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How to Present Like Steve Jobs

Apple's CEO is the most charismatic pitchman in business today. Learn how to apply his secrets to your next presentation. Ignite Your Enthusiasm Goal: Engage your listeners’ passion by tapping into your own. ...

Tags: Media players, Digital media, Carmine Gallo, Steve Jobs, mantra, vision, speaker, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, digital music player, phone, music player, digital music, CEO, career, computer, video

Articles 2008-04-02

Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gallo |Book Brief

The book "Fire Them Up" reveals the seven simple secrets of motivation as practiced by the world's most inspiring business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators. Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo shows how improving your communication skills will empower your professional – and personal-- life.

Tags: Leadership, communication skill, motivation

Videos 2007-12-20

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CV roars backs, 12-0 in HAAL

HAYWARD -- The Castro Valley High softball team clinched at least a share of the Hayward Area Athletic League and remained undefeated in HAAL play Tuesday by defeating a feisty Tennyson squad 8-2. The Trojans can clinch the HAAL title outright and the automatic berth for...

Articles 2008-05-07

Drexel lacrosse comes up short

Watching an opponent celebrate a championship on your home turf is bad enough. It's even worse when you believe you let the game slip away. That was the reality for the Drexel men's lacrosse team last night after Hofstra scored two goals in the final two minutes of regulation to...

Articles 2008-05-04

15 dead, up to 40 missing in Brazilian shipwreck: official

RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — At least 15 people drowned Sunday and as many as 40 remained missing after an overcrowded boat capsized in the Solimoes river in the northwestern Brazilian state of Amazonas, the Brazilian navy said. Emergency services rushed to the scene near Manacapuru, 80 kilometres...

Articles 2008-05-04

UTD WILL SCHO ALL THE WAY

MANCHESTER UNITED don't want to do anything the easy way this season. Losing to Chelsea last week gave them a little boost in the Premier League title race but I can't see United slipping up. Some may have thought that defeat would...

Articles 2008-05-04

Local Man Rescues Family, Earns GEICO Community Volunteer of the Year Award

OTTAWA, Ohio -- Rex Johnson of Ottawa, Ohio, was the honored recipient at today's GEICO Volunteer Service Awards ceremony at GEICO's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Johnson, a claims adjuster for GEICO since 2005, has volunteered for 12 years with two local fire departments in McGuffey and Ottawa. He...

Articles 2008-05-02

Shuttle rocket motor tested

PROMONTORY, Box Elder County -- NASA strapped its oldest Space Shuttle rocket motor to a concrete slab Thursday and lit the match, initiating a two-minute burn. Rocket scientists conducted 32 tests during the firing, primarily checking the motor's performance compared to the performance of a new motor....

Articles 2008-05-02

What's so great about a review

I strongly disagree with reviewer Fred Edwords' statement regarding chimpanzees (What's so Great About Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza, March/April Humanist). Edwords writes, "The more we learn about these amazing animals, the more similarities we find between them and us, and the less unique humans become." Oh really? Have...

Articles 2008-05-01

All choked up

Not too long ago and not for very long I dated a guy who made fun of the way I pronounce (OK, mispronounce) the word artichoke. This was the first time I realized I've been saying "arty-choke" all my life. I immediately tried to break this habit, until...

Articles 2008-05-01

The rain makers

Mankind has always wanted to control the weather. Now, scientists think they've found a way. By Rob Sharp Whether it is the Chinese firing weapons into the sky to make it rain, or the Thai government setting up a "royal rainmaking project", the science of weather modification...

Articles 2008-04-30

Scholes fires Man Utd into Champions League final

MANCHESTER, England AFP — Paul Scholes has scored dozens of crucial goals for Manchester United over the years but none of them has been quite as precious as the sublime strike that sent Sir Alex Ferguson's squad into the Champions League final. Scholes, along with Roy Keane, famously...

Articles 2008-04-29

Football: HOT HARRIS

JAY SIMPSON, Neil Harris and Tony Craig all scored to dent 10- man Carlisle's promotion hopes and secure Millwall's League One status. Victory for the Cumbrians could have seen them promoted had results elsewhere gone their way, but instead they ended up on the wrong end...

Articles 2008-04-27

Football: HOT HARRIS

JAY SIMPSON, Neil Harris and Tony Craig all scored to dent 10- man Carlisle's promotion dream and secure Millwall's League One status. Victory for the Cumbrians could have seen them promoted had results elsewhere gone their way, but instead they ended up on the wrong end...

Articles 2008-04-27

Standoff ends peacefully near Jack London Square

OAKLAND -- An armed man holding a woman and two children hostage in an apartment complex near Jack London Square surrendered peacefully to police at 4 a.m. Saturday, hours after the incident began, authorities said. The woman and the children, ages 3 and 7, were unharmed....

Articles 2008-04-27

Sheriff's raids draw fire

GUADALUPE, Ariz. -- The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities' mayors and other community leaders. While Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has legal authority to enforce the...

Articles 2008-04-27

Damages reach $35 million in '01 fire

A protracted court fight over the massive 2001 fire in Bridgeport ended this week with a $1 million agreement, setting total damages at $35 million. Five hours into jury deliberations after a five-week class-action trial, lawyers for the plaintiffs and a Souderton electrical contractor agreed to settle the lone outstanding...

Articles 2008-04-25

Cops still seeking clues in cabbie's death

It's a crime with no witnesses, but plenty of victims. Detectives believe that Benjamin Elder was murdered in his taxi in North Philadelphia Sunday morning because someone wanted the petty cash he was carrying. No one has come forward to identify the person who fired a single bullet into...

Articles 2008-04-22

Letters: The burden of a criminal background

IJUST WANT to ask why is it that employers can't hire individuals with criminal backgrounds? My husband can't get a job because of this. How can someone who wants to turn his life around not get a second chance? If he lies about his background, he gets fired, and if...

Articles 2008-04-21

Football: ROYALS COPP IT

IT'S FAIR to say Hollywood hard man Vinnie Jones will not be considered for the post of Reading's new motivational coach. Jones recorded a special video from his home in California that was played to the Royals players throughout the week in a bid to fire...

Articles 2008-04-20