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Greek Wedding Checklist
If you are planning to have your wedding in Greece then you should start preparing a wedding checklist. With everything you'll have on your mind when you're getting ready for your wedding day, if you don't have a wedding checklist you're asking for trouble.
Greece is a beautiful place to have your wedding. The wonderful beaches and fantastic sunsets make a Greece a romantic getaway.
Santorini, Greece
Santorini, Greece is a beautiful travel destination to have your wedding.
Those traveling to Greece can arrange to obtain their marriage license from their current place of residence, prior to coming to Greece. If you are planning on a civil ceremony then you will want to contact the mayor of the community. If you are planning on a religious ceremony then you will want to contact the head of your religious authority and have them help you set up the wedding ceremony properly. Some couples are already married and come to Santorini just to renew their wedding vows in a quiet spiritual place.
So here is where you start your wedding checklist;
1. Set a wedding date and time.
2. Setup your travel and hotel arrangements in advance.
3. Decide if you will be hiring a wedding planner or whether you will be doing the wedding arrangements yourself.
If you are handling all the wedding arrangements then you will want to make sure that you have
4. Setup the wedding ceremony location, chosen your reception area, mail out your wedding invitations, and setup your wedding gift registry.
(If traveling overseas then make sure you have your birth certificates, passports, and your wedding license paperwork completed.)
5. Buy your wedding dress, decide on what flowers you will need from the florist, and arrange for a wedding cake and beverage refreshments to be delivered to the wedding reception area.
6. Coordinate your wedding pictures and videos by hiring a photographer or enlist a friend who has talent in this area.
7. You will need to choose the music for your special wedding day.
It is best to start writing down your To-Do list now. The starting list items above are the first things that should be done in the planning stages six to twelve months before the wedding day itself.
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Green Marketing from the City of Athens
The mayor of the City of Athens, Greece, Mr.Nikitas Kaklamanis has signed a memorandum of Cooperation with all major food stores for the gradual replacement of the plastic bag in the operation of Super Markets within the limits of the City of Athens.The green marketing campaign will start on April 14th 2008 and run for 5 years using the motto "I am not a plastic bag".
Nearly 4.5 million Athenians will promote and sell the new green bags made from eco friendly materials.
"Through our choices today we are creating tomorrow's world," said Mayor of Athens. "What we must realize is that time is not an ally. Consolidating ecological conscience is not an issue that concerns more or less certain cities or states, but covers all cities, all states and all their citizens. Concerns every society as a whole and each of us separately."The initiative for the gradual replacement of the plastic bag packaging environmentally friendly forms is part of the overall philosophy for the environment that fosters international initiative of 40 major cities in the world against climate change - C40 - which the city of Athens is a member.
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Ferns Remove Arsenic from Soil and Water
Source: Article from AgriTrax.com
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Arsenic, is found in the soil where food is grown and arsenic is also found in drinking water. Arsenic is poisonous to humans. The ferns were found growing in a Florida lumber yard. It was amazing to discover that the ferns had been soaking up arsenic from the soil through their roots and was storing it in their fronds.Bruce Ferguson, CEO of Edenspace, a Virginia-based company that now licenses the patent for the ferns and sells them commercially under the name “edenfern". The fronds of Pteris vittata, or brake fern, can be clipped or the entire plant can be dug up and disposed of safely.
In the United States they are now using ferns in programs to remove arsenic from soil and drinking water. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the ferns significantly decreased the level of arsenic in samples of the city drinking water. Some plants are able to live without soil, in the water. About 100 ferns were placed in trays up a staircase and then 450 gallons of water were pumped through the system daily. Scientists are genetically modifying these plants to remove environmental toxins. "Current methods to rid dirt of these poisons run about $1 million per acre-foot of earth (the volume of a foot-deep acre of soil). Using plants to do the same job, on the other hand, costs about $3,000." The ferns are now grown year round in Florida, and can be purchase online for $4.95 a piece, not including shipping.
A concentration of arsenic up to 15 to 20 times higher than the acceptable maximum has been found in drinking water in many countries, in Greece and Serbia and Montenegro, for instance says Branislav Petrusevski, Director of the UNESCO-IHE project. He pointed out that the maximum proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 0.01 mg per litre, however, arsenic levels in groundwater in Bangladesh for example, are as high as 1.8 mg per litre, Petrusevski added. “Recent medical research shows, moreover, that long term exposure to very low arsenic concentrations can cause cancer and have a variety of other adverse effect on human health," he continued.
These ferns can be grown outside the United States The ferns could be used in small communities in developing countries such as Bangladesh, which has problems with arsenic in drinking water.
Other solutions:
The company recently made the ferns available royalty free to parts of the developing world, according to Ferguson.
Edenspace, which specializes in a variety of plants to cleanup toxic substances, has twelve employees and reported $1.2 million in revenues last year.
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Greece And The Art of Digital Photography
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Greece is very beautiful. It makes sense to capture Greece's beauty by taking digital photographs. A special place to display photos is at TrekNature's Gallery.The art of digital photography needs skill in order to pull off properly. Although some people may reason out that digital photography art can always be edited, many people do not really know how much work editing can be. Oh sure, we can say that technology has reached a level wherein a person needs to do practically nothing in order to achieve a great photograph, but of course, you need to know how to use the tools properly in order to do that.
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The art of digital photography, in order to be truly mastered, needs three T's: Time, talent and tactical placement of equipment. No, that's not right. You need time, talent and treasure. Just what does this mean?
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Greece Is Moving Towards New Technologies
Greece will soon be using Craig Wireless for the delivery of broadband, media-rich content to their mobile users within the country. Craig Wireless will use their Nortel WiMAX with MIMO to bring inexpensive wireless broadband to rural areas across Greece.
Strix Systems announced that the municipality of Galatsi is using Strix's Access/One Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) to deploy the first wireless mesh network in Greece. Galatsi will provide fee-based broadband services to residents and businesses, free Internet access to students, and free Internet access and VoIP service for municipal employees. BGM Ltd., a wireless networking company based in Galatsi, has tested and deployed the Strix system, which covers an area of 4 sq. km. in the city center.European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, voices her opinion about the situation in the digital technology sector both in Greece and throughout Europe.
"Only 50 percent of the EU's productivity profits emanated from new technologies, compared with 80 percent in the US." Reding said, "Europe must move faster in order to bridge the difference with the US while, regarding the further spread of broadband networks."In July 2006, she said, penetration of broadband networks by Greeks was 2.7 percent, compared to an EU average of 15 percent, with the member states with the highest penetration reaching up to 30 percent.
She urged action on the part of the government for the growth of broadband networks in Greece, adding that the EU would help in that direction."Greece was moving in the right direction with respect to new technologies, but it needed to make leaps, however, in order not to miss the train of digital development, according to speakers at the Economist Conferences' Fourth E-Government Forum taking place at a central Athens hotel titled "Digital Greece: Setting technology in its right dimension".
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The Art of Aikido in Greece
In Greece you will find people studying the ancient art of Aikido. The Aikido World's DOJO DIRECTORY lists Aikido of Athens, The Hellenic Aikido Association, Kobukan, and Aikikan Greece.
The Chinese are the first people that come to mind when it comes to these things but the Japanese are just as athletic with a rich heritage of body contact sports that can be found in their history. The modern Japan still gives honor to these things by holding tournaments and promoting such sports abroad,
One of these is Aikido. It is interesting to note that the word comes from three Japanese words from which one can derive the meaning of the one word. Ai means joining, Ki means spirit and Do means way. From this we can understand why Aikido is beyond just the physical skills of it students especially sin its proponent Ueshiba focused more on the spiritual and philosophical development of his students.
In Aikido, one is not taught violence instead one is taught to be in harmony with the opponent to be able to defeat.
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