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Talking to yourself
There are the benefits for the print editors, argues Nicholas Jones, in understanding the production process for the spoken word.
If listeners are going to invest 10 or 15 hours listening to an audiobook, then the production team owes it to them to invest attention to detail. Our role as a production company is to select a reader, and then support that reader so that between us we achieve a recording that expresses as closely as possible our perception of the author’s intentions. In the case of non-fiction, that means ensuring the logical flow of the explanation or arguments, and in the case of fiction it means ensuring that the sound- pictures are well drawn, with every character distinct appropriately voiced. The listener should be immersed in the ideas or the story and any distractions by jerky reading or wrong pronunciations are a failure on the reader’s and producer’s part.
Recording an audiobook well is as much a performance as a stage play or a film.
The reader of an audiobook has to be utterly in sympathy with what he or she is reading. Pulitzer Prizer winner Eudora Welty wrote in her autobiography, “Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn’t hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn’t my mother’s voice, or the voice of any person I can identify certainly not my own. It is human, but inward and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself. The cadence, whatever it is that asks you to believe, the feeling that resides in the printed word, reaches me through the reader-voice. I have supposed, but never found out, that this is the case with all readers-to read as listeners- and with all writers, to write as listeners.”
I thinks that encapsulates what a really good audiobook should achieve- we provide a physical embodiment of that internal voice for listeners. Sometimes, a well-informed interpretation can even enhance understanding and offer more to the listener than the reading of the printed book would have done.
Author: Nicholas Jones
Source: Frankfurt Show Daily
Summer Schools
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Top 10 ways to become a Successful Businessman
How To be A Success
10) You must be passionate about what you’re trying to achieve. With passion, both your team and your customers are more likely to truly believe in what you are trying to do.
9) Focus intensely on your opportunity. The companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. Stay focused on the mission.
8) Success only comes from hard work. Behind every overnight success lies years of hard work and sweat. People with luck will tell you there’s no easy way to achieve success—and that luck comes to those who work hard.
7) The road to success is going to be long, so remember to enjoy the journey. Everyone will teach you to focus on goals, but successful people focus on the journey and celebrate the milestones along the way.
6) Trust your gut instinct more than any spreadsheet.There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security.
5) Be flexible but persistent. Every entrepreneur has to be agile in order to perform. You have to continually learn and adapt as new information becomes available. At the same time you have to remain persistent to the cause and mission of your enterprise.
4) Rely on your team.It’s a simple fact: No individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complementary skill sets. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic bunch of people and it’s very hard for them to believe that they are not good at certain things. It takes a lot of soul searching to find your own core skills and strengths. After that, find the smartest people you can who complement your strengths.
3) Execution, execution, execution. Unless you are the smartest person on earth, it’s likely that many others have thought about doing the same thing you’re trying to do. Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
2)Be honest and show integrity. Honesty and integrity are two qualities which need to be at the core of everything we do.
1) Appreciate your success by giving back. Don’t ever forget this part, arguably the most important part, of defining yourself as a true success. By the time you achieve your success, lots of people will have helped you along the way. You’ll learn, as I have, that you rarely get a chance to help the people who helped you because in most cases, you don’t even know who they were.
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History of Halloween
1st October- World Vegetarian Day!
A vegetarian, by definition, eats no meat. That includes fish and other forms of seafood. World Vegetarian Day encourages us all to eat our vegetables and fruits. Countless studies have proven that a diet filled with fruits and vegetables is good for our health. Vegetarians, have taken this path either for their health. There are plenty of groups and organizations that support the vegetarian effort. Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, or “weekday vegetarian,” going veggie-friendly can be good for both your physical and mental health. Science Daily notes that a vegetarian diet is associated with low blood pressure and cholesterol, better heart health and even lower rates of cancer.
Reasons to go Vegetarian:
a) Vegetarians are about 40% less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters.
b) If you want to get healthy, you should start with food! Replace cancer-causing, fat, pesticide and hormone-laced meats with cancer-preventing, anti-inflammatory, cholesterol lowering foods like apples, broccoli, blueberries, carrots, flax, garlic, leafy greens, nuts and sweet potatoes.
c) Because our meat and dairy-centric diet is woefully lacking in health-giving fiber, contained only in plant-based foods. A minimum of 35 grams per day is recommended;
Here are the celebrities who are vegetarians:
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Is your Child Ready for School?
By law, children must be enrolled in school by a particular age. Just as children begin to work or talk at different ages, they also develop the psychological and social aptitudes necessary for school at varying ages.
In addition, many parents and educators feel that schools need to be ready for children. Of course, the reality is that a match between your child’s development and the school’s resources and adaptability may not exist.
When you’re deciding when your child should start school, consider your child’s unique abilities and local circumstances. Gather accurate information about your child’s development, especially communication skills, including language development and the ability to listen; social skills and the ability to get along with other children and adults; and physical skills from running and playing to using a crayon or pencil. Talking with your child’s pediatrician, preschool teacher, and/or childcare provider can provide some useful, objective observations and information.
Some schools may conduct their own tests to evaluate your youngster’s abilities. So-called readiness tests tend to concentrate on academic skills, but most usually evaluate other aspects of development.
When you or the school identify some areas of your child’s development that seem to lag behind, use this information to help you and the school plan for the special attention that your child may need.
Parents can encourage their children’s cognitive, physical, and emotional development before they enter school. Kindergarten teachers appreciate having children who are enthusiastic and curious in approaching new activities, can follow directions, are sensitive to other children’s feelings, and can take turns and share. Some specific skills that will make your child’s first year at school go smoothly include her ability to:
- Play well with other children with minimal fighting or crying.
- Remain attentive and quiet when being read a story.
- Use the toilet on her own.
- Successfully use zippers and buttons.
- Say her name, address, and telephone number.
There are great benefits to reading to your child beginning in infancy. Help your child acquire some basic skills, like recognizing and remembering letters, numbers, and colors. Expose her to enriching and learning experiences like trips to the museum, or enroll her in community art or science programs. To promote social-skills development, encourage her to play with other children of both sexes in the neighborhood and to participate in organized community-sponsored activities.
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5 Oversized English Words
- Contraremonstrance – a remonstrance to a remonstrance. It is a lovely word, and would appear to be useful at so many points in one’s life that it is odd that it has never quite caught on.
- Antepenultimate -coming before the next to last in any series
- Contrasuggestible – likely to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the contrary . it looks like a fancy word for describing that an adult is acting like a child
- Epistemophilia– love of knowledge; specifically: excessive striving for or preoccupation with knowledge
- Pandiculation – a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep)
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MELTING CARS, THE “WALKIE SCORCHIE” SKYSCRAPER
MELTING CARS, THE “WALKIE SCORCHIE” SKYSCRAPER
The 525-foot skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street in London, England earned the nickname “Walkie Talkie” thanks to its unique design. Slim at the bottom and wider at the top, locals could not help noticing its similarities to a handheld, two-way radio. However the Walkie Talkie also has another nickname- Walkie Scorchie.
Construction began on the skyscraper in 2011 amidst controversy surrounding its appearance; it was complete enough for its first tenant to take up residence in May of 2014. Construction finished in August of that same year. However, long before completion, in September of 2013, the director of Moderna Contracts, Martin Lindsay, parked his car across the street from the south side of the Walkie Talkie building. His Jaguar XJ was in a parking space there for an hour or two before he returned to find the plastic mirror, Jaguar emblem, and other parts of his car had been melted by sunlight reflected from the Walkie Talkie.
Lindasy told the BBC about his experience returning to his car that day : “I was walking down the road and saw a photographer taking photos and asked, ‘what’s happening?’ The photographer asked me ‘have you seen that car? The owner won’t be happy.’ I said ‘I am the owner. Crikey, that’s awful.’”
Fortunately for Lindsay, the construction company owned up to the damage and left a note on his windshield asking for him to give them a call. They paid for the repairs, costing £946, or about $1,400. But Lindsay’s luxury Jaguar was not the only casualty of the Walkie Talkie’s so-called ‘death ray.’ A van owned by heating and air conditioning engineer Eddie Cannon received similar treatment. He stated of the inside of his van“… every bit of plastic on the left hand side and everything on the dashboard has melted, including a bottle… that looks like it has been baked.”
Certain businesses on the southern side of the skyscraper also sustained heat damage, including cracked tiles and singed carpets. One business owner even fried an egg and toasted a baguette in the light from the building.
So what’s going on here? The south side of the Walkie Talkie curves into a concave shape, resulting in light reflected from a large area being concentrated into a small one.
Architect Rafael Viñoly designed the building, knowing that the concave on the south side would have this problem. (In fact, another building he designed in Las Vegas has a very similar problem scorching hotel guests, more on this in the Bonus Facts below.) But he and his team did not expect the building to produce nearly as much heat as it does at certain times on sunny days. Viñoly told the Guardian: “When it [the problem] was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about 36 degrees [Celsius]… But it’s turned out to be more like 72 degrees [Celsius].” (That would be about 161 degrees Fahrenheit.)
After paying to fix the damages done by their building, the owners of the Walkie Talkie installed a temporary sunshade in early 2014. This device consisted of a dark screen that prevented the reflected sunlight from causing damage. The permanent fix consisted of installing horizontal aluminum fins throughout the offending south side, which diminished the view a bit from inside the building, but also killed the “death ray”.
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Quick And Healthy Back-To-School Breakfasts For Kids
It’s hard to believe that summer is nearly over and school will be starting soon. Breakfast has been proven to raise IQ scores, and now is the best time to get your children used to waking up early for a healthy meal before heading to class.
(As an additional bonus, take the time to sit with your children and they’ll also be less likely to be obese.)
Classic breakfast favorites get a healthy makeover.
Almond Pancakes with Sour Cherry Syrup
Buckwheat Crepes with Honeyed Ricotta and Sautéed Plums
Once you’ve tried homemade yogurt, we promise you’ll never go back to store-bought. Prepare this in the evening and you’ll have delicious breakfast ready for you the next day.
Skip cereal and try one of these whole grains with yogurt for a healthier start.
Popped Amaranth and Toasted Wheat Berry Fool
Cinnamon-Scented Breakfast Quinoa
Chia Seed Porridge with Orange & Yogurt
Bake one of these breads, bars or muffins ahead of time for a portable breakfast or snack that lasts for days.
Golden Raisin Oat Bran Muffins
Don’t forget the incredible, edible egg.
Vegetable and Feta Baked Frittata
by Louise Hart
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