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If you’re thinking of ‘downsizing’ your living arrangements, then a Park Home could be the ideal answer for you.

Here are seven great reasons for choosing a Park Home lifestyle:

1. Park Homes are Affordable

Park Homes are very affordable, and often significantly cheaper than buying a traditional home. The Park or Lifestyle Village usually takes care of major site maintenance which means you get to spend your time and money on your hobbies or travel instead!

2. Luxury

I bet “luxury” didn’t cross your mind when thinking about Park Homes did it? Well today’s modern Park Homes often come with plush carpeting, wooden floors, modern fixtures and spacious designs making them very comfortable residences.

And the Parks and Villages are also changing to meet the needs of active retirees. Fancy a swim in the heated pool? What about keeping fit by using the onsite fully-equipped gymnasium? Relax and socialise in the Clubhouse. Learn a new hobby or skill by doing activities in the Community Centre.

3. Appearance

One of the attractions of a Park Home Village is that there is maintenance of the grounds, and rules about the appearance of properties. Generally these rules are reasonable and serve to make the appearance of the Park a pleasure for all those who live there.

4. Sssshh

Hear that? Its quiet…

Lets face it, most people have loved and raised kids, but sometimes you want to live in a quieter environment. Living in a Park Home village is an adult-community, usually for people aged “over 55?.

5. Security

Many Park Homes and Lifestyle Villages are ‘gated’ with security entry and fencing around the Park which keeps you safe and crime levels low.

6. Community

It’s wonderful to live where you know your neighbours and you share common interests. A well-designed Park Home allows connections with like-minded people to be made easily. Many Parks and Villages also have a Clubhouse or Community Centre for residents to socialise and take up group activities. Its easy to stay active and interested in your community and make new friends.

7. Lock up and leave

The world is a big place and if you enjoy travelling then being able to simply “lock up and leave” your Park Home while you roam the world on your travels is a great benefit. You won’t need to worry about who will collect the mail; look after the gardens; and check on the house. You just need to make sure you’ve packed your bags and have your passport and your camera!

If you’re looking to downsize but still want all of the above amenities in your next home, then maybe a Park Home is what you are looking for. You may be pleasantly surprised by what you see!

Interior design careers require not only a sense of design, but also technical aptitude and sophisticated communication skills. A bachelor’s degree and passing mandated government exams is just the beginning of this highly competitive – but rewarding and inspirational career.

Designing your life with a career in interior design can give you the lifetime reward of living with a job you love. Interior design careers are for the creative individual who also has the ability to manage the creativity logically and enjoys working with materials. To be a successful interior designer, you must also be able to communicate the creative and logical aspects of your design to clients.

An interior designer works for their client. The client will issue their requests, demands and specifications for the interior design. The interior designer will then take those specifications and create a design, using creativity and talent to create a design, and educational background and on-the-job experience to make the design a reality. Textiles and materials, form and function, safety and security are all areas of study that the interior designer has to master. Aesthetics must meet functionality and it starts with a degree.

Your Interior Design major will begin with the fundamentals. These courses will include learning about the basic principles, processes and elements of design, types of materials and furnishings, identification of fabrics and textiles, and utilization of space. From there you will move on to the physical properties of materials, composition, light, color, sketching and mechanical drafting. Later in your education, your studies will focus on blending the visual and the practical, then move to business practices, government regulations, environmental considerations, communication and building your portfolio. Safety courses will include fire regulations, building codes, ADA regulations, and space constraints.

Most states require an interior designer to be insured. To qualify for the exam, you will need six years of college, and work experience. If you claim you are an interior designer in those states and perform work, it’s possible you could be criminally prosecuted. Once you complete your education, complete the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) exam. The NCIDQ exam is administered twice a year and includes three sections. Section One is “the Principles and Practices of Design (Building and Barrier Free Codes included), Section Two is “Contract Development and Administration,” and Section Three is “Schematics and Design Development.” Once you pass your NCIDQ exam, you will be assigned a certificate number and get your license.

During your studies you will likely find your area of preference and expertise. An interior designer can work in general interiors in residential or commercial buildings, or they can specialize, working for just restaurants, hotels, skyscrapers, or any other specialty that they’ve found their talent for. An interior designer might work for a large corporation, a small design firm, or out of their own home. The interior designer’s education, license, portfolio and work experience will determine reputation and career.

Interior design takes a great deal of creativity, skill and knowledge. Years of education and training take place before your interior design career becomes a reality – but once it does, your life will be designed for success.

Home video formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV and MOV are not suitable for online sharing and viewing. In contrast, Flash video and SWF video are widely used in product display which is smaller in size and more convenient for transmission over the Internet.

 

1. The advantage of Flash SWF and FLV

 

FLV or Flash Video is a brand-new stream media format which utilizes the Flash Player widely used on the webpage and can integrate the video into the Flash animation. It has higher compression rate, better quality and faster downloading speed. SWF (Adobe Flash  or Flash movie ) is also an another typical interactive video format online which you can make as the FLV player embedded in an HTML page thus the viewers have no need to download other players to watch the video created by you.

 

FLV or SWF can be created from nearly all types of video formats, such as DVD, MPEG, AVI, MPG, WMV, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASF and MP4,etc.

 

Therefore, In order to post your favorite videos onto your commercial website, your personal blog and BBS to share with others, you need to convert the videos into Flash format first. But by what means shall you convert the video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV in to a totally different format? The answer is that you need a Flash conversion tool.

Moyea Flash Video MX Pro is a professional conversion tool to convert video to FLV and Adobe Flash (SWF) for sharing and promoting over the Internet which can perfectly decode the common video formats and encode them in to FLV. Please download the program at http://reg.moyea.com/download/?s=2314a28a55cb55df5a0fe96c4f44a9f1&n=video-to-flash.com to experience its extraordinarily wonderful function first.

 

2. Step-to-step demonstration on how to make FLV or SWF video

 

Step1 Launch the program and input the video file

 



 

Click “Folder” and input the video in. This converter can convert videos in various formats like AVI, MPEG, MP3, WMV, ASF, etc. Flash Video MX also can convert Apple Quicktime video to Flash.

 

Step2 Editing the video

 

On the Edit tab, you can trim the video duration, and crop the video content to save part from the video. The following parts illustrate the detail information.

 

In the Trim section, the trim function helps to trim the video duration, and this is probably the easiest way to establish precise control of your clip timing.

1. Enter the time where you want the video clip to start in the Start Time area.

 

Click the button to confirm the start time and end time. Alternatively, it is easier to trim the video during playing.

 

You can also click the button  to the frame where you want the video clip to start or end.



2. You can even drag the line under the left preview window to select part of the video quickly.

 

3.The video duration time will be displayed in the Capture area.

 

In the Crop section, you can crop the video content to save part from the video.

 

1. In the left panel, use the video preview selector-dragging the slider controls to crop the video.

 

2. Alternatively enter values in the spin controls for the right, left, top, and bottom edges to crop the video. The cropped information will appear in the bottom of the pane, such as video size, aspect ratio.

 



 

Step3 Adjusting the video effects

 

The Effect tab contains some options that can be used to adjust the video effects.

 



1. In the Video section, drag the Contrast slider to adjust the contrast.

 

2. Drag the Brightness slider to correct for any changes in exposure.

 

3. By checking the Flip box, you can flip the video vertically.

 

4. The Deinterlace option helps to eliminate the interlace artifacts to get better viewing effects.

 

5. In the Audio section, drag the Volume slider to adjust the original volume for your video

 

Step4 Adding watermark to video

 

Add image

 

On the watermark tab, there are options to add image watermark, and text to the video. When the video plays to the point that you want to add image or text, please click the .button. Then select the Add Image or Add Text in the drop-down list.

 



 

Click the “Transparency” button and you will open a pop-up. Click your mouse on the left picture to select a transparent color. Drag Tolerance slide bar to adjust the tolerance. and drag the Alpha slider to adjust the alpha attribute. Click OK to return to the logo setting.

 



 

Add Text

 

Drag the slide bar to the time point you want to add image or text by pressing the Pause button, which will then be shown in the list of Time. Click the option of Delay to set the duration. Below the tab of Type, there are two options available under the pull down menu: image and text. Choose “Text“. In the Caption box, enter the text you want to

 

add. To change the font, click the button, and then the Select Font dialog will appear.

 

From the drop-down menus of Font, Style, Size and Color, select what you need.

 

Step4 Snapshot

The Snapshot tab provides the function of capturing a picture from the video for the first frame of the output video. The Capture button helps you to capture any frame of the video as a thumbnail.

 



 

Step5 Cue point

 

To add subtitle to your video, please press the CuePoint tab and you will see the settings of cue points which allow

 

you to specify the watermark and text at each specific time you like. When the video plays to the frame that you want to

 

add cue point, click the button to add a cue point and the  button to delete the chosen cue point.

 

In the first list, you can rename the cue point and select the cue point type. There are two types of cue points you get: navigation, event.

 

1. Click the button to set the parameters for the selected cue point.

2.Set the name and value for parameters in the second list. By clicking the button, you can delete the parameter.