Saturday is a dual birthday for Guild Wars: It is the second birthday of Prophecies and the first birthday of Factions. This Friday we are kicking off a weekend of celebration, with fun activities for all… Continue reading here…

Welcome to the v7 of gameshogun.ws Blognet. After two and a half weeks, its finally online. So what’s new? Read on…

For two straight weeks now my lower back has been hurting like hell. It felt like the day after I have played a day-long tournament. It felt like the night following a whole day of carrying heavy weight – like an eleven-month old baby boy. It felt like I had been sitting in an awkward position all day long. It felt like I was ten thousand pounds heavier.

So I disregarded it (like I was swatting out a fly).

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Interesting article about the Philippines’ biodiversity; like I mentioned before, it’s paradise.

Philippines could hold clues to mysteries of life
U. professor to lecture on islands’ biological history and diversity

By Susan Whitney
Deseret Morning News

In times past, when Eric Rickart and other biologists talked about their research in the Philippines, they sounded gloomy. And it is still true that the situation is urgent. Habitat is still being destroyed at an alarming rate. But it can regenerate. Rickart says biologists are newly encouraged by how well the habitat can regenerate.

Rickart speaks about the Philippines on Tuesday, as part of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s “The Nature of Things,” lecture series. He is the curator of vertebrates at the museum, as well as an adjunct assistant professor of biology at the U. and a research associate at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Earlier in the week, Rickart said he was still working on his talk, working on nontechnical language. He wants his audience to understand what makes the Philippines so unique, biologically, and also to see how knowledge gained there can have implications in faraway Utah.

Rickart calls himself “hardly the most important” of the scientists at work in the Philippines. He’s one of a team studying mammals. His team cooperates with botanists and entomologists and earthworm experts and the like.

The Philippines is clearly one of the world’s hot spots of diversity, Rickart explains. The Philippines offer a perspective not easily gained elsewhere, he says. The Philippines are islands — oceanic islands, islands that were never a part of Asia, islands that are very old. Because they are so isolated and so ancient, a relatively small number of plants and animals made their way to the Philippines, and the process of evolution and extinction has gone very slowly, he explains. There are so many species that are endemic, found nowhere else in the world.

He says it is easier on the Philippines than it would be on a large continent to tease apart the history of the various species. Easier to unravel the mysteries of life.

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She was named after my mother, her lola Mila. The “Gabrielle” is a consuelo de bobo to me the father. I really wanted to name our second kid “Gibraltar”, as in the Rock of Gibraltar. But alas, instead of a son, we got a daughter. We named her Camila Gabrielle.  Read more at Quick & Random.

Dean Alfar, apparently one of the most respected Pinoy bloggers and whose presentation – based on most accounts – was the most applauded during IBlog3, has announced in his blog, Notes from the Peanut Gallery, that the Eastwood City branch of A Different Bookstore will be conducting a 2-hour writing workshop on Speculative Fiction. Read more at Pinoy Seminars.

Tanghalang Pilipino artistic director Dennis Marasigan’s 2005 indie film feature “Sa North Diversion Road,” starring Irma Adlawan and John Arcilla, will have a theatrical run at Indie Sine Robinson’s Movieworld Galleria from today until May 1.

While Jaclyn Jose won the Urian Best Actress award last year for “Sarong Banggi,” I firmly believe Ms. Adlawan should have won the prize for her work in this film (and I’m an eternal Jaclyn Jose fan). I argued so back in September 2005:

“The one indisputably great performance of the year so far belongs to a theater stalwart, Irma Adlawan, who is a veritable force of nature in Dennis Marasigan’s ‘Sa North Diversion Road,’ an entry to the Cinema One Digital Film Festival.”

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Will you eat meat again?????

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix international trailer. Sit back, relax and enjoy, Potterheads!

How does a silk scarf make a difference?

BIG Difference.

A stranger tries to pick up Raven in the street.

More at http://ravencrows.blogspot.com/

Just a few weeks to go before elections, politicians are making “pa pogi” on television. Sagot ko mga problema nyo! Havent we learned from previous law makers elected in this country? Corruption, Political Dynasties still rule in our native land. People clamor for change. Opposition and the Administration always find time to bicker each other at the expense of our countries development and growth. People generally vote for the popular candidate, one whose posters are visible on the sidewalks. One whose face is on T.V. every 10 mins. People dont even have the slightest idea on what his platforms once elected. Popular vote runs this country. Need example? REFER TO THE 1998 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS where the elected president was a known actor. Only to be booted out because of his corrupt cronies 3 years later.

I dont believe in elections. Help your self instead. Politicians will always be politicians. They will only hear your complains during election period. Once elected, you can say “SAYONARA!”

God bless our country. we need decent politicians.

Ang mga panaginip ay tunay na kakaiba. Ibang iba sa reyalidad na ating kinamulatan. Weird, ika nga. Isa ako sa mga biktima ng mga kakaibang mga panaginip na iyon. Pero ang mga dreams na ito ay mga pangitain o may kaugnayan sa subconscious nating kaisipan. Ituloy lang ang pagbabasa… here

the Internet has become a regular part of our daily lives and rue the day we find that we cannot go online to check our email, read online news, blogsurf, and such mundane, simple things that we’ve taken for granted thinking that they will always be on hand when and where we need them… true enough, there are now free WiFi connections sprouting around the metro — i even heard from a lady friend that Davao has a free city-wide WiFi connection — and you can’t turn your head without seeing an Internet cafe… it has become so commonplace that we can expect to be online anywhere, anytime even without a computer… there are now cellphones and phone services [3G, for example] offering online services for a measly P10 per 30 minutes!!

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Madalas itanong ng aking kapatid kung ano daw ang aking napapala sa pagrarali. Wala daw silbi ang maging aktibista. Sinasayang ko lang ang aking pinag-aralan. Ano ang aking kinabukasan kung sigaw lang ako ng sigaw sa kalye?

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Alam na rin naman nating lahat na umabot na rin ng mahigit dalawang dekada ang Eat Bulaga at hanggang ngayon ay patuloy na nagbibigay ng kasiyahan sa mga tao, pero huwag naman sanang pumasok ang hangin sa ulo ng mga tao sa likod nito ang inabot nilang tagumpay upang tratuhin ng ganyan ang mga parukyano nila.

Ituloy ang pagbasa dito.

As promised, this is the second of a 3 or more part blog series on losing ones job. My objective is to educate employees to protect their jobs and for entrepreneurs to be guided on how to go about disciplining and eventually terminating an employee.

Little did employees know, they may be doing things that can be hazardous to their career and employment. While employees have the right to security of tenure, the company also have its own rights and prerogatives for profitable operations

How an employee can lose his job? Find out at Sonnie’s Porch

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“We’ve treated the human genome project as a priority every year because we all want to live forever”
- Bill Clinton, during a Press Conference, 2000

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Most of us have now learned to live with voice mail as a necessary part of our lives. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if God decided to install voice mail? Imagine praying and hearing the following:

Thank you for calling heaven.

For English press 1

For Spanish press 2

For all other languages, press 3

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I receive the Sunday edition of The New York Times every week, and when I pulled out its magazine insert tonight, I saw on the cover a photograph of a Filipina in nurse’s scrubs standing barefoot on some beach who-knows-where, looking — depending on your interpretation — wistful, confused, troubled, or lost. The cover story is entitled A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves by Jason Deparle and it’s worth a read, no matter what you may think about the O.F.W (Overseas Filipino Worker) phenomenon, where approximately one in seven Filipino workers is abroad.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA

Hindi maikakaila na may sarili ng kabihasnan ang mga sinaunang Pilipino bago pa dumating ang mga mananakop na Kastila. Subalit sinira ng mga Kastila ang mayabong na kabihasnan ng ating mga ninuno dahil sa kanilang paniniwala na ang kanilang sibilisasyon ay superyor. Pinilit ng mga mananakop na Kastila na tanggalan ng sariling pagkakakilanlan ang ating mga ninuno. Sa unang pagkakataon, tinanggalan ng sariling kasaysayan ang mga Pilipino.

Taong 1896 ng magtagumpay ang mga Pilipino na mailunsad ang isang pambansang rebolusyon laban sa rehimeng kolonyal ng Espanya. Halos dalawang taong nagpunyagi ang mga Pilipino upang makamit ang matagal ng inaasam na kalayaan. Ang rebolusyong Pilipino ay pansamantalang naputol dahil sa kasunduan sa Biak-na-Bato noong 1897.

Sa panahong ipinapakita ng mga Pilipino ang kanilang pagkabansa at kakayahan na pamahalaan ang sariling bayan sa pamamagitan ng pagpapatalsik sa mga mananakop na Espanyol, muli na naman nawala sa kamay ng mga Pilipino ang karapatang maging malaya. Ang imperyalistang Estados Unidos ay agad na sinunggaban ang pagkakataong makapanakop ng panibagong kolonya para sa kanyang pang-ekonomiya at istratehikong interes.

Hindi pumayag ang mga Pilipino na basta na lang maagaw sa kanilang mga kamay ang resulta ng dalawang taong armadong pakikibaka laban sa rehimeng kolonyal ng Espanya. Magiting na nilabanan ng mga rebolusyunaryong Pilipino ang mga tropang Amerikano. Ang yugtong ito ng kasaysayang Pilipino ay tinatawag na Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano.

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