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mmmm 7C BUSINESS/IE$e Ctarlotte ^att Thursday, October 13, 2005 Praise making its mark in Charlotte FM radio market Continued from page 8C the Nation. Kwei-Cook said Praise is operated like an adult contemporary station, because the music that’s played on the station could easi ly fit on 92.7. ‘"Ibis is not just Shirley Caesar and the Mi^ty Clouds of Joy” said Stowe. Kwei-Cook said Radio One’s goal in Charlotte is to super-serve the adult market and having Praise gives the 25-to-48 year-old demographic more choices. When the opportunity came for Stowe to work at Praise, he said he couldn’t pass it up. ‘Tm a Christian and I have a passion for this music,” he said, adding that when he worked for an adult contemporary station in Greensboro, there was a phenomenal response when gospel was played. “Another reason the station is successful is because of the world we five in, people need a positive message,” he said. Point your mouse onto the latest news. www.thecharlottepost.com Minority vendors not getting Katrina contracts Continued from page 8C Commerce. “What they’re basically saying to the minority in New Orleans is, “WeTl make it harder for you to find a job. And if you do, we’ll make sure you get paid less.’” The Department of Homeland Security, whose FEMA division handles most of the contracts, said it is committed to hiring smaller, disadvantaged firms. But many of the no-bid awards were given out to known players who could quickly provide help in an emer gency situation, spokesman Larry Orluskie said. “It was about saving lives, protecting property, and going to who you go to, to get what you need,” he said. The Labor Department also has said its decision to temporarily suspend affir mative action rules for first- time government contractors doing Katrina work was motivated by a need to reduce paperwork to speed emergency aid. The Army Corps of Engineers has a better record on minority contracts, with roughly 16. percent of the $637 million (euro534 milhon) in Katrina contracts going to minority-owned companies, according to agency records. Businesses with more than 50 employees typically must have a written affirmative action plan if they are awarded contracts of more than $50,000 (euro41,883). But the Bush administration removed that requirement for three months, saying basic anti-discrimination laws would provide ade quate protection. At a recent meeting in Mississippi for minority businesspeople with federal contracting officials, Rep. Bennie Thompson said many of the 100 owners walked out in anger when told their best chance of get ting work was to seek small er subcontracts from the larger companies. The larger companies include Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., which Idee President Dick Cheney headed from 1995 to 2000; and AshBritt Inc., a Florida Yahoo! tunes to podcasting with new technologies Continued from page 8C Yahoo estimates that up to 5 million people currently listen to podcasts, which runs a gamut of topics. Everything fiom the presi dent’s weekly address to ordinary citizens ranting about their pet peeves are available on podcasts. The potential market is much larger. Apple so far has sold more than 20 million iPods, accounting for about three-fourths of the MP3 players in the United States. But the podcasting phenomenon remains a mystery to most of the country - something that Yahoo beheves it can change by deliver ing more comprehensive search results and enabling users to store the podcasts in their computer’s music players, including Apple’s Microsoft business solution Continued from page 8C a try. technology. The right PC and PDA can make a world of difference. If you are thinking about starting a busi ness, or just want to try to make your exist ing operation smoother, take a look at Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2006. It has a healthy dose of the old familiar Office tools with a full measure of new, easy to use features. There are some prerequisites. You need to be running Windows 2000 or XP with service pack 2. If you are running XP and have been keeping up with your Microsoft updates, this shouldn’t be a prob lem, but if not. Service Pack 2 comes bundled into the package. The installer will apprise you if it needs to be loaded. Lets start with the tried and true, Microsoft Word It retains all the functionahty you are used to with the increase capability and lay out debuted in Office 2003. The same applies to Excel and PowerPoint. Office 2006 also comes with Publisher and Access in addition to the enhanced Outlook, featuring the Business Contact Manager. Now one tool can handle both your private and business con- taxds and email vrithout getting them mixed up or requiring you to figure out some way to retrieve your business contacts out of the combined database. Microsoft has even improved the fonts so that small fonts look clear on smaller screens This is very helpful if you are transferring files fium desktop to laptop or PDA. If you use the automatic email alert, unlike previous versions of Office, this one informs you of e- mail’s arrival by giving you a small preview window in the lower right comer of the screen instead of the splash in the middle of your screen that destroys your train of thou^t. If you are an avid Office user most of these features are familiar to you The real gem in Office Business Manager Edition 2006 is the Small Business Account tool. This gives new meaning to the phrase new and improved If you have used other accoimting programs from Microsoft or any body else for that matter, including Quicken, you owe it to yourself to give Accounting 2006 company with ties to Mississippi’s governor, Haley Barbour, the former chau'- man of the Repubhean National Committee. The president has talked about small businesses being the engine of our econ omy, but when the time for sound bites is over his administration still uses the same backroom deals to take care of their friends,” said Thompson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus The situation has exacer bated racial sensitivities that already were height ened by the slow initial fed eral response to the New Orleans flood. Many poor black residents didn’t get help for days. Bush has met privately with NAACP President Bruce Gordon to discuss the racial component of the dis aster. And Alford said he will get a meeting with Bush sometime soon to talk about improving opportunities for minority contractors. On the Net: FEMA contracting: wwwJhs.gov/openforbusiness. ±00,000.00 hcatn\A.a R-eUef ort, A CoiA/tliA/Utou-S 3u.cc-ess! - over Jl^s,ooo.oo to Pate - 1 ChnRottc's Rzspot/vsc to tho Fuwdra'i&'un.^ «t The t+tstorio exocLsior club all c.hnrtotte awd &a.\nroa.\n,ii'i.vvq area cltlxtvv& to search their hearts for the depths of hw.ncaiA-i.ty realixivu^''Ktitnvva'’ could have toucched yow.r honce an-d.fancLLy, brow.0ht an. oVerwhelncLn-g respon.se. ci.tizen.s front, c-hartotte an.d sw,rrow.n.dtn.g areas oon-ttn-we to give. ..-An-d, the oowenattee avvd spon-sors want to say “ThanJe you" 4ir5iDO.oe> Patrons: ’Sridgette Anne ttanepden iThnes and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Player in addition to Yahoo’s. 'Ihat way, people can listen to the podcasts at their convenience, even if they don’t liave an iPod or another portable device that plays MP3 audio files. Besides the iPod, Yahoo’s service also is com patible with the iPiver player, DeH Inc.’s DJ and Creative Tfechnology Ltd ’s Zen. Yahoo’s service is built strictly for listeners. Unlike Odeo’s site, Yahoo isn’t providing any tools for creating podcasts, although there are plans to do so eventually, said Joe Hayashi, Yahoo’s director of product management “This is all about discovery for now,” Hayashi said. “Step One is all about growing the ecosystem.” 4as..oo -^00.00 pfltrows JillJ. riorw. Jfiw.es § Mildred t-figglns, (^oose Creete. Joe itowey Bllot M. Rosew, § Shirley Spaw.gh-Rosew. To help MS riuilge our goal please ruake cheoles payable to: N.c. Legislative ■&laote caucus Fouudatiou, Mall to: W. Pete Cunuirighara., P.o. B-OA ±&o±6>, charlotte. NC 2.82^^ Sfousors: N.c. Leg. Blacte caw.cw,s Fd. • The i-ilstorlo ewelslor club B.c.tf.o. • The charlotte Post Newspaper • tVBAv charleston ttowse on the Plaza The key is integration. For example, pro posals and ledgers can be easily converted into invoices. All the programs within the Office Suite can share information. Easily puU customer and/or financial data from Excel, combine it with inventory recorders from Access to produce specialized reports in Word In other words, spend less time doing paperwork and more time actually running your bxjsiness. Accounting 2006 also makes it easy to out source many time-consuming task such as payroll. Microsoft has partnered with ADP a leading provider of payroll solutions to offer a product call ADP Tbtal Payroll; this allows you 24/7 access to yoim data while having ADP handle the actual processing and tax filling. Another handy tool for small business is Microsoft’s Integrated Credit Card Processing. This software works with either your existing merchant accoxmt or can sign you up for the first time, allowing you to take credit card orders over the phone. 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