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Looking For A Great Statesman
MANILA: "Paalam, Ka Jovy," said Teodore Te, on learning of the death of Jovito Salonga (10 March 2016, news.abs-cbn.com). "Mabuhay ka!"He was a Statesman. On Thursday, 10 March 2016, he died at the...
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Global Miseducation: Teaching The Global Judges Judging The Local Teachers
MANILA: From where I sit, it was a Global Misteach: With Palestinian Grade 2 teacher Hanan al-Hroub winning the Global Teacher Prize of $1 Million for 2016 in Dubai, I know that the judges needed...
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Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Word Away!
MANILA: If you think you are too old, you are. If you think you will not benefit from it, you will not. What you think is what you get! This Ilocano is past 75, and I'm busier than a bee and at the...
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Knowledge In UP Is Upside Down!
MANILA: On Facebook, my alma mater ever so proud, in the past few days the University of the Philippines proclaimed in 3 instances its wisdom on knowledge. The UP Oblation was so sure of its footing....
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I Have A Dream
MANILA: I am writing this with apologies to Martin Luther King who delivered his earth-shaking speech, "I Have A Dream," on 28 August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC ("Top 100 Speeches,"...
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Here's What We Can Do At Once To Fight Climate Change
MANILA: The heat is on! The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has noted temperatures rising as the summer kicks in this March (Dona Z Pazzibugan, 23...
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Frank H's Landscape Agriculture: Can you see the water?
MANILA: On Facebook, I have just seen what is clearly landscape agriculture: the faces of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards defined in a ricefield; the link is to "AlDub-inspired rice paddy kindles...
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The ISIS Question Is The Muslim Question Is The Question
MANILA: Today is Easter Sunday. But it isn't Happy Easter to everyone! The richest countries of the world are terrified with the virtual and actual violence brought to their lands by the Islamic State...
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Bongbong Marcos: The Son Has Risen.
MANILA: Yes and No. Certainly I disagree with Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr when he says, "Love, not gender, defines marriage" (Ron Lopez & Justine Dizon, Inquirer.net, lifestyle.inquirer.net)....
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What Federalism? Precisely, That Is The Question!
MANILA: I am for Federalism and Rodrigo Duterte is for federalism and Mar Roxas is against it, but I'm voting for Roxas as President anyway. Roxas for his Vision. (For more on my endorsement, see my...
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Google's Genius & Mine
MANILA: Tom Hale has written a challenge: "How Many Of Google's Banned Interview Questions Can You Answer?" (29 March 2016, IFL Science, iflscience.com). Tom says, "Google has a fabled history of...
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Ilala & Cotabato's Drought Of A Thousand Days
MANILA: Farmers occupying Main Street and not letting any vehicle pass is not news anymore.But here they are, at least 6,000 of them occupying the entire road in front of the National Food Authority...
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We Will Invest In A Greater "Asia's Bright Star"– Mar Roxas
MANILA: "Brilliant"– Teddy Boy Locsin Jr (@teddyboylocsin). He tweeted as he watched Mar Roxas speaking during his turn at the "2016 Presidential Dialogues" sponsored by the Makati Business Club (MBC)...
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If Scientists Knew Science Well, They Would Be Artists
MANILA: A rainbow of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Look at the image above: "Here's the science behind bursting water balloons," the headline says (Saba Haider, 22 March...
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Many Kinds Of Deaths, Many Months Of Drought
MANILA: For those 5 rallyists killed, 100 injured, 87 farmers and 6 children missing (ANN, 02 April 2016, Bicol Today, bicoltoday.com) – blame them all on all of them: (1) Drought(2) Farmers (3)...
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5 Open Secrets To Creative Writing. From the world's most creative writer...
MANILA: From one of my favorites, the Muppets: "Rainbows are visions / But only illusions / Rainbows have nothing to hide." They have nothing to hide, and they have something to show: blithe spirit,...
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Communicating What?
MANILA: Is UP teaching now about love? Last year, Paoloregel B Samonte, Valedictorian of the graduating class of UP Los Baños College of Development Communication, told his audience, "UP taught me...
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Drive Thru. A musical from UP Los Baños
LOS BAÑOS: Drive Thru is a musical presented the other day, 05 April 2016, at the New College of Arts & Sciences Auditorium at UP Los Baños, 4 PM and 7 PM. My daughter Ela and I attended the last...
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Blame Forest Fires On The Poor!
MANILA: 2014 March 21: Above, you are looking at the tragic majesty of a forest fire, that of Mt Banahaw burning, from ANN (author not named, Manila Bulletin, mb.com.ph). One holy place, so many...
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Revolution Revelation
MANILA: It seems everyone, except me, is crying "Revolution!" over the Kidapawan incident, which some people call a "massacre" over at Bulatlat, Davao Today, Freeman, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila...
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GABRIELA is scandalized by Asingan Bikini Open
MANILA: I am from Asingan in eastern Pangasinan; male, I am scandalized that "Gabriela criticizes Pangasinan LGU for town fiesta bikini open" (09 April 2016, GABRIELA Women's Party,...
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Duterte's Genius Must Be The Filipino's Genius
Via the Facebook link, I see NewsAljazeera reporting former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "castigated US Congress for painting the (Philippine) President as unfit to engage the United...
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Frank Hilario's Infusion Of Innovations Is Touché
Today, I'm launching a revolution in the Diffusion of Innovations – I'm chucking it! At the very least I say:Rogers' Diffusion Of Innovations Is Passé. Past.Frank Hilario's Infusion Of Innovations Is...
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William Dar's Farmer-Centric & Frank Hilario's Knowledge-Centric Agriculture
Our politics is stultifying, and our agriculture is stalling. We need to move science fast forward.I'm not minding our politics anymore; I wrote about the SONA but my own SoNA (see my essay, "Duterte's...
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Happiness: Surprised By Love, Surprised Beyond
Today, I am pleasantly astonished when I read on Facebook my good friend Willie Villarama's sharing of the sharing of Nats Buencamino–Cayabyab: Here it is in full:(1) Harvard's Positive PsychologyDid...
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