Last week I travelled to Montreal with my neighbour Erik Barr and my son Adam to pack up and ship some 400 cases of wood and metal type and the other printing gear belonging to my late friend Glenn Goluska. The collection will be integrated into our operations at Gaspereau Press.

On the first day we lugged everything that could be carried to the alleyway where we built and loaded some eighteen pallets. I was thankful for the additional help of my friends Patrick Griffin (of Canada Type in Toronto) and Norm Ravvin of Montreal, and to Glenn’s widow Bernadette for laying out a wonderful lunch for the crew. The skids were picked up by a local mover and taken to a warehouse to await a truck from Nova Scotia. By the end of the day we were nearly unable to move from exhaustion, but were much soothed by a great supper provided by papermaker David Carruthers.

The second day we moved the two larger items, a Linotype caster and a Vandercook Universal 1. After a day of lugging all those cases of type up to the alleyway, creeping the 3200+ pound Linotype along the floor and over the threshold with pipes and Burke bars seemed downright leisurely. We only had 3/8 of an inch grace getting through the doorway, but that was enough. These were boomed out of the patio well and joined the other skids in the warehouse.

Linotype and Vandercook ready for the boom truck

Booming out the Vandercook

Booming out the Linotype

Before we took off for home Thursday evening, we had a quick tour of David Carruthers’ Saint Armand Papermill. David, a third generation papermaker, is holding a picture of his grandfather. The giant piece if gear is his Hollander beater.

Okay, stay tuned for updates on the installation of the Goluska Typetrust (or whatever we end up dubbing it) at Gaspereau Press. Most of Gary’s and my coming week will involve great feats of rearrangement in preparation for the arrival of 20 skids of type and equipment later this week. Our shop was far from empty to start with.

ANDREW STEEVES ¶ PRINTER & PUBLISHER

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I’m just back from Montreal, where I packed up Glenn Goluska’s printshop with my son Adam and neighbour Erik Barr. I’ll post more later, but for now here is a time-lapse video of the three of us walking Glenn’s Linotype out the door.

ANDREW STEEVES ¶ PRINTER & PUBLISHER

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3 Free Software To Repair Corrupt AVI Files Posted: 11 May 2012 07:57 AM PDT AVI files obviously quite important and have many uses, but one really annoying thing about them is that whenever they get corrupt, they are very hard to repair. It is not uncommon that sometimes the video file is not completely copied from the CD, DVD or other sources; or sometimes the video freezes while you can hear the sound; and even you sometimes see pixels distorted image. The most irritating error is when the video simply cannot be played. Well now all these errors can be taken care of – thanks to all the great tools for this purpose out there. So today we have 3 Free Software To Repair Corrupt AVI Files. Check them out and pick the one that suits your needs the best. Here goes the list.. DivFix++ DivFix++ is a great tool that allows fixing AVI videos. The good thing about this tool is that it also works very well with latest high definition video files in AVI format. But unfortunately this tool does support bigger, multi partitioned AVI files presently. Still on the whole, this is a really nice tool and deserves a try. DivXRepair DivXRepair is based on VirtualDub (version 1.4.2.x). This is also an AVI corrupt file repair tool that simply cuts off the bad parts and re-assembles the avi file. Thus, it easily gets rid of the freeze. The best feature of this tool is that it automatically detects and removes bad frames, so all you are required to do is to run it and let it do its work. MovieToolbox Fix Player As the name suggests, this one is a handy free AVI player which allows repairing and watching AVI video files on your PC. It has a really simple user interface. It lets you repair broken AVI files or files from the broken CD or DVD disk; see files which were not completely downloaded and download the remaining part of the file from the web. It is an awesome tool that can fix almost all kinds of issues related to AVI files!

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Amewi 25070 – Firestorm Alloy, Indoor Helikopter (GYRO, Turbo-Funktion, 3-Blatt-Heck)

Amewi 25070 – Firestorm Alloy, Indoor Helikopter (GYRO, Turbo-Funktion, 3-Blatt-Heck)

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Last week I was lucky enough to have spent the majority of my week ignoring most of my administrative, editing and typesetting duties and tackling a backlog of letterpress printing. As a matter of fact, I spent the whole week printing on handmade paper milled by our good friend David Carruthers and his staff at The Saint-Armand paper mill in Montreal. Any week a trade printer can print exclusively on handmade paper is a pretty good week.

The week started off with a keepsake that Thaddeus Holownia and I were collaborating on to celebrate the life of our late friend and coconspirator Douglas Lochhead. It required four press passes and a crease. Inside, one of Holownia’s images of the soon-to-be decommissioned Radio Canada International shortwave transmission towers on the Tantramar marshes was tipped in. The keepsake states:

During his lifetime, Douglas Lochhead wrote extensively about the people and the landscape of the Tantramar region, his home from the time of his appointment as Director of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University in 1975 until his death. His relationship with the upland marsh above the Cumberland Basin was a particularly fruitful one from a literary standpoint, and poetry collections such as High Marsh Road and Dykelands secure Lochhead a place alongside Charles G.D. Roberts and John Thompson in the fraternity of Tantramar bards. Among the most iconic modern-day elements of the Tantramar’s landscape are the towers which comprise Radio Canada International’s transmission site, which since 1943 have broadcast Canadian shortwave radio signals around the world. In June 2012, RCI will discontinue shortwave broadcasting due to changing technology and federal funding cutbacks. This keepsake was produced by Thaddeus Holownia and Andrew Steeves in tribute to the passing of these two Sackville institutions and the “homesick noise” they sent “around the world from this brooding marsh.”

I reprinted the jacket to one of our perennial sellers and perhaps our best known publication internationally, Robert Bringhurst’s The Solid Form of Language. This jacket prints in three press passes – black, blue and white – and a fourth to crease the jacket’s folds. I have to admit the I enjoy printing the white most of all. There is always something joyfully perverse about inking up a press with white ink. The paper was Saint-Armand handmade ‘gold’.

I printed a two-colour book jacket for a privately issued collection of poems by George Edward Hart, the second we’ve produced for him. I was quite happy with the light blue paper and the plack and blue inks.

I also printed some bookmarks on some off-cut ends of denim black Saint-Armand paper. The quotation is from Thoreau.

ANDREW STEEVES ¶ PRINTER & PUBLISHER

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Heartbreaker Charm sitzender Engel auf Perle weiß HB 223

Heartbreaker Charm sitzender Engel auf Perle weiß HB 223

…ich trage was, was Du nicht trägst und das sieht immer wieder anders aus! Mit diesem wunderschönen Anhänger für Bettelarmband oder Kette wird jedes Schmuckstück zum Unikat. Durch den Karabinerhaken können alle Heartbreaker Charms individuell nach Lust und Laune ausgetauscht werden. Der Anhänger ist aus 925 Silber und hat eine Größe von insgesamt ca. xxcm ohne Karabiner. Der Engel sitzt auf einer weißen Muschelkernperle mit einem Durchmesser von 0,8cm.

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Liebherr Kühlen: Standkühlschrank / A++ / 0.3 kWh / 345 L

Liebherr Kühlen: Standkühlschrank / A++ / 0.3 kWh / 345 L

Energieeffizienzklasse A++ Energieverbrauch in 365 Tagen [kWh/a] 112 BioFresh Abtauverfahren Kühlteil automatisch Klimaklasse SN-T Geräusch-Schallleistung (2011) [dB(A) re 1 pW] 39 Abmessungen H/B/T [cm] 165,5/60/63 Türanschlag rechts wechselbar Steuerung Art der Steuerung MagicEye mit LED Temperaturanzeige Bedienung der Steuerung Tasten Temperaturanzeige Kühlteil außen analog

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