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Purchase the Barrework for Beginners DVD at http://finisjhung.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=50.
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From head to toe, Finis Jhung gives you a fresh new view of the essential ideas of classical ballet that will transform your physique — and your psyche. The emphasis here is on learning ballet from the inside-out. Instead of merely assuming textbook positions and memorizing terminology, all the exercises in this class are designed to develop kinesthesia — the sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints. Learn to “see and feel” what you are doing. Learn the “why and how” that create the “what.” Teachers have found that this class works wonders with younger students.
CUSTOMER COMMENTS:
“A few years ago, I was told that I wouldn’t be able to walk by the time I turned forty. I refused to listen, joined a ballet class and purchased your DVDs. I just adore your training methods. You leave nothing out, explaining everything, which for me is essential. I am still walking and am stronger then when I began. Thanks.” – Rebecca Hart, Secretary to the Director or CE, Syracuse, NY
“If you have never stepped into a ballet class before, or if you are recovering from an injury, or if you are a professional wanting to realign your body and mind away from the pressures of performance, this video is a must. Finis Jhung incorporates the aesthetic of ballet with common sense and illustrates the healthful way to approach the ballet vocabulary. In addition, the structure of the class demonstrates the importance of lining up the body to support the ballet steps and stresses the importance of maintaining the posture, head, neck, shoulders – parts of the anatomy that are often overlooked in an effort to grind out multiple steps. For me, this calm and uncomplicated approach to presenting a ballet class is the one that guarantees improvement.” – Phyllis Goldman, Dance Critic, Backstage Publications, New York, NY
“After an exhausting fourteen-hour work day I practiced with your Level 1 Barrework for Beginners, and couldnt believe how I no longer felt tired but warm, relaxed, and able to concentrate again. Your way of teaching and explaining is what I have always longed for and missed in ballet classes. Thank you very, very much for making your experience and knowledge available to all of us around the world.” – Beate Stüve-Brammen, Attorney, Munich, Germany
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Purchase the Classic Classes 1: Advanced Beginning/Intermediate Pointe Class DVD at http://finisjhung.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=65.
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Teach it or take it, this class is a beauty. Finis works with the elegant Johanna Snyder of The American Ballet Theatre in a simply structured class on pointe that begins with Finis presenting and showing each barre exercise and then standing by and coaching Johanna as she beautifully demonstrates. In center floor, Finis shows and explains each exercise, Johanna demonstrates, Finis analyzes and coaches, Johanna repeats, and Finis usually gives more pointers. As she puts on her pointe shoes, Johanna shares some professional tips. You will notice that although the exercises are simply constructed and the atmosphere of the class is relaxed and friendly, the work itself is very demanding. As you watch and dance along with Johanna, you will become aware of the finer details that are the hallmarks of professionalism: musicality, correct port de bras, sharp pointes, refined delicacy, and perfect classical line. The révérence alone is reason enough to have this video. You will be thrilled with all the technical and artistic information youre receiving — and now, On Your Toes!
CUSTOMER COMMENTS
“Finally, I have met someone who explains the mechanics of why and how, and who respects the body for all it can do. Finiss videos and music are a must for every teacher in dance.” – Alice Sarkissian-Cadwell, Chair-Head, Dance Department, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
“Your videos are pure joy. They are so refreshing and inspirational. I cant thank you enough for all the help youve give me through your excellent videos.” – Wendy Stein, Dancepower Inc, Old Bridge, NJ
“I really enjoy the Classic Classes DVDs since I need to follow a structured class. My schedule does not permit me to make the local ballet classes, which is why your DVDs are so valuable to me. Someone like me can take class from you, Finis Jhung, everyday! What joy and happiness you bring to my heart and spirit.” – Sandra Chiodo, Pittsburgh, PA
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A style guide is a means of documenting your approach, as a writer, to the main elements of writing style that you believe need to be consistent. Style guides are generally associated with specialist types of writing like technical writing, commercial or business writing, journalism and web copywriting. In each of these cases, there is a need to ensure that the writing style is consistent and so guidelines are usually published to allow more than one author to contribute while ensuring that the finished piece does not carry or exhibit the personal style of a writer but that of the publication, company or website.
For publications or companies with a large number of contributing authors, a style guide is essential if the completed publication is to be coherent and consistent.
Many creative writers eschew the need for a style guide, believing that the ability to follow a standard English writing style should be an innate quality for any writer. While to a certain extent this could be argued to be true, a style guide provides a means of documenting basic rules or features of your writing that will allow you to ensure consistency in your written output. Technical writers, for example, will generally have a style guide for a particular customer or project to ensure that the data they deliver will be in an acceptable form and will be in keeping with previous deliveries or other publications that the customer already has. In many cases, this style is dictated by a recognised standard.
The lack of a single authoritative source on style for written English means that there is, and will always be, healthy debate on the elements of style. The use of punctuation and correct grammar is well established but style is much more than just the correct usage of punctuation, grammar and vocabulary.
Each publication, company or writer will have a view on any number of elements of the style of their writing. Creative writers may not be worried about headings, lists, trademarks or the use of special terminology, whereas a bid proposal writer or a technical writer may need to take heed of all such considerations in their daily work.
For any writer, but particularly for the freelance writer, a style guide should be an invaluable tool. Freelance writers should continually develop style guides for each customer or publication type that they work with. It is important that, as a freelancer, you can demonstrate an ability to follow a prescribed style, but equally that you can learn and record what your customers prefer from their comments and feedback. This will help increase your customers’ satisfaction in the long term and will help place you as their supplier of choice for written material or content.
But what’s wrong with a creative writer using their own style guide? Well, nothing. Can you imagine how much time it might save in proofreading and correction if a creative writer knows that they’ve followed a set style from the outset in certain areas?
Paul Docherty
http://www.articlesbase.com/writing-articles/what-is-a-writers-style-guide-and-why-would-i-need-one-115374.html
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Vida Killian discusses Dell’s IdeaStorm. An online discussion site dedicated to comments and suggestions for Dell to improve customer relations.
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Of Penguins and Moral Panic: The Discursive Construction of Us and Them
Nick Husbye, Ph.D. Candidate
Using critical computer-mediated discourse analysis, this presentation examines the ideological stances around which membership groups are formed regarding concepts of homosexuality through messages posted to Amazon.com for the picture book And Tango Makes Three. Analyzing 106 customer reviews and 197 comments to customer reviews, the study uses a textual analysis of how the groups us and them are constructed through discourse using an ideological square (van Dijk, 1998). The presentation concludes with descriptions of the language use of each group and how understanding these functions might be useful in efforts to include LGBT material in classroom literacy activities.
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http://www.crutchbuddies.com – Crutch Buddies Covers and Padding gets hundreds of emails from happy customers, here’s just a few of their comments. Crutch Buddies are comfy crutch covers, pads, and accessories.
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Purchase The Art of Pointework Level 5: Pirouettes DVD at http://finisjhung.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=72.
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Finis shows and explains each exercise, 15-year-old Saige demonstrates on both sides, Finis comments and analyzes, and then Saige repeats the exercise. This video is all about the preparations that create the results. Watch how Saige turns her plié and rolls through her feet. As she starts dancing across the floor, notice how Saige places and works her plié and pushes with her feet, which results in beautifully placed triple pirouettes en dehors. Finis and Saige then concentrate on the en dedans pirouette, showing you how to prepare for these tricky turns so that you will really get on your leg and turn with ease.
Besides giving you technical instructions and demonstrations on everything from simple pirouettes to grand pirouettes en dedans, Finis has also choreographed some of the exercises so that you can work on your dancing skills. And, of course, Saige works on the ballerina’s “bread & butter” steps — piqué turns and fouetté turns. After Saige shows her single fouetté turns, she goes on and does doubles. Dance, Ballerina, Dance!
CUSTOMER COMMENTS
“I wish I had had your teaching tools years ago. You’ve enabled me to teach my students in a way I never have before. Thank you.” – Laurie Levasseur, Laurie’s School of Dance, Winslow, ME
“I love The Art of Pointework videos. I have utilized many different teaching enhancement videos over the years, and have come to appreciate quality teaching tips that work. Your videos reinforce good technique combined with the artistry and musicality that is the essence of dance. Combined with your beautifully orchestrated CD’s, who wouldnt be inspired?” – Patti Moore, Director, Creative Dance Arts, Clifton Park, NY
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Frequently I am asked “how do you get information about the competition?” Most people are surprised when I tell them that getting useful competitive intelligence is actually the easiest part of managing successful business competition. One of the best methods to gain valuable competitive intelligence is so simple, straightforward, and productive that I have put it on my list of Business Competition Best Practices: Win Loss Research.
The benefits that win loss research routinely delivers include:
o Increasing your rate of successful wins in competitive sales situations
o Enhancing your product management and development initiatives
o Reducing the level of uncertainty involved in sales forecasting
o Strengthening top and bottom line results for your business
o Improving the efficiency of your sales cycle process
o Setting the stage for future business growth
Win loss research is a succinct, guided discussion with decision makers and who have been involved in your recent win and loss sales decisions. The goal is to learn what key distinctions they saw between you and your competitors, the importance of those distinctions and the value they assigned to each competitor. While the focus of this research is on gaining insight into how your competitors operate and how you fare in comparison, it is inevitable that you also gain valuable customer information in the process.
Win Loss Research drills down beyond standard pricing issues and gets into territories such as: decision process, sales team approach and professionalism, company reputation, product attributes, service issues, and handling of proposals. Although pricing information is involved, it should not be the centerpiece of the research unless it becomes apparent that it really was the key issue that drove the decision. The goal of Win Loss Research is to provide you with competitive insight you can act upon – actionable competitive intelligence – for sales process improvement and better results.
Typically this research is conducted either over the telephone or in a face-to-face interview. The latter is more common in places and cultures where that is the preferred communication modality. Getting the results that you want out of Win Loss Research is a combination of art and science; art being the skill of the researcher in eliciting the intelligence that you need; science being the development of a research guide that facilitates the discovery of actionable competitive intelligence.
As with almost anything worth doing, focusing on Critical Success Factors (CSFs) increases the likelihood that you will get what you need. For win loss research, focusing on the following CSFs will greatly increase your likelihood of obtaining productive competitor intelligence:
1) Selecting the optimal mix of win and loss opportunities to research is a reasonably complex task which must be done correctly to ensure that you are gaining insight from the target markets that matter most.
2) Development of a stimulating research survey that operates as a guide rather than a questionnaire is the backbone to outstanding results.
3) Using trained researchers who are skilled at eliciting useful information will usually provide more actionable intelligence.
Perhaps not surprising, the tone and quality of the initial research request can make or break your ability to get robust participation.
A common pitfall among companies that report doing win loss research is that they have their employees, typically the sales representatives, perform the research. You do need to have your sales people find out what happened. This should precede Win Loss Research which goes beyond the limited conversation from your sales reps’ debriefing. However, if the problem emanates from the quality of your sales person’s professionalism, it is not likely that you will learn this critical piece of information unless you use other resources for your research. It defies human behavior to think that the customer will feel comfortable being candid with a sales rep who has not met their expectations or that the sales rep will be candid in passing along information that may be construed as unfavorable to them.
An extraordinary thing about win loss research is that any size or category of company should be able to implement this as an ongoing business practice and see steady gains in their customer acquisition and sales. This form of research is not particularly costly or difficult to do, yet it does take a certain willingness to expose yourself to news that may make you uncomfortable at times.
One of the most frequent comments our researchers hear is a compliment to our clients for taking the time to learn and improve from their experience. Once you establish a practice of doing win loss research routinely and take action on the results, your company will realize the benefits of implementing this business competition best practice.
Celeste Bishop
http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/business-competition-best-practices-win-loss-research-88827.html
Professional-quality live video of very early Replacements, from right around the time their first LP (”Sorry, Ma”) was released. Shot at a Sept. 5th ‘81 Twin/Tone label showcase at 7th St Entry. Video from Twin/Tone web site.
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