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Cyprus, probably named for its copper, smelted since Neolithic times, is the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite. Two impressive mountain ranges surround a huge fertile plain and lovely beaches circle the coastline. Its climate has long attracted visitors, it is now renowned as a place for retirement - or partying.
Lying close to the Middle East and always strategically important, it was taken by many great powers including Greece. Rome and Egypt. The long reign of the French Lusignan dynasty brought prosperity and Roman Catholicism. In 1570 the Turks took the island.
It became a UK Crown Colony after World War II Independence came in 1960, but intercommunal strife increased and in 1974 an unsuccessful Greek coup prompted a Turkish invasion. The island was divided. It is now possible to cross the border, but violence and negotiation alternate and rules can change overnight.
However, north or south, the islanders are warmly welcoming and Cyprus has many attractions. The southeast with its raucous resorts also has archaeological sites and sunsets from Aphrodite’s ‘birthplace’ at the Rock of Remios. Pafos, though surrounded by development, remains a charming town. To the northwest is the remote Akanas Peninsula, with further isolated regions along the coastal hinterland, the magnificent Troodos region has forested mountains, lost villages, painted churches, unique wildlife and winegrowing.
In the North, small resorts cluster around the beautiful harbour town of Kyrenia. Famagusta is full of ruined Gothic churches inside its golden stone walls; outside lies a haunted, wired-off modern town, The rocky coast and bristling Kyrenia range hold unspoilt beaches and villages, classical sites, monasteries and Crusader castles.
Lefkosia (Nicosia) is the world’s only divided capital, Inside the massive Venetian fortifications, both sides - the cosmopolitan south and the north with its dusty lanes - are fascinating. Both have streets which end in a wall fluttering with defiant flags.
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The differences and advantages of each process and deciding which is best for your project.
Digital printing and its technology have grown exponentially the past few years, bringing about more advancement and in turn, many more options when it comes to printing. However, it has also brought about some confusion amongst printing clients. An understanding of the differences between digital printing and the more traditional offset printing process, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of both, is vital in making the right choice.
Most Commonly Used Process
Offset lithography is the most commonly used high volume commercial printing process. In offset printing, the desired print image is burned onto a plate which is then transferred, or ‘offset’, from the plate to a rubber blanket, and then to the printing surface. The process of lithography is based on the repulsion of oil and water. The print image attracts the ink from the rollers, whilst the non-printable area attracts a film of water, which therefore keeping those areas ink free.
Digital Printing
* Shorter turnaround time.
* Elimination of the numerous mechanical checks and steps required with offset such as making colour proofs and printing plates.
* Cheaper costs for low volume printing. When you waive setup costs associated with offset printing, digital provides lower per unit costs for small print runs.
* Can only use the CMYK process to replicate Pantone colours and therefore some colours such as orange cannot be produced accurately.
* Offers Variable Data Printing as a way of customising your digital printing at a low cost. Using information from an excel spreadsheet for example, unique text can be printed on each item without stopping or slowing down the press.
Offset Printing
* High image quality.
* Minimum print runs, as larger quantities are much more economical - Offset printing is the cheapest method to produce high quality printing in commercial printing quantities i.e. the unit cost goes down as the quantity goes up.
* Same colour each time around. The use of Pantone colours mean that your chosen colour will not vary from print run to print run. Especially important for corporations with logos (think ‘Coca Cola red’).
* Offset can also print with CMYK process but can be expensive with low runs due to the cost of the plate’s make-ready time.
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The island of South Georgia, an inhospitable frozen wasteland of glaciers, snow-capped mountains and freezing winds, lies in the southern Atlantic Ocean east of Tierra del Fuego.
This remote Antarctic island is part of the British territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The British claim to sovereignty of South Georgia dates from 1775 when Captain Cook landed here and dismissed the island as not worth discovering. Argentina also claimed the island in 1027, an unresolved dispute which contributed to the 1982 Falklands war when Argentine forces briefly occupied South Georgia.
In 1916 Ernest Shackleton became stranded on Elephant Island to the south-west, while on his Imperial Straits Antarctic Expedition, Shackleton and a small group of men left the rest of the party to summon help and ended up, after an arduous journey, at King Haakon Bay on the south coast of South Georgia.
They then managed to make it overland to reach help at Stromness whaling station, which led to the rescue of the remaining men. Daring a later expedition in 1922, Shackleton died on board a ship off South Georgia and he is buried on the island at Grytviken.
There is no permanent human population on South Georgia, only the British Government Officer, research scientists and museum staff at Grytviken, but there are enormous populations of penguins, the largest colonies anywhere on earth, with around 400,000 breeding pairs of king penguins, two million pairs of the macaroni penguins and large colonies of four other species.
Visitors come here to watch penguin couples overcome the extreme climatic conditions and nurture their precious eggs through hatching and the vulnerable chick stage into fully fledged members of the colony. The charming creatures work tirelessly together avoiding the seals that lurk in the shallows waiting to pounce and protecting their young from ferocious skua gulls who will snatch one and tear it to shreds.
When he landed here in the 18th century, Captain Cook noted the huge seal and whale populations around the island, but just two hundred years later both had been hunted nearly to extinction. South Georgia is, however, home to 95 per cent of the world’s southern fur seals, half the southern elephant seals, 250,000 Albatrosses, including the massive Wandering Albatross, and up to ten million other seabirds, making a trip here a totally unique experience.
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