Bayani: Isang Imbestigasyon sa Pagkatao at Pakikibaka ni Dr. Jose Rizal

“Bayani: Isang Imbestigasyon sa Pagkatao at Pakikibaka ni Dr. Jose Rizal” is a TV5 Documentary Special which was broadcast last June 19, 2011, 10pm on TV5. Hosted by 2009 CNN Hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida, Jr. and three-time Palanca awardee Lourd de Veyra, this will take the viewers to all accounts, written and non-written, from the birth of Jose Rizal up to this day which he is revered by the world for the values, works and ideals that he has managed to pass on from one generation to another.

Videos courtesy of kabayantv.info.

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Piging Para Kay Pepe: Ika 150 Kaarawan ni Jose Rizal

“Piging Para Kay Pepe: Ika 150 Kaarawan ni Jose Rizal” was aired last June 19, 2011 on GMA-7 Sunday Night Box Office (SNBO). Hosted by Cesar Montano, this is a food documentary about our beloved national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in celebration of his 150th birthday. This is also a great way to know him by finding out what’s in his dinner plate. Was Jose Rizal’s palate any different from ours? Find out with this TV special.

Videos courtesy of kabayantv.info.

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Michael Crichton: Father of the Techno-Thriller

John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels which often have combined aspects of science, technology, and suspense. With this, he has been called “the father of the techno-thriller." Many of his books have been adapted into movies and he is also the creator of the television series, ER.

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton. He was raised on Long Island in New York. At a young age, he already showed a keen interest in writing and by the time he is 14, he had a column related to travel published in The New York Times. In 1960, he entered Harvard College to study literature. During his initial undergraduate years, he experimented to catch out a professor whom he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his writing style. With the knowledge of another professor about his suspicions, Crichton plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor and got a mark of "B−". This issue led him to switch his course to biological anthropology. He then obtained his A.B. summa cum laude in 1964. Later, he enrolled at Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1969. Then, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship study at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

Crichton’s first published book under his own name is The Andromeda Strain. It is a novel about a disastrous virus brought to Earth from outer space. This brought fame to Crichton and became the first of his many works that were brought to the movie screen. Soon, he began a full-time writing career. Many of his novels have medical or scientific foundations which reflect his medical training and science background. Among others, he was the author of Jurassic Park, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next, Pirate Latitudes, and Micro, a final unfinished techno-thriller to be published on November 2011.

In early 2008, Crichton was diagnosed with lymphoma and undergone a chemotherapy. He died of the disease on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66. With his works, Forbes listed him in tenth place in its list of "Top-Earning Dead Celebrities" of 2009.

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CLP: Destination Davao

Cheche Lazaro Presents: Destination Davao was aired last October 25, 2009 on ABS-CBN Channel 2. The CLP team discovers Davao City’s many delights and features its sumptuous bounty of fruits and seafoods. It also shows Cheche Lazaro relaxing at the Pearl Farm and meets a number of indigenous peoples that have made Davao their home such as the Bagobos, T'bolis and the Mandayas. With its nature’s bounties and rich culture, the viewers will realize that there is simply so much of life to live in Davao.

Videos courtesy of Probe Productions, Inc.

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July 2011 NLE Results

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) officially released the results of July 2011 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) yesterday, August 20, 2011. Out of 78,135 examinees, only 37,513 or 48% passed the NLE given by the Board of Nursing. The exam was held in major cities and provinces of the country, namely Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga last July 2 and 3, 2011.

The dates and venues of all oathtaking for this new batch of nurses will be announced later by the PRC. Just take note that registration for new nurses will require the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2011-2014. Also, successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.
List of July 2011 NLE Passers
                                                                                                                                                                     

Joke Time with Teban and Goliat

Enjoy these funny jokes of comedy duo from Cebu City: Teban and Goliat.                                                                                                                                                                  

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The Versatile VLC Media Player

Nowadays, many people are downloading their favorite vids and music on the net. However, some media players cannot play a number of media formats. Thus, there is a need for a very versatile media player that can play almost all kinds of files. One of the powerful media players available is the Video Lan Client Media Player, commonly known as the VLC Media Player.

VLC Media Player is a multi-purpose media player application. It can play various audio formats like MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG as well as a wide range of video formats such as MPEG, AVI, FLV and WMV. With these, it seems like different media players have been merged together and no separate codecs are needed to play your favorite videos or music. Whether you have Windows, MAC, or Linux, you do not have to worry because it can run on all operating systems. Just expect that it is a simple application but very functional. Most of all, it is free and open-source, granting everybody to use it. Although it is free, it is at par with the most prominent media players available out there and it does not have annoying advertisements or any other commercialization schemes built in it.

So, if you need an exceptional media player without costing you a single penny, VLC Media Player is the one you’re looking for. Click on the link below to download VLC Media Player version 1.1.11.
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Easy Partitioning with EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition

When it comes to partitioning a hard drive, one of the best freeware programs available is the EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition. It is an all-in-one partition solution and disk management freeware. Either you want to extend partition or settle low disk space problem, this one can do such tasks. You can also perform advanced partition operations without data loss with this program.

It has three main features: Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy that can solve all partition problems. One of its best features is that it allows you to drag and drop on the disk map to simplify your job. There is a row of task icons that sits on the toolbar, along with a Windows XP-style left nav and central pane that shows your hard drives and information about them. To partition a disk, just click on one of the drives and you have the option to use either the toolbar or the context menu to run the Resize feature. Hit the Resize/Move partition to bring up the slider for adjusting the drive volume sizes or you can also use the text fields to set a partition size precisely. Hit OK in order to run the resizing, and then run the Create feature to format and label the partition in the newly-created empty space. While running, the program will keep you informed of the progress of the overall task.

Meanwhile, there are also a number of other useful features of Easeus Partition Master Home Edition. These include partition copying, a boot disk creator, a Properties option that will tell you everything from the physical geometry of the drive to the serial number, drive letter swapping, and password protection. Overall, you can't go wrong with this tool. , It's abilities makes it easy and fast to perform changes to your drive the way you want it.

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John Grisham: Master of the Legal Thriller

John Grisham is an American author which is almost synonymous with the modern legal thriller. He was born John Ray Grisham, Jr. on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker. As a child, he wanted to become a professional baseball player but after realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted interest and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law and went on to practice criminal law for about a decade. From 1994 to 1990, he served at the House of Representatives in Mississippi.

It was at the DeSoto County courthouse when Grisham was inspired to write his first novel after hearing the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and contemplating the idea of what would have happened if the girl’s father had murdered her assailants. He squeezed in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on this novel. After three years, A Time to Kill was finished and was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June 1988.

He began to work on another novel about a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. The title of the next novel is The Firm, which he sold the film rights to Paramount Pictures for $600,000 and suddenly made him a hot property among publishers. It stayed 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and considered the bestselling novel of 1991.

Since A Time to Kill was first published in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year. His other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, The Broker, Playing for Pizza, The Appeal, and The Associate. All of these have become international bestsellers.  Nine of his novels have been adapted into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas).

Today, Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children, Ty and Shea. They split their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA.

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