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A. Comply with Wisconsin's "Smart Growth" law for land use planning and resource management. This criterion is an option only for applications submitted before July 1, 2017.
The Green Lake City Council has developed and approved a Comprehensive Plan in accordance with Wisconsin's "Smart Growth" law regarding land use planning and resource management. The Comprehensive Plan was approved in November, 2002, and the City of Green Lake has been in compliance ever since.
E. Describe your community's ordinance demonstrating that your community does not restrict natural/native landscaping that emphasizes native plants and non-turf lawns.
The City of Green Lake does not prohibit "natural" lawns for landscaping. The regulation of natural lawns is extensively detailed in Section 8-1-6 of the City of Green Lake Municipal Code.
H. Show that the local Chamber of Commerce or a similar group (e.g., an Audubon chapter, Wild Ones, etc.) takes an active role in the planning process for protecting and enlarging favorable bird habitat.
Green Lake Conservancy and Green Lake Sanitary District are actively (and jointly) involved in the control of invasive plant species on Green Lake's conservancy lands. For the past nine years we have conducted weekly volunteer work sessions every Saturday morning during the fall months. Many hundreds of hours of clearing invasive species have been donated by individuals. The main targets have been Common Buckthorn, Oriental Bittersweet, and honeysuckle.
V. OTHER: Demonstrate in a narrative.
Green Lake's "Green Team" (with help from Alliant Energy) built and installed four Osprey nesting platforms around the Green Lake area. In 2017 all four of these platforms had pairs build nests on them, and three of the four nests produced Osprey chicks. We have been annually banding the chicks at the Green Lake ballpark, including in 2019 – again with help from Alliant Energy.
A. Demonstrate that your community has been awarded Tree City USA status by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Green Lake continues to be recognized as a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation following its initial award in 2006.
A. Describe your community's educational program to control free-roaming cats and/or the manner in which you actively publicize the Cats Indoors! initiative.
Green Lake's Bird City page has a link that provides information about the Cats Indoors! initiative.
B. Demonstrate that your community provides property owners with information on how to protect birds from window strikes (e.g., online links, brochures).
The City of Green Lake website has a Bird City page with a link that shows where community members can get information on the DANGERS of WINDOWS to wild birds, and how to protect them from window strikes.
C. Demonstrate that your community is represented in at least one citizen science bird monitoring program (e.g., the Christmas Bird Count, Great Backyard Bird Count, Swift Night Out).
Green Lake has conducted an annual Christmas Bird Count each winter since 1983. Typically, we have around 12-20 observers and they record roughly 50-69 different species each year. The count on Dec. 31, 2017 totaled 69 species, with an additional four species added during count week.
Many of our area birdwatchers also participate in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
D. Describe your community-sponsored annual bird festival. This must be a multi-day event or a truly exceptional one-day event.
The City held their first annual Green Lake Bird Festival in the spring of 2013. The festival is traditionally held on the last Saturday in April, and the 2019 event was held on April 26-27. This annual festival has included a Friday evening social gathering, followed by an early-morning field trip at a local conservancy property. Immediately following the hike there are several bird-related presentations at Town Square in Green Lake during the remainder of the morning. The event has been co-sponsored by the Green Lake Bird and Nature Club, and Green Lake's "Green Team".
K. Demonstrate that your community actively raises awareness of its bird assets. Examples include placing a remote web camera on a nest platform, offering bird watching field trips, or creating a significant educational resource on your community's bird life.
In January of 2015 we started a Green Lake Bird and Nature Club, which meets monthly at Town Square (2nd Tuesday at 6 PM, September through May) and conducts periodic field trips. Anyone interested in the wonderful world of nature is welcome to attend our meetings for bird or nature-related presentations, or go on our field trips. Participation in the club has steadily grown, and we have an active Facebook page. For more information you can contact Tom Schultz at .
N. OTHER: Demonstrate in a narrative.
The City of Green Lake provides information about the dangers to our forests, meadows, marshes and lakes by the introduction and spread of invasive species. https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Invasives/what.html
Information about identifying and controlling harmful invasive species can also be found on the WI DNR website, linked here: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/invasives/control.html
A. Document an energy audit for a municipal building and show that your community is working to implement its recommendations.
An energy audit has been conducted on the City of Green Lake's WWTP (Wastewater Treatment Plant).
C. Document that a municipal building is LEED certified (silver or higher).
The relatively new Green Lake County Justice Building in Green Lake has been LEED certified at the Silver level.
J. OTHER: Demonstrate in a narrative.
The City of Green Lake has also been actively replacing its light bulbs with energy-efficient LED bulbs (as they burn out), including in City Hall, and all of the street lighting fixtures.
A. This community's municipal body passed the required International Migratory Bird Day resolution.
B. Document and describe your event that incorporates the annual IMBD theme in some fashion. If the event has not yet occurred, please share your detailed plans. For information on the current year's theme and event materials, please visit the International Migratory Bird Day website. To see what other Bird City communities have done in the past, please view some other profiles on our website.
Green Lake Mayor Jon McConnell drafted a resolution proclaiming International Migratory Bird Day to be April 25, 2020. This year's celebration will take place at the 2020 Green Lake Bird Festival on that date (and the evening before). The festival starts with a Friday evening social event at Town Square -- Birds and Brews -- and continues on Saturday morning with an early morning field trip to Sunnyside Conservancy. Immediately following that will be several presentations by guest speakers at Town Square.
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Title: Hikari | Artist: Horie Yui | Show: Inukami!
Inukami is an amusing show. It follows a descendant of an Inukami (Dog God) tamer clan, who is not well regarded due to his slack attitude towards his duty (combat teh evuls), his perverted tendencies, and his inability to find an Inukami to bond with. Eventually, he manages the latter; forming a partnership with a wilful green-haired girl who quickly demonstrates that he might have been better off just having his clan to deal with. (For example, she puts a collar on him).
Add in his exceptionally talented (and pretty) cousin who happens to have a veritable harem of Inukami bound to him (who hate the main character), a group of perverts who come to term the main guy the "Naked King" (due to his partner habitually teleporting him into public area sans his clothing) and other such hijinks, and you have a story very much in the line of Urusei Yatsura; including the girl being far more a jerkass than the boy but getting away with it for the most part.
Still, though some lives are not as cheery as the overall presentation would suggest, the characters are sympathetic enough to remain likable even if you wonder what might have been had they not been as they are. It's a show with enough fun to it to remember fondly, though be warned. There are exceptional levels of fanservice. Elephants galore.


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I am a bit odd. I will rarely if ever answer a question on StackOverflow (SO). If I do its because I didn't have any other easy way of answering the question. This is entirely by design.
StackOverflow is not a new business model. I was involved at one point with a company with a similar business model. Experts-Exchange.com. Did you know it has the dash because it is also ExpertSexchange.com? I have heard rumours that originally the domain name was that
At Experts-Exchange, users are awarded points for answering questions asked by other users or writing articles the general community values as resourceful. This results in a competition for obtaining more points to achieve various experts' certifications.
Sound familiar? It started in 1996. It went defunct and was basically built up from community around 2000-2001. It was a community site at that point, and it grew rapidly as such. Everything was free and community driven. I won't go through all the history here, you can read about it here. At one point you were actually paid to answer questions! EE screwed up really bad. Many of us saw it coming a long ways off. Legacy code, alienated community …
I was very active on EE back then. I acquired 2,782,577 points. Yes thats right and at 500/question (with bonuses the max you could get was 2000/question but you rarely got that). I probably answered 3000-5000 questions and most questions were multiple posts trying to help people out. They don't have them any more but I would not be surprised if I had 10,000 posts. Let's do some quick math assuming 5 minutes per post thats 50,000 minutes of my time. Or roughly a half year full time weeks of work. I think the time is actually higher than that though.
The idea of the business model is to pay people in imaginary currency and sell what they do for real currency. Best is if you can make your imaginary currency seem like it has some value.
What's really great is that the Intellectual Property that you pay people imaginary currency for has value not just to the person they are helping but as a searchable help database over time. For the one person that was directly helped often another 100 will get their answer from the answer originally given.
There are some issues with the business model. First I need to get experts (few) to start answering the questions of the askers (many) and I need to build up a reasonably sized database of previous answers. This is not a small task. SO is using the same model that EE used, Community. They are making it "community driven". This gets people involved. There are no costs for answers everyone is relatively happy. This builds the critical mass.
Generally speaking the growth would follow a pretty stereotypical S-Curve.
This is where things start to get fun. In order to move up the S-Curve you have to keep capitalizations to a minimum. It may start with something small let's say some ads (you know to help support all our infrastructure). Or we are building off this side business (job ads). Nothing too big, if we do too much it will slow the growth thats what needs to be avoided.
The whole point here is to make as much money as possible. If the goal were to build up community you wouldn't need to set them up as a centralized broker of the information, it would be distributed. But this is a truly community centric viewpoint and there isn't a good business model here.
As you get to the top of the S-Curve when growth starts slowing this is when you start to apply the pressure. You can be more aggressive at this point as well because your community itself has huge value just because creating a new one would be such a massive undertaking. EE did this. Milked the cash cow. The biggest most controversial change was when they put up the answer block and moved to subscription based models.
Would a VC give SO millions without looking at capitalization strategies down the line? I think not. The only thing they have of value is your brain and the intellectual property you assign them rights to use. They are not innocent nor do they give a flying @#$! about the community. They only care about keeping the community happy enough that they keep giving them intellectual property for imaginary currency so they can sell it for real currency.


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If it's not broke, don't fix it. Such is the case with the Freshly Picked + Ayesha Curry collaboration, which is making its second debut this year! This past summer, the duo launched their first collaboration, which was highly successful and the first celebrity collaboration for Freshly Picked. Now, they are back with three new styles of the highly sought-after baby moccasins for the holidays.
When asked about what the collection represented for her, Ayesha answered:
"When I was gathering inspiration for this collection, I wanted to design something magical and colorful my girls would love. My favorite part of my holiday collection is how well each style goes with any outfit and still captures the playfulness and fun of childhood. These shimmery, metallic moccasins with pops of color absolutely capture my vision!"
The Freshly Picked + Ayesha Curry Holiday Collection features shimmery, metallic moccasins with pops of color in fun names like "Geo Rose," "Glitz & Glam," and "Holographic." Ayesha designed this collection with her girls in mind and loves "how well each style goes with any outfit." She feels a personal connection to the brand that she discovered when Riley was a baby, being captured by the designs and the fact that the company was created by a mom.
Freshly Picked founder, Susan Petersen, and her team truly understand the concept of depth over width as it relates to building a solid brand. One product, baby moccasins, has sustained the company since its launch in 2009. The product line features tried-and-true collections such as "Classic" and "Signature," blended with innovative brand collaborations like Freshly Picked + Ayesha Curry. These collaborations allow the company to explore various design aesthetics while creating new news and leveraging the audiences of well-known collaborators sharing similar values.
The Freshly Picked + Ayesha Curry Holiday Collection continues to be the standard for successful brand collaborations and the magic that can happen when there is brand alignment. The collection debuted mid-November and is exclusively available on FreshlyPicked.com. Head over to their website to grab a pair of these limited edition moccasins for your favorite baby girl before it's too late.
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Cloud services are all the rage, and the race is on to adopt this new technology, but what if we just sit back and gaze? What is the hard data telling us? Skyhigh Networks recently released its latest quarterly Cloud Adoption & Risk Report, which offers the following insight based on enterprise customer usage data:
- For the first time, the average number of cloud services used in each enterprise decreased (although only slightly) relative to the prior quarter. Skyhigh explains that this flattening of services is likely because of companies' efforts to consolidate and avoid high-risk cloud services.
- There were several notable cloud service security breaches during the quarter. Even if a service is exclusively used for personal reasons, other cloud services could be compromised because passwords are often reused. With this interconnection, motivated hackers could turn the cloud into a tornado for an unsuspecting business.
- Relative to other industries, high-tech companies took substantially more risks in the cloud.
- The majority of malware incidents occurred during nonworking hours, so security teams should monitor behavior continuously.
- The majority of data uploaded to high-risk cloud services went to services that were miscategorized by URL-categorization services. When services are miscategorized in this manner, existing firewalls and proxies are often ineffective, which can result in losses of an enterprise's data and intellectual property and violations of internal security policies and external regulations.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The Glamourous Life -Chicago (Jazz)
I must say, I really must say, I just love this one. I am talking about the perspective of the painting and the movement in the lines of it. Which, of course, is inextricably linked with the music.
Form and sound.
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I am searching for a creatively driven producer for a short film project. Ideally you'd be someone with some experience in producing as well as an interest in story.
The script is close to final draft stage. It is a comedy-drama. In a nut shell, the story involves a road trip, two hit men, a drunken threesome and a dead body.
The script was written while I was at AFTRS studying screenwriting. I want to give this script a good chance of being realised well and taken to film festivals.
If this sounds like a project you would be interested in, I'd be keen to hear from you to see how this could be developed further.
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Take one step inside, and you'll quickly realize you aren't on a typical school bus.
White boards with math equations scrawled across them in colorful dry erase markers line the wall. A cabinet full of charging laptops sits near the front of the bus, next to cushy work benches. In the back, a reading area stocked with picture books invites students to take a seat and start reading.
Welcome to PSD's Mobile Academic Classroom, or MAC. PSD recently unveiled the bus for the first time, just ahead of its June 11 launch date.
In just a few weeks, MAC will open its doors to students for the first time outside the Bull Run apartment complex in Fort Collins. It will offer students an option for summer enrichment programs geared at keeping their skills sharp over the summer and creating a fun and unique learning environment.
Tavelli Elementary School Principal Christine Hendricks developed the idea for MAC and worked with partners from across the district and in the community to help make it a reality.
Stemming from a partnership between PSD and the PSD Foundation as well as a generous gift from an anonymous donor, the project was able to leverage donations to help make the dream a reality.
"This project is about creating an environment for students to develop a passion for learning," Hendricks said at the unveiling. "Students will have opportunities for passion projects, student activities, mentoring and technology, but mostly to have fun learning."
At the event, PSD Superintendent Dr. Sandra Smyser praised Hendricks for her imaginative vision for taking learning to students right in their own backyard.
"For every innovation that happens, there's a lot of bravery and hard work," she said.
MAC Partners:
- Poudre School District Foundation
- BC Interiors
- Bear Lakes Designs
- DesignPoint Engineering
- Healthy Kids Club, A program of UC Health
- Intel
- Jet Marketing
- Kaiser Permanente
- MiEn Company
- Mohawk Flooring
- Otto Pint
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The sub-conscious rules consumers' decisions and actions…
This article is about getting results from marketing investments at a time when it seems harder than ever to achieve the desired outcome. There's a reason and a solution.
The end of time-honored approaches…
When my career started at Ogilvy & Mather-owned Cole & Weber in Seattle, I was enamored by our disciplined approach to immerse ourselves in the client's business. Exhaustive reviews of competitive brand communications would follow, coupled with deep download discussions on the product's unique features and benefits. We would dissect and parse this understanding to arrive at a summary of superior claims and advantage. Sound familiar?
And all of this was based on the assumption that if consumers were exposed enough times to the essential ingredients of our client's product benefit story, in enough places, we would deliver on the almighty combination of awareness and preference.
So where are we now?
It's fair to say every dollar invested in brand communication comes with an expectation of business-generating result: consumer engagement and action. It is vital to note that we now have a deeper understanding of psychology, consumer behavior and a better grasp of what motivates decisions. This must be factored into how brand communications strategies are assembled.
Even so, it remains common practice to focus singularly on outlining product attributes (all about me), looking to leverage an area of uniqueness that helps separate the brand from everything else it competes with. While this remains a worthy and important part of the strategic process, it should be a secondary consideration behind looking carefully at what we know about the human involved (all about them) and how they really behave in decision making – which is, most often, without consciously thinking.
Fundamentals of more powerful communication
Let's start with this revelation: attitude change is not the goal. (gasp)
Perhaps most important is understanding that people are feeling creatures who think, not thinking creatures who feel. This is why actions and decisions mostly occur in the sub-conscious – and without the analytical rule of rational consideration of facts, features and benefits.
Instead, we now know that emotion is perhaps the most important and powerful persuasive force, along side the comfort we inherently cherish with top-of-mind familiarity (know it) and perceived popularity (endorsed by others) of a product or service.
So if most decisions and actions are created by the sub-conscious side of the brain, why do we continue to stay focused on analytical forms of messaging that assumes people make rational decisions? History perhaps – and maybe an incorrect assumption the consumer is a fact-driven decision-making machine.
What we now understand is the unrelenting dominance of emotion. Our actions are motivated by how we feel about a brand or business. Purchase decisions are informed by the emotions people have, positive or negative, when they are in the presence of a brand – your brand.
This understanding should have a profound impact on how we go to market –especially food – which is en emotional category to begin with. Better questions to address in planning:
- Do we have insight into the consumer's passions and concerns around their lifestyle and how the brand sits in service of their needs?
- How can the brand be an enabler of their lifestyle desires?
- What is the emotional fabric and connectivity we can identify between the brand and the consumer's self-interests?
- How can we best mine emotion since the purchase decision is going to be made by heart rather than head?
For food brands, culinary or healthy lifestyle inspiration is a great place to start because it immediately looks at food through the experience of adventure and eating enjoyment, and the dynamics of higher quality life.
- An example: you can emphasize educational data on the healthy benefits of vegetable consumption, or you can move on the more indulgent flavor experiences of improved vegetable preparation (roasting for example). The indulgent flavor approach will win the battle every time on increasing consumption.
Why? Because we're human beings first – ruled by our sub-conscious and inevitably tethered to the emotions that govern what we do. This is the path we must follow we get to effectiveness and outcomes that are transformational!
Worth noting that the work produced by Cole & Weber in its heyday, that won respect and awards in the creative community, and client affections, was largely about emotional forms of outreach. It continues to be heart over head…
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ECCO introduces the NEW EW3000 and EW3010 Series Remote Spotlights
ECCO a leading manufacturer of commercial vehicle warning and safety equipment has announced the release of two motorised searchlights. The new EW3000 and EW3010 Series spotlights can be installed wirelessly and are available in black and white housings.
The EW3000 Series spotlights offer 350-degree rotation, a 90-degree tilt range and patent-pending reflective optics. The searchlight's motor and gearing is not exposed protecting the inside light from corrosion, UV and impact. This powerful light packs 1750 raw lumens with a 2,050-foot beam distance and 1.7 amps.
Rounding out the new line of remote spotlights are the feature-packed EW3010 and EW3011, which include all the features in the EW3000 series. ECCO's exclusive design for the EW3010 series includes a "home" setting, which returns the light to its original location when powered off. The searchlights house 10, five-watt LEDs, offer 360-degree continuous rotation, a 135-degre tilt range and offers an optional in-dash joystick controller. The automotive-grade searchlights produce 2250 raw lumens with a 3,925-foot beam distance and include slow and fast rotation settings.
Both series are available in permanent or magnet mount and backed by 5 years warranty.


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Get ready, soccer fans, UEFA Euro 2016 is almost here! Think England is the country that invented football? Let me prove you wrong. Nope, it's not England but China! Surprised? Well, check out this post to discover 10 Chinese inventions we bet you never thought were Chinese.read more
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Contact: MLS Communications
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New York Red Bulls midfielder Daniel Royer voted Alcatel MLS Player of the Month
NEW YORK (Friday, August 4, 2017) – New York Red Bulls midfielder Daniel Royer was voted the Alcatel MLS Player of the Month by members of the media for the month of July of the 2017 Major League Soccer season.
The Austrian National Team player scored six goals and added one assist in July, leading the Red Bulls to a perfect 4-0-0 record in the month while scoring a goal in every match. Royer ranks second on the Red Bulls with 10 goals scored to go along with two assists this season. New York sits fourth in the Eastern Conference standings (11-8-2, 35 points) and currently holds a league-best four-game winning streak.
Royer began the month with a penalty kick goal in the 55th minute of the Red Bulls 3-2 victory over the New England Revolution on July 5 at Gillette Stadium (Watch Goal). Following a two-week break in action, Royer continued his scoring ways with a brace in New York's 5-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on July 19. Royer scored a goal from a tough angle in the 90th minute to extend the Red Bulls' lead to 4-1 (Watch Goal) before adding another goal in the 91st minute after freeing himself of a defender with an athletic cutback move (Watch Goal).
The 27-year-old scored a goal and added an assist in a 3-0 victory over Minnesota United FC on July 22, putting the Red Bulls on the board in the 19th minute with a stunning long range shot (Watch Goal) before finding Bradley Wright-Phillips with a perfectly placed downfield pass to give New York a 2-0 lead in the 67th minute (Watch Assist).
Royer capped his month with a brace in New York's 4-0 victory over the Montreal Impact on July 29, opening the match with a penalty kick goal in the 23rd minute (Watch Goal). The Red Bulls took a 4-0 lead in the 89th minute on Royer's shot from the right side of the box to complete his second multi-goal performance of the month (Watch Goal).
The New York Red Bulls next take on rival New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, August 6 (6 p.m. ET, FS1/FOX Deportes/TSN2).
The Alcatel MLS Player of the Month is voted upon by a panel of select national media members in a process conducted by MLS Communications.


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WARSAW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Poles protested on Thursday against a new law that allows parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges, defying a European Union warning that the move undermines democracy and the rule of law.
The bill, sponsored by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), was passed by parliament's lower house earlier in the day after tumultuous debate. That triggered one of the biggest protests since the PiS came to power in late 2015.
The vote came a day after the EU gave its largest formerly communist member state a week to shelve judicial reforms that Brussels says would put courts under direct government control.
If Warsaw's nationalist-minded PiS does not back down, the government could face fines and even a suspension of voting rights, although other eurosceptics in the EU, notably Hungary, will likely veto strict punishment.
In the best-case scenario, Poland will see its clout in Brussels wane further, damaged by mounting frustration among its EU peers arising from bitter disputes over issues such as migrant quotas and nature conservation.
"We will ... not allow them to trample European values," Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, leader of the Polish People's Party (PSL), told a crowd in Warsaw. "We will not allow ourselves to be pushed out of the European Union."
A crowd in front of the Presidential Palace, carrying Polish and EU flags responded by chanting, "Free Poland, European!" "Free Poland, European!"
Sources close to the Presidential Palace told Reuters that President Andrzej Duda was on vacation on the Baltic seacoast.
Warsaw City Hall estimated the crowd at more than 50,000, while police put it at 14,000. Tens of thousands demonstrated in other Polish cities.
"I wanted to be here on this historic day when our freedoms for which we fought for more than 25 years are being taken away," said Piotr, 48, who came to the protests in Warsaw with his 5-year-old son.
The government says the changes are needed to make courts accountable and to ensure state institutions serve all Poles, not just the "elites" it says are the support base for the centrist opposition.
PiS has offered no concessions, instead presenting the criticism as unacceptable foreign meddling in the domestic affairs of the country, which overthrew communism in 1989 and joined the EU in 2004.
"We will not give into pressure," Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said on Thursday evening in a special state television address defending the bill. "We will not be intimidated by Polish and foreign defenders of the interests of the elite."
The bill will go to parliament's upper house on Friday, where PiS has an absolute majority. Duda, a PiS ally, will have to sign it before it can become law.
Critics at home and abroad say the legislation is part of a drift towards authoritarianism by the government, which espouses nationalist rhetoric coupled with left-leaning economic policy.
"We are concerned about (the) Polish government's continued pursuit of legislation that appears to limit the judiciary and potentially weaken the rule of law in Poland," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters in Washington, according to an official transcript.
"We continue to watch that situation very carefully. We continue to have conversations at the highest level with the government of Poland and express our concerns about that," she added.
Since being elected in 2015, PiS has tightened government control over courts and prosecutors, as well as state media, and introduced restrictions on public gatherings and the activity of non-governmental organisations.
Last week, parliament passed another bill that ends the terms of current members of the National Council of the Judiciary, one of the main judicial bodies, and gives parliament powers to choose 15 of its 25 members.
Political opponents, rights groups and the EU say the changes undermine the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary, a fundamental democratic principle.
While PiS remains broadly popular among many Poles, particularly poorer and older voters from the countryside, there have been widespread protests against the plans.
European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish centrist prime minister and arch-adversary of PiS, said on Thursday he had asked Duda for an urgent meeting about the "political crisis" in the country.
Tusk said in a statement that PiS moves on courts were backward, went "against European standards and values", harmed Poland's reputation and risked marginalising the country.
"The European Union is not only money and procedures. It is first and foremost values and high standards of public life. That is why a wave of criticism of the government is rising in Europe and in the whole West," Tusk said.
A senior aide to Duda, Krzysztof Szczerski, said Tusk should instead focus on explaining Poland's stance in Brussels.
"The president is surprised that there has been such increased engagement in this matter by European institutions because everything is in accordance with the Polish legal order," Szczerski told Reuters in an emailed statement.
The bill passed on Thursday calls for replacing all Supreme Court judges except those elected by a judicial panel that is to be chosen by the parliament. The Supreme Court's tasks include validating elections.
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So I have been noticing Jesus' posture lately as I read my Bible. Yes, I know that out of all of the theological concepts that I could focus on, this seems an odd one, but it all started when I was looking at Mark chapter 5. In this passage, Jesus is touched by the woman with the flow of blood and she receives healing and "he turns to face her." Did He need to turn to her? Did He need to acknowledge her? No, in fact, socially speaking, it was completely the wrong thing to do; but, He chose to do so. He chose to place upon her the dignity that, one made in God's image deserved, by acknowledging her when the rest of the world had refused to do so. When Jesus ends an evening meal with his friends, he takes the posture of a servant, and on his knees, washes their feet. Is this posture required of Him? Of course not, but in assuming this posture He teaches us about humility, service and love. When Jesus speaks to the Pharisees who have caught a woman in the act of adultery, He bends down and begins writing in the sand a message that we are not privy to. What does His posture demonstrate to us? To me it reminds me to not look so closely at the sins of another when I have plenty of my own. It reminds me of Jesus' compassion as He takes the focus off of the offender and on to something else, and in so doing, alleviates her humiliation for the moment. And what about his posture in the temple when He discovered it occupied by thieves and money changers? He was no shrinking violet when faced with the blasphemous acts of those in attendance. He was fiercely protective of His father's house and His posture shows this as He gathered whip in hand, to intimidate offenders into fleeing and turned tables of those selling sacrifices.
The posture that Christ took throughout His earthly ministry was revealing, but none as much as the one He took last. At the cross Christ opened His arms wide and both surrendered and embraced at the same time. He surrendered Himself to the plan of His father. After His very human prayer to have "this cup pass," Christ chose to not only pick up His cross and carry it, but to be nailed upon it with a viciousness that we will never know. What his enemies didn't realize is that they pinned Him into the perfect posture for receiving--His arms wide open. This was God's plan all along. With His arms wide open, he surrendered himself and embraced our sin, and in so doing, made it possible for us to enter into eternal relationship with Him.
As you may have noticed, the name of my speaking/counseling/coaching/writing ministry is Arms Wide Open Ministry. I hadn't thought about this final posture of Christ when I picked the name, but I do love what the posture reminds me: To live my life in such a way that I am in constant surrender to God's plans for me and to therefore receive all that he decides to lavishly pour into my life. When the time comes that I fulfill my purposes on this earth and Jesus invites me to join him in heaven, I imagine the heavenly gates opening and the obligatory clouds parting to reveal my Heavenly Father greeting me.... with arms wide open.
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The Posture of Christ
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The best
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I have vintech's neve 1272 pre as an outboard.
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Hundreds attend funeral of Bronx teenager who was slashed to death with a machete after being dragged out of bodega in case of mistaken identity by 'Dominican street gang'
Hundreds attend funeral of Bronx teenager who was slashed to death with a machete after being dragged out of bodega in case of mistaken identity by 'Dominican street gang'
- Lesandro 'Junior' Guzman-Felix's funeral took place on Wednesday at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
- Crowds lined the streets to pay their respects to the 15-year-old who was murdered on June 20
- Pall bearers wore Yankees jerseys to carry Lesandro's coffin into the church as crowds watched
- Eight men aged 18 to 24 from New Jersey and the Bronx are all in custody on murder charges
- Police believe they are members of the Dominican street gang Trintarios and targeted Junior mistakenly
- They allegedly mistook him for a rival gang member who was filmed on Snapchat having sex with one of their girlfriends
Hundreds of people turned out to attend the funeral of a 15-year-old Bronx teenager who was brutally murdered on June 20, allegedly by a Dominican street gang in a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Lesandro 'Junior' Guzman-Felix was stabbed to death on June 20 after being dragged out of a bodega screaming by a gang of men.
Horrifying surveillance video of the attack has shocked the city and sparked calls for a crackdown on gang violence.
On Wednesday, mourners packed into Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church to bid farewell to Junior, an aspiring policeman.
The service went between Spanish and English and included several readings from the bible. At the heart of the service was a plea to the young people in the congregation to take a stand against violence.
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'In the name of Jesus, I invite you to renew your commitment. It's a commitment, as human beings and as Christians, to protect the life of our people.
'To prevent another tragedy. It is possible to prevent it. We have friends, social media, we know what is going on.
'We have friends, relatives. Young people who are here, take courage. Protect your life, watch out.
'If you see something, say something and do something. Don't just take the video. Do something,' said the pastor.
The streets surrounding the church were lined with barricades to control the crowds.
It comes after two days of wakes of vigils outside the bodega where the teenager was murdered.
Seven men, all of whom are said to be members of the Dominican street gang Trintarios, were arrested on Sunday and Monday and charged with his death.
They are Jose Muniz, 21, Jose Taverez, 21, Manuel Rivera, 18, Danel Fernandez, 21, Joniki Martinez, 24,Santiago Rodriguez, 24, and Kevin Alvarez, 19.
Six of the men were arrested in New Jersey and are awaiting extradition to the Bronx where they will face murder charges on Wednesday.


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Adams, Cameron and Co. Realtors raised more than $5,000 for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, at the company's Oct. 5 luncheon.
The real estate firm's 16th-annual event, which was held at its office at 759 Granada Blvd., was attended by approximately 200 people.
The proceeds from the luncheon, as well as from other fundraisers, will be pooled together with money collected by other real estate companies, and sent to the American Cancer Society.
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This post is by the Leadership Foundation programme director Doug Parkin, and is based on a DVC/PVC Network event, which was an exchange between senior leaders from higher education and the NHS, to explore the nature of creating and leading in an innovative culture. The Leadership Foundation hosts this network for senior higher education leaders twice a year, and the themes and topics for discussion are recommended by network members.
Building innovative practice to meet the fast changing needs of patients, families, communities and policy makers is a challenge the NHS has faced at an ever increasing rate over the last twenty-five years or more. Alongside this the risks, accountabilities, expectations, and levels of scrutiny have grown with care quality, compassion and patient dignity now as much in the headlines as any chronic disease or new source of infection. But implementing strategic change within organisations as large and complex as an NHS Foundation Trust at the same time as preserving the energy and commitment of staff is far from easy. How to approach this in terms of lessons learnt, insights gained, obstacles overcome and pitfalls to avoid was very much the objective in terms of the shared learning this event focussed upon.
The day was attended by DVCs and PVCs from 24 higher education institutions. There was clear recognition from the outset that the opportunity for transferable learning was high and the value of considering transformational change 'through the eyes of another sector' could be of great benefit.
Setting the scene
To set the scene for the day there was a short review of the strategy landscape surrounding both sectors. This highlighted many of the similarities in terms of the pressures, challenges and drivers for change that become quickly apparent when higher education and healthcare in the UK are looked at side-by-side. With the possible exception of mortality rates (though students 'dropping out' may present a parallel) the ideas and issues to do with patient-centred care and student-centred learning has many overlaps. The student experience and the patient experience are equally high on both strategic agendas and operational imperatives. Over the last few years when politicians and policy makers have talked about "tough times", "radical reform" and the need for "big decisions" in a "complex and uncertain world" their rhetoric could have been aimed at either sector. Funding, governance, demographics, community engagement, staff empowerment, the relationship with the 'user/customer', rights and risks, growing public expectations and discussions about where the care/study should take place are all factors driving innovation and change in both higher education and the NHS.
Thinking about what should not change as well as what should/could is an important, but sometimes overlooked part of any strategic conversation. To highlight this the group took a moment early on to reflect on the core purpose and the enduring principles that lie behind the establishment of both sectors in the UK context. It is timely, fifty years on, to reflect back on the Robbins principle (1963) that Higher Education should be "available to all qualified by ability and attainment" and to contrast this with the words of Bevan (1948) that healthcare should be "free at the point of delivery" and that "no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means". Perhaps this gives a true insight into the meaning of 'widening participation'.
The heart of the day
The day was led by three excellent speakers:
- Professor Judy McKimm, Dean of Medical Education, Swansea University
- Rohna Kearney, Consultant, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Deborah Jenkins MBE, Chair, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The day was framed by a comprehensive review of how universities are responding to the challenge of preparing professionals to meet increasing expectations from patients and students within a rapidly changing service landscape and also heightened economic constraints. Judy McKimm used developments in medical education and training in the UK to illustrate how professional attributes such as care, compassion and resilience are finding prominence within already crowded curricula to ensure that tomorrow's health service leaders are equipped to model and promote these core qualities. A wide range of implications flow from this in terms of the balancing act university programmes need to achieve between tailored training with close support for the individual student and robust quality assurance processes that ensure 'fitness to practice' criteria are systematically met. This has led to changes, for example, in curriculum design, new ideas around the use of technology for learning and fresh thinking with regard to the assessment of both academic attainment and professional values and competency.
Inspirational case studies
Rohna Kearney and Deborah Jenkins presented contrasting case studies, both inspirational in different ways, which provided a strong stimulus for discussion. Rohna took the group through a fascinating user-centred model for self-managed care of a minor procedure. This example showed how the energy and commitment of one individual championing a new approach, focussed on empowering the user and challenging accepted norms, can lead to both better outcomes and a freeing up of expensive specialist resources. A powerful message that came from this was that a relatively small investment in the right project at the right time can create a model of change with the potential to be taken-up on a much wider scale. The user-centred nature of this change was very striking!
From the perspective of an influential chair of a large NHS Foundation Trust, Deborah Jenkins put across very powerfully an organisation-wide perspective on how challenging it is to keep user engagement firmly at the centre of a complex change agenda (a very resonant message for universities at the current time). The leadership challenges were brought to life with a combination of humour and passion looking at everything from difficulties of communication through to local community involvement and how to interact with staff at different levels. Some key messages around priorities such as "sort the mundane and aim for the extraordinary" gave a new twist to strategic thinking and tips on implementing strategy such as the importance of sticking with identified improvements clearly struck a chord with the audience.
Reflection and application
Through table discussions the network group were invited to reflect on the ideas and approaches that had struck them from the case studies and to draw parallels with examples of/opportunities for user-centred change in their own institutional settings. The discussions were wide-ranging and included everything from improving assessment and feedback through to the integration of student services and the realignment of academic priorities. Similar challenges were identified across the two sectors in terms of empowering staff, freeing up senior strategic resource and crucially how to take a whole-organisation approach to leading change and inspiring innovation.
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Once up on a time,in another age, number of parrots were dwelling in the forest.They had plenty of fruit to eat, tall trees to sleep in,and clear skies to swoop and dart about in as they pleased.Yet they were troubled persistently by a cruel hunter,who would lay his traps,tempting the birds with tasty grain and catching large numbers of them every day.Indeed,the population dwindled to such an extent their elders began to fear lest their race disappear entirely from the forest.They held meeting, with twittering and chattering,and resolved that their leader should approach a venerable old rishi living at the other side of the forest to request his assistance. without delay,the leader took off and presently reached the rishi's hermitage.Approching that great personage with all due respect and humility, and making the proper salutin,he began.
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"O honourable one! I am leader of the parrots of this forest. Our numbers are diminishing daily on aount of the cruel hunter who is catching us in his traps.Pray advice us,holy sir,what is to be done."
The old rishi replied "Certainly i can point out the remedy. Even though the hunter sets his traps there is no danger to you if you are not tempted by the tasty grain which he spreads inside; So be satisfied with the fruits and nuts so bountifully provided by the lord ,All you have to remember is not to eat the grain."
Our parrot was overjoyed that the problem could be solved easily,Yet a doubt still remained------ "O noble sage" he said,"we parrots are not noted for our intellect,nor for our long memories.I fear that the excellent advice which your revered self has given may quickly slip out of our minds."
"That also is easily solved"replied the rishi graciously."just repeat the rhyme I shall now give you a number of times so as to fix it firmly in your mind."
"The hunter will set his traps
The hunter will spread his grain
We will never eat the grain
So we won't fall in the trap"
Our parrot repeated the rhyme a number of times and got it fixed firmly in his mind .He felt very pleased with himself. Humbly accepting a few nuts by way of prasadam,add taking leave respectfully of the old rishi,he took again to the air.
As soon as he reached his part of the forest,the parrots all crowded round eagerly to hear what the rishi had advised.
"Friends"said the parrot"the noble rishi has given us a wonderful solution.All we have to do is repeat this rhyme.You all learn it immediately"And he repeated it for all to hear.After a little effort all the parrots learnt it by heart.It caught on like wildfire.On all sides the parrots could be heard repeating it over and over again:they repeated it even while attending to their daily duties and there was general rejoicing.
The next day the hunter came to the forest.He set his traps, and spread the grain as usual.The witless birds,even while repeating their new rhyme,saw the grain,swooped down to eat it, and were all caught in the hunter's trap.Some of the birds went on repeating the rhyme even after getting caught!
On hearing the rhyme from them the hunter laughed loud and long."You foolish birds. Even though the holy man gave you sound advice,You were happy merely to repeat it instead of considering itsmeaning and acting upon it. Now you are all trapped.You fully deserve your fate".So saying,he bundled up all the parrots and took them off to the market.
Matrusri Monthly Journal (English) | Vol.18 | June 1983 | No.3


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Food Industry in India
About Food IndustryFood Industry in India comprises of various segments like fisheries, plantation, fruits and vegetables and confectionery to name a few. Food Industry in India has grown over the last few years and it is expected to be worth more than US$ 310 billion by 2015.
Details of food industry in India:India is the second biggest food producer in the world and it has the potential to become the largest producer of food in the whole world. Food Industry in India includes milk and milk products, plantation, alcoholic beverages, vegetables and fruits, fisheries, poultry and meat, grain processing, chocolates, and confectionery.
The Food Industry in India exported products worth around US$ 5.8 billion in 1998 while the total world food export stood at US$ 438 billion. This shows that although India is one of the biggest food producers in the world, it accounted for only 1.5% of the international trade in food as in 1998.
Reasons for the growth of the food industry
- Increased urbanization in the country has given a boost to the food industry in India.
- Majority of the women in the country are working as a result of which families have extra income which they are spending in buying food.
- The standard of living in the country has improved as a result of which there has been an increased demand for food.
- Supermarkets and malls have opened all over the country and this has helped in making shopping for food a pleasurable experience.
- The consumers can select, inspect and pick up food items that they like in an ambience that is comfortable. This too has helped to boost the sale of food products in the country
Major companies in the food industry
- Nestle India Ltd.
- Kelloggs India
- Cadbury's India Ltd.
- MTR Foods Ltd.
- Hindustan Lever Ltd.
- Godrej Foods
- ITC-Agro
- Coca-Cola
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Ingredients: pork loin, pork liver, beets, fennel, oregano, and sea salt.


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These long-lived perennials range from exquisitely delicate singles to large and lush doubles, with shades from pure white to the deepest red. Here in Connecticut they usually produce their display in June, and their glossy, deep green leaves look good all season. Peonies make superior cut flowers, lasting more than a week if cut in full bud.
We offer both Herbaceous and Tree Peonies, and occasionally Intersectional Peonies which are a cross between the two. Herbaceous Peonies die back to the ground in winter and send up new growth in the spring. Tree Peonies, listed below with their botanical designation Paeonia suffruticosa, are woody plants that retain their structure year-round. Tree Peonies are slow to mature—don't be surprised if there are few or no flowers the first spring after planting; plants generally take a few years to settle in and bloom heavily.


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Dierks Bentley has been recording new music for a year, and I had no idea.
But now I do. I also know the album title is Black, I know he wrote about half of the songs on it, and I know it's mysterious and sexy and edgy.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the title track is about "the enduring spark of long-term monogamy," which I'm guessing is music to his wife Cassidy's ears.
Bentley told EW that to him, black is the sexiest color.
"This record has a sexiness, in a well-worn leather-jacket kind of way," he said. "It's not glossy sexy — there's a realness to it. The kicker is that my wife's last name is Black.
"Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It's like, 'I know what you've been through, but you don't know what it's like over here.'"
In a press release, Bentley called Black a relationship album.
"And to do it right, I had to dig deep as a writer, dig into the Nashville songwriting community and record songs that explore the shadows and edges of the heart. The songs on Black range from the lonesomeness of an impossible relationship to ones that describe the feeling of finding that person that makes you forget the one that broke your heart."
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The two founders of Green Egg Media are both alumni of the University of Notre Dame, so when the Broadcast Media Coordinator for Student Media at ND came to us about producing a new website to showcase all student media offerings at the school we were more than ready to get started.
- Date:01.10.09 - 12.10.09
- Client:University of Notre Dame
- Discipline:Web Design, Web Development, ExpressionEngine
Our Approach
The University of Notre Dame has extremely rich offerings in both print and broadcast media, including newspapers, magazine, a yearbook, two radio stations, and a completely student-run 24 hour television station, NDtv. (As an aside, both founders of Green Egg Media served as Executive Director of NDtv while students there.) We were excited to design and build a website that would allow students, administrators, and the general public to learn all about these amazing media programs.


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|This article is about a/an monster in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
- "Like I say, never send a bat to do a bird's job! "
- ―Birdbane angered after the Batlings only got regular eggs.[src]
- "You pesky Rangers are ruffling the wrong feathers."
- ―Birdbane after being stop by Carter.[src]
Birdbane is a crow demon and the king of all airborne demons and is one of the many monsters to be summoned by Jinxer, he serves as the main villain of the episode "The Great Egg Caper".
When a egg that contains a powerful monster gets stolen by a thief, Jinxer is in desperate need for help, so he summons a monster to help him find the egg. He unleashed Birdbane, a crow-like monster to find the egg, he hit Jinxer by accident when he was summoned, Jinxer was worried due to the fact that he ended up with a "cuckoo bird" and not a warrior, but Birdbane calmed him down by reminding him that "he's the king of all airborn demons ", he first had the Batlings look in a store, but he was angered to find out that they only got ordinary eggs, the Rangers confront them and tricks the bird monster into saying what the egg does. He then boasts of how he'll get the egg first before papers fall from the sky, notching the fate of the egg if they don't bring $20,000, they rushed back to get money, Birdbane and his army of Batlings (in there human forms) came in with a case of money. A toy helicopter with an egg in the net came, the thief tells them to put the money in the trash can, after doing so it was revealed to be a trick, as the egg was really a ball, furious of being tricked, he sends the Batlings to stop him, he was going to aid them until being stopped by Carter (who along with the other Rangers were in disguise), while Kelsey goes out to help the thief, the other Rangers took on Birdbane, the monster was a tough opponent and had the upper hand, until the Yellow Ranger came to the rescue, but Birdbane was still too powerful. He was about to finish them off until the thief came in and through the egg back to the monster, with Birdbanes back turned, the Rangers had the perfect chance to use the Rescue Bird's Unilaser on him, destroying both Birdbane and the egg, Jinxer (who is angered by the egg being destroyed) came by and blasted the thief, he then used an Advanced Growth Card to make Birdbane grow into his advanced form. In this form, Birdbane gains armor and shoulder pads. the Rangers summon the Supertrain Megazord to battle Birdbane, the Rangers try to use the Turbine attack on him, but it had no effect and the monster made a beat down on it, when Birdbane was close enough, the Rangers used the gatling blasters on it, destroying his armor, with the monster weakened, the Rangers used the turbine attack again to destroy Birdbane once and for all. The Great Egg Caper
Birdbane has a very cocky personality and tends to have a sense of humor, he does tend to speak in a bunch of gibberish, but when it comes to fighting, he takes it very serious and will stop at nothing to get the egg back. He is also loyal to Jinxer.
Powers And Abilities
- Human Form: Birdbane can transform into a human.
- Teleportation: Birdbane can teleport to any location.
- Strength: Despite his goof-off personality and appearance, Birdbane is surprisingly strong, powerful enough to best all five Lightspeed Rangers in battle.
- Claws: Birdbane has clawed hands for close melee combat.
- Beak: Burdbane has a has a large beak to chomp his enemies with.
- Feather Bombs: Burdbane can launch feathers that will stick on the victim and explode.
Advanced Form
- Armor: Birdbane has super strong armor that can withstand most attacks.
- Flight: Being a bird-type monster, Birdbane can fly at high speeds, it is possible that Birdbane already had this ability before being grown into his advanced form, but it wasn't used.
- Claws: Birdbane retains his claws to aid him in combat.
Behind The Scenes
- Birdbane is voiced by Michael Sorich.
- His human Form Is Played By Jon Briddell
- His voice does resemble of the late Ed Wynn , the actor, who voiced The Mad Hatter from Walt Disney's 1951 Animated adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.
See Also
- Garaga (GoGoFive) - Super Sentai counterpart in GoGoFive. See comparison page.


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One of the most overlooked ways to maximize your advertising efforts has to be the credit card used to pay for advertising.
Depending on which company you choose, you can see rewards in the form of cash back, points for travel, and some even include nice sign-up bonuses. Another added perk of using some of the cards we list below is that they tend to help with increasing your spending limits in your ad accounts much quicker than if you were not using them.
Now, who you decide to go with depends on a variety of factors. Are you looking to pay employees? Travel for free? Or, maybe you're just looking to organize your finances? Whatever your goals may be, if you're spending a nice chunk of change on advertising, whether it be Facebook, Google, or the like, it is definitely in your best interest to choose the card that is right for you.
Below we listed several of the cards we both use ourselves, and have considered using in the past. This is in no way financial advice. This is just simply something that we feel is worth looking into, and it is a decision that can help you take your business to the next level.
Credit Cards to Use if you Travel:
If you travel extensively for your business we highly recommend you give the Amex Gold or Amex Platinum a shot.
These cards come with some awesome benefits, and from what we've seen on the market, these two cards have the best travel perks around. Right now they're offering 50,000-75,000 sign up bonus points, 3-5x points on pretty much all business expenses, and there is no annual fee for the first year. These cards also come with a ton of additional benefits like travel insurance, damage protection, priority flights and hotels, and much more.
Credit Card for Maximum Cashback:
Next up, and this for those folks who maybe do not have the need to travel, but are still looking for the maximum benefit, we would recommend the Plum Card from Amex. This card comes with a nice 1.5% cashback on all purchases and allows you to pay off the full balance each month, or carry it for 60 days interest-free.
Honorable Mentions:
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There are definitely perks to each one of the cards listed above, and as long as you're taking advantage of one of them you're well ahead of others who continue to use payments methods without the added perks. This is essentially free money, and all you need to do is fill out an application, and start using your new business card for your advertising and business expenses. Basically, what it all comes down to is figuring out which perk will be most beneficial to you and your business and giving it a go.
Choosing Between Travel & Cashback
Cashback is great if you don't travel much, and while travel is deductible for business, the value you get with points (when used properly) is far better than the value of the cash back or the travel write off. For instance; you get 1.5% cashback with AMEX Plum. If you had 1-3x miles (depending on the card) used on international business/first class flights, you would end up getting just about 4-8% "cash back" or 4-8x the value of cash back.
For Example:
Let's say I spend 100,000 in advertising on Facebook…
- Plum: $1,500 cash back
- Gold Card Amex: 300,000 points
- Platinum Amex: 100,000 points
For the sake of argument, let's go on the low end and just use the 100,000 points as an example. You can transfer those 100k points to Virgin Atlantic for a one-way ticket from US>Europe and it will only cost you about 80,000 miles give or take. That ticket if you purchase it is about $8,000. Even after tax deductions, it comes out to a net cost of $4,000 to you that could have gone in your pocket assuming a 50% tax rate which is high. Using the points though thats $8,000 value you get instead of the $1,500 cash back. Almost 8x! 🙂
Obviously, if you dont travel internationally much then you won't get the benefit of this. But, for people like me who travel a LOT, the points come out to be a WAY better deal for international travel.
The bottom line, these credit card companies make it easy for you to earn points, redeem your rewards, and make necessary business purchases. This one small decision can add a tremendous amount of value to both yourself and your business alike and we highly recommend you take a look at your options and start reaping the rewards today!
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Μunicipality of Volos
In May 2010, the Greek Parliament voted for the "Kallikratis Plan" that constitutes the new design and organization of the local authorities, aiming at the reduction of the number of the municipalities and their legal entities.
Of course Pelion could not be an exemption from the Plan of unification, and the derived new Municipalities of Volos and Pelion, including villages, are: Municipality of Volos, Municipality of Zagora-Mouresi and Municipality of South Pelion.
The Municipality of Volos is based in homonym Volos and resulted from the union of pre-existing Municipalities of: Agrias, Aisonias, Artemidas, Volou, Iolkou, Neas Achialos, Neas Ionias, Portarias and the Community of Makrinitsa.
The villages - areas within the municipality are:
Agia Paraskevi
Ano Volos
Kato Lechonia
The Municipality of Zagora-Mouresi is based in homonym Zagora and resulted from the union of pre-existing Municipalities of Zagora and Mouresi...
South Pelion
The Municipality of South Pelion is based in Argalasti and resulted from the union of pre-existing municipalities of: Afetes, Argalastis, Milies, Sipiadas and Community of Trikeri...


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