CFA Scholarship – Level I Exam

The CFA Society of the Philippines is offering scholarships for the December 2009 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I examination.

Read below for details on how to apply for the scholarship.

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Bernard Madoff guilty, gets 150-year prison term

Just less than an hour ago, a US federal judge gave the 71-year-old former NASDAQ chair Bernard Madoff the maximum sentence of 150 years in prison for an “extraordinary evil” fraud that demolished the life savings of individuals and investments of charities and pension funds.

In the court decision, District Judge Denny Chin described the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as “extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead … one that takes a staggering human toll.”

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How to find and go after scammers

You entrusted your money to a person you believed was trustworthy but, in the end, you were deceived and now that person is gone.

You have been scammed.

If you know where they are, you can report scammers to the authorities in the Philippines.

But if they cannot anymore be found, you can resort to creative means of finding them. Just like having a paid advertisement on newspapers.

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Time Magazine Special Issue: Michael Jackson

Time Magazine is rushing today to release a special commemorative edition to remember the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who died on June 25 due to cardiac arrest.

This issue is surely going to be one of the few priceless Time collector’s editions. Here’s the cover of the magazine expected to hit the newsstands today, June 29.

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Time of day with highest Adsense earnings

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

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How to decrease or change font size of Adsense ads

If you haven’t noticed it yet, the font sizes of Google Adsense ads have now gotten bigger. That’s because the default font size of the ads is now “medium.”

Starting last week, publishers were given the option to change the font sizes from small to medium or large. A sample of how each size looks like is shown below.

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Swine Flu in the Philippines: 1 dead

The Philippines now has one confirmed death of a woman inflicted with the A(H1N1) virus or Swine Flu.

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Big earthquake in Marikina Valley fault line?

The United Nations is advising the Philippines to be ready for an upcoming big earthquake. A quake with a magnitude of 7 or higher on the Richter scale is sure to hit Metro Manila, they say, but the bigger question is when exactly this will happen.

The Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) report published in 2004 predicts that an earthquake with a high magnitude will surely occur because of the Philippine Fault Zone (also called the Marikina Valley Fault System), but experts cannot predict when this may happen.

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WordPress 2.8 upgrade problem, downgrade possible?

Just like thousands of Wordpress (WP) users who saw on June 11 that a new version — Wordpress 2.8 — is already available, I clicked on the auto-upgrade link as soon as I saw it inside my blog’s Admin panel.

Wrong move! It crashed this blog and the site won’t load anymore!

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