Tutoring kids is an exciting and profitable business to start. By getting organized and having everything in place before you open for business, you will come across as professional and ready for success. The best way to do this is to consult professionals regarding legal, accounting, or insurance issues.
Once you are prepared to move ahead with starting a tutoring business, the first things you must do are to decide on your business name and type of business set up. (Sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, etc.)
Many people start as a sole proprietor when starting a tutoring business to test the waters first and then move on to a limited liability company or corporation. It is best to consult an attorney when deciding the form of business best for you. Your local Small Business Administration can give you additional information on starting a tutoring business. They, along with your local Chamber of Commerce, can usually refer you to an attorney who helps small businesses start up.
When choosing your business name, select something creative that is immediately recognizable with the topic you teach. After deciding on your name and form of business set up, contact your local city or county business office (whichever applies to you) and apply for a business license. You will usually have to run a fictitious name check to make sure there are no businesses with the same name you have chosen. In some instances, you may have to file a Fictitious Name Statement and place an announcement in your local legal paper. Do not worry if it all sounds confusing. Your city or county business office will guide you through this and everything else you need to do when starting a tutoring business.
After receiving your business license, head to your bank and open a business checking account. Then, you need to think about insurance. It is crucial to carry adequate insurance for your business. Speak with a business insurance agent and/or attorney about how uch and what types of insurance you need when starting a tutoring business.
It is always important to have an attorney review any contracts or forms you have anyone sign, particularly when it involves children. An attorney will also be able to help you with any federal, state, and local legal, business, and insurance requirements.
As a self-employed businessperson, you will have to take care of any tax payments and bookkeeping when starting a tutoring business. It is best to consultant an accountant to learn the best way to pay yourself from your business account and to help you with your business taxes.
Teaching can be a business of irregular paychecks, so make sure you budget accordingly. If you hire other teachers to help you in your business, you need to check with your State Department of Labor for the laws on hiring and inquire about any special regulations for the type of classes you teach. If you plan to sell merchandise as part of starting a tutoring business (like a dance teacher who also sells ballet shoes or a piano teacher who sells music), you will need to set up a sales tax account with your local Department of Revenue.
Many computer programs are available to assist you in your day-to-day bookkeeping and billing. Many teaching topics may even have specialized software, specifically developed for this purpose. For example, there are several bookkeeping program specifically designed to track tuition and billing for karate studios and academic tutoring centers. There may be one designed for the topic you teach. The Internet or specialty magazines are great place to look for software in your area of expertise.
Once you have to take care of the basics of starting a tutoring business, you are on your way!
They say that a structure is only a secure as its foundation. This is not only true in architecture, but it is also true when building a home business. No matter how much work you put into building your business, if the foundation upon which it is built is not a solid one, your business is unlikely to stand up to the stress of outside forces. In this article, I’m going to show you how to make sure that your foundation is as strong as possible. Some of this, you may not want to hear.
To start off with, and this is the thing that most people won’t want to hear, don’t have your business depend on another site. Let me explain. Let’s say ABC company has a business opportunity where you sign up and bring in members by selling advertising, so as to keep it legal. If ABC company goes out of business (yes it does happen) and this is what your business is built on, you go out of business too. There is no way around it. So you want the foundation of your business to be built around something that YOU YOURSELF created. That is just common sense business 101.
The next thing you want to do is make sure that the business that you do create is a legal one according to FTC regulations. Just go to the FTC site and read what they are. They’re too long to print here, but in a nutshell, you have to provide a real product or service. Ponzi schemes are against the law and if you start one, you WILL be shut down. You can almost take that one to the bank. So if you’re getting any ideas to create one of those schemes, kill them fast.
Finally, you want to make sure that you invest the necessary amount of funds into your business. The last thing you want to happen is your hosting account shut down because you were too cheap to buy a hosting service that provided you with enough bandwidth to operate. I can’t tell you how many sites I’ve seen get shut down because they tried to scrimp and save and run a half baked operation. If you’re going to do this, do it right or don’t do it at all.
A firm foundation will give your business a better chance of surviving past the first year. Once you’ve done that, the rest should be smooth sailing.
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IFP announced that IFP alumnus Kevin Smith (Clerks), filmmaker and activist Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed: Rupert Murdochs War on Journalism), and SnagFilms.com CEO Rick Allen will headline public events during the 30th Annual Independent Film Week, September 14-19. For the first time, Independent Film Week will be held at Chelseas Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.). Formerly known as the IFP Market, Independent Film Week is the leading forum in the U.S. dedicated to discovering, showca
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Unfortunately, to many in the industry, his quiet patina masks a nasty streak. “He drips with sarcasm and self-importance,” claims a former senior producer at Larry King Live who dealt with Hume in the past. “He used to be a class act, but he got toxic real fast after drinking too much of the Fox Kool-Aid.” And while Hume is a model of restraint on air (some might call him smug), frequent outbursts behind the scenes have done little to endear him to his younger staffers. “There was one meeting a few years back when he got so pissed off he threw a full carton of orange juice across the room,” says a onetime researcher who is now out of the business altogether. “He can be incredibly snippy and dismissive if you don’t do things his way.”
Does Kool-Aide and orange juice mix? Must be a new cocktail served up by Ailes. If only we had a video clip of that. Wasn’t there video of another FOX host losing it? O’Reilly Gone Wild: F-bombs on camera.
I particularly like Tucker Carlson saying “most people in cable news are assholes. If they’re not assholes, they have dysfunctional sex lives. But they’re usually assholes.” I mean, self awareness is always a very rare commodity among television personalities, but Tucker … dude
Dave Fleet shares some suggestions for online monitoring of your organization’s image, or the buzz around it. He says it’s important that before you do anything–such as set up a blog, whatever–that you find out how to track what’s going on out there. I see his suggestions as part and parcel of establishing your own Global Communications Center for your school or District. Fleet writes:
Before your organization launches a blog, before you start playing with Facebook, before you even think about Twitter, you should be listening to what people are saying about you.
"Google is managing your identity unless you are," as quoted by Dean Shareski in his Going Global, Going Public. "What digital footprints are existing for you right now? It’s not an ego search but to find what others are saying about you." This goes for each of us, but also, for organizations like schools. But it’s important we go, as Dean and others share, beyond just tracking our digital footprints, but that of others’ footprints when they interact with our organizations.
As an edublogger, this is something I learned while setting up my blog and finding ways to connect with others. However, the tools that are available now are much more comprehensive than what were available when I began. A quick look at Dave’s suggestions, and I’m astonished that I’m using most of these approaches already. What I doubt is happening, though, is that school districts and schools are doing this…most of our organizations may very well have a less than active interaction with news and other people out there. Simply publishing your own television show isn’t enough when most people thrive online, and most content endures online more than in a broadcast.
I love this quote (Christian Grantham as cited in NewAssignment.net) about ending the "passive relationship with local news" in this blog entry. What catches my attention is that the same tribulations and troubles students, teachers and leaders are going through, well, that’s what a lot of folks in the news industry are going through. You could tweak this paragraph easily to reflect the angst among educators:
I love working with people who see the importance of the role the net will play in transforming the way the world gets and interacts with information. I also love working with veterans of news, and I will always remember the challenges they face with the changes that are happening. For some, that change is very difficult. But the fact is, we are no more in the television and newspaper business than Wal-Mart is in the trucking business. Our business is no longer the industry that surrounds distribution the trucks, the printing press, the reams of paper, the broadcast towers, the satellite dishes, the lights, the huge cameras, the buildings, the live trucks
Its the final product: information. The market in an on-demand world for news and information where people have to wait to receive a highly produced product is steadily shrinking. At the same time, the online audience for news and information is growing significantly. Its an exciting time to be working in a new medium that is transforming the way we get information.
How has our "business" in education changed? It’s no longer about textbooks, that’s for sure and canned ideas. It’s about creativity, communication, collaboration. Even as the market shrinks in the news world, in the education world, I find this statement to be as true as it’s ever been in education (BTW, the link below includes a Clay Shirky moment in video):
One additional type of tool that I’d add to Dave’s list includes Social Bookmarking sites. The idea comes to me from a presentation Alan November did in China (Learning2.0 Conference) where an audience member suggested using Del.icio.us as another search tool in lieu or addition to regular search engines. 3 skills November says aren’t taught in schools include:
Teaching students to deal with massive quantities of information (pattern-making, organizing patterns for information)
Global Communication skills/global communication, as well as checking sources with people on the ground
Self-directed, lifelong learning
What’s neat about becoming your own "global communications center" is that you can teach students these skills as you’re setting up your classroom web site. Imagine what would have happened if Bob Sprankle and Darren Kuropatwa had set these tools (if they’d been available) BEFORE they started blogging with their students. Wouldn’t it have been awesome to capture the feedback flowing in from all over the world, including traditional and participatory reporting?
WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES? It would definitely be fun to know how many folks are bookmarking what you’re doing, and you can also subscribe to the RSS feed of results. To accomplish that, you’ll probably need to use Page2Rss.com–a tool someone told me about but a week or two ago (speak up if you’re out there!). Neither Diigo or Delicious, as far as I can see, support RSS for search results. So, with that caveat in mind, to the list, I’m adding these two:
Spy …lacks an RSS feed but you can get one with Page2RSS (not sure yet how well it works). Lets you know what’s going on in Twitter, FriendFeed, Blogs, and Google Reader.
Though I had some of these items setup (Technorati, TwitterSearch) I didn’t have all of them setup. As a result, I discovered some new blog entries out there–and new blogs I wasn’t reading–writing about what I’d written. Nice to be in touch!
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER You know, I hadn’t ever thought of myself–or the work the Communications Dept in a school district–does as Global Communications. But, that is exactly what we’re doing with Read/Write Web tools. And, that is the challenge facing districts as well as journalists. We are caught up in a "citizen" journalism, teacher communicator.
"Should learning professionals be leading the charge around new work literacies such as social media and informal learning?" Good question. My answer: yes. Because everyone should be. Tucker writes, "my responsibility is to work on my own sphere of influence, starting with our online course development team leading by example for our facilitators." Christy Tucker, Experiencing E-Learning Source: As commented on and cited by Stephen Downes
How are YOU setting up your Global Communications Center? How are YOU leading the charge? The answer to this question is a lot easier than taking this position:
Al Gore said: "We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift." He was talking about global climate change but he might as well have been talking about our attempts to transition schools into the 21st century Source: Our Policies have to Shift, Dr. Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant
Compare that approach–abandoning the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve the crisis in education, or journalism–to this one from Pete Reilly (EdTech Journeys) with his tale of Gandhi’s decision to not offer advice unless he was living by it himself.
DETROIT, Mich., July 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mentoring Success Group LLC announces a series of events that will help small business owners build their competitive edge in today’s difficult economy. The ‘We Mentor Success’ small business forums offer seminar-style instruction, in-depth networking opportunities, and hands-on workshops and mentoring with experts in small business disciplines including leadership, marketing, and strategic planning. ‘We Mentor Success’ small business forums will be held this fall in Las Vegas, Detroit and Austin.
‘We Mentor Success’ events are the brainchild of Tom Tubergen, a Detroit-area native who has watched a lot of businesses in his area struggle or fail in recent years. Tubergen’s firm, Mentoring Success Group LLC, offers a Business Performance Analysis Engine that helps small and medium-sized businesses benchmark themselves against their competition, find areas of competitive strength, and identify areas for improvement.
“As I see it, running a small business is the ultimate competitive sport. But unlike athletes, small business owners are often their own coaches. Top athletes work with coaches, trainers, nutritionists, physical therapists. They have doctors who diagnose their muscle strains and chiropractors who keep their backs aligned,” remarks Tom Tubergen, president of Mentoring Success Group LLC. “When you go it alone, it’s hard to step back and get an objective view of how you’re competing. How do you compare to your competition? What are others out there doing that your customers think you should?”
‘We Mentor Success’ small business forums are designed to provide small business owners with new ideas, as well as small group interaction and strategic input from expert advisors. The events will be structured to offer business owners networking opportunities to make new and profitable connections important to their individual businesses. Attendees will choose between workshops that include:
Pamela Crosset, MPH - Achieving Your Competitive Edge
Kimberly Friddle - Get Real: Cost-Conscious Marketing for Small Business
Dr. Jed C. Jones, Ph.D. - Optimizing Your Website for More Traffic and Better Conversions
Chris Mentch - Using Technology as a Competitive Weapon
Ken Pasch - Leadership is More than Just Showing Up
Don Reimer - Strategy: How to Get from Here to Wherever You’re Going
Kevin Stirtz - Never Lose Another Customer
Marv Weidner - Strategic Business Planning: Staying on Purpose in Everything You Do
All attendees at the seminars will receive a one-month free subscription to the Mentoring Success Group LLC Business Performance Analysis Engine (BPAE), which will help them assess their competitive strengths and weaknesses relative to others in their industries.
About Mentoring Success Group LLC Mentoring Success Group LLC is an innovator in the application of artificial intelligence technology to business. Dedicated to the success of small businesses, their partners, and their stakeholders, Mentoring Success Group offers the Business Performance Analysis Engine (BPAE) for small business competitive analysis, as well as an internet radio show titled ‘Your Competitive Advantage’ and a small business success seminar series called ‘We Mentor Success.’
Debera haber sospechado algo al ver el pster de Hugo con Evo….
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Antes que nada, debo aclarar que la naturaleza fue generosa conmigo y me regal una gentica robusta y resistente que me ha permitido, hasta ahora, llevar una vida licenciosa llena de vicios y excesos exentos de privaciones. Desconozco lo que es una dieta, no me canso de fumar, no existe licor en el mundo que no haya catado y, en lo tocante al sexo: mucho, pues considero que la cantidad es la nica garanta de encontrar calidad.
Con semejante currculum a mis espaldas, no me sorprendi cuando el Dr. Freeman, un reputado hepatlogo, me advirti que mi hgado daba muestras de fatiga terminal y deba plantearme el trasplante como algo inevitable en mi futuro a corto plazo. Despus de varios anlisis, dictamin que, lo mejor sera que aplicara una dieta rigurosa y blanda, sin grasas ni dulces, prcticamente alimentndome de ligersimos caldos vegetales, y, an estos, con moderacin. Me recet un sinfn de pastillas y, a pesar que dej un resquicio a la esperanza, me inst a que me fuese preparando mentalmente para admitir la idea del trasplante.
Compungido, apesadumbrado y entristecido, sal del consultorio del Dr. Freeman. Me dispona a regresar a mi domicilio, cuando mi espritu guerrero y positivo, me hizo cuestionar el diagnstico del Dr. Y buscar una segunda opinin. Haba escuchado hablar del Dr. Belt, un mdico joven, idealista y carismtico, que estaba ganando clientela a marchas forzadas. No fue sencillo conseguir cita, pero mis legendarios encantos encandilaron lo suficiente a Aminta, la enfermera/secretaria del Dr. Belt, para que ubicara un hueco en la apretada agenda del buen profesional de la medicina. Su impresionante diploma de la Universidad de Illinois presida, junto a uno algo menos lustroso de la Universidad de Lovaina en Blgica, la pared principal del consultorio.
Al principio, el estilo apelotonado y poco consultivo del Dr. me inspir cierta desconfianza, pero su brillante locuacidad opac mis dudas vespertinas. Hablaba y hablaba mientras revisaba atropelladamente mi historial.
Aj! Aqu est! Ud. viene del consultorio del Dr. Freeman, verdad?
Pues, si
No me diga ms. Ese matasanos sigue la corriente maldita del neobiologismo gringo que, como todo el mundo sabe, es la culpable de los males hepticos que sufre el pas. Todos sus problemas son culpa del Dr. Freeman y su bobodietismo que daa hasta el hgado del ms pintado. Ya estamos preparando un nuevo directorio en la Asamblea del Colegio de Mdicos para desterrar para siempre a esos traidores a la profesin.”
Quise explicarle que, para ser sinceros, yo nunca haba usado las recomendaciones y recetas del Dr. Freeman, pero no me dio chance a interrumpir su acalorado monlogo.
Ud. no se preocupe. Yo tengo la solucin a su problema. De momento incremente la dosis diaria de tocino, embutidos de chancho y res, guatita, casquera en general, salchicha seca y en caldo, cambie el aceite de oliva por mantequilla derretida o manteca de cerdo, y no olvide incrementar su ingesta de natas, cremas, chocolates, bollera industrial, e hidratosah!, y huevos, no se olvide de ingerir muchos huevos, no vayamos a quedarnos cortos de colesterol. En cuanto al alcohol, su problema reside en su desprecio por lo nacional. A partir de hoy, eso cambia: prepare varios litros de este coctel a base de pjaro azul guarandeo, puro de gallina ambateo, chicha de jora (asegrese que es de la masticada en boca y no de la machacada en mortero), zhumir y trpico seco. Una jarra en ayunas, y otra con cada ingesta de comida. No se olvide de rematarlo todo con caf, mucho caf, algunos helados, quesos grasos y buenos habanos.
Guau! Este es el Dr. que necesito. Alguien con ideas revolucionarias respaldadas por un ttulo acadmico de los Estados Unidos, me dije, y con renovado optimismo me puse en sus manos.
Despus de unos das donde el subidn de azcar y la alegra que produce el exceso me mantuvieron dopado en una euforia permanente, empec a sentir algunas molestias, seguidas de vmitos, mientras mi piel iba adquiriendo un alarmante tono mostaza. Un buen amigo decidi llevarme a hacer unos exmenes independientes a un conocido laboratorio. Los resultados eran desastrosos. Inmediatamente acud donde el Dr. Belt.
Estas son las mentiras tpicas de los laboratorios auspiciados por el Dr. Freeman que slo quieren basarse en estpidos datos estadsticos. Quin le ha dicho a Ud. que el colesterol por encima de 500 es malo? Eso son habladuras, adems no todo es colesterol o triglicridos, la salud de un ser humano debe medirse en trminos de felicidad mental y placer, que son los verdaderos ndices de salud En cualquier caso, veo que hemos llegado muy tarde y todas las malas prcticas a las que le someti el Dr. Freeman han hecho imposible mi labor de rescate del hgado. Intent recuperarlo con toda mi buena intencin, pero ese bribn y sus dietas haban causado daos irreparables. Slo queda el trasplante. Pero no se preocupe. Tengo una herramienta infalible ideal para este tipo de cirugas. Cortamos el abdomen con una sierra
Una sierra? Pero Dr., estoy seguro que he ledo que eso se haba dejado de usar ya porque destroza las clulas epiteliales impidiendo la cicatrizacin, y el paciente termina muriendo desangrado.
Embustes!- me interrumpi molesto- Esas son majaderas inventadas por los neobiologistas! Por idiotas como Ud. que se dedican a repetirlas es que hemos llegado a la crisis heptica que tenemos hoy Adems, los casos que no funcionaron en el pasado ocurrieron porque la herramienta no estaba modernizada. La que yo uso es esta sierra del SIGLO XXI. Tiene un motor de gasolina, venezolana por cierto, de ms de 100 caballos
Un chirriante ruido, ronco y deciblico, inund el consultorio cuando el Dr. Belt arranc, de un certero cadenazo, la sierra motorizada que todava conservaba restos de sangre en su filo. En hbil maniobra, la alz orgulloso y altivo, mientras, sin apenas disimular su sadismo en una mirada hasta entonces slo vista en el Lorenzo Ponce, gritaba en voz alta: Socialismo o Muerte!, Sr. Ecuador. Hasta la victoria siempre, compaero!
href=’http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2008-07-0722-002.shtml’>Paramito Global Holdings Announces Investment Activities
LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Paramito Global Holdings, Inc. (PGH), the parent company for PGH-Canada, Ltd., Paramito Asset Management, LLC, Paramito Pictures, LLC and Affinity Financial Services, LLC (AFS), all hold investment opportunities to reflect the current market — alternative energy, real estate, film and entertainment, and corporate finance.
PGH-Canada, Ltd. and partners have plans to develop wind projects, nationwide in Canada, in excess of $1 billion.
“The Canadian market is in the midst of an alternative energy boom with a growing demand for 14,000 mega watts, forecasted to be implemented by 2015,” explains Albert A. Paramito, Jr., CEO of Paramito Global Holdings. “The Canadian wind industry has the potential to become the fifth-largest wind energy producer in the world.”
Paramito Asset Management, LLC, will also be developing a commercial and residential community over the next seven years on 5,500 acres of land in California with a current estimated value of $2 billion. The plan includes the development of a hotel resort and convention center; retail mall; office campus; and residential housing. The development has the potential to be the largest “green certified” project in the country.
Paramito Pictures has also entered into an agreement with a production and worldwide distribution company in the entertainment industry to invest in and finance a $200 million portfolio of upcoming blockbuster film and entertainment products.
“With this partnership we have components of production, distribution, finance and also print and advertising under one umbrella which will expedite production timelines,” Priti Ramjee, senior vice president for Paramito Pictures, says.
In partnership with a development company in Utah and with the support of the government, PGH and its partners are also developing an infrastructure for a transportation project estimated at over $200 million; it is scheduled to be completed within five years.
Although PGH maintains its own capital, the company continues to raise capital through institutional, private equity, and accredited investors.
Having years of experience, Paramito Global Holdings has attracted not only North American developers, but also investors, to be a part of their alternative investment strategies and activities.
Can a phone kill an industry? What’s Qik offering, now that they’re in public beta? These are the questions we tackle on today’s Mashable Conversations. Sean and I were both intrigued by the fervor and discussion generated around my recent editorial on whether I thought the iPhone would kill terrestrial radio. The response to the article was thunderous and inconclusive. Just as many folks thought that I was right as thought that terrestrial radio has done a decent enough job of killing itself.
It’s a popular topic, too. This weekend’s Elite Tech News show focused on this topic as well for a good portion of the program, and most of the panel disagreed with me on my hypothesis, though for a number of reasons ranging from Louis Gray’s opinion that no technology ever truly kills another to Steven Hodson’s proposition that mobile smartphone technology will never be truly ubiquitous.
Sean and I spend a good deal of time hashing out the various thesii put forth here and there before taking some time out to speak with Qik co-founder Bhaskar Roy about today’s launch of Qik into open beta status.
He told us about a number of new upgrades that come out with this version of the service, including what was most exciting to us, a number of new distribution partners. As we’ve talked about before, CoverItLive now supports Qik (amongst a number of other live streaming services), but Qik is now partnered also with Facebook, MySpace and Orkut.
For the full scoop on all this, watch the podcast below, download the MP4 to your device, or subscribe to the feed.
Digital medical record system designed for iPhone & iPod touch
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., July 21 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — CareTools Inc., an industry recognized mobile healthcare information technology leader, today announced its native digital medical record system for iPhone and iPod touch will be available tomorrow on the Apple App Store.
“We recognized early on that iPhone has the potential to radically change the use of information technology at the most important patient/provider interface - the actual point-of-care,” said Dr. Thomas Giannulli, President, CareTools. “We believe iChart running natively on iPhone is a leapfrog product in terms of its functionality, ease of use and affordable price. Given the value that iChart offers, we are confident it will significantly stimulate the adoption of information technology by healthcare providers.”
iChart has been designed to act as an electronic “personal medical assistant” and focuses on streamlining the daily “chart, bill and fill” routine of every healthcare provider. iChart leverages the advanced capabilities of iPhone and iPod touch to warehouse patient data, and images, in addition to providing an updated list of medications, drug interactions, pharmacies, billing codes and complaint specific clinical templates. Synchronization of new information is accomplished wirelessly using secure web technology and iChart allows a single provider or entire healthcare network to automate medical data capture and effortlessly look-up patient related information using an efficiently designed “touch and tap” interface.
The iChart application can be configured to synchronize data to the user’s included iChart Sync online account, where data can be viewed, shared and printed via a standard web browser. Group and enterprise accounts can setup data sharing teams and leverage data input by iChart teammates in near real-time. Caretools also offers each user the opportunity to link to community or enterprise lab results via a central HL7 gateway, and route prescriptions to national e-Prescribing networks. The iChart application is priced from just over $100 and can be downloaded wirelessly from the App Store using iPhone or iPhone touch.
Apple’s new App Store will provide iPhone users with native applications in a variety of categories including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. The App Store on iPhone works over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, which means it is accessible from just about anywhere, so you can purchase and download applications wirelessly and start using them instantly. Some applications are even free and the App Store notifies you when application updates are available. The App Store will be available in 62 countries at launch on July 11, 2008 at www.itunes.com/appstore/ (link will launch iTunes application).
CareTools is a software company with a single focus - information management at the point-of-care. With over 14 years of experience, commencing with the development of the first complete hand-held electronic medical record system, the Caretools team is committed to connecting care providers to patient information via the latest in mobile technology. For more information please visit www.caretools.com.
A press release has been issued by the original complainants to Ofcom, the UK's communications regulatory office, over the Channel 4 documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle."
In the release (full version attached below), Bob Ward, former spokesperson for the prestigious UK Royal Society, who submitted one of the 265 complaints received by Ofcom and who reviewed parts of the test complaint, said:
"The commissioning and broadcasting of this programme was clearly a calamitous mistake and revealed serious management failures at Channel 4. It is very disappointing that Ofcom has failed to fully uphold the public interest, and the ruling raises very serious doubts about the ability of the broadcasting regulator to recognise the harm caused by misrepresentations of the scientific evidence on climate change. Recent opinion polls show that a majority of the public mistakenly believe that many scientists disagree that greenhouse gas emissions" [my emphasis]
Ward went on to say that:
"Martin Durkin, who produced the programme for Channel 4, has so far been unapologetic about the misrepresentation of facts and the unfair treatment of scientists. He should also withdraw the DVD version from sale, because it contains many of the errors that appeared in the broadcast programme, and he should recall those copies that have already been sold. I hope that the trading standards authorities now investigate sales of the DVD."
For more on the history of the "Great Global Warming Swindle" and Channel 4 controversy check out some of DeSmog's previous entries:
Friday Night Lights Comes Back From the Near-Dead as ‘A Brand New Show’ (LAT) Heading into their third season, the cast members of the long-threatened NBC drama Friday Night Lights said today that they acutely feel the gratitude that comes with being pulled back from the brink of cancellation. “It was sort of like we were thrown a life ring,” actor Kyle Chandler said of the deal NBC struck with DirecTV to split the series’ production costs and distribution rights.
Trib Buries News in Redesign Test (Crain’s Chicago Business) The new face of the Chicago Tribune is taking shape, as staffers at the newspaper put the finishing touches on a prototype set for a test run in the next few weeks. The Tribune Co. will try out some dramatic changes in the 161-year-old broadsheet in a Saturday edition by early August.
Newspaper Companies Should Cut the Dividends (CJR) Ryan Chittum: It’s clear newspaper companies won’t be able to keep up dividend payments at their current levels. No industry could when its sales are falling at or near a double-digit rate — and soaring dividend ratios are often a sign for investors that a cut is in the offing. But why pay dividends at all?
As part of Cold Springs celebration for Hometown Pride Days, the community held their first annual Hometown Pride Days Royalty Pageant, and it was an astonishing success. The young ladies looked fabulous, and this story gives an inside look at some of the behind the scenes efforts it takes to produce an event like this. This story also features an interview with pageant coordinator Michelle Nyberg as well as footage from the event.
Cold Springs 2008 HomeTown Pride Royalty Candidates:
Petite Princess Candidates:
MacKenzie Hromatka is 7 years old and is the daughter of Joe and Lisa Hromatka. She enjoys reading, Girl Scouts, figure skating, four-wheeling, playing with webkinz, arts & crafts, playing with her brothers, and being with friends. Her favorite thing to eat is carrots and dip. She would like to become a Veterinarian when she grows up because she loves animals. Her sponsor is Joe Hromatka, Dad and Company Construction, LLC.
Kendra Kalthoff is 7 _ years old and is the daughter of Lori Ann Kalthoff and Tony Waldron. She enjoys swimming, reading, bowling, fishing, biking to parks, playing with Petshops, going to the movies, and having a friend over. Her favorite food is apples. She wants to become a teacher when she grows up. She is sponsored by Ralph Hansen of Hansens Tree Service.
Magdalen ( Maggie) Linz is 6 years old and is the daughter of Paul and Kara Linz. Maggie enjoys Tae Kwon Do, Tee ball, reading, coloring, playing WII, and playing with friends, especially outdoors. Her favorite thing to eat is strawberries and she wants to be an artist, a Mom, and a CSI agent when she grows up. Her sponsor is Micah & Melissa Waalen, owners of Snap Fitness, Cold Spring.
Kinsey Morford is 7 years old and is the daughter of Kim and Jamie Morford. She enjoys Math, swimming, watching TV, playing outside, making things that were never made before, drawing, and playing with her sister. Her favorite things to eat are: ice cream, pizza, and Chinese food. She would like to become an artist when she grows up. She is sponsored by Dr. Mary Jo Femrite, Lakes Eye Clinic.
Junior Princess Candidates:
Estella Mueller is 9 years old and is the daughter of Glenn and Jackie. She enjoys being creative through art, Tae Kwon Do, Cheerleading, reading, playing with friends, and watching movies. Her favorite thing to eat is steak. She would like to become a firefighter when she grows up so she can save lives. Her sponsor is Drs. Milbert and Bicknell.
Ariana Giller-Schurman is 9 years old and is the daughter of Tracy and Brian Schurman. She enjoys History, Girl Scouts, swimming, theatre, biking, playing outside with her brothers, and making stuff with paper. Her favorite thing to eat is chips with cheese. She is sponsored by Cold Spring Bakery.
Autumn Schmitz is 9 years old and is the daughter of Wendy & Tim Duel. She enjoys art, Just for Kix dance, baseball, Missionettes, reading, cooking, watching TV, crafts, puzzles, and fishing. Her favorite thing to eat is chicken nuggets. She wants to become a Veterinarian, a Chef, or an artist when she grows up. She is sponsored by Brad Matuska, Mississippi Topsoils.
Laura Werner is 12 years old and is the daughter of Leslie Clement. She enjoys math, doing crafts, playing the violin, drawing, collecting coins and other items, watching TV, and bird watching. Her favorite foods are pasta, beef, and pickles with sugar on top. When she grows up she would like to get a B.S. degree and work with wolves or at a zoo, and write in her spare time. She is sponsored by Cold Spring SuperValu.
Queen Candidates:
Victoria Konop is 16 years old and is the daughter of Steve and Julia Konop. She enjoys history and learning about her familys past, art, being on the computer, volleyball, going to the movies, scrapbooking, spend time with family and friends, and she loves to help and play with kids. She loves food, but if she has to pick a favorite its pizza and French fries. When she grows up she wants be an Art teacher, get married, and give her children a great life, just like her parents have given her. Her sponsor is Red River Inn/My Dinner Connection.
Amanda Weber is 15 years old and is the daughter of Greg and Linda Weber. She enjoys Art - drawing, Track & Field, Dance, traveling, going to the movies, hanging out with friends, camping, modeling, acting, and spending time with her cousins and family. Her favorite things to eat are spaghetti and ice cream. When she grows up she wants to have successful career in the fashion industry, get married, and raise a family. She is sponsored by Styles Plus Salon & Spa.
It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
This week, something amazing happens as we both Chris and I are on the podcast. We’re even talking at the same time!
However, it was a good week to get back together as we had a lot of “hard” news to go over including updates on the Universal Music lawsuit, the YouTube/Viacom case and a series of rulings on everything from Unixware to Bratz Dolls.
All in all, there were sixteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.
ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager 5.0 delivers a united platform for the full lifecycle management of spreadsheets and MS Access(R) databases
NEW YORK, N.Y. and LONDON, U.K., July 21 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — ClusterSeven, a developer of spreadsheet monitoring and audit control software, today announced the immediate availability of its Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager 5.0 software. Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager’s new version includes file discovery, risk analysis, logic checking and enhanced version comparison functionality, all from one common platform. These enhancements in improving user productivity extend the proven ability for business controllers and auditors to quickly and easily highlight risky changes made to spreadsheets created using popular programs such as Microsoft Excel and Google Apps. The combination with ClusterSeven’s ADM solution for managing Microsoft Access(R) Databases provides businesses with the ability to analyze all changes to user-developed applications, with a clear audit trail to demonstrate compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
Organizations across all industries use spreadsheets to track millions of dollars worth of transactions. The errors inherent to monitoring updates to these spreadsheets using only the human eye create heavy costs and a significant risk of non-compliance with regulations and laws that demand rapid and accurate financial reporting.
Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager helps companies implement a system to maintain spreadsheet integrity from the moment they are created and each time they are modified, shared and stored. The new Version 5 enables different users to create their own dashboard view of spreadsheet activity so that:
* The business can track changing values such as positions and P&L from across the spreadsheet inventory for new business opportunity and reduced risk;
* Controllers can track business integrity, user access and change approval for audit and compliance;
It can monitor spreadsheet maturity for potential migration into core systems. “The ClusterSeven platform is unmatched in its functionality to support spreadsheet management - from discovery and risk analysis through protection and change monitoring to eventual replacement,” said Ralph Baxter, Senior Vice President, ClusterSeven. “You can look back at what happened at any point of time or over any period, right down to the cell level. Our clients buy the solution for control but expand their use for business efficiency.
Availability ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager 5.0 is available now and can be purchased directly or through ClusterSeven’s network of value-added resellers, distributors and system integrators. For more information, visit www.clusterseven.com.
About ClusterSeven Based in London and New York and with installations across three continents, ClusterSeven is the provider of strategic spreadsheet and Microsoft Office Access database management software to banks and corporations. Its technology helps firms to balance their governance, risk and regulatory compliance (GRC) obligations with the need for revenue generation, staff efficiency and productivity. Since its launch in 2003, ClusterSeven has delivered strategic solutions to a host of blue-chip clients including Dresdner Kleinwort, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International and European Credit Management, helping its customers integrate spreadsheets into their information management systems. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner and part of the Google Enterprise Professional Program, ClusterSeven delivers unparalleled technology that has been recognized in the Securities Tech50 and won awards from The Sand Hill Group and Windows in Financial Services.
A Candid Q&A With the CEO of Brightstar, the HB500″s Top Company.
We are lucky to be in a technology industry that continues to accelerate around the world. Innovation and new technologies spur a lot of product activity in the telecom industry, and this, in turn, helps to drive demand with consumers. We again anticipate that the industry will grow this year. That being said, I cannot say that our industry is unaffected by economic conditions. We have certainly seen the economy affect key partners and customers over the past 12 months. I can say that while some parts of our business have slowed, we have anticipated that and have put renewed energy and resources into diversification and growing higher margin businesses like supply chain solutions. This strategy is certainly paying off. For example, we just signed a multi-year contract with Telecom New Zealand to take over their entire supply chain.HB: What is the hardest lesson you”ve had to learn in today”s economy? Without a doubt, we must be forward looking and willing to take action to evolve now to meet future needs.
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Vol. 9, No. 4. (August 2005), pp. 413-420.
High-throughput mouse magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is seeing rapidly increasing demand in development of therapeutics. Recent advances including higher-field systems, new gradient and radio frequency coils and new pulse sequences, coupled with efficient animal preparation and data handling, allow high-throughput MRI under certain protocols. However, with current shifts from anatomic to functional and molecular imaging, innovative technology is required to meet new throughput demands. The first multiple mouse imaging strategies have provided a glimpse of the future state-of-the-art. However, the successful translation of standard clinical MRI technology to preclinical MRI is required to facilitate next-generation high-throughput MRI.
Acad Med, Vol. 76, No. 2. (February 2001), pp. 209-214.
Investigator’s and institutions’ financial conflicts of interest in clinical research raise serious questions about the objectivity of such research, the safety of human subjects, and the threat to public trust in the integrity of clinical research. Yet the author makes clear that a conflict of interest is a state of affairs, not a behavior, and therefore not automatically a manifestation of improper actions. Indeed, conflicts of interest are quite common in complex settings such as those of academic medicine, and usually pose no problem, both because of the safeguards already in place and the integrity of most researchers. But it is clear that both non-financial conflicts of interest (e.g., career advancement, peer recognition, garnering grants and publications) and financial ones are double-edged: they can motivate individuals to do their best work but also can compromise judgment and undermine objectivity. In particular, conflicts of interest involving money, especially money from external sources, warrant special, targeted safeguards. And whether or not such conflicts of interest have actually created significant problems, academic medicine risks great peril if its leaders fail to respond to the growing perception that such problems exist. To foster public trust, the public needs to be better educated about how, with proper safeguards, limited financial incentives in the conduct of clinical research can benefit everyone. In addition, safeguards against the downsides of such financial incentives must be visibly strengthened. The author offers eight suggestions for what academic medicine’s leaders might do in this regard (comply with existing full-disclosure requirements; establish principles governing institutional conflicts of interest; etc.). He closes by reiterating that the pursuit of clinical research depends entirely on the ability and willingness of the research community to merit public trust.
Int J Occup Environ Health, Vol. 12, No. 3. (p 2006), pp. 268-272.
Petrochemical industry representatives often withhold information and misinterpret positive evidence of toxicity of benzene, even from their own research, also discouraging or delaying disclosure of findings of adverse effects to the public. They now appear to be attempting to influence study results in industry’s favor by offering predetermined conclusions about study results as part of an effort to draw financial support for the studies. The American Petroleum Institute is currently raising funds for benzene research being conducted in China for which it has already announced the intended conclusions.
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If our information was made freely available and became the building blocks through which other work could be done - we would be the foundation upon which the news and information world is built upon.
‘We Mentor Success’ events are the brainchild of Tom Tubergen, a Detroit-area native who has watched a lot of businesses in his area struggle or fail in recent years. Tubergen’s firm, Mentoring Success Group LLC, offers a Business Performance Analysis Engine that helps small and medium-sized businesses benchmark themselves against their competition, find areas of competitive strength, and identify areas for improvement. 
PGH-Canada, Ltd. and partners have plans to develop wind projects, nationwide in Canada, in excess of $1 billion. 
“We recognized early on that iPhone has the potential to radically change the use of information technology at the most important patient/provider interface - the actual point-of-care,” said Dr. Thomas Giannulli, President, CareTools. “We believe iChart running natively on iPhone is a leapfrog product in terms of its functionality, ease of use and affordable price. Given the value that iChart offers, we are confident it will significantly stimulate the adoption of information technology by healthcare providers.”
It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
Organizations across all industries use spreadsheets to track millions of dollars worth of transactions. The errors inherent to monitoring updates to these spreadsheets using only the human eye create heavy costs and a significant risk of non-compliance with regulations and laws that demand rapid and accurate financial reporting.