The New York Times reported today that "Jobs Report Is Strongest Since the Start of the Recession". The unemployment rate in the States is ‘rosy’ at 10 percent, from 10.2 percent the month before. Well, yet another report on unemployment, but it does say A LOT on our current state of affairs when a 10 percent unemployment...
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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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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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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
Have you ever asked, “What happened to the great empires of the past?” Take for example the empires built by Alexandra the Great, the great Mongols, the Romans, or the Ottoman Empire built by the Turks? Why do I cite these historical empires? Perhaps we can learn something from history. What you...
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A friend of mine asks me a question yesterday and it got me thinking. You see, she has been putting money away in a savings account at the bank for years. This was her retirement plan. While most of us agree this should constitute a very conservative and safe method. After all our deposits at...
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We all know a story or two about a person who started a business with very little money and in a short time became rich – the envied of the community. Few stories can compare to the likes of Michael Dell and Bill Gates. My own inspiration was Warren Buffett. Besides the success and famed...
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