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Moms Club of Lutz Northwest: Stay-at-home moms and their children meet for weekly play groups and outings. Moms host monthly brunches, Mom's Night Out and field trips. The MOMS Club is an international network of support groups for mothers who have chosen to stay at home and/or work from home. Call 813 264-2546.
Movers and Shakers: The Movers and Shakers Chapter of Business Network International meet at Grace Family Youth Center, 5101 Van Dyke Road. The group meets for breakfast and networking from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesdays. Visitors are welcome. Call (813) 909-9059.
New Tampa Professionals: The chapter hosts a lunch meeting from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Tuesday at Tampa Palms Golf and Country Club, 5811 Tampa Palms Blvd. Meetings feature a speaker and business networking.
Daniel Vasquez
Maybe you made a New Year's resolution to change something in your life, like losing a little weight or learning to become more organized. Or maybe you're planning a big project, like getting your taxes filed early, hiring a roofing contractor or figuring out how to earn a promotion at work.
Personally, I want to get into better shape, clean out my garage and stop obsessing about whether Donald Trump's hair is biodegradable.
Anyway, if your resolutions or plans involve spending money, taking a loan or hiring a professional, be careful not to rush into anything. And always take time to check out a company before you do business. Nothing can spoil the start of a new year like losing money on a bad deal.
I was reminded of those simple-yet-easy-to-forget lessons this week when the South Florida Better Business Bureau issued a warning that this time of year ushers in an increase in advertisements for bogus loans, work-at-home promotions, miracle weight-loss schemes, false lottery-winnings notices and other too-good-to-be-true offers.
If mom's happy, the kids are, too
Many debate the merits of working versus stay-at-home moms. I've personally worn both hats and still can't completely decide what is right for me. This is the key point though for every mother, to decide what is right for her life and go out and get it. I think there are so many choices available for women today, and sometimes we want it all. I come from a long line of working mothers. I loved my dad's mom, Gladys, the flapper turned dental assistant. She and my grandfather survived the Depression, and she remained active in the dental community well into her senior years. My maternal great-grandmother worked side by side with her husband in a store they owned. My own mother was trained and worked as a nurse in the 1950s, but after marrying my father and having four children in four years, she stayed home for a while.
Home Business Cents to Target Moms and Dads
Home Business Cents promotion will target moms and dads who want extra part-time money making business for their spouse and family.
Montevallo, AL, USA, December 27, 2006 (XTVWorld.Com) -- The formula for a Work-at-Home business is having a product everyone wants and working hard to get the word out that you can supply this product to them. The birth of the internet has led to the profitable home based business, with many opportunities, which has led to an exponential growth in mom and dad working from home.
Daily evidence by the recent company layoffs and shutting down of plants announced on news and press everyday, HomeBusinessCents.com aims to jump in the forefront of the home-based business Industry with a powerful online promotional campaign of its stable medical discount program, enabling other would be entrepreneurs to start and run legitimate work from home based business.
Report: Nonprofit employment growth outpaces for profit sector
WASHINGTON - Employment in the nonprofit sector has significantly outpaced the for-profit sector in the past several years, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. Nationally, the nonprofit work force grew by more than 5 percent between 2002 and 2004 — the most recent year available — while overall employment declined by 0.2 percent. Locally, the nonprofit sector has grown about 4 percent per year — about twice the rate of the for-profit sector — and the District of Columbia ranks No. 1 for percentage of workers employed by the nonprofit sector.
“The nonprofit work force, including volunteers, now represents 10.5 percent of the country's total work force," said Lester M. Salamon, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.
A Gift for the Person Who has Everything
We all have them on our lists: people who have everything. Anything you buy them will probably get put in a closet or on a shelf, and never be seen again. Wouldnt it be great to give people a really meaningful gift? How about a gift in their name to a group of people who are doing what we should all be doing: helping the poor. If we dont think of following Jesus command to help others less fortunate than us at Christmas time, when will we? Normally I write about subjects of national and international significance. The nature of our work is such that normally state and local issues are not appropriate. But sometimes the Lord puts something on my heart to write about that doesnt fit my mold, and I must obey. Westgate Tabernacle Church is strongly on my heart today.
Westgate Tabernacle was founded in 1929, and has been helping people ever since.
Is Pathway 2007 still on track? Work continues on the economic-environmental plan
A Pathway 2007 sub-committee head volunteered in confidence that she woke up on Jan. 1 with her "entire calendar year circled."
Indeed, for both volunteers for Pathway, the four leading participatory agencies and a cross-section of the basin's scientific community, this year is the year - even if the eventual release of the basin-wide plan for the environment and economy has been heretofore postponed until late 2008.
"2007 is going to be a very big year for Pathway," said Tahoe Regional Planning Agen cy spokeswoman Julie Regan. "In fact, this is the year everyone's been waiting for. We're consolidating all the public input and scientific work we've been building for the last two years."
These words may be relief to some who've been tracking the long-term progress of the Pathway and Shorezone plan, both originally put on separate yet similar tracks to come to fruition this year.
Estremera: Too simple to remember
BUSY days, schedules all tied up, just about everybody asking for assistance, time, advice, companionship, work overflowing... It's that time when everything and everybody is knocking on your door.
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Match this with the fact that for weeks now what was once an office are all contained in several boxes stacked everywhere in an office that has everything else stacked on top of each other after a huge space was chopped off to give way to a giant printing machine, working in the office is simply not appealing.
But with so much to do and a not so peaceful place to do them in, more often than not the body just gives up and leaves, while the brain goes on and on, determined to get things done. And thus stands one restless soul...
