Monthly Archives: August 2012
300 churches set for August 21 Global Day of Prayer for Peace in Scarborough
August 16, 2012
NEW YORK- Over 300 cities and towns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Philippines have already signed up to join the Global Day of Prayer for Peace in the Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 to pray for a peaceful resolution of the Philippines territorial dispute with China and to call for a boycott of China-made products as a non-violent protest against China’s “creeping invasion” of the Philippines. Continue reading
12 outstanding FilAms and 2 FilAms-at-heart to be honored
August 16, 2012
Rosemont, IL. – Fourteen prominent Filipino Americans and Filipinos at heart from all over the U.S. will be honored for their outstanding achievements by the Gintong Pamana Awards Foundation, Inc. on its 18th gala awards night, Saturday, August 25, 2012 at the Grand Ballroom of Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Continue reading
Telltale Signs: Boycott China, not Chinese
by Rodel Rodis
August 1, 2011
This is not just splitting hairs like a distinction without a difference. In his July 19 Inquirer article entitled “The call to boycott Chinese products” (http://opinion.inquirer.net/32863/the-call-to-boycott-chinese-products), Prof. Randy David comments on the call for a global boycott of “China-made products” which he also refers to interchangeably as “Chinese products”. Continue reading
Angina Pectoris
by Dr. Philip S. Chua.
August 1, 2012
What is angina pectoris?
Angina pectoris is the medical term for chest pains, more specifically pains emanating from, and involving, the heart. It is most common for people to associate chest pains with impending or insipient heart attack. Continue reading
“SONAR” ni Pangulong Aquino
by Fermin Salvador.
August 1, 2012
Muli ay naganap ang tinawag na SONA ng punong ehekutibo ng Pilipinas. Ang SONA ay hango sa pariralang Ingles na “state of the nation address”. Sa isang artikulo ay nasabi kong mas angkop tawagin ito na TEN upang maging daglat ng pariralang Tagalog na “talumpati sa estado ng nasyon”. Continue reading
$$$$$ UNDER GLASS A trip to the Money Museum
by Fred C. Wilson III
August 1, 2012
Last Thursday I took a self-guided tour of the Money Museum. Once inside, I felt like in miser’s Heaven. I was surrounded by money of every denomination. Near the entrance there’s a glass covered vat filled with thousands of coins. Continue reading
Obama’s Blame Game On The Economy
by Don Azarias
August 1, 2012
In his speech on the economy and the Euro crisis, President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for opposing stimulus that he said would have created a million new jobs. He also blamed “headwinds” from the European financial crisis for slower job recovery in America. Continue reading
Reflections on Emptiness
by Arnold De Villa
August 1, 2012
I have a homework assignment. I need to do a research on sterile body cavities, empty body parts that are clean. Besides the cavity in my brain, empty but not necessarily clean, I truly do not know where to begin. This reminds me of the time when I had to write about the quasi-existential reality of nothingness. Continue reading
Process Writing in Action: Learning from What I Didn’t Teach Last Summer
by Carmelita Cochingco Ballesteros.
August 1, 2012
The Philippine summer, April and May, is gone. Right now, the rainy season is upon us. As the rains keep me home, I re-read my writing pupils’ drafts and try to learn from what I failed to teach them.
Let me focus on one pupils’ multiple d Continue reading
Gun Control, now!
August 1, 2012
The deadly massacre that claimed the lives of 12 Americans and left 59 others wounded was one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history. The horrible – and despicable — act of suspected mass murderer James Eagan Holmes has made a lot of Americans wonder: What’s going on with our society? Continue reading