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Many reports, including GMA-7’s 24 Oras last October 3, reminded the public of Santiago’s other bizarre statements in the past which she nonchalantly retracted. Among these declarations played up by the press were claims that she would hang herself if she didn’t win in the 1992 elections and she would jump out of a plane without a parachute in 2001 if then president Joseph Estrada landed in jail. Given Senator Santiago’s habit of lying, it is amazing why media seem to readily take her statements hook, line and sinker.

Source: “He said, she said” reporting | Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility
 
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The ante insofar as intrigue-laden stories are concerned was upped by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago. The feisty and confrontational senator revealed an alleged assassination plot against President Arroyo by no less than prayerful former president Corazon Aquino and Senate President Drilon.According to Santiago, the plan to kill the President was supposed to be carried out by October 15, if the oust-Arroyo move did not materialize within the said deadline. She said she got the information from a “chattering” relative of the Senate President. Drilon and Mrs. Aquino denied the allegations, describing Santiago’s story as “fantastic,” “absurd,” and a product of the senator’s very fertile imagination.Santiago’s mind-boggling expose was the headline of the Inquirer and front-page story of the Star and The Daily Tribune on October 2. The Manila Bulletin used the story for page 1 but focused on Drilon’s denial and call for sobriety. The Manila Times reported on a plot to oust the President based on an intelligence report, whose existence was denied by the military a few days later.

Source: “He said, she said” reporting | Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility

My analysis: The ancestral land of the lumad is prime land—for logging and mining activities. The NPA wants control of it, and so, of course, do corporations interested in these activities. They may or may not be in collusion. But the NPA sees the lumad as ripe for exploitation—and among the first things it is tackling is the education of the lumad. He who controls the minds of the young will eventually control the community.So the NPA is trying to take over the education, and even the cultural practices, of the lumad. The military is the only one standing in its way. So it must be dealt with. Thus come the charges of “militarization” and “enemies of the people.” Hogwash.The NPA, according to the lumad, has killed 357 lumad between 1998 and 2008. No one is doubting the accuracy of that statement. The military, according to the NPA, has killed 50 lumad during P-Noy’s watch. The only question is: Are these lumad, or are these NPA wolves in lumad clothing?Clearly, the lumad know what the game is. One can only hope that the rest of the Filipino people are just as intelligent.

Source: Read the ‘lumad’ lips | Inquirer Opinion

There’s an old saw, often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like this: “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.” A person should start left and drift right, and not the other way around, the adage suggests.1But when it comes to Supreme Court justices, growing older appears to incite a trend in the opposite ideological direction. One prominent measure of judicial ideology — the Martin-Quinn score — illustrates this tendency. These scores, as DW-Nominate does for legislators, use the justices’ votes to quantify their position on a left-right spectrum. A more negative score means a justice is further left; a more positive score means she’s further right. The scores are based on data from the Supreme Court Database and are calculated back to 1937.

Source: Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older | FiveThirtyEight

The academy chose Tu, a mid-career scientist who had studied both Chinese and western medicine and knew enough about both to realise it would not be an easy job. “By the time I started my search over 240,000 compounds had been screened in the US and China without any positive results,” she says. Soon after joining project 523, Tu was sent to Hainan province, a region in the far south long plagued by malaria, to observe the effects of the disease firsthand. As Tu’s husband had been banished to the countrysi

Source: Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China | New Scientist

After the success of “Heneral Luna,” Tarog pitched “Mythology Class” to the producers led by Fernando Ortigas.”They liked it and now we’re developing the story,” he says, adding the film is still in the early development stages.Tarog says he is co-writing with Jade Castro, known for films “Endo” and “Zombadings 1: Patayin sa shokot si Remington.”There’s no timeline for production yet, but Tarog says he already has a vision for the fantasy-adventure.

Source: ‘Heneral Luna’ director set to tackle Philippine mythology | ABS-CBN News

 

• Haven’t posted in a long time. Life Happens.
• Work has been a little bit of HELL. People don’t do their jobs well and it’s always those who stays that is left with the drudgery of making things work.
• It’s hard being in a team where almost everyone is looking for their next job.
• I think I will be forever scarred with the wounds of the gathering.

ement HTTP 2.0 and websockets.5. The process API just got a huge boostSo far there has been a limited ability for controlling and managing operating system processes with Java. For example, in order to do something as simple as get your process PID in earlier versions of Java, you would need to either access native code or use some sort of a magical workaround. Moreover, it would require a different implementation for each platform to guarantee you’re getting the right result.In Java 9, expect the code for retrieving Linux PIDs, that now looks like this:01public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception02{03    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{ “/bin/sh”, “-c”, “echo $PPID” });04 05    if (proc.waitFor() == 0)06    {07        InputStream in = proc.getInputStream();08        int available = in.available();09        byte[] outputBytes = new byte[available];10 11        in.read(outputBytes);12        String pid = new String(outputBytes);13 14        System.out.println(“Your pid is ” + pid);15     }16}To turn into something like this (that also supports all operating systems):System.out.println(“Your pid is ” + Process.getCurrentPid());The update will extend Java’s ability to to interact with the operating system: New direct methods to handle PIDs, process names and states, and ability to enumerate JVMs and processes and more.

Source: 5 Features in Java 9 that WILL Change How You Develop Software (and 2 That Won’t) | Java Code Geeks

The last to interpellate in the four-hour-long oral arguments on Tuesday, Sereno directed both the lawyers of Binay and the Ombudsman to “measure the condonation doctrine” against “the Filipino soul.”Sereno showed a 63-page slide show, breaking down all the evidence that the Ombudsman has so far gathered against Binay, laws governing administrative liabilities of local government officials, and jurisprudence on administrative cases against local officials.In her presentation, Sereno also cited the magnitude of public funds that local officials handle—P389.8 billion for disbursement this year and P341.5 billion in 2014—and the kind of impact that condonation would have if officials were allowed to get off easy by virtue of this doctrine.“Do you imagine the magnitude of that money? That is nearly 20 times [the budget] of the entire judiciary,” she said.“We’re talking about the magnitude of the problem we’re facing here. The social impact the message is saying is very important for the life of this country,” Sereno said.

Source: SC scolds Binay lawyers for ‘wrong doctrine’ | Inquirer News
 
Simply because CJ Sereno has about two decades to effect change she would probably be if she wants it and is strong enough to handle all the politics and pressure involved the CJ who helped the Philippines the most.
 
Morales and Sereno are a non minor Part of the Daang Matuwid legacy.

He may be years away from becoming a senior citizen, but on his 46th birthday on Wednesday acting Makati Mayor Romulo “Kid” Peña Jr. received a cake from the city’s Office for Seniors Citizens Affairs (Osca).

Source: Kid Peña has his Makati cake–and bidding out P9-M contract, too