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USA Cycling has announced that Bobby Lea, a 2006 graduate of Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been chosen to compete on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team in London, England. This year's Olympic team features 24 male and female athletes across the disciplines of road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, and bicycle motocross. Lea will compete in the track event, which begins Thursday, August 2.
Lea made his Olympic debut in the 2008 games in Beijing, China, where he finished 16th in the Madison. Since then, he has earned four national championships, including winning gold in the Individual Pursuit and the Omnium at the 2011 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships. He also registered strong results at the UCI Track World Cups, placing 14th and 15th in two different 2011 World Cup events.
While at Penn State Lehigh Valley, Lea majored in business management and trained under legendary coach, Jim Young. He has been racing in Trexlertown for Team Pure Energy Cycling - ProAirHFA since 1991. Since starting the sport at the age of 4, Lea has accumulated over 40 national championships, primarily as a track rider. He currently resides in Topton, Pennsylvania.


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Why is international research on the prevalence of autism important?
"Got Questions?" is a new weekly feature on our blog to address the desire for scientific understanding in our community. We received over 3000 responses when we asked what science questions were on your mind. We answered a few here and the Autism Speaks Science staff will address the other themes we received in this weekly post.
Evidence suggests that autism knows no cultural, ethnic, or geographic boundaries. It affects 1 in every 110 children (or about 1% of children) in the United States and converging research findings from around the world suggest that autism may affect 1% of the global population. However, most autism epidemiology studies to date have taken place in select areas of relatively developed nations and communities and have used strikingly different study designs that complicate comparison across studies. Further, very little is known about the occurrence of autism in low-resource territories with limited to no public health capacity and infrastructure. By working to address these barriers and to facilitate well-designed epidemiology research around the world, investigators can begin to answer questions surrounding the occurrence of autism globally.
International research can help address questions regarding the causes of autism and changes in its occurrence rates over time. Specifically, by comparing autism prevalence across nations, researchers can generate clues about the involvement of genetic risk factors or environmental exposures. International studies create opportunities to study autism in different ethnic groups, in special populations (e.g., those that are genetically closely related), and among populations with specific or uncommon environmental exposures (e.g., certain pollutants) not found elsewhere.
Additionally, some nations have special resources, such as health registries and surveillance systems that can generate large datasets and make previously impossible studies on the causes of autism possible. Autism Speaks is currently supporting the iCARE project which combines data from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Israel, and Australia to investigate pre- and peri-natal risk factors for autism.
Just as autism's high prevalence rate drove its emergence as a public health priority in the United States, children in nations around the world will benefit when their governments recognize that autism is not a rare disorder. Epidemiology research can help increase awareness about autism and help government agencies develop informed policies regarding care of individuals and families with autism and other developmental disorders within their country.
In addition to epidemiology, it is vitally important to investigate additional areas relevant to public health research and dissemination. Specifically, understanding the economic impact of autism can help researchers and advocates gauge the impact of autism on societies, including the quality of life of affected individuals and families. Equally important, this information can serve as a means to promote increased access to low-cost and widely available services, such as through healthcare insurance reform in the United States. Additionally, the impact of early diagnosis and early intervention on the economic burden of autism can be assessed to further make the case for increased service support to both general and underserved populations in the U.S. and aboard.
International autism research will not only shed light on the scope of the autism challenge around the world but will also serve to raise global awareness of autism. As this increased awareness can help galvanize communities, epidemiologic findings have the potential to influence government, public health agency, and medical organization policies and practices, thus benefiting previously underserved communities. In low-resource countries in particular, these efforts will function to enhance the infrastructure and capacity necessary for ongoing autism research as well as for services. International research may also help uncover previously undiscovered genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the development of autism spectrum disorders, thereby further benefiting the scientific community and ultimately, affected individuals and their families.

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This section contains a selection of Dr. Breggin's scientific articles spanning 1964 to the present. They can be arranged chronologically in order to facilitate an overview of his work over the years.
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Lobotomies: an alert (1972) 02/01/1972
"Lobotomies: An Alert." (letter) American Journal of Psychiatry 129:98-99, 1972.
"Neuropathology and Cognitive Dysfunction from ECT." Psychopharmacology Bulletin 22:476-479, 1986.
Electroshock therapy and brain damage: the acute organic brain syndrome as treatment (1984) 01/01/1984
"Electroshock Therapy and Brain Damage: The Acute Organic Brain Syndrome as Treatment." Behavior and Brain Sciences 7:24-25, 1984.
"Empathic Self-Transformation and Love in Individual and Family Therapy." The Humanistic Psychologist, 27:267-282, 1999.
Precious the crow (1987) 01/01/1987
"Precious the Crow." Voices (Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists) 23:32-42, Summer, 1987.
The return of ECT 01/01/1992
"The Return of ECT." Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 3 (March#1), 12-17, 1992.
"Shock Treatment III: Resistance in the 1980's." Electroshock: The Case Against, Dr. Robert F. Morgan, editor. Morgan Foundation Publishers, Fair Oaks, CA. pp. 43-56. 1999.
"Coercion of Voluntary Patients in an Open Hospital." Archives of General Psychiatry 10:173-181, 1964. Reprinted with a new introduction in Edwards, R.B. (ed): Psychiatry and Ethics. Prometheus Books, 1982, and in Edwards, R.B. (ed): Ethics and Psychiatry. Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 1997.
"Parallels Between Neuroleptic Effects and Lethargic Encephalitis: The Production of Dyskinesias and Cognitive disorders." Brain and Cognition 23:8-27, 1993.
Lobotomy (1972) 01/01/1972
"Lobotomy." (co-authored by Daniel Greenburg). Science and Government Report, March 15, 1972, Volume II, No. 2, pp 1-4.


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Chicago in Shock at Elimination From 2016 Games
By Douglas Belkin, Matthew Futterman and Thomas Polansek
A huge gasp rose from several thousand people gathered to watch the voting on three enormous television screens set up on Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago as the IOC announced Chicago had been eliminated on the first round of voting.
"I'm totally shocked, totally shocked," said Kathie Stellman, who took a train from her home in the suburb of Elk Grove Village on Friday morning to watch the vote. "I am disappointed, I didn't think it would be over so soon. I guess we'll go get lunch."
"All the air just went out of the city," said longtime Chicagoan Nancy Newman, 43. "This would have put us on the map. We're always known as the Second City."
"It's like a slap in face, absolutely incredible," said Jim Podojil, 67, who was also at Daley Plaza. "I really thought we would win. Once Obama said he was going, I thought he would give one of his impassioned speeches and this would be a couple hours of merry making."
Not all Chicagoans were disappointed.
"My hope is that we'll get back to paying attention to the problems that are facing the city on an ongoing basis," said Andrew Huff, editor and publisher of Gaper's Block, an independent Web site that covers local Chicago news. "We can concentrate on 2009 and 2010 instead of 2016. There are so many things we should be paying attention to rather than whether we're going to host an event in the future."
Before the announcement, Mr. Huff decided to part ways with the rest of Chicago media and keep his Web site mostly Olympics-free Friday. He said that in the months before today's announcement, there was too much news coverage about the Olympics in Chicago with few new details.
In Copenhagen, the leader of the Chicago opposition group No Games Chicago expressed relief and concern. "We felt all along that the problems facing Chicago wouldn't be solved by throwing parties and building concrete sports facilities along the lakefront," said Tom Tresser, a Chicago college professor. "But the question is, what now?
The result is a blow to President Barack Obama, who lent the full force of the White House to the effort and flew to Copenhagen overnight to deliver a seven-minute speech to the IOC Friday morning.
In addition, Michelle Obama spent much of this week in Copenhagen personally lobbying IOC members.
Chicago's boosters spent $48 million on the four-year campaign but, as always faced the obstacle of geographical loyalty. More than 40% of the IOC is European, and with competition from Rio, the U.S. could not count on support of members from South America, who were trying to bring the Olympics to their continent for the first time.
Chicago's 2016 budget also relied on some $4.8 billion in funding from the private sector, while other candidate cities had promises of billions of dollars of financial guarantees.
Many traders on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade started clapping and cheering when they learned Chicago was out. The news broke on a big television screen that hovers over the open outcry pits. Many traders were worried that costs would spin out of control and residents would be left holding the bag. Some said the failed bid was an "embarrassment" for the city after its strong push.
Livestock trader Joe Ocrant, president of Oak Investment Group, said the loss was disappointing because the Olympics would have pumped money into the city's infrastructure, created jobs and benefited merchants. However, he said, "from the standpoint of Chicago residents, it would have been very cumbersome getting around because of major construction and other complications that would've taken place to accommodate the games."
The markets didn't dwell on the surprising outcome. Instead, they remained focused on the ongoing harvest of massive corn and soybean crops. "We live and die on a daily basis here," said Vic Lespinasse, a veteran CBOT floor trader and analyst for grainanalyst.com. "What's going to be happening seven years from now doesn't really affect us."
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Yet another success story for Welsh rugby today as the national team is the first to reach 10,000 mindless stupid penalties in a season. And it's only November.
"This is a great day for pigheadedly thinking the referee is looking in a different direction from the ball for 2 continuous minutes, which to be fair, they often do" beamed Ryan Jones. "We had thought that Jonathan Thomas' cloak of invisibility may confuse the officials, but luckily this was countered by him wearing a smoking jacket, dark glasses and lots of bandages around his head."
Head three-pointer was One of the Bishop brothers. True to his name, he runs diagonally into any penalty creating opportunities. "It's a technique that is becoming a bit of a trade mark. At least it would be if it wasn't swallowed up in the shere number of insanely dunderheaded penalties the team manages to give away. We're currently so bad, we're hoping to be sponsored by the IRB Reffing Panel."


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Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively, address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of intriguing gaps.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740by Steven N. Zwicker
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.
The Cambridge Companion to John Drydenby Steven N. Zwicker
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden's works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden's life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.
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Just because you're a fashion illustrator doesn't mean there's no place for you to exhibit. You don't have to be a painter to show your work, and fashion art is a wonderful form of commercial art that many people enjoy. Do a little research in your area and see whether any galleries have an interest.
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SACRAMENTO — As oil companies continue to reap record profits amid strained state revenues, a pair of Democratic lawmakers are hoping to tap into their deep pockets by installing an oil severance tax that could relieve growing pressures to cut more state services.
Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Long Beach, introduced a bill Monday called the Fair Share Act, that would impose a 10 percent oil severance fee on extractions from California wells to bring in $1.5 billion to the state's coffers.
A similar bill that has already cleared one committee, by Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, would impose a 9.9 percent fee, but would earmark the revenues to higher education funding.
The attempt to sock it to oil companies is nothing new: lawmakers tried a couple times earlier this year — even with the blessing of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at one point. But Republican lawmakers, who would need to provide three votes in each legislative chamber to reach the two-thirds vote threshold for raising taxes, have refused to consider it.
Nava said that since the impact of this year's budget cuts are just now being felt — with cuts in classrooms across the state, and in services ranging from nursing care to parks — Republican lawmakers will begin to hear more from their constituents. They will consider Nava's bill in a newly ordered special session on tax reform.
"Oil companies are getting a free ride," said Nava, surrounded at a Capitol news conference by representatives of school employees, health care providers, environmentalists and seniors. "We should not be so special. At a time when California families are feeling the bruising economic pinch, oil companies continue to be some of the most profitable companies in the world."
California is the only major oil-producing state — including Texas, Louisiana, Alaska, Wyoming and Oklahoma, the states that produce 80 percent of the nation's oil supply — that does not charge a severance tax.
But, a taxpayer group said that oil companies are already paying taxes for producing oil. They pay income tax on their profits, a regulatory fee of 7 cents a barrel that goes to the Department of Conservation; they pay an annual personal property tax on equipment such as oil drills, extraction equipment, pipelines. They also pay a property tax on the value of underground oil and a sales tax when oil producers purchase equipment.
"If you add an oil severance tax, that would decrease the value of oil underground because there's less value for the oil that's taxed," said David Kline, spokesman for the California Taxpayer Association. "And that would mean millions in lost property taxes for local governments."
Nava's $1.5 billion figure is based on a $70 cost per barrel of oil, just under the cost of a barrel of oil in California, which is currently at $76.
Torrico's bill, AB656, is awaiting action in the Assembly Revenue & Taxation committee. It seeks a 9.9 percent extraction fee and would direct all revenues into higher education. He's in the process of collecting 100,000 signatures from students calling for the tax on eight college campuses and expects to present it to the Legislature in January.
"For the first time in history, we'll be spending more money on prisons than higher education," Torrico said. "We're cutting education, raising fees and turning away 30,000 applicants from California State Universities. This says to oil companies that they've had a free ride in California for a long time while we're having state garage sales."
Nava's bill would forbid oil companies from raising gas prices to make up for the losses and requires the Board of Equalization to analyze any price increase at the pump to make sure they are based on other costs. If not, the state's attorney general would be empowered to take action, Nava said.
"There won't be any justification for increasing the price of gas because if you take every drop of California crude, it's seven-tenths of 1 percent of the entire world market," Nava said. "The price of gas has nothing to do with refineries or supplies. It's primarily set by future's traders."
The Securities and Exchange Commission is working on rules and regulations to restrict future's traders from artificially inflating the cost of gas.
The state Controller has estimated that state revenues will be down by another $1 billion by next year, and concern is building among lawmakers that they will have to add to the $60 billion they have sliced out of state spending throughout the past two years.
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Islington council is warning its vulnerable residents that things are about to get tougher for them as the government axes the Local Welfare Provision Grant.
The £172 million national scheme, which the council says it uses its share of to provide essential goods and small cash payments to residents in crisis, is to be scrapped from 2015/16.
The council says it is on target to spend all of its 2013/14 allocation of £1.2m and expects to do the same with next year's pot.
Islington uses the funds to provide crisis grants through its resident support scheme, which includes other funding pots such as discretionary housing payments.
Cllr Andy Hull, the council's executive member for finance and performance, said: "This is another big blow dealt by the government to Islington Council, local charities, the homeless and the vulnerable.
"We've been using our resident support scheme to shield our poorest residents from the worst impacts of the government's welfare reforms.
"All the money we have spent from the fund has helped those in genuine need – keeping families together, sustaining tenancies and helping residents on the breadline to survive."
With no money offered to compensate the council for the £1.2m a year cut, the council has complained that the funding axe follows the government's decision to cut more than £20m (11%) from the local authority's core grant next year alone (2014/15).
In 2012, concerned that aspects of the welfare grant fund were to be devolved with a reduced budget, the council teamed up with a local grant-giving charity, the Cripplegate Foundation, to look at how Islington residents' needs could best be met, which resulted in the creation of the resident support scheme (RSS).
RSS recipients have included 964 people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless, 408 who have a long-term limiting health condition, 503 who have a mental health problem and 309 with a physical disability.
Kristina Glenn, director at the Cripplegate Foundation, said: "Cripplegate Foundation is an independent funder that works in Islington to tackle poverty and inequality. We set up our pioneering Resident Support Scheme with Islington Council in April 2013.
"It is reaching the most vulnerable Islington residents, providing practical help and transforming people's lives. It is cost effective and works well. Any threat to this scheme is alarming and could impact on the lives of Islington's poorest."
One resident who has been helped by the RSS is 'Maria' (not her real name).
'Maria' was subjected to severe abuse at the hands of her husband and his family. Due to her partner's control of her finances she had no money and could not pay for a new home for her and her young child.
With nothing to her name, and no relatives in the UK, she fled to a Solace Women's Aid refuge taking only what she could carry.
Solace arranged a lease on an unfurnished flat and made a crisis grant application to Islington's RSS for essential furniture such as an oven and fridge, as well as a bed so Maria could provide a real home to her child.
Solace offered her three months' support - working closely with the RSS - ensuring she was linked in with employment support, money advice and education to manage her long term circumstances.
The security Solace Women's Aid and Islington's RSS brings has allowed Maria and her child to begin the task of rebuilding their lives.
Cllr Andy Hull added: "This decision is short-sighted and will cost councils, residents and the government in the long run. We have not been properly consulted on this decision or how it might affect the most disadvantaged, whom the scheme exists to help.
"This is yet another large sum of money for us to try to find and will mean more tough choices to prioritise support for Islington's most vulnerable residents.
"The government is making the cuts, but local authorities have to implement them."
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Oh I'm sorry FC and I don't know what to say except its not over for 2 more days, they could be later implanters, and each preg is different. I'm not trying to give you false hope though.
Just take some time away from google like you said, and from here. But just know we are thinking of you and if it is a bfn then you will need time to get your head around it, try and move on, and maybe pray for a natural miracle. Can you plan a break/holiday for some time away if needed.
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Well ladies not long got back from my app was 5.30pm birmingham womens
Not sure how I feal to be honest they said its 35% sucess rates then went onto tell
us the things that can go wrong ... They said there is only a very few women that have any eggs to freeze . I GUESS I just thought id have some left over as dont have good fealing that its going to work first time .expecially after they said this eve they only put one back if your under the age of 37 apparently is a new guidline .
I guess my head just full of alot of info this eve and to top it off hubby and i had falling out earlier today So that always upsets me and plays on my mind for a few days
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I don't get why it's like a postcode lottery, I have had two put back in and I'm 29 :/ it's so unfair, it shoul be the same everywhere!
There is a lot that can go wrong but think of the final outcome if it works. I don't know your situation but I wish you luck and hope whatever you decide works for you x
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Quinny, 1 is the new guideline for all regardless of age. I would have been all do two until attending that info day last Saturday & they showed the stats of problems with 2. One girl recounted her story where she to treatment in the US & put 4 back. Lost 2, & the other two were born with physical problems due to being squashed in the womb as there were 4 fighting for space etc.......
FC I know how you are feeling & i guess yo know your own body etc but try & stay positive until you get that definitive test. You never know.....
Nutty, still on a high for you, it's wonderful! Is this your 4th attempt? Maybe we will both be lucky. Sprinkle some of that baby dust my way please!
Hello to everyone else, hope you are all ok today, even all the stalkers!
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Quinny, they went over the same stuff with me. I think it's so u know what u r getting into. I think I thought it would be some miracle cure before. As Faye says think of the outcome if it does work. Someone on here gave me good advice, and said try to keep balanced, and not swing too much one way or the other. It is hard and some days you will feel more positive than others. I know for me I thought I would always wonder what if if we didn't try. It is a lot to take in and I hope u managed to get a good sleep on it.
Fc really hope it isn't over for u. Will be thinking of u. Xx
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Thankyou hun well had good night sleep feal much
better . have called bwh this am and decided go for it
we have consent signing on the 27th march then its all go from there going be put
on long protocol 4amps per day due to low AMH
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Thankyou hun well had good night sleep feal much
better . have called bwh this am and decided go for it
we have consent signing on the 27th march then its all go from there going be put
on long protocol 4amps per day due to low AMH
carnt belive its finaly happening
Good luck hun.fix everything goes well.xxxx
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Morning ladies, Have tested again today and first response is darker and there's a nice strong cross on the clear blue test too Still doesn't stop me worrying, every time I get any kind of cramp it puts me into panic mode. Have been to collect private prescription today for more cyclogest we got them in sainsburys. I cannot believe the difference in price - our clinic charges £24 per box so the six boxes we got today would have cost £144! in sainsburys it cost us £63.33!! What a saving!!
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Hi, as expected af arrived this morning, so its all over.
I was upset this morning but with a little one you have to pick yourself up and carry on. I spent the day with my mum and we talked lots, also talked about it to my sister and a friend which all made me feel so much better.
Trying to see the positives and be thankful for everything we have, going to book a holiday in the sun and get all the vitamins and supplements to see if we can improve dh's sperm count and who knows over the next few years a miracle might just happen.
Its a very strange feeling as I always imagined myself having 3 or 4 children and now I have to kind of grieve for that lost future, but at the same time I feel so lucky and blessed to have a loving, kind, supportive husband and one PERFECT little boy that I get to spend all my time with.
Thank you all for your support, but I guess I'm back to the TTC board now!!
Claire, I really am so happy for you, and I really wish for you to enjoy this pregnancy and have a lovely healthy child.
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1.1A red wine made from this.
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Italian, from nebbia 'mist' (because the grape ripens in the autumn).
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Braised Sea Bass with Peppers and Olives
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5 tablespoons olive oil
6 Chilean sea bass fillets about 6 oz each
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the sauce:
1 cup onions, chopped
6 cloves garlic, thickly sliced
1 cup red pepper, cut into ½" dice
1 cup yellow pepper, cut into ½" (one half inch) dice
20 pitted black olives, halved
20 pitted green olives, halved
2 tablespoons drained capers
2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ cup white wine
½ cup tomato sauce
1 ½ cups clam juice
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (or red wine vinegar?)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh Italian parsley for garnish.
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Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large covered skillet over medium high heat until it is almost smoking. Pat the fish fillets dry and season with salt and pepper. Sear the fish, without jostling for 3-4 minutes, or until a nice brown crust forms. Flip fillets and brown the other side, about 3 minutes. Remove the bass onto a plate and keep warm while preparing the sauce.
Reduce the heat to medium and add the remaining olive oil in the same pan in which you cooked the fish. Sauté the onion, garlic, red and yellow peppers, olives, capers, parsley, basil, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often, for 4-5 minutes until the vegetables soften. Pour in the wine, stirring well to dislodge the brown bits at the bottom of the pan, and reduce by one half, 2-3 minutes.
Add the tomato sauce, clam juice and the lemon juice. Bring the sauce to a boil and simmer for 10-12 minutes to thicken slightly and strengthen the flavors.
Return the fish fillets to the pan with the sauce. Cover and braise gently over low heat until the fish is tender and opaque throughout, about 8 minutes. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and chopped parsley before serving.
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Insights on Corporate Narration from Voice Over London
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
June 20, 2011
Are you interested in narrating for businesses, organizations and educational institutions?
Voice Over London, a Voices.com sponsored networking and meetup group, met last weekend and delved into many facets of narration for businesses and have some takeaways and tips to share!
Find out what we learned and discussed in today's VOX Daily.
Voice Over London Meeting: Corporate Narration
This month, our meetup group discussed corporate narration, the work that is available in this field as well as the seemingly endless opportunities to be an audio ambassador for businesses, institutions and organizations around the world.
If you're new to the concept of Voice Over London, most of our monthly workshops follow this framework:
- Lecture
- Active listening
- Discussion
- Voicing with peer to peer feedback
Each month has a different focus. In the past, we've covered topics such as audio recording technology, the voice as instrument and how to care for the voice, the business of voice over, audiobooks, vocal agility as related to the works of Dr. Seuss, and most recently, corporate narration.
What is Corporate Narration?
Corporate narration is voice over work done for businesses, institutions and organizations that is used to promote, educate and inform customers or those being served, both prospective and present. Corporate narration can also be referred to as business narration or industrial narration.
What Do Corporate Narration Jobs Look Like?
- Informational videos
- Web tutorials
- Employee training
- PowerPoint presentations
- Flash presentations
- Marketing pieces
Voicing Styles
Voiceovers for this application are generally authoritative, didactic, strong and intelligent (yes, intelligent!). Talent are expected to represent the business they are speaking for to engage the listener, and through their interpretation of the script, achieve the goal of an organization.
What Goes On A Corporate Narration Demo?
During our workshop, we listened to some select samples of demos found in the Business category of our Directory at Voices.com. I did my best to present contrasting voice types, ages and styles and was able to curate five demos for the active listening portion of our workshop. The following demos were heard and appreciated:
Mike Cooper - Corporate Video - London Oncology Clinic (UK)
Shelley Baldiga - French Tourism Marketing video
Skip Orem - Business Mashup
Maureen Cavanaugh - Business/Podcast narration
Alain Cadieux - French Canadian Business
The mix of voice types, reads, gender, accents, languages spoken and production elements proved exemplary of just how much work is out there for people who are narrating for business. According to our in-house job statistics, 65% of all voice over jobs posted at Voices.com are business related with another 25% of them falling under education.
When we were listening to the demos listed above, I took the time to not only play Shelley Baldiga's business demo on her profile but to also show her voicing a corporate read in a real-world application for Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare's website as "Shelley" leading visitors through Information Therapy Conversations. Many were impressed that she could go from one kind of read to something completely different.
The primary reason for the differentiation? The audience was different as was the reason why they were being spoken to.
When you narrate for surveys or conversations such as what Shelley has done, and even for extensive telephony work for that matter, you get to present a number of scenarios and paths that the user can explore or make use of. You can liken this to a "choose your own adventure" book and also equate the increased number of prompts or lines to be read with more work and greater pay.
If you'd like the straight-to-the-point version of our takeaways, I've included my points upfront. For a more detailed analysis, read beyond the bullet points.
Many corporate narration pieces are:
- Out of date
- Use amateur talent
- Use in-house talent
- Have poorer production value
- Lack professionalism
- Aren't as effective as they could be
During our discussions about corporate narration, particularly narration that has been heard locally, it was noted that many corporate presentations and training materials are outdated in terms of the video and voice over that accompanies it.
I'm sure you can relate to this where you are if you've ever sat through a training video or the like where the information itself was fine but the way it was presented was either dating itself or the caliber of talent and or production was not on par with what you'd expect from a large corporation or governing body.
Along this theme, Voice Over London member Leslie Pidlubny concurred that some training materials are out of date and also noted that these pieces were produced using individuals at companies internally to do the voice overs and acting.
Some of the programming discussed appeared to have not been updated since the 1980s or 1990s.
On a more encouraging note, if you notice training materials or communications pieces that could stand to be updated, you could be well on your way to being the next voice of that company by providing them with a more professional performance. Finding the right way to communicate that information is key so as not to offend.
That being said, there are many companies who are using different strategies and techniques when crafting their corporate communications pieces.
Scott Thomson asserted that companies who find unique ways to connect with their target audience and present information in an innovative and relevant way, tend to enjoy more success and greater user adoption. One example that he cited was how the Starwood Customer Contact Centre produced a rap video using the information they wanted to communicate to their audience.
Additionally, the point was made that exhibiting a more "national" sound (i.e. not regionalisms) was beneficial to booking corporate narration gigs where voice over is concerned. Many companies want to have a broader appeal and tend to pick talent who have neutral accents so far as their national standard. For instance, this neutral voice could be what you hear in the American Midwest or that "NPR" sound. In Canada, it would be the "CBC" voice or in the UK you could be looking at the "BBC" voice or RP English.
Getting It Right
One question that came up was how one decides which way to take a read in an audition situation. After some discussion, the consensus was that in order to give a focused and meaningful read, you need to first determine who the audience is before you can approach the read with a relevant interpretation where the listener is concerned.
Knowing what a client wants is more than half the battle when it comes to submitting the winning read. Bob Purssglove offered some insight on the topic and recommended when delivering a read, that you as the voice actor always be "At your best and most convincing," so that you can confidently provide the casting director with your best effort.
Bob also suggested that if you don't know how to read a script, take some time to think of 5 ways not to read it and then see what you're left with. Sometimes the process of elimination can help you to identify where you should go (and shouldn't go!) with a read.
That being said, coaching can help immensely for developing interpretation skills and building a framework for.
Doug Jeffery, a student of Terry Daniel of the VoiceOverClub.com, acknowledged that you can't just teach yourself interpretation, relating that "You have to go through the scripts one by one and tear them apart with your teacher. Playbacks are helpful. Sessions with your coach help you to increase your level of confidence with direction and interpretation."
As you may have inferred from Doug's contribution, talent are equipped to apply more intuition, once developed through coaching, to interpret a read.
Do You Have Anything To Add?
Whether you have some tips to share or you'd like to comment on what you read, I'd love to hear from you!
Best wishes,
StephanieRelated Topics: Accent, acting, corporate voice overs, Dr Seuss, French, how to, narration, Voice Over London, Voices.com
- Ashley Hall
- June 20, 2011 3:35 PM
- Shelley Baldiga
- June 20, 2011 7:20 PM
- Ken Budka
- June 21, 2011 10:20 AM
Nice t-shirt Doug! ;-)Posted by:
Great article Stephanie! Very thorough look at the world of corporate narration. I'm so very flattered I was a guinea pig in this one (very interesting to see your own work through another's eyes :). And of course, kudos to voices.com for how well it brings voice talent and corporations together. The site has introduced me to some amazing opportunities, and many repeat clients!Posted by:
Good topic Stephanie, considering the large volume of business and educational jobs that are being posted on Voices.com every day.
One tip that comes to mind from a recent job is to be clear about the style your cient is looking for in the project. As you mentioned in this article, quite often it's one of authority and intelligence although many times you need to be conversational at the same time.
Imagining a person or character from your life like an old professor or favorite Uncle, or perhaps a neighbor who works in the corporate world can help. Many times, you may enjoy a glimpse into their world as just the guy next door, eating a burger and drinking a beer, that their colleagues don't necessarily see.
Now you can form a picture of the businessman by day and guy next door personality at home that you can blend into your character during your conversational read, with authoriity.
Plus it's hard not to smile when you imagine the CEO of Techcorp dancing around with a lampshade on his head at the end of the night...makes for more fun when recording industrials.
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Natural-gas futures slide as warmer weather expected through mid-March signals large US gas inventories aren't set to decline anytime soon.
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Here we are a preparing for the peak Thanksgiving travel period to begin and if you want to get away, you still may be able to do so without paying sky-high fares.
Prices will be higher than sale fares, but you can find fares that are much more reasonable than the regular high prices charged for no-advance-purchase tickets.
People think the farther out you book your ticket, the cheaper the fare, but that isn't necessarily the case. The standard 21-day-advance fare is often higher than sale fares.
Because the airlines want to fill seats, they are offering fares for close to the advance standard fare without the 21-day purchase restriction.
In the days right before Thanksgiving, don't be surprised to see the standard 21-day-advance fares drop to no advance purchase needed for travel anywhere in the U.S.
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