“People are always looking for meaningful ways to make their loved ones feel special,” says Tracy Booth, founder and creative director of The MemorySmith, a leading Sydney-based jeweller. “Fingerprints are special because everyone’s are different, even newborn babies. When you combine that individuality with quality craftsmanship, you really create a one-of-a-kind keepsake,” Booth explains.

The MemorySmith makes finding gift inspiration easy with its handcrafted collection of fingerprint jewellery, which includes 99.9-percent pure silver charms, bracelets, necklaces, cufflinks, keyrings and pendants, in a variety of shapes and sizes. Customers truly get a ‘hands-on’ experience as they capture fingerprints, handprints, footprints and even paw prints of favourite pets, with a custom designed fingerprint impression kit. Once completed, customers send in their impressions and The MemorySmith design team handcrafts each piece of personalised jewellery.

Holiday shoppers have the opportunity to give fingerprint jewellery and silver keepsakes to loved ones for Christmas by returning their fingerprint impressions to The MemorySmith on or before Wednesday, 12 December 2012. Gift certificates and custom designed impression kits are also available, so recipients can choose the style and design of jewellery for themselves.

In addition to their exclusive line of fingerprint jewellery, The MemorySmith handcrafts its specialty lines: Hands and Feet in Silver, Paw Prints in Silver, and Doodles, a heartfelt way for parents to capture their Children’s Art in Silver. Keepsakes can also be engraved with names, special inscriptions or heartwarming poetry.

Reflecting on why fingerprint jewellery is the ultimate keepsake, Booth adds, “The fact that our pieces are handcrafted, where the customer is personally involved in the jewellery making process — this adds that sentimental value people are looking for.”

About The Memory Smith

Since 2010, The MemorySmith has re-defined what it means to ‘add a personal touch’ to gift ideas by handcrafting high-quality fingerprint jewellery and silver keepsakes, to capture precious moments in time. Priced to include the costs of the fingerprint impression kit and postage, The MemorySmith handcrafted jewellery collection is available in Australia, nationwide. For more information about fingerprint jewellery and custom designed fingerprint impression kits, visit the company website:
http://thememorysmith.com.au/.

Connect with The MemorySmith design team:
https://www.facebook.com/theMemorySmith

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Media Contact:

Tracy Booth
Phone: 1300 696 621
E-mail: [email protected]

As high school comes to an end for another round of Year 12 students, many young Australians are faced with the challenge of taking the next step into the real world.

Rather than going straight into university, more and more students are choosing to take a gap year out to explore the world, learn more about themselves and focus on what they really want to do with their lives.

Sydney girl Annie Navin completed Year 12 at Barker College, Sydney and embarked on a GapBreak program with Australian company, Antipodeans Abroad, which offers school-leavers the chance to volunteer in a developing country. She has recently returned home after spending 3 months in Ghana, where she lived with a local family and taught children in the village schools.

When asked why she chose to take a GapBreak Annie replied, “Going straight to university never appealed to me so the option of taking a gap year seemed like the obvious alternative. I couldn’t think of anything worse than hitting the books again! Whilst most of my friends wanted to follow the party scene in Europe, I knew there was a big wide world out there to explore.

I’m so glad I chose Ghana because I got to live as a local in a part of the world that most people have never heard of. That’s something you don’t experience as a normal tourist.”

Annie’s experience in Ghana taught her to keep an open mind and to take advantage of every opportunity offered. She reflects on what she learnt from her time away, “Being totally immersed in a developing country takes you out of your comfort zone, but I feel so lucky to have had that experience. I came home and looked at everything differently. People have so little in the way of material possessions, yet they are happy and welcoming.

My Ghanaian family took me under their wing as a daughter and a sister. ”

Annie is now studying a double degree in Arts and Social Work at the University of Sydney, and expresses interest to see more of the world. “When you travel you learn so much about yourself, other cultures and the world around you. On top of that, I had a lot of fun, went to some incredible places and made life-long friendships. I’d love to see more of Africa as it’s such a huge and diverse continent.”

About Antipodeans Abroad: 
Antipodeans Abroad offers a range of educational travel experiences for high-school students,gap year and university students. Participants provide much appreciated work in disadvantaged communities across Africa, Asia and South America, as well as participating on work and language programs in Europe. Students’ return home with invaluable life experience, increased confidence and personal development.

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For Further Information: 
Contact Person: Ebony Holmberg
Phone: (02) 9413 1522
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.antipodeans.com.au

Released 4 months ago as a Facebook application, The Gift Register is changing the way people can give and receive gifts. Using it will save you time and money. It will also guarantee ‘the perfect gift every time!’ The companys’ facebook page is rapidly gathering thousands of fans who are embracing this new service. An accompanying iPhone app allows you to update & view lists while you shop!

Using it is simple. Create lists of things you would love to receive as a gift. Include pics and URL links of where to buy. Then share it with your friends and family. The lists are fully interactive. Guests to your list can nominate what they want to buy, and it will be withdrawn from the list immediately. You can also do lists for your children or other close family members. Perfect for the ‘hard to buy for’ people!

The accompanying iPhone app allows you to update or view lists whilst you shop. So when you see that ‘to die for’ item that you absolutely love, you can add it to your list straight away, and it won’t be forgotten! The more items on your list the better. That way, presents will still be a surprise.

So if you are running out of time to do Christmas shopping, get yourself and your family members onto The Gift Register today. You could then have all your Christmas gifts sorted in no time!

The Gift Register’s facebook application was launched on 6 August 2012. The iPhone app was released on 1 November. The Gift Register’s facebook page currently has 6,300 fans and counting.

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Media Contact
Kylie Barrow
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/thegiftregister

0418 553 512

The Gift Register
PO Box 2063
Hampton East 3188

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

With an established history and track record in the maritime industry, we built and grew our company in an environment where safety, reliability and tight schedules are part of everyday life.

Breakaway Group are far more than a ‘breakdown and fix service’ and we work closely with our clients to ensure that the immediate issue is solved, and then future maintenance requirements are planned and accounted for.

Breakaway Group is a full-service company that provide:

• Testing and fault identification services
• Electric motor rewind
• Removal and reinstatement service
• Procurement consulting , sale and supply of new motors
• Limited work-space and difficult installations
• Technical consultation services

Breakaway Group understands that client service and value for money are key factors in your decision to choose us. When we asked our clients why they chose Breakaway Group over our competitors, they replied:

“Your innovative techniques and solutions have given us a more robust long-term solution”

• “Your experience meant you understood what we needed and got on with the job”
• “The quality of the products and parts used mean we spend less in the long run”
• “Your innovative techniques and solutions have given us a more robust long-term solution”
• “We trust what you say and if you tell us we need work to be done to ensure production keeps running, it needs to be done. No questions asked!”

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Fore more information on Breakaway Groups electric motor repair services, go to http://www.breakawaygroup.net.au