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rePost::BPO targets 90,000 more jobs in 2010 | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

This is good news.

MANILA, Philippines – The business process outsourcing industry has estimated that 90,000 new jobs will be created this year as companies abroad continue to seek lower costs and tap the Philippines for skilled workers.
In an interview, industry association head Oscar Sanez noted that the target new jobs this year is higher than the 74,000 actual jobs created in 2009.
Last year, the original forecast was 100,000 new jobs, but the industry players had to reduce this as some clients faced business uncertainties amid the global economic slowdown then.
Nonetheless, the new target of 90,000 this 2010 was announced as new graduates from universities and colleges in the country start looking for jobs starting March.
Sanez said that of the 90,000 target jobs, call center agents will account for 55% while non-voice service agents will fill up the remaining 45%.
The call center segment, usually manned by agents with flawless English facility, accounted for bulk of industry jobs at 280,000 in 2009.
via BPO targets 90,000 more jobs in 2010 | ABS-CBN News Online Beta.

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rePost::Writers describe the positive impact of D&D on their lives Boing Boing

I playd D&D when I was younger (note the younger not young part , we’re still young as bryan l. commented in facebook) and I can vote!!!  Read the D&D players coming to the defense of something I loved to do when I was younger (and still if only someone would organize a D&D weekend, the fun that would be!!!!).

Writers describe the positive impact of D&D on their lives

By Cory Doctorow at 11:29 PM February 19, 2010

via Writers describe the positive impact of D&D on their lives Boing Boing.

Matt sez, “With that rocks-for-brains reporter in Boston trying to link campus shooter Amy Bishop’s crimes to Dungeons & Dragons, I thought I’d take an opportunity to look at the good D&D has done for several writers I know. This is that article. By the way, I’ve been a D&D player for almost thirty years now, and have been a happier, more productive person for it.”
I haven’t played since my early 20s (late teens?) but D&D was an enormously positive influence on my life and imagination.

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rePost::Buchheit’s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) | VentureBeat

Note to self and friends::
For WD start with simple then iterate. Do the simplest thing possible!!!

Mint founder Aaron Patzer credited Buchheit with helping him think about the appropriate software architecture for his consumer finance site.
“He pushed us to prioritize performance and search speed and helped us to find ways to scale Mint successfully,” Patzer said.
reMail chief executive Gabor Cselle said Buchheit helped him hone his product down to its core essentials. Buchheit himself is a strong advocate of keeping products simple and focused.
“Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful. It worked,” Cselle wrote in a blog post announcing the reMail acquisition yesterday.
via Buchheit’s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) | VentureBeat.

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rePost::Bitterness « Paulo Coelho’s Blog

I know I’m getting bitter on one facet of my life, I pray that other facets are saved from this bitterness. I’m pretty much sure they are.

The main target of Bitterness (or Vitriol, as the doctor of my book preferred) is desire. People attacked by this evil begin losing their desire for everything and in a few years are unable to go outside their world – because they have used up enormous energy reserves building high walls for the reality to be what they wanted it to be.
When avoiding outside attack, they also limit internal growth. They continue going to work, watching television, complaining about the traffic and having children, but all that happens automatically, without really understanding why they are behaving like that – after all, everything is under control.
The great problem of poisoning by Bitterness lies in the fact that passions – hate, love, despair, enthusiasm and curiosity – also don’t appear any more. After some time, the bitter person has no more desire. They had no more will even to live, or to die; that was the problem.
via Bitterness « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.

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rePost::RP, other Asian countries told: Protect seas – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

When you go to beautiful tourist places in the Philippines, beauty of the natural sort, if you keep your ears open you might just hear mutter the words “enjoy this while you can in a few years this would be gone”. I have nothing against people who have have seen decades of change, environmental degradation and similar things. What I rail about is this attitude that we cannot do anything about this. The sense of inevitability we ascribe to losing these natural wonders to the pictures or even the description of people. We cannot accept this, we must not accept this. We as a people have an implicit obligation to the future generations to keep these places intact , beautiful and functioning.

UN REPORT SAYS

RP, other Asian countries told: Protect seas


INQUIRER.net First Posted 12:03:00 02/22/2010 Filed Under: Environmental Issues, Poverty, Asia Australia – North Asia
MANILA, Philippines—East Asia’s economically viable coastal habitats and ecosystems, including those of the Philippines, are under threat from pollution, alien invasive species, and other factors which could impact the region’s poverty levels unless urgent action is taken, the United Nations Environment Program (Unep) said in a new report.
“With nearly three quarters of the region’s population depending directly or indirectly on coastal areas, and with 80 percent of the region’s GDP linked to the coastal natural resources, the time must be right for factoring the marine environment into the center of economic planning,” said Unep executive director Achim Steiner.
The East Asian Seas State of the Marine Environment report said economically important coastal habitats and ecosystems are under pressure as 40 percent of coral reefs and half of all mangroves have already been lost. Coral reefs generate an estimated $112.5 billion and mangroves $5.1 billion annually.
The East Asian Seas—which includes the region between China, the Republic of Korea, and Australia—have some of the world’s highest concentrations of shipping and fishing vessel activity. They account for 50 percent of global fisheries production and 80 percent of global aquaculture production.
via RP, other Asian countries told: Protect seas – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

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rePost::Leonardo DiCaprio's lonely fears | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

This probably helped him during his work in shutter island. Has anyone read the book? Was it any good?
Is this why people/celebrities have an entourage? To get away from being lonely?

Leonardo DiCaprio says being alone is his “personal demon.”
The 35-year-old actor admits he struggles to cope when he is not surrounded by his friends and family and suffered from depression when he shot latest movie ‘Shutter Island.”
He said: “The loneliness is my personal demon. During the shooting of the movie it was like I fell into a black hole and was totally depressed.
“You’re cut off from friends, family – and your girlfriend. That’s brutal. The world kept turning while I was stuck on the set. It’s like a strange form of everyday amnesia.”
via Leonardo DiCaprio’s lonely fears | ABS-CBN News Online Beta.

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Better Government Please::Bus firms threaten to pull out of DOE’s CNG project – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Bus firms threaten to pull out of DOE’s CNG project
By Amy R. Remo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:42:00 02/21/2010
Filed Under: Oil & Gas – Downstream activities, Road Transport
MANILA, Philippines — Operators of compressed natural gas-run buses have threatened to pull out of the Department of Energy’s Natural Gas Vehicle Program for Public Transport (NGVPPT) over the government’s alleged failure to address the issues plaguing the program.
According to Roberto Torres, president of the RRCG Transport System Co. Inc., they have been unable to operate their CNG buses due to the inability of the “daughter” station of the Pilipinas Shell at Mamplasan to operate and provide fuel to them.
Torres said bus operators, which have already invested heavily for the project, have been losing some P200 million. He said his company has been suffering losses of about P1 million a month.
“Needless to say, the very promising pilot project of the NGVPPT has bogged down. We see our investment not only in the 45 CNG buses, but also in its technical support in terms of manpower training and supplier, as well as infrastructure-being wasted away and slowly sinking in the quagmire of Shell and DOE’s making,” he said.
via Bus firms threaten to pull out of DOE’s CNG project – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

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Film:To Watch:‘Shutter Island’ makes waves with $40.2M debut – Entertainment – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News

From the Mystic River scribe from the legendary  Scorsese and his current muse DiCaprio. Color me excited!!!

LOS ANGELES – Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s voyage to “Shutter Island” has landed them at No. 1 at the weekend box office.
Their creepy crime thriller set at a remote insane asylum opened with $40.2 million. “Shutter Island” is the fourth collaboration for Scorsese and DiCaprio and the best opening yet for both the director and star.
via ‘Shutter Island’ makes waves with $40.2M debut – Entertainment – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News.

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Better Press Corp Please::Noynoy leads in survey commissioned by ally – Nation – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News

Now, why wasn’t the headlines Manny Villar in statistical tie with survey commissioned by ally (Ronnie Puno).
I’m calling BS on mr Jerrie Abella.

Noynoy leads in survey commissioned by ally
JERRIE ABELLA, GMANews.TV
02/21/2010 | 10:21 PM
Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III regained his lead in the latest polls for the presidential race, but the camp of his closest rival, Sen. Manny Villar, shrugged off the results as mere “psywar.”
A national survey by London-based Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) showed Aquino leading by 11 percent over Villar of the Nacionalista Party.
The survey, commissioned by LP’s senate slate campaign manager Sen. Francis Pangilinan, was conducted from January 28 to February 3.
“The results of the survey confirm our long-standing position that our people yearn for real change in their lives and aspire for a new direction for our nation,” Pangilinan said in a statement.
via Noynoy leads in survey commissioned by ally – Nation – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News.

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rePost::Why Most People are Happier Working than in Their Free Time « Scott H Young

Interesting read, and something I believe is applicable to a lot of my friends. This is because I don’t have free time. Poor Me.

Are you happier when you’re working, or when you have time off?
Easy answer right? We work in order to have free time. Everything from basic economics to our deepest intuitions tells us that we must be happiest during our free time.
Turns out we were wrong.
Flow, Flipped Intuitions and A Scientist’s Name You Can’t Pronounce
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi did careful research that discovered that some of our deepest intuitions about work, play and what makes us happy were completely backwards.
He discovered that most people were, in fact, happier at work than at rest. More, he found that people tended to think they were happier in their free time, and would choose to have more free time than work, even though it made them unhappier.
How did Csíkszentmihályi find this?
He did it by having study participants keep pagers (then a new technology) that would go off at random intervals of the day. During those intervals, study participants would not only record what they were doing, but also their emotional state in the current moment.
By adding up this data, he reached the surprising conclusion: people were happier at work, even though they didn’t realize it.

Why You’re Happier at Work
Csíkszentmihályi’s answer to this question was based on the concept of flow. In his research, this is the optimal state of human experience. It is attained when working towards a challenge that perfectly meets our skill level, engaging every mental faculty without overwhelming us.
This state of flow, because it requires both challenge and the application of skill, is more commonly attained at work than during relaxation. As a result, people report higher levels of well-being at work.
via Why Most People are Happier Working than in Their Free Time « Scott H Young.