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Marketing Magic Flakes? I like mine browner
MANILA: This morning I bought 6 packs of Magic Flakes at my old favorite store (my OFS). When I bit on one cracker, it tasted differently, definitely bland, not the way I loved Magic Flakes to taste. I...
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My Free Creativity Workshop. Your Free View To Your Richer World
MANILA: I'm doing it because I can, at 72. I'm spreading The Gospel of Creativity According to Frank Hilario as my legacy, sharing my talent, collecting only achievements, not assets, because my...
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Why Frank Hilario didn't stand up when the National Anthem was sung
ASINGAN, PANGASINAN: 17 April 2013, Wednesday. It was the first time I ever went to a reunion; it was also the first time I ever objected to a presentation. In fact, I did it twice. None of the...
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Catholic White Vote Movement. 6 million votes is doable!
MANILA: Don't ask Bro Mike Velarde if there is a Catholic Vote. He'll say, "I'll show you." Here is a scene in a Saturday gathering in Parañaque City of the El Shaddai members numbering around 500,000:...
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"O Naraniag A Bulan." How an old folk song can help choose new Senators!
ASINGAN, PANGASINAN: I was in my hometown for almost 2 weeks, from 09 April to 18 April, smack in the weeklong town fiesta starting 13 April, and the evenings were full of dancing and music. I attended...
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Google, Out! Google's genius? Out, out brief candle!
MANILA: Paghahanap, Mga Larawan, Mga Mapa. Is Google trying to make me a nationalist by imposing the Tagalog (Filipino) language on me? No, thank you, I'm not a Tagalog nationalist; I'm an Ilocano...
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Jeff Bliss walks out into history. A student teaches his teacher how to teach
MANILA: If you haven't done so, go watch the YouTube video uploaded by James Smith showing Texas' Duncanville High School Sophomore Jeff Bliss lecturing his World History teacher Ms Julie Phung on how...
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Square Tactics. Reinventing Alumni Websites Everywhere
MANILA: This is the newest and most radical look of any University of the Philippines (UP) Alumni Website, or for that matter, any Alumni Website anywhere in the world. Click this link now if you want...
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Frank Hilario, The Editor Who Would Be Fired
MANILA: You could also title this "Fire & Nice." They had Fire, I wanted Nice. Another title, "C is for Control." I had Control, they wanted Control.This is all about my unforgettable journey with...
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Yup! How eUP can run past the alumbayad
MANILA: Speed thrills! Speed kills, if low. Modern metaphor. The image you see is that of an alumbayad, Ilocano for earthworm. The metaphor is perfect even if I'm talking here of the whole UP System...
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Climate Change Scientist, Leader & Evangelist
We must look at Rex Victor Cruz under quite a different light, because even as he is an alumnus of UP Los Baños, he is currently Chancellor, and as such he is leading the University in the present and...
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12 June 1898. Hating Spain, Loving The United States
MANILA: I'm not proud, but I'm happy. This is a retelling - and a retailing - of the Declaration of Independence of the Philippines on the 12th of June 1898. Are you proud that on that date, the...
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Sharks! Open letter to Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino
Gov, Did you know that our beloved Hundred Islands now has shark-infested waters? That is the handiwork of the gentlemen in this photo. Please investigate the matter of sharks roaming the waters of...
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Jose Rizal & The Lost Indios Bravos
Happy Birthday, Jose Rizal! Where are the youth who will consecrate their budding years and enthusiasm to the welfare of their country? Wrong call! Now I know why Jose Rizal failed in his call for the...
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Virgilio Almario, isn't that Dictatorship of the Proliterati?
MANILA: Virgilio Almario, the Chair of the Commission on the Filipino Language (appointed by President Noynoy Aquino 30 April 2013) and a National Artist for Literature (selected 25 June 2003), perhaps...
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Virata Collaboration: Laguatan sees Vice where Hilario sees Virtue
MANILA: Ted Laguatan asked for it. I didn't learn about it until today, by email. He asked those who agreed with him to eblast his column "Adding insult to injury: UP College named after Marcos’ Prime...
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Columnist Tiglao vs Dean Gutierrez: Incompetence vs Impertinence?
MANILA: Mr Tiglao has been raising hell about it. This is all about the renaming by the UP Board of Regents on 12 April 2013 of UP Diliman's "College of Business Administration" into "Cesar EA Virata...
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"Thanks to you Pinoys!" - David Harwell, PhD
A sentimental open letter from an American teacher to the Filipino people. David H Harwell is a former Professor and Assistant Dean in the United States who now travels and works abroad designing...
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Creative science communication vs critical investigative science journalism
MANILA: 4th of July 2013. As I note that SciDev.Net has reinvented itself, I see that the science journalists don't see eye to eye with science communicators, despite the editorial (see image). A...
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Trillanes relocates PH capital. Here are my complete ABCs of moving
MANILA: Re-elected Senator Antonio Trillanes wants a 2-year government-funded study of whether or not to relocate the Philippine capital from Manila. He doesn't know it yet, but I can give him a quick...
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