...comprehensive set of rules and regulations for all maritime subjects. Due to the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, combating terrorism has been seen in a different perspective, and the U.S. has helped kick start a worldwide campaign. Recent events, primarily 9/11, have forced nations to re-evaluate their maritime security practices with regard to their place in the global economy. Safe transport of cargo and passengers along with the security of vessels, coastlines, and ports has become critically important with the increasing level of terrorist activity. (Yonah, 2008) With salt water covering two thirds of the Earth’s surface, more than 90 percent of the world’s trade transported by water, and the United States alone having over 12,000 miles of coastline terrorists not only have an easily accessible means of transport, but a wide array of potential targets. (Yonah, 2008) The Concept of Cooperative Maritime Security is one that incorporates many ideas and organizations. (McNicholas, 2008) It includes many different countries in what is now a global effort by many developed nations to provide an adequate safe environment for maritime trade. With every costal country on earth connected by the oceans, how would it be possible to ensure the safety of these ships? The obvious idea would be...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility for Business The purpose of this recommendation report is to help enterpriser to recognize the importance of corporate social responsibility for the business. There is more intense scrutiny from public toward business since the past thirty years because business caused many problems that are criticized much by public and society such as unacceptable ethical behaviors, deteriorating environment cased by business activities and so on. As a result, a concern of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) had generated during that time. Many people believe CSR is good for business based on the socioeconomic view of social responsibility (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg & Coulter, 2005). This report is in favour of the view that the CSR is good for business by considering the economic, legal, ethic and philanthropic advantages of CSR in business. From the impacts of CSR to business’ economic positions, there are three advantages for business, which are secure long-run profits for companies, improvement of shareholder’s interests in the long run, superiority of avoidance of negative social or environmental impact and Improvement of public image and supports from public expectations respectively. • Secure long-run profits for companies CSR can help companies maintain long-range self-interest. That is to say, many of social problems caused from business activities seriously deteriorate the social condition that may become unhealthy climate for business’...
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...(Cline and Yonah 21). The support to these extremist groups can be in the form of weaponry, financial aid and even providing safe havens for their activities. State-sponsored terrorism has been confused by state terrorism, but these two types are very different. State terrorism is the deliberate and systematic use of terror by a government to foster its control over its citizenry or population. This can include aspects as torture, extrajudicial killings and establishment of a police state to keep the civilians in check. Perhaps the best example of this kind of terrorism is when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons on the Kurdish population.? State sponsored terrorism is thus different because the government only supports the terrorist organizations within...
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...Anne bui - 42871638 anne.bui@students.mq.edu.au BBA 340 Assignment 2 – Media Report Yige Ma’s Thursday 7pm Tutorial Word Count: 1,364 Anne bui - 42871638 anne.bui@students.mq.edu.au BBA 340 Assignment 2 – Media Report Yige Ma’s Thursday 7pm Tutorial Word Count: 1,364 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Corporate Social Responsibility 3 i. TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE 3 ii. GOOGLE'S CSR REFUSAL/ACCEPTANCE: DEFENSIVE STANCE 4 3. Conclusion 6 4. ARTICLE– Google paying a fraction of the tax in Australia it should 7 5. REFERENCEs 9 1. Introduction It is without a doubt that globalisation has been the driver of the increased link between nations, allowing for the operation of many organisations in borderless economies. As globalisation continues to impact organisations, they are forced to undertake new and innovative approaches in order to maintain or gain a competitive advantage. As a result of this, many ethical issues have come to light, so it is important to acknowledge organisations adopting methods of corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) essentially encompasses the refraining from any action that will attract unfavourable publicity due to its social unacceptability (Carroll, 2010). The concept of CSR has proven to be an area of focus in recent times, especially in regards to consumers and stakeholders. This report will explore Google Inc’s corporate social responsibility when...
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...Evaluating the tax incentives for foreign investors policy Reporting to the Manufacturers league Executive Summary This report has been written in response to the government’s proposed tax incentive policy for foreign multi-national corporations to increase foreign direct investment within Australia. The report draws attention to the reasons behind the government’s proposal. These include the slow growth trends of the manufacturing industry, restoring the dropped level of foreign investment caused by the global financial crisis as well as a desire to increase levels of employment within the manufacturing sector. It continues by drawing attention to the resultant competitive issues that may be caused by such a move as well as issues that may arise due to inflation. It also draws attention to the tendency for foreign investment to result in less government intervention which may affect the industry in the longer term. It is recommended that: * The government increase the breadth of its proposal to all investors in the manufacturing industry so as to reduce competitive pressures on local manufacturers. * The government increases investment in training to provide a skilled workforce and reduce inflationary wage pressures. Introduction This Report shall be to determine whether or not tax incentives, with relation to foreign direct investment (FDI), are beneficial, holistically. First we must say a word about the nature of FDI. FDI can be defined as “....
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...TERRORISM IS TERRORISM, BUT WHICH IS WORSE? YOU DECIDE Alexandra Gadi THST 398 – Dr. Soomekh Final Paper Due: April 29, 2011 Terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been an impacting factor on both sides, resulting in numerous and unnecessary casualties. Israel’s terrorism was rooted mainly from Gush Emunim, “Bloc of the Faithful” . On the other hand, Palestinian terrorism has spawned from a wide scope of different beliefs ranging from secular Palestinians through religious Jihadists. Jihad literary means struggle in Arabic . These Jihadists and secular terrorists blow themselves up with the belief that they are furthering their cause and feel as if they are warriors fighting in the battle for a homeland and freedom, one explosion at a time. Gush Emunim started as a Jewish fundamentalist movement in Israel that sought out to reclaim the lands of Abraham through a combination of propaganda, religious justification, and military force . Gush Emunim’s action “shows the growing resentment by Jewish fundamentalism of moves for peace. This, logically, was to lead to the “righteous” killing of [Yitzchak] Rabin” . Gush Emunim has used its religious power as a stepping-stone into Israeli politics in order to gain legal support for its settlement plans. The Gush Emunim movement has been made responsible for evicting Palestinian refugees from their homes in order to build their own settlements . Basing their...
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...Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of IntegratedElectronics (the fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information was also quite suitable). Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers andintegrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Though Intel was originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, its "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentiumprocessor household names. Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until 1981. Although Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became its primary business. During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor...
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...Under the Surface I believe the American flag symbolizes unity, freedom, and a strong nation. Red represents hardiness and valor, white represents hope, purity, and innocence, and blue represent vigilance, perseverance, and justice. Since 9-11, America has been filled with hatred and the blame went on more than just a few of people but on an entire religion. Often times Muslims that has no affiliation with the attack has been categorize as terrorist. The Islamic as a whole is a great faith for one to follow but a small group associated with the religion has caused much shame to the community. Al-Qaeda is a militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Landen in the late 1980s, which was the terrorist organization solely responsible for the attack of 9-11. Al-Qaeda has redefined the way we look at the Islamic religion. Al-Qaeda is the reason many Americans view the Islamic religion in such a negative way and classifies all Muslims as terrorists. Al-Qaeda is a political movement with a demonstrated military ability, which has sought to bypass the state while co-opting its attributes and channeling its resources (Mohamedou 42). The organization, which coalesced in Afghanistan under the initial troika leadership of Palestinian teacher Abdallah Azzam, Egyptian surgeon Ayman al Dhawahiri, and Saudi businessman Osama Bin Laden in August 1989, was born more in context of a major international armed conflict, namely the Soviet Union’s failed take –over...
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...NAME: BOLAJI ABIODUN FOLORUNSO COURSE: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE. INTRODUCTION As computer architectures become increasingly complex, more sophisticated analysis methods and optimization tools are required to harness their full performance. Technologies such as event-based sampling and expert systems are now augmenting traditional methods of performance analysis based upon profile and call graph tools. Understanding the basics of performance analysis, as well as the current state- of-the-art software optimization technologies, enables developers to pinpoint and implement solutions to application performance issues. One sophisticated processor, the Intel® Pentium® M processor, is growing in embedded application usage due to its high performance and low power utilization. The Intel Pentium M processor features Intel MMX™ and Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE, SSE2) that enable higher performance through parallel computation. Getting the most out of the processor, however, requires that developers take full advantage of these built-in performance enhancements. Software optimization technology offered by advanced compilers utilizes the enhancements in Intel Pentium M processors in a fashion conducive to embedded development. Compiler technology provides access to these extensions with low development investment while maintaining backward compatibility and minimal code size, two critical challenges in embedded software development. The key to focusing the optimization process...
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...TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THƯƠNG MẠI KHOA QUẢN TRỊ DOANH NGHIỆP BÀI TẬP KHOA HỌC HÀNG HOÁ Nghiên cứu tình hình phân loại mặt hàng Máy tính xách tay trên thị trường Việt Nam Sinh viên thực hiện : Phạm Trung Dũng Lớp : K39A5b ( Hà Nội 5/2006 Mục lục Trang A > PHẦN MỞ ĐẦU 1.Mục đích nghiên cứu ………………………………………………. 2 2.Một số khái niệm liên quan đến máy tính xách tay …….. 2 B > PHÂN LOẠI LAPTOP 1.Khái niệm, ý nghĩa, yêu cầu phân loại hàng hoá ………… 3 2.Phân loại Laptop trên thị trường Việt Nam ………………. 4 3.Phân tích một số sản phẩm tiêu biểu ………………………. 6 C > KẾT LUẬN Chọn mua MTXT phù hợp với từng đối tượng và mục đích sử dụng Những điều cần biết khi chọn mua MTXT ……………………… 16 Phụ lục Thống kê những mẫu máy tính xách tay bán chạy nhất trên thị trường Việt Nam trong quý I năm 2006 …………………………………….. 17 [pic] A > PHẦN MỞ ĐẦU 1.Mục đích nghiên cứu Cùng với sự phát triển của khoa học kỹ thuật đã xuất hiện nhiều sản phẩm công nghệ cao như máy vi tính, điện thoại di động, máy chụp ảnh kỹ thuật số, …. nhằm đáp ứng nhu cầu ngày càng cao về học tập, làm việc, giải trí cũng như trao đổi thông tin của con người. Trong đó máy vi tính được coi là công cụ hỗ trợ đắc lực nhất cho công việc và học tập của mỗi người. Cùng với nhu cầu làm việc năng động, linh hoạt của con người, chiếc máy tính xách tay đã ra đời đáp ứng đầy đủ các yêu cầu nhỏ gọn, dễ vận chuyển...
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...------------------------------------------------- Book of Jonah From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tanakh and Old Testament | | [show]Tanakh | | Judaism portal [show]Old Testament | | Christianity portal | * v * t * e | The Book of Jonah (Hebrew: Sefer Yonah) is one of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible. It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.[1] Set in the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 BC), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.[2] The story has an interesting interpretive history (see below) and has become well-known through popular children’s stories. In Judaism it is the Haftarah for the afternoon of Yom Kippur due to its story of God's willingness to forgive those who repent.[3] Contents [hide] * 1 Narrative * 1.1 Setting * 1.2 Characters * 1.3 Plot * 2 Interpretive history * 2.1 Early Jewish interpretation * 2.1.1 Targum Jonah * 2.1.2 Dead Sea Scrolls * 2.2 Early Christian interpretation * 2.2.1 New Testament * 2.2.2 Augustine of Hippo * 3 Jonah and the whale * 4 Jonah's prayer * 5 Jonah and the gourd vine * 6 Popular culture * 7 References * 7.1 Further reading * 8 External links | ------------------------------------------------- [edit]Narrative As mentioned above...
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...Matisyahu By: Dylan Garrity Harris Teiger Steven Cronley David Fischer Background Growing up in White Plains, New York, Matthew Paul Miller was raised as a Reconstructionist Jew. Reconstructionist Judaism is an American-based Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. Miller spent most of his childhood attending Hebrew school at a local synagogue getting to know his religion, however that quickly changed as he became a teenager. His teenage years consisted of rebelling against his upbringing as most adolescents do. However, Miller quickly took the path of drugs and dropped out of high school to follow his favorite band Phish on a national tour (Askmen). According to an article by Jordana Horn, Miller said, “Like a lot of American kids, I was not really interested in Judaism and was around that age of starting to make self-discovery. A few things kind of came together for me”, and after a brief stint in a rehabilitation center he went to discover himself in Oregon (Horn, 2008). After Oregon he began to identify himself as “Matt, the Jewish rapper kid of New York” draping himself with an Israeli flag and singing prayers he remembers from synagogue. Miller soon felt like the “token Jew” and moved himself back to New York where he fell into a depression. He spent many hours alone in his room just writing music and practicing along with instrumental tapes. Through his own solitary journey, Miller became more spiritual and had a strong...
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...U.S. Companies Dodge $60 Billion in Taxes With Global Odyssey - Blo... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-05-13/american-companies... By Jesse Drucker - May 13, 2010 Tyler Hurst swiped his debit card at a Walgreens pharmacy in central Phoenix and kicked off an international odyssey of corporate tax avoidance. Hurst went home with an amber bottle of Lexapro, the world’s third-best selling antidepressant. The profits from his $99 purchase began a 9,400-mile journey that would lead across the Atlantic Ocean and more than halfway back again, to a grassy industrial park in Dublin, a glass skyscraper in Amsterdam and a law office in Bermuda surrounded by palm trees. While Forest Laboratories Inc., the medicine’s maker, sells Lexapro only in the U.S., the voyage ensures most of its profits aren’t taxed there -- and they face little tax anywhere else. Forest cut its U.S. tax bill by more than a third last year with a technique known as transfer pricing, a method that carves an estimated $60 billion a year from the U.S. Treasury as it combines tax planning and alchemy. (See an interactive graphic on Forest’s tax strategy here.) Transfer pricing lets companies such as Forest, Oracle Corp., Eli Lilly & Co. and Pfizer Inc., legally avoid some income taxes by converting sales in one country to profits in another -- on paper only, and often in places where they have few employees or actual sales. After an economic bailout in which the U.S. government lent, spent or guaranteed...
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...Subject code: BBEK1103 Subject: Principles of Microeconomics Contents Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Effects of Tax systemt .................................................................................................................................. 4 Evaluation of Tax Reforms……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..10 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....11 References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 Easa Faheem S11422649 Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management 1 Subject code: BBEK1103 Subject: Principles of Microeconomics Preface This is a work done as part of the module „Principles of Microeconomics‟, which is part of the course Bachelor of Human Resource Management. Consisting of an analysis of a Tax reforms for Maldives, this assignment evaluates the purpose of the tax system, types of tax systems, effects of the tax reform systems to the economy and other factors which affect it. The objective of this work is to develop students‟ ability to analyse the critically tax reform systems of certain country, as well as the various external factors that have an impact on the economy...
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...The greatest of the silent clowns is Buster Keaton, not only because of what he did, but because of how he did it. Harold Lloyd made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster. I define courage as Hemingway did: "Grace under pressure." In films that combined comedy with extraordinary physical risks, Buster Keaton played a brave spirit who took the universe on its own terms, and gave no quarter. I'm immersed in his career right now, viewing all of the silent features and many of the shorts with students at the University of Chicago. Having already written about Keaton's "The General" (1927) in this series, I thought to choose another title. "The Navigator," perhaps, or "Steamboat Bill, Jr.," or "Our Hospitality." But they are all of a piece; in an extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies. Most of these movies were long thought to be lost. "The General," with Buster as a train engineer in the Civil War, was always available, hailed as one of the supreme masterpieces of silent filmmaking. But other features and shorts existed in shabby, incomplete prints, if at all, and it was only in the 1960s that film historians began to assemble and restore Keaton's lifework. Now almost everything has been recovered, restored, and is available on DVDs and tapes that range from watchable to sparkling. It's said...
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