Fashion Show Organizing tips
Organizing a fashion show is one of a challenging task. It needs team work where it involves many people’s co-operation and co-ordination. Whether your fashion show is to be a simple fundraiser or an elaborate fashion extravaganza you will have to work hard to achieve proud tears and rounds of applause. Choice of lighting, location and music are important elements of the production process.
Organizing a fashion show means selecting and inviting a suitable judge, selecting models and new fashioned apparels that suit them, selecting a theme and getting the hall, wall and floor done accordingly, choosing a place or a hall that has a ramp, selecting music, inviting the press and photographers, selling tickets, and the list goes on and on.
Do you want to keep it on a local level or go big? In either case, prepare yourself for a little begging as well as negotiating and you had better be organized or be good at it. Get yourself a land line because your cell phone bill is going to be outrageous if you don’t have a plan. Factor in your fuel consumption as you will no doubt be doing a lot of traveling.
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If you have the unenviable task of organising a conference or seminar then you’ll already be an expert at multi-tasking and will have honed your planning and time management skills to perfection. You’ll often be seen doing a perfect imitation of a Swan – looking calm, in control, and always professional whilst at the same time flapping your legs furiously to keep things on track.
Inevitably though, as the old adage suggests if “things can go wrong they will go wrong”. Whether it’s the venue being double booked, tube strikes being called on the day of your event, the caterers being closed by the health inspectors or presenters pulling out at the last minute, you have to cope. Not only are you expected to cope but you need to make sure the presenters and the audience go away thinking this was the best and most smoothly run event they’ve ever attended. Your career and the potentially the success of your employer depends on it.
Given just how many things you need to juggle in the lead up to the event and in particular during the day of the conference or seminar it makes sense to deal with as many “gotchas” as you can in advance.
Colour Crunch; Inject Colour Into Your Working Wardrobe
When it’s drab outside during these winter months, we often wish we could inject some colour into our lives to cheer us up. We can so easily do this by way of our clothing but when we are so used to wearing our staple black, brown, charcoal & navy, many of us are overwhelmed by the mass of colours available to us.
So, let’s investigate colour, take the plunge and add a splash of colour to our working wardrobe. By understanding the psychology of colour, you can apply it to help lift your mood, give you confidence and can even use it to your advantage by potentially boosting your career opportunities.
Most of us will have staple Navy Blue in our wardrobes. This colour provides a fantastic base for us all. But why? Well, navy is the colour that most conveys trust and order. When you wear navy, it allows you to be authoritative yet approachable. Think about the many police forces across the globe whose uniforms are blue! Therefore blue is for the work place teamed with a splash of colour in a blouse, top, shirt or tie.
Word Stress and Vowels
he biggest difference between English and most other languages is the timing. In many languages stress is evenly place on each syllable of a word. Except for Chinese where each word is only 1 syllable, but this results in the same rhythm issues when speaking in English. It is hard to know where to stress a multi-syllabic word when you have no experience with multi-syllabic words.
English is called a stress timed language. An undescriptive term if there ever was one. It does nothing to help draw a clear picture of how the timing is different.
Other languages that stress specific syllables use accents or they use predictable patterns. For example French always stresses the final syllable.
American English uses what is known as alternating stress pattern. In a word we give primary stress to one syllable. Depending on the word we may have secondary stress, and always one syllable that is unstressed.
The Most Commom Vowel in English!
The Schwa. This tiny, reduced vowel is most commonly heard in English. And guess what, there is no written symbol for it in the English alphabet. It can be represented by any vowel.
Look at these three words
cabage…….cotton……..sentence
In these 2 syllable words the same vowel is used twice. However, the pronunciation of each vowel is quite different.
That is because one syllable is stressed and one is not. The vowel that is in the stressed syllable receives its “full” pronunciation. It is longer and louder then the vowel in the unstressed syllable. In fact the vowel from the unstressed syllable is reduced to the schwa sound.
So in those examples the schwa sound is represented by an a, o, and an e. In the following examples the schwa is underlined
* atlas
* palace
* illness
* purpose
* minute
Don’t Slow Down, Just Pause!
How many times have you heard the advice “slow down”. It is said in a helpful tones, and impatient tones and sometimes in a condescending tones. No matter what the tone it is still relatively unhelpful. Slowing down by itself will do nothing for you. People do not want to hear Hi…..my…….name……is…….Jared. Speaking one word at a time drives the listener crazy, reduces your intonation, and completely rids your sentence of any emotion.
Better advice is to use pauses between thoughts. Pausing helps on two levels. It gives your listener a chance to “catch up” to what you are saying, and it gives you a chance to begin a new intonation curve.
Pause wherever there would be a period or a comma. The more complex your subject and the less familiar the listener is with you or with the content matter, the more pausing you want to do. You will pause more of less depending on the speaking situation, your personality, and audience.
5 Habits to Shake When You Want to Improve Your Spoken English!
1. Mumbling: People will mumble when they are unsure either about the word they are using or how to pronounce the word. So they say it too quietly or quickly or without moving their mouth a lot. This contributes to your listener’s challenge in hearing and understanding what you are saying. In the the end the strategy does not work because you will either be dismissed, misunderstood or forced to say it again.
2.Not Pausing: This is sometimes a nervous habit, like mumbling or a language flow difference. In either case, incorporating pauses into your verbal communication will increase others ability to understand you dramatically.
3.Not engaging native English speakers in conversation: Okay it is intimidating, however it is necessary. Ask for information, especially when you don’t need it! This will take the nervousness out of your listening. For example you know where your bank is, but ask someone anyway. You know where the towels are located in the store but ask a sales assistant for additional practice
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The goal of VDN’s engineers was to reach this gem design by meeting the highest possible requirements of the modern fastidious audio community. The REX-100 mono integrated tube OTL amplifier is designed with the sole purpose to reflect the harmonic structure of the real life music, hence enabling the listener to experience his feelings completely immersing its essence… it is our believeing that our OTL approaches the unparalleled sound to the electrostats, as well as to electrodynamic loudspeakers additionally enabling the precisely defined bass reproduction…Why we decided to build OTL 12+ years, ago ?The story is very interesting…11 years ago the first production started, but the initial idea of building the OTL amplifier came 2+ years earlier, through a local audiophile, a close friend to both VDN’s owners. And there was another one who not only belonged to the circle of audiophiles but was professionally involved with High End audio. With such a small team, but truly armed with all neccessary knowledges and experience, it was just the matter of time for successfull birth of the very sophisticated OTL amplifier. It took 2+ years to reach the prototype and almost an extra year to come to the production-ready REX-100 OTL.What we believe REX-100’s highlights are ?- beautiful, natural sound with extraordinary 3-dimensional stage and rich powerfull bass, which is more felt than heard- very reliable operation, even with the toughest loads- minimum signal path throughout the amplifier- compact design which doesn’t occupy much space in the room- distinctive looks - simple, yet elegant* after all, why “REX”; it is a latin word for the KING and we beleieve it is…
First Impressions Count More in the Era of Credit Crunch
Do you think about how you dress at work and carefully select your outfit depending on your working environment? Or do you think it doesn’t matter and simply put on any outfit which is to hand?
Perhaps, you should know that your attitude to work can be gleaned from how you dress? So, if you look sloppy and unkempt others will assume that this is also your attitude to your work. Why is this? In today’s tough times when jobs are scarce and we need to do all we can to hang on to our employment, read on to find out how can you adapt it to your advantage?
You have 30 seconds 1st impression which can last up to 15 years.
Think about the last time you met someone new, albeit in a social or business environment. Do you recall how they spoke to you, the tone of their voice? Do you remember exactly what they said? Or do you remember what they wore?
How to Dress With Flair in the Workplace
Dress for success! It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, but does it still hold credence in workplaces that have become more casual?
Absolutely; even more so.
I’ve always worn ties. To me wearing a tie means business. Ties are accessories that help convey - at a glance - a brand of professionalism which aids me in an industry (entertainment) where personal and professional boundaries often get blurred. In addition to adding flair to my wardrobe, ties also serve as a reminder to not get too comfortable in my work environment (since wearing a tie can be an uncomfortable experience).
Not wearing a tie doesn’t mean that you are any less of a professional; it simply means that you are not readily identified as one. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, is rarely seen in a tie; neither is Russell Simmons, President of Rush Communications and founder of Def Jam recordings. They are both well-known and well-respected and thus; do not need the edge that wearing a tie or a suit gives them.