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This is at least 6th time in this month that I want to update my blog talking about what has happened to me but there is no time. I have planned to update my blog once a week but it seems that I cannot manage my time properly.

Yesterday I definitely wanted to update my blog describing my feelings but there was no time.

In this month I wanted to talk about the following topics:

1. Those who steal
2. Those who can make you calm
3. Those whom you hate
4. Those whom you can fight
5. Those who used to be friends
and
6. When I want revenge

but there was no time. I hope someday soon I can write about them. Someday that there is time or….
Maybe there is no time.

We had a fun weekend and I enjoyed visiting the road from Kelardasht to Abbasabad. This road is in the middle of jungle on Alborz mountain. The weather was pleasant and we has a fun time.

The only thing that I am not satisfied with is my photos. I don’t know why but all the photos are of low quality. I am very interested in showing the world that how beautiful is different parts of Iran and I was very eager to share my photos of this trip but is seems that I have only three photos to share (not with high quality). I hope that reader of this post share their related photos (The road between Kelardasht and Abbasabad).

This vedio made me think once more about the civilization. I am going to wait for thenext version (CIVILIZATION V) after I finished my current game.

No more turns…
Next 30 days is going to be my 30 civ free days.

I have created Farsi (Persian) version of this blog. It is not a translation but a compliment to this blog but in Farsi. So many things has to be done before it can be a good looking blog. I am trying to translate the theme which I have used here to be more compatible with Farsi and the main problem is that I need to change the theme to support RTL. I have no idea about php and this is a difficult task for me.

I also have chosen the Cherry to be my sign on both blogs:

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The file that I am linking here was my midterm paper for business course. I was just reviewing my archive for MBA and I come across this file. I remember how most of the students was angry about the results and I was the only one that was happy. It was not because of my grade. It was because our professor didn’t …. (Oh it is a secret)
I now remember what happened to Pouya. I am sorry that he decided not to do what others did. We all missed Pouya in our class.

The abstract of paper was:

Electronic commerce commonly known as e-commerce is actually buying and selling of products and services (Wikipedia,2008) such as online stock and bond transactions, the downloading and selling of “soft merchandise” (software, documents, graphics, music, etc.), business-to-business transactions and other types of shopping over the internet or other electronic networks. This article covers the current e-commerce status in Iran, its advantages and disadvantages and developments in Iran’s banking system which required to expand e-commerce in Iran. It also covers the governmental efforts that must be done to help e-commerce prosper in Iran.

And you can download the file from here.

Recently, we have been working on an assignment with the title of Application of RBV Model. we were supposed to visit either Apple or Google`s corporate website and identify some of the company`s Tangible assets, intangible assets, and organizational capabilities. Then we should specify which of those resources represents strengths or weaknesses  and which resources generate the sources of sustainable competitive advantage and why?

I and Sohieh started working on this assignment and the following Table of Content and file are final editions that we have uploaded it to BIHE course site:

Table of Contents

Google’s Mission. 3
Competition. 3
Products and Services offering. 4
Intellectual Property. 5
Google’s financial status: 6
SWOT analysis of Google. 8
Sustainable competitive advantages. 8
Works Cited. 10
Appendixes. 11
Appendix 1:  Annual financial statements of Google (2009). 11
Appendix 2:  Annual financial statements of Microsoft (2009). 11
Appendix 3:  Annual financial statements of Yahoo (2009). 11

You can download the file from: Application of RBV Model

This is what I was hoping for after Germany has been defeated in worldcup 2010. Worldcup has been concluded and now I am a bit happy…….

This is Thomas Mueller:

Date of Birth: 13 September 1989
Height: 186 cm
Shirt number: 13
Position: Midfielder
Current club: Bayern Munich (GER)
International Caps: 8
International Goals: 5
First international: Germany – Argentina
(3 March 2010)

As I said before it is from 1990 that I am a fan of Germany’s football team. I was hoping for the championship but 3rd place is all we get. All I can say is that I am happy to see that Mueller got the big prize.

Thomas MUELLER

GERMANY had looked so fast, powerful, sharp and stylish coming into the World Cup semi-final that many had it down as favourite, despite the greater experience and pedigree of Spain.

But as impressive as the Germans were earlier in the cup, they simply did not deliver on the big occasion. It wasn’t to do with nerves or stage fright, despite their youth and inexperience. Quite simply, Joachim Loew’s exciting young team was outclassed on the night by a better team with better players who had plenty of big match knowhow.

The above paragraph was in the news and made me think about the game once more. Germany was the thing making me happy these days. it is sad to see that they are defeated.

I am a fan of Germany football team since 1990. It was 20 years ago when they made their way to victory. Hope to see them win in 2014 in Brazil.

This is what I have been playing for the past three years. The whole thing started when I was on a business trip to Bandar Abbas. My Boss introduced me a game with the name of Civilization III and when I tried it I found it a perfect game. The next thing i can remember is the time that I have purchased a new version of that game (Civilization IV) and started playing.  This turn based strategic game has anything I wanted from a PC game. It is fun, complicated, time consuming and totally unpredictable. The thing that I liked most in this game is the Persian Civilization.

The following part is a description of this civilization in Civilization IV:

The term Persia has been used for centuries, chiefly in the West, to designate a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis or Parsa; the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into the region about 1000 BC, eventually supplanting the Assyrians and Chaldeans. The first mention of the Parsa occurs in the annals of Shalmanesar III, an Assyrian king, in 844 BC. Cyrus II (559-529 BC), also known as Cyrus the Great, was heir to a long line of ruling chiefs in Mesopotamia and was the founder of the Persian Empire; he was called the father of his people by the ancient Persians. In 550 BC, Cyrus, the Prince of Persia, revolted against the Median king Astyages and welded the Persians and Medes together into one powerful force. Cyrus consolidated his rule on the Iranian Plateau and then extended it westward across Asia Minor. In October 539 BC, Babylon, the greatest city of the ancient world, fell to his Persian forces. Cyrus also oversaw the construction of a series of great roads to link together the territories that he had conquered. Although Cyrus was a great military conqueror, he was also a fair ruler; he allowed the Jews to return from Babylon to their homeland in Palestine. His dynasty, known as the Achaemenids, ruled Persia for two centuries.

Following the death of Cyrus’ heir, Darius I (522-486 BC), a leading general and one of the princes of the Achaemenid family, proclaimed himself king following the suppression of a number of provincial rebellions and challenges from other pretenders to the throne. Darius was in the mold of Cyrus the Great – a powerful personality and a dynamic ruler. To consolidate his accession, Darius I founded his new capital of Parsa, known to the Greeks as Persepolis (“Persian City”) and expanded the ranks of his personal bodyguard, the Immortals. The elite force drew its name from the fact that no matter how many men were lost, the Persian Emperor would always pay the cost to restore the Immortals back to their original strength. Although Darius consolidated and added to the conquests of his predecessors, it was as an administrator that he made his greatest contribution to Persian history. During his reign, political and legal reforms revitalized the provinces and ambitious projects were undertaken to promote imperial trade and commerce; coinage, weights and measures were standardized, and new land and sea routes explored and established.

Such activities, however, did not prevent Darius from following an active expansionist policy. Campaigns in the east confirmed gains made by Cyrus the Great and added large sections of the northern Indian subcontinent to the list of Persian-controlled provinces. Expansion to the west began about 516 BC when Darius moved against the Greek colonies along the coast of Asia Minor. Xerxes (486-465 BC), son and successor of Darius I, was determined to continue the Persian conquest of the west and is best known for his massive invasion of Greece from across the Hellespont in 480 BC, a campaign marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea. Although successful in the pacification of Egypt and suppression of a Babylon revolt, his defeat by the allied Greek city-states spelled the beginning of the decline of the Persian Empire. In Xerxes’ last years, he squandered the once-enormous treasury he had gathered through trade and taxation by launching vast construction programs, most never finished.

The death of Xerxes was the final turning point in Persian influence. Occasional flashes of vigor and ability by some of Xerxes’ successors were too infrequent to prevent eventual collapse. The final act was played out during the reign of Darius III (336-330 BC), who was defeated at the Battle of Granicus (334 BC) by Alexander the Great. Persepolis fell to the young Macedonian conqueror in April 330 BC, and Darius, the last Achaemenid, was murdered in the summer of the same year while fleeing the Greek forces. In the struggle for power after Alexander’s death, Seleucus I brought under his control the Persian provinces of Alexander’s empire. But this unity was short-lived, as the Indian holdings successfully revolted and the Seleucid kingdom broke into the competing nations of Parthia and Bactria. Parts of the Seleucid kingdom lasted for two centuries, but it was eventually swept aside by the Parthians, who founded an empire that stretched almost as far as Persia under the Achaemenids. The Romans and Parthians struggled against one another for centuries over control of Mesopotamia, with the Parthians usually holding onto most of the Fertile Crescent. But in 224 AD the Parthians were themselves overthrown by a new Sassanid dynasty that revived many of the customs of the Achaemenids, such as the Zoroastrian religion. The Sassanids fought a series of debilitating wars with the Byzantine Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries, which fatally weakened the Persian Empire when the Arabs exploded onto the scene. In a series of decisive battles between 633 and 642, the Arabs conquered and destroyed the Persian Empire; since this time, Persia (modern Iran) has largely belonged to the Arab world. The customs and religion of ancient Persia were destroyed and the population absorbed into the surrounding Islamic culture; only a few remnants survive today.

It is a good feeling to play your own civilization. The game definitely worth trying….