Franchise Guru John Rotche Puts his Gloves on at TITLE Boxing Club

?Dream Team? Offers an Intense Franchise Business Concept Filling a Niche in the Industry

Franchise Guru John Rotche

OVERLAND PARK, KS. ?May 23, 2012 ?? With more than 20 years of experience in the franchising industry, John Rotche has made a name for himself and is showing no signs of stopping. Rotche has paired up with former professional boxer Danny Campbell, business partners Tom Lyons and Rick Washburn, and TITLE Boxing Company to complete an executive ?Dream Team? and introduce TITLE Boxing Club to entrepreneurs as an intense franchise opportunity in the thriving health and fitness segment.

Most recently the President of Belfor Franchise Group, Rotche brings his franchising expertise to the boxing workout concept as a perfect fit alongside Campbell, who has the boxing know-how, Lyons and Washburn, who have years of entrepreneurial and business experience, and TITLE Boxing Company who provides all the necessary gear and equipment to open a fitness club with an already established worldwide brand. Together, the team has carved a niche in the fitness segment and created a concept that not only gives members a good workout, but changes their life, emotionally and physically.

?I was attracted to the TITLE Boxing Club business even before I joined the team,? Rotche said. ?In fact, I was thinking about becoming a franchisee, but when the partners of TITLE Boxing Club approached me to join their team and serve as President of the company, I was not only honored but thrilled with the opportunity. With minimal moving parts and one of the best investment versus returns I?ve seen in the industry, this business is impressive not only from a consumer stand-point, but from a business perspective as well.?

The TITLE Boxing Club idea was first entertained when former professional boxer Danny Campbell wanted to design a workout based on what boxers do to train, and take it to the suburbs. He created the POWER HOUR workout that helps members burn up to 1,000 calories per hour, leaving them feeling empowered emotionally and physically. Danny partnered with the rest of his business-minded team, and they established the business on a national level before looking for a franchising expert to complete their dream team.

?When John joined the TITLE Boxing Club team, it was like we found the missing piece of the puzzle,? said Danny Campbell, co-founder of TITLE Boxing Club. ?John has a tremendous reputation in the franchising industry and we?re confident that his expertise will take our fitness franchise to new heights.?

John Rotche is no stranger to franchising. He began his career with leadership positions first at the World Headquarters of Domino?s Pizza and then the Krispy Kreme franchise. After years as an executive, Rotche followed his entrepreneurial spirit in 2002 and purchased a single van air duct cleaning company that he ran from his daughter?s bedroom. He eventually franchised the concept under the name DUCTZ and built it into the nation?s largest duct cleaning franchise with more than 150 units. In 2008, Rotche identified an additional opportunity within the commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning industry and launched the HOODZ franchise which he grew to over 140 locations in under two years.

Rotche has built a pristine reputation in the franchise industry, earning a variety of recognitions and accolades on his journey. He was honored as the National Trainer of the year for Domino?s Pizza and was also recognized as a recipient of the ?Forty-Under-Forty? by Crain?s Detroit Business in 2008. Most recently, Rotche was named Entrepreneur of the Year from his Alma Mater, the University of Michigan, as well as the Entrepreneur of the Year by the International Franchise Association (IFA), one of the most prestigious awards known to franchising. He regularly speaks at engagements in franchising, has authored multiple articles for industry publications and created FranShip, the IFA?s mentorship program.

With 30 locations open across the country and 200 in development, 188 of those awarded in just the last 10 months, TITLE Boxing Club is quickly carving a niche in the crowded fitness segment. With the addition of Rotche rounding out their ?Dream Team,? TITLE Boxing Club has their sights set on continuing its explosive growth and building a world class franchise business opportunity.

For more information on TITLE Boxing Club, visit www.TITLEBoxingClub.com (http://www NULL.TITLEBoxingClub NULL.com). To learn more about the fitness franchise opportunity, visit www.TITLEFranchise.com (http://www NULL.TITLEFranchise NULL.com).

About TITLE Boxing Club?
TBC International, LLC opened the first TITLE Boxing Club fitness center January 2, 2008 in Overland Park, Kansas. TITLE Boxing Clubs offer explosive total body boxing and kickboxing fitness workouts that help women and men burn up to 1,000 calories an hour in group classes. The company is owned by retired professional boxer and promoter Danny Campbell; Kansas businessmen Tom Lyons and Rick Washburn; experienced franchise executive John Rotche; and Title Boxing Company, the world?s largest distributor of boxing, kickboxing and MMA equipment, apparel and accessories. For more details, visit www.TITLEboxingclub.com.

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Outgoing Director Jill Tarter on the Future of SETI

A single antenna at the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico.

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Why retire as director now?

The impetus was this really disastrous last year where we had to put the telescopes in hibernation for a number of months until we could find a new partner to operate the array. This just highlighted how fragile the funding for the Allen Telescope Array and SETI research really is. It's time for me to deliver on a promise, which is by the end of my career to establish a stable funding source for SETI research.

Do you think the search for extraterrestrial life should be a privately or publicly funded effort?

Both, and it should be globally funded, because this isn't a question only Americans have asked themselves. Humans have asked this question as they've looked at the sky forever, across the globe.

Is SETI getting any federal funding right now?

There are small bits of federal funding for individual researchers or to build a single instrument, but there's no systemic program support. The problem, as we've certainly seen in the past, is that federal funding is annual, and it can be turned on and off. At the SETI institute, we're particularly concerned about the disproportionate cuts in the planetary science budget that were proposed this year for NASA. What I'm really talking about is a stable source of funding, and I think that should come from as many different sources and as many different places in the world as we can.

Has there been a general shift away from funding exploratory science?

We've seen that in all realms, including industry. On the other hand, we are investing in exploration: The Large Hadron Collider has just turned on again for the summer run, and that's exploration writ large and expensively. We're investing in a very large telescope for astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope. It's unfortunate we don't seem to be able to invest at the same time in a number of smaller items. One telescope is the 900-pound gorilla and it's making it harder to do other exploratory things we've done in the past.

Is there a role in this kind of research for amateur astronomers?

Yes, we've just launched a citizen-science project that we've called SETILive. We're trying to do two things: One, look at parts of the spectrum that we currently ignore because there are too many signals there of our own making, and see if citizen scientists can help us characterize those parts of the spectrum and tease out signals that actually might be coming from a distant technology. And goal number two is to get people actively involved in thinking about SETI. Because if we can get people to understand that they are all Earthlings on one planet in a much larger cosmos, and they are all the same when compared with another intelligent species somewhere else, then perhaps this activity can help to trivialize the differences among humans that we're willing to shed blood over today.

How has SETI's strategy changed over the decades?

SETI started out as radio searches, and today we do both radio searches and optical searches. We're looking in both cases for engineered signals: In the radio, we're looking for frequency compression?signals that occur at only one wavelength, because we can do that with technology and nature can't. And in the optical, we're looking for time compression?bright optical flashes that last only a billionth of a second. Again, we can do that with technology, like lasers, and Mother Nature can't. We want to do more: Take optical into the infrared, take our search for radio signals and begin looking for broader-band, information-rich signals that can still be distinguished from astrophysics.

But the real thing that's changed recently is where we point our telescopes, because now we have this huge wonderful repertoire of exoplanets. In the past, we only knew about stars, and we picked stars that were old enough and had enough metals around that they could maybe have rocky planets. Now we're looking at where we know there are planetary systems.

Absolutely. I think Kepler helps to legitimize SETI in the sense that people now get it. Oh, yeah, there are lots of planets?maybe this means the probability that there is other life and other technologies out there is really greater than we once thought.

Would you like to see a telescope that can look for biosignatures?

That's a great project to be working on. It's kind of stalled right now. In some sense, we need to wait until Kepler weighs in with information about how frequently planets of a particular size occur around stars of a particular spectral type?that will tell us how big we need to build the telescope to look for biosignatures. If, in fact, there are rocky planets in the habitable zone of almost every star, then you can build a smaller telescope because you don't need to interrogate so many stars to find a planet that might have life. If, on the other hand, it turns out that the habitable planets are few and far between, then you're going to have to build a bigger telescope.

But we ought to be working on what constitutes a smoking gun biosignature because that's hard. It's hard to come up with something that cannot be produced abiologically in any other fashion.

How does the search for earthly extremophiles intersect with the search for life in outer space?

The story that it's telling us is the amount of habitable real estate out there might be a lot greater than we once thought. When we were saying, for there to be life, temperature has to be between the boiling and freezing points of water, it has to have a neutral Ph, the radiation environment has to be benign, and there has to be one gravity, we were making a list of requirements that really did reflect where humans were comfortable. Now we're finally giving microbes the respect they deserve. We've known for a while that we're just one small twig on an evolutionary tree, but our ego hasn't really allowed us to integrate that. Now, with our understanding of how adaptable life really is, we're beginning to have a broader appreciation of what life could be on other worlds. And I suspect that in reality, biology on another planet given different conditions, might be even more extraordinary than what we've experienced here on this planet.

Do you have a gut feeling for what form that life will take?

No, I think nature's got a better imagination. Our science fiction writers have been doing this for a century or more; they've come up with some very interesting ideas. One of my favorites is Fred Hoyle's black cloud. Can we, in fact, have a dispersed plasma intelligence? We'll see. That's one of the problems in this area of science: We're working from what we know. And we don't always realize the biases that we're internalizing.

That's one of the nice things about the way we're now doing SETI. When you point a radio telescope in a particular direction, you see the whole planetary system. You're not just pointing at the one or two planets that Kepler or one of the ground-based systems has found. If, indeed, technological life exists on something other than a rocky planet in the habitable zone, we'll have an opportunity to find it.

Do you think it's inevitable we'll find life in space?

We don't know. But it's a legitimate question and we can approach it a number of different ways: There's certainly robotic and eventually human exploration of our own solar system, and then remote sensing of the universe around us. We can say that over the past couple of decades, extremophiles and exoplanets have made the universe appear perhaps more biofriendly?but that doesn't mean that it is.

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Benefits of Ergonomic Accessories in the Work ... - Health and Fitness

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?The Cafe Versailles of Broward? stages Facebook party | RedState

The first Facebook Family and Friends Meet-Up at Wings Plus on April 30^th went pretty well. ?Despite four straight days of rain, three NBA playoff games, two NHL playoff games, an earlier Miami Marlins game, and Dancing with the Stars on ABC, they still managed to have 141 people turn out.

Generally known as the ?The Cafe Versailles of Broward? or the place ?where the politically elite meet,? Wings Plus is the perfect Northwest Broward venue to stage a meet and greet for their social network of friends and family.

In recent months, Presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich have all visited Brian Walsh at Wings Plus.? Mitt Romney visited in 2008 and George W. Bush visited when he was President of the United States.

With so many friends and family between the social networks of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, MySpace, Meetup, Yelp and myLife, Brian Walsh has decided to stage another Facebook Friends and Family Meet-Up at Wings Plus in Coral Springs.

Many of their Facebook friends wanted to attend but could not because of the rain. ?Many wanted the first event to be rescheduled.

Despite the sports playoffs, television shows, and torrential downpours throughout South Florida, the event was not canceled but went on as planned.

With that said, Wings Plus is planning a ?make-up? event. ?If you missed the first party on April 30th, please consider coming out on Tuesday, May 22nd for an even bigger event.

Based upon the success of the May event, Brian Walsh is considering a monthly ?Facebook Party? on the fourth Tuesday of the month through the election cycle and Christmas.

?I?m glad to see so many new faces,? said Brian Walsh, the longtime owner of Wings Plus.? ?Between the local and national elections, we have certainly seen a lot of increased activity around here.?

Wings Plus has hosted hundreds of state, local, and national candidates for public office in the last two decades. Numerous charity fundraisers also find a home at Wings Plus.

The Facebook Friends and Family Meet-Up will be held Tuesday, May 22nd from 6pm until 9pm at the Sample Road location of Wings Plus. ?Please attend and meet your Facebook friends in person.

Let?s see if the power of social media is really effective and jam pack Wings Plus the evening of May 22nd.

To RSVP on Facebook, please go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/208703802580252/

To learn more about the Wings Plus at 9880 West Sample Road in Coral Springs, please visit them at www.wingsplus.com.

?Don?t forget to bring the kids,? concluded Walsh.? ?We have a surprise in store for them.?

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EU competition head gives Google a 'matter of weeks' to offer an antitrust fix

The European Union has been taking a leisurely pace investigating Google over possible antitrust abuses, but it's now accelerating to a full-on sprint. European Commission competition head Joaquin Almunia has given Google just a "matter of weeks" to propose how it would patch things up and soften fears that it was unfairly pushing its own web services over others. If Google makes the Commission happy, Almunia says, the whole investigation might wrap up and avoid fines. Google hasn't responded yet, but we wouldn't guarantee that it makes a deal: its execs have usually argued that there's nothing keeping users from going to another search site, and the company has been eager to emphasize that competition still exists. That said, Google only has to see what happened to Microsoft to know how expensive an EU antitrust fight can be.

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The Services of Home care in Mississauga Provide Valuable ...

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Stocks open higher on Wall Street; Facebook falls

In a May 7, 2012 photo trader Richard Newman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A weekend summit in Washington among leaders of the world's most powerful nations provided little in the way of encouragement for investors already nervous about the political turmoil in Greece. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In a May 7, 2012 photo trader Richard Newman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A weekend summit in Washington among leaders of the world's most powerful nations provided little in the way of encouragement for investors already nervous about the political turmoil in Greece. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks rose Monday morning as investors latched onto a survey suggesting that economists are more optimistic about housing and unemployment.

It's the first gain for the Dow Jones industrial average after six straight days of losses. However a tense undercurrent created by continued tension in Europe, and a steep slide in Facebook's stock, reminded investors that the market is far from healed.

The Dow rose 80 points to 12,449 at midmorning Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11 to 1,306. The Nasdaq composite rose 28 to 2,807.

The most recent report from the National Association for Business Economists showed that its forecasters expect modest growth for the remainder of the year, with the pace picking up in 2013.

That mildly cheerful news seemed to be just a small oasis in a grim desert. The 54 economists who took part in the survey also said they expect consumer spending, business investment and gross domestic product will remain below historic norms. Oil prices rose after Iraq's central government told its Kurdish residents that they must get approval for their oil deals with Turkey.

Lowe's Cos., the world's second largest home improvement chain, posted a 14 percent jump profit for its first quarter, but the stock slumped 9 percent because the company lowered its full-year earnings forecast. That raised concerns that some of the hiring and retail sales of the first quarter weren't signs of the economy actually recovering, but an anomaly caused by an unusually mild winter that encouraged people to do home renovations a few months earlier than they otherwise would.

The Group of Eight summit over the weekend at Camp David produced a joint statement from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, new French President Francois Hollande and U.S. President Barack Obama calling for growth-promoting solutions to the European debt crisis, not just cost cutting.

But tension and uncertainty lingered. Germany's deputy finance minister told a radio station that "eurobonds," debt that Germany and other strong countries would back to prop up weaker countries like Greece and Portugal, were "a prescription at the wrong time with the wrong side effects." Bankia, a bank nationalized by the Spanish government, was ordered to come up with more money to set aside for bad loans in order to meet the government's requirements.

Facebook slid 11 percent to $33.92, below its initial public offering price of $38. Its market debut on Friday was marred by technical problems.

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