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nice! so true... pero may mga careers talaga na madali at malaki pera ...sa ibang professions kasi you have to work and perform 3-5x as hard to hit mayaman level na sa ibang careers..kahit doble lang ang pagstrive mo..pasok na yung mayaman level..
Ano ba yung standard to be called 'Mayaman'?
Yung pag retire mo (at an early age) eh wala ka nang kailangang gawin para magsurvive at mag-enjoy. hahaha!
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There's a wise man saying "Pag may passion ka, dapat may pera ka." Hahaha.
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Too soon.
I don't want to see a movie about Russell Williams yet. In fact, I don't ever want to watch a cinematic version of the horror I heard retold in that Belleville courthouse in October 2010.
There were moments in that crowded courtroom when I was certain that I was going to be physically ill and it took all my willpower to remain in my seat and continue to do my job. I wept as I wrote my story that evening, reliving what I had heard. Those images of rape and torture are forever seared in my memory and almost two years later, they still hide, only to reappear unbidden in all their graphic monstrosity: Images of that sadistic monster who bound and blindfolded two strong, beautiful women, made them do his perverse bidding as he captured them on camera, and then, even as they begged for their lives, executed them when his cruel pleasure was done.
That should not be the stuff of a made-for-TV movie, no matter how sanitized it may be.
But the Lifetime Network has just cheerily announced that their film about the disgraced former Canadian Forces colonel, An Officer and a Murderer, will air in the U.S. on July 21. "Brilliant at being stealth and obsessive in covering all traces, Col. Williams deceives his wife, friends, neighbours and even his military comrades. But his lewd behaviour catches the eye of a small-town police detective who is determined to stop the colonel dead in his tracks," reads the description on the Lifetime website.
The brutal sex slayings of Jessica Lloyd, 27, and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 37, have been transformed into entertainment for the American masses, a juicy, titillating drama of a serial killer who is a respected air force commander by day and at night, a fetishist peeping Tom who graduates to rape and then murder.
There's no arguing that it would be a compelling, cautionary tale if it weren't so close to home, so close in time. The victims' families have barely begun to heal, if they ever will at all. Exploiting their tragedy to thrill an American cable TV audience is so wrong.
At least with the movie Karla, which depicted the crimes of Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, the Hollywood treatment came more than a decade after the sex slayings of the two schoolgirls. And still it elicited outrage and even a call to boycott it by Ontario's premier.
The only saving grace is that the Williams movie won't be seen in Canada.
It's not to difficult to understand the cinematic allure of the enigmatic former commander of CFB Trenton. At 47, the well-educated, long-married military man was a rising star with his chiselled chin and reserved, arrogant manner. What is so mystifying to this day is how he so masterfully hid his alter ego. He appeared so normal and yet for two years, he was breaking into the bedrooms of young girls in Ottawa and Tweed to dress and photograph himself in their panties. By September 2009, his underwear fetish took a sudden, violent turn and he snuck into the homes of two women who lived alone, blindfolded and bound them, sexually assaulted them and forced them to pose naked.
But at least they were allowed to live.
Comeau, a military flight attendant he'd met on the job, and Lloyd, a complete stranger he'd spotted working out on her home treadmill, would not be as lucky. And there is little doubt that there would have been more victims if the cocky killer hadn't been caught by his own hubris – even showing up to his police interview wearing the same boots he wore the night he abducted Lloyd from her home.
The irony is that there is now a movie about his evil deeds, when Williams himself was so keen on making one himself.
He orchestrated every part of his victims' harrowing last hours, capturing every degradation, every painful assault, from all possible video angles, snapping his commands as he directed the snuff films he thought he could later watch and savour.
Those poor women were mere fodder for his sick entertainment. How is an exploitative TV movie that much different?


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Philippines: Traffic woes and the road ahead
From my house in northern Quezon City, I drive more than two hours every day to get to the office in Bonifacio Global City, which is about three cities away where I come from, and two cities away from the capital Manila. It's a journey that should only take around half an hour under light traffic. That is a total of four hours on the road a day, if there is no road accident or bad weather. It takes me an hour longer whenever I use the public transport system. Along with hundreds of thousands of Metro Rail Transit (MRT) commuters, I have to contend with extremely long lines, slow trains, and frequent delays due to malfunctions. This has been my experience for several years. Many of us might be wondering: why have these problems persisted?


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Third king of the 19th dynasty of Egypt, whose reign (1279-13 BC) was the second longest in Egyptian history. In addition to his wars with the Hittites and Libyans, he is known for his extensive building programs and for the many colossal statues of him found all over Egypt.
Background and early years of reign.
Ramses' family, of nonroyal origin, came to power some decades after the reign of the religious reformer, Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV, 1353-36 BC), and set about restoring Egyptian power in Asia, which had declined under Akhenaton and his successor, Tutankhamen. Ramses' father, Seti I, subdued a number of rebellious princes inPalestine and southern Syria and waged war on the Hittites of Anatolia in order to recover those
provinces in the north that during the recent troubles had passed from Egyptian to Hittite control. Seti achieved some success against the Hittites at first, but his gains were only temporary, for at the end of his reign the enemy was firmly established at Kadesh, on the Orontes River, a strong fortress defended by the river, which became the key to their southern frontier.
provinces in the north that during the recent troubles had passed from Egyptian to Hittite control. Seti achieved some success against the Hittites at first, but his gains were only temporary, for at the end of his reign the enemy was firmly established at Kadesh, on the Orontes River, a strong fortress defended by the river, which became the key to their southern frontier.
During his reign Seti gave the crown prince Ramses, the future Ramses II, a special status as regent. Seti provided him with a kingly household and harem, and the young prince accompanied his father on his campaigns, so that when he came to sole rule he had already had experience of kingship and of war. It is noteworthy that Ramses was designated as successor at an unusually early age, as if to ensure that he would in fact succeed to the throne. He ranked as a captain of the army while still only 10 years old; at that age his rank must surely have been honorific, though he may well have been receiving military training.
Because his family's home was in the Nile delta and in order to have a convenient base for campaigns in Asia, Ramses built for himself a full-scale residence city called Pi-Ramesse (House of Ramses; biblical Raamses), which was famous for its beautiful layout, with gardens, orchards, and pleasant waters. Each of its four quarters had its own presiding deity: Amon in the west, Seth in the south, the royal cobra goddess, Buto (Wadjet), in the north, and, significantly, the Syrian goddess Astarte in the east. A vogue for Asian deities had grown up in Egypt, and Ramses himself had distinct leanings in that direction.
The first public act of Ramses after his accession to sole rule was to visit Thebes, the southern capital, for the great religious festival of Opet, when the god Amon of Karnak made a state visit in his ceremonial barge to the temple of Luxor. When returning to his home in the north, the king broke his journey at Abydos to worship Osiris and to arrange for the resumption of work on the great temple founded there by his father, which had been interrupted by the old king's death. He also took the opportunity to appoint as the new high priest of Amon at Thebes a man named Nebwenenef, high priest of Anhur at nearby Thinis.
Military exploits
It seems that, apart from his extensive building activities and his famous residence city, Ramses' reputation as a great king in the eyes of his subjects rested largely on his fame as a soldier.
In the fourth year of his reign, he led an army north to recover the lost provinces his father had been unable to conquer permanently. The first expedition was to subdue rebellious local dynasts in southern Syria, to ensure a secure springboard for further advances. He halted at the Nahr al-Kalb near Beirut, where he set up an inscription to record the events of the campaign; today nothing remains of it except his name and the date; all the rest has weathered away.
The next year the main expedition set out. Its objective was the Hittite stronghold at Kadesh. Following the coastal road through Palestine and Lebanon, the army halted on reaching the south of the land of Amor, perhaps in the neighbourhood of Tripolis. Here Ramses detached a special task force, the duty of which seems to have been to secure the seaport of Simyra and thence to march up the valley of the Eleutherus River (Nahr el-Kebir) to rejoin the main army at Kadesh. The main force then resumed its march to the River Orontes, the army being organized in four divisions of chariotry and infantry, each consisting of perhaps 5,000 men.
Crossing the river from east to west at the ford of Shabtuna, about eight miles from Kadesh, the army passed through a wood to emerge on the plain in front of the city. Two captured Hittite spies gave Ramses the false information that the main Hittite army was at Aleppo, some distance to the north, so that it appeared to the king as if he had only the garrison of Kadesh to deal with. It was not until the army had begun to arrive at the camping site before Kadesh that Ramses learned that the main Hittite army was in fact concealed behind the city. Ramses at once sent off messengers to hasten the remainder of his forces, but before any further action could be taken, the Hittites struck with a force of 2,500 chariots, with three men to a chariot as against the Egyptian two. The leading Egyptian divisions, taken entirely by surprise, broke and fled in disorder, leaving Ramses and his small corps of household chariotry entirely surrounded by the enemy and fighting desperately.
Fortunately for the king, at the crisis of the battle, the Simyra task force appeared on the scene to make its junction with the main army and thus saved the situation. The result of the battle was a tactical victory for the Egyptians, in that they remained masters of the stricken field, but a strategic defeat in that they did not and could not take Kadesh. Neither army was in a fit state to continue action the next day, so an armistice was agreed and the Egyptians returned home. This battle is one of the very few from pharaonic times of which there are real details, and that is because of the king's pride in his stand against great odds; pictures and accounts of the campaign, both an official record and a long poem on the subject, were carved on temple walls in Egypt and Nubia, and the poem is also extant on papyrus.
The failure to capture Kadesh had repercussions on Egyptian prestige abroad, and some of the petty states of South Syria and northern Palestine under Egyptian suzerainty rebelled, so that Ramses had to strengthen the northern edge of Egypt's Asiatic realm before again challenging the Hittites. In the eighth or ninth year of his reign, he took a number of towns in Galilee and Amor, and the next year he was again on the Nahr al-Kalb. It may have been in the 10th year that he broke through the Hittite defenses and conquered Katna and Tunip—where, in a surprise attack by the Hittites, he went into battle without his armour—and held them long enough for a statue of himself as overlord to be erected in Tunip. In a further advance he invaded Kode, perhaps the region between Alexandretta and Carchemish. Nevertheless, like his father before him, he found that he could not permanently hold territory so far from base against continual Hittite pressure, and, after 16 years of intermittent hostilities, a treaty of peace was concluded in 1258 BC, as between equal great powers, and its provisions were reciprocal.
The wars once over, the two nations established friendly ties. Letters on diplomatic matters were regularly exchanged; in 1245 Ramses contracted a marriage with the eldest daughter of the Hittite king, and it is possible that at a later date he married a second Hittite princess. Apart from the struggle against the Hittites, there were punitive expeditions against Edom, Moab, and Negeb and a more serious war against the Libyans, who were constantly trying to invade and settle in the delta; it is probable that Ramses took a personal part in the Libyan war but not in the minor expeditions. The latter part of the reign seems to have been free from wars.
Prosperity during his reign
One measure of Egypt's prosperity is the amount of temple building the kings could afford to carry out, and on that basis the reign of Ramses II is the most notable in Egyptian history, even making allowance for its great length. It was that, combined with his prowess in war as depicted in the temples, that led the Egyptologists of the 19th century to dub him "the Great," and that, in effect, is how his subjects and posterity viewed him; to them he was the king par excellence. Nine kings of the 20th dynasty called themselves by his name; even in the period of decline that followed, it was an honour to be able to claim descent from him, and his subjects called him by the affectionate abbreviation Sese.
In Egypt he completed the great hypostyle hall at Karnak (Thebes) and continued work on the temple built by Seti I at Abydos, both of which were left incomplete at the latter's death. Ramses also completed his father's funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor (Thebes) and built one for himself, which is now known as the Ramesseum. At Abydos he built a temple of his own not far from that of his father; there were also the four major temples in his residence city, not to mention lesser shrines.
In Nubia (Nilotic Sudan) he constructed no fewer than six temples, of which the two carved out of a cliffside at Abu Simbel, with their four colossal statues of the king, are the most magnificent and the best known. The larger of the two was begun under Seti I but was largely executed by Ramses, while the other was entirely due to Ramses. In the Wadi Tumilat, one of the eastern entries into Egypt, he built the town of Per-Atum (biblical Pithom), which the Bible calls a store city (Exodus 1:11) but which probably was a fortified frontier town and customs station. In fact, there can have been few sites of any importance that originally did not exhibit at least the name of Ramses, for, apart from his own work, he did not hesitate to inscribe it on the monuments of his predecessors. In addition to the construction of Pi-Ramesse and Pithom, his most notable secular work, so far as is known, included the sinking of a well in the eastern desert on the route to the Nubian gold mines.
Of Ramses' personal life virtually nothing is known. His first and perhaps favourite queen was Nefertari; the fact that, at Abu Simbel, the smaller temple was dedicated to her and to the goddess of love points to real affection between them. She seems to have died comparatively early in the reign, and her fine tomb in the Valley of the Tombs of the Queens at Thebes is well known. Other queens whose names are preserved were Isinofre, who bore the king four sons, among whom was Ramses' eventual successor, Merneptah; Merytamun; and Matnefrure, the Hittite princess. In addition to the official queen or queens, the king, as was customary, possessed a large harem, and he took pride in his great family of well over 100 children. The best portrait of Ramses II is a fine statue of him as a young man, now in the Turin museum; his mummy, preserved in a mausoleum at Cairo, is that of a very old man with a long narrow face, prominent nose, and massive jaw.
The reign of Ramses II marks the last peak of Egypt's imperial power. After his death Egypt was forced on the defensive but managed to maintain its suzerainty over Palestine and the adjacent territories until the later part of the 20th dynasty, when, under the weak kings who followed Ramses III, internal decay ended its power beyond its borders. Ramses II must have been a good soldier, despite the fiasco of Kadesh, or else he would not have been able to penetrate so far into the Hittite Empire as he did in the following years; he appears to have been a competent administrator, since the country was prosperous, and he was certainly a popular king. Some of his fame, however, must surely be put down to his flair for publicity: his name and the record of his feats on the field of battle were found everywhere in Egypt and Nubia. It is easy to see why, in the eyes both of his subjects and of later generations, he was looked on as a model of what a king should be. (Encyclopaedia Britannica Article


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Guess correctly, and take your pick from among the movie- and TV-related goodies I've got lying around and need to get rid of. It doesn't matter if you've won stuff from me before. It doesn't matter where on the planet you are: I'll send prizes anywhere (though you're responsible for any customs or import duties a box of goodie may incur).
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"We have a situation on our hands and the clock is ticking. We have fifty million twelve-year-old girls in poverty," the opening video proclaimed. The solution is simple and profound, the Girl Effect, "an effect that starts with a 12-year-old girl and impacts the world." Despite the catchy rhyme, I was skeptical. Can you blame me? It seems that we women have been getting the shaft since that damn snake in Eden.
The list of superwomen who addressed the over capacity crowd at the "Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI): An Alliance for Economic Empowerment" event on October 6th read like the World Bank, White House, Hollywood, Philanthropy, Business and the Catwalk list of Who's Who. The crowd craned their necks from the hallway to catch a glimpse of World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and World Bank Director of Gender and Development Mayra Buvinic; White House Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett; Actor, Anne Hathaway; President of the Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Supermodel Christy Turlington.
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Lomu's former side in administration
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October 22, 2011
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All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu's former club side Stade Phoceen has gone into administration.
The 36-year-old monster winger turned out for the Marseille club in 2009 - then known as Marseille-Vitrolles - but on Friday it was announced that they are in financial turmoil. Lomu played a handful of games for the side back in 2009 when he was 34 but Stade's demise follows weeks of rumours and uncertainty over their future.
The club are now expected to let go of 40 employees and 30 players in the coming weeks. Lomu was recently hospitalised for 16 days after experiencing trouble with his kidneys but was well enough to attend an Australia training session prior to their bronze final with Australia.
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Cantor Fitzgerald's Brian White today offers findings from meeting with recently installed CEO Shaygan Kheradpir of Juniper Networks (JNPR) on Friday, a meeting that convinced him the company's recently unveiled "inegrated operating plan," or IOP, a restructuring plan announced last month, is "only the beginning of constructive developments for the company."
White, who has a Buy rating on the shares, and a $37 price target, the company is reducing costs in order to focus on those innovations that "support the economic reality of customers":
We walked away impressed by Shaygan's deep understanding of the latest tech trends and his ability to relate to the needs of his customers. Given Shaygan's tech and operations background, we believe he will be a very important asset for Juniper in terms of improving the company's operating efficiency, re-focusing Juniper on its tradition of entrepreneurial innovation, and connecting with tech decision makers.
And he was impressed with Kheradpir's knowledge of tech trends, and with the focus on developments such as "network function virtualization":
During our meeting, Shaygan also focused on the theme of Juniper as a leading provider of "High-IQ Networks" and best-in-class "Cloud Builders". Essentially, he believes networks need to be smarter and the architectures are changing to support the cloud, trends that customers are becoming quickly familiar with, in an effort to compete in a rapidly changing tech landscape with the ramp of the mobile Internet (with over-the-top players), the shift to cloud computing and the introduction of Big Data. In the past, networks across different industries were very different; however, networks at carriers, cloud service providers, web 2.0 companies, and certain enterprises (e.g., financials) are increasingly converging to support these three secular tech trends. As such, a core router such as Juniper's PTX could be used by a financial institution, a web 2.0 company and others, no longer just focused on a telecom carrier's network, and thus we believe opening up new growth opportunities for Juniper. Also, the trend toward Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) was a key focus at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) but is still in the early stages with modest deployments this year; however, we believe this is already opening up new doors for Juniper that could become interesting for the company in 2015. As we discussed at MWC, we believe Voice-Over-LTE (VoLTE) will be rolled out in the U.S. market in 2014, a positive for Juniper, in our view.
Juniper shares today closed down 26 cents, or 1%, at $25.36.


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We've been following with great interest the clash between Mark Steyn and Austin Bay over the future of Europe. I first commented about it here. Rocket Man linked to the latest installments earlier today.
My general take is that Steyn has the better sense of how profound Europe's problems are and how little we now have in common with the Europeans. Indeed, my comment on MSNBC last week that the U.S. and Europe are former allies is not that different from Steyn's latest reference to "the death" of "a Euro-American alliance founded on common values."
However, in my view Bay is correct to reject Steyn's certainty that the rot is irreversible. In times of crisis, it's not difficult for minds as powerful as Steyn's to "prove" that a happy ending is impossible. Yet, hidden dynamics can produce endings that, if not happy, are at least acceptable. If one believes, as we do, that the Middle East cannot be written off with certainty, it would be odd for us to agree that Europe can be.
I hope to be able to comment more substantively on this matter before too long.
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Shareholders are mad that Amazon is putting its customers first, and CEO Jeff Bezos is running the company like a charity, citing marginal profits. In jobs news, drug company Eli Lilly is cutting jobs again. What does that have to do with tougher limits on sales practices? Other things we're wondering today: Are North Korea's threats real? The U.S. is alarms, but North Korea's neighbors aren't.


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Jimmie Johnson (No. 48) won the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, edging Clint Bowyer by 0.002 seconds, tying the closest finish in NASCAR history.
Look closely and you can see Dale Earnhardt Jr's #88 car bumping Johnson from behind.
That push was just enough to give his teammate the edge. Johnson gave Earnhardt the checkered flag as a thank you.
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You know it. Every website, that has been around for a while tends to accumulate small problems, typos, migration issues and other ballast. Even with the best webmasters, big websites will have their imperfections hidden in odd corners, waiting to jump on unsuspecting visitors and spoil their experience.
This thread is here to collect such minor issues, so that the webmasters can attend to them, when they have time. If you find some problems, add them. Let's keep the place in shape!
- The link from Mises's biography (http://mises.org/about/3248) to
"Books and Essays from Mises (complete text)" doesn't work (is
http://mises.org/studyguide.aspx?action=author&Id=280, should
probably be http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=280,
if there's not a list of study guides on his works or something) - Same page, the link to the downloadable photographs is http://mises.org/content/mises.asp#photos, #photos would be sufficient -
The link to Bettina B. Greaves's Annotated Bibliography of Ludwig von
Mises (http://mises.org/product.asp?sku=B051) should be
http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=24 or
http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=25 (if they aren't
really the same) - "Who was Mises" on http://mises.org/misestributes/misesjgh.asp has an unformatted title -
"The Story of the Lost Papers" (http://mises.org/lostpapers.asp) has
some broken special characters, mostly from German umlauts ( G?tz Aly,
D?sseldorf, Germany: Hans-Bl?ckler-Stiftung, Moscow?s, Beuteakten aus ?sterreich: Der ?sterreichbestand, Instituts f?r Kriegsfolgen, J?rg Guido H?lsmann, H?lsmann) - in the FAQ http://www.mises.org/about/3467#reprint, "every text much be treated in a special way" - FAQ http://www.mises.org/about/3467#other missing an LvM Institute in Brazil: http://www.mises.org.br/
- where's the Russian one? The closest thing I could find is this:
http://www.libertarium.ru/libertarium 'Moscow Libertarium'
(http://www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/l_eproject) - the Bibliography for Frank Fetter page referred to by several pages is missing: http://www.mises.org/fetterbib.asp -
in Rothbard's works, the "Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian
Economics" is displayed twice. Same file, same description, different
'Related' tags. - in the biography of A.R.J. Turgot (http://mises.org/about/3244) is a header gone wrong, close to the bottom of the page: selected="true"="true" READINGS - in A Scholar in Defense of Freedom (http://mises.org/content/mnrasidof.asp), misformatted header - The Unstoppable Rothbard (http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=1708) a 'link' across multiple lines - http://mises.org/about/3241 Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966): Humane Economist, malformatted headers; also odd bibliography - the RSS link in Literature and related pages under the 'Filter By' menu does not work (other RSS links work)
in the Literature search, it says in nice large letters how many
results were found, but not what exactly was searched for. Unusual. (Okay, this is more of a change request.)
Mises Wiki | Economic Resources and Books (search engine)
There are » symbols that break the location bar at the top of a the forum pages.
also, the arrows are probably the most rediculous code I've ever seen. There are 60 elements used to make the triangular shape.
Thank you so much!
Publisher, Laissez-Faire Books
Sorry, did you write it?
I really can't see the point in using 60 elements where a 15x60 px .png image would accomplish the same thing and only take up 1 line of code.
(Dunno if you were being sarcastic :/)
Thank you so much!
More work for you!
banned:There are » symbols that break the location bar at the top of a the forum pages.
banned:also, the arrows are probably the most rediculous code I've ever seen. There are 60 elements used to make the triangular shape.
I'm not quite sure that is right. It looks like boilerplate template code for the breadcrumbs but for some reason the CSS is inline (the elements) instead of in the css file.
It's about 23,434 characters long right now. Which is about 22.8kb. Quite a bit of page bloat. Probably not good for SEO either, because some of the search engines only index the first 80,000 or so characters.
I agree, it could be done in plain text (attractively enough) or using background images to maintain the current look. Probably cut that down to approx 1,000 chars. That's about 1.1 KB. But then if you use images, you will have to add them in, although they will be cached if I recall correctly.
So potential savings of around 15 to 18 kb per community page load. Rough guesstimate if the community loads 250,000 times per month, that's... 3.75gb of bandwidth. I imagine the community probably gets closer to a million page loads a month, but then the blogs don't use the same breadcrumb template.
Another upside is a lower server load per connection and faster browser render times.
Now who will code up some nice CSS breadcrumbs that are lightweight for HeroicLife? I don't do design anymore.
@Jeff, there is a problem with this Tom Woods video. It is only about 30 MB. The other ones were all over 100MB. When I play it, it just cuts off around 15 minutes in or so. It's #10 in the lecture series.
Actually, I see the reason it's like that now. In order for the arrow point to be nested within another arrow and also work alone (represent a current location on the forum), each segment needs to be seperate. To fix this, I'm pretty sure the whole template would need to be changed.
EDIT: Actually I'm pretty sure this is possible.
Don't want to start a riot or anything, but wouldn't be the simplest solution to just cut the tiny symbols with 20+kB size out? :)
I noticed that on some browsers, it does, well, this:
Schools are labour camps.
Peter Sidor:
Don't want to start a riot or anything, but wouldn't be the simplest solution to just cut the tiny symbols with 20+kB size out? :)
It's page code that is so big. The background (blue parts) and white arrow parts are all generated pixel by pixel. It is a very sloppy way to do that.
I cut down the code to this

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Which looks like this
With a little bit of styling, that could be cleaned up. Anyone who knows CSS could pad the different links, and add a colour change on mouse hover, and that would probably do.
It loads a different style for BreadCrumbArrow when it is showing the current location. The segments that would be the tail of another arrow are made white. You don't have to remove the whole element, you just have to make it load a different image when it is showing the current forum location, and since there's already something in place that will alter the element when it's on the current location, this wouldn't be hard to impliment.
When I view my favorite posts, it says I have 9 items. But it only ever displays 3.
a couple complaints:
-When you are on the home page of mises.org, and try to view your profile, it links to a ridiculous condensed profile listing your user tags.
-the intra site search engine in the mises community suckkks
-want the option to change your email address
-some issues with numbering pages on discussion threads
do we get free cheezeburger in socielism?
fezwhatley:-When you are on the home page of mises.org, and try to view your profile, it links to a ridiculous condensed profile listing your user tags.
The front of the site and the community are two different sets of software which is why you have different profile listings with the common login.
As some Russian developers I used to work with would say, "This is not a bug, this is a feature."
fezwhatley:-the intra site search engine in the mises community suckkks
Indeed. That is a community server (software) issue. It's not something simple to fix. Community Server IMO is the best and worst piece of software ever. But they will improve it eventually. In the meanwhile, you can use this for google searches.
Put this in the google search
SEARCH TERM HERE site:mises.org/Community/forums/
If you want to search the whole community,
SEARCH TERM HERE site:mises.org/Community/
fezwhatley:-want the option to change your email address
fezwhatley:-some issues with numbering pages on discussion threads
I don't know what that means.
thanks for the tips, cant believe i missed it
liberty student:The front of the site and the community are two different sets of software which is why you have different profile listings with the common login.
Is that the reason why I am only logged into the 'community' and not the 'site'? I tried to log in to the site as well, but don't get any text fields to do so (funnily enough, I am shown there as logged in). Should I join on the main site with the same username, or???
To add something constructive:
- the notes in Hayek's bio (http://mises.org/about/3234) link to another page - http://mises.org/tradcycl/econdepr.asp - many '-'s turned into '?'s -
in Fun (http://mises.org/content/fun.asp), the link to the Money song is broken - but you can have
the whole video from the Python's themselves:
Peter Sidor:Is that the reason why I am only logged into the 'community' and not the 'site'? I tried to log in to the site as well, but don't get any text fields to do so (funnily enough, I am shown there as logged in). Should I join on the main site with the same username, or???
Your login should be persistent. I am logged into both right now. Most of my comments in this thread are from observation and I know some stuff about the web. I don't actually know how the bridge between the main site and the community is constructed.
If you are still not logged into the front end, then I would completely log out, login to the front end, then enter the community and see if that works. It just occurred to me that might be it.
The end of this article.
In the "media section" some of the author names do not show up in the drop-down.
like this:
I sent an email to the webmaster earlier but got no reply.
When you open the mises.org website, at the right side of the site, where there is: Mises Blog / User Blogs / Forums , and you try to click at "Forums", the page is finishing loading and it moves and you accidentally click at "forums rss".
Am I the only one still waiting for a "I can't get to the forum" post? Would be classic.
liberty student:Your login should be persistent. I am logged into both right now. Most of my comments in this thread are from observation and I know some stuff about the web. I don't actually know how the bridge between the main site and the community is constructed.
If you are still not logged into the front end, then I would completely log out, login to the front end, then enter the community and see if that works. It just occurred to me that might be it.
Weird. Now that I have complained of it, I find myself logged both into the main site and community (still not logged into the Blog, duh). Better!
None of the links work
The Jens Parsson Book, Dying of Money, is no long on your site. What gives? Out of print and an amazing book.
It was here: http://mises.org/web/4017
If you click the link to "Daily Articles" from Tom Wood's page, it doesn't work... nothing shows up for me.
right the author id should be 424.
and not 804 as it is on that page...
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
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Yeah, I always yo use the alternate link. Might as well make the alternate link the main link.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Saving favorites are not being brought back to my "Shared Favorites". I go to browse them on my personal avatar page and the newer ones are not coming up. So it used to bring them there, but isn't anymore. Yet when I go back to the post that I saved as a favorite it still is checked off saying it is a favorite that I've saved.
All that needs to be changed is for each link...
remove the mm. and replace with www.
Hi berrygraham, yes I was just about to read for the 3rd time and cant find it on the site. You can read about 4 pages of it with a quick trip thru google search, Ill try to find the link again but thats it. Its a good read especially in these troubled times.
Ive checked ebay and the only copy for sale was $699!
Second hand ones are on Amazon but I cant use their pigs breakfast of a site being an international buyer.
By the way berrygraham, I know a Graham Berry in NZ, are you any connection?
The mises icon? has got a black background behind the mises shield.
Conza means the Mises favicon. The community Favicon has a white background, the site proper has a black background.
I've created a new favicon that has transparency, so it could be used on the main site, and in the community.
Here is a comparison of the two. Current on the left, newer version on the right.
HeroicLife, if you want to download it, you can get it here
I will leave it on my site for a couple weeks, until you tell me you have downloaded it, or until you tell me you have no use for it.
When I download the data from the economic data page (http://mises.org/content/nofed/chart.aspx?series=TMS), the column labels do not match the data. The labels are ordered TMS-MZM-M1-M2-M3 but the data are ordered M1-M2-M3-MZM-TMS.
Government Explained 2: The Special Piece of Paper
Law without Government
A few more:
- http://mises.org/story/3100 - broken link (http://mises.org/story/%3Ca%20href=%22http://mises.org/story/2205%22%3E) -
2nd level headers smaller than the text:
http://mises.org/etexts/mises/critique/section5.asp and
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=281 - tiny quotes in: http://mises.org/rothbard/salernointro.asp -
Mises Store: if you click on the Buy button on something in your
Wishlist, the item is deleted from the it. That is fine, but not very practical, if the item in question happens to be out of stock (like that darn Executive Coffee Mug!). The Wishlist entry is in that case lost. - speaking of, it would be great, if the status of 'Out of Stock' would be shown with an item!
Btw, THANKS for whoever fixes this up. Those Rothbard message links are sorted.
Btw, THANKS for whoever fixes this up. Those Rothbard message links are sorted.
Yeah, keep at the good work! (By the way, if you want to use this thread as a list and strike out things already fixed, feel free!)
In the index of Human Action, Chapter XXXVII should be probably placed into Part Seven. Gotta keep those classics sorted.
The "reply" button on the left has disappeared, and half of the "more" button has been cut in half.
They went invisible... but oddly enough, I can still guess & click them, to post and edit.
Anyone else getting this?
It's just you. If you are on windows, reload the page by typing CTRL+F5.


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The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Fall 2011
When you tell someone you have cancer, the first question you often hear is, "What kind?" Unfortunately, if it's anal cancer, the response may be "colorectal cancer," mumbled ambiguous words, or some other dodge. Discussion -- even mere mention -- of the anus is still considered taboo in many cultures, and this silence can be life-threatening, especially for people with HIV. But anal cancer is affecting more people every year. While the rate in the U.S. is not has high as other cancers, it is increasing at a rate of about 2% a year, and the National Cancer Institute expects 5,820 cases -- 3,680 women and 2,140 men -- to be diagnosed in 2011.
Certain groups are more likely to encounter anal HPV infection, which can lead to anal cancer. Though more women than men are diagnosed with anal cancer each year, some groups, such as HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), have a significantly elevated risk of anal cancer. The social stigma that anal cancer carries with it prevents the open discussion and awareness needed to battle the disease, and stagnates funding to support research and care.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the U.S. Over half the population will get it at some point in their lives. Each year 6 million people in the U.S. become newly infected with HPV, and 20 million people currently have the virus. While most HPV infections are resolved by the body's defenses, they cause half a million cases of cancer each year around the world.
A big misconception about HPV is that someone must be sexually promiscuous or have "casual sex" to contract the virus. Since HPV is a virus that is easily transferred, all it takes is one sexual partner to become infected. HPV is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, including sexual intercourse. However, it can be transmitted by activity that does not include vaginal, oral, or anal intercourse. This includes deep kissing, genital skin-to-skin touching, and use of sex toys. Genital warts, which generally do not cause cancer but are caused by certain types of HPV, are transmitted in the same manner. In 90% of cases, the body clears the virus within two years without any treatment. But some patients, especially but not only those with weakened immune systems (such as people with HIV or organ transplant recipients) have difficulty clearing the virus on their own. If the HPV infection is persistent and caused by a high-risk (cancer-causing) strain of HPV, it can lead to cell abnormalities (also called dysplasia). Severe cases of dysplasia can lead to cancer over time.
While more women than men develop HPV-related cancers, HPV can cause anal, penile, and head and neck cancers in men. It can also cause cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer in women. According to the CDC, more than 20,000 HPV-related cancers occur in women and over 11,000 occur in men each year in the U.S. Worldwide, the World Health Organization documented 500,000 cases of cervical cancer alone and 260,000 related deaths in 2005.
There are about 150 types of HPV, with around 40 types transmitted through sex. Approximately 15 sexually transmitted HPV strains have the potential to cause cancer, and a person can be infected with multiple strains. Two strains, 16 and 18, cause around 70% of cervical and 85% of anal cancers. Most oral cancers are caused by type 16. Types 16 and 18 are also highly common in vaginal and penile cancer.
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There are currently two FDA-approved vaccines: Gardasil and Cervarix. Both protect against the two most common cancercausing strains, HPV-16 and HPV-18. Gardasil also protects against HPV-6 and HPV-11, which are linked to 90% of genital warts. Both use virus-like particles to enable the body to develop immunity to these strains of the virus. If a person is infected by HPV but has not been exposed to all four strains covered by the vaccine, it can still protect against the other strains.
The HPV vaccine is not mandatory in the U.S., but the CDC recommends that both men and women, and the parents of boys and girls, discuss the vaccine with their medical providers. In November 2011, the CDC amended its policies to recommend that both boys and girls be routinely vaccinated against HPV. Vaccination allows both sexes to take a proactive step toward protecting themselves and their partners from the virus and its potential consequences. Since HPV is easily transmitted, vaccinating against the virus before a person becomes sexually active offers the most protection. Even after sexual activity has started, however, a person may still get protection from the vaccine.
The FDA has approved Gardasil to prevent vulvar, vaginal, and cervical cancer in women, and anal cancer and genital warts in men and women. It is approved for use in males and females ages 9-26. It is routinely recommended for girls and boys, with a target age of 11-12. "Catch-up" vaccination is routinely recommended for women in the 13-26 year age range and in men aged 13 to 21 years. The vaccine is also recommended for men aged 22 to 26 years, but the recommendation in this group is "permissive" and not "routine", meaning that men may not have it covered by their insurance. The FDA has also approved Cervarix to prevent cervical cancer. It is approved for girls ages 9-25. Recent studies suggest it may also protect against anal HPV infection, which can lead to anal cancer.
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Bleach's author Tite Kubo is apparently set on keeping Bleach going for at least another 10 years, remarking that it is only halfway through.
Kubo's remarks were reported by 2ch-frequenting attendees of the recently held Jump Festa, where he took the stage to talk about his creation:
"It's about halfway through the story at the moment.Another version has him being asked "So will you be keeping it going for the next 30 years?" to which he responds "I think I'd like to make it a bit shorter than that," with the other speaker quipping that "It should be continuing for at least another 10 years!"
At the very least, I'll be doing it for another 10 years."
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Get an overview of this hotelCaribbean mood with cascading waterfall, waterslide
Popular property highlights
A shuttle away from area attractions
This all-suite hotel with its own convention center is within 6 miles of Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, and the Orlando Convention Center.
Serpentine waterslide
Caribe Royale guests have access to shopping center shuttle services, fitness center, tennis court, spa, and freeform pool with a waterfall and a twisting, 75-foot-long waterslide.
Suites and villas
Caribe Royale's one-bedroom suites offer HBO, HD flat-screen TVs, refrigerators, and microwaves. Two-bedroom villas add full kitchens, jetted tubs, and screened-in balconies.
Languages Spoken
- English
Caribe Royale All-Suite Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Waterfalls cascade from rocks high above a 250,000-gallon pool, with a 75-foot (23-meter) serpentine waterslide at this Orlando hotel. A fitness center is in the pool courtyard. An additional pool, 2 spa tubs, children's pool, and water playground are onsite. A series of spa services and treatments are available, including manicures and pedicures, massage, and 3 treatments rooms, including a couples treatment room (advanced reservations required for spa services). Other amenities include a lighted tennis court, lighted basketball court, activity desk, and gift shop. Enjoy a buffet breakfast cooked daily (surcharge).
Complimentary scheduled shuttles get guests to Lake Buena Vista Factory Stores (once per day). Shuttles to the Walt Disney Ticket & Transportation Center and Orlando Vineland Premium Outlets, are included in the resort fee and require advanced reservations.
A convention center, including 150,000 square feet (13,935 square meters) of meeting space and a 40,000-square-foot (3,716-square-meter) ballroom, can accommodate up to 4,400 guests. Catering and small conference rooms are available. A self-service business center offers copying, faxing, scanning, and computer workstations (surcharges). WiFi access is available in public areas (included in resort fee).
Self parking and valet parking are available for a surcharge.
Smoking is permitted in designated areas.
- Waterslide
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Free theme park shuttle
- Number of spa tubs - 3
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Full-service spa
- Local Expert Concierge
- 24-hour front desk
- Poolside bar
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Conference space
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Meeting rooms
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Children's pool
- Conference space size (meters) - 13935
- Spa services on site
- Luggage storage
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 3
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 150000
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Designated smoking areas
- Ballroom
- Outdoor tennis court
- Pool umbrellas
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 1335
- Arcade/game room
- Number of buildings/towers - 7
- Multilingual staff
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Waterslide
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis court
- Theme park shuttle (complimentary)
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free WiFi
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Number of bedrooms -
- Number of bathrooms -
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Separate bedroom
- Cable TV service
Where to Eat
The Venetian Chop House - Contemporary cuisine including signature steaks, chops, fresh seafood and reserve wine selections. The Venetian Chop House is located on the lower level of the Reception Building. Serving dinner Monday through Saturday 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations are recommended.
The Tropicale - Traditional family fare are served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a comfortable setting complete with indoor palm trees. Menu items include sandwiches, burgers, pasta, and meat and poultry dishes.
Calypso's - This poolside dining venue consists of traditional tropical drinks and hot meals, including burgers and sandwiches. It serves snacks and lunch.
Café 24 - Open seven days a week, Café 24, with its bistro theme, offers late-night dining or takeout anytime. Menu items include pizza, salads, and deli favorites.
The Loft - Situated off the hotel lobby, The Loft has a rich wood motif, widescreen TV, cocktails, and snacks.
Java's Coffee Cafe - Located poolside, lobby level, in Tower II. Offers freshly brewed coffee, specialty coffee drinks, freshly baked cookies and muffins, hand-dipped ice cream, and sundries.
Nearby Things to Do
A 250,000-gallon outdoor freeform pool—flanked by towering rocks with a cascading waterfall—and a 75-foot serpentine waterslide create a tropical playground. A fitness center in the pool courtyard provides trained staff and an array of cardio and weight equipment. Bicycles are available for rent from our fitness center along with fishing pole rentals for our recently added catch and release fishing pier. A 1.5 mile bicycle, jogging walking path surrounds our property. For children, Caribe Royale has a separate pool and interactive water playground, as well as a video-game room. Guests can play on a lighted tennis court and a lighted basketball court.
Recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Playground on site
- Golfing nearby
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
Island Spa is the perfect place to pamper your senses, relax, and melt away the stress after a long day of meetings or enjoying the local theme parks. Along with 5-star service from highly skilled professionals, the signature treatments and exclusive Privai products will envelop guests in a sensory, tropical experience. Guests can enjoy from an array of massages, such as hot stone, prenatal, and Swedish, to rejuvenating body treatments.
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 6 AM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 4 children stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
- Deposit: USD 50 per day
- Resort fee: USD 28.13 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Shuttle service
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- In-room coffee
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 20 for adults and USD 10 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 10.65 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 15.98 per day (in/out privileges)
- Late check-out fee: USD 50 (subject to availability)
Hotel Name
- Caribe Royale All-Suite
- Caribe Royale All-Suite Hotel
- Caribe Royale All-Suite Hotel Orlando
- Caribe Royale All-Suite Orlando
- Caribe Royale Hotel
- Hotel Caribe Royale
- Royale Caribe
- Royale Caribe Hotel
- Caribe Royale All Suite Hotel And Convention Center
- Caribe Royale All Suite Hotel Orlando
- Caribe Royale Orlando Hotel
- Caribe Royale All Suite Hotel Convention Center
- Caribe Royale All Suite Hotel
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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5 Federal Careers Hiring at Record Pace
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Engineering and Sciences
Engineering technicians use the principles and theories of science, engineering, and mathematics to solve technical problems in research and development, manufacturing, sales, construction, inspection, and maintenance.
Others work in quality control, inspecting products and processes, conducting tests, or collecting data. In manufacturing, they may assist in product design, development, or production. Although many workers who repair or maintain various types of electrical, electronic, or mechanical equipment are called technicians, these workers are covered in the Handbook section on installation, maintenance, and repair occupations.
Jobs: Engineer, Biologist, Physicist, Chemist, Astronomer, Aerospace Engineer, Biomedical Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Instrumentation Engineer, Logistics Engineer, Maintainability Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Materials Engineer, Mining Engineer, Optical Engineer, Ordnance Engineer, Packaging Engineer, Photographic Engineer, Pollution-Control Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer.
Median Annual Salary
Engineering technicians earn an average salary of $43,920.
Federally employed engineers who advanced to the GS-10 level earned salaries of between $48,159 – $60,199 (additional degree may be required).
Educational Requirements
Most engineers enter the occupation with an associate degree in engineering technology. Although it may be possible to qualify for certain engineering technician jobs without formal training, most employers prefer to hire someone with at least a 2-year associate degree in an engineering or science field.
Other training in technical areas may be obtained in the Armed Forces. Many military technical training programs are highly regarded by employers. However, skills acquired in military programs are often narrowly focused and may be of limited applicability in civilian industry, which often requires broader training.
Career Tips
• Opportunities will be best for individuals with an associate degree or extensive job training in engineering.
• Environmental engineering technicians are expected to have 25 percent employment growth between 2006 and 2016, much faster than the average for all occupations.
• Engineers who work in an aerospace related field generally receive higher pay than other types of engineers.
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"I believe that the greatest possession of the College has been and still is the spirit of Eleazar Wheelock in so far as it has been transmitted through his successors."
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Independent oil and gas producer Devon Energy puts its energy into oil and gas fields far from England's southwestern coast, in North America. It focuses on exploration and production assets in Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, and western Canada. In 2011 Devon Energy reported proved reserves of 3 billion barrels of oil equivalent (58% natural gas) and more – more... than 19,900 net acres of assets. It also drilled almost 2,500 gross wells. Devon Energy produces about 2.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas a day (more than 3% of all the gas consumed in North America). The company is the largest producer and lease holder in the Barnett Shale (Texas) and is looking to replicate its success there to other unconventional plays.
Geographic Reach
Once active in major oil patches worldwide such as Azerbaijan, Brazil, and China, in the mid-2000s the company decided to focus on safer and increasingly productive unconventional onshore exploration opportunities (shales and oil sands) in North America. As a result, Devon Energy has sold all of its international assets.
Financial Analysis
Devon Energy posted a major improvement in revenues in 2010, thanks to higher commodity prices and an increase in production. In 2011, buoyed by record level reserves, high oil prices, and an increased demand for oil and gas products, the company posted a further 15% growth in revenues. Net income only rose by 3%, however, as higher operating, depreciation, deletion, and amortization costs and an increase in deferred income tax expense trimmed income growth.
Boosting its financial resources, in 2012 Devon Energy secured a commitment from Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration & Production for the Chinese company to invest $2.2 billion in exchange for one-third of Devon's interest in five new joint venture plays in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Niobrara, Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale, and the Michigan Basin.
That year it also closed a similar $1.4 billion joint venture deal with Sumitomo Corp. to develop 650,000 net acres in the Cline Shale and the Midland-Wolfcamp Shale in West Texas.
In 2010 it sold most of its remaining international assets to BP for $7 billion. As part of this deal BP sold undeveloped oil sand leases in Canada to Devon Energy for $500 million and formed a joint venture with the company to exploit them. The company also sold its Panyu field, offshore China, to China National Offshore Oil for $515 million.
Consolidating its North American assets to just its onshore properties, In 2010 Devon Energy sold its stakes in the Cascade, Jack and St. Malo fields in the Gulf of Mexico (about 200 million barrels of estimated recoverable reserves) to AP Moller-Maersk's oil unit for $1.3 billion. It also sold its remaining Gulf of Mexico shelf assets to Apache for $1 billion. – less


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May 20, 2002
May 20, 2002— The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The Anderson School at UCLA, one of 30 centers located at leading business schools nationwide, has been awarded $1.4 million in funding that will enhance its current academic, research and outreach initiatives, as well as launch a new program aimed at preparing students for international leadership.
"We are very excited that we were able to effectively convey our vision for CIBER's future at UCLA Anderson," said Sara Tucker, associate director of CIBER. "The support and funding will enable us to make a substantial contribution in preparing our students to compete in the global marketplace."
Anderson's Center was founded in 1989 by Anderson Professor Jose de la Torre, and was one of the first six of such centers created by the United States Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. This year, all existing CIBERs were awarded funding to be dispersed over a four-year period and two additional centers were added.
Anderson's CIBER program aims to enrich the international content of the business school curriculum, providing funding to faculty and doctoral students working on projects related to the international activities of U.S.-based corporations.
Over the next year, CIBER staff and faculty will continue to deliver stellar programs and activities, including:
Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, which will invite scholars of international reputation to UCLA to interact and collaborate with students and faculty members
International Research Conferences, a series of conferences focused on various international issues
International Education Alliance Partners, a collaborative initiative with Anderson School faculty to establish educational alliances with select partners across the world
Resource Center for Researchers, Students and the Community, an online resource center dedicated to international business and economics and a repository for working papers and papers presented at the research conferences.
The Center will also kick off its new Advanced International Management Program (AIM), which will prepare students for international leadership roles through an integrated focus on global research, coursework and innovative programs.
Responding to an increasingly sophisticated global marketplace, the AIM program will replace the Center's current International Management Fellows Program, and will allow students to choose from the School's many international opportunities to create a program tailored to their needs. AIM participants will be getting a career advantage through relationships with international faculty and participating in seminars with business, government and academic leaders from around the world.
"The idea behind these new initiatives is to implement comprehensive programs that are integrated into the fabric of the school and will impact a broad spectrum of Anderson constituents," said Bhagwan Chowdhry, director of CIBER and associate professor of finance at UCLA Anderson.
Preparing the grant proposal for the funding was a long and intense process that began in early 2001, involving a faculty advisory committee of Anderson's leading professors, as well as Chowdhry, Tucker, and Robert Spich, faculty director of programs, who collaborated in writing the final proposal.
UCLA Anderson is ranked in the top tier of graduate business schools in the United States. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson today has 134 faculty members who serve more than 600 full-time MBA students, approximately 400 fully employed MBA students, nearly 140 executive MBA students, and 65 Ph.D. students.


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Cranberry Glades nature Center & Botanical Area
The Cranberry Glades is the largest area of bogs, or acidic wetlands, in West Virginia, a unique and exotic ecosystem on 750 acres. This spectacular and beautiful area was established by the United States Forest Service in 1965, to protect and preserve over 60 unique plant species, many of them descended from seeds that took root here over 10,000 years ago.
Whether you are looking at an individual fuchsia-colored Wild Orchid or taking in the beauty of the bog plains, there is a special tranquility found only here.
The Glade's fascinating sphagnum bogs are similar to that found in "Muskegs" of the Artic Tundra. When you first enter the area, you will notice Red Spruce, hemlock and Yellow Birch trees.
Along the left side of the boardwalk you may see a tree that has fallen over. The shallow roots so necessary for survival here do not adequately anchor trees against strong winds. Thus, the very adaptation which allows these trees to live here can also cause their death.
Carnivorous or insect-eating plants also make their home in the bogs. The half-mile boardwalk was constructed so you can enjoy the area without disturbing this fragile community.
Keep a watchful eye as you walk through the area and you might spy some of these wild animals: American Black Bear, WV Northern Flying Squirrel, Red-tailed Hawk, American Bald Eagle, Red Fox, coyote, White-tailed Deer, Cooper Hawk, and Eastern Screech-Owl.
As you walk along the boardwalk, you might see some of these plants: Bishop's Cap, Jewelweed, False Hellebore, Indian Pipe, Turtlehead, Wild Raisin, Sundew, Grass Pink Orchid, and the Pitcher Plant.
The wheelchair accessible boardwalk is available for self guided tours and pre-arranged tours made in advance.
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J.P. Morgan Debt Team Resurrected Crashed Bombardier Deal
J.P. Morgan's investment banking operations got a big boost its debt underwriting business in the fourth quarter.
The business saw its revenue rise 79% to $990 million, accounting for the biggest chunk of the $1.7 billion in investment banking fees J.P. Morgan collected in the quarter.
A deal J.P. Morgan closed last week showed why its debt underwriting business ranked No. 1 in both global and U.S. league tables.
The bank was the sole bookrunner for a $2 billion debt offering for Canadian airplane and train maker Bombardier. The deal, which raised twice as much as planned, came only two months after an earlier attempt by Bombardier to raise $1 billion in debt crashed.
Back in November, Bombardier was facing concerns about its liquidity position after it had announced a delay to an important plane it is building. Those concerns coupled with the global macroeconomic worries: The U.S. presidential election had just ended and the "fiscal cliff" was looming, while much of Europe, where Bombardier gets a large majority of train revenues, remained mired in recession.
Bombardier CFO Pierre Alary told Deal Journal all those factors contributed to the November deal's collapse.
"It was a question of timing," he said.
Several other deals were pulled in late November, and high-yield debt sold in the month dropped compared to previous months.
But after that first offering, which had been led by Deutsche Bank and included J.P. Morgan and six other joint bookrunners, was pulled, Bombardier's shares slumped further. The stock, which trades in Toronto, dropped below $3 for the first time since 2009.
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