Published: Friday, July 6, 2012, 12:01 a.m.

By M.L. Dehm,Herald Business Journal

The risk paid off. Since the first location opened six years ago, Elle Marie has not only expanded, it has also won multiple awards from different trade publications. The company took top honors with Salon Today 200 magazine three years in a row.

"We were a top five finalist for 'Evening Magazine's' Best of Western Washington for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011," Buck said.

In 2009, Elle Marie was runner up for 425 Magazine's Best of 425 and in 2008 it won a Business Excellence award from the South Snohomish County Chamber of Commerce. Buck was runner-up for this year's Herald Business Journal's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

But how did this Seattle native go from 30 years in the corporate world to running a hair salon? It wasn't through job dissatisfaction. Buck loved her previous career. She started as a banker with KeyBank and later left the world of finance for the high-tech industry.

It was when she was an administrator with McCaw Cellular that Buck felt she made the most growth, both in herself and in her understanding of how to run a successful business.

When McCaw Cellular was unexpectedly sold it left Buck wondering what to do.

By now, she was well experienced with starting up new offices for McCaw. Could she start a business for herself and be successful? Buck decided to start two businesses instead of one.

She went to school and received life-coaching certification. Meanwhile, her daughter, Lorry Green, who was a hairdresser, suggested that they open a hair salon. Initially, Buck envisioned a business run out of her garage. Instead, an opportunity arose to purchase an existing salon south of Mill Creek that she believed had solid demographics.

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Everybody is selling something whether its your products, your services, your events, yourself, your ideas, or your cause, but effective selling that result in more sales and money doesnt always come easy. And for businesswomen, selling is even more challenging. The reality is that business is still dominated by men, and while women are starting businesses twice as fast as men are, they only earn 55 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts. So this means that women who break the mold and reach the tipping point of business success have to do more and be better just to even the playing field.

Finding workable solutions to the female business dilemma is what the 2-day Empowered Women Success Summit V The Big Close was all about. Held on May 17th and 18th, 2012 at The Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, businesswomen from all walks of life learned directly from the masters of networking, multi-million dollar entrepreneurs, and personal branding experts on how to earn what theyre worth and close more deals. For many of the estimated 600 businesswomen (and men) in attendance, making the big close is the difference between status quo to a supercharged sales and branding engine.

Take Michelle Wolfe of Halo Branded Solutions for example. Shes done a great job at networking with prospective clients, making the introduction, and positioning her promotional products company as a viable service provider. But when it comes to closing the deal, thats where shes stuck. So she attended the Summit to learn from experts like Nell Merlino of Make Mine AMillion $$ Business.

The truth is that Michelle Wolfe isnt alone. During the Summit, Ivan Misner, Founder & Chairman of BNI, the worlds largest business networking organization with almost 6,200 chapters throughout every the world, said that businesswomen do a great job at building and nurturing relationships with prospective clients, even better than men sometimes. However, men are much more efficient at deal making, according to Misner.

The 2-day Summit hosted engaging panel discussions with topics including: The Badass Guide To Fun, Effective & Lucrative Selling led by Jessica Kizorek, founder of BadassBusinessWomen.org The 8 Secrets To Getting More Customers, To Buy More Things, More Often led by Mike Michalowicz, author of the best selling Toilet Paper Entrepreneur What Motivational Speakers Wont Tell You About Building AMillion Dollar Business led by Nell Merlino, Founder of Make Mine A Million $$ Business From Networking to CLOSING Insights From The Father Of Modern Networking led by Ivan Misner How To Drive Traffic, Generate Leads, Engage Website Visitors, Gather Fans And Close Deals Virtually moderated by Denise Jacobs, author of The CSS Detective Guide VIP pass holders also had the opportunity to attend a mastermind session with Mike Michalowicz, a 30-minute onsite Laser Coaching session with ActionCOACH, Kathryn MacAskill, and a Speed Pitch session led by Christine Pallesen and Scott Garvis of Dale Carnegie Training. This is the fifth Success Summit in Miami created by personal branding expert, Michelle Villabolos. Michelle teaches business concepts and skills to professionals in a fun and entertaining way, and her programs have been delivered collectively to over 80,000 people worldwide. Shes developed 13 programs on sales, marketing, and personal branding that have collectively been viewed either virtually or in person by over 100,000 people. She speaks professionally on the subject of how to leverage your unique personality, knowledge, and assets to drive business and has appeared regularly in the media discussing personal branding as well as how professional women can get along, get ahead, and get promoted.

To learn more about the Women Success Summit, visit michellevillalobos.com/womenssuccesssummit.

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ROME, JULY 5, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The first liturgical texts approved for the Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans have been promulgated by the Holy See. They are the Order for Funerals and the Order for the Celebration of Holy Matrimony.

There are now three ordinariates established: the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom; the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the United States and Canada; and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia.

According to a report by Vatican Radio the texts are drawn from the classical Anglican prayer book tradition and incorporate elements of the Anglican patrimony, now in the full communion of the Catholic Church.

This is an important moment in the development of our distinctive liturgical and ecclesial life, said Monsignor Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, in a July 3 press release.

The liturgies were promulgated by the Congregation for Divine Worship on June 22, 2012, the feast-day of the English saints of the Reformation, John Fisher and Thomas More

The new texts were developed under the guidance of Archbishop J. Augustine DiNoia OP, who served until recently as the Secretary for the Congregation of Divine Worship. Archbishop DiNoia was recently appointed to the position of Vice President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, and has also been re-appointed as chair of the Holy Sees Anglicanae traditiones Commission, tasked with developing the new liturgical texts for the Personal Ordinariates.

The Reverend Uwe Michael Lang, CO, who also just stepped down from a post with the Congregation for Divine Worship, will also continue his role in the development of the texts.

We welcome with gratitude these texts, which bring into Catholic liturgical life some of the most beloved and memorable texts in the Book of Common Prayer, said Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson, Ordinary for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, in a press release issued the same day.

These texts have blessed and comforted generations of English-speaking Christians and will be deeply appreciated in the Ordinariate communities, he added.

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Saving the world, changing the world, inspiring the world into stronger connections and more sustainable choices is the language and pulse of yoga.

Millions of people are coming to yoga for literally as many reasons. That the industry, the culture and the vibratory body is growing suggests that those who comprise the industry are making choices in many aspects of their lives to support on the mat experiences.

These choices might be small, at first, like nutritional choices or creating regular meal patterns, so that one does not feel nauseated in the middle of a Vinyasa class. Perhaps one takes to drinking more water through a regular day to maintain hydration, so as not to be making up ground in his or her hot class. Some may begin to realize that the extra cup of coffee or glass of wine does not serve or make one feel as good as forgoing it, when one is seeking actual calm and well being. From these choices, which may seem small, huge ripples begin to roll.

These students begin to consider what kind of food to eat, what the water is bottled in, where the coffee is grown and by whom. They begin to take an honest long look at what addictions or toxic relationships may be present, actually sabotaging true happiness.

Yoga is defined in many ways but my favorite is connection or relationship. When a student falls into relationship with himself or herself, patterns of sustainability rise to the forefront of awareness and one begins to step into radical connection to personal choice and unavoidable personal responsibility for those choices. These students are influencers in their own homes, families and circles of friends. One person shifts the world because he or she is in it.

How will we have proof that yoga has changed the world? Look around, it already has. Each yogi who has created a shift is part of a market of industry shifting its offerings to meet these needs and heightened awareness around sustainable practices in business and relationships. We as a body of yogis are leading a charge of change. The changes start personal and grow toward universal. We are lining up to the higher rather than the lower mind choices and taking our friends and family with us.

Though yoga is not evangelical, those that gather together within its collectives tend to draw attention and amass more recruits. Some on the outside see clear skin, bright eyes, calm demeanors and strong bodies and they cannot help but be shifted, inspired. They say, I want that! Yoga is recruiting new warriors of transformation every day to raise the vibration and awareness that devouring every resource cannot bring us true health, wealth or actual good in the end.

To celebrate its recruits and the rise in awareness and conscious community, yoga festivals, get-aways and conferences are beginning to take the place of old-model vacations and weekend romps. These festivals celebrate yoga, celebrate positive choice in the world and uplift the concept of fun on and off the yoga mat.

The weekend of July 5 8 will hold time and space for a gathering of wide-eyed, life changing, barefoot, inspired yogis at the Wanderlust Festival at Copper Mountain. Join a host of national and international yoga teachers, musicians, hoopers, slack-line walkers and renowned speakers at this remarkable event where 1000 plus yogis and seekers will converge to practice yoga, shop a host of conscious retailers and artists, eat organic goodness and socialize in a mountain environment. Wanderlust Festival is a leader in the industry of yoga festivals, an out-of-the-box event for those both familiar and unfamiliar to try varied aspects of the culture in an energized and highly entertaining environment.

Awareness, wisdom, and energy are true allies to long lasting societal change. How will yoga save the world? It will save it one breath at a time, one seed of awareness at a time, one belief shift at a time, one downward dog at a time.

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New Delhi, July 5:

The rising middle class, the desire to stay ahead in the global economy, and the falling quality of mainstream education system mean that examination-oriented coaching classes have taken over the life of most school-going children in India and other countries.

According to the report Shadow Education: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia, released by the Asian Development Bank, in India a whopping 60 per cent of primary school children and up to 83 per cent students in high schools receive private tutoring.

Shadow education is a widely used term for private tutoring, as it mimics the mainstream and modifies itself according to the conventional system.

Talking about the private coaching industry in India, the report said, Nationally, a 2008 market survey of companies offering coaching estimated the size of the sector at $6.4 billion and predicted an annual growth of 15 per cent over the subsequent four years.

The report notes that in 2007-08, students living in both rural and urban India paid an average of Rs 1,456-2,349 a year for private coaching classes.

The poverty line in the country is set at Rs 965 for the urban and Rs 781 for the rural citizen. The report added that according to a study conducted by the Pratichi Trust, established by noted Nobel Economist Amartya Sen, the increasing demand for private coaching is not only because of rising incomes, but also because of the belief that it is unavoidable.

The research notes that, 78 per cent parents now believe it is indeed unavoidable up from 62 per cent. For those who do not have arrangements for private tuition, 54 per cent indicate that they do not go for it mainly or only because they cannot afford the costs.

Noting that perceptions of inadequacies in mainstream schooling, where teachers often do not come for classes or complete the curriculum, are is a major reason for the growth of private tutoring, the report added, Sen noted that most of the content in the private tutorial classes could and should have been taught in the regular classes of the primary schools.

He added that private tutoring divides the student population into haves and have-nots; it makes teachers less responsible; it makes improvements in schooling arrangements more difficult since the more influential and better-placed families have less at stake in the quality of what is done in the schools.

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Its summertime and many graduates are taking summer jobs for the first time or beginning their professional careers as interns or permanent staffers.

This can be a nerve-wracking time for many. Well, there is no need to be stressed about it if you know what to do. Of course you dont want to go the other extreme and be too casual in your preparation either. So here are some tips from my launch your career toolkit.

Get a good nights sleep. I know you can handle late nights partying and still bounce back because you are young and fit but with an important appointment, like your first day at work, go to bed early and rise early. You dont want to turn up for work with sleep in your face your boss will not find you cute.

There is always a dress code. You can do at least three things to be sure you are dressed appropriately for work.

(1) Reflect on how your interviewer was dressed and keep your attire in that general style.

(2) Watch a video on YouTube about how to dress for your first day and do keep it up for the rest of your career.

(3) Avoid anything that will be just perfect for the nightclub. Guys: wear your pants belted at the waist. Ladies: limit the cleavage.

Be punctual. This should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, employers are intolerant of Bajan time, so do arrive at least 15 minutes early to settle yourself, especially if you have to take the bus. If you are driving to work, take a test drive and see how long it takes to get there, then double the time. Traffic is no excuse for tardiness even though many of us accept it as such.

Mindful communication. You have obviously made a good first impression, or you would not have been hired. But you are now meeting the rest of the staff for the first time, so pay attention to these three Ps.

Be polite. As you are introduced to your colleagues, speak in a light and friendly tone. Speak to everyone even if your chaperone is rushing you through. Avoid small talk and humour because people are not yet tuned in to your personality. You could rub people the wrong way. Wait until you have developed rapport.

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COLUMBIA A new law signed last week by Gov. Nikki Haley will cut $2 billion from South Carolinas $15 billion retirement shortfall and eliminate it completely by 2044, according to a recently released analysis.

The law makes it difficult for public employees to retire early, forcing them to work longer, and means less money will be withdrawn from the states $25 billion retirement fund. Without changes, taxpayers would have had to increase their annual contributions to the system by nearly 4percent, or about $337 million, according to the most current payroll information. Because the changes make the retirement system stronger financially, taxpayers will have to increase their contributions by 0.42 percent, or about $39.4 million. The state can spend that $300 million difference on other things.

Thats huge, said Rep. Brian White, R-Anderson and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Thats what we were after.

Accountants estimate that the states $25 billion retirement fund will run out of money over the next 30 years, falling about $15billion short. The retirement fund has three sources: investment returns, employee contributions and taxpayer contributions. The funds shortfall was increasing every year for two reasons: poor investment returns and people retiring earlier while living longer.

Lawmakers have now addressed those issues. Last summer, the State Budget and Control Board lowered the projected investment return on the retirement fund to 7.5 percent from 8percent. The new law limits some popular retirement incentives that encouraged public employees to retire early, including:

Eliminating the TERI program: TERI, short for Teacher and Employee Retirement Incentive, allowed workers to retire and continue working for up to five years, receiving a retirement check and a paycheck at the same time. The program will be phased out gradually, closing for good on June 30, 2018.

Restricting the states return-to-work program:. Beginning in January, if employees retire and return to work at their same job, they will have to forfeit their retirement checks once they earn $10,000 in salary in one year.

Making it tougher to retire early because of a disability: The law adopts the federal Social Security standards, which are more difficult to meet than the state standards. This does not take effect until Dec. 31, 2013.

Police officers and firefighters are upset about the disability changes. They have more dangerous jobs than the average state employee and have a higher rate of disability retirements. That is why lawmakers delayed the disability changes for 17 months, allowing time to come up with another solution during the next legislative session, which starts in January.

We focused so much on the retirement aspect of it weve not really ... had the time to devote to that (disability) issue, said Sen. Thomas Alexander, R-Oconee and one of the authors of the retirement bill. I think what weve done is given the directive to the (retirement) department to study for these next six months and bring us back some recommendations by January.

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