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Friday, January 25, 2008
To be a successful entrepreneur we need to be well-organized in order to maximize every minute of the day. Great organizational skills don’t necessarily mean having a clean desk, it means managing your time and resources. Managing your time is about leveraging and budgeting your most precious resource … you.
I'm deeply disturbed by the many stories of elder abuse cases we read about all over our country.
For the presidential candidates, it is too early to talk about vice presidents, but not too early to think about them.
Last Wednesday I spoke to the Napa Valley Personal Computer Users Group, and my preamble was about how far we’d all come—both in our abilities with and in the maturity of the available tech tools—in the ten years I’d been appearing before the group. Ten years. Boy, was that a shock.
The housing industry, both construction and sales, provided the engine for robust economic growth that lasted more than five consecutive years. Clearly, it is the decline of that same housing industry that is leading the economic course towards recession.
I’m drinking a lot of riesling, sauvignon blanc, grenache, pinot noir, Chianti and sparkling wine these days.
Today marks the observation of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A day that honors the memory of the late civil rights champion and recipient of a Nobel Prize for peace.
Help stop spread of invasive mud snails
The California Department of Fish & Game is requesting assistance from the public in slowing the spread of New Zealand mud snails (NZMS).
Alice Feiring, a blogger who writes veritasinvino.com, was asked during a recent online interview with Tom Wark on his fermentation.com blog what kind of wine rating or review system she uses.
Regarding the recent article on the $10.8 million for flood control and the story on how the project will remake Third Street, I was wondering: $40 million will pay to move Wine Train tracks. Are there any cost-benefit analysis applied to spending $40 million on train tracks that no longer serve as transportation for commodities or passengers?
As someone who does not venture out with his wallet much, I am mostly oblivious to new stores and eateries.
Wine Train events still an 'E ticket'
Some 18 years since it began chugging upvalley, the Napa Valley Wine Train continues to be a delightful culinary journey.
So how is your organizing coming along? I hope you are doing well and getting things accomplished.
Garden festival coming to Napa
Ah, the cold and rainy days of January. Might as well curl up with a good book; there’s nothing you can do in the garden. Or perhaps you’re looking longingly through the pages of all those seed catalogs that have been arriving over the past few weeks.
Support for NVC's $178 million bond
There has been much necessary debate over Measure L, a $178 million new bond proposal that Napa Valley College needs to complete construction started from a 2002 bond measure and to start some additional projects.
Keep inherited property separate
Dear Len & Rosie, How do I protect my wealthy parent’s estate (who are both still living and only in their 60s) and keep my slug of a step-son mooch from getting any money when I and my husband pass away? I am married and 43 and my husband is 49. I do not want my step-son to get a penny from my parent’s estate. How do I go about this? If you’re married and you inherit a lot of money how does this work? I would like to give it to my niece or nephew or to my own children if I ever have children.
Hillary's Dennis Rodman impression
I always hated Dennis Rodman, even though I am originally from Detroit. Over and over I watched him do the same schtick on the basketball court. He would wait till he knew the ref wasn't watching, then go over and brutally foul whoever was covering him. The guy would get mad and foul him back hard, and Rodman would run to the ref yelling, did you see that, did you see that? Invariably within a minute or two the ref would call a "make up" foul on the player that Rodman fouled to begin with.
Progress continues at Napa Mill
With all the exciting other new developments in Napa, let’s not overlook the progress at the “old” Napa Mill, which is the preferred name for the Hatt Building.
As you have seen from news last week, the stock market has taken a big hit. This result continues the trend that we have seen for the last several weeks.
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