. Doing an engagement session can also give you another avenue to ask questions and work out any kinks. After the session, talk to your photographer about your favorite photos from the shoot and why. Use this time to communicate any desires or concerns you have to help ensure you get a final product that perfectly reflects your wedding day.
• If you feel stressed and overwhelmed about coordinating all of the needed details for a wedding, look into hiring a wedding planner. Hiring a professional can help you save money, time, and additional stress. Planning a wedding is a big task, and many details could potentially be looked over. However, hiring a professional can help ensure you have every tiny detail covered, offer helpful suggestions (they do this for a living!), save you money in the long run, and help lower your stress levels. Lowered stress levels can help ensure that you are relaxed for your engagement and wedding photos, translating into better photos.
At Mermaid Pictures and Printing, we specialize in capturing the love on your special day. If you are looking for a professional and experienced wedding photographer, contact us today!
The Cash Out Betting Specialist […]
This week sees the return of Friday night football, for a change Rachel Riley isn’t the only reason worth watching. Unfortunately though the Friday […]
After a short and somewhat inconvenient international break, the Premier League gets back in to full swing this weekend. This also means that the […]It's been more than a decade since country duo Brooks & Dunn have rocked the Iowa State Fair Grandstand, and on Friday night you could hear how much Iowans missed the band.
"Sounds like we're back in Iowa tonight," Leon Eric “Kix” Brooks, half of the band's namesake, said to 15,074 gathered fans as the group wrapped a performance of "My Next Broken Heart."
Though the duo has played at the Iowa State Fair nine times since 1992, this marked the first time the performers appeared at the Grandstand following its 2018 renovations.
After bringing hundreds to their feet with the band's first song of the night, "Brand New Man," Brooks & Dunn launched into "Put a Girl in It." With each song the LED screen at the back of the stage lit the performers with myriad images from song to song, sometimes projecting the band in sepia tones and other times showing images like a car burning down a highway.
Over decades of performance, Brooks & Dunn have created an extensive catalog of 23 chart-topping hits including "Believe," "Only In America" and "Cowgirls Don't Cry" all of which were performed over the course of the night.
More:What are the top-selling musical performances at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand so far
Opening for the pair at the event was, Alex Miller, who was introduced to the stage as "a singer, a songwriter and a ball of fire."
"I know a lot of you are out there going, 'Where have I seen this kid?'" Miller said to the crowd after his rendition of "Good Hearted Woman."
"I was on 'American Idol' a couple of years ago... It was a crazy experience and I never thought it'd lead to me opening for Brooks & Dunn, but I am just so thankful to be here tonight."
More:Will Iowa State Fair attendance top 1 million people again this year? See the daily numbers
Last year, after appearing on the 19th Season of "American Idol," Miller released his single "Don't Let The Barn Door Hit Ya" with his full album, "Miller Time," dropping earlier this year.
Over the course of the night, Brooks & Dunn played about 20 songs, including "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "Only America," which were played after fans demanded an encore.
"I gotta thank you all for helping us pay our rent for the past 30 years," Brooks said to the crowd before the encore, likely referencing the band's first appearance at the State Fair Grandstand exactly three decades ago.
Later this summer, Brooks & Dunn are scheduled to perform at the 15th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors.
This concert came the day after the alternative Christian band Skillet drew 4,537 fans to the State Fair's Grandstand on opening night.Because it will be a full CL week, there will be events on the days between matches that can be attended and will have players, former players and managers in them, there will be concerts etc, a week full of things to take money from tourists, match goers, this will attract casual tourists too that will be on vacation as it will include non football events too. With ads, marketing, brands paying to get a week worth of exposure, events will be broadcasted as well. A full money making curcus in short. That is what I think. If they are doing this, they know it will make more money, otherwise they won't.I am Ajanta Roy. Born and brought up in India. I am from Mumbai and have been living in Kolkata now for quite some time. I have been working as a Qualitative MR Consultant since the last 20 years.
I have used Semiotics on quite a few studies earlier and this was specifically to identify the significance of a Logo with reference to its Colour in the Agricultural Context! Green was undoubtedly found to be the best and most appropriate colour that connoted positivity, wealth, celebration, success, good luck, auspiciousness and lots more. Black was a complete No.., said during a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal: Successful negotiators must “experience the emotion of love at one point in their life, to know what it means to have been hurt in love at one point in their life, to know success and, perhaps most important, to know what it means to know failure.”
“The very good negotiators, I think, are the ones with the life stories,” he concluded.
Build powerful negotiation skills and become a better dealmaker and leader. Download our FREE special report, Negotiation Skills: Negotiation Strategies and Negotiation Techniques to Help You Become a Better Negotiator, from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Cambria began learning to appreciate people’s complex life stories early in his career. He told the Journal that as a beat officer in the 1980s, he stereotyped the homeless people he encountered as “violent,” “dirty,” and “mentally ill.” That changed after he searched the bag of a homeless man and found a play the man had written about his struggle to improve his life. “In that two-minute space of time, he had transposed himself from a homeless guy—my baggage—to a playwright,” Cambria said.
Having learned on his first day of patrol that smiling was a more effective strategy than staring contests, Cambria eventually went on to be known as “Gentleman Jack.”
Retired psychology professor Stuart Kirschner, who helped develop the NYPD’s hostage team’s negotiation training program with Cambria, compared the program to group therapy. He told the Journal that the program was “incredibly moving” due to Cambria’s empathetic negotiating style, which leads him to tap into trainees’ life experiences.
The following lessons from the NYPD’s negotiation training could be elements of successful professional negotiator training in the business world as well:
1. Deal with emotions first.
According to Cambria, the first 15-45 minutes of a crisis negotiation are the most critical. He said that the NYPD’s negotiation training teaches officers to “manage the emotion level first.” Confronting the emotions of hostage-takers, those threatening suicide, and others in crisis head-on allows the negotiators to gradually defuse them.
The majority of hostage situations are driven by emotions and relationships, research has found. Even when hostage takers say they are motivated by money or some other tangible outcome, their demands tend to mask a greater underlying emotional concern, such as a desire for respect, attention, or love.
The best negotiation courses promote rational decision making but also acknowledge the need to deal with emotions. A colleague who refuses to share scarce resources may be fearful that her position in the organization is in jeopardy, for example. It can be difficult to confront emotions at the office, but doing so often leads to unexpected breakthroughs and promotes a calmer, more collaborative discussion.
2. Listen to learn.
In their negotiation training, members of the NYPD hostage-negotiation team learn to listen carefully to a hostage taker’s demands with the goal of identifying his key underlying problem or motivation, Cambria wrote in a 2002 Negotiation Journal article with Richard J. DeFilippo, Robert J. Louden, and Hugh McGowan. Instead of trying to debate the hostage-taker’s concerns rationally—by saying, for example, “But you have your whole life ahead of you!”—trainees learn to manage the hostage taker’s anxieties.
As reflected in the team’s motto, “Talk to me,” the NYPD’s negotiation skills training emphasizes active listening skills. In their negotiation training, officers learn to repeat back what they have heard and make supportive remarks, such as “It sounds like you feel misunderstood.”
Virtually all of us can benefit from spending more time listening and less time talking in our negotiations, as professional negotiator training should remind us. When we synthesize what we’ve heard and probe our counterpart’s underlying feelings, we can get beyond simply focusing on what we’re going to say next.
3. Build trust through small concessions.
By listening closely, crisis negotiators gain a better understanding of the underlying motives of the other party. In the process, they work toward building a trusting relationship that