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Physicians to open local bariatrics clinic
A physician's office focusing on non-surgical weight loss methods will soon join the ranks of Lexington's bariatric surgery practices, diet centers and other businesses focused on helping people shed extra pounds.
Medical Bariatrics of Lexington, at 2716 Old Rosebud Road, Suite 160 in Hamburg, is scheduled to open Monday.
The practice will be staffed primarily by Dr. Julie Swindler, who is a bariatrician -- a physician who specializes in non-surgical weight loss.
The American Society of Bariatric Physicians says bariatricians typically use techniques such as diet and nutrition education, exercise plans, lifestyle modification and prescription medicines to help patients lose weight.
Swindler said some patients she sees have already had weight loss surgery but have gained some weight back and are looking for ways to lose it. more
Business owner finds employee shot to death
The Polk Sheriff's Office is investigating a homicide in Fort Meade.
They say a business owner found one of his employees shot to death. It happened at the Jose Gracia Harvesting Company, at 910 Rhoden Loop West in Fort Meade. Investigators say the owner found 75-year-old Estevan Valdez shot to death, laying in front of the trailer on company property where he lived. No word yet on any suspects. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Polk County Sheriff's Office. . moreRitter gets tour of UNC College of Business
Gov. Bill Ritter toured the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado Friday morning, learning about the school's strong national ranking and efforts to meet the needs of Colorado's 21st century economy.
Although UNC is on spring break, a group of professors and several students joined the hour-long tour of Kepner Hall. Leading the tour were Tim Jares, Monfort College of Business interim dean, and UNC President Kay Norton.
Ritter, a first-generation college graduate in his family and whose wife graduated with an education degree from UNC, was told that 42 percent of the business school's graduates are first-generation college students.
The Monfort College of Business in 2004 was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the only business school to receive the award out of 72 recipients. more
Businesses must keep back door locked to hackers
Once the focus of IT security was the network and its perimeter: stop hackers and viruses getting onto your network and you will secure your business. But over the last couple of years, businesses have begun to realise they left the back door open.
Encouraging the public to interact with them over the internet left a gaping hole in security. Although intrusion detection, firewall and anti-virus technology advanced, a user can key information into a web form, linked to a back-end database, and these security technologies could be bypassed.
In 2007, retailer TJX, which owns TK Maxx in the UK, revealed that hackers had stolen 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from its databases over 18 months. Hackers are said to have planted unauthorised software on TJX's computer network to enable them to steal at least 100 files containing data on millions of accounts from systems in Framingham, Massachusetts and Watford in the UK. more
Small businesses find ways around rising costs of mailing
Although the price of a first-class postage stamp is going up a penny on May 12, small businesses will get a break for the first time on Express Mail and Priority Mail costs. That will help many companies, but business owners who do a lot of mailing and shipping say there are plenty of additional ways to cut expenses if you shop and ask around.The U.S. Postal Service, making itself more competitive with commercial mailers and shippers, is taking some steps away from what it calls a "one price fits all" policy that had customers paying the same price for all pieces of mail in certain classes of service. For example, Express Mail has had one price whether a piece of mail was sent 10 miles or 1,000 miles.Express Mail will be priced based on zones, allowing customers sending mail nearby to pay less. more
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