How to Become a Powerful Speaker!!

We are living in a professional world. You might have possess great expertise but you'll always be judged on your
speaking skills. In public speaking the message and you are the same in your audience's mind.
Every time you open your mouth to speak, you have two choices. You can
inspire, make the sale, get your message across, influence others, and
make a powerful impact; or you can bore, lose the sale, embarrass
yourself, or, worst of all, make no impression whatsoever.
Being well-prepared will not only make you a more powerful speaker, it
will instill confidence and help you overcome your public speaking
fears.
Steps to become a powerful speaker:-
- Know your audience - Research and study your audience. Knowing your audience's age range, interest, education, work, ethnic background, and marital status, if it is relevant to your talk is very important.
- What is the end result of your speech - What’s really at the heart of your speech? By knowing that in hand you can create a powerful punch that drives home your message instead of rambling on and losing your audience’s interest.
- Your Competence - If audiences understand your level of knowledge and experience, they will simply trust you more. Every one of us is at his or her best when we talk about something that matters to us deeply.
- Sound - Alter your pitch, volume, speaking rate, inflection, stress and word coloring. The less monotone, the better.
- Grab their attention - Use humor, quotations and rhetorical questions to get them thinking about your speech.
- Be passionate - Believe and care about what you say. If you don't believe on what you talk no one will. Remember people may disagree with you, but they will respect you.
- Be yourself - Imitating other powerful speakers won't cut it for you. Your audience will know immediately and you will loose your trust.
- Be creative - Even if you are speaking to the first graders if you are not creative for their level you will be bored.
- Ditch the technology - When preparing your speech, try saying your thought out loud a few different ways. Keep doing it until you hear the best way. Now write it down. Don't first prepare your lousy presentation or write down an uninspiring story and then practice it. You will bore your audiences to death.
- Share a story - Although not everyone will be able to relate to your story but letting the audiences know that you share their values tend to warm up the audience.
- Delivery Skills - Every audience will be judging you--whether you like it or not, and whether they know they're doing it or not. Approaching your speech as more of a “me-to-you” discussion rather than a full-blown broadcast will make it more manageable (and less stressful) and easier on you.
- Move around - A top speaker uses the maximum space given to him to deliver his speech. Use your hands and gestures to engage the audience visually.
- Don't let technology overpower your speech - PowerPoint presentations are great for making specific points, but they can be overwhelming and boring.
- Focus on the big picture rather than all the pieces - That is to say end your speech with the same message you began with.
'I Know Why he Pulled the Trigger': High School Student,17, Suspended for Writing a Poem About Sandy Hook Shooter!

A 17-year old high school student has been suspended for a poem she wrote about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Courtni Webb wrote the poem in a personal notebook about Adam Lanza and what she felt were his reasons for the mass murder at the Connecticut school earlier this month.
On December 14, crazed Lanza gunned down 20 students, aged just six and seven, and six adults in one of the worst school shootings in American history.
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Courtni Webb wrote the poem in a personal notebook about Adam Lanza and what she felt were his reasons for the mass murder at the Connecticut school earlier this month.
On December 14, crazed Lanza gunned down 20 students, aged just six and seven, and six adults in one of the worst school shootings in American history.
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Suspended: Courtni Webb, 17, who poem about the shooting tragedy


Causing controversy: 'I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger,' wrote Courtni Webb in a poem

Action: The Life Learning Academy, a 60-pupil vocational school for students, suspended Courtni after reading the poem
He was armed with a high-powered rifle, similar to that used by US soldiers, two handguns and ...
Causing controversy: 'I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger,' wrote Courtni Webb in a poem
Action: The Life Learning Academy, a 60-pupil vocational school for students, suspended Courtni after reading the poem
He was armed with a high-powered rifle, similar to that used by US soldiers, two handguns and ...
Scam Series #4

Dear Friend
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however, it's just my Urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso in West Africa and currently holding the post of director Auditing and accounting unit of the bank.
I have the opportunity of transferring the left over Funds ($26.5 million) of one of my bank clients who died Along with his entire family in a plane crash.
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Olympic Hero Mo Farah Questioned on Suspicion of Being a Terrorist by US Terror Officials!!



Farah, who on Saturday was given a CBE in recognition of his golden year, even tried to produce his two medals from the London Games in an effort to prove he was not a security risk.
However, he was still questioned "on suspicion of being a terrorist" due to the fact he was born in Somalia.
“I couldn’t believe it," Farah told The Sun on Sunday. "Because of my Somali origin I get detained every time I come through US Customs.
"This time I even got my medals out to show who I am, but they wouldn’t have it.”
Farah was attempting to fly to Portland, Oregon, where he trains under the gaze of famous coach Alberto Salazar.
The 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion says it is not the first time he has encountered problems with US Customs, despite being one of the most famous athletes in the world.
"When we tried to get a residency visa, Nike obviously signed it all off and we thought it was going to be straightforward," he said of a previous incident.
“We were in Portland on a tourist visa so had to leave and re-enter the country as a resident. So we flew to Toronto to stay for a few days, then come back in.
“But when we were there we got a letter telling us we’re under inve
stigation as a terrorist threat and we would have to stay away for 90 days."
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Chindo - Chini Oficial 2012
Official music video Chini from Chindo a.k.a Umbwa from Watengwa Records. Video produced by Omar Kaseko from Kali Imagez.
Employment Opportunities - Engineers
IBRA Contractors Ltd has been awarded two roadway projects and is looking to fill these posts immediately.
Site Engineer/ Works Manager (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Soils/ Materials Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Highway Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Structural/ Drainage Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Workshop/ Equipment Manager (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Land Surveyor (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Interested parties should email their CV and contact by phone
Dr.Geophrey. J. Mbatta,PhD,PE
Technical Consultant
IBRA Contractors Ltd
Cell Phone: +255-712-495510/255-753-238066
Land Line: +255-22-2650228
Email: mbattageo@yahoo.com
Homepage:http://ibracontractors.com/
Site Engineer/ Works Manager (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Soils/ Materials Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Highway Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Structural/ Drainage Engineer (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Workshop/ Equipment Manager (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Land Surveyor (minimum experience 8 years)-1 post
Interested parties should email their CV and contact by phone
Dr.Geophrey. J. Mbatta,PhD,PE
Technical Consultant
IBRA Contractors Ltd
Cell Phone: +255-712-495510/255-753-238066
Land Line: +255-22-2650228
Email: mbattageo@yahoo.com
Homepage:http://ibracontractors.com/
Footage Showing the Moment a Passenger Jet Crashed on to a Motorway, Leaving Four Dead, has Emerged
Four crew have been killed after a Russian airliner crashed into a motorway and broke up into three pieces after overshooting the runway at an international Moscow airport. The plane's impact with the highway embankment sent the severed nose sliding over the icy road while the rest of the jet rested just past the airport's fence - its tail linked to the fuselage by only a tangle of wreckage. The Russian-made Tu-204 jet was empty of passengers and carrying just its eight crew on a return trip from the Czech Republic.
MAGHALA YA KUHIFADHIA BIDHAA ZA WAFANYA BIASHARA WA MWANJELWA JIJINI MBEYA YATEKETEA KWA MOTO USIKU WA KUAMKIA LEO.
Wanausalama wakiwa makini na vibaka ambao walitaka kuvamia eneo hilo la moto kutaka kupora mali kujifanya wanaokoa mali hizo
Hakika kikosi cha zimamoto cha jiji la mbeya wakishirikiana na kikosi cha zimamoto uwanja wa ndege wa songwe walijitahidi kuuzima moto huo ingawa ...
2Pac - Dear Mama Lyrics
[Verse One: 2Pac]
When I was young me and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ..
Scam Series #3

I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow in my heart, My Name is Mrs Anissa samih, and I am contacting you from my countryTunisia I want to tell you this because I don't have any other option than totell you as I was touched to open up to you, I married to Mr.Habib samih. who worked with Tunisia embassy in Burkina Faso for nine years before he died in the year 2005.We were married for eleven years without a child.
He died after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since his death I decided not to remarry, When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$ 8.5m (Eight million And Five hundred Thousand Dollars) in a bank in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso in west Africa Presently this money is still in bank. He made this money available for exportation of Gold from Burkina Faso mining.
Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the period of seven months due to cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.Having known my condition I decided to hand you over this money to ...
Askari Wawili Wanashikiliwa kwa Tuhuma za Mauwaji Kasulu,Kigoma
Askari polisi wawili wa kituo cha polisi Herushingo tarafa ya makere wilaya Kasulu wanashikiliwa na polisi wakituhumiwa kusababisha kifo cha mkazi wa kijiji cha Herushingo Gasper Mussa baada ya
Migunga Forest Camp - Lake Manyara, Tanzania

Nestled in a quiet corner on the northwest of the lake, Migunga Tented Camp is only 5 minutes from the entrance of Lake Manyara National Park, which spreads out across the Great East African Rift Valley, dominating a vast landscape. Often called Tanzania's water wonderland due to the large number of birds and animals the lake supports, Lake Manyara NP is also famous for its' tree-climbing lions.



At Migunga you wake up in the morning with the beams of the sun finding their way through our Migunga trees. In the afternoon you can enjoy our mountain bike ride trail through Lake Manyara’s backyard or you can enjoy watching our vervet monkeys. The evenings are resonating with the typical sounds of forest creatures.

Mountain Bikking, Migunga bird walk (Lake Manyara) and Maasai village tour are among the activities our guest can do.
Click here for more details or here for more Photographs of the Migunga forest Camp
Westminster Masters Scholarships for Developing Countries, 2013/2014 UK

Westminster International Scholarships for Developing Countries, UK 2013/2014
Brief description
The University of Westminster UK is offering international scholarships for full-time Masters degree for students from Developing Countries 2013/2014
About Scholarship
The University of Westminster UK is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its antecedent institution, the Royal Polytechnic, was founded in 1838 and was the first polytechnic to open in England.
The University of Westminster is offering International Scholarships for full-time Masters degree. These generous awards are aimed at fully funding you if you are from a developing country and will study a full-time Masters degree at the University. Particular preference will be given to you if you can demonstrate how the knowledge you acquire from your studies will aid the development of your own country.
Scholarship Offered Since: Not specified
Scholarship Type: full-time Masters Scholarship
By what Criteria is Selection Made?
The scholarship will be awarded based on the following criteria:
- academic excellence,
- development potential and
- financial need
How Many Scholarship Positions are available? Several
What are the benefits?
- Full tuition fee waivers,
- accommodation,
- living expenses and flights to and from London.
For the duration of the masters degree programme
Eligible Countries
Developing countries including Africa
To be taken at (country): University of WestminsterUnited Kingdom
What time of year does Application Close?
The Deadline is on 31 May 2013
Offered annually? Yes
How can I Apply?
You can download the application forms and find out more about the application process here.
How can I get more information?
If you need more Information about this scholarship, kindly visit the Scholarship Webpage
Sponsor: University of Westminster.
Important Notes: You will be required to formally accept the scholarship and its conditions by signing the contract that is sent with your awarding letter. During and after your period of study you may be asked to participate in promotional activities for the University. This may include receptions and social events, testimonial or publicity articles or even assisting with activities in your home country.
Shark Tank Bursts in China Shopping Centre
Fifteen people were injured, though none seriously, after a 33.5-ton aquarium burst on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at the Orient Shopping Center in Shanghai, police said. Three sharks raised inside the 7-meter-long, 3-meter-high aquarium died in the incident.
Nelson Mandela Returns Home After 18 Days in Hospital

A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma confirmed that Mr Mandela was transported to his home in Johannesburg’s Houghton neighbourhood, where he will continue to recover under the close watch of his personal doctors.
“He will undergo home-based high care at his Houghton home until he recovers fully,” Mac Maharaj, the presidential spokesman said. “We request a continuation of the privacy consideration in order to allow for the best possible conditions for full recovery.”
Mr Mandela, who is 94, was flown on December 8 from his rural residence in Qunu village to the capital Pretoria, where he spent 19 days in hospital receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection.
Doctors also discovered that he had developed gallstones and he had surgery to have them removed.
It was his longest hospital stay since coming out of prison in 1990 after 27 years in detention.
South Africa’s first black president spent Christmas Day in hospital, where he was visited by wife Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family, along with Mr Zuma, who said he was “looking much better” and “in good spirits”.
It is unclear when Mr Mandela might be allowed to return to his village home in Qunu, in the remote Eastern Cape province, where he spent his boyhood and built a house after being released from prison in 1990.
Top 10 African Films of 2012, Bongo Movie Chali!
Zikiwa katika mitindo, mandhari na maudhui tofautitofauti Filamu hizi zimeweza pia kuoneshwa katika majumba makubwa ya Sinema duniani.
Lakini mtandao huu umetoa nafasi kwa wadau wenyekipingamizi kuweka mambo wazi, kama kuna Filamu iliyo bora zaind ya hizi.., na kwa maoni ya Mo blog ni vyema tukazitafuta Filamu hizi tukazitazama na kupima ubavu wetu na waafrika wenzetu. Ni kweli hatustali kuwa katika 10 bora????!!!!

Dear Mandela (South Africa)

The Curse (Morocco)

When China Met Africa (UK)

The films of the Mosireen Collective (Egypt)

Kempinski (Mali)

The 9 Muses (UK)

Tey (Senegal)

Otelo Burning (South Africa)

Cursed Be The Phosphate (Tunisia)
Mo blog
Lakini mtandao huu umetoa nafasi kwa wadau wenyekipingamizi kuweka mambo wazi, kama kuna Filamu iliyo bora zaind ya hizi.., na kwa maoni ya Mo blog ni vyema tukazitafuta Filamu hizi tukazitazama na kupima ubavu wetu na waafrika wenzetu. Ni kweli hatustali kuwa katika 10 bora????!!!!
Dear Mandela (South Africa)
The Curse (Morocco)
When China Met Africa (UK)
The films of the Mosireen Collective (Egypt)
Kempinski (Mali)
The 9 Muses (UK)
Tey (Senegal)
Otelo Burning (South Africa)
Cursed Be The Phosphate (Tunisia)
Mo blog
Baada ya Diva Kuiponda Ngoma ya Baucha Kelele



Asiyeipenda Bodi Mpya TPA Aache Kazi ;Dk Mwakyembe

Akizungumza na wafanyakazi wa bandari hivi karibuni ambapo aliitambulisha bodi mpya ya TPA yenye wajumbe nane jijini Dar es salaam, Dk Mwakyembe alisema yeyote ambaye anahisi hataweza kufanya kazi na bodi hiyo anaweza kujiengua mwenyewe. Kuteuliwa kwa bodi hiyo kunatokana na kuvunjwa kwa bodi ya awali iliyobainika kutokuwa na ufanisi katika utendaji wa kazi jambo ambalo limesababisha TPA kukosa mapato huku wachache wakinufaika.
Mwakyembe alisema bodi hiyo itakuwa na wajumbe wanane na itaongozwa na Raphael Mollel, na amewataka wafanyakazi kuipa ushirikiano ili kutimiza malengo waliojiwekea.
“Bodi hii ni mpya naomba tuipe ushirikiano ili tuweze kufanikisha malengo yetu tuliyojiwekea,” alisema Dk Mwakyembe.
Pia Mwakyembe aliwataka walioIngia kwa njia zisizo halali ikiwamo kuingizwa na ndugu zao wajiandae, kwani katika suala hilo hatakuwa na mchezo katika lengo la kuisafisha bandari.
“Nadhani wenyewe wanajitambua hivyo wajiandae, hatuko hapa kwa ajili ya kubebanabebana na matokeo yake ni ufanisi wa kazi kuwa mbovu na tutaanza kuwashughulikia siku chache zijazo,” alisema Dk Mwakyembe.
Mwananchi
Mwakyembe alisema bodi hiyo itakuwa na wajumbe wanane na itaongozwa na Raphael Mollel, na amewataka wafanyakazi kuipa ushirikiano ili kutimiza malengo waliojiwekea.
“Bodi hii ni mpya naomba tuipe ushirikiano ili tuweze kufanikisha malengo yetu tuliyojiwekea,” alisema Dk Mwakyembe.
Pia Mwakyembe aliwataka walioIngia kwa njia zisizo halali ikiwamo kuingizwa na ndugu zao wajiandae, kwani katika suala hilo hatakuwa na mchezo katika lengo la kuisafisha bandari.
“Nadhani wenyewe wanajitambua hivyo wajiandae, hatuko hapa kwa ajili ya kubebanabebana na matokeo yake ni ufanisi wa kazi kuwa mbovu na tutaanza kuwashughulikia siku chache zijazo,” alisema Dk Mwakyembe.
Mwananchi
Adam Mchomvu Ametangaza Ruksa Video ya Jonii Itengenezwe na Wewe

"Yes, kama kumbukumbu zako zitakuwa poa basi haina shaka utakuwa unakumbuka kama Jumamosi iliyopita nilitoa ruhusa kwa mtu yeyote anaona anaweza fanya video ya ngoma yangu matata ya 'Jonii' amabayo kitambo kidogo ilisumbua kwenye gemu lakini nilikuwa sijagonga kichupa chake kwa masababu kibao tu".Ni maneno ya Baba Jonii, Mfate hapa http://mchomvuink
Scam Series #2

I am Mr Jida James, a chartered chief auditor with BANK OF AFRICA of Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West Africa. I got your contact address from your country through online directory. Your impressive and managerial records made me to solicit for your partnership in these regards. You are the only person that I have contacted for this business and with the trust that you will not let me down.
After going through some old files in the records during the audit for the year in my own department which I am heading now, I discovered that there was an account opened in this bank since 2000 and since then till now nobody has operated on this very account.
The owner of this account as I discovered from the bank record secretly , is Late Mr. Jerome N. Snaga, a foreigner and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in Mafikeng Burkina Faso, as a geologist by profession and he has died since 2001 and Up till now, no other person knows about this account or anything concerning this money, no other persons name or group was ...
Ufahari wa kwenye misiba Uonesheni Kwenye Ugonjwa wa Mzee Small

KWENU mnaohusika na sanaa ya filamu Bongo. Mnajitambua sina haja ya kuwataja mmojammoja kwa majina, nitamaliza ukurasa bure.
Mimi najua mpo poa, mnaendelea na majukumu yenu ya kila siku. Binafsi niko poa, naendelea na majukumu yangu ya kila siku ikiwamo hili la kuwaandikia barua.
Barua yangu leo moja kwa moja nailekeza kwa nyinyi wote ambao watu sasa hivi wanawatambua kwa jina la mastaa wa filamu katika soko la Bongo, Bongo Movies.
Kikubwa ni kwamba, natambua mchango mlionao katika kusogeza gurudumu la maendeleo ya nchi. Natambua umuhimu wenu wa kuwatibu watu kisaikolojia kupitia filamu zenu mnazozifanya.
Hongereni kwa hilo.Katika taaluma yangu ya uandishi wa habari, mara kadhaa nimeshuhudia uwezo wenu katika kufanikisha mambo yanayowahusu, iwe ni sherehe au misiba.
Eeeh, kwenye sherehe basi mnalipuka na kushangweka kwelikweli. Kwenye misiba, mnahakikisha ...
Mimi najua mpo poa, mnaendelea na majukumu yenu ya kila siku. Binafsi niko poa, naendelea na majukumu yangu ya kila siku ikiwamo hili la kuwaandikia barua.
Barua yangu leo moja kwa moja nailekeza kwa nyinyi wote ambao watu sasa hivi wanawatambua kwa jina la mastaa wa filamu katika soko la Bongo, Bongo Movies.
Kikubwa ni kwamba, natambua mchango mlionao katika kusogeza gurudumu la maendeleo ya nchi. Natambua umuhimu wenu wa kuwatibu watu kisaikolojia kupitia filamu zenu mnazozifanya.
Hongereni kwa hilo.Katika taaluma yangu ya uandishi wa habari, mara kadhaa nimeshuhudia uwezo wenu katika kufanikisha mambo yanayowahusu, iwe ni sherehe au misiba.
Eeeh, kwenye sherehe basi mnalipuka na kushangweka kwelikweli. Kwenye misiba, mnahakikisha ...
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