After School Care Activities and Craft Cd

Over 100 printable activity sheets. Full of activities for children to after-school or in the school holidays. Printable activities ready to go, make cool sunglasses, finger puppets, masks, weaving activities, activity sheets…

After School Care Activities and Craft Cd

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Homewares importer Akcent Decor is launching a complete new range of wall art at the February Trade Fair at Sydney Olympic park at Homebush 24th to 27th February.

Their spectacular new range includes several all-metal pieces, metal designs in wooden frames and old-world framed ceramic shell pieces.

The whole collection is in their traditional beach house theme with beach shells, starfish, fish, lighthouses and other interesting coastal images.

BM117 School Of Fish - Wall art from Akcent Decor’s Beachhouse Decor collection

Perhaps their most exciting pieces are the large “School of Fish” wall plaques at over a meter in length.

Complimenting this collection are a huge collection of new beach theme decorative accessories, ranging from life-like metal pelicans, sea turtles and seagulls to the new nostalgic metal Coastal Kids Collection.

The Beachhouse Decor collection enables decorators to a create a feeling of coastal leisure and carefree beach or bayside living in any home.

Importers are warned to be wary for strange activities using their credentials. One prominent Australian Gifts and Homewares importer, advises having had its company identity fraudulently used by drug smugglers to import at least 6 container loads of contraband (Tobacco, spirits and who knows what other drugs) in just the last 3 months. They even had a fake copy of his company seal made up.

The smugglers seem to identify a prominent importer bringing in a lot of containers. They then use its company name and address put a different contact name and phone number, on the Bill of Lading (specifying products similar to what the importer imports) and then despatch one or more full container loads of contraband to Australia. (a container lot is a huge volume, either 32 or 64 cubic meters)

When the container arrives the shipping agent unknowingly clears it through customs based on the false packing list and calls the contact number given, to arrange payment for charges and delivery. The smuggler takes this call and pays for the freight charges in advance, then instructs the Shipping agent or the freight delivery company to re-direct the container to a different warehouse address.

In most cased the importer doesn’t get to know about it because they use a different shipping agent to the firm’s usual agent. Also because the criminals prepay the freight and collect the documentation on arrival, no documentation is ever sent to the importer. On occasions where the shipping or freight company later assess other charges, such as demurrage costs and invoices the company, the container has already long disappeared.

So please check invoices for container freight and demurrage carefully. You could be paying some of the smugglers costs.

Customs police have confirmed apprehending only one of these above 6 containers, which container was abandoned on the wharf, following the tip off to Customs Police by the importer. Customs officers say these instances are common and also confirm that even one small container of tobacco smuggled in avoids more than $1 million dollars of excise tax.

Do the Customs police have adequate resources? No, they have only one container X-ray machine in Sydney, and insufficient sniffer dogs.

More importantly, does customs law require the shipping company or agent to properly identify the importer? No?
Does customs law require specific procedures when a delivery address is changed from the Bill of Lading address for imported goods? No?

Well, why the bloody hell not?

Why wouldn’t the criminals want to move to this country? They don’t have to worry about the border patrol. Amazingly they just ship it in through the mainstream system.

Gift and Homewares Australia

Gift & Homewares Australia (GHA) is celebrating its 30th birthday this year promises lost of extra festivities for retailers. From 24-27 February 2007 GHA will be hosting their biggest and best trade fair to date with some of Australia’s best known celebrities making an appearance.

This leading industry association will present Australia’s largest display of gifts and homewares on show at the Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park. This is one calendar event retailers in this industry cannot afford to miss with over 700 exhibitors from across the country featuring the latest in gift and homewares products.

Sydney Showgrounds will be turned into a four-day extravaganza of activities where GHA will be giving the gifts! Each day at the trade fair will be a new event with competitions and giveaways including NEC products and a fabulous holiday to be won! Ed Halmagyi and Tara Dennis from Channel Seven’s Better Homes & Gardens will demonstrate their skills in educational and entertaining presentations.

Really this topic should be elementary in 2007, however many new website owners are not realising just how big a problem this becomes.

Don’t Hyperlink your Email Address

It is NOT a good idea to publish an email address on any page anywhere on the internet. I can hear some website owners say “but I want prospective buyers to be able to send a request to me easily and instantly, at any time”. Well that is what email is for. However you can make your email available to the prospective customers without publishing it in a way that can easily be harvested and abused.

There are tens of thousands of junk mailers sending million of spam emails every HOUR over the internet. They collect addresses in thousands with spider software (which they can download for free). The software automatically travels the internet pages searching for and storing email addresses. Usually these spiders are directed by keywords, to find more relevant emails for them to spam.

If you get on one of these spammers lists, you are likely to quickly get on many of them and will wish you had not.

Do not Publish an email address in Text Format

There are two simple options to avoid publishing your email address. Either use a form to email page (formmail) where the email address is stored in your web site’s unpublished software. (Make sure you use one that is properly set up so that spammers can’t sent email using your online form, and your domain name as the sender) or the second most sensible option is to publish your email on a graphic. (A small picture of the text).

A graphic representation of your email address should also these days be deliberately distorted so that new graphics reading software can not store the text. A human eye can sort out a carefully distorted graphic image of text and type in the email address.

It is not as convenient as clicking a hyperlinked text or graphic instance of the email address, but any prospective customer who really wants to send a message to you won’t mind typing the email address into their mail program.