February 7th, 2010
Voice Over Production
Effective voice over production can mean the difference between simply hearing a sound and sensing the feeling behind that sound. Having sufficient voiceover talent can be precious to the production value of a project. You need to make the best imprint possible in order to drive business and obtain the best return on your investment. This is why you need the assistance of a proper voice over production studio. When it comes to acquiring a good voice over production facility to outsource to, there are many choices to consider and many studios to choose from.
It is important to determine the defects in the vocal dubbing and eliminate them before releasing the final product. Making changes after the fact can be detrimental to the budget and draining on the morale of the vocal talent. It is best that you outsource your voice over work to a pros facility that have many years experience and know how rather than take a chance performing the vocal dubbing work on your own. From radio jingles to big budget movies, the quality of the voice over production can set the feeling for the overall essence of the project. Even if you feel as though your project may be minor in scale, outsourcing to a voice over production studio is still a attainable option for your wallet and your requires.
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January 25th, 2010
Talking properly is problematic (as long as those duties are not vital to the job, an available place for the member of staff to go to be alone for quiet time to help reduce the difficulties of the job, rest breaks to prevent stimulus overload and fatigue, job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a different position, acquisition or modification or workplace equipment or devices, training materials or policies in baille or a simplified language, provision of readers or interpreters (disability rights center). Often times, an agreement is reached which will allow the individual to return to work on a gradual basis as their strengths and abilities increase. For example, if the individual is having a tricky time remembering what tasks to do, it may be recommended that they carry a notebook to write down what is asked of them. This allows them to perform the tasks of their job and gain confidence while alleviating the frustrations and burden from the employer.
Clear Speech: Training
- Every time we communicate we have an opportunity to practice
- Talking clearly was in component based on pronunciation. Its the appropriate use of vocal cords, mouth, tongue, lungs and your head
- Indistinct speech can result from slurring phrases, speaking inside a muffled voice, running phrases together, dropping endings and just failure to enunciate words or groups of words
Tense Voice, Big Pitch
- One is when we are tense; our vocal cords like other muscles in the body tighten up. The result can be described as higher pitched voice. Although ours may be a technically clear vocalization, the apprehension when felt by the audience results in distraction from your message.
- It is when you talk with the throat muscles tensed and the voice is projected from lower in the neck. It happens when there is not enough air in the lungs to make the speech organs work properly.
- What does it sound like? What does it feel like? That is a distressed voice. The solution is simple, just breathe. Breathe adequate for your speaking. Clear speech requires adequate lungs
- Slurring words and phrases or running them together will be the result of a learned behavior or cultural behavior. It also contains dropping syllables indiscriminately or as being a cultural norm. These need to be corrected to to converse well and distinctly.
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September 24th, 2009
Governors Wales, the volunteer organization with the mandates of evaluating school performance and coordinating information among individual school governors in the Wales region, has decided to relocate its offices to the Cardiff Gate International Business Park. This decision was made after a review in which the existing location in Stuart Square was found to be unsatisfactory for its growing needs. An extensive search for a new location brought up the Cardiff site, which is deemed to have many advantages over the present location. Governor Wales, like its sister organizations in England and Northern Ireland, takes all the Wales schools within its purview. Apart from its regular mandate, the organisation also represents the governors, whose numbers total over 23,000, for various purposes and enhances their professional development, besides facilitating interaction between their associations. It was therefore necessary that the offices of Governors Wales be situated at a central and easily accessible business location, with the capacity to generate and manage large numbers of visitors. The Cardiff Gate location is next to the M4 motorway, which will allow easy access for visitors from all over the region. Moreover, the new shared office space is almost 83,000 sq ft, with corresponding parking area for staff as well as visitors. Jane Morris, who recently took over as the Director of Governors after eight years of experience, will make a fresh start of her operations from the new offices. The Cardiff Gate Business Park is a favourite location even in the current period of economic downslide, said a spokesman for Fletcher Morgan, a surveying firm in Wales. With the demand, Morgan expects that the Business Park will continue to grow, and wishes to be a part of this growth.
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December 7th, 2008
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November 26th, 2008
One thing that is a consistent pet peeve among web site visitors is pop up windows. They are those little windows that open without user request. They often contain advertising. In the late 90’s, many web site owners used pop up windows to bring certain information to the attention of web site visitors.
Do not do this. If you have information you would like to bring to the attention of a web site visitor, simply include it on your web site.
Offending people with your web site design is generally a bad idea, even if only a small percentage of visitors will be offended.
Great web site design puts the user of the web site first — always! When planning your web site, make sure you work with a professional who will also keep this in mind. In fact, let them make more decisions.
They know web visitors and how to design for them better than anyone since they do it for a living. A clean, pleasing professional web site design is crucial to keep the visitor interested and to establish authority or expertise in their minds.
Next, a simple navigation or menu system. Consistency and ease of use, as well as respect of their time, always works.
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August 24th, 2008
INTRODUCTION
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
You don’t want to hear this, you are content in your general ignorance. You have been brainwashed into thinking that your personal views are the only correct views so any dissent makes you uncomfortable, if not down right irritable. However, after the initial shock that world does not revolve around you has worn off, and you begin to see you do not get to dictate to the world how it should live and what everyone should believe, you will begin to open you mind to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you are not right all the time.
As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.
As long as “We the People…” stand aside and do nothing as fellow Americans are having their right trampled upon, as long as we watch in silence as the hammer of our might is wretched from the people, wielded to create pale reflections of what we think we are by careless, clumsy and brutal hands, as long as we stand aside and allow those who are our representatives to the world act with disdain towards the trillions of other inhabitants of this earth we must all share we are implicit co-conspirators in their tyranny, enablers of injustice both at home and abroad. We cannot sit idly by and watch our power, the people’s power, taken away and given to a group of so-called representatives with little to no clue of how the average person lives, how we survive.
In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion.
I do not seek to sway political views. My incongruity is with the powers that be on all sides. I wish to remind my fellow Americans of the things that unite us as a people. I wish to open your minds to the possibilities of all we still could be. It is this authors’ humble opinion that our political parties are necessary, both right and left, to compliment and balance one another, in order to ensure that all people are represented and all values devotedly held are worth fighting for and should be fought for.
I am just an average conservative hippie veteran living in a very blue pocket of a very red state.
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August 23rd, 2008
More money can mean better:
- Health Care
- Relaxing Vacations and Adventures
- Education for your children or yourself
- Better home than you have now
Best of all it can reduce stress from not having to worry about money!
Many of us have problems in life that additional cash will help solve the situation. Did you know that 80% of problems in life could be simply resolved with additional cash.
Your first step to becoming financially secure is getting involved in real estate as an investor. Now you must take the next step “Stop chasing money”.
John Michael, the founder of Stealth Educational Services has a vary simple but phrase he loves to use.
Money has twelve legs and you have two - It will always out run you when you chase it.
Fundamentally, there are two areas to focus on to build wealth and generate cash.
1. You must develop skills and strategies to reduce your expenses along with maximizing your life style.
2. You must develop skills and strategies of generating additional revenues.
You will need to learn how to use:
OPM - Other Peoples Money
OPT - Other Peoples Time
We all have life expenses such as:
- Food - Meals
- Auto Insurance
- Auto gas and oil
- Rent or Mortgage payments
- Along with other purchases
You easily spend $2,000, $5,000, $10,000, or even more every year on these expenses.
Did you know that for every dollar that you make tax deductible you can receive approximately 15 to even 50 back from the government and yes it all depends upon your tax bracket and tax rate. The easiest and fastest way to get tax breaks you will need is to simply start a small business.
As a real estate investor, you have a small business!
This should be your goal for your financial strategy as a real estate investor over the next 12 months:
- $50,000 to $100,000 income from real estate investing
- Cut your tax bill in half
- Reduce your auto insurance by 1/3
- Save $1,000’s on your next purchase of a car
- Reduce your food cost by 10%
- Decrease your health cost up to 20%
- Open your KEOG retirement plan
- Improve your credit
- Protect and shield your assets
Just to name a few.
You may have to work full time and do real estate investing part-time for several months until you get the ball rolling. You will need multiple sources of income to become successful as you grow and start your carrier as a real estate investor.
Let me give you another set of goals that you should shoot for as well:
- Build wealth in real estate
- Develop multiple sources of income and residual income
- Make money while you sleep
- Develop a profitable real estate investing business
- Earn at least 15% on your investments
- Use your real estate investing business for tax deductions
- Use compounding of money and time to build wealth slowly
- Become worth more to an employer until you are able to fire them
Stop chasing money, it is not how much money you “earn”, it is what you “learn” to do with the money that matters.
You must have a good plan for building wealth!
More wealth and cash can make life more exciting, dynamic, and fun.
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Michael is the author of “Getting Started In Real Estate Investing”
In addition, you can review his book at: http://jmichaelrei.com
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August 23rd, 2008
Before the iPod many people blasted their Boom Boxes and Portable Stereos in Public. Now we see a little less of that these days, as the new iPod is about to outsell the all the boom boxes ever produced. Can you believe that one consumer personal high tech device could eliminate all that noise? Many older people are quite happy to see the quiet come about and are glad to see the kids are dancing along not bothering anyone. Of course if they knew what these kids were dancing too, well perhaps they might change their minds a bit; who knows?
Some say this is only the beginning of the human civilization peace and quiet. How so you ask? Well so far the quiet has been noticed and iPods are only on their original roll out, in fact they had completely ran out for Christmas in 2005. The iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and iPod Mini was out of stock in just about every retail box store outlet and also on the online company store too.
Now they are making the iPod as fast as they can, but cannot keep up with demand and this trend is still a baby learning to walk. A baby who will grow up and learn to dance on an iPod in a town near you. A peaceful quiet town with out all that Gangster Rap with eardrum breaking thumps. Thin on this in 2006.
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August 15th, 2008
Q: I have a great idea for an amazing new product. There is nothing like it on the market and no competition that I can find. I think it will be a huge success and so does everyone I tell the idea to. I’m willing to bet the farm on this one. What do you think my chances of success are?
A: I’m a lousy poker player, mainly because I can’t help grinning like the village idiot when blessed with a winning hand or frowning like a sad clown when dealt a dud.
I also never make odds on the success of “amazing new products” because more often than not the only thing that’s amazing is the way the product is totally ignored by the buying public. In my software business there have been times when we came up with what we thought was an amazing idea for an amazing piece of software - a piece of software so amazing, in fact, that we knew that all mankind would sit up and take notice, then line up to write us checks.
After hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars spent developing the product we were amazed to find that the only people who thought the software was truly amazing was us.
We made mankind yawn. Quite an amazing accomplishment, if I do say so myself.
It worries me that you say there is nothing like your idea on the market. While you may think that is a good thing, it might actually mean that there is no market for your product. The same holds true for a lack of competition. A total lack of competition might mean that there is no demand for such a product.
Rarely does a product come along that revolutionizes an industry. Rarer still does a product create a new industry on its own. So, how can you tell if your amazing new product really is worth gambling on? The truth is, you can never be 100% certain that your idea will sell. No matter how enamored you are of it or how much your friends rave about it, the success of a new idea depends on a number of factors, many of which are beyond your control.
Such factors include:
The viability of the idea: is this really a product that you could build a company around? Does the idea have the potential to generate revenue or customer loyalty? The people implementing the idea: the right team can make even a mediocre product a huge success (ever heard of Windows). Inversely, a bad team couldn’t sell ice water in Hades. Pick your team carefully. The right people really do make all the difference. The demand for such a product in the marketplace: will this product fill a need or satisfy an itch? The competition: is the market already crowded with competitors? If so, what will it take to move your product ahead of the pack? The depth of your pockets: even an amazing product requires a ton of cash to go from drawing board to store shelf. The availability of other resources required to take the product from the drawing board to the consumer: do you have the time, the drive, the perseverance, the knowledge, the contacts, the support, and a hundred other things required to bring your amazing idea to fruition? The list wouldn’t be complete without sheer luck and timing. And a thousand other things.
Before you invest too much time and money into your idea, do a little research to determine if it’s an idea that’s really worth gambling on:
Research the market for similar products. Again, if there are no similar products on the market that might mean there is no market for that product. If there truly is nothing exactly like your product, research similar products that fill a similar void in the consumer’s life. Learn all you can about such products: pricing, market share, track record, etc. Research the competition. As mentioned earlier, if there is no competition there may not be a market for a product like yours. If there is competition, research the competition fully (little guys and big guys) to help determine if you can realistically compete for market share. Identify your target customer and ask them for an honest evaluation of the idea and its marketability. Avoid friends and family as they usually just tell you what you want to hear. If your target customer is a 35 year old female, pitch your idea to every 35 year old female you meet and gauge their response. Just don’t break any stalking laws in the name of market research… :o).
The best advice I can give you when it comes to amazing new product ideas it’s best to follow your head and not your heart. It’s a lesson that took me years to learn. If I had a nickel for every amazing new product I’ve invested in I’d go play a few hands of poker.
Here’s to your success!
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August 15th, 2008
Recently, I was trying to explain the reason why I made money in both the Real Estate and the Stock Markets between the years 2000 and 2005, yet the economy was not really doing that great. So I did some research and I found charts that show the Dow Jones industrial average over the last 10 years. I also found charts of the Fed Funds rate and Real Estate home sales over the same period. When I compared the charts I found some interesting correlations between the current real estate market, the fed funds rate and the stock market.
I saw that the last time the Real Estate market had so much inventory was in January of 1996. When I looked at the Fed funds rate in that same year, it was also rising between 4.75 and 5 percent and that is where they are now exactly 10 years later. So if we look at the stock market at that time it was also reacting the same way as it now. With all of this research, if you believe in the money movement strategy which stipulates that wealthy investors tend to move money between stocks, bonds, real estate and money markets. Where do you think the Stock market is heading? I strongly believe that we are going to see some very bullish activity in the stock market over the next 2 or 3 years.
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