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Sushi Plates – An Important Part of Sushi Presentation

Japanese sushi has its own way of presenting in front of the purchasers. As you can see many of the food around the world, give much value to the way it is represented. So if you are a regular maker of sushi at home, it will be a good thought on put in some money on sushi plates so that you can also present it in a lovely way.

Most of the sushi chef equally consider the preparation and represent of sushi foods. So they definitely find time to select suitable utensil to present their food. To keep up the custom of sushi represent, you should also take care while selecting sushi plate set.

Along with sushi plates, you should also buy some more accessories which will then support the sushi plate set. matching chopsticks holders should be selected for the chop sticks, which is used to eat the sushi. It will be %attractive % and more fitting if the chopsticks can be kept on the chopstick holders, rather than keeping them on the plate. For keeping your soy sauce and wasabi, some appealing thin bowl should also be purchased. You can eat sushi after dipping the sushi in these side dishes which will give a appealing good flavor.

It is important that you take care of some points while eating the sushi. An additional use of soy sauce or wasabi will spoil the original flavor of sushi. Pouring these items more in to your sushi food is considered as insulting the sushi chef. Hence you should take very small amount of soy sauce in to your plate and do not wasting it. Too much use of soy sauce and wasabi or wastage of these items is considered as rude behavior in sushi custom.

Along with the sushi plate, you should also buy a good quality tea set. It is traditional to serve green tea with sushi. Hence the use of an %attractive % and similar tea set will give a enjoyable look to the entire represent. At some places in Japan, a rice wine called sake is seved instead of green tea.

Whatever be the drink along with the sushi, the selection of proper cups have an impact on the overall represent of the sushi. That is an important aspect in sushi food represent.

If you do not have the time to sit and have the sushi food, rather than using the chop sticks, you can use your hands. This is not considered as a bad manner. While you are sitting alone to have your sushi food , you don’t need to make use of the chopsticks.

You can take sushi foods when you are on a trip just like you are in a restaurant. Some take out restaurants provide fitting dipping cups for the soy sauce.

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Slide Design – 8 Best Practices For Exceptional Presentations

PowerPoint is a powerful business tool but only if it is used to its best advantage. Matt Thornhill, President of Audience First, a Midlothian, VA business that offers presentation training says, “PowerPoint makes slides; it doesn’t give presentations. Remember that you are creating slides to support a spoken presentation.” With that in mind, here are eight things you can do to create powerful slides to support your presentations.

1. Keep it simple. Don’t use too many words or too many graphics. Figures and numbers do not translate well on screen. Refer to figures and numbers in your handouts where they can be digested more thoroughly, later. If you need to emphasize a statistic in PowerPoint, consider using a graphic or image to convey the point.

2. Use fonts judiciously. Use the same font for your entire slide set and use no more than two complementary fonts (i.e. Ariel and Arial Bold). Regardless of what font style you choose, be sure the text can be seen in the back of the room. A font size of no less than 24 pt should be used for general text. For titles or headings, use 36 to 44 points

3. Use color well. A white or light background with black or dark text works best. A screen image with a dark background and light text will wash out, but dark text on a light background will maintain its visual intensity.

4. Don’t use cheesy or tired clip art. If you found your image in the clipart library that came with PowerPoint, your audience has seen it 1000 times. Use outside images and graphics for variety and visual appeal.

5. Limit bullet points and text. The best slides may have no text at all. Remember the slides are meant to support the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous. Well designed slides are worthless without the presentation that accompanies them; you’ll know you have achieved this when someone who missed your presentation asks you for your slides and later tells you they had no idea what the point of the presentation was.

6. Use bullet points properly. Bullet point should never contain full sentences. Use bullet points to deliver key ideas. Remember the 6 x 6 rule: bullet points should have no more than six words and there should be no more than six bullet points on the screen.

7. Have a visual theme. Similar to the library of clip art available in PowerPoint, it’s probable that your audience has seen every template which is available through the program. Go online to find other PowerPoint designs that are available or create your own with a simple background and color scheme.

8. Avoid movement of slide elements. While moving text or graphics around on the slide may look like fun, it’s very distracting to the audience. Avoid the “build” animation feature unless it is imperative that your points be revealed slowly.

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Christmas Presents For 5 Year Old Girls – Gift Ideas For That Special Little Girl In Your Life

Are you on the hunt for Christmas gifts already? What, it’s too early to get your gifts…think again. It pays to shop now to take the stress out of the Christmas period. It also means things could be cheaper and easier to get. Christmas is a time notorious for running out of hot toys and consequently prices get inflated out of proportion for the must have toy or toys of the year. If you are looking for Christmas presents for 5 year old girls or girls around that age here are a few ideas to get you going.

Calico critters have been a popular toy for girls around 5 years of age for a few years now. You might have heard of them as Sylvanian families. Well they have been re-branded as Calico Critters. Don’t ask me why this has been done but they still look as cute as ever and tend to melt the hearts of little girls.

Calico Critters are 6 inch toy figurines of a whole range of woodland animals. They almost look like Beatrix Potter type characters – you know – Rabbits, Badgers, Door mice and various creatures like that.

They all have families, so there will be a father and mother Rabbit and various sibling bunnies of various ages. Girls love this family aspect of the toy because it gives them an outlet to express their nurturing side. And the toys are ever so cute.

You can also get all sorts of accessories to make the critters even more adorable. The townhouse or townhome (as they like to call it in Cloverleaf Corners) is predicted to be a popular seller this year. It is a complete home for one or more Calico critters families. And the details of the house are exquisite.

The V Reader Animated E book system is a toy that girls learning to read will really cherish. The V Reader is made by Vtech that specialize in educational toys. It makes reading and spelling and learning new words more interesting and fun.

Basically you put in a cartridge and the story starts. A narrator tells the story and the animated screen changes as the story goes along. Under the animation, the words that are being used are displayed and each word is highlighted when it is spoken by the narrator.

Children can stop and have the word repeated. They can even highlight the word to get more information, like a definition on the word. There are also various word and spelling games that can be played with the V Reader. Girls love to read and this will be a constant companion as they develop the skills to start reading proper books.

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