...to Congress that “foreign collection efforts have hurt the United States in several ways”: • Foreign technology collection efforts have “eroded the US military advantage by enabling foreign militaries to acquire sophisticated capabilities that might otherwise have taken years to develop.” • “[M]assive” industrial espionage has “undercut the US economy by making it possible for foreign firms to gain a competitive economic edge over US companies.” Dr. Brenner characterizes China as “very aggressive” in acquiring U.S. advanced technology. “The technology bleed to China, among others, is a very serious problem,” he said in March 2007, noting that “you can now, from the comfort of your own home or office, exfiltrate information electronically from somebody else’s computer around the world without the expense and risk of trying to grow a spy.” On November 15, 2007, the bipartisan, congressionally chartered U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) put a finer point on it: “Chinese espionage activities in the United States are so extensive that they comprise the single greatest risk to the security of American technolo- gies.” Cyberpenetration is by far China’s most effective espionage tool, and it is one that China’s spy agencies use against America’s allies almost as much as against U.S. targets. Targeting America. The U.S. military has been the primary target of Chinese cyberattacks, followed closely by the Departments of State, Commerce, and Homeland Security. Academic...
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...in 1994 but officially launched as Amazon in 1995 as an online bookstore for customers. * From new to used Amazon expanded more of its categories as time went by, to movies, music, games, computers, electronics, health & beauty, automotive, tools, sports & outdoors etc… * 1997 Amazon starts in the NASDAQ stock exchange, and opened with $18.00/share. * 1998 Amazon.co.uk (UK) & Amazon.de (Germany) websites are launched in October. A month later Amazon opens DVD/video store. * 1999 Fulfillments centers are open in Nevada, Kansas and Kentucky, Customer service center opens in Tacoma Washington. * 2001-02 Amazon partners with Target stores, and opens Apparel and accessories store. * 2005-2007 TiVo services is available to access movies and tv shows online. * 2009 Apps for IPhone and android are introduced. Kindle 2 is launched, and Amazon overtakes Zappos.com (Webs most popular shoes store) for 1.2 billion * 3) Key Events http://amazongenius.com/timeline-history-amazon-com/ * Jeff Bezos is named in Time Magazines “The man of the year” (1999) * In-store pick up are available & Amazon launched its Web Services (2001-2002)...
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...MN1075K Written Assignment 1: Topic: ‘One of the clearest signs of becoming a capable student is having a range of effective and flexible note making strategies’ (Northedge, 2007). Discuss this statement with reference to the purpose and methods of taking notes. Task 1: Time Plan and Planning Process Read Through: 30th May 2014 Brainstorm ideas: 10th June 2014 Time Plan: 11th June 2014 Final read through and edit before submission: 18th June 2014 Deadline: 12 Noon on June 20th 2014 Task 2: Resource evaluation, notes and critical engagement Review on the topic: 22nd June 2014 Source for information: 24th – 30th June 2014 Reading of the information attained: 1st to 3rd July 2014 Writing of key points and notes from source: 4th July 2014 Compilation of Notes and evaluate key points: 10th – 15th July 2014 Completion of resource with reference: 18th July 2014 Read through and edit before submission: 22nd July 2014 Deadline: 12 Noon on July 24th 2014 Task 3: Essay Outline Read Through Task 1 & 2: 10th August 2014 Using the source to Draft an essay outline: 11th August 2014 Read through the points: 14th August 2014 Source for more information if necessary: 15th August 2014 Finalize the Essay Outline: 17th August 2014 Deadline: 12 Noon on August 21st 2014 The planning process in outline Step 1: Does one having effective and flexible note making strategies means a capable student...
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...BKAS3093 Project BKAS3093 Project A132 iskandar SOA UUM A132 A132 iskandar SOA UUM A132 Individual Project – 20% FINANCING SYSTEMS Due Date: 9 March 2014 before 2.00PM Place: Room 2.15 Individual Assignment 1 – 20% Early year 2013, you established a new bowling alley in Sintok, Kedah. After a long discussion with some bowling alley suppliers locally, the initial capital needed to start the business is RM1 million. You and two other partners had contributed RM200 000 each. OCBC bank had approved your long term loan application for amount RM500,000, 5% monthly compounded for 15 years, effective on 1 Feb 2013. The monthly payment is made at every end of monthly payment term. The cost for bowling alley is RM900,000 and was constructed on 1 March 2013 by Ampang Superbowl Malaysia Sdn Bhd (ASMSB). ASMSB agreed that the payment arrangement would be made as follows: * 50% on 1 March 2013 * 30% on 2 July 2013 * 10% on 15 Oct 2013 * 10% on 15 Jan 2014 In addition, you also borrowed from CIMB bank to acquire a new building located at EDC Hotel. EDC Hotel agreed to sell the building for RM300,000 on 15 April 2014. CIMB bank approved your loan application for amount RM250,000, 4% quarterly compounded for 10 years, effective on 1 July 2013. However, the quarterly payment should be made at beginning of quarterly payment term. The payment arrangement with EDC Hotel as follows: * 40% on 31 April 2013 * 30% on 15 August 2013 * 30% on 15 Jan 2014 1 November 2013, you had...
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...CASE: GS-66 DATE: 06/05/09 CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.: COLLABORATING ON NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION On November 13, 2007, more than 100 employees of Cisco Systems, Inc. assembled in classic Cisco fashion: they dialed in from multiple locations around the world for an important meeting. The purpose of the gathering was to get the green light from senior management to manufacture a new high-end router that would make the giant networking company more competitive in an age of surging Internet traffic.1 The project’s code name, Viking, said it all. The router for broadband service providers would break ground in power and speed, reminiscent of the Norse warriors and explorers of Europe during the eighth to eleventh centuries. The meeting represented a culmination of several years of development work by a cross-functional, global team of Cisco specialists in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and other areas. Just months earlier, in mid-2007, Cisco overhauled the project by sharply boosting the router’s speed and capacity. This would allow the company to leapfrog competitors and offer a low-cost, powerful new router platform for the next 10 to 15 years. That day in November, the Viking team was seeking an “execution commit” from senior management in manufacturing. If it got the go-ahead, Cisco would be ready to commit the resources to launch the new product. But the Cisco team knew it faced many challenges. The Viking project would be one of the company’s most complex...
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...Phone: Email: Course Objectives: • • • • • • • • To examine movies as art, business, entertainment, and a cultural expression. To display the difference between narrative, documentary, and avant-garde films. To explore various genres, film theories, and cinematic styles. To illustrate a variety of filmmaking techniques, conventions, and icons. To gain knowledge of international cinema. To study the works of prominent filmmakers and their cinematic impact. To provide a critical methodology and practical application to facilitate a greater critical understanding and appreciation of all aspects of film. To gain experience in writing critical academic essays in relation to film analysis. Students should gain a solid foundational knowledge and understanding of different film genres, forms, and techniques of film making and be able to analyze and communicate how those concepts are used in films to 1) tell a story effectively, 2) communicate meaning in a visual medium, and 3) persuade audiences towards different or particular ways of feeling about or seeing themselves and the world. As a result of taking this course, I hope that students will 1) understand...
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...Coursework analysis Contents * Introduction of HSBC * Beta and CAPM model analysis * Advantages and disadvantages about the data * Advantages and disadvantages about the CAPM model * Conclusion * Appendix * Bibliography and references * INTRODUCTION OF HSBC HOLDINGS PLC HSBC Holdings Plc. is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Warf, London, United Kingdom. It was founded by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1911. It was originally created to pursue and establish exchanges between Europe and Asia using the Midland Bank as a connecting link. The first branch was opened in 1865 in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Over the last century HSBC expanded from Asia to 4 other continents including Africa, Europe, North and South America. The financial statements show that HSBC has successfully established services in more than 87 countries, with more than 7,500 offices and more than 100 million customers. The annual statements indicated that its assets are more $2.418 trillion. HSBC is listed in the London Stock Exchange market. It is included in the FTSE 100 company list earning deservedly the 3rd place in the table list with the 10 largest companies measured by market capitalization with equity equal to £118 billion, coming after BHP Billiton with £148 billion and Royal Dutch Shell with £135 billion. FTSE 100 is arguable the most useful tool for the estimation of the market returns, which in later use...
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...------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL MONATERY FUND ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- IMF FUNCTIONS it works to foster global growth and economic stability by providing policy, advice and financing to members, by working with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty The rationale for this is that private international capital markets function imperfectly and many countries have limited access to financial markets. Such market imperfections, together with balance-of-payments financing, provide the justification for official financing, without which many countries could only correct large external payment imbalances through measures with adverse economic consequences.The IMF provides alternate sources of financing. Upon the founding of the IMF, its three primary functions were: to oversee the fixed exchange rate arrangements between countries,thus helping national governments manage their exchange rates and allowing these governments to prioritise economic growth, and to provide short-term capital to aid balance of payments. This assistance was meant to prevent the spread of international economic crises. The IMF was also intended to help mend the pieces of the international economy after the Great Depressionand World War II. As well, to provide capital investments for economic growth and projects such as infrastructure. The IMF's role was...
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...points that the company should follow. Their main purpose was to make textbooks affordable and available for online access to all students and save them paying lots of money for hard copy books. After many professors and college teachers adopted this way of textbook access, it shows how successful their planning is and work on it to make it more convenient. 2. What competitive advantages does Flat World Knowledge possess? Flat World Knowledge possesses many competitive advantages. One of them is the ability to offer a huge variety of textbooks in an online version with unlimited access to all of the students. Doing so will exclude the factor of lack of supply of the textbook at the book store and eliminate waiting time to have the book. In addition, the fact that they are providing these textbooks at a reduced cost from the actual manufacture cost gave FWK a huge advantage against their competitors in the textbook market. 3. What are Flat World Knowledge’s key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats? Talking about FWK strengths is represented by its easy access, up-to-date revisions, personalized learning strategies and cheap access. With respect to its weakness, we should mention that FWK will no longer have free access to the books online due to the 30 million dollar investment. With respect to the opportunities, students find online access as more convenient and such a cheap alternative. Also it makes it better with the variety of versions...
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...A CLASSICAL EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN WORLD NOBLESSE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FROM THE HEADMASTER Special thanks to our parents, students, and staff for the many activities enjoyed before Christmas, including the Christmas Concert, EYElementary Christmas Party, and Middle-High School Christmas Party. In addition, our Student Council and Community Service Club organized a Christmas Party for the students of the Sitio-Monicayo School (where our students have been volunteering since November). All of these activities provide opportunities for us to “build community” and strengthen our ties with each other. We look forward to more of these activities in the New Year. Day & Boarding School January 7, 2012 ARE WE MEETING OUR GOALS? In the coming few weeks we will continue to review our progress in meeting our goals for the 2012-2013 school year …. Implementation of an international standardized exam Improve the resources for Early Years classrooms Implementation of the Common Core Standards in Math Accreditation by WASC Implementation of new assessment software Professional Development opportunities for teachers Implementation of an Activities Calendar Prepare to offer the IB Diploma Program in August 2013 An enrolment increase of at least 15% Curriculum Mapping (curriculum development) Implementation of the Common Core Standards in Math THE SPORTS CORNER Sports Results: October 15 November 14 November 21 December 1 Noblesse and...
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...FAFSA on the Web Worksheet www.fafsa.gov 2014 – 2015 APPLICATION DEADLINES Federal Deadline - June 30, 2015 State Aid Deadlines - See below. DO NOT MAIL THIS WORKSHEET. The FAFSA on the Web Worksheet provides a preview of the questions that you may be asked while completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA ) online at www.fafsa.gov. SM Pay attention to the symbols that may be listed after your state deadline. AK AR Check with your financial aid administrator for these states and territories: AL, AS *, AZ, CO, FM *, GA, GU *, HI *, MH *, MP *, NE, NM, NV*, PR, PW *, SD *, TX, UT, VA *, VI *, WI and WY *. You must complete and submit a FAFSA to apply for federal student aid and for most state and college aid. Write down notes to help you easily complete your FAFSA anytime after January 1, 2014. See the table to the right for state deadlines. Your application must be submitted by midnight Central time. Also pay attention to the symbols that may be listed after your state deadline. Check with your high school counselor or your college’s financial aid administrator about other deadlines. The Federal deadline is June 30, 2015. CA CT DC • • • This Worksheet is optional and should only be completed if you plan to use FAFSA on the Web. Sections in purple are for parent information. This Worksheet does not include all the questions from the FAFSA. The questions that are included are ordered as they appear on FAFSA on the Web. When you are...
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...Social Stratification Classes and Castes. Class is the primary way in which people approach social stratification. The upper class (the landed gentry, the titled nobility, and members of the royal family) has roughly the same social position it has had since the nineteenth century, when the middle classes began to compete successfully with the landed interests for influence. However, the upper class lost official political influence (and credibility) in the twentieth century. The major change in England's social identity structure has been the shrinking number of workers in manufacturing and the increasing number of people who work in service industries. White-collar and other service workers have replaced blue-collar workers as England's economic backbone. Consequently, the middle class has increased in size and wealth, and home ownership has increased, while union membership has declined dramatically, along with the size of the traditional industrial working class. Most workers expect unemployment at some point in their careers, especially the unskilled and uneducated. In 1983, only 5 percent of non-manual workers were unemployed. In contrast, skilled manual workers experienced 12 percent and semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers 23 percent unemployment, and manual workers combined accounted for 84 percent of the unemployed. England is becoming a society of the included and the excluded. There has been a sharp rise in long-term unemployment. The nature of work in a fluid...
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...Impact on women and women at war • With younger women directed to factories, and older women encouraged to volunteer in organisations such as the Women’s Voluntary Service, women played a key role in the war • From 1940 women were directed into sectors of the economy where there was a shortage of labour (eg. shipyards, docks, factories and hospitals) • By the end of 1943, 50% of all factory workers were women • Also, by the end of 1943, 80% of married women were working as well as playing their role in the household • Average earnings for women almost doubled from 1938 – 1945 • Over 500,000 women served in the auxiliary branches of the armed forces • Women employed in industry, commerce and the armed forces rose by 50% to 2 ¼ million by 1943 • Overall, 1 ¼ million men and women volunteered in the war by July 1940 • The National Service Act (December 1941) conscripted unmarried women into the Force’s Auxiliary Corps • However, despite the war giving women more money, greater status and independence, it did not bring around equal pay • After WW1 most women gave up their wartime jobs, however after WW2 a much higher percentage of women kept their jobs • Moreover, sexual relationships flourished / increased over the war period Social levelling and breaking down of class barriers • One of the main aspects of WW2 was social mobility • Conscription was introduced in September 1940 (men aged 18 to 41) • By mid 1941, the army, navy and air...
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...1st June: The Sensex closed below psychological mark of 16000 at 15965.16 down 253.37 points or 1.53%. The Nifty ends at 4841.60 down 82.65 points or 1.68%. The breadth of the market was negative with Advance Decline ratio at 1:2. About 836 shares advanced, 1820 shares declined, and 768 shares remain unchanged. A slew of bad economic cues from across the globe didn't help Indian equities either. Reports of monsoon rains over India's mainland will be delayed by about four days also weighed on sentiment. A whole host of disappointing macro economic data including weak PMI data from many countries across the globe dragged the bourses down. BSE FMCG was almost flat with a gain of 0.13%. TATA Coffee closed at 839.85 losing 1.53% along with market sentiments. Volume of TATA Coffee was just 7978 as compared to the average volume of 61877. 8th June: Today, the BSE benchmark recovered 234 points from intraday low of 16,485.02, before closed up 69.82 points at 16,668.87. Meanwhile, the NSE benchmark rebounded from intraday low of 4,994.80, which ended up 18.70 points at 5,068.35. The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty rebounded quite smartly in late trade on Friday that helped them to close higher in all sessions of the week. The market saw highest ever weekly absolute gains in 2012, with the Nifty rising 4.7% and the Sensex 5%. Recovery in European markets and Indian rupee, and short covering helped the market to bounce back today. Looking at the sharp recovery, it seems that the market...
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...History Revision Aug 1914 – Nov 1918 The cost of WW1 to Britain - $35,334,012,000 (highest of all the allied powers) and 994,138 British people died. April 1919 Treaty of Versailles – Germany had to accept the blame for starting the war (Clause 231) and pay £6,600 million in reparations. She was forbidden to have submarines or an air force and could only have a navy of six battleships and an Army of just 100,000 men. She also lost territory to Britain and France. The League of Nations – an international organisation designed to preserve the peace and solve international disputes by arbitration; based on a system of collective security (article 10). 42 countries joined at the start and by the 1930s this became 60. The covenant of the League of Nations was agreed as part of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 held at Versailles – it aimed to stop war, improve people’s lives and jobs, disarm and enforce the Treaty of Versailles). In May 1920, the US Senate voted against Versailles (due to isolationism) and did not join. Summer 1919 John Maynard Keynes published ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace’ – said that the Treaty of Versailles was ‘economic insanity’ and an example of a ‘Carthaginian Peace’. It sold 60,000 copies in the first 2 months, 100,000 copies in the first 6 months and was translated into 14 languages. Aug 1919 – 1934 ‘Ten Year Rule’ – British spending was only £102 million on defence in 1932, compared to £760 million in 1919 – 1920. March 1921 Anglo-Soviet...
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