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10 Nifty Tips for Better Business Cards
Not having a business card is as bad as using an eMail address that ends in AOL.com It's just not professional. With domain names costing less that 9 bucks a year, there's no excuse for anyone in business to have an AOL.com address. With business cards costing less than 9 bucks at the big box store, there's no excuse for anyone in business not to pass them about. Here are BIG Mike's 10 Nifty Tips for Better Business Cards Don't Do It At Home Get your Own Logo Put YOU in the Middle Forget the Beeper Number Throw 'em Away When ANYTHING Changes Keep it Simple Use Both Sides Stick with White Never Leave Home Without One Present It With A FLAIR For more on business cards, get my article "What Does Your Business Card Say". Click the link to send a blank message BizCardSay@BigIdeasGroup.com Sig: �2005 BIG Mike McDaniel All Rights Reserved Mike@BIGIdeasGroup.com BIGIdeasGroup.com">http://BIGIdeasGroup.com Subscribe to "BIG Mike's BIG Ideas" Newsletter MailTo:subscribe-956603364@ezinedirector.net
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Continue reading...‘Salvini decree’ threatens to make thousands not eligible for refugee status homeless Italian priests have declared their willingness to “open the church doors of every single parish” to people expelled from reception centres as an anti-immigration law from Italy’s rightwing government threatens to make thousands homeless. The so-called “Salvini decree” – named after Matteo Salvini, the interior minister and leader of the far-right League – left hundreds in legal limbo when its removal of humanitarian protection for those not eligible for refugee status but otherwise unable to return home was applied by several Italian cities soon after its approval by parliament earlier this month. Continue reading...Manifesto by progressive Europeans calls for €800bn of levies to tackle inequality, disillusionment, climate change and migration A group of progressive Europeans led by the economist and author Thomas Piketty has drawn up a bold new blueprint for a fairer Europe to address the division, disenchantment, inequality and rightwing populism sweeping the continent. The plan, crafted by more than 50 economists, historians and former politicians from half a dozen countries, includes huge levies on multinationals, millionaires and carbon emissions to generate funds to tackle the most urgent issues of the day, including poverty, migration, climate change and the EU’s so-called democratic deficit. Continue reading...Princess Masako, who suffers from a stress-related illness, will become empress when her husband ascends the throne next year Japan’s crown Princess Masako has said she feels “insecure” about her duties as empress when her husband, crown prince Naruhito, ascends the Chrysanthemum throne next year, as her doctors warned that she continued to experience symptoms of her stress-related illness. In an unusually candid statement to mark her 55th birthday on Sunday, Masako added that she would do her best after Naruhito succeeds his 84-year-old father, Akihito, who on 30 April will become the first Japanese emperor to abdicate for 200 years. Continue reading...Kingdom rejects demands to arrest former Saudi intelligence chief Ahmad al-Assiri and former royal adviser Saud al-Qahtani Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has rejected demands to extradite suspects connected to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as sought by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “We do not extradite our citizens,” Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh at the end of a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council states. Continue reading...Readers thought story was cryptic allegory, but its creator was firm: ‘It’s just a story about rabbits’ It has been endlessly picked apart and analysed and described as an allegory for both communism and Christianity but the daughters of Richard Adams have revealed the true meaning of Watership Down. “It’s just a story about rabbits.” Rosamond and Juliet, to whom the story was first told to keep them quiet in the car, have spoken ahead of a two-part animation to be shown on BBC1 over Christmas. Continue reading...As the city’s homeless population has grown, squatting projects have become more organised in an attempt to secure abandoned houses as homes for the poor. All photographs by Sanne Derks Continue reading...Survivors of the 2015 quake that killed almost 9,000 people around Kathmandu now face another challenge they didn’t expect Ratna Awale counts herself lucky. She and her husband, Prem, and their two sons survived the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015 that killed almost 9,000 people. But her narrow four-storey home in Patan, a sprawling, historical city south of Kathmandu, was badly damaged. “There were big cracks from the back of the house to the front wall, and half the ground floor collapsed,” she says. Continue reading...Teachers and activists in Heraklion explain how they drove the ultra-nationalist, far-right Greek party from the island Washing hangs from the balconies of an unassuming apartment block on Irodotou street in Heraklion, the capital of Crete. Outside, children ride bikes and old men play cards in a coffee shop. But before May this year, this building looked rather different. A sign hung outside reading: “Golden Dawn, Heraklion region”. The ultra-nationalist, far-right Greek party used this street as its local base. It was local teachers who first spotted its influence. “Two of my 13-year-old students had family problems,” recalls Maria Oikonomaki, 50. “Golden Dawn approached them in cafes and the gym, presenting themselves as family and protectors. They took them for coffee and gave them lessons on Greek history.” Continue reading...The world’s biggest iron ore tunnel mine is about to swallow the Swedish city of Kiruna. The company’s answer? Move the city The crack appeared a few years ago, and has been creeping towards the town of Kiruna ever since. “The mines are underneath us,” says Göran Cars. It’s early afternoon but the sun is already setting behind the mountain, colouring the clouds and outlining the town’s most prominent feature: two huge smokestacks. “And you can see the direction of the cracks – coming from the mine, and going straight up to the city centre.” Continue reading...We asked readers for their thoughts on ‘non‑capitalist living’ and were deluged with replies. Here are their ideas for everyday ways to buck the system As the new Amazon advert goes, can you feel it? Amid the encroaching dark and increasingly foul weather, December is synonymous with stampedes to the supermarket, endless online clicks and the massed roar of delivery lorries – or, to be reductive about it, capitalism at its most joyful and triumphant. Clearly, though, such things are only part of who we are, even at this time of year. As the American activist Rebecca Solnit puts it in her short but brilliant book Hope in the Dark: “Vast amounts of how we live our everyday lives – our interactions with and commitments to family lives, friendships, avocations, membership in social, spiritual and political organisations – are in essence non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist, full of things we do for free, out of love and on principle.” Continue reading...Exclusive: Arguments in favour of capping rent inflation ‘overwhelming’, Khan tells MP The mayor of London has hinted that he is considering introducing rent controls across the capital in a radical overhaul of private rental laws. Sadiq Khan told an MP that London needed to adopt a “strategic approach to rent stabilisation and control”, since the arguments in favour of capping rent inflation are becoming “overwhelming”. Continue reading...Populism preys on rose-tinted memories of past glories and distorts it into something ugly “The Russians blame everything on their government, the Americans on their parents, and the Poles on history.” So said the Russian-born American poet Joseph Brodsky. If he were alive today, he might have added: “And the leading Brexiters blame everything on the loss of an imaginary past.” The seeds of this nostalgia were, of course, present in Britain long before the referendum, but years of austerity and inequality, topped with incendiary debates on refugees and discontent with the status quo, generated a feeling of longing for the “good old days”. Some 63% of British citizens think life was better and easier in the past. The Brexit hardliners exploited this emotional nostalgia for their own political interests. History is purged of its dark chapters, stripped of its complexity, simplified and sanitised. Facts do not matter. 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Continue reading...After the inter-American court ruled in her favour against the Venezuelan state, Linda Loaiza tells of her long fight for justice In March 2001, when I was only 18, I was kidnapped and for almost four months I was kept forcibly bound and gagged, deprived of my freedom, subjected, threatened with death and held without any communication with my family. I was sexually abused, burned with cigarettes, humiliated and beaten. I was forced to consume drugs. The man who kidnapped me called me his girlfriend. He pointed a gun at me and threatened to kill me. While he was torturing me, he told me that he had already murdered eight women – he showed me photographs of them. He was very sure that nothing could happen to him; he told me that he was protected by the authorities and knew important people, such as the attorney general, the vice-president, the president of the judiciary. Continue reading...Sorrow and shame sweeps nation, with many using social media to express sadness over murder of British backpacker New Zealanders are mourning the death of British backpacker Grace Millane by posting images of the sky to Twitter along with the hashtag #HerLightOurLove. A body believed to be Millane’s was found in dense bushland in western Auckland on Sunday and a 26-year-old man has been charged with her murder. Continue reading...Report queries arrangements at Stellar, Serco and Outsourcing Inc, which provide labour or help run ATO call centres Multinational corporations providing labour and call centre staff to the Australian Taxation Office either share links with tax havens or engage in questionable tax practices, a new report has found. Texas-based firm Stellar, the UK-based multinational Serco and Japanese giant Outsourcing Inc have repeatedly won lucrative contracts with the tax office, typically to provide outsourced labour or help run the agency’s call centres. Continue reading...Exclusive: firms supplying health service allegedly exploit thousands of migrants The NHS is using medical gloves made in Malaysian factories where migrants are allegedly subjected to forced labour, forced overtime, debt bondage, withheld wages and passport confiscation. A Guardian investigation has revealed that at least two companies supplying rubber gloves to the NHS – Top Glove and WRP – are allegedly subjecting thousands of migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh to exploitative working conditions. Continue reading...In the West Bank, at the third most holy site in Christianity, work is under way to clear thousands of landmines and reopen seven ancient churches abandoned since 1967’s six-day war Bravery comes in many guises, but in those whose work demands courage on a near-daily basis, it often takes the form of a certain studied nonchalance. Lasha Bluashvili, who makes his living clearing landmines, is a case in point. He would rather go to the trouble of making me a cup of tea – here in the Judean desert, the kettle stands on a gas canister inside an old oil drum – than talk of what I regard as his everyday heroism. “Oh, don’t worry,” he says, fingers lightly tapping a cigarette packet. “We never forget the dangers. But everyone here knows their job. We are all very well trained.” Continue reading...In Cox’s Bazar, photographer Renaud Philippe met Rohingya Muslims who managed to flee the Myanmar military’s brutal crackdown. ‘The Rohingya Crisis: A People in Exile’ exhibition runs until 19 Jan at the Guardian’s London offices Continue reading...Inquiry urges leadership change amid claims UNAids chief Michel Sidibé has presided over culture of favouritism and bullying A culture of favouritism that tolerated harassment and bullying has been allowed to fester within a major UN agency, according to a damning independent assessment that calls for a change of leadership. The independent report, commissioned following multiple allegations of sexual harassment and bullying by senior staff at UNAids, said Michel Sidibé, the agency’s executive director, had created “a patriarchal culture tolerating harassment and abuse of authority”. Continue reading...References to Bush’s support for Hillary Clinton have been reverently repeated, as has his unlikely friendship with Barack Obama George HW Bush was no one’s idea of a great president. His 1988 presidential campaign was the first I followed as a child in the US – supporting, under my mother’s instruction, his hapless rival, Michael Dukakis – and even then he seemed strangely unquantifiable, a blank. His presidency bore this impression out, in which his credit sheet was cancelled out by enough debit that the balance ultimately came to nothing. A war hero and famously polite, Bush Sr signed the Clean Air Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act (protecting, among others, people with HIV, from discrimination), and eventually spoke out against the National Rifle Association. But he was also arrogant, careless and self-serving. He exploited racial politics and pardoned the defendants in the Iran-Contra hearings to protect himself from investigation. Continue reading...Socialist party’s support collapses in the heartland it has ruled since 1982 The far-right Vox party took 12 seats in the Andalucían regional election on Sunday, becoming the first such group to triumph at the ballot box since Spain’s return to democracy after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975. The small but increasingly vocal party, which opposes Catalan independence and has vowed to crack down on immigration and abortion, exceeded all predictions and could now hold the key to the formation of the next government of the populous southern region. Continue reading...A planned rise sparked the gilets jaunes protest – here’s how their fuel costs compare with the rest of Europe Despite a backdrop of riots against high fuel levies in France, European commission data shows that taxes on all petrol products have actually fallen in the last two years across the eurozone. The level has fallen from almost 70% of the cost for consumers at the pump to 60.9% at the end of November. In France, it is a similar story, with taxes on fuel (before the increased levy on diesel kicks in) accounting for a smaller proportion of total prices than they did at the start of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. Related: Share your reaction and experiences of the French gilets jaunes protests Continue reading...Despite horrifying statistics of death and starvation, regional players and their backers are using a ceasefire as a bargaining chip More than three years into Yemen’s war, the horrifying statistics induce a sense of hopelessness: 57,000 people killed, 14 million at risk of famine, 10,000 new cholera cases each week. Save the Children estimates 85,000 under-fives have starved to death. That’s an average of 77 a day since 2015. If 77 children died from avoidable causes on a single day in the UK or US, the roar of grief and anger would be heard around the world. But the story of Yemen’s war is a story of international indifference, self-interest and cynical manipulation. World leaders at this weekend’s G20 mostly paid lip service to the issue, if they discussed it at all. Continue reading...New Zealand police said on Sunday they believe they had found the body of missing 22-year-old Grace Millane following a search of Auckland's Waitakere Ranges. They have charged a 26-year-old man with her murder Continue reading...French police have clamped down on thousands of yellow-vested protesters in Paris on Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannon at projectile-hurling demonstrators angry at Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes. At least 55 people were injured in protests across the country Continue reading...Panicked concertgoers ran for exits at a concert after someone released a substance similar to pepper spray. Five teenagers and a woman who had taken her daughter to the event were killed in the stampede Continue reading...New Zealand police confirmed on Saturday that the search for missing British backpacker Grace Millane is now a homicide investigation. Detective Inspector Scott Beard said police had not located the body but were questioning a 26-year-old man who was with her when she was last seen. Police said they had not yet established a motive for the murder. Continue reading...Yellow vest protesters again take to the streets to demonstrate against Emmanuel Macron’s policies Continue reading...German chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party marked her 18 years as its leader with a lengthy standing ovation on Friday. Speaking at a convention in Hamburg, Merkel said she was overwhelmed by a single feeling – thankfulness
Donald Trump confirmed he will nominate William Barr for attorney general and Heather Nauert as US ambassador to the UN. Barr has already served as attorney general during George WH Bush's administration, while Nauert is the State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News reporter Continue reading... |
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