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The Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) provides a platform to increase the interest of Jordanian entrepreneurs and innovators in designing a path to achieve their dreams. The competition strives to advocate entrepreneurial skills as students and mature entrepreneurs coalesce their knowledge with their resources along with their competitive drive to create a business plan that is both practical and innovative.
The vision of QRNEC is to evolve and expand into a comprehensive entrepreneurship enabler, involved in fostering creativity, incubating viable concepts, and facilitating the success of entrepreneurial ventures to a level that affects the cultural orientation of the Jordanian community.
The Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) is sponsered by: Google (Global Sponsor), King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (trategic Partner), Orange, Jordan Dubai Capital, Jordan Commercial Bank, Optimiza (Silver Sponsors) and Jordan Business and Jeeran (Media Partners).
Ready to ride the challenge wave? Join the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) and submit your the business summary of your idea before 18/6/2008.
This is the most amusing/amazing toy I’ve seen in a long time. Some people call it the rubik’s cube successor although it doesn’t have much to do with it. There’s no specific puzzle in it, only endless solutions and formations. It seems that it’s only available on the official site which is http://www.theneocube.com/ and it costs about 36 dollars. a bit expensive but its worth it.
The NeoCube is composed of 216 individual high-energy sphere magnets, which can be formed into BILLIONS of shapes and patterns.
Check out this video to see what I’m talking about:
I’m sick and tired of people using the phrase “after the jump” totally inappropriately!
“after the jump” suggests there’s a divider between the introduction and the continuation of the article, usually an Ad of some sort, hence the jump, but when the rest of article is RIGHT THERE and THERE IS NO F***ING JUMP, its really stupid to use that phrase!
Here are examples:
PROPER USE:
blablabla blabla and you can check out the list after the jump.
And now the list:
1- blablabla
2- blablabla
See? Here There is a Jump!!!
BAD USE:
blablabla blabla and you can check out the list after the jump.
And now the list:
1- blablabla
2- blablabla
See? Here There is a NO JUMP!!!
And now for something completely different, David Letterman’s Thursday night Top 10 list “Surprising Facts About Barack Obama”… presented by Barack Obama:
Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting.
When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory.
Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. “The people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge psychological impact,” Mr Werner said.
Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Government, is equally optimistic: “There is a shortage of entertainment in the city. Cinemas can’t open. Playgrounds can’t open. The fun park is badly needed for Baghdad. Children don’t have any opportunities to enjoy their childhood.” Mr al-Dabbagh added that entry to the park would be strictly controlled.
The project will cost $500 million (£250 million) and will be managed by Iraqis. Under the terms of the lease, Mr Werner will retain exclusive rights to housing and hotel developments, which he says will be both culturally sensitive and enormously profitable. “I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t making money,” he said. “I also have this wonderful sense that we’re doing the right thing”
The Vending Machine isn’t something new, in fact, it is ancient. its been in use in the western world, Japan, China and a lot of countries forever now. in fact they are so popular and has become an integral part of every day life that there is virtually a vending machine for absolutely anything you could think of. from flowers to subway tickets to disposable cameras to phone cards to beer to magazines. anything. even iPod vending machines.
Will we ever have Vending machines in Jordan? Probably not, due to the mentality of disregard, carelessness and negligence for anything that is public property they will probably get destroyed to get robbed out of contents, or just for the heck of it.
Still, its not a far fetched thought, nor is it an extravagant luxury. some well placed machines in select areas can do much good, lets say for bottled water or beverages and snacks, prepaid phone cards, or prepaid internet cards, or perhaps even cigarettes and newspapers? or dare i say even iPods?
The first modern coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England in the early 1880s, dispensing post cards. I wonder, in what century will wee see vending machines on the Jordanian streets?
Isn’t it startling how many people in the west do not realize that not all Arabs are Muslims?
I was having a conversation with a friend from Bulgaria the other day, and I mentioned to her that there is a good amount of Christians in Jordan, and that Christians and Muslims live in brotherhood and complete harmony. In fact you will see Mosques and Churches right next to each other, like in Al Abdali area, This totally took her by surprise and she thought i was joking.
Interesting, isn’t it?
I do not have solid numbers but I’m willing to bet that most westerners, especially in the United States, think that words Arab and Muslim are pretty much the same. they somehow forget that Jesus, Peace be upon him, was born here, that the middle east is the birth place of Christianity. Thus naturally There are significant populations of Arab Christians throughout the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Northern Africa and Palestine/Israel.
Another fact that seems to allude them is that Arabs are Semites, We’ve all heard the term anti-Semitism being used — often to describe Arabs. While antisemitism does specifically indicate hatred for Jews, Being an Arab is not a religion, Arabs are part of an ethnic group, Arabs were around long before Islam, and there have been (and still are) Arab Christians and Arab Jews. and even though you can’t really compare Arabs and Jews, since one is an ethnic group and the other is a religion, many don’t realize that its a paradox to call an Arab an Antisemitic.
So that’s that.
And here’s a quick note for my American and western readers, its pronounced Muslim with an S, not Muzlim with a Z, i think thats pretty easy to manage :)
The Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) provides a platform to increase the interest of Jordanian entrepreneurs and innovators in designing a path to achieve their dreams. The competition strives to advocate entrepreneurial skills as students and mature entrepreneurs coalesce their knowledge with their resources along with their competitive drive to create a business plan that is both practical and innovative.
The Vending Machine isn’t something new, in fact, it is ancient. its been in use in the western world, Japan, China and a lot of countries forever now. in fact they are so popular and has become an integral part of every day life that there is virtually a vending machine for absolutely 
