The whole world is going downhill, or is it?
My take on the whole scenario is, the UK, US and other Western Countries, have exploited all they can from every source, except the Middle East.
As the economies of the West falter and fail, they are in desperate need to source other revenue streams, or find blame for it's failings.
Now, by going to war in Middle East, this serves 2 purposes, 1, they can blame terrorism as to the reasons of conflict, and thereby the reason as to why the economies are failing, or 2, increase revenue streams by controlling in full, the natural resources these Middle Eastern countries have, and thereby increasing revenue streams quite dramatically.
You see, although the West considers Bin Laden & Co. to be a terrorist and terrorist organisation, was he, Bin Laden, or Al-Qaeda really as such, I mean, did Bin Laden just head -up and construct the 9/11 incident, or was it in retaliation?
With regard to the uprisings in the Middle East and N. Africa, there is more to it Either a) these have been orchestrated by, the West, and in particular by the US, or b) because they are fed up with their Governments NOT stopping the attempted take-over of their lands by the West.
So, either way the West will eventually lose this battle, money is running out, or in fact HAS run out, the US is pretty much unable to sustain it's economy, especially in war. So it appears that Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and all it's alliances have won this war, and yet, have done so through sitting back and watching the West using all their resources, and slowly but surely running out of them.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Monday, 6 June 2011
Removable-Re-usable
Did you know there is a material on the market, which we can supply and print, which is self adhesive.
The material concerned is an 'easy tack' adhesive satin polypropylene with a thickness of 170mics, tear resistant and can be used repeatedly.
It will stick to almost any flat surface including, emulsioned walls and wood, and can be removed from these surfaces easily without leaving any glue residue. It can then be reapplied somewhere else, even to wallpaper, and it will not damage the paper underneath when you want to remove it.
If you would like to know more about this, or any media we can print on, please email us and we will be happy to quote you.
The material concerned is an 'easy tack' adhesive satin polypropylene with a thickness of 170mics, tear resistant and can be used repeatedly.
It will stick to almost any flat surface including, emulsioned walls and wood, and can be removed from these surfaces easily without leaving any glue residue. It can then be reapplied somewhere else, even to wallpaper, and it will not damage the paper underneath when you want to remove it.
If you would like to know more about this, or any media we can print on, please email us and we will be happy to quote you.
Sunday, 13 March 2011
EARTHQUAKES - 'My Theory'
After some research, to confirm my thoughts, I have discovered that YES, Earthquakes are on the increase.
My reason for researching this was to ascertain my thoughts reasons behind the increase.
Yes, it is true that earthquakes have been happening for many thousands of years, but are definitely increasing, and in my opinion at an alarming rate.
I have let my theory be known to many, including Geologists and the like, only to be denounced by the so called 'experts'.
Anyway here it is, and, I'll do my best to explain in as legible and understanding way as possible.
Our earth, as in most hot and mechanical things need a coolant, and of some kind of absorbing buffer. Oil is both, it is cooling, and can also be used to absorb shock, much in the same way as our joints have a jelly like substance to stop the bones/joints rubbing against each other. Earth, in my opinion, needs similar elements to 'work' correctly. So much has, and still is removed from our planet, that this must have an effect on it, as for one, the space left behind after removing the oil must be replaced with something, or does it leave a 'vacuum', if so, this is even more worrying! Removing such an important property from the earth, will, again in my opinion, leave the earth 'dry' and with no 'buffer' to absorb any shock or movement, hence, rock etc etc rubbing against each other.
My second part to my theory is, 'Nuclear Bomb' testing. Deep holes are drilled, caverns made, to test these nuclear weapons, and, like a shotgun cartridge, which, when in an enclosed/confined space, as in a shotgun, become extremely lethal. A shotgun cartridge is pretty useless, and will cause no damage, apart from maybe some burns. So, explode nuclear bombs in such a confined space, and the damage caused to the earths crust/structure is immense, radioactive wise, minimal if anything, structure damage, immeasurable. This in turn damages the already existing 'fault lines' in our earth, much like a crack in a windscreen, it starts out as as just a small crack, then, the more it is subject to knocks or vibrations it increases in size, until, one day, it cracks open.
I hope this is understandable by all who read it, you can of course post comments here, and any questions pertaining to my theory of 'Increased Earthquakes'.
Kind Regards
Jason
My reason for researching this was to ascertain my thoughts reasons behind the increase.
Yes, it is true that earthquakes have been happening for many thousands of years, but are definitely increasing, and in my opinion at an alarming rate.
I have let my theory be known to many, including Geologists and the like, only to be denounced by the so called 'experts'.
Anyway here it is, and, I'll do my best to explain in as legible and understanding way as possible.
Our earth, as in most hot and mechanical things need a coolant, and of some kind of absorbing buffer. Oil is both, it is cooling, and can also be used to absorb shock, much in the same way as our joints have a jelly like substance to stop the bones/joints rubbing against each other. Earth, in my opinion, needs similar elements to 'work' correctly. So much has, and still is removed from our planet, that this must have an effect on it, as for one, the space left behind after removing the oil must be replaced with something, or does it leave a 'vacuum', if so, this is even more worrying! Removing such an important property from the earth, will, again in my opinion, leave the earth 'dry' and with no 'buffer' to absorb any shock or movement, hence, rock etc etc rubbing against each other.
My second part to my theory is, 'Nuclear Bomb' testing. Deep holes are drilled, caverns made, to test these nuclear weapons, and, like a shotgun cartridge, which, when in an enclosed/confined space, as in a shotgun, become extremely lethal. A shotgun cartridge is pretty useless, and will cause no damage, apart from maybe some burns. So, explode nuclear bombs in such a confined space, and the damage caused to the earths crust/structure is immense, radioactive wise, minimal if anything, structure damage, immeasurable. This in turn damages the already existing 'fault lines' in our earth, much like a crack in a windscreen, it starts out as as just a small crack, then, the more it is subject to knocks or vibrations it increases in size, until, one day, it cracks open.
I hope this is understandable by all who read it, you can of course post comments here, and any questions pertaining to my theory of 'Increased Earthquakes'.
Kind Regards
Jason
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
FREE Labels
To celebrate the installation of our new machine this week, Versacamm VS-420, we will be giving away 1/2sqm of self adhesive printed labels to 1 lucky winner.
This amounts to approx' 250 labels at a size of 35mm x 35mm, more if they are smaller, less if they are bigger, printed on Gloss Block-out permanent self adhesive material.
Your labels can be cut to any shape you like.
If you want a chance to win then retweet and DM me your answer to my question.
Our new machine can also print metallic colours in addition to the standard Pantone colours.
Q. In print, what does CMYK stand for.
Please Note: Artwork must be supplied by you in a print ready format.
Metallic colours are inclusive of our competition.
This amounts to approx' 250 labels at a size of 35mm x 35mm, more if they are smaller, less if they are bigger, printed on Gloss Block-out permanent self adhesive material.
Your labels can be cut to any shape you like.
If you want a chance to win then retweet and DM me your answer to my question.
Our new machine can also print metallic colours in addition to the standard Pantone colours.
Q. In print, what does CMYK stand for.
Please Note: Artwork must be supplied by you in a print ready format.
Metallic colours are inclusive of our competition.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Counter Productive
I have thought and mentioned before now certain, as I perceive, crazy ideas.
Firstly, increasing retirement age, great idea? I don't think so, and never did. The government obviously thought it was a great Tax benefit to them/the country. But all this has done has reduced the jobs available to our children leaving school, so, what did or do the government do to counter this, they increase the school leaving age to 18.
There again, not a good move. Many children who are considered as disruptive are, IMO, only disruptive because they are not particuarly 'academic' and want/need more practical skills. So to enforce these children to stay at school until they are 18 is just increasing the problem.What we should be doing is bringing back industry to this country, and in doing so we would be bringing back skilled tradesmen/women and therefore bringing value back to our workforce and country.
It seems these days that our nation is too proud to do the more 'menial' tasks, and far easier and simpler to 'farm out' these jobs.
As more and more work is farmed out by the BIG companies, service seems to go down, complaints rise about customer service, as in, we do not appear to get the service and we should, yet the cost of telephone, insurance etc etc continues to rise, yet the companies supplying these services are continually sourcing cheaper options, predominantly by outsourcing to places like India. Their (ie: BT) profits grow, our service goes down, but our costs go up?
Also council tax, it rises every year, and more than the rate of inflation! yet, we are expected to 'sort' our own rubbish, wheel our wheelie bins to a convenient location for collection, and expected to dump our recyclable rubbish ourselves! Ok, I have no problem doing this, but should it not be our choice?
Furthermore, do we really need so much packaging, what happend to the good old brown paper bag, so much easier to recycle than plastic.
The way I see it is, the government encourage so much packaging in order to TAX it/us, so the end result is bigger revenue for the government. It is all a government scam. As is, global warming, yes, these severe weather conditions are supposedly to do with global warming, yet, it's been approximately 120 since the last worst winter, so did global warming exist then, probably, but then there were NO cars around! so who or what was contributing then?
Firstly, increasing retirement age, great idea? I don't think so, and never did. The government obviously thought it was a great Tax benefit to them/the country. But all this has done has reduced the jobs available to our children leaving school, so, what did or do the government do to counter this, they increase the school leaving age to 18.
There again, not a good move. Many children who are considered as disruptive are, IMO, only disruptive because they are not particuarly 'academic' and want/need more practical skills. So to enforce these children to stay at school until they are 18 is just increasing the problem.What we should be doing is bringing back industry to this country, and in doing so we would be bringing back skilled tradesmen/women and therefore bringing value back to our workforce and country.
It seems these days that our nation is too proud to do the more 'menial' tasks, and far easier and simpler to 'farm out' these jobs.
As more and more work is farmed out by the BIG companies, service seems to go down, complaints rise about customer service, as in, we do not appear to get the service and we should, yet the cost of telephone, insurance etc etc continues to rise, yet the companies supplying these services are continually sourcing cheaper options, predominantly by outsourcing to places like India. Their (ie: BT) profits grow, our service goes down, but our costs go up?
Also council tax, it rises every year, and more than the rate of inflation! yet, we are expected to 'sort' our own rubbish, wheel our wheelie bins to a convenient location for collection, and expected to dump our recyclable rubbish ourselves! Ok, I have no problem doing this, but should it not be our choice?
Furthermore, do we really need so much packaging, what happend to the good old brown paper bag, so much easier to recycle than plastic.
The way I see it is, the government encourage so much packaging in order to TAX it/us, so the end result is bigger revenue for the government. It is all a government scam. As is, global warming, yes, these severe weather conditions are supposedly to do with global warming, yet, it's been approximately 120 since the last worst winter, so did global warming exist then, probably, but then there were NO cars around! so who or what was contributing then?
Monday, 6 December 2010
HELP
On several occasions in the past I have tried to advise someone, they had always told me their predicament, and the issues they had.
But for some strange reason they never accepted, or took on-board what I was saying.
Ok, I admit, I do not have any qualifications of any kind in Life Coaching, Mentoring, or anything similar. But I have seen, and been in many situations, adverse and extremely pleasant, to have the experience to see what is not right, and be able to advise and help someone.
And even to this day, some of those people who I have tried to advise are still making the same mistakes, and resentful of my words of wisdom, all the time thinking that they know best.
But time is moving on, and they fail to admit their errors, pretending that things are fine, yet all the while they know they are not.
Fortunately, someone did accept my help and inspirational words last week whilst I was at a training/seminar event with them.
They were insistent that they would not return for the second day. Thankfully I managed to get them to change their mind, and, yes, they returned on day 2, and were so pleased they had.
This of course just one instance of help, that was accepted for FREE, and it paid off for them in so many ways.
Of course, it must also be remembered, that a mentor or helper, also needs a helping hand/mentor.
Yours Helpfully
Mr Giraffe
But for some strange reason they never accepted, or took on-board what I was saying.
Ok, I admit, I do not have any qualifications of any kind in Life Coaching, Mentoring, or anything similar. But I have seen, and been in many situations, adverse and extremely pleasant, to have the experience to see what is not right, and be able to advise and help someone.
And even to this day, some of those people who I have tried to advise are still making the same mistakes, and resentful of my words of wisdom, all the time thinking that they know best.
But time is moving on, and they fail to admit their errors, pretending that things are fine, yet all the while they know they are not.
Fortunately, someone did accept my help and inspirational words last week whilst I was at a training/seminar event with them.
They were insistent that they would not return for the second day. Thankfully I managed to get them to change their mind, and, yes, they returned on day 2, and were so pleased they had.
This of course just one instance of help, that was accepted for FREE, and it paid off for them in so many ways.
Of course, it must also be remembered, that a mentor or helper, also needs a helping hand/mentor.
Yours Helpfully
Mr Giraffe
Saturday, 4 December 2010
A Family Business
Is being part of a family business the right move?
In my opinion it can be good, but also it can be extremely difficult. I was part of a family business for many years, since leaving school in actual fact.
I done my apprenticeship in Graphic Reproduction London College of Printing, Back Hill (Farringdon). The first year was an integrated course combining all the departments within the industry and my own specialised subject.
After this I went onto LCP at the Elephant Castle to complete my City & Guilds in Graphic Repro'.
I did however leave my employment several times to do various other jobs, ran my own car mechanical business, was a mini-cab driver for about 2 years, done some lorry driving for a big Builders Merchant, and various other things. But, in the end always went back to print.
Things were never easy in the business, especially when we were all living in the same house as well, we would go to the office/factory together, work all day together, and then travel back home together.
Previous to the last 2 years Pre 2008, were perhaps the most stressful. Everything seemed to be on my head, I was continually 'put upon' to do more and more, even to the point I was being put on to drive sales. In my mind I had more than enough to contend with, I was doing all our IT, taking orders and talking to clients on the phone, printing, finishing, ordering supplies, organising work-flow, the lot. But I thought, ok, I'll go get some new clients also.
So, the mission started. I set out to find at least 1 high profile/celebrity client. Months I was trying for, until, one-day, I heard a certain, supposedly, celebrity speaking on LBC Radio 97. FM They claimed to reply to all emails personally. Hmm, I thought, heard that one before, but nothing to lose, so I emailed them, and yes, I got a response that very same day.
This was fab', through shear determination I had succeeded on the first part of my quest.
Eventually, we met in the City for lunch. I had kept it all quiet from everyone until the arrangements had been made to meet. Of course, all of a sudden everyone wanted to know me, but, Father & Brother thought, "well why shouldn't they want to meet me, it's nothing that great", ahem, so why didn't you do it??
Things went from strength to strength, meetings became more regular, invites to events became more, and yes, the orders started coming in. But this was still not enough as far as the other family members were concerned, what else could I do. Offers to re-brand the business were made, free marketing was also offered, but NO, they, didn't want to know, but still pressured ME to move the company forward, a very difficult thing to do when all offers and ideas are rejected. But the most annoying thing was, no one else came up with anything!!
I even built a website for the business, ok, nothing amazing, but still a website. I would stay late at night to research things, SEO etc etc, just to make it work, but even that was wrong, I was continually moaned at for staying late, but my thoughts were, out of hours, learn how to do it, and get it done, something is better than nothing in my eyes, we had nothing to lose by me spending those hours laboriously searching for info on the net, but everything to gain. And anyway, if 'they weren't happy with the website, then 'you' get on and sort it!!
So I decided, along with my new friend, to start another business, run it quietly, and feed the family business with lots of work. This was, in a way to prove that with some good branding, and a little marketing the business can move on.
Anyway, things didn't quite work out as planned. My eldest daughter collapsed, and was rushed into hospital, running a heart beat in excess of 290 bpm, yikes, serious. Then a few days later one of our Mac's went down. I got the blame, a row ensued and I was told to go, so I did, hence GiraffePress is born.
I built my first website, GiraffePress and it's still up and running, then some months ago, a very good friend of mine built GiraffeBanners, we will be re-building GiraffePress soon, so please do watch and keep a look out for the new site when it goes live.
My new friend & business partner, was a 50% partner/director in the business, and promised loads, loads of everything, marketing, promotion, clients, contacts, the lot.
It took nearly 6 months for them to brand Giraffe. Things didn't seem to be what they made them out to be, many failed promises.
Our partnership eventually fell part earlier this year, but since then, things have improved dramatically, orders are starting to flow in, my contacts are growing everyday, and am now looking to lease/buy some bigger kit to further enhance Giraffe.
So, although I suffered at the hands of my ex-partner, I have now restored the business over the last 8 months or so, and looking forward to taking it to greater heights.
And one last thing, thanks very much to all those fab people I have met on my journey, I will one day, pay you all back in anyway I can.
Kindest Regards
Mr Giraffe
In my opinion it can be good, but also it can be extremely difficult. I was part of a family business for many years, since leaving school in actual fact.
I done my apprenticeship in Graphic Reproduction London College of Printing, Back Hill (Farringdon). The first year was an integrated course combining all the departments within the industry and my own specialised subject.
After this I went onto LCP at the Elephant Castle to complete my City & Guilds in Graphic Repro'.
I did however leave my employment several times to do various other jobs, ran my own car mechanical business, was a mini-cab driver for about 2 years, done some lorry driving for a big Builders Merchant, and various other things. But, in the end always went back to print.
Things were never easy in the business, especially when we were all living in the same house as well, we would go to the office/factory together, work all day together, and then travel back home together.
Previous to the last 2 years Pre 2008, were perhaps the most stressful. Everything seemed to be on my head, I was continually 'put upon' to do more and more, even to the point I was being put on to drive sales. In my mind I had more than enough to contend with, I was doing all our IT, taking orders and talking to clients on the phone, printing, finishing, ordering supplies, organising work-flow, the lot. But I thought, ok, I'll go get some new clients also.
So, the mission started. I set out to find at least 1 high profile/celebrity client. Months I was trying for, until, one-day, I heard a certain, supposedly, celebrity speaking on LBC Radio 97. FM They claimed to reply to all emails personally. Hmm, I thought, heard that one before, but nothing to lose, so I emailed them, and yes, I got a response that very same day.
This was fab', through shear determination I had succeeded on the first part of my quest.
Eventually, we met in the City for lunch. I had kept it all quiet from everyone until the arrangements had been made to meet. Of course, all of a sudden everyone wanted to know me, but, Father & Brother thought, "well why shouldn't they want to meet me, it's nothing that great", ahem, so why didn't you do it??
Things went from strength to strength, meetings became more regular, invites to events became more, and yes, the orders started coming in. But this was still not enough as far as the other family members were concerned, what else could I do. Offers to re-brand the business were made, free marketing was also offered, but NO, they, didn't want to know, but still pressured ME to move the company forward, a very difficult thing to do when all offers and ideas are rejected. But the most annoying thing was, no one else came up with anything!!
I even built a website for the business, ok, nothing amazing, but still a website. I would stay late at night to research things, SEO etc etc, just to make it work, but even that was wrong, I was continually moaned at for staying late, but my thoughts were, out of hours, learn how to do it, and get it done, something is better than nothing in my eyes, we had nothing to lose by me spending those hours laboriously searching for info on the net, but everything to gain. And anyway, if 'they weren't happy with the website, then 'you' get on and sort it!!
So I decided, along with my new friend, to start another business, run it quietly, and feed the family business with lots of work. This was, in a way to prove that with some good branding, and a little marketing the business can move on.
Anyway, things didn't quite work out as planned. My eldest daughter collapsed, and was rushed into hospital, running a heart beat in excess of 290 bpm, yikes, serious. Then a few days later one of our Mac's went down. I got the blame, a row ensued and I was told to go, so I did, hence GiraffePress is born.
I built my first website, GiraffePress and it's still up and running, then some months ago, a very good friend of mine built GiraffeBanners, we will be re-building GiraffePress soon, so please do watch and keep a look out for the new site when it goes live.
My new friend & business partner, was a 50% partner/director in the business, and promised loads, loads of everything, marketing, promotion, clients, contacts, the lot.
It took nearly 6 months for them to brand Giraffe. Things didn't seem to be what they made them out to be, many failed promises.
Our partnership eventually fell part earlier this year, but since then, things have improved dramatically, orders are starting to flow in, my contacts are growing everyday, and am now looking to lease/buy some bigger kit to further enhance Giraffe.
So, although I suffered at the hands of my ex-partner, I have now restored the business over the last 8 months or so, and looking forward to taking it to greater heights.
And one last thing, thanks very much to all those fab people I have met on my journey, I will one day, pay you all back in anyway I can.
Kindest Regards
Mr Giraffe
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