...created through entrepreneurship, involving creativity, energy, proper planning and innovation; they benifit the country by providing opportunities, such as creating new jobs, making profits and improving the quality of a market products. Every small business has its own unique story of success and disparity. Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, founders of Harmonix, a game developer, started out with severely inadequate revenue and failed products; eventually creating a virtual phenomenon known as "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" (two music video-games which sky-rocketed the company's success). Chef Nobu spent more than thirty years enduring experimentation, failure and unstable business partner- relationships. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim simply needed to figure out how to post a video segment, from a party, to the internet for sharing. Thus, the birth of Youtube.com. Without the prevailance of small businesses, we would not be living in the world the way it has been shaped. Harmonix, founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, is a video game company that created the revolutionary “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band.” The root of their success was creativity and innovation, which was covered in class. The story began when Alex and Eran were finishing their degrees at MIT. Both were interested in applying music and technology to non-musicians who want to express themselves through music. Their first product was a CD-ROM called the Axe; it was a joystick music improvisation system...
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...YouTube By Lars Ole Meyer, 1.u YouTube is a website where one can share his or her videos. It was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005, they had worked together at Pay-Pal (an internet payment method), and received money that the corporation had in surplus to start a new project. YouTube as we know it today is credited to two events. First, one of the co-founders could not find the video containing Janet Jackson’s accidental exposure of her breast at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Secondly, two of the cofounders could not share a personal video with each other using e-mail. To sum up, YouTube was created, so that one could easily share videos with one another and furthermore it became a portal where one could find popular and wanted videos without having to surf the internet for hours. After a year, YouTube announced that more than 100 million videos were being watched every day and around 60.000 videos were being added on a daily basis. The first video on the site is called “Me going to the zoo” uploaded by Jawed Karim on the 23’rd of April and it only lasts 19 seconds. Today YouTube has evolved with great pace. It was bought by Google in November 2006 for the sum of 1.65 billion US$. I have my own channel on YouTube, partly so that I can follow my favorite uploaders, currently I subscribe to 99 channels and 15 people follow me. I also use my account to upload stuff. This is a very delicate matter to me; I have only uploaded a few of...
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...Little Brother Is Watching Eric Bullock Eastern University March 30, 2012 Author Note: This paper was prepared for ENG 163 Rhetorical Patterns in Writing taught by Joan Hayes In this day and age of technology people’s lives are always being scrutinized. For instance, “Eric Gall a freelance writer for the National Post and Queen’s Journal reports in his article Little Brother Is Watching that we have to always be discrete in our action if there is to be any level of privacy in a person’s life.” The primary focus of his exposé is on how in today’s world somebody is always scrutinizing and reporting our every move. This is sometimes done by video recording or the “taking of pictures by cell phone” and then being posted on the internet or “YouTube.” The story is not only a revelation but also mind opening. The website YouTube is the main focus of this writing although there are many other venues (i.e. Facebook or Twitter) on the internet that can exploit privacy. To some this may seem innocent, but others can find it to be disturbing and intrusive. Especially if an individual is caught doing something out of character. Some of reasons that this wonderful innovation can produce harm are, a person can be stalked, pictures can be altered and used to obtain a false identity, or you can simply be embarrassed. In this particular writing it is brought to the reader’s attention that the...
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...Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground shows that resilience and endurance are required to survive in a conflict zone, such as the one portrayed in the book, and that endurance leads to resilience. Elizabeth Laird portrays that enduring Israeli actions has led to development of resilience in Karim, Hassan, and Hopper. This development took place in Karim’s experiences in a conflict zone, Hassan’s endurance, and Hopper’s losses. Karim’s experiences and endurance in Ramallah under Israeli occupation has led to his development of resilience. Karim, being the main character, has endured many events and Israeli actions, which in turn has developed resilience in him. One such event was the embarrassment of his father, Hassan Aboudi, and other Palestinians by the Israeli soldiers. When talking to a...
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...30/04/2013 In Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, the protagonist Karim states: “Yeah, sometimes we were French, Jammie and I, and other times we went black Americans. The thing was, we were supposed to be English, but the English we were always wogs and nigs and Pakis and the rest of it”. Write an essay exploring how Kureishi’s novel maps Englishness as a contested terrain of identities, politics and performance. Your discussion should refer to Stuart Hall’s work on ethnicities and on Judith Butler’s writing on performance as identity. Much of the Kureishi’s early work is grounded primarily in racial and cultural conflict between British mainstream culture and ethnic minority communities; the conflict between the cultural claims that the first-generation immigrants were prone to clinging onto and the sense of belonging, which they their children aspired to develop in mainstream British society. To the children of immigrants, particularly those who had migrated from British Commonwealth or ex-colonized countries, any reflection on Britain, or their parents’ homeland, in terms of “home” may differ significantly from that perceived by their parents. As a writer born and bred in Britain of a Pakistani father and an English mother, Kureishi reflects upon his own identity, affirming in an interview his own sense of identity be seeing himself as British: “Critics have written that I’m caught between two cultures. I’m not. I’m British; I’ve made it in England. It’s...
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...Anne Burns’ Personal Jihad Anne Burns, a forty-five year old American woman who started a number of businesses in the United States, was hired by a recently established nonprofit organization called ExportJordan. Working with a grant from USAID, ExportJordan’s mission was to further develop local businesses in Jordan in order to capitalize on the recently signed free trade agreement with the United States. Having just sold her last business, and having her two grown children out of the house, Anne and her husband, Don, decided to forgo their empty nest and strike out on a new adventure in the Middle East. Anne and Don did not need to work because the businesses they had created, and sold, provided more than a comfortable living for them. Having many productive years ahead of them, they sought out a unique challenge. Jordan was to be that new challenge. Jordan Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on heredity. Male descendants of the dynasty of King Abdullah bin al Hussein inherit the throne and rule the country without opposition. The country now called Jordan was created at the end of World War I when the League of Nations gave the territory to the United Kingdom to rule. The UK created a semi-autonomous jurisdiction called the Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946 Transjordan became an independent country and changed its name in 1950 to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The country is presently ruled by King Abdullah II, a western educated and progressive leader...
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...WATERSIDE GROUP SINK OR SWIM IN SEA Waterside group, the consultancy firm which is founded in September 1997 by Ahmed Karim. He is a managing director of Waterside. Mr.Karim was from Noakhali and an Australian citizen. He doing his post graduate, worked over there and then ventured on Kuwait where he set up a branch of an Australian university. After many years he wanted to make a connection with Kuwait to set up a heading hunting business; send people over there to work. But few days later, he understand there was more demand for consulting service who wanted to go abroad for further studies. So, in February 1998 he changed the business to a new area- student counseling and grooming. He started this company in Australia as a sole proprietorship. Dhaka branch was main operating branch and was named ‘Waterside Consulting Group’. The main vision of waterside group was to help students to fill up their form, applying at their desire College or universities to get final visa. Special service offered by them was if they don’t get visa they will returned the money. They also started to expand their business in Noakhali and Barisal through their agents. Mr. Karim offered his co-worker to join his company named Mr. Rahman who was also a teacher of Western International University. Mr. Rahman was well qualified with several degrees; get many scholarships during his studies. Mr. karim thought if Mr. Rahman joined as training and management consulting unit as a executive...
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...Aasif Karim: Cricket Kenya is it’s own enemy By Sandipan Banerjee ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 in South Africa — it was one of the most fascinating World Cups in many ways, but the world still remembers it, thanks to the incredible performance of Kenya. Surprising everyone, this tiny little African nation, which was an Associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at that time, reached the semi-final of the event, beating Test playing nations like Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh. Following their dream run, there were talks in the media that Kenya should be given Test Status, like Jagmohan Dalmiya obliged Bangladesh with the same in 2000, majorly thanks to their victory over Pakistan in 1999 World Cup. 13 years later, Kenya cricket...
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...Diddy 09. I Told Em 10. Pop That Featuring Rick Ross, Drake & Lil Wayne 11. Freaks Featuring Nicki Minaj 12. We Go Where Ever We Want Featuring Ne-Yo & Raekwon 13. Bust It Open 14. Drink Freely Featuring Rico Love 15. Throw It In The Bag Featuring Chinx Drugz 16. Marble Floors Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz 17. Ocho Cinco Featuring MGK, Los, Red Cafe & Diddy BONUS TRACK: 18. 40 Featuring Trey Songz & FABOLOUS Executive Producers: Sean “Diddy” Combs And Rick Ross Co-Executive Producer: Harve Pierre and Management: Gabriel Acevedo for G. Starr Management PC2013 Bad Boy/Interscope Records. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. 01. Once In A While Featuring Max B Written By: Karim Kharbouch, Sharif Slater, Fenrick Gibbs, Skip Prokop, Kanye West, Dwayne Carter, Dominick Lamb, Norman Landsberg, Felix Pappalardi, John Ellis Ventura, Leslie Weinstein, Charly Wingate Published By: Excuse My French Music (ASCAP), 239 Music(Ascap), Steel Matic Production/Bug Music (BMI), Ole Purple Cape Music (BMI), Please Gimme My Publishing Inc/Emi Blackwood Music Inc (BMI), Young Money Publishing, Inc/Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI), Teamsta Entertainment Music/Songs Of Universal (BMI), Universal Music Careers (BMI), Universal Music-Mbg Songs (Ascap), Admin By Amalgaminc (ASCAP) Produced By: Reefa, Co-Produced By: Rick Steel French Montana Recorded By: Steve “Rock Star” Dickey At Daddy’s House Recording Studio New York, NY ...
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...World Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 1. No. 3. July 2011. Pp. 1-15 Cosmetic Accounting Practices in Developing Countries: Bangladesh Perspectives Asif Mahbub Karim 1 , Rehana Fowzia 2 and Md. Mamunur Rashid Cosmetic accounting is a process whereby accountants use their knowledge of accounting rules to manipulate the figures reported in the accounts of a business. This study expresses the views of External Auditors, Internal Auditors, and the Accountants on causes, techniques, effects and solution for Cosmetic Accounting. To achieve these purposes total 108 respondents have been surveyed. Findings from descriptive statistics reveal that the perceptions of three categories respondents are different about the various aspects of cosmetic accounting .It also shows the opinions of internal auditors, external auditors and accountants raised some concerns as to whether these circumstances will last. 3 Field of Research: Accounting. Keywords: Cosmetic Accounting, Accountants. External Auditor, Internal Auditor, 1. Introduction Creative accounting is referred to also as income smoothing, earnings management, earnings smoothing, financial engineering and cosmetic accounting. The preferred term in the USA, and consequently in most of the literature on the subject is „earnings management‟, but in Europe the preferred term is „creative accounting‟ and so this is the term that will be used in this paper. It should be recognized that some accounting manipulation involves...
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...Most of the research on HGH has been done on the elderly, not elite athletes, but studies have shown that while the drug might grow the size of a muscle, it is not associated with a spike in strength. In a 2004 review of the literature that was published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine and written as a guide for team doctors, the authors concluded that "there is no evidence that growth hormone supplementation will lead to an increase in performance."” (Farrey HGH: Performance enhancer or healer?). in this article Tom Farrey is going over how Karim Abdul-Jabbar a former UCLA running back had to use steroids in order to play football do to his lingering injuries. Karim had no cartilage in his leg so he had to get a shoot in his knee in order to continue...
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...World Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 1. No. 3. July 2011. Pp. 1-15 Cosmetic Accounting Practices in Developing Countries: Bangladesh Perspectives Asif Mahbub Karim 1 , Rehana Fowzia 2 and Md. Mamunur Rashid Cosmetic accounting is a process whereby accountants use their knowledge of accounting rules to manipulate the figures reported in the accounts of a business. This study expresses the views of External Auditors, Internal Auditors, and the Accountants on causes, techniques, effects and solution for Cosmetic Accounting. To achieve these purposes total 108 respondents have been surveyed. Findings from descriptive statistics reveal that the perceptions of three categories respondents are different about the various aspects of cosmetic accounting .It also shows the opinions of internal auditors, external auditors and accountants raised some concerns as to whether these circumstances will last. 3 Field of Research: Accounting. Keywords: Cosmetic Accounting, Accountants. External Auditor, Internal Auditor, 1. Introduction Creative accounting is referred to also as income smoothing, earnings management, earnings smoothing, financial engineering and cosmetic accounting. The preferred term in the USA, and consequently in most of the literature on the subject is „earnings management‟, but in Europe the preferred term is „creative accounting‟ and so this is the term that will be used in this paper. It should be recognized that some accounting manipulation involves...
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...International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 3, Issue 12, December 2013 ISSN 2250-3153 1 Future of Real Estate Business (Ready-made Flat) in Khulna City Feroz Ahmed *, Md. Reaz Uddin**, S. M. Rasel Ahammad*** ** * Professor, Business Administration Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh Assistant Professor, Business Administration Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh *** Territory Officer, Transcom Mobile Ltd. Bangladesh Abstract- Real estate is a fast growing industry in Bangladesh. Earlier this business was concentrated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Later on, it spreads in various major cities of the country. The present study has paid efforts to explore the future of real estate business in Khulna, a major divisional city of Bangladesh. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from Khulna city area. Respondents were selected carefully considering their potentiality to be a flat or house owner in this city. The study has identified income of potential buyers, land price, hassle of buying a flat, developers’ performance and their trustworthiness, and availably of land will determine the future of real estate business in Khulna region. Consumers’ income has been found statistically significant. prospective customers toward real estate business and developers whether they will accept the real estate service or will construct house by own along with the probable reason behind their perception...
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...des hommes arrêtés en Belgique, l'homme recherché pour avoir au moins joué un rôle de logisticien dans les attentats, était "peut-être prêt à se faire sauter" vendredi soir à Paris. Francetv info Arrêt Jawad Bendaoud, le logeur des terroristes, faisait régner sa loi rue du Corbillon Jawad Bendaoud, le logeur des terroristes, faisait régner sa loi rue du Corbillon Jawad Bendaoud, qui a fourni un logement au commando de terroristes, avait déclaré juste avant son arrestation en direct sur BFMTV avoir simplement «rendu service» en mettant ce logement à disposition pour une durée de «trois jours». LeFigaro.fr Arrêt Karim Benzema : son crachat pendant la Marseillaise ne passe pas Karim Benzema : son crachat pendant la Marseillaise ne passe pas Lors du choc entre le Real Madrid et le FC Barcelone samedi, Karim Benzema a été surpris en train de cracher à la fin de l'hymne national joué en mémoire des victimes des attentats de Paris. L'international tricolore n'a pas été épargné par les critiques sur les réseaux sociaux pour ce geste maladroit. Closer Arrêt Attentats de Paris : "On joue à la roulette et si je perds, je meurs" Attentats de Paris : "On joue à la...
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...Globalization and HRM Strategies James L. Duncan Dr. Sue Golabek Business (325) November 4, 2012 Strayer University Provide a brief description of the enterprise (e.g., their industry, size, location, number of employees). FedEx Express Company is a package services organization based in Memphis, Tennessee. They offer transportation services and house the world’s largest variety of shipments. In recent years, this company changed their services to offer other services besides express shipping. By FedEx expanding their services, it has helped their business grow in size now operating in eight different companies under the FedEx umbrella (History of FedEx, 2012). FedEx Express is the first overnight courier service that runs next day air service as wells as time-certain global service. FedEx Express controls the world’s largest domestic aircraft fleet, to include a large fleet of wide bodied domestic aircraft. This allows the company the capability of carrying more cargo shipments than any other airline or shipping company (History of FedEx, 2012). FedEx Ground assures day-confident delivery for Canada and the United States at a cost savings, when compared to the Express side of the company. They operate a huge fleet of vehicles that has independent owner and operators. These drivers are independent contractors that manage specific delivery routes and areas (History of FedEx, 2012). In addition to the two companies listed above, FedEx Corporation...
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