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New options for those who work from home still want office perks
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 15, 2007
“People don’t look down at home offices anymore it’s natural” said Bereano who owns the video Internet marketing company Direct Marketing Inc. But still it’s good to “just get out of the house and spice up the workday. My Day ffice a new Belltown business hopes to cater to folks like Bereano — mobile workers who don’t need or can’t yet afford a long office lease. It will offer a la carte office space and services. President Shauna Brennan said every employee is the boss… But many employees today don’t want to come in — especially not if they can get the job done closer to home. ffices are changing — slowly — to the mobile model. The younger generation of business owners who are more comfortable with mobile working text messaging and using cell phones are shunning the traditional office Franz said. The five employees at Delicious Monster work from the Zoka coffeehouse near University Village in Seattle. Shortly after the company was founded in March 2004 “Chief Monster” Wil Shipley and his colleagues “discovered that we were going to kill each other if we stayed cooped up in this old room in my house” he said. They started meeting at a coffee shop and still do. “What we sort of realized in doing it it was like having servants or something” said Shipley whose company writes Macintosh software.
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Nation Multimedia – Jul 15, 2007
Published on July 15 2007 The Thai Listed Companies Association and the Money Channel television network jointly surveyed the management of 110 listed firms about their business prospects in a report entitled "Quarterly Thailand Economic utlook Survey". ut of 110 respondents more than 60 per cent said they believed the economy would grow more than 3. 5 per cent this year and more than 70 per cent believed GDP growth would surpass 4 per cent next year. About 65 per cent said they planned to expand investments over the next 12 months while 30 per cent said they would keep their investment levels unchanged out of continued concerned about the political and economic situation. Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Research Institute adviser Kobsak Pootrakool said the survey reflected economic conditions in the view of listed firms' management.
Easing elder care taboo: construction of assisted-living facility…
Free with registration – Houston Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 15, 2007
“It’s taboo to even talk about it” said Rashmi Gupta a professor of social work at San Francisco State College who has studied the community’s resistance to elder care outside the home. “It’s an unspoken assumed thing that the children will take care of the parents. ” But Sasidharan Nair who owns a home health-care business in Stafford knows unsettling conversations about retirement communities assisted living and nursing homes are being broached in South Asian homes nationwide. That’s because families are trying to reconcile religious teachings and cultural norms on caring for elders with today’s realities of their busy American lives. Nair and his business partners are banking on turning that new reality into cash with the construction of a $7 million 56-unit independent and assisted-living facility in Pear- land targeting Indian-Americans. “How many of the youngsters have the time to take care of their parents?” asked Nair whose project could be the first of its kind in the Houston.
Ford Southern California Edison work to push plug-in power wean…
Press-Enterprise – Jul 15, 2007
Mulally said utilities have enough unused electric power capacity in the evening to recharge 73 percent of all the nation’s cars when they are parked overnight in garages. People might be motivated to recharge their car batteries at night Edison officials added if they are billed lower electric rates during those off-peak hours. That will be possible because Edison has plans to install "smart" meters in every business and home that will track the time of day electricity is used. Fueling automobiles with electricity even at lower nighttime rates would boost Edison revenues Bryson said without requiring a capital investment in additional power plants. The result he said could lead to lower electricity rates for all Edison customers. A new auto market for electricity could improve the efficiency of the electricity grid Kjaer said. For instance utilities could make greater use of pollution-free wind power that is most plentiful at night and in the early morning.
‘Her Way’
New York Times – Jul 15, 2007
The Rodhams worked to ensure that Hillary and her two brothers grew up with every advantage in a pleasant secure environment. They lived in a well-kept two-story brick home on the corner lot of Elm and Wisner streets a house bought by Hugh with cash. “We had two sundecks a screened-in porch and a fenced-in backyard where the neighborhood kids would come to play or to sneak cherries from our tree” Hillary wrote in her autobiography. “The postwar population explosion was booming and there were swarms of children everywhere. My mother once counted forty-seven kids living on our square block. ” Parked in their driveway was a shiny Cadillac its presence a bit deceiving… Most of the fathers of Hillary’s young friends were lawyers doctors or accountants who commuted on the train every day to their offices high above the Loop. Hugh’s fancy car was not so much a sign of well-being as a professional necessity: He needed it to make sales rounds for the drapery company named Rodrik Fabrics that he had founded a few years before the family moved to Park Ridge. Hugh worked fourteen hours a day at his fledgling business which manufactured draperies for hotels and office buildings single-handedly attending to every task – from taking orders by phone to sewing the draperies by hand to finally hanging them himself. nly years later when his two sons were old enough to pitch in on the occasional Saturday did he get help. Hugh was “a small businessman who taught us by his example the values of hard work and responsibility” Hillary once said. A Republican he was proud that he had served as a chief petty officer in the navy where he had prepared young recruits to fight in the Pacific theater. At home Hugh suffered no fools gladly demanding that his children be smart and tough and absorb life’s many jabs without complaint.
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