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If you are trying to start your own business and need some financial back up, you better get a BUSINESS PLAN together.

Why? You might ask, because NO INVESTORS will even talk to you unless you have a business plan! That’s right. Investors want to know why, what, where, and HOW MUCH. Just think of your business plan as your “directions to enterprise.”

In order for you to even start writing one, you must have a clear understanding of your business customers, strengths and competition. The plan should be a strong communication tool for your business and it will help you define your purpose, your competition, your management and personnel. The process of constructing a business plan can be a strong reality check: I’m I ready for this? Do I have the proper backing? I’m I ready to put all my life savings into this business?
Check out bplans.com and look at all the FREE, that’s right, FREE samples of business plans.

The tragedy in Haiti has touched so many. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the images that we continue to see on television, each story more heartbreaking than the next. That’s why I think if you ever thought about adopting, NOW is the best time to do it.
Please check out these sites and see what you can do to help these beautiful children:
Intercountry Adoption Haiti
Bethany.org

This is what I call “perfect parenting”. Where else can this little girl get this kind of push from? Check out her site!

http://www.amiyasdancebus.com/

A federal panel of health experts has issued new recommendations encouraging U.S. doctors to screen children aged 6 and older for obesity, and to offer them a referral to intensive weight management programs when necessary.

The recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) update those issued in 2005. At that time, the group said there was insufficient evidence to recommend routine obesity screening in children.

However, “since 2005, a series of randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that there is effective therapy, so we felt compelled to change the recommendations,” said the UPSTF panel chair Dr. Ned Calonge, chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health in Denver.

“This is an encouraging message. There’s hope for successful treatment, and we hope that parents will ask their pediatrician if their child needs intervention,” said Calonge.

He said it’s better to address the problem as early as possible in childhood instead of waiting until your child is grown.

“Once you become an overweight adult, it’s more difficult to change your behavior,” Colange said. “We do believe that childhood behaviors can be changed, and investing in changing these behaviors in kids is an investment that can pay off lifelong.”

The new recommendations will be published in the February issue of Pediatrics, and are available online on Jan. 18 on the Pediatrics Web site. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hospital doctors make mistakes in more than one in 10 prescriptions they write for children, far more than was previously thought, according to an authoritative study published today.
Errors were made in 13.2% of prescriptions written for children, according to the study covering five London hospitals and carried out by the School of Pharmacy, University of London. Even more mistakes were made by nurses who had to administer drugs, a task often entailing mixing up a solution to be injected. The study found that almost one in five drugs (19.1%) were wrongly administered.
Most of the mistakes were picked up by pharmacists who cross-checked the prescriptions, and most of the errors that did get through led to no long-term harm, though some could have been lethal.
Ian Wong, a professor and one of the authors of the study, reported in Archives of Disease in Childhood, said one child was prescribed a dose of anti-convulsants, for epilepsy, that was 10 times higher than it should have been.
Wong said of the incident: “It was over the weekend so the pharmacist wasn’t around and nobody checked the prescription. On the Monday the pharmacist noticed straight away and stopped the treatment.” Fortunately, the child had received only one dose.
The biggest problem in prescribing is that drugs used in hospitals have never been tested on children. They are not licensed for that use and are not in doses appropriate for children. Doctors are required to make a calculation for the dose based on the weight of each child. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Children breastfed for more than six months have a lower risk of mental health problems as they enter their teen years.

Wendy Oddy, child health associate professor at the Telethon Institute, said: ‘There has been much evidence about the benefits of early breastfeeding, but the importance of this study is that it shows continued benefits from extended feeding.’

‘Given the rising prevalence of mental health problems, interventions to assist mothers to breastfeed, and to breastfeed for longer, could be of long term benefit to the community,’ she added.

The research team analysed data from more than 2,000 children. Just over half were breastfed for six months or longer, 38 percent were breastfed for less than six months, 11 percent were not breastfed.

The participants underwent a mental health assessment when they were 2, 5, 8, 10, and 14-years-old. At each of the assessments, the researcher team found a link between breastfeeding duration and behaviour, said a release.

For each additional month of breastfeeding, the behaviour score improved. This remained valid after adjustment for socio-economic, social and other factors impacting on parenting. Oddy said breastfeeding could help babies cope better with stress.

These findings will be published in the forthcoming edition of the Journal of Paediatrics.