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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05-07-2012 08:07 Unmissable interview with Larry Winget the Pitbull of Personal development. Larry is a 6 times bestseller and host and star of many tv shows.

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Getting kids to wake up early and give up a chunk of their summers to attend math camp sounds like a tough sell.

But the Stanislaus County Office of Education and a crew of local teachers have pulled off that feat.

The Summer Algebra College Awareness and Math Proficiency program, which aims to help area middle school students find success in the classroom, has exceeded attendance expectations, according to Kandy Woerz, a program coordinator at the Stanislaus County Office of Education.

We realize the importance of mathematics, Woerz said. The community and the parents also know the importance of mathematics. The teachers do a really good job of motivating. They give positive reinforcement, praising the kids, and kids love to go where they get praise.

Locally, about 15 Creekside Middle School students are honing their math skills from 8 a.m. to noon five days a week at Patterson High.

Patterson Joint Unified and Newman-Crows Landing Unified school districts are hosting the summer programs as part of a trial aimed at improving students success in math and sparking interest in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, often collectively called S.T.E.M. careers.

Summer C.A.M.P. students are in the gap neither failing nor proficient or advanced (in math), Woerz said. Hopefully, by their participation in C.A.M.P., it will move them into the advanced or proficient range.

Seventeen school districts in California are participating in the S.T.E.M. Learning Opportunities Providing Equity project. S.L.O.P.E. is funded through the U.S. Department of Educations Investing in Innovation grant program and aims to help students become proficient in eighth-grade-level algebra.

Students also learn about S.T.E.M. careers and other academic career paths through college-awareness curriculum that has been customized for each district participating in the project.

The grant program is providing new and innovative techniques for teachers, Woerz said. The project-based curriculum, in conjunction with the college-awareness component, connects math to the real world for students.

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06 July 2012

On the last day of the 2011 personal income tax campaign (IRPF), the Spanish finance ministry announced that the tax office has now paid EUR6.1m (USD7.7m) in tax refunds to 10.2 million taxpayers.

According to the finance ministry, this years campaign has been marked by a notable acceleration in the pace of tax refunds, primarily attributable to the Internet as a means with which to swiftly process declarations.

The ministry notes that around 16.7 million IRPF returns have been filed, 7.8% more than last year. Of that total, 10.3 million taxpayers, or 61.6%, elected to submit their returns via the Internet, marking an increase of 21%. This means that 1.8 million more taxpayers preferred to use the Internet, which has become the simplest and fastest way to obtain a rebate.

The ministry highlights the fact that the RENO service was used by 12.5 million taxpayers this year, marking an increase of 92% compared to last year, and significantly up from the 8 million expected initially. The RENO service is an express service allowing users to obtain pre-completed returns and tax data certificates in real time, without a digital certificate and without having to wait for postal delivery.

The ministry reiterates that in this years campaign there was also the obligation for taxpayers to file a wealth tax return for individuals with assets in excess of EUR2m.

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DESPITE TWO teens getting shot near the half-million-strong crowd on Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the city's Fourth of July festivities, Mayor Nutter said Thursday that this year's concert-and-fireworks celebration was successful.

"I'm not gonna let some little asshole 16-year-old who had a beef with somebody a month ago up in Germantown negatively impact the image of the city," Nutter said, adding that most of the people enjoying the festivities were unaware of the shootings.

About 9:30 p.m. on July 4, as hordes of people converged on Center City, gunfire erupted near 17th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, police said, leaving two males one 19 and another 17 hospitalized with gunshot wounds to their legs.

Cops witnessed the shooting and chased the 16-year-old boy who police said is the shooter. They caught up with him about a block away, where cops said he pulled a gun and pointed it at an officer, prompting the officer to fire back.

The alleged shooter, identified by police as Nafis Scott, of Price Street near Germantown Avenue, in East Germantown, remained at Hahnemann University Hospital Thursday in stable condition with a graze wound to his chest. Police said that Scott will face two counts of aggravated assault, assault on police, illegal gun charges and related offenses.

Nutter and police officials blamed the shooting on a neighborhood dispute among teens from Germantown and said that the groups clashed at LOVE Park Wednesday night.

Scott and one of the males he allegedly shot were taken to Hahnemann where, cops said, tensions boiled over. Police said a man who claimed to be the brother of one of the wounded teens pulled a gun possibly a fake one on someone inside the ER. Police said that that man, who remained unidentified Thursday, was arrested by Highway Patrol officers about 10 minutes after he made the threat.

In all, officials said that there were nine arrests during the Parkway celebrations, most for disorderly conduct.

"By anyone's evaluation or estimates, that certainly demonstrates that a vast, vast, vast majority of the people came to the Parkway and other areas of the city just to have a good time, not to create a disruption," Nutter said.

Asked about revelers' safety at Philadelphia's upcoming Labor Day Weekend concerts organized by rapper Jay-Z, both Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said that they haven't decided on any modifications to the event or the gathering space.

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04-07-2012 10:35 Success in High Heels Cocktail Evening -- 28 February at The Cape Royale Luxury Hotel & Spa The Award Winning Cape Royale Luxury Hotel and Spa situated along the tree-lined boulevard of Green Point, known as the artistic quarter of Cape Town, sets the scene for our first cocktail evening of 2012! Our Theme Everyone has a dream. "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world ~Harriet Tubman Our Success in High Heels Cocktail Evenings are designed to inspire you to DREAM BIG and to live your life with purpose! Three successful women shared the following with us: Their personal Success Stories Lessons learned from their "Failures" and Successes Who and What inspires them Guest Speakers include: Erla Diedericks -- Author and Journalist Melissa Podesta -- CEO & Founder of The House of Minc Denise Guastella -- Founding Member of The Coach Approach

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