Elizabeth Sander is an Owen Sound area landscape artist. Her oil paintings include windswept Georgian Bay shorelines, rugged wilderness and more delicate studies of flora. Her series of water-lily studies contain an abstract element which allows them to be appreciated simply on the basis of color and form. Elizabeth maintains a studio/gallery space just north of the city and is open by appointment. She has a wide selection of pieces that are the result of 20 years of work as an artist.
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MW Simpson Contracting manufactures and installs steel roofing. Their product is called Diamond Steel Roofing and gets its name from its diamond-shaped tiles. The tiles have a unique interlocking system that makes it efficient to install and extremely durable – an estimated 50 year lifespan and come in a variety of colors and can be used to create unusual patterns.
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Jul 11
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Heidi Berger – Artist’s Catalogue
Heidi Berger is an Owen Sound artist who has traveled the world in search of her subject matter. Her unique mixed-media works on paper and canvas are evocative of the places that she has visited and people she has met – both young and old. Her straight on head and shoulder studies are less formal than traditional portraits and like the compositions of people involved in everyday activities they have a transitory feel, as if these are fleeting moments in their lives.
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Google Web Fonts lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
Apr 11
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The real cost of paper records
The real cost of paper records are underestimated. It is not only the cost of creating them but the ongoing costs of storage, retrieval and filing. Paper documents can only be in one place at a time causing workers to exacerbate the problem by making additional copies for their own filing cabinets. The more people handling it, the more copies that will be created.
Check out these statistics from industry studies:
- American companies spend an estimated $20 on labor costs to file a document, $120 on finding a misfiled document and $220 to reproduce a lost document.
- Companies typically misfile almost 20% of their records.
- Approximately $14,000 of productivity is lost per worker per year due to their inability to find necessary data.
- Citigroup found that it would save $700,000 each year if each employee used double-sided copying to conserve just one sheet of paper per week.
- A four-drawer filing cabinet costs about $25,000 to fill and $2,000 per year to maintain.
- Every year 7.5 billion documents are created and 15 trillion copies are made.
- The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper each year.
- Approximately 90% of business information exists on paper.
- A typical company can cut its paper consumption by 25% by increasing the use of e-mail, on-line forms and reports, double-sided copying, and lighter-weight paper.
Source: Kathleen Wills – ExpressMilwaukee.Com
Document imaging as been in use in most large companies for over a decade but it is not widely used in the small and medium-sized enterprises. Although there is some movement in this sector to adopt the technology, most have mountains of paper, much of which must be retained for several years.
Despite their assumptions, paper is not a permanent medium and susceptible to damage from humidity, fire and water. Few small businesses are adequately insured to cover the cost of recovering these lost files.
Mar 11
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Making Print Interactive
There is an emerging cell phone technology that is bridging the gap between print and digital media. It’s called a QR (quick response and) code. It is appearing on printed materials such as business cards and postcards, in newspaper or magazine ads and on signs and billboards.
A QR code works like a UPC barcode except its square and looks a little like terrazzo tile. It can contain a considerable amount of information and most importantly the URL link to a webpage. An example, linking to the home page of www.tech-centre.com is shown at below.
To read a QR Code you need a mobile with a built-in camera and the necessary QR code reader software installed. To read the QR code, simply take a photo of it. This will launch the web browser on your phone and immediately direct you to a webpage assigned to the QR code. This linking from a physical real-world object is known as a “hard link”.
QR-code readers are available for a wide variety of smart phones and several websites allow you to generate your own QR codes free of charge. Although QR codes are not yet widely used, it is expected to increase rapidly as smart marketers find more ways to utilize the technology.
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