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Microsoft in the image of Steve Ballmer. The emperor has no hair!
MANILA: As things stand with Microsoft and the critics, Steve Ballmer would be pulling his hair if he had any on top. I'm not a critic, but it doesn't mean I have to keep my mouth shut. To be sure, I'm...
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Noynoy's SONA is all Addition. Where's the Strategy of the Collective?
MANILA: Kate's baby, it's a boy! Noynoy's SONA, boy, it's a list! Nobody outside the family has seen William & Kate's baby boy, the latest British royal prince, but I have seen the latest...
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Barbara Gonzalez loves Carl Jung. I love somebody else
MANILA: I had nothing better to do today, 03 July 2013, so I read a friend's new paper. I came across a familiar name, BarbaraGonzalez, Tweetums of old, columnist of the Philippine Star, who writes on...
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Agrarian coops empowered? Ilocos Farmers-Entrepreneurs Training
BAGUIO CITY: How do you train agrarian reform farmers to be entrepreneurs? You reform them!We are not looking for any paradigm shift but, you know, if you are creative, you will see your paradigm...
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WHAT IS TRUTH? From a non-believer to a believer
Here's an exchange of short emails that started Friday, 16 August 2013 and I'm going to end right now, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 1600 hr. It's between me and SINO, Someone I NO, I mean I disagree...
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Diana Nyad, 5th time's a charm. At 64, the lady is a champ!
MANILA, 03 September 2013: After not giving up on her dream of 35 long years, Diana Nyad is a charm; after successfully completing a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida in 3 days non-stop, 31 August to...
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Remembering 911. Ferdinand Marcos, Emil Javier & US Twin Towers
MANILA: This one is all about 911 and giving credit to whom credit is due. Including ourselves. "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people," Indira Gandhi said, "those who do the...
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Farmer's Choice. A Day in the Life of a Trainer of Trainors
SANTA BARBARA, PANGASINAN: Not my wont, but I'm wearing a red t-shirt. I didn't plan this, but it's Friday, 15 November 2013, and today just happens to be a red-letter day. As you will find out. I just...
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Hilario's Theory of Technology Infusion. Dark thoughts early morning
SAN FERNANDO CITY: 23 November 2013. I'm typing this in this dark mezzanine floor of this family room in Sea & Sky Hotel in the City of San Fernando in La Union, with only the screen of my Lenovo...
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Farmer's Choice. Xmas card, IPM Check, Henri Fayol & Vic Ladlad
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO: I'm beginning to write this in this city in La Union in Northern Philippines. 24 November 2013: I was the facilitator the other day and yesterday, Saturday, for the 2nd...
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Managing Rice Communications. IRRI catching fire
MANILA: Let's talk genius. It's not my wont, but this genius is reading the print issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer of today, Wednesday, 4 December 2013, page A11, and it says, "Scientists...
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Golden Rice, A Great Leap of Faith. 2035, A Great Leap Forward
MANILA: Let's talk about grains of truth. As a result of my essay "Managing Rice Communications, IRRI catching fire" (05 December 2013, Frank A Hilario, blogspot.com), with some people from IRRI...
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Organic Fools? The Myth of Dr Henry I Miller of Stanford University
MANILA: Let's talk garbage. I was talking to someone the other day over dinner with some brown rice, and the subject of organic farming came up, and she said, matter-of-factly, that the yield of rice...
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The Age Mystique. Seniors quick to Facebook, slow to learn
MANILA: Especially those in Facebook, I wish all the Seniors the best years of the rest of their lives. If they pay attention to the years of the rest of their lives. In fact, age doesn't matter...
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I, IRRI & ISI. Entertaining angels unawares, or thinking Jatropha
Revised 26 December 2013 at 0700 hours, especially the last paragraph and, consequently, the 2nd part of the titleMANILA: It's almost the end of another year and, funny how the past comes to haunt you....
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F Sionil Jose & Jose Rizal. Double search for justice & moral order
MANILA: Today, Monday, 30 December 2013, Rizal Day, I noticed my daughter Ela's copy of F Sionil Jose's novel Sherds (2007, Manila: La Solidaridad, 128 pages). Out of curiosity, I read Chapter 1, those...
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Bing! A Brave New World of Search 2014. Google & My World Wide Wave
MANILA: Will Google give Search a break this New Year? Or will Bing? Or Yahoo!? Search me! What's Search? The endlessly searching National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) of the US may have a...
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Lolo Ome's “First Encounter with the Elite Kind”
Note: Today, the whole afternoon, senior citizens Romy, Naz and I were in a reminiscing mood about some victories of yesteryears and in a welcoming mood about some challenges of today. In this piece,...
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24 Years of BLD ME 4 Los Baños
05 January 2014 was the 24th Anniversary of ME 4, Bukás Loób sa Díyos Los Baños Chapter.We had the Marriage Encounter at the SVD Retreat House in Tagaytay City 4-6 January 1991, with Fr Larry Tan as...
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Daphne's Wedding. I father reinvent singing for love
SAN PABLO CITY, 01 February 2014, Valentine's Month, and we are all in love. We are at the altar of the San Roque Parish Church located at the Buncayo Park Subdivision in San Roque, San Pablo City,...
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