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The lives of others. (Wow a movie about our lives.)
I have not blogged in a long time, and this will be no exception. I have been a little distracted by other projects, but also by the whole, the government is trying to harm my in my home with some kind of electromagnetic energy from the apartment below me. Same as last time, but they seem to be turning up the frying a lot. To the stage where I have to find a workaround, let's just say it's become more imperative than before. Then there is the whole how to survive and stay well when the state is trying to destroy you literally. Well they do say live in interesting times, and now I do.
However there is still lot's that everyone needs to know, so I thought I would take the easy way out and post a movie review.
A movie review from someone else, cause this is a movie review about the lives of others. This is a movie about what's happening to many of us in our democratic countries. This is what happened to many citizens of the former East Germany. I wonder if they are still posting the suicide rates for this country, or if they will stop soon?
Remember I said there was a bridge in my city and they had to cordon it off because people just kept jumping and killing themselves, when I got back from the other city I was in for a time, I couldn't understand why. I just thought they had gambling problems or something. I am sure this was not the reason for everyone jumping, but I bet this explains the increased rate to the stage where they had to place steel ropes at the side of this very long, long bridge.
The rate of drug use, and mental illnesses has gone up a lot in my city as well, from people that I have discussed this with, and the whole time I could not begin to understand why. Apparently this stuff just comes with the territory when regimes like this are coming into play, it's all part and parcel of the whole genie gig.
This sort of listing or life destroying activity can happen to rich or poor, famous, non famous, infamous.
There is a book now put together by some journalists, and they talk about something called the buzz saw. It's something that can rip through you, and leave you and destroy your life. If you investigate the wrong story or do research into the wrong thing. You might just experience the buzz saw. Maybe I should have written the college paper on the upcoming pole shift? We are all suppose to believe it's all caused by global warming right?
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The buzzsaw is what reporters call the powerful system of censorship in the US that is revealed to those investigating extremely sensitive stories, usually having to do with high-level government or corporate malfeasance. Here a group of journalists, who usually avoid collaboration and the spotlight, risk the blade by describing their encounters with it. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Writing in riveting detail about their personal experiences with corporate efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers, nearly two dozen print and TV journalists present devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. [quote]
Anyways without further ado, a movie review about the lives of others, which should be out on video if I understand correctly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ I wonder why there has been so little written and publicized about this movie. This should be seen in every country and its merits trumpeted from the skies. It starts off slowly and the locale is the former East Germany, inhabited by 16 million people who are being spied upon relentlessly by their secret police. In this very real world of the Berlin Wall, there are many Stasi, 90,000, overseeing the populace, aided and abetted by hundreds of thousands of informants. Many of these snitches were blackmailed or other pressures exerted (threats to children and loved ones) and a few obliged voluntarily. [/quote]
[quote]In 1984 East Germany (also known as the GDR or DDR) , Stasi Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (HGW), a keenly idealistic supporter of the communist regime, is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman, who, Wiesler is told, is suspected of Western leanings. Stasi agents secretly enter Dreyman's apartment in order to install small microphones in the light switches and electric sockets, and cables in the walls, which connect the microphones to an attic space above the apartment, where Wiesler and an assistant take turns monitoring the activity below 24 hours a day, typing a report with anything they hear that might be relevant. A neighbour who happens to observe the agents is told that if she reveals their presence her daughter will be forced out of her spot in the university.
Wiesler soon finds out that the real reason why Dreyman is being spied on is that a minister and member of the Party's Central Committee is attracted to Dreyman's girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria; if Dreyman is arrested the minister will have free rein. This destroys Wiesler's motivation, as the job is not seriously investigating crimes against the Socialist state.
Dreyman is a supporter of the regime, but dislikes the way dissidents are treated. He publicly stands up for his friends if he feels that they have been unfairly treated. One friend is a director, Jerska who has been sapped of joie de vivre because he has been blacklisted for several years. At Dreyman's 40th birthday party, Jerska gives Dreyman a gift of sheet music entitled "Sonata for a Good Man". Shortly afterward, Jerska commits suicide which finally spurs Dreyman into speaking out against the regime. Dreyman arranges with West Germany's "Der Spiegel" periodical magazine to anonymously publish in an article on suicide rates in the GDR. While the GDR publishes detailed statistics on many things, it has not published any statistics on suicide rates since the 1970s , presumably because they are embarrassingly high. Because all typewriters are required to be registered, Dreyman uses a separate typewriter with a red ribbon to write the article, which he hides under the floor in his apartment. Before Dreyman and his friends discuss sensitive issues in Dreyman's apartment they test whether it is bugged: they pretend that someone will be smuggled in a relative's car over to the West. Later they conclude that the apartment is not bugged, because the car is not searched. Unknown to them, that is only because Wiesler has temporarily taken pity on them and had not understood that the discussion was in fact a test.
As Wiesler's empathy for the writer and his girlfriend has grown over time, he lies in his reports to protect Dreyman. Also, at his proposal, the hours of surveillance are reduced, so that it is no longer continuous and he no longer has to share the work with his more objective assistant.
Meanwhile, the minister, angered that Christa-Maria had chosen to no longer see him, orders Wiesler's superior, Anton Grubitz, to find some way to destroy her and tells him that she has gained narcotics, illegally, from abroad. Grubitz and his men manage to catch her in the act of purchasing these drugs and she is arrested. Terrified, she turns Dreyman in. The house is searched for contraband by security officials, but the typewriter is not found. Wiesler is called in to interrogate Christa-Maria. At this point, Grubitz begins to suspect of Wiesler's newly found pity and implies that, even though they are longtime friends, a failure to perform his work will be very costly. Wiesler interrogates Christa-Maria (with his boss watching through the two way mirror) with the same flawlessness and objectivity that characterized him for years. She breaks down and tells him where the typewriter is hidden. Wiesler however, still determined to protect a couple he has come to care for, travels to their apartment before the police can search it again and surreptitiously hides the typewriter.
During a second search, in the presence of Christa-Maria, when the hiding place of the typewriter is about to be opened, Christa-Maria walks away in shame, and throws herself in front of a truck. The secret hiding place is opened, but is found empty. A helpless Wiesler who is watching the events just outside the apartment, tries to tell Christa that he has the typewriter, but can't complete his words. Dreyman arrives at the scene and Christa-Maria dies in his hands. As a result the surveillance operation becomes pointless: Wiesler's superior, calls it off and distrusting Wiesler, ensures the end of his career. The newspaper lying in the front seat of Wiesler's car announces that Gorbachev is the new Party Secretary of the Soviet Union. Wiesler is demoted to Department M, where he tediously steams open letters all day. Four years and seven months later, Wiesler is opening letters when a coworker with a radio notifies him of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
At the end of the film, after German reunification, Dreyman encounters a former minister and asks why his apartment was never bugged. The minister ironically details the scope of Dreyman's extensive surveillance, telling him where to look for the equipment. Dreyman finds the wires and becomes perplexed as to how he was never caught. He finds the truth further while searching his file in Stasi's archives: while Wiesler heard Dreyman and his friends conducting anti-regime activities (such as the writing of the suicide article), Wiesler did not report those things in his voluminous typed notes; instead, he (Wiesler) falsely wrote that Dreyman was writing a play on Lenin, a topic the regime would have approved. Next to the final page of notes is a red smudge, which provides evidence that it was he who had removed the type writer, which used red ink. Dreyman notes the code name "HGW XX/7" in all reports and discovers the identity that it corresponds to. He finds out the location of Wiesler and pursues him in a taxi, watching Wiesler delivering leaflets. He gets out of the car with the intention of meeting him, but changes his mind and gets back into the car.
Two years later, Dreyman publishes a novel named "Sonata for a Good Man". By chance, Wiesler sees the book in a bookstore, and finds that it is dedicated "To HGW XX/7 with gratitude" . When Wiesler buys the book and the vendor asks him if he should package it as a present, Wiesler responds: "No. It's for me." [/quote]
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The latest report on the performance of Tasmania's state education system reveals a fall in student attendance.
The 2011 Tasmanian Education Performance Report shows that while most of the 11 surveyed areas are rated 'good', student attendance has dropped.
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The Government is continuing to shakeup the leadership of its schools, advertising for 24 permanent principals.
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was no way I was hanging around, the positively XB9R carving into the as the rorty pipe played out its around the twists and turns of Mount Glorious biker
That's the I settled on, and it's in fact the one I through to ZZ-R1100-riding Jim, I'd met not long before Brisbane's (in)famous biking at the Mount Glorious cafe.
I was he'd find it believable for me to then pull the wool my colleagues' eyes at Horror HQ. all, I'd stoop to to avoid adding my name to the AMCN Crash File.
to say Jim found my yarn hard to although he gave me points for
You're phaarkin' unbelievable, he I don't care how I do it, but I'll get the story through to the guys at HQ one way or another.
Three intercepted later Jim gave up, and I've not a boo from him since.
As for the reason he my story hard to believe? that's because he, along around a dozen other had borne witness to my goodself the race-kitted Firebolt from the position it had found itself in. No of wind, no Porsche, no diesel just a dodgy sidestand and a very red face on yours
When I the Aussie launch of the Firebolt in April, I commented that not often a whizbang new sportsbike is with a claimed horsepower lower than the model superseding.
I went on to add that the claimed torque is over 25 more on the old model (X1 Lightning) the new kid on the block, you've gotta asking questions!
Well questions continued to be asked the $17,995 Firebolt finally it on to Aussie roads a couple back — our ADR requirements had even more of the Firebolt's Around 7ps in fact from the I'd sampled at the launch.
But found the answer, albeit a one. It consists of a Firebolt — which includes a ECU, twin-exit sports and high-flow filter.
For those bucks you get those aforementioned 7ps plus an extra 8ps (15 ponies all as well as throttle response akin to an injected Jap four. The is unbelievably crisp for a 984cc 45-degree V-twin.
Further news is that you still get the rake and 83mm of trail, a 175kg, and a tiny 1320mm that is some 55cm than my goodself.
My recent chance for Firebolt sampling a few weeks back, again in — in Brisbane's hinterland and on the Coast.
My intitial fang at at the Aussie launch had put to rest any over the XB9R's straightline but I was keen to see how the innovative chassis perform with the extra
I needn't have worried. If had told me that a bike 21-degree rake and 83mm wouldn't suffer a single over typical Aussie even in power-up mode, I never have believed But I've been converted.
still not fully sold on theories as to why it's supposed to be to run one large 'rim' disc, but certainly no worse than a set-up and gave plenty of during my mountain gallop.
I can't see how you can reduce unsprung and reduce gyroscopic effect by a bigger rotor on the outside of the wheel. However, it does good, and grabbed plenty of at the cafe — well, the bike was vertical, that is.
The race-kitted is a deceptively effective backroads — good suspension set for my, errr, 94kg), nimble great cornering clearance, Dunlop D207 rubber, brakes, and light weight. the extra ponies it'll many higher-pedigreed sportsbikes.
its sporting abilities, the Firebolt an intimidating motorcycle to ride either fast or slow. The holds no nasty surprises at to …' speeds, despite the 250GP-like stats, yet the engine is one allows congested city without copious clutch-fanning or cog
And I should know, having an afternoon cutting laps Surfers' main drag. beats the hell out of riding the streets of Oakleigh (Gassit
Even in racekit form the has a far smoother powerplant than the old Sporty-sourced donk. Although I the Firebolt more rewarding on the road when playing the gearbox and keeping the engine say between 4000-7000rpm, I did find the box on particular bike to be a little than what I remember the launch. The odometer had around on it, so it should have loosened up by
I had to keep reminding myself I was a 1000cc V-twin, not because of performance, but because the Firebolt like a 250 in size. No need for revs though — a litre donk between my short-shifting wasn't a drama.
I keep things below for a more relaxed ride if I although 4000rpm was where the felt most comfortable. On the road that equates to which can get expensive.
One thing my most road did bring back is the amount of offered on such a small for someone with a 187cm and the rational riding position for a small and sporty motorcycle. I wasn't cramped.
Sure, the is hard, but there are ample user-friendly touches — mirrors and strong headlights them. Ultimately though, were two far more important that stood out after my time around with a
Firstly, if you're stumping up the for a XB9R, then make you've also got the $1363.90 for the racekit. The pipe isn't loud — I'm the under-engine exit for the decibels there. But the improvement to the engine's and responsiveness is worth any drawback in aggro at 6.00am.
The other lasting memory is how I 'crash' in front of a dozen on a bike with an apparent frame, yet emerge with a damage bill. And just to out the exercise, it seems Buell is a different sidestand to minimise happened to yours truly.
So send as many e-mails as you The Porsche story is old hat — now an RD tester for the factory.
Story and Ken Wootton
Published. Friday, 4 2002
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Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL, London:
Link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/archive/ontologies
In this, the fourth lecture in the annual Susan Hockey Lecture
series, Carlo
Meghini will discuss the role of ontologies in the Digital
The aim of this annual public lecture series, named after
Susan Hockey, Emeritus Professor of Library and Information
Studies at UCL, is to celebrate and promote work in Digital
Humanities: the application of computational techniques within
the arts, humanities, culture and heritage.
This is a prestigious event held once a year, details of past
years are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/SusanHockeyLecture
Link: https://www.cnr.it/it/comunicato-stampa/7545/il-calamaro-gigante-esiste-ecco-dove
I primi avvistamenti leggendari del calamaro gigante risalgono ad Aristotele,
nel 500 a.c., quelli storici vanno dal 1639 nei mari della Norvegia, al 2015 in Giappone.
Oggi, grazie alle nuove tecniche di archiviazione ed elaborazione dati del NeMIS Lab dell'Isti-Cnr,
la prima mappa del calamaro è pubblicata su Ecological Modelling e una timeline ne racconta la storia.
Ne hanno parlato:
Comunicato stampa CNR
La Repubblica.it - Scienze
Le Scienze
The NVIDIA Corporation supports the research on deep learning
conducted by the Networked Multimedia Information Systems
laboratory of ISTI-CNR. On June 2016, the NVIDIA's Academic
Programs Team, dedicated to empowering and collaborating with
professors and researchers at universities worldwide, accepted
the grant request presented by Dr. Fabrizio
Falchi. NVIDIA donated a Tesla K40 GPU that will be used for
ongoing research on deep learning, a branch of machine learning
that focuses on representation-learning methods composed of
multiple levels of non-linear modules.
The EU funded EAGLE Project (www.eagle-network.eu) - whose data
aggregation and image processing infrastructure was implemented
by the NeMIS
Lab of ISTI-CNR - won the Digital Humanities Awards 2016
for the "Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools" category.
Digital Humanities Awards are a set of annual awards where the
public is able to nominate resources for the recognition of
talent and expertise in the digital humanities community. The
resources are nominated and voted for entirely by the public.
These awards are intended as an awareness raising activity, to
help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH
users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards
are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization
or field of humanities that they benefit. Any suitable resource
in any language or writing system may be nominated in any
EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy,
a Best Practice Network partially funded by the European
Commission) aggregates epigraphic material provided by some 15
different epigraphic archives (about 80% of the classified
epigraphic material from the European and Mediterranean area) for
ingestion to Europeana (www.europeana.eu/). The aggregated
material is made available to the scholarly community and the
general public for research and cultural dissemination. EAGLE has
defined a common data model for epigraphic information, into
which data models from different archives can be optimally
mapped. The data infrastructure is based on the D-NET software
toolkit (www.d-net.research-infrastructures.eu)
developed by the InfraScience Research Group of the NeMIS Lab,
which handles data collection, mapping, cleaning, indexing, and
access provisioning through web portals or standard access
protocols. A novel search feature offered by EAGLE and developed
by the Multimedia Information Retrieval Research Group of the
NeMIS Lab is the possibility of visually searching for epigraphic
information. A picture of an inscription can be used as a query
to search for similar inscriptions or to obtain information on
it. Visual queries can also be issued from a smartphone, by
pointing its embedded camera toward the inscription of interest.
Visual inscription search leverages jointly on deep learning
techniques and index structures for large scale similarity
searching. Currently, more than one million epigraphs are
visually searchable with EAGLE.
Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46759-7_4
The paper "Supermetric Search with the Four-Point Property" by
Richard Connor, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Lucia
Vadicamo and Fausto
Rabitti has been selected as the Best Paper of the 9th
lnternational Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
(SISAP 2016), October 24-26,Tokyo,Japan.
Link: http://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2016/fabrizio-sebastiani
Sebastiani is a Principal Scientist at Qatar Computing
Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, and a Senior Research
Scientist at the Institute for the Science and Technologies of
Information (ISTI), an institute of the Italian National Research
Council (CNR). His research interests lie at the crossroads of
information retrieval, machine learning, and human language
technology, with particular emphasis on text classification,
opinion mining, and their applications.
He has published 64 peer-reviewed articles on topics including
information retrieval, text analytics, and opinion mining.
Sebastiani is an active member of the ACM Special Interest Group
on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and is serving as General
Co-Chair of the 2016 ACM SIGIR Conference, taking place from July
17-21 in Pisa, Italy.
Link: http://iscc2016.unime.it/award
During the twenty first IEEE Symposium on Computers and
Communications (Messina), the paper "Car Parking Occupancy
Detection Using Smart Camera Networks and Deep Learning", by
Amato, Fabio
Carrara, Fabrizio
Falchi, Claudio
Gennaro and Claudio
Vairo (NeMIS Lab), received the Best Italian Paper Award.
Two projects of ISTI have won at the international initiative
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AWARDS 2015. DanteSources
(http://dantesources.org) has won in the "Best DH Tool or Suite
of Tools" category. DanteSources is a Digital Library, based on
an RDF ontology, which allows retrieving information about Dante
Alighieri's primary sources, i.e., the works of other authors
that Dante cites in his texts. DanteSources is the result of the
collaboration between the Digital Libraries group of the NeMIS
Lab of ISTI-CNR and the Department of Philology, Literature and
Linguistics of the University of Pisa.
First runner up in the same category was 3DHOP: 3D Heritage
Online Presenter (http://3dhop.net/), developed by the
Visual Computing Lab. Jackson Pollock: Alchemy in 3D (http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/alchemy/)
has won in the "Best Use of DH for Public Engagement" category.
The Visual Computing Lab, in collaboration with the
Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
has carried out the three-dimensional diagnostic analysis of the
painting "Alchemy" by Jackson Pollock.
Link: http://www.greynet.org/membership/annualaward.html
The GreyNet Award 2015 will be presented to
Stefania Biagioni at the next Annual Award Dinner that will
be held in Amsterdam on November 30th 2015.
The prize has been awarded to F. Bobillo and U. Straccia
for their paper "Fuzzy Ontologies and Fuzzy Integrals".
Link: http://labs.yahoo.com/news/596
Yahoo!'s Faculty Research and Engagement Program is
designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations
and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of
mutual interest. Through this program, academics across the globe
collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists via visits to Yahoo!,
access to our data and funds for their research.
Link: http://www.ercim.eu/news/288-andrea-esuli-winner-of-the-2010-ercim-cor-baayen-award%29
Andrea Esuli from ISTI-CNR has been chosen by ERCIM as the winner of the 2010
Cor Baayen Award for a promising young researcher in computer scienceand applied
mathematics. Andrea is the first Italian winner in 16 editions of the award.


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Earlier in 2016, so-called 'ad blockers' hit the headlines after a growth in their popularity sparked almost universal concern that website revenues would be dented significantly. And while much of the noise surrounding the technology has died down in recent months, there are signs that an underground war still rages on.
Indeed, earlier this month Facebook announced that it would 'begin showing ads on Facebook desktop for people who currently use ad blocking software'. A bold move against the flow of consumer decision making. But it's easy to see why social media's leading power made such a move; it's ad revenues stood at over $17bn for 2015 alone.
Below we take a look at Facebook's circumvention of adblocking software, what it's doing to improve the experience of its users, and whether the issue lies with advertising generally, or the relevance of advertising in 2016.
The Justification
Of course, Facebook didn't justify its decision in financial terms. Instead, it argued that the growth in negative sentiment toward advertising was a direct result of 'bad ads'.
'…ads that obscure the content we're trying to read, ads that slow down load times or ads that try to sell us things we have no interest in buying. Bad ads are disruptive and a waste of our time.'
Admitting that your ads are sometimes bad is the first step toward fixing the issue. And Facebook, in the same post, announced a raft of changes designed to put ad control in the hands of the user. Not a fan of travel ads? You can now stop them from appearing.
Relevant ads, Facebook argues, 'can be useful, helping us find new products and services and introducing us to new experiences'. Ad blockers, it says, are growing in popularity not because of all ads, but because of the fundamentally disruptive ones.
The Ad Wars: Relevance vs. Blocking
Financial pressures and the obfuscation of revenues (on both sides) aside, the rise of ad blockers tells a very clear story; that consumers weren't – or aren't – content with the state of the advertising industry. But it's not as simple as that – is it ever?
Ad blockers would argue that all ads are bad, that no user should have to be subjected to any form of advertising. Facebook, on the other hand, says that users like and benefit from advertising, as long as it's relevant and engaging.
But which is it? Or is there some middle ground to be found?
Interestingly, in a study conducted by HubSpot it was found that Facebook advertising is actually among the least hated forms of advertising, on par with 'TV Advertising' at 42% of people. In fact, the most hated forms of advertising were the most intrusive; 'Online Pop-Ups' (73%) and 'Ads On My Mobile Phone' (70%).
The same study also revealed that the majority of people 'agree ads are more intrusive and prevalent today'. And with 'magazine/print ads' only hated by 18% of those surveyed, clearly it isn't advertising itself that is the problem.
Perhaps Facebook, is suffering from finding itself in the same arena (browsers) as irritating popups and in-line mobile advertising?
An Arms Race
Well, perhaps that was, and is, true. But a mere two days after circumventing the issue of ad blockers as work-around had been discovered and implemented – Adblock Plus. Though not as effective as the original ad blocking technology, this software has been specifically designed to block Facebook's unblocked advertising.
In a blog post, Ben Williams of Adblock Plus wrote:
"This sort of back-and-forth battle between the open-source ad-blocking community and circumventers has been going on since ad blocking was invented; so it's very possible that Facebook will write some code that will render the filter useless — at any time."
Falling short of raising concerns about the problem of advertising on Facebook specifically, this blog post suggests that entering into a digital pitch-battle with the social media giant may be more about the challenge than the issue of annoying or intrusive advertising itself.
An Insider's Point of View
For our part, we've run advertising campaigns on Facebook for countless clients. And we can say for certain that granular targeting and the curation of relevant content according to age, gender and interest yields consistently better results.
Remaining as close to objectivity as possible, the fact that our social media advertising generally yields far higher click through rates than average suggests two things; firstly, that relevance breeds interest and secondly, that there's a great deal of 'bad advertising' on Facebook.
Whatever the motivations of the adblocking community, it's likely that this war will continue to simmer underground, surfacing occasionally upon the conclusion of individual battles. But what's for certain is that Facebook isn't, or wasn't, the original agitator for the growth of adblocking. There is certainly some truth to Facebook's claim that relevance is king.


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A Government Career with Philippine National Police
Digos City
College of Criminal Justice Education/
Crim. 6
Basic Issues
Submitted to:
Prof. hipolito B. Quilip Jr.
Subject Teacher
Prepared by:
Marc Andrhey O. Mañacap
January 14, 2011
A government career with the PNP will mean many things to you: opportunity to make a real difference to the people in your community; variety of work and assignments; satisfaction with your career; and, pride in being part of one of the noble professional organization.
The police service is a noble profession which demands from its members specialized knowledge and skills, as well as high standards of ethics and morality. Hence, the members of the PNP must adhere to and internalize the enduring core values of love of God, respect for authority, selfless love and service for people, sanctity of marriage, and family life, responsible dominion and stewardship over material things, and truthfulness.
According to ( pnp.gov.ph), it is the PNP's response to the call of the national government to improve the quality of life of the people. It is part of a bigger strategy that outlines the grand plan of the government in meeting the demands and expectations of the public through service delivery. By this, the deployment and employment of the PNP personnel require the organization and its members to bare their stand on the basic issues.
Definition of Terms
Deployment- (merriam-webster.com), to extend (a military unit) especially in width.
Employment- (merriam-webster.com), activity in which one engages or is employed
Inalienable- (merriam-webster.com), incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred.
Professionalism- (merriam-webster.com), the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person.
Enforcement- (merriam-webster.com), the act or process of enforcing.
Basic Issues
The deployment and employment of the PNP personnel require the organization and its members to bare their stand on the following basic issues:
1. PNP Image – The image of any organization affects the esprit d' corps, morale and welfare of the members and sense of pride to the organization. In view thereof, all members of the PNP should conduct themselves in a manner that would not place the PNP in bad light.
2. Career Management, the Key to Professionalism – The Proper implementation of the PNP's Career Management will greatly enhance the personnel professionalization process with regards to procurement, training, promotion, assignment, placement, awards and retirement.
3. Police Management Leadership – The effectiveness of law enforcement is reflective of the managerial capabilities and competent leadership of the men and women who run the PNP organization.
4. Equality In the Service – There shall be judicious and equitable distribution of opportunity to prove one's worth in the police service.
5. Delicadeza- In consonance with the requirements of honor and integrity in the PNP, all members must have the moral courage to sacrifice self-interest in keeping with the time-honored principle of delicadeza.
6. Police Lifestyle- The PNP shall promote and maintain a lifestyle for its members which the public will find credible and respectable. The public expects a police officer to live a simple and dignified life. They must be free from greed corruption and exploitation.
7. Political Patronage- PNPP members shall inhibit themselves from soliciting political patronage on matters pertaining to assignment, award,, training and promotion.
8. Human Rights- All PNP members must respect and protect human dignity and man's inalienable rights to life, liberty and property.
9. Setting Example- All PNP members shall set good example to their subordinates and follow good example from the superiors.
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Opening up the state constitution for revisions during a constitutional convention is not a risk New Yorkers should take, a coalition of progressive groups said Monday morning in Albany.
The groups—which included the Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, and Environmental Advocates of New York—argued that a constitutional convention could jeopardize existing provisions in the state constitution and become a magnet for outside "dark money."
"We're very concerned that there is far more to lose than there is to gain," said Ron Deutsch, the executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute." We're concerned about what we believe is a rigged delegate selection process. Three delegates are selected from heavily gerrymandered Senate districts all across New York state and independent people not affiliated with parties have much higher hurdles to clear to become engaged and involved in this process and to become delegates."
On Nov. 7, voters in New York will decide on the referendum question, "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" The referendum is presented to voters once every 20 years under the state constitution. In 1997, voters rejected the ballot measure.
If the referendum is approved, New Yorkers would elect delegates in 2018 to the convention, which would meet in 2019. At the convention, delegates would get to propose amendments to the state constitution for voter ratification. Then, in November 2019, the electorate would get a chance to vote on each proposed amendment.
Susan Welber, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, said Monday that her organization was worried about changes made to the Article 17, Section 1 of the state constitution, which states that "aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state."
Article 17 of the state constitution acts as a "bouncer" for when the state "moves in the wrong direction on social welfare issues," Welber added, noting that several pieces of legislation have been introduced in New York to weaken the provision.
"This is not some theoretical fear. It's on the radar of many," she added.
Debate over the constitutional convention has made for strange bedfellows: The head of the state's conservative party has banded together with labor unions, environmentalists, liberal and conservative groups to create New Yorkers Against Corruption, a campaign opposing the constitutional convention.
New Yorkers Against Corruption reported having $636,000 in their campaign coffers in July, according to a review of their financial disclosures filed with the state's Board of Elections. The bulk of their money came from contributions from several unions, including 1199 SEIU, the state's powerful health care workers union; the Civil Service Employees Association; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the New York State United Teachers union. Since July, the campaign has continued to rake in contributions. According to their financial disclosure filed early this month, New Yorkers Against Corruption received roughly $742,000 in contributions between July and early October, mainly from labor unions.
The group's latest financial disclosure—filed 11 days before the election next month—show that in the last few weeks, New Yorkers Against Corruption received $1.8 million in contributions and spent $1.1 million. The state's teachers union was the single largest donor, giving the campaign $500,000 in mid-October. NYSUT was followed by AFSCME, which donated $350,000. The campaign spent $573,000 on television ads with the public strategy firm Kivvit, disclosures show, as well as thousands on campaign mailers, digital ad buys, consultation and canvassing with Kivvit and Red Horse Strategies, a Brooklyn-based public relations firm.
Several law firms also made recent contributions to New Yorkers Against Corruption, though their contributions pale in comparison to the donations made by the labor unions. Newburgh-based Fine, Olin & Anderman, which serves the "legal needs of union members" donated $12,500. Kennedy, Jennik & Murray, which represents unions and employees, donated $5,000 last week. Weitz & Luxenberg, a personal injury litigation firm, and Levy Ratner, a labor advocacy law firm, each donated $2,500 to New Yorkers Against Corruption this month.
The state's Supreme Court justices have also come out in opposition to a constitutional convention (NYLJ Oct. 19), claiming that not only is it "unnecessary," but it would also be "overly costly, and could result in the reversion, elimination or diminution of many current constitutional rights and safeguards." The New York State Magistrates Association, which represents the town and village justices throughout the state, have also voted to oppose the constitutional convention, arguing that delegates "could impose a fantastically expensive district court system at far greater annual cost to the taxpayers than our justice courts are now, without the 24-hour availability for which we are renowned."
Meanwhile, the New York State Bar Association has come out in favor of holding a constitutional convention to fix a "confusing and inefficient" court system (NYLJ Sept. 19). While proponents of a convention have been on an advertising blitz, the sate bar's campaign has been much more scaled down, relying on volunteers.
In comparison to New Yorkers Against Corruption, the Committee for a Constitutional Convention's fundraising apparatus is far smaller. According to their latest financial disclosure, filed 11 days before the election, the Committee for a Constitutional Convention raised more than $14,000 this month, and spent $5,500 on campaign consultants. Between July and early October, the group raised nearly $29,000, spending $42,000 on campaign consultants.


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I've patched the test so the two test cases use a different variable to store the ID. Thanks for looking into it Becky. On 5/22/12 11:55 PM, "Becky Gibson" <email@example.com> wrote: >I don't know all of the nuances of jasmine yet, but there is an issue in >the automated geolocation tests for iOS. Specifically this section: > >describe('watchPosition method', function() { > > var watch = null; > > afterEach(function() { > > navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watch); > > }); > > >There are two tests, one to test the error callback and one to test the >success callback for watchPosition. What I see happening is that the >first >tests runs and fails as expected. The next test runs and calls >watchPosition. Then, the clearWatch gets called (I assume for the end of >the first, fail case) with the CURRENT watch value. Since we use the same >watch variable for each test, it seems that clearWatch is getting called >right after the second watchPosition and is passing in the id for that. >The clearWatch call does what it is supposed and clears the watchId out of >our internal list. Since there is no longer a watchId, and the test times >out because there is no watchId to call back out to when location data >arrives from the sensor. Make some semblance of sense? > >I think the fix is to separate out the tests into two separate tests but >I'll let the Jasmine gurus take a look, please. > > >thanks, > >-becky
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I suppose it's too early to to glean any satisfaction from the fallout of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but I am going to try anyway. It seems that Bernard Holtrop, a cartoonist for the French paper is angered with the sudden unholy alliance with the right.
source: malaymailonline
'We vomit' on Charlie Hebdo's sudden friends, staff cartoonist says
THE HAGUE, Jan 10 — A prominent Dutch cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo heaped scorn on the French satirical weekly's "new friends" since the massacre at its Paris offices on Wednesday.
"We have a lot of new friends, like the pope, Queen Elizabeth and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. It really makes me laugh," Bernard Holtrop, whose pen name is Willem, told the Dutch centre-left daily Volkskrant in an interview published today.
Read more. This time it's worth it. Go ahead and click on the link and read the entire article.
He may seem angry, but it is more likely that he is confused. He can't understand the sudden flow of support for Charlie Hebdo from the right. He rejects it and embraces it, all in one short interview. As you read the above article, you can almost see the gears in Holtrop's brain struggle to turn as he attempts to distance himself from those who are most opposed to an ideology that endorses killing him.
"We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends."
"A few years ago, thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan to demonstrate against Charlie Hebdo. They didn't know what it was. Now it's the opposite, but if people are protesting to defend freedom of speech, naturally that's a good thing."
Nevermind that the thousands of people protesting in Pakistan were on the same side as those who just killed his friends, and the people now protesting to defend freedom of speech, have been opposed to radical Islamist extremism all along.
There's really nothing confusing about it at all, unless your mind has been preprogrammed with liberalism, in which case you would be unable to deal with coincidence, irony, and paradox. (Even though you would often be the cause of them.) Perhaps the video clip below would best illustrate what is going on in Holtrop's mind right now.
The reason why leftists are having such a problem with all this is because it proves that the right wingers were right all along. Unchecked immigration, especially by those who are violently opposed to the beliefs and moralities of your own culture, is a bad idea.
That might seem like a no-brainer, but it is a no-brainer that is endorsed by the right. Western liberalism for the past seventy five years or so, has been based upon opposing anything conservatives believe in.
If conservatism is based upon looking at what has and has not worked well in the past and using that as a guide as we go along, it's easy to understand why liberals so often end up looking foolish.
It might also seem like a no brainer that leftists are going to cut their losses, and drop the whole soft on radical Islamist terrorism thing, but don't count on it. If the left ever does admit that letting thousands and thousands of militant Muslim extremists into their countries was a bad idea, they just might have to consider that some of their other ideas might not be so good either.


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Comment by Ong Kian Ming | published at Malaysiakini.com, 14. June 2012
Many of the problems uncovered thus far by the Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project (Merap) are not directly attributable to the Election Commission (EC).
The responsibility of issuing identity cards and ensuring that as far as possible the holders of these cards are Malaysian citizens who live in valid residences is under the jurisdiction of the National Registration Department (NRD).
While it would be more reassuring if the EC were playing a more pro-active role by questioning the NRD regarding some of the problems identified, it would be unfair to blame the EC, for example, if NRD were giving out ICs to non-Malaysians, thereby allowing these people to registered as voters.
In this article, I want to highlight a few major problems with the allocation of IC numbers by the NRD to voters in Sabah, a state where many cases of non-citizens being given ICs have been long documented under 'Project IC' or 'Project M' with the intention of wresting the state government back from Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) after it left the BN coalition just prior to the 1990 general elections.
These examples are especially troubling because it shows active complicity by the NRD in changing IC numbers, transferring IC numbers from one person to another and allowing more than one person to 'share' the same IC number.
My preliminary analysis, obtained by comparing voter details in the electoral roll used in Sabah in the 2008 general elections with the electoral roll updated to Quarter 3 (Q3) of 2011, revealed the following problems with regard to the IC numbers of voters in Sabah:
1) The same voter being given a new IC number
2) A voter's old IC number being given to another voter
3) Two voters sharing the same old IC number
4) Voters with the same name and same date of birth registered in the same constituency
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Friday: A day when the skies are bluer, the grass is greener, the birds are chirpier, songs are merrier and life is prettier. Friday: Also a day when women in my office wash their hair. And this is NOT my observation but of a friend of the opposite sex.
So how did he conclude this? Apparently, he noticed that women make an effort to dress well on Fridays. This I, believe, is not true because I make an effort every day and I am a woman. Heck! I keep 5 minutes aside just to get my mascara right. But, believe him I must, since he is an avid observer/admirer of the fairer sex – us pretty women. I think we all appreciate beauty; God's beautiful creatures of either sex. C'mon don't roll your eyes! I know you look at the well turned out boys or (and) girls.
I don't care about how the boys came up with the theory that women wash their hair only on Fridays or how they concluded that women make an effort to dress well only on Fridays. What I want to set straight is we make an effort every day. And if there are those who don't, then you're just not using your God gifted privilege card of being a girl. You have the power to dress, to impress, to inspire.
I read a quote some time back: "Being well dressed is a beautiful form of politeness". And my Mama taught me to be very polite.
The other day, I met a girl who asked me how many times I retouched my make up in the day. I was surprised at her question. I thought she'd much rather ask me where I got my bag from or my shoes or my dress. Then I realized that women may buy fashionable items since they have a visual appeal but are afraid to experiment with make-up lest they look made up. Ummm. Wrong! Just like men should shave to look presentable, women should wear the right AND the right amount of make-up. Why do you think stewardesses wear make-up? It's loud but it's mandatory. Human beings are visual creatures. Admit it. We take anything and anyone seriously when they are visually appealing. What about that management quote we hear so often "Dress for the position you want to be at not the one you're at" or words to that effect. And FYI, I don't retouch my make-up, I just use quality stuff that lasts and blends well. Piece of advice to the novice: quality over price.
So why is my tone offensive today? Because I AM offended. I am offended when I hear comments like "You must take so long to get dressed." I take the same time as you, if not less since I squeeze in a healthy breakfast too and I am here 5 minutes before you. "Are you going to a party?" I am already at one – my life is a party and I celebrate every second. "You are so high maintenance" I am maintaining myself and if I am high maintenance, you need to adjust your standards. Actually this one isn't offensive. I look at it from the glass half full perspective: high maintenance =quality. "You must finish your salary in the first 10 days of its credit" It's called money management, wealth management or assets/liabilities management or whatever the heck!
There was a time when I would actually respond to such comments. I stopped. Now I let the sound of my astute sense of fashion and grooming silence them.
Au revoir; until another day, another post, another mood.
IT Fashionista
PS: Here are some equally visually appealing shots of the highlights of my week. Don't miss my new orange lippy!


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Silicon Valley unemployment eases in January compared to state, nation
The unemployment rate in the Silicon Valley was 10.8 percent in January 2011, up from a revised 10.6 percent in December but below the year-ago estimate of 12.1 percent.This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 12.7 percent for California and 9.8 percent for the nation during the same period.
Broken down, the unemployment rate was 20.6 percent in San Benito County and 10.5 percent in Santa Clara County.
Year over year, industry employment in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area rose by 14,700 jobs, or 1.7 percent.
Professional and business services led the job gains from a year ago, up by 6,400 jobs. Professional, scientific, and technical services expanded by 3,500 jobs, while employment services grew by 1,600 jobs.
Information rose by 4,500 jobs, showing gains in nearly all of its component industries.
Private educational and health services gained 3,900 jobs from last January. Private health care advanced by 2,000 jobs, mostly in hospitals (up 1,600 jobs).
Manufacturing registered a net increase of 3,700 jobs. Detailed industries with the largest gains included electronic computers (up 2,600 jobs) and semiconductor and related device manufacturing (up 1,200 jobs).
In contrast, government receded by 4,700 jobs, primarily at the local level.
The unemployment rate in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City metropolitan statistical area was 8.9 percent in January 2011, up from a revised 8.5 percent in December and below the year-ago estimate of 9.6 percent.
Year over year, the total number of jobs in the West Bay increased by 1,800 jobs or 0.2 percent.
Professional and business services captured 5,100 jobs. About two-thirds of that increase occurred in professional, scientific, and technical services, with computer systems design adding 2,600 jobs.
Leisure and hospitality gained 2,100 jobs. Eating places and bars (up 2,000 jobs) and arts, entertainment, and recreation (up 900 jobs) more than offset a decline in hotels and motels (down 800 jobs).
Financial activities lost 2,300 jobs, while construction cut back 2,100 jobs.
Trade, transportation, and utilities trimmed 1,200 jobs. Reductions in transportation, warehousing, and utilities, as well as retail trade, more than offset a slight increase in wholesale trade.


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14/06/2014 at 11:57
Hiya, it's been less than a week, but I feel like I should get this all down earlier rather than later as it wasn't quite what we were expecting, even with the open minded attitude we went in with.
ok, so early labour was uneventful, but long, lasting from 3pm Monday unti about 5 or 6am on Tuesday, at which point we went into hospital and I was just barely classed as being in active labour. The whole place was full up, so they told Ant and I to walk up and down the corridor for a bit and they would get us when they had a room for me, which luckily was within about half an hour. Blah blah blah at 9 or so I asked for an epidural, got it in and working by about 10 and from then on all was hunkydory as I had the button to control it and I chose to top it up no more than once an hour despite being allowed to press it every 15 minutes. It was a low dose so I cold still feel tightenings, but without the pain. It worked perfectly for me and didn't slow my contractions, and my waters broke on their own a couple hours later. i was fully dilated shortly before 6pm I think, but they told me to not push for an hour. This was a little upsetting because I could feel the urge and ended up stupidly fighting it. I had let the epidural wear off entirely by this point and they let me try a few different pushing positions when they let me push eventually, but after about 30 minutes of pushing they could see baby's head, but something was wrong or stuck and they called in some doctors and said the foetal heartbeat was suspicious. By this point it's a bit of a blur, because I don't actually remember much. I remember them making me sit up with my feet on the stirrups (not legs up) and try pushing a few more times while they all yelled at me to go longer and harder until I yelled at them to shut up. H says the doctors then decided to do a ventouse delivery based on my reaction, and I pressed the button on my forgotten epidural and apparently it was only a minute or so, but the epidural hadn't kicked in yet, so it felt a bit like forever before Isla was actually born At 7:59pm. Oh, and apparently they told me they were going to give me an episiotomy, but I have no memory of them saying that, and in my birth plan I specifically asked not to have one due to research sayi they lead to more severe trauma, but whatever. I suppose if baby was in distress baby was in distress! And hey presto, my episiotomy extended into a 3rd degree tear, albeit just barely.
Now, in my mind up until this point it hadn't gone to plan necessarily, but was all pretty bog standard stuff, even the tear; I did end up with a 9lb 6oz baby, after all. Not sure where she came from, tbh, my bump measured small!
Shortly after Isla was born, things got a bit more interesting. I vaguely remember being asked to push once more and then H being asked to cut the cord, but then an alarm was going off and I was surrounded by people. They were trying to put a line into my hand, giving me a second synto shot into my thigh, and a doctor saying something about bleeding. H says he heard someone say code red, but surely that's too cliche. Anyways, he says they all ignored him and were talking doctor speak to each other that just sounded scary, and then suddenly they wheeled me out of the room and left him alone in there without a word with a crying newborn and a pool of blood on the floor. I do remember telling him not to worry as I was wheeled out of the room and taken to theatre.
i was gone for 80 minutes apparently (damnit, I missed the golden hour for skin to skin!), though theatre is a bit of a blur as well and I just remember shivering uncontrollably. They had to remove some
14/06/2014 at 12:21
Wispa - thank you for sharing! How frightening for all concerned. A million more congratulations on your little bundle. Really interesting about MLU/labour/epidural as well xx
14/06/2014 at 12:22
Poor you! And poor hubby being left like that! Goodness. How are you doing now? How's Isla? Has hubby recovered?
Massive congratulations to you, hope you're soon feeling fighting fit! xx
14/06/2014 at 12:31
Wow, Wispa, that's a fairly dramatic story. I'm sorry things went wrong towards the end, it sounds like until delivery everything was going pretty well. I hope you're recovering ok from both the blood loss and the tear, and that your mum and A are looking after you well. I hope the bf works out too if that's the route you decide to go down. Congratulations again on the birth of Isla though. (Flashes required when you're feeling more uoto it!) x
14/06/2014 at 12:36
Isla is fine, bit of a screamer at night, but sleeps and doesn't make a peep all day :). Ant has recovered from the trauma, I think. He can't stop talking about it, which makes me a bit squicky, but I think it helps him. He said he thought I was dying the way they were talking. I'm doing as well as can be expected, with my pharmacy of drugs to take and being house-bound by doctors orders for a couple weeks. It's like having the recovery from a section.
im sorry, I meant to post photos in the original post, so here are a couple now.
(That's a yawn btw, not a scream!)
14/06/2014 at 12:47
Glad things are going okay, and great that your mum is around to help. Great photos xx
14/06/2014 at 14:03
Sorry you had such a traumatic birth experience. E's birth was very very similar (almost identical infact!) and if it helps it was only rwading your birth story that made me remember - it will seem less traumatic in time! And if it helps I went on to have a super quick and easy delivery (20 mins of pushing and 2 puffs of gas and air!) 14 months later. Make sure you look after yourself as well as your lovely little girl. Have you got those horrible stomach injections? Those were the worst! My best advice if you have is get someone else to do them for you - I administered them myself as often missed as I knew they were coming and jumped! Congratulations and well done! X
ETA - I missed out on that golden hour of skin to skin too and it certainly hasn't affected my bond with E, in fact at 23 months she's a total mummies girl! X
14/06/2014 at 19:59
Wow, Wispa, that's a fairly traumatic story - you poor thing. Glad things are somewhat better now - thanks for sharing & Isla is just gorgeous x
18/06/2014 at 09:54
oh wispa, you really went through it didnt you, hope youre recovering well, congratulations on the birth of isla - shes gorgeous x
18/06/2014 at 10:34
Oh goodness, how traumatic. So glad you're both ok though - Isla is adorable. Congratulations x
21/06/2014 at 21:16
I've been AWOL since posting this, but thank you for your replies! Recovery going well all in all, cuddles making it all worthwhile :)
22/06/2014 at 17:27
Many congrats. Thanks for sharing, and well done being so brave!
24/06/2014 at 18:08
Only just had the chance to get back on here and read this. Horrible experience. Clearly the 4th June was the unluckiest due date going given what we've both been through! She's beautiful and cuddles really do make it all worth while. Hope you're feeling even better now xx
26/06/2014 at 16:27
Have only just caught up on this. Congratulations! Shes a beauty.
Your actual labour story sounds identical to mine, minus the theatre part. F is now 6 months and I can honestly say I still remember the trauma but it gets a lot easier and its more of a blur now. A few weeks post birth I was adamant there would be no number two. That was soon erased and I definitely want more! :-)
Enjoy being a mummy xx
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