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Asia-Pacific looks to home-grown talent
Management-Issues – Apr 16, 2006
Meanwhile, despite making cuts in many non-operational budget areas, almost half of these organisations are maintaining or increasing the financial resources they make available for leadership development initiatives. According to the report, firms in Asia-Pacific believe that home-grown executives can have a greater impact on company performance than expatriates and do not cost the company nearly as much. “One reason for reducing expatriates and international assignees is based on the premise that in the lifecycle of most businesses, the localisation of leadership has a positive impact on performance,” says Andrew N. Bell, Program Director for the Asia-Pacific HR Council and author of the report. “This positive impact results from a range of factors in which local leadership is more likely to have a deeper understanding and familiarity with the needs and expectations of local consumers and clients, local business infrastructure such as distribution channels and external relations, including with the government and media. “Also, language may be a critical factor.
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Providence Journal – Providence Journal (subscription) – Apr 16, 2006
For those of you with a deer which feels comfortable calling your garden a smorgasbord, a habanero pepper spray made from home-grown ground peppers works wonders. We simply boil about a quart of water, then take the pan outdoors (even the fumes are potent) and place about a tablespoon of ground habaneros in a piece of cheesecloth and let it seep like a tea for an hour or so. Wearing rubber gloves, remove the cheesecloth, being careful not to touch your eyes. Once cooled, pour into a hand sprayer and apply in early evening to plants deer are known to frequent. Believe me, their party is over.
House #3: The home of your dreams
New Zealand Herald – Apr 16, 2006
“The house was too big for us and we had done our share of maintenance and the garden,” says Sue. Speaking from her three-bedroom apartment, she is happy with the decision. The apartment is sunnier than their old home and they have great views of the harbour. Although her grown-up daughter initially fought the sale of the family home, she likes the new place. There is room to stay and when the children get a bit older, they will be able to use the swimming pool and tennis courts, says Sue. The facilities with an apartment complex come at a cost. “There is a huge body corporate, rates are huge because we are part of Broadway Park.
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Providence Journal – Providence Journal (subscription) – Apr 16, 2006
The last half decade has seen American houses beef up like baseball players pumped up on steroids. According to the National Association of Homebuilders, the average American house in 1950 had a total floor area of 983 square feet. By 2004, that number had more than grown to 2,314 square feet. Organizations like the National Trust for Historic Preservation worry that historic neighborhoods are being ruined as homes are torn down to make way for houses two or three times larger. Homeowners like Johnson share that frustration and prefer to live in houses without an inch of unused space. Bigger than a child’s playhouse but much smaller than a typical Manhattan studio apartment, the house the 41-year-old built and has lived in since 2003 features metal roofing, exposed stud interior walls and red oak flooring. The house, which is on wheels and is parked in the backyard of his parents’ house, has been dubbed the “mobile hermitage… For others, the draw of tiny houses is far more practical. They can provide a housing alternative when there are no other options. After Julie Martin’s home in Bay St. Louis on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, she lived on a FEMA-sponsored cruise ship for four and a half months. When she heard about Shafer’s tiny houses, she knew she had found the way to have a private space she could call home until the reconstruction of her community was complete, a process that could take years. Her tiny house arrived in late February. “I love it! It’s wonderful!” she said.
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Summit Daily News – Apr 16, 2006
Maturing identity?Those issues could form a basis for a more unified political voice, according to Dan Kemmis, a former mayor of Missoula, Mont. , and senior fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana. Kemmis said he has observed a rapidly maturing sense of regional identity, spurred in part by home-grown writers who have held the West up before itself and tried to dispel some of the mythology and replace it with honest self-examination. That mythology is an important part of the nation’s heritage, but it’s time for the West to move beyond the legends and recognize itself for what it really is, Kemmis said. He also encouraged the idea of an early regional primary, but cautioned that it’s only a vehicle to move toward more power. "If we get that influence, we need to know what we’re going to say," he concluded. In fact, working behind the scenes, some Western political strategists are already taking real steps toward making that regional influence a reality.