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To achieve success as a network marketer in direct sales there are certain things you must do to reach that elusive multiple six figure income. Put these simple but highly effective tips to use and you will see remarkable things happen in your business.
DEVELOP YOUR MINDSET FOR SUCCESS: you will not achieve the kind of life altering success you crave until you've trained your mind to accept that you're worth the money you're seeking. There's a huge number of ways to work on your attitude – do your homework and get busy.
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE KIND OF PEOPLE YOU WANT TO BE: It just makes sense to join the successful people you want to emulate. If the company you are looking at can serve as a mastermind group for you – that's what you need. If it can't, you should probably think about looking elsewhere.
PLAN YOUR WORK AND WORK YOUR PLAN: If you're part time to start or full time right now, set a schedule where you do your business and do not deviate. Set the ground rules with your family so this time is yours to focus on your business.
DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE SKILLS: Duh; we work in a people business and if you cannot communicate, your business will suffer and to be perfectly honest, you're probably in the wrong business.
BUILD A TEAM AND SUPPORT THE HECK OUT OF IT: First of all, you should be with a company that as a strong residual income component. After that, it has to be your priority to recruit, train, and support your team. It will pay off big time in your bank account if you keep your troops happy.
ALWAYS MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE TO YOUR TEAM: It's connected to the previous item but it's important enough to mention it by itself. If your team has faith in you and knows you'll be there for them, there a good chance they'll be there for you leading to unbelievable profits for you.
WRITE YOUR GOALS DOWN ON PAPER AND KEEP THEM HANDY: set out your 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, and 1 year goals and refer them often as you progress. Also you must have a vision statement that sets out where you want to be in the years to come. Get it on paper!!
And lastly,
AVOID NEGATIVITY IN THE MEDIA: Negative in – negative out. Our business is all about being positive so why spend time listening to crap on TV or the radio. Go out of your way to avoid the tabloid style media drivel and always focus on the positive.
Simple and easy ways to reach your business goals. I wish you the best of success at home.


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Sir Richard Branson, the British mogul who got his start setting "cut-out" records from the boot of his car in 1970, is now old enough to have a 29-year-old daughter that needs something to do. Why not start up a magazine?
So, according to Ad Age, Holly Branson will be the executive of a new magazine that will talk about technology, film and design.
Most importantly, the magazine will be tablet-only, available for download to your iPad some time in October.
The iPad application will be developed by Seven Squared, a company that is also working with The Guardian.
By the time the Branson magazine appears in iTunes there will be quite a collection of iPad-only magazine to read. TNM has talked about a few of them, including Letter to Jane and Sideways, which are indie zines. Other examples have promoted auto manufacturers such as Volkswagen's Das and Infiniti's Adeyaka.
As I predicted, traditional publishers are allowing entrepreneurs and developers to jump into tablet publishing while they remain cautious and often skeptical. As one media owner told me in 1995 "the Internet is a fad, we won't even be talking about it in a year or two". That same company, not surprisingly, still backwards in its Internet publishing efforts.
Apple will be holding a presser at noon today (EDT) where it will either 1) announce a recall of its iPhone 4; 2) say the reception issue is no big deal; or 3) blame it all on Gizmodo.
Because of travel today I won't be able to report on the presser myself, but suggest you check out AppleInsider for any news.
You may have noticed that I am again posting here at TNM. My plan at this point is to post occasionally here while I continue to work on another site to launch in the Fall. I decided to cat back on work here simply because the traffic numbers had stalled. Wednesday, however, was a record day for traffic here -- go figure.

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It's been a long road for Coverbands.com.au. It started out as a side project while I was working on controllers for digital printing presses. It grew into something good for a long time, but over the last 6 years or so I've neglected it. The code is old VBScript mixed with .NET and XML->HTML conversions, it was running on a really old sever, that would get hacked from time to time. It needed to be re-written using modern techniques and tools. With my current work load at
I'm unable to give this site the time it needs. Since it was in disarray, I decided that it will not see 2016.
So this page is all that is left of Coverbands.com.au. Thank you to everyone that was involved over the last 17 years of its life.
If you're interested in resurecting the site, I'd be interested in making it an Open Source project. But we'd have to start form scratch. Or if you want to buy the domain, then drop me an email and I'll entertain the idea.
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A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph.
At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office told NBC News late Monday night that at least 20 of the 51 fatalities accounted for so far are children.
The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of the city. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.
The latest news from around North Texas.
The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.
The scene in Moore has been described simply as "total devastation."
KFOR-TV's news helicopter followed along as the massive tornado cut a large swath leading up to and through Moore. The tornado was estimated to be on the ground for about an hour, cutting a swath 20 miles long and about 1 mile wide. The debris ball is estimated to be at least two miles wide.
More than 140 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 70 children. And search-and-rescue efforts were to continue throughout the night.
Tiffany Thronesberry said she heard from her mother, Barbara Jarrell, shortly after the tornado.
"I got a phone call from her screaming, `Help! Help! I can't breathe. My house is on top of me!"' Thronesberry said.
Thronesberry hurried to her mother's house, where first responders had already pulled her out. Her mother was hospitalized for treatment of cuts and bruises.
Rescuers launched a desperate rescue effort at the school, pulling children from heaps of debris and carrying them to a triage center.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin deployed 80 National Guard members to assist with rescue operations and activated extra highway patrol officers.
Fallin also spoke with President Barack Obama, who offered the nation's help and gave Fallin a direct line to his office.
Many land lines to stricken areas were down, and cellphone networks were congested. The storm was so massive that it will take time to establish communications between rescuers and state officials, the governor said.
In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen marching slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, awnings and glass all over the streets.
Chris Calvert saw the menacing tornado from about a mile away.
"I was close enough to hear it," he said. "It was just a low roar, and you could see the debris, like pieces of shingles and insulation and stuff like that, rotating around it."
Even though his subdivision is a mile from the tornado's path, it was still covered with debris. He found a picture of a small girl on Santa Claus' lap in his yard.
Volunteers and first responders raced to search the debris for survivors.
At Plaza Towers Elementary School, the storm tore off the roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal.
Children from the school were among the dead, but several students were pulled alive from the rubble. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain to the triage center in the parking lot.
KFOR's Lance West reported at about 6:30 p.m. that the search at the school had turned from a search and rescue into a recovery effort.
Seven children found drowned in a pool of water at Plaza Towers are among the 51 killed in the storm, the state medical examiner's office told NBC News.
James Rushing, who lives across the street from the school, heard reports of the approaching twister and ran to the school, where his 5-year-old foster son, Aiden, attends classes. Rushing believed he would be safer there.
"About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart," he said.
The students were sent into the restroom.
There are multiple reports of teachers laying on children and using their body to protect them from flying debris.
The tornado also destroyed Briarwood Elementary School.
A man with a megaphone stood near a Catholic church Monday evening and called out the names of surviving children. Parents waited nearby, hoping to hear their sons' and daughters' names.
Don Denton hadn't heard from his two sons since the tornado hit the town, but the man who has endured six back surgeries and walks with a severe limp said he walked about two miles as he searched for them.
As reports of the storm came in, Denton's 16-year-old texted him, telling him to call.
"I was trying to call him, and I couldn't get through," Denton said.
As dusk began to fall, heavy equipment was rolled up to the school, and emergency workers wearing yellow crawled among the ruins, searching for survivors.
Because the ground was muddy, bulldozers and front-end loaders were getting stuck. Crews used jackhammers and sledgehammers to tear away concrete, and chunks were being thrown to the side as the workers dug.
Douglas Sherman drove two blocks from his home to help.
"Just having those kids trapped in that school, that really turns the table on a lot of things," he said.
A map provided by the National Weather Service showed that the storm began west of Newcastle and crossed the Canadian River into Oklahoma City's rural far southwestern side about 3 p.m. When it reached Moore, the twister cut a path through the center of town before lifting back into the sky at Lake Stanley Draper.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson said downed power lines and open gas lines posed a risk in the aftermath of the system.
Spokeswoman Brooke Cayot said nine of 57 patients who are being treated at the Integris Southwest Medical Center were listed in critical condition after Monday afternoon's tornado. Nineteen were in serious condition and 29 were listed in fair or good condition.
She said five of the patients were children who have since been treated and released.
OU Medical Center spokesman Scott Coppenbarger said his hospital and a nearby children's hospital are treating approximately 85 patients, including 65 children.
He said those patients ranged from minor injuries to critical condition.
The tornado hit a small hospital in Moore, but all of the 30 patients inside "amazingly" survived.
Moore Medical Center spokeswoman Kelly Wells said the hospital was "pretty much destroyed." All of the 30 patients survived, as did all of the staff members at the 46-bed acute care hospital, she said.
Wells said 13 patients were transferred to other facilities, though it wasn't clear if they were moved because of injuries sustained in the tornado or because of existing medical conditions.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry released the following statement after learning of the horrific devastation in Moore.
"The images emerging from Oklahoma today are a terrifying reminder of how quickly the force of Mother Nature can devastate entire communities. Our hearts are heavy for all Americans who have been affected by the recent outbreak of storms across our country. State emergency assets in Texas will remain on alert and stand ready to help our neighbors any way we can."
KFOR meteorologist Mike Morgan estimates the tornado to be an EF-5 in strength (peak wind speeds greater than 200 mph) and the damage about three times as bad as the May 3, 1999, tornado that tore through the same town. That 1999 tornado had the highest winds ever recorded near the earth's surface.
Morgan also said about 30 square miles have been affected by damage.
One of the 16 tornadoes that killed six people and injured dozens in Hood County last week were rated an EF-4 with wind speeds of about 180 mph.
Monday's powerful tornado loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.
The weather service estimated that Monday's tornado was at least a half-mile wide. The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph.
Kelsey Angle, a weather service meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo., said it's unusual for two such powerful tornadoes to track roughly the same path.
It was the fourth tornado to hit Moore since 1998. A twister also struck in 2003.
Monday's devastation in Oklahoma came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo., killing 158 people and injuring hundreds more.
That May 22, 2011, tornado was the deadliest in the United States since modern tornado record keeping began in 1950, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Before Joplin, the deadliest modern tornado was June 1953 in Flint, Mich., when 116 people died.


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We want our main logo for our company to have a common thread with the 4 lines of business. NOW Entertainment Group is the main company. The 4 lines of business are: BoletosNOW, PeliculasNOW, ProduccionesNOW, EntretenimientoNOW. As you can see NOW is in all the names. We are wanting a logo for each and a banner for each to use on a web page for each. As you can see these are in Spanish. Boletos = tickets, Peliculas = movies, Producciones = Productions, Entretenimiento = Entertainment, just to be clear.
- I'm thinking about this 2 ways, either making the logo match in design and maybe have different colors for each line of business, or the same colors and different logo designs.We wan the art in a vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or
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Alcohol Use Policy
Making an informed decision about drinking is your personal responsibility.
No one can make this decision for you. Since the choices you make about alcohol use could be among the most critical choices of your life, please consider a few factors that might impact your decision.
What is the legal drinking age?
The drinking age for the State of California and the City of San José is 21 and older. It is against state law to consume, purchase, or possess alcohol if you are younger than 21. Local law enforcement aggressively and consistently enforces this law.
Can I drink on campus?
San José State Universityis not a dry campus. There are limited times and locations on campus property where alcohol is permitted. In those situations, only individuals who are 21 years of age or older are allowed to consume alcohol. Those individuals are expected to do so in a responsible manner. If you are caught drinking or in possession of alcohol as a minor or if you are found publicly intoxicated you can be arrested and/or be subject to disciplinary sanctions.
Can I drink at football games?
Drinking is allowed at tailgating events at specified areas at Spartan Stadium. However, no alcoholic beverages can be brought into Spartan Stadium. All alcohol beverage consumption laws apply and will be enforced at all times. Failure to comply with the laws could result in arrest if you are a minor and removal from the stadium if you are 21 or older.
What will happen to me if I am caught drinking as a minor?
- It doesn't matter if you are caught by University Police, San José Police, or the Alcohol Beverage Control: possession or distribution of alcohol is a misdemeanor.
- It is illegal for those under age 21 to buy, attempt to buy, possess or transport alcohol.
- It is also illegal to use a fake ID to purchase alcohol.
- When arrested, you may have to post bond, pay court costs and pay attorney fees. A report is filed with the District Attorney's Office and your case will be presented before a judge.
What are the residential community policies?
- University Housing policy follows state laws, therefore, any room or apartment that has a resident or guest under the age of 21 may not have alcohol in any form.
- No possession, transportation (in plain view), or consumption of alcohol in common areas is allowed.
- No empty alcohol beverage containers may be kept in the room as decorations.
What about drinking and driving?
- Anyone who drives while intoxicated can be charged with a DUI.
- California has a zero tolerance law. It is illegal for anyone under 21 with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.01% or more to drive a vehicle.
- It is illegal for a person at any age to drive with a BAC of 0.08% or more.
- If arrested for DUI, the officer will confiscate the license at the scene and may impound your vehicle.
- For the first offense you will face
- Driver's license suspension for 6 months (1 year if you are under 21).
- Up to 6 months of jail time.
- $1,000 in fines plus assessments.
- Required participation in a first offender DUI program.
- Subsequent offenses carry harsher penalties, including mandatory incarceration and complete loss of license.
- DUI convictions now stay on driver's record for ten years.
Is it that big of a deal to have a misdemeanor on my record?
A DUI conviction will result in
- Thousands of dollars in fines.
- Increased insurance premiums.
- Attorney fees.
- Criminal records.
What about kegs?
Kegs and other "common source" containers are not allowed on campus or at any University function on or off campus.
What does it mean for an incident to be documented?
If there is an alleged policy violation, the incident will be documented in an Incident Report form. This form will go to the Office of Student Conduct & Ethical Development and University Housing for review and possible action. The students involved will be contacted regarding the incident and potential disciplinary action. All infractions of the Student Code of Conduct are serious. Potential consequences include but are not limited to:
- Disciplinary probation
- Educational sanctions
- Potential parental notification
- Expulsion from University Housing
- Suspension from the University
- Expulsion from the University
Can I drink at a SJSU student organization party?
SJSU policies and city ordinances apply to both on and off campus activities of student organizations. You may not drink if you are under 21 and those 21 and older should exercise personal responsibility. If your organization is considering planning a party, contact Student Involvement for details about protecting your organization and those who attend your event.
What is the Open Container Ordinance?
In the City of San Jose it is illegal for anyone to have in his or her possession, while in a motor vehicle any bottle, can, or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage that has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, no matter what your age is.
What about drugs and alcohol?
Alcohol is the most commonly abused and socially accepted drug in the United States. Combining the two substances can be lethal.
How bad can it affect my body?
The use of alcohol can affect the body systems and cause problems such as gastritis, pancreatitis, fatty liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer, heart disease, anemia, lowered resistance to infection, increased bruising, poor clotting and sexual dysfunction. We suggest you read the label on your over-the-counter or prescription drugs before taking any combination of drugs and alcohol.
Where do I go if I think I have a problem?
SJSU is concerned about its students and has many resources available for help. See below for campus departments that can answer questions and provide assistance regarding issues of alcohol use/abuse.


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There comes a time in every shoe and boot maker's life when you just have to start asking questions and getting some answers. That's what Russell President, Ralph Fabricius, and Russell Production Manager, Joe Gonyo did a while back.
Both Ralph and Joe were well aware that kangaroo leather has the highest strength to weight ratio of any leather known to man. Kangaroo is 20% lighter than cowhide right off the bat. But when split, as all leathers must be before the tanning process to make them usable for making boots and shoes, kangaroo leather when split down to only 20% of its original thickness retains nearly 60% of its original tensile strength.
This is significant because cowhides...when split to 20% of their original thickness...retain only 1% to 4% of their original tensile strength.
Kangaroo has 10 times (10X), the tensile strength of cowhide and is 50% stronger than goat hide leather. Yet kangaroo is 20% lighter. Highly desirable attributes for making boots and shoes.
So why wasn't Russell able to buy any of this wonderful leather here in the US? Good question!
Ralph and Joe went on a mission to find out. There had to be a reason.
Joe got on the Internet and went straight to the source of kangaroo leather...Australia! After much investigation, questioning, ordering samples, sorting out, Joe ordered several hides from the Packer Leather Company in Australia. Their unique K-Roo kangaroo leather is fine grained, lightweight, flexible, strong AND waterproofed!
Next Russell made prototype boots and shoes to test.
Joe, an avid Northwood's grouse hunter, wore a test pair of new K-Roo South 40 Birdshooters on numerous wet Northern Wisconsin grouse hunting trips to test them. He purposely DID NOT TREAT the new boots with any kind of water proofing product as he wanted to find out how waterproof they were right out of the box. After days of wet hunting, Joe's feet were dry. No problems at all.
The Russell Classics in full kangaroo are now available, including the popular Art Carter Traveling Sportsman, (in double vamp with outside molded sole and lightweight Aspen Gumlite sole), plus a super lightweight version of the Safari "PH", (leather lined with canvas or leather uppers, Newporter sole with 1/4" heel lift), a Kangaroo Birdshooter, (double vamp, leather lined quarters with Aspen Gumlite sole), a Short "PH" that barely weighs 2 lbs. per pair, (leather lined lacing studs, Newporter sole with 1/4" heel lift), and a South 40 Birdshooter, (double vamp with outside molded sole, lacing studs, Poron slipsole, back pull loop, Newporter sole with 1/4" heel lift). All available in women's sizes as well.
The new Russell Kangaroo Classics offer the best of all worlds....tough, long wearing, waterproofed leather and super lightweight.
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The South Beach Diet is a popular weight-loss diet created in 2003 by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and first outlined in his best-selling book, "The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss." The South Beach Diet is a commercial weight-loss diet.
The South Beach Diet, which is named after a glamorous area of Miami, is sometimes called a modified low-carbohydrate diet. The South Beach Diet is lower in carbs (carbohydrates) and higher in protein and healthy fats than is a typical eating plan. But it's not a strict low-carb diet, and you don't have to count carbs.
The purpose of the South Beach Diet is to change the overall balance of the foods you eat to encourage weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. The South Beach Diet says it's a healthy way of eating whether you want to lose weight or not.
You might choose to follow the South Beach Diet because you:
Check with your doctor or health care provider before starting any weight-loss diet, especially if you have any health concerns.
The South Beach Diet says that its balance of good carbs, lean protein and healthy fats makes it a nutrient-dense, fiber-rich diet that you can follow for a lifetime of healthy eating.
The South Beach Diet says that it'll teach you about eliminating so-called "bad" carbs from your diet. It uses the glycemic index and glycemic load to determine which carbs you should avoid. Foods with a high glycemic index tend to increase your blood sugar faster, higher and longer than do foods with a lower index. Some evidence suggests that this increase in blood sugar can boost your appetite, leading to increased eating and weight gain and possibly diabetes, which can all contribute to cardiovascular disease.
The South Beach Diet also teaches you about the different kinds of dietary fats and encourages you to limit unhealthy fats, while eating more foods with healthier monounsaturated fats. The South Beach Diet emphasizes the benefits of fiber and whole grains, and encourages you to include fruits and vegetables in your eating plan.
The South Beach Diet is lower in carbohydrates than is a typical eating plan, but not as low as a true low-carb diet. On a typical eating plan, about 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories come from carbohydrates. Based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet, this amounts to about 225 to 325 grams of carbohydrates a day.
In the final maintenance phase of the South Beach Diet, you can get as much as 28 percent of your daily calories from carbohydrates, or about 140 grams of carbohydrates a day. A true low-carb diet might restrict your carb intake to as little as 20 to 100 grams a day.
The South Beach Diet has evolved over time and now recommends exercise as an important part of your lifestyle. The South Beach Diet says that regular exercise will boost your metabolism and help prevent weight-loss plateaus.
The South Beach Diet has three phases:
Here's a look at what you might eat during a typical day in phase 1 of the South Beach Diet:
The South Beach Diet says that you'll lose 8 to 13 pounds (3.6 to 5.9 kilograms) in the two-week period that you're in phase 1. It also says that most of the weight will be shed from your midsection. In phase 2, it says that you'll likely lose 1 to 2 pounds (0.5 to 1 kilogram) a week.
Most people can lose weight on almost any diet, especially in the short term. Most important to weight loss is how many calories you take in and how many calories you burn off. A weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week is the typical recommendation. Although it may seem slow, it's a pace that's more likely to help you maintain your weight loss permanently.
Losing a large amount of weight rapidly could indicate that you're losing water weight or lean tissue, rather than fat. In some situations, however, faster weight loss can be safe if it's done in a healthy way. For example, some diets include an initiation phase to help you jump-start your weight loss, including the South Beach Diet and the Mayo Clinic Diet.
The South Beach Diet, while mainly directed at weight loss, may promote certain healthy changes. Research shows that following a long-term eating plan that's rich in healthy carbohydrates and dietary fats, such as whole grains, unsaturated fats, vegetables and fruits, can improve your health. For example, lower carbohydrate diets with healthy fats may improve your blood cholesterol levels.
The South Beach Diet is generally safe if you follow it as outlined in official South Beach Diet books and websites. However, if you severely restrict your carbohydrates, you may experience problems from ketosis. Ketosis occurs when you don't have enough sugar (glucose) for energy, so your body breaks down stored fat, causing ketones to build up in your body. Side effects from ketosis can include nausea, headache, mental fatigue and bad breath, and sometimes dehydration and dizziness.
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