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We make
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What We Do
Women and Mentoring (WAM) began operating in the City of Yarra (in Melbourne) working with the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in 2009, and in 2015 received funding from the Melbourne Women's Fund to replicate the program in the Sunshine Magistrates Court precinct.With recent funding from the Victorian Legal Services Board we aim to support over 200 women over the next three years to get their life back on track, navigate the overwhelming criminal justice system, and build their capacity and skills to improve their life outcomes. As such, we now also receive referrals for women presenting at Melbourne & Heidelberg Magistrates Courts.Over the coming months we will also have opportunity to bring the program to Frankston Magistrates Court, and then Broadmeadows by 2020.WAM offers a unique, early intervention program that supports women charged with a criminal offence by matching them individually with a supportive female mentor. The volunteer mentors are trained and resourced to provide appropriate support to the program participants, to share their skills and to contribute to the wider community.The program has made a significant positive difference to the participants' confidence, coping mechanisms and capacity to respond to their legal matters and address the issues that underlie their offending. The vast majority of the participants have avoided a prison sentence and have not re-offended.The WAM program has always been strongly community-based. We rely on relationships within the community to support the program and to refer participants to it.
"Our mission is to assist women in their early interaction with the justice system through the provision of a formal mentoring relationship. This will provide them with a pathway to develop and use positive life skills."
Ann Polis (Founding Chair)
Our Team
Tricia Ciampa
Executive Officer
With over twenty years in the not-for-profit sector, Tricia has expertise in program design, social impact evaluation and forging collaborative partnerships to deliver positive and life-changing outcomes for vulnerable people in our community.Tricia has very relevant experience in mentoring and the Victorian criminal justice system, including volunteering as an Independent Person providing support to young people during police interviews under the Youth Referral and Independent Persons Program.
Mary Latham
Operations Manager
Mary has been with WAM since 2014. She is a chartered accountant who has experience in both corporate and not-for-profit roles; including professional accounting firms, financial services, disability and youth mental health. Mary has strong experience in finance, governance, project management, reporting and budget control.
Gen Anderson
Intake Coordinator
Gen has been with WAM since 2016 and holds a Diploma Community Services (Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Mental Health), Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Master of Social Work. Through her role as Intake Coordinator, Gen is able to combine her passion for direct practice work and seeing the outcomes of women getting together to support one another.
Sharlene Farrugia
Mentor Coordinator
Sharlene has been with WAM since 2015 and is responsible for the successful growth of WAM into the Western Suburbs. Sharlene's qualifications in Social Policy-Social Inclusion and Masters in Human Rights complements her specialised understanding of structural discrimination, Advocacy, Application of feminist and human rights framework and Critical thinking skills.
Sarah Nyssen
Frankston Coordinator
Sarah has a strong background of working in the early intervention and prevention space, with extensive experience including working in the women's health sector and coordinating a youth mentoring program in the south east. Sarah is driven to create supportive relationships to achieve better outcomes for vulnerable people in our community.
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Our Board
Ann Polis
Founding Chair
Ann Polis has played a significant role in the establishment and development of WAM from 2008. Ann has been active in her local community, including as a board member of the Wellington Inc, a council member of the Fitzroy Primary School, an executive member of the Fitzroy Residents' Association and a community member of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in many facets of its work. From 2000, Ann worked as a volunteer mentor with the VACRO program for women leaving prison. Ann has previously worked as a trainer with the Trade Union Training Authority (TUTA) and was the founding editor of The Melbourne Times newspaper.
Stacey Zuluaga
Stacey is an accountant with over 11 years' experience in public practice. She is a CPA and holds a Bachelor of Business and Commerce (Accounting and Management) and a Diploma of Financial Planning. Stacey is the Chair of the women's committee at CPA, she chairs the CPA Mums and Bubs discussion group and she writes material for a CPA education product. Stacey brings to the board of WAM accounting experience across a range of industries, a broad understanding of the issues women can face, especially financial, and a passion for empowering others.
Keren Murray
Director & Company Secretary
Keren is an experienced lawyer, policy advisor, and non-executive director. She is Principal of K Murray Consulting, a legal policy advisory service. Previously, Keren was Principal Lawyer at the Law Institute of Victoria and worked in criminal law reform at the Department of Justice, Victoria, and law reform commissions in England and Victoria. Keren is currently a Board member and Secretary of The Stella Prize and was previously a board member of the YWCA Victoria.
Sam Payne
Sam Payne retired from a long career in Business Administration in 2005. She joined the WAM pilot program as a Volunteer Mentor in 2010, one of the first volunteers. Sam has mentored three women participants in WAM and continues as a Volunteer. She joined the WAM Board in 2014.
Anne Rudd
Anne is a serving member of Victoria Police and over the past 17 years she has performed duties within the Bayside area, Prosecutions Division, Family Violence Command and more recently, the North West Metro Region in Melbourne and Yarra. Anne is a lawyer and an experienced prosecutor within the Magistrates' Court and Children's Court where she specialised in prosecuting sexual offences and family violence matters. Anne was previously a member of the Therapeutic Treatment Board and is a current Director of Court Network.
Sally Dobell
Sally is the CEO of a creative agency, Cornwell, which is renowned as one of Australia's most innovative and respected brand experts. With nearly 20 years of experience, Sally is a passionate and dedicated business person who also sits on the Board of Open House Melbourne.
Virginia Murdoch
Currently, Product Manager at Culture Amp, Virginia works with a cross-functional team of engineers and designers, focused on turning large amounts of data into actionable insights. Virginia has previously worked in professional development, learning and distribution platforms, both in Australia and overseas. Virginia has previously been the Deputy Chair of the Writers Victoria board.
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Q: I've heard a great deal about the DNA tests that are popular right now, but a little confused.
What exactly does a DNA test (of a woman) show? Do the following races show up on a test: Native American, Jewish. I know, of course, what legal degree of Native American I am. (From my mother) I suspect that I have about 1/4th Jewish ancestry. Do this two races show up as different from the White race?
A: A DNA test will not tell you where your great great grandparents came from. Have you gotten that far back in your tree? Look here for some information about a DNA test. What you find will depend on what kind of test you get.

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I am trying to compile my ebook and I keep getting a message: Āfile excluded. ĀI changed the name of the file (by the way it is the exe. file) and saved it and it still said that it is excluded!! Ā
How do I fix this .... ĀI am on a major time crunch with this one. Ā I thought it would be easier to use.
PLEASE some one HELP me.
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ĀClick on the Files tab, and look down the list for your file. Ā
The second column should say 'excluded' for that one. ĀRight-click, and uncheck the excluded option.
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I then either refresh files...then it just puts the "excluded" right back on the file, or I go right to build and an error message comes up that says this file has been excluded from the ebook and put it right back on.
It is also the output ebook exe...is this wrong or ok?
Thank you sooooo much for your help!!!!
First, delete that exe, and set your output to save the generated ebook someplace else, like on your desktop.
ĀIt's ok that the file is excluded, otherwise you'd be putting a previously generated ebook inside the current one. ĀIt would keep growing larger, y'know?
ĀSo, all is well. ĀJust move your output location to outside the source files. And get rid of the previously compiled .exe file.
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Should I have done some differently for the index.html file?
Thank you AGAIN for your help.... I REALLY appreciate it.
I now have my FIRST ebook (or I should say emanual), but the pictures are not showing up and there is no table of contents!
I have the whole manual written in one file... Should I have saved the different sections in different files? What will help the compiler give me a table of contents?
Also the pictures are showing in my save ms word, why isn't it transfering to the ebook? What do I do now?
Thanks a BUNCH every one!!!
Sorry I am going to be slow (just got married!) for next week or so on boards and email, but will help. In the meantime, I'm sure other users will help. Also see my post to your other thread.
Second....I sure tried to following all that was said in the Getting Started on how to save. I STILL can't figure out why my pictures aren't showing.
I'll post this, although, to the other post...
Thanks again.
You need to make sure you set the options exactly like the screenshot. If Word 2000, there is a dialog that comes up under Web Options (step 4 on the page), you probably have missed the setting on the Files tab - you probably missed this. If you do it right, Word should put the pictures in the right folder (same as the HTML "source" folder) automatically.
Hope this helps. Sorry, I'm pushed for time right now, for obvious reasons
I finally got it! I had to go to file, save as web page, once in save - then click on "tools" and change the settings as instructed, THEN go to General settings in "tools" and change to save as html page (web page)!!!
I just didn't know it was all in tools in the save menu....
This is for ms windows 2000.
Thanks again all and especially to:
~Ebookcompiler and Alaska~
You Both Are The GREATEST!!!
Bobbi H.
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Dil E Beqarar
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Dil-e-Beqarar is a story of love, sacrifice, betrayal and treachery, centered on Mudassir (Junaid Khan) and Fareeda (Hareem Farooq) who decide to go against the world and tie the knot.
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US Magzine reports that Lindsay Lohan has decided dye her hair blonde. Why the subject issue is considered to be news? Why we do care about her hair color? Really, I do not.
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Dark energy's presence felt in the early universe
Audio: Listen to Riess describing the significance of the new results, using a "tug of war" analogy (1.3MB, mp3 format).
Dark energy – the mysterious entity that is speeding up the expansion of the universe – has been present for at least 9 billion years, suggests a study of the most distant supernova explosions ever recorded. It appears to have been a repulsive force even in these early times, casting doubt on models that suggest it was once attractive.
Astronomers measure cosmic distances with type Ia supernovae, which all explode with about the same brightness. Because light travels at a finite speed, more distant supernovae are also further back in time.
In the 1990s, studies of these supernovae revealed they were dimmer than expected in the past, showing the universe is expanding faster and faster.
Astronomers dubbed the mysterious force driving this acceleration dark energy. But very little is known about its properties, such as whether its strength has varied with time. Determining this could help distinguish between different hypotheses for what dark energy actually is.
Now, a study of the most distant collection of supernovae ever observed shows that dark energy was at work at least as far back as 9 billion years ago – about 5 billion years after the big bang – and is not likely to have varied much in strength since then.
Wiggle room
The study was led by Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, US. The team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to measure the properties of 23 distant supernovae.
The new limits on dark energy are consistent with it being a 'cosmological constant' – a fundamental and unchanging property of space itself.
But the new work is less favourable towards so-called tracker models. These say dark energy would have been an attractive force in the early history of the universe, before becoming repulsive when the universe had expanded enough to allow the density of matter to drop below a critical level. The data suggests such a switch did not occur.
"It's certainly evidence against those models," says cosmologist Sean Carroll of Caltech in Pasadena, US, who is not a member of Riess's team. But he stops short of ruling them out. "The error bars are still substantial," he says, meaning the data is not precise enough to exclude changes in dark energy's properties.
Riess acknowledges that given the uncertainties, there may still be room for some tracker models, but says they appear less likely in light of the new data. "We have very little knowledge about dark energy, so even a modest clue about such a big question is very interesting," he told New Scientist.
After the planned Hubble servicing mission in 2008, astronomers will be able to study dark energy even further back in time with the new Wide Field Camera 3.
Says Riess: "That would have the capability of letting us reach even further back in time and look at what dark energy was doing maybe 10, 11, 12 billion years ago."
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Doodle #67: Seaco the Broncohawk
The Broncos and the Seahawks are going to the Superbowl this year. Having lived over a decade in both Denver and Seattle, guess what my facebook feed looks like right now?
Introducing Seaco the Broncohawk: the mascot for me and everyone else in a similar conundrum for Superbowl XLVIII. We're gonna win!!!!!!
Of note: The Broncos beat the Patriots and the Seahawks beat the 49ers, sending both teams to the Superbowl, the day before Martin Luther King Day, which is when I did this doodle. I think the day inspired me to create Seaco as a reminder that we're all REALLY on the same team, playing together.


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Kawhi Leonard's first public statement since being part of a blockbuster NBA trade last month is full of thanks but short on explanations.
The newly-acquired Toronto Raptors forward thanked everyone imaginable in San Antonio in a statement given to the San Antonio Express-News on Thursday but did not expand on the reason for his departure from the Spurs.
Leonard, obtained by Toronto along with Danny Green for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a protected 2019 first-round draft pick, thanked the Spurs organization, coach Gregg Popovich, all of his teammates without naming any and the team's fans in a seven-paragraph statement.
Read more:
Dave Feschuk: Kawhi Leonard makes a fine first impression on Raptors coach Nick Nurse
New Raptor Kawhi Leonard makes a mistake skipping U.S. training camp
The true story behind Kawhi Leonard's messy breakup with Spurs
"I have been going back and forth the last few weeks trying to figure out the right things to say, and it all comes down to two simple words: THANK YOU," the statement says.
The 27-year-old native of Los Angeles has yet to speak publicly since the trade, which came at his request after a tumultuous 2017-18 season in which he was limited to just nine games because of an injury to his right quadriceps. The diagnosis and treatment of that injury seemed to drive a wedge between Leonard and the Spurs organization that led him to suggest a change of teams would be appropriate.
Shortly after a meeting between Leonard and Popovich, the Spurs moved the two-time NBA defensive player of the year to the Raptors.
Leonard has passed the physical exam with Toronto necessary to finalize the trade and has met with team president Masai Ujiri, general manager Bobby Webster and head coach Nick Nurse.
He has not yet spoken to the Toronto media and is unlikely to until much closer to the Sept. 25 opening of training camp.


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Football Manager 2019 Mobile 4+
Win anytime, anywhere.
- #4 in Sports
- $3.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
The world's greatest players in your pocket…
Football Manager 2019 Mobile delivers a stunningly slick and realistic management experience, with the world's most renowned football clubs awaiting your arrival.
Which one will be the first stepping stone in your trophy-laden career? There's hundreds to choose from 56 leagues across 19 countries.
Will you pick a team blessed with talent or take on a project that needs rebuilt from the bottom up?
All of the world's greatest players are literally in your pocket. Buy and sell them wisely to build a squad of winners and use the new training module to make them better.
The tactics board is where a squad of players become a team. Will you choose tactics to fit your players or find the players to suit your system? Whichever you choose, you'll find all the tools at your disposal…
When Match Day arrives, you'll take your place in the top-down digital dugout and watch your starting XI cross the magical white line. As the action unfolds, it's your decisions that will make the difference.
New additions and upgrades elevates FM19 Mobile to new levels ensuring that the 2018/19 season will be one to remember:
Russia and China are two brand new destinations to try your luck abroad and the wonderkid-laden Bundesliga is fully licensed for the first time in the series history.
Monitor and drive the improvement of your players like never before with the new, customisable training system. Tighten-up the weak areas and elevate strengths into something truly special, with your staff providing constant updates on where things are going well, and where they could work better.
You'll now negotiate with clubs and players in real-time for a more dynamic and faster experience. New clauses enable you to negotiate buy-back deals and minimum fee releases, while future real-life transfers are included for the first time.
Finally… you can now empower your players to make the shirts their own with the introduction of fully-customisable squad numbering.
For the first time in the series history you'll see licensed kits peppered throughout the game – and you can even design your very own in the 'My Club' mode.
- Match enhancements – including goal replays and VAR
- Refreshed user interface
- Improved tactical scouting
- In-game editor improvements
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What's New
Version 10.2.4
Fixed issue where transfer would go through without acceptance
Fixed shortlist emptying
Ratings and Reviews
Love the game, just a few bugs fixes
I'm going to preface this by saying I absolutely love this game. With roughly 120 hours played, I can confidently say that this game is a good purchase. However, I just wanted to address some bugs that I'm hoping the developers will look into. None of these bugs are game breaking, just quality of life improvements. First of all, every season that I start when I sign a new player and have to assign them squad numbers, numbers overlap. By this I mean some players will not show up on the kit/number display as having that number, so when assigning said number to a new player it doesn't show on the previous player there. Also I wanted to make note of a replay issue, although I'm not sure if it's a bug or just my in game speed settings. Sometimes replays won't play, be it an offside goal or an actual goal. But like I mentioned lightly earlier, my game speed settings are set to max speed and commentary with replays, not sure if this has an unintended effect on the replays. However, other than that I can't think of much else. But I do just want to say that the newest installment of the conditioning patch is much better. My players do actually reach full fitness now when they have had appropriate rest and they don't completely die after one game. I feel that you guys have struck a healthy balance in this patch and I wanted to say thank you for listening to our feed back.
Worth every single little penny
Usually every new version of this game is a glorified roster update with a few new little perks per version. This time, this game is wholly updated in every metric that mattered at least to me. Starting with the UI, it's clean, efficient and gives even the most basic and inexperienced managers the tools needed to run a successful club. The amount of clubs you can play as includes full professional league structures in every major soccer playing nation in the world, England, Spain, France, Italy, Germany to name a few and most top flight leagues are fully licensed. I wish they would add USL and NASL to the USA leagues but being able to play as the head coach of the Sounders is good enough for me. The game creates players for teams so that they constantly have talent coming through the ranks and if you want to spend the 8 bucks to purchase the editor you can make those players world class, change all the stats and positions for any player in the world. There is still so much left to cover in this review and I've only scratched at maybe a quarter of all the content. Seriously, if you love soccer and management games, this is the game for you. Period. (But seriously SEGA, add the div. 2 leagues as playable for USA)
Definitely Improved
I thought this would be just a rehash, but there are some key elements here that make this iteration of FMM worth every penny.
Visually, the UI is streamlined with the tabs option, to give that PC look, or you can use the windows. Next, the option for HD interface makes everything look crispy and up to date. Next the color scheme change, while not a game changer, adds a modern and moodier vibe that makes the game feel like it is from, you know, this decade.
Next, the ability to negotiate live makes negotiation less of chore and waiting game and more exciting and realistic. Thank goodness.
The updates to training are good, as now we can pick specific elements of training to focus on which can impact the role we want a player in, and we can control individual intensity levels of regimes to allow for boosts in training... and risk of injury. Also l, a post match menu shows which players are actually improving from playing and which may be stagnant, helping in decisions such as who will keep the team progressing and who is bringing it down.
Lastly, the match time interface is improved with replays and speed sliders, so you don't miss anything, or if you want to fly through a friendly match.
Overall, thanks SI for making a better version of FMM.
Some ideas: maybe women's leagues? Also, manager contract negotiations?
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- Games
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Languages
- Age Rating
- Rated 4+
- Copyright
- © Sports Interactive Limited 2018
- Price
- $3.99
- In-App Purchases
- Manage National Team $0.99
- All Items Bundle $14.99
- Tutor Staff Member $0.99
Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.


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Our unbelievably wonderful Digital Director, a person we call 'Elmo Keep', has written a piece that is obligatory reading for any writer working in today's marketplace. (Actually, maybe it's obligatory for everyone, because anyone who reads words needs to be aware of all this shit too?)
Elmo's piece is full of important information, and includes some of the best advice/guidelines/suggestions for How To Do Best What You Do. Here's a preview:
I'm in no small way discomfited by the cottage industry that now exists in writing about how there is no money in writing. We just love to have this conversation, over and over while getting nowhere. Yet again, okay, here we go!
First. Volunteer and not for profit concerns are very clearly marked as such. For example, community radio isn't a profit-making enterprise for anyone involved. The salaries paid to the few staff members are generally low, and volunteers are unpaid, well, because they are volunteers. There is very little money in community radio because paid advertising violates the charter under which it operates. The station fulfils an important role tied directly to servicing its community. Volunteer positions are great for gaining experience, meeting wonderful people and hopefully finding mentors, and just for doing something that is all 'round tops, civically speaking. You believe in the mission of an organisation that you volunteer your labour to for free or cheaply. Plus everyone feels good about going to work there. This is the model that literary magazines like this one work within.
Conversely, commercial websites and publications anywhere that sell advertising are for-profit enterprises existing only to make money. They employ a large roster of paid staff, a CEO, an accounting and ad sales department, and a strong advertising model. These certainly may publish a great deal of interesting things (or they never do), but it's not a community service portal, it is a business. Therefore, in this model, there are people getting well paid and profit is earned from the work produced for and published on the site—without writers, without writing, the site would be an empty vessel of pointless design that no company would buy ads on. Therefore, writers should charge commensurate rates for the time they put into producing pieces for these publications because ultimately, a whole lot of people financially benefit from the writers' work.
Not long ago, it used to be that new practitioners in a field would occasion to undertake unpaid work as this was a stepping stone towards paid work, which you earned your way into by acquiring the trade through practise. However, today, in the age of the perma-intern, the unpaid 'opportunity' has become the end in itself. There are few places left to step to. For writers today being published is not the problem—anyone can be published—earning a living from the published work is the problem.
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- 300g Feta Cheesecut into ½" cubes
- 1/3cup Sundried tomatoeschopped roughly
- 1 red chili peppersliced thinly
- 1tsp whole black peppercorns
- 1sprig Rosemary
- 1-2cups Farm Boy Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Farm Boy Flatbreads
Servings: cups
- In clean 750ml jar, layer cheese cubes, sundried tomatoes, chili slices, peppercorns and rosemary.
- Top with olive oil, making sure everything is completely covered with oil.
- Cover jar and refrigerate for at least 24 hours.
- Serve on flatbreads.


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our iconic Gungaroo Bag is thoughtfully and carefully made by our artisans. due to it's hand-made nature, each piece may slightly vary. the beautifully perfect imperfections that come from an artisan's touch are what have made this bag a favorite among our customers. we've now re-stocked it multiple times -- the endless love for this bag continues to surprise and humble us.


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Karr, Longbine face off in Senate candidate forum
Managing editor
Party lines were drawn on some topics by Senate candidates Jerry Karr, D-Emporia, and Jeff Longbine, R-Emporia, during a candidate forum Sunday afternoon at USD 408 Performing Arts Center, Marion, but the two candidates also agreed on many issues.
The most popular question asked by readers of the Marion County Record, Hillsboro Star-Journal, and Peabody Gazette-Bulletin was whether the candidates supported the state's willingness to exempt TransCanada from property taxes in Marion County and five other counties for 10 years.
The pipeline is nearing completion in Marion County.
With the exemption, Marion County could lose nearly $4 million of tax revenue during that 10-year period.
"This is an important issue," Karr said. "It impacts our future with taxes."
The original projection of tax abatement was $250 million, Karr said, but has increased "three-fold" in size, further impacting Marion County taxes.
"There is a bill pending in lieu of taxes," he said, but it has stalled in the Senate.
Recent efforts by "well-intentioned" Marion County Commissioners have not affected to the outcome.
"The project wasn't exactly as portrayed," Karr said.
"I've had difficulty understanding how this happened," Longbine said.
He said if he were in the Senate when this occurred, he would have been in contact with local elected officials to determine the impact of abating property taxes on the TransCanada pipeline through Marion County for the first 10 years.
"I'm disappointed that they didn't do that," Longbine said.
State abatement requires job creation and he said he wasn't aware of any jobs from this project.
Longbine also suggested the county commission go through perhaps district court or the state board of tax appeals to determine if this exemption is viable.
The two candidates agreed that the majority of school funding needed to remain the responsibility of the state but wanted more flexibility for local school districts.
One point of disagreement was whether same-sex couples should receive state employee benefits.
"I believe a marriage is between one man and one woman," Longbine said. "The state should not provide benefits to those not married in that fashion."
Karr said Congress had addressed the constitutional issue and many private sector companies have allowed individuals to have the same opportunity for extended sick leave if a partner was ill.
"The state may want to consider mirroring what large corporations are doing," he said.
About the candidates
Education is Longbine's main concern. He said he talked with most of the school superintendents in the 17th Senate district. His main concern is the lack of flexibility with funds provided by Kansas legislators.
The economy also needs to improve with more private sector jobs.
"I helped to create 1,000 jobs in Emporia," Longbine said.
Longbine is the mayor of Emporia and has served four years on the Emporia City Council. He also is active with local economic development efforts.
"I can bring unique skills to Topeka," he said. "I'm not a career politician."
President and Chief Executive Officer of Longbine Auto Plaza in Emporia, Longbine said if he was elected, he would look at the state Senator position and the state government as a business.
Karr said this special election — prompted by the resignation of Jim Barnett — is an important race.
"Job opportunities are challenging," he said. "Fortunately Kansas is in a better position than other states."
There needs to be experience in Topeka, he said, with people elected who can be trusted and who can communicate with constituents.
Cutting, eliminating corporate income tax
"Always a challenge," Karr said, adding he would not advise cutting it or eliminating it. To remain competitive in a business climate, state legislators need to look at the state's tax structure.
Longbine agreed.
"With a tight state budget, I'm not sure we can eliminate taxes," he said. "I'm in favor of looking at the state government from a business point of view."
Do you support the sales tax increase?
Longbine said he wasn't involved in the discussions but knows there were numerous tax proposals.
"Sales tax is erroneous to my personal business," he said, "and is most damaging to those who cannot afford it."
However, Longbine said he would not support an appeal. He does support the transportation benefit from the increased sales tax.
"Transportation for our economy is very important," he said.
With major cuts, sales tax was the only option, Karr said.
"There is a sunset on the tax," he said. "It's not a permanent condition."
Karr added that it was a bi-partisan effort.
Health care plan
"The health care bill had warts and is in need of improvement," Karr said.
He wants legislators to consider more options to provide affordable and accessible health care. He also wants more private efforts to raise money for disasters and disease.
"We have to look at ways to work with programs," Karr said. "Right now we need flexibility."
"The Obama health care plan is scary to a lot of individuals because no one really understands what was passed," Longbine said. "No rules or regulations were written. I'm a firm believer that everyone needs to have a choice of health care."
The use of tax incentives to attract business
"The reality is economic development is very competitive,"Longbine said. "Incentives are often used. In my experience with economic development, cash grants were not used but land and property tax abatements were."
Each project should have a cost-benefit analysis, he said, to determine if it qualifies. Kansas needs to remain competitive.
"Every day there's a phone call to Wichita to move whole plants from Wichita," Karr said, "typically to southern states. We have a skilled work force and infrastructure and we need to encourage in-state development."
Coal-fired power plants
"It is an interesting challenge in southwest Kansas," Karr said. "There are emission problems."
He continued that the power plants would supply electricity to other states. He was supportive of Governor Mark Parkinson's proposal to reduce the size of the plants.
"There are external challenges," Karr said. "The project would produce jobs but probably not as many as advertised. I still have questions about it."
"I had concerns about this as the process took place a couple of years ago," Longbine said. "There was a company that wanted to invest a lot of money in Kansas and should have been welcomed."
Alternatives resources are important, he added. The plant project would have improved distribution and power lines. There has to be a strong base load power and transmission lines.
Longbine said he was also concerned about Governor Kathleen Sebelius when she tried to defeat the plant project through regulatory means.
"It sends a negative signal to other companies considering moving to Kansas," he said. "It should have been a policy decision."
KPERS shortfall, possible changes
"It's a huge concern," Longbine said, relating the issue to his wife's recent retirement after 24 years of service.
He said from their calculations, the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System would lose money within a few years of his wife's retirement.
"We need to look at all KPERS retirement benefit programs," he said.
Longbine also suggested reviewing the number of points required for retirement. However, the worst thing the state could do is panic.
"As stock market and investments improve, some of that liability will be reduced," he said.
He would not support reducing benefits for those already retired or nearing retirement age.
"I would support looking at changing the system for new hires or those working for a short period of time."
The KPERS funding problem is not new, Karr said. There may be more emphasis now because of stock market changes.
"The House and Senate were probably trying to save money by reducing the amount of state contributions, further complicating the unfunded liability," Karr said.
The issue was addressed in the 1990s but now have more problems.
"We need to look at several major employers and see how the public sector can compete with the private sector," Karr said. "Changes in retirement plans are occurring in the private sector as are changes in health care."
He said the state needs to attract quality employees but wasn't certain if changing at this particular time would keep the state competitive.
Other topics
Neither candidate supported term limits for elected state officials because it could cause more problems with no one having experience or a knowledge of the history of bills.
Both agreed that promoting agriculture was a priority. Longbine was concerned about finding opportunities for young people, to keep them in communities.
Karr said there is a tremendous struggle in rural communities and value-added agricultural products was a key.
When asked for suggestions to keep post-secondary education affordable, Karr said the atmosphere of higher education has shifted from the state to student, parents, scholarships, and grants.
He said many other state universities are nearly privatized.
Karr also said he was concerned about the debt in the hands of students. He noted that more college students are living at home because of the cost of college.
Longbine said higher education needed to be a focal point of state government. Regents should look at duplication of programs and review ways the programs can be streamlined. Post-secondary educators should consider working together to provide more affordable education, he said.
The general election is Tuesday when voters in parts of Marion, Coffey, Greenwood, Morris, and Osage counties, and all of Chase and Lyon counties will select Karr or Longbine to serve in Topeka.


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Snapchat will soon get more TV-like shows along with numerous ads, as Snap Inc. and Time Warner ink a two-year agreement worth $100 million.
This doesn't come as much of a surprise, though. The social media company has been striking deals with networks here and there to beef up its original content, including but not limited to ABC, BBC, ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Vice Media.
Snap Inc. Wants More Shows From Time Warner
According to the official announcement, the partnership between the two will entail the development of what they call "made-for-Snapchat Shows."
Time Warner is said to produce 10 shows per year that last between three and five minutes, with genres ranging from scripted drama and comedy to daily news and documentaries.
"This partnership is another exciting step as we continue to branch out into new genres, including scripted dramas, comedies, daily news Shows, documentaries, and beyond," Nick Bell, Snap Inc.'s vice president of content, says.
By the same token, it has also promised to purchase ads on Snapchat, which means users will soon see more of HBO, Turner, and Warner Bros. on the platform.
"As a company that has driven the evolution of media, this is an exciting and natural move as we bring together some of our leading video properties and brands with Snapchat's dynamic platform," Gary Ginsberg, the executive vice president of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Time Warner, says.
Currently, Snap Inc. broadcasts one show a day, but it plans to boost production to three by the end of 2017. Needless to say, the deal with Time Warner won't be enough to achieve that goal, but at any rate, it's one big step toward that direction.
It's also worth mentioning that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Netflix are some of the competitors that the company are going toe-to-toe with. Most notably, the Cupertino brand recently released its first original show called Planet of the Apps, which stars William James Adams or will.i.am, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, and Gary Vaynerchuk, founder of VaynerMedia.
Snap Inc. Shares Increase
After word came out that Snap Inc. and Time Warner have reached an agreement for original content, the social media company's shares rose by about 3 percent.
That spells good news for the Snapchat developer, as it's coming at a time when its shares dropped back to its $17 IPO or initial public offering.
Snap Inc.'s Q1 2017 earnings report shows that Snapchat has 166 million daily active users, approximately 8 million of which tune in to the platform's shows, CEO Evan Spiegel said.
The Bottom Line
To sum things up, Snap Inc. is pushing for more original content on Snapchat, teaming up with Time Warner to jump-start production. From the look of things, it was a good move too, considering its current situation.
With all said and done, what do you think of the company's deals with various network cables, particularly the agreement with Time Warner? Feel free to leave a comment below and let us know.


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Canada at 175
At Deloitte, we're proud to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and reflect on everything the country has achieved. But we also think this year's national anniversary is a great time to think seriously about what we can do, as a country, to become the best place in the world to live and work in the next 25 years.
With this ambition in mind, last year we launched Canada at 175, a multiyear initiative to study the issues at the heart of Canada's future success and provide a perspective on our path to prosperity. As part of this initiative, we've already produced two provocative reports about Canada's future.
The future belongs to the bold explores the need for Canadian businesses to be more courageous. We surveyed 1,200 leaders across the country to better understand the state of courage in Canadian organizations. The results were startling. At a time when Canada needs its businesses to be bolder than ever, only one in 10 Canadian companies is truly courageous.
Canada at a new crossroads: 25 years later is a discussion paper designed to spark frank conversations about the choices we face as a country—and the trade-offs we must make—to ensure Canada has the best chances at future prosperity. The report also examines our progress on the recommendations of the original 1991 Canada at the Crossroads report by Martin, Armstrong, and Porter. Monitor Deloitte's Jonathan Goodman presented the paper at the April 2017 Public Policy Forum Growth Summit, and we'll explore it further in an upcoming post.
Canada at 175: More to come soon
We're hard at work on the next pieces in our Canada at 175 series. In the fall, we'll share our perspective on the future of workplace inclusion—a key element in making nearly courageous Canadian companies truly courageous.
We hope you'll join us on our journey to Canada's 175th. And keep an eye on this space to stay up to date on our latest findings and future plans.


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Our 2017 adventures with Peter Robyn a 1950 classic wooden sloop
Newer posts are at the top. Click on any photo to enlarge.
18th of December, 2017
It has been a long while in the life of Peter Robyn with the Murray family - six months. I have enjoyed many winter sails since June - some in the rain. Some with snow on the Mountain. My sailing ability is building and I have learned to handle the "tilt" a little better - easing the main. I am gaining confidence tacking and jibing. Generally I was out every two weeks (except in October which was blowy) with 70 hours on the new motor - up from around 30 or 40 at the beginning of the year and 52 hours in May.
There were some sail repairs over winter and Mike from Quantum sails did a great job on the leech and luff of the sail, and some strengthening around the bottom cleat on the luff, plus the rear cleat on the foot - taped to a metal cleat now. The entire leech was replaced with a new tensioner at the clew. Three new batons installed and the sail performs much better as it should. I also washed the sail in a weak solution of oxalic acid and they are brighter and cleaner with less rust marks.
A notable sail on 19th of November was to see the world's largest carbon fibre yacht - Hetairos moored of RYCT. There are photos on my main photography page - I won't repeat the story here.
The main point for posting today is Peter Robyn has had a hull birthday. She came out of the water on the 6th of December and took seven days of my Annual Leave and 11 days in total to have the hull stripped to the base epoxy coat (above the Dynel) and then have a primer epoxy coat Wattyl PR250 (Olive Green), then two coats of Wattyl Epoxy Tie coat TC170 (yellow) and then a coat of black Wattyl Anti-foul and a final coat of red anti-foul (with an additional going over at the water line). After stripping there were some minor glass matt (double layer) and epoxy repairs at the keel. These were left bare over night to dry the wood out - then glassed over. The hull I would call a "one gallon hull" as it takes exactly 4 litres of paint to go around under the water line (especially on the first coats of primer, epoxy and anti-foul). The second coats leave a little for patch-ups and repairs (taking about 3.5 litres).
I also sanded and primed the topsides - filling any blemishes with two part epoxy fairing filler. This is green in colour and needed the primer coat to hide under the top coats (2) of International TopLac single pack gloss enamel - in snow white. Next time I do this I will use white filler and some Penetrol to ensure the paint flows smoothly - although I an very happy with the results.
The rudder anodes were replaced and I fitted a new one on the end of the prop shaft. Purchased from Spectrum Engineering at the kind suggestion of John from 'Dove Tail' - slipped behind me and out of the water for an anti-foul and some other work. This anode fits snugly aft of the prop and just 3 or 4mm clearance on the rudder - will protect the shaft and prop from corrosion. Part CDZPN-CC. It's an elegant solution that would otherwise have required some brushes on the prop shaft internally earthed back to the engine. I really didn't want to screw anything into the ribs or hull so this is a godsend. In future anodes might be purchased here.
Overall, this was really hard work and very tiring. However I am now thrilled that the hull has been kept in superb condition and the topsides look lovely. All ready for the Christmas break and what is becoming a tradition - seeing in the Sydney to Hobart Yachts and the New Year's fireworks on the water. Stay tuned for those photos.
Peter Robyn went back into the water on Sunday 17th of December, on a still sunny morning.
Peter Robyn is Miss May: Last year when researching some information on Restive with the UK Maritime Library I noted a photography competition. Having just stayed on the boat in Sandy Bay and taken a dawn sunrise photo I sent it in - and never gave it a second thought. Some-time while slipping the boat in December 2017, I came home exhausted and deflated that this huge workload was getting on top of me. It was a great surprise and spirit lifter to find out my photo was selected for the National Historic Ships UK Calendar. There are some spectacular images in the calendar (I didn't win a category) but I am thrilled to receive this.
18th of June, 2017
It's been a little while since I have posted. Peter Robyn is going very well - I have tried to sail every two weeks or so, even if I only get out for an hour.
On the 3rd of June I took a leisurely sail over to Bellrive and saw a large pod of Dolphins. They were jumping in and out of the water and generally thriving in the warmer Autumn/Winter we have been enjoying. The winds were next to nothing on the way out a several times the boat spun on her center board as the current outweighed the power of the wind. Coming back was a nice 4 - 6 knot run downwind.
17 and 18 June saw Peter Robyn in the Cruising Yacht Club of Tasmania's Dark MOFO occupation of Constitution Dock. Several friends dropped in and we served Mulled Wine and Hot Chocolates. To participate we had to dress Peter Robyn up in red lights. I managed to get some 12v LED's from eBay and soldered them in series so they could run on the house battery. I made a run of 13m for the back stay and 11 meters for the front. They went all the way to the top of the mast on the spinnaker halyard. Bunnings had 5m runs of AAA Battery powered garden lights - these completed the look around the lifelines. It was a pleasant night at 16 degrees and even sleeping on board was very comfortable - although noisier than I remember the location was for the Wooden Boat Festival. At sunset and sunrise there is some meditative music played for Dark MOFO - its quite relaxing at a distance, ie: from our house, but close up it gets a bit spooky.
As we left Constitution Dock around lunchtime Sunday there was a protest organised against the Tassal Salmon Farm application for areas adjacent to Triabunna. I joined in as I can sympathise with the destruction they cause the seabed and vegetation. Although I do love to eat the product!
Dark MOFO 2017 and Tassal Protest
13 March, 2017
On the Labour Day long weekend I was hoping to head to Ralph's Bay again. I set off early this time 2.30pm. The weather was calm and I was ready for a steady motor up wind. On getting out of the Marina there was a reasonable gentle blow. I set the course for Blinking Billy and got on with raising the sails, only to find he engine stall early in the process. After several attempts to re-start I checked the fuel to find it all gone. Drifting off Wrest Point - the kind people from Tas Maritime Radio helped me with a tow back to the fuel Berth at RYCT. I think the boat was s 34' Riviera Vivacious 4 (not sure). They were very helpful and within 10 minutes I was back. Glad this didn't happen at Ralph's Bay.
Three trips to the Caltex to avoid the high Marina prices and there was 60 litres in the tank. I think Ian must have drained a fair bit when he did a service this week.
By 6.30pm I was underway. Not wanting to head far on my own now its so late I anchored up in Sandy Bay to the most peaceful night there was no wind! It was a stunning evening perfect for photography with a wonderful full moon. The sleep through was also great with no wind noise or rocking - I had a deep snooze and woke early. The sunrise didn't disappoint and there are pics below.
I tried a little fishing first thing too and got a fish to the surface with the plastic bait. They were quite frisky and were jumping out of the surface.
I waited for the wind to pick up from 1.5 knots to 2.5 and set off for Howrah. It was a good sail with breeze up to 15 knots tested on the Vaavud (a handy wind gauge for the mobile phone). There is some video below of the peaceful early times.
Gentle sailing at Howrah
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26 February, 2017 - A night in Ralph's Bay
Rebecca, Sophia and I headed for Ralph's Bay. We left too late as usual into a gusty and bumpy Derwent late afternoon sea breeze. Beccy and Sophia took the ride in the cabin felt quite sick.
It took longer than the quoted hour beating into the head wind - even motoring for an hour or so.
We moored of Dixon Point with two other yachts - Talisman and another. The wind dropped at sunset and I took some images while cooking tea and enjoying a G&T. We spend a tranquil evening in still conditions and it was lovely.
Beccy woke around 3am as the wind beat in from the North West and this side of the bay was not protected from that angle. Nonetheless it wasn't a gale and soon we settled back. With Sophia working at noon we headed out at 8am to get her home. The river was flat and wind steady at 8 - 12 knots - great sailing!
13 February, 2017 - Australian Wooden Boat Festival
There is so much to write on this excellent event. The 2015 Festival inspired us to get involved in wooden boats and we were so pleased to be able to participate in this year's event on Peter Robyn. The opening parade was spectacular with so many wonderful historic boats on the water all sailing along quietly in perfect conditions. The weather was warm and with the right breeze. I was delighted to have our youngest daughter Sophia and the former owner Peter Atkins sailing with me. We kept close proximity to the other boats, particularly Westward Star (as Sophia had a friend on her) and Seasalter. The Helicopter filming the event, hovering close to the water kicking up spray created another memorable site. The radio banter between Egeria and Westward Bound was keeping everyone in tow.
Arriving in Sullivan's Cove the smooth organisation became evident. The motor boats greeted us and gave clear instructions on the bridge opening. We went into the dock uneventfully in front of thousands of onlookers to welcome us. The atmosphere was fantastic.
Over the weekend the events on the water kept us entertained and the music in the evenings did the same. Sophia and I slept all three nights and stayed up until the band stopped at 11.30pm. We slept in on the first two tranquil nights and were rocked around on night three when Rebecca stayed in too. Many friends dropped on board over the weekend and shared a drink in the buzzing atmosphere as thousands sauntered past looking at the fantastic array of boats on display.
All in all it was a great event and the rain on Monday - day 4 didn't dampen our spirits. In fact, as I motored under the bridge in Constitution Dock Sophia was disappointed we took the first opening to participate in the Regatta Sail past. She wanted to stay longer and soak up the Festivities. The sail past was another spectacle for us in close proximity to Tenacious as we rounded HMAS Choules. Heading home we were blasted with a 35 knot front that tipped the boat and drenched us - but we were happy. And we're looking forward to 2019! Thanks again to everyone involved - organisers and volunteers - it was fantastic.
I have many photos from the event and have shared some highlights below. Clicking on the photos will take you to the galleries where there are many more images. Thanks for looking.


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Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Hey, what a life! What is the water temp like?
Here's what happens when you wait a couple of hours to see the pope pass by…
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Trump Derangement Syndrome meets Fake News/
And the unedited version, showing that the very first child Trump greets is that little boy:
(Starts at 2:12)
They did the same thing back in April with a video edited to show Trump bullying a teenager by signing the teen's hat, then "callously" throwing it into the crowd. Even NBC felt compelled to debunk that one.
I don't think these stunts help the Never-Trumpers' cause.


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Recently, we had a very beautiful submission come into Indie Underground by the very talented Yuliya Tsukerman. The submission was a Handmade marionette music video for Austin-based band Man, Woman, Friend, Computer. Yuliya, currently an artist-in-residence at Mana Contemporary (Jersey City, New Jersey), created a fifteen-minute film that is set to the first and final tracks of Man, Woman, Friend, Computer's debut album, with a newly-composed interlude between the tracks that connects the songs — both musically and narratively — into a cohesive score.
Titled 'Exordium/Outgrown,' the film tells the story of a spaceman who comes to terms with isolation and loss as he cares for an injured alien creature. It combines centuries-old Czech marionette techniques with modern materials and found objects, creating an analog reimagining of the space age that points to the loneliness of the digital world, and to the new distances we create as we try to conquer the old.
Watch the full video for 'Exordium/Outgrown' below.
Yuliya Tsukerman's work has been performed at St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY), The Brick (Brooklyn, NY), Nouveau 47 (Dallas, TX), and the Actors Studio Drama School (New York, NY), and she's been awarded residencies in performance, playwriting, and the visual arts at St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace program (New York, NY), and Mana Contemporary (Jersey City, New Jersey). I've been featured on CNN and MSN, and online at places like Slate, Gizmodo, and the A.V. Club.
Listen to the first track in the above movie below:
Man, Woman, Friend, Computer – 'Exordium'
Other songs we really like in Man, Woman, Friend, Computer's debut album: 'You're a Pistol', 'Denouement (interlude No. 1)', 'Remission', 'Nocturne', and 'Outgrown.' – Listen to them all below!
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Magic, Animals, Balloon Modelling
WACKY - CLEVER -FUN - Troppo Bob will weave his magic on both days of the Show - Located just past Undercover Trade Area.
Animal Tricks, Balloon Modelling - Have a special Balloon made just for you.
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By Cyril Tuohy
The explosion of retirees will expand the retirement product line-up and add features to individual retirement offerings for the foreseeable future.
More choices are likely to spur a greater need for advice, particularly in the decumulation phase, as retirees draw on income to pay for fixed costs, according to retirement experts. Advisors can look forward to new products that manage the drawdown.
Low-cost and low-risk products, along with fixed and deferred annuities, are often cited as the most important ways for retirees to pay for life's necessities, including health care.
Those basic needs rely on guaranteed sources of income, which annuities are designed to create. The annuities marketplace is less attractive than it used to be because of low interest rates. Yet it isn't standing pat.
For example, guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) riders, often seen as an essential feature, will be joined by hybrid or combo annuities that include long-term care or chronic-care benefits, according to annuities experts.
Return-of-premium features, also known as principal preservation income riders, are becoming more popular, according to recent reports. The more "dimension" to an annuity, the more likely it will meet the burgeoning need for income.
Annuities can go only so far. The industry must look toward hybrid portfolios that invest in annuities side by side with a "drawdown facility," according to a study on retirement released in October by London-based CREATE-Research and sponsored by The Principal Financial Group and Principal Global Investors.
With interest rates expected to remain low "for the foreseeable future," annuities are losing their shine, write the authors of the report, "A 360-Approach to Preparing for Retirement."
No matter how much sales and marketing pitches gussy up annuities with living benefits and income riders, the search for higher yield is likely to intensify, particularly with the eye-popping performance of the stock market.
So-called "managed drawdown" accounts come in two forms. One form pays the policyholder an amount of principal ranging from 3 percent to 7 percent annually. The higher the percentage, the greater the risk in the portfolio.
The second form aims to deplete the principal over a fixed term – 10 years to 30 years, typically. "While both forms enable a retiree to turn residual savings into bequests, neither provides any guarantees," the report said.
"To partly compensate for that, the current innovation effort is centered on products that deliver regular income, inflation protection and low volatility within a single package," the report said.
But generating enough income means investing in high-yield bonds, global value securities and real estate securities, preferred securities, emerging market debt, commercial mortgage-backed debt, and even call options, the report said.
In a separate interview with InsuranceNewsNet on the topic of alternative investment strategies, Steve Young, chief investment officer and senior vice president of the asset management group for Curian Capital, said alternative strategies to complement bond portfolios are necessary if investors are going to earn higher yields than they can get in the money market or in bank certificates of deposit.
The idea with more product diversity is to manage the volatility and the drawdown to lower the "sequence of returns risk," or the year-to-year volatility of the portfolio, because retirees have little or no time to make up for an outsized loss.
With interest rates so low, still more product diversity in the decumulation phase is expected as retirees accept lump sums from their defined benefit plans as companies move away from the defined benefit model toward the defined contribution (DC) model, according to the Principal report.
The trend to accept lump sums "may likely spread to the DC space, too, driven by three imperatives: cost of annuities, bequest aspiration and health care needs," the report also said. That will lead income-oriented products to coexist with annuities in the decumulation market.
Interest rates are low because the Federal Reserve has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasury bonds to help spur the economy. An improving economy would cause the Fed to taper its bond purchasing program. Less demand for bonds would cause interest rates to rise, which benefits fixed-income retirees who depend on products like annuities for income.
Cyril Tuohy is a writer based in Pennsylvania. He has covered the financial services industry for more than 15 years. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Acylphosphatase can hydrolyze the phosphoenzyme intermediate of different membrane pumps, particularly the Ca2+/Mg2+-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle. 再加上,我们可以发Acyp2 蛋白 (20) 和 和数多这个蛋白质的别的产品。
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Minor allele of rs1682111 and rs10439478 within acylphosphatase 2 gene and its interaction were associated with increased breast cancer in Chinese Han women.
the genetic polymorphisms of ACYP2 and TSPYL6 are associated with increased risk of developing ischemic stroke
Results found an association between the ACYP2 rs1872328 polymorphism and cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.
Our results indicate that ACYP2 polymorphisms may influence the GC risk and may serve as a new precursory biomarker in the northwest Chinese Han population.
Findings indicate significant associations between single nucleotide oolymorphism (SNPs) in the acylphosphatase 2 (ACYP2) gene and breast cancer (BC) risk in a Han Chinese population.
ACYP2 gene may be associated with an increased risk of esophageal carcinoma in Chinese Han populations. Future studies to address the biological function of this polymorphism in the development of esophageal carcinoma are warranted.
three SNPs in ACYP2 (rs1682111, rs11896604 and rs843720) associate with lung cancer in the Chinese Han population.
Genetic polymorphisms in the telomere length-related gene ACYP2 are associated with the risk of colorectal cancer in a Chinese Han population.
Data show that the acylphosphatase 2 (ACYP2) gene polymorphism significantly decreased the risk of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE).
Rs6713088, rs843752, and rs17045754 associated with high-altitude pulmonary edema risk
Results shown that the previously reported association of an ACYP2 variant with cisplatin-induced hearing loss in pediatric brain tumor patients could be replicated in an independent cohort of patients with osteosarcoma. Therefor, the ACYP2 variant should be considered a predictor of cisplatin-induced hearing loss in patients with osteosarcoma or other solid tumors
These findings suggest a minor role of the single nucleotide polymorphisms of ACYP2 investigated as genetic determinants of chronic oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neurotoxicity.
The ACYP2 risk variant strongly predisposed these patients to precipitous hearing loss and was related to ototoxicity severity.
Enhanced stability is observed upon modifications of a loop region in the enzyme acylphosphatase and is achieved despite significant enthalpy losses.
The study used a stopped-flow device coupled to turbidometry detection to monitor the rapid conversion of human muscle acylphosphatase into oligomers with varying heparan sulfate and protein concentrations.
Mutational analysis of acylphosphatase suggests the importance of topology and contact order in protein folding.
effects of 40 single point mutations on the conversion of the denatured form of the alpha/beta protein acylphosphatase (AcP) into insoluble aggregates
studies of aggregates formed from human muscle acylphosphatase and disaggregation suggests that amyloid formation occurs in discrete steps whose reversibility is increasingly difficult, and dependent on the size of the aggregates
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Washington State Department of Transportation traffic engineers say the combination of several special events and roadwork will mean increased congestion and traffic delays into the Seattle area this weekend.
In addition to planning extra time to get around, travelers should also consider carpooling, taking transit, as well as checking their route before hitting the road this weekend.
Delayed opening of I-5 express lanes
Washington State Department of Transportation crews will delay the opening of the southbound Interstate 5 express lanes for maintenance work.
- Saturday, May 5 – The I-5 express lanes will remain closed until 10 a.m. The lanes will open southbound after the closure.
- Sunday, May 6 – The I-5 express lanes will remain closed until 10:30 a.m. The lanes will open southbound after the closure.
- Both days, the lanes will open in the northbound direction at the normal time of 1:45 p.m.
People can avoid delays on southbound I-5 by using alternate routes, such as State Route 99 or I-405 and SR 520 to get into Seattle.
Opening day of boating season
To assist with the opening day of boating season festivities, the Montlake Bridge will close to vehicle traffic at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 5. The bridge will then close to pedestrian and bike traffic at noon to allow about 900 boats to sail through the cut. The bridge will reopen to all traffic at 4 p.m.
In addition to the bridge closure, other ramps will be closed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
- The westbound SR 520 off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard.
- The left turn lane of the eastbound SR 520 off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard.
I-5 overnight work
Up to three lanes of northbound I-5 between the West Seattle Bridge and Lakeview Boulevard will close from 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5 to 5 a.m. Sunday, May 6. The University Street on-ramp to northbound I-5 will also be closed during that time. This work is weather dependent.
Special events
Friday, May 4:
- Mariners vs. Los Angeles Angels, 7:10 p.m., Safeco Field
Saturday, May 5:
- Sounders vs. Columbus, 1 p.m., CenturyLink Field
- Mariners vs. Los Angeles Angels, 6:10 p.m., Safeco Field
Sunday, May 6:
- Mariners vs. Los Angeles Angels, 1:10 p.m., Safeco Field
Seattle-area drivers can get real-time traffic information on their phone with the WSDOT traffic app, by tracking the WSDOT traffic Twitter feed, and by checking out the Seattle Area Construction Page.


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Subject Area: Humanities
Level: BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma
Exam Board: Edexcel/Pearson
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This qualification is equivalent to one A level. Work is assessed 100% through assignments which are marked and verified internally.
You should have a grade 4 in GCSE English, a genuine interest in the subject and the motivation to apply yourself to the course.
What will I study?
This is a two year programme covering the English legal system and also the civil and criminal systems.
This BTEC covers very similar material to the A level but the method of assessment is different, being based on coursework, rather than traditional exams. Students will write 11 assignments over the two year course. The emphasis is on the practical elements of law and developing practical skills as well as academic knowledge. The department has links with local law firms and higher education institutions, and students may be able to gain first-hand experience of legal work or study of law at a higher level.
The topics you will study are:
Dispute Solving in the Legal System, Understanding Law Making, Aspects of Legal Liability, Homicide and Police Powers, Employment Law, and the Law of Tort.
You will be assessed 100% through coursework assignments.
The department offers a long established Solicitor Mentoring Programme which all students can apply to. There is also a Law Academy scheme with 12 annual places for either A level or BTEC students. This programme consists of a mentoring scheme, masterclasses by legal professionals, visits to the legal workplace, and the possibility of a paid internship during the summer at the end of year one. Students are selected by application and panel interview.
For all students, we offer court visits and mock trials, and you can also benefit from a wide range of visiting speakers such as solicitors, barristers, and judges. We also provide employability skills sessions for all students who wish to attend.
What next?
The course provides access to a wide range of degree courses. Alternatively, students may opt to move into a career in business or a legal apprenticeship after the course.
Did you know?
Historians believe that the earliest lawyers existed in the government of Ancient Greece.
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Since we started Disruptive Intent I've always scoured the internet for entrepreneurs to draw inspiration and motivation from. In my search I've found Jake Kassan 26 year old serial entrepreneur, who started his disruption at the age of 16. Where most of us only find that we are not made for the ordinary 9 to 5 after spending years at school then starting that "dream" job only to realise that it's not what you are made out to be.
During Jakes time at school he felt what I believe most of us felt during school but the difference with Jake he took matters into his own hands and realised he had bigger dreams in mind. Now I'm not saying quit school and start your own business after your first class that you don't like but find a goal to work towards and make sure you are motivated and dedicated to achieve your goals your are destined for. Jake had the entrepreneurial spirit in him from a young age where at 12 he was selling lollipops at school. Already showing his business mind at work he sold the lollipops for 25 cent each and 5 for a dollar young Jake was making $300 – $400 dollars a week at the age of 12. At the age of 17 Jake saw another opportunity but this time in the club scene. Where he was selling t-shirts with microphones and lights connected in them so when the microphone hears the beating dropping in the club t-shirt would react and flash along with the beats in different colours. He build up inventory with a loan from his dad putting up his car as collateral. He took the business online and also his first step in the eCommerce world with the domain NiteLifeDesigns.com. He raised his weekly earnings from his first venture as candy sales man from $300 to a $10 000 a week pay check.
Slowly but surely Jake grew his experience in business that lead to starting a kickstarter project to fund his next venture, using a crowdfunding to raise the capital not only helps you get the capital to get your idea off the ground it also create a following and a fan base for your product so when it launches you not only have funding but customer ready and waiting creating hype for your product. Jake created a brand LaPlante and with a decent amount of just over $100 000 and almost 3000 backers he was ready to launch his new wallet brand.
This lead into his latest venture is that inspired me the most, MVNT (Movement) watches was created out of necessity.Jake and his partner saw a opportunity in the market for a high quality and stylish minimalist watch that does not break the bank. Jake and Kramer saw they could sell the same high quality watches for a fraction of the price that other name brand are selling. With Jakes passion for eCommerce and building the brand online helped them sell over a million watches in over 160 countries solidifying them as one of the fastest growing watch and accessory companies.
The message from finding entrepreneurs like Jake is not trying to be like Jake Kassan but finding motivation in the success he has achieved to drive you to be able to follow your dreams and ambitions. Look for the key factor is the way he does think, what makes him tick how he defines success and let that help you to mold the way you do thing. See entrepreneurs like Jake as a handbook to teach you lesson he has learnt the hard way and apply those lessons in your ventures.
Here is a message from Jake.


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We will be meeting up in the boardroom following the service. Agendas will be provided. As we gear up for our AGM on March 18, all Council Members in charge of an area of ministry are asked to submit their reports to our office no later than March 4, 2018, to have it included in our Annual Report to the Congregation.
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Earlier Event: March 4ICPM Luncheon to the Community
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On Saturday, April 21, Creamery Manager Jeremy Shapiro will represent Hawthorne Valley at this exciting event in celebration of Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day. "Raw: An American Artisan Cheese Celebration," will be held at 61 Local Bar & Restaurant in Brooklyn, NY (61 Bergen St.), from 7-9:30 p.m. Jeremy will participate in "a panel discussion with some of the Northeast's most prominent raw milk cheese makers: The Cellars at Jasper Hill, Hawthorne Valley Farm, and Consider Bardwell moderated by Jessica Sennett (Founder of Cheese Grotto and Co-Founder of Call Me Caramel)." The panel discussion will run from 7:30-8:15 p.m., and will be followed by a Q&A session.
Farm To People will present raw milk cheese and curated pairings for sampling, including Hawthorne Valley's raw milk Alpine.
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Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, MUSIC, Simply Red - Star, Stairway to the Stars, Stardust, Taio Cruz - Like a Star, Tanabata
Seven-seven, lucky seven, romantic seven. The seventh night of the seventh month is the time the star crossed lovers of Japanese and Chinese legend redeem their forbidden love.
Once upon a time of Asian mythology, Tentei, God of the Universe, matched his lovely daughter Ori Hime with the handsome young cowboy Hikoboshi. The young Goddess of Weaving worked her magical loom on the banks of the Amanogawa, the Heavenly River we call the Milky Way. Her beloved herded celestial cattle in the distant astrofields.
Their match, fated in the stars, burst open with all the glory of the universe, so much so that their nuptials eclipsed their heavenly duties. The mighty Tentei lost patience as the honeymoon extended towards eternity and in a fit of characteristic rage, he hurled the young cowboy across the Amanogawa far from the enraptured Ori Hime.
Distraught by her loss, Ori Hime begged and pleaded to be reunited with Hikoboshi. As Tentei professed a kind of compassionate conservatism, he succumbed to her tears and bequeathed the lovers one night together on the seventh night of the seventh month of each year.
Not unlike his Greco counterpart, the Sino God of the Universe arranged a malicious obstacle to the gift; as Ori Hime rushed into the river she discovered it was too wide and too swift for her to cross. Mother Nature then intervened, sending a flock of magpies to form a feathered bridge with their wings, that is whenever the weather was suited for flight.
Ever since, Ori Hime and Hikoboshi pray each year that their conjugal night will be cloudless. If rain falls on this night, let a drop touch your lips and you are sure to taste the salty tears of love denied.
© Dane Degenhardt, Monde Dane, 2009.
Songs to honor the star crossed lovers.


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Dear Briarcliffe Acres Property Owner:
We are pleased to announce that the Town of Briarcliffe Acres, in cooperation with the South Carolina Forestry Commission and the North Myrtle Beach Fire Department, will conduct its annual Fire Wise Event on Saturday, the 28th of April.
Debris pickup will begin on the 28th and continue until complete. If you or your contractor choose to begin clean-up for Fire Wise earlier than the 14th, please stage it on your lot, away from the Town's right of ways.
The contractor will be trimming right of ways and the canopies the week before Fire Wise begins.
More complete details will be sent to you and posted on the Town website in March.
Huston Huffman


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Port Huron to relocate to Connellsville, PA to become Keystone Ice Miners
May 9, 2014
The North American Hockey League (NAHL) has announced that the Port Huron Fighting Falcons are reactivating and relocating their membership to Connellsville, Pennsylvania and will be renamed and play as the Keystone Ice Miners beginning in the 2014-15 season.
"In just a few short years, the Fighting Falcons organization has experienced tremendous success on the ice, so we are excited that the Laurel Highlands and Connellsville community will be inheriting a very competitive and successful team," said NAHL Commissioner Mark Frankenfeld. "With the on and off-ice success of the Johnstown Tomahawks, the addition of a second NAHL team in Pennsylvania is further proof that the state has a passionate and dedicated fan base for hockey and should enjoy the rivalry that will be enhanced by this relocation."
The team will play out of the Ice Mine, which is a 4,000-seat, multi-purpose arena located 45 minutes south of Pittsburgh, PA. In addition to the NAHL team, the Ice Mine is home to the Ice Miners youth hockey organization as well as the Connellsville High School hockey program and the Washington & Jefferson College hockey team.
"This is one of the fastest growing youth hockey markets in the country and this team will be a great fit for our community and our hockey families. For youth hockey and the community, this is an unbelievable day," said Tom Kinsey on Wednesday. Kinsey represents Scottdale Bank & Trust, which owns the Ice Mine. "The NAHL is one of the top leagues in USA Hockey and the players have a lot of ability and skill. It will be a very entertaining product for the community to support."
The Fighting Falcons team that will be relocating to Connellsville is coming off a very successful season in which the club won the NAHL's North Division during the regular season with a 35-15-10 record. The team's season came to an end in the North Division Finals in a loss to the Michigan Warriors. In just four seasons in the NAHL, the organization has moved over 20 players onto the NCAA Division I level.
"I and the team are very excited about the move to Connellsville," said Michael Gershon, who will remain the head coach for the club. "I already see how passionate the people in the area are about hockey and I look forward to them bringing that same passion to the Ice Mine next year. It is an untapped market. We hope to get a good crowd, and I think it will be an exciting time, not only for Connellsville, but the entire Laurel Highlands. We want to create an atmosphere that is loud and gets people excited."


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The Great (Live) Albums is a bimonthly look at some of the best—or at least most interesting—live recordings in pop music history. How do these odd documents fit in with an artist's overall discography? What do they teach us about the history of rock? Let's find out!
Colin Meloy Sings Live!, Colin Meloy (2006, Kill Rock Stars)
Is it too early to start getting nostalgic about twee? As you may recall, twee was the dominant hipster cultural aesthetic of the mid-to-late 'aughts. It's defining characteristics were a sort of general demeanor of extreme gentleness, mason jars, and lots and lots of hand-drawn flowers. You know what I'm talking about: the sort of stuff that would eventually come to be mocked extensively, if lovingly, on IFC's Portlandia, which took as its subject the city where twee attitudes took their most fertile root—if only in the public imagination.
The Decemberists were, of course, the poster children for this very specific era of Portland artistic life. The Rose City quintet synthesized the folk-leaning wing of American indie rock with the arch, character-driven songwriting of The Kinks and infused it all with the sensitive-boy literary pretensions of The Smiths. Their videos quoted Wes Anderson and their album covers—designed by frontman Colin Meloy's partner, illustrator Carson Ellis—bounced off the eyeballs like the panels of a very prestigious, NPR-reviewed graphic novel.
The overall effect was catnip to a huge swath of geeky daydreamers in the early years of the 21st century, including (obviously) yours truly; the sort of guy or gal who still thrilled to the clatter and bang of classic rock while simultaneously fantasizing about getting their humor pieces published in McSweeneys.
Released exactly 10 years ago in April 2008, Colin Meloy Sings Live! features a well-chosen collection of material captured along Meloy's 2006 solo acoustic tour to promote a pair of cover EPs: 2005's Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey and 2006's Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins (these would be followed by similar tributes to Sam Cooke in 2008 and The Kinks in 2013, all great.) The set list—totaling 17 tracks plus or minus some dedicated stage banter—covers pretty much all of Meloy's career to then, in a sort of prolonged-campfire-sing-along form.
I seem to recall a lot of complaints around the album's release about the sound quality—particularly vis-a-vis Meloy's guitar. But I dunno. It seems okay to me. To be fair, Meloy's axes here do sound extremely dry and metallic, like they were freshly strung two seconds ago. Which at times can resonate a little harshly, like a bunch of forks rattling around on a baking pan. And then there's Meloy's yawlping voice—one of those instruments that, for whatever reason, seems to slice directly through the aural spectrum despite not being altogether comforting.
The album begins with "Devil's Elbow," from Meloy's pre-Decemberists group Tarkio—a dreamlike high-tide of noise that tugs at the feels immediately, seguing into the jaunty (and sort of stupid) "We Both Go Down Together," off The Decemberists' rococo 2005 breakthrough Picaresque. After that comes the first of Meloy's many stage banter interludes. I'll admit these grate pretty hard for me at this point, having heard them roughly 80,000 times by now. The only moment of humor that still holds up—in my opinion—comes two tracks later when Meloy plays the first verse-and-a-half of the misbegotten vampire lament "Dracula's Daughter," describing it from the stage as "the worst song I ever wrote."
Parenthood does inform two of the album's strongest and most heartfelt tunes: "Wonder" and "Red Right Ankle," both of which find Meloy in awe of his newfound fatherhood, marveling at the physiological miracle of two beings combining their DNA to create a third. It's an incredibly lovely one-two punch—totally devoid of The Decemberists' default obfuscating theatricality.
The LP truly shines in its second half, with a stomping rendition of the Shirley Collins folk standard "Barbara Allen" and the melancholic "The Engine Driver," featuring an atmospheric and effective call-and-response from the crowd. The album then hits its peaks at the 2/3rds mark, with a dreamy and discursive three-song medley of "California One," "Youth and Beauty Brigade," and a Smiths cover, "Ask." In "California One" Meloy invites audiences on a loping, unhurried journey down through Big Sur, strumming and humming and daydreaming out loud. "Youth and Beauty Brigade" follows as a sort of brokenhearted call-to-arms, before finally settling into the familiar embrace of "Ask."
During this latest listen of Sings Live! I responded most intensely to the album's more pensive, transcendental material: "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect," "The Gymnast, High Above the Ground," "On the Bus Mall"—anything, basically, that called to mind the image of the outline of a human head, framed by a canopy of twinkling stars. The Decemberists would later shed many (but definitely not all) of their once hardwired twee-leaning tics, maturing into a stately low-concept roots-rock group—most notably on 2011's The King is Dead, still their most successful album.
But sometimes, I miss the obnoxious theater-kid version of The Decemberists of yesteryear. Life accelerates as you get older. Sometimes you wake up and realize that you're nostalgic for something you hadn't even noticed had passed on, long ago. Luckily, those feelings are seldom more than a single campfire away. So bring your waterproof matches.
-Matt Warren (@mpmwarren)


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|More mishima!!
This handprint is my first attempt at mono printing on leather hard clay, a process that I am less comfortable with/ excited about. I couldn't think of anything to print because I got stuck thinking in terms of silhouettes. So I made a photocopy of my hand and used that for my design. I then added some hand lines with scraffito. I think as I collect more imagery and drawings I will find more exciting subjects to mono print. It is a good technique to add to my tool box, I just need to marinate on it for a little longer.
This assignment was carving stamps on linoleum blocks which I have messed around with before but not made anything that great. I spent quite a bit of time drawing and planning out the designs and am pretty happy with the way they turned out. I am working on a logo for my studio so this is a good excuse to experiment with stamp making so I can eventually make a signature stamp for my work!!
|Here's some more mishima! I am working on a dinner plate set as our old ones are mostly broken now! i got the dinosaur images from a dollar store coloring book!


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Institution: Children's National Medical Center
Investigator(s): Dr. Madison Berl
Program: Cogmed RM
Aim: Working memory (WM) may be a moderator of the neurocognitive impairments associated with pediatric epilepsy. Executive functioning skills such as WM are necessary for efficient performance of a task regardless of domain (e.g. language, visual spatial, motor); making these skills essential to a child's success in academic, social, and emotional domains. Further support for WM as a key cognitive liability in children with epilepsy is the high comorbidity of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), ranging from 20 – 50% across studies of pediatric epilepsy. Most commonly epileptic children are of the Inattentive subtype of ADHD. Thus, children with epilepsy who experience these cognitive difficulties may also be responsive to the same interventions as ADHD populations. The aim of this project is therefore to assess the impact of Cogmed on the WM of pediatric epilepsy patients and to examine the neural underpinnings of WM impairments and subsequent intervention by determining the extent to which white matter organization (as measured by Fractional Anisotropy (FA)) is associated with WM abilities.
Population & Sample Size: N = 40 children with epilepsy, ages 10-14 years
Design: Randomized, Placebo controlled, Test-retest, 3 month follow-up


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Social media has become a necessity for trade show marketing campaigns since they allow exhibitors to promote their trade show displays and the convention all at the touch of a button. In fact, you will find more business professionals using networking websites than you will people using it for the personal lives. Twitter has especially become one of the top go-to websites to discuss business. As simple as it seems to use the social media website, there are a few rules to keep in mind as you prepare for your next event.
#1 Use Hash Tags
Twitter allows you to follow certain hash tags based on keywords. Begin joining in on the conversations by using keywords related to the industry or event. This is a great way to get noticed by other attendees or exhibitors who may not be following you.
#2 Engage With Other Tweeters
If you are constantly spitting out information about yourself, your company, or your products, people are eventually going to stop following you. They need to know that you are also interested in what they have to say. Follow certain hash tags and join in on other's conversations, retweet other's articles, answer any questions they have posted. By connecting with them prior to the convention, there's a better chance they will stop by your trade show exhibits.
#3 Post Tips in Your Industry
Take charge and let your fellow Twitter users know you are an expert in your industry by posting useful tips. If they are interested in the advice you have to offer, they may retweet your tips and spread the word that you know what you're talking about. By building their confidence in your knowledge, there's a better likelihood they will visit your convention display.
#4 Keep the Tweets Coming During and After the Event
Twitter is not only helpful before the trade show, but also during and after. Keep everyone informed of the activities surrounding your trade show exhibit (demos, presentations, games, etc). Give them an incentive to stop by your display system. After the event, send out tweets to people you have met and thank them for their time.
These are just a few tips to help you draw in a crowd at your next event through the use of Twitter. Don't wait until the last minute to let everyone know about your trade show display, begin tweeting about it at least a month prior to the event to give them time to plan on attending.
Jonathan Edelman provides helpful advice about trade show strategies. With years of experience in the trenches, he is an expert on booth displays, follow up techniques, and using trade show marketing strategies to boost revenue.