...Nick Garvey Professor White Foreign Films/ENL 276 4/20/10 Analysis of A Call Girl by Damjan Kozole The film, A Call Girl, directed by Damjan Kozole captured the essence of growing up as a young adult trying to make the transition moving from a small town to a large city. Alexandra is a 23-year-old English major at a university in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The first scene has Alexandra walking into a room with an older gentleman sitting on the bed. She has obviously been called there to provide sexual services to the man on the bed, but her client does not appear to be completely healthy after taking an excessive dosage of Viagra. Alexandra looks concerned when she realizes that the man is not in good shape, and when he proceeds to collapse onto the floor Alexandra is mindful enough to call downstairs to the hotel for help. After calling for help, she immediately leaves the hotel without anyone seeing her; however, now the whole city is aware that a call girl was with the man when he died and the police are looking to investigate her. As if her job wasn’t difficult enough before, now half the whole city is looking for a whore who goes by the name of “Slovenian girl”. Other than being a part-time escort for men, Alexandra is a dedicated student and a loving daughter to her lonely father who lives back in their small village, away from the city, by himself. Her father shows a great deal of affection for his daughter and he notices that something is constantly bothering...
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...Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power? Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France, Spain, and England. How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states...
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...Mission Trip Part B: Budget Plan For Mission Trip Slovenia A mission trip to reach as many people as possible is only good if the numbers are reasonable, not only in terms of helping the population but also reaching the population with a reasonable budget. For this reason our mission trip will be going to Ljubljana, Slovenia. where the population is 279,000 as of 2014 with a growth rate of -.26% according to the CIA (CIA, 2015). This will give us a manageable number of people to reach with a rational budget. The mission trip will have a modest budget for 10 missionaries for 30 days. Each missionary will be responsible for $5,000 for expenses which totals $50,000 which will be due one week before they leave. Many of the medical supplies will be donated such as the vaccines, medical equipment to administer the vaccines and dispose the used needles properly. There will be a general account that will have $7,500 for unseen expenses. With all expenses included it will cost $9,041.54 per person, which is $90,415.40 for all ten missionaries, then adding the $7,500 for unseen expenses brings the total to $97,915.40. The missionaries have currently saved $9,791.54 which is 10% of the total. This money will be invested at 4% APR compounded quarterly. . $9,791,54(5)=$11947.54 After five years the account will have $11,947.53 which leaves $85,967.87 to be raised by the missionaries, donated or supplied by the missionaries. One of the companies that have...
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...FACULTY OF ECONOMICS MATEJA PIRNAT, 19554965 UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL MARKETING SCHOOL YEAR 2014/2015 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT- Chateau Margaux Study Case 1. Describe the current distribution system of the company and explain why it is so important for its brand positioning? Please explain also how the brand is positioned on international markets. Chateau Margaux’s current distribution system is completely traditional, which means that it is handled by the specialized and independent merchants. The merchants are a major part of the distribution system for the Chateau Margaux’s wines. Besides the responsibility for the distribution of wine, the merchants also have other significant roles, for instance negotiating prices, maintaining the relationship with retailers, promoting and positioning the brand. The distribution is dependent on the merchants who are responsible for customer relationships and finding out who the wine consumers are. For this reason they are selected on the basis of their previous relation with the château and their past success in promoting and positioning the brand. One of the major benefits of current distribution system is that it creates a scarcity on the market and helps to gain the better prices and at the same time not give an impression of wide availability to the customers - customers begin to appreciate the wine more and more. The merchants are able to create an enthusiasm around the wine which can affect the whole...
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...PRESENTATION OF CASU-DRIV CASU-DRIV Organisers is a company that has been in the Slovenian market since 2004. Established by four young shareholders, Dragana, Susana, Ivett and Carmen, the organisation has been working successfully until the outbreak of the crisis. Nonetheless, thanks to the hard effort of their managers, the company has got over in the last two years in a rather spectacular way. The company works hard to organise all kind of events its clients ask for. For this reason, it can be considered a highly flexible organisation whose main objective is to satisfy all its clients’ needs. Weddings, birthday parties or simply meetings are generally the kind of events that CASU-DRIV tends to organise. DEFINE THE PROJECT The Communication plan of the company ‘CASU-DRIV’ consists on advertising an important event among the student community in Ljubljana. ‘Bye bye Erasmus’ is going to be a farewell festival for all kinds of exchange students in the University of Ljubljana, as well as for native students, professors and administrative staff. Regarding the duration of such valuable event, it will last three days, in which several different activities will be organised: Sports, concerts, meals and others interesting affairs. In order to welcome three thousand people approximately, the party will take place in ‘Stožice sport centre’ and the intended dates are assigned on February 18th, 19th and 20th from 9am. THE GENERAL AIMS AND SPECIFIC GOALS General aims ...
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...which increase every years. Same for the bakery products. Leading position in the fresh sweet pastry segment. Constant analysis of the different market opportunity and customers needs and wants ; “sophisticated IT system” Important communication with merchandiser-distributors. Nice profit margin on sales ( 3 times more than the average of the bread industry) Major weaknesses : Loss of the 2 cofondators of the company which can involve a loss of the original spirit and vision. Franchising who can be bad for quality Lots of long terms liabilities and high debt ration ; maybe it will be difficult to find new liquidity for investment. Major part of the production is in the western Slovenia Sources of competitive advantage The IT system of Don Don is one of the major advantage of this firm. They can use that in order to take better decision and understand better the consumers. They also be able to adapt them-self quicker than the competitors if there is some change in the market structure. But all this informations have a coast and the company need a good financial health in order to keep this database up to date. The intense R&D is also a big advantage. With the link between the IT system and the R&D service Don Don can always innovate in order to be one of the first to sell at...
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...incidence of strategic management accounting in Slovenia Introduction The purpose of this research is to benchmark the degree which large companies in Slovenia apply strategic management accounting. This research conducted by Simon Cadez from Department of Accounting and Auditing, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Chris Guilding from Service Industry Research Centre, Griffith university, Queensland, Australia. This research is on 2007 at Slovenia. Before this research Guilding have done his research on United Kingdom, New Zealand and United States America. His study represented the first to provide an international comparison, which large companies are applying Strategic Management Accounting practices. This study extends Guilding work by benchmarking the degree of strategic management accounting adoption in Slovenia relative to Australia. Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organizations policies, products, programs, strategies and their comparison with standard measurement, or similar measurements of it peers. The objectives of benchmarking are to determine what and where improvements are called for, to analyze how other organizations achieve their high performance levels, and to use this information to improve performance. Slovenia is a former socialist country that began the process of transition to a market economy in the early 1990’s after gaining independent from Yugoslavia. Slovenia is widely noted as a role model of a successful...
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...If agricultural tariff and subsidies to producers were removed overnight, what would the impact be on the average consumer in develop nations such as the United States and the EU countries. What would be the impact on average farmer? Do you think the total benefits overweight the total costs, or vice versa? A. For decades the rich countries of the developed world have levied subsidies on their farmers typically guaranteeing them a minimum price for the products they produce. The aim has been to protect the domestic industry from the foreign competition and give an impact on the average consumer in develop nations such as the United States and the EU countries If agricultural tariff and subsidies to producers were removed overnight, the average consumer in developed nations would probably see a slight rise in the cost of commodities as the commodity price reached a global equilibrium. The effect on the farmer would be more substantial because they would no longer be protected from international demand and prices. On the contrary also, the removal of tariffs and subsides to developed nation farmers could allow the average consumers to save as well. The prices for these products might become cheaper and the taxes paid would be eliminated because there would no longer be any subsidies to pay for. On the other hand, this would be a negative for the average farmers in these nations. There would no longer be a surplus of goods that could be sold to monopolize the market. Farmers...
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...How has the global economic environment changed in the last year? Following two years of weak and uneven recovery from the global financial crisis, the world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. Output growth has already slowed considerably during 2011, especially in the developed countries. The baseline forecast foresees continued a pale growth during 2012 and 2013. Such growth is far from sufficient to deal with the continued jobs crises in most developed economies and will drag down income growth in developing countries. In this paper I will be speaking about the global economy, but first, I will elaborate and concentrate on the strongest economy in the world, the US. In the past year, the most important issue in the United States was employment. All of this year we have seen the employment rate change from 8.1% 8.3% which is a very narrow range, but still means that 12.8 million people are out of jobs, which is extremely bad, but on the other hand, if you wanted to compare it to the rate in 2008, where the economy was falling apart, things seem optimistic. It’s not the government isn’t creating jobs, because it is. The problem is that it’s not creating enough jobs to soak up all the people who were laid off. On average, the country has been adding 150,000 each month, which is good, but not fast enough for people who have been laid of for a while to return to the job market. Another problem is the housing market. In comparison...
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...Education – school system in Slovenia Children usually attend kindergarten any time between the ages of two and seven years, depending on the local custom. Children are taught to develop basic skills through creative play and social interaction Children first enter primary school at about the age of 6 and finish at about the age of 14. Each group of children born in the same year form one grade (class) which usually lasts until the end of schooling. Each year is divided into 2 terms. Once or twice per term, children have holidays: Autumn, Christmas, winter and May first holidays; each holiday is approximately a week long. At summer time, school ends on 24th June (except in the last/ninth grade, where it ends a week earlier), followed by a holiday of more than two months. The next school year starts on the1st September. The 1st Period is the beginning of schooling for every child. From the first to the fourth grade children stay in one classroom and have one class and one teacher which teaches all subjects, except on some occasions, sports, art and music are taught by separate teachers or is supervised by the appropriate teacher. In the beginning of the first year there is always one special pedagogue in the classroom and he or she helps the master teacher lead the younger students into the new system. They start with reading, writing and counting. Children are taught their native language (Slovenian, Hungarian or Italian language, depending on the area of their schooling)...
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...Electoral System in Slovenia Analysis paper 04.14.2011 Electoral System in Slovenia An electoral system has a significant influence on the structuring of the party system within a country. In 1991, for a newly established democratic republic, Slovenia, the question of selecting the right electoral system was on top of the political agenda. Slovenia, that just had socialist period of the past, when there was “voting without elections”, looked for ways to obtain a stable political system and chose the model, used by the developed countries of Western Europe. The choice to use proportional system has lead to multi-party system and effective governance. According to the reports by Freedom of House, the country is placed very highly with respect to its overall level of democracy, while the level of competition is above the global average. This proves us once again the validity of Lijphart’s theory, that claims that proportional electoral systems lead towards greater long-term democratic stability in deeply-divided plural societies. To begin with, the electoral system concerns multiple aspects of electoral law and its most basic characteristics, defined clearly in Patterns of Democracy, are the ballot structure, determining how voters can express their choices, the electoral threshold, or the minimum votes needed by a party to secure representation, the electoral formula, determining how votes are counted to allocate...
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...Succession planning is necessary in these companies. Majority of qwner -managers have no specific succession plan. The specificity of small companies: in Slovenia is a transition from socialistic to market economy with very short time of qwnership, which is individual, MBO –managers buy out type or EBO –employees buy out, Succession is just merely done in the family or the company is sold out . Dilema of succession in smaller and greater companies in Slovenia is very great because we do not have more generation tradition in business, so there is no good practice available like abroad, especially in European...
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... Hermine Vidovic vidovic@wiiw.ac.at Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies www.wiiw.ac.at Please cite as: Vidovic H., (2013), ’Labour Market Developments and Social Welfare’, GRINCOH Working Paper Series, Paper No. 4.01 Labour Market Developments and Social Welfare Abstract Employment and activity rates in the new EU Member States (NMS) declined significantly up to the early 2000s and started to increase along with strong GDP growth thereafter. Job losses following the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis varied substantially across countries and have not been offset yet. Overall, the low educated and the young people are very disadvantaged on the NMS labour markets. With the exception of Poland and Slovenia, non-standard types of employment are uncommon in the NMS, following the pattern of Southern EU countries. Employment protection legislation has been adjusted to ‘European standards’ in the entire region. Union density and consequently the impact of trade unions on wage setting and employment in the NMS fell dramatically. In all NMS unemployment insurance schemes as well as minimum wage regulations were introduced at the beginning of the 1990s, but are less generous than in the EU-15. Content...
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...Muda Mura and Muri | Lean Manufacturing Wastes Lean Manufacturing Wastes When people think of waste in manufacturing they usually only think about all of the scrap material that gets thrown away or if your lucky recycled, they often forget about all of the other actions that waste our time, our resources and our MONEY.. When someone who has had some contact with Lean Manufacturing talks about waste they are often talking about Muda, or the seven wastes (or 8+ wastes depending on your definitions), but they often forget the other wastes defined within the Toyota Production System; Mura and Muri. Muda, The Seven Wastes Muda is any activity or process that does not add value, a physical waste of your time, resources and ultimately your money. These wastes were categorized by Taiichi Ohno within the Toyota production system, they are; * Transport; the movement of product between operations, and locations. * Inventory; the work in progress (WIP) and stocks of finished goods and raw materials that a company holds. * Motion; the physical movement of a person or machine whilst conducting an operation. * Waiting; the act of waiting for a machine to finish, for product to arrive, or any other cause. * Overproduction; Over producing product beyond what the customer has ordered. * Over-processing; conducting operations beyond those that customer requires. * Defects; product rejects and rework within your processes. To this list of the original seven...
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...This book was given to me by a friend last Christmas. It questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into the normal society. The whole novel revolves around 3 main characters. Veronika who suffers a critical heart condition and had once tried to commit suicide by overdosing herself with sleeping pills. Mari, who suffers from panic attacks; and Eduard who has schizophrenia and with whom Veronika falls in love. Veronika was said to be a beautiful woman from Ljubljana, Slovenia who appears to have the perfect life, but nevertheless decides to commit suicide by ingesting too many sleeping pills. While she waiting to die, she decides to read a magazine. After seeing an article in the magazine that asks "Where is Slovenia?," she decides to write a suicide letter. The point was to make the press believe that she has killed herself because people don't even know where Slovenia is. Her plan fails and she wakes up in Villete, a famous asylum in Slovenia, where she is told that she has less than a week to live. The kind of mental and physical problems that the main characters suffer brings them to Villete. But the novel is not about how they suffer or how Veronika dies. The novel touches few of the most important aspects of a man's life. It tells us how Veronika's presence affected others in Villete and how they found out the true meaning of life. Being aware of the fact and the thought that she is about to die gives her freedom. Because of this freedom...
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