Sydney Morning Herald: Spending three consecutive days with self-made retail entrepreneur Katherine Sampson at a conference is a closeness her own children seldom experienced while growing up. The mother-of-two has worked non-stop, often sleeping in the office or on interstate flights, since opening her second Healthy Habits sandwich shop in Melbourne 11 years ago. Now […]
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QSR Web: Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. It’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation knowhow, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. Cognizant thinks that an effective information exchange between a restaurants’ corporate
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According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed
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Times 24: Marijus Izenbek, an air traffic controller at Birmingham Airport, has become a franchisee for car tyre specialists HiQ – opening a new test centre in WGC. The 30-year-old is now open for business in Little Mundells, and said he is looking forward to the new challenge. “After working in air traffic control for
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Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sat in his office late last week, confidently spinning scenarios with timelines that stretched to 2020, 2030, and beyond, according to The Boston Globe. But the near-future was also on his mind: WorldFuture 2010, the annual conference organized by the World Future Society, scheduled for July 8-10 at the Westin
Gentle Parking has grown quickly since William Ortiz-Cartagena started the San Francisco company two years ago. He now employs 25 people and says he turns a decent profit running six parking lots, including two he manages for the city. When he decided to bid on a contract to run another city-owned lot, though, two banks
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Telegraph.co.uk: By painting the mountains, Eduardo Gold hopes to replicate the effect of Andean glaciers, which reflect back sunlight and hence heat back through the atmosphere. The technique is scientifically plausible and, according to some scientists, may be the only method of lowering global temperatures in a crisis. “A white surface reflects the sun’s rays
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People whose performance peaks in the morning are better positioned for career success, because they’re more proactive than people who are at their best in the evening. According to Harvard Business Review, biologist Christoph Randler surveyed 367 university students, asking what time of day they were most energetic and how willing and able they were
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It takes a little bit of insanity, according to Tina Paparone writing for Reuters, to start a business but sometimes it just might send you over the edge too. How do you stay sane? After two years of being on the rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship, these are the things I’ve found help me manage the
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Founder and president Sarah Beatty bills Green Depot as the country’s largest green building supplier, with 10 showrooms and 20 warehouses across the Northeast. She says the fast-growing business isn’t expanding merely for the sake of growth, but to make sustainable building products accessible and affordable so they can be easily adopted in standard construction.
