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Many consumer brands hire customer agents to engage customers on social media services such as Twitter; these agents solicit opinions, respond to questions and requests, and thank or apologize to customers when necessary.
The usual method of filtering relevant customer opinions using simple keywords is often insufficient, because coming up with the right keywords is not easy. For instance, a representative at Delta Airlines filtering for "delta" would also collect posts aout "alpha delta phi" and "Nile delta". A more restrictive query, requiring both "delta" and "airline" would miss posts such as "I flew to Seattle on Delta." Furthermore, even among posts that indeed refer to the brand, many are side comments with no brand-relevant opinion, and therefore are usually not worth an agent's attention.
As a result, agents end up wasting tons of time reviewing irrelevant content.
What's the solution?
We produced CrowdE, an intelligent filtering system that helps brand agents filter tweets. We designed a common reusable filter creation process, where we ask crowd workers to label tweets for a brand and then extract insights through machine learning. The resulting filtering system has a number of nice properties:
- It can be customized for any particular consumer brand with minimal cost and design effort.
- It supports filtering by relevance to the brand and by presence of brand-related opinion.
- Filtering accuracy is on-par with expert-crafted filter rules for the given brand.
Using the CrowdE system, agents can filter the live Twitter stream at will, and mark relevant follow-up actions for each tweet. In user studies, both experienced and novice users preferred CrowdE to a traditional keyword-based filter. Users considered CrowdE-based filtering to be more efficient, more complete, less difficult, and less tedious. CrowdE also gave users more confidence in their filtering. Users performed better, as well, correctly marking more follow-up actions in the same amount of time.
For more details, see our ICWSM 2013 paper, CrowdE: Filtering Tweets for Direct Customer Engagements.
Jilin Chen, IBM Almaden Research Center
Allen Cypher, IBM Almaden Research Center
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Mission Reports Combat Crews Individual Photos Photos POW KIA MACR Overseas Graves TAPS
RICHARD D. GREENBAUM CREW - 358th BS
(crew assigned 358BS: 25 Nov 1944 - photo: 08 Dec 1944)
(Back L-R) 1Lt Richard D. Greenbaum (P), 2Lt Robert E. Balkcom (CP),
F/O John J. Nicastro (N), 1Lt John W. McCall (B), Sgt Kenneth D. Hawes (TG)
(Front L-R) T/Sgt Denver Dalton (R), T/Sgt Leonard F. Bruce (E),
S/Sgt Henry L. Armstrong II (WG), S/Sgt Patrick C. Dooley (BT)
Thirty-five combat Missions flown by 1Lt Richard D. Greenbaum:
285 (11 Dec 1944), 289, 290, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298A, 299, 301, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309, 310, 311, 312, 314(A), 317, 318, 322, 323, 325, 327, 329, 330, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342 (21 March 1945). (A) Non Credited aborted mission. For mission dates and targets see Mission Reports.
Favorite B-17
B-17G (Boeing Seattle) #43-38191 Shasta 358th BS (VK-A)
Flown by the 1Lt Greenbaum crew on 25 combat missions. Assigned Molesworth 358th BS on 16 August 1944. Completed Seventy-seven 358th BS Combat missions. Assigned Kingman, AZ on 27 Dec 1945 where she was scrapped.
Other B-17s flown - Ten missions in seven different B-17s:
#43-37590 Neva the Silver Lady [358BS VK-Q](Mission 285); #43-38462 Teddy's Rough Riders [358 BS VK-I] (Missions 303, 304, 305); #44-6517 Old Cock [360BS PU-F](Mission 339); #43-38532 Judy Ann [360BS PU-G] (Mission 306); No name B-17s - 43-38530 [358BS VK-G] (missions 289, 290), #43-38238 [358BS VK-L] (Mission 293), #43-38878 [359BS BN-D](Mission 295)
Landing in Belgium:
Mission 325, 27 February 1945 to Leipzig, Germany in B-17G #43-38191 Shasta. Due to a fuel shortage and high head winds landed at Antwerp/Duurne, Belgium. This airfield was a recently captured German ME-210 base staffed with 18 enlisted men and no officers. A P-51 landed just before CoPilot 2Lt Robert E. Balkcom landed Shasta. The P-51 refueled with all of the available gasoline. The 1Lt Greenbaum crew traveled 18 miles to Antwerp for overnight accommodations. A gasoline semi-trailer arrived the next day. Shasta was then refueled and took off for Molesworth. The crew enjoyed touring the heavily damaged German airfield during their brief overnight visit. Two other 303rd B-17s landed at airfields in France. All other 303rd BG(H) mission B-17s were able to return to Molesworth with many sweating out dangerously low fuel tanks.
Crew Notes:
[Researched by Harry D. Gobrecht, 303rdBGA Historian Emeritus]


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Economic Commentary August 2016
Mixed Week
A relatively bond friendly Fed statement and weaker than expected GDP data helped mortgage rates improve late last week. However, comments from the Bank of Japan had the opposite effect early this week. The influences were offsetting, and mortgage rates ended the week with little change.
U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic growth, grew at a rate of just 1.2% in the second quarter, far below the consensus of 2.6%. This followed weak readings below 1.0% for the prior two quarters. Consumer spending was strong during the second quarter, but business investment was weak and inventories declined sharply. Slower economic growth reduces the outlook for future inflation, which is good for mortgage rates.
The most recent reading for the Fed's favorite inflation indicator showed that inflation is currently below the Fed's target level of 2.0% and provides little pressure to tighten monetary policy. The core PCE price index for June was just 1.6% higher than a year ago. It has held steady close to this level all year.
On Tuesday, the minutes from the July 16 Bank of Japan (BOJ) meeting were released. They revealed that some BOJ officials are beginning to question the effectiveness of Japan's massive stimulus programs, causing doubt about the willingness of the BOJ to add further stimulus. Bond purchase programs by major global central banks have helped keep U.S. bond yields low in recent years, so the minutes had a negative effect on mortgage rates.
Looking ahead, the important monthly Employment report will be released on Friday. As usual, this data on the number of jobs, the unemployment rate, and wage inflation will be the most highly anticipated economic data of the month. Another labor market report, JOLTS, will come out on August 10. JOLTS measures job openings and labor turnover rates.
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The 66 Econoline is as cool as retro Americana vanning gets. This is one panel van not to be messed with. Developing somewhat of a cult and a cheaper alternative to the prestigious VW Splitty - I have an eye on one of these to be the next District AutoClub machine.
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- 1 Bed
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Property TypeResidential – Condo
SubdivisionCOPPER ONE LODGE
Listing Date03/20/19
Year Built1999
AreaCopper Mountain
ParkingUnassigned, Underground
Property Description
Oversized 1 bedroom located in the building right at the base of the NEW American Eagle and American Flyer chair lifts. This is about as close to SKI-IN/OUT as you can get. Updated kitchen and updated bathroom. RARE washer/dryer. Home is offered fully furnished and "turn key" for immediate use or rentals. Great view and an incredible location.
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Copper Mountain, with 2,450 acres, is Summit County's largest ski area. At Copper you can enjoy Colorado's first high-speed detachable six-passenger chairlift, the "Super Bee" and an award-winning trail system that naturally separates snowriders by their ability levels. The Village at Copper is a pedestrian-only, high alpine community with spectacular Colorado views. While in the village take time to enjoy a concert, watch fireworks light up the sky overhead or sit-down for some fine dining. In the summer, your senses will be enhanced by fresh wildflowers and a Colorado blue sky. You can hike, bike, golf on a championship course or go whitewater rafting in nearby Buena Vista. One of the newest additions to Cooper Mountain is Woodward at Copper. A training facility where athletes of all ages can practice new tricks over foam pits before testing their skills on the mountain!
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When you tune in for Sunday Night Football, the first regular season game in the Falcons' new stadium, the lighting might catch you off guard. It's not your imagination. It does look different, and there are a couple of reasons why.
First and foremost, the Falcons made it a priority to make the new stadium as ecologically sound as possible. Part of that effort was installing LED lights, which stadium representatives say are softer and brighter than the florescent lighting used in most stadiums.
The retractable roof also lets in natural light. You would think that wouldn't be as much of an issue during a night game, but during the Falcons' preseason contests, fans noticed how much brighter it seemed in the new stadium.
The game Brady is referring to is when the Patriots lost to the 49ers in Week 15 of the 2012 season. Kaepernick went 14-of-25 passing for 221 yards and threw for four touchdowns. Later that season, the Niners would go to the Super Bowl, where they fell short of making a miraculous comeback against the Baltimore Ravens.
Brady is not the first superstar to say Kaepernick is qualified to play in the NFL. Michael Bennett, Richard Sherman, Joe Flacco, and Aaron Rodgers are among the players who have said the 29-year-old deserves another shot.
As my colleague Stephen White explains, there's no reason, based on his play alone, that Kaepernick should not have a job in the NFL.
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Favorite Christmas Memories
Christmas is almost here. I've already seen advertisements on TBS for their 24 hour playing of "A Christmas Story." While 24 hours of this movie is a little much, every time I watch it, I remember the first time I watched it with my dad. He laughed so hard he cried at parts that reminded him of his childhood. Christmas is a time when we all like to reflect on past family memories. We at HMC Partners would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of our favorite Christmas memories. We would love to hear yours as well!
My most memorable Christmas was last Christmas spending it at Little Cayman. We had been 3 years prior, but to have my children now college age, the experience was even more enjoyable. It's also so nice to wake up Christmas in the tropics and the toughest decision was what fruit punch is the most Christmassy! Attending church barefoot, in shorts and listening to the islanders sing Christmas Carols Christmas Eve will forever be remembered.
My father's father, "Papa," as we so lovingly referred to him, was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay. I had the great learning lessons and had the "Tom Sawyer" experience of spending my teenage summers with him and Eddie, my grandmother.
One year at Christmas time, Eddie and Papa came from the water and country to my Greensboro childhood home at 205 Greenway to spend the holidays with us.
Papa would always bring a fresh bushel basket of oysters and I would sit with him for hours watching his leathery, tough, outdoor hands shuck oysters one at a time. It was in these times that we talked of our summer experiences, the water, our dogs, and how wonderful nature is. He loved his life as a waterman, he loved his family, and he loved that "R" month dish called the oyster.
My memories are of that old man who shared everything he loved with me and showed me how to shuck an oyster on Christmas.
My favorite Christmas memories are from spending Christmas Eve working in my parents' Western Auto store with my brothers and sister.
One thing I can GUARANTEE that Wal-Mart has never had is the "Annual Christmas Eve Layaway Countdown." We did a big layaway toy and bike business and beginning the week of Christmas, we'd start calling people to see when they were going to pick up their items. On Christmas Eve morning, one of us would make a big red and green Christmas-tree-shaped number chart on poster board and we'd mark a number off every time someone made a layaway pickup. The sooner they were picked up, the sooner we could close and our Christmas could start. We always opened our presents on Christmas Eve, as soon as the store was closed. (Dad had a special arrangement with Santa to deliver gifts to our house early in the evening, while we were all still at the store.)
Now that I'm an adult, I realize how exhausted my parents must have been by Christmas Eve – they were as excited as I was to go home! Some words of wisdom from my childhood customer service training…don't forget to buy batteries!
I have a lot of Christmas Memories growing up in Michigan, from our Christmas Eve dinners at Gram's house to the annual "sweat pant exchange" between cousins on Christmas afternoon. But there is one Christmas when I was around 8 years old that has always stood out in my mind. It started around 8:30 pm on Christmas Eve when my two older brothers started to ask "do you hear jingle bells?" I ran from one window to the next, scanning the sky to see if this year will be the one where I get to see Santa and his reindeer in action. Finally, I went to bed because the fear that Santa would skip our house if I was awake was just too great to risk.
Around 4 am I was abruptly awaken from my sleep. My middle brother, Mike, who is 5 years older than me had tip-toe down the hall and as he entered my room he picked up speed and jumped into the air. As he flew he yelled "It's Christmas!" which is all I heard before he landed on me with a thud…quite the way to wake up. Once I recovered, I ran downstairs to see if Santa came.
There I sat looking at the beautiful Christmas tree with stockings full of surprises and presents everywhere! But before we could open one gift we had to wait until my brother, the one who had just woken me up, rolled all his newspapers and went out to deliver the morning paper on his paper route. That was always the longest morning I can ever remember – looking at all the presents and just waiting. The anticipation was horrible. It had snowed overnight so it always seems to take him forever to deliver those papers. Finally, he finished and we were able to open presents and enjoy our Christmas morning together. That year Santa brought me my Preemie Cabbage Patch kid, Sabrina. In the end, it was worth the wait!
Looking back at the years, I have had far too many great memories around Christmas time to pick just one as my favorite. From the earliest memories of getting my first motorized Power Wheel and promptly driving it through the living room, knocking down the camera my Dad had rented and set up on a tripod to record the festivities; to the amazement that came over me as I ripped back the paper to unveil my very first Nintendo Gaming System in the basement of my Grandparents townhouse. I have had the pleasure of celebrating Christmas a number of different ways as well. The most traditional way has been with my older sister and parents, other times my Grandparents and other relatives would join us, this past year I was fortunate enough to get to wake up Christmas morning and celebrate with my girlfriend, Robin, and her family.
One of the more unusual Christmases that I have celebrated was when I was in college and my family decided to take a cruise over winter break. We spent Christmas in Costa Maya, Mexico. There were no decorated trees, no presents to unwrap, no eggnog to drink, no hope for a white Christmas. It was just our family enjoying each other's company and a few shots of tequila as we sat around a table together enjoying the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean Sea and the locals who made a living putting on dance performances for all the tourists. It was far from traditional, but probably the most relaxing Christmas I've experienced to date. Feliz Navidad!
As a child we travelled to my Grandparents home in Brevard/Asheville area to spend Christmas. It felt as if Christmas lasted forever and each one just as special as the last. My parents and family (all musically inclined) would gather together and play music as a group, so it was always full of energy and festive.
The one Christmas I remember the most was when I was much older and the last year I got to spend with my Grandmother. She loved to make handmade quilts and she had saved some very special ones until all the grandchildren were grown. This year we had to draw numbers to give the order we would get to pick out the quilt we wanted. I was lucky enough to pick the first one out of over 20 quilts. I still have it and cherish the work and love that went into making that quilt.
At times it seems harder to get into the Christmas spirit as it seems to go by much faster than when I was a child. I am grateful for the blessing of having an eight year old daughter and the fantastic opportunity to look at the holidays from the other side of the fence as a mother versus a child. I hope one day she gets to smile at the memories of how special Christmas is for her just as I'm doing right now.
We hope you have enjoyed our Christmas Memories. We are now going to take a break from the blog and our weekly email, so we can spend time with our families and make new memories. We will resume the blog and emails after the first of the year. Until then, we want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


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by Amy McLeod
August 2, 2010
My "street" is Madison Square Garden. Though I cannot provide a guide through the actual arena, I can provide an informative flyer that could be available in the MSG concourse and online for viewers to see.
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It isn't technologyit's is pure magic
Judith MacKenzie sharing the majesty of her new home—on the windswept shores of the north Pacific Ocean.
A red cedar tree in the rainforest at the tip of Neah Bay, Washington.
Students gather around as Judith demonstrates warping a simple loom.
On Luddites
I can't really describe myself as a Luddite, though my mom is the genuine article. She reluctantly adopts new technology—for example, she does use a photocopier and even has an email address now—but really loathes using the computer. She'd prefer to handwrite letters or use a typewriter (this is a mechanical device, with no plug, USB port, or Wi-Fi, in which metal keys are embossed with the letters of the alphabet and a ribbon containing ink is suspended in front of the key's strike zone—ingenious, really).
While on the one hand I don't know if I'd ever be able to meet up with family and friends again if I didn't have a cell phone equipped with a Qwerty texting keyboard with which to coordinate the ever-changing location and time of our reunions. On the other hand, sometimes I feel as if my life gets sucked away by all these devices, and opportunities to connect, while remaining distant.
It is safe to say that I have mixed feelings about technology. After all, I am a spinner. I can make yarn without any tools other than my hands. Seriously. I learned how to thigh spin from a Tlingit weaver/spinner who visited my art class when I was in college. A bit of fluff, damp jeans, and I was off. Not only that, but it was a process in which you spin and ply simultaneously. Brilliant!
I've been intimately involved in print publications for fourteen years, but recently, I've been watching, with a little trepidation, the birth of a new age in the spinning world. I call it the e-age. We've been making a lot of e-stuff at the request of our readers, ahem, e-readers. Happening in our offices simultaneously with the publishing of Spin-Off is a new publication, SpinKnit. Anne Merrow is the editor. She was an Interweave books editor, churning out our spinning books up until last year when she took on the mantle of eMags. Wow, what a process it is to put together an eMag. The levels of complexity are exponential when compared to the process of putting together a print magazine.
Connected to ancient textiles in the e-age
I had a recent taste of this when Anne asked me to write an article for the second issue of SpinKnit about my trip in April to attend Judith MacKenzie's Tribal Textile Treasures workshop in Forks, Washington. Along with my raincoat and boots, I packed my spinning wheel and tools and a digital video camera. I came back with miles of yarn (bison, dog hair, wolf hair, qiviut, encased duck down, hemp, and pygora! Oh my!), and hours of footage of Judith teaching, plus gigabytes of digital images. Most importantly, I came back with a renewed vigor for spinning. I fell in love all over again with textiles that were made so lovingly by hand by people who are connected to ancient traditions and the natural landscape that dominates their world, yet also moving along in the tides of our new time.
Though I'm sometimes skeptical about this e-age—I can actually come close to sharing with you what this experience was really like because not only can you read my words and see my photos, you can hear Judith speaking. You can experience Judith's unique and captivating style for yourself. You can hear the respect and awe in her voice as she talks about the way cedar bark has been carefully harvested to make baskets to diapers among the Quilieute and Makah people of the Northwest coast. If you listen closely, you can hear the threads that connect us and bind us simultaneously to the past, present, and future.
And this is just one article in the eMag—there are many more that provide windows into different times and places. It isn't technology—it is pure magic.
Happy spinning,


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Interpreting, Legislating & Politicizing
"Conservative judges interpret the constitution; liberal judge legislate from the bench." How many times have we heard this or a variation of this mantra? This is why, Bush says, he prefers Scalia, an originalist. This is the reason he says he picked John Roberts for the U.S. Supreme Court. The truth is that all justices interpret the constitution - how can it be otherwise? But conservative judges interpret it restrictively and liberal judges interpret it expansively. "Conservatives interpret, liberals legislate" is purely a political slogan of Republicans.
The most famous advocate of originalism, the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted exactly according to the original intention of the founders, is Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia sneers at liberal justices who believe in a "living" Constitution. Apparently he prefers a "dead" one.
I am not schooled in the law. Neither am I as brilliant as Scalia. But I am puzzled how a guy living in the 21st century can know the intentions of someone who lived in 18th century. The Constitution is all we have and nothing was said about intentions. And maybe the founders did not care for their original intentions to be followed. As Cass Sunstein writes in "Fighting for the Supreme Court" in the September, 2005 issue of Harper's Magazine:
"It is a disputed historical question whether those who ratified the Constitution wanted judges to be bound by the original understanding. The Constitution uses broad phrases, such as 'freedom of speech' and 'equal protection of the laws' and 'due process of law'; it does not include the particular views of those who ratified it. Maybe the original understanding was that the original understanding was not binding. Maybe the ratifiers believed that the Constitution set out general principles that might change over time."
It turns out, then, that all justices interpret the Constitution. Conservatives interpret the Constitution conservatively, that is, restrictively, and thus are usually against what they call "new rights." Liberals interpret the Constitution liberally, that is, expansively, and thus are usually for the expansion of rights. To the conservative it may appear that the liberal has exceeded interpretation and made law. However, it often appears to liberals that conservatives have exceeded interpretation and made law.
Which type of interpretation is better? Here's what Sunstein says originalists Scalia and Thomas would like to do:
"They would like to interpret the Constitution to strike down affirmative action programs, gun-control legislation, and restrictions on commercial advertising; they also seek to impose severe restrictions on Congress's powers and to invalidate campaign-finance regulations, environmental regulations, and much else. Justice Thomas would allow states to establish official religions. The logic of the new approach would even permit the federal government to discriminate on the basis of race and sex."
Is Roberts an originalist? I'd like to know. I'd like to see the administration dispense all information Senators are asking for. This is an extremely important issue.
"Conservatives interpret, liberals legislate" is Republican propaganda. The question is not whether we need judges to interpret or legislate. All judges interpret the Constitution the way they see it. The issue is whether we want a justice who would tend to restrict our rights or one who would tend to expand them. I vote for liberal judges. After all isn't this a liberal democracy?Posted by Paul Siegel at August 26, 2005 3:36 PM


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Build a city from the ashes of a fallen civilization and rule your people with wisdom and justice in "Heroes of Hellas 2: Olympia!" By blending match-three game play with a compelling city management simulation, "Heroes of Hellas 2" challenges players to link chains of identical elements to remove obstacles, earn the favor of the gods and revive Hellenic culture. Activate bonus items, collect valuable objects and spend the gold you earn on spectacular building upgrades to attract Greek citizens of taste and distinction. Keep the people happy and they'll sing your praises in the streets; leave them to starve and you'll incur the wrath of the gods.
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- Over 90 Campaign levels for colossal game play value
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Treasure Tress
Subscription boxes are great, I love them for the fact that they introduce me to new brands and products for a fraction of the price. I have subscribed to a handful of lifestyle and beauty boxes but no haircare boxes so I thought its the perfect time to try out Treasure Tress
Treasure Tress is a subscription box service that curates products for kinky/curly hair. I remember when Treasure Tress launched 3 years ago, now they are going from strength to strength from sponsoring events to hosting self-care/love events for young girls.
In each box, you get around 4-5 full-size items for £20. Treasure Tress offers three box options:
Mini-me, high-quality kid-related products
Tween, products that allow more experimental styles such as stylers, gels and mousses
Qween, consists of items such as oils, butters and creams.
Treasure Tress boxes usually have a theme whether it be the box contains a single brand. This box was a blogger takeover by natural hair blogger Simone (HairisSimba). As its Simone's birth month, she had collaborated with Treasure Tress to give us subscribers a taste of her favourite brands.
Simone's hair texture is loose curls which is very different to mine, so I'll love to see to whether these products will work well with my hair.
First up in the box we have a few items from a brand I have not heard of before, Phyto Specific Paris. PhytoSpecific is a French brand that makes products for both natural and relaxed hair.
Included by this brand is a Deep Repair Shampoo, £14/$19, that claims to undo and prevent breakage while restoring strength. We also have a styling butter, £22/$28, its the quaintest tub of styling butter I've ever owned. It contains my favourite ingredient, Shea Butter so you know this product will be very nourishing but it's not as thick as I like my butters to be. Last product by PhytoSpecific is the one I am most excited to try out. It is an oil, Baobab Oil (£30/$40). This oil is a multipurpose oil that can be used on both hair and skin. The oil is very lightweight and does not leave any residue. I've tried a little on my skin and it soaked it immediately my skin felt so smooth after. With these three products alone the price of the items are £64/$87, so already the box is more than worth it.
Next is Shea Moisture's Weightless Hair Masque. First off the scent of this mask is heavenly, very lightly fragranced. I have recently run out of deep conditioner so this has come at the perfect time. This mask is targeted at fine wavy hair so I'm a bit of sceptic whether it'll do anything to my hair.
I love Cantu products so I was glad to see a familiar brand. As much as I've used Cantu I have not used their Moisturizing Curl Activator Cream. I can't wait to try it out with my wash'n'gos as it'll be able to enhance my natural curl pattern.
I've never used mousses in my hair so the Design Essentials Almond & Avocado Curl Enhancing Mousse is will be another interesting product to see whether I can use it to style my hair. Again I think this is another product that will work well with looser curls.
The last products in the box are bonus products. There are two sample sachets of Design Essentials Almond & Avocado shampoo and conditioner. I have a little box I keep for items for travelling. The last product is a sample size of Keracare Natural Textures Leave In conditioner. I have used this product before and I am a big fan of it and this line. The size is perfect for a sample, (60ml), I wish more samples were this size, I will be adding it to my box of travel samples.
As this is my first box I have to say that it is definitely worth it price wise. I feel that if Treasure Tress were able to allow you to subscribe to boxed related to your hair type they'll be onto a winner as I feel there will be a couple products that might not be used.
Are you subscribed to any boxes? What's your favourite subscription box?


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We wish to call attention to a disturbing trend, that even in the highly regulated field of personal lines coverage, homeowners and auto policies, the insurance industry is engaged in courses of conduct designed to write policies that reduce and undercut the "standard" protections the companies claim publicly to offer, thus securing maximum premium dollar for minimum, in some cases, deceptively minimum coverage.
In a study published in 2011, Daniel Schwarcz,Reevaluating Standardized Insurance Policies, 78 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1263 (2011), Professor Schwarcz exhaustively reviewed homeowners' policies being offered in a variety of policy forms and found that it is simply a myth – although a well-publicized one – that these policies are standard. Rather, the policy forms that are ultimately provided to buyers contain stark deviations from what we all consider standard coverage: provisions for accidental property loss (including fire) and liability (defense of claims brought against the homeowner ) often contain specific coverage language that is less favorable to policyholders than the corresponding ISO forms. Buyers, of course, do not see the policies and are not provided with prospective policy language until the actual policies are delivered, often many months into the actual coverage period. Even then, most consumer buyers would not trouble to read or try to interpret the "fine print" of the multi-page documents they are then provided.
The author also examined the extent to which information about the details of coverage and its limitations and exclusions is available to a buyer from brokers, agents, and insurance regulators, and found the results extremely disappointing. Indeed, he found that some insurers' marketing activities misrepresent the thrust of their coverage provisions, loudly claiming greater benefits for less money than the facts showed to be true.
Professor Schwarcz concluded that regulators were remiss in not controlling the proliferation of policy forms which significantly curtail the scope of coverage, many in language which tends to obscure the loss of coverage, and which mislead uninformed buyers. One immediate lesson is to not assume that all homeowner coverage terms are essentially the same and that a means must be established – Schwarcz thinks that this requires legislation, and we are inclined to agree — to allow the consumers to actually review the scope of coverage with their brokers before purchase. And in the longer term, Schwarcz believes, it may not be possible to provide transparency in homeowners' insurance unless laws are written to require that their policy terms (perhaps at least the major ones) be standardized, and be made available to buyers before the policy is bought.
Likewise, we are aware that auto insurers, frustrated with the tight regulations controlling the rates they can charge based on loss, experience and set levels on profits, have embarked on new schemes for pricing called "Price Optimization." This is a new form of pricing at renewals that evaluates how much an insurer can raise the cost of the coverage without encouraging the consumer to comparison shop. The increases may be small on an individual basis, but over millions of customers, the profits can add up. This sort of pricing may be directed to consumers of a certain demographic more susceptible to just accepting small increases—is this discriminatory pricing? According to Dave Jones, our California Insurance Commissioner, it is both illegal and discriminatory. Earlier this year our Insurance Commissioner issued a notice to all property and casualty insurers, warning them that Price Optimization is unfairly discriminatory and illegal.
The Insurance Information Institute contests these conclusions and has been fighting regulators across the country on this practice. Buyer beware!


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Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
On a dreary, overcast morning earlier this month, I emerged from the D.C. Metro Station at Gallery Place and headed to my warm office a few blocks away. A steady rain was falling as I moved from the dry station entrance into the puddles that filled the sidewalk leading to the corner of 7th and H Streets. As I navigated a sea of black, blue, and red umbrellas, four lines of verse, a complete poem, popped into my head as they have on every rainy day for the last 46 years. I don't know the exact day, hour or even the month I first heard the short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, but I remember the event itself and the way I felt at the time.
It was a rainy day that's for sure. There's a good chance it was April. I was sitting in Mrs. Cook's first grade class at Beechfield Elementary School in the Irvington neighborhood of southwest Baltimore. My teacher had in her hands a gorgeous edition of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. The page she was holding up showed a black and white photograph of a little brown haired girl looking out of a rain covered window. She peered through the window with resignation at whatever she saw or didn't see on the other side. As I recall, the entire book was filled with beautiful black and white photographs illustrating the poems. However, as clearly as I remember the photo of the girl, I don't remember a single other picture in the book.
I told my mother that I needed a copy of that book. There was a series of futile visits to bookstores and the department stores of the era: Hutzler's, Korvette's, and Hochschild Kohn's. Ah, the patience of mothers! However, the edition of the book with the beautiful photographs was nowhere to be found. Finally, I accepted another edition with the classic illustrations by Eulalie. Strange to think now that one of my most prized possessions, this little green edition from 1961, the year of my birth, was a runner up for my affection.
I don't know if I was able to read the book when I first got it. Probably not. I remember camping in the Catskills the following summer with a stack of "I Can Read" books and by the end of that summer, I could! I read A Child's Garden of Verses many times from cover to cover over the next few years.
Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. He wrote many of the classics of children's literature including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and for a more adult audience, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. There are no cars in A Child's Garden of Verses. No telephones. No television. The street lamps are gas and have to be lit by a man named Leerie who carries a ladder to reach the nozzles. It was a different world from Baltimore in the 1960s, yet much of what he described was familiar to a child of that time: the entertainment afforded by one's own shadow, the way a hole at the beach fills with water if you dig deep, the smell of leaves burning in autumn, and, of course, the rain that seems ubiquitous and eternal when its falling on your house and you can't go out to play.
In Woody Allen's hit movie, Midnight in Paris, the protagonist, Gil Pender played by Owen Wilson, is accused of "golden age thinking." Golden age thinking is, according to the character who coins the phrase, "the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in… a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."
Gil is a writer and dreams of living in Paris where he is vacationing with his fiancee and her overbearing parents. Gil loves the romance of the 1920s and imagines himself alongside Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Soon he finds himself transported back in time every evening to hobnob and dance the night away with his idols and receive criticism and advice on his novel from Stein herself.
Perhaps those with an interest in writing are pre-disposed to golden age thinking, or maybe it is just a coincidence, but I find that I have a tendency to idealize what it might have been like to live in an earlier, and what appears from our vantage point, simpler time. I even have a modest collection of items from my personal golden age, roughly 1937-1957. My father's slide rule, a Remington Quiet Riter typewriter, several mechanical watches, and a stapler that makes its own staples from spool of brass wire can be found among my dresser drawers and on my desktop. I write with a Parker fountain pen, which I fill from a bottle.
Of course, I understand that the idealized past is only a fantasy. Those of us given to idolizing the past tend to forget about the things that went along with the 'simpler times.' Polio, poor sanitation, surgery without anesthesia, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and bad coffee are all parts of a past we would just as soon forget. Perhaps such selective contemplation about a time one might not have experienced first-hand is indeed "a flaw in the romantic imagination." Yet it is also true that the joys and sorrows, the celebrations and sufferings of our writing forbearers were strikingly similar to our own. This is why Stevenson's poems, like all great art, still resonate with so many today. It's why the book remains in print in many different editions (though none sadly, with black and white photographs) more than a century and a quarter after it was first published. In the poems, Stevenson captures the essence of what it means to be or to have been a child, the wonder, wisdom, wildness of that mind. It's a color and quality of childhood that we still recognize in children today and in the children we once were.
No doubt there are other poems of Stevenson that capture the universal experience of childhood across space and time better than "Rain" but for me this short poem is a well from which I continue to draw. Perhaps it is the music of it, or the fact that it is the first poem I remember hearing read aloud, or maybe that I instantly memorized it, or just that I am reminded of it so often, especially in these kind, cruel months of early spring. The tune of it arrives as an earworm with the feeling of drops on my face. Or, maybe, it is the face of the brown haired girl at the window still haunting my flawed romantic imagination. The two of us peer through the streaked panes of glass and wonder when, or if, the sun will shine again, as it did in a far away country, a century before either of us was born.
Here is a poem about boyhood.
While the other scouts slept with sighs
deepening beneath mildewed canvas
in the dark-at-last summer night,
we escaped to pine woods, took seats
among the needles. We made a blaze
from paper scraps and exploding
cones. Sky told stories of the lodge
his folks had in Colorado, how deep
was the snow and the wolves
they'd hear at night and can you hear
them now calling, calling at the edge
of this stand just beyond Baltimore?
Before sunrise, we drowned the embers
with our piss, boys who conquered everything.
This post and the poem "Wolves" previously appeared on Laura Shovan's blog, Author Amok.


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Why I Dislike Walls, Part One
Warning: The following post is only tangentially related to Chinese history (and this first part not at all!) but is highly personal, and potentially politically offensive, instead.
The prospect of yet another wall going up and mercilessly dividing a contiguous region by cutting through towns, communities, families, and friends who I deeply love and care about on both sides, and the reality already of innocent people being torn from their communities, rounded up, marked as different due to some human-made distinction expressed by a piece of paper, and shipped off to a place of no return, breaks my heart and forces me to speak up. The current hateful political discourse on building a wall and deporting "illegals" to "make America great again" touches me more deeply than any other political issue ever has in my entire adult life, and I have been around the block.
Perhaps it's partly that I am an immigrant myself, have only recently left behind the interesting status of being "alien" and become "naturalized" (what an insulting term!!!) as a US citizen, and still have the fear of immigration and border agents in my marrow. Perhaps it's my childhood experience of growing up only a short distance from just such a wall. Or perhaps it's just my personality and my refusal to see any human as anything other than human, and to apply the term "illegal" to a human being, for heaven's sake! I have lived abroad my entire adult life and have always had friendships threatened by expiring visas, uptight and masochistic immigration agents on unpredictable power trips, illegal jobs or temporary or willfully withdrawn work permits, and dehumanizing time lines dictating personal and professional lives. One of the reasons why I chose to end up in a place proudly calling itself the "United" (!) States of America was the promise that we are all in this together, that we are better than xenophobia and hatred of the Other, that diversity is what makes us strong, what makes life interesting and real and exciting, what makes food tasty, music saucy, fashion fun, intellectual life stimulating, and personal growth never-ending… You get my point. And then I wish I didn't have to mention the blatant hypocrisy of the current immigrant-bashers, the vast majority of which are descendants of immigrants themselves who arrived here penniless and the traumatized victims of their own persecutions, able to create a new life in peace and prosperity for themselves and their families. In my eyes, the only people who get to speak up against immigration are the native Americans, and I have yet to hear one of them embracing Trump's hate speech.
My experience of living in the US has mostly been in the Southwest, first in Arizona and then in New Mexico, both places with obvious, undeniable, ever present historical, cultural, social, and economic ties to our southern neighbor. In fact, in my lived experience both in Tucson, in the bioregion of Sonora, and in the mountains of "New Mexico" (not named as such for no reason), I felt culturally closer to my neighboring communities on "el otro lado" than to a far distant place like Michigan, Maine, or even Oregon, where I now live. Perhaps it's partly because I am from Bavaria that I find myself relating more easily to Catholic Hispanic culture than to Anglo Puritan culture. Or because of my love of accordeon music with the glorious cumbias, polkas, and waltzes of Mexican and Tex-Mex norteño music in that irresistible combination of African rhythms with Southwestern twang, native power and persistence (for absolute lack of better words), and German rolly-polly jolliness? My love of chiles and beans and bakeries with warm tortillas handed to you in a steamy plastic bag that is empty before you get home? Or maybe I am just homesick in far away rainy cold grey Oregon? As you can tell by now, the current political practice of blaming immigrants and stirring up tempests of fear and hatred in order to ruthlessly and greedily claw for ever more power and money really challenges my proper civil German politeness and respect for law and order. What is a good German, especially a well-traveled and educated academically inclined one, to do when fascism rears its ugly head again?
As a German, my relationship with walls goes way back to my formative years, during my childhood in Bavaria. Growing up, I was acutely aware of being fortunate to be living on the lucky side of a giant, insurmountable, menacing wall at which almost all roads stopped, between what used to be West Germany (aka the "Federal Republic of Germany") and East Germany (aka the "German Democratic Republic"). My parents and grandparents shared stories about their families' lost lands and lives, the historical sites, famous cities, and beautiful landscapes of a region more foreign to me than Greece or Iceland or even America. They depicted East Germany to us as a depressing grey place where kids had to live without bananas or Swiss chocolate, where most of the wealth had been and continued to be hauled off to Russia by the occupying Soviet government. As I learned from my parents and history teachers, this wall was the dividing line in the Cold War, between the wealthy free democratic Western bloc and the dreary impoverished Communist East. Tellingly, the Soviets and their East German puppet regime referred to it as the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall" while their Western counterparts named it the "Wall of Shame." Stories of the construction of the wall, which brutally divided a country, cities, towns, fields, communities, friends, and families, were all around me growing up and touched me deeply. Living only a quick trip away from "The Wall," I visited it on a school trip, staring fearfully at the East German soldiers with their machine guns ever ready to shoot from their awful watch towers, not at us who were safely standing on the right side of the wall, but at their own people! I listened to stories of desperate East Germans digging tunnels underneath it to escape to the West, getting blown up by the invisible mines in the bare strip of dirt just to the east of the wall.
On family trips to visit relatives in Berlin, I remember driving through East Germany on the Autobahn as a tightly supervised corridor where no stopping and interacting with the locals was allowed, passing the slow ratty East German cars, shabby crumbling houses, unkempt fields, and in general a landscape that looked a few decades behind the boom and bustle of my own Bavaria. And then entering the West German part of Berlin only after handing over our passports at gunpoint to Russian soldiers, having the car searched top to bottom with high-tech equipment and vicious-looking German shepherds for secret spaces in which we might try to smuggle a human body across, and finally passing under a giant Russian tank symbolically positioned to point straight at the heart of this hold-out of the West surrounded by a wall that we lucky ones got to pass through. That Russian tank and the guards with their dogs and machine guns will remain etched in my memory forever. East Germany was like a black hole, a world that stopped existing east of The Wall, that we grew up with but ignored for the most part. And then, seemingly out of the blue, while I was living in relative isolation in far distant Taiwan, I received news that the wall was gone, that the East German government had collapsed, and that Germany was reunified. Coming only a few months after the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing in June 1989, my Western friends and I originally thought it was Taiwanese propaganda, because it just seemed too unbelievable. Just like that, the wall crumbled and Germany became a single country again. I still can't quite wrap my head around what happened. So perhaps that should give us perspective and reason to never lose hope, that human-made walls can crumble just as easily and suddenly as they are constructed.
To be continued in part two of this blog post, where I will ruminate on the Great Wall of China....


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At this point in time, especially if you are involved in any type of activism, you have heard and internalized the phrase "the person is political." I think it is important to know and internalize but I also think, much like the "master's tools" speech, it is used and abused by those who have decided their interpretation is right and be damned what it actually meant.
I have avoided much of the Radical Feminist blogosphere after seeing all the flak Natalia and Ren deal with just for trying to engage but after witnessing two posts, one by Cara about Natalie Dylan and one by Renee about legalizing prositution I've finally been able to put my finger on what bothers me about the anti-porn and radical feminists.
To me, the statement about the person being political means that who you are and your actions say something about the world you live in and how you navigate it. When Jessica at Feministing posted about her engagement she was honest in that she is unsure how she can wade through the tense waters of engaging in an institution that others cannot experience and that has some patriarchal roots. She is a feminist and she's also partaking in something that gives her the opportunity to express who she is and her beliefs. There are reasons that people get married and have a wedding that have nothing to do with patriarchal or religious reasons but there are some that say you can never divorce this involvement from it's negative and discriminatory ties, no matter how hard you try.
Nowhere else does this mindset show up as with sex work. Are there ugly sides to Sex work? Of course. Does the concept of males thinking they can purchase women's bodies play a role? Definitely. Can this possibly enforce in some people's minds the belief that women are only good for sex? I'm sure it can. Do I think any of this gives someone the right to tell sex workers and their supporters that they are a disgrace and causing the rape and murder of "innocents" (aka not sex workers) by their actions. Absolutely not.
The person is political and there are plenty of women in the sex work industry that are using their actions and beliefs in kink and porn and sex work as a very empowering and political tool. It is their body and their right to do so and the area of sex work is better off because of them,for they are the ones marching for acknowledgement of the violence that occurs in their line of work and getting the word out about possible legislation that can hurt them and the other women involved in sex work who may want to get out. They are doing much better work than those who are just more concerned about how they assume sex work negatively affects them. The main issue is of course the fact that they are selling a service (not their body, it is still theirs and to suggest otherwise is bullshit) which many believe shouldn't be for sale because it supports beliefs of sex being something men can buy from women. These objectors argue that you cannot engage in sex work in a positive, feminist way, if you are operating in a system that is based on the male gaze and objectification of women. Some even go as far as saying what type of sex you like or porn you watch is selling out to "the man". In other words, recognize the person is political and follow our strict rules about how you should interact with the patriarchy.
My biggest problem with this is the way it discounts sexual agency. The detractors don't want to hear that someone likes engaging in sex work. That messes with the belief that it's evil. So they discredit and call names and ignore good deeds by those who go against their beliefs. Instead of acknowledging that some women enjoy these actions and using their voices as a way to work from within the movement and make is safer and more equal they silence them and continue the hand wringing about sex trafficking without acknowledging that if legalized (properly) a lot of the problems associated would diminish. By refusing to allow women the right to say that sex work can be a fun and safe place for women they help keep it in the hands of so many men and help continue the view that women who engage in it are damaged and property.
To quote Renee "my truth may not be your truth." To assume otherwise prevents proper dialogue and working together.


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Here you will find the list of news headlines and mini-articles from the main page. These items are in reverse chronological order, most recent displayed first.
During the annual meeting, members present at the NAIFA Washington State Convention elected a the Board of Directors for the coming year. These officers and their board officially take office on July 1, 2014. Congratulations ladies & gentlemen!
During the annual meeting, members present elected the new Board of Directors for the coming year. These officers and their board officially take office on July 1, 2016. Congratulations ladies & gentlemen!
DOL Guidance On Fiduciary Rule Does Little To Clarify Ambiguities
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The Department of Labor (DOL) issued new fiduciary rule guidance in the form of 34 frequently-asked questions, which focus primarily on the best interest contract exemption, grandfather issues, and some compensation issues.
This is the first in a series of three FAQs the DOL has said it will issue. The current FAQ explains that new money can be invested to an established portfolio without negating the DOL rule's grandfather clause, and that selling an asset will not negate the grandfather provision unless there is an advisor makes a recommendation to purchase a new asset that would result in new compensation.
Otherwise, however, the FAQ lacks significant clarity or simply restates what is in the rule and its preamble. NAIFA hopes that future guidance from DOL will address remaining ambiguities.
New Leadership Elected
Thursday, May 19, 2016
The event also saw the election, reelection, or continuing term of board members John B. Nichols, Ryan Jewell, Gary Franke, Ted Butler, and Scarlett Kendrick. See the Leadership page for full details on your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors.
New Leadership Elected
During the annual meeting, members present elected the new Board of Directors for the coming year. These officers and their board officially take office on July 1, 2015. Congratulations ladies & gentlemen!
Thursday, May 21, 2015
The event also saw the election, reelection, or continuing term of board members Ryan Jewell, Stephen Good, and Scarlett Kendrick. See the Leadership page for full details on your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors.
Scarlett Kendrick
Thursday, March 12, 2015
New Seattle-area ExamOne Sales Representative, Scarlett Kendrick. Scarlett hails from San Antonio, Texas. Please join us in welcoming Scarlett to our great state!
At the monthly board meeting the NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors appointed Lisa Krukeberg to Director, Position 5. She is a local to the Greater Seattle Area, currently serving as Income Protection Sales Manager with Principal Financial Group. At this same meeting we also were joined by new non-voting board member, Ryan Jewell, of Sound Financial Group. Ryan is the Disability Income Supervisor for Guardian and also will be taking over the role of APIC Chair for NAIFA Washington. Please join us in welcoming Lisa and Ryan to the local NAIFA leadership team. See the Leadership page for contact information.
Two More Board Additions
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Board Welcomes New Director
Thursday, October 9, 2014
At today's regular board meeting the NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors appointed Stephen Good, LUTCF, CFBS, CLTC to Director, Position 3. Stephen recently move to the Seattle area from Arizona, taking the role of Managing Director with MassMutual Financial Group downtown. He is a Past President of NAIFA Miami and has served on the board of three different state associations, including NAIFA Florida and NAIFA North Carolina. Please join us in welcoming Stephen to our great state!
New Leadership Elected
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
See the Leadership page for full details on your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors.
New YAT Co-Chairs Appointed
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Nate Walters, President of NAIFA Seattle/Eastside, has appointed Board Committee Members Cory Shepherd (Guardian) and Brandon Redman (MassMutual) as Co-Chairs of the Young Advisors Team. Congratulations gentlemen!
Thank you to 2013-14 New & Renewing Annual Sponsors
Monday, October 21, 2013
The NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors extends our thanks to our 2013-14 new and renewing sponsors! Without the support of these fine companies and individuals we could not continue to improve the benefits we bring our members.
Thank you to all our current and former sponsors for the support you provide us in creating the best events and benefits for our members.
2012-13 Sponsorship Packages Announced
Thursday, August 17, 2012
After reviewing the success of the past two year's sponsorship programs we made a few revisions and additions to provide EVEN MORE VALUE for your sponsorship dollar. Check out the new packages here. We'd like to thank and recognize those who have already stepped up to renew their previous sponsorship.
Thank you to all our current and former sponsors for the support you provide us in creating the best events and benefits for our members.
New Board & Officers Elected
Thursday, May 17, 2012
At the association's annual meeting new officers and directors were elected or reelected. Your new board executives are:
The board also welcomed two new directors, Coty Kilpatrick of ExamOne and Jon Stotesbery of MassMutual Brokerage. We also said farewell to our outgoing President, Jim Thompson, who is stepping off the board at the end of June. With two remaining vacancies on the Board of Directors we are looking for members with the appropriate skill set to join the leadership and help us further the mission of our organization. Please contact our National Committeeperson, Scott Fowler, if you may be interested in pursuing a board position.
Bylaws Amendments Proposed
Friday, April 27, 2012In a message to all members in good standing the Board of Directors release a proposal for amendments to the association's bylaws to be voted upon at the upcoming Annual Meeting on May 17 at The Golf Club at Newcastle. The full announcement can be viewed here.
Board Nominations Announced
Tuesday, April 17, 2012In a message to all members in good standing nominations for officers and directors were announced to the general membership for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2012. The full announcement can be viewed here. Official elections will take place at the Annual Meeting on May 17 at The Golf Club at Newcastle.
Annual Meeting Notice
Tuesday, April 3, 2012In accordance with our bylaws, this message serves as your official notice of our annual meeting on May 17, 2012 beginning at 7:30am. The meeting location will be announced shortly. Additional details on board member nominations and proposed bylaws amendments will follow.
Happy Holidays from NAIFA Seattle/Eastside
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wishing you every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. Thank you for being a member of NAIFA. We look forward to continuing the work of supporting our profession in the coming year and we hope you'll join us in those efforts.
David Leslie Knode (January 24, 1952 - October 21, 2011)It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of one of our own. David Knode passed away on Friday after a bout with pneumonia having stopped chemotherapy in August. According to David's brother, David's wife "Keiko was always by his side, comforting, encouraging and supporting him. David's strength, courage, and perseverance never wavered." David is a past president of NAIFA Seattle/Eastside and was a fixture at many of our events over his 12 years of membership. He is survived by his loving wife Keiko, daughter Sayoko, son Anthony, sister Sharon, and many other family members and friends. He will be dearly missed.
Plans are being made for a Celebration of Life to be held at 2:00pm, November 12 at Grace Lutheran Church in Bellevue and later in MN where Dave's ashes will be placed in the LeRoy Lutheran Cemetery. You can read his obituary here. Additional photos of David and his family are available here.
New Events Format Adopted
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Continuing discussions from the annual planning meeting in June the Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a new format and schedule for general membership meetings. Beginning with the 2011-12 NAIFA year there will no longer be monthly breakfast meetings. Instead the board will produce four, value-added, larger events with two or three speakers each rather than a single speaker once per month. The Programs Committee, chaired by new board member Jody Lentz, is pursuing more engaging, dynamic, and diverse content to add more value to our members with fewer dates to attend. With raising the bar on quality and content of these events comes increased expense. The majority of the cost of these events will still be covered by the local portion of your dues but to provide this enhanced programming we will be collecting $15/member and $25/non-member for each main event (excluding MDRT Day). If you would like to participate in developing these events by joining the Programs Committee please contact Jody at (206) 390-2760 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
New Board & Officers Elected
Thursday, May 19, 2011
At the annual meeting of NAIFA Seattle/Eastside we said thank you and fairwell to our outgoing directors Marikay Coyer, John Storbeck, and Danielle Dublirer. Please join the renewing directors in thanking them for thair service to our organization. New board member Jody Lentz joined the board as well as new leadership taking the helm from outgoing President, John B. Nichols. Your new board executives are:
With two remaining vacancies on the Board of Directors we are looking for members with the appropriate skill set to join the leadership and help us further the mission of our organization. Please contact John B. Nichols if you may be interested in pursuing a board position.
March is YAT Awareness Month
Monday, March 1, 2011 (from your Seattle/Eastside YAT Committee)Have you thought about going to a YAT networking event, but you just haven't made it yet? Well we've got one you won't want to miss! Your local YAT Committe is co-hosting a mixer with DI Broker to prepare for Disability Insurance Awareness Month in May. Join us with speaker Scott Fowler and his "7 Step Sales Process" to selling disability income protection products to your clients. Afterward enjoy a fun round of trivia on sports, entertainment, science, and other topics including insurance! Check it out and REGISTER TODAY!
Seattle/Eastside Named "Local of the Year"
Friday, May 14, 2010
Members of your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors attended the annual NAIFA Washington State Convention in Wenatcheee from May 12-14. At the awards dinner on Thursday our chapter was awarded "Local of the Year" by State President Kathy Smithson. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated in the growth of our chapter.
March is YAT Awareness Month
Monday, March 1, 2010 (from NAIFA Nat'l website)
Have you thought about going to a YAT networking event, but you just haven't made it yet? Are you looking for education opportunities just for you? Would you like to get involved in your local association? YAT Awareness Month is the perfect time to learn more about the YAT program and its benefits to you. Many locals will be hosting YAT events that highlight the programming that they have to offer throughout the year. Check with your local leadership to see what your local has planned.
YAT Sponsorships Revised
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Based on input from existing and former sponsors, and with the Board's consent, the YAT Committee has revised the sponsorships available. Please check out our YAT page for details.
New Sponsorship Opportunities
Thursday, December 10, 2009At this morning's monthly board meeting, your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside Board of Directors approved a new slate of benefit-rich sponsorship opprotunities including newly created exclusive Gold Sponsor and Platinum Partner levels. Check out the full list of benefits and opportunities here.
President's Message - NAIFA Dues Increase
Monday, November 30, 2009
Today, our chapter President Gary Kallio sent out a message regarding the dues increase going into effect from National. You can read the full message here.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
With an emphasis placed on encouraging young advisors to join NAIFA being undertaken nationally, your local YAT Committee is preparing a series of social mixers to foster community and promote networking amoungst current and prospective members who meet the definition of a "Young Advisor". NAIFA National defines a "YAT" member as an advisor within their first 5 years of business OR being under the age of 40. If your interested in participating, contact our YAT Committee for more information.
Chapter Leaders Adopt New Vision & Mission
Thursday, October 8, 2009
At the October board meeting of your NAIFA Seattle/Eastside chapter, leadership voted unanimously to adopt new Vision & Mission Statements. The new statements are available on the About NAIFA page.
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