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From: Frish
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:17 AM
To: Adam P
Subject: New capabilities
Adam, hope to hear from you regarding print and how it supports your marketing efforts.
Yes, we're a traditional offset printer, for catalogs, posters, postcards, calendars, etc.
We're also a digital printer, for short runs and personalization (see attached for some fun examples – show me the money and pencil me in…)
Our in-plant direct mail facility provides you with least cost postage and quickest delivery with less handling. Your project will arrive in better condition.
Thanks for your kind communication,
Frish
Michael W. Frishberg
Print and Marketing Strategist
Supreme Graphics Inc.
"We don't do everything, we do everything Right!"
Lloyd
(Lloyd was the fellow who hired my father in 1957...'nuff said!)
On April 15, the National Day of Prayer was ruled unconstitutional.
Three cheers for U.S. district judge Barbara Crabb, who on April 15 ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. And hurray for the plaintiffs over at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the scrappy Wisconsin-based group that really, really believes in separation of church and state (full disclosure: I'm on the honorary board). And what, you may ask, is the National Day of Prayer? Like "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on our dollar bills, the NDOP may sound like it goes back to the days of wigs and three-cornered hats; but it's actually a product of 1950s anticommunism, back when "communism" was usually modified by "godless." Billy Graham pushed for it as a way to promote "the Lord Jesus Christ"; Senator Absalom Robertson (father of Reverend Pat) introduced it in the Senate, citing "the corrosive forces of communism which seek simultaneously to destroy our democratic way of life and the faith in an Almighty God on which it is based"; and in 1952 President Truman signed Public Law 82-324, which directs the president to "set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National Day of Prayer, on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches [sic], in groups, and as individuals." Always a Christian thing, for decades the NDOP has been firmly in the grip of Focus on the Family. The NDOP Task Force, chaired by Shirley Dobson, wife of FOTF founder James Dobson, organizes 30,000-40,000 events, culminating in the National Observance, in Washington. How Christian is it? In 2005 the Hindu American Foundation sought to join in and was rebuffed.
You'd think libertarians and Tea Party members, who claim to oppose overweening government power, would adore Judge Crabb. Don't tread on me with your federal prayer mandate! But somehow, the government using its massive powers to promote prayer just doesn't grab them like the terrible injustice of someone other than themselves getting a government benefit. Sarah Palin was quick to weigh in with some typically tangled remarks: "Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers," she told a gathering of Christian women. "Hearing any leader declare that America isn't a Christian nation.... It's mind-boggling to see some of our nation's actions recently, but politics truly is a topic for another day."
What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" does the Christian right not understand? Judge Crabb's ruling is an "assault on religious freedom," says Shirley Dobson, who is also upset that the Pentagon, which has collaborated with the NDOP Task Force, "melted like butter" when faced with criticism from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and disinvited from its services Franklin Graham, son of Billy, who has made a specialty of calling Islam "evil" and "offensive," and telling Muslims that Christ died for their sins. "We at the National Day of Prayer Task Force ask the American people to defend the right to pray in the Pentagon," she writes on the Task Force website. In the topsy-turvy world of the Christian right, any restrictions on their collective sectarian power is a denial of individual rights. To reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray." To end government-endorsed prayer is to ban all prayer. You might as well say that if we don't have a national bedtime — lights out at midnight, everyone!—the government is forcing us all to stay up forever. But not to worry: Franklin Graham will speak at the NDOP observance on Capitol Hill; President Obama is appealing Judge Crabb's decision; and, having issued an NDOP proclamation that mentioned God only once, he visited Billy Graham at home in North Carolina for a personal prayer session. I'm not too down on Obama for that — maybe that's what a politician has to do in this country — but it's all very far from Christ's own advice in Matthew 6:6:
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Or as Thomas Jefferson put it: "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to myself and my God alone."
Speaking of the First Amendment, far be it from me to suggest that right-wing Christians are the only ones who don't seem to get it. On its website an American group called Revolution Muslim warned South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker that they risk ending up murdered like Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for an episode that mocks the ban on images of Muhammad by showing him wearing a bear costume. It would be easy to dismiss this marginal group as the Muslim equivalent of, say, the Westboro "God hates Fags" church, except that Islamist fanatics have killed or tried to kill quite a few people for words or art they found blasphemous. It's shocking that Comedy Central caved in and censored the episode. Just as it was shocking when Yale University Press deleted the illustrations from Jytte Klausen's study of the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy, The Cartoons That Shook the World. And when Random House dropped The Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones's novel about Muhammad's wife Aisha.
I'm not equating Muslim fanatics with right-wing Christians, except those who bomb and set fire to abortion clinics and kill providers (and whose violence has had much the same chilling effect on the medical community as Muslim violence has had on culture and communication). But there is a common thread. National prayers, violent threats to supposed blasphemers — what part of the First Amendment do our modern true believers not understand?
Frish
Qataris live in a nation no larger than the state of Connecticut where they are a minority among the more than a million foreign workers lured here for jobs. But their problems are not unique.
Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia all share similar struggles with obesity, diabetes and genetic disorders, each suffering the side effects of an oil-financed lifestyle and a desire to hold on to traditions.
Yet, even in this neighborhood, Qatar stands out.
According to the International Association for the Study of Obesity, Qatar ranks sixth globally for prevalence of obesity and has the highest rate of obesity among boys in the Middle East and North African region. A recent article in the Qatari newspaper Al Watan said that local health experts predicted that within five years, 73 percent of Qatari women and 69 percent of the men would qualify as obese."
""You can't tackle the issue," said Moza al-Malki, a family therapist and writer. "There are some big families, clans, they don't marry outside the family. They won't allow it."
The issue of obesity seems to run into the same wall of tradition, health experts here said.
"If you don't eat, it's considered a shame, and if you leave someone's home without eating it's a shame," said Abdulla al-Naimi, 25, who refers to himself as "chubby" but is noticeably overweight. "Half of my family has diabetes," Mr. Naimi said. "My mother has diabetes. Three cousins younger than me have diabetes. For me, I eat too much and I don't exercise."
He is also married to his first cousin."
The literature on invasive species is split amongst the fields of plant, animal and disease ecology. In a seminar format we are reviewing the literature on plant and disease invasions to determine how aspects of one field may be applicable to the other.
A review paper for Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
This project is still in its early stages and no future research has been identified at this time.
http://biology.usgs.gov/invasive/Crossfertilization.html
In the West, sagebrush has been giving way to cheatgrass, which found its way to the U.S. in packing materials and ship ballast in the late 1800s.
Nature lovers strolling through wooded glades, thinking they are among trees that have stood since theRevolution, are actually looking at Norway Maple native to Europe.
Kudzu, which hails from Japan and China, infested the South after farmers in the 1930s through the 1950s were encouraged to use it to stop soil erosion.
Even the pristine open spaces of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming are now populated with Houndstongue and Yellow Toadflax, both from Europe.
Bit by bit, scientists say, the American landscape is becoming less American.
"We are going to our national parks now and seeing Europe," said Tom Stohlgren, a research ecologist for theU.S. Geological Survey. "We are homogenizing the globe at a very fast rate."
Experts say the trend has many causes, but the biggest one may turn out to be globalization.
Dear Kyle and Roberto:
The customer is always first with me, so I'm sharing some worthwhile instructions I found on the web about this technique.
http://cubox.info/2007/10/25/creating-touch-plates.html
Happy to provide choices, they are all yours!
1. Kyle could do the work to make the touch plate as-is,
a. We are happy to have one of our pre-press techs visit Kyle to assure success
i. No Charge. Your offices, our seminar in touch plate technique or any other ink on paper questions you may have!
OR,
2. Supreme does the work
i. $1200 but that's an estimate (could exceed!) of how much pre-press we have to do
3. Do a Press proof
a. Doing a press proof helps us both
i. Saves money as we'll waste less paper at press time
ii. When finished It will more likely look the way you expect
Taking a perspective founded on 30 years of Marketing and Sales Experience, my recommendation:
It isn't always "ONLY" about cost, it's a business decision as well.
I ask you and wonder what is the value of a signature piece of printing for the image of the brand?
This type of job has to go to a shop that can do it. It would look very dramatic, and architectural and I know the CEO likes that!
Therefore, do it right, or don't do it. Happy to discuss at your convenience.
Frish
I mean, c'mon, it's a photo of burnished aluminum with a metallic silver ink called out as the fifth color...doing this job correctly will require some human activity on the file of about 10 hours or more, depending on how good they are with the tools they have.
Someone has to draw, or create an object, that points out every scratch, and thereby defines what is to be printed in the metallic silver ink...
Basically it is a load of liability that could jeopardize a long term relationship...but we also know we can deliver the goods, so it's a nice place to be, perhaps he who speaks first loses?
I know he has it down to 2 contenders so, the die is cast...LOL
FOXNews.com
Sony Millbrook had been been renting a room at the Budget Inn, which suddenly stopped receiving payments at the end of January, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
Memphis authorities are baffled as to how a mother who disappeared in January ended up dead under a hotel mattress -- and wasn't found until nearly two months later.
Sony Millbrook had been been renting a room at the Budget Inn, which suddenly stopped receiving payments at the end of January, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
That was about the same time that relatives grew concerned because she didn't pick up her kids from school. The family members went to the hotel but didn't find Millbrook there, and she was reported missing Jan. 27.
The hotel boxed up her belonging and released the room for rent. Since then, it has been rented out about five times and cleaned by hotel staff numerous times, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
The missing person case quickly turned into a homicide investigation when her body was found under the mattress Monday. No suspects have been identified, but police have charged Millbrook's boyfriend, LaKeith Moody, with a gun violation and consider him a person of interest in the case.
Longtime police officials have noted they've "never heard of anything like this," Joseph Scott, Memphis police's deputy chief of investigative services, said. "It's stranger than fiction."
The bed where Millbrook was found is a metal box frame that sits on the floor, and the box springs and mattress are set inside the frame, MyFoxMemphis.com reported.
The city of New Orleans is revived, as are its people.
Too bad nobody can still understand what the fuck any of them are saying...
This is an experiment to see how many "temporary" high ranking web search words fit into a subject line!
From somewhere on the net:
"The former Florida quarterback and his mother will appear in a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl next month. The Christian group Focus on the Family says the Tebows will share a personal story centering on the theme "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life."
The group isn't releasing details, but the commercial is likely to be an anti-abortion message chronicling Pam Tebow's 1987 pregnancy. After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim."
SLIGHT REWRITE BY FRISH :
Palin, an ex-governor who quit to become wealthy, at the end of her last pregnancy, after her water broke in Texas, ignored all medical recommendations, or even any common sense and decided to act in a most "un-motherly" non-nurturing fashion, and proceeded to give birth to her child Trig (already diagnosed as "SPECIAL NEEDS" (or, like Frish's very own late-brother John, mentally retarded*) and so a potentially high risk birth) in Alaska, after many hours in an airplane at altitude, followed by a long drive home, since she's an Alaska Independent Party "Alaska First!" jingoist so if Trig were going to be born anywhere, it certainly couldn't be Texas...! You betcha.
Frish certainly accepts her in any governmental executive capacity, thanks to her level headed yet roguish manner.
Frish celebrates life/family/and anything else he wants to without dictating to Doctors and Women what they ought to do in life.
The insanity is that IT HAS BEEN REPORTED CBS assisted in the editing/writing of the anti-abortion commercial. When has that ever happen? Sure, the FCC, each network and probably every local independent station have recommendations and sanctions for advertisers, but for the network itself to assist in the writing of a "pro-life" (whatever that means) COMMERCIAL is probably unprecedented.
I'm Pro Life too, and a Volunteer in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - long live http://www.vhemt.org/
Gives me another reason not to watch the Super Bowl again this year...and not to tune into CBS. Ever. Again.
(If Only SD or MN were in...roflmfao)
* I understand that Sarah Palin is quite upset by the words retard or retarded to refer to those amongst us who are retarded...but only when democrats use it.
YOU TOO CAN TELL CBS WHAT YOU THINK, CHEERS!
Lovely little video of the results of plastic being a major constituent of the middle of the Pacific ocean...the few albatross shown are barely a flicker of the reality of how plastics are disrupting food chains all over the world...
Found this morsel today and thought I'd share...if it was posted before I didn't remember! Worth another look anyway, even if for the standard natalist propaganda and the underlying expectation that growth is not just necessary, it's inevitable and/or ordained.
Best quote from the article: "Russians don't like foreigners" (by way of explaining how the current immigration policies won't work!)
(I only copied selected sentences, the article is here: April 5,2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7971719.stm)
Demographic experts say Russia's steep population decline could have serious consequences for the economy.
"The numbers are frightening," says Sergei Zakharov, from the Institute of Demography at Moscow's Higher School of Economics.
By 2050, Russia's population could shrink from the current figure of 142 million people to 100 million, according to a United Nations sponsored study published last year.
When BBC Brasil travelled to Russia as part of its series looking at where the BRIC economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - will be in 2020 it found that the picture for Russia's population was bleak.
…snip
She also said that a hangover of the Soviet era is the custom that women only had one child, and that that thinking affected how women behave today.
((How about when women are educated and participate in the economic well being of the family, they are disinclined to have many children))
…snip
There is no easy way out for Russia as it tries to halt its population collapse, but to do nothing could bring the country to its knees and ruin any hope it has of joining the leading economies of the world.
(((In other words, if the policy to increase population succeeds, Russia will be brought to it's knees as well!! No wonder there is no easy way out!)))
