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Use acrylic prints to decorate homes

Acrylic prints are photographs printed on the acrylic sheets which is transparent like glass.  The thickness of the sheet should be about 5mm. It is a shatter proof material and very light in weight. They are very easy to maintain as the ink used is of very high quality. Previously photographs where printed on a photographic paper and sealed on to an acrylic sheet which got detached after a short time. Acrylic prints are now done directly on the material and they have a mysterious look. Cleaning is very easy as it just needs wiping with a soft cloth. Care should be taken while printing as it has to be printed in laterally inverted form.   Photographs printed on acrylic sheets are not spoiled because of humidity as is the case with photographs on normal photographic paper.

Art canvas prints are the most popular form of art these days. These can be found decorating walls at home and large offices too. Many artists are using the art canvas prints as a form of reproduction of their work to make it available to more number of people. They are as good as the real painting. Some times the old photograph can have a second life by turning them into art canvas prints. They have become popular as an art form and can be an ideal gift. The expected life of these prints is a hundred years. The quality of the canvas has to be good for the prints to last long. They can be stretched on to the frames of rolled and kept safe. Some of the great works of by gone days have been transformed into canvas prints and are now sold at affordable prices.

Use of canvas to print art work has been prevalent since a long time. The latest printing technology has perfected the art of printing to last for a longer period of time. It is one way of immortalizing the great works of some of the olden times. The quality of the prints is highly satisfying. It has proved to be a great boon for the modern artist as the work can be replicated to cater to a wider market. The financial position of artists has improved to a great extent because of the facility.

Art on canvas is the age old form of using canvas as a medium for painting where the artist has the freedom of expression. He could fill the whole canvas with his imagination. Some of the most exquisite paintings or master pieces are found on canvas. Original Art on canvas was highly expensive and it was only a dream of a normal man to buy such works. The price escalated if the painter was of a higher standing. The painting of the famous painters cost a fortune. With the help of latest printing technology such art works have now become canvas prints which is true as the real painting. The digital printing technology has made it possible to get the exact replicas. This has now become affordable and more homes are decorated with them.

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Art on canvas is the age old form of using canvas as a medium for painting where the artist has the freedom of expression. He could fill the whole canvas with his imagination.

About Canvas print art and photo digital prints

Canvas print art has soon turned out to be a popular form of media not just for artistic renditions but also for business/event promotions. As the name suggests, canvas print art is a technique wherein the art or image is printed on the canvas. A photo's digital print can be obtained on a paper, glossy papers or sheets or even canvases.

These techniques have many advantages over the traditional form of art or printing. Firstly, the cost for canvas print art is lesser than that of the traditional art framework if we look at the longevity factor. More importantly, it gives a wide range of flexibility to the user (in terms of options available like size of the canvas and the color of the same) and looks elegant too. Another aspect to consider is time. A photo's digital print can be obtained in less time in comparison to traditional lithographic etching.

More about canvas prints and service providers

These canvas print art pieces can be great for interior decoration at homes, offices, restaurants, business spaces and so on. Also, it can be used as an effective tool for promotion of products/services or events or businesses. One can easily print photos into canvas by hiring professional service providers for the same. Any photo can be etched on canvas by these services without any compromise on the quality of the photos. Some special photos can be transformed on to the canvas and can be preserved, cherished and displayed at homes forever. Not just photos, even artwork can be transformed in a similar way by the professional services. These services offer quality solutions and are experienced in the field. Thus, they can be trusted and moreover, they do not charge exorbitant rates (unless one is dealing with the wrong person/business). The professional service providers usually offer additional services such as home delivery, stretcher bar framework for the canvas and other related services that enhance the print and the quality of service provided by them.

Canvas prints give even the common man to create his own masterpiece artwork. All you have to do is get in touch with a professional printer, and get the artwork designed for you.

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Female Nudes Painted With Unusual Shapes

The Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani had two things in the fullest intensity: one was the art of painting and another his poverty. Both played vital roles in his short and artistic life. The contemporary painters like Toulouse-Laytrec, Georges Rouault, Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso were his favourite and had influenced his art. Deliberate distortion of the figure of the subjects, large spaces covered by the colours, and the free use of flat areas of colour: these were the characteristics of Modigliani’s paintings.

Though he painted very beautiful portraits of unknown and famous people, but his fame came from the paintings of female nudes. Modigliani’s female nudes had unusual faces. Instead of natural looking faces he preferred depicting flat and mask like faces. He painted the eyes of his models, the nude females', eyes mostly of almond shape. He painted the noses of females a bit twisted. In most of his artistic nude paintings he painted the stretched out neck of the female nudes. It is noteworthy that Modigliani’s female nudes’ paintings had captivating arrangement of curvy lines and flat planes. He had executed in his nudes the striking idealization of feminine sexuality.

His occasional brushes with solid art of sculpture helped him. It was due to his friendship with Constantin Brancusi that helped him to infuse in paintings the aspects like strong linear rhythms, simple stretched out forms, and notable verticality.

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Nude Female Paintings: Understanding the Meaning of Nude Painting with New Perspectives

A visit to a gallery showing nude paintings could be an opportunity for assessing the nude artworks in their purely artistic terms. An artist or an art-lover who is educated into the art of painting would see these nudes in different perspectives, different than those who look at such artworks out of curiosity or voyeurism only.  The nudes male or female may be in different positions, depicting the beauties of the human bodies as painted by the artists.

Looking to a fine art nude is a respectable activity; whereas viewing similar photographs depicting merely sex is not. We can say it like this: when the element of sex is removed from an artwork, it is fine art nude, enjoyable as an art piece.

For a true art-lover the nude body of a male of female is a matter of delicate flesh tones. The nude body parts coloured by an artist is not an aspect of allurement for the eyes of the viewers, but it is the depiction of the sophisticated composition that a painter has composed.  Like a poet composes a poem; an artist also composes a painting of nude male or female. Words are the tools for a poet and a writer; the colours, canvas and brushes are the tools of a painter. The common source for all of such artists and the poets and writers is the element of imagination.

When we look any painting, we would certainly tend to compare it with other similar paintings we saw in past. Thus the viewing of paintings of nude females would give us an opportunity for comparing it with other masterpieces. It would be a good reference to the other nude paintings.

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Business Guru outlines Business Guru Growth Strategies

Copyright (c) 2009 Dr Mark Yates

If you had asked me 10 years ago, to name the top business gurus in the UK I would have struggled. Ask anyone today and they will no doubt name members of the dragons den or the apprentice which has brought mainstream business celebrities into households via terrestrial and cable TV.

As popular as the dragons den panel members are, they should not be confused with any of the top business gurus, because they are actually business entrepreneurs, and not business gurus.

Before I begin to explain my concept of Business Guru Growth Strategies I feel it worthwhile outlining the definition of a business guru.

Dictionaries generally agree that a guru is someone who others regard as having advanced knowledge and wisdom about a specific area or subject matter. Attaining advanced knowledge often requires many years of training and practice before becoming accepted as a teacher and then as an authority in your specialised field. The power of knowing how to transfer this knowledge into helping others is a gift. When one considers the subject matter of this article, i.e. how the International business guru Dr. Mark D. Yates outlines business guru growth strategies, we need to look how passing on years of experience and business knowledge accumulated over 30 plus years of working in 42 different countries. My business guru growth strategies have helped small, medium and large businesses expand, grow and prosper across 4 continents.

When contemplating appointing a guru it is worthwhile conducting in-dept business research to identify which particular type of business guru you actually require. For example if your small business is struggling because you don't have a brand or a marketing plan, then you really don't need a sales guru from a large multi-national corporate background. What you actually need is a marketing guru from a small business guru background. Don't be blinded with waffle from any business guru who informs you they are a one stop shop guru guru, because there is no such concept. Real business gurus specialise in one particular area of business. Occasionally they may pick up useful skills from other sectors which will help them in delivering business development skills, but they are unlikely to have amassed the lifetime skills required to be considered a professional business guru in other disciplines.

Engaging the services of a marketing guru can result in reaping huge dividends. Frequently you may find that like a business consultant your marketing guru may call upon the professional services of other business gurus to help them turbo-charge your company branding and business growth. It is not therefore unusual to see a marketing guru, a brand guru, a advertising guru, a sales guru, a change guru and a management guru all working together on the same business branding project. These additional business gurus are generally hired in on a, 'as and when required' basis.

If a business has hit the financial tipping point, then you require the services of a management guru and a change guru to help you identify realistic strategies to push your business beyond the tipping point. A change guru usually comes armed with a raft of business development ideas which he offers to the management guru to implement. If your business is a one man band or a relatively small business, then it's unlikely you will employ a management guru on full time retainer. It's far more prudent to hire in the expertise of a small business guru who can work closely with you.

In relation to building your business brand and then promoting your business branding your small business guru will have the initial skills to recognise what kind of information you will require to engage these particular business gurus.

A brand guru and an advertising guru typically work under the leadership of a management guru. A team like this can be a very formidable asset to your business development and growth. The brand guru begins by working with the business owner to identify a memorable business brand which will easily convert to sales once the advertising guru produces a targeted marketing plan and business branding and marketing campaign.

Of course building a business brand is the first step to take after you've identified what your brand needs to achieve. This should then be followed up by creating an awareness of your business branding, which can be achieved off-line or online to reduce your marketing and promotional costs. Once there is a market awareness of your business brand then you will need a dynamic, sales guru to proactively close the deals that filter through.

In reference to the Dr. Mark D. Yates outlines Business Growth Strategies, if ever you hear the phrase guru guru while researching for a quality business guru, run a million miles away. In business parlance, the expression guru guru is used to describe a cowboy practitioner or a chancer, i.e. someone who is bluffing their way into the business guru sector.

The current economic downturn has seen an increase in the provision of business guru growth strategies being delivered into the business to business sector. It has become almost trendy and cool for business directors and owners to inform people they have their own business guru. I even heard a whisper recently that an online business forum, called ask guru is due to be launched online. I would hazard a guess that business owners suffering in the current credit crunch would find an ask guru service invaluable.

Top business gurus are in demand and business guru rates and fees are generally pitched slightly higher than a generalist business consultant. However don't discount this valuable service based on that fact alone. Your initial due diligence should have identified a top notch business guru who provides far more value than cost.

Moves are underway to identify business gurus in the UK business to business market. The intention is to compile a definitive list of the top 50 business gurus. No doubt there will be a mad rush from business gurus to feature in any prestigious top 50 business gurus listing.

I heard a business strategy guru comment that the list needs to feature the top UK 200 business gurus because the advances in cyber technology has led to a surge in internet gurus. That's right in no time at all the business world has gone from zero to hero with a forthcoming listing of the top 200 business gurus

Your awareness of gurus should not be swayed after watching the recent Hollywood film DVD release titled The Love Guru. This was clearly a Micky take on what we call guru guru as the lead character was obviously bluffing his way through as a love sex guru. Nor should you pay any attention to the soundtrack which featured guru lyrics.

Whatever your opinions are of business gurus, it looks like business gurus are here to stay.

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Love is the most emotional and complicated feeling on humans. Most of the people just lead their life with out risking love. But for some one love can be a miracle. Even though they have the finest of goods under their belt hire it has been a wonderful drama for them to set the tone for life. Love Happens is a romantic drama comes to theaters with a settle variations of love guru. It was really encouraging movie for people to get I love and for those who already in love might get some of the tips to comfort their lives. Without any doubt movie straightly goes into its main topic and it was none other than self help author find his love match on a business trip. While he was really looking to promote his book he never thought this miracle of love appears in his life on that moment. It was really a surprised for this man and movie continues its story ahead from their.

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Love Happens (2009) is not only floated with love it begins to make a passion and humor in their life. It was some thing very rare to find in romantic movies. In the movie author was named as Burke Ryan and his life was some what dies with loosing his wife in past. Even though he seems to be a well build man who can takes on any kind of sorrow his wife death is some thing he could not really forget. Still he was searching for her place in his heart. It does not only making him unhappy it does make him loose on various financial and social incidents he deals with. For some one he might see as a fabulous author for him he was help less.

Movie does have compared his likes and dislikes well and from it they have tried to find out what really men want from love and how much they depend on it. Sold-out seminar he joins with many others just like to be with him as a author shares his life with them. When he was been very attractive in that seminar he suddenly met this women named Eloise Chandler.  She was pretty charm lady and she was also some one seeks a helping hand at that point of times. With accidental meet up of these two people ending up in fell in love. This movie Love Happens (2009) appears to be a wonderful movie about dating and love attractions.

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In this competitive world, we all go through so much of stress & hypertension each day. To ensure that we face each day with high spirits, we need to constantly pamper ourselves & indulge in activities that can ease our body & soul.

Massage parlours are gaining lot of popularity nowadays.  For some, indulging in erotic massage work wonders as they satisfy their sexual desires.  These parlours offer variety of options to choose from.  There are double erotic massage, bi-sexual massage & simple erotic massage.

Sensual massages are also known as tantric massage. You can locate many massage providers that provide this service in different cities around the country. You will find these massage parlours or massage providers in cities where there is a lot of massage competition. Cities usually have many massage parlours & are situated in large metropolitan areas. Erotic body massage is used to stimulate the senses and provide a relaxation to the person receiving it.

Sensual and erotic body massage is known to add spice and interest to a love life. It helps to create closeness with the other person and allow both partners to become aroused, which is very positive step to a healthy love life. Erotic massage also allows you to become focused on all of your physical attributes along with providing Erotic Relaxation. These type of erotic massages allow the production of hormones and gives someone a feeling they may not experience often. Usually, after an erotic body massage the individual will feel relaxed, focused, and in a much better mood. 

These parlours provide erotic relaxation for both men & women. Massage parlours in Sydney are world famous & offer great services at affordable prices.  Sydney Sensual massage parlours offer an exciting range of services including Erotic massage, double erotic female massage, bisexual massage & fantasy female massage in Sydney.

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Female Self Pleasuring - How to Use Tantric Touch for Going Solo

Before we can experience sensuality, touch and pleasure with a lover, it is important that every woman learns to explore her body, to pleasure it, and to appreciate it.

Yes ladies - you can't always blame your lover for your failure to launch. Take a good look at your sensual world, your relationship with yourself, your sensuality and erotic power.

Begin by asking yourself a few questions:

1. Have you experienced female self pleasuring? Do you have reservations?

2. Are you aware of the sensual sensations of your body?

3. Are you aware of the emotional feelings associated with your body? Your sexuality? Sexual power?

4. Do you know what words, actions, touches that give your more pleasure?

5. Do you know what things relax you, your mind and body? Is it food, music, candles, the feelings of silk on your soft skin?

So how do you develop your 'female self pleasuring' potentional?

Well when you have answered these questions, explored yourself, always keep in mind that your are a powerful sexual goddess and you deserve to be treated with respect, love, appreciation, pleasure and admiration - by yourself as well as your lover.

Nurture your erotic relationship with yourself with female self pleasuring.

1. Set the mood, create the scene. From the answers to the questions, prepare your most ideal environment, i.e. one which helps you to relax, enhance your senses and sensuality.

Think music, lighting, fragrance, cushions, oils, toys, clothing - or lack of!

2. Relax mind, body and soul. Have a slow luxurious soak, or give yourself a massage.

3. Slowly begin touching your self (leaving the genitals until the end). Stroke, caress, and admire your body - your hands, legs, stomach.

Some women feel uncomfortable admiring themselves and their bodies. If any such feels come up just note them and let them go. Don't stop and analyse, just continue touching and pleasuring your body, and make sure your last thought or feeling is a positive one.

4. Feel the energy begin to flow around the body. Feel your skin start to tingle, your breathing deepen.

5. Now start to stroke and caress your breasts, touching them slowly in admiration. Stroke your nipples, feel the skin on the breasts tingle and the energy flow around them.

6. After at least 20minutes of body sensual touching, you can proceed to the intimate areas. Lightly caress your yoni (the tantric word for Vagina which means sacred space), clit, lips.

And any area you wish to explore!

If you experience waves of intense pleasure and emotion (negative or positive) simply note them, breathe slowly and deeply and let these feelings go. Always end on a positive thought and feeling. Continue with your female self pleasuring.

7. Explore your inner erotic beauty by inserting a finger slowly into your yoni - just to within an inch or two initially. Note the physical and sensual sensations - the heat, moisture, and textures. Insert another finger if you're comfortable. Explore your yoni, g-spot, vary your touch, and drape a lovely silk scarf over the area. Tease your clitoris, starting at the base of the clit and moving towards the head.

(If indulging in intimate massage - make sure you use organic, cold-presses virgin oils such as almond, olive and sesame. Do not use essential oils in any form - on or near the genitals).

8. Allow the powerful erotic and sensual sensations to build and flow in waves throughout the body. Bring yourself close to climax, then slow down breathe deeply and start again. Do this a number of times to allow you to be in a state of arousal and pleasure for good amount of time.

Enjoy the sensations until you can't take it anymore. Claim and enjoy your female sexual power - the greatest power on the planet!

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International Development Sector: Back Office Administration Lessons Learned

Why Back Office Administration?

In the international development sector, back office administration and social networks are fundamental to how practices are improved. The work of the administrator expert for the purpose of providing back office activities for development projects include such a diverse range of administrative tasks and routine services. These services carried out in support of a professional activity such as monitoring and organizing a national survey, providing overall administrative guidance and support to multi-donor programs for good governance and economic growth programs have played a central role in consultants’ work in various regions of the world. Such work has involved efforts to reach out to the relevant local partners, government officials, urban professionals, businessmen and women, and rural community heads.

Back office administration has played a particularly prominent role in managing international development projects. This reflects the enduring expertise of administrator experts in many international programs. Back office administration has been strategic to the work of international development projects. And the administrator expert engagement has been fundamental to efforts to manage development projects. Because of the growing importance of back office administration for international development projects strategy, its potential contribution to future phases of managing development projects, it is vitally important for administrator experts at all levels to understand what management and the decision sciences suggest, and what consultants who have worked in such capacity have learned, about how to engage and leverage local partners in projects and institutional networks.

 Administration 101 for Consultants: Lessons Learned

 Back office administration is a form of organizational management activity based on common claimed effort to improve projects implementation practices. (2) It is not necessarily technical, as projects terms of reference (ToRs) may specify technical aspects of projects. (3) Back office administration rather has the benefits of the administrator expert being involved in scientific and/or statistical research without actually having to do it. It gives the administrator expert the administrative and management jobs that the scientists or statisticians see as tedious and time-consuming. For the administrator expert, these jobs represent tasks with a definite beginning, middle, and end. Thus back office administration is a part of most development projects where tasks dedicated to running the implementation of the project itself take place (4).

There is no such thing as a "typical" technical and/or statistical development project. Technical projects may embody diverse project rules, structures, types of political authority, and terms of reference (ToRs) which may be influenced by social and institutional conditions and government policies. (5) Thus, for instance, the ‘microfinance sector capacity building in Sierra Leone’ survey project (2007/08) in the category of the ACP Business Climate Facility (BizClim), a joint initiative financed under the 9th European Development Fund (EDF), tended, at least traditionally, to be purely statistical but the interpersonal definitions of the project underscores the relevance of the administrator expert.  There are major organizational issues involved in all donor funded project that require the engagement of an administrator expert who deals with these issues in a timely and efficient manner. (6) The administrator expert’s inputs in the ACP-EU BizClim project include the overall organization and monitoring of the field survey which makes the expert more influential than the other experts in the project. The administrator expert is looked upon as the project coordinator who enables the right conditions under which all the experts of the project are able to work. (7)

Administrative Values, Processes, and Organization

Administrative values remain deeply ingrained in back office administration of international development projects and have had a profound influence on development projects’ social mores and political culture. (This observation holds for much of all development projects as well.)

These values include the high premium put on originating and leading organizational issues that provide high performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, productivity and standards, and goal attainment. These values also foster ingroup solidarity, which finds expression in loyalty to the technical expert team, (8) coupled with a powerful desire to ensure proper inclusion of the project output (in the case of the BizClim project, the survey) into the strategic development plan for the overall program; ensuring proper operational coordination with the contractor’s terms of reference; which finds expression in having the necessary skills, personal qualities and levels of motivation to competently meet the objectives of providing back office support and working with institutions or corporations locally. (9)

Administrative processes include traditional forms of services tailored to effectively support the technical experts, to mitigate problems when possible and to preserve a dynamic and productive environment. (10) These processes are conducted in accordance with basic administrative principles, providing colleagues (who are the technical experts) with the resources (i.e. human resources, physical facilities, as well as computing infrastructure and systems) they require to carry out their project research or service mission. (11) Further, working in cooperation with the local partners is extremely important and other tasks of significance include research and review of existing materials, and recommendations for operational structure that produces. (12) The precise extent to which these basic administrative processes are applied determine how successful in meeting the mandate of the contractor by such service requirements by which the expert must:

· clearly understand the needs of all the stakeholders of the project; (13)

· develop a team approach based on strong collaboration and mutual support and trust between the expert team and the local stakeholders in the project; (14)

· motivate and continue to inspire a competent and skilled auxiliary local staff in the project; (15)

· ensure that roles and responsibilities for program objectives and resource management are clearly defined and well understood by all concerned. (16)

Organizationally, each international development project implemented in any region consists of nested beneficiary groups. In the case of the BizClim microfinance project in Sierra Leone (2007/08), the direct beneficiary of the activity is NaCSA’s microfinance program as well as the partner organizations (MITAF, BoSL and SLAMFI). There are also the indirect beneficiaries which include the six existing MFIs and the four community banks actively involved with MITAF as well as the sector as a whole. (17) The terms used to describe these stakeholder groups and the meanings ascribed to them may differ by project, however, basic administrative processes apply in every case. This simplifies efforts by the administrator expert who must be skilled to understand stakeholder relationships, dynamics, and politics in the implementation of projects. (18)

The enormity of tasks in a project and the political issues to be dealt with has caused development donors to fall back on inputs of the administrator expert for support in confronting the challenges of coordinating the implementation of projects. As a result, strategic administrative processes have assumed greater salience in back office administration in recent years. It is not a mistake to emphasize the significance of the role of the administrator expert in a project or to regard the administrator expert as the central organizing principle of any development project implemented.  Large parts of back office administrative processes are to ensure the specific objectives of a project are consistently pursued, in the case of a survey project, for instance, the survey tools are developed and tested; the field research is undertaken; data is reviewed before processing, and statistical analysis is undertaken and final report drafted. (19)

A detailed, up-to-date picture of the back office administrative system in international development projects is hard to see—at least in the open literature. Much of what is known about back office administration is based on profiles provided by project donors, and information gaps frequently have to be filled by what the administrator expert must do to ensure the successful implementation of a donor funded project. While there are a number of useful compendiums on the traditional responsibilities of administrative officers in organizations, these are largely catalogs of job description that are in much need of updating to meet the high expectation needs of international development projects. (20) Finally, there has been no systematic effort to assess the impact of the role of the administrator expert in project implementation and the state of relations between the administrator expert and all the stakeholder groups in a project. This article will hopefully constitute a modest first step in this direction. (21)

The Cultural Logic of Back Office Administration and Project Implementation

How do administrative values express themselves in the conduct of the administrator expert? Administrator experts are intensely jealous of the integrity of work outcomes—to the extent that integrity of work outcomes has been described as the "consulting center of gravity." The culture of integrity of work outcomes and the implicit threat of forfeiting fees if project outcomes are compromised may be a vestige of the back office administrator’s oath of expert engagement—a commitment of ensuring individual and group survival when there are terms of reference to be strictly adhered to. As a result, social relations among stakeholders in a project are characterized by a high degree of concern over integrity of work outcomes, status, and timeframes. (22) A well-known Steven R. Covey proverb expresses this tendency: "Seek first to understand, then to be understood”.  Some see the extraordinary politeness and generosity of consultants that characterize their social relations towards stakeholders in a project as a means of curbing this propensity for anxiety and apprehension for the integrity of project outcomes. (23)

What accounts for this tendency? One explanation is that it is a consequence of what defines a consultant. A consultant’s career is built on maintaining the scrupulous ethics and honesty that are the hallmark of any successful consultant—and to pay even more attention to the perception of ethical behavior. (24) Another explanation is that it is a characteristic feature of being a consultant to be efficient and be conscious of project timeframes. The administrator consultant must have the right experience. Knowledge of industry procedures, project requirements, likely project costs, and likely project timeframes, are all examples of where inadequate organizational experience can result in cost and time blowouts. The administrator expert must keep in touch with the latest developments in projects administration to provide the right advice to project stakeholders. (25)

In back office administration, the expert team of consultants, direct and indirect project beneficiaries, and government affiliations define the administrator expert’s identity and status in a project. Consequently, all personal interactions in a project potentially have a collective dimension. Experts assembled for a project is not a personal choice, but a team affair, with implications for the status and standing of the entire expert team. (26) Conflicts between individual experts in a team always have the potential to become conflicts between groups that undermine the success of the entire project. (27)

Relationships are central to project life. In an environment marked by suspicion and potential conflict between the expert team and the local stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships is a way to reduce the circle of potential adversaries or enemies. (28)

Back office administration is systemic, it has to do with the organizational issues of the project, and the activities undertaken provide the basis for sustained systemic action. Interpersonal interaction is the fundamental unit of getting tasks done in a project. On every occasion, the administrator expert considers organization-wide cooperation as key to the successful execution of tasks; it is generally in response to a specific task, such as collating economic data that should be included in a report. (29)

Back office administration has an inter-organizational dimension as well. A project is often identified with the government of a country, its civil service structure, and the civil society. Thus, an administrator expert is obliged to deal with all of these structures at a professional level.  (30) For the administrator expert, the administrative domain of all international development projects thus usually consists of dealing with a number of relevant stakeholders exclusively specified by the terms of reference of the project.  Among the team experts, there is strong pressure not to alienate these stakeholders in a project. Because the group of experts (consultants) is usually involved in more than one institution’s culture, and in each case they are seen as outsiders at the beginning, experts need to be able to win the confidence of strangers who may be initially threatened by the presence of consultants. The administrator expert must be that person of personable character capable of projecting the expert team’s image to the other stakeholders. A big dose of humor is said to make wonders, especially when directed at one’s self. (31)

Some back office administration activities take the form of effectively making use of all sorts of networks. Civil service and civil society networks are sometimes reinforced by less professional social interactions or more personal relationships, and may be mobilized in the pursuit of shared interests. Administrator experts are particularly adept at mobilizing social networks and forging more personal alliances, which account in part for the success of international development sector projects. (32)

The Spider in the Web

Overall, donor agencies have dealt with administrator experts as projects power brokers to help administer or implement a project, and they have often attempted to co-opt the work of the administrator expert as part of a strategy of "get things done". Other participating consultants in a project have likewise depended a great deal on the work of administrator experts to achieve quality project outcomes. It is therefore important to understand the sources—and limits—of administrator expert authority and organizational influence. (33)

Administrator expert authority. The administrator expert traditionally performs a number of functions related to the inner life of the project and its relations with the other stakeholders and the authorities. The role of the administrator expert for international development sector projects involves more like traditional administrative functions, and the administrator expert fulfill a number of important functions. The administrator expert’s job has been to be the spider in the web—collecting information from partners, everything from administrative data to their technical contributions, their expertise, and their expectations of the project, while making sure they meet the project’s deadlines. (34)

A very interesting task is to thoroughly understand all the specific terms of reference of a project and get all partners to understand them and agree to them as well. (35) In some cases the work seems to consist of calling other people’s bluff—not the participating consultants but the local stakeholders in the project. Almost without exception, often times the local stakeholders view with suspicion the work of the consultants, and the challenge is to what extent one has to be flexible on most things, and when to stand ground on the things that matter—like getting things done according to the terms of reference and maintaining one’s integrity. (36) One has to be willing to draw the attention of the contracting authority in such instances in order to defend one’s position in both of those cases without jeopardizing the project. (37)

The administrator expert must have an in-depth knowledge of how donor funding works, and should be skilled in developing good personal contacts with people in government and in civil society. (38) The very big plus side for the administrator expert is being right in the center of decision-making in the project implemented and the role of the administrator expert becomes more important when he or she is able to create the conditions for making the most out of people working in the project and their talents. (39) The administrator expert is more in control of his or her own work, to see output that is in some sort of relation to the time and effort put in, to work on projects that have a beginning an end. The administrator expert is responsible for the day-to-day running of the project. The work of the administrator expert is literally research project management. (40) The administrator expert has to be well organized to make sure deadlines are met and all partners are involved; diplomatic enough to deal with people of different backgrounds; and, perhaps most important of all, unflappable. (41)

Elements of traditional organizational management still apply in all international development sector projects. Management and organizational issues abound in delivering development sector projects. For example, if survey administration is the “line” activity within the project, the ultimate responsibility for delivery lies within the purview of the administrator expert. (42) And the more actors and organizational units that are required to deliver international development sector programs, the more complex that delivery may be. The need for coordination and cooperation in such complex systems is critical to success. (43)

Administrative influence. Administrative influence is reckoned in terms of the tasks completed. Details matter. Every task for the successful completion of projects matters. (44) Integrity also matters. The integrity of work outcomes is critical in international development projects. (45)

Today, as mentioned above, back office administration is generally the highest level at which sustained social action occurs; administrator experts are considered effective units of action. And the influence of an administrator expert is generally measured in terms of his or her work ethics, the ability to secure the interests of the project. (46)

The Donor Sector Today

The rules of donors and their influence and their specific terms of reference vary but have a common goal—effective delivery of project objectives. (47) There are a good number of well known donor agencies working for the good of humanity. Some of these donor agencies consultants should know about include:

· The ACP Business Climate Facility (BizClim), an ACP-EU joint initiative, is demand-driven and the requests for assistance introduced are implemented through contracts using the framework contracts of the commission (beneficiary) or through tenders. To this respect, the Contracting Authority is the European Commission but the daily management of each contract is ensured by BizClim. (48).

· USAID, the independent federal agency of the United States Government, often times cooperates with multilateral and regional institutions such as the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Bank of International Settlements, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), IFAD, IMF, IOM, OECD, and the UNDP, to implement projects in various parts of the world. (49).

· The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty and often works with consultants in many respects.  It has two headquarters (in London and East Kilbride, near Glasgow) and 64 offices overseas. It also has over 2500 staff, almost half of whom work abroad (DFID). (50)

· The Australian Government, through AusAID, competitively contracts aid work to Australian and international companies. These companies use their expertise to deliver aid projects and often train local people to continue the projects long after the end of the contracts.  AusAID contributes to global and regional poverty reduction programs set up by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and works with (AusAid). (51)

· The OECD brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to support sustainable economic growth, boost employment, raise living standards, maintain financial stability, assist other countries' economic development, contribute to growth in world trade. The OECD also uses a lot of help from independent consultants and shares expertise and exchanges views with more than 100 other countries and economies, from Brazil, China, and Russia  to the least developed countries in Africa (OECD). (52)

· UNDP is working through its specialized agencies like IFAD, UNICEF, UNCTAD, and with a wide range of partners to help create coalitions for change to support the goals at global, regional and national levels, to benchmark progress towards them, and to help countries to build the institutional capacity, policies and programs needed to achieve the MDGs (UNDP). (53)

· The African Development Bank (AfDB), Africa’s premier development finance institution, dedicated to combating poverty and improving living conditions across the continent through loans, equity investments and technical assistance, also offers great opportunities for independent consultants. AfDB-financed contract procurements are carried out in accordance with the requirements stipulated in the Rules of Procedure for Procurement of Goods and Works and the Rules of Procedures for the Use of Consultants (AfDB). (54)

· The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) also uses consultants’ help to promote sustainable development through loans, guarantees, risk management products, and analytical and advisory services. Established in 1944 as the original institution of the World Bank Group, IBRD is structured like a cooperative that is owned and operated for the benefit of its 185 member countries. (55)

· The Asian Development Bank (ADB) often partners with governments and the private sector to help reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of member countries based on its Strategy 2020, a long-term strategic framework adopted in 2008, grounded on three complementary strategic agendas: inclusive growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. (56)

These donor agencies have their specific rules and terms of reference. (71) Within the field of EU-supported Research and Technological Development (RTD) projects, partners normally sign a consortium agreement to organise the work and to specify certain rights and obligations to carry out the Project. Separate and independent consulting firms are subcontracted by the EC or the consortium for projects in various parts of the world. (57) And experts who are engaged by the successful firms the consortium has subcontracted are strongly encouraged to always co-ordinate their activities with the activities of other EC funded projects or projects funded by other donors in the region of implementation. The work of the administrator is to establish such contacts. (58) And considering the fact that experts do have different experiences in project implementation, there are also certain issues experts must know about:

· Using proper documents, forms and terminology as required by EC Delegation and there are basic documents all consultants should use when communicating with their partners—the firms contracted by the EC or the consortium.

· The ToR as a basic and binding document must be strictly adhered to. If the expert thinks the requested deliverables or outputs are out of touch of reality, the expert must communicate his or reservations in the Inception Report or with the Delegation in a written form.

· Experts should be patient with the EC Delegations and Beneficiaries, if an expert does not agree with work processes or procedures as specified by the EC operations manual and terms of reference, the expert has the responsibility to try to convince the EC or the consortium by justifying other ways value can be added to deliverables or outputs.

· Experts must, however, understand the reality that the EC does not accept other rules and forms except theirs.

· Even when consultants are subcontracted by firms contracted by the EC or the consortium, consultants are expected to respect EC rules which prevail for all projects. (59)

Lessons Learned

Hands on experience with back office administration in international development sector projects concludes that the administrator expert performs a strategic role in helping the project accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of work processes, control, and management processes. (60) The administrator expert creates a capacity which safeguards and reinforces project’s reputation as a reliable steward of donor resources.  (61)

Other required functional competencies of administrative expert include the expert having excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to set out a coherent argument in presentations and group interactions. The expert should be adept in the use of information and communications technology. (62)

Donor organizations prefer experts that operate within their organizational competency frameworks. They expect experts to lead and manage change with integrity, trustworthiness and confidence, keeping the contractor’s vision and values at the forefront of actions.  The experts must maintain a strong, independent mental attitude and highest integrity and ability to inspire and nurture an organizational culture of ethos and fairness.  (63)

As an expert, it is professional to keep accurate and systematic accounts, files and records. The records must clearly identify, among other things, the basis upon which invoices have been calculated. The expert must be proficient in preparing and submitting regular reports on the project activities to the project team leader emphasizing among others their impact on the different areas of intervention. The expert should also seek to set benchmarks and targets for achieving both program and activity based goals inclusive of indicators for measuring the extent of achievement and to highlight these in all reporting. (64)

Experts must not attempt or commit any fraud, deception, financial or procedural wrongdoing in relation to the performance of their obligations under the Contract, and shall immediately notify the contractor of any circumstances giving rise to a suspicion that such wrongful activity may occur or has occurred. (65)

The expert should not engage in any personal, business or professional activity which conflicts or could conflict with any of their obligations in relation to the Contract.  (66)

The expert must be familiar with the provisions of race relations, sex discrimination and disability discrimination and the expert should not unlawfully discriminate within the meaning and scope of these provisions. (67)

All donor agencies respect the environment; they therefore expect all consultants to help protect the environment in relation to the performance of the services and should comply with all applicable international environmental laws, regulations, and donor practices. (68)

The condition of maintaining professional indemnity insurance is important for most donor agencies. Professional indemnity insurance provides financial indemnity to a professional man or firm against a legal liability to compensate a third party who has sustained injury, loss or damage through breach of duty. (69)

Again, experts must know about project equipment use and keeps inventory of equipment, its condition and location and make such inventory available to the project contractor. (70)

Expert must know that no expenditure may be incurred in excess of the financial limit and budget items of the project without the prior written authority of the donor contractor. (71)

For most donor contractors, fees payable are deemed to cover cost of salary, overseas inducements, leave allowances, bonuses, profit, taxes, insurances, superannuation, non-working days and expenses of whatsoever nature that may be incurred except those otherwise specifically provided for in the Contract. (72)

Donor specific forms and invoices often in the form of letterhead, the contract reference number and bear an original signature are used to recover payments from donors. (73) For, DFID, for example invoices are numbered sequentially, dated and marked—“For the attention of the Administration Officer”—stating the period the services are provided using “from” and “to” dates. The final invoice presented in connection with this Contract should be endorsed “Final Invoice”. Experts must know that any invoices not presented in accordance with donor specific format may cause unreasonable delay in payment. (74) For currency information, the London Financial Times “Guide to World Currencies” does provide the information needed on exchange rates. (75)

Experts must also familiarize themselves with procedures for negotiating claims or disputes arising out of or in connection to Contracts. The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London (CEDR) can be very helpful.  CEDR is an independent non-profit organization with a public mission and supported by multinational business, law firms and public sector organizations. (76)

Overall, the administrator expert prioritizes work schedules. Relieves the technical experts of administrative detail, coordinates work flow, update and chase delegated tasks to ensure progress to deadlines, maintain terms of reference manual to ensure consistent performance of routines. (77) To maintain proper communication mechanisms, the expert composes daily reports, research relevant data the technical consultants can use to support final drafting of the project report. (78) For any meetings, the expert emphasizes on agenda meetings. The expert arranges meeting facilities, acts as recording secretary, and prepares action minutes. The expert performs to earn stakeholders’ confidence. Even arranges local transportation. Seeks greater role in projects within administrative and other areas of competence. At the advanced levels, back office administration is about methods for handling work; it requires a constant audit of the way a project does things, and willingness to rock the boat for meeting deadlines in getting work done. (79) Here are some typical tasks:

• Study and understand international development sector procedures
• Recommend action to improve standard operating procedures.
• Take part in any administrative meetings to assure secretarial follow-through. (80)

In other areas, the expert finds himself with networking with the various stakeholders in the project that are playing a significant role in the life of the project. There is a saying in OD consulting that says “it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves”. Interpersonal coordination of projects objectives is the cadence of back office administration. To navigate the chaos of dealing with organizational issues in a project, the administrator expert tries to draw on the pillars of being an effective manager, pillars built on work integrity, respect, and reciprocity. The expert relies on the intimacy of an expert team and the other key stakeholders in the project. (81)

Emphasis on Interpersonal Relations

Some analysts and practitioners have argued that interpersonal relations are key to the success of projects. While consultants are often viewed with suspicion by the local operators they meet, it is the responsibility of the administrator expert to allay those suspicions.  Clearly, the administrator expert has realistic expectations regarding the influence of project stakeholders. The experts are generally well connected and plugged into various stakeholder networks (essential if they are to ensure project tasks are adequately completed) they have generally proven useful as sources of information and advice and as vectors of influence among their teams and the local stakeholders. (82) Experts can assist too in the preparation of technical projects instruments and the training and motivation of enumerators and/or other project participants. (83)

Despite such acknowledgements of the importance of social networks and the fact that interpersonal activities in back office administration consume between 50 to 70 percent of the administrator’s time, it is remarkable how little attention has been devoted to this subject in the consulting professional literature. Hopefully, this article on back office administration will spur greater interest in what is probably the most important work process in international development sector. (84)

The following engagement lessons learned—with particular emphasis on the special challenges of the administrator expert engagement—are drawn from a review of the administrative literature, journalistic dispatches, individual and group interviews with other consultants who have served in various parts of the world, and the author's own experiences. (85)

Institutional and cultural sensitivity, "hearts and minds," and shared interests. Because of the complexity of the operational environment in international development consulting projects, particularly when local participants in the project view with suspicion the involvement of “highly paid” external consultants, organizational challenges are inevitable. (86) Winning "hearts and minds" is what the administrator expert does which is necessary for project success. What is important is for administrator expert to nurture that spirit of shared interest in working together with local consultants to achieve common goals. (87)

Building relationships. In projects, as is with, in all organizations, persons are more trusted than institutions. Personal relationships are the basis of effective professional partnerships, and a sine qua non for effective organizational activities. These relationships, however, can only be established and maintained by engaging the project stakeholders. (88)

Relationships take time to build and need constant tending. "Face time" with project stakeholders is critical, even if nothing tangible comes of some meetings, since time together is an investment in a relationship whose benefits may not be immediately evident. In addition, such meetings might discourage slack in project. (89)

Credibility is priceless; once destroyed, it is very hard to reestablish. Accordingly, it is vital to make good on promises and to avoid making commitments that cannot be kept. Broken promises undermine efforts to establish rapport and build the relationships that are essential to success. (90) For these reasons, administrator experts should, to the extent possible, avoid practices that disrupt relationships with the local partners, such as showing off and pretending to be more knowledgeable than anyone else in the project.  (91)

Management Implications of Donor Rules of Engagement

While a detailed discussion of how each donor rules of engagement with external consultants are enforced in projects is beyond the scope of this article, it is important to recognize the management value of such organizational knowledge.

Another feature of donor rules that may be managerially significant concerns the relationship between patterns of work ethics and social relations among project participants. Work cultures vary in parts of the world. This is a widespread phenomenon in the developing world. (92) Research of work cultures in developing countries and in Africa has shown that most work cultures in the developing world have a laid back easy going work habit. The expert has to be patient but firm in promoting the right habits that should be nurtured. The point is proper work habits deepen democratic values and reinforce the benefits of responsible management of projects. (93)

Engagement as a management activity. Engagement planning at the lower tactical echelons—which are the echelons that interact most intensively with the civilian population (for example, the enumerators as in the case of a national survey)—is often ad hoc, highly informal, and done "on the fly" by the administrator expert with little if any formal staff input. Engagement, however, is too important to be done in such a manner, and should be approached like any other essential management activity. (94)

There should be a formal engagement planning process, with input from all relevant staff elements, to identify engagement targets, assess their motivations and interests, determine engagement goals, schedule meetings, and set agendas. Administrator experts should hold after-action reviews to evaluate the outcomes of meetings and plan for and prepare follow-on activities. (95)

Engagement planning would probably benefit from jotting down any activity undertaken in a day in a diary which helps the organization and oversee of activities. (96)

Understanding excellence in consulting. Consulting is a knowledge-based occupation; therefore, it is responsible for administrator experts to continue to acquire new skills and knowledge on how to meet the changing requirements of assignments or for career development purposes. The expert must continue to invest in relevant training to obtain and maintain the mix of skills and knowledge needed to achieve the highest level of performance in accomplishing projects objectives. Adequate investment in training to maintain and improve knowledge capital is a key strategic action by any energetic administrator expert. (97)

Being the expert is what empowers the consultant. Local stakeholders in a project have sometimes had unrealistic expectations concerning the expertise of consultants. Being a learning individual is a must. (98)

Avoiding the pitfalls of institutional politics. Working with stakeholders in a project poses special challenges. Local stakeholders are intensely status conscious and competitive, and rivalry and intrigue often characterize institutional politics. Thus, expert engagement often requires a careful balancing act among local coordinators, supervisors and other population groups in the project, to avoid creating or aggravating rivalries or conflicts. (99)

A specific pitfall associated with institutional politics is errors of ignorance. It is easy to err due to a lack of knowledge of work cultures in institutions. It is therefore essential to become intimately familiar with the history and politics of the institutions and the relationships that govern such institutions in order to avoid any missteps. (100)

The challenge is to strike a balance among participating stakeholders in a project. Expert engagement should be part of a broader effort to engage multiple sectors of stakeholders in a project in order to promote a spirit of comingling to work toward common goals. (101)

Conclusions

Interpersonal engagement is probably the most important administrator expert line of operation in back office administration in the international development sector. If experts achieve any degree of success in project implementation, it is in large part because they succeeded in engaging the stakeholders and leveraging stakeholder networks.

Interpersonal engagement, however, poses unique challenges deriving from the special demands of interacting with stakeholder communities whose norms, values, and forms of social organization diverge, in many ways, from those of donor agencies.

Finally, while interpersonal engagement lessons learned in back office administration by administrator experts in an international development project may apply anywhere; this should not be assumed to be the case. Every project is unique in its scope, its internal dynamics and politics, and its relations with the donors. Independent expert consulting is the driving force for participation. Research needs and organization emerge from all consultancy work to produce added value to international development sector projects. Back office administration is research project management suitable especially for those who don’t have that passionate interest in a specific area of science. With back office administration one has the benefits of being involved in scientific research without actually having to do it. The job market for administrator experts in international development projects looks very good. The UK Research Office in Brussels, ‘Development Executive Group’, ‘Microfinance Gateway’, ‘devnetjobs’,  ‘Association of International Consultants’,  Devjobs, ‘Eldis’, ‘Expat List’, ‘Idealist’, MSI Worldwide, ‘Peace Corps’, and ‘Relief Web’ advertise vacancies in just about every week they update their websites. These are time-limited appointments, but so are many research posts and almost all jobs in the international development sector. For an expert to stay employed between short-term consultancies, the expert should continue to make intense effort to email résumés to as many international development consulting firms as possible. With an ongoing, intense marketing effort there are good chances that an energetic expert stays employed.

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Kenday S. Kamara is a native of Sierra Leone, where he attended Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1982-1986. Kenday is an international development consultant in administration, policy development and capacity building. Kenday has consulted for VVMZ (a consulting firm based in Slovakia) as Administrator Expert for the 2007/2008 ACP-EU BizClim Microfinance Demand Survey (a project implemented for the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA). Kenday is also consultant for Global Integrity – (an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., tracking governance and corruption trends around the world) and Konesens Research, Inc. – (a US-based global research and development consulting firm). Kenday is a Ph.D. scholar-practitioner in applied management and decision sciences at Walden University, specializing in leadership and organizational change. Kenday can be reached at kenday.kamara@waldenu.edu or via Skype at: medcallconsultants

Decorate Your Office for Halloween

Halloween is almost upon us and what better way to boost morale in the office than by transforming your workspace to suit the occasion? A ghoulish desk is as fun to create as it is to behold and you can get yourself and your colleagues in the spirit of things for minimal expenditure in terms of both time and money...all it takes is some creativity (and a fun-loving boss!).

If you're looking for a quick-fix solution then your best bet is head on over to a cheap novelty retailer or supermarket. All manner of ghostly figurines, faux spider webs and novelty witchcraft paraphernalia are available for pounds if not pence. Although it may well take a large amount of Halloween themed bric-a-brac to transform the space into a bona fide 'House of Horrors', you only require a few trinkets and accessories to add an eerie edge to an office. Consider draping artificial spider's webs from your computer monitor (preferably topped off with a rubber spider), stringing Jack O' Lantern shaped lights around your desk or simply propping a suitably scary mask up on your desk to show that you're in the spirit.

Those with a little more flair can transform their workspace with nothing more than everyday items, office supplies and some inspiration. Orange and black streamers from the ceiling will certainly attract attention, as will carefully positioned scary images printed out from the numerous Halloween themed websites. If you're looking to take it a little further than Paper Mache is an underrated skill which can result in incredible looking skulls, monsters, witches hats and pumpkins! This classic modelling technique is also a brilliant way to make use of those surplus newspapers and printouts.

To top the whole thing off there's nothing better than getting everyone to dress up for Halloween itself (or the nearest Friday). There's nothing more memorable than seeing the Managing Director of the company turn up to the office in full Elvis regalia! The whole event takes on a whole new element if you also use the day to raise funds for a local charity- maybe by running a raffle or having all staff make a small contribution in return for being permitted to turn up for work dressed as their favourite horror film character. Although you might not get as much work done as on a normal day, the impact on morale and team building can have a lasting effect.

If all of this sounds a little too time consuming then you can always cut out 2 small triangles of white paper and be a vampire for the day...it looks surprisingly realistic!

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Indulge in your Hobby With an Art Lawyer

Art has its own appeal to the people who are fond of any form of art. Art has many forms and each of them has some or the other beauty hidden in it. Paintings have a major appeal to people and there are many people who are fond of this form of art and have a habit of collecting great art pieces in the form of paintings. However, the world has been taken by forgery and the world of art has not been left from this devastating problem. Many a times, it happens that a person lands up buying a duplicate piece of art thinking it to be the original piece. Therefore, in such cases, what the person can do is to take the help of an art lawyer because this professional is the best person, who can help someone get justice.

Taking the help of art lawyer in such situations when someone has bought a fake art piece thinking it to be an original one is one of the best things to do. An art lawyer is a professional, who knows all about the aspects of art and understands this domain the best. Therefore, going to this person for help can be the best solution for any person who has become a victim of buying a fake art piece. Well, there are many art lawyers in the city and all across the country. Therefore, it is important that the selection is made accurately. It is important to check the record of accomplishment of the person and to see his success ratio. Moreover, you need to explain to him how you managed to buy the fake art piece and who sold it to you. Once this is done, the lawyer would try his level best to get you justice and help you get your money back from the fake art dealer. In fact, he would make sure that the fake art dealer is not allowed to sell any more art pieces.

The second instance wherein someone can help from an art lawyer is when a dealer sells an original art piece and the buyer does not pay the money on time or tries to act smart while paying the money to the dealer or the seller. In such situations, the dealer or the seller can take the help of this professional to get the money from the dealer. It is very easy to come across such a professional. You can search for one on the internet or can take some reference from any person, who has already taken the help of such a professional. Therefore, now there is no chance of any sort of a forgery.

Art lovers have always been mesmerized by any art piece and for them collecting art pieces is like worshipping. Therefore, given to their sentiments, it is natural that they would get hurt if they accidentally manage to buy a fake art piece. However, now there is nothing much to worry about because they can take the help of an art lawyer to save their souls and save them from buying a fake art piece. Therefore, take the help of this professional to indulge in your hobby of collecting original art pieces.

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Divorce Lawyer Nyc for Legal Assistance

Divorce itself is a very traumatic experience. However, the complex legal formalities add on even more to its ugliness by the financial and psychological pressure. Not to forget, if the troubled couple has children, even the little ones are bound to suffer. In such circumstances, Divorce lawyer NYC proves to be of great assistance as it employs their legal knowledge to provide you tranquility of mind.

A good divorce lawyer NYC will brief you about your legal rights and represent you in the court of law. Hence, it is very important to choose an attorney who is not only experienced and knowledgeable but also comfortable to talk to when you discuss your personal issues with them. Seeking guidance from an expert divorce lawyer will help you decide your future course of action especially in legal matters. You can discuss the grounds on which you want to separate from your spouse, if you want child custody or not and other such things.

Also, settlement of your joint account with your spouse, property settlements and alimony are some of the aspects of a divorce that divorce lawyer NYC deals with. However, a divorce attorney charges some fee for these services but it is surely worth the peace of mind that you get by his/her legal assistance. An average separation case costs $15,000 approximately.

However, there are a few couples that opt for out of court settlement. This is done to avoid emotional trauma during the questioning session in the court and to save on the costs involved in a divorce.

The divorce lawyer NYC must have a specialization in family law. You must make sure that they have the required authorized qualification, certification or approval from the court of law to become a lawyer. Divorce lawyers in New York are known for their expertise and knowledge in divorce laws of the state. So they handle complicated divorce cases in an effective manner and reduce the turmoil their clients are undergoing due to separation.

Your divorce lawyer fights for your rights in the process of separation. From equal distribution of assets to child support after the divorce, all the aspects are looked into in the court of law. They also prepare you emotionally to face the tough and at times embarrassing questions that might be asked to you in the court by the other attorney. Hence, in a way they also make you strong mentally and allow you to start an altogether new life once your divorce case is over.

You can approach a divorce lawyer NYC over the Internet. References and recommendations from relatives and friends is another good idea to approach a divorce lawyer. Qualifications, experience, family law cases won by the attorney until now are some of the factors that must be considered when you select a divorce lawyer NYC.

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Damyel Flower is an experienced divorce lawyer. He has successfully handled many divorce cases. He gives advice to clients who are looking for Celebrity divorce lawyer, art lawyer, divorce lawyer NYC and art lawyer New York. To hire services of a lawyer in New York and any legal advice visit www.mtllp.com

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China's Handmade Embroidery - Embroidered Silk Visual Art

Hisotry of Chinese Handmade Embroidery

China has always been famous for its silk and its handmade silk embroidery. For millennia, the renowned "Silk Road" brought Chinese silk and embroidery to Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe and Africa. The silk trade created exchanges between China, India, Greece and Rome and acted as a link between these four ancient civilizations.

Since the earliest fabric samples of 3000 B.C. People in China realise that human beings have wanted to enliven their surroundings clothing, toiletries and linens by adding hand work of some kind over the woven fabrics.

Different areas of the devised their own peculiar styles. The type of thread, colors, motifs and presentation of each area and style are unique. Each region had a few stitches unique to their style. The motifs were related to nature and religion and everyday life of people.

Religious embroideries spanned the breadth of the age of the many religious organizations and royal courts. Handmade Embroidery art had patrons just like other art forms. These embroideries include gold threads or zardosi, chikankari, kasuti and kashmiri.

Chikankari is said to have a Turkish impression though it is mentioned in the records of Megasthenes in 3rd century B.C. Kashmiri embroidery is colorful with symbols like chinar leaf, apple blossom, lily, the saffron flower and the fauna of the region. Phulkari has brightly colored flowers on coarse cotton. Beadwork and Zardosi are Mughal introductions where as mirror work is typical to Gujarat and Rajasthan. Kantha' Embroidery of Bengal makes imaginative use of waste rugs and Kasuti is famous for religious themes.

- Styles of Chinese Silk Embroidery Art

There are several different levels of Chinese embroidered silk visual art:

• Antique (all handmade obviously)

• High quality, classical handmade

• Ordinary quality handmade

• Machine made

As corresponding, Suzhou embroidery (Su embroidery for short), Hunan embroidery (Xiang embroidery for short), Sichuan embroidery (Shu embroidery for short) and Guangdong embroidery (Yue embroidery for short) are the four most famous styles of embroidery in China.

The city of Suhou is the center of the Chinese handmade embroidered silk visual art. From there the silk industry spreads west to other cities including Suzhou and it extends to Shanghai, Wuxi, etc. and now includes Beijing, Guangxi, Guangdong. Shenzhen, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Anhui and other places.

Merits of Chinese Handmade Embroidery

Handmade classical silk embroidery is alive. The high quality work looks lifelike. It's been created with loving care by an individual artist. These people are masters of their trade.

They have incredible skill and their work is stunningly beautiful. But it looks alive. The machine made versions look stiff and unnatural. It's quite easily distinguishable.

Handmade embroidery is done with pure silk thread. It has an exquisite, glossy feel to it. Real silk thread will break when used in a sewing machine. So the thread that is used in a machine is thicker and has an artificial fiber feel to it because it is a mix. It is not pure silk.

Chinese handmade silk embroidery is highly collectible. There are many collectors in Germany, the rest of Europe, the USA, Japan, Africa and in other countries, usually the affluent art aficionados all over the world. The embroidered silk is truly representative of Chinese art.

Authentic antique silk embroidered visual art sells for anywhere between $35,000 and $125,000, and is an excellent investment as their prices continue to rise. Over the long term (hundreds of years) the value has increased by as much as 50 times. These pieces are on display in museums and exist in private collections and become available for sale in much the same way any antique art does: dealers, auctions and so on, with the usual problems of verifying authenticity and provenance.

But machine embroidery may have become common these days and perhaps more economical but theuniqueness, variety, intricacy, art and fineness of hand embroidery is unmatched and as yet unchallenged. Today you can also buy modern, hand embroidered silk of the type that is being produced. This varies greatly in quality. At one extreme there is ordinary handmade silk embroidery which you can buy for as little as $100 for a piece. Then there is high quality, classical embroidered silk being produced at higher prices. These pieces tend to sell at auction and therefore the prices can go very high and be somewhat unpredictable.

A Special Kind of Chinese Handmade Embroidery - Chinese Double Sided Embroidery

The double sided embroidery is a technique in which stitching takes place on both sides of a single transparent silk fabric. The design shows on both sides (front and reverse). Such a piece is normally mounted on a wooden frame as a screen, one really can't tell which side is the front or the back.

Most of the double sided embroideries, almost all, people see in shops have the same images on both sides. However there are a few double sided embroideries that have two different images on both sides. It's a mystery and secret how this kind of works are made.

Fine Works of Chinese Handmade Embroidery

People from different countries have different tastes. A silk handmade embroidery popular in one country is not necessarily popular in another country. But there are some silk embroideries that seem almost everyone likes them.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting on a piece of silk satin? Just imagine embroidering such a delicate figure with threads and needles! But such exquisite embroidery has been one of China's most famous art forms for many centuries, and four main schools of embroidery have established with their unique techniques.

Picture: The Chinese Art of Painting with Silk Threads

Remark: Clever photographer, Nancy Fox, recently returned from a tour of mainland China. A visit to an embroidery factory in Suzhou was high on her list of places to see. She was not disappointed. When she arrived, the artists were hard at work producing these paintings. They readily consented to let Nancy photograph them while they worked.

* Last, if you interests, you can find all kinds of Chinese silk handmade silk embroidery art for sale on the Internet(http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Handmade_Embroidery.html) like any other modern or old art.

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Handmade Wedding Invitation Text - Using Informal Wording For Fun

Your handmade wedding invitations text allows many options for how you present it to your guests. Before you start to make decisions on how you will customize and design the text, you need to write down your details. Not only are the details of your wedding day the most important part of the invitations because your guests will make all their plans based on this information, but this will also let you see how the handmade wedding invitations text will look on the paper as you choose your options.

Again, get the details correct by proofreading them a few times as well as having others like your fiance proofread it as well. Once you have this done, you can now start the process of designing and customizing how it will look.

If you are a person who is all about fun in every part of your life, maybe even the kind of person who is a little goofy at times, than don't be shy to make your handmade wedding invitations text informal and fun. If you decide to do so, it is completely acceptable to have fun with it, but there are also some guidelines and parts of your handmade wedding invitations text that you should pay attention to while making your choices, although most everything is game if you so choose.

The way you word and address your invitations and envelopes will say a lot about the style of your wedding that you plan on having. It's important to stay consistent and not make some parts formal and other parts informal. You don't want to confuse your guests so be consistent and your end result will be much better. Another part of being consistent in your invitations is tying your wording into your wedding theme.

Be creative with your informal approach and choose wording that maybe includes a short verse that you like, a favorite poem, or another type of informal introduction that will introduce modern flair. If you are having trouble with this, while searching for your invitations that are typically helpful hints and tips that will include sample verses that you can choose from. Feel free to choose one that fits your fancy and ties in with what you are trying to accomplish.

A few additional tips are to also carry the informal wording through to your reception and response cards to keep with the consistency. Also feel free to leave out the stuffy formal titles like Mr. And Mrs., and you can also abbreviate street addresses with St., Dr., Ln., etc... As well on the date of the wedding you can keep it informal by not having to actually spell out the date in words, use the numbers for the date instead.

Follow the same rules from your handmade wedding invitations text when you are addressing your envelopes. Keep it consistent and informal by addressing your invitations as you would any other letter. To give them some added flair you can also use a colorful pen for your informal invitations. The main thing to keep in mind throughout the process is to have fun with it and be creative, besides getting the details correct there really are almost no limits.

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Starting an art collection

For those looking to build an art collection, for which to adorn the walls of their Cape Town holiday homes, the collector should start by viewing a lot of art as a means of ‘educating their eye'. This will happen over time, after much continual examining and reading about the kind of art that resonates with each particular collector.

The buying of art for a luxury apartment Cape Town is a personal and emotional decision, the collector should buy works that they personally connect with. The collector should not buy art with the intention of it matching the colour scheme of their holiday apartments in Cape Town. Unlike other investments where the buyer weighs up all the facts about the object and compares it to other objects, the acquisition of art is not always an easy endeavor.

It is advisable to look for works by living South African artists, this may give the collector the chance to meet the artist in person. Be aware of where an artist's work is published, as their success directly relates to the appreciation of your artwork.

Cape Town has many art galleries, most of them situated in Greenpoint or Woodstock. There are also many emerging artist's whose work may be affordable now but worth a lot more in the future. Attending graduate exhibitions of the major institutions is a great place to find the first piece of your collection. Look out for the Michaelis and Ruth Prowse graduate shows that happen at the end of each year.

Currently it is quite trendy to hang your small art collection all together, salon style, on one feature wall, art collections are displayed this way in many luxury apartments Cape Town. It is also popular for the collector to own the catalogue to the artist's exhibitions and have them displayed as coffee table books.

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Tips For Making Connections Online With Other People Who Love To Travel

Traveling is one of the best ways to relax, meet new people, and visit beautiful places you have seen in movies. Many people can only dream of traveling to exotic places and seeing breathtaking views. Traveling has become quite expensive due to the high gas prices and a recession type economy. The price of airfare can be outrageous, especially if you do not know the bargains out there.

If your goal is to travel to many different countries and see the entire world, I highly recommend connecting with other people around the world who love to travel. You can connect with MILLIONS of people around the entire world that share very similar interests as you. This can mean many things. The first thing it can mean is your chance to meet new travel friends and possibly new relationships. There have been MANY new relationships formed from travel-related social networks because when you share the same interests as someone else, it is very easy to strike up a conversation and start talking. Most people on social networks have the ability to send messages, have their own personal profile, and even instant message one another back and forth. A lot of the time people who connect on travel-related social networks love sharing travel stories. A great way to meet new friends and even new relationships is by sharing travel stories. Some of these travel stories can go on for hours! It is one of the best bonding experiences ever and you will even have a lot of fun sharing your experiences. Even if you're not looking for a relationship, you will definitely make new travel friends right away!

Another great key benefit of making connections online with other people who love to travel is the benefit of finding the best deals all around the world for CHEAP! If you love to travel around the world and don't have enough money, networking with other individuals to find the best deals is the way to go! Let me give you an example: I joined a social networking site a few years ago for traveling. I was looking for the best deal from Atlanta to Los Angeles. I posted one message on the forum and within minutes someone posted back a coupon code to use on Orbitz that would knock off $150 from the cost of the flight! I couldn't believe it! Within minutes, I logged into Orbitz and put in my coupon code. It sure did work and I found a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles for dirt cheap! I could have never done it without the use of a social network. The benefits of belonging to one are endless! The majority of people are so willing to help you at anytime. There is no greater feeling in the world than knowing you're getting the best deals all across the world at anytime. I wish you the best of luck in your travels; you can't go wrong with joining a travel-related social network today!

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Benefits of Travel-related Social Networking Sites

Social networking websites were made for socializing and networking. They were made for like minded people to connect all across the entire world. Most social networking sites are made strictly for people to meet and connect, not to be sold stuff. For those of you that like to travel just like myself, the benefits of belonging to a travel-related social networking site are endless.

Belonging to a travel-related social networking site will allow you to network with other people to make your travel experience the very best. You will be able to find the best travel deals around, find out which places are a MUST to visit, meet new travel friends, and even find new jobs. If you enjoy traveling, you will be amongst a hardcore group of ardent traveling individuals. You will be able to share your traveling experiences and listen to others' traveling experiences. I have found the best travel deals around from networking with other dedicated travelers. If you enjoy traveling as much as I do and do not have a lot of money, I suggest joining a travel-related social networking site as soon as you possibly can. I promise you that you will also find some of your best travel companions ever joining one of these sites since they will share very similar interests as you.

When you join a social networking site you have to be yourself. You need to let people know who you are and what you are all about. By being honest, you will naturally attract many people who share similar interests as you. Once you share common interests with people, it is easy to strike up conversations. Conversations will lead to many travel companions and even relationships. Not only that, if you want to visit other parts of the world or other cities or states, you will be able to travel and meet other people that can show you around town. There is nothing like going to another country or city and having a person that knows the ropes. You will be able to experience that country, state, or city to its fullest. There is a lot of hidden places in various cities that only the locals know about. You can really see things that are breathtaking and unforgettable.

If your hopes and dreams are to travel all across the world, you can't go wrong joining a travel-related social networking site. The benefits are endless, especially if you are looking to experience the authenticity of each country and find the best travel deals around. When I joined a travel social networking site, within 5 minutes after I posted a message looking for a coupon code for Orbitz to go to Las Vegas, someone replied with a coupon code that saved me over $100.00! The majority of people on travel-related social networking sites are ready and willing to help anytime you need to find the best deal. I am able to travel all around the world for the best deals humanly possible!

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