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La Salle shuttlers ready to dominate

John Daniel G. Salonga

With a championship to defend for the women’s division, and a challenge to reclaim for the men’s division title, the De La Salle Green and Lady Shuttlers are determined to step up to meet expectations in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines(UAAP) Season 73 badminton tournament.

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Typhoon Juan's speed, strength alarming, says DOST chief

MANILA, Philippines - Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo on Saturday said the government is alarmed by the speed and strength of Typhoon Juan (international codename Megi), which may have devastating effects in Northern Luzon provinces

PAGASA: Juan's strength to be felt as early as Sunday

abs-cbnNEWS.com

Posted at 10/16/2010 10:13 AM | Updated as of 10/16/2010 1:32 PM

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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - Local rescue teams and government agencies in Isabela province were placed on alert on Saturday in anticipation of "super typhoon" Juan (international codename Megi).

Nathaniel Servando, deputy administrator of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), said that the weather bureau will issue public storm warning signals as early as Sunday, or a day ahead of the typhoon's predicted landfall.

"Mararanasan na initially ang circulation ng bagyo bukas pa lamang, Sunday (The typhoon's circulation will be initially felt on Sunday)," Servando said.

He said Typhoon Juan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) around 1 a.m. Saturday with strong winds of 140 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 170 kph.

As of 10 a.m., the typhoon was at 980 kilometers east of Northern Luzon, moving west-northwest at a speed of 20 kph.

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Corruption, weak laws bog down RP gov't: study

By David Dizon, abs-cbnNEWS.com

Posted at 10/16/2010 10:28 AM | Updated as of 10/16/2010 11:07 AM

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MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government continues to score poorly in the areas of stable laws, access to justice and corruption compared to similarly situated countries in the region, a new report on government effectiveness revealed Friday.

The first report by the World Justice Project ranks governments in a variety of categories such as absence of corruption, clear and stable laws, open government and access to the justice system.

The aim of the project is to advance the rule of law around the world in a manner that transcends income and cultural factors.

"Establishing the rule of law is fundamental to achieving communities of opportunity and equity -- communities that offer sustainable economic development, accountable government, and respect for fundamental rights," the report said.

"Without the rule of law, medicines do not reach health facilities due to corruption; women in rural areas remain unaware of their rights; people are killed in criminal violence; and firms' costs increase because of expropriation risk. The rule of law is the cornerstone to improving public health, safeguarding participation, ensuring security, and fighting poverty."

The report summarizes the findings of the WJP Rule of Law index based on a general population poll of 1,000 respondents from Manila, Cebu and Davao; and experts' questionnaires completed by in-country practitioners and academics with expertise in civil and commercial law, criminal justice, labor law and public health.

The index showed that the Philippines rated poorly in terms of open government, clear, publicized and stable laws, absence of corruption and access to civil justice.

The report polled the different mechanisms used by respondents to enforce a contract or to recover a debt in the last 3 years. The poll showed that 27% of respondents used direct renegotiation to resolve a conflict, 23% took no action, 17% took other courses of action, 17% used commercial arbitration procedure, 11% tapped a traditional or local leader while only 5% brought the case to court.

Of that 5%, 75% said they were able to solve the conflict or get their money back through the court in 1-3 years while the rest (25%) did not know how long it would take the court to solve the conflict.

The report showed that of the 13% of respondents who experienced a home burglary in the last 3 years, 51% reported the crime to the police while 49% did not.

It said 50% of respondents agree that the Philippine media are free to express opinions against government policies and actions. Eleven percent strongly agree with the statement compared to 29% who disagree and 10% who strongly disagree.

According to the report, which was based on 35,000 questionnaires and numerous interviews, "the findings need to be interpreted in light of certain inherent limitations."

"While the index is helpful to tracking the 'temperature' of the rule of law situation in the countries under study, it is not powerful enough to provide a full diagnosis or to dictate concrete priorities for action. No single index can convey a full picture of a country's situation."

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Palace gives self passing mark on corruption, poverty war

By RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News

Posted at 10/14/2010 2:58 PM | Updated as of 10/01/2010 2:58 PM

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MANILA, Philippines - Coming into its 1st 100 days in office, the Aquino administration is giving itself a passing mark despite the shadow cast by its handling of the Manila hostage crisis.

Speaking in a press conference in Malacañang, Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said he is satisfied with the progress made by the administration in its 2 key programs.

"Maganda naman po in terms of our programs. We have 2 platforms, we have 2 programs and that is poverty alleviation and eradication of corruption. We’re on track on those two levels . As you know, we have started also our poverty alleviation program. Pati pag waksi ng corruption, we have been filing cases on a weekly basis with respect to the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs," he told reporters.

He added that the fruits of their labor "will go beyond the first 100 days."

Still, Lacierda could not ignore the impact of the August 23 Manila hostage crisis on the administration’s 1st 100 days. "I would like to say we are sidelined a bit by the [Incident and Investigation Review Committee] but we are on track," he said, referring to the fact-finding committee tasked to investigate the incident.

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President Obama Speaks to Younger Voters Part 2

Posted by April.Wright on October 15th, 2010

In an unannounced meeting with younger voters, President Obama takes a variety of questions from a variety of people. Here is the second half of the notes I grabbed while watching.
A young Republican asks Obama to address concerns over the social security dilemma. The President confirms reports that by 2018 there will be less money [...]

After watching a re-run of a favorite show, I was pleasantly surprised by a live town-hall style meeting featuring President Obama answering questions from younger Americans. The event was broadcast on MTV, BET, TrS3, CMT, and the Centric Channel.
The audience was made up of younger adults ranging in age from early twenties to mid-thirties [...]

Computer System Security

Prevent Download unnecessary Program

it is necessary to prevent download any malicious program because in downloading of it you can take many viruses and malware program that can affect your system security.


Deleting infected Files

It may become difficult to remove such threats if these infected files have scattered throughout your computer system. They enter your computer system usually through internet. Therefore installing firewall is a wise decision to prevent internet security attacks on your PC.

Avoiding unrelated and doubtful web pages.

While surfing through internet you might have come across many advertisements that show flashy images. These types of advertisements are mostly scams that may affect your computer with virus attacks. Also remember that you should never enter any vital information on irrelevant sites, particular, sites which contain your financial portfolio.

Use legal software

it is Good to use a legal software to prevent logging of your computer system. many software that you can seek through internet but it is very harmful once you install it in your computer many program will be affected.

Prevent Hacking

hacking through internet is very harmful because you dont know what is the risk of it all you know is your computer is will low in performance.

Use with intelligent automatic protection

using automatic protection will prevent your computer in any malicious program and keeping your computer faster.

Adjust Your Browser Settings

To help prevent adware from finding its way onto your computer you might also want to adjust your internet browser's security settings. For example, on Internet Explorer, your Internet Zone settings should be on "Medium Security" or above.

Watch What You Click

Another simple and obvious way to avoid adware, but one that many people don't follow anyway is to watch what you click! It can be time consuming to read pop-up messages, and many people get in the habit to just clicking "Yes" or "Ok" to them without reading what they say. Adware and spyware publishers count on this habit. Know what you're agreeing to before your click "Ok."

Keeping your hard drive more Space

by keeping your hard Drive more space is very necessary so that if the virus will attacking your computer it will not easily damage your system or your file.

Being aware of what is happening with your computer

Be attentive of anything out of the ordinary that your computer begins to do, which may include things such as a slowdown in performance, increase in error indicators, etc. taking some simple steps and being aware can greatly decrease the chances of it happening.

THE CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES

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For me it is the policy of the State to protect the interests of the consumer,it is all about of us because we are all consumer.This policy is good because we can make our business to make it more productive and easy.

Towards this end, the State shall implement measures to achieve the following objectives:

(a) protection against hazards to health and safety; it is good because is is for the sake of all the consumer.

(b) protection against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts and practices;

(c) provision of information and education to facilitate sound choice and the proper exercise of rights by the consumer;

(d) provision of adequate rights and means of redress; and

(e) involvement of consumer representatives in the formulation of social and economic policies.

all of this is good because is is for the sake of all the consumer. We can also advertise our product or business through any form of mass media, fact, data or information about the attributes, features, quality or availability of consumer products, services or credit.

to protect our children in all hazardous toys. Any toy or other articles intended for use by children which the director may, by regulation, determine the presence of an electrical, mechanical or thermal hazard.

Case no.5

How new technology rewiring our "BRAINS"?

By spending so a lot time with e-mail, chat, text messaging, and other forms of communication where information is presented in short bursts but there is so a lot incoming information continuously, we are in fact training our brains to value the superficial and losing the capacity to concentrate and think deeper. Research study after research study shows that despite what people imagine about themselves, human beings grow to be worse cognitively after a life full of instantaneous communications.

This sort of simulation provokes a particular type of excitement to which our brains, addled by dopamine as well as adrenaline, become easily addicted. Yet despite the stress that all this excitement produces, we feel bored in its absence.

Juggling the constant influx of information undermines our capability to pay attention. Bursts of information play into a primitive impulse of our human psychology to immediately respond to threats and opportunities. It echoes our distant past when we were defenseless creatures continuously searching for food while simultaneously searching out for hunters that would eat us.

Thus starts a pernicious cycle whereby we find it harder and harder to concentrate while in effect desiring ever more the fact that we cannot concentrate!

Technology is literally rewiring our brains, because even after people give up all their computers and smartphones it's very tough to reset our brains. Still think you're a multitasker?


How gadgets are rewiring our brains and our behavior

“The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists. She and other researchers compare the lure of digital stimulation less to that of drugs and alcohol than to food and sex, which are essential but counterproductive in excess.
So fine, I did get side tracked yesterday while I was surfing the Internet and was late to a brunch. Maybe technology is so habitual that we are unaware of how much we depend on it. I must admit when I didn’t have a smart phone or Internet for 2 weeks, time went by more slowly and I read paperback books.
Now if you are wondering if you spend an unhealthy amount of time on the Internet, you might want to take a self assessment. No doubt, access to the Internet widens the range of temptations — so much so, scientists are finding that people who have a gambling problem also have a “problematic Internet” behavior.
Technology is a utility and we depend on it, so of course, it is changing our habits and our brains.
The NY Times also reports that experts think that this media overload makes us “impulsive, forgetful, and even more narcissistic.” Oh, and I just thought that was just a part of living in New York.

case no.4

Disadvantages of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO)


the Loss Of Managerial Control
Whether you sign a contract to have another company perform the function of an entire department or single task, you are turning the management and control of that function over to another company. True, you will have a contract, but the managerial control will belong to another company. Your outsourcing company will not be driven by the same standards and mission that drives your company. They will be driven to make a profit from the services that they are providing to you and other businesses like yours.
The Hidden Costs
You will sign a contract with the outsourcing company that will cover the details of the service that they will be providing. Any thing not covered in the contract will be the basis for you to pay additional charges. Additionally, you will experience legal fees to retain a lawyer to review the contacts you will sign. Remember, this is the outsourcing company's business. They have done this before and they are the ones that write the contract. Therefore, you will be at a disadvantage when negotiations start.
Threat to Security and Confidentiality
The life-blood of any business is the information that keeps it running. If you have payroll, medical records or any other confidential information that will be transmitted to the outsourcing company, there is a risk that the confidentiality may be compromised. If the outsourced function involves sharing proprietary company data or knowledge (e.g. product drawings, formulas, etc.), this must be taken into account. Evaluate the outsourcing company carefully to make sure your data is protected and the contract has a penalty clause if an incident occurs.
Quality Problems
The outsourcing company will be motivated by profit. Since the contract will fix the price, the only way for them to increase profit will be to decrease expenses. As long as they meet the conditions of the contract, you will pay. In addition, you will lose the ability to rapidly respond to changes in the business environment. The contract will be very specific and you will pay extra for changes.
Tied to the Financial Well-Being of Another Company
Since you will be turning over part of the operations of your business to another company, you will now be tied to the financial well-being of that company. It wouldn't be the first time that an outsourcing company could go bankrupt and leave you holding-the-bag.
Bad Publicity and Ill-Will
The word "outsourcing" brings to mind different things to different people. If you live in a community that has an outsourcing company and they employ your friends and neighbors, outsourcing is good. If your friends and neighbors lost their jobs because they were shipped across the state, across the country or across the world, outsourcing will bring bad publicity. If you outsource part of your operations, morale may suffer in the remaining work force.

The Implications of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO)

1. Clearly, one of the most attractive impacts of HR outsourcing is a perceived benefit of staffing flexibility. Companies can add or cut staffing as needed or as workload demands without worrying about being entangled in messy employee terminations and long hiring processes. This assumption generally works with outsourcing as long as the function outsourced is fairly general and standardized. If the tasks involved are highly specialized and require unique training, then the company will find itself in a pickle with perennially under-skilled staff.
Waiting for Results

2. The areas impacted by HR outsourcing include some of the most transaction-heavy functions of personnel. This covers areas such as hiring, payroll processing, health benefits and retirement account management, collections, employee training, and IT areas that support the information and records needed by personnel.
Nimble Staffing


3. One of the more common misconceptions is that a company that begins outsourcing its personnel functions will see profit and gains right away. Frequently this does not occur. In fact, the opposite occurs where additional time and costs are realized getting the outsource provider to perform as desired. The benefits of efficiencies and moving redundant tasks outside are seen over a long-term period once the changes settle in.
Immediate Savings
4. As noted earlier, another immediate impact will be the expenses associated with getting the outsource provider started in supporting a client company. Few situations allow an outsource provider to just start up cold. There will be training, familiarization, travel, certification that new processes will be correctly followed, and more. Frequently, transition to outsourced personnel support takes about a year to complete, depending on the scope of the services transferred. Simultaneously, there is also the cost and time spent eliminating the home staff that have now become surplus.
Caveat
5. An immediate short-term impact is usually seen in the reduced cost of operation, at first. Many outsource providers will gauge what the cost of the functions are currently for the client company and price below them to be attractive. In the first years of operation this cost comparison will hold true, favoring the outsourcing option. However, as demands increase, specialization is desired, or workload increases, the cost for the outsource provider's services will go up.
Transition Expenses

case no.2

Case #2

IO(Chef Information Officer)

The chief information officer (CIO), or information technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals. The CIO typically reports to the chief executive officer, chief operations officer or chief financial officer. In military organizations, they report to the commanding officer.

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Global dimming, a result of increasing concentrations of atmospheric aerosols that block sunlight from reaching the surface, has partially countered the effects of greenhouse gas induced warming.

Effect Of Computers

The state of knowledge of global warming will be presented and two aspects examined: observational evidence and a review of the state of computer modeling of climate change due to anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases. Observational evidence, indeed, shows global warming, but it is difficult to prove that the changes are unequivocally due to the greenhouse-gas effect. Although observational measurements of global warming are subject to "correction," researchers are showing consistent patterns in their interpretation of the data. Since the 1960s, climate scientists have been making their computer models of the climate system more realistic. Models started as atmospheric models and, through the addition of oceans, surface hydrology, and sea-ice components, they then became climate-system models. Because of computer limitations and the limited understanding of the degree of interaction of the various components, present models require substantial simplification. Nevertheless, in their present state of development climate models can reproduce most of the observed large-scale features of the real system, such as wind, temperature, precipitation, ocean current, and sea-ice distribution. The use of supercomputers to advance the spatial resolution and realism of Earth-system models will also be discussed.

Effect of Computers in a Certain Company and in Our Planet

As our technology grows and more people using computers and it can cause so much heat to our planet. In any company computers are more important. Data center in a company is used to facilitate computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices. IT department in a company is a major source of negative environmental impacts. The best way to reduce heat in our planet is to less consume of power because the IT is the biggest consumer of power.

According to Senior Editor Stephanie writes that Data Centers consume between 1.5% and 3% of all the power generated annualy in the United States. A certain Company called VistaPrint, where the IT departments does manage its data center facilities, discovered that its electric bill was projected to skyrocket if the comapny, which sells custom printed products online grew as predicted. Data Centers of VistaPrints hosted by "Cable and Wireless". The use of "hydropower" provides a renewable lower-emmisions of source electricity. The company replace its blade servers with virtul machines that use more server capacity and consume less power.

Using efficient coolong systems, or simply sealing holesin your data center's floor, can reduce energy consumption and ultimately , greenhous gas emmission.

Data Center Server that Consume Less Energy

Startup server maker SeaMicro today unveiled a new low-power server that promises to slash power costs for companies running large Internet services and cloud computing platforms. SeaMicro’s multi-core x86 server runs on Intel’s low-power Atom chips, whose energy efficiency has made them the processor of choice for many mobile phones and laptops.


The Green Advantage

Generally, the shift to green IT is of multiple benefits. Those benefits can positively affect your return of investment making the switch all worth it. And just what are those benefits?


•First and foremost, green IT is a help to the environment. The use of them reduces the already big pile of e-waste. For instance, a simple move of replacing fluorescent bulbs with energy-efficient lights will lessen the number of burnt bulbs dumped into landfills. How? Well, high-efficiency light bulbs tend to last longer which means they require lesser replacements.

•Green IT helps you save money. Most eco-friendly technology devices are energy- efficient which means that they consume lesser energy. And in a business, that translates to less electricity to pay for.

•The first two benefits leads to this third benefit. This refers to personal fulfillment. Knowing that you have helped save the planet while earning something out of it is a very wise move that creates a sense of nobility and fulfillment.

history of facebook

1.what is facebook?
Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone.

Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.

2. advantages and disadvantages of facebook

Advantages
· Allows user search for new and old friends
· Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security
· Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not familiar with
· Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system
· Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes
· Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within the same area, or coming from the same academy

Disadvantages
· Overcrowding
· Weakening long distance relationship
· Unsupported by physical adjacency
· Contributes wide-range procrastination
· Rampant addiction
· Stalking is possible
· Acquaintances be labeled as friends

3. what are the characteristic of facebook and why many people engage in this site

facebook is have a good characteristic so that many people are engage to use this site. because of facebook we learn what is the latest issue in our country or in our community. many people are like facebook because they can publish whatever he wants and they can update what are the latest topics. many people are engage in this site because of its good characteristics..

4. Use of facebook in E-commerce

* Advertising: Businesses use this tab to create adverts that will run on Facebook pages
* Pages: Businesses use Pages to create a presence on Facebook that will let others join your page as a fan
* Connect: Facebook connect lets users seamlessly connect their Facebook account and information to your site.
* Facebook Share: Design a button for your site to make joining your Facebook Page easy for your customers

5.Importance of facebook in society Today

By using the following tactics of internet marketing by making complete use of Facebook, you will discover a new way of promoting your business.

• By using Facebook advertisements, you can target your desired genre of customers and market. Advertisement tool at Facebook is highly optimized and it helps you in easily targeting the right market.
• You can either make use of social ads or business ads on Facebook for promoting your business or services. You can effortlessly make your advertisements attractive by adding texts, picture and graphics.
• You can create fan pages, use networks and develop groups for your business. There are tools for attracting people to join your fan pages and groups, you can make use of them and generate traffic towards your website
• It is possible to estimate a budget for advertisements, for better results and outcomes you can directly get in touch with the ads and marketing team of Facebook.