What is the most expensive Court Room drama in Philippine history?
Erap’s impeachment procedings!
What is the most expensive Series in Philippine history?
The Congress.
rePost::What does "being an adult" mean?
60% A 40 %B?
What does “being an adult” mean?
I’ve noticed that when people speak of the mindset associated with “being an adult”, they are referring to either A) the setting aside of childish ways; or B) a rebellion against the lack of freedom of childhood. Basically opposite approaches: responsible adulthood and irresponsible adulthood.
The A people feel that being an adult means eating healthfully, being financially responsible, dressing to meet the expectations of others, flossing regularly, servicing your vehicle regularly, etc.
Folks who take the B approach feel that adulthood means that you can eat candy for breakfast, drink too much, fail to keep careful track of your finances, stay up late, play hours of video games a day, skip dental cleanings for three years, order the steak instead of the salad, etc. [Note: This isn’t to say that these people are irresponsible to the point of being lawless, although that is sometimes the case. It just means that when it comes to actions that have an impact primarily on themselves, they don’t always make the “best” long-term choices.]
There are likely a whole host of personality traits and such that can be determined to varying degrees of accuracy based upon a person’s answer to this question (even if it’s “sorta A and sorta B”): emotional maturity, political party affiliation, age, gender, intro/extroversion, Myers-Briggs personality type, marital status, and so on.
So which type of adult are you?
via What does “being an adult” mean?.
rePost::Balangay crew rescues woman in Romblon – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Balangay crew rescues woman in Romblon
By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily InquirerFirst Posted 18:42:00 09/22/2009
MANILA, Philippines – The 21st day of a sea adventure aboard the “balangay” precolonial boat turned into an impromptu rescue mission as the intrepid crew rolled into a remote island off Romblon Monday and came upon an old woman on the brink of death.On the island of Maestro de Campo, the balangay expedition members saved 68-year-old Aurora Tomining, who was suffering from a heart condition coupled with pneumonia, team leader Art Valdez said in a phone call to the Inquirer.“She was in very critical condition when we came. There was no hospital on the island, and the last time a doctor was here was one year ago,” he said.An emergency rescue operation was launched with the help of Capt. Ferdinand Velasco and his crew aboard Coast Guard search-and-rescue vessel no. 3502, Valdez said.“She had to be flown in by helicopter to Manila. I heard she was already in Manila by Tuesday,” he said.
via Balangay crew rescues woman in Romblon – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
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rePost::Why the Statistics Point Toward Progress – BusinessWeek
You seem quite optimistic. Why, especially since you have studied such troubling phenomena as hunger in struggling nations?
Maybe because I am living my second life. When I was 30 years old, I had testicular cancer, and I said farewell to my first life. But a full dose of radiation saved me. I’m now 61, and I’ve lived most of my life after my cancer. I celebrate that.
My father was a coffee roaster, and I was the first in my family to go to school for more than six years. I studied public health in Bangalore in 1972, and I saw huge poverty but also very good students and flourishing industry. I’ve worked in Africa and started university collaborations with the Middle East and Latin America. I’ve done field surveys in Cuba, where I spent a full night quarrelling with Fidel Castro on study design. So I have been able to experience many leaps and dead ends of human progress.
Now I look at the data and take a fact-based approach. It’s not that I’m an optimist; it’s that I know that child mortality in Egypt has fallen to 4%. When you are knowledgeable about the actual progress of the world, you become labeled as an optimist. But I am deeply concerned by the poverty of the bottom billion.
via Why the Statistics Point Toward Progress – BusinessWeek.
Praise To Effort::The greatest human is dead – The Globe and Mail
Norman Borlaug died on September 12, 2009, at 95 years of age. His family released a simple statement that “We would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for all mankind.”
When Princess Diana died, television networks covered it 24/7. Michael Jackson’s passing created a tsunami of Internet traffic. I learned about Borlaug’s passing on the sidebar of a news website on global development issues in foreign policy.
Norman Borlaug goes to a better place having made the Earth undeniably better, safer and freed from hunger.
And he goes in virtual silence.
via The greatest human is dead – The Globe and Mail.
Rant::50 Cent's 10 lessons for success in business – and in life – Times Online
This is our culture now, people trying to be something they are not. (Which is similar but really opposed to aspiring to be something, as opposed to aspiring to be someone). You see this in our celebrity cult, the way people are manipulated by the media to be SHEEP, just fucking SHEEP. You hear it in the conversations that people have, the clothes they wear, even the coffee that they drink. Fuck That Shit.
‘The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own—what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.’ 50 Cent
via 50 Cent’s 10 lessons for success in business – and in life – Times Online.
rePost::How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology – O'Reilly Radar
Amazing Story!
How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology
by John Graham-Cumming | @jgrahamc | comments: 12
Guest blogger John Graham-Cumming initiated and led the successful petition drive to procure an apology to Alan Turing from the UK government. John is the author of The Geek Atlas, CTO of a stealth-mode start-up, and a longtime programmer who has a doctorate in computer security. If you’re in London this Saturday, September 19, come by the launch party for his book at the Brunel Museum.
There’s a long tradition in the UK of direct democracy, with citizens petitioning the Prime Minister themselves. Typically, thousands of signatures are collected on paper and then delivered directly to the Prime Minister’s home at No. 10 Downing Street in London. The petitioners arrive at No. 10 and hand the signatures through the open front door.
But the British government has made great strides to bring many aspects of government relations into the electronic age. Through the non-profit MySociety.org the government has created web sites (all with open-source code) for citizens to interact with local and central government offices.
One such web site is the No. 10 Downing Street petitions page (its code is open-source and can be found here).
I used the petitions web site, a collection of Web 2.0 technologies, and a bit of media savvy to successfully petition the government to apologize for the prosecution of the seminal computer scientist Alan Turing.
via How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology – O’Reilly Radar.
Presidential Election Watch :: Teodoro stands by pro-RH bill – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
This is A PLUS ONE for Mr. Gibo.
Teodoro stands by pro-RH bill
By Maila Ager
MANILA, Philippines—Defense Secretary Gilberto Toedoro stood pat on his pro-reproductive health bill position, despite fears of losing the support of the church.
“Ay syempre takot ako pero yun ang paniniwala ko anong magagawa ko (Of course I’m afraid but that’s my belief so what can I do)?” Teodoro told reporters when asked about his stand on the bill.
“Takot na takot talaga ko pero ang laban ng simbahan ay dapat sa kaluluwa natin, sa panalangin (I am very afraid but the church’s fight is over our souls, in our prayers) and our spiritual and moral formation. That’s the challenge but not through a law, not through a governmental action,” he said.
Teodoro said he is for freedom of informed choice but against abortion and “enforced belief” that contraception is bad.
The state, he said, should not adopt the view of any particular religion.
“The state should be non-religious, non sectarian. It should give opportunities to all those based on what they personally believe,” he said.
“The advocacy of the Church is important, very important but that is a matter for an individual conscience and own soul, that is not a matter of government enforcement,” he further said.
via Teodoro stands by pro-RH bill – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Filipino Pride::RP hosts Asean Centre for Biodiversity HQ – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
MANILA, Philippines — The country now officially hosts the headquarters of the Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) after the Senate approved a resolution concurring with the ratification of the Host Country Agreement signed between ACB and the Philippine government.
The Senate resolution was sponsored by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; with Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, Senate Majority Floor Leader; and Senator Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, as co-sponsors.
Established by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) with funding from the European Union and officially launched at the 9th Informal Asean Ministerial Meeting in 2005, ACB is an intergovernmental regional center tasked to facilitate cooperation and coordination among Asean member-states and with relevant national governments, and regional and international organizations on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, or biodiversity.
via RP hosts Asean Centre for Biodiversity HQ – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Learned Today::Things I like to Blog About: Ritalin : Neurotopia
Ever since I read the new yorker article on cognitive enhancement drugs (ritalin adderall), I’ve been trying to finagle my way into at least trying them, sadly no go. Luckily no go, It still is tempting, but if ritalin is pretty much like cocaine, I say no go and fear for all the children who take ritalin for ADHD.
Ritalin works the same way. Really. Sub Ritalin in for cocaine here and you have the same effect on DA and NE as you would with cocaine.
Sounds scary, right? Not quite so much. There are other factors with drugs than their mechanism that determine how they will make you feel. Cocaine has a very short active period, only about 20 minutes total. That’s not a lot of time, but the first rush is REALLY intense. Ritalin has a much longer active period, between 2.5 and 5 hours, depending what kind you use. And the WAY people take it makes a difference, too. If you, say, snort cocaine, it gets through the mucus membranes in the nose and into the bloodstream very quickly, giving you a rush as it hits the brain quickly. Ritalin is taken as a pill, which means it needs to get dissolved in the GI tract, and is often dissolved over a long period of time in long release formulas. This means that it comes on to your CNS very slowly, and won’t slam your transporters and have intense effects. And keep in mind that most people taking Ritalin are taking it in very low doses, doses too low to really feel good when taken orally (snorted is another matter), though high enough to increase concentration and focus.
So that’s Ritalin. Like cocaine, but not. Sci will save the debates for later.
via Things I like to Blog About: Ritalin : Neurotopia.