In reel life, there is a line from one of the scariest movies; The Sixth Sense, where the young actor Haley Joel Osment played Coal Sear said, "I see dead people". In real life, there is an even scarier scene - "I see unemployed people." The New York Times reported today that "Jobs Report Is Strongest...
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure." - Mark Twain, 1887 How do I know what I should do in life? I see the world differently – everything before today is only a blink, a tag line of one kind; an uninteresting one at that. Sounds familiar? I now...
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6 Steps to Move WPMU with Domain Mapping from Root Folder to Subdirector! I really do appreciate the Wordpress Community. Recently I had a lot of difficulties with the technical aspects of working with Wordpress MU. I wanted to move all of the files from the root folder into a subdirectory. In the process I had...
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Bribery is a common thing. Just last summer my friend was driving from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps, he was speeding but he claimed that he didn’t. We will never know the truth. A policeman approached him and started to question him. He pleaded his innocence before the lawman. The police officer said, “You can...
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I used to live in West Valley City, Utah – a small and quiet place. This year, our family will travel from different States to pay pilgrimage to this wonderful place. Why? Thirty years ago on December 22, 1979 our family of six came to this country with nothing more than the cloths on our...
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The moisture in the air was heavy this morning. The sun was trying hard to break through. Maybe, the cloud seemed formidable. I got out of the apartment and made my way across the busy West Street. I can see the commuters heading to work. I live in a small island city called Manhattan – the...
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When I was a soldier serving with the US Marine Corps as a reservist, I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. I was young then and I needed money for college. At that time serving my adopted country seemed to be the right thing to do. While my older kin were bitterly opposed to war, I didn’t connect the dots that being a soldier meant having a possibility of one tragic day I would be called to choose between being killed, or worst still, having to take a life. I was fortunate that
The product of a good education has to do more with the inherent system than the caliber of the individual students. A good system will in the end turn out more good students. A bad or poorly designed system creates an imbalance and can cause much disruption in society, producing far more academically under-performing students.
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I read a report on Reuters highlighting the executive pay for companies like JP Morgan, Bank of China, ICBC, and others. Executive pay in the US seems excessive. Tell me what you think? Here's a link to the report: Study shows U.S. bank CEO pay dwarfs rest of world Copyright 2009 by fartingcamel.com
