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So, show of hands….how many of our readers are at home because of snow/cold days?!? I hear that Chicago is going to be colder than the Antarctic this week. Amanda has been telling me about forecasts that have Madison’s wind chill at -50 (Fahrenheit) or more. That’s ridiculous!! I hope everyone stays warm!

I apologize for the lateness of the blog. I used to have this routine down – I’d be up by 7, blogging by 8. Nowadays, I’m dragging myself out of bed at 8:30 and I’m hard pressed to get the blog finished by noon my time. It’s not a great routine yet, but I’m working on it.

A fog is lifting

I came upon something today that reminded me about Reportage. It was a picture of what was obviously a fan-made cover for the album, and it was in turn on the cover a book titled Bootlegs. I’d never seen a cover of any kind for the album until today. That said, as far as I’m aware, no copies exist outside of the hands of the band. Naturally though, this photo got a few of us talking.

It would seem that very few fans have heard Reportage. Most everyone else continues to speak of it as though it is this hidden treasure. To find it is akin with finding the Golden Ticket. I think the expectations of the album have likely been inflated beyond maximum pressure. Those that have listened are usually quick to downplay, and not much of real substance is explained beyond a perfunctory, “Yeah, it wasn’t bad. You could probably find it if you wanted.”

Could I find it? Really? More importantly – do I really want to find it?

In the shadows

These are questions I was asking myself this morning, as I chatted back and forth with friends on Twitter. There are real collectors in the Duraniverse. They are people I very much admire because they work hard to find that obscure poster from 1981 or a specific promo copy of “Hallucinating Elvis”. I have a great deal of respect for people like that, and I tend to learn a lot when speaking with them too. There is a vast amount of expertise to be gained from the collectors amongst us! Me? Nah. I don’t spend a lot of time hunting for albums in old vinyl shops (although I do pop in and check the “D” section from time to time), I don’t hunt online for posters on eBay. I don’t have all of the tour books, pins, or even t-shirts. I do like knowing that I’ve heard all of the variations of music, though.

When it comes to unreleased music though, I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, I love hearing how Duran Duran went from Point A to Point B. Hearing demos is one way of audibly experiencing that journey. I enjoy having that understanding, because when it comes down to it – I’m still a musician at heart, and I dearly love being able to hear the progression of a song from reasonable beginning to completion. On the other hand though, as I said this morning, if the band wanted me/us to hear it – I would think they’d just let us have it. So to get it from some other means seems, well, not right.

Lit by scandal

As my friend said in reply – I’m no goody-goody here. It doesn’t seem right or fair to the band to get hold of something that they weren’t ready to put out themselves. It is, of course, very different if John or Nick said “Hey, why don’t you take a listen?” But to just leak an album and broadcast its existence wouldn’t be right. As we know, that hasn’t happened with Reportage anyway. I mean, at least not that I’m aware. In some ways I still wonder if I’m among the last remaining DD fans that hasn’t heard it.

I suppose I haven’t really hunted much for Reportage. Several years ago I did try to sniff it out online, but came up empty. After that, I kind of let it go, only to be reminded of its existence every now and again. I’ll think of it for a few minutes, and then I’m off again. I would have figured it would have been leaked by now and be commonplace. It would seem that this is one of the better-kept “secrets” in our fandom, at least from my perspective!

So while I suppose I’m still curious about what it sounded like, I’m also more interested in what the band is working on now, post-Paper Gods. Hearing Reportage now would be like looking back, when really all I want to do is keep moving ahead.

Duran Duran Bootlegs

I’m officially on summer break now, or as I call it, “Retirement 2.0”.  While I’m supposedly enjoying my time off, I’m also cleaning out, organizing, and packing up the house. I’m not sure how successful the tasks are going so far, because my house still looks pretty much the same, but currently in my garage I have about thirty-two black and yellow large bins from Costco that are stacked four high and about four deep. Moving has been wonderfully cleansing so far, and I’m not even done yet.

While I’m at home, my husband Walt lives in Santa Barbara during the week. Often, I will get texts from him exploring new places, and I won’t lie – I’m a little envious as I’m cleaning out the closet, packing up my office, or weeding in the backyard. This past Monday though, I got a very curious picture from him.

He had been wandering around State Street during lunch, and found himself in a record store. He is apparently far better trained than I realized, because he immediately looked for any DD vinyl. When that didn’t pan out (I already have everything they had in stock), he looked at their CD’s and DVD’s. Hitting the jackpot, he texted me this picture:

Now, curiously enough, I didn’t recognize these DVD’s. Upon closer inspection, Boys on Film was filmed from an MTV appearance at New Year’s Eve Rock and Roll Ball at the Palladium in NYC 1982 (12/31/82). Then there’s Duran Duran Coachella, filmed in 2011. Lastly, there is Duran Duran San Francisco 2016, which was filmed at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. All of them must be bootlegs.

I didn’t ask, but Walt dutifully bought all of them anyway. They all have varying copyrights and addresses – two of them are archives (one says The Archivists Society and the other is Duran Archives, each has a different UK address), and the other is from Duran Films in New York City. I haven’t watched them yet (that is today’s assignment), but I can hardly wait to see the quality of what I am fully expecting to be shoddy iPhone video. We will see.

It turns out that only after he’d already bought these, he saw even more of these DD concert bootlegs for sale. It’s almost unnerving. I mean, Duran Duran has no control over what is being filmed and later sold, and naturally – none if this is new or even news. I just haven’t seen so much of it gathered in one actual brick and mortar store before. (I don’t get out much, apparently!)

He also picked up a CD for me, which might even be worse than the DVD’s. It’s called Duran Duran Ultra Rare Trax.  Let me just say, the trax are not rare…and the only thing “ultra” going on here are the ultra-tacky descriptions of the songs compiled on this clearly homemade CD.  Below is just a sampling of the titles and descriptions:

  • Notorious (Disconet): Title track from their 1986 LP. Pushed forward their chic influences to the fore. Cutting funk guitars and slap bass supply the backdrop to a fine Disconet Mix.
  • I Don’t Want Your Love (Prime Cuts): The Prime Cuts people get to work on this Duran Favourite, with its excellent back track it rolls on and over. Another Prime Cut.
  • Save A Prayer (DMC): A nice up-tempo dance version of this usually classic ballad. The Earliest Duran number we could find a dance version of.         (I don’t think they looked very hard, just saying.)
  • A View to a Kill (Art of Mix) 007 meets POP! Duran go big screen. A great track given the Art of Noise treatment.
  • Duran (Megamix) The first time ever DMC mix available for the first time on CD format. Previously a cassette 1984 release. Coupling together some Duran classics – Is There Something I Should know, Planet Earth, Girls on Film, Rio, among others.

It goes on from there. Writing is clearly not this bootlegger’s forte. I can hardly wait to listen, though.

I’m not one to encourage bootlegging, but I have to admit I’m more than a little amused to sit down and watch some fairly recent Duran Duran shows. I can’t think of a better way to spend my break – particularly since the alternative involves more packing!

Is there a place for bootlegs in the industry? On one hand, the band seems to have no control over what is filmed and sold – and the economic impact to them is pretty clear. I mean, it is their music and their image, and it seems wrong that they shouldn’t get some royalty from that. On the other though, there are people out there may actually want videos from shows they attended, or maybe even for those who can’t get themselves to places in the world where the band has played.

What about unreleased music? I own Duran Goes Dutch, which is a fairly rare and collectible vinyl that isn’t official at all. The music is rare because the songs are arranged very differently. The band didn’t necessarily take advantage to press that vinyl, but someone else did. Fans like me have benefitted from being able to own the record. I’ve also read that bands, perhaps not Duran Duran – I really can’t say, have bootlegged their own material at times because their label wouldn’t commit resources to doing so for various reasons. It’s a sticky situation, not nearly as black and white as it may seem, and I definitely am not claiming to know the ins and outs. The issue is certainly worthy of discussion.

I’m going to sit and think about all of this while I watch my new videos today!

Today in Duran History – Cadiz, Spain

On today’s date in 1989, Duran Duran played at the Puerto Reel festival in Cadiz, Spain.  This was one of several festivals that the band played during this summer.

Not that I would ever dare suggest one buy a bootleg, but in my search for information regarding this appearance, I saw that there is actually a bootleg of this gig.  Live and learn!


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Where New Mexico Compound Extremists Allegedly Planned to Hit With Terrorist Attack

It has been discovered that the Muslim terrorists in New Mexico who were arrested and released on a bond were planning a terror attack on Grady Memorial Hospital New Mexico.

Here is more from WSBTV:

Channel 2’s Lauren Pozen was at the hospital in downtown Atlanta looking over newly-filed court documents from prosecutors that name the hospital as a possible target, as well as some other big-name institutions

Investigators say they learned about the plot from 11 children who were rescued on the property. The remains of a 12th child, a 3-year-old boy from Clayton County, were also found on the property.

The children told investigators that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his partner, Lany Leveille, intended to “confront corrupt institutions or individuals”.

Included in the documents are a 10-page hand-written document called “Phases of a Terrorist Attack”.

Prosecutors say Leveille “expressed his displeasure with Grady Hospital due to the treatment her mother received there.”

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ECCLES 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

ECCLES 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

ECCLES 4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

ECCLES 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

ECCLES 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

ECCLES 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

ECCLES 4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

ECCLES 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

ECCLES 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

ECCLES 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

ECCLES 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

ECCLES 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

ECCLES 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

ECCLES 4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

ECCLES 4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

ECCLES 4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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In Texas, which boasts the most ranches of any state in the country, it’s fitting that ranch-style homes are the most popular architectural style for residences. Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners especially love ranchers.

A survey by Trulia, an online marketplace for residential real estate, found that ranch-style homes push aside other types of homes — including Colonial, Cape Cod, Victorian, midcentury modern, Tudor and Georgian — for likability among Texas adults.

As a refresher, ranch-style homes are single-story structures with features like a low roofline, open floor plan, rectangular or L shape, and a stucco, brick, or wood exterior.

In Texas, you can find the most ranch-style homes on the market in the Fort Worth-Arlington area, Trulia reports; Dallas-Plano-Irving comes in at No. 4. Here are the top areas in the state for ranch-style homes listed on Trulia, ranked from the highest percentage to the lowest:

1. Fort Worth-Arlington
San Antonio
3. El Paso
4. Dallas-Plano-Irving
5. Austin
6. Houston

Overall, the Trulia survey shows Americans favor craftsman-style homes (43 percent), followed by ranch (41 percent) and Colonial (36 percent). However, most U.S. adults 55 and over (52 percent) vote for ranch-style homes.

“Each architectural style across the country adds character and charm to a neighborhood, making each one unique,” Lynnette Bruno, Trulia’s vice president of communications and research, says in a release.


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Intelligent Spamming?!

If you’ve ever left a comment on my site, you may notice that it doesn’t appear right away. I like to approve them before they get put up for everyone to see and the main reason for that is not for flaming (I think any good blogger should be able to accept some critisim and I’ve even published one from a redneck American who didn’t agree with my views on Obama) but for spamming.

I thought I had fixed the problem by installing the Captcha module for Drupal that everyone must fill out before submitting a comment, but I’m still getting these new comments that don’t seem quite right. They ARE subject related, but the way they are written is like an advert for services. For example, my Google blogs have got some comments saying something along the lines of “Yes Google is a great service but if you don’t want them to rip off your big idea visit….” with a link to a website on pushing up your Google page rank. However, some comments appear very legitamate but point to a random site that looks like spam and I’ve put a couple up because I’m honestly not sure if its a real comment or spam!

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No Escape Velocity In "Dismal" Holiday Sales

With everything that is supposedly going in the right direction right now, the US economy alone in booming out jobs and GDP, the last word you would expect to find attached to analysis of retailer performance during the Christmas season is “dismal.” The final numbers for the year have yet to be tallied, but the anecdotes have been trickling out and any praise is at best measured. It wasn’t supposed to be this way:

Super Saturday – the last pre-Christmas Saturday, which fell on Dec. 20 this year – failed to make up for spotty performance this season. That included a disappointing Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday that is typically one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

“The past weekend will not save this holiday season,” said Craig Johnson, president of the retail and consumer product-oriented private equity fund Customer Growth Partners. “But combined with online sales, it would certainly save the year from being a dismal one.”
One step above dismal is not booming. In fact, it may turn out dismally after all, however, in that the only reason there was any topline growth was due to the drastic discounts offered by retailers so as not to remain awash in inventory for yet another year (mini-cycles are formed this way).

Most retailers offered an additional 20 to 30 percent off on top of 30 to 40 percent discounts on a wide range of products, Reuters found during a series of visits to three dozen stores in Chicago over the weekend.

While that sounds great for media commentary about “spending”, the reality is that businesses must engage in sustainable, profitable activities in order for the economy to gain an actual healthy track. The fact of over-inflated inventory, based undoubtedly on the continued expectations and proclamations of “economists” for that “boom” period, is a net negative as what doesn’t sell easily becomes an anchor on future activity.

The initial indications from retailers themselves about that fact are downright dismal:

Consumer-discretionary firms have been notably downbeat about their fourth-quarter performance, with 24 in the S&P 500 saying their earnings will be lower than expected. The gloomy tone comes as investors have been betting that some of those stocks will benefit from the sharp decline in oil prices during the holiday shopping season.

The sector, which includes auto makers like Ford Motor Co., internet retailers like Inc. and retailers like Gap Inc., has issued the highest number of warnings since FactSet started tracking the data in 2006. That’s also far worse than the 14 companies that on average have warned about their profits each quarter over the past five years.

Booming payroll expansion and a massive “tax-cut” in the form of lower oil prices adds up to the most/worst retail profit warnings since 2006?

As is the case now with what is already shaping up as the third mini-cycle since the 2012 slowdown, there is not improbable chance of a total breakdown. At some point, the lack of actual progress will conspire with these mini-cycles to create a confluence of negative factors which are too much for the economy to bear; a breakdown of activity from which there will be no positive bounceback this time.

With the state of credit and funding markets in almost total bearishness, I wonder how close we are to that point. The American consumer is still, unfortunately, the world’s economic engine in this disoriented age, and with the rest of the world bracing for something far worse the “dismal” occurrence of this shopping season is beyond unwelcome but all too consistent.

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Similar thermal expansion, microstructural stability, good adherence, and corrosion resistance are key issues for environmental barrier coatings (EBC) for oxide ceramic matrix composites (CMC) such as Al2O3/Al2O3. Laboratory-scale specimen as well as prototypic engine components were coated with Y2O3 by means of air plasma spraying (APS). Cubic -Y2O3 exhibits favorable properties such as thermal expansion close to that of Al2O3 and phase stability up to melting. The high thermal stability and low diffusivity of Y2O3 provides an exceptional microstructural stability of APS Y2O3 coatings. Although Y2O3 and Al2O3 are not thermodynamically compatible, the interdiffusion and reaction zone consisting of Y-aluminates is growing only slowly under relevant thermal conditions and does not seriously affect coating adherence. Consequently, APS Y2O3-coated Al2O3/Al2O3 CMC exhibited a high durability versus thermal cycling. APS Y2O3 coatings showed a high recession resistance in water vapor-rich, high-velocity combustion atmospheres. Moreover, APS Y2O3-coatings exhibited a high resistance against thermos-chemical attack by inorganic particles commonly referred to as CMAS corrosion. Infiltration of molten CMAS is mitigated by a dense reaction layer as well as by a quasi-impermeable coating microstructure. The outstanding combination of properties was the rationale for selecting APS Y2O3 as EBC material for Al2O3/Al2O3 combustor liners. Two can-type demonstrators with 0.5 and 1 mm thick APS Y2O3 EBC were manufactured and tested under engine conditions. Both EBCs passed high-pressure combustor rig tests without visible damages, emphasizing the fundamental viability of the concept.

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Was wondering if this was being looked into. I was asking around, and it seems like the Vita possibly could handle it. I Posted a Poll to see which was better, the GPD XD - Which can run Reicast pretty good, or the Vita. I also Posted the Specs of Each Device, and the Vita got the most Votes on it.
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The Poll I Posted, which showed the Specs of the GPD XD, and the Vita.
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Dear Colleague,

Last month, the Department of the Interior announced that it will begin the process to hold its first lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by initiating scoping for an Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed lease sale and opening the
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Please join this letter to Secretary Zinke outlining strong opposition to moving ahead with drilling in this rushed process. We know from public statements to the media that the goal of the Administration this year is to get a lease before the next Congress,
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The bipartisan commitment to protecting the Coastal Plain of America’s most iconic wildlife refuge has endured for more than half a century. This unparalleled landscape was first protected in 1960 by the Eisenhower administration as the Arctic National Wildlife
Range in recognition of its “unique wildlife, wilderness, and recreational values.” In 1980, Congress expanded and re-designated the area as a national wildlife refuge under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Legislative efforts
to open the Coastal Plain to oil and gas development were repeatedly defeated for decades with the strong support of the American public, and overwhelming opposition to drilling continues today. Nearly one million public comments were submitted to the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service during the process leading up to the adoption of the 2015 Comprehensive Conservation Plan, which recommended designating the Coastal Plain Wilderness. A full 96 percent of these comments supported this permanent protection. Moreover,
according to recent public opinion research, two out of every three Americans oppose drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

Tragically, oil and gas leasing was imprudently included in the budget reconciliation process for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1, Pub. L. 115-97) last year.
We opposed the addition of Arctic Refuge drilling to the tax legislation, which occurred behind closed doors bypassing full and fair debate in Congress. Recently, statements by Department of Interior officials indicate they intend to
complete the environmental review for exploration and leasing in as little as one year. This rushed process to open the door for leasing is an unfortunate reminder of the equally rushed and ill-conceived reconciliation process. The timeline for this leasing
process should be guided by sound science, not a partisan goal of rushing to lease within this current presidential administration.
We remind you that analysis of development in the refuge requires thoughtful, inclusive, science-based planning that upholds all congressional mandates. Hasty, cursory decision-making will hinder meaningful participation by the Gwich’in people and the American
public, and risks violating federal conservation laws and international treaty obligations.

Oil and gas activities on the fragile Coastal Plain would inevitably jeopardize sensitive species, irreplaceable public lands, and the Gwich’in way of life, a prospect we cannot support. The Coastal Plain is the biological heart of the Arctic Refuge, providing
essential habitat for imperiled polar bears, musk oxen, and hundreds of species of migratory birds that arrive from all fifty states and six continents. It is the vital calving ground for 200,000 animals that comprise the Porcupine Caribou Herd, which migrates
internationally hundreds of miles each year in one of North America’s greatest natural spectacles. The Coastal Plain is already experiencing unprecedented impacts from climate change. The indigenous Gwich’in people have relied on the caribou for millennia
and consider the Coastal Plain “the sacred place where life begins” because of its importance to the caribou. To the Gwich’in, protecting the caribou means protecting their culture, their spirituality, their food security, and their human rights.

The Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an exceptional part of our nation’s natural heritage. The wildlife, wilderness, recreation, subsistence, and cultural values that it was set aside to protect over fifty years ago remain unmatched
today. We stand with the majority of the American public and the Gwich’in Nation in opposing all efforts to sacrifice this special place to oil and gas drilling.

Related Legislative Issues

Selected legislative information:Energy, Environment

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coconut chocolate frangipanne

A few shreds of toasted coconut makes a nice garnish. So would some powdered freeze-dried raspberries, cacao nibs, matcha green tea…

About five minutes to get into the oven.  Gluten-free but loved by everyone.

A frangipane is traditionally an almond-based filling for a pastry, like marzipan only not so sweet.  This frangipane uses coconut instead of almonds, and then doesn’t need a crust.  The filling is the dessert.  So it’s EASY.

9×12 cookie or cake pan  |  Bake at 350 degrees

¼ C coconut oil ¾ tsp sea salt
¼ C cocoa or cacao powder 2 tsp vanilla (Yellow Dog is gluten-free)
¼ C coconut milk 2 C desiccated coconut (or 1 C plus
8 eggs 1 C of any kind of nut flour)
1 ½ C coconut palm sugar ¾ tsp baking powder

Grease baking pan with Spectrum spray or liquid lecithin mixed with a little oil.  Melt coconut oil in a saucepan over low heat.  Add cocoa powder and coconut milk.  Whisk, remove pot from heat.

In a bowl, mix together eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla.  Stir in cocoa mixture.  Quickly add in coconut together with baking powder.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until knife inserted into the center comes out clean.  Cake will begin to pull away from edges of pan.  If may puff up in the center and crack too.  Almost like a chocolate coconut omlette!  You can frost, or not.  I spooned over organic chocolate sauce and was happy as a clam.  Remember, coconut, while rich in saturated fat, is heart-healthy saturated fat.  Do not be afraid.


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Normative Decision Making with Multiattribute Performance Targets

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Published Articles & Papers
A.E. Abbas
J. Matheson
Many companies set multiple performance targets for their managers and reward them on meeting a threshold value for each target or goal. Examples of such incentive structures abide in the managerial literature and in organizational settings. We show that this incentive structure, while popular, has two main problems: (i) it can induce managers who try to maximize the probability of meeting their performance targets to make decisions that are not compatible with expected utility maximizing decisions, and (ii) it may lead to trade-offs among the performance objectives that are inconsistent with the corporate value function. In this paper, we propose a method to remedy these two problems, while retaining a target-based incentive scheme. We define a multiattribute target as a deterministic region in the space of multiattribute outcomes that has two properties: (1) the probability that the outcome of a multiattribute lottery lies within the target region is equal to the expected utility of the lottery, and (2) all outcomes within the target region are preferred to all outcomes outside it. These two properties lead to a new quantity; which we call the ‘value aspiration equivalent’ that leads managers who maximize the probability of meeting their targets to simultaneously maximize the expected utility, and it also induces trade-offs that are consistent with the decision maker's value function.


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Femme de la rue: sexism in Brussels

Documentary by a student who was fed up with not being able to walk the streets in some quarters of Brussels without being harassed by immigrants.

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Overview of APRED’s fields of work

lundi 7 janvier 2013
par  Admin APRED
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This document is still provisional

APRED sees peace as a non-conflictive state of progress, a harmonious evolution. Of course, progress is never granted, it is a permanent and sustainable human improvement. Yet progress happens best, easily and naturally, when it is mature.

The lack of peace or a state of the world that could be more peaceful leads us to two conclusions :

  • First, there is a cultural need for peace to be made a value and a standard, an achievable state of both being and evolving. This goes beyond conflict ; it transcends it into something different, new and more peaceful. There are many peaceful moments in our lives, at all levels of activity and in most of our relations. These peaceful moments and happy relations are what we would like to live more frequently. For our future and for our well-being, as a species and as individuals, these are the relations and happenings we want to cherish and to expand in all dimensions of life.

Notwithstanding that conflict or violence may happen, but consciously making the choice to go beyond it or at least to address violence without aggravating the situation ee do want to live in, to work for a culture of peace. For this to be, there is a need to move from oppositional postures and to walk as united as may be, worldwide, towards a peaceful, and therefore a sustainable future.

  • Secondly, violence when it exists beyond its direct manifestation, it is also enshrined or tolerated, if not practiced, in our political and economical institutions. Thus reinforcing or justifying a culture of violence in which individuals find it harder to be or to become more proactive for peace.

So despite the individual responsibility to go beyond violence and to practice peace, there is a need for our institutions to progress towards peace and to be of good example, sincere and accurate peace promoters and practitioners.

This has been the focal point, the central issue in APRED’s work so far : non-violence of institutions.
Human rights have provided a fairly good start, though still largely incomplete, to assure that States are non-violent towards their own population. Similarly, the progress of freedom has assured a greater control of population over their governments or some of their governments activities.
However, this had little effect on the relations between States, where war and war materials are at first generated and then justified. The ban on war, or more precisely the duty to refrain from the use of force or threat and to solve conflicts peacefully, present in the United Nations charter (art 2, § 3 & 4) had so far little effect towards disarmament.

  • Countries without armies are a perfect example that disarming is possible, or even largely beneficial.
  • A human right to peace could also brings States to be accountable of their peace (or conflict) policies and practices.
  • Stating that peace is an overarching value in a constitution and grounding peace polices in these texts can also bring States, themselves or through their example to be more peace prone.
  • Peace zones can greatly limit the effect of warfare and help to progress towards more peace, step by step.
  • Democracy can be a very efficient peace promotion tool as it empowers people and institutions to work together towards humane solutions. However, there is still huge progresses to be done in this field and our own research on the links between peace and democracy are only at their beginning.

All these peace tools mainly aim at making peace a goal and a (possible) reality for each and all, individuals and institutions as well.

This is the work of APRED.

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Polymer Science

Coatings and Adhesives

Technology of Printing Inks
Dr Sharif Ahmed

Materials Research Lab

Dept of Chemistry

Jamia Milia Islamia

New Delhi- 110025

Historical Background

Raw materials and formulations for different substrates

Manufacturing Process

Ink color, drying and curing characteristics

Printing Processes

Letterpress printing

Screen printing

Gravure printing

Future of printing ink manufacturing Industry

Inks occupy an integral and versatile position in our daily lives. Our day begins on sleepy note with newspapers and toiletries to breakfast table which is replete with several ink-labelled, packaged consumer products such as tea or coffee, bread, butter and then gradually moving to ouir work places –schools or offices which have myriad ink laden products be it books, calendars, photocopies, computer prints, stamps or even money, ink is found everywhere. Generally, ink is an organic or inorganic pigment or dye dissolved or suspended in a solvent. However, chemically, it is viewed as a colloidal system of fine pigment particles, coloured or uncoloured, dispersed in an aqueous or organic solvent.
The first inks were reportedly fruit or vegetable juices; protective secretions from cephalopods such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopus; blood from some types of shellfish; and tannin from galls, nuts, or bark from trees. It is believed that the appearance of the first man made ink dates back to 4,500 years in Egypt, which consisted of a mixture of animal or vegetable charcoal (lampblack) and glue [1,2]. The earliest black writing inks, developed before 2500BC, were suspensions of carbon, usually lampblack, in water stabilised with a natural gum or materials like egg albumen [3]. Modern inks are complex formulations. Along with the pigment, they also contain some additional ingredients collectively known as 'vehicle' in varying levels. These exemplify pH modifiers, humectants to retard premature drying, polymeric resins to impart binding and allied properties, defoamer/antifoaming agents to regulate foam efficiency, wetting agents such as surfactants to control surface properties, biocides to inhibit the fungal and bacterial growth that lead to fouling, and thickeners or rheology modifiers to control ink application [3]. Thus, in other words, printing of one form or the other another has been there with us for centuries; while the primary functions of decoration and information remain same, the technologies of both the printing process and the ink formulations have changed considerably.
Today’s inks comprise two classes: printing and writing inks. The former is further broken down into two subclasses: ink for conventional printing, in which a mechanical plate comes in contact with or transfers an image to the paper or object being printed on; and ink for digital nonimpact printing, which includes ink-jet and electrophotographic technologies. Over 90 per cent of inks are printing inks, in which colour is imparted by pigments rather than the dyes used in writing inks. Color printing inks primarily consist of linseed oil, soybean oil, or a heavy petroleum distillate as the solvent (called the vehicle) combined with organic pigments made up of salts of nitrogen-containing compounds (dyes), such as yellow lake, peacock blue, phthalocyanine green, and diarylide orange. Inorganic pigments (used to a lesser extent) in printing inks include chrome green (Cr2O3), Prussian blue (Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3), cadmium yellow (CdS), and molybdate orange. White pigments, such as titanium dioxide, are used either by themselves or to adjust characteristics of color inks. Black ink is made using carbon black. Most red writing inks are a dilute solution of the red dye eosin. Blue colour can be obtained with substituted triphenylmethane dyes. Many permanent writing inks contain iron sulfate and gallic and tannic acids as well as dyes. Ballpoint ink is usually a paste containing 40 to 50 per cent dye.
White inks usually contain titanium dioxide -rutile and anatase in tetragonal crystalline form as the pigment. However, known toxicity of heavy metals have led to the replacement of many inorganic pigments such as chrome yellow, molybdenum orange and cadmium red with organic pigments, which offer better light fastness and reduced toxicity out of growing health and environmental concerns. Spinel black, rutile black and iron black in nearly all black inks have been replaced by carbon black. Inks also contain additives such as waxes, lubricants, surfactants, preservatives, wetting and drying agents to aid printing and to impart any desired special characteristics. Other inorganic materials such as clays serve as fillers or extenders, which primarily reduces the cost of pigments, though some also improve ink properties. Metallic pigments like aluminium powder (aluminium bronze) and copper-zinc alloy powder (gold bronze) are used in novel silver and gold inks. Miscellaneous inorganic pigments provide luminescent and pearlescent effects. The major classes of printing processes are lithography or the offset process, flexography, gravure printing, screen-printing, letterpress and digital printing. The composition of printing inks depends on the type of printing process - specifically, how the ink distribution rollers are arranged in the printing press.
The principle of printing can be illustrated by simple pad operation where liquid ink is used which can wet the pad. A rubber type is first dipped in the pad, it gets wet with ink. It is now pressed against the substrate, e.g., paper and its impression is produced on the substrate. This ink should remain in liquid form when in the pad; however, it should dry fast when it has been cast over the substrate to be printed. The various printing processes differ in the way the type is impregnated with the ink, although digital printing does not involve movable types. Each process therefore demands ink that differs in its viscosity and drying efficiency, which is possible by fine-tuning the composition. Before studying each process it is important to gain a general understanding about the basic raw materials and processes involved in printing ink manufacture.
Historical Background
In about 2500BC, writing inks were first manufactured in both ancient Egypt and China. They basically consisted of paste of soot bound with gums which was formed into rods and dried, them mixed with water immediately before use. About 3000 years later, printing was invented by Chinese who used a mixture of coloured earth, soot and plant matter for pigments, again mixed with gums as a binder. The first printing press with a movable type was first invented by Johannes Guttenberg in 1440. Here, the ink was bound with either linseed or varnish materials similar to those used for black inks today. In 1972, coloured inks appeared followed by drying agents in ninteenth century.
Today’s printing inks are composed of a pigment (one of which is carbon black similar to soot used in 2500BC), a binder (an oil, resin or varnish), a solvent and various additives such as drying and chelating agents. The exact recipe for given ink depends on the type of surface that it will be printing on and the printing method that will be used. Inks have been designed to print on a wide range of surfaces from metals, plastics and fabrics to papers. The various printing methods are all similar- ink is applied to a plate/cylinder made of metal or rubber, which is further applied to the surface to be printed. the image can be raised up above the surface of the plate, in the plane of the plate but chemically treated to attract the ink or etched into the plate and the excess ink scraped off. Different inks are produced to suit these different conditions.
Raw Materials for Printing ink formulations
The raw materials for ink production are pigments, binders, solvents and additives [4].

Pigments- colour the ink and make it opaque

Resins- bind the ink together into a film and bind it to the surface

Solvents- make the ink flow so that it can be transferred to the printing surface

Additives- alter the physical properties of the ink to suit different situations
Pigments: Pigments are considered to be the chief constituent of ink and contribute about 50 per cent of its cost. A pigment is essentially any particulate solid - coloured, black, white or fluorescent - that alters the appearance of an object by the selective absorption and/or scattering of light. It occurs as a colloidal suspension in ink and retains a crystal or particulate structure throughout the colouring or printing process. Colour Index System number is generally used to identify the organic pigments in modern inks. It reflects the colour shade or hue, and structural and chronological details (order of synthesis) of the pigment. For example the well-known blue pigment copper phthalocyanine blue is PB 15. As the particle size reduces, the colour intensity (strength) of a pigment increases and the opacity peaks around a particle size of 0.3µm. The molecular structures of four important pigments used in ink are shown in Fig.1.

Pigments colour the ink and provide gloss, abrasiveness and resistance to light, heat, solvents, etc. Special pigments such as extenders and opacifiers are also used. Extenders are transparent pigments that make the colours of other pigments appear less intense, and opacifiers are white pigments, which make the paint opaque so that the surface below the paint cannot be seen.

Resins: Resins are primarily binders that bind the other ingredients of ink together so that it forms a film; they also bind the ink to paper. They also contribute gloss, resistance to heat, chemicals and water. More than one resin is typically used in an ink formulation. The most commonly used resins are listed in Table 1.

Table 1. Common resins used in ink formulations

Acrylics Ketones Epoxides Polyvinylbutyral

Alkyds Maleics Fumarics Polyamides

Cellulose derivatives Formaldehydes Hydrocarbons Shellac

Rubber resins Phenolics Isocyanate free polyurethanes
Solvents: These are used to keep the ink in liquid form from the period when it is applied to the printing plate or cylinder until when it has been transferred to the surface to be printed. At this point the solvent separates from the ink to allow the image to dry and bind to the surface. Some printing processes such as gravure and flexographic require a solvent that evaporates rapidly (Table 2).

Table 2. Printing ink solvents

Solvent Boiling point (oC)

Ethyl acetate 77

Isopropanol 82.5

n-propyl acetate 101.6

Cyclohexanone 155.6

Butoxyethanol 171-172

Aromatic distillates 240-290

Butyrolactone 89 (Boiling point at 12 torr)

High boiling point (Tb=240oC -320oC) hydrocarbons are chosen as solvents for lithographic inks as the solvents used must be viscous and hydrophobic. Screen printing inks need to have solvents with moderately high boiling points (Table 3).
Table 3 Formulations of different types of inks for different substrates
Contents (function) Amount (%w/w)

Letterpress ink for newspaper

carbon black (black pigment) 13.00

9 poise mineral oil (wetting agent) 68.00

0.5 poise mineral oil (wetting agent) 10.00

asphaltum solution 5.00

280-320oC petroleum distillate (solvent) 2.00

Lithographic ink for paper

organic pigment (colour) 18.00

quickset varnish 40.00

gloss varnish 15.00

fast setting varnish 15.00

polyethylene wax paste (prevents damage 5.00

to the film against rubbing)

anti set-off paste 3.00

cobalt/manganese driers (catalyst for 1.00

drying oil oxidation)

280-320oC petroleum distillate (solvent) 3.00

Flexographic ink for polyethylene film

titanium dioxide (white pigment and opacifier) 35.00

alcohol soluble nitrocellulose (resin) 5.00

alcohol soluble polyamide (resin) 15.00

dibutyl phthalate (plasticiser) 1.00

polyethylene wax (prevents damage 1.00

to the film against rubbing)

amide wax(prevents damage 1.00

to the film against rubbing)

ethanol (low b.p. solvent) 30.00

n-propyl acetate (low b.p. solvent) 8.00

n-propanol (low b.p. solvent) 4.00

Gravure ink for paper

C.I.pigment red 57:1(red pigment) 10.00

alcohol soluble nitrocellulose (resin) 20.00

ketone resin (resin) 10.00

dioctyl phthalate (plasticiser) 2.00

polyethylene wax (prevents damage 1.00

to the film against rubbing)

ethanol (low b.p. solvent) 30.00

n-propyl acetate (low b.p. solvent) 20.00

ethoxy propanol (low b.p. solvent) 7.00

For letterpresss printing on corrugated boxes

(water reducible red)

Blance Fixe (CI Pigment White 21) 10.00

Rutile titanium white (CI Pigment White 6) 5.00

Lake red C 14.00

Varnish 54.00

Diethylene glycol 8.00

Wax paste 5.00

Amine 4.00

High acid value

Maleic resin 50.00

Glycol 40.00

Amine 10.00

Black ink

(as per British Standard for letterpress inks –BS3020:1959

Calcium 4B toner (CI Pigment Red 57.2) 15.00

Polyethylene wax paste 3.00

Cooked quick-set vehiclea 32.5

Gloss quick-set vehicleb 28.0

Cobalt/manganese Drier 0.5

280-320°C distillate 20.0

Antioxidant 1.0
Typical formulation of an offset litho gold

suitable for sheet-fed printing on to paper and board

Bronze lining pastea 50.0

Metallic quickset vehicleb 41.5

Cobalt driers 1.00

PE wax paste 7.5

Typical formulation for lithographic inks

for foil boards and plastic sheets

Phthalocyancine gree (OI Pigment Green 7)` 20.0

Oxidation drying Vehiclea 70.0

Micronised PE wax 3.0

Micronised PTFE wax 1.0

Cobalt driers 3.0

Manganese driers 1.0

Alkali-refined linseed oil 2.0
Additives:Additives are used to alter the final properties of the formulation. These include:

(i)Plasticisers, which enhance the flexibility of the printed film; e.g., Dibutyl phthalate

(ii)Wax, which promotes rub resistance; e.g., Carnuba-an exudate from the leaves of Copernicia prunifera consisting of esters of hydroxylated unsaturated fatty acids with at least twelve carbon atoms in the acid chain

(iii)Drier, which catalyses the oxidation reaction of inks that dry by oxidation; e.g., Salts or soaps of cobalt, manganese or zirconium

(iv)Chelating agent, which increases the viscosity of the ink (aluminium chelate) and promotes adhesion (titanium chelate)

(v)Antioxidant, which delays the onset of oxidation polymerization by reacting with free radicals formed during the autooxidation thus preventing them from reacting further; e.g., eugenol

(vi)Surfactants, which improve wetting of either the pigment or substrate. They act as stabilizing agents for pigment dispersion

(vii)Alkali, which controls the viscosity/solubility of acrylic resins in water based inks, e.g.,

(viii)Defoamer, which reduces the surface tension in water based inks so that stable bubbles cannot exist; e.g., hydrocarbon emulsions

(ix)Humectants retard premature drying

(x) pH modifiers (usually amine derivatives) and biocides and bacteriostats

Manufacturing Process

The process involves two stages: (i) varnish preparation and (ii) dispersal of pigments

(i) Varnish preparation: Varnish is principally a mixture of solvent, resins and additives. It exists as a clear liquid that solidifies as a thin film, wets the pigment particles and binds the pigment to the printed surface. There are two main types of varnishes-oleoresinous and non-oleoresinous; the former incorporates a drying oil such as linseed oil and is manufactured at much higher temperatures and under vigorous conditions than the latter.

(a) Oleoresinous varnish manufacture: This process occurs in closed kettles where the oil and solvent are heated to allow for rapid solutioning or transesterification at the temperatures ranging from 120oC-260oC for afew minutes to several hours. The rate of temperature change, maximum temperatures attained and cooking times have to be closely monitored. The whole set-up is equipped with a condensor to prevent the loss of solvent; nitrogen atmosphere is maintained to exclude the atmospheric oxygen, which may cause polymerization of drying oil.

(b) Non-oleoresinous varnish manufacture: These are simple resin solutions that do not require high temperatures during manufacture. The process usually involves breaking up the resin particles and dissolving them in a solvent in either a cavitation or a rotor/stator mixer. Cavitation mixers contain a saw tooth disc on a driven shaft and are used to produce high viscosity resin solutions. They can operate at variable speeds. Rotor/stator mixers operate at a fixed speed; the varnishes obtained here are of lower viscosity since the agitation in the mixer is less.
(ii) Dispersal of pigments: After the manufacture of varnish, the next step involves mixing or dispersal of pigments into it. Here, it is essential to observe that the pigment particles do not clump together. If the clumps are formed these have to be broken up with the help of some specially designed equipments for even dispersal of pigments throughout the resin. The choice of particular equipment is governed by the tackiness and rheology of the ink. There are three different types of equipments as discussed below.

(a) Three roll mills: It mainly consists of a series of rollers rotating in opposite directions. The pigment particles are to be fed into a hopper above the two rear-most rollers and are dispersed by the shear forces between the rollers (Fig. 2).

A doctor blade is fitted to the front roller to remove the dispersed product. For reproducible dispersion, three parameters are to be strictly controlled- the roll pressure, their speed ratios and temperature. Water-cooling of each roll is also carried out to reduce the frictional heat build-up.

(b) Bead Mill: It principally consists of beads filled cylindrical chamber surrounded by water jacket for cooling purposes. The size of the beads depends upon the viscosity and rheology of the final product, i.e., the type of ink required. For high quality low viscosity ink, e.g., gravure, typical bead size may range from 1-2 mm; for medium viscosity paste or screen ink the bead size may range upto 4 mm. These beads are usually made of zirconium oxide, glass or stainless steel. A drawback usually faced by the manufacture during this operation is that certain beads may cause discolouration of ink; thus, it is very important to test a particular type of ink with different beads before grinding for the selection of appropriate type of bead-ink combination.
In this type of dispersal operation, ink has to be pumped into the chamber and the beads (charge) are set in motion by a series of spinning discs or pins. The beads in motion break up or grind the pigment clumps and provide even dispersal of ink. The dispersed ink is then sieved out off the chamber; the beads remain behind and may be reused.

(c) Cavitation mixers: These are considered to be very efficient in dispersal of pigments such as titanium dioxide. However, in a highly viscous ink system, these may be insufficient and an additional sweeper blade is required.

Ink Colour, Drying and curing characteristics
Colour: The technology of printing ink colour is based on the Young-Helmholtz theory of three colour vision which implies that white light is composed of light from a continuous spectrum of wavelengths, humans perceive only three broad bands of this light, blue, green and red light; any other colour of light is borne by an appropriate combination of these three ‘primary colours’. ‘Subtractive colours’ are produced by ‘subtracting’ one of these three primary colours from white light, e.g., red and blue light together produce. When white light strikes an object, some of the light is absorbed and the remainder is reflected. The colour that we perceive as the colour of the object is the colour of the reflected light.
In printing inks, four different colours of ink are employed: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. All other colours can be formed by ‘overprinting’ these inks, e.g., red is produced by overprinting yellow and magenta, as the yellow absorbs the blue light (because yellow is the emission of red and green light) and magenta absorbs the green light, leaving behind pure red light. Cyan, magenta and yellow add together to give brown colour usually.

In conjugated systems (one consisting of alternate single and double bonds in which π electrons are delocalised), the colour is due to light energy absorbed by the π electrons. They are characterized by a band gap, the energy of which falls in the visible region (the electrons of the second electron pair of the double bond).

Drying and curing: After its application over the substrate to be printed, the ink undergoes drying or curing phenomena involving a series of cross linking and polymerization reactions that result in film formation thus binding the ink to the printed substrate. Ink drying or curing may occur by any one or by suitable combination of the following processes.

(i) Evaporation- Some inks dry or cure by the evaporation of the solvent. Generally, volatile solvents e.g., methylated spirits are used. However, solvents with boiling points above 120oC may also be used such as in screen printing inks to prevent the ink from drying during application.

(ii) Penetration: For porous surfaces, printing inks are designed so that the solvent penetrates into the bulk of the printing surface and the dry ink is left on the surface.

(iii) Oxidation: In case of inks where drying oil is used as solvent, curing occurs by the reaction of atmospheric oxygen with unsaturation of oil.

(iv) Radiation curing: involves a series of polymerization reactions which are instigated under the influence of radiations e.g., UV, falling on printed substrate. This process is considered as a ‘green’ curing route involving lesser energy and time.

(v) Precipitation: This process is applicable to an ink system that is only sparingly miscible in water. Here, excess water (usually in the form of steam) is added to the ink system. The sudden increase in diluent concentration causes the solubility of the resin to decrease sharply and the resin precipitates onto the printed surface; the excess water precipitates off.

Printing Processes
(i)Letterpress printing-Also known as typographic printing, since 13th century, it is one of the oldest printing techniques in practice. It is a commercial printing technique where many copies of an image are produced by repeated, direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper. Here, the image or printing areas are raised above the non-printing areas; the process involves printing images by the “relief” type printing plates. Rollers are laden with ink and they pass it to a separate ink bed; a fresh film is picked here for the following sheet of paper. A sheet of paper is pressed onto a type, swung back again and finally removed. A new sheet or roll of paper is again inserted at this place. Two types of letterpress printing machines are there- Flat bed cylinder Machines and Rotary letterpress printing machines.

(a) Flat-bed cylinder- an inking roller and an ink fountain supply ink to the plate cylinder. The plate is locked to a horizontal or vertical bed, which passes over the inking roller and then against the substrate. As the substrate moves from the feed stack to the delivery stack, it passes around an impression cylinder. In other words, a single revolution of the cylinder moves over the bed while in a vertical position so that both the bed holding the substrate and cylinder move up and down in a reciprocating motion. Either one or two-color impressions can be printed by Flat-bed cylinder presses, which operate in a manner similar to the platen press and print stock as large as 42 inches by 56 inches. These presses operate very slowly with an hourly production rate of not more than 5,000 impressions. For this reason, much of the printing initially done by this type of press is now being carried out by rotary letterpress or lithography.

(b)Rotary Letterpress Printing- requires curved image carrying plates. The most popular types of plates used are stereotype, electrotype, and molded plastic or rubber. These presses use heat-set inks and are equipped with dryers, usually the high-velocity hot air type, when printing on coated papers. These are of two types- sheet-fed and web-fed. The use of the former has been declined while the latter presses are the most popular type of letterpress printing. They are used primarily for printing newspapers. These presses are designed to print both sides of the web simultaneously. Typically, they can print up to four pages across the web; however, some of the new presses can print up to six pages across a 90-inch web. Rotary letterpress is also used for long-run commercial, packaging, book, and magazine printing. Depending on the size and image elements in the printing, Letterpress printing machines exert variable amount of pressure on the substrate. To ensure that the impression pressure is just desirable close monitoring should be accomplished and certain adjustments must be made throughout the machine run. Major chemicals used in letterpress printing are very similar to those used in lithography. They include film developers and fixers, inks, and blanket and roller washes.

Application: Letter Press printing is used in commercial operation and specialty operations including imprinting, stamping, die cutting, numbering and others. Applications of this type of printing include business cards, company letterhead, proofs, billheads, forms, posters, embossing, hot leaf stamping and others.

(ii)Screen Printing- This technique, which gained popularity during the First World War for making banners and printing flags can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century. The printing technique creates a sharp-edged image using a porous fabric and a stencil. The screen, a piece of porous, finely woven fabric including silk, polyester or nylon is stretched over a wooden or aluminum frame, is placed on top of a piece of paper or fabric. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material (a stencil). Ink is placed on top of the screen, and it is further spread evenly across the screen with a rubber blade. The ink passes through the open spaces in the screen onto the paper or fabric below; the screen is then lifted off and can be re-used after cleaning. For multiple colour screen printing on the same surface, the ink is allowed to dry and then the entire process is repeated with another screen and different color of ink.

Application: Screen-printing technique finds versatile applications used in different industries, from clothing to product labels, fabric labels to circuit board printing and others due to its compatibility with a variety of materials, including textiles, ceramics, metal, wood, paper, glass, and plastic.

(iii) Flexography Printing Process: Widely used to print packaging materials, this technique is used to print on a number of materials and products including corrugated boxes, folding cartons, multi-wall sacks, paper sacks, plastic bags made up of various materials such as plastic, paper and others. The printing plates are flexible and made of rubber or plastic. The inked plates with a slightly raised image are rotated on a cylinder, which transfers the image to the substrate. These machines involve simple operation and easy adaptation for the use of water-based inks and produce high quality, finer and clear impressions on different substrates.

These machines are popularly used for printing on materials including plastic, paper, foils, acetate films, which is generally carried out by the use of rubber/plastic printing plates. Flexographic machines, due to their high speed printing process, make use of fast-drying inks. These printing machines can print on a range of absorbent & non-absorbent materials and can print in continuous patterns.

In this technique, from a roll a substrate is fed into the machine and is finally pulled off through a series of printing units and as a consequence of this action the image is printed on the substrate. Each colour is provided by a single printing unit. It finds application in high quality packaging such as milk and beverage cartons, disposable cups, containers, self-adhesive labels, adhesive tapes, envelopes, newspapers, plastic bags and food and candy wrappers.

Types of Flexographic Printing Machine: (a) Stack Type Machine

(b) Central Impression Cylinder (CIC) Machine

(c) In-Line Machine

(d) Newspaper Unit Machine

(iv) Gravure Printing Process is used for long run printing with sharper, fine and clear images. The general operation involves image preparation, cylinder preparation, printing and finishing. It is a form of intaglio printing. The image is formed on a depressed or sunken surface. The image area consists of honeycomb shaped cells that are etched or engraved into a copper cylinder. As the cylinder rotates in an ink pan (bath of ink), any extra ink is wiped off the cylinder with the help of a steel doctor blade. As the substrate passes between the plate cylinder and the impression cylinder, ink is directly transferred to the substrate and image is formed.

Applications include printing magazines, greeting cards, gift-wraps, labels, flexible packaging, cartons and others.

Rotogravure Printing Machines operate at very high speeds and are used by a number of industries for printing magazines, advertising print materials, cards etc for printing job that are long running in nature and require sharper and finer prints & images on different materials including PET, PVC, PE and paper. These machines employ turret type unwinder and rewinder; automatic splicing and web discharging can also be done. To enhance the drying performance and minimize printing defects, these machines are equipped with high speed drying systems.

Applications: Greeting Cards, magazines, advertising materials including brochures, catalogs, flexible packaging, self-adhesive labels

Future of the Printing ink Manufacturing Industry

The environmental and health problems caused by the inks Containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) call for new solutions in printing chemistry and technology .One of the approaches may be hot melt. It refers to ink, which is solid at ambient temperature and liquid at the time of printing. Such inks contain no VOCs to be trapped in the ink film or to produce VOCs. In 1990s, the European Technical Committee for Printing Inks of CEPE (European Technical Committee for printing inks and Artists Color Manufacturers Industry) published a guideline paper on health and safety. Since then energy curing products have gained significant growth both in coatings and printing techniques. The major energy curing processes are used: UV and EB (Ultra violet lamps and Electron Beam). Energy curing technology is important in the production of all types of printing applications where fast drying, durability and high gloss finish make them sustainable for immediate use, e.g. carton printing –Food and pharmaceutical packaging, labels plastic substitutes and metal decoration. Another development area of immense interests Development of water based UV systems. Water is ideally suited to reduce the viscosity of ink systems. However, the main problem with water UV system is that it is inevitable to remove water completely before UV curing. Water based flex inks are being used in Naplan printing inks [NPI]. NPIs were initially formulated using petroleum-based materials. However, they left an offensive odor on printed substrates. Some printers used glycol (water washable inks) to over come the drawbacks .The ultimate solution was the use of water based flex inks, which apart from being odor freehand several other advantages. Rising petrochemical crisis and environmental concerns draw attention to vegetable oil based inks. Although vegetable oils have been used in inks for many years, the first soy bean oil based ink were developed in 1985 and were marketed in 1987.Soy inks now make up at least one third of the colored newspaper ink. Soy ink contains less VOC, less alcohol and can be washed up without solvent. Their disadvantages include their high cost compared to conventional link as well as their disposal. For the present, UV and EB cured ink technology continues to develop. Efforts are being directed towards the use of water-based inks. Key uses presently remain in the development of vegetable oil containing inks using UV and EB cure technologies in the world of printing inks. We are destines to expertise many industry innovations in this field in the next few years with almost unlimited possibilities

  1. Printing meets Litho: Soft approaches to high resolution patterning: B.Michel, A.Bernard, A.Bitesh, E.Dalamache, M.Geissla, D.Junchery, J.P.Renaut, H.Rothizer, H.Schimdt, P.Schmidt, R.Stutz, H.Wolf in IBM Journal of Research & Development Vol 45, No., 8, 2001

  2. Chemical & Engineering News, The Newsmagazine of the Chemical World Online November 16,1998, Volume 76, Number 46, CENEAR 76 46 1-56, ISSN 0009-2347

  3. Joy T. Kunjappu, Essays in ink chemistry. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2001

  4. Kirth-Othmer, Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology (3rd Edition), V.13 (374-397) & V.19 (110-175), Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981

Suggested Readings:

  • L.M.Larsen, Industrial Printing Inks, New York, Reinhold Publishing Company, 1962

  • The Printing Ink Manual (5th Edition), R.H.Leech and R.J.Pierce (eds) London: Blueprint, 1993

  • Chemical technology in printinmg and imaging systems J.A.G. Drake (ed) Cambridge:RSC, 1993

  • processes/flexography

  • processes/letterpress

  • processes/screen

  • processes/gravure

  • Modern Technology of Printing & Writing Inks, NIIR Board, Code-N175, Asia Pacific Business

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PostSubject: A Christmas Gift   Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:48 pm

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a highly sensitive person in the weeks leading up to Christmas can be
overwhelming to say the least. The crowds, the shopping, the parties,
and the incredible business of the season can leave me feeling like I'm
on a roller coaster and I want to get off. While it is fun, it can all
be a bit too much, too fast and we end up not enjoying the season but
feeling frazzled and worn out. But there is an advantage to being highly
sensitive, especially at this time of year. Sensitivity means
that you feel things intensely, including both sensory information such
as sounds, colours, lights and smells, and emotional information, which
includes both other people's feelings and your own. But that doesn't
mean it is always too loud, too bright, too intense, or too much. When
we absorb positive sensory or emotional input, we are able to feel a
special kind of joy, and a recognition of beauty that others cannot even see.
this means, essentially, is that it takes very little to excite or
impress us or make us happy. We don't need twenty thousand Christmas
lights, a party every weekend or a mortgage-sized Christmas present.
What is wonderful, in fact, is that the simplest of gifts, the quietest
carols, the smallest of gestures are enough to fill our hearts with joy.
I am incredibly happy watching the morning sun light up the icy
branches of the birch trees outside my window. I love the smell of pine
cones in the woods and fresh coffee back at home. I can light candles in
my living room and put on my favourite music and I am in a cathedral,
as grand as any in London.
The smallest gestures from people mean
so much as well. It is always challenging to keep the negative moods of
others at bay, but when they are happy, I radiate. And it doesn't take
much. A simple politeness in the grocery store, a wave from a neighbour,
a smile from a colleague. All it takes is sincerity. A genuine
kindness. And when those simple gestures come from someone you love, the
sensitive person is set alight, flying a few feet off the ground, with a
heart wide open and blood rushing, set free with an indescribable happiness.
matter what kind of presents and experiences come our way, the best
part about being a highly sensitive person at Christmas is the gift we
already possess - an amazing and wondrous appreciation of the simplest
things in life. Being able to see beauty everywhere, in everything and
in everyone is a gift I will always treasure.

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 What Happens to Your Brain When you Hit Your Head? | Dr. Smarty

What Happens to Your Brain When you Hit Your Head?

Hitting your head hurts! And if it happens hard enough, you could experience a pounding headache, memory loss, or even a concussion. But what exactly is happening on the inside of your cranium when your head gets knocked around?

According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 170,000 children and adolescents will visit the emergency room with brain injuries resulting from sports and recreational activities. When a blow comes to your head, the white matter of your brain–responsible for messages being successfully sent through your brain for cognition, memory and thinking abilities–may be significantly affected.

When you hit your head hard enough, the resulting injuries can get as deep as the microscopic levels. Cells will die as their membranes are stretched and twisted, (usually) temporarily throwing off the chemical balance in your brain. In a reflexive response, the cells surrounding those that are immediately affected will also go into a “spreading depression”–basically, if this happens to enough cells, you can experience amnesia, confusion, or even loss of consciousness.

During your brain’s recovery, it will use a massive amount of blood sugar. This will usually cause further inhibition of your brain’s functions and, similar to overusing any muscle and as a result of the blow itself, a good-old-fashioned splitting headache.

These reasons are why, until your brain is recovered, you may feel that it’s not quite working as well as it was before the injury. Your brain is particularly vulnerable to being injured again until it has healed itself, and any blow to the head should be examined by your doctor to avoid any serious problems.

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“Shechitas Bais Yosef Pork” Being Sold in Queens

kosher-pork[Update below.] Philip Hourevitch reports for the New Yorker: Rabbis saw to it long ago that it’s against the law to have a pig farm on Jewish-owned land in Israel, so Jewish pig-farmers there (perhaps after consulting a legal-loophole-minded rabbi of their own) built their sties on platforms above the land-taking the practice of raising pigs to a whole new level.

But if you want actual Kosher pork-pork spare ribs, pork cutlets, center-cut pork chops, all labeled in Hebrew “Sh’Chita Beit Yosef” (i.e., kosher slaughtered)-you get that only in New York, only at the Associated Supermarket at 4407 Greenpoint Avenue, in Sunnyside, Queens, and only for a few hours today, between the time the Israeli artist Oded Hirsch snapped the above photo on his cell phone and it got forwarded to me, and the time I phoned Aris Duran, the supermarket manager, for an explanation.

“What are you saying?” Duran asked. “Pork cannot be kosher.” So I e-mailed him the photo. He called me right back, and said he was going to pull all the meat off the shelves. “It was a mistake,” he said, and a few seconds later he called back and left a message to say, “Thanks for alerting me.”

kosher-pork-3Duran had to leave a message because I was on the other line to the Orthodox Union, whose voice-mail recording describes it as “the global leader in Kosher supervision and the world’s largest Jewish resource.” (So much for the Torah and the Talmud.) I pressed two for matters Kosher, and listened to another menu until I heard: “To report a product that may be mistakenly labelled, press four.” I did, and was invited to leave a message for Howard Katzenstein, who called me right back. “I have to tell you,” he told me, “my father-in-law read your magazine religiously-or some would say irreligiously. How can I help you?” I told him about the kosher pork for sale in Sunnyside. “If the price is right, I say go with it, right?” Katzenstein said, and giggled.

But seriously, Katzenstein told me, he hears of such outrages only “rarely.” “Computer-generated labels,” he said, “they’re a nightmare waiting to happen.” The last two words of the stamp on the pork in Queens, “Beit Yusef,” mean “according to Sephardic custom,” said Katzenstein, an Ashkenazi Jew. “But I don’t think even the Sephardim would accept that.”

For further information he referred me to the head of Kosher-law enforcement for New York State, Rabbi Luzer Weiss (“but he’s a winner in my book,” Katzenstein said). In this era of budget cuts, the state has laid off all eight of its Kosher-enforcement inspectors, leaving Rabbi Weiss as a one-man department, and apparently he was on other cases, because I haven’t heard back from him.*

Oded Hirsch, meanwhile, went back to the supermarket with a proper camera. He’s an artist, after all, and thought he could come up with a better image than his initial cell-phone snapshot. By the time he got there, just a few minutes after I had e-mailed that picture to Aris Duran, he found the meat department almost entirely purged of pork. “A pack of six workers were scanning the fridge frantically,” Hirsch reported. “Anyway, I did manage to sneak a few more shots.” He attached the clandestine images (see below) and signed off: “Ha ha.”

*UPDATE: On Thursday morning, I heard back from Rabbi Luzer Weiss, the director of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Kosher Law Enforcement, who e-mailed:

I was at the store this morning and spoke to the manager. He said that this store at no time sells kosher meat and as a matter of fact specializes in pork cuts only. The machine was bought used and had been at the store only a few days. From what was on the label most likely the machine came from a store that sold kosher. He said an employee punched the key to print labels and put the labels the machine printed on the packages. When it was brought to his attention he had a person from where he bought the machine delete the words. The machine now can’t print any kosher labels-I saw it myself this morning and had labels printed which I took with me.

{The New Yorker/Matzav.com Newscenter}

  1. Well the sages were quite clear that in Messianic times pork would become kosher.

    The question everyone should be asking…

    “Is Moshiach alive and breathing on Planet Earth right now ?”

  2. So no one is getting in trouble? Everything is just laughed off as a joke? What kind of kokomame garbage is this? Thanx Gov Coumo for downsizing the Kosher Law enforcement agency! Thanx to all the Yiddisha dummies who voted for King Coumo!

  3. this is just a hoax in order to gain publicity. the label doesnt even say beit yosef – it spells the name wrong in hebrew and it has obviously been created for the sake of this sensational article. bet yoseph is spelt ???? not ????.
    Also, the comment that “not even the sephardim would do this” is a disgraceful anti-sephardic comment as though the sephardic supervision is less stringent than the ashkenazic. Ayone who knos the first thing about kashrut certificates today – ashkenazi or sephardi – know that bet yosseph is one of the most respected hashgachot that exists in Israel or in the globe

  4. “So no one is getting in trouble? Everything is just laughed off as a joke? What kind of kokomame garbage is this?”

    It may not be the most appropriate thing to be joking about yet certainly this is an innocent error and not something we should make more out of than it is.

    Do you really think that it would be wise to insist that a non-Jew be punished by the government when there was obviously no attempt what so ever to defraud or deceive it Jewish customers (which the company doesn’t cater to?). Do you really think that is darchei shalom?

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