Paramount Trade: US no 2 bank by assets posts 18% slide in quarterly profit on global economic outlook. Paramount Trade: Bank of America, the no. 2 US bank as measured by assets reported an 18% decline in Q1 2016 profit versus the same quarter in 2015. A significant proportion of the decline occurred in its […]
Paramount Trade: Saudi Borrows For 1st Time In 25 Years . . .
Paramount Trade: World’s biggest oil exporter to secure $10bn loan to help ease pain of low oil prices. Paramount Trade: Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter is on the brink of securing a $10 billion loan from international banks that will help to soothe the pain of the collapse of global crude prices. It […]
Achieving gender equality through the Noble Eightfold Path methodology: A Universal Perspective
The ILO (2007, p. 89) states, “Gender refers to the socially constructed differences and relations between males and females. These vary widely among societies and cultures and change over time.” Indeed, gender is a broader concept that also addresses the issues of other sexual minorities socially discriminated or excluded. The 2016 theme for the International […]
Capita Selects Ark Data Centres for New Capita Private Cloud Service
Capita has partnered with Ark Data Centres to supply secure, energy efficient data centre space for the new Capita Private Cloud platform (infrastructure as a service). The move allows Capita IT Enterprise Services to develop standard infrastructures, processes and services that it can offer customers rather than creating bespoke solutions in every case. By using […]
Bosnia:Identifying War Victim’s Remains
By David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal […]
To Thine Own Self Be True – Self Concept and Self Identity
Who, and what, am I? This question seems to be central to our existence as individuals, yet it has stumped philosophers for decades. Recently, psychologists have begun to use their methodologies to tackle this question, with illuminating results. Phin Upham presents some of the seminal works by psychologists. A few things seem clear about our identities: One, our […]