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Reverse Overseas Filipino Workers. Virtual Assistants conquering the world
MANILA: Many Philippine nationalists don't realize this, but the US conquered us Filipinos with American English 100 years ago; today, you may not have noticed, but this puny country of ours already...
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CSI Batangas. UPLB isn't using its coconut. Are we using ours?
MANILA: How aware is the #1 University of Agriculture in the Philippines when it comes to the big issues of agriculture? I'm not aware that it's aware, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the...
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Recalling Aquino. Miriam-Defensor Santiago, Social Media Guru
MANILA: As ever, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is once again a revelation we can believe in. At least, I can. Ms Nonconformist, meet Mr Original Aboriginal.Today, I want to marry Lito Yap David, the...
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Can farmers learn business planning? A feasibility study
ARAMAL, SAN FABIAN: Here is Saturnino Distor, General Manager of the Aramal-Tocok Multi-Purpose Cooperative of San Fabian, Pangasinan yesterday, Saturday, 15 March 2014, speaking at the conclusion of...
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A Writer's Choice. If I didn't read F Sionil Jose
MANILA: I loved his Pretenders and I must have read it when it was newly published, in 1962. Nowadays, just once in a while I do a very quick look at his Hindsight column in The Philippine Star, but...
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Know Your Rights. Water as the 5th Right in Agriculture
MANILA: The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) makes much of what is called "4R Nutrient Stewardship Concept" in nutrient management (Tom Bruulsema, "Presentation on Know Your Fertilizer...
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Fr Suarez' MonteMaria. San Miguel donation from heart, or pocket?
MANILA: Monday, 24 March 2014, we were blessed with the presence of Roman Catholic "healing priest" Fr Fernando Suarez late afternoon to evening at the covered court in Batong Malake, a village in Los...
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The Business of What if? A missing tooth, amazing plan
MANILA: As I begin to write this, Friday, 28 March 2014, we are in the village of Lasip in Malasiqui, Pangasinan in Central Luzon, Philippines; we are on our 3rd day and 3rd ARBO business plan...
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The Good Earth of Nestor Salvador
EVEN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE is now advocating organic fertilizers. As direct proof, at noon today, 30 April 2014, in Asingan, Pangasinan, I witnessed 29 farmers in Barangay Dupac graduate from a...
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Yearbook disaster in Phoenix. The Ghosts of Errors Past
MANILA: After its yearbook disaster, Barry Goldwater High School as Top 28 in Arizona is dead. Can BGHS rise again, like the Phoenix? "Most Memorible Experience" is horrible. Wrong spellings,...
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The Dr Antonio C Oposa Sr I didn't know
MANILA: I've just finished reading the latest (certainly not the last) email from just turned 90 years old (April Fool's Day) outstanding Manila surgeon Antonio Oposa Sr and, after reading this long...
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UP looking for Revolution. Rizal looking far ahead
MANILA: And I'm looking to entertain you on the subject of Jose Rizal before, during or after his birthday on 19 June 2014, his 153rd. If you need an original, entertaining, motivational, free speaker...
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Brain Grain
MANILA: Rice is a grain not linked to the brain, but it should be, and I'm going to prove it now. The College of Agriculture of UP Los Baños didn't teach me that, but professors can always learn from...
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The Motivation Manifesto: How We Shall Overcome
MANILA: Brendon Burchard, one of the most prolific and most encouraging personal-power gurus on the planet, one of the #1 New York Times bestselling authors with his earlier books The Charge, The...
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Ben Capiral, The One Who Ran Out Of Miracles
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA: Miracles happen, but sometimes they don't. Life can kill you if you’re not careful.I volunteered and what you find below (dated 12 April 2015, with a little editing, all italicized),...
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Darth Evader
MANILA: I feel frustrated. Very frustrated. Our fighter Manny Pacquiao lost by a unanimous decision to flamboyant Floyd Mayweather in their so-called Fight of the Century at the MGM Grand Garden Arena...
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Shakespeare In Love, US Supreme Court In Orgasm?
MANILA: They see marriage as parts of one assembled egg, not a whole wholesome one (image from pyschologytoday.com). Broken eggs are definitely not the result of orgasm. Rather, the 5-4 majority of the...
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Rizal Monument? Of course it's moveable!
MANILA: Yes, I said it's movable. And I’ll show you. But it's not like Manila 5th District Representative Amado Bagatsing's moving proposal.The National Commission for Culture & the Arts (NCCA)...
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Let It Be – The Beatles
MANILA: Packed with 40 plus songs, the touring show LET IT BE: A Celebration Of The Music Of The Beatles was presented 08 February 2015 at the Centrepointe Theatre in Ottawa in Canada. The...
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
MANILA, 17 AUGUST: Now I will tell you exactly why I wrote "Let It Be – The Beatles" with the innocent title, and which I uploaded 17 August 2015 at 10 AM (see my essay, A Magazine Called Love,...
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