A friend sent me an email about a new scam in Manila using the cellphone. It sounds real to me and very possible to happen. So I am sharing this to everyone. Dear all, I would like to share this worrisome experience with all of you. Its all started when I received a call from [...]
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Graphic Philippine News Reporting by Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca
June 28th, 2010
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Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca and her brand of news writing make me think if she could report effectively a news item without being too very graphic. She regularly writes for Journal Online and her stories are almost always linked at the homepage. She uses heavy descriptive language with every post full of facts that you end [...]
SDSU Wecota Hall Janitor Bothers Me
June 18th, 2010
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The SDSU Wecota Hall basement janitor left me a note today saying, and I quote verbatim “If you have to dump your partially drank coffee in the waste basket…please wrap in these and save both us a mess??” He left the message on my desk together with 10 small disposable bags. Never mind the grammar, [...]
Philippines Ranks Bottom in World’s Most Peaceful Country List
June 14th, 2010
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What a bad moment for my beloved country, the Philippines. First we missed the World’s Friendliest Country list. Now, we placed 130th among 149 countries in the just-released Global Peace Index (GPI) that ranked the world’s most peaceful nations based on the 2009 data. The Philippines, how pitiful, is in the red zone (translated as [...]
Flores de Mayo at St. Thomas More Parish, South Dakota
May 8th, 2010
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I was surprised to see a celebration of Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May) at the St. Thomas More Parish in Brookings, SD during the first Sunday of May. Little kids were bringing flowers to the image of the blessed Mother Mary near the altar. It was just a short event done after the Sunday [...]
SDSU Collegian Plagiarism – Collegian Editors Forgiven
April 27th, 2010
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I could not believe my eyes to read in this week’s issue of the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Collegian newspaper that last week’s plagiarism incident was only considered a mere mistake. I was told by the Collegian editor-in-chief, Ms. Poppinga, in one of our email exchanges last week that “we will take these concerns [...]
Should International Students Answer US Census 2010?
March 16th, 2010
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Should international students fill out the US Census 2010? My housemate and I just received the form for the 2010 US Census. Our first reaction was to throw it directly to the recycle bin, just like what we do to every spam mail we got from Capital One. We both thought the 2010 US Census [...]
Win a Grant from Tobacco Media Control Project
March 5th, 2010
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I almost marked the email below a spam. Coming from a tobacco media and sent to my work email address is not something common to see in my inbox. Regular emails that flood my office account usually come from research collaborators and professors whose email addresses end with dot edu. Had it not been for [...]
