A chief executive officer (CEO, American English), managing director (MD, British English),executive director (ED, American English) for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual appointed as a CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency typically reports to the board of directors.
The responsibilities of an organization's CEO (US) or MD (UK) are set by the organization's board of directors or other authority, depending on the organization's legal structure. They can be far-reaching or quite limited and are typically enshrined in a formal delegation of authority.
Typically, the CEO/MD has responsibilities as a communicator, decision maker, leader, and manager. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year operations.
Timothy D. “Tim” Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the CEO of Apple. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations and was COO until he was named the CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer. Cook had previously served as acting CEO of Apple after Jobs began a medical leave in January 2011.
In early 2012, he was awarded compensation of 1 million shares, vesting in 2021, by Apple's Board of Directors. As of April 2012, these shares are valued at US $600 million, making him the world's highest paid CEO.
Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile. His father was a shipyard worker, while his mother was a homemaker. Cook graduated from high school at Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988.
Cook spent six months at Compaq as VP for Corporate Materials before he was hired by Steve Jobs to join Apple in 1998. He initially served as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations. Prior to that, Cook served as the chief operating officer (COO) of the computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics and spent 12 years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment.
Joko Widodo was born in Surakarta, June 21, 1961. Joko Widodo, better known by his nickname Jokowi, is the current mayor of Surakarta. His second term is due to end in 2015. His vice mayor is F.X. Hadi Rudyatmo. He was nominated by Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle. Recently he has been chosen by his party to run in the 2012 Jakarta gubernatorial election.
Jokowi is an engineering graduate from the Faculty of Forestry at Gadjah Mada University in 1985.
When running for mayor, many doubted the ability of a man who works as a property and furniture businessman. But a year after he led, many progressive breakthrough he had made. He took the example of the development of many cities in Europe which he visited in the framework of frequent business travels.
Anthony (Tony) Cetinski (born May 31, 1969) is a Croatian pop singer. Today, he is one of the most popular male singers in Croatia and he is also popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro.
Born into a family of musicians in Pula (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), Cetinski began singing when he was 15 years old with various local groups. He moved from Rovinj to Zagreb in 1991 to start his career, and quickly became one of Croatia's leading pop stars. In 1994 he represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Nek' ti bude ljubav sva".
At the 10th Croatian Radio Festival in 2006, Cetinski won all three prizes in pop-rock category: HRF Grand Prix – pop-rock, Listener's award and Music Editors award. He also recorded the song "Lagala nas mala" as a duet with the late Toše Proeski. This song appears on both of Toše Proeski's 2005 albums Po tebe and the Croatian edition Pratim te. The song was also done as a remix by DeeJay Time.
In 2009 Cetinski won the Porin award for best male vocal performance with his song "Ako to se zove ljubav". Cetinski sold out two concerts in Arena Zagreb the same year with more than 30,000 people attending.
Edin Dervišhalidović (pronounced [ědin derʋiʃxaːlǐdoʋitɕ]; born 12 September 1962), stage name Dino Merlin, pronounced [dǐːno měrlin], is a prominent Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a popular singer/songwriter in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also popular in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia such as Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia.
Edin Dervišhalidović founded the band Merlin in 1983 and has been its singer and songwriter since. With the band, he has recorded 5 studio albums: Kokuzna vremena in 1985, Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe) in 1986, Merlin in 1987, Nešto lijepo treba da se desi in 1989, and Peta strana svijeta in 1990.
Dervišhalidović began his solo career under the name Dino Merlin in 1991, and recorded five studio albums: Moja bogda sna in 1993, Fotografija in 1995, Sredinom in 2000, Burek in 2004, Ispočetka in 2008 and 2 live albums, Vječna vatra in 1999 and Live Koševo 2004 in 2005.
Dino Merlin wrote the first national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina called Jedna si, jedina.[citation needed] He has also taken part in Eurovision Song Contests, in Millstreet in 1993 (Dino is the author of Sva bol svijeta) and in Jerusalem in 1999 (singing Putnici with Béatrice, a French singer). Dino Merlin has also taken part in other big European festivals, such as Copenhagen in 1996 and Turkovision in 1997.[citation needed] His tour promoting his Sredinom album, which was released in 2000, included over 200 concerts, with a spectacular performance at the Koševo Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo, in front of an audience of about 80,000.[citation needed] The Sredinom-album was the top-selling album in Bosnia and Herzegovina and sold in all of the countries that were once part of Yugoslavia.[citation needed]
Plot
Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!
Keywords: amnesia, aunt-nephew-relationship, ballroom-dancing, beauty-treatment, cable-car, caught-in-the-rain, childhood, corporation, erlenmeyer-flask, fired-from-job
Two worlds. One future.
Adam: Up-top, they always win, And down-below, we always fail.
Bob Boruchowitz: We're 90 percent water, right? So I've combined upper and lower inversion with a hyper infusion, yeah? Yeah.
[first lines]::Adam: The universe, so full of wonders. I could spend hours and hours looking up at the sky. So many stars, so many mysteries. And there's one very special star that makes me think of one very special person. Now let me tell you my story.
Adam: Gravity, they say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree. What if love was stronger than gravity.
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It is at a Deaf club that a low immersion Virtual Reality system engineer, JASON SMITH, encountered the odd mannered, eccentric, and wicked anarchist for the first time. She had this peculiar way of leading a bunch of male fans into following her around everywhere she went. At first, it didn't seem to peak his interest until he saw one of the fans dropping his video-gadget. Destination: At Dawn, at the Lees bus station. Early in the morning, the Lee's bus station is quiet and empty. There are no buses or any people around. It is by surprise that he sees one of the anarchist's fans showing up and stealing his video-gadget before running away. He follows him with difficulty until he appears in front of the anarchist's special store, uPlump (In American Sign Language (ASL) it means "you (u) sign fluently (plump)"). When entering the store, he notices all the specially designed gadgets that are made for both the Hearing and Deaf individuals in favour of the Deaf culture. Then suddenly, the wicked anarchist signals him, already expecting him. She convinces him to try her secret innovation the same day at 9:00pm. The location of her new innovation is behind the uPlump store where there is an entrance leading to a strange underground hallway. This is where JASON SMITH, the low immersion VR engineer, took awareness of this newly invented VR game. But, what he didn't know, was that VICTORIA MERLE, the wicked anarchist, knew that JASON SMITH would be tempted to copy her secretly patented VR system. In fact, that's exactly why she wants him to "test" it. Because, once you test it, there's no turning back, you're under intensive brainwashing.
Keywords: american-sign-language, virtual-reality
An Hi-Tech anarchist taking control over the mind of a corrupted conformist.
1st Canadian American Sign Language Feature
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A series of scenes that focus specially on a single idea, emotion or act us. In the absence of interfering qualities this film is able to take one factoring influence and amplify it to absurd and hilarious proportions. Each scene gives us an uninterrupted view at some of the more unglamorous characteristics that in the end determine who we are, both as individuals and as a thread in the patchwork of the collective human unconscious.
Keywords: absurdism, alienation, bathtub, black-comedy, bomber, brass-band, broken-crockery, business-meeting, dog, dream
Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!::Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.::Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.
The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [examines the large stack of patient's files] I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.
Anna: Forgive those who only think of themselves. Forgive those who are greedy and cheap. And those who deceive and cheat or grow rich by paying miserable wages. Dear lord, forgive them. Forgive them. And Lord, forgive those who humiliate and desecrate. Forgive those who torture and kill. Forgive those who bomb and destroy cities and villages. Forgive those who are dishonest, those who lie and are false. Forgive governments who withhold the truth from the people. Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive those who are heartless, merciless, and quick to pass judgment. Please Lord, forgive them. Forgive courts that pass sentences which are too harsh or convict the innocent. Forgive them.::The minister: Anna... We have to close and lock up now.::Anna: Forgive newspapers and TV channels that mislead. That distract attention from that which is important. Dear Lord, forgive them.::The minister: There now, Anna. We have to close and lock up now.::Anna: Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive them.
Mia: I'm a miserable wench, on an ugly bench!
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An extremely stylized sci-fi action short taking place in a near-future of corporate intrigue and skilled mercenaries. Featuring martial arts, dazzling effects, and an expressionistic visual style, the film attempts to create a new vision of sci-fi cinema. A warrior is thrown into a new assignment while his corporate masters fear the destruction of their technological creations. While escorting his company's prodigy developer to an exchange meeting, the warrior must protect the company's interests against a clever attack from terrorists.
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Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats."
Keywords: 2000s, 69-sex-position, aborted-fetus, accent, amish, anal-sex, anilingus, anti-semitism, anus, aristocrat
A family walks into a talent agent's office. What happens next is . . .
100 Superstar Comedians. One Very Dirty Joke.
No Nudity No Violence Unspeakable Obscenity
100 Comedians. One Very Dirty Joke.
Sarah Silverman: Joe Franklin loved The Aristocrats. He was like our rehearsal director when dad and my brother weren't there, and my mother and my nana weren't there. I was on his show... he said it wasn't a taped show, but we, like, did a show... yeah, it was his office. But he had a bed in it, like a couch... that he called "Uncle Joe's Bed for Little People", because a couch is like a bed for little people, y'know... Joe Franklin raped me.
Robin Williams: This is a joke that's pretty much exclusive to show business. You never hear a physicist going, "It's a muon, you cunt!"
Carrie Fisher: My mother was a golden shower queen.
Bob Saget: Can I get a copy of this? I'd like to send it to the kids from the show "Full House".
Joe Franklin: A man walks into a talent agent's office and says that he has an act...
Kyle: Cart-, Cart-, Cartman, I don't want to...::Cartman: [cutting off Kyle] Kyle! Will you hold on, please.
Kyle: [after Cartman finishes the joke] I don't get it.::Cartman: [pauses] Neither do I.
Cartman: You guys want to hear a funny joke my grandpa told me?::Kyle: No.
[as she gropes two stuffed animals]::Rita Rudner: Where did these people find employment? How did they develop this act? What made them think that this... this was entertaining?
Pat Cooper: My grandmother, on the stage, has an abortion! Gives birth to a three-pound Shetland pony! My grandfather is the jockey, comes in third and paid $2.80!
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In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger.
Keywords: anaconda, animal-attack, b-movie, bar, betrayal, blood, boat, boat-accident, borneo, camera
The hunters will become the hunted.
Bill Johnson: It's mating season.::Cole Burris: What so you're tellin' me there's some snake orgy going on in the jungle?::Bill Johnson: Yeah, something like that
Gordon Mitchell: You mention "food" once more and I'm voting you off this island.
Cole Burris: I had this friend, who had this friend who shot documentaries, and he and his whole crew went down to the Amazon, and they were all eaten by snakes, and thats a true story::Gordon Mitchell: Come on Cole, you new a guy who new a guy. That's an urban Myth.
Gordon Mitchell: Are you okay now?::Gail Stern: Yeah, I'm fine. And keep your hands off of me!::Gordon Mitchell: It might be hard, but I'll try!
Gail Stern: Hey! Over here bitch!
[last lines]::Gail Stern: So how much further to my bath?::Bill Johnson: Kotabaru? I'd say... another day downriver.::Cole Burris: Another day? I'm not rowing another day, homeboy.::Bill Johnson: All right. Let's see, we got this shortcut right up -::Sam Rogers, Cole Burris, Gail Stern: No!
Gail Stern: Can you hear me now? Shit. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?::Cole Burris: WE can!::Gail Stern: Can you hear me now?::[Gail plunges into the river]::Gordon Mitchell: Hey Gail, can you hear me now?
Dr. Ben Douglas: [the expedition is wading through a marsh - Ben starts humming the theme from "Jaws"] Duuh, dum, duuh, dum. Dum dum dum dum dum dum...::Gail Stern: Stop that, or I swear to God I'll kill you! [Ben gets pulled under the water]
Sam Rogers: We're in the middle of the jungle Jack, at this point your authority is what we say it is.
Cole Burris: I'm so hungry, I'd sell my Grandmother for a tic tac!
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Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman (Park Overall) learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary (Laura Innes) and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners.
Lynn: That bitch of an ex-wife of yours is suing me!