February 2012
121 posts
Politics, languages, etc...: The Oscar Is Mexican:... →
thinkmexican:
The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies.
It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he decided to take up arms and help support the revolutionary…
“Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,...”
– Tao Te Ching (via lastellamaris)
LOVE according to the Tao Te Ching. :D
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
Some Hollywood Celebrities with FILIPINO Blood! →
annoyingaquin:
musiclovesyou:
imakidatheart:
Vanessa Ann Hudgens from Disney’s High School Musical
Anna Maria Perez De Tagle from Disney’s Camp Rock and Hannah Montana
Nicole Anderson from Disney’s series Jonas
Jasmine Villegas - American teen R&B and Pop singer
Rachel Bilson from the drama series The O.C.
Shay Mitchell from Pretty Little Liars
Nicole Scherzinger - lead...
Politics, languages, etc...: New Research Shows... →
The commission’s report, entitled The Impact of Immigrants in Maryland, begins with a survey of the available literature on the economics of immigration and concludes that, “in general, immigration leads to higher economic growth and greater levels of income per capita not only for the…
Stochastic Herding in Financial Markets Evidence... →
alea:
We estimate a structural model of herding behavior in which feedback arises due to mutual concerns of traders over the unobservable “true” level of market liquidity. In a herding regime, random shocks are exacerbated by endogenous feedback, producing a dampened power-law in the uctuation of largest sales. The key to the uctuation is that each trader responds not only to private...
