastic as much as possible. The reason behind this was the large-scale environmental degradation brought about by plastic. Being so durable, plastic was thought to take thousands of years to decompose, thereby contributing to environmental pollution. When the situation started going from bad to worse, people decided to take some concrete steps to contain the menace of plastics, and the use of paper seemed to be the right decision at that point. People stopped using plastic bags and started using paper bags in their place.

The demand to curb the use of plastics also brought about a green revolution in the cosmetic industry. People demanded the use of natural materials for packaging cosmetic products, and paper was the unanimous choice as it is a biodegradable material. However, contrary to popular belief, the decision to use paper in the place of plastic was not a good environmental solution. Instead of making the planet greener, better and healthier, it paved the way for further environmental degradation.How the Use of Paper Contributed to Environmental DegradationThough paper is a natural material, the production and use of paper can affect the environment adversely. Let us see how.Deforestation – Deforestation is one of the major causes of paper consumption since the raw material used for making paper is mainly trees. As the demand for paper increased, more trees were cut down to meet the requirements for wood pulp. It is estimated that around 12-24 trees are required to manufacture one ton of paper. This naturally resulted in deforestation and the loss of wildlife habitats and ecosystems. Moreover, as forests disappeared, the concept of managed forests for growing coniferous softwoods was introduced. However, this singular focus on one tree species adversely affected the biodiversity of the whole forest.Rise in Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change – Trees are essential for sustaining life on earth as they uses carbon dioxide for their growth. However, when trees are cut down, the level of greenhouse gases (GHGs) increases in the atmosphere. Though a balanced amount of greenhouse gases, comprised of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorocarbons (typically chlorofluorocarbons and hydro fluorocarbons) is essential, excessive amounts can prove fatal. The rise in GHGs paved the way for climate changes, which in turn caused further degradation of the forests by causing droughts and forest fires.How to Minimize Wood-Pulp Paper WasteBuying Recycled Paper Products – Though the recycling of paper itself does not save trees, it can go a long way toward reducing air pollution and saving water and energy. Recycling paper requires half the amount of water and energy required to make paper because most of the energy and water in papermaking is required during the manufacturing of wood pulp. Moreover, it causes less water and air pollution compared to virgin paper. Consumers can play a greater role in reducing paper pollution by insisting on cosmetic products where the cartons used for holding the lotion pumps or containers are made of recycled paper.Discouraging Excessive Packaging – Decorating and accessorizing cosmetic products is the bane of the cosmetic industry. Manufacturers dress up their products using cloth, cardboard, ribbons, sequins and so on that serve no real purpose. It can only contribute to creating tons of waste that in most cases ends up in landfill sites.Encouraging Treeless Paper – When buying products, look for packaging that has been made from treeless paper. Paperfoam is a treeless paper that is biodegradable as well as recyclable. Use of tree free papers such as coffee paper, banana paper and lemon paper must also be encouraged.It is high time that cosmetics manufacturers and cosmetic packaging manufacturers realize the damaging effects of paper on the environment and take some steps to prevent it.

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Chapman, London-Fanshawe

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Jim Chapman is running for the Progressive Conservative of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the London-Fanshawe riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.

Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.

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Instant Decision Unsecured Loans: Quick Loans Without Security

Instant Decision Unsecured Loans: Quick Loans Without Security

By Gilbert Imlay

When an individual requires cash in a hurry, the quickest option available is a loan from a family member or a friend. However, not many people would like to divulge their financial crisis to a known person, as it might create an embarrassing situation at a later stage. A much more feasible option then, is a loan from a financial institution like a bank or a lending agency. Most financial lenders, however, have loan formats which involve extensive paperwork and intense verification process, which might cause unnecessary delay in accessing the loan amount. An emergency situation or a financial crisis requires immediate access to the loan amount and hence, many potential borrowers shy away form approaching a financial lender for a traditional loan. Such a situation can however be solved with the help of more customized loan plans like the instant decision unsecured loans, which involve no paperwork and require no collateral to be placed against the loans.

The quick and convenient processing of the instant decision unsecured loans, make them a popular choice among potential borrowers looking for instant financial solutions to short term fund crisis. Not only do the lenders provide such instant decision unsecured loans without a credit check on the borrower and without placement of collaterals, the lenders also further save the time and effort of the borrower by conducting the entire transaction through the medium of internet. Starting from the loan application to approval, processing, transaction and even repayment, all such processes are instantly carried out through online processes, making it possible for the borrower to get instant access to funds and meet any emergency at hand, easily.

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A potential borrower can find all required information about the instant decision unsecured loans at the lender’s website and can even compare the various loan plans and rate of interest of the various loans available in the market. Accordingly, one can select a feasible plan that best meets his current financial requirements easily. A potential borrower can then apply for the loan, by simply filling up the online application form, available at every lender’s website, with basic personal and employment details and providing some necessary information about his bank account. Once the lender has verified the accuracy of such information, he gives instant decisions on the loan approval, enabling the borrower to have instant access to the loan amount, usually within 24 hours of loan approval.

The instant decision unsecured loans are easily available to borrowers of every category and as they involve no credit verification process for approval, even a borrower with a bad credit rating or multiple bad debts and arrears in his name, can apply and get access to such loans. Also, these loans have no restriction clause on their manner of expenditure and hence, they can be used for nay financial purpose which the borrower deems fit. As the loans are specially meant to cater to emergency financial situations, they are usually short term in nature and have a higher rate of interest tagged to them in comparison to the traditional, secured forms of loans. However, the advantages of such unsecured loans far outweigh the drawback of a high interest rate; hence, it is not surprising to see these loans emerge as one of the most feasible forms of meeting short term fund crisis in modern times.

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Interview with BBC Creative Archive project leader

Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Creative Archive project is a BBC led initiative which aims to make archive audio and video footage available to be freely downloaded, distributed, and ‘remixed’. The project is still in a pilot stage, and is only available to UK residents, but the long-term future of the project could have a major impact on the way audiences interact with BBC content.

The project is partly inspired by the Creative Commons movements, and also by a general move within the BBC to be more open with its assets. Additionally, educational audiences such as schools have expressed an interest in using BBC content within the classroom, both to watch and to create multimedia content from.

So far, clips made available under the licence have included archive news footage, nature documentary footage, and video clips content designed for educational uses. “It’s done very well with the audiences we’ve directed them towards – heavy BBC users,” says Paul Gerhardt, project leader. Users downloading the clips are also prompted to fill in a questionnaire, and so far 10-15% of people seem to be doing something with the material, although the BBC can’t be sure what exactly that is.

One of the biggest limitations within the licence as it currently stands during the pilot scheme is that the material is only available for use by people resident in the UK. The BBC’s Creative Archive sites use ‘geo-IP filtering’ to limit downloads to the UK, but there is some confusion over whether people who create their own content using the material can upload their creations to their own websites. A question within the FAQs for one of the more recent selections of clips suggests that this isn’t possible, saying “during this pilot phase material released under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence cannot be used outside the UK – therefore, unless a website has its use restricted to the UK only, content from the ‘Regions on Film’ archive cannot be published on it.”

“We want people to make full use of this content, whether they cut and paste it or whether they share it, and we completely accept that we’ve got a bit of a contradiction at the moment by saying UK-only and yet encouraging people to put it on their sites to share it with others, because you can’t expect people to have geo-IP restriction technology,” admits Mr Gerhardt. “We’re thinking hard about how to deal with this after the pilot – at the moment it’s quite likely that we’re probably going to need to find a distribution partner outside of the UK, so that if you’re outside of the UK you’ve got roughly the same experience as in the UK, but the content could be surrounded by sponsorship messages or advertising or whatever. Once we’ve done that then leakage from one to the other won’t really matter very much.”

The Creative Archive project has not been without critics from the commercial sector, worried that the BBC giving away their content for free would make it difficult for them to be able to make money from their own content. The BBC has explained to some of the commercial players that the content would be limited during the pilot, would not be available in broadcast quality, and that watermarking technologies would be trialled so that content could be recognised when it crops up elsewhere. The BBC is also investigating a business model for the future where there would be a “close relationship between public access to low-resolution content and a click through to monetising that content if you want to buy a high-resolution version”. People who want to play around with the material might discover they have a talent and then find they need to get a commercial license to use it properly, Mr Gerhardt explains, and the project wants to make it easy for this to happen.

Before the project can go ahead with the full scale launch, it will have to go through a ‘public value test’ to assess its overall impact on the marketplace, and commercial media companies will have a chance to input at this point.

For ease in clearing the rights, all of the content available under the pilot project is factual, but in the future the project could include drama and entertainment content. The BBC may also, in the future, work the Creative Archive licences into the commissioning process for new programmes. “This raises some really interesting ideas – if you have a documentary series, you could use the Creative Archive to release the longer form footage, for instance – that would create a digital legacy of that documentary series,” Mr Gerhardt explains. “The other interesting thought in the longer term would be for the BBC, or another broadcaster, to contribute to a digital pool of archive material on a theme, and then invite people to assemble their own content out of that. We could end up broadcasting both the BBC professionally produced programme accompanied by other programmes that other people had made out of the same material.”

One of the ways that the Creative Archive licence differs from the other ‘copyleft’ licences like Creative Commons, aside from the UK-only limitation, is that the licence currently allows the BBC to update and modify the licence, which may worry those using the licence that their rights could suddenly become more restricted. “The licence at the moment is a draft, and we’ve given warning that we may well improve it, but we wouldn’t do that more than once or twice. The ambition is that by the time we scale up to the full service we would have a fixed licence that everyone was comfortable with, and it wouldn’t change after that.”

“The ambition is to think about creating a single portal where people can search and see what stuff is out there under the same licence terms, from a range of different suppliers. The idea is that if we can create something compelling like that, we will attract other archives in the UK to contribute their material, so we’d be aggregating quite a large quantity.”

The Creative Archive project has captured the interest of many Internet users, who are growing increasingly, used the idea of being able to ‘remix’ technologies and content. Some groups have been frustrated with the speed at which the project is developing though, and with some of the restrictions imposed in the licence. An open letter to the BBC urges the dropping of the UK-only limitation, the use of ‘open formats’, and to allow the material to be usable commercially.

Mr Gerhardt has publicly welcomed debate of the licence, but makes it clear to me that the whole BBC archive will never all be available under the Creative Archive terms. “We will make all our archive available, under different terms, over the next five to ten years, at a pace to be determined. There would be three modes in which people access it – some of the content would only be available commercially, for the first five year or so after broadcast, say. The second route is through a ‘view again’ strategy where you can view the programmes, but they’d be DRM-restricted. And the third mode is Creative Archive. Over time, programmes would move from one mode to another, with some programmes going straight to the Creative Archive after broadcast.”

Others who disagree with the ‘UK-only’ restriction within the licence include Suw Charman, from the Open Rights Group, who has said “it doesn’t make sense in a world where information moves between continents in seconds, and where it is difficult for the average user to exclude visitors based on geography.” On the project generally, though, she said “I think that it is a good step along the way to a more open attitude towards content. It is a toe in the water, which is far preferable to the attitude of most of the industry players, who are simply burying their heads in the sand and hoping that lawsuits and lobbying for new legislation will bolster their out-dated business plan.”

Other organisations currently participating in the Creative Archive scheme include the British Film Institute, the Open University and Teachers’ TV. Two artists have been awarded scholarships to create artworks using BBC archive material, and BBC Radio 1 has held a competition asking people to use the footage in creative ways as backing visuals to music. The process of making the BBC’s archive material fully available may be a long one, but it could end up changing the way that people interact with the UK’s public service broadcaster.

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Sizes Of Poster Printing

Sizes Of Poster Printing

Submitted by: Robert Johnston

You can usually make the most out of your color posters. A great and colorful print, after all, can also do a great deal to lure in or attract the eyes and reach out all clients and customers in the business world. Always reach out a given business area or location with your print materials or draw out all the potential clients and customers with extra large sized these usually come in, both manners, you already have the benefit or advantage of attaining high visibility among those individuals who are walking on the streets.

Size of these print materials always matters

You can usually have an extra large print materials printed digitally to get your business establishment s fa ade and call out to nearby clients and customers. Or, you can also have a high amount of these print materials printed in the offset manner that you can post in several different business areas or locations to get clients and customers visiting your business establishment. However, always keep in mind that the saying does usually matter can prove to be true, even with your print materials. Therefore, every time you are getting your print materials designed and printed, below are some of the very useful specs hat you can always keep in mind for your poster design.

Eleven by seventeen posters:

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Smaller sized print materials are ideal for those individuals or business owners that have a very limited business budget at hand. This type is usually larger than the standard legal sized paper materials that most home made print materials used, and it printed in a far better quality than most home printers.

It will also best suit for indoors with a limited space. These small sizes of these things make it very flexible to fit in almost display areas in the business world and it can be seen fully from a distance of few meters or feet. When it is used outdoors, on the other hand, it can be usually placed in all locations possible such as phone booths comfort rooms, walls and in all locations where it can placed legally.

You can also use these print materials to promote or advertise and invite clients and customers for student organization and all other non profit and non government events or gatherings. Like the invitations, these print materials are especially designed and printed to hold visually eye-catching images or graphics with a limited text details and information.

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These kinds are the so-called standard indoor print materials. These things are big enough to house your images with enough space to hold more details and information. The images can be used to get the interest and attention of clients and customers, while the fine print can hold all the details and information.

It can also be used to advertise promotional mechanics, awareness campaign and all other vital notices. They ate most of the time placed in waiting areas where people have time to read these things.

Modified sized poster printing

These modified sized print materials are individually printed by using the digital printing process. every time you have a given display area in mind such as the store windows or a wall, modified sizes will allow you to specify the size that you need with half an inch increments beginning at eight by eight inches to as big as the 58 by 100 inches.

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The Next Consortium of ITRI launches ‘RoboScooter’

Sunday, May 11, 2008

At the Pavilion of Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium during the AutoTronics Taipei 2008, in Taipei Time, the Next Consortium of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) unveiled a brand-new environmental-concept vehicle named “RoboScooter”. It was jointly designed by the Creativity Lab of ITRI, SYM Motors, and the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This announcement was approved by industrial, governmental, and academical executives, but not just in Taiwan.

The ability for R&D to manufacture the electronic vehicles and bicycles was concerning to several automobile-related industries. There was concern not only from several trade shows, but also international competitions related to the design after winning several prizes back in Taiwan to establish the industrial position and brand image of “Made in Taiwan”. Since several industries like automobile are transformed to high-value industries, “creativity” progressively became a key element before unveiling any new products.

As of this sector, Wen-jean Hsueh (ITRI Creativity Lab General Director) hoped companies could do proper transformations on its R&D nature from “Made in Taiwan” to “Created in Taiwan” for best practice. This not only echoed “OBM” theory discussed at 2007 Taiwan Brands’ Trend Forum but also blended with a key element of production – “creativity”.

On the other side of SYM Motors, to solve the transportation problem for TWTC Nangang, SYM Motors Taiwan imported manufacturing technology from Kinglong Bus Co., Ltd. to manufacture several 4th-cycle low floor buses and sell them to Chung-hsing Bus Co., Ltd. and Kwang-huang Bus Co., Ltd. In this launch, the SYM Motors Taiwan hope this vehicle is energy-efficiency, easily-parked, and has creative functions which can improve the transportation habits of individuals.

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IOC visits Madrid as part of 2020 Olympic bid process

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission is in Madrid, Spain this week as part of the city’s bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Sir Craig Reedie of Great Britain is leading the IOC delegation, whom Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy greeted at the start of their inspection process. Of the fourteen-member bid delegation, five have been through this process before as part of the city’s failed bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics bids.

On a cold but sunny day yesterday, the IOC visited four sites on their first inspection date including Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Buen Retiro park and bullfighting ring Las Ventas. Today, the IOC is scheduled to visit the proposed venues for the Olympic village and stadium. The inspection is scheduled to last four days.

While at Santiago Bernabéu, IOC members met the Spanish national football team captain Iker Casillas and were given Real Madrid jerseys with their names on them.

As Spain is currently undergoing severe economic problems at the moment, with 26% unemployment currently and public debt in 2012 at 84% of the country’s gross domestic product, the €1.5bn (US$1.9bn, £1.3bn) costs of the Games have been a highly visible aspect of the city’s bid process. Security costs are estimated to add another €149m (US$192m, £127m) to organizing costs. Proponents of the bid including Madrid’s mayor Ana Botella believe the Games would provide an economic boost to the city and the country. IOC President Jacques Rogge is also on the record as stating that he does not believe Spanish economic problems will play a part in the IOC’s decision-making process. Spanish newspaper El Mundo quoted Rogge saying, “The crisis does not affect it, because substantial facilities have in most cases already been built. No major investment is needed”.

Botella outlined some of the costs, quoted by the Associated Press during the IOC visit saying, “The budget that remains for the construction of infrastructure, some 1.5 billion [euros] divided between the three administrations responsible and over a period of seven years, is a perfectly affordable amount.”

Local organizers have promised to follow the legacy of London, using historical landmarks and existing venues with 80% of proposed venues, 28 of 35, already in place, and providing a roadmap for future development of Olympic sites to avoid any “white elephants” that are unused after the Games, a situation that happened with a number of Athens Olympic venues. Madrid’s bid Chief Executive Victor Sánchez, quoted by Agence France-Presse, explained they avoided “[p]rojects that have no real use for citizens after the Games have finished. That is why we have given priority to existing infrastructures and then to other infrastructures that the city has a direct need for. Finally, where a future use cannot be guaranteed, we have opted for temporary solutions. Only three such temporary solutions will be used, while a mere four permanent facilities remain to be built. The result is lower costs, reduced environmental impact and less disruption to the everyday lives of the people of Madrid, all with government backing at central, regional and municipal level.”

Local organizers are preparing to cope with protesters trying to draw attention to Spain’s labor situation who planned to picket outside the Hotel Eurostars Madrid Tower where IOC members are staying. The planned protest is over cuts to the Municipal Government budget. Protesters did not picket yesterday, which was a holiday in Madrid. Bid organizers and the government feared potential strikes by people working for the public transport system. Botella explained to the media that protests and work stoppages should not be seen as evidence that Spaniards would not welcome the Games, but rather unhappiness with local economic issues, which Botella said the Games should help fix. Spain’s current unemployment level is the highest of any European country and the worst the country has faced since the 1970s. Botella’s view is supported by an IOC survey, which found 81% of Spaniards supported Madrid’s bid for the Games.

Madrid is one of three cities currently competing for the 2020 Games. The IOC visited Tokyo, Japan earlier this month and is scheduled to visit Istanbul, Turkey later this month. The host city is to be formally selected at a meeting of the IOC on September 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shortly after that, Rogge is scheduled to step down from his position as IOC President.

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Switzerland: charges dropped in the Aubonne bridge affair

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Nyon — The prosecutor did not withhold complains for “simple” and “severe” physical harm by negligence against gendarmes Poget and Deiss in the trial of the Aubonne Bridge affair. Verdict will be given of Friday in the morning.

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