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The 101 voices, faces and clean entertainment of Brinnon and Marks mix in a boat-load of impersonations , add two parts of audience participation and pour in a gallon of customization with skits and hilarious songs about your group. read more »
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The 101 voices, faces and clean entertainment of Brinnon and Marks mix in a boat-load of impersonations , add two parts of audience participation and pour in a gallon of customization with skits and hilarious songs about your group. read more »
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Build A Jail. When it comes to exceptional design excellence and an ability to control project costs, one architectural and planning consultant firm consistently delivers: Goldberg, Sullivan and McCrerey, Incorporated. read more »
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Check out the feedback from last week's Nip Impressions in this week's issue. Further proof that Paperitalo products are Publications People Read (tm).

This week Jim takes up the energy research as career move. Check it out today. read more »
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The newsprint industry needed to remove another million tonnes or so of capacity this year (in addition to the indefinitely idled tonnes) to bring supply and demand in balance and thus stimulate a sustained price advance. Instead of removing capacity, 600,000 tonnes (annualized) have re-started ove read more »
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(USA) Burrows Paper Corporation has announced the expansion of its sales department and concurrently, the hiring of Steven E. Ford as Food Service Distribution Sales Manager... read more »
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Studying the fine print of tax legislation helped IP earn more than $2 billion last year in black liquor credits from the federal government. It announced today that it is getting $516 million in black liquor credits for the 4th Quarter of 2009 and yet lost $101 million during the quarter. read more »
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Paperitalo Publications surveys the worldwide pulp and paper industry on a different current topic on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Summaries of those surveys are available here.

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Which is greener, getting news online or reading a newspaper? For environmental expert and activist Sarah Westervelt, the obvious answer is the printed newspaper. read more »
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Market Harborough-based public relations, marketing and research consultants Collins Scott Marketing, has announced the launch of a new service platform, which will enable clients and customers to obtain a full visitor report and breakdown on exhibitions and conferences, without leaving their desk. read more »
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"Our industry associations have done a very poor job...at defending our business in the court of public opinion...It is as if a bunch of papermakers, otherwise macho beyond reason, are suddenly cowered when it comes to facing the public."

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This is a story about an ex-supermodel, a messy and well-publicized divorce, a possible goof by The New York Times, and a major newsprint company that may -- or may not -- be on the verge of bankruptcy. read more »
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Pity the Pacific salmon: It expends all its energy swimming upstream, then gets screwed and dies. Several North American papermakers know the feeling, as evidenced by several events this past week: read more »
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"How much is spent every year by your storeroom on things they already have, but do not know where they are?"

Read Jim's thoughts on how being organized can lead to be savings.

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Leading independent paper merchant Premier Beswick, part of the Premier Paper Group, has sponsored employee Simon Bennett, who is undertaking an enormous feat for the Help for Heroes charity by trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, which is at a height of 5,585 metres.

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"Day-to-day, we deal with such large numbers that they are essentially meaningless to us beyond being big, really big, even bigger, extremely big, and so big it makes my head spin.
The real meaning in the numbers becomes apparent and is best appreciated if we focus on one."

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Which mills will survive and which will fold?

"If the markets exist, the attitude of the employees is all that matters?"

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A decade ago, a prominent U.S. paper executive used to refer to Finns as "communists" -- until a Finnish company bought his firm. Now it's the Finns' turn to complain about America's paper industry, weak currency, and government subsidies. read more »
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The huge black-liquor subsidy of pulp mills expired last week, but that isn’t stopping the U.S. forest-products industry from tapping taxpayers' money in other ways. More than 100 paper mills are registered for the new Biomass Crop Assistance Program, and some are getting federal stimulus money read more »
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"Like robins foretelling spring, the first sign of coming rampant inflation has arrived."

Jim explains the dance of the accountants at:
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Every two weeks the Paperitalo team produces several charts tracking the Pulp and Paper Industry. This is one of our favorites, tracking the year-over-year performance of each member or the PM40. 2009 was tough on a lot of companies, but 2010 begins with a bit of hope.

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A suggestion for a fruitful 2010:

"Learn how to juxtapose situations and see what you come up with. 99% of them will be junk, but it is the 1% that is the big payoff, and they can be a really big payoff."

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Two of America's largest magazine publishers, Time Inc. and Meredith, have reportedly joined forces to buy paper. The two companies issued joint requests for proposals to potential paper suppliers late last year, according to several sources. read more »
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"It has always amazed me to watch employees who know their organization is having problems, which are obviously caused by specific team member deficiencies, and they do nothing about them. This is a corporate culture that puts businesses out of business."

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