Why Write Your Tutorial? Compelling Reasons
Posted on February 10, 2008 - Filed Under Writing and Speaking | Leave a Comment
When I was much younger and having one of those father and son talks, dad paused and said reflectively, “son take the time to sit at the feet of some one older than yourself and learn. For one day if you do not, then their knowledge may be lost forever.”
After my fathers death our family began an Odyssey of care giving for five relatives who suffered from dementia, at death and autopsy, was determined to be Alzheimer disease. Wishing to have our family experiences understood by our children, if their parents ultimately became victims of AD, we wrote a journal about our experiences. Those experiences were published on a main frame in 1986 and served as an admonition of my father and we established our Talking Hands Award. Which was to honor the knowledge others shared and was not lost in time and space. Or gone forever!
Read More..>>Just Tell Me How Much It Costs!
Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
There is an old english saying that we can “know the price of everything, but the value of nothing” and in our all-consuming, “I want it now”, society this saying still has great relevance. When I walk around the supermarket I am bombarded with the offers “half-price”, “buy one get one free” otherwise known as “BOGOF”, “30% extra” and so on, but what does this actually mean to me, the consumer?
Read More..>>Home Improvement Loan Could Boost Value Of Property
Posted on December 30, 2007 - Filed Under Education, Finance | Leave a Comment
Those consumers taking out a home improvement loan to fund renovation projects could substantially add to the value of their property, new figures indicate.
In research carried out by Halifax an ever-increasing number of consumers are looking towards home improvements, for instance redecorating or getting a kitchen extension, as a way of boosting the worth of their home. A reported 25 per cent of homeowners who have undertaken such a project over the last 12 months have done so specifically to increase the value of accommodation - up from the seven per cent recorded last year.
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