Best business Movies

Movies entertain us. Movies captivate us. Movies request for retrial to us. But, most of all, movies inspire us. Rocky inspired us to fight for our dreams (and to take the stAirs instead of the elevator). Glory inspired us to fight for what's right. The Diary of Anne Frank inspired us to fight for humanity. Et inspired us to believe beyond what we can see. And, Shawshank Redemption, of course, inspired us to leave from prison.

Then there are business movies. These movies may bore some of us (those of us who don't even like to work much less use it as a form of entertainMent), but others find these the most enthralling of films. This narrative lists the best movies for people who believe that business is all the time a worthy production.

Boiler Room: A view into the underworld of sketchy brokerage forms, Boiler Room features a college trainee drop-out used to being on the brink of seediness. After running an illegal casino, he is hired by Jt Marlin, a firm that creates a false examine by skyrocketing the price of shares for companies that don't exist.. The main character Seth, played by Giovanni Ribisi, is settled in the middle when the Fbi uses his father, a judge, against him. Seth is then forced to work with the Fbi to locate the fallacy employing him.

The characters in the story aren't noble or moral - as their main goal is to scam people out of money - but, from a business perspective, they are good at wheeling and dealing. The monologues in the arguMent room and the scenes where they sell can authentically inspire just about any businessman or women, particularly salespeople; it can inspire them not only to excel at their art, but to leave companies like Jt Marlin for the Fishes.

Working Girl: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best photo and recipient of one for Best Song, Working Girl tells the tale of a likeable but unconfident secretary named Tess McGill, played by Melanie Griffith, working for Katharine Parker, a rude, condescending boss, played by Sigourney Weaver. When Katharine breaks her leg, Tess assumes her identity. Not only is she competent at Katharine's Job, but she is good at it than her employer. A movie where it is beyond easy to root for the underdog, this film's marketing contained the TAGline, "For whatever who's ever won. For whatever who's ever lost. And for everybody who's still in there trying." Really, who among us can't recite to that?

Jerry Maguire: Admit it, this movie had you at hello. One of Tom Cruise's last great films before aliens took control of his mind, Jerry Maguire features Tom as, well, Jerry Maguire, a sports agent with a conscience. After his firm dumps him ("who's arrival with me?") he finds himself with one lone client, Rod Tidwell, played by a scene-stealing Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Many people found this movie enthralling because of the romantic subplot (not to mention an adorable small boy), but from a business perspective, it was also wonderful, displaying both the greed of an business and the heart of those aiming to make it right. "The Show Me the Money," phrase helped cement this enthralling into cinematic history as it is remembered as one of the greatest quotes of all time.

Glengarry Glen Ross: Based on the 1984 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross shows 48 hours in the lives of four real estate agents who are drowning in desperation. Filled with a cast of A Plus-listers, this movie stars Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin and Jonathan Pryce. Diving into the evils of greed and the acts people will achieve when hopelessness ensues, this film depicts lies, bribes, threats, thievery, and a whole lot of cussing. The title is generated from two properties discussed in the movie, the Glengarry Highlands and the Glen Ross Farms. This movie not only shows how authentically the tide of business can turn, but it also shows how easy the tide can spin out of control, drowning those who fall under it.

Wall Street: With a self explanatory title, this movie features Bud Fox, played by a young Charlie Sheen, as a go-getter hell bent on rising to the top. He plans to get there by associating himself with corporate big wig Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas.. Bud soon learns that the inexpressive to Gordon's success is - say it with me Martha Stewart - insider trading. He first isn't authentically turned off by this, as he swiftly grows rich and famous, but when Gordon decides to do a corporate raid on the business of Bud's father, mixed emotions surface. Bud decides, in the end, to use the values his hardworking, blue collar father taught him. Though he gets indicted, it also appears that Gordon is going down with him. However, the fate of Gordon, in the end, is left up to the imagination.

Some business movies are bad, some are good, and some hit the nail right on the head (Office Space, anyone?). As with any topic, business movies can be poor, wonderful, or somewhere in between. In the end, they are unique cinematic features, if for no other theorize than to remind us that there is no business like show business. At least no business I know.

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps recap

Shia LaBeouf is pretty good, probably the saving grace for the Transformers films, and Michael Douglas is, well, old, but I figured the two of them together would be worth Watching. Thankfully I was right.

Though the trailers played Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps up to be a thriller, it is nothing but pure, yet great drama. Being a Sequel to the 1987 film titled plainly Wall street starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, Money Never Sleeps picks up as Douglas' character Gordon Gecko is being released from prison for his crimes in the former film. Just so happens that Gordon's daughter Winnie, played by Carey Mulligan, is dating LaBeouf's character Jake, and she is not too fond of Gordon for abandoning her family.

Matters complicate as Jake is intrigued by Gordon's past, and takes it upon himself to meet his girlfriends father face to face. The trailers once again played up the tensions in the association in the middle of Gordon and his daughter. Although this is a large part of the film, Winnie is not as hard or unmoving concerning the relationsship with her father as the trailers have made her out to be. Due to the seemingly uninteresting subject matter of the film, I can forgive them for being desperate to draw moviegoers with these tactics, Money Never Sleeps does have alot to offer that a trailer cannot summarize.

The main anTAGonist of the film, Bretton James, is played by a fantastic Josh Brolin. He was my popular character, but thats probably because his scenes were the only surely riveting ones of the film, with lots of build up and suspense. The pacing of the film is slow, and its probably just a bit too long. I would have also liked to see more Michael Douglas in the film, hes surely not here all that much.

This probably is not a film for everyone. It can get boring at times, as they tend to drone on about financials for extended lengths, but there is abundance enjoy here. I wasn't aware Money Never Sleeps was a sequel, but I enjoyed this film adequate to certify a Watch of the former Wall Street. I'm sure there are quite a few references I missed, so you may get more out of the taste if you start there.

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As the coordinator for a Think Tank which operates online, I am often amazed at the fiery passionate debates surrounded by members when it comes to alternative energy. There are global warming alarmists who treat it as a religion, pragmatic power experts, and money interests skewing the political debate. It's intense indeed. Not long ago, I was having a dialogue over some of the challenges of Wind Turbine Technologies and trying to come up with potential solutions.

My acquaintance stated that when it came to wind there were some challenges such as; "unsightliness, sound pollution, and psychological affects," to name a few. Yes, that's without fail true, and there are other issues too for instance; they kill birds, and bats, and despite what you might believe the concrete manufacturing needed to originate the base creates Co2 (offset would take 15 years).

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Wind turbines are not cheap either, as they use Rees and Rare Earth EleMents are needed for other leading technologies and they are expensive meaning the price goes up and thus, the Roi not is not there, they are not cost sufficient thus, not viable. Also, wind turbine blades can't cope lightning very well and they have to be shut down in high winds, at a time the most potential is available.

That's not all, as they also fall down in Earthquakes, and perceive that areas with the best or most consistent wind is not always power transmission lines. And in case you haven't heard enough reasons why wind won't work to solve our power needs, perceive too that these large wind turbines screw up radar 39% of ability. The biggest issue which I have waited until last to Mention is that the wind doesn't blow all the time, thus it is all-around unreliable energy.

My acquaintance stated; "I think we also need good designs for wind power, but that's not going to happen until we quit subsidizing the technology. Once we quit subsidizing, this should lead to associates trying to push straight through better/more sufficient designs. Or kill the whole idea."

We can't now, due to politics, lobbyists, and Ge Jeff Immelt now helping the supervision with innovation agendas. Once the governMent starts doing something the blob just grows, if we kill it, we kill all the Vc, investMent banks helping with alternative energy, all the small investors who want to buy green socially approved stocks and funds, etc.

The way I see it, these tiny bloggers and wind power religious folks with all their environmentalism, and political affect has created this mess because they think you know everything, complain about everything, and never think straight through the reality - so it is nothing more than Silly humans, and their unintended consequences. And now that we have a qoute they say; "oh let's use innovation to solve this unintended consequence we've created, come on everyone, let's work together and build a team - Yeah, go team go!"

Well, now, sometimes I think that I'd like to strap some of these Obama Rama alternative power buglers to the wind turbine blades until they scream, who knows maybe we can make these giant wind turbines into Amusement Rides? Or, good yet, we should tip the big ones over on their side, and the Obama Rama's can create a habitat plan so they can live inside of the wreckage?

Sure, that would be good, put some boulders on each side so they don't roll away. Use it for homeless shelters, cut some holes in the side, and put in Plexiglas windows at .00 a piece. Leave one up for every 50 or so to power up the homeless shelter tubes. Call up Jimmy Carter and tell him to Habitat That! Well, personally I think wind power schemes as presently purported are a waste of time, energy, and resources for nothing. Meanwhile the powers that be, perceive they've made a mistake on this, but they try to diver out concentration away from their mistakes;

"Don't look at the wind turbine issues, no, no, no looky over here in Japan, Libya, Egypt, and at Charlie Sheen, don't look at the fiasco and insanity of nonsense happing with the alternative power bubble, and don't worry it will create, or rather "create or save" 4 million Jobs over the next 10 years! Hoorah!"

Yah, after it kills 8 million Jobs or more in the process.

Please consider all this, because, I getting Tired of talking about it.

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I have seen New York Yankee baseball fans throw things at opposing players in the outfield. Sometimes a roll of pennies, possibly a used battery from a flashlight, or anyone they have not closed eating and do not like.

Philadelphia is know as the City of Brotherly Love yet Philly fans who get upset might chuck things at their own players, like rocks or car batteries for the drunken, brawny types. Philadelphia Phillies' fans are arguably the least outpatient and most vaporing in baseball, and I know why.

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A article in Usa Today (7-3-07) notes that the Phillies are on the verge of becoming the first pro sports franchise to article 10,000 losses. They had 9,996 losses as of July 3, 2007. The next nearest teams in losses are the Atlanta Braves (9,675) and Chicago Cubs (9,421). I would have guessed the Cubs but not the Braves.

It should be pointed out that the Braves and Cubs were in the customary National League in 1876, and the Phillies and Giants came into the Nl 7 years later in 1883.

Here are some challenging facts about the Phillies' dubious record:

The Phillies lost at least 90 games a season 20 times in the 25 years from 1921 to 1945.

From 1919 to 1945 (27 years) the National League Phillies closed last 16 times and second-to-last 7 times. That is 23 out of 27 years in last or next-to-last place. No wonder the working class Men drink so much beer in Philadelphia.

One of their managers during their aforeMentioned lean years was Doc Protho, a practicing dentist whose son, Tommy, was head coach of the Nfl's Los Angeles Rams (1971-1974) and San Diego Chargers (1974-1978).

Former Seattle Mariner and current Philadelphia starting pitcher Jamie Moyer grew up in Philadelphia, and there is one Phillies loss he will never forget. In 1986, as a member of the Chicago Cubs, Moyer beat the Phillies and his boyhood hero, Steve Carlton, 7-5 for his first big-league win.

The Phillies went 47-107 in 1961 and closed 46 games out of first place, but the bottom point was a 23-game losing streak that remains the majors' longest since 1900. Their most excruciating losses came in a 10-game stretch during September 1964. Philadelphia was leading the Nl by 6.5 games on September 21 with 12 games to play. They lost the next 10 and the St. Louis Cardinals won the pennant.

The halfway point to 10,000 losses came on July 24, 1945, at Chicago's Wrigley Field when the Cubs won 8-3 before a scant crowd of 8,393. When you do not win, no one wants to come see you play.

The Phillies do own the Nl article for 100-loss seasons, but here is a perspective worth noting: The Phillies had 13 100-loss seasons during their first 63 seasons and only one in the next 62 years.

Despite the bad news, there is some good news to report.

Philadelphia won the World Series in 1980 and played in the 1993 Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. Unfortunately, they lost in Game 6 of the 1993 series when lefty closer Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams gave up a series-ending home run to Toronto's Joe Carter at the Sky Dome.

If any of this sounds familiar, think of the baseball movie, Major League, with Charlie Sheen as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn.

Here is the one admittedly great thing you can say about the Philadelphia Phillies: Mike Schmidt.

Mike Schmidt is arguably the best third-baseman in major league history. There is Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles to think about, but remember that Schmidt was a three-time (that is three-time) Most important Player and also won 10 Gold Gloves.

Did I Mention that he also hit 548 home runs (before steroids), had 1,595 ribbies and 2,234 hits. His 48 home runs in 1980 set the single-season article for a third baseMen. Oh yeah, Mike Schmidt is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Two and a Half Men first premiered in 2003 and since then it has managed to remain one of the most favorite comedy sitcoms on the television. The show features Jon Cryer, Charlie Sheen and Angus Jones. The Harper brothers are exactly opposite to each other but they somehow carry on to still make a great team.

The only thing that both of them had in base over years of growing up had been their mother Evelyn who was cold and dominating. Allan is a compulsive freak who can't see a hAir out of place without freaking out. He is thrown out of the house by his wife Judith who manages to make him pay for all her expenses and work like a slave in the house. On the other hand Charlie is a composer working as a freelancer who has an irresistible Casanova charm about him and lives in a luxurious house by the beach.

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Like most Casanovas he is self obsessed and is up to his neck with beautiful girls. Allan moves in temporarily with his brother with his son Jake. Jake himself is quite an piquant character. He is lazy and fat, sprawled out in front of the Tv most of the time and is too clever for his own age. He keeps shuttling between his mother and father through the series.

Two and a Half Men seasons 1-6 starts off with their background and the distinct lifestyles of the brothers. When Charlie moves in with his brother they have numerable clashes, as is to be expected. They both often have discussions and arguMents over how to raise Jake. Jake himself has a ball while he can have fun with his super-cool uncle who teaches him everything that he shouldn't know while having a caring and super-efficient father.

The cleaning lady of Charlie, Bertha is another regular character on the series who is fat, offensive and often rude. Rose is the next door neighbor who is obsessed and infatuated often comes to the house too. Their mother too often fearfully makes appearance at the house which only makes things chaotic and hilarious.

Since it had first been launched in 2003, Two and a Half Men has managed to make millions of viewers laugh with its clever lines and its solid cast. Charlie who is the eternal playboy bachelor even at forty brings girls to the house who are often bimbos and quite dumb which manages to irritate his control-freak brother. Alan with his uptight ways and his control-freak nature often is the butt of jokes for Charlie and is secretly even jealous of the lifestyle that his brother has. Charlie is a unblemished opposite and does not believe in commitment and flaunts his hedonism in their face which many times creates awkward moments for his brother. The ex-wife is a neurotic character who makes appearances often on the series. All in all, Two and a Half Men seasons 1-6 has several hilarious episodes that carry on to make viewers double up in laughter.

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The entrepreneur loved his crotch rocket practically as much is life itself. He often said it was best than sex, and he enjoyed racing his motorcycle through the canyons even more than running the multi-million Dollar enterprise he created. One day when racing through the canyons in the hills above Malibu California, he noted it was getting a little hot in the canyons, so he rode back down the windy Latigo Canyon Road, and picked up Pch (Pacific Coast Highway).

From there, he headed west, and was faithful to drive the speed limit because his driver's license had been revoked and there were cops everywhere on Pch. He'd often had his license suspended, or revoked, off and on for the last two decades. He undoubtedly had the need for speed. One of his favorite rides was turning onto Mulholland Highway at Leo Carillo Beach, waiting for the second hand on his Watch to hit 12, and then gunning the motor and dumping the clutch and racing up to Decker Canyon to see if he could break his all-time record. He was inevitable he had run that Canyon Faster than anyone ever alive.

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It was a blast, and an adrenaline rush, that is until one day a baby deer was right in his path, he attempted to swerve around it, started to lose control, recovered, and went into a turn with his knee on the paveMent, and his peg scraping. His institution Yoshimura pipe scraped on the ground, and must have caught a rock or something, as the bike started to high-side. Again he was able to recover, and his adrenaline was pumping like he'd never felt before. There was hardly any time left, and he tried to slow up is Fast as he could before he ran out of road.

It would be whether the cliff on his right side, or the rocky and jagged mountain on the left, he chose the ladder, and it cost him about 00 in repAirs. He bailed just before he hit the wall of rocks, and was for real more implicated with his motorcycle than his sprained ankle, sore Wrist rest, minor road rash, and bruised ego. The Kawasaki dealer wouldn't have his Gsr 750 out of repAirs for over a month, and parts were back-ordered all the way to Tokyo.

Oh well, he had the money, so he went down to the Honda store and bought a new Honda Cbr 600 Rr, he hadn't had a Honda Hurricane for 10-years now, and he all the time loved that bike. He bought the newest model with all the bells and whistles, totally raced out. He rode the motorcycle to Las Vegas to break it in, and allow the rings to seat, and the next weekend he went down to Willow Springs Racetrack, took off all plastic, and wired up all the bolts as was required and put it through its paces. Advent out of turn seven, he must have caught a piece of the Tire which had not been worn in properly.

He slid his bike into the hay bales at a 135 miles per hour as he pushed his bike away, and hit the hay bale right next door, just shaking his head as he got up and looked at his brand-new motorcycle in a state of disrepair, wondering how he was going to get back home. Luckily, he saw one of his friends from The Rock Store, a biker's hang out in the hills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and his friend helped him load up his mangled bike, and gave him a ride home.

Once he got home and unloaded his motorcycle, he started daydreaming about discrete modifications he could make. He'd all the time wanted to build his own airplane, an ultra-light, or an ExperiMental Aviation relationship kit plan. He wondered if he could strap on a set of wings to this motorcycle, rebuild it himself, and make it into an airplane. "I could use fiberglass, and an expandable wing, I can use a rubber gear off the back Tire to rotate a propeller," he thought.

The next day, he went down to his business, where he had shop, and he brought back some tools to his garage at home. He built a small nose cone for the motorcycle, and a foldable wing system. As he did this, he also got his old motorcycle back, brand-new, and as good as newer better, while he was putting the final touches on his Flying Motorcycle. He had realized that he needed a longer road way, than his windy driveway to take off, one that perhaps didn't have any major corners and it, for his first test flight. There was a stretch of road not far from his home near Malibu Canyon Road which would suffice.

He made several runs, before he got up the nerve to for real fly the thing away. Everything felt good, the wings were getting lift, it for real felt like it wanted to fly, so, he decided he would use a stretch of road which was slightly sloped downward, and take off from there, and then fly out through the canyon towards the beach area. He figured he could land before he ran out of fuel, near Point Mugu Rock and State Beach where the roadway was very wide on Pch. Then he would merely pull off to the side of the road, fold the wings back up and drive home. At least that was the plan, but as you go plans all the time change.

Just before he was ready to take off there was a police car up ahead in the distance Advent towards him up the hill. He'd already committed to flying away, and he was probably going to Fast to make the projection without scraping the wings which he had just unfolded. He didn't want to wreck his contraption, or get a ticket from the police officer for driving a motorcycle with wings on it. He figured that the California car Code was nearly as thick as a phonebook, and there was probably a law in there somewhere against it.

As soon as he reached flying speed, he leaned back, downshifted, and pulled a wheelie, the motorcycle leapt into the air, unbelievable him, and he gave it full power taking it to 11,000 Rpm, and then he shifted again and gave it more power again, and then twice more. By then he had taken off, and crossed the road in front of him, right over and in front of the oncoming police car. "Oh crap! I know that police officer, and he's going to recognize my helmet." It was too late now and he enjoyed his flight immensely, and just as he had planned he landed on Pch near Point Mugu Rock.

As he was unfolding the wings, a Chp drove by, pulled in behind him, and within minutes had put him in handcuffs. Apparently, the first police officer had turned on his lights after he flew over the car, and called him in for evading a police officer and flying away. He bailed out that evening, and came back two weeks later to go to court. Apparently, the judge was quite a hard nose, and he was permanently after young motorcycle riders for crossing over the double yellow lines in the canyon, calling those actions a; "Malibu Felony" because there have been so many head-on crashes in the canyons in the hills above Malibu.

He tried to tell the judge that, he was already airborne before he crossed the yellow line, and he'd already left the pavement prior to reaching the speed limit, and that the police man didn't turn on his lights that he ever saw. Further he asked if the police officer worked for the Faa too, which obviously he did not, so therefore, he hadn't committed the violations on the ticket. The officer said he had him on radar, and he said; "yes, but I wasn't driving at that point, I was flying." The judge realized that the young entrepreneur was going to bring in the media and make an additional one spectacle out of his courtroom as Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Nick Nolte, and Robert Downey Jr. Had in the last few years.

The judge was Tired of the paparazzi, and media events. He finally said to the crotch-rocket, aerospace designer; "Not Guilty, and now get the hell out of my courtroom, and if you want to fly that thing, get a pilot's license and take it to Camarillo or Santa Monica Airport, or hell, build your own runway up on the hill, but don't pull that stunt again, or I through you in jail, do you hear me son?"

"Yes Sir," he said. The police officer came up to him later, and said, "no hard feelings, hey, I was just doing my Job, do you think you could hire my kid for the summer in your company?"

"Sure," he said, "as long as you, don't write me for exhibition of speed or doing a wheelie, I am afraid that fee might have stuck, and I know this judge has it out for me now."

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If you are involved in the entertainMent company then you've probably heard a few tall tales. The following is a list of some of the top myths about the music business.

1. Population in the music company will help you out of the kindness of their hearts.

Charlie Sheen

Facts:

The music company is called the music company for a reason. It is a company that just so happens to sell music. Businesses are in company to make money. They are not in company to make Art, any way they will sell it. You may find a handful of good Samaritans willing to help for free but commonly speaking if helping does not advanTAGe the other Party, they won't help.

"People (not counting loved ones) will help you if they think your art will make them money. They will not help you if they think your art will not make them money." -David Naggar, Esq. From  The Music company Explained In Plain English-

2. Since the economic decline Population aren't buying music anymore

Facts:

People are buying music, but they aren't buying it in the same way they used to. Sales of Cds may be down but the sale of single tracks is up! If you are still an unbeliever just check iTunes sales records. Reportedly, Apple has sold 10 billion and counting!

3. Music superstars have and are developMent tons of money.

This is one of the biggest myths in the entertainment business. When you see a Sean Kingston or Lady Gaga on television you may think that they are living the good life, but surely the whole of money he/she brings home is surely dependent on the terms of their contractual obligations as well as their money management skills. Plainly put, if you spend more than you make you are bound to go broke sooner or later.

Need examples:

Mc Hammer

Marvin Gaye

Michael Jackson

Willie Nelson

Toni Braxton

Billy Joel

George Clinton

Isaac Hayes

Jerry Lee Lewis

Ron Isley

Need anymore? The list goes on.

The fact of the matter is that all of these artists have seen the highs and lows of the music business. Micheal Jackson, the "King of Pop", even had his money woes. No "superstar" is exempt. Good money management skills are needed in order to pronounce a "superstar" lifestyle.

4. You can become an overnight celebrity in the music business.

This is one of the most base myths about the music business. Population believe that you can sign a narrative deal and then all of sudden you are magically on magazine covers and receiving Grammy awards. All of this talk is nonsense. At the end of the day it takes a decent whole of leg work, dedication, passion, perseverance, and strong networking relationships to accomplish "success" in the music business. No One Has become thriving Overnight however, some Population have achieved their goals Faster than others. Artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West, and Eminem spent years construction their prestige and brands to become the Population they are today. This is why working smarter and not harder is critical in the music business.

5. Talent Trumps Work Ethic

In today's music business, talent still counts but work ethic counts for more. An extraordinarily talented man with mean work ethic will commonly not do as well as man with breathtaking work ethic and mean talent.

A strong work ethic, more often than not, means that you can be consistent which is of the utmost point in the music business.

Why?

One word. Marketing. Being able to consistently deliver high potential to the buyer is paramount.  This is where work ethic trumps talent. A man that is able to consistently deliver a satisfactory stock to the buyer is, in the words of Charlie Sheen, Winning! Because of our increasingly shortened attention spans, having man or something consistently in our faces helps in branding the product, service, or person. Ultimately, this results in Population getting paid!

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Question: Say...a repAirman voluntarily came and fixed your church's Air conditioner. He ordinarily charges per hour for his labor and he spent for parts.

How would I article this? If I give him a receipt for the .00, then it is entered as a wage to my books, which means I have then to enter an cost too, to offset it. However, neither one of those transactions will match with the bank stateMents, because in reality I never received or gave out any cash. It was all the repAirman.

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Your help or advice in this matter would be very appreciated. I having a lot of problems with this and it is quite a few times a month where I have to do that.

Answer: In write back to your question, receipt is the keyword here. You could give the repairman a non-cash church acknowledgMent or receipt for the donated parts only. You could not consist of the value of his assistance on the receipt as it is a nondeductible contribution.

It is not an cost for the church and should not be cycled through the church accounting records and would not be recorded as wage until the donated item is sold or in this case the air conditioner.

You could article it in your offering records. I would add a special notation that is was for a donated air conditioning parts.

Question: I need a bathroom put in the basement of my church. A friend owns a large plumbing company. He gives me an estimation of ,600 for the normal retail cost for this. Then his business does it for me for free, buying all the fixtures & required Supplies (pipes etc). He also pays his workers to do the work, and of policy has the overhead of his truck, warehouses, and staff. His cost on this is 0 fixtures, 0 labor, 0 overhead. He would have made 0 on the Job. How much can he write off?

Cpa's Answer: The contractor will be writing off his expenses as he pays them - labor, materials, and overhead. So to "write them off as a contribution" will be a double-dipping that isn't allowed. Now, he can reclassify them if he wants - reducing the labor cost and materials expense, and charging it to "Contributions" but this accomplishes nothing for him. To write off the profit he would've made is also a double-dip. He didn't count the wage (he didn't make it), so he shouldn't write off an expense.

Question: Is there a law stating the date all offering statements must be in case,granted to contributors?

Answer: according to the Irs, your receipt must consist of the Church's or Nonprofit's name, the date of the donation, and the amount. The Irs does not mandate when those acknowledgments or receipts must be given to the contributor.

Receipts or acknowledgments can be issued gift-by-gift, monthly, quarterly, annually, or any other frequency. This is up to your organization. If you have a policy and policy manual, the frequency should be recorded there.

Even though there is not a law stating when all offering statements must be in case,granted to contributors, if you are issuing receipts on an every year basis, you should try and get them to your contributors by at least January 31st each year and earlier in January if possible. This will aid your contributors in conferrence valuable data for their tax preparations.

These are some of the questions church treasurers, pastors, and secretaries generally ask on my site. Some of the answers are mine and some of them are from a marvelous Cpa in Alabama who specializes in nonprofit and church accounting.

In summary, retention literal, records of contributions is imperative for your assosication as they are the life blood of your organization.

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A translator is a person who understands the meaning of text and the effect resultant of an equivalent text that converses the same message in some other language. This whole process is known as translation. It is not an easy Job by any means. It requires highly expert skills. To be a flourishing translator you nothing else but need to work hard on your communication skills. However, that you still may get rejected if you don't perform well in the interview.

A Job interview holds very much importance in your career. Now, given below are a few questions that you might be asked in a translator job interview:

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1. Why are your skills and credentials in regard to this job?
I possess exceptional communication skills that are very leading in this type of job. I am a hard working worker who loves to work within a team. I work very well under work pressure and stress. I nothing else but feel that I could prove to be very useful for your firm in the long run.

2. Tell us something about your schoraly background?
I have an thorough schoraly background that provides me an edge over other candidates. Here you need to talk about any special degree that you possess in regard to this post. You could say that you have done Masters of Arts in East Asian degree.

3. What is your expert background?
I have strong expert background. I have worked as a translator with a reputed firm of the country for about 2 years. I am experienced enough to work with a competent firm like yours.

4. Would you like to ask me any question?
Yes, you should ask as many questions as you can. It would nothing else but make you stand apart from other candidates. You could ask whatever with regard to the company. But make sure that you do not ask whatever connected to the financial matters of the company.

These are some of the best job interview questions that you might be asked during translator interview. Make sure you read this description once. This description could nothing else but help you crack the interview sTAGe.

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For the last three years, "Tmz" tmz.com has been reviled by many as the nadir of Internet celebrity gossip culture. The salacious, wildly beloved gossip site and its Tv spinoff -- (Tmz on Tv), which began Airing nightly in national syndication on Fox one year ago this month -- has been called evil and worse, and not just by the celebrities it skewers. But, in fact, could it be that "Tmz" serves a moral purpose by embodying the Seven Virtues (and then some) in its staunch crusade against the Seven Deadly Sins?

As an object part in what not to do and how not to behave, the show is good than a Psa marathon. Its vignettes stand as puny cautionary tales. Drink too much, and you can end up like Andy Dick. Eat too much, and you can turn into Kirstie Alley. Boast too of ten, and you might be a ringer for Fr'ed'eric Prinz von Anhalt (or, as "Tmz" calls him, "Prince von Ahole"), Zsa Zsa Gabor's ninth husband who claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, until a paternity test proved him wrong. Be too vain, and wind up like Priscilla Presley, face pumped full of motor oil in her prideful quest for the fountain of youth.

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Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility have a hard time of it in Hollywood. But "Tmz" has come to the rescue.

With its Highlights for Children "Fun With a Purpose" view of the universe that is the 30-mile zone of Hollywood -- ie. The world -- "Tmz" helpfully presents Goofus versus Gallant examples galore throughout its daily half-hour Tv show, and hour long recaps on weekends. Would you rather be like Cheryl Burke, the "Dancing With the Stars" Goofus who never met a man, a drink or a photo op she didn't like? Or George Clooney, Gallant to a fault:

polite, modest, talented, self-effacing and ever using his powers for good, not=2 0evil? Your choice.

"Tmz," I confess, is my guilty pleasure. I article it on my Dvr nightly, without fail, and Watch it when no one's around. I have, when caught, been mercilessly teased. But it turns out this satisfaction is not mine alone. I'm in the firm of millions. It seems like only yesterday that a brand-new magazine called people was20chastised for being fluffy. But these days, gossip is big business. "Tmz" -- which brings in an median of 3 million viewers per viewing this year, the Nielsen firm says, the same as "Access Hollywood" and more than fellow gossip shows "What Perez Sez," "The Soup," "E! News" and "Daily Ten" put together -- is like some twisted love child of The National Enquirer, Spy magazine, Jon Stewart and Joan Rivers. Produced and hosted by Harvey Levin, managing editor of the Web site, it is quick, clever and more than a tad bitchy, but it's all for the greater good. "The show is edgy, and it has attitude," Levin says. Who knew celebrity gossip also had a redeeming side?

At 6:40-ish a.m., Levin, the show's resident grown-up, commands the troops, jotting the celebstories du jour on a glass blackboard, each offered up by his "newsroom" staff of puppyish reporters. There's the cute blond guy separated at birth from Fabio, whom he smirkingly refers to as "my dad." There's the world-weary I-Know-But-It's-Just-My-Job guy with dreadlocks. There's the blond excitable girl whose eyes pop wide to bursting with each celebrity sighting: Lindsay, Samantha glued to her side! Shia LaBoeuf, at the hospital, post-drunken driving! Katherine Heigl, smoking a cigarette after developMent a New Year's resolution to quit!

Levin, a lawyer ("I'm a lawyer!" the toll screech at the end of each show) who covered the O.J. Simpson trial for Kcbs-Tv in Los Angeles, broke the Mel Gibson anti-Semitic rant story on Tmz.com (owned by Aol and Telepictures Productions, subsidiaries of Time Warner), and stalwartly continues representing the public's right to full disclosure of celebrity doings, particularly misdoings.

"We honestly treat the carrying out as a news mission to be accurate, to break stories and honestly entertain people," Levin says. "It's not mean."

"Tmz" is the Big Daddy of Web-to-Tv crossovers, followed by "What Perez Says," the blog from Mario Lavandeira, good known as Perez Hilton, http://www.perezhilton.com, come to life in occasional episodes on Vh1. Conversely, "Access Hollywood," the television show produced and distributed by Nbc Universal, a unit of general Electric, last winter began its redesigned companion Web site, AccessHollywood.com, a more conventional, nonconfrontational, neutral site than Tmz.com or PerezHilton.com and their Tv counterparts. Ah, synergy! "EntertainMent Tonight" on Cbs, struck up its site, Etonline.com, in September.

All these sites, including The New York Post's Page Six, nypost.com/gossip/gossip, and People.com, post updates, breaking and otherwise, through the day and night. You could gorge yourself Silly on celeb gossip Web sites, among them Oh No They Didn't, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com; Drunken Stepfather, drunkenstepfather.com; Celeb Slam, celebslam.com; Dlisted, dlisted.com; Celebrity Babylon, celebritybabylon.com; Just Jared, justjared.buzznet.com; and The Defamer, defamer.com. Levin says he starts his day when he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. By updating the Web site. He and everybody else is ready to go for the show by 6 a.m.

"The biggest challenge was to find the right voice for the show," Levin says. "The Web site was so successful people were Watching to see what would happen when we brought that to Tv. They conception it would be just another slick celebrity show. But it's not. It's authentic, it's not scripted and there's context and humor.Tmz is a brand, with a Web eleMent and a Tv eleMent."

"'Tmz' is at the forefront of what will be a tasteless movement of Web sites to Tv," says Robert Thompson, professor of Tv and beloved Culture at Syracuse University. "More are going to foll ow. We have not reached the saturation point for celebrity gossip. Holly wood gossip is the one thing we all have in common, and there's a real desire for a shared experience. You care about Brad Pitt breaking up with Jennifer Aniston, even if you don't care."

It wa s inevitable, Thompson says, that Tmz.com crossed over to Tv. Its trust on videos, graphics and commentary made it a natural to jump to Tv. "It is an identified brand, and the site had a good track article of breaking stories --Mel Gibson, Michael Richards's racist rant," he says. What sets "Tmz" apart from other gossip shows, is its reluctance -- no, its refusal -- to fawn or even to stay neutral. "I hate the word 'edgy,' but it's edgy," Thompson says. "It also seems so much more modern than 'Entertainment Tonight,' for example, because it comes from new media, rather than the other way around." The Web site to Tv crossover is similar to what happened with many radio shows in the early days of Tv, the new media at that time, Thompson points out. Tv shows like "Ozzie and Harriet," "Burns and Allen" and "Gunsmoke" started out on the radio. "'Candid Camera' did too," Thompson said, "but on the radio it was called 'Candid Microphone.'" "Tmz" specializes in the Hollywood stuff of life: the arrests, the mug shots, the hot spots of the moment and arrivals and departures at Lax, the celebrities looking fat,=2 0slurring their words and saying stupid thi ngs. Colleen Shannon, Playboy Playmate (anyone can be famous!), telling the world via paparazzi that she supports "Umbama," and then the gaffe growing even worse with her publicist's correction: "You mean Osama. Osama bin Laden." Later, the Playmate calls the other guy "MoCaine." "Colleen Shannon needs to use that Playboy money to buy a clue," the snarky voice-over narrator informs us. Not exactly objective journalism, "Tmz" is a much closer cousin to David Spade's 90's "Saturday Night Live" sketch "Hollywood Minute," with a smirky remark for each celebrity.

"Huge proclamation in Hollywood last night," the gel-shellacked black-hAired "Tmz" reporter tells Levin (ie. The camera). "Eddie Murphy has promised that the tragedy that is his movie work will eventually stop." Clips of Murphy onsTAGe in the 1980's with his (funny) stand-up act are shown, along with scenes of his (unfunny) cinematic ventures, with the narrator mockingly intoning, "One day, something happened -- he stopped being funny." Quick cut to a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. "This guy's made more bombs than Acme," the narrator continues, and then we see the unavoidable cartoon explosion. Beep-beep.

Fabio's son jumps in: "Stop the presses! Star Jones honestly looked good!" Shot of Jones alighting gracefully from a car. "I was like, what is wrong with me?"

There are lessons aplenty here. "It's one big morality tale," Thompson says . "It shows that when people do excessive thin gs they pay dearly. Britney Spears's work collapsed. And look what happened to Michael Jackson. 'Tmz' is very Old Testament."

"I'm not saying we should study 'Tmz' as Sunday School examples," he adds, "but it provides many lessons."

That it does, agrees Jeffrey H. Mahan, dean of faculty and professor of Ministry, Media and Culture at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver as well as editor of "Religion and beloved Culture in America" (University of California Press, 2005). "'Tmz' is structured on deeply held moral assumptions," he says. "Its moral function is that it confirms our existing social values by development fun of celebrities who exceed the norms we function by. So I get to say to myself that the very limitations of my life and the fact that I'm unwilling to do what these celebrities do -- drive around with a baby on my lap or cavort all night -- make me good than they are."

In essence, "Tmz" is two treats in one. "We get to indulge our interest in forbidden activities and we also get to say: 'That's not me. I'm good than that,'" Dean Mahan points out.

Pish-posh, Levin says. "I'm not here to preach," he says. "We're not on a mission to teach whatever anything."

"We're exterior celebrities who are entertaining," Levin says. "The show has humor. We're not treating Hollywood like 'War and Peace.'"

"They're people," Levin says of the celebrities featured on "Tmz." "Sometimes they're good, and sometimes they're not. It's a real look at Hollywood. Reality can be sweet, it can be harsh, it can be everything."

While celebrities may be richer, hotter and have more and good weddings than the rest of us, we can all the time aim to be like George Clooney, Mr. Nice Guy, in deed if not in fact. Praise to the heavens for "Tmz" showing us the way!

Here's "Tmz" vs. The Seven Deadly Sins:

Lust:

Lust is bad, and specifically bad are the lustful who hurt the righteous.

Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, bad. Stray-Rod's wife, good. Balthazar Getty ("Brothers and Sisters") and Sienna Miller ("World's No. 1 Homewrecker Kid, knocking out Denise Richards, J.Lo and Angelina Jolie"), bad. Mrs. Getty has been wronged by them, and so, by extension, she is good. As is the ultra-famously jilted Jennifer Aniston, whom"Tmz" all the time treats more cordial than either Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, cheating cheaters that they are. The videos and photos of Aniston all the time show her looking brave, and hot. Denise Richards is bad, beca use she "dated" h er best friend Heather Locklear's ex-husband, Richie Sambora, and so "Tmz" catches Richards in an unflattering light, looking --Gasp -- fat. Heather Locklear, on the other hand, all the time looks hot.

Gluttony:

Speaking of Denise Richards,those celebs gluttonous sufficient to eat actual Food and end up with cellulite to show for it are in for a bad time on "Tmz." Fired Jenny Craig spokeswoman Kirstie Alley, spoiled oil heir Jason Davis (known on "Tmz" as Gummi Bear), Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini, Mischa Barton, who dared to flaunt her cellulite-pocked thighs. The possibilities for mockery are apparently endless.

As bad as gluttony may be, it's polar opposite -- too skinny, especially when pregnant, like Nicole Richie -- is no less a sin. Amy Winehouse is drink and drug gluttonous. Andy Dick is too, and so many others. "Tmz" helpfully spotlights their many stumbles and bumbles. Don't try this at home, kids.

Greed:

When it comes to Hollywood, we could discuss this category forever. But punished the hardest by "Tmz" for their greediness are the sTAGe mothers, the Mama Roses on steroids, who presumably should know good and so be better. Mothers Teresa they are not. Lynne Spears, whose book on parenting was shelved after Britney's annus horribilis and Jamie Lynn's gravidity so she came up with a more fitting tome, "Through the Storm," newly published, was the queen of the genre, but her throne has since been toppled by Dina Lohan, who, "Tmz" has noted, again, helpfully, "has already ruined one daughter" -- Lindsay -- "and is working on ruining the other" -- Ali. The aforementioned Denise Richards is development a name for herself in this category, too, "Tmz" points out, by parading her two young daughters around on her reality show. The show was canceled, her battles with her ex, Charlie Sheen, still rage, and she was forced to put her .6 million 5,600-square-foot underground Hills house up for sale for 0,000 less than she paid. Kris Jenner, mother of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashi an and a integrate of offspring spawned with the cosmetically enhanced Bruce Jenner, is shown in her full pandering, pimping glory. Miley's dad, Billy Ray, is just an achy-breaky heartbeat away from joining this category.

Sloth:

K-Fed/Fed-Ex, Britney's unemployed baby daddy is the king of this hill.

Wrath:

That Firecrotch Lindsay Lohan has such a mouth on her! "Tmz" and the ranks of paparazzi have been obligated to show the whole world just how mean this girl can be. How mean is that? "Mind your own f****** business," as she routinely tells inquiring minds.

Envy:

Shauna Sand, D-list goddess and ex-wife of Lorenzo Lamas, is the "Tmz" avatar of celebrity envy, circling endlessly exterior hot Hollywood clubs as if she were trapped in Dante's Inferno but had no desire to leave.

Pride:

Heidi MonTAG and Spencer Pratt -- Speidi -- the villainous duo on Mtv's "Hills," is less preponderant than fameish, but all the time trying hard, forever on the surveillance for paparazzi to "catch"them keeping hands, kissing and canoodling. all the time camera-ready. all the time this close. And we all know what goeth before a fall. Always.

"Tmz"'s new industrial TAGline tells us the show's been "Keeping Hollywood Real since 2007." Or, as God said, let there be light.

Andrea Higbie
andreahig@aol.com

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There are many points in the sales call where the balance of power is potentially in jeopardy. Once we as the salesperson lose control, all heck breaks loose and the rest of it spirals out of operate like a weekend with Charlie Sheen.

One of these such moMents is the "Ok, let's cut to the chase; how much does it cost?" moMent; it can stop even the most seasoned sales expert in his/her tracks and it attempts to derail your moMentum train. However, like any obstacle - the "initial shutdown", the objections or the definite short attention span of your possible clients - you must anticipate, diffuse and bat away this stateMent to move send in your sales process.

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Let's call it what it is: the "how much does it cost?" moment is an effort by your client to bottom-line it; the lure you have cast has yet to catch onto something and spark interest in the customer. At least, that is partially true.

If the customer has stayed with you to this point, and they are request this question, it means the idea has not repulsed them and they are on the verge between hanging in there and dropping out. It's like the Clash song, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

You've heard it before and I shall say it again: all things is selling. Every facet of the sales call or visit is selling through process points until you reach the climax. In this event, you are called upon to sell your customer on why they should divert their attention from the price, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

You have an agenda. Your customer has an agenda. To keep on yours, you must often pacify them into thinking they are still on theirs; by that, I mean you will write back their statement, put it in its permissible place with a small salesmanship and you will continue on your process without typically drawing so much as a breath.

"Mr./Mrs. Customer, in fact - I understand price is a concern and I appreciate your enthusiasm. Fact of the matter is, I don't make the same schedule for the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. If I'm making a building, I need to know if I'm making a treehouse or the Sears Tower. I need to know a few more specifics so I can tailor-make a recommendation, personalized just for you and your situation. If I create something that works for someone else but not for you, our connection suffers and so does your business. Where specifically do you need to store yourself geographically?"

Of course, not every statement in there will apply to your situation, but that's just it; you have to utilize best practices, make them your own and get used to saying them through repetition. The point I am trying to make here is you are selling your possible client on why they should let go of the price point at this exact moment. At the same time, you are weaving immediately into request other question, which forces your momentum train back onto the track.

Dealing with sales call obstacles, overcoming objections and making it to the close are all actions that require lots of practice, lots of poise and lots of precision. The "how much does it cost?" moment means your customer is interested, but you cannot abort the process of construction your masterpiece.

There lies the second key point of this discussion: just because the client has shown some interest in listening to you does not mean you can stop what you're doing and head to a half-baked conclusion. You are involved in an intricate process; if you do not glean the answers to all the vital questions, your suggestion will be shoddy and your chances of convincing the customer to turn their current project to go with yours diminish greatly.

That is why the "how much does it cost?" moment is just other bump in the path; it is a good bump to a degree because it indicates you have done something to spark some interest. However, do not abort your process; stay the course, stay on target and conclude your schedule so you can advent the apex of sales moments: the almighty close.

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This is a common inquire and I hear it from company owners who have a website built using Flash or a home page that uses Flash. Let's describe the reasons why Apple does not support Flash and what you can do about it.

Have You Tried This Before?

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You are on your iPhone or iPad and type in a Url for your local restaurant. You wait a second and you get a message that states you need to download Adobe Flash in order to view the site. There is the "download" button. You click the button and expect things to work.

Suddenly, you get this message:

"Flash Player not available for your device

Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Adobe® Flash® Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch."

The message is from Adobe. And, it makes it appear that Apple is to blame.

But, is it Apple's fault?

Why Flash Doesn't Work

My acknowledge to why Flash doesn't work on your Apple mobile device is that it is in their best interest, and of course, Apple believes that their best interest is also your best interest. (Hey, Google uses this line of self-interest based logic all of the time.)

As they say, "follow the money." Since Apple controls all things in their environMent, they have the power to make decisions which will maximize their profits. But, my concept is that Apple's decision is also good for the user.

Let me describe the reasons that Apple provided for not allowing Flash on their mobile devices:

1. Flash is a accomplished system.

My two cents: Isn't Apple a accomplished system?

2. Reliability, protection and operation issues on mobile devices.

My two cents: I am not a tech-guy so I don't have data to support this claim. But, I do have personal sense with Flash on the many Mac Computers I have owned. My sense is that sometimes reliability and operation issues do happen with Flash on a Mac. Specifically, if my internet browsing sense encounters a site with Flash, the site may download moderately or it could crash my Computer. Flash-interruptus?

3. Flash drains battery life.

My two cents: I don't know this to be true, but it makes sense that it would cause this issue on mobile devices. How much of an issue in reality, I have no idea.

4. Flash is designed for Pcs and not touch screens.

My two cents: This is the case for all things in tech that was invented before the mobile web existed, right? (Since Al Gore invented the Internet, I wonder who invented the mobile web? Newt Gingrich? Charlie Sheen? It appears the reputation for the mobile phone invention is Martin Cooper.)

5. Adobe wants developers to adopt Flash for developing apps for Apple's mobile devices. Apple says no. Apple does not want a third-Party improveMent tool to get between them and developers.

The net of all this is that Apple has control and it appears to me, they came to the right decision. Of course, when it come to technology, things do change.

What Should You Do?

I love Apple products. I like Adobe products as well.

But, as a consumer with an Apple mobile device, I don't think you will miss Flash.

As a business, all you need to do is get a mobile site that is designed to work on all mobile devices. Your main website was built for the computer and not the mobile web. Think of this as an chance to tap into all those consumers who have mobile phones and search the mobile web 500 million times each month!

Best of all, building a mobile site for your company that is going to be very affordable.

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