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Legislation has been introduced in Australia to establish the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) which will commence operations on October 1, 2012.? It will be interesting to see how the ACNC does.?

Here is a link to various resources on the new Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission including some interesting explanatory memoranda:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r4871

Here is a copy of a press release from the Australian government:

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?On 23 August 2012, the Assistant Treasurer announced in a press release, that the following bills were introduced into the House of Representatives:

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Bill 2012

This Bill establishes the ACNC as the Commonwealth level regulator for the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. It is proposed the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) will commence operations on 1 October 2012. Initially, only tax endorsed charities will be regulated by the ACNC. However the Bill establishes a regulatory framework that can be extended to all NFP entities in the future. The Bill incorporates changes made in accordance with the recommendations in the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics report into the draft ACNC legislation.

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2012

This Bill makes consequential amendments to other Commonwealth laws necessary to give effect to the ACNC. The transitional provisions are to provide a smooth transition to the new framework. This includes providing for the automatic registration of charities that are endorsed by the ATO unless the entity opts out within six months, and grandfathering existing substituted accounting periods.

Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for Not-for-profit Concessions) Bill 2012

This Bill:

re-states the ?in Australia? special conditions for income tax exempt entities
codifies the ?in Australia? special conditions for deductible gift recipients
standardises the term ?not-for-profit?, replacing the defined and undefined uses of ?non-profit? throughout the tax laws.

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The New Mage Guild: Amaranth

Taking place shortly after Natsu and company stopped the Eisenwald Guild in Oshibana Town. An up-and-coming Guild decided to station itself in place of Eisenwald. Now Oshibana Town has it's own certified Guild; Amaranth.

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I am certainly interested in joining. May I please reserve the remaining S-rank mage of Amaranth, please? Thank you very much for your help :) I'll have her done as soon as I can.

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Well for the most part I do not take reservations, and base my choosings on profiles. But from your history of profiles/postings, you're sitting quite well with your chance of getting it. As long as you have a good profile, I will accept it as an S rank.

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Will do. Do you have a rough idea of what your character will be like? If so, could you brief me on him/her, please? I would like to make my character clash as much as possible with yours - in terms of both personalities and abilities. :)

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Ah, in terms of abilities I have Requip as one of them - need to go over the rest of the abilities. (If you were thinking of that for yours just tell me, there's plenty others I would not mind having lol. Personality hmmm...I will get back to you and edit this XD.

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I'll make my character once you edit your post :) Vague personality descriptions are fine lol. I just want it so our characters clash. Like if your character's stern and law-abiding, mine will be reckless and uncaring. If yours uses their powers only when necessary, mine will be all use-powers-every-other-second-for-menial-tasks haha. If yours is the hard working, mine will be one lazy ass xD By the way, I won't be able to make my character until tomorrow.

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Laura Linney fronts new skin cancer PSA - Mother Nature Network

Laura Linney, the 48-year-old star of HBO's hit series "The Big C", is fronting a new campaign aimed at raising awareness on melanoma, the deadliest of all skin cancers.?

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Called "Protect Your Skin", the new initiative is the latest outreach by the organization Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) and the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) and features a print PSA sporting the headline "Wear Your Beauty Brilliantly."

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?All it takes is a single reminder for a person to do a self-exam that could save his or her life," Linney, an SU2C celebrity ambassador, says. "Melanoma and Breast Cancer can often be seen and felt, respectively, and the impact of open conversations about cancer and its prevention cannot be underestimated. So talk about Cancer. Encourage the women you care about to do a self breast-exam regularly, and everyone to look over their bodies for any strange markings. Communication can curtail cancer, so talk it up!?

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According to the MRA, melanoma is the fastest growing cancer around the world.?Even though the disease accounts for only 4% of cases of skin cancer, it results in an astounding 80% of deaths from skin cancer.

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In "The Big C", Linney plays a character dealing with?Stage 4 melanoma. In a statement, Debra Black, co-founder of the MRA, praised the actress' efforts to raise cancer awareness both on and off screen.?

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?Through her support of the cause and her moving performance on The Big C, Laura has kept melanoma at the forefront of public consciousness, and that work is heartening to all of us at MRA," says Black. "Stand Up To Cancer has helped shake up the culture of cancer research and we?re excited about working with their esteemed scientists and doctors to find better treatments and, eventually, a cure for melanoma.?

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Source: http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/laura-linney-fronts-new-skin-cancer-psa

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Obama, Netanyahu seek to get past Iran differences

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a show of unity on Friday on preventing a nuclear-armed Iran, seeking to tone down the acrimony between the two leaders that has become an issue in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential race.

Obama, widely seen as having snubbed Netanyahu by not meeting face to face with him during his U.S. visit, spoke instead by phone to the Israeli prime minister amid signs of movement toward a truce in their war of words over how to confront Tehran.

Netanyahu used his U.N. speech a day earlier to keep pressure on Washington to set a "red line" for Tehran, something Obama has refused to do. But in a softening of his approach, the hawkish Israeli premier signaled that no attack on Iran was imminent before the November 6 U.S. presidential election.

With an eye to the close presidential contest, Netanyahu also fielded a call during his New York visit from Obama's Republican rival, Mitt Romney, who has accused the president of being too hard on a close ally and not tough enough on Iran.

Romney has sought to use Obama's differences with Netanyahu to raise doubts with Jewish-American voters about Obama's commitment to Israel's security.

Obama's aides believe, however, that he has played his cards right with Netanyahu, with whom the president has had a notoriously testy relationship.

Netanyahu's strident complaints about U.S. policy on Iran in mid-September plunged U.S.-Israeli relations into crisis, but also spurred a backlash at home and in the U.S. media for seeming to meddle in American politics.

In recent days, the Israelis have sought to dial down the rhetoric, culminating in Netanyahu's speech to the General Assembly, which was seen as sending a message that Israel would not blindside Washington with a unilateral attack on Iran any time soon.

"The two leaders underscored that they are in full agreement on the shared goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," the White House said in a summary of their 20-minute phone conversation.

The White House said the two agreed to continue their cooperation, but it stopped short of saying Obama had given any ground on his resistance to issuing an ultimatum to Tehran, as Netanyahu has repeatedly demanded.

"I had a very good conversation with President Obama," Netanyahu told Israel television. "Our teams are talking."

An Obama aide went further, saying, "The temperature is lower than it had been."

TONING DOWN DIFFERENCES

Netanyahu dramatically ramped up pressure on Obama earlier this month when he insisted the United States did not have a "moral right" to hold Israel back from taking action against Iran because Washington had not set its own limits on Tehran.

That was followed by word that Obama would not meet Netanyahu during the Israeli leader's visit to address the United Nations. Obama later said pointedly that he would ignore the "noise that's out there" on the Iran issue.

Obama's aides were furious that Netanyahu was trying to put pressure on the president in the midst of the election campaign and refused to budge on the red-line issue, despite the risk of alienating pro-Israel voters in election battleground states like Florida and Ohio.

At the same time, Israeli officials - mindful of the danger of antagonizing the Jewish state's main ally and of poisoning relations with the man who could occupy the White House for another four years - moved into damage-control mode.

Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the United States, flew back to Jerusalem last weekend, during which he urged Netanyahu to tone down public statements that could be construed as interfering in the U.S. election or supporting Romney, according to sources in the Jewish community in Washington.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Chicago and met privately on September 20 with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former close Obama aide, raising speculation that Emanuel might be used as a back-channel conduit to mend ties with the president.

The Israeli desire to defuse the crisis may also have reflected an interpretation of recent U.S. opinion polls showing a widening of Obama's lead over Romney, who has suffered a series of political stumbles.

Romney, speaking to reporters on his campaign plane, said he and Netanyahu agreed Iran must be denied nuclear capabilities but did not agree on specific "red lines" to confront Tehran.

"I do not believe in the final analysis we will have to use military action," Romney said. "I certainly hope we don't have to. I can't take that action off the table."

In his U.N. speech, Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb with a fuse and literally drew a red line just below a label reading "final stage," in which Iran would supposedly be 90 percent along the path to having weapons-grade material.

Nevertheless, his warning that Iran would be on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon in less than a year was widely interpreted as some giving breathing space to Obama, who has urged more time for sanctions and diplomacy to work.

By referring to a spring or summer 2013 time frame for Iran to complete the next stage of uranium enrichment, the Israeli leader seemed to dispel fears that Israel might strike Iran before the U.S. election.

Iran denies it is seeking to build nuclear weaponry.

Netanyahu's praise for Obama's stern words for Iran in his own U.N. speech on Tuesday - although it lacked any specific ultimatum - was also seen as a sign that the Israeli leader wanted to quell the unusually public dispute with Washington.

"I think we are moving in a direction where the differences that were there, which were always tactical and not strategic, are in fact being managed at this point," Dennis Ross, Obama's former Middle East adviser, told MSNBC.

Still, White House officials were pleased at avoiding an encounter with Netanyahu, who used an Oval Office meeting in 2011 to lecture Obama on Jewish history. Obama instead kept a lower-than-usual profile at this year's U.N. gathering, making a campaign-style appearance on the popular talk show "The View" and then quickly returning to electioneering.

(Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball, Jeffrey Heller, Sam Youngman and Ori Lewis; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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6 ways to promote a healthy workspace | Dynamic Business ? Small ...

In the first series of the Small Business Success series AAMI presents instalment eight: ?Avoiding the 9 to 5 Health Hammer.?

For those spending more time in the office than they do at home it is imperative to create and maintain an optimal working space that?s complimentary to health, and to the general welfare of the working environment. Those who work from home are in a better position to manipulate their environment to cultivate health and safety around their work station, however there are still ways of optimising work place well-being, whether you are a sole trader working independently from your own office or a contractor sharing office premises.

When you spend almost 40 hours a week (or more) doing work in a repetitive manner it can become problematic to health, especially when it is work involving a computer. There are basic workstation steps that can act as preventative measures against office-induced injuries such as eye-strain, and repetitive strain syndrome.?

1. Optimising your workspace

How many times a day do you sit for more than one hour a day at your desk without standing up? Did you know that this may be problematic to your back, neck or shoulders? According to WorkSafe nearly 20 percent of all workplace related injuries stem from computer use and repetitive operational activities. These injuries are related to neck, shoulder, forearm, back, wrist and fingers.

Assuming that all chairs, monitors and monitor rests have an adjustment option, the worker should ensure that their thighs are parallel to the floor and their knees and elbow height to desk make a 90 degree angle to ensure that the back is not tilted.

Providing headsets and wireless mouses will ensure workers have less strain on their wrists and posture, allowing ease of use throughout their work day.

WorkCover also suggests that the desk layout should allow minimal strain, requiring less twisting movements on the back and should be around 6.25 square metres in size, allocating enough room for personal and work space.

Computer monitors should be at least 3-4 feet away from the seated position and a mouse should be positioned next to the edge of the keyboard to avoid arm strain.

2. Eye care

There is no hard evidence to suggest that using computers casually can be a harmful practice, however it is the prolonged usage and eye focusing which can cause problems such as red eye, headache, and shoulder and neck pain.

Strain on the eyes (Computer Vision Syndrome) is particularly problematic for the younger generations who have grown up using computers from an early age, as they have been raised using technology and looking at screens for prolonged periods of time. The best eye care method for looking at computer screens for long periods of time is to keep the eyes lubricated. This can involve frequent blinking, as we often forget to do this as often when looking at computer monitor. Also keeping eyes drops on hand can be handy for long periods of eye strain.

3. Hygiene

During the colder months a cold or flu virus can spread through an office environment like wildfire. And knowing how quickly germs can spread via touching equipment and sharing communal appliances, many instances of sickness can probably be avoided if workers remember to wash hands for at least 20 seconds when visiting the bathroom. Unwashed hands can often pass on germs to the mouth, face, and eyes throughout the day from desktop use, touching telephones and touching the face.

Antibacterial liquid or alcoholic wipes are recommended for wiping down hands and work spaces frequently as they eliminate much of the germs that may be hiding on fingers and residing on desktop spaces. These sanitisers are normally available as a wipe or in a bottle, and may also be handy for high traffic areas such as appliance handles.

4. Keeping hydrated

Surprisingly, drinking more water can actually keep you alert as the body is constantly being hydrated. If workers are engaging in frequent caffeine drinking, they are also advised to up their water intake as they will become dehydrated and therefore fatigued quickly.?

5. Lighting

If you?re in a position to manipulate the lighting of your workspace, take advantage of this. This is easier accomplished if working from home as you can experiment with dimmers and lamps. Also make sure that there is no light reflected on your monitor screen as it disturbs your vision. Screen glare can disturb the eyes in long term situations, so if you are seated near a window consider a tinted monitor screen to cut out sun light.

6. Rest

What most workers may not realise is that every hour of sleep received before midnight is actually worth twice as much those hours received after 12. Getting a set amount of sleep every night can ensure that you are working at your optimum capacity during the next working day and not lagging behind the computer. It is more a matter of going to bed around the same time each night than it is getting the same amount of hours every night.

When the small business owner wears the OH&S hat

Small business owners may not have access to an OH&S officer which means they inherit the tasks of overseeing the work safety of themselves and their staff. Even if you are only a sole person enterprise, you still need to mindful of safe workstation practices even if you think that it may not be relevant. RMIT University offers a free checklist for correctly setting up a workstation for chair, desk, computer, telephone, and desk stationery. If you are a small business owner seeking additional advice around office health visit WorkSafe.

With small businesses running on less core staff the level of productivity is less conducive when workplace health is compromised. A missed day of work is potentially highly disruptive if you are a sole trader. Long term office-related injuries can be avoided by paying attention to basic office procedures and monitoring the day-to-day health practices of workers.

This article is presented by Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd (AAMI, ABN 92 004 791 744), the issuer of AAMI property insurance products. AAMI has not taken into account your objectives, financial situation or insurance needs. Please consider the relevant PDS at aami.com.au

Source: http://www.dynamicbusiness.com.au/hr-and-staff/6-ways-to-promote-a-healthy-workspace-28092012.html

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Huge X-Wing-Like Cargo Ship Undocks from Space Station

An unmanned European cargo ship the size of a double-decker bus undocked from the International Space Station Friday (Sept. 28), ending a six-month delivery flight to the orbiting lab.

The robotic Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 (ATV-3), with its four X-wing-like solar arrays unfurled, cast off from the space station Friday as the two spacecraft sailed 255 miles (410 kilometers) over western Kazakhstan in Asia. The cargo ship's undocking occurred at 5:44 p.m. EDT (2144 GMT).

The space departure occurred three days later than planned due to delays, first by a computer glitch and later by space junk near the space station.

But Friday, the ATV-3 spacecraft, which is named the Edoardo Almadi after the famed late Italian physicist of the same name, made a flawless departure from the station. It will spend the next few days orbiting Earth before being intentionally destroyed on Tuesday (Oct. 3) by burning up in Earth's atmosphereover the Pacific Ocean. [Photos: Europe's Robotic ATV Spaceships]

"Today, everything has worked to perfection," NASA spokesman Rob Navias said during the agency's live broadcast of the undocking.

The ATV-3 spacecraft was built by the European Space Agency and delivered 7.2 tons of food, water and other vital supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it launched in March from a South American spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The ATV-3 spent 184 linked to the space station before being packed with trash and other unneeded items for its eventual fiery demise in Earth's atmosphere.?

The ATV-3 is ESA's third unmanned cargo ship mission to visit the space station, which is also supplied by robotic cargo ships from Japan and Russia. In the United States, NASA has contracted two companies ? SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif., and Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. ? to provide unmanned cargo delivery flights to the station. The first official flight by SpaceX is scheduled to launch on Oct. 7, when the company

The ATV craft are huge cylinders 32 feet long (10 meters) and nearly 15 feet wide (4.5 m) and may be visible by observers on Earth as a bright moving light in the night sky, weather permitting. The ATV-3, like the International Space Station, can be spotted if you know where to look.

To find out if the ATV-3 will be flying over your location, visit one of these websites and enter the information for your location:

The European Space Agency is also holding a photo contest for satellite trackers hoping to snap a photo of the ATV-3 as it orbits the Earth during the next few days. Prizes will be awarded for the best snapshots.

"We look forward to seeing any and all photos of ATV in free flight and we wish you happy snapping for the contest!" ESA officials said in blog post.

For more info on the ESA's photo contest for the ATV-3 spacecraft, visit: http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2012/09/28/atv-orbital-photo-contest-orbit-details/

The next ATV to launch toward the space station will be the ATV-4 Albert Einstein, which is slated to blast off in April 2013.

You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik?and?SPACE.com on Twitter?@Spacedotcom. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.?

Copyright 2012 SPACE.com, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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RIM posts big loss but not as bad as expected

TORONTO (AP) ? BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion posted another large quarterly loss on Thursday, but the hemorrhaging was not as bad expected.

The Canadian company is still losing market share in North America, where it struggles to compete with Apple's iPhone and phones that run Google's Android software. But it has stepped up sales in developing markets and actually increased its subscriber base and cash position.

RIM's stock surged more than 20 percent in after-market trading on the news.

The company reported Thursday that it lost $235 million, or 45 cents a share, in its fiscal second quarter, which ended Sept 1. That compares with a profit of $419 million, or 80 cents per share, a year ago.

RIM reported revenue of $2.9 billion.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected a loss of 47 cents on revenue of $2.49 billion.

RIM said it shipped 7.4 million BlackBerry smartphones in the quarter, down from 10.6 million in the same period last year. Some analysts predicted RIM would ship only 6.4 million devices as the company prepares to launch much-delayed new BlackBerrys that have been deemed critical to its survival.

RIM pioneered the smartphone in 1999 but North American consumers have been abandoning BlackBerrys for flashier, touchscreen phones in recent years. RIM is banking its future on its much-delayed BlackBerry 10 platform, which is meant to offer the multimedia, Internet browsing and apps experience that users now demand.

Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on a conference call with analysts that BlackBerry 10 is still on track to be released in the first quarter of 2013 ? several months after the release of Apple's iPhone 5, which came out earlier this month. Heins said competitors have released strong products recently but vowed BlackBerry 10 "will advance the operating system environment to a whole new level."

Heins replaced co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis in January after the company lost tens of billions in market value. He surprised many this week when he said at a conference for mobile applications developers that RIM has 80 million subscribers, up from 78 million in early June. Many analysts had expected RIM to start losing subscribers in the second quarter.

The results show that RIM is making progress as it transitions to its next generation of BlackBerry smartphones and completes its cost reduction plan, Heins said.

Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said RIM did a great job in the quarter, considering the challenges it faced. He noted, however, that doesn't account for much because its new smartphones are not out yet.

"They are driving sales in emerging markets and we think they will continue to lose subscribers in developed markets," Misek said. "It doesn't tell you anything about the long-term success of the platform or the company."

RIM's sales outside the United States, United Kingdom and Canada were about 58 percent of total revenue, said Brian Bidulka, the company's chief financial officer. He noted sales were strong in Indonesia, South Africa and Venezuela, but declined in the U.S.

Sales in the U.S. represented 22 percent of revenue, down from 25 percent in the first quarter and 27 percent in the second quarter last year. Bidulka said RIM's business will continue to be challenged until the new BlackBerrys are launched.

Research firm IDC says BlackBerry's U.S. market share has plummeted from 45.8 percent in 2008 to 2.7 percent in 2012.

RIM has been laying off thousands of workers to offset the losses.

Heins noted RIM's cash position stood at $2.3 billion at Sept. 1, up from $2.2 billion at the end of the previous quarter. The company is very focused on maintaining a strong financial position as it transitions to the new platform, he said.

Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Financial, said RIM's ability to grow the subscriber base while not hurting its cash position is encouraging.

"It does give them more time. The talk of bankruptcy has probably dissipated right now," Gillis said. "These are all the right moves, but does it change that their position is still bleak?"

RIM's stock rose $1.46 cents to $8.60 in extended U.S. trading Thursday. It had ended the regular trading session up 14 cents at $7.14. RIM's struggles have wiped out some $80 billion in shareholder wealth since 2008, a drop of over 90 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rim-posts-big-loss-not-bad-expected-204253199--finance.html

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Insecure in Relationships? ? Thriving Now

by Cathy Vartuli

Does insecurity rise up and try to swallow you in relationships?

Do you find yourself fighting fears? and spending too much energy and time trying to figure out how to keep your loved ones happy and connected with you?

Does the hurt? or the fear of hurt? keep you from being open?

Watch the new video by Cathy and Reid Mihalko:

http://www.thrivingnow.com/8arms-jealousy-1/

I understand. For a long time, I avoided relationships as much as possible. They hurt. I felt like I could never win. And I spent so much time trying to make sure I gave enough value to ?keep? my partner, I was always exhausted and sometimes grumpy.

I didn?t know what was going on. I thought I was bad at love. I tried not to care, because as soon as someone mattered to me, this ?stuff? came up.

I didn?t even know what to call it. I knew it ruined some beautiful relationships with wonderful people. I knew it caused me intense pain? Nights spent crying and hurting and feeling completely alone.

I spent a lot of time hurting. And since I?m also a research scientist, I spent years reading and consulting with people to figure out what was ?wrong? with me.

When I first figured it out, I didn?t like the answer. It was a word I?d avoided for a long time. I had been taught that nice girls didn?t do this?

What was it?

I was Jealous!

I had been brought up that jealousy was bad, uncontrollable, and should be hidden at all costs. But as anyone who does EFT/Tapping knows, if you don?t?acknowledge?something, it?s VERY hard to change it. I had shoved those feelings in the back of the darkest closet I could find and hoped that if I was very good, they would go away on their own.

They didn?t. But I did find tapping, and Rick and I studied traumas and limiting beliefs and learned to unravel them.

And Reid Mihalko shared his powerful understanding about jealousy with us. The peanut butter and the chocolate went together fabulously! I finally had an effective and empowered way to look at what I was feeling. And I could tap on the underlying beliefs that kept me feeling like the other shoe would drop at any moment.

These skills made my relationships so much easier. I have new depth, trust, and playfulness. You and your loved ones deserve to enjoy this, too. I wish my family could have taught me this when I was younger. It would have saved so much heartache!

If you?d like a?straightforward?and surprisingly simple way to transform how you feel in relationships, Reid and I put together an 8 minute video (with transcript) to give you insight and improve your relationships now!

http://www.thrivingnow.com/8arms-jealousy-1/

Source: http://www.thrivingnow.com/insecure-in-relationships/

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Video: Santelli's Morning Bond Update

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Angry Birds maker hopes Bad Piggies will help it fly again

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , which was banned from tendering for work on Australia's $38 billion broadband network, is not seriously considering an immediate float in Australia, two sources familiar with the company's plans said.

The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a local stock market listing was among long-term options for the Australian arm.

"The first priority is to see if a research and technology centre can be set up in Australia. A local listing is among options over the next 5-10 years," one of the sources said.

Earlier, John Brumby, a board member of the Australian arm of Huawei, was cited by a newspaper as saying he had urged Huawei to consider building an Australian research and technology centre, and an eventual local stock exchange listing.

Brumby, a former premier of Victoria state, also said that Huawei Australia would discuss more localisation measures with its Chinese parent in the next few months, in line with Huawei Chief Executive and founder Ren Zhengfei's commitment to reinvest all Australian profits in the country.

Brumby's comments at the University of Sydney China Business Forum were first reported by the Australian Financial Review.

A spokesman for Huawei in Sydney confirmed Brumby had made those comments. He declined to comment further.

Other directors of Huawei Australia include former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer.

Huawei, the world's largest supplier of telecoms network equipment by revenue, has become a significant market force in Australia. It supplies equipment to Optus and Vodafone , and has conducted trials with Telstra Corp Ltd .

The Australian government cited cyber-security concerns when last year it barred Huawei from bidding for contracts to build the national broadband network (NBN), which aims to connect 93 percent of Australian homes and workplaces with optical fibre.

Huawei has also been blocked from deals in the United States due to national security concerns and allegations it violated sanctions by supplying Iran with censorship equipment

Ren's background as a former officer of the People's Liberation Army in China has given rise to claims Huawei has a close relationship with the Chinese government. The company has denied those claims.

(Reporting by Narayanan Somasundaram in Sydney and Chyen Yee Lee in Hong Kong; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

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Goodyear gets a bit too edgy with Lohan letter

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Traffic-challenged Lindsay Lohan

By Ben Popken, NBC News contributor

In a wry gesture, Goodyear last week sent letters offering free driving lessons to traffic-challenged celebrities Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes. But is such snarky newsjacking a smart move for this iconic brand?

Bynes skipped her suspended license hearing this week and has a court appearance slated for Thursday for two hit and run incidents. Meanwhile, Lohan said she's planning on suing a cook for slander for claiming last week she clipped him with her Porsche SUV and claiming that she was ?slurring? and ?smelled like alcohol.?

The nearly identical letters Goodyear sent the two actresses say they're ?sorry to hear? about the latest ?driving mishap,? and that they ?understand? that ?driving can be a real challenge, particularly trying to navigate all of the stop-and-go-traffic in LA and New York City.?

Echoing sentiments felt no doubt by many Americans, Goodyear continued, saying, ?we are concerned for you...We're concerned for your safety.?

The letter offered to fly the actresses out to the company's headquarters in Akron, Ohio for private lessons with their professional drivers, ?no paparazzi allowed.? These trainers could show the ?do's and don'ts of driving safely.? After a few spins around the test track, ?you'll even be able to show Herbie the Lovebug a thing or two,? quipped the letter to Lohan.

It's all pretty light as far as celebrity digs go, but it feels a little weird coming from Goodyear. This is the tire brand of trust and value. It's been around since 1898. It represents solid Midwestern values, and is a stalwart of American manufacturing.

Until now, one of its most recognizable marketing campaigns has been the Goodyear blimp: a giant rubber-coated dirigible that idles over large mainstream sporting events. It's slow. It's massive. It's authorized. Its main goal is to get?Goodyear's big yellow logo beamed out over broadcast television.

It's pretty much the opposite of the Lohan and Bynes zings. They were geared to appeal to celebrity news sites and blogs and those who read them. They were created and executed quickly in response to a piece of?celebrity news. The playful tone and the use of a source document primed them for social media viral uplift.

Twitter? Perezhilton? TMZ? Not exactly what you associate with a venerable American tire brand.

Opportunistic PR
?It's opportunistic PR,? Chris Curran, Goodyear's Vice President of Communications Public Relations, told NBC News. His signature appears at the bottom of both letters. Curran said that a piece of public relations material has to do one of three things: educate, entertain or inform. ?This does all three,? he said. ?It educates who Goodyear is, informs that there's an offer, and it also entertains.?

He disagreed that the move was out of the norm for the tire company, noting that several years ago they convinced Detroit Pistons guard Richard Hamilton to style his hair so that it looked like Goodyear's new TripleTred tire.

?Something that is fun and quirky gets across in a better way,? said Curran. ?Obviously, we do normal PR and communications initiatives to promote our products, but sometimes it's 'fun' to do something a little outside the box that gets people talking.? A lot of people inside the company have said that the letters ?were kind of cool,? too, he noted.

Goodyear isn't the first big brand to try to ride the buzz off a piece of news. Last year, Abercrombie & Fitch offered members of the Jersey Shore cast cash to not wear their clothes. Two years ago, when Obama made an offhand remark about holding a ?Slurpee Summit? with Republicans, 7-11 made an official offer to the White House to supply them with red, white, and blue colored Slurpees.

Tim Nudd, editor of Advertising Age's blog Adfreak, is not a fan of the Goodyear initiative. ?It's definitely a cheap publicity grab, and if you're a generally well respected brand -- which Goodyear is -- engaging these kinds of marketing gimmicks will only cheapen your brand accordingly,? he wrote by email. For Goodyear, your ?absolute No. 1 brand attribute is trust. Why align yourself in any way with people who are reckless?? he said. ?It's transparent celebrity-baiting.?

Raw security camera footage from outside a New York hotel shows a vehicle, driven by Lindsay Lohan, drive through the scene, and a man who alleges she hit him, chase after the car.

But what do the people think? Judging by the comments about the campaign on Twitter and blogs, they mostly think, ?LOL,? ?Hilarious? and ?Brilliant.? So, success?

If there's one guy who can sort it out, it's Alex Bogusky, formerly one of the main creative engines behind advertising agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky. Among others, they're the ones responsible for all those unnerving ?Wake up with the King!? Burger King ads. He should know a good counterintuitive campaign from a bad one.

And guess what??He likes it.

?I love this kind of thing. It's a good way to inject tires (which are boring) into the public conversation,? Bogusky wrote by email. ?And it seems to me that Goodyear knows a bit about driving and is doing us all a favor in trying to teach this woman how to drive.?

His enthusiasm wasn't unabashed, however, pointing out two little bits of logical misfires, ?1. Can you really teach someone how to drive while impaired? I don't think so,? and, ?2. What does it say about Goodyear's expertise when she crashes AFTER their lessons? Which she invariably will.?

Luckily, there's probably little chance of either of the two actresses taking time out from their busy schedules to take Goodyear up on their offer. Goodyear says it hasn't gotten a response from either Lohan or Bynes.

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Accidents do take place. You may well be mindful that sometimes these occur and you or maybe a shut buddy gets hurt. Sometimes, these arise because of to the steps or inaction of other people. For the duration of these circumstances, the Los Angeles personal injury attorney will insist that you are worthy of every single solitary cent of settlement from those that induced damage to you and/or the types you love.

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The quite 1st thing your personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles will try to build will be the naturel of this circumstance you will be filing. Personalized the damage are generally not often criminal acts. A lot more usually than not, individual injury situations will be civil cases, identified inside of the legal business as ?torts.? Some personal accidents may possibly be deemed to be the two a criminal act as nicely as a tort, dependent on the situations in the situation.

The major rule driving tort law takes place when you or your home experienced physical, psychological or even monetary hurt because of to the actions or inaction of other people, you have to be compensated. Dealing with personal the damage can be high priced. Aside from medical expenses, you could lose earnings as well as your work. You might encounter psychological trauma.

Instances of individual injuries could belong to 1 of about three levels. Most are situations of negligence, which comes about when anyone is simply not acting like rather significantly any acceptable, diligent person. A driver whose automobile bumps you, slip and fall episodes, and incidents as a outcome of elements that malfunction are some kinds of negligence.

In case the injuries was caused by planned action or inaction by somebody, it gets to be an instance of intentional misconduct. If the Los Angeles personal injury attorney verifies this, you might be suitable for punitive damages aside from added varieties of compensation.

But if your damage occurred close to harmful areas or actions, the scenario may become one particular of demanding liability. An illustration could be the traumas passersby attain from the assembly web site. Here, you do not have to show negligence or intention to end result in damage. The sheer reality that it is an unsafe put or profession indicates the wrongdoer genuinely must have exercised a lot more safety measures.

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A solitary crucial distinction torts have from criminal circumstances is the bodyweight of evidence necessary to convict the offender. In criminal instances, you have to display an personal was accountable over and above sensible doubt. Even if most of the evidence points to your perpetrator as accountable for the crime, provided that a solitary member of the jury or probably the judge is not really entirely persuaded, the defendant could be located not guilty.

In individual injuries claims, ?sensible doubt? is not required to get a conviction. Your personalized harm legal professional in Los Angeles has to execute is create that an adequate amount of the information factors to the offender as negligent. This also means that a company or skilled that has been acquitted may possibly nevertheless be charged with a civil lawsuit.

A number of states, like California, physical exercise comparative fault. As the personalized harm lawyer in Los Angeles will affirm to you, this enables a jury in California to spread the blame. A single fantastic illustration of this can be a pedestrian finding strike because of to jaywalking.

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Increasing numbers of people will be web surfing utilizing their mobile phones and portable tablets. Site owners must adjust to produce web sites that are smartphone accessible. As utilization of phone web browsers grows, this will carry on and get more and more important. As web developers create their images smaller sized ? smartphone display screens are becoming bigger with tablets more prevalent. This concern appears to be limited to only a handful of years when smartphones had really small screens. Irregardless, with smartphone browsing increasing, it?s crucial that visitors can look at your website content conveniently.

Get Rid of Mouse and Keyboard

Anytime you see people using personal computers in movies set in future years, they are rarely making use of a keyboard and mouse. They are invariably employing some type of multi-screen hologram or voice triggered user interface. It?s likely to happen it?s merely a matter of time. So precisely what does that imply for internet marketers? What does it signify for promoting on search engines? Voice search is without a doubt becoming a lot more widespread with mobile phones so internet marketers should consider keyword phrases that are voiced as opposed to typed. The resulting key words could be the same but quite often there is a big difference in spoken word and typed-out key phrases. This is additionally extremely vital for technologies companies and creators of new products. A lot of money has been banked supplying computer keyboards and mice over the last years but they may be obsolete in the near future.

Yahoo And Google Eternal

Will there ever be a greater solution to locate stuff via the internet aside from entering a search phrase into a search engine like Google (or speaking a search)? I?ve been trying to hard to consider what will come after Search engines but I can?t come up with it. One particular enhancement in the past several years is individualized advertising. Google appears to have been on the cutting edge of this technique. They have so much access to customer actions online that they can effortlessly individualize adverts to target advertisements to consumers that have displayed desire for the things being advertised. This doesn?t imply search will transform necessarily but it may suggest that people will spend less precious time scouring the web and a lot more time simply clicking focused ads online. In any case, it?s sales revenue for Search engines so they don?t care.

A lot of people don?t worry about looking forward to the upcoming key technology progression in computer and web technology but people who do will certainly garner the pay back of being the early movers.

If you?re thinking about starting a website, be certain to investigate getting an affordable website design in a website package. Launching a website doesn?t have to be ridiculously expensive.

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