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Demand Jumps Five Percent For Extended Stay Lodging In Popular ...
Extended stay lodging is designed for business travelers and budget-conscious consumers seeking temporary housing due to relocation, long-term work assignments and leisure travel. A recent report in Newsweek's Business Travel Section stated that the demand for extended stay lodging was up five percent during 2006. The popularity of extended stay lodging has grown because travelers enjoy conveniences such as kitchens, Internet access and more room while lowering the overall cost of their accommodations. Online resources such as Hawaiian Beach Rentals offer savvy travelers an opportunity to coordinate customized extended stay lodging from the comfort of work or home.
Maui, HI (PRWeb) January 15, 2007 -- Extended stay lodging is designed for business travelers and budget-conscious consumers seeking temporary housing due to relocation, long-term work assignments and leisure travel.
Local couple specializes in making others' lives easier
If there is a task that needs to be done, from fixing a screen door to painting a room or cleaning a closet, they are more than willing to step in.
And they won't charge an arm and leg for their services.
The Iowa City couple has recently opened the business, Home Tender.
The idea behind the company is to help simplify the lives of others at an affordable price, said Celia Dunnington, 59.
"We want to be like friends and family that you can call on to do all kinds of things," she said. "We work with people who don't want to burst their budgets."
All throughout their married life, the two have worked to find ways to make things nice without pouring a lot of money into them, she said.
Though the two had worked in the corporate world for many years, last July they chose to say goodbye for the opportunity to work for themselves.
Entrepreneur Offers Work at Home Online Business Opportunity with ...
An online business entrepreneur has offered a unique incentive to others who are looking for an automated web site or Internet business. Those who join her in his network marketing business receive free publicity. Overton, TX/December 19, 2006/FPSnewswire/ - Finding extra income to supplement limited budgets is a major challenge for most people, and a new web site describes how to start an online business that can be run from home for little or no cost.
Marcia Warwick said she was looking for an opportunity to own a business on the Internet that would run itself with no involvement on her part. She joined the "Synergy Team." Just for joining the team her upline sponsor provided her with a free press release to publicize her new business.
"What I was looking for was a vending machine that does everything so that I don't have to.
Executive pay packet racket
FANCY earning a lazy $8.2 million a year? Damn right you do. That's the average pay of the 10 CEOs featured in our graphic. It's the equivalent of three times what an Australian worker earns on average every year landing in your bank account on a weekly basis. That ought to cover a little extra take-away and maybe the odd bottle of top-shelf vino.
On that sort of money you will of course be elevated into the top tax bracket, but that's no big deal. After all, your huge tax bill will simply be a reflection of your even greater earnings.
And look at some of the other major pluses of your CEO job, should you choose to take it:
■You will have the best located office in the organisation, with floor space the size of an average golf course green.
Marcia Cross forced to stay home for pregnancy
The Desperate Housewives star isn't due for another three months but Marcia Cross, who is actually expecting twins in April, has been ordered to stay in bed until the babies come, which has forced a few changes in the production of the hit show. Desperate Housewives has had to move into Cross' real-life living room. Talk about bringing your work home with you. .
BAGHDAD BLOGGING
She's on the phone from Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, and she's talking about subjects few Iraqis discuss with foreigners -- vibrators (a colleague recently asked her about them); her marriage (it's fine, even though her husband spends lots of time at work); her childhood (she aspired to be a writer) -- when a bomb suddenly explodes near her home. The sound of violence is unmistakable. [Podcast: Interview with 'Neurotic Iraqi Wife.' ]
"Oh, wow -- there was a big explosion," she says, pausing a few seconds to judge its impact. "It was a mortar. That was a mortar. I can tell. You get very experienced when you stay awhile here. I'm fine. It was outside. I can now hear the helicopter (which is responding to the blast). Usually, whenever an explosion happens, a helicopter goes to check out what happened."
The woman is known by her nom de blog: Neurotic Iraqi Wife.
Art show to spotlight Roma people's quest for a home
The plight of the Roma people and their centuries-long quest for peaceful shelter is the subject of a multimedia art show bound for Hamilton.
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre is now displaying some of the work in the show that will expand to include pieces at the You Me Gallery by mid-month.
While all of the pieces were produced by members of Toronto's Roma community, the themes of historic and modern-day yearnings for home reflect the concerns of all Roma in Canada, including some 5,000 in Hamilton, said artist and show artistic director Lynn Hutchinson.
"The desire to settle, to remain in Canada is reflected very strongly in the work," said Hutchinson -- whose father, Leonard Hutchinson, a Roma artist who lived in Hamilton from the 1920s until the 1940s, has several pieces of work in the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
Benefits cover care for elderly
Patricia and Pat Guadagno were terrified about the prospect of his ailing father going home.
The 86-year-old widower had spent weeks in a hospital rehabilitation unit after breaking his hip in a fall. Mostly confined to a wheelchair, he seemed weak and confused. Yet he was adamant he would be fine in his own apartment.
For help, Patricia turned to her employer, Prudential Financial Inc. The company helped cover the cost of a geriatric social worker who visited the man, evaluated his needs and helped persuade him to move to an assisted-care facility.
"She moved mountains," Patricia, a nurse at a Prudential Financial office in Pennsylvania, said of the caseworker. "It really made the situation so much easier."
Prudential Financial is one of a small but growing number of firms starting to provide elder-care benefits for employees.
