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Show BUSINESS PAGE 10 DailySHerald SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2006 BUSINESS EDITOR | Grace Leong - 344-2910 - gleong@heraldextra.com WEEK AHEAD Editor's Note: Please Ready Your Business, mation for Utah busi Gov. Gary Herbert and Mayor Matthew Godfrey. Location: Ogden Eccles Conference Center, 2415 Washington Bivd, submit calendarinfor. nesses, events, semi nars and conferences to gleong@heraldextra.com or fax it to 344-2985 Deadline for submission is the Wednesday of the week before publication MONDAY P Discount Tire will host freetire safety clinics throughout Utah from Monday through Satur day as part of the Na al Tire Safety Week or additional tire safety featuring speakersLt. Ogden. Cost: $35. Register online at www. echamber.cc/confer- ence.htm! D The Pipeline Group, will hoid its annual Public Education — Contractor Awareness Program.A briefsafety programwill be pre: serited that stresses the importance of ac- cident prevention by identifying pipeline and utility Tights of way, use of one-call systems and the importanceof working with pipeline andutility companies to safely excavatein the versity Ave. Suite vicinity of underground! facilities. Location: LaQuinta Inn, 1460 S. University Avenue. in Provo. Time: 7:30 p.m. A free dinnerwill be catered by the Ruby River Steakhouse for all personsinvolved in excavation related activities in Juab, Sanpete, TUESDAY » AchieveMore will pres: ent a workshop on Buslness By Referral: How to Generate More Pros- pects Than You Can Possibly Handle. This free workshop gives financial professionals. sales people andbusi ness owners hands-on information about how to differentiate them: and Utah counties. For more information call 800) 982-8752 or visit our web site at www. pipelinegroup.com. » The Small Business Development Center, in partnership with the ‘SBA and Utah Busi. ness Link, will hold a workshop, Managing through Processes. Cost: Tuition for all 10 selves from the compe: tition and get most, if bizSMART workshops Mall Drive Sandy Time: 8:30 o.m a.m. or 11:30 a book ahd CD available for $75. Location: UVSC p.m. RSVP at 18 424-6837 or e-mail more4u66@hotmnail.com WEDNESDAY » The Utah Technol ogy Council will host a breakfast seminar “Strategy: Forces Shaping and Driving Technology”featuring speaker KimB. Clark, it dean of the at Harvard Busi. soe fom 1995 rent presiccertoBYU Idaho. Location America Hotel. 500 S. Main St, Downtown Salt Lake City. Cost: $25 members, $50 is $349 and includes textbook, all handouts, andfinancial projections software. Workshops also may be purchased at $30 each with work: Geneva Building, 1410 » The NetGain Chapter of Business Networking International, a business and professional referral organization, will meet at Magelby's Restaurant at the Shops at Riverwoods in Provo. Time: 7:30 a.m 1e software applica: in lifecycle. Workshop participantswill learn specific techniquesthat can be usedto uncover andresolve security defects before hackers do. Location: Microsoft, Antelope Room, 123 Wright Brothers Or., St 100, Salt LakeCity. Free. Time: Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m 9:30 a.m., workshop at 9:30 a.m.-noon. For additional information on this workshop and other events, e-mail info@ securesoftwareforum, com. D The Provo-Orem Cham- ber of Commerce's Women’s Divisionwill hold a meeting. New members are welcome. Time: Noon. Cost: Cost: $10. For more information on location and to register, please call Elizabeth at 373-8720. THURSDAY » The Utah Department of Public Safety's Division of Homeland Security will hold a workshop, HILMAR, Calif. — TomSilva's chickens pumpout1.4 million eggs a day, but his operation looks more like a prison than a farm. Toreachhis hen houses, an intruder would havetoscaleeightfoot fences topped by razor wire, then sneak past surveillance cam- FRIDAY “Biosecurity”is the buzzword du jourat chicken, turkey and egg operations across the country. A bird flu pandemic sweeping fice of Economic Development will hostits technology@breakfast meeting on “Tackling the Talent Challenge,” a panel discussion mod- Fargo Center, 299 S. 2 interested in Web application security the Scott Uindlaw £D PR » The Governor's Of. » The Web Application opportunity to discuss best practicesfor imple menting security early Biosecurity the buzzwordas_ . U.S. poultry farms defend against bird flu 8230 and $500 for non-member table of eight. Time: 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m professionals and secu: rity professionals who PREVENTING A PANDEMIC a.m. Pre-register at 863 director of the Talent Access Programs (TAP) offer developers, QA at chicken, turkeyand egg operations across the country. A bird flu pandemic sweeping throughflocks in Southeast Asia and beyond has spurred American commercial farmersto tighten defenses against threats. W. 1200 South, Orem. Time: 9:00 a.m.-11:00 erated by Pat Vaughn, Hacking workshopwill BILL MATTOS/Associated Press Chickensfeed at a Foster Farms grow-out facility near Livingston, Calif. “Biosecurity”is the buzzword du jour of the governor's of- fice. Location: Wells Main St., 23rd Floor, in Salt Lake City. Time: 7:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. Free. RSVP at www. goed.utah.gov and click technology@breakfast icon, throughflocks in Southeast Asia and beyondhas spurred American commercial farmersto tighten their defenses. “This is certainly the biggestissue facing the industry today, no question about that,” said Richard BEN MARGOT/Associated Press Asign details security measures at a Foster Farmsfacility in Merced,Calif. Lobb, spokesman for the National Chicken Council. The stakes are especially high in California, where a $2.5billion poultry industry ranks among the top 10 producers nationwide for dinner chicken, turkey and table egg output. State officials say migratory bird routes that stretch southward from the Bering Strait and down the West Coast could bring thedisease by this summer. A tradition of raising “backyard chickens” for eggs, meat, cock- fighting and bird showsruns deep turesin the Central Valley. Industry executives andstateofficials say these backyardbirds numberin the millions, and they worry these birds out in the open could be exposed to in someAsian and Hispanic subcul- See BIRD FLU, C9 : » The Utah Valley State College 2006 Commencement Ceremony will feature keynote speaker Jon M. Huntsman, a self-made bil- lionaire and renowned businessman. Huntsman will receive an hororary doctorate in business affairs and his wife, Karen, will receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters. Jack Zenger, who is @ leading practitioner in the field of leadership development and organizational change, will be awarded an honorary doctorate in leadership studies and his wife, Holly Zenger, will receive an honorary doctorate in community affairs. A total of 1,725 Students are graduating from UVSCthis spring, of those students, 783 will be receiving bachelor's degrees. In addition, 927 students will receive associate's degrees and 15 cer- tificates will be given. Location: UVSC McKay Events Center. Time: 10:30 a.m. Electronic storage means Halt the free rides small businesses can store recordsindefinitely Joyce M. Rosenberg THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Accumulating records and documentsis an inevitable part of running a small business. Paperwork turns into stacksoffolders andeventually,filing cabinets that take up increasing amounts of space. If you have the urgetostart _ throwing out your company’s old records, be aware thatthis is a task to be done very judiciously, or you could find yourself without crucial papers whenunexpected litigation or 'tax questions comeup. Better yet, you might wantto think about preserving some of your old records electronically, saving space but still holding on to the documents you need. Before youstart a big purge, you also need to be awareofthe lawsin yourstate, such as stat- utesoflimitation on contracts, or regulations that require membersof certain professions to keep some documents for a specified amountof time. You also should be aware of any federallaws, whichof course include tax laws, that apply to your business. rae are really no yr and ‘ast rules,de on the state otthe cietierencieg on the the industry they’re in or the governing body that might be looking over them” said Blum, a certified public accountant with Sea Cohen & Holtz LLP in Minesafest routeis to consult with an attorney or a CPA, who a you sort through the can kinds of documents you have and how they should be treated. Even safer than that: Take a See STORAGE, C9 on the wi-fi train | | The connection for the wireless Internet in my ment has gotten muchslowerrecently. I have a feeling other people in the building are using my Internet connection. How doI preventthis and make sure my connection is secure? —AP., New York, N.Y. common.There are many people Who feel that an open and unsecured wireless connection is akin to a public parkforall to enjoy. Or there is the business traveler look- Eric Gertler Protect Your Privacy ing to use an open connection to send a few e-mails. Using someone else’s connection become so common it even has a name — piging. Were it not for some of the adverse consequences,I would not havean issue with the sharing of wireless connections.In fact, the urban trendin whichcities are seeking to create public wi-fi hot spots for people to use is a good one and will only increase as wireless becomes more popular. However, piggybacking can cause your connection to slow down. More importantly,it can See PRIVACY, C9 |