...The third and final case here is Kim Dotcom vs U.S. Department of Justice. The creator of Mega upload has been accused of criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, money laundering and racketeering by the U.S. Department of justice. Kim Dotcoms main case was about internet piracy. His website used for these activities, mega upload was seized. At the time it had around 150 million registered users. On the year 2012 around January, 19 it was when the U.S accused Kim Dotcom of copyrighting millions of files. It was estimated that around 500 million dollars were lost from would be revenue. The case is most likely to go on for years and end up being brought to the Supreme...
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...place: Guangdong , China Nationality:Chinese Education: Shenzhen University Net worth: US$19 billion (June 2015)---Third richest person in China/70th richest in the world About Tencent Holdings Limited Chinese name:腾讯控股有限公司 Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, internet and mobile phone value-added services, and operate online advertising services in China. It is one of the largest Internet companies in the world.It is founded by Pony Ma and his 4 friends with only $120,000 on 12 November 1998.It has 26,962 employees working in this company(Dec 2013). The net income in 2014 was around CN ¥ 78.932. The head quarter is located in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The famous products of this company are QQ and Wechat, both are instant messaging applications. Road to success 1993 Graduated from Shen Zhen University (Computer Science), Pony worked at various companies such as China Motion Telecom Development Ltd. and Shenzhen Runxun communications co Ltd. in the research and development department for internet paging systems and internet calling systems, respectively. In 1998, Pony left RunXun communication co Ltd. and co-founded Tencent, Inc. along with his 4 friends. At first , there was just Pony and one of his friend co-founded it, the other 3 joined them consequently (They are his schoolmate in both high school and university).First, they were about to write program for companies , but they failed...
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...Ultimately, the United States is a nation bound on a people of immigrants, many of whom originally fled their home countries for the sake of religious freedom, and as such, laws are carefully engineered to safeguard those freedoms. Consider the formative era of our nation and to America’s culture and thinking at the time the US and the Constitution were formed. The leaders of the various colonies, states and ultimately the Founding Fathers themselves were steeped in biblical thinking. They drew examples from the Bible, and looked for confirmation of their ideas for government in scripture. Biblical absolutes enshrined into law offered a consensus that meant freedom without chaos. As stated in the Declaration of Independence, there exists “unalienable rights” of men. Rights were unalienable because they were provided by God. This was important because in most societies up until that time, and even in some countries today, rights are only conferred by whomever is in power at the time. An important aspect of our system of government is that it is based on the Rule of Law. This concept is a direct descendant of Hebrew law and the Ten Commandments. Together with the concept of unalienable rights from God, these concepts helped ensure a way of life that respected the dignity of every individual. The combination of these biblical concepts is a foundation of our government that helps overcome political power of potential tyrants. The First Amendment of the US Constitution...
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...W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were both black right activists. They both had received an education, they also believed in the importance of education and moving their race forward. Both being born in the U.S. they had both faced segregation and discrimination, but both had different approaches on how to go about fixing these problems. Washington was born as a slave in Virginia. Although he had worked as a slave, he was determined to receive and education. Later in life, he was one of the most influential men for black rights and had founded Tuskegee University in Alabama. He believed that black people had to accomodate to the white people to receive respect and rights for his race; to be an accommodationist. His most famous speech "The Atlanta Compromise" had been a staple of his beliefs; 'Cast down your bucket where you are,' work behind the scenes, adjust to segregation, and abondon agitation. "It was about black people working but on white peoples terms" (Rivalry, 1:42). One of those ways to 'accomodate' was for African Americans to get an education in agricultural farming. To learn normal farming skills rather than trying to become a doctor or lawyer. When Plessy V. Ferguson had deemed segregation constitutional the ruling "reinforced Washington's view that African Americans had best concentrate on economic progress, not legal and political equality. Frugality, intergrity, and job skills... would bring success in the only areas in which black Americans...
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...circle and one by one repeat each one of your three statements and have the group vote on which one they think is the lie. You can play this game competitively and award points for each lie you guess or for stumping other players on your own lie. This game helps to encourage better communication in the office, as well as it lets you get to know your coworkers better. The One Question Ice Breaker Exercise Time Required: 15-20 minutes This icebreaker not only gets coworkers talking to each other, but it also gets them working with one another. It‟s quite simple: the leader gets to decide the situation the question will pertain to. Example situations include babysitting, leading the company, or being married. After pairing participants into teams, the leader will pose this question: If you could ask just one question to discover a person‟s suitability for (insert topic here), what would your question be? Say the leader chose to go with a marriage situation. That means each person in a two-person team would come up with one question that would help them discover whether or not their partner was suitable to be married to them. If the...
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...group of Native Americans that most people do not know much about. I hope that you like to learn because we are going on a journey into the history of the Kootenai and their famous leader Charlo Hudson. The Kootenai Tribe are a tribe that you should know about and I will teach you their lifestyles and some of their traditions. The Kootenai have many things that they use ,including items for transportation and to get resources. For example they make canoes out of birch bark. They also make sail boats and canoes out of deer hide and logs that they hollow out. They would call their boats a sturgeon nose style floater. They also use horses for transportation. They acquired in the 1700s. They traded other goods for the horses and made a deal with the blackfeet. The Blackfeet were normally enemies of the Kootenai tribe. The Kootenai used many resources to their advantage. They were smart with their resources and had a great life. Some of the tribes that they fought against waisted many needed resources. The...
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...” (Bono)Throughout history people have sought change through music. From opposing war to combatting racism, using the power of music for social change is an American tradition. The genre perhaps most closely associated with protest music is folk. Folk trailblazers like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are important not only because they changed the thinking at the time, but because they left a legacy that inspired generations of politically active artists. One of the first stars of folk protest music emerged as part of the labor movement in the early 1900s. Before the movement took hold many workers were paid unfair...
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...Golf has been a life changer for me. I've played golf since I was three years old. In summer, I play golf every day. I began playing competitively when I was seven. I live on a golf course and my dad is a golf instructor, so I’ve grown up around the game. I’ve had many great experiences with golf. My most memorable golf experience was at the 2015 Drive, Chip, and Putt national finals. Upward of 10,000 kids ages seven to fifteen, boys and girls, tried out for this event. I was one of eighty total kids and one of ten in my age group to qualify. There was three qualifiers, local, in which i had to place top three in my age group, sub-regional, in which i had to place top two in my age group, and regional, in which I had to win to qualify for the national finals at Augusta National golf club on April 5th, 2015. I was pumped for the national finals because they were going to be televised on the Golf Channel. April came fast. The night before the competition, there was a dinner at which I got to meet many famous people in the golf world. The next day, I was going to walk the grounds of Augusta National....
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...It was exciting to look back into our history at someone who many revere as our greatest leader. Many people today, believe that Abraham Lincoln was and is the greatest President the United States has ever seen. Donald Phillips shares his agreement with this sentiment in his well written book, "Lincoln On Leadership." The book itself was thoroughly enjoyable. It was a very easy read and shared much of President Lincoln's leadership through the eyes and stories of others of that day. This book is a great history lesson of the period of the Civil War and Lincoln's legacy. Through numerous stories, Donald Phillips shares example after example of Lincoln's style of leadership. According to Phillips, "In order to comprehend modern leadership theory and be successful in the future, leaders must look to the past - to President Abraham Lincoln, for example - who routinely practiced nearly all of the 'revolutionary thinking' techniques that have been preached to American industry in the last ten to fifteen years. Lincoln can be looked to as the ideal model for desirable, effective leadership." We would agree for the most part with his assessment of Abraham Lincoln as a leader. This book highlights a number of wonderful leadership characteristics and skills. The one characteristic that seemed to come to the front the most was Lincoln's ability to be a "Servant Leader." Through Lincoln's own writings and words, plus the writings and words of many others it seems clear that he was...
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...The world of business is constantly evolving. Showcasing the most up-to-date information on emerging entrepreneurs, business ventures and retail technology, economic and political shifts and consumer lifestyles. In 2015, the business sector has seen a great junction of enterprise and marketplace by way of collaboration. Knowledge engineering and new leadership approaches are at the forefront of trends in business intelligence and human capital. Some of these business trends are sources of good business opportunities; others are trends we need to incorporate into our small business practices to stay competitive and keep or grow our market share. (Business Trends That Will Drive Success, 2015) Rise of the Phone App This business trend is consumer-driven and closely related to mobile computing. Business-wise, phone apps are replacing everything from mileage log books through credit card readers. An iPhone app called Square, for example, lets you accept credit card payments by plugging a card reader into your iPhone. Business can benefit from this business trend by using phone apps to eliminate some of your other office equipment and supplies. You might also benefit by creating and selling your own phone app. The Amazon App is an (in)famous example of a shopping app; it scans bar codes and comparison shops, letting customers know if they can get a better deal through Amazon's website or not. (A Top Ten for Business Leaders, 2015) Banking and Finance Finance models have also undergone...
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...oriented entrepreneurs in that field who managed to survive the dot-com bubble without losing control of their companies. Today, his business, Amazon.com, is an Internet goliath that sells everything from books to laptops to gift baskets. Most recently, the company has acquired Zappos, the online shoe retailer, and unveiled the Kindle, the first e-reader to become a breakout hit. This risky move into consumer electronics shows that Jeff Bezos, having pioneered online retail, is not yet ready to give up the pursuit of innovation. At D.E. Shaw Bezos got a taste of leadership and management for he reached the position of Senior Vice President in a little over a year. Though the greatest benefit from working at D.E. Shaw was that Bezos gained an education in the internet and this expertise allowed him to see the potential for an online retailer. Gordon L. Lippitt (1987) defined the entrepreneurial leader as able to take risks, innovate, focus on the task, assume personal responsibility, and possess an economic orientation. Bezos business principles continue to expand his business using his six core values: customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation. He said that their, “vision is the world’s most customer-centric company.” Bezos leadership style of vision, innovation, wisdom and hard work are but four of the skills and techniques Jeff Bezos employed from the very beginning of his business experience. Furthermore, Bezos has been willing...
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...The Influence of Pipa on Chinese Classical Music In Chinese classical music, Pipa is one of the most popular traditional musical instruments in China and known as the “king of plucked string instrument.” It is a plucked four-stringed musical instrument having a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. It has been played for about two thousands years in China and many Chinese ancient literary works and poems are related to pipa praising its refinement through its bright timbre and rapid rolling tremolo. Unlike nowadays situation that everyone could learn how to play pipa or enjoy the pipa performance in the concert, people from upper class in the ancient time rarely played classical instrumnets such as pipa and guqin (a plucked seven-string instrument of the zither family) in public or for commercial purposes. And they always refused to be regard as musician because performing artists in ancient China are usually considered as the lowest social class. “In traditional China, most well–educated people and monks could play classical music as a means of self-cultivation, meditation, soul purification and spiritual elevation, union with nature, identification with the values of past sages, and communication with divine beings or with friends and lovers” (Liu) However, the development of pipa in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) let it became popular in both court music and ordinary people. Indeed, pipa music has a profound impact on the Chinese classical...
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... Organization moment. Greeting (Організаційний момент. Привітання The lesson begins with a chant “Don’t worry, I’ll do it” by C.Graham in a form of dialogue. St. Don’t worry, I’ll do it That’s a promise. T. You will? St. Of course, I will I’ll do it. You’ll see. That’s a promise. T. Don’t forget! St. Don’t worry. I won’t. That’s a promise. You’ll see. You can count on me. II. Motivation. (Мотивація навчальної діяльності) You are hard-working and educated persons. Today I expect you to be active at the lesson, express your opinions and share your brilliant ideas on the topic. III. Introduction to the topic. (Підведення до теми уроку) Look at these pictures. Do you know these people? What are these women famous for? What countries do they represent? IV. Presenting the topic of the lesson. (Повідомлення теми і мети уроку). So, the topic of the lesson today is “Politics has a female face”. At this lesson we are going to enrich the vocabulary, to develop critical thinking, to discuss such question as political equality in different countries and to be engaged into debates about gender stereotypes. V. Warming-up. 2-minute debates....
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...quod ante Caesaris adventum fere quotannis accidere solebat, uti aut ipsi iniurias inferrent aut inlatas propulsarent -, omnes in bello versantur . . . ” “Whenever the need arose and a war broke out – which as a rule happened every year before Caesars arrival that they either opened up hostilities themselves or had to defend against -, they all joined the battle . . .” (Caesar, De Belli Gallico VI – 15,1) Caesar may be a biased source, but his statement tells us a lot about the role of war in ancient Celtic society: it was an important part of life, primarily for the nobility, but, to a lesser degree, also for the average man. We see a similar picture if we take a look at the Irish or Welsh legends, where the heroes go off to fights, most often one at a time or in small groups, but often in the company of their followers and clients to fight mass battles. A Short, Short History of Celtic Expansion and Retreat Before we look into ancient Celtic warfare itself, it is necessary to define what time and geographical region I will be talking about. Even though Celtic culture developed probably some centuries earlier, the oldest material I’ll be discussing dates to the beginning of the 5th century BC in central Europe. From that point, the culture expanded until, in the 3rd century BC, it reached its greatest extent with Celts living in Ireland and Spain in the West and as far as Galatia in Asia Minor in the East. This was partly due to cultural exchange and peaceful transmission...
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...church, which controlled everything was against many things, including the devil, disobeying the Ten commandments and yet somehow they were also against the normality of reading books, dancing, and reading fortunes. Their theocratic views made it difficult for others to pursue their personal interests. For example, when Abigail and the girls were dancing, Abigail admits, “Uncle we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it-- and I’ll be whipped if I must be.”(Miller 10) For girls living in 1600’s Salem dancing was not allowed and they were given a punishment of whipping. Not only was dancing frowned upon but so was the simple act of reading. Giles Corey expresses, “I never said my wife were a witch Mr.Hale; I only said she were reading books!”(Miller 41) Reading can lead to one being accused of being a witch. Martha Corey, already accused of witchcraft also has the Judges believing a witch since she reads fortunes, the judge expresses, “Now, Martha Corey, there is abundant evidence in our hands to show that you have given yourself to the reading fortunes. Do you deny it?.”(Miller 83) Women pursuin their personal interests were shunned upon in Salem since they can be traced to practicing witchcraft. Reading fortunes, dancing and reading books can be seen as a threat that the women are practicing witchcraft. Due to Salem’s religious social order making an impact on people’s lives, most people could not do what they pleased to do in the fear of getting...
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