Bieber sick twice on stage in Ariz tour kickoff

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? It wasn't just Justin Bieber's fans who had "Bieber Fever" as the teen idol kicked off his national tour in suburban Phoenix.

Video posted on KTVK-TV's website shows the pop music star vomiting twice on stage Saturday night during his sold-out concert at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. He left the stage after each episode but returned and even did an encore.

KTVK reports (http://bit.ly/W266wZ ) Bieber's fans sang some of his songs while he was offstage and he later apologized for being sick.

Bieber later tweeted "Great show. Getting better for tomorrow's show !!!! Love u"

He later added: "And .... Milk was a bad choice!"

Bieber's 45-city "Believe" tour continues Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Information from: KTVK-TV, http://www.azfamily.com/

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Our Review: Merrell and Chaco! - The Gerber Babies Blog Product ...

Loyalist, $60, is a timeless mary jane style with hallway appeal that will perform equally on the playground and in gym class. A washable and fully adjustable shoe that is fit for all kinds of in and out of school adventures.
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Logan received a pair of Tailspin Toggle Waterproof? Kids shoes from Merrell. We loved the way these waterproof hiking shoes looked and Logan couldn't wait to wear them. They are? durable and easy to put on and take off. The toggle closure multisport has a waterproof membrane to keep feet dry, and a cutting edge sole that lets them tear it up.
Features:
UPPER / LINING
? Strobel construction offers flexibility and comfort
? Waterproof suede and mesh upper
? Merrell Weather-Tight seam-sealed construction provides a water-resistant barrier
? Elastic cord and lock lacing system for quick secure fit
? Breathable mesh lining treated with Aegis? antimicrobial solution resists odor
? EVA removable footbed treated with Aegis? antimicrobial solution

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? Molded nylon arch shank
? Merrell air cushion in the heel absorbs shock and adds stability with an EVA midsole
? Merrell Tailspin Kids Sole/Non-Marking Rubber

Youth Sizes: 10-3
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Sam received a pair of? Zanda Little Kids shoes from Chaco. The Zanda has a breathable mesh to??keep kids? feet fresh, while bungee laces allow for easy on and off. Made from 25% recycled rubber,?their proprietary EcoTread? sole merges high-traction with eco-function.
? Polyester and PU coated synthetic upper.
? LUVSEAT? XO2 platform.
? Lace-up toggle fit for kids? sizes.
? Bungee lace for youth sizes.
? EcoTread? recycled rubber, non-marking outsole.

Logan and Sam love their new shoes! After a little more than five weeks of wear, the shoes are still in perfect condition and they've been through?almost daily?abuse. My kids have worn them on the boat, fishing, shopping, and playing outside. The soles are still firmly attached to the uppers and the seams are all perfect. The uppers are very easy to clean. A little?mud was easily wiped off with a damp cloth. They shoes have been comfortable from day one and they didn't have to "break them in." Their feet don't get hot and sweaty. The shoes have great traction and they?are lightweight. The Merrell shoes are my personal favorite, but Sam loves his Chaco Zanda shoes?so much I am going to buy him another pair when he outgrows these.?Sam loves his so much, he wakes up and puts them on before he leaves his room. They have replaced his favorite rain boots, which I thought would never happen! I would buy these shoes in the future!?

Disclosure: I received these shoes in order to complete this review. Honest opinions given and a favorable review was not required.

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United Family Services tries to shed light on domestic violence ...

Posted on 28 September 2012.

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Among the many social problems the growing lake Norman area faces is one that often hides beneath the surface: domestic violence. But even if you can?t see it, don?t get the idea it?s not there, says Janice, a survivor who now speaks to others about her experience, and where they can find help.

WANT TO HELP? Lake Norman Cruise for Change Oct. 6 raises money for United Family Services and domestic violence programs. See below.

?It?s very easy for people to think it?s an issue that doesn?t affect Lake Norman,? said Janice, who asked that her real name not be used. But, she says, it?s a ?myth? that verbal or physical abuse in relationships doesn?t happen here. ?Nothing in the statistics suggests that is true.?

Janice didn?t really understand she was in an abusive marriage until she was referred to a domestic violence counselor at the nonprofit United Family Services, which has a Lake Norman office in Cornelius.

She thought her husband?s drinking was the problem. ?I thought I had diagnosed him as an alcoholic. .. I was always trying to fix it,? she said in an interview.

She suggested he go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, which he did, but that had the opposite effect. ?It just made everything worse.?

Her husband became increasingly controlling, verbally intimidating, and physically abusive, especially in bed. ?He started harassing me 24/7,? she recalled. At times, ?I felt like driving my car off the bridge.?

She changed jobs several times, and just ?shut down emotionally.? She?d work long hours to avoid coming home.

As the abuse worsened, she found she needed help. ?I had been to other counselors, but they couldn?t figure it out,? Janice said.

Kathryn Firmin-Sellers, Lake Norman region director for UFS, said it?s not unusual for counselors to miss the signs of domestic abuse if they are not trained to recognize it.

At United Family Services, Janice found help. She started with a group meeting with a half-dozen other women. When she tried to talk to other counselors and other people about her problem, ?It was like speaking Russian and never meeting another Russian.? At the United Family Services group, ?I was in a room with people who spoke my language.?

Her husband ?made me think that I was crazy,? she said. But now, three years after she left and got help, she now understands she?s not alone, and help is available.

And now that she?s out speaking to others, she wants people to know that domestic violence is a real problem ? not one to be hidden or dismissed. Nationally, she said, it is estimated that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 boys are victims of sexual assault or intimate partner violence, she says, rattling off statistics.

About 75 percent of women are victimized before they graduate from high school, she said.

In the Lake Norman area, United Family Services and the towns of Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville have joined forces to hire a domestic violence victim advocate. In the first year, according to Ms. Firmin-Sellers, the advocated helped just under 200 people. About half were domestic violence cases, one-quarter sexual assaults, and one-quarter child abuse.

?It?s among the most underreported crimes,? Ms. Firmin-Sellers said.

United Family Services is joining the nationwide effort to spread the word during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The Cruise for Change on Oct. 6 is part of that work, as well as a way to help pay for the services UFS provides.

Meanwhile, town boards throughout the area are issuing their own proclamations recognizing the month and promoting greater awareness.

WHERE TO GET HELP

If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, you can find support at United Family Services. The nonprofit organization offers counseling, a battered women?s shelter, and domestic violence victim services ? to help navigate the legal system. This year, UFS started a Domestic Violence Support Group. Find out more at www.unitedfamilyservices.org/ For specific information about the organization?s Lake Norman area services, visit http://www.unitedfamilyservices.org/mooresville-lake-norman/

HOW YOU CAN HELP?

United Family Services, which is based in Charlotte and has an office Cornelius, will host its annual Cruise for Change on Saturday, Oct. 6, to raise money for its domestic violence programs. The cruise is 6:30 to 10 p.m., departing from Queens Landing in Mooresville. The cost is $60 per person, including heavy hors d?oeuvres, a 1-hour open bar, dancing, a silent auction and a drawing for an iPad. Buy tickets at unitedfamilyservices.org. See also Facebook, www.facebook.com/CruiseForChange

Source: http://davidsonnews.net/blog/2012/09/28/united-family-services-tries-to-shed-light-on-domestic-violence/

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Haunting photos of buildings long-forgotten

Photographer Matthew Christopher , Abandoned America, ?photographs abandoned sites across America.? He documents the lost history and soul of structures as varied as homes, steel plants and asylums.????

Reporter's notebook by Jane Derenowski, NBC News

Things sound different in a place where no one goes. ??

Words echo off walls in empty rooms. ?

Real or imagined creatures scurry through mysterious puddles. ?

Shadows fall in strange places.?

Time doesn?t stop in abandoned buildings, it just moves differently -- and before their ultimate demise, photographer Matthew Christopher is determined to document the life, purpose, and deterioration of these structures.

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They aren't just brick and mortar, wood and windows -- Christopher believes the abandoned buildings dotting America?s landscape also have something of a soul. ?He wants us to remember our country?s neglected factories, schools, churches, and hospitals before they are gone forever.?

He started this project 10 years ago while working in the mental health field. ?Some of his first photographs were inside a deserted asylum. ?

Since then, he?s documented dozens of abandoned buildings across the country and presented their stories at galleries and on his website, abandonedamerica.us. ?The goal, he says, is to highlight the economic failures leading to their downfall and the social impact on communities fractured by the closing of these neighborhood mainstays.

Photographer Matthew Christopher , Abandoned America, ?explains his passion for taking pictures of abandoned sites across America. ?He documents the lost history and soul of structures as varied as homes, steel plants and asylums.?

We met recently at the partially deserted Holmesburg Prison near Philadelphia. ?It was eerie, but there was a certain beauty in the stillness and things left behind. ?Inside, it reminded me of a quote by French composer Claude Debussy who famously said, ?Music is the space between the notes.? The places Christopher photographs tell their stories with silence and extraordinary light ? the spaces between the life and death of a building.?

His pictures make me feel like someone told me a secret.?

Christopher is a thoughtful man, melancholy in his assessment of decay -- and I feel lucky he shared his art and technique with us. ?I am also grateful to NBC News photographer Bob Riggio for documenting our adventure inside a place almost no one goes.

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Fall arts guide: Classical music | The Salt Lake Tribune

Orchestral music

Utah Symphony

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Scottish accents

As Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony continue their seasonlong survey of Felix Mendelssohn?s symphonies, the composer?s Symphony No. 3 (?Scottish?) is paired with Debussy?s ?Scottish March? and Bruch?s charming quasi-violin concerto ?Scottish Fantasy.? Fumiaki Miura is the soloist. Kilts are optional.

When ? Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

Where ? Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City.

Tickets ? $18 to $53.

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?Amahl and the Night Visitors?

Performances of Giancarlo Menotti?s Christmas opera used to be an annual staple at Utah Opera but now are more elusive. The Salt Lake Symphony and University of Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble team up to present the sweet story of the shepherd boy and his gift to the Christ Child. Also on the program are Respighi?s ?Three Botticelli Pictures? and Ellington?s ?Three Black Kings.?

When ? Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m.

Where ? Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City.

Tickets ? $10 adults, $5 students and seniors.

Concerts are in Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Information: www.utahsymphony.org.

Oct. 9 ? Special event: Pianist Lang Lang in recital. The Utah Symphony will not perform on this program.

Oct. 26-27 ? Masterworks: Shostakovich, "October, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra"; Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Borodin, Symphony No. 2; Rimsky-Korsakov, Selections from "The Tale of Tsar Saltan." Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Lukas Geniusas, piano.

Oct. 30 ? Family: "Halloween Hi-Jinks." Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor.

Nov. 2-3 ? Entertainment: "Rhapsody in Blue." Jerry Steichen, conductor; Jason Hardink, piano; Lisa Vroman, vocalist.

Nov. 9-10 ? Masterworks: Stravinsky, "The Fairy?s Kiss: Divertimento"; Ravel, "Pavane for a Dead Princess," "La Valse" and "Bolero"; Saint-Saens, Piano Concerto No. 2. Thierry Fischer, conductor; Ingrid Fliter, piano.

Nov. 16-17 ? Masterworks: Mozart, Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter"); Mahler, Adagio from Symphony No. 10; Korngold, Violin Concerto. Thierry Fischer, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin.

Nov. 24-25 ? Special event: "Messiah" Sing-in. Susanne Sheston, conductor; Utah Symphony Chorus; soloists TBA.

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Nov. 30-Dec. 1 ? Masterworks: Debussy, "Scottish March"; Bruch, "Scottish Fantasy"; Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish"). Thierry Fischer, conductor; Fumiaki Miura, violin.

Dec. 7-8 ? Masterworks: Debussy, Petite Suite and "Iberia"; Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major and "Rapsodie Espagnole." Jun M?rkl, conductor; Pascal Rog?, piano.

Dec. 21-22 ? Entertainment: Holiday celebration with Bravo Broadway. Jerry Steichen, conductor; Doug LaBrecque and Capathia Jenkins, vocalists.

Dec. 22 ? Lollipops: "Here Comes Santa Claus!" Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor.

Salt Lake Symphony

The community orchestra led by Robert Baldwin performs in Libby Gardner Concert Hall at the University of Utah, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City. Information: www.saltlakesymphony.org.

Oct. 13 ? The orchestra collaborates with painter Josee Nadeau.

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Venturi announces 300HP, ?300K America all-terrain EV, coming in 2014

If you feel the need to rapidly hit the great outdoors without despoiling it, Venturi just may have your ride -- provided you have about $400,000 to spare. The company just launched the America EV at the Paris Auto Show, packing a 300HP powerplant, 53 kWh lithium-ion battery pack and projected 200 mile range to go along with the breathtaking price tag. Venturi's touting the car as more than just a smooth pavement flyer though, saying that it has a go-anywhere attitude with its high stance, generous clearance and tough carbon-fiber chassis. Still, if you want to go fast, the car can hit a top speed of 120 mph, and once you've burned off all the volts, can be fast charged in four hours, or ten from a 230V socket. Despite its off-road gumption, the rear-driver has considerable competition for sports EV dollars -- and a smooth road to its 2014 availability target is no given.

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Mozilla And The National Science Foundation Challenge Developers To Build ?Apps From The Future?

In June, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the Mozilla Ignite challenge. During the first phase of this $500,000 challenge, the two organizations invited anybody to submit ideas for applications that could make use of ultra-fast, next-generation networks. These ideas had to be related to education, healthcare, public safety, clean energy, transportation, workforce development, and advanced manufacturing. Today, Mozilla and the NSF announced the eight winning ideas and launched the second phase of the program, which focuses on putting these ideas into reality.

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Viable Asset Protection Option Exists in Alaska : Lawyer Directory

by Michael J. O'Brien, Esq (The O'Brien Law Firm LLC)

When you are engaged in long-term financial planning making sure that your assets are shielded from creditors and litigants is going to be one of the primary goals. At the same time, estate tax efficiency may be a concern if your resources are such that they exceed the amount that can be passed on to your loved ones before the death tax kicks in.

Right now that threshold stands at $5.12 million. Anything that you leave behind that exceeds this figure is subject to a 35% federal levy and it should be noted that these figures change in 2013 when the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 expires. At that time the top rate is going up to 55% while the exclusion is reduced to $1 million.

The key is to position your assets optimally in light of these forces of asset erosion. One option would be to place resources into an Alaska trust.

Irrevocable self-settled trusts that allow the individual starting the trust to act as beneficiary and receive financial distributions are not allowed in most states. The 49th state of Alaska is however an exception. You can indeed fund an Alaska trust, receive financial distributions, and enjoy asset protection and estate tax efficiency at the same time.

Asset protection trusts established in the state of Alaska can be a very viable option for people looking for wealth preservation. Contact a good estate planning lawyer to learn more about Alaska trusts and other steps that you can take to keep your assets accessible to you but otherwise untouchable.

Experienced estate planning attorneys Cleveland OH of The O?Brien Law Firm LLC offers estate planning and business planning resources to residents of Cleveland OH. To learn more about these free resources, please visit www.obrienlaw.net today.

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Science Is Now a Vast Global Enterprise (preview)

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A measure of the creativity of a nation is how well it works with those beyond its borders

By John Sexton

TOGETHERNESS: This circular graph shows collaboration among the 25 nations with the largest science output, as measured in scientific papers that appeared in 2011 in a select group of journals. Not included are collaborations that took place inside each country.

Image: Sven Laqua and Arno Ghelfi, SOURCES: DIGITAL SCIENCE; MARTIN SZOMSZOR Digital Science

When Mikhail Gorbachev freed Andrei Sakharov to travel to the U.S., one of the Russian nuclear physicist's first stops was the New York Academy of Sciences. Members of the academy's Board of Governors at that time, in 1988, had been leaders in mobilizing the scientific community to fight for Sakharov's freedom, and Sakharov wanted to extend his thanks for all their efforts.

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Shifting from coursework to a final exam will not increase stress ...

John Bald welcomes the new Ebacc and signs that the "curse" of mixed ability teaching is to be tackled

Last week was the best for Conservatives in education since the election, with major policy announcements on Monday and Thursday, and the opposition left without much to say.

The first, on examinations, ?continues the restoration of intellect to a central place in education through the Ebacc. The original idea checked the freefall in foreign languages, but was forced to include two science subjects (rather than, say, one science and IT) because single science GCSE had been dumbed down so far that no-one saw it as a qualification at all. ?

The new ?Ebacc is compact, leaving scope for schools to offer a good range of additional subjects, and opens the curriculum to further good ideas from the international baccalaureate, to which some successful schools have turned in their disaffection from A level. Foundations for the reform of secondary science are being laid in the new primary curriculum, which is based on the disciplines of separate sciences.

The replacement of coursework by a final examination is long overdue. Part of the problem is corruption - the opportunity to resubmit coursework time and again, after intervention from teachers and well-educated parents and friends, ?means that many candidates are not being judged on their own work, and puts those who do have to rely on their own efforts at a disadvantage.

There are very few people who put their principles above their instinct to help their children - in the late eighties, ?I watched a high-minded senior education officer write an extended essay for his daughter who was taking a degree in his own subject, ?handing each completed page to his secretary for typing. The internet has made matters worse, and I have seen preloaded powerpoint presentations given to candidates, with the instruction to click on each link and download what they found at the other end, without adding any words of their own as this would be risky. (I reported the practice to the Board concerned).

The argument ?that coursework is an antidote to stress does not take account of the negative effect of low grades. ?Suppose I want an A and my early coursework grades are C. ?I don't just have to improve my later work, but deal with the burden of these early grades, wasting time retaking them that should have been spent in improving my knowledge ?and thinking. This system has turned two years that should be used for teaching and learning into one continuous test, with a major net increase in stress.

The effect is worse still for those who receive continuous grades of E, F or below. ? ?The incessant flow of low grades grinds these pupils down, telling them all the time that they are below standard and useless. ?They ?will be much better served by an examination with a gentle early slope that they know will allow them to show what they can do, ?and a steeper rise later to enable those who should get an A genuinely to achieve it.

The hyperinflation of A grades has misled people into thinking ?they will find A level straightforward, when in fact they are being set up for struggle and disappointment. The lowest grade of pass should be E, or perhaps O, and there should be clear demarcation between grades A to C. The examiners who told pupils that grade F was a pass were not living in the real world. Ofsted should also go back to a points system for grading passes, to remove the perverse incentive for schools to aim at C grades.

Ofsted's good day, and the second major building block of the week, came on Thursday, with Sir Michael Wilshaw's reports on school improvement, and the critical report on the use of the pupil premium in most schools, which he presented very well on Radio 4. The description of successful approaches to improving schools begins with strong leadership from the headteacher, backed by clear assessment to ensure that pupils are given the right work, and devolved management and self-help to improve teaching. The criticism of the ?curse? of mixed-ability grouping without mixed ability teaching is also clear and hard to dispute. It would be no bad thing to investigate the effects of ability grouping in inspections.

The unresolved problem lies in Labour's legacy of authoritarian school management, illustrated by heads' use of the pupil premium for their own purposes rather than to help those for whom it is intended, for example by funding extra classes after school hours or providing food so that they can do their homework in school. ?One of Sir Michael's most distinguished predecessors, Senior Chief Inspector Sheila Browne, said that "English schools are communities", operating on shared values and co-operation. ?This is not compatible with the idea that headteachers can do whatever they like.

Source: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/09/shifting-from-coursework-to-a-final-exam-will-not-increase-stress.html

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Self Improvement | Punchy Tips for Building Self-Confidence, Self ...

By Mike I McClement -

1. Know what you look like

Find out how people perceive you? if you look as though you lack confidence, then people will treat you as though you do. In other words, you?re already on the back foot and it?ll be a lot harder to get people to listen to you.

2. Sort out your body language

Like it or not, people suss you out quickly, mostly by taking in your body language and sound. So get yourself in front of a mirror and be honest with yourself. Do you look confident? If not, why not? Then practise looking confident. Look at your posture, your facial expression, your clothing? Sounds mad but it works.

3. Don?t say sorry

Are you a serial sorry sayer? A lot of people who lack confidence are. They apologise for everything. Well don?t. Only apologise if your actions warrant an apology. Some people prefix everything they say with a ?sorry?. This is completely unnecessary and suggests you doubt yourself. You might as well hang a sign around your neck saying ?I lack confidence?.

4. Remember you?re not unusual

Realise that you?re not unusual. Even truly confident people have their ups and downs. They accept this as part of life. An embarrassing situation is an embarrassing situation.. so what? It happened, there?s nothing you can change about it. So learn from it and move on.

5. Be realistic

Accept that you?re not unlucky. No one was born confident. Confidence is a skill you can actually learn. Accept this and start to learn. Just like any other skill, it requires practice and self-discipline to get good at it. We can all do it as long as we accept the challenge.

6. Think positively

Understand your mindset. Be honest with yourself? are you a positive or negative thinker? Are you a pessimist or an optimist? This is important. It?s impossible to feel and look confident if you approach life negatively. A problem is a challenge, a mistake is a lesson to be learnt, a failure is a fact of life.

7. Know where you?re going

You?ll achieve little, if nothing if you don?t have a focus. So work out what you want to achieve, both at home and at work and write down a plan. Think strategically (say over 2 years) and more tactically (say 6 months). One leads on from the other ? think strategically first and then decide what you need to do tactically to achieve this.

8. Be happy

Think carefully about what makes you happy and get some of it. Confident people tend to be happy people ? just watch them and you?ll see. That?s because they?ve found a balance between the things they have to do and the things like doing. They?re also realists. They accept that life is life and there are some things that just have to be done but they don?t let these bog them down.

9. Smile more

Sounds mad but it?s true. Smiling really does help you to feel and look more confident. Someone who walks into a room smiling looks confident. It?s a fact. It?s also true that smiling actually makes you feel happier. It releases endorphins into your system. This even happens when you make yourself smile? So it?s worth the effort.

10. Control your emotions

Control your emotions but don?t stifle them. Think about how you let them out. Don?t make a fool of yourself. Take a deep breath, maybe a few minutes too and then explain your feelings in a controlled way. Confident people have the self-control to do this.

About the Author

Mike McClement is a Personal Development Coach and author on confidence. He is passionate about helping people develop their confidence and self esteem in both a personal and work environment.

To find out more about Mike visit http://www.think-confidence.com

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Network Marketing Success Requires the Correct Disciplines ...

For many involved in the Network Marketing, MLM or Home-based Business arena, there are constant struggles as many ask themselves daily:?What should I be doing today to grow my business or make (more) money?? You know what your sponsor or upline said; and you understand that but you still find yourself asking what are the specifics, the details and how exactly does that work? We know that, I have been there and done that too!

To a large extent, many in the industry that have never had a high level of success and/or those just looking at the industry for the first time do not know the difference between activity and productivity, how to determine the difference between the two and how their time should be broken up during the day.

Once you know the difference and where you should be spending your time, you are moving in the right direction, but there are two more ultra-critical elements for high-level success. Discipline and holding yourself Accountable for your results. These are two of the most overlooked, yet when part of your philosophy and daily actions, can help anyone, with any skill level reach the top of their company in income and rank.

I have a Video that covers in detail why Discipline and Accountability are keys to success and have even included a Daily Activity Sheet to hold yourself accountable for the correct daily activities. Please review the video and download the Daily Activity Sheet (it?s in Word format so you can edit it to reflect your most important activities).

Please keep in mind, if you are in the Network Marketing, MLM, Direct Sales or Home-based business industry, the listed activities are EXACTLY what you should be keeping track of on a daily basis. Do not fool yourself and think there are more important or different activities that apply to you, because the only thing that matters is: what are you doing and what are your results? They are tied together and in my 12 years building organizations in the Network Marketing Industry these are 2 of the biggest challenges for those that want to be successful!

Do it and you can be successful in any company, don?t and chances are you will be in 2-5 more deals in the next 24 months, saying it?s the Company?s fault, the Compensation Plan, the Products, your Sponsor, someone else besides yourself, when all along all you had to do was look in the mirror, be disciplined and hold yourself accountable! It?s harder than it sounds, but the benefits far outweigh the effort and time.

To see the video, just go to: http://rickcorbettjr.com/?p=371

Please comment and let me know if this helps you! Here is a copy of the Daily Activity Sheet for you to download, so you can keep track of your Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annual activities: Daily-Activity-Log-Final-718101

About the Author

Rick Corbett Jr. has been in Network Marketing for 12 yrs and is a Top 3 Income Earner in the company he has been with for 7 years now. He has extensive skills in Sales, Marketing, Skill Sets, Leadership and Personal Development. Looking to help other that want high-level success and are willing to learn the skill sets necessary to get to the top and stay on top!

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British GENES (British Genealogy News and Events): Family history ...

Sefton Council has placed details online for a series of introductory family history courses at Birkdale Library in October, to be taught by Hillary Ambrose of Southport Family History Society.

For more information visit?www.sefton.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=12005

Chris

Scottish Research Online - 5 weeks online Pharos course, ?45.99, taught by Chris Paton from 26 SEP 2012 - see www.pharostutors.com
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx?(from June 12th 2012)

Source: http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2012/09/family-history-courses-at-birkdale.html

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Trader Joe's recalls peanut butter linked to salmonella

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Clear Communications: Calming the Crisis Sea | Howell Marketing ...

September 24th, 2012?????? no comments???

I am writing this from the 5th floor of a condo in Seacrest, Florida overlooking the beautiful Gulf of Mexico, the ?Emerald Coast? as the beaches of South Walton are called. I?m here with my team teaching crisis communication and discussing organizing an event here next year for those in PR who want to learn more. We found some shells on the beach yesterday and I?m always drawn to the broken and tumbled shells?worn out but still beautiful. I feel that way sometimes, especially when getting through a crisis. We are reading PR News? Crisis Management Guidebook, Volume 5 and let me tell you, it?s worth the price I paid to get it. Excellent material here and advice/examples that you can use. One of my favorite chapters in the book highlights the importance of the voice of the leader in a crisis?so true and so important.

The excerpt written by Assaf Kedem (formerly?VP/Director, Senior Writer and Editor of Alternative Investments at AllianceBernstein) has this quote: ?Companies that neglect employee communication practices in good times stand a greater chance of failing to achieve their communication objective when things turn sour.? Very true. In my experience working with clients through crisis, the voice from the top must be clear, concise and constant. Statistics show that a crisis will happen to most organizations at some point?often by surprise. I tell my clients that often it?s not WHAT happens to you but HOW you HANDLE the WHAT that happens. Here are seven steps in Kedem?s narrative that help create a culture of communication in times of stress:

1. The message must come from the TOP

2. Don?t paper over it: don?t spin bad news, but tell it like it is

3. Communicate your leadership, muster employee support and set the example

4. Supplement written communications with verbal ones. This is very true and here?s a quote that I love: ?In challenging times, there can be no substitute for voice. Verbal communication?especially if it?s face-to-face?is more personal. Speech offers such audible and visual catalysts as cadence, diction, body language and intonation that can help convey thoughts, sentiments and emotions more fully and effectively??

5. Keep the communication going, even if it?s regurgitating

6. Consider additional channels (hotlines, social media, etc.)

7. Don?t forget recognition: recognize employees who are contributing and carrying the company banner of support

It is difficult to prepare for a crisis but important to try. We are going to be updating client crisis plans as having that discussion and planning session at least helps. The closest thing to having a full plan is having a culture of good communications. This culture can weather a storm much better than that of poor communications. How well would your company do in the rough sea of a crisis?

Source: http://www.howell-marketing.com/hms-blog/2012/09/24/clear-communications-calming-the-crisis-sea.html

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Shell begins drilling Arctic > Oil company drills Alaska?s Arctic for first time in two decades.

Shell Alaska officially began drilling in the Chukchi Sea on Sept. 9, the first drilling in the Alaskan Arctic in the last two decades.

The U.S. Interior Department granted Shell a permit that requires its drilling operation to stop significantly short of actual oil deposits until an oil-containment barge?the Arctic Challenger?is in place, according to the Anchorage Daily News. The barge is currently en route from a shipyard in Bellingham, Wash.

The year-long permit will expire on Sept. 24 unless Shell?s request for an extended season is granted, meaning it is unlikely any oil will be extracted this year. Dan Howells, spokesman for the environmental group Greenpeace, has pointed to a series of ?near-disasters? as Shell prepared for drilling over the summer, including an incident in which the company?s drilling rig dragged anchor off Alaska?s Aleutian Islands and came within 100 feet of the shore.

?They?ve only proven one thing this summer; that oil companies are simply not equipped to deal with the unique challenges of operating in the Arctic,? Howells said.

Source: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=7738437

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Floodwaters recede in Alaska town; cleanup begins - KWQC-TV6 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Floodwaters receded Saturday from much of the tourist town of Talkeetna, giving residents a chance to begin cleaning the muddy mess left behind - but officials warned that the danger hadn't passed and advised that people boil their water.

About 200 miles south, in Cooper Landing on the Kenai Peninsula, the Kenai River had yet to crest and the National Weather Service extended a flood warning until Monday afternoon saying that the river will continue rising. Residents of one subdivision were told to be ready to evacuate.

Forecasters said rain would continue falling Sunday, making it tough to predict how high waterways would rise on the peninsula and when they'll crest.

The outlook seemed a bit better in Talkeetna. Rivers and streams draining from the Talkeetna Mountains had crested and water levels fell steadily Friday night, the weather service said. Meteorologists said they don't expect rainfall to significantly increase river levels there, but a flood warning remained in effect for the area as many waterways remained above flood stage.

The Talkeetna River crested at 15.65 feet on Friday, just below the level considered major flooding. It had receded to 12.5 feet by Saturday afternoon, just above the 12-foot flood mark. Only two streets in Talkeetna remained flooded, the Anchorage Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/UDvlWG).

Talkeetna is the last stop for climbers heading to Mount McKinley, North America's tallest mountain. It also has an eclectic population, and has long been purported to be the inspiration for the Alaska town in the TV series, "Northern Exposure."

Longtime residents told the Daily News that flooding was the worst they'd seen in more than 30 years. Still, emergency responders said it could've been worse.

"Luckily, we didn't have any buildings float away," said Mike Krepel, who runs the Talkeetna Historical Society Museum with his wife, Jenny.

Krepel used a large pump to drain the museum's flooded first floor.

"It blew its way in pretty quick," Krepel said. "We don't think we lost anything important, but we were going pretty hard for several hours."

Flooding has caused problems over a wide swath of Alaska this week, from Talkeetna to the port town of Seward, 175 miles to the south.

Department of Transportation crews have been working to protect several bridges on the Glenn Highway from fast-moving water. The road is one of two land routes out of populated areas in Anchorage and Wasilla, and the only one in southern Alaska.

The Alaska Railroad was closed through Wednesday as crews repair tracks and bridges, including a 500-foot stretch that was left dangling when the ground beneath it washed out about 35 miles north of Talkeetna.

The American Red Cross of Alaska has opened three shelters in recent days, and a fourth was opened Saturday at the state fairgrounds in Palmer, about 40 miles northeast of Anchorage, where evacuees could park recreational vehicles.

Gov. Sean Parnell declared a state disaster Friday for communities hard-hit by recent storms. The declaration covers the Kenai Peninsula Borough, which includes Seward, and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which includes Talkeetna, Wasilla and several other towns, the governor's office said.

It was too soon to estimate damage and no injuries have been reported.

"We're just waiting for the next storm to come in, and then we'll start the rodeo all over again," said Vickilee Fenster, a spokeswoman for the Mat-Su Borough's Emergency Operations Center.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.kwqc.com/story/19613949/floodwaters-recede-in-alaska-town-cleanup-begins

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Valentino designing Anne Hathaway?s wedding dress

Anne Hathaway was the belle of the ball at New York City Ballet?s fall gala on Thursday, which celebrated Valentino, who designed the costumes for the performances. Valentino told us he is making Hathaway?s dress for her upcoming wedding to Adam Shulman. He said she ?is a very good friend of mine. She is a great star . . . She is like my daughter.? Guests at the Lincoln Center event included Carolina Herrera, Daphne Guinness, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sarah Jessica Parker, a City Ballet board member who came up with the idea of the Valentino collaboration. On the ballet, Valentino said, ?I saw my clothes on the stage ? and, of course, seeing all the girls . . . with the makeup and the hair I designed . . . it was a great joy.? Dancing went on late with music spun by DJs Sean and Anthony Souza, sons of Valentino?s Carlos Souza, who partied until after 3 a.m. at Amy Sacco?s No. 8 with a crew that included Hathaway, Iman, Carlos Mota, Jamie Tisch, Stavros Niarchos and Jessica Hart.

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Anne Hathaway and Valentino Garavani

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US tilt to Asia not aimed against China: Panetta

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sought to reassure Beijing on Wednesday over Washington's strategic tilt to the Pacific, telling a military audience it was not an attempt to curb Chinese power.

President Barack Obama, concerned about China's growing military and economic might, has called for a shift in focus to the Asia-Pacific region, with the US Navy planning to station most of its ships in the area.

But China has questioned whether the American military's "pivot" to Asia is really about countering Beijing.

"Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China. It is an attempt to engage China and expand its role in the Pacific," Panetta said in the Chinese capital.

"It's about creating a new model in the relationship of our two Pacific powers," he told cadets at an armoured force engineering academy.

As the world's two largest economies, China and the US must forge stronger ties between their armies to avoid potential crises, Panetta said.

"Our goal is to make sure that no dispute or misunderstanding escalates into unwanted tensions or a conflict," Panetta said.

His remarks represent the latest effort by Washington to bolster military relations with the People's Liberation Army, which has displayed reluctance to promote contacts with the American top brass.

The Pentagon chief also found himself in the middle of Chinese domestic politics, becoming the first foreign dignitary to meet Vice President Xi Jinping, the country's leader-in-waiting, since he re-emerged from a two week absence from public view.

Xi appeared "very healthy and very engaged," extending a scheduled 45-meeting to more than an hour, Panetta told reporters.

Xi looked relaxed as he greeted Panetta in the Great Hall of the People, despite a wave of rumours about the vice president's health and political career during the fortnight-long hiatus.

Panetta's three-day visit to Beijing -- his first as Pentagon chief -- coincides with mounting tensions between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, with a wave of anti-Japan demonstrations across China on Tuesday.

Panetta appealed for calm on both sides and described US policy as based on "basic principles" including free commerce, the rule of law, open access to sea, air, space, and cyberspace, and resolving disputes "peacefully without coercion or the use of force".

In his speech to young military officers, Panetta stressed the importance of international norms and rules to ensure stability in the Pacific, a clear reference to a spate of territorial disputes that often pit the economic powerhouse China against smaller countries.

International law, backed up by US naval power, had helped bring prosperity and peace to the region and China had profited from it, he argued.

"Many countries -- and many millions of people in the region -- have benefited from this rules-based order, and that includes China," he said.

China and the United States have disagreed about navigation rights in the western Pacific, with Beijing taking an assertive stance on claims to the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

Panetta, who had lunch with the Chinese cadets in a military canteen, said he was hopeful the feud over the archipelago in the East China Sea would be settled peacefully after his talks this week in Tokyo and Beijing.

"I am confident after my discussions with both Japanese leadership and Chinese leaders that both are concerned with finding ways to to able to resolve these issues," he told the cadets in a question and answer session after his speech.

Panetta also tried to reassure China over the deployment of a second powerful US radar to Japan for its missile defence system, saying it was aimed at the threat posed by North Korea's ballistic missile arsenal and not at China.

In two days of talks, Panetta said the Chinese signalled a readiness for a dialogue on cyber weapons and security, which he called a valuable first step.

Pentagon officials say US networks are repeatedly probed and hacked from Chinese sources and Washington has long pressed Beijing to address US concerns.

Source: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_tilt_to_Asia_not_aimed_against_China_Panetta_999.html

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My Week With PT Anderson, Day Five: There Will Be Blood

Jeff takes a look at the film that won Daniel Day-Lewis his second Best Actor Oscar.

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With his fourth film, Punch-Drunk Love, P.T. Anderson took a step back from the large ensemble casts, grand statements, and inflated running times of Magnolia and Boogie Nights -- but that didn't mean he was content to keep serving up 90-minute love stories, as he'd emphatically prove with his next outing, 2007's There Will Be Blood.

Vast and dark, Blood begins in near-total silence -- in fact, for the first 20 minutes, there isn't any dialogue at all, just shots of an impressively hirsute prospector whacking away at a mountain in search of minerals.

That prospector, we soon learn, is Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), and he's a bootstrapper's dream -- shrewd and driven, and as cunningly hostile to his fellow human beings as he is to the earth. In Magnolia, Anderson winked at Nietzsche's "will to power" by having Tom Cruise's character take the stage to the strains of "Also Sprach Zarathustra"; here, he uses Plainview to pretty much embody the concept, using everything and everyone as a tool or an object of conquest. As he says at one point early in the film, "Can everything around here be got?"

Plainview eventually begins to accrue wealth as an oilman, and when one of his workers dies in an accident, he makes what seems at the time to be a humanizing gesture, adopting the fallen man's infant son. Over time, he molds the boy, who he names H.W., into a miniature business partner who travels with him on land-purchasing expeditions -- such as his fateful trip to the oil-rich homestead of an old farmer named Abel Sunday (David Willis).

Their acquisition of the Sunday farm (and basically all of the available land in the area) sets up the movie's driving conflict -- between the power-hungry Plainview and Sunday's son Eli (Paul Dano), a pastor whose church becomes the cudgel in a long and nasty war.

Of course, Anderson being Anderson, the viewer can (and probably should) read more into all this than just a couple of bossy Old West frontiersmen who can't get along. Viewed from another perspective, There Will Be Blood is really a sprawling depiction of a battle that's preoccupied America for decades: Implacable faith versus unquenchable greed; the laying on of hands versus pie-in-the-sky promises of business "progress"; religious fervor versus cold commerce.

What's sneaky about Anderson's approach is that he forces you to take sides in a battle where there really isn't any good guy. For a filmmaker who's always treated his characters with warmth and affection, Blood is a shockingly cold appraisal of fatally flawed protagonists -- you have Plainview the brutal, weaselly capitalist on one side, and Sunday the obnoxiously pious preacher on the other, both of them abusive and cruel in their own way.

The movie also finds Anderson's preoccupation with daddy issues returning to the fore; There Will Be Blood could just as easily have been titled The Sins of the Father. It pits those who expect to exert their will upon the world against those who merely hope to survive, with the weak and the young damaged and crushed -- sometimes quite literally -- along the way.

It's a ruthless view of the world, but one that Anderson still frames beautifully. While his camera is far less antsy here than it has been since Hard Eight, his restraint makes sense in the context of the sweeping mountain vistas where the movie largely takes place. And as always, his shots express a point of view. He's still fond of shooting his characters from behind, so we see what they see -- as in a pivotal sequence where Plainview commits a heart-wrenching act of betrayal, and the focus lingers on what he's leaving behind.

He's also always been adept at building an atmosphere of mounting dread and punctuating it with shocking bursts of violence -- and that's a pretty good nutshell description of this film, which forges a chain of humiliation and death into a final act that presents its putative hero as a reclusive, embittered madman, engorged on wealth but starved for love, and his nemesis as a craven fraud. The viewer gets a milkshake, an appalling act of violence, and then -- as the movie's last lines put it -- "I'm finished."

We all know what happened next: Critics fell all over themselves to praise There Will Be Blood, Oscars were won, and many end-of-year lists were topped. It's easy to see why -- this is a visually gorgeous film, acted with finely calibrated abandon by Day-Lewis and Dano, and it certainly lingers long after the final frame is unspooled. But it's possible to appreciate the technical skill that's been brought to bear on a work of art without actually embracing the work itself, and that's the position I find myself in with Blood. It isn't just that I find its point of view repugnant, it's that I don't think Anderson backs up his arguments about the human condition -- or maybe, even more disconcertingly, he isn't even trying to. At times, the movie feels like nothing more than an elaborately staged battle between a pair of unthinking creatures -- like putting two betta fish in the same bowl, only with great cinematography and a lot of senseless collateral damage.

Am I thinking too much here? Is Anderson fatigue starting to set in? Or am I just not sophisticated enough to hang on for the ride with a director who's clearly lost his taste for good old-fashioned catharsis in the final act? Something tells me The Master will answer at least some of those questions.

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See more:

Monday: Hard Eight

Tuesday: Boogie Nights

Wednesday: Magnolia

Thursday: Punch-Drunk Love

Friday: There Will Be Blood

Saturday: The Master

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1925925/news/1925925/

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Grishin Makes First $250K Investment In Disrupt Hardware Alley Company Double Robotics

Investment fund Grishin Robotics just poured $250,000 into Double Robotics, a telepresence system that uses an iPad and self-righting wheeled base to allow remote users to survey a scene. Grishin is a Moscow-based fund aimed at making personal robots part of the home and office. The company did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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