about "abolish pork barrel system" but something seems missing. Has anyone suggested any alternative? But is pork the real root of corruption? Let us say a person is convicted of rape. When asked why he did such crime‚ he would say it is because he found the lady beautiful and tempting. Should everyone go and kill all beautiful women so that rape will end? That logic may sound oversimplified and childish but that is what the call is saying. The controversy on the pork barrel scam sheds light
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Napoles has been alleged of having engineered a PHP 10 billion scam over the past decade by using the pork barrel funds of 5 senators and 23 Congressmen for ghost projects. She was even tagged as the alleged mother of the PHP 10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles’ firm was allegedly tapped for government-funded projects that were later found questionable. The “so-called projects” include the PHP 728 million funds for a fertilizer project for poor farmers. It was alleged that the fund was diverted
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P10-B Pork Barrel Scam: A Reflection The Philippines was completely shaken when the news about the Napoles P10-B pork barrel scam dominated the different forms of media throughout the country during the third quarter of 2013. The Filipinos‚ although lacking knowledge about what the scam was all about‚ were enraged by this news. Demonstrations‚ rallies and other kinds of public display were staged by concerned citizens in condemnation to this distressing report. One of these was the massive demonstration
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own lives. His use of symbolism is shown by hard work‚ his desire to sleep‚ and barrels of apples. Frost’s use of symbolism reflects his theme of our lives ambitions and death. Frost’s first use of symbolism involves his experience of hard work which can be represented by his action of picking apples from a tree. Frost tells us of his actions of picking apples to be tiresome and proceeds to explain to us about a barrel that he sees to be empty. Frost goes on tell us about how tired he feels while
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Because oil was the wildest dream for Americans. They believed that America should develop. 3. How many people die on oil rigs every year? 6000 people dead. 4. How many Barrels of Oil did the Hamel Rig pump out a day? 50 Barrels were pumped out a day. 5. A year after the Hamel Rig struck oil how much did oil Cost a barrel? Hoe much do you think it costs today? a. 2 dollars and 3 cents b. I think it costs 14 euro per 1 liter today. 6. What is Henry Fords Secret to Success: why is it beneficial
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Jacob Jenkins Professor Baals English 1302 October 30‚ 2012 ANWR: Should we drill? George F. Will article‚ “Being green at Ben and Jerry’s” is in a conversational manner and throughout stays that way and uses witty metaphors and sarcastic remarks throughout while poking fun at how he feels about environmentalists and are just plain mistaken when against drilling. He also finds area to state what he believes and reasons why we are not drilling and the reasons why we should be drilling. He
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drivers spend too much time waiting to unload process fruit at the receiving plant. (2) Overtime costs and absenteeism are out of control. There is also a secondary problem: half of the berries graded as top quality and awarded a 50-cent premium per barrel (bbl) are not top quality and do not deserve the premium. 2. What are the sources of the variability that NCC is subjected to? It is well known that variability can play a significant role in NCC. Indeed‚ the base case accounts for inter-day cariability
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Operational Efficiency & Operational Optimization Sa – Situation Anlysis Pa – Problem Analysis Da – Decission Analysis Pa – Probabilty Analysis 1) Suppose that a peak harvest-season day involves 18‚000 barrels of berries‚ 70% of them wet harvested‚ arriving uniformly over a twelve-hour period from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.‚ and process initiates as soon as the first truck arrives. a) At what time during the day‚ would the trucks start queuing up to upload? Answer:
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operating cost‚ excluding exploration‚ depreciation‚ and depletion by the barrels produced. In the case of RDS not all activities can be traced directly to a barrel of oil. There are departments such as Human Resource Management and Business Management that are not directly related to this measure. It makes sense for RDS to use barrels as the primary cost driver due to the large cost of the Production Management department. The barrel measurement is directly related to production related costs‚ and production
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Case Study – Activity – Based Management in Shell Gabon Case Requirements 1. SG TOTAL UOC per barrel = $140‚640‚200/(120‚000 barrels/day * 365 days/year) = $3.21/barrel Barrels of oil produced is a cost driver for some of the activities in RDS‚ but not all are driven by production of oil. UOC = Total Operating Expense (OPEX) excluding exploration‚ depreciation‚ and depletion therefore there are other activities like exploration‚ new capital equipment for exploration‚ research and development
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