First Time Public Speaking? 12 Strategies That Will Have You Presenting Like a Pro

First Time Public Speaking?  12 Strategies That Will Have You Presenting Like a Pro

In today’s marketplace anyone, from the CEO to the lab technician, may be called upon to give a presentation. Your audience can range from a small group of potential clients or financiers to an entire Fortune 500 Company. If you have little or no public speaking experience, the moments before you step up to the podium, sit at the head of a conference table or walk across the stage can be terrifying. In fact the weeks, days and hours beforehand can be just as unnerving.

The good news is, that some degree of nervousness is normal and even productive. If not overwhelming, it can help to keep us on our toes and allow us to do our best. So, acknowledge your butterflies and teach them to fly together.

My experience spans over twenty years in the public arena and along with the help of an associate of mine, Marta Siberio, of Marta Siberio Consulting, Inc. we have come up with twelve simple techniques to help you present like a pro.

1. Prepare yourself, mentally, emotionally and physically. Everyone would agree, from Toastmasters to Dale Carnegie, that being prepared should be your first priority. Do all you can to get ready for your big debut. Psych yourself up with some positive talk. Get plenty of rest the night before and eat a protein rich breakfast to ensure your energy level stays high during your presentation. If you’re required to talk for longer periods of time with only a few short breaks, bring along some almonds or another high protein food to snack on during the breaks and always keep water by your side.

2. Look Your Best. Choose items of clothing that are professional and make you feel good. Now is not the time to try a new pair of shoes or the hottest trend in fashion. Stay with something you feel comfortable in. If you look good and are comfortable, you feel good and your confidence rises.

3. Know your topic. If you are discussing technical terms, make sure you know them inside and out. I promise, the one bit of information you don’t know, will be the one subject of a question asked. If that happens you may lose your credibility with potential clients or colleagues. If making a sales pitch, have a thorough knowledge of the product, services, sales figures and any other information you need to be persuasive. Same rules apply for team or department reports. If you know and understand your facts and figures, you will have more confidence when presenting. If you do by some chance forget something, don’t panic. There’s always “Let me get back to you on that.” Or “Great question, but before I answer, I want to double check my data.” Then make sure to follow-up and give the appropriate answer.

4. Become familiar with your surrounding in advance. It ‘s so important to visit the space you will be working in before hand. If you have the opportunity to view the space a day or two in advance, that’s ideal. If that isn’t possible, get there as early as you can the day of. You need to know whether you are going to be standing on stage, sitting at a conference table or standing behind a podium in the center of a room. Are you using technology, flipcharts or other visual aids? In addition, Marta Siberio suggests, “Before you set-up and begin, walk around the room. Look from your audience’s perspective. Visualize where things should be. As a member of the audience what do you expect to see?” Logistically, make the space work for you and set-up the spotlight where you want it to be.

5. Another confidence builder; work with a partner or two. If you can, have your co-workers help you. Find a couple of people who will be at your presentation. They will be your preview audience and make sure you are on track with your message. Most importantly they can give you feedback to help you deliver a professional presentation. The big advantage to this? If you get stuck during your rendition of monthly production figures, you can look to them. Just knowing that they have heard you before can trigger your recall and help you move ahead with certainty.

6. Find one or two things to share with your audience. Some good questions to ask yourself are: Whom are you presenting to? What do you have in common with them? Maybe a humorous personal story or an industry joke. (Just be careful it’s not offensive to anyone). Or try a quote from a famous person that applies to your subject material. All of these will break the ice, and hearing the audience laugh will put you at ease. Try these sites for inspiration: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/used.html or http://www.greatcleanjokes.com/jokes/other-joke-types/funny-speech-openers/

7. Rehearse your speech by yourself. Stand in front of a mirror and recite your presentation out loud, even if you feel silly doing it. I know I did in the beginning. Then I realized that this rehearsal time gave me an opportunity to see which areas I needed to work on. The benefits? You are less likely to make mistakes in the actual presentation or whack yourself in the head with flying arm syndrome. I once gave myself a bloody lip. Yes, I admit my hands like to talk as much as I do. One area I saw I had to work on.

8. Be aware of your body language. If sitting at the head of a conference table, don’t slump or cross your arms over your chest. Both actions can make you appear disinterested. Instead place both feet flat on the floor and place both hands in a steeple position, fingertips touching. Don’t fidget or tap your fingers on the desk. If you want to look busy, Marta suggests holding your notes in both hands, glancing at them from time to time. But don’t send or receive texts on your phone. If you are standing, try an athletic or yoga stance with knees slightly bent and feet-hip-wide-apart. When standing at a podium place both hands on either side of it; this is a way for you to claim your space and appear and feel more confident. Remember don’t shift from side to side or foot to foot and don’t put both hands in your pocket(one hand is okay). Both moves give the appearance of untrustworthiness.

9. Start your presentation with The Old WIIFT-What’s in it for them. When preparing your presentation it’s important to think like the audience. What will they get from you? What information do you have for them and most importantly how does it benefit them to listen to you? At the beginning of your presentation, list all of the key components you are going to discuss. For example, “Today I will discuss the top three sales techniques to overcome cost objections, followed by role play and ending with a question and answer session.” Or “This afternoon I will be discussing several ways to achieve a higher level of production in each department, followed by a five minute question and answer session.”

10. Make eye contact during your presentation. It’s important to establish your sincere intentions, and part of that is making eye contact with your audience. If you find looking in someone’s eyes (say, your bosses) a bit intimidating, you’re not alone. Try these tips. Instead of looking directly into someone’s eyes, focus in between them at the base of the forehead, just above the bridge of the nose. Also look out into your audience and find key focal points along the back of the room. Every time you scan the room, nod at each one as you make a point in your speech. It will look to your audience like you are making connections with other listeners. What ever you do, don’t stare at any one person for too long.

11. Breath, relax and slow it down. Marta says one of the biggest mistakes novice speakers make is rushing through their material and not breathing. She suggests taking several calming breaths before you begin. In addition, Marta suggests you keep a trigger object that reminds you to slow down. It could be as simple as a Post-it note that says “Slow down” or a talisman that only you know about.

12. Remember to have fun. There is a little actor/actress in all of us. Some of the most successful motivational speakers were once shy children. There is a certain excitement in performing for others. So let out your inner diva or rockstar and have fun with that side of yourself. Enjoy the spotlight.
By using some or all of these tips, your butterflies will line right up for you. One last bit of advice, based on personal experience. Trust yourself to do the best you can.

For more insight about public speaking and presenting, check out these web sites: http://www.toastmasters.org or http://www.dalecarnegie.com

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Using the Fast Phobia Cure for Your Fear of Public Speaking

Fear of public speaking is extremely common. It’s often said that’s actually higher up than the fear of death. And with stories of actors and comedians “dying on stage” – even though that’s being metaphorical – that fear has built up in a lot of people.

But regardless of the cause of your fear of public speaking, there is a way that it can be tackled fast. Which is good news if the fear shows up unexpectedly, just before a critical speech or presentation is due.
You may have heard of the fast phobia cure but dismissed it as quackery. After all, your rational mind asks, how can a fear that you’ve had for years be dispersed in a matter of minutes?

The quick answer is that it can.
We learn fast – it’s part of our survival instinct.
Which means that we can un-learn fast equally well.
Think about it for a minute: your public speaking fear almost certainly arrived quickly. Maybe you were caught unawares and had to make an impromptu presentation. Or, more likely, your mind worked overtime the night before an important speech, causing lack of sleep and a general sense of portending doom before you even stood up.

Then – every time since – you’ve brought back the same feeling. Or maybe even an intensified version if your subsequent speeches didn’t go particularly smoothly.
That’s caused by our mind taking shortcuts.
It has to do that, otherwise we’d have to re-learn everything, every time we did it. Which would be a major pain in the neck if we had to work out how to sit down, how to use knives and forks, even how to breathe in and out.

So you’ve learned a shortcut that determines that whenever there’s a possibility of speaking in public, you’ll have a sense of panic and maybe overwhelm.
And you’ve probably practised that a lot – both during the speeches themselves and in the run up to them where your mind traces over everything that could possibly go wrong.
The fast phobia cure sorts this out.

It uses a simple process of harnessing your imagination (which you’ve already proved can be quite vivid!) to get rid of the shortcut that is triggering your fear of public speaking.
The process involves running a virtual movie in your mind.
But you run the movie backwards. So that it goes from the time where you’d learned to be afraid of speaking in public back to the time when you had no such qualms.
Depending on how intense the fear is, it may take a few rewinds to erase the shortcut your mind currently takes.

There are usually “extras” in the process as well.
Not popcorn – we’ll keep that for real movies.
But usually fading the mental image to black and white, speeding it up and often playing something such as circus music over the top of the back to front movie.
A few “plays” like this take the fear level down quite a lot of notches.
Which then means that you can address the idea of speaking in public rationally the next time you have to do it. Without the baggage of all the old fears and worries.

If you’d like to get rid of your fear of public speaking then check out this review of an excellent version of the fast phobia cure.

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How To Become An Iconic Speaker

Your stagecraft is excellent; your delivery refined. Now you want to know how to elevate your speaking career to that illusive next plateau. You want the conference conveners to seek you out a year or more in advance of their events because they have to have you. The next steps in your evolution may not look the way you expect them to.

If we applied the 80/20 rule to professional speakers, the breakdown might look like this: 80 per cent are every nice aunt or sweet-natured uncle you’ve ever met: kindly, polite, politically correct. Cautiously inoffensive. Indistinguishable from the next.

The other twenty per cent do things differently. Their approach is counter-intuitive, and they do not play it safe. And to the annoyance of the self-governed rule-bound, these speakers are typically remunerated on a different scale.

Think of it as being the flame-red Lamborghini of your industry, rather than the soft grey Toyota Corolla.
It’s not to say that you have to be rude or brash or caustic to be a great speaker. It’s not to say that you should aim for shock-value at the expense of sound thought. But to be a sugary-sweet clone of everyone else, saying only things that people are comfortable hearing, will mean you will be paid like… well… everyone else.

There are at least 9 things that iconic speakers do differently:

1. Speak strong
Iconic speakers champion a strong viewpoint – sometimes even a controversial one – and represent their wave-making cause with passion. They understand that their role is not to chair a balanced, academic debate, but rather to start mental fires in favour of strong ideas.

2. Practice extra-scenario thinking
Iconic speakers tap deeply into the imagination and vividly display ‘what could be.’ They make potential futures come alive so that their audiences can just about taste tomorrow. They aren’t limited to speaking on operational ‘how-to,’ but venture beyond into ‘what more could be if we only had the courage… !’ This makes them true thought leaders.

3. Own a Framework
A framework is simply your unique way of organizing and presenting your body of knowledge. For Robert Kiyosaki, it’s the ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ construct. Do you have a central metaphor, a memorable analogy or a unique angle that anchors your ideas; a way of looking at things for which you’re known? Frameworks can set speakers apart and make them iconic.

4. Constantly Produce
Their readers, fans and followers are still thinking about that great speaker’s last game-changing idea. But the speaker is already launching the next one. Iconic speakers have their interior attic lights switched on and are always thinking, always innovating, always producing new thought.

5. Please the buyer, not the audience
Iconic speakers don’t prioritize standing ovations. Oh, they may get them. But they understand that their primary focus lies in assisting the person who booked them to challenge and change the thought processes of a group, not to get hung up on the approval of the group. They meet the real goals; the adoration of the crowd is secondary. This takes real courage.

6. Price themselves right
… Which doesn’t mean being cheap. Quite the contrary, iconic speakers are generally priced at the top-end of the continuum. Their uniqueness means that they are not an interchangeable commodity – ‘Oh, just get another speaker who does what he does’ – and for that reason, they are perceived as valuable.

7. Use strong visual iconography – or none at all
Slabs of text on a slide do not just disqualify a speaker from iconic status. They disqualify a speaker from entry-level status. There is no excuse for low-impact visuals or reams of text in the world of paid speaking. Iconic speakers find ways to make their visual aids and visual representations of ideas so powerful as to be unforgettable. Some don’t even use slides, and are actually the better for it.

8. Something spectacular
These days, great speaking must come across as sincere and authentic. The key word is ‘real.’ But 60 minutes of sincere and authentic, with absolutely no theatricality, makes for a very bland keynote. Iconic speakers bring peaks and troughs to their rhythm. They have vignettes that are so spectacular, so funny, so moving, so memorable, that they are often booked again on the strength of someone saying, ‘Come and tell that story to my group!’

9. Have a certain ‘be like me’ quality
The nice uncle approach may be inoffensive. It may be perfectly safe. But it isn’t aspirational. Its great weakness is that it doesn’t make audiences want to be like you. And yes, in our industry, that matters. Are you iconic? Do you portray a desirable final outcome? Would I want to be like you if I saw you on stage? If the answer is no, there is virtually no chance that you will become an iconic speaker. Why would any audience become devout followers of someone they wouldn’t fundamentally like to be?

It takes great self-belief, true originality, and significant forged-in-the-fire willpower to become an iconic speaker. And no, it doesn’t mean you can’t be nice. It doesn’t mean you can’t be friendly or accessible. It only means that sweetness alone does not meet the criteria required for you to reach the next level.
There is something a little bolder than the ‘nice aunt’ construct at the forefront of the pack. Are you desperate to fit in? Hung up on social approval? Or are you strong enough to stand out?

Watch a 45 minute keynote on ‘How to Become an Iconic Speaker’: http://youtu.be/IAYrjBZYBbs

Douglas Kruger is a professional speaker and author who encourages people to think. He speaks on Expert Positioning and the misunderstood link between work and wealth. He is a 5x winner of the SA Championships for Public Speaking and the author of three books. See him in action or read more of his articles at http://www.douglaskruger.co.za. Email him at kruger@compute.co.za. Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter: @douglaskruger.

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Giving the Perfect Wedding Speech

Finding the perfect wedding speech is something most of us hope we never have to deal with. However, someone in our close circle of family and friends will inevitably get married and we will be expected to offer a wedding toast (especially if you are the best man or maid of honor). If you’re like me, speaking in front of crowds is not your favorite thing to do. I am not alone, fear of public speaking is near the top of everyone’s list of things they feel most uncomfortable doing.

As I mentioned before, speaking in front of a crowd is intimidating. If you will be speaking at a wedding, you must realize that you will not only be embarrassing yourself by failing, you will also be embarrassing the bride and groom who put their trust in you. I attended a wedding years ago when the Best Man got up to toast and by the time if was over the crowd just sat scratching their heads. That was nearly twenty years ago and even today when I see the groom we inevitably end up laughing about it (although the groom wasn’t laughing at the time). You must not let this happen to you. Writing the perfect wedding speech is something you can do if you prepare correctly.

You will generally be asked in advance about giving a short speech at the reception, because everything about a wedding is usually planned well in advance. When you find out what type of speech you will be giving, and who it will be in regard to, you can begin to prepare. Gather some personal information about the individual or couple which you can use in your speech.

This makes it more personal and touching. You can be lighthearted to begin with if you so choose, but end the speech on a serious note. Practice in a mirror as often as you can while trying to maintain eye contact. If you can have a couple of people sit in front of you while you practice that is even better. Try to keep your speech between one and two minutes. Anything longer than that and people start becoming bored. Also, it is difficult to memorize a speech much longer than that without some kind of notes or visual aids.

If you don’t have the time to write your own speech or would never feel comfortable doing it on your own, there are other options available such as paying a professional to do it for you.

http://www.hopeful-solutions.info offers many different types of wedding speeches for all faiths and occasions.

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Learning From TED Talks

TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design is now owned by the Sapling Foundation, a non profit organisation set up by Chris Anderson, and produces or inspires conferences across the world. While each conference has its own unique theme, all TED conferences have a goal to foster the spread of great ideas.

Since June 2006 the speeches have been made available online and today TED provides a library of over 1500 talks. The great thing about these talks is that speakers are strictly limited to 18 minutes, although a few do exceed that length and some are a bit shorter. Speakers are encouraged to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can and that has led to a steady improvement in quality. Today, according to Chris Anderson, speakers are spending months preparing their speeches.

What is important for anyone looking for examples of great speeches and speakers is that TED speakers are mostly not professional speakers. Most of the people who are invited to speak at TED are experts, people who have made a difference in their chosen field. They are invited to speak because they have earned the right to speak by what they do. Some of the speakers have a lot of speaking experience, others have very little and this means that when you study the talks there are examples of truly great speaking – and there are plenty of examples of speeches that could be improved.

I think that watching TED talks is a great way for anyone to learn how to improve their own speaking and I will be writing a series of articles evaluating many of the speeches. Some articles will feature a specific skill and draw on a number of speeches to illustrate that skill, others articles will simple look in detail at a particular speech to explore what we can learn from that speaker.

You may have already picked up from this site that I have a particular interest in helping women to improve their speaking skills. One of the greatest challenges facing women who want to develop their public speaking skills has been for many years the lack of sufficient role models. That is thankfully changing and in large measure due to TED.

While male speakers still significantly put number women speakers, I have noticed that this seems to be changing. I have not analysed the date – but as a regular consumer of TED talks (a new talk every day) it seems that the number of women speakers is increasing and moving towards equality. What you may find here on this site is that my selection of speeches and speakers may actually favour women over men simply because I am keen to highlight the great role models now available.

Evaluation
I have been a member of Toastmasters for many years, and even as a professional speaker I still find the practice of attending Toastmasters meetings and receiving evaluations from club members a great discipline. It is very difficult for anyone to get truly objective feedback on a speech. People tend to either tell us what they think we want to hear, or they are very critical.
If I hear you speak and say “I just have one criticism…” are you now expecting me to say something good or something bad? Most people when they hear the word criticism immediately expect a negative comment and so we become instantly defensive and don’t want to hear.
What I learned at Toastmasters is the art of evaluation as a constructive process where the main aim is to encourage a speaker and provide useful suggestions for improvement.

When I am evaluating a speech, I take a blank sheet of paper and divide it into two columns. At the top of the first column I write the word Commend – and at the top of the other column I write the word Recommend.
As I listen to the speech I write down in the left hand column all the things I like about the speech – and even with a bad speech, there are things the speaker is doing right. It is important in giving objective feedback that you find those things the speaker is doing well. Then in the other column I make a note of what the speaker could have done to make the speech even better.

What I suggest you do as you watch TED talks is follow this same process.
Make a note of what you like about the speech. If you find yourself completely entranced by the speech and not making notes, ask yourself what the speaker is doing to engage you so well. If on the other hand you find yourself drifting off or losing the plot, ask you self what the speaker could have done to keep your attention better.

Here is a very important point about recommendations. People are mirrors. Whenever I find myself not liking a speech, more often than not the speaker is doing something that I also do. I tend to use my hands to gesture a lot as a speaker, but when I watch a speaker gestures a lot I find it distracting. Then I remember the words of the assessor when I was being examined for my LAMDA Diploma in Public speaking.
“Do you not think that a gesture has more impact when it comes from a place of stillness?
Gesture and movement are excellent tools to convey meaning and add impact, but if all you do is gesture then the impact of any single gesture is lost. So I will tell a speaker that I found the gestures a little distracting and share the advice I was given.

What you are trying to achieve from this process is to draw out from the speech two or three learning points for yourself. Don’t try to learn everything from one speaker. Look for examples of excellence you can emulate and look for examples of behaviours you need to avoid – and do remember that if you see something that irritates or distracts you it is probably because you do that.
Where are the TED Talks?
The TED talks are easy to find
Here on my blog if you look to the right you will see a list of categories – just click on the TED Talk and you will find a growing list of talks I have evaluated.
If you want to dig in yourself simply go to http://www.ted.com and pick one of the popular talks that attracts you and see what it teaches you.

About the Author:
Founder and First President of the UK Professional Speaking Association, Rikki Arundel is an International Keynote Speaker, Writer and Speaker Coach. She is an expert in Gender Equality and being transgender has a unique understanding of the differences in the way men and women communicate in business.
Discover how Rikki can help you to excel as a speaker at RikkiArundel.com

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Furnace Safety – Furnace Annual Maintenance

Propane wall heaters are completely safe. One of the most important of these security measures heaters is that they can be safely installed on the wall. If set on the wall, furnace safetyalmost near the ceiling, so there is no chance that children or pets to touch. You can also avoid running injuries over accidentally.

Avoid mess furnace safety
People are tired of these electric heaters including electric cords everywhere. If you have an electric patio heater furnace safety, you probably feel disgusted with the mess of the child. But propane wall heaters are exempt from these agreements. No dirty look and loves to open her patio. Electric heaters require a large space and therefore Propane heaters are useful to give you the best opportunity to use their space.

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Propane wall heaters are certainly much cheaper than electric heating option furnace safety. The cost of electricity is higher than the propane. So replace your old electric patio heaters and bring home the last wall propane heater. Install it and save money.

Research before buying furnace safety

When you are convinced to buy propane wall heaters, then you should consider some aspects to make an intelligent decision furnace safety. You should do proper research on important aspects before buying propane wall heaters. Chalk in the region and the wall where you want to install the propane heater. Take a tape measure and measure the wall space where you want to correct .

Compare a variety of propane wall heaters. In the market, there are plenty of alternatives. You should pay attention to the prices and features of different products furnace safety. Choose according to your needs and maximize your investment. Good research will help you choose a good wall propane heater and you will also save a few bucks.

When you do your research, choose the trusted source. As an excellent source of information on propane wall heaters can be used in Internet. Sit in front of your PC and let the search do the work for you furnace safety. You can find different products , their characteristics, structure, prices, etc. Therefore, the comparison work becomes much easier.

Considering the above aspects, it becomes easier to choose the right wall heater for your propane needs. These heaters are convenient and easy to use furnace safety, so it makes sense to buy propane heaters wall choices instead of messy and expensive electric heating.

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Interlock Safety – Guardian Interlock Systems

Accident traps pigs caused by operator error can be avoided by using Smith Flow Control, the key lock system interlock safety.

Mechanical lock security is the only technology able to meet the safety requirement universally accepted for loading and unloading of pig traps ensure that the ship is removed before it is possible to open the vessel lid interlock safety. Operators can not bypass the security system, which eliminates the risk of ” operator error.

SFC lock can be specified to ensure minimum safety drain valve block with pork tail interlock safety, which ensures that the vent is opened and depressurized before the operator is allowed to open the door from closing.

Motorized Valves (MOV) are frequently used and locked in the pig trapping procedure because the valves are too large and heavy for manual operations. When electric actuated valves must be associated with manual valves and tank cover, locking key system checks the position of the valve (open and/or closed) interlock safety, independent of any indication from edge to edge. In the case of a power outage during these operations, the integrity key sequence is maintained even if the valve is operated manually.

Major part of the sequence interlock safety

This is accomplished by inserting a coded locking device mounted on the wheel assembly to the hand control unit that engages with the drive key interlock safety, the other key in the encoded sequence are released once the valve has completed its full stroke.

Sequences of times pitchers operating systems/receptor complex may include variations. The range of applications which process the SFC blocks can be applied is unlimited and measurement systems can be designed for the specific needs of client processes interlock safety.

For example, the simple locking system is linear, but non-linear sequences occasionally need to integrate the control of complex nitrogen purge interlock safety, pressure equalization, aeration and drainage . SFC has been developed for sequence control unit (SCP) is a mechanical key device located near the valve transmitter.

It differs from the units of traditional key exchange, entering a license key, a switch is activated at a fixed position before issuing the next key. Thus, complex sequences can be accommodated interlock safety using the same principles of safety.

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Bsafe Safety Alarm – Fund ‘Bsafe’ Violence Alarm System

The White Ribbon , Greens Senator and spokesperson for women Lee Rhiannon urged the federal government to renew the financing of the ” Bsafe ” honored that provides personal safety alarms for women and children at risk of domestic violence program bsafe safety alarm, linking emergency services and allowing them to remain in their own homes.

Bsafe motion of Senator Rhiannon in the Senate is completely down . The program won the National Crime Prix Australia and Violence Prevention in 2010 bsafe safety alarm.

” The program was Bsafe ran as a pilot in the Victoria area for three years until 2010 under cost of $ 340,000 , but could not get continued funding despite the overwhelming support of women and children had come to rely on this simple but effective system alarm ” bsafe safety alarm, said Senator Rhiannon .

” It is cruel that became women and children to surrender their bsafe alarms when a relatively small amount of money offered security to continue living in their homes and attend local schools bsafe safety alarm.

” The Bsafe program has proven very effective in a fraction of the cost that would be spent to move women and children out of their home in a shelter or a new home.

” The show follows women and children most at risk , funded by donations of good will from the public , while passing the ball between the state and the federal government continues bsafe safety alarm.

” The federal government must urgently commit Bsafe continues in the Victoria area and should seek to expand the program nationwide bsafe safety alarm.

“Workers of domestic violence reported that women find it much easier to make an alarm system 000 calls , which can take time and turn a dangerous situation.

“I raised Bsafe program funding in the recent budget estimates and hearings to take the matter further in the future,” Senator Rhiannon said bsafe safety alarm.

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Sliding Safety Gate – a Great Solution for Baby-Proofing the Loft Ladder

When Avery started crawling, we bought a baby gate at the top of the basement stairs. At that time sliding safety gate, I was looking less ugly solution corresponding to the opening. Then we realized that not only compression of the doors is not the best choice for the top of the stairs, but our stair width (36 “) was at the upper limit of the correction of the door. This means there was a lot of time exposed wire, enough to make us nervous.

So when I was at a friend’s house a few months ago, I realized I had a beautiful custom wood door. Fortunately for us, they also had one more. Perfect, I thought, sliding safety gate we can get a custom grid without spending an incredible amount of time to make one!

Of course, nothing is that simple sliding safety gate.

First, the door we went was just a piece of wood routered. He was also a bit too wide for our opening, so Kyle had to reduce it (which also meant re-cut corners) sliding safety gate. Then, 2 × 2 Kyle cut at both ends installed (screwed into the frame wall and painted white) for mounting the hinges and latch.

The wood had some flaws and imperfections, so I decided to paint sliding safety gate. At first I voted for Kyle white and dark gray interior of our steel, but finally landed somewhere between the two. (We were concerned that too much white will show dirt and handprints, but the dark gray to be too much of a focal point.)

The color is “Del Ray Gray” (Benjamin Moore). I like it very much. He looks a little lavender in the beginning, but I think we’re used to him (or her? Kyle said he is still not a fan). anyway, sliding safety gate we’re not repaint now.

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Lightning Safety Tips – in Case You’re Caught in a Storm

June, July and August are the peak months and lightning deaths. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ) National Weather Service found that 64 percent of deaths from lightning since 2006 took place while people participate in recreational activities lightning safety tips. Fishing tops the list with 26 deaths, followed by camping and boating. The best way for people to protect themselves against injury by lightning or death is to monitor the time and postpone or cancel outdoor activities if thunderstorms are forecast.

After the Storm Lightning Safety Tips

Lightning can strike 10 miles away lightning safety tips, so if you can hear thunder, then you are in danger. There are two sure to be during a storm locations: in a building with four walls and a roof, or in a car. A tent or cabin or other shelter from the rain does not protect a person from being struck by lightning.

Since boating is one of the three main activities of the people involved in when a death caused by the illumination is carried out, boaters should be aware of safety practices in sight. First, lightning safety tips always check the weather before you go in the water. The following tips will help you better prepare for the storm sailors.

What can happen lightning safety tips if my boat is beaten by lightning?

If a ship is struck by lightning on a number of things can potentially occur. The strike can not completely eliminate the electrical system of a ship and destroy the engine. You can also break a hole in the hull, in an effort to reach the ground lightning safety tips. Worst of all, you can end a human life .

How I can prevent this lightning safety tips from happening to my ship?

The best way to prevent the ship struck by lightning is to avoid being in the water during a storm. Always check the local weather before heading out on the water, and if the weather is threatening to gain ground as soon as possible. Another useful skill for sailors to learn is reading time lightning safety tips. Boaters should monitor the development of large, well-defined growing body.

A cluster is noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges , and is often described as similar to cotton lightning safety tips. If the clouds darken and anvil -shaped, this means that the storm is underway . Also watch the light in the distance and hear the thunder see the clouds begin to form. Thunder travels one mile per five seconds.

It can also help prevent lightning damage to your boat by installing a system of lightning protection lightning safety tips, also known as bonding system on your boat. This system allows the direct path to ground beam (water) away from passengers and major components to at least reduce the amount of damage or prevented. The system uses a key driver to send strikes a metal submarine, which is usually made ​​of copper or other non-corrosive metal .

How will my boat insurance lightning safety tips if my boat is struck by lightning?

If the boat is damaged by lightning , your insurance should cover lightning safety tips. However, it is important to review your coverage and you know what your insurance covers and does not cover . Depending on your policy , your boat will be repaired or replaced.

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