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The following appeared as part of a recommendation by one of the directors of
the Beta Company.
�The Alpha Company has just reduced its workforce by laying off fifteen percent
of its employees in all divisions and at all levels, and it is encouraging early
retirement for other employees. As you know, the Beta Company manufactures
some products similar to Alpha�s, but our profits have fallen over the last few years.
To improve Beta�s competitive position, we should try to hire a significant number
of Alpha�s former workers, since these experienced workers can provide valuable
information about Alpha�s successful methods, will require little training, and will
be particularly motivated to compete against Alpha.�
Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
A director of Beta Company suggests that Beta can improve its competitive position by hiring a significant number of former Alpha
Company employees who have recently retired or been laid off. The director�s reasoning is that because Alpha manufactures some
products similar to Beta�s, former Alpha employees would be experienced and need little training, could provide valuable information
about Alpha�s successful methods, and would be particularly motivated to compete against Alpha. The director�s argument is
problematic in several respects.
First of all, the argument presupposes that Alpha�s methods are successful. This is not necessarily the case. To the contrary, the fact
that Alpha has laid off 15 percent of its employees in every division and at every level suggests that Alpha�s methods may have been
unsuccessful and that downsizing was necessary for the company to minimize financial losses.
Secondly, the director assumes that the former Alpha employees hired by Beta will be well-trained and valuable. During a typical lay-off,
however, the best and most experienced employees are typically the last to be laid off. By following the director�s advice, Beta would
probably be hiring Alpha�s least efficient and least experienced employees�that is, those who would be least valuable to Beta.
Thirdly, the author assumes that Alpha and Beta are sufficiently similar so that former Alpha employees could provide special value for
Beta. However, we are informed only that Beta manufactures �some products similar to Alpha�s.� It is possible that former Alpha
employees have experience with only a small segment of Beta�s product line, and thus have little inside information of any value to Beta.
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Finally, the claim that former Alpha employees would be motivated to compete against Alpha is partially unwarranted. While many of
those who were laid off may be so motivated, those who retired early from Alpha probably departed on good terms with Alpha, and
would in any event be unmotivated to reenter the work force.
In conclusion, the argument fails to provide key facts needed to assess it. To better evaluate the director�s suggestion, we would need
more information about why Alpha reduced its work force, what type of workers left Alpha and under what circumstances, and how
similar Alpha�s range of products is to Beta�s.


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Mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, has recently announced that the city will soon have its own digital currency and that multiple groups will be built dedicated to exploring blockchain technologies, and all its future implications. In the words of the Mayor of the South Korean capital, "given that Seoul has become a leader in the fourth industrial revolution in areas including information technology, it will have to continue exploring and studying revolutionary technologies like blockchain."
The Mayor has shown his intentions of creating a legal and institutional framework for Seoul's own digital currency which will be termed as "S Coin." He is also going to concentrate efforts to change the country's current attitude towards cryptocurrency to help facilitate the financial tool.
Won-soon further explained, "Blockchain technology is applicable to public infrastructures like the public transportation system and issuance of youth allowance payments. I truly believe blockchain technology can be used to power most of the government activities in Seoul," and further cited how the technology can provide economic benefits such as savings on electricity, water, and gas.
According to Hani, a local news source, Seoul's blockchain initiative is set to be completed by this April. The Seoul Metropolitan Government is also collaborating with Samsung SDS to establish an Information Strategy Plan to help introduce blockchain into government and public institutions.
In conclusion to his statement, the Mayor addressed the attitude of people in South Korea as a whole towards blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He cited the enthusiasm of the of all the people in the country and the outrage that occurred when the Ministry of Justice banned cryptocurrency trading. In the words of Won-soon, "Previously, the South Korean people protested strongly against the Ministry of Justice's plan to ban cryptocurrency trading, and that led to the government deeply reconsidering its stance towards cryptocurrencies. The role of provincial and regional governments, I believe, is to apply innovative technologies first and demonstrate progress to the federal government. If Seoul lessens restrictions on cryptocurrency and blockchain development, it will lead to a flexible environment for businesses."

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These advances translate directly into higher pregnancy rates, a higher proportion of single embryo transfers offered with a reduction in high-order multiple pregnancies and therefore thousands of dollars saved.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 08, 2012
While scientists have been freezing eggs and embryos for 40 years, it was not until recently with the development of a new technology called vitrification that delivery success rates between fresh and frozen eggs and embryos become nearly equal.
Current success rates (delivery of a baby) with in vitro fertilization for women ages younger than 35 are 44.6 percent for fresh embryos and 35.6 percent for frozen embryos.
Vitrification as a fast-freezing technique is a fundamental process that is critical and beneficial in the advancement of fertility treatment. Scientific advancement of cryopreservation techniques with vitrification allows for greater patient success in all facets of fertility treatment in which the freezing of an embryo or egg is required. This includes treatment options for assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as egg freezing for fertility preservation, egg banking, genetic testing and the push to more single embryo transfers to reduce multiple pregnancies as a result in ART.
Dr. Juergen Liebermann PhD, HCLD, internationally-renowned embryologist with Fertility Centers of Illinois, has been largely influential in the advancement of this technique. In 2002 he started extensive research on the fast-freezing technique, and since has contributed to more than 50 publications and spoken to industry professionals around the world regarding vitrification at more than 100 occasions. In 2007, Dr. Liebermann and Dr. Tucker edited and completed a book entitled "Vitrification in Human Assisted Reproduction." By getting world-recognized scientists in the field of cryobiology as contributors for this book, it presents the state-of-the-art procedure of vitrification.
"Fine tuning various methods and techniques in vitrification has allowed the industry to advance exponentially," he explains. "These advances translate directly into higher pregnancy rates, a higher proportion of single embryo transfers offered with a reduction in high-order multiple pregnancies and therefore thousands of dollars saved."
Previous techniques used traditional slow-freezing methods, which resulted in the presence of ice crystals within eggs and embryos. The ability to thaw a slow-frozen egg successfully, fertilize with sperm, and freeze the additional resulting embryos with promising success rates was nearly impossible.
Science has advanced to allow for stronger embryos, with freezing techniques being implemented five days after fertilization, when an embryo consists of 120 cells. Previous techniques froze embryos on day three, when embryos consisted of 6-8 cells.
An additional technique called "artificial collapsing" prior to vitrification steps uses a laser system to drain the fluid from the embryo, allowing success rates to skyrocket. A combination of these techniques allows success rates for frozen embryos and eggs to be virtually the same as a fresh egg or embryo.
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Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C., is one of the nation's leading fertility treatment practices, providing advanced reproductive endocrinology services in the Chicago area for more than 30 years. FCI physicians, embryologists and support staff are stringently chosen based on educational background, medical skills and their ability to collaborate. With a team of 10 nationally and internationally recognized reproductive physicians who treat thousands of patients each year, the practice has earned a reputation for overcoming hard-to-solve fertility issues. FCI is dedicated to medical and clinical excellence and continues to invest in the latest technologies and research. FCI offers a comprehensive range of fertility treatment options including intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, donor egg, gestational carrier, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, as well as extensive resources to address financial and emotional needs. Fostering a culture for continuous innovation has made FCI home to the annual Midwest Reproductive Symposium which attracts experts in the field of reproductive endocrinology from around the world. FCI has 10 offices conveniently located throughout the Chicago land area (Buffalo Grove, Chicago/River North, Crystal Lake, Glenview, Highland Park, Hoffman Estates, Lindenhurst, Naperville, Oakbrook Terrace, and Orland Park). FCI is a member of the Attain Fertility Network which provides discounted fertility treatment programs. For more information visit http://www.fcionline.com


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Steady On, Jeeves!
My recent reading obsession with PG Wodehouse inevitably led me to that 'lost' episode of the Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie Jeeves and Wooster TV series, based on the equally lost Wodehouse novel Steady On, Jeeves! Suppressed for many years by the late author's estate, the novel revealed Jeeves' side business of erotic photography, often featuring himself as a model. When Bertie's Aunt Dahlia faces the repossession of Brinkley Court as the result of her unpaid gambling debts, Jeeves steps in with a plan to create a nude calendar featuring the chaps from the Drones Club in order to generate revenue. Using his secret photographic studio, Jeeves soon has ten months in the bag, but Gussie Fink-Nottle's provocative pose with one of his newts results in the negatives being impounded by the Obscene Publications Squad. Moreover, a series of mishaps sees Bertie Wooster - 'Mr December' - forced to hide naked, save for a Santa hat, in Madelaine Bassett's wardrobe. Much to the chagrin of her fiancé Roderick Spode, who proceeds to chase the naked Wooster around the grounds of Brinkley.
Of course, Jeeves comes to the rescue, revising his original scheme and organising, at short notice, a nude calendar featuring himself and his fellow butlers and valets from the Junior Ganymede Club. He also arranges for Spode to be arrested for homosexuality (still an offence in 1936), convincing the police that Brinkley Court is, in fact, a naturist resort and that Spode, unable to contain his raging perverted passions after seeing Wooster naked, attempted to sexually assault. To facilitate the ruse, the entire household agree to divest themselves of their clothes for the afternoon - which causes Bertie's Aunt Agatha, paying an unannounced visit, a severe case of the vapours. Jeeves' appearance as 'Mr July' necessitates Bertie standing in for him behind the camera - astounded by the prowess with the ladies displayed by his 'Gentleman's Gentleman', Wooster utters the immortal words: 'Steady on, Jeeves!'.
(The stills are actually screen caps from What The Swedish Butler Saw, a seventies sex comedy I hope to feature here soon).
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Taking A Break Is All About Goal Reactivation
I Want You to Stop Working
For as many days as you can manage. Better yet, disconnect from email and social media. If you can handle it, if your life will allow, feel free to spend at least 6 hours a day with your smartphone no less than 6 feet from you. Leave it on a table in another room (with the volume on). Or, in your home office. On another desk. Somewhere other than your hand, pocket, lap, ear, body.
Decrease the noise in your life.
I think I first recognized the power of tuning out to better tune back in when I was a freshman in college. I got so overwhelmed at the end of my first semester with life, school, and work that I drove back home for a weekend to disconnect. I remember it being painful, actually. (LOL) But, I also remember it being a remarkably powerful recharge.
It's not always as simple as driving home to disconnect and recharge these days. When I'm on an extended break (and I'm about to be on a two week holiday!) I make the mistake, time and again, of setting too many expectations of myself. I WILL read all of those books! I WILL read that report! I WILL nap every day! I WILL eat my weight in cookies!
I usually only succeed at the last two. Sometimes the others.
This cute little article from the Harvard Business Review talks a bit about mental fatigue and why we should take breaks throughout the day, but I'm advocating for something larger: a full-on multi-day sloth-fest.
Disengaging isn't just about letting your mind recharge, it's about disconnecting long enough to let your mind sort through everything you've been working on and working toward. Think of it as mental defragmentation in the style of early Windows PCs. (Do PCs still have to defragment? I wouldn't know.)
Take time to care for yourself, spend time with friends and family, eat gluttonous amounts of cookies and doing the things you love often fuels the creativity you will employ in the workplace. You'd be surprised how many aha! moments you can have when you're not working the time away. So, whenever you get the chance, take a long break so that when you do return to your working life you can hit it hard.


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|Sei in: Cinema e Medioevo ® Indice alfabetico dei film
1960, regia di K. Asif
Scheda: Nazione: India - Produzione: Sterling Investment Corp. - Distribuzione: Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd, UTV Motion Pictures, Star Tv - Soggetto: Aman - Sceneggiatura: Aman, K. Asif - Dialoghi: Aman, Kamal Amrohi, Vajahat Mirza, Ehsan Rizvi - Fotografia: R.D. Mathur - Montaggio: Dharamvir - Art Direction: M.K. Syed - Musiche: Naushad - Effetti speciali: Ansari - Formato: B.N.-Technicolor, linguaggio Urdu - Durata: 173' (191').
Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana, Ajit, M. Kumar, Murad, Jilloo Maa, Vijayalaxmi, S. Nazir, Sheela Delaya, Surinder, Johnny Walker, Jalal Agha, Tabassum, Gopi Krishna.
Trama e commenti: nonfarelindiano.blogspot.com - xoomer.virgilio.it/srijan/film - kalpana.it - worldlingo.com - all.uniud.it: «...il «tema matrimoniale» č quello fondamentale (o, se non fondamentale: un quasi ineludibile tema secondario) di tutto il cinema indiano, non solo di Bollywood, ma anche dei film cosiddetti «d'arte» (da Mughal-e-Azam a Mr e Mrs Iyer, per esempio). La caratteristica del «tema matrimoniale indiano» č di avere sempre tre candidati allo sposalizio o all'unione: due donne e un uomo, o due uomini e una donna. ... Mughal-e-Azam (1960), diretto da K. Asif, [sull'amore del principe Jahangir per la danzatrice Anarkali] č uno dei piů importanti film indiani mai realizzati».
Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - en.wikipedia.org - rediff.com - planetbollywood.com - bbc.co.uk - razyboard.com - hindustantimes.com - sfgate.com - livemint.com - uiowa.edu: «The theme of the conflict between passionate individual love (pyar, mohabbat) and duty — especially the duty owed to one's father and patriarchal family lineage (involving the obligation to maintain izzat or "honor", maryada, "propriety," and usool, "principles") may be to mainstream Hindi filmmaking what "boy meets girl" was to Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood — an abiding preoccupation that spawns endless cinematic permutations. Yet for sheer baroque grandiosity, K. Asif's excessive elaboration of the theme remains in a class by itself, and more than forty years after its release, still holds a place on nearly every list of the "ten best Hindi films of all time." Purportedly a decade in the making, it was said to have been the costliest film yet produced in India. It's not hard to see why. Asif's grand operatic vision piles spectacle on spectacle, moving masses of extras with a choreography reminiscent of Fritz Lang or Sergei Eisenstein, and fabricating fairtytale sets that have definitively stamped popular imaginings of Mughal imperial opulence. Asif's ultimate trump card was technicolor—then prohibitively expensive for Indian filmmakers, and so reserved by the director for two legendary climactic musical scenes, both set in the royal pleasure pavilion or Shish Mahal ("palace of mirrors," stunningly crafted by mirrorwork master Agha Shirazi), that unfold as mind-blowing epiphanies. The simple storyline blends facts of history—the sometimes tumultuous relationship between the Mughal empire's most charismatic ruler, Akbar the Great (1542-1605), and his eldest son and designated heir Prince Salim (later the Emperor Jahangir, 1569-1627), a far weaker character with a well-attested taste for wine, women, and opium—with the popular story of the slave girl and court dancer Anarkali ("pomegranate blossom"), for whose sake Salim is supposed to have defied his father, and whose legendary fate was to be walled-up alive at Akbar's order. In the role of Akbar, Prithviraj Kapoor gives his quintessential performance as outwardly-stern-but-inwardly-suffering patriarch (cf. Judge Raghunath in Awara), declaiming every line (composed in an Urdu so thickly Persianized one could weave rugs out of it) in a stentorian baritone that even Amitabh Bachchan might envy. ...».
Approfondimenti: Movie Review
Il film, conosciuto anche con i titoli: The Great Mughal; The Emperor of the Mughals, nel 2004 č stato ripresentato in versione colorized.


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Here are some of Mark's old photos of him and friends surfing in West Cornwall. The photos may be dusty, paint stained and have bits of tape stuck on them, but I think they're great; one man's experiences growing up with surfing in the far west, places I know well and look very familiar, albeit 30 years ago. The memories live on ; mabye even some of the boards still do....
and him again at Newlyn pier. Must have been a big swell to get that working.
Sennen 1980. Mark is on an Inner Visions channel bottom rountail twinny. See through star fins and really short - from his memory not much over 5 ft. Local colourful character Jo Crowe paddling out.
Same as above. Keith Prowse (flapper ) behind the wave and Roger Weeks paddling out.
Shaun Tomson, Newquay 1983
Shaun again
Bruce Palmer twin fin and Bob Biniak Dog town skateboard, early 80s.


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I got this press release from Barb Lawton's office. What an awesome opportunity for filmmakers who choose to produce their films in Wisconsin!!!
I hope the word spreads through the film making industry in Wisconsin and all over the world. Wisconsin has some of the most diverse locations in the country. From big cities, to deep woods, to small wonderful towns, to unbelieveable landscapes that boggle the mind, I truly believe this is one of the most under utilized states in the film industry.
This forward thinking program by the governor's office, Film Wisconsin and Marcus Theaters is really amazing. It could and should put Wisconsin on the film maker's map and bring some new excitement to the state!
(sorry too busy right now to reformat the pr beyond a cut and paste)
Contact: Scott Robbe, Film Wisconsin, 414-287-4251, firstname.lastname@example.com orDave Fantle, Milwaukee Film Office, 414-287-4253,firstname.lastname@example.com Petrick, Marcus Theatres, 414-905-1505, email@example.com Theatrical Runs Offered for Wisconsin ProductionsMarcus Theatres, one of the largest chains in the country, to provide screens MILWAUKEE – Jan. 11, 2008 – Wisconsin's new 25 percent tax credits for the film, television and video gaming industry just took effect Jan. 1 making it one of the most attractive packages in the nation. In what may be a first in the country, a Wisconsin-based movie theatre chain has significantly upped the stakes by offering feature film productions shot in Wisconsin guaranteed theatrical runs on some of its screens. This innovative arrangement was made between Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres and Film Wisconsin, the state's film office, as a way to support building a film economy for the state and encouraging filmmakers, especially independent producers, who most stand to benefit by bringing their projects to Wisconsin under this arrangement. "This innovative agreement demonstrates the very kind of creative thinking that makes Wisconsin the ideal place for the film industry and, for that matter, any other creative sector business," said Lt. Governor Lawton, who chairs the Wisconsin State Arts Board. "It will allow us to display the beauty of our great state and the talent of our people on the big screen – 400 big screens in four states, in fact – and it will lift Wisconsin into view regionally and nationally as the new 'Third Coast.'" "The value of our incentives combined with the pledge of theatrical runs by Marcus theatres significantly increases the desirability of shooting in Wisconsin, said Scott Robbe, executive director of Film Wisconsin, the state's film office. "It's becoming an increasingly difficult and arduous task to bring a project to the screen. By offering filmmakers a guaranteed commercial theatrical run for their work, coupled with our incentives and our untapped potential as a film location, we anticipate a significant influx of creative projects coming to the state. Theatrical screenings give a project enhanced credibility and visibility and provides greater marketing legs for auxiliary markets." In a letter to Film Wisconsin, Bruce J. Olson, president of Marcus Theatres, wrote in part: "Marcus Theatres will provide the foundation bookings that may lead to multiple playdates from other theatre circuits in major markets across the Midwest and U.S. . . .the number and play dates will be determined by the final quality and appeal of the production." While retaining the right to refuse screening a film, Marcus Theatres "will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate the filmmakers request for bookings" on film receiving a G, PG, PG-13 or R rating. Marcus Theatres is based in Milwaukee and is the 7th largest theatre circuit in the country, operating 600 screens in six Midwestern states, including Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Ohio. FILM WISCONSIN (www.filmwisconsin.net) is non-profit, public-private partnership organization based in Milwaukee and dedicated to nurturing and sustaining Wisconsin's film and media industry. Film Wisconsin advocates for the statewide industry in the global marketplace, provides information and resources on the industry, and is a technical assistance organization for individuals and organizations engaged in film, television, advertising, documentary, corporate video, video gaming and still photography production interested in doing business in the state.# # #
What's this Blog About?
Politics in Wisconsin as they roll up to every level... and some other thoughts that may cross my mind are explored here from my lefty point of view. My values shape my opinions. You'll always find them in here. Let's have some fun exploring why Liberal values are American values!
Your comments are both welcome and encouraged!
(The watercolor is called Magnolia Tree for Momma, by Audrey Crawford)
Your comments are both welcome and encouraged!
(The watercolor is called Magnolia Tree for Momma, by Audrey Crawford)
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Awesome Opportunity for Wisconsin Filmmakers!!!
Posted by Renees Take at 1/13/2008
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More corporate welfare. It seems to me with cuts to education and all that a 25% tax credit to film makers is ill directed.
We should have a decent progressive tax system that supports workers, not corporate subsidies on the backs of workers.
Sorry, nothing to applaud for. This just shows that even liberals like Lawton cannot resist the opportunity of selling off the state for corporate creed.
- Sun Jan 13, 08:44:00 PM CST
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Jackie has been working in the Eating Disorders Field for over 30 years. She was the Inpatient Clinical Coordinator for 5 years at Mt. Diablo's Serenity Program and for the last 18 years has been working as an outpatient therapist at the Concord Therapy Center for Eating Disorders. She also teaches at JFK university in the Eating Disorders Certification Program. Having struggled with her own recovery from Bulimia and BED, she brings a personal dedication to helping those who are suffering to find their own personal path of recovery.
It was her frustration with the lack of services in Contra Costa County for women that led her to develop Casa Serena. It is her goal to provide a safe place with an experienced staff dedicated to helping these clients to develop their own healing plan. Visit the Casa Serena website, www.casaserenaedp.com, "Like" Casa Serena Staff on Facebook and connect with Casa Serena on Twitter.


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Sunday, May 19, 2013
"Fruit and Eggs" Oil on 5x7 inch board
This painting started out with just the eggs and bananas on a light background. It seemed kind of bland to me the way it was, so I added a dark background and the pomegranate. I like it much better now.
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Beautiful Debbie! I've been working on my edges lately, and finally realize how hard they tend to be. That made me notice how soft and varied you make yours. Not that I want to blame my brush (wish I could), but what brushes do you use? Every little bit of info helps I think. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Thank You Judy, I've been reminding myself to pay more attention to edges lately too! I have all kinds of brushes, and there's not really any that I like in particular. I don't use anything too stiff.. it just doesn't work for me. Softer ones work, but they can't be too soft, they don't spread the paint. I like some synthetic brushes. I have some meant for acrylic painting, like "golden taklon". Even cheap ones work, I bought a set of short handle synthetic brushes from Michaels that worked out ok. Whenever I've used good sable ones, it seems that the hairs always fall out onto my painting!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Painting Debbie...ReplyDelete
Thank You Nidhi :)ReplyDelete


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2016 Jersey 36 - See what MBY thought!
Kerry - 25/10/2016
Ex demonstration boat, this Jersey 36 provides comfortable, well laid out accommodation for up to 6 people.
This boat is ideal or inland or coastal cruising and is a great opportunity to purchase a new boat for at a discounted price.
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dr.fone - Transfer (iOS)
Transfer contacts, SMS, photos, music, video, and more between your iOS devices and computers.
Most of us store many files on our smartphones and we store just as many if not many more on our computers. And if you're anything like me, you find yourself constantly needing to share files between your portable devices or to and from your PC. Fortunately if you're an Android user, that's a very simple task.
Wondershare dr.fone - Transfer (Android) is a great Android File Transfer Software to help you transfer files between Android devices and computer, including music, videos, photos, albums, contacts, messages and more.
One Stop Solution to Transfer Files between Android and Computer
Transfer Music from Computer to Android
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Import Contacts from Computer to Android
Transfer Music from Android to Computer
Transfer Photos from Android to Computer
Backup Contacts from Android to Computer
Besides dr.fone - Transfer (Android) File Transfer Software, there are many apps that can be used to transfer files between your devices wirelessly and we will cover 10 of the best ones.
SuperBeam is a robust android file transfer app that allows you to make Wi-Fi direct connections between devices. Wi-Fi direct bypasses the Wi-Fi access point for its connection, meaning two devices can connect directly to each other wirelessly, resulting in a faster transfer. The sharing options include files & folders, music, photos, videos, apps, documents and if you have SuperBeam contacts plugin installed, you can also share your contacts. Probably the coolest feature of this app is that it uses a nice QR scan approach so that all your data is kept safe. This app is free, with a $2 pro version.
AirDroid is a free android file transfer app you can get from the Play Store that allows you to transfer files and control your smart phone from your computer within a web browser. You can use any web browser, any computer or device that is hardware and operating system agnostic. Anything that has a full web browser will do. Simply open the application up on your phone and follow the instructions. It will give you a unique IP address that you should enter into the address bar in the other device's web browser and it will also give you a password so you can log in. This is a secure connection and as long as you keep that password private and select HTTPS, you should be safe. Once you login, you can immediately see all the information on your phone. You get real-time stats on your phone such as battery life and storage and you can also see what is on your device: pictures, music, movies. You can access all of this information directly from the web browser. You can also add or delete files from your phone, install new applications, delete applications, take screenshots and pretty much everything.
Of all the apps presented here, Send Anywhere has the easiest user interface. It is much safer than normal File Transfer Protocol as there is no third-party's server involved in the connection. It uses a six digit and a QR code for added security. It does not offer the fastest transfer speeds but it gets the job done.
Want the simplest way to transfer your files from your Android phone to any other device? Use SHAREit! It works great on cross platforms and has very high compatibility with Samsung devices. If you have your phone charging across the room, you can simply start the transfer and forget about it. You don't have to worry about anything. This best Samsung transfer app just runs in the background and once it completes, you're good to go.
One of the premium options that I've been using for a long time is called Wi-Fi File Explorer. It is basically just a file explorer for your phone in your web browser such as the one AirDroid offers but this one is a little more bare bones and straight to the point. I prefer it for transferring files as AirDroid is a little more for controlling everything. If I only need to transfer a single file, I usually fire up Wi-Fi file explorer. When you first open Wi-Fi file explorer, like AirDroid it will give you a unique IP address. Navigate to that using your computer's web browser. Choose the files that you either want to download or upload and wait for the transfer to complete.
Xender is the one app that focusses mainly on speed. It is best for large transfers like movies as it provides transfer speeds of more than 4MB/s. One problem with this app though is that some antiviruses may detect it as malware. So, there is the possibility that your sensitive information gets leaked.
A tried and true method that I've been using for much longer than any of the other methods is called Dropbox. It's nothing new and many of you probably already use it or know what it is. Basically it's a cloud storage service that allows you to store your files remotely and access them from pretty much any device you may own. You can install Dropbox on your computer or any of your mobile devices and sync files between them. It's literally as easy as dragging and dropping a file into the Dropbox folder on your computer or simply choosing a file to upload to Dropbox from your phone. Once the upload finishes, the file is accessible on any of your Dropbox capable devices. The problem with Dropbox however is that the transfer is a little slower. The reason Wi-Fi File Explorer is a little faster and better is because it is a direct connection over your local Wi-Fi network. Dropbox sends a file to a remote server and then you have to download it. There are a few steps in the background that slow this process down but it's great if you need one file on multiple devices.
As its name implies, Fast File Transfer allows you to transfer your files at lightning speeds and with relative ease. Like SuperBeam, it also uses Wi-Fi Direct, which makes it one of the best choices for transferring large files. It works especially well when transferring data between Samsung devices. Also, this Samsung transfer app supports a large variety of media, including photos, videos, music and many more.
By making use of Wi-Fi Direct technology, HitcherNet allows much faster transfers and what's better is that you do not have to rely on routers or internet connectivity. It is an app that is rapidly gaining in popularity because of its fast speeds but some users have found that file transfer is sometimes interrupted and has to be restarted.
Bluetooth File Transfer uses File Transfer Profile (FTP) and ob_x_ject Push Profile (OPP) to allow you to manage and explore any device that is Bluetooth compatible. This app has quite a few interesting features but one main problem is that the transfers are very slow. However, it ensures that there is no personal information leak as only authorized devices can communicate with each other.
Transfer contacts, SMS, photos, music, video, and more between your iOS devices and computers.
Transfer contacts, SMS, photos, music, video, and more between your Android devices and computers.


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(Ian was great during the session! The baby kept kicking the B off of Lori's stomach. Ian enjoyed putting it back. He even got all of the blocks together to spell Benjamin's name while I was photographing Lori! Thanks, Ian!)
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Hello, my name is Clare Brown and I'm passionate about all things crafty. When I'm not designing I'm mum to two gorgeous little boys or I'll be out running. This year I completed my first ever marathon!
I joined the Sarah Hurley design team in 2010 and in 2013 I started designing my own stamps as part of Sarah's Special Edition Range, which I'm really proud of.
Since May 2015 I have been contributing to Making Cards magazine which I love!
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Postcards from Oberhausen #2
2. Saturday, May 7th, 2011
John Smith: Card Giver, Trailer-Maker, DVD Presenter
Amongst many treasures, the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage has hosted a presentation of the first DVD edition of John Smith's works. Years in the making – a "labor of love" in the words of both Smith himself and his editor on the project Benjamin Cook – the edition, published by LUX, is a three-disc box set that includes all of Smith's major works from Associations (1975) to the complete Hotel Diaries series (2001-2007). The box itself is, perhaps not surprisingly, designed with all the structural economy and surreptitious humor characteristic of the filmmaker's work.
Smith is also the creator of this year's festival trailer. Another brilliant exercise in the best kind of minimalism, the trailer – commissioned to complement the festival's Shooting Animals theme – features an encounter between dog and technology whose most enduring echo is that of a kind of dawning anthropomorphism that situates this impossible dialogue somewhere between the realms of metaphor and fantasy. Watch it here.
I caught up with John Smith and asked him a few questions on the genesis of the trailer, the relation between art and comedy, and his favorite festival features so far. Here's what he had to say:
Tijana Mamula: So, you made the trailer specifically in relation to the Shooting Animals theme…
John Smith: Well, yes, it relates to how I approach my work generally, I always like to have some kind of constraint to think within. When I was asked to do the trailer, last summer, at first I wasn't sure what I could do, but when I found out the theme was animals, it was like, ah, great, ok! And actually it's related to a film I was working on already. My partner and I have a kind of ruined building in the south of France, a sort of wooden shed where we go to stay, and next door there's a big area for hunting wild pigs, so people have hunting dogs. We're in this very beautiful quiet village and right next door to us is this guy who has a kennel full of dogs that are just kept in cages all of the time. He actually loves his dogs but they're in this cage all the time, howling, wanting to see him. So I'd made some recordings of these dogs already and I was quite interested, especially in one of them because it has a voice that sounds to me like a human, trying to get out. So I made these recordings, and I thought I really wanted to do something with dogs. But I wasn't sure what the image would be. I had some ideas, but they didn't work out.
TM: What were some of the other ideas, just out of curiosity?
JS: The idea was that basically the dogs would react to something and trigger it to change. In the trailer, the dogs bark and the color bars run away, then they come back and so on. But originally, I just filmed my garden at different times when the light was different. I filmed it when it was sunny one day and another day when it was snowing. So I make a similar kind of device, where the garden's covered with snow and the dogs bark and the snow disappears, and then it creeps back again. It was a more complex image, and I didn't really like it. I like really economical ideas. But unfortunately I had to have an eye operation, and I couldn't see into a camera very well. And then I just had this idea to use color bars – of course they're electronically generated so I didn't have to use a camera, I just zoomed in on the edit suite! But I ended up making something that I was very pleased with, because I really like simplicity.
TM: The trailer also made me think about something else that I've seen a lot in your work. I feel like you often give anthropomorphic qualities to inanimate objects, like the tower in the Black Tower or the clock in The Girl Chewing Gum. So I really liked that relationship between the dogs and the color bars, which gave both of them human qualities. Is that something that you were aiming for?
JS: Yes, absolutely. And that's why I was pleased with using the color bars, because they're obviously the most removed thing from any kind of life form, so I just really liked the idea of the color bars being frightened by dogs!
TM: Yeah, and so the dogs and the color bars communicating took it into this kind of sci-fi dimension that was also really funny…
JS: Yes, I'm glad you tuned in to that. Because I realized when the festival started – I think the record level must have been quite low – they kept playing it really quiet. And it just didn't work, it has to have this kind of aggressive assault.
TM: You've also piqued my curiosity about this new film that you're making with the dogs in France?
JS: Well, I might not end up making the film, but it is really very similar to the trailer. Actually, I thought after I made the trailer that once people had seen the film they'd think I was using the same idea as the trailer, but it's the other way around! What I'm doing in France has to do with landscape, and changes in the landscape, the counterpoint between the dogs barking – which I like because it's sort of tragic and humorous at the same time, and not peaceful at any rate – and the landscape, which is this very beautiful valley and mountains. So I'll basically set the camera up and just switch it on when the dogs bark, and then I'll edit it tightly.
TM: One other question related to your work. I've been thinking recently about the relationship between art and comedy, which is really complex, and wondering to what extent comedy can be art. It seems to depend a lot on narrative, which isn't always present. I mean, it's hard to have a funny painting that doesn't have a narrative dimension. Like, a funny abstract painting…
JS: Well, it kind of can be, because I think comedy often comes out of the unexpected, or something that doesn't seem right in a particular context. I think that can operate in an abstract painting, and I sometimes do see abstract paintings that make me smile. But you're right, I mean, you're not going to say, Oh, you should see that painting, it's so funny!
TM: So, I'm wondering if there are any other artists or filmmakers that you feel a particular affinity with in terms of their use of humor?
JS: I first started making films in the early 1970s when structural materialist filmmaking was at its height, and it wasn't generally a bundle of laughs! So my work was a bit out of place – some people didn't take it very seriously. But then I started to see some of the American avant-garde films from that period and I realized that there was a precedent. I mean, there was a bit of that in England as well, for example Jeff Keen, who made these kind of trashy, funny diary films, like his family, but dressed as superheroes, things like that. But then I started to see some of the American work, like Michael Snow actually. When I saw Wavelength I thought, this is really great, it's funny, there's these weird interjections. It was interesting to me that he was making this formal film that had a different language come in in certain places, which then became integrated with it. Somebody coming in and dying, falling, seemed crazy to begin with but then ten minutes later, after you've become completely involved with the visual experience, somebody else comes in and says "there's somebody lying on the floor, I think they're dead." And you realize you've completely forgotten about that, because it's been excluded from the frame. It's this playful formal approach. Similarly, Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia) is very funny, and another obvious example is George Landau/Owen Land. But I kind of identify with less, I'm more interested in Snow and Frampton. Fortunately, I saw (nostalgia) after I'd already made Girl Chewing Gum, because there's some quite strong connections there. I actually found out about (nostalgia) from Bruce Jenkins: he wrote me this really nice letter saying he'd seen my film and liked it and that the only other film he could relate it to was (nostalgia), that I should see it. I wasn't disappointed, it's a great film.
TM: So, getting to the festival: is there something that you've really liked so far?
JS: I think the thing that's made the biggest impression so far is the Grzegorz Krolikiewicz profile. It was just extraordinary. It's very hard to know what he's actually observing, because he basically observes these young men who look like they're maybe at a New Year's Eve celebration, they've obviously all been partying and some of them are going off on a train, and they're just kind of passionately kissing each other, just reaching out, it's the most intense physical experience. But it's actually fantastically shot, 35mm black and white, early 70s, but really really tight framing. It was so enigmatic, so intense, but you didn't really know what it was. I think in one of the films some of them were going off to join the army, and others were staying.
The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen runs in Oberhausen, Germany, from 5-10 May 2011. Tijana Mamula is reporting daily.


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|CD Review: High Time by Bill Wilkie
|Monday, 11 May 2009 12:34
By Tyler Bothe – GJD Contributor
So as a quasi indie film director is finishing up your quirky yet loveable character piece about two college aged darlings who just don't manage to fit into any sort of stereo-type, you're thinking to yourself: what musical score am I whittlin' out for this soon to be Sundance wunderkind? Well for all you whom this applies to, the answer might be Bill Wilkie's latest disc "High Time" whose labor is evident enough in the fact that he wrote, performed and engineered all fourteen songs himself. For the rest of you, grabbin this album is possibly going to give you an edge when you see it attached to that academy award nominated sleeper movie who no one can deny: (imagine knowing the band, The Moldy Peaches before Juno came out).
Musically the album starts up with what seems like a reluctance towards distortion given the tracks that follow, which is somewhat ironic because it's exactly the subtle overdrive that let's it shine during the pain-stricken heart felt chorus that pushes it from average to memorable. I mean just try getting the chorus line "I can't be quiet no more" out of your head after listening only once. The opening track also leads into the next tune which comes off as a bit reminiscent of "The Blower's Daughter", Damien Rice's soft-spoken hit breaking ground on the soundtrack to the 2004 film "Closer".
As your progression into this 14-track trek continues you'll find a hint of sameness, which might cause you to abandon hope halfway through: don't. Where the album dips slightly in dynamics it flourishes in songwriting prolificacy and ability. Expect not the shred solos (which Bill seems capable of) or wild eyed fantasy based lyrics but instead find rich chord progressions coming together to make solid, original music conjuring images of self-reflective times. Mr. Wilkie hits the meat and potatoes of the album by not only exploring the creative changes of his acoustic side, but by dipping his fingers into the tones of reverberated keyboards and letting their space aged sounds connect and carry it out of typical open-mic acoustic dredge. And call it contradictory, but although letting the keys lift his songs out of the norm may have been a smart move, on the track "I'll Stay" shortly after, you hear the always satisfying understated classical strings pull at you beneath the acoustic warmth.
"High Time" may not be the greatest exposition of guitar technical ability or showmanship, but it's not meant to be. It's an easy listening soft-rock album perfect with putting on while reading, or perhaps as I alluded to earlier, writing that screenplay to put it to. It's there to intrude upon your ears politely, propping them up with a soft pillow and keeping them satisfied and comfortable and just making you feel good. His production techniques and execution of musical passages show of this man's past training, influences, and life experience.
"High Time" may grab, embrace, or relax you. Upon further consumption it might throw its listener into a different mindset from the first time. Or, not. Either way, listening to this fine offering is the only way to find out.


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At some point in your customization efforts you may find that none of the above methods will achieve the result you want. The most powerful customization method is to replace specific XSL templates in the DocBook collection with your own customized templates. The general technique is:
Find the DocBook XSL template that handles the text you want to change.
Copy that template to your customization layer.
Modify the copy to do what you want. Your version will override the behavior of the standard template because yours has a higher import precedence.
This method is very powerful, but it is not easy. It requires extensive knowledge of XSLT programming, and familiarity with the internals of the DocBook XSL stylesheet collection. This customization method is possible because the DocBook stylesheets are written in a highly modular fashion.
Here is a simple example of a template replacement. The default formatting for the
command element is boldface. Perhaps you prefer your commands to appear in a monospaced font. In the collection of files for the DocBook XSL distribution, you will find
html/inline.xsl that contains this
<xsl:template match="command"> <xsl:call-template name="inline.boldseq"/> </xsl:template>
Also in that file you will notice a template named
inline.monoseq that does what you want. So you can add the following template to your customization layer to change how
command is formatted:
<xsl:template match="command"> <xsl:call-template name="inline.monoseq"/> </xsl:template>
You can see a longer example of rewriting a template in the section "Customizing TOC presentation".
Most DocBook templates perform a very specific and limited function. The trick is to find the template that is handling the behavior you want to change. Typically many templates are called during the processing of a given element. Depending on what you are trying to change, you may have to trace through several templates to find the one you need to replace.
There are two basic kinds of XSLT template:
Templates that have a
match attribute, which are called during
xsl:apply-templates when the processor encounters an element satisfying the match pattern.
Templates that have a
name attribute and are called by name like a subroutine using
If you are trying to change how a particular element is handled, you can usually start by scanning for
match attributes that include the name of your element. Sometimes there will be more than one template whose
match attribute could apply. Then the processor generally selects the one with the best match, that is, the most specific match. For example, a match pattern of
chapter/para is more specific than
para. The more specific the match, the higher the priority in selecting that template.
Once you have found the starting point, you can trace through the template body to see what other templates it uses. Named templates are explicitly called by name using
xsl:call-template. Those templates are easy to find because there is only one for each name.
If a template uses
xsl:apply-templates, then you need to consider several factors that affect which template might be applied:
xsl:apply-templates includes a
select attribute, then those elements matched by the select expression are going to be processed. So you need to find templates with
match attributes that apply to those elements.
xsl:apply-templates does not include a
select attribute, then the children of the current element will be processed. So you need to look for templates with
match attributes that apply to the children.
xsl:apply-templates includes a
mode attribute, then you can narrow your search to those matching templates that have the same mode value.
You may need to look in several directories to find the right template. Most of the templates for HTML processing are in the
html subdirectory of the stylesheet distribution, and most of the templates for generating FO output are in the
fo subdirectory. But they share templates in the
common and
lib directories, so you may need to look there as well. Here is a handy Linux command for searching three directories at once, showing how to find all references to
find html lib common -name '*.xsl' | xargs grep 'href.target'
This command is run in the directory above
html. It uses find to search the
lib, and
common directories for files named
*.xsl. It uses the xargs command to feed that list to the grep command that scans each file for the given regular expression. If you are a Windows user, this command is available if you install Cygwin.
Hopefully at some point you will find the specific template that does the processing you want to change. That's the template you want to duplicate and modify in your customization layer.
When you add overriding templates to your customization layer, you have to pay attention to XSLT import precedence. This says that the importing stylesheet's templates take precedence over the imported stylesheet's templates. In general, that is what you want, since that is how you override the behavior of the stock template.
But what isn't obvious is that import precedence is stronger than priority selection. Within a stylesheet, a match pattern that is more specific has a higher priority than a less specific pattern. So a template with
match="formalpara/para" has a higher priority than a template with
match="para". That's how you get templates to apply in certain contexts but not others. But import precedence can override this priority selection.
A detailed example will make this easier to understand. In the DocBook stylesheet file
html/block.xsl, there is a
<xsl:template match="para"> template for general
para elements that outputs HTML

 tags around its content. There is another
<xsl:template match="formalpara/para"> template for a
para within a
formalpara element. It does not output

 tags, because the wrapper element's template
match="formalpara" does that, so that the title and the para are in one set of

 tags. The more specific template has a higher priority in the DocBook stylesheet.
Now copy the
<xsl:template match="para"> template to your customization layer. Now your
formalpara elements will start generating invalid HTML, because there will be nested

 tags, which is not permitted in HTML. The reason you get this error is because your
match="para" template now has higher import precedence than the
match="formalpara/para" template in
block.xsl, even though your template is less specific. The import precedence is stronger than the match priority.
The solution is to provide another template in your customization layer:
<xsl:template match="formalpara/para"> <xsl:apply-imports/> </xsl:template>
Now this template has equal import precedence to your
match="para" template, because they are both in the importing stylesheet. It also has a higher priority since it is more specific. So it will be used for any
para elements inside
formalpara. Its effect is to just apply the original such template in
block.xsl, which avoids the nested

 tags.
When rewriting a template, pay careful attention to any parameters the original template is being passed. These are always declared at the top of the template. For example:
<xsl:template name="href.target"> <xsl:param name="context" select="."/> <xsl:param name="object" select="."/> ...
Such a template may be called with one or more of the parameters set. For example:
<xsl:call-template name="href.target"> <xsl:with-param name="context" select="
some-context"/> <xsl:with-param name="object" select="
some-object"/> ... </xsl:call-template>
You want your new template to fit in as a direct replacement for the original, so it should handle the same parameters as the original. Since it is not required that all parameters be passed when a template is called, it should also handle missing parameter values. This requires you to understand when parameters are passed, what might be passed as a parameter value, and how it is expected to be handled. So if you are modifying a named template, check all the templates that call the template you are modifying to see what they do with the parameters.
You may extend a modified template by passing it new parameters. Be sure to declare your new parameters with a default value at the top of your new template. Of course, you'll also have to replace one or more of the calling templates so they can pass the parameter to your new template. You don't have to replace all of the calling templates, since parameters are optional. But you do need to make sure your default value works in case they don't pass a value.
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42 Maritime Professional 1Q 2011 an ambitious local content policy tar- gets job creation and raising the quality of the domestic workforce in both the
Oil & Gas and maritime industries.
For foreign investors, it is important to note that policy changes apply only from the 11th bidding round onwards and that preceding concession contracts are being scrupulously respected.
Current international investors in
Brazil's energy and maritime sectors – or those contemplating such a move – would no doubt prefer that there were no policy changes. At the same time,
Brazil appears to be applying these changes in a responsible and transpar- ent manner.
Not quite removed from the regional turmoil, Brazil has its own share of problems. Lurking just under the veneer of the new prosperity are the familiar issues of significant levels of poverty, high illiteracy rates among the poor, corruption and a robust crime rate.
Unlike its neighbors, however, Brazil stands out comparatively as an econom- ically stable country, while developing a strong democratic culture that main- tains its independence from foreign influence. Bolstering the stable political climate is a projection of oil and gas reserves that are expected to surpass 150 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) by 2020, mainly thanks to deep- water pre-salt finds but also influenced by an increasing number of shallow water discoveries in this year alone, along with important onshore gas finds.
Foreign embassies in Brazil usually have some form of commercial office specializing in helping firms from their countries to start-up in Brazil. Notable examples are Innovation Norway and the US Commercial Service. Doing business in Brazil is not without its roadblocks. Arguably, it will soon become the model from which other regional players will have to draw their playbooks from as they try to draw jilt- ed investors back to the table.
In Brazil, energy companies are over- seen by the Agência Nacional de
Petroleo (ANP) – consisting of the
National Petroleum Agency and the
Organização Nacional do Petroleo (Onip) – whereas shipping companies are regulated by the Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários (ANTAQ).
ANTAQ includes the National
Maritime Transport Agency, the
Brazilian Transport Ministry, the
Brazilian Navy and Port authorities.
Foreign companies are required to operate with a bank accredited by the
Brazilian financial system and all trans- actions are scrutinized by the Banco
When opening a firm in Brazil, it is compulsory to have a Brazilian director and foreign companies are required to have local offices. Local accountants will ensure compliance with all tax and reporting procedures. Failure to do so can result in heavy fines. As with most places, policies for onshore and off- shore staff apply and expatriate staff must obtain work visas.
A strong local presence for foreign outfits is important here. In most case, the practice of establishing partnerships with local entities can make the process run faster than if you do it by yourself.
Depending on the nature of the busi- ness, local rules may allow for various incentives to investors, such as lower taxes. In this way, a reputable local legal consultancy – such as the Karl
Kincaid representative in Brazil – can be vital. These legal consultancy groups necessarily specialize in Energy and
Shipping in order to provide full sup- port in all facets of these markets. It may be easier to get this all support from one law consultant but this is not always feasible.
For companies that do not wish to immediately enter the market, the best solution may be to partner with a
Brazilian company to represent and legally market products and services in the country. The local company then handles all legal and taxation proce- dures while the foreign entity can choose between running the business remotely from elsewhere, or converse- ly, agreeing to have the local partner handle day-to-day business matters.
This option may be attractive to those wishing to dip their toes into the water as they navigate the local business cli- mate, without actually incurring heav- ier infrastructure startup costs.
New entries to Brazil's marketplace have more than one option. Here, "one size does not necessarily fit all." For
HATLAPA, a mature (90+ years) marine equipment manufacturer head- quartered in Germany, the partnership path was the way to go. Already well known in the global offshore industry and looking to enter the thriving
Brazilian markets, HATLAPA chose
Tridente, a Brazilian company with similar products and 35 years of local business ties. Tridente's long experi- ence in the marine and offshore sectors made it the natural choice. "Tridente's well-established relation- ships in the Brazilian market are a great asset for HATLAPA as a global busi- ness and will strengthen our position in both marine and offshore markets", explains HATLAPA's Offshore Sales
Manager, Uwe Nickschat.
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Layla's path to Sacred Heart Mission
14 May 2018
When you're completing a degree in Social Work, students are often met with the question, 'So what area do you want to work in?'
While not all students know the answer, they often have their areas of interest. For Pathways Worker Layla Silverstein, though, there was once a time when the homelessness sector didn't even make the list.
"Homelessness was previously a field I had not engaged with, or shown any interest towards," she says.
"I quickly discovered it was an extremely dynamic, complex, challenging and interesting sector to work within."
Layla started with Sacred Heart Mission as a social work student on her final placement, where she completed her research as a part of Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI), a proven, innovative, housing-first solution to ending homelessness.
After receiving training, she facilitated one-on-one interviews with the program's participants, which expanded her knowledge of the homelessness sector.
"I was exposed to a wide range of people, ages, genders, cultural backgrounds and life experiences."
Layla was part of what Sacred Heart Mission calls 'the student unit', a group of students who meet every week to reflect on their placement experience. She found the structure provided her with a supportive space in which to reflect, discuss and grow.
"I really felt that Sacred Heart Mission invested thoroughly in their students and provided huge opportunities for skill building, networking and growth."
On completing her degree, Layla gained employment with Sacred Heart Mission as a casual Support Worker. Taking advantage of the opportunities that came her way, she quickly rose through the ranks to become a Pathways Worker at Sacred Heart Central. Today, she works in our 'Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged' program, providing support to older women and men who attend our engagement hubs.
"Sacred Heart Central provides a welcoming space for engagement, support, referrals, crisis intervention, case management and assistance in accessing housing. We also have shower and laundry facilities, a GP clinic and monthly vet care all alongside the Meals Program."
"My role, within our amazing team, provides short-term and crisis case management that addresses goals of our client group."
While Layla is just at the beginning of her social work career, we look forward to having her on board for many years to come.
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The SA Indoor BlitzStoks, powered by Tops at SPAR, will be heading to Germany in February 2018 to take on the best in the World at the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup. The Men earned their spot with an outstanding victorious display at the African Hockey Indoor Cup of Nations in Swakopmund earlier this year. The 14 man squad, announced today, will take part in the All Stars series at the Pro Series Indoor Nationals in December, before a final 12 is selected for the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup.
Matthew Fairweather, who captained the team at the World Cup qualifier, returns to the squad after missing the All Stars series in July. Ryan Julius and Reza Rosenberg also missed out on that series while on commitment with the National Outdoor Team at the World League Semi-Final and they are also recalled. Ryan Julius had finished top goal scorer at the 2017 SA Hockey Indoor IPT. Another star from that tournament was Jethro Eustice, who won player of the tournament, who will be key to the BlitzStoks aiming for their highest ever World Cup finish.
The goalkeepers will be the two goalkeepers that went to the previous World Cup with both Richard Curtis and Chris McCathie doing enough over the past three years to secure their place on the plane to the All Star Series in Cape Town. Some of the other seats on that plane will be taken by players who have been in the system in the last three years including Olympian Wade Paton, reliable (belated birthday boy) Robin Jones, world star Justin Domleo and the exciting young talent Rusten Abrahams.
The IPT that took part in Durban played a key part in the selector's decision making, in line with selection policy for SA Hockey, which saw Julian Hykes and PG Geldenhuys work their way into the selector's minds with a brilliant tournament that saw Southern Gauteng win another silver medal. The last two places in the 14 man squad were filled by Jarryd Jones, who has responded to missing out on the World Cup Qualifier with some scintillating form, and Craig Haley, who has shown over and over again that he knows how to find the back of the net.
This meant that there was no place in the side for Keagan Robinson, who has been ruled out by the selectors after he tore his ACL just before IPT.
Coach Pierre le Roux shared his thoughts on the squad:
"The squad is rich with experience and the players selected have performed well over the past three years. We believe this consistency and maturity will be beneficial in the World Cup environment."
The Tops at SPAR BlitzStoks – World Cup Squad
|CHRIS McCathie (GK)
|KZN Raiders
|Richard Curtis (GK)
|KZN Raiders
|Matthew Fairweather
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|Justin Domleo
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|Robin Jones
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|Wade Paton
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|Jethro Eustice
|KZN Raiders
|Rusten Abrahams
|Southern Gauteng
|Reza Rosenberg
|Southern Gauteng
|Ryan Julius
|Western Province
|PG Geldenhuys
|Southern Gauteng
|Jarryd Jones
|KZN Raiders
|Craig Hayley
|Western Province
|Julian Hykes
|Southern Gauteng
The BlitzStoks will be in action on the 9, 10, 12 and 13 December in Cape Town for the PSi All-Stars series. The Indoor Hockey World Cup takes place in Berlin from the 7-11 February 2018.


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|Arianna, Woman of Pleasure
|Appears In
|Cathedral Ward
|English Voice
|Pooky Quesnel
|Japanese Voice
- "Oh, my, what a queer scent... But I'd take it over the stench of blood and beasts any day."
- — Arianna, Woman of Pleasure
Arianna, Woman of Pleasure is a character in Bloodborne.
General Information
Arianna can be found on a street with four other NPC's deep within the Cathedral Ward. Her safe haven options can only be unlocked after killing three bosses. If sent to the Oedon Chapel as a safe haven, she can be found sitting to the left of the lantern. She will thank the Hunter for sending her there and offer her blood, in the form of Blood of Arianna, and also teach the gesture "Curtsy".
After killing Rom, the Vacuous Spider, she will be in a hunched-over position, apparently suffering from some sort of pain in the abdominal region.
After killing Micolash, Host of the Nightmare, she can be found below Oedon Chapel, in the Tomb of Oedon crypt. She will be sitting in a chair, sobbing, while a Celestial Child lies crying on the ground in front of her. One Third of Umbilical Cord can be obtained by killing the Celestial Child, which also seems to kill Arianna. Arianna's Shoes can be obtained from her corpse.
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- If the player takes 3 blood vial from Arianna, Sister Adella will kill her out of jealousy, not for some sentimental reason, but because of the player's preference for the blood of an "impure" woman (aside from being a prostitute, she is a Cainhurst descendant so the use of her blood is something that was once forbidden).
- To prevent that, remove Arianna's blood from inventory and take Adella's instead. Alternatively killing Adella also works.
- There is also another way that Arianna doesn't give birth to the infant. First kill the three bosses and don't speak to her and then kill Micolash, Host of the Nightmare. Then speak to her and send her to the chapel where she'll be found sitting, she is alive even if the player has the other One Third of Umbilical Cords near the end of the game.
- If the player talks to her while she and Sister Adella are in Oedon Chapel, Adella will stand up and look at the player and Arianna then sit down at the end of the conversation. This may be a sign of suspicion or jealousy of the nun towards Arianna.
- If she remains alive after defeating Micolash, she will disappear. The floor on the ground will be bloodied, indicating she has gone into labor. It leads the player back to the crypt of Tomb of Oedon.
- Many facts suggest Arianna is a descendant of the Cainhurst dynasty. These hints are:
- She wears the Noble Dress, the same kind worn by Cainhurst nobility and found in Cainhurst Castle. It means she can be somehow connected to Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods.
- The description of the Blood of Arianna says: "A member of the old Healing Church would know that her blood is similar indeed, to precisely what was once forbidden." The only other kind of blood mentioned in the game to be forbidden by the Healing Church is the one of the Cainhurst clan.
- She gives birth to a Celestial Child, this occurrence is something that only happens to those with a special kind of blood, usually nobles like Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen who had a child able to draw the moon close and, thus, the Old Ones.


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Sometimes are you ever at a complete loss of words?
Today is one of those days. Everything that comes out of my mouth starts with "like..." or "um..." because I just don't know what to say.
And it's all in an amazing way. Today I just feel particularly blessed.
And I just wanted to share that with all of you. I feel so blessed to have so many wonderful readers that come back day after day and leave great comments. It totally makes my day and sometimes it just melts my heart to know that you are out there.
So thank you. Thanks for letting me ramble on, thanks for making recipes, and thanks so much for letting me share my love of cooking and baking with you.
I love you all. Pretty cheesy I know--but this mood happens only randomly and instead of trying to suppress it and come up with a funny story to share, I just thought I would pass the sentiments on.
But enough of sappiness. We love mangoes at our house so this was a total winner in our book. I love the zing the chili-lime sauce gives the chicken and I love pretty much anything on the grill. Great for a summer bbq.
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Chili-Lime Mango Skewers
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6 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
Zest of 1 lime
1 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (optional but it does give it a nice zing!)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into 1-inch cubes
3 ripe but firm mangoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
1. First, if you're using wooden/bamboo skewers, make sure to soak them in water for 20-30 minutes before you use them so they won't burn up on the grill.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together olive oil, lime juice, lime zest, chili powder, cayenne,
salt and sugar. Place in a zip-lock bag and add chicken and mangoes, stirring gently to
coat with marinade. Seal and refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
3. Heat grill to medium high heat (making sure to clean off your grill racks). Remove the chicken and mangoes from the marinade and thread onto skewers, alternating the pieces (as a note: when you're making any type of skewer, make sure not to smash everything together tightly. In order for the food to cook thoroughly and evenly, it needs room. Each piece should just barely touch each other, or not touch at all).
4. Arrange the skewers on the grill and cook, turning until the chicken is nicely charred and
cooked through, 6-10 minutes. Serve immediately and enjoy!
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London Higher Europe and the EU Design Days 2017
London Higher Europe was a supporting region in this years EU Design Days, and sent two researchers from among the London Higher Europe consortium, Dr Alison Prendiville from University or the Arts London and Professor Lizzie Jackson from London South Bank University, to engage designers and seek out European opportunities for the London Higher Europe Consortium.
Among such opportunities was a call for projects under a Horizon 2020 cascading funding grant, led by the Designscapes consortium. The group will be awarding total funding of 1.5 million EUR to individual projects across Europe, worth between 60,000 and 150,000 EUR each. For the consortium website, click here.
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Petrology and geochemistry of the central Mindano volanic arc, southern Philippines.
Permanent Linkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/5789
Thesis DisciplineGeology
Degree GrantorUniversity of Canterbury
Degree LevelDoctoral
Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy
This paper presents the regional geology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of volcanic rocks from Central Mindanao Volcanic Arc (CMVA), Philippines. This NNW-trending arc, from Lat 6°N-Long 125ºE to Lat 90 15'-Long 125º30'E occurs parallel to the Philippine Trench and to regional structures E of Lake Lanao. CMVA centres occur 15-200 km above a W-dipping subduction system. Subduction associated with the Philippine Trench probably produced the CMVA. CMVA can be grouped into 3 volcanically and seismically active arc segments from N to S: i) Misamis, ii) Bukidnon and iii) Davao. Camiguin Island is the most active volcanic field and resulted from SE-NW progression of volcanism from late Pliocene-Pleistocene lavas of Butay, Cabuan, Mt Ginsiliban and Mt Mambajao to Pleistocene-Recent lavas of Mt Catarman and Hibok-Hibok. Stratigraphy of historical deposits from Hibok-Hibok shows a range of volcanic products typical of other centres: domes, lava flows and pyroclastic flows. The rocks of CMVA are crystal-rich (40-50 vol% average) with a main phenocryst assemblage of plagioclase (An84-31) + clinopyroxene (augite, diopside) ± olivine (Fo84-72). Timagnetite usually crystallised late. Two types of andesite occur: pyroxene (augite ± enstatite) and homblende (magnesium-ferri homblende) andesite. Two dacite types are also recognised. Type 1 dacite (Mt Katanglad, Butay) usually has fine grained plagioclase + clinopyroxene whereas Type 2 dacite (Hibok-Hibok, Mt Apo) has medium-coarse grained amphibole ± biotite. Phenocryst chemistry shows that with increasing bulk-rock SiO2. plagioclase. olivine, clinopyroxene and Ti-magnetite follow chemical trends consistent with equilibrium crystallisation. Exceptions occur in basaltic andesite and some SiO2-rich andesite in which olivine is Fe-enriched, plagioclase is more calcic than in basalts (An78-84 vs An50-78) and there is a large incidence of reverse zoning in clinopyroxene. The most widespread lavas are medium-K calcalkaline (CA) basalt, andesite and dacite with occasional low-K and high-K CA lavas. Major and trace element variations are similar with other island arc basalt (IAB) and exhibit the characteristic depletion in Zr, Ti, Y and to a lesser extent, of Ce relative to N-MORB. N-MORB normalised trace element contents are generally >1.0 and have low Zr/Nb ratios (7-14) indicating an E-MORB/OIB type mantle wedge. All CMVA basalt-basaltic andesites have lower Mg#, Cr and Ni relative to primitive MORB, probably a result of olivine-dominated fractionation. Silica activity (-0.33 to -0.36 log units) and crystallisation temperatures (1,090 - 1,161°C) of CMVA basalts suggest a source region geochemically between olivine tholelite and alkaline olivine basalt. Basaltic analyses, corrected for olivine fractionation, suggest primitive CMVA compositions resemble magnesian MORSs. Assuming equilibrium batch melting, CMVA parental magmas segregate from residues at 10-15 kbar after 10-14% partial melting. The resultant melts are LIL-element enriched with high Ba/Nb and Ce/Nb ratios indicating a slab contribution although crustal contamination was probably low, based on low Rb/Sr ratios (0.015-0.026) relative to other lAB (0.03) and continental crust (0.12). Andesite and dacite can be modelled satisfactorily by low pressure closed-system crystal fractionation. The main fractionating assemblage is olivine + clinopyroxene + plagioclase ± Timagnetite in basalt-basaltic andesite melts whereas plagioclase + amphibole ± Ti-magnetite fractionate from basaltic andesites to form SiO2-rich andesite and dacite. Magma mixing and assimilation probably occurred at Mt Apo. In summary, the deeper seismic zone beneath CMVA relative to other island arcs may be explained by lateral transport of fluids from subducted slab (Davies and Stevenson, 1992) using a slab-induced convection model (Tatsumi, 1986; Saunders et ai, 1991). Partial melts segregate at depth (spinel peridotite field) to form olivine or nepheline to diopside-normative tholeiites. As these magmas ascend, they cool, become more dense and pond at the lower crust where they differentiate to high-AI basalt and basaltic andesite. Diapirs then migrate from lower crust to shallow magma chambers (< 5 km) where extensive fractional crystallisation results in andesitic magmas. Disequilibrium features of phenocrysts from basaltic andesites support the concept of mixing between a lower basaltic layer and an upper intermediate composition layer. Predominance of intermediate to SiO2-rich lavas suggest that i) most eruptions tap only the upper portion of compositionally-zoned chambers and/or ii) magma chambers are at a mature stage of chemical evolution.


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Kellen Moore honored before Spring Game
Whether he liked it or not, Kellen Moore was front and center once again at Albertsons Stadium on Saturday.
Moore, whose 50 wins at Boise State from 2008-11 are the most in Football Bowl Subdivision history, was honored before the annual Spring Game.
"Just a sappy tribute to make me feel old," he said with a laugh a few minutes before the ceremony. "It will be fun. We'll see what they have in it. Hopefully not too many cheesy moments."
Luckily for Moore, the video aired for the crowd was anything but sappy or cheesy — mainly a compilation of many of the 143 touchdowns he threw with the Broncos. After the highlights aired, Boise State coach Bryan Harsin, who was Moore's offensive coordinator until his senior year, said "(Moore) is what Boise State is all about."
Harsin presented Moore with the No. 11 jersey he sported during his career, with the ceremony taking place at 5:11 p.m., on 4/11 for 11. For good measure, the first quarter was 11 minutes long.
"That was special," Harsin said after the game.
Not one to bask in his accomplishments, Moore's career more than earned him enough to be individually honored. Parents stopped him to take photos with their children. Moore got a cheer when he called his nearly 8-month-old son, Kyler, "a future Bronco." Former Bronco running back Jay Ajayi, bound to be taken in the NFL Draft early next month, snapped a shot of Moore and shouted "GOAT (Greatest of All-Time)."
"It's Boise — obviously they love their football here, it's a great part of it," Moore said.
Other current and future pros were also honored before the game, including cornerback Jamar Taylor (Miami Dolphins), offensive lineman Charles Leno Jr. (Chicago Bears), cornerback Orlando Scandrick (Dallas Cowboys), safety Jeron Johnson (Washington Redskins), tailback Doug Martin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), safety Winston Venable (CFL's Montreal Alouettes), defensive lineman Mike Atkinson (CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Ajayi and quarterback Grant Hedrick.
"It's a cool opportunity," Moore said. "Obviously it's nice that it works that a lot of guys are coming back this weekend, so you get to see a lot of guys that were a part of it. That's probably the most fun part."


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Jacket - Vintage
Jumper - Charity Shop
Dress (worn as skirt) - Primark
Bag - Urban Outfitters
Boots - Shoe Zone
It seems like so long since I did a fashion-related/OOTD post.. baring it mind it would have been way back in Summer I expect! To be honest I feel like I've fallen slightly out of love with fashion and for a long time even the thought of going clothes shopping filled me with dread as I had no idea what kind of thing I was looking for. I feel like I'm finally finding my feet with it again though so paws crossed this will be the first in a longer line of this kind of posts!
In other news, MY BOYFRIEND IS HERE! We 'live together' kind of unofficially but due to Christmas etc we've spent the past month or so apart. We're in a long distance type thing so it's lovely to be together again - it seems even harder being apart after such a long time than it did when we used to spend the odd week or so together! After some catching up (and present swapping - more on that to come!) we spent our day in Brighton which was lovely - although despite hours of trawling around MAC and Space NK I still somehow came home empty handed - boo! An evening of online shopping is in order by the looks of things I think.