Taxing Questions It is said a week is a long time in politics, and so it has proved in Australia. More ... Dennis Shore - Posted: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:07 pm
More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:01 pm
[Adv.] Independent Consultants In 1996 a short, fat man robbed two Pittsburgh banks with no disguise in broad daylight. A local news station showed security tapes resulting in a tip which led to the man's arrest. An odd sort of urban myth led to the (rather ignorant) criminal's capture. Why did the criminal think he was invisible?
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Major Clothing and Chemical Suppliers have mixed results with respondents In the papermachine clothing area, respondents essentially held steady on their opinion of Albany, knocked down the other major suppliers. The major chemical suppliers all improved the in the eyes of respondents, with the exceptions of Kemira and Ashland who were down slightly. More ... Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:25 pm
[Adv.] OpTest's OpTiSurf Take a positive integer x. Multiply the square of the integer by 5 to yield z. If z – 4 or z + 4 is a perfect square, what do you know about x? More ... Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010 12:02 pm
[Adv.] Process Laboratories Name the woman sports star thought to have been the highest paid athlete of the 1960's. Also name her sport. More ... Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:01 pm
Week of 28 Jun 10: The missed oil spill lesson
The world has grown a crop of disconnected individuals who have an imperial bent, Mr. Svanberg and Mr. Obama being only two examples. In this vein, Mr. Obama and Mr. Svanberg have much more in common than they have differences.
More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:01 pm
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Combating Electronic Communications It is often assumed that use of paper grades intended for printing, particularly newsprint, has been dropping for some years in the developed world, due to replacement by electronic communication, mostly over the Internet. This has led to numerous statements by paper industry representatives and promoters criticizing electronic communications. More ... Neil McCubbin - Posted: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:01 pm
More ... Travis Hale - Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:01 pm
[Adv.] Independent Consultants An oppressive African political regime (or its supporters) blew up a newspaper's offices after the paper printed a serialized version of book that is often read by children and revolves around non-human characters. The only change was to put horn-rimmed glasses on an accompanying illustration of a key character, a pig with an historical name. Name the book and name the country. More ... Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:01 pm
Everyone will soon be set free from their desktop computer. The implications are staggering.
More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:01 pm
Buzzwords A dictionary... More ... Travis Hale - Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2010 12:01 pm
Energy & the Environment Your contributions are welcome in this department, regardless of point of view. A few criteria--if you send us a copyrighted piece, also provide a permission to publish statement from the owner. We will not publish overtly political pieces or anonymous pieces.
Back when I was EVP of a famous engineering company's US location, graffiti appeared on the bathroom wall only once, written with a heavy felt tip marker: "I don't give a dxxx how they do it in Helsinki."Obviously a local a bit frustrated with our trainers.
More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2010 12:01 pm
[Adv.] OpTest's OpTiSurf What award winning novel actually begins with "It was a dark and stormy night"? More ... Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2010 12:01 pm
Week of 31 May 10: Change Here in the United States, "change" has become a word laden with meaning. Depending on your perspective, that meaning can invoke good or bad feelings. More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:02 pm
[Adv.] ASD Inc. Entrees have increased in size by more than two-thirds and bread portions by almost a quarter in what realm according to recent scholarship? (Hint: Think Da Vinci)
Energy & the Environment Your contributions are welcome in this department, regardless of point of view. A few criteria--if you send us a copyrighted piece, also provide a permission to publish statement from the owner. We will not publish overtly political pieces or anonymous pieces.
How do you promote your brand? In a noisy marketplace, it takes a unique strategy and original concepts to differentiate your brand. More ... Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:02 pm
[Adv.] Edge What British soldier had the idea to load gunpowder and musket balls into a shell? More ... Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:23 am
More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:21 pm
Week of 10 May 10: Motorcycles, Coconut Grove, and Oil Slicks This past Sunday afternoon, I took my motorcycle out for a long ride. I find it a good way to decompress and enjoy this immensely. On the way back home, I stopped for gas. Unsolicited, the gentleman at the pump ahead of me remarked, "Wow, you must be close to home!" More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:19 pm
Where is Jim this week? As I travel, I am always looking for someone to go to dinner with, share a barbeque sandwich lunch and so forth. More ... Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:36 pm
Energy & the Environment Your contributions are welcome in this department, regardless of point of view. A few criteria--if you send us a copyrighted piece, also provide a permission to publish statement from the owner. We will not publish overtly political pieces or anonymous pieces.
Have you cancelled your phones and email accounts? Many have decided they can not afford to advertise in conditions such as we find ourselves in now. This is like saying one cannot afford phones or email. There is no more cost effective way to communicate with your prospects than advertising on Paperitalo Publications.
Librarians How Librarians have fun. More ... Travis Hale - Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:36 pm
Hello From Down Under (A note to readers: I will be keeping readers of PaperMoney up to date with what is happening in our industry in Australia, New Zealand, and, from time to time, our near neighbors in Oceania.) More ... Dennis Shore - Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:36 pm
Some Thoughts on the Future of Pulp PaperMoney asked me to write a bimonthly column on the industry in “my” area, which is Canada. As the deadline rolls around I find myself in Uruguay, working on a permit application for a new 4000 tons/day mill, and realize that the situation here has much to do with North America. More ... Neil McCubbin - Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:36 pm
Week of 17 May 10: A challenge One of the respondents to last week's survey asked the following: What is the social, environmental, and economic case for having a pulp and paper industry in no more than 300 words? Could be done as a strengths / weakness assessment and should be endorsed industry wide and easily found/available. More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:23 pm
Week of 24 May 10: Large Mills/Small Mills/Consolidated Control Mills About 15 - 20 years ago, the idea of "mini-mills" was all the rage in the paper industry. The concept was to build a simple, one machine mill, using recycled fiber as the feedstock and a package boiler burning natural gas as the energy source. Several were built, some for linerboard and medium production, others for tissue. More ... Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com) - Posted: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:19 pm
More ... Travis Hale - Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:55 am
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