Unburnable power poles get the lights back on

Unburnable power poles get the lights back on
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:15
The bushfires burning throughout the Eastern States will ignite power utility interest in equipment suited to withstand extreme weather conditions and to help prevent power outages when fire strikes. Unburnable poles are an important component of systems able to quickly restore power supplies after the fire has passed.

The new Titan power pole made by Dulhunty Poles Pty Ltd in Geelong, Victoria, stands alone as unburnable and non conductive. Fire testing to stringent criteria set down by the Energy Networks Association has been carried out on both Titan and wood poles. The new pole is the only non wood pole to have been subjected to this test and the only pole not to be made unusable by the test.

The Titan factory was built in Victoria because of a perceived need created by the Black Saturday bushfires in February 2009. The special plant was opened by Premier Ted Baillieu in 2011 and several thousand poles have been exported to the Pacific region. Surprisingly, no poles have been bought by any of the Victorian power authorities. In contrast, NSW power utilities have conducted extensive trials and are well advanced in their assessment of the pole. Tasmanian authorities are also aware of the poles and may consider using them in the recovery process now underway in that state.

The pole is made using a patented material first developed for crucibles in ferrous foundries. The material withstands the effect of molten steel and will cope with the intense heat of Australian bushfires preventing loss of power poles and speeding the reconnection of electricity.

Although the Dulhunty Poles product is a little more expensive to manufacture, its superior strength to weight ratio and impregnability to rust, rot and termites make it competitive with all others on an installed cost or whole of life basis.

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For further information, contact Tony Wingrove at Dulhunty Poles Pty Ltd, 35 Buckley Grove, Moolap 3224 on 03 5248 1661 or 0411 120 696

McDonald’s healthier if you avoid the Tick Approved Meals

McDonald’s healthier if you avoid the Tick Approved Meals
Thursday, 23 April 2009 10:50
If you are worried about your sugar intake, eating from the McDonald’s burger menu is a better option than the Tick Approved meals according to a new report.

The investigation into the sugar content of the McDonald’s menu has found that it is relatively easy to eat a standard McDonald’s meal without consuming any significant amount of sugar.

None of the 17 types of burger on offer contain more than one and three quarter teaspoons of sugar. The chicken options all contain one teaspoon or less. The lowest sugar burger is the Filet-o-Fish at a mere half a teaspoon. A serve of fries doesn’t add anything to the sugar count and neither will tea, coffee, diet coke or water.

Some of the worst choices on the main menu are the newly introduced ‘Tick-Approved’ items. The Tick Approved Chicken Sweet Chilli Wrap, Garden Salad and Italian Dressing delivers almost three times as much sugar as the worst burger (McFeast Deluxe). A medium orange juice would add another eight and half teaspoons of sugar to the meal.

New research confirms we should be more concerned about sugar than fat. A study out of the University of California released this week names the fructose found in sugar (and fruit juice) as the culprit behind the obesity epidemic and a raft of other health problems.

In the study, obese individuals consumed drinks sweetened with fructose for 10 weeks. They ended up with increased (1.5kg) tummy fat, higher fatty triglycerides (which leads to heart disease) and 20% higher insulin resistance (which leads to Type II Diabetes). None of this happened to the control group.

“As long as you avoid the full sugar drinks, condiments and deserts, you can eat just about anything on the McDonald’s menu without worrying too much about sugar,” said the report’s author, David Gillespie.

According to the report, a large Fanta will deliver 16 full teaspoons of sugar and a McFlurry with M&Ms serves up just over 11 teaspoons of table sugar. The best option on the desert menu is the Apple Pie with just one and half teaspoons of sugar.

The investigation into the McDonald’s menu was commissioned by David Gillespie, a former lawyer and author of Sweet Poison: Why Sugar Makes Us Fat (Penguin).

For More Information
Contact
David Gillespie
[email protected]
0419 649 191

Sources
The McDonald’s sugar investigation is available by contacting David Gillespie
The UC Davis study is available online at http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37385

Press Release Published by Get The Word Out

Dancing our protest against violence towards women and girls

On February 14, 2013 people around the globe will rise up and dance their protest against violence towards women and girls as part of the international ONE BILLION RISING campaign. We are inviting you to join the global campaign by rising with us at Melbourne’s Federation Square.

Spearheaded by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, One Billion Rising has created a platform for women and men around the world to be seen and heard as they protest the reality that 1 in 3 women will suffer violence and exploitation in their lifetime (http://onebillionrising.org).

One Billion Rising Melbourne event page:
http://onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrr8
One Billion Rising Melbourne Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/OneBillionRisingMelbourne

Toni Childs, three-time Grammy nominated recording artist, Emmy Winner, and long time advocate of women’s empowerment says: “I am excited about coming together as a Nation to honor the women of Australia! It is time to heal and evolve and affirm that we as a Nation can create a violence free society! I believe in us, and I believe in the power and the deep wisdom that lives inside each one of us. I believe in the power to heal what has been broken in us, and to stop the ancestral cycles of abuse that we live with. We’re at the point of change… The cycle stops with each and every one of us!”

“Coming out and standing up is a declaration and a resonance that ripples through us, our personal relationships, our society and the world! Valentines Day 2013 is about making the plausible possible… !!”

Dr Lauren Woodman also organises the Seven Sisters Festival, a women-only space for healing and celebration. “One Billion Rising is such a beautiful, empowering concept, we felt inspired by it’s vision and wish to support this global celebratory protest. We would love to shake the ground with Melbourne’s support of this issue by shaking, stomping & dancing ‘No’ to violence against women.”

Another of the organisers is Philip Werner, who instigated the recent peace march in honour of Jill Meagher which surprised the nation with it’s 30,000 strong turnout. “There is a big sense in the community that we need to get active and it needs to be in a positive, hopeful and peaceful way. Lynch mobs calling for capital punishment are not going to solve this problem. Non-violence is the only real antidote to violence. This protest is active, non-violent and positive.”

The event is to be held at Federation Square for maximum visibility, thereby challenging the invisibility of this issue. Federation Square charge $20,000 to provide the necessary infrastructure and services for the event.

Community and corporate sponsors are being sought to meet these costs. On top of this, a crowdfunding campaign has been set up to reach out to the many thousands who believe in this cause.

Through the crowdfunding page everyone can offer their support, be it with a dollar or a thousand dollars.

Crowdfunding campaign page: (Short code: http://goo.gl/1R19S)
http://www.startsomegood.com/venture/one_billion_rising_melbourne/campaigns/show/
rise_up_dance_your_no_to_violence_against_women

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One Billion Rising Melbourne organisers:
– Toni Childs (Emmy award winning singer/songwriter)
– Tamar Spatz (Teacher & women’s rights activist)
– Dr Lauren Woodman (Seven Sisters Festival event organiser)
– Dr Caroline Lambert (Women’s human rights advocate)
– Philip Werner (Photographer, peace activist)

Contact: [email protected]

Shake up for the “Yellow Directory” market in Australia

Shake up for the “Yellow Directory” market in Australia
Friday, 21 September 2012 12:52
Local & National business are constantly faced with the dilemma of how , when & where to place their advertising to get the most cost effective results and increase their customer base. A new to Australia & New Zealand entry is now delivering an exciting alternative.

AiYellow Internet with headquarters in Miami Florida has entered the international and local internet directory market in Australia as part of their rapid expansion around the globe. Basil Giffard, Regional Director in Australia said today they are already appointing independent business affiliates throughout Australia who will offer to local business & professionals the opportunity to place comprehensive advertisements on the web portal from as little as Au $34.00 for a whole year of advertising exposure. This means that business will have exposure on the http://AiYellow.com site and also be indexed & listed by leading search engines such as Google & Yahoo etc. throughout the world. Local businesses will benefit greatly in their local community, and Internationally focused business will have a further avenue to promote their products and services.

Giffard, says this is an exciting time for AiYellow and also for local business as we compete head to head within this market place, particularly as AiYellow has a distinct price and feature advantage – he said this will provide a cost effective marketing edge for local business in Australia and beyond.
From the Australian marketing office located in Hobart, Giffard said, we are also opening independent business opportunities throughout the City and regional areas of the Australasia zone.

AiYellow is a debt free corporation which started in 2008 and by 2011 had generated $69 Million in USD sales. With the current Australasian & World-wide expansion this continues to rapidly grow.

Giffard said that AiYellow had adopted a unique independent dealer base model to expand its operation, this is proving to be a brilliant concept in allowing individuals to be their own boss, working their own selected hours and being in control of their own business. Interested individuals from all cities and regions are welcome to apply for consideration.

In an enterprising country like Australia, the dream of having your own independent business without a large entry cost is very attractive, particularly when the product is in high demand and is exceptionally price competitive.

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Basil Giffard may be contacted at email: [email protected]

Basil Giffard is an independent business affiliate & Regional Director in Australia for AiYellow Internet. He has over 40 years experience in business ownership and directory advertising sales.

Author: Basil Giffard – Regional Director AiYellow
33 Tolosa St Glenorchy, Tasmania, 7010
Ph/fax: 03 62725507 – Mob: 0408146151 Email: [email protected]

Australian Governments Won’t “Walk the Talk” on Sustainable Offices

Australian Governments Won’t “Walk the Talk” on Sustainable Offices
Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:53
Sustainability is one of the hot topics this election. Many government organisations and corporations in Australia are very strong in their verbal support for sustainability these days, but they are weak on action. Their offices are full of papers and they are held together with environmentally-unfriendly metal ring binders.

Metal ring binders cannot be recycled. They are not sustainable. Tens of millions of them are sold in Australia every year – yet, very few of the organisations teaching companies how to comply with sustainability include ending the use of metal ring binders.

An environmentally-friendly alternative to metal ring binders was developed years ago by an Australian, records management expert Darby Johns. The nylon ring mechanisms on Mr. John’s innovative “Ecobinder” cannot misalign or pinch fingers, will never rust, and are fully accepted by archives. Widely used in Australia, especially for photographic albums, these new binders stand upright on the shelf, use 8% less space, and can move from office to archive without repackaging. They are sustainable, recyclable and archival quality.

However, despite Albox products being used by the governments of Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore, they are not being used by many of the organisations in Australia that you would expect.

“It’s interesting,” says Mr. Johns. “I have gone to major banks, a large financial company, and even the Federal and State Departments responsible for sustainability and innovation, and they aren’t interested.”

We all thought that the “paperless office” would be a reality by now, but paper usage has in fact increased by 50% over the last three decades, according to figures released by The Economist. Despite the explosive growth of technological gadgets, and the worldwide desire for sustainability, more and more physical, paper files are being created, stored and battled with in offices across the country, every day.

What Australia needs now, Mr. Johns believes, is innovation – exciting, sustainable and unique innovations that will help to create Australian jobs, replace imports and create new export opportunities. Johns’ company, Albox Australia Pty Ltd, has developed over 100 record storage and management products, and his book “Sustainable Office & Archive Storage Systems” was endorsed by the Records Management Association of Australasia. The book and product details are freely available at http://www.albox.com.au.

“Ring binders may seem to be a small issue,” says Mr. Johns. “But small bricks can make very large walls. Ring binders are in most offices and homes in Australia, and we can all do our bit to ‘walk the talk’ and reduce non recyclable garbage.”

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CONTACTS
Mr. Darby Johns
Managing Director
Albox AustraliaPty Ltd
[email protected]
http://www.albox.com.au

DCA and Communicare forge alliance to accelerate community eHealth initiatives

DCA and Communicare forge alliance to accelerate community eHealth initiatives
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:05
Two of Australia’s leading healthcare solutions organisations, DCA and Communicare, are joining forces to support health and community services organisations to improve the quality of service to healthcare consumers.

“The acquisition is a strong strategic fit for DCA,” said Declan Ryan, DCA’s Chief Executive Officer. “Communicare provides further expansion into the community services sector and a strong presence in Western Australia. It’s also an excellent fit with DCA’s existing health and community services business division and enables both companies to increase their service delivery capability”

The focus of the alliance is to support people to remain out of hospitals and institutions, so that they can be cared for with dignity and within their community. Communicare is currently Australia’s leading supplier of software to the indigenous and remote rural health population. DCA’s product TCM supports community based service delivery to the aged, disabled and mentally ill, and its product Argus provides secure messaging to support secure communication of electronic health records. The combined organisation will be responsible for over 300 community care organisations represented in every Australian state and territory, as well as supporting electronic messaging with over 7500 GPs, specialists and allied health providers.

Under the arrangement, DCA has acquired Communicare, and the new organisation will accelerate the development and implementation of integrated health services across the nation. “We are committed to the adoption of standards, such as the recently gazetted Secure Messaging Delivery (SMD) specification, the use of HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, and support for the evolvement of the Personally Controlled Health Record (PCEHR) “ said Peter Young, DCA’s Executive General Manager, Health and Community Services. “These standards will enable health records to be securely shared, and empower healthcare providers with information to improve the quality and timeliness of care.”

The coming week will see the live production of Australia’s first implementation of SMD and CDA, at the Ampilatwatja Health Service out of Alice Springs, as part of the Northern Territory Continuity of Care Project. This project has been a collaboration between the Northern Territory Department of Health, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance (AMSANT), DCA and Communicare. Providers in the medical service will receive secure discharge summaries from the NT Health hospitals, and be able to store and retrieve documents from the shared electronic health record operated by Dept of Health NT. “We have been working with DCA for some time on this project”, said Brian Dunstan, founder of Communicare. “It has given us the opportunity to see some of the opportunities for future collaboration”.

Commenting on the announcement, CEO of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance (AMSANT) John Paterson said that the new alliance has welcomed “the strengthening” of Communicare.

“Over the last 14 years, Communicare has been a strong partner with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector by providing a quality product that has enabled health services to accurately record, report on and monitor patient health data. As such AMSANT welcomes the strengthening of Communicare through this alliance with DCA, which promises to improve patient data management, and therefore ultimately health outcomes for Aboriginal people.”

For more information:
Communicare : www.communicaresystems.com.au
DCA Health & Community Services: www.health.data.com.au

Peter Young
Executive General Manager
Health & Community Services
Database Consultants Australia
Level 5, 355 Spencer Street
West Melbourne 3003
m: 0412868236
e: [email protected]

Bunnings Offers DIY Gadget That Saves Time and Money

Bunnings Offers DIY Gadget That Saves Time and Money
Friday, 03 February 2012 10:28
No need to spend time patching holes in the wall after using this gadget.

When comes time to decorating the walls you won’t need a tape measure or level anymore. Hanging pictures is usually a chore and takes the fun out of decorating. To get the picture in the right spot it usually requires measuring from the floor or ceiling and then from the top and side of the picture frame to the bracket where the nail goes, only to find when you hang the picture it’s still off alittle and now there’s another hole to patch.

Bunnings offers a little gadget that sticks to the back of the picture frame, then just hold the picture up to the wall where you want it hung and push alittle. Move the picture away from the wall and there will be a chalk mark pin-pointing where to put the nail. It makes decorating simple and fun. Visit your local Bunnings and look for the product called Wallmarker and take the hassle out of decorating.

The Wallmarker is an arrow-shaped piece of chalk. They come in packs of two, a blue arrow for light colored walls and a yellow arrow for dark colored walls.

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For more information contact:
JBL Innovations Inc.
Jeff Lombardo
571 W. Wilson rd.
Pahrump, NV 89048 U.S.A.
[email protected]
1-775-513-6376

Workplace Safety Company’s Customers Help Raise $10,000 For Youth Charity

Workplace Safety Company’s Customers Help Raise $10,000 For Youth Charity
Thursday, 02 May 2013 09:23
Sydney – Last month, Seton Australia, a workplace safety products supplier invited its customers to participate in a short survey to provide suggestions on how Seton can service their customers better. Upon completion of the survey, Seton customers could choose one of 3 reward options. One of these options was for Seton to donate $20 to the Salvo’s Youth Foundation, the Salvation Army’s major response to youth homelessness in Australia. Seton had an overwhelming response for the donation option and thanks to the generosity of Seton customers, $9,880 was raised.

Seton increased this amount and donated a massive $10,000 to the Salvo’s Youth Foundation on Wednesday 24th April, at the Seton head office in Sydney. Esther Savvas, Managing Director, Seton Australia, said, “We’re so pleased that so many of our wonderful Seton customers chose the option to donate to such a worthy cause, this wouldn’t have been possible without their support.”

The $10,000 cheque was presented by Seton’s Managing Director, Esther Savvas and Seton’s Marketing Manager, Tony Andoniou to John Harris, Captain Nesan Kistan and Bianca Orsini from The Salvation Army. John Harris, Territorial Youth Liaison Officer said, “I was so totally moved, surprised, humbled and so very, very grateful of the $10,000 donation your team presented us. To have this investment just filled me with hope and to stand in front of all those people and be presented with this gift was beautiful. I look forward to sharing with you where and what we intend to use this donation for and provide back to your customers updates to how their generosity helped us change lives”.

The donation will go towards programs that offer critical points of intervention and support for homeless and disadvantaged young people between 16 and 24 years of age. These support services include; counselling, crisis and transitional accommodation, legal support, accredited workplace training, education and vocational opportunities. On any given night, the Salvo’s Youth Foundation also helps to accommodate and feed more than 100 homeless young people. To find out more about Salvo’s Youth Foundation, visit http://salvos.org.au/oasis/.

Seton has shared moments from the day with photos posted on the Seton Safety Blog, which can be viewed here, http://safetyblog.seton.net.au/seton-customers-help.

About Seton Australia:
Seton Australia has operated from the Western Suburbs of Sydney, Australia since 1994. With a dedicated team of employees, which has grown significantly over the last 18 years, Seton has become a one stop shop for products to keep workplaces safe, secure and compliant. With over 30,000 products on offer Seton has everything required to make workplaces safer. From Signs, to Dangerous Goods Cabinets, Barriers & Barricades, Personal Protective Equipment, Lockout & Tagout, to Food Safety and Warehouse Products, just to name a few. The Salvo’s Youth Foundation is Seton Australia’s chosen charity. To find out more about Seton Australia, visit http://seton.com.au.

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MEDIA CONTACT

For photos and further information, please contact:
Tony Andoniou
Marketing Manager
Seton Australia
Phone: 02 8717 6468
Email: [email protected]
Address: 2 Bellevue Circuit, Greystanes, NSW 2145

Quality Management solution EQStats hires Vanderlaan to expand markets

Quality Management solution EQStats hires Vanderlaan to expand markets
Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:49
Sydney, 12 September 2012

Quality Management solution EQStats hires Vanderlaan to expand markets

Leading Health Quality Management solution provider EQStats have hired Chris Vanderlaan as General Manager Sales & Services to grow sales and develop new markets across industries. With an Engineering background, and success building software businesses across multiple industries, Vanderlaan is aiming to take EQStats to greater heights.

“The success that EQStats has achieved in delivering market leading Quality Management software into the Health industry will be easily replicable wherever an advanced Quality Management process is required. It’s actually harder to think of industries where this isn’t required!” explains Vanderlaan. “When a solution like EQStats can provide such reliability in managing industry standards and legislation, while delivering the flexibility clients need to tailor the solution to their requirements, avoiding Environmental, Health & Safety and legal compliance issues becomes simple”.

EQStats CEO Andrea Rodriguez adds “We are delighted to have Chris on board to take us to the next level in the market place. While we continue to provide best practice Quality Management to Australia’s Hospitals and Health industry, we are excited about the prospect of building a great cross-industry capability”.

About EQStats:
EQStats is a market leader in compliance management and quality information management systems used to manage regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives. The EQStats eWorkbook system® is designed to manage compliance with quality standards, industry regulations, risk programs and corporate policies.

EQStats Pty Ltd
Unit 15, 538 Gardeners Road
Alexandria NSW 2015
Phone: 1300 131 081
Fax: 1800 452 226
Web page: www.eqstats.com.au

Australian Company Provides FBT Relief for Fleets With Unique Product!

Australian Company Provides FBT Relief for Fleets With Unique Product!
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 11:33
ExclusiveFleet powered by GreenShareCar, Australia’s leading provider of car sharing technology for pool vehicle management, is in an ideal position to mitigate the impacts of the devastating FBT announcements that have left the automotive industry devastated over the changes to FBT treatments.

Unlike traditional vehicle provision the use of the GreenShareCar “ExclusiveFleet” product allows employers to provide the use of vehicles for both business and personal use without exposure to any FBT liability. This unique provision is made possible through the use of world leading car sharing technology. The ExclusiveFleet product is FBT exempt while reducing fleet operating costs and improving vehicle optimisation, and works with employees in a new and innovative way of looking at the provision of fleet and mobility for employers.

GreenShareCar CEO Paul Cummaudo knows employers will have better options in the future in managing their fleets with our technology as an alternative to company owned and operated vehicles. It takes all the pain out of a fleet (admin, FBT compliance, infringement processing, cost allocations, on-balance sheet etc.) and ensures maximum mobility at lowest cost and effort.

ExclusiveFleet provides an on-line fleet management solution for organisations which enables a unique interaction between travel modes. The system gives users options for planning business activity; in particular, it encourages active travel and lessens the need for commuting by car to work. The use of our technology allows fleet resources to be shared between corporate travel, private use by employees and the options for organisations to allow the general members of GreenShareCar to use vehicles.

The service is now in operation across Melbourne and Sydney. GreenShareCar CEO Paul Cummaudo is concerned about the impacts of the Government changes on the leasing industry and the Australian vehicle manufacturers, he said “with 25% of new car sales in Australia impacted by these announcements and many redundancies being revealed in the leasing industry, the impact to the Australian fleet economy is massive, GreenShareCar is in a position to mitigate these impacts for many Australian businesses” he went on to say “we are currently working closely with leading companies and the top leasing companies to provide our services as a viable alternative for the provision of business and private vehicle use without the impact of FBT”

GreenShareCar is one of Australia’s leading home grown car sharing companies and has over 100 locations across Melbourne and Sydney alone, also currently expanding into other cities and into public sector, private and not for profit businesses with the ExclusiveFleet product. As part of the successful Roscon Group, an Australian company established for over 30 years, GreenShareCar is in an ideal position to support the Australian fleet industry at this difficult time.

Our vehicle’s even come equipped with a dedicated fuel card in each vehicle, Toll tag and includes all fuel purchases, including car detailing and maintenance service on a regular basis. Organisations only pay one monthly payment which includes all these services, resulting in substantial in-house administration cost savings for our clients.

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For Further Information:

GreenShareCar has further company data and images available upon request.

Please contact:

Malcolm Noyle – 0405 077 779 – [email protected]
Paul Cummaudo – 1300 575 878 – [email protected]