:-]

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:47:00 +0000

According to this website (http://www.cigaretteprices.net/), the PH has the cheapest cigarettes in the world,
not just in this region.

I really don't mind if SMOKERS WANT TO CONTINUE TO POLLUTE THEIR GOD-GIVEN BODIES. What I do mind are JUST TWO SIMPLE AVOIDABLE THINGS:
1) the smoke and stench that they leave behind

they enter an enclosed room from smoking thinking that they don't wreak of cigarette smoke, worse is if the room is air-conditioned and worst if it's in a tight elevator space
they smoke in public utility vehicles most especially cabs not sensitive about the health of the driver and the other passengers who will use the cab (this is against the law by the way)
they smoke while walking without being sensitive to the pedestrian behind them who are not only trying to hold their breath but trying to walk fast so they could overtake the smoker

2) they are such LITTER BUGS!
The caring people across the world are trying to "save" mother Earth then here we have the SMOKERS not minding where they flick their cigarette ash like while driving or just walking, or where they throw the cig cases, or where they squeeze that cig butt with their shoes thinking that it's a cool James Dean way of killing the fire. Please buy or make a PERSONAL ASHTRAY that you can carry around! Don't litter!

I USED TO BE A SMOKER. I KICKED THE HABIT YEARS AGO. I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO QUIT ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE BEST :-) BUT PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CO-SMOKERS TO BE SENSITIVE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AS WELL AS MOTHER EARTH.

TOBACCO INDUSTRY'S DIRTY TRICKS AND TACTICS

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:51:00 +0000

YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT BUT THE
TOBACCO INDUSTRY'S DIRTY TRICKS AND TACTICS
ARE ALIVE AND KICKING...UP TO NOW.
YOUR KIDS ARE THEIR NEXT TARGET! SIGH....

http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=Recto%E2%80%99s-false-smuggling-report&id=60003

FILIPINOS AT THEIR VERY CORE ARE GREAT PEOPLE SO LET'S CONTINUE THIS PATH OF CLEANSING THAT WE MAY SHINE AS A PEOPLE!

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:58:00 +0000

Posted on 03/19/2012 2:12 PM | Updated 03/19/2012 8:51 PM

REINA REYES. From the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics website.

MANILA, Philippines - Think of Filipinos who have astounded the world lately, and the first names that come to mind are likely to be Manny Pacquiao or Charice. The two definitely earned their Pinoy-pride accolades, but they aren’t the only ones who deserve it.

Meet Reinabelle Reyes, a 28-year-old astrophysicist who astounded scientists all over the world when she proved Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity on a cosmic scale. That was when she was only 26.

Einstein’s theories have been verified many times, but it took Reyes and her Princeton University collaborators to verify his Theory of General Relativity, beyond the confines of our solar system.

Led by Reyes, the research team made headlines back in 2010 when they showed how galaxies up to 3.5 billion light years away are clustered together in exactly the way General Relativity predicts. They came up with a new astronomical measurement, which indicates how galaxies are pulled together by gravity, just as Einstein theorized.

Her findings also support the existence of Dark Energy—a force greater than gravity once merely imagined by scientists. This is a big deal, because, evenNASA tells us, pinning down the exact properties of Dark Energy is among the most significant problems facing science today. According to the NASA website, Dark Energy “is the deepest mystery in physics, and its resolution is likely to greatly advance our understanding of matter, space, and time.”

Reinabelle Reyes is among the scientists involved in unraveling this profound mystery.

Studying the stars

She was in Manila recently to give a series of talks, and I had the chance to catch up with her at the Manila Observatory in the Ateneo Loyola campus. She is a graduate of the Loyola school herself, earning her BS Physics Degree from Ateneo and graduating summa cum laude—before getting her PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton.

Today, Reyes is a fellow at the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. It’s a fine opportunity for any physicist to be where she is right now, but she is intent on coming back home one day.

She says she will always have a passion for studying the stars. Yet admits she wouldn’t be fulfilled if she didn’t work on more immediate earth-bound problems—especially since she comes from a country with a long list of them.

When we met, I had almost missed her. Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt that said “Schrodinger’s cat is a zombie,” she looked more like a student. Among a myriad of other things, she told me who Schrodinger was. This girl is passionate. If we weren’t pressed for time, she could have gone on and on about the country’s lack of disaster preparedness and improving K12 education in the Philippines. The country needs more scientists! Eventually, she hopes to be part of the solution.

As her schedule was packed, we had to continue our conversation over e-mail, a portion of which appears below. Some of the things she was candid about—winning the Nobel Prize, disproving Einstein, the arrogance of scientists, God, and the Dalai Lama.

REACHING FOR THE STARS. Reina Reyes is driven by her passion for the stars.

In a way that non-scientists can understand, how exactly did you come up with a confirmation of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity?  

Every theory makes predictions, and to pass the test of science, these predictions must match what we observe. In our study, we combined different types of observations of 70,000 galaxies and compared the result with the prediction from Einstein's theory. They match! So we say that we have confirmed the theory.

What's special about this test is that it could have gone another way. That is, the answer could not have matched the prediction—and that would be a signature of new physics, a signal that Einstein could be wrong.   Right now, I'm part of a team of scientists working on a new and bigger galaxy survey called the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This means that in 2017, we will be able to do the test again, and put Einstein's theory to an even more stringent test, so stay tuned!

So maybe you could get the Nobel in 2017 or 2018?

There is potential for a Nobel Prize-winning work here -- but one, it won't go to me, it would go to the senior scientists who lead the team. Two, it would be awarded many, many years after. Recall that most laureates get them in their 70s and 80s for work done in their 20s or 30s!

How do you think your childhood shaped you as a scientist?   

I credit my parents for exposing me to books and computers at an early age. My mom was an early adopter of the home computer and I played educational games—in DOS!—as a kid. I also learned how to touch type with a Mario Bros typing game. It's a skill I now get to use and take advantage of every day.

  I had no pressure to do well in school, but I did get encouragement at crucial points. In kindergarten, I apparently got bored because I already knew what the teacher was teaching and my mom told me that I should raise my hand and participate in class. This got me on the honor roll, but more importantly, it saved me from being disenchanted from school.

 Does being a woman or a Filipino make it more difficult in some ways? It’s still a male-dominated field.  

Astrophysics is actually one of the relatively better off fields, with 30% women in postdoc positions (me included), and 15% in tenured faculty positions. The figures are even lower for theoretical particle physics, for example.

I should say that here in the Philippines, we don't have quite the same problem that the US and the West have. For example, there, there is a strong stereotype of the White, male scientist. In our society, we don't even have a public image of a Filipino scientist, much less a stereotype—except those acquired from the West, which, of course, is also problematic.

I find that one significant difference is that our society has no problem with women leaders, not only in the sciences. I can see and feel this difference, especially during my recent visit to Manila, after 5 years of living in the US.   

COMMUNICATING. Relaying data to the public through visuals matters.

Disaster preparedness and improving science education are problems you hope to solve some day. Why these problems in particular? Can you let us in on some of your plans, as to how you can contribute to addressing them?

  I'm particularly passionate about communicating data to the public in a way that is both attractive and easy to understand. One particular way to do this is through visuals, that is, through "data visualization."

As a scientist, I look at graphs all the time. In fact, I make them all the time. I understand that a typical graph I look at will not make sense to you, as is. But I can also make graphs that are beautiful and at the same time tell a story to the reader, all the while showing the power of data in improving our understanding of the world. This, for me, is the exciting art and science of data visualization.

I've started making my own infographics and plan to do many more, covering a wide range of topics, including disasters, demographics, economics, and even sports. Watch out for them in my data visualization blog on Rappler, coming out soon!

What do you do when you're not being a physicist? What excites you aside from the thought of one day having a 30-meter telescope?

  I read a lot. I follow blogs. I follow basketball. I'm excited by the prospect of another championship for the San Antonio Spurs!

  Of course you like to read! Favorite books?

  Some books that made an impact on me, in no particular order:  

Contact by Carl Sagan. The movie with Jodie Foster is not bad either, but different from the book and  finished after Sagan's death.

Letters to a Young Poet by Maria Rainer Rilke speaks to my soul.

Novels of Haruki Murakami stimulate my right brain and induce vivid, "weird" dreams.

Nonfiction of Malcolm Gladwell—Tipping Point, Outliers, his New Yorker articles.

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco. I re-read it in preparation for my visit to Manila. I look forward to his next work.

  What I'm reading now is the debut novel of Fil-Am author Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-enemy Combatant. The protagonist is a Filipino "fashion terrorist" in New York. Very refreshing to see a fully fleshed out Filipino character, in a work filled with insight, humor, and heart.

  In an article, I read you had mentioned reading Ethics for a New Millenniumby the Dalai Lama.

 I think the Dalai Lama's message of compassion is a good one to hear and heed. I'm impressed with his openness to dialogue with scientists—in particular, he has encouraged Buddhist monks and scholars to collaborate with neuroscientists to better understand our minds.

  Scientists are usually skeptical about God. Do you believe in God? Does your work prove to you that he exists or does it make you think more critically about religion?

  I don't personally believe in God. I think science does make one more critical of religion, but I also understand faith. It's just that I don't have any, at least not in a higher Being. - Rappler.com

Reinabelle Reyes wants more of us to understand science and how it operates in our lives.

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:59:00 +0000

TO MY DEAR FILIPINO YOUTH ----

http://cbcpforlife.com/?p=8290

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:59:00 +0000

THIS GUY PROBABLY HASN'T HAD HIS NICOTINE FIX :-)

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/netizens-slam-rude-motorist-who-mauled-mmda-officer.html

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:40:00 +0000

AUDITIONS! AUDITIONS! MORE AUDITIONS!
CLICK ON THE LINK FOR INFO!

http://www.kaleidoscopeworldmovie.com/casting/KW_3DAY_AUDITIONS.pdf

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Iya and Anya audition for Kaleidoscope World movie! Another first for these BFFs.

Find out if they're in or out.

Challenge 10: Indie Film Audition

The girls experience a case of deja vu as they take on their 10th challenge. This time, they're auditioning for an Indie Film! Wanna know what film?

CASTING FOR FILM AND TV

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:37:00 +0000

CASTING for a film is the process of searching not only for the RIGHT ACTOR for a role but the RIGHT MIX of actors. Celebrities abroad know the importance of attending invites for readings and casting. Attending these activities DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE NOT A GOOD ACTOR. It means that YOU as AN ACTOR respect the art of filmmaking that you know the importance of the CASTING process. Same goes with commendable television productions.

On the other side of this is SERENDIPITY :-)

www.facebook.com/KWmovie
www.kaleidoscopeworldmovie.com

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:57:00 +0000

PH AMONG COUNTRIES WITH LEAST RUDE LOCALS

IT'S DEFINITELY MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES!

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:51:00 +0000

Philippines: World's best country in business English

By Shielo Mendoza | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – Wed, Apr 25, 2012

Well, people will now have to think twice before mocking Pinoys' use of the English language.

The Philippines was named the world’s best country in business English proficiency, even beating the United States, according to a recent study by GlobalEnglish Corporation.

GlobalEnglish has released early this month the results of its annual Business English Index (BEI), the only index that measures business English proficiency in the workplace.

For 2012, results showed that from 76 represented countries worldwide, only the Philippines attained a score above 7.0, "a BEI level within range of a high proficiency that indicates an ability to take an active role in business discussions and perform relatively complex tasks."

“This is particularly interesting because the Philippines, a country with one-tenth of the population of India, recently overtook India as a hub for call centers. Over 400,000 Filipinos are now employed in call centers, roughly 50,000 more than in India,” the study said.

The Philippines, which scored 7.11 and the lone country in the intermediate level, were joined by Norway (6.54), Estonia (6.45), Serbia (6.38) and Slovenia (6.19) in the top five.

GlobalEnglish noted that a country’s business English capability is an indicator of its economic growth and business success.

“It is not surprising that both the Philippines and Norway—the only two countries in the top five in both 2011 and 2012—are improving their economies, based on the latest GDP data from the World Bank,” it added.

Meanwhile, struggling economic powers (Japan, Italy and Mexico) and fast-growth emerging markets (Brazil, Columbia and Chile) scored below a 4.0 in business English proficiency, placing them at a disadvantage when competing in a global marketplace, the study said.

It also pointed out that shifts in global talent have put even English-speaking countries at risk.

“Surprisingly the BEI score for global workers in the U.S. declined from 6.9 to 5.09 since the original 2011 BEI benchmark, which is attributed to a majority of test takers being foreign-born engineers and scientists,” the report said.

Rest of the world ranked beginner and basic level

Based on a scale of 1-10, the average 2012 BEI score across 108,000 test takers around the world is 4.15 which is lower than last year’s 4.46.

Nearly four out of 10 (38.2 percent) global workers from 76 countries were ranked as business English beginners, meaning that, on average, they can’t understand or communicate basic information during virtual or in-person meetings, read or write professional emails in English or deal with complexity and rapid change in a global business environment, the study said.

Meanwhile, the majority of global workers (60.5 percent) from the represented countries scored between a 4.0 and 7.0, below an intermediate level, indicating an inability to take an active role in business discussions or perform relatively complex tasks such as presentation development and customer or partner negotiations, it added.

GlobalEnglish stressed that the 2012 BEI which showed a lack of business English proficiency is threatening the productivity of companies, industries and country-specific economies this year.

“Poor Business English skills are bad for global businesses and this year’s Business English Index suggests that many companies will be hard-pressed to achieve their desired performance goals during 2012,” said Tom Kahl, GlobalEnglish President.

“Addressing English skills gaps and ensuring that employees can immediately perform at the necessary proficiency level should be viewed as a strategic imperative for multinational businesses, as Enterprise Fluency, the ability to seamlessly communicate and collaborate within global organizations, can deliver significant financial upside,” Kahl added.

Headquartered in Brisbane, California, GlobalEnglish works with multinational companies – including Cisco, Procter and Gamble, HSBC, Phzer – to support performance in business English across the workforce around the world.

Here's the list of the 10 best and worst countries in the world for business English proficiency based on GlobalEnglish's 2012 BEI:

10 Best Countries:
Philippines
Norway
Serbia
Slovenia
Australia
Malaysia
India
Lithuania
Singapore
Canada

10 Worst Countries:
Armenia
Cote d'Ivoire
Taiwan
Honduras
Columbia
Chile
El Salvador
Saudi Arabia

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Dedicated to the weak and strong in faith

SERVANTS and SOLDIERS

THEY MAKE YOU THINK THAT HIV SPREADS DUE TO HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:44:00 +0000

A lot of new diseases are discovered in Africa. Just like HIV which "theoretically" originated from chimps or monkeys in West Africa. The truth remains that there are a lot of weird, new diseases originating from Africa. Research - Read.

READ READ READ
READ READ READ

Hear it from a man who lives in Africa

Black people, poor people, poor children, homosexuals - there is some pattern here don't you think?

MICROWAVE - SAFE OR NOT SAFE?

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:56:00 +0000

REPOSTING AN EMAIL I RECEIVED
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Microwave Water - See What It Does To Plants

Below is a science fair project. In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave. Then after cooling she used the Water to water two identical plants to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave. She was thinking that

the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at the difference.

I have known for years that the problem with microwaved anything is not the radiation people used to worry about, It's how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it. So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself from the dead food or it eliminates it fast. Think of all the Mothers heating up milk in these "Safe" appliances. What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed them when the blood went in dead. But the makers say it's safe. Never mind then, keep using them. Ask your Doctor I am sure they will say it's safe too. Proof is in the pictures of living plants dying. Remember You are also Living. Take Care.

FORENSIC RESEARCH DOCUMENT
Prepared By: William P. Kopp
A. R. E. C.. Research Operations
TO61-7R10/10- 77F05

RELEASE PRIORITY: CLASS I ROO1a

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven
From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

1) Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food..

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America ..

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?
After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick.

The use of artificial microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological control, a.k.a. "brainwashing" , has also been proven. We're attempting to obtain copies of the 1970's Russian research documents and results written by Drs. Luria and Perov specifying their clinical experiments in this area.

MORE SITES TO CHECK OUT

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:12:00 +0000

ROBERT STEELE EX-CIA TELLS IT AS IT IS Part1

Then just go through the other related videos on the right column ;-)

PNEUMONIA AND CANCER - FAVORITE BIO-WEAPONS :-/

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:47:00 +0000

Heard about JOHN KANZIUS?

First he discovers something good for all of us except for the elite few.

Then he gets eliminated.

RELATED?

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:15:00 +0000

Watch and decide :-] (take note of the location)

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1762758/pg1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8tlhwD-NEc

WHEN WILL WE LEARN TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:35:00 +0000

We (the Philippines) have always been viewed as "allies" of the US.
Be warned about these so-called VISITS.
Let's pray our country doesn't get buried deep into the underdog world.
I hope PNoy will be guided by the spiritual dimension and see beyond what is presented before him.

US Official to Visit Indonesia, Philippines

US Treasury official visiting country

McCain, 3 American senators visit Philippines for talks

Read on McCain and others stand on trade

DENVER INTL AIRPORT

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:15:00 +0000

Watch this

BE CRITICAL

READ. ASK. ANALYZE. YOU DECIDE.

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:08:00 +0000

STRANGE SOUNDS

Were Giant Skeletons Found in the Desert?

The Orion Conspiracy

Giant Human Skeleton Found in Saudi Arabia

Planet X January 6th 2012

'Two suns' spotted in China defy explanation

Baby Dies After Nine Vaccines in One Day

IMPORTANT ILLUMINATI INTERVIEW - PRINCESS KAORU NAKAMARU & PRINCE LEO ZAGAMI

Deadly Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse and Kill Patients More Quickly

T. FAX - tyrannosaurus FAX!

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:48:00 +0000

I got a call from a government agency yesterday asking for a FAX TONE!

Last year, I finally donated my fax machine to an e-junk group. I really don't see why on earth do people still use FAX MACHINES when you have the ever-reliable email not to mention that thermal paper does not store for long.

Most of the time it's government offices that still use fax machines and in remote cases, companies that do not want to go through your proposals :-) Anyway, when I told the gov't employee on the other line that I finally got rid of my fax machine he chuckled and said that they will just send it by mail. Waaahhh!!! from jurassic to the big bang!

Maybe if the government would do an audit on the facsimile and courier expenses for documents that are merely meant to "NOTIFY" I bet they will realize how much savings they will have if they simply EMAIL these notifications.

PNoy! Paki-check! Now na!

DIGITAL DIVIDE

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:42:00 +0000

For as long as there are gatekeepers of information and for as long as the tools for information dissemination remain ridiculously expensive then the DIGITAL DIVIDE will remain.

So kudos! to DATAWIND, MY PHONE and NEO for serving the majority who should have as much EDUCATION and INFORMATION rights as the few.

HISTORICAL CEDULA

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:45:00 +0000

The sedula is another item in our government system that needs to be ERADICATED. It's plain and simple useless. It's time for the printers and the long line of payola people who are behind the sedula system to RETHINK of other ways to earn extra income. PNoy and LGUs pakitanggal na ang sedula. Now na pwede?

At 46, I've finally decided to talk :-P

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:36:00 +0000

I created this blog last year just for the heck of it. But am I a blogger? And the most important question is what will I blog about? Who cares?! I will share and write about anything and everything that I know will be useful and helpful to anyone. And let's see if I will become a blogger... Watevah... :-P

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:03:00 +0000

Regarding my last posting about making bootable flash disks or sdcards for your laptop, I've encountered other tweaks when Windows xp was done installing. just comment here if you encountered some errors that are not in the link that I've posted, or errors that you can't seen to shake off :-)

for LAPTOP users :-)

noreply@blogger.com (eLizaCornejo) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:32:00 +0000

http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/install-windows-xp-using-usb-flash-disk.html