Posted by Busyview on January 31, 2009
My family owns several large commercial greenhouses that supply many retailers in this region. The plants we grow require different temperature ranges, which means we must use a combination of air conditioning, fans, and heaters for control. We mostly grow plants ranging from ferns to orchids. And it’s not just the plants we want to keep comfortable – our people deserve it too.
We’ve been discussing the pros and cons of solar energy and whether we should have solar power panels installed. Even with the tax credits, we’re still looking at a significant investment of our own, but we don’t have to purchase the system – we can lease it, or just buy the power. Buying it would be cheapest in the long run. We’re still debating that. As a business, we’ve been affected by poor economic conditions; at the same time, we know that going solar makes sense anyway. It’s a long term investment. My family has been in business for 75 years. We’ve weathered downturns before and managed to come through every time.
So at this point we’ve pretty much decided to go ahead with the conversion. It will be a big change for us. Since I’m overseeing this project, I want to do a good job.
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Posted by BViews on January 16, 2009
They say two year-olds are like teens, and that the elderly are like babies. Well, I would at least agree with the latter because I have to spend as much time checking into the references of the people taking care of my mom as I do for the people taking care of my toddler!
I’m not sure how much training people have to have to drop in to provide adult day care for your parents-you’d hope they’d have to have SOME home care training. I might have been grateful just for someone willing to pop in and play cards with her, but my mom is getting weaker and I never quite know when she’ll go downhill just enough to need more intensive care, and I’d rather have someone lined up now that she gets to know while she’s more cognizant. But just like you have to check for child abuse in a babysitter’s background, you need a background check on an elder-care giver as well. I was glancing over some elder abuse resources so I can recognizes it if it ever happens. The resources out there nowadays are fantastic! There are all kinds of products on home care provider training, for instance. And the retirement groups like AARP, VA, MediCare or MediCal and even Social Security really help out on how to access free services for the home bound. But, boy, they don’t make it easy to find! As a matter of fact, it was easier to do all this for the two year-old!
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Posted by BViews on January 14, 2009
Do you think I stopped at a mini-mart and purchased a scratcher lottery ticket to gain the one-hundred thousand dollars? Do you think I found a shiny silver attaché case under the Times left by a stranger on an empty subway seat? Do you think I filled out my Publisher’s Clearing House sweep stakes and actually won? If you answered yes to any of the before mentioned questions then you are wrong. I am a richer man simply by eavesdropping on passengers in a neighboring seat. No, I didn’t get a great stock tip by gaining insider’s information. I heard the two astute passengers discuss cost segmentation services and how such services benefited their business taxes.
This may not sound like the kind of juicy gossip you would desire to spy upon however when I heard terms such as net present value calculator flying about my ears and interest piqued. Four times a year I have suffered paying quarterly taxes in extraordinary sums and any help I can gain to reduce the number of zeros on the check I write to the IRS is greatly welcome. When I got off that subway ride where I listened to unsuspecting passengers, I immediately used my I-phone to Google the services of a cost segregation company. The payoff has been enormous and it is the best snooping I have ever enjoyed.
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