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We hosted a community forum on gun violence and public safety at the library today. Our five-member panel included the police commissioner, two community organizers, a pastor and author of a theological critique of guns in America, and a neighborhood youth and spoken word artist. An anchor from our local PBS affiliate moderated. It was an honest and open discussion, and it was so moving to see the library transform into the kind of space where this type of conversation could happen.
Inspiring use of library space. Nice work, Jeff.
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Does a slow 5k automatically mean a slow mile? I run workouts that suggest Id run a pretty fast mile, and ran a 4:44 on a track just to see where I was about a month ago. Doing 50 miles a week with workouts and weight training, and also ran 8 miles pretty easy at 6:40 pace. But yet I still struggle to hold my 6min tempo for 3 or 4 miles. Why is this? Btw 12x400 with 200 meter jog between each and averaged about 69.5 for each 400. HELP this is my first post on here, I feel like my 5k should be a lot faster and a lot easier.
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Maybe you're just lacking endurance - why nto try building the 6 minute pace tempo to 5, then 6 miles? 12 x 400 isn't really a "5k" workout, even if they add up to almost 5k, you'd have to do more for it to be a 5k workout.
Well I really am just focused on the mile and half mile, but I was curious if running a slow 5k would affect my mile, the 12x400 was more of a mile workout
I ran a 4:44 all out mile days after a 15:30 5k (both track), so I wouldn't say they limit one another completely.
Tempo runs (~85-90% of race pace for 4 miles would be a good start, then work on bringing it up to 5 miles) as well as long hill sprints are great for speed-endurance work. I like at least a 400m long hill for that. By the 400m workout, heck your mile time should be a bit faster. Try longer intervals with short rest (Like 5X1000m or 3Xmile).
Ultimately all of your workouts should progress towards doing more race-paced stuff leading up to your peak race
But realize that there aren't any magic workouts. And also realize that all workouts need to have a sufficient recovery. SLOWLY. Like slower than 6:40 pace for 8 miles. try more like 7-7:15 pace. I ran many less miles, but a much faster equivalent 1500m time.
Also, what is your 5000m race time?
Ran the mile a month ago and it was by myself so Im hoping for a 4:30 indoors and maybe 4:20s by outdoor with more training and competition. I also ran a 2:01 800 at practice last sprng before tearing a growth plate. I ran a 17:40 before getting mono, this was my first year of xc. Im a junior, but as of now i struggle to hold 6 min for longer than 3 miles
But can whip out solid no recovery speed workouts? which makes no sense to me
I'd say you have a lot of natural speed but need to work on the endurance if you want to get a good 5k time. If it gives you solace, in high school I ran against a guy who could drop a 49/1:49/4:08, but could usually only manage a 16:45-17:10 5k during cross country (though he ran a 16:14 on a flat course).
So hey. Maybe it's not all that bad to be far better at the mile than a 5k. But if you really want a better 5k time, stop with the short fast intervals. It is not astonishing that you can pound out the short intervals, but can't do the longer faster stuff. I could do the same thing in high school. If you like intervals stick with longer intervals and hill repeats to bring down the 5k time.
You're probably young? Amazingly, 12x400 /69s is not great for 5k workouts. I could do 4 or 5 at 65 or so long ago, but had trouble breaking 18! After some years of easy high mileage (50) , I was low 16 for 5k. For some, it takes time to build the endurance base.
Haha the 12x400 was a mile workout, I haven't did a 5k workout since october. Like I said Im mainly a mid distance runner and am training for indoors. This is my first year putting the miles in( 50 a week). Im a jr and have always been gifted with the 1600 and 800, but never really tried to crank the miles up for the 5k distance until this year. Long story short I haven't ran a mile in a race since 8th grade (5:04). Last year year I missed the entire season with a growth plate injury. Sorry for the book
I was able to go 4:54 in 8th grade, and my Freshman year was able to manage a 17:49 5k. I was most likely aerobically underdeveloped, as I was only doing 4-5 miles a day when I ran that mile.


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Found while weeding. I think there are a few of us here in the tumblarian community who can make this our own.
This is…amazing.
Library and literary miscellany from your pals at Library Journal.
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Found while weeding. I think there are a few of us here in the tumblarian community who can make this our own.
This is…amazing.
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Barbara Gittings was a librarian, gay rights activist, and editor of lesbian magazine The Ladder, published by the Daughters of Bilitis. She marched with Frank Kameny in Washington DC, she helped get the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from the DSM, and she was very active in ALA's Taskforce on Gay Liberation (which has now morphed into the GLBT Round Table), including its Hug A Homosexual booth at the 1971 annual conference. You can read more in her history of the taskforce, Gays in Libraryland.
Photo is from the NYPL Digital Gallery.
I love this one. What a cutie!
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In response to Hurricane Sandy, the Que(e)ry Librarians are designating additional proceeds from our upcoming event to benefit the Ali Forney Center. Their center in Chelsea was destroyed by flooding at a time when the services they provide to homeless LGBT youth are all the more crucial. Emergency funds will help AFC restore services and facilities to those affected by the hurricane and the winter storm which came shortly thereafter.
The first 100 donors at our party on November 24th will get a free beer courtesy of Public Assembly. You can also donate now on AFC's website.
Here are a few other library-related resources if you are looking for help or looking for ways to get involved:
Our friends at Urban Librarians Unite have compiled a list of resources for Hurricane Sandy relief, and are also conducting a Children's book drive.
Brooklyn Public Library's Response to Hurricane Sandy
Queens Public Library's Response to Hurricane Sandy
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As far as I'm concerned, when you suppress a minority from your library catalogue, you're making a statement: you're pulling the welcome mat out from under that minority's feet and you're ensuring the dissolution of that minority and its history within your community. I'm proud of the consideration I see librarians give to their diverse communities of users. I'm proud to see Armistead Maupin on the quick-read shelves with Urdu and Polish texts around one corner and mental health texts around the next. I'm proud of these refuges and community centres and melting pots. I'm proud that despite the shushy stereotypes, these are places where anyone can have as loud an identity as they like and it will be catered to. I'm proud of libraries and of my choice to become a librarian.
— Boolean Berry - LGBT pride and libraries (via contrarylibrarian)


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Moves by legislators and homosexual activists to endorse same sex adoption are misguided. Their intentions may be good, but they are ignoring the rights of children and important social and psychological research into the homosexual lifestyle.
Notice to Reader: "The Boards of both CERC Canada and CERC USA are aware that the topic of homosexuality is a controversial one that deeply affects the personal lives of many North Americans. Both Boards strongly reiterate the Catechism's teaching that people who self-identify as gays and lesbians must be treated with 'respect, compassion, and sensitivity' (CCC #2358). The Boards also support the Church's right to speak to aspects of this issue in accordance with her own self-understanding. Articles in this section have been chosen to cast light on how the teachings of the Church intersect with the various social, moral, and legal developments in secular society. CERC will not publish articles which, in the opinion of the editor, expose gays and lesbians to hatred or intolerance."
The recent decision of Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois to separate from the Church and place children in same sex unions occurred after Illinois followed the lead set by other states and enacted legislation to protect so-called rights for homosexual unions. This legislation, the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act, denied funding to social service agencies that refuse to permit same sex adoption.
Experimenting on children by permitting adoption by same sex couples poses serious problems. Children have a right to and a need for parenting by both a father and a mother. This need should be recognized by the state and by professional groups as far more important than an adult's supposed right to adopt.
The views presented here are based on extensive social science research and scholarship, on my clinical experience as a psychiatrist that includes consulting with adoptive and foster children for several years, treating adoptive children for almost 35 years, writing about their treatment in a textbook for the American Psychological Association [1] and as the father of three adopted daughters.
Same sex relationships do not provide an ideal environment in which to raise children for several reasons.
First, same sex couples tend to be promiscuous. One of the largest studies of same sex couples revealed that only seven of 156 couples had a sexual relationship which was totally monogamous. Most of these relationships lasted less than five years. Couples whose relationship lasted longer incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity: "The single most important factor that keeps couples together past the 10-year mark is the lack of possessiveness," observed two scholars who were also partners, David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison. "Many couples learn very early in their relationship that ownership of each other sexually can be the greatest internal threat to their staying together." [2]
Second, the unions are very fragile. The probability of breakup is high for lesbian couples. In a 2010 report, the US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, 40 percent of the couples who had conceived a child by artificial insemination had broken up.[3] Lisa Diamond reported in her book, Sexual Fluidity, that "more than two-thirds of the women in my sample had changed their identity labels at least once after the first interview. The women who kept the same identity for the whole ten years proved to be the smallest and most atypical group." If a woman in a same-sex relationship changes her identity label, the relationship breaks up.
And third, the couple may not necessarily be physically healthy. Dutch research has found that most new HIV infections in Amsterdam occurred among homosexual men who were in steady relationships. The researcher concluded that: "Prevention measures should address risky behavior, especially with steady partners, and the promotion of HIV testing." [4] Research shows that same sex unions suffer a significantly higher prevalence of domestic abuse, depression, substance-abuse disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases.[5] Should adopted children be placed with a couple at risk of a serious and emotionally draining illness?
The most important issue is the welfare of the child. Social science research has repeatedly demonstrated the vital importance of both a father and a mother for the healthy development of children and the serious risks that they face if they are raised without a mother or a father. Mothers and fathers bring unique gifts that are essential to the health of a child.
Among the many distinctive talents that mothers bring to the parenting enterprise, three stand out: their capacity to breastfeed, their ability to understand infants and children, and their ability to offer nurture and comfort.
Social science studies confirm this. Numerous reports indicate that infants and toddlers prefer mothers to fathers when they are hungry, afraid or sick. Mothers tend to be more soothing. Mothers are more responsive to the distinctive cries of infants; they are better able than fathers, for instance, to distinguish between a cry of hunger and a cry of pain. They are also better than fathers at detecting the emotions of their children by looking at their faces, postures, and gestures.
Children who were deprived of maternal care during extended periods in their early lives "lacked feeling, had superficial relationships, and exhibited hostile or antisocial tendencies" as they developed into adulthood.[6] Clinical experience suggests that deliberately depriving a child of its mother, motherlessness, causes severe damage because mothers are crucial in establishing a child's ability to trust and to feel safe in relationships. All cultures recognize the essential role of the mother.
Fathers also have distinctive talents.[7] Fathers excel when it comes to providing discipline, play, and challenging children to embrace life's challenges. They also provide essential role models for boys. Their presence in the home protects a child from fear and strengthens a child's ability to feel safe. The extensive research on the serious psychological, academic and social problems among youth raised in fatherless families demonstrates the importance of the presence of the father in the home for healthy child development.
The rights and needs of children to a mother and a father should be protected by the state. Adults do not have a right to deprive children of a father or a mother.
There are strong indications that children raised by same sex couples fare less well than children raised in stable homes with a mother and a father.
In 1996 a well-designed study of 174 primary school children in Australia 58 children in married families, 58 in families headed by cohabitating heterosexuals and 58 in home with homosexual unions suggested that married couples offered the best environment for a child's social and education environment. Cohabiting couples were second best and homosexual couples came last.[8]
The results of a 2009 study of women in New York, Boston, and San Francisco are similar. Researchers interviewed 68 women with gay or bisexual fathers and 68 women with heterosexual fathers. The women (average age 29 in both groups) with gay or bisexual fathers had difficulty with adult attachment issues in three areas: they were less comfortable with closeness and intimacy; they were less able to trust and depend on others; and they experienced more anxiety in relationships compared to the women raised by heterosexual fathers.[9]
Not surprisingly, there are scholars who oppose this weighty evidence. Two major studies published in 2010 are often cited by homosexual activists and the media. Nanette Gartrell and Henry Bos [10] and Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey [11] claim that children who were deliberately deprived of the benefits of gender complementarity in a home with a father and a mother suffer no psychological damage.
However, all data in the Gartell and Bos article are self-reports by the mother and the child. The mothers were aware of the political agenda of the research and this must have skewed the results. This defect in methodology severely weakens the report.
In the meta-study by Biblarz and Stacey, in 31 of the 33 studies of two parent families, it was the parents who provided the data, which consisted of subjective judgments. Once again, this created a social desirability bias because the homosexual parents knew the political agenda behind the study. Furthermore, of the 33 studies in two-person families, only two studies included men, although the title, "How does the gender of parents matter?" suggests that both men and women were fully represented.
Much of the research on same-sex couples tends to have serious methodological flaws. It is often argued that there is no evidence that children are harmed if they are raised by homosexual men. This is true, but the absence of evidence does not prove the case. It means that there is no evidence. Studies of children raised by homosexual men are rare. No studies have examined the long-term effects on adult males raised by homosexual men.
An adopted child has been separated from his or her biological parents. The child feels this loss. For this reason adoption agencies historically have sought the best possible placement a sensitive and stable father and mother. A same-sex couple is by definition a second-class placement, since a parent of the opposite sex is missing.
A grave injustice to adoptive children is occurring as growing numbers of Catholic social service adoption agencies that have provided outstanding help to children, parents and families for decades are being denied the right to continue. Legislatures are placing the rights of homosexual unions to adopt above the needs and rights of children to a mother and a father.
Deliberately depriving a child of a father or a mother harms the child.[12] Social science research supports this view. Adoptive children have experienced early-life abandonment trauma and should be protected from the additional trauma of being exposed to a cruel social experiment. Will no one step forward to protect these children?
Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. "Same sex adoption is not a game. " Mercatornet (November 18, 2011).
Reprinted with permission of MercatorNet.com under a Creative Commons Licence. Find the original article here.
MercatorNet is an innovative internet magazine analysing current affairs and key international news and trends which touch its readers' daily lives. If you enjoyed this article, visit MercatorNet.com for more.
Reprinted with permission of Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. All rights reserved.
Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. is the director of the Institute for Marital Healing in West Conshohocken, Pa. He is the co-author with Robert Enright, of Helping Clients Forgive: An Empirical Guide: An Empirical Guide for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope, 2000, American Psychological Association Books. He co-chaired the task force of the Catholic Medical Association that produced the document, "Homosexuality and Hope." His website is maritalhealing.com.
Copyright © 2014 Richard Fitzgibbons
Not all articles published on CERC are the objects of official Church teaching, but these are supplied to provide supplementary information.


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CENTER FOR NATIONALIST STUDIES supports the occupy_campout ph.
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It's commercialized, colonial, and fascist. The Center for Nationalist Studies advocates a nationalist, scientific, mass oriented education. You may contact us if you have questions. 09178659778. =)
STRIKE for the PEOPLE!
University of the Philippines STRIKES
in EDUCATION and SOCIAL SERVICES.
OPPOSE the Budget Cut in Education and Social Services
2011 - It is already Pres. Benigno Simeon "P-Noy" Aquino III's second year, and he has not yet grasped the basic needs of his constituents, the Filipino people. Despite claiming that we are his "boss," he has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear on the tens of thousands who marched in the streets in 2010 calling for a pro-people government budget.
P-Noy proposed "stringent measures" in his budget message last year due to "scarce resources" which he blames on the rampant corruption during Pres. Arroyo's governance. The problem with these measures is that the ones being sacrificed are the people what with the current administration's continued backing of large, foreign and local business corporations. This is no different from previous administrations' practices aimed on increased involvement of the private sector in the public domain.
This is in stark contrast with his principle that "corruption and poverty" needs to be addressed to bring about "change and social reform."
How is this reflected in the proposed 2012 Budget?
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) were listed as the two "most corrupt government [agencies] in the eyes of the public" according to a survey by Pulse Asia. But how come these said institutions continue to receive every cent of their proposed budgets, even more, from the national treasury?
Another primary recipient of budget allocations is the annual pork barrel, a root cause of corruption with its association to political maneuvering, especially in the form of bribery. Considering the implementation of Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) which is supposed to provide budgets based on "relevance of [programs with an] impact on the welfare of the people and the economy," these increases in pork barrel is not justifiable.
During his first year, P-Noy said that a "[hasty] … solution will be useless." In spite of this, there is continuous support for the government's banner program for poverty alleviation, Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT's). These relief programs that claim to improve the economic conditions of our poor are no different from his Public-Private-Partnerships, which is basically continued privatization and denationalization.
These programs make us believe that they will point us the "daang matuwid," when, in truth, they are mere "band-aid solutions" to the real problems at hand, like the absence of genuine agrarian reform, need for just, living wages, accessible social services to name a few. The thing about these temporary benefits is that the actual party who benefits truly is the elite, the foreign, and the privileged few.
There is also the constant, puzzling dilemma that is foreign debt servicing. The automatic appropriation of our national budget to debt payments instead of allocating it to basic social services is permitted by Section 26, Chapter 4, Book 6 of the Revised Administrative Code of 1987. A series of bills by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Kabataan Partylist Rep Raymond Palatino, among others, calling to repeal this act have been proposed over the years but not one of them were passed into law.
At present, we, the Iskolar ng Bayan, with the rest of the other sectors in society, experience the effects of this infamous provision. These effects are manifested in the yearly budget structure and the worsening poverty situation that is best seen in the steady rise of prices of essential products, freeze in wage hikes, inaccessibility of social services, and tuition and other fees increases (TOFI's) and commercialization of idle assets in the education sector, especially in the tertiary level.
On this basis, we say we are not and will never be P-Noy's bosses, contrary to his claims.
This leads us to the big question—Why? One answer: Neo-liberal policies. These are explained as austerity measures intended to bolster the economy by emphasizing minimal government intervention. Its primary movers in the Philippine context are the International Monetary Fund - World Bank (IMF-WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and other foreign international lending institutions.
One of these, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, whom P-Noy mentioned in his previous State of the Nation Address, is recognized as one of the possible sources of a grant given as a reward for an improvement in the human trafficking situation. In fact, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) proposed by the UN to improve living conditions in the Third world and implemented through Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP's) of the IMF-WB, are none other than neo-liberal policies being put into practice.
Our massive reliance on debt servicing and foreign investors ensure our continued adherence to neo-liberal policies and the IMF-WB's control over our economy. This in turn will guarantee that the above-mentioned budget structure and its resulting negative effects will remain a burden to the Filipino people.
What are the tasks of the Filipino Youth in the face of this crisis?
P-Noy is now exposed. His budget for two years shows him as pro-big businesses and anti-people. This reflects his continued endorsement of the IMF-WB's neo-liberal policies, which then reveals him as a puppet to foreign interests. His lack of understanding of the needs of the people displays his inutility. His counter-insurgency, and demolition programs among others, exposes the fascist character of his government.
And so, given this chronic characteristic of neo-liberal policies, there is no reason for the Youth to be complacent. The time to make a stand is now. Given the extensive reach of these policies, we need to be comprehensive in engaging the government. The need to be organized is stressed. Given the repressive character of the State's response to our calls, we need to be more militant in our actions. Mass mobilization and unity with the other sectors is our call.
Worker's Situation ACLE 2011
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SONA 2011: Little to report, less to look forward to
In just its second state of the nation address (SONA), the Aquino presidency has confirmed that it cannot be upfront about the real state of the nation and is unable to take the difficult reform measures needed to lift tens of millions of poor Filipinos from their poverty.
According to independent think-tank IBON, Pres. Aquino's difficulty to report any meaningful economic accomplishment had led the SONA to resort to half-truths such as on jobs and social services, empty claims such as on rice, and exaggerations such as on conditional cash transfers (CCTs).
The SONA reported an all-time high in the stock market, improved credit ratings, and investor interest in oil and gas exploration in the country. Yet while Pres. Aquino hailed these as signs of an "improved and improving economy", these are in reality more relevant to investors than the ordinary Filipino, IBON noted.
The reality of Filipinos is not as the SONA had portrayed. As expected, Pres. Aquino claimed an improvement in the employment situation with a slightly lower unemployment rate and 1.4 million jobs created. But in failing to mention that the jobs created were more than off-set by the growing labor force (1.2 million more) and increase in number of poor quality work (829,000 more underemployed), it glossed over the reality that the number of jobless and underemployed Filipinos increased by over 600,000 in the past year. There are now 11.6 million unemployed (4.5 million, by IBON's estimate) and underemployed (7/1 million) Filipinos in the country.
Also as expected, Pres. Aquino claimed that the CCT program reduced poverty in the country. But he failed to mention that the supposedly 100,000 additional CCT beneficiaries per month would only be eligible for the cash dole-outs for at most five years. Even if these families had been lifted from poverty, which is actually an exaggerated claim because being a beneficiary does not automatically mean no longer being poor, the more important question is their prospect for jobs or livelihood after the program ends.
Pres. Aquino also repeated the untruth of improved rice production due to his administration to give the impression of improving the country's food security. However, whatever increase in rice production this year is not due to any effort of the administration but rather just from more favorable weather, with no adverse El Niño this year unlike last year, and an expansion in areas planted to rice. Projected rice productivity of 3.8 MT/ha in 2011 is virtually unchanged from 2009.
A more truthful account of the administration's efforts in the agriculture sector would also have mentioned that the budgets for the departments of agriculture and of agrarian reform were each cut by some Php4.4 billion from the year before which can only undermine agricultural productivity.
Pres. Aquino also mentioned supposed ghost schools and teachers as burdening rural children. However, it failed to mention that it halved the budget of the education department's school-building program from Php2 billion in 2010 to Php1 billion in 2011. Only 13,147 new classrooms will be built this year against the public school classroom backlog of some 113,000.
The SONA also did not mention at all among the most pressing problems faced by tens of millions of Filipinos— low wages, continuing landlessness, and a burdensome regressive tax system. This omission and the lack of concrete measures to resolve these make the optimism of the SONA contrived and hollow. According to IBON, the only foundations being laid are those for continued social and economic backwardness. (end)
source: http://www.ibon.org/ibon_articles.php
7,931,047 of the youth are not going to school
8 out of 10 high school graduates will not have tertiary education
2.9 M of the 5M graduates are unemployed
The Center for Nationalist Studies as a research organization does not only handle data. We know that these numbers are real people disenfranchised of their democratic right for education. We refuse to stay in our academic towers of intellectual production. From these figures we take on a stand against this crisis in the educational sector. Together with other students and youth nationwide, let's show them that we are a force to reckon with.
JULY 19! NATIONAL YOUTH WALKOUT against the CRISIS of EDUCATION.
Engineering, Serve the People
There is so much expected from every engineering student. Each one is expected to be mathematically and verbally well-versed, creative, analytical, determined, academically proficient, and many more. To meet all these expectations, each has to sacrifice innumerable sleepless nights and a sufficient amount of blood from 'nose-bleeding' lessons while resisting discouragement generated by terror professors, cryptic exams, and academic competition. It is a challenge that every student has to face before he can become an engineer because more than anything else, the ultimate task at hand is engineering the future – a task that envisions a better society in a time when science and technology (S&T) has greatly advanced and yet poverty is still evidently worsening.
The need for engineers (and the need for them to have money too)
The demand for scientists and engineers has increased throughout decades and, at the same time, the challenges of becoming one are becoming more punishing. Aside from academic pressure, every engineering bachelor has to deal with the unceasing increase of tuition fees, laboratory fees, and other academic expenses. In UP alone, one has to spend an average of 20,000php per semester for 5 years to get a degree. UP's character as a premiere university that offers quality and affordable education for the masses is gradually changing profile. Worse, this is not an isolated case. Only recently, deregulation paved the way for 282 private universities to increase its tuition fees. On the other hand, Aquino's administration pushes through private-public partnerships* (PPPs), thereby posing a threat to education's accessibility. Commercialization of education, as evidenced by increased tuition fees, has become a 'no-choice' option for state universities and colleges (SUCs) to be self-sufficient.
Funding the sciences
With these facts laid on the table, one can infer that if the country needs engineers, there is also a need to support them. There is indeed a need to boost the capacity of science and technology in the country to take advantage of its advances. Sadly, this is not much of a priority. According to the 2009 World Competitiveness Yearbook, Philippines ranks only 54 in Research and Development (R&D) spending at $123M dollars. This is even less than half the amount allocated by Thailand from their GDP. Our country only allocates approximately .1% of the annual GDP for R&D. Compare that to Japan's 2.8% allocation from GDP, Korea's 1.8% allocation, and Taiwan's 1.1% allocation.
Sixty percent of R&D's expenditure in the country comes from private sectors. Even worse, the number of scientists and engineers working for R&D in the Philippines has been decreasing for decades. There was a decrease of 45% from 1996 to 2002 alone.
Graduation! Where do we go from here?
The very low allocation for R&D in the Philippines creates a domino effect to the overall progress of science and technology in the Philippines. This development is mostly hampered by emigration. Tens of thousands of Filipino engineers are working for R&Ds abroad that mostly benefit other countries. This is not merely because of personal preferences, but this is also because of our country's incapacity to support local industries financially. The country actually has it all – skilled workers, a rich natural base – but because of the challenges that our industries are dealing with, there is no efficient utilization of our resources.
But why?
There are many reasons why our industries do not thrive. First, aside from the low budget, our country is export-oriented. We have the raw materials but we do not use them for production. We export them instead and import them once they're processed abroad. Second, we do not produce goods primarily for domestic needs but for foreign interests. The country cannot ensure food security and self-sufficiency since priorities aren't well-sorted. Third, there is no security for livelihood. Apparently, society has redefined education as a gateway to getting a good job abroad. Fourth, we do not have programs for rural industrialization, agricultural modernization. Fifth, there is no genuine infrastructure for S&T and basic social services. Sixth, we are very dependent on OFW remittances and foreign debts. Seventh, worsening poverty has become a hindrance to the production of skilled workers. Eighth, most of the dominating industries in the Philippines service the needs of foreign countries. The list goes on.
So what?
If we truly care for our country, our priority should be to respond to its needs. We need an industrialization policy that would cater to the demands of our country – economically, industrially, and scientifically. There is a need for engineers to take a stand on national industrialization. This can only be realized if we also put an eye to the bigger problems that envelope our society: corruption, privatization, commercialization, deregulation, de-industrialization, and many others. There is a need to reach out to different sectors and communities to identify the flaws and what're causing these in order to device a solution – be it impossible or not, be it unimaginable or achievable. The most important thing is to pursue development and combat backwardness because this is the time when we need dedication to the nation.
As engineers, we know learning is not all about intellectual orgasm. Being an engineer is a responsibility to the country. Despite all the obstacles of education, we know that we are not overcoming them all for the sake of getting a degree and a job. We are doing this to serve for a better purpose. The sacrifices we endeavor before graduation are sacrifices for our people, for our generation, for a better country. Stand for nationalist economy. Take action with the Filipino people.
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Every so often, a serious horse comes along late to crash the Kentucky Derby party.
He's the horse that some futures bettors can't precisely pinpoint but are relying on as their "all others" pick in February and March. In the last 10 years, Derby winners Charismatic and War Emblem were the prototypes, the ones that seemingly came from nowhere to ultimately defeat horses who had been all the rage on the long Derby trail.
Hold Me Back is bidding to join that club. Dismissed and scarcely mentioned after being put away for the winter by Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott following a disappointing fifth-place finish last November in the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct, the colt wasn't even an afterthought until making his seasonal debut March 21 in the Lane's End Stakes at Turfway Park.
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"Going into the Derby off the Lane's End, he'd be a bit of an unknown," said Elliott Walden, the former trainer who serves as vice president and racing manager for WinStar. "From an odds perspective, we might've looked up Derby Day and he'd be 30-1 or 40-1, and we really wouldn't know where we were off the one race. It looks like we're going to be 5-2 or 3-1 in the Blue Grass, and we're not going to give that up just to be a longshot to win the Derby."
Peeking beyond the Blue Grass, which like the Lane's End will be run over Polytrack, Mott said he has few reservations about how Hold Me Back might handle the dirt surface at Churchill Downs. Regardless of what transpires in his fifth career start Saturday, Hold Me Back will enter the Derby with just one dirt race on his past performances - that being a distant fifth in the Remsen. But it must be noted that through the long winter, and until he shipped north for the Lane's End, Hold Me Back trained "very well" over the notoriously deep dirt surface at Payson Park in south Florida, according to Mott.
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Both Mott and Walden have fond memories of the Blue Grass. Mott won it 25 years ago with the only horse he has ever run in the race, Taylor's Special, while Walden won it 10 years ago with Menifee.
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Walden recalled the "great ride" that Pat Day gave Menifee in the 1999 Blue Grass and the "special feeling it gave me to win it" for co-owner Arthur Hancock, who already had won two Kentucky Derbies with Gato Del Sol (1982) and Sunday Silence (1989), "but had never won a Blue Grass. Mr. Hancock was on the board of directors at Keeneland at the time, and the Blue Grass is a race that Kentuckians want to win. It was a special moment in my training career that we were able to do that together."
For WinStar, the Versailles, Ky., powerhouse owned by Bill Casner and Kenny Troutt, success in the Blue Grass would perpetuate what has been an incredible run over the last year or so. WinStar owns Well Armed, the romping winner of the $6 million Dubai World Cup on March 28, along with other highly accomplished runners such as Colonel John and Court Vision, the latter in partnership with IEAH Stables.
Hold Me Back, a $400,000 purchase at the 2007 Keeneland September yearling sales, will be ridden in the Blue Grass by Kent Desormeaux, who has won both times he has ridden the colt: an October allowance route over the Keeneland Polytrack, and the Lane's End. Desormeaux has won the Derby three times, including last year with Big Brown.
Hold Me Back, who had his final prerace workout Sunday when breezing five furlongs in 1:00.40 over the Keeneland Polytrack, was one of about 10 3-year-olds expected for the 1 1/8-mile Blue Grass when entries were drawn Wednesday. He figures into an intriguing mix of favorites, along with Charitable Man, Patena, Terrain, and Theregoesjojo.
"Obviously we'd all like to win the Derby," said Walden, who sent out the Derby runner-up twice (Victory Gallop in 1998 and Menifee in 1999) from three starters before giving up his stable in July 2005. "The second part to this whole equation with Hold Me Back is that even though we thought about going straight into the Derby, two preps with a lightly raced 3-year-old is what really gives us the best chance to win it. Bill and I have a belief that you have to put yourself in the best position possible to have success."
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Yeah, I saved the Lakers for last. They're probably the best team in the NBA–and definitely the most interesting. Why? Because they have the most head-cases. And not just spread evenly over the 12-man roster, but no fewer than four in the starting lineup.
That's right, Steve Nash is not a head case. Ah, but he's never played with the Lakers before.
The question of whether or not the Lakers are "Kobe's team" has already come up, with several Lakers weighing in for the benefit of a relentless media. How much deference must Nash and Dwight Howard, and Pau Gasol, for that matter, pay to Kobe Bryant and the notion that it's his team? Remember Steve Blake's miss on a final shot in last year's playoffs? The controversy was about whether taking that shot was a lapse in propriety. The last shot is Kobe's, right?
And that's exactly what Steve Blake was thinking when he took that last shot, and that's exactly why he missed. Shooting is all about confidence and Blake didn't have it because…Kobe takes the last shot.
Blake took a lot of heat for that miss. Here's a question for Mike Brown and for Kobe: If you don't trust Blake to take the last shot, why is he on the floor?
Fans of the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder are surely whistling in the dark if they are telling themselves that the Lakers haven't gone past them with the addition of Dwight Howard and Nash and a few key bench players.
All the Heat and the Thunder and the rest of the league can do is pray each night before getting tucked in that the Lakers will Fail to Mesh because of The Clashing of Egos. That is the rilly rilly big question and no one knows the answer. We do know that the potential is there for it to happen.
Steve Nash is not as fast as he used to be, but no one is as fast as Nash used to be. Having great players around him will re-start his career. And Nash will reciprocate by getting the ball to them where and when they want it.
Kobe should have another great season blah blah. The only question is, will he engage with his teammates, even the Steve Blakes of the world? Of course he will be overplayed again. How Brown handled Kobe last year is player-abuse. Too many minutes, too much playing hurt. And it'll happen again.
Pau is the most intriguing of the head-cases. Reminds me of Hamlet, trying to fit in with Hotspur. That would be Kobe. Pau is nearly unique—a 7-footer with great high- and low-post moves, a fine passer who can hit the perimeter shot and is a good foul shooter. Yet he's never been a go-to guy for the Lakers. First he was a second-banana to Kobe, then a third banana to Kobe and Bynum, and with the acquisition of Howard, Pau goes to fourth-banana. Pau is going to have to transcend all of that and have a good year.
Howard, when healthy, should energize the defense but his offensive role is still uncertain. Once Mike Brown figures out how to use him I think Howard will become a better player with the Lakers. He's never played with anyone as good as Kobe, Pau or Nash. The Lakers are looking hard at either C Robert Sacre from Gonzaga (the 60th and last player drafted) and C Greg Somogyi (listed at 7'3") to back up Howard. If they don't work out, especially if Howard misses a lot of games), Pau will probably be asked to play center until order is restored.
The bench, spotty last year, is improved, especially on the frontcourt. Antawn Jamison, who played with the Cavs for the last three years on a $40 million contract, was signed for the veteran's minimum. Jamison can score and is a good offensive rebounder and, except for a single season in Dallas a decade ago, he's playing on a good team for the first time in his 17-year pro career. The guy must be ecstatic, and based on that I figure he's gonna be a very good bench player this year. He'll probably be the main backup for SF Metta World Peace. Devin Ebanks will also be in the mix.
Jordan Hill, who came out of nowhere (the Knicks and the Rockets, to be specific) to earn a nice 2-year $7.1 million contract, will back up Pau and occasionally Howard. Earl Clark is another good rebounder looking for playing time.
Finally, Kobe has a legit backup in former 76er Jodie Meeks, signed to a 2-year, $3 million deal. And Chris Duhon will probably be an improvement on Steve Blake as Nash's backup, though all of that is vague. Then there's Darius Morris, who hasn't seemed ready. Ideally, you'd like a better backup for Nash than the ones the Lakers have on their roster.
It might be funny watching these Lakers trying to fit into Mike Brown's version of the "Princeton offense." Look, when you have a bunch of future Hall of Famers, you create an offense that fits those players' skills. You don't fit those incredible and various talents into any system. Of course, superior talent will win under any system. The success of the Bulls and the Lakers under Phil Jackson had nothing to do with the Triangle offense. Those teams would have won championships playing any offensive system, or no system, for that matter.
Teams like the Thunder and the Spurs, who made very few personnel moves, will hit the ground running. They will have an early advantage over the Lakers who have so many question marks. And it will take awhile to mesh. The only important goal is to be peaking next April. If they are, no team can beat them.
Only the Lakers can beat the Lakers.
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Heather Brown speaks to Keith Bound about his interactive film company Receptive Cinema, which allows viewers to influence the film that they are watching through their natural responses.
Interactive cinema has come a long way since the 1960s when films were stopped and audiences were asked to vote for what happened next.
Switching: An Interactive Film by Morten Schjødt, released in 2003 used DVD controllers to determine the outcome of a film, while Violaine Meunier's 1998 film Hypnosis made the most of the internet allowing users to interact through clicks to produce a complete film.
Keith Bound, however wanted to find a more natural way of connecting with films than mouse clicking or voting and moved from initial trials using controllers to researching physiological reactions to films.
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As part of his ongoing research into interactive cinema, Keith completed an MA in digital design and media in 2009, which enabled him to create a study based on theoretical and practice-led research, investigating complex issues in human psychological and physiological responses to cinema, film and narrative.
In October of the same year he exhibited his Interactive film installation called Receptive Cinema™ as part of a Thinktank educational programme at Birmingham Science Museum.
Receptive Cinema allows users to engage with multiple video streams running simultaneously side by side. The drag & drop style gestural interface, rear projection, infra-red camera and LED pointer enables the user to influence the narrative by actively interacting with the video streams, manipulating, moving and merging them together into a variety of organic forms or a coherent single stream.
The video streams are represented within a circular format replicating a view through a telescope, creating an alternative perspective from the traditional rectangular frame.
The content and narrative theme is based on a journey because it is a generic term to describe a variety of life experiences. The word journey also has a connection with the words film and narrative, i.e. a passing from one state to another.
Without any pre-formulated narrative the process invites the user to fill in the gaps and develop their own meaning and create different narrative trajectories.
Interactive film in education
Keith soon noticed the different ways the schoolchildren reacted to the experience: "The girls were very interested in the idea and really got involved creating their own montage of kinetic images and different narratives and stories".
"I hate to use stereotypes, but the boys wanted more action and a more gamey feel to it."
Education is just one of the ways in which Keith can see the interactive films being used.
"I can see receptive cinema being used in health & wellbeing, advertising, and interactive film."
Cisco I-Prize
In March this year, Keith presented Emo-vie™ to the Cisco I-Prize board.
"The panel were looking for the next billion dollar business for Cisco and it got me thinking about how human-computer interaction could be improved through biofeedback technology.
"The competition gave my idea commercial credibility, and it gave me confidence thinking that influential people believed in my business."
Almost three thousand people from 149 countries entered the competition. Keith made it into the final nine and presented his idea to the emerging technology group.
"I was proud to be the only finalist from the UK and enjoyed presenting my idea to the board in California- albeit via a video link."
How will receptive cinema monitor the audience's reactions?
At present companies are researching people's reactions to information by monitoring concentration and retina reflex. Keith is looking into other ways of monitoring subconscious responses including heart rhythms.
"Most people think the heart is just a muscle, but it is more complicated than that. It has 40,000 neurons, like a mini brain, and can release hormones.
"The heart reacts before the brain and monitoring it would show a viewer's natural reaction to a film."
Asked how it is possible to retain the collective nature of going to the cinema while still watching a film that is influenced by your emotions he said: "We would take an average reaction of the audience if there is a large group."
"The way people react to the film would dictate how the film develops. If a person is feeling stressed the film could show their stress or it could produce a calming effect to alter their mood."
Research and funding
Keith hopes to find a UK based or international investor to help with a research and development programme.
"Ideally, I would like to develop the biotechnology over three years at the UK University I have been in discussion with.
"The research team would consist of a computer scientist, a life scientist, a product designer and a script writer."
Keith is also considering studying interactive cinema at PHD level himself "as qualifications help people to trust that you are someone who knows their subject matter in depth".
"I am looking to make a profit of £168 million through licensing the software to independent filmmakers, hardware and by offering SaaS."
Advice to other inventors
Keith really enjoys the challenges of producing "real tangible products that make a difference to society" and in his previous job he filed six patents for industrial safety products.
"The products weren't glamorous, but they made a lot of money for the company
"Any business needs to fill a gap in the market. You need to research your competition to make sure that your product or service is unique and can really make a difference to your audience.
"It is important not to rush your research or user-testing as some products are taken to market before they are ready."
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Earlier this week the International Rugby Board announced the schedule for the 2014/15 HSBC Sevens World Series and also unprecedented interest by Unions to host an event from the 2015/16 Series or Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018.
Total Rugby Radio caught up with Avan Lee, the IRB's General Manager for Sevens, to discuss the announcements and what they mean for the sport as we countdown down to Rugby Sevens' debut at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
The IRB has moved to announce the dates for the 2014/15 Series much earlier than usual, why is that?
The HSBC Sevens World Series for 2014/15 will actually be a qualification series for the 2016 Olympics so we were very keen to get those dates released for all teams so they are aware of what that Series will look like, plus every year the tournaments are keen to release their dates so it is great to be able to do that for them as well.
How do you think the Olympic qualifying affects the Series in terms of how Unions are talking about it and approaching it?
Look everyone is talking about it, I think we are not too sure about what effect it will have on the Series but we know it will be positive. I think it is a fantastic opportunity for local fans, local sponsors of the individual tournaments. Let's be honest, it is probably the most important year of Sevens there has ever been so that has got to be great for our sport.
You have also announced a long list of countries interested in hosting the Series from 2015/16, did the scale of interest surprise you?
A little bit. I think we knew it was going to be a large number. We have 25 Unions who are hoping to host a Sevens World Series event in 2015/16 and we also have 14 Unions who are hoping to host Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018. It is great to have the current tournaments that have rebid if you like, and also have countries like France, Fiji, Portugal, Spain and China who have also put their hands up, which is very encouraging.
How likely is it that the mix of venues will change after 2014/15?
We have a fantastic Series as it stands but there is room for some new tournaments in new parts of the world that will add something different to our sport and the series itself.
One team will be relegated from the Series this season, is there any latest news on what kind of satellite series they might be playing below that top tier?
We are still working on that. It is a very important aspect to this whole piece of work. There needs to be a viable second tier competition and it needs to be complimentary to the Series itself but also to the regional tournaments. We need to find space in the calendar for those events but there needs to be that viable competition for those teams that aren't in the Series and have the opportunity therefore to move into the Series in future years.
What about the Women's Series, can we expect something similar soon?
The Women's Series is different to the men's, it is at a different stage of its life cycle. We currently have five events on the Women's Series, we would like that to move up to six for next season. We won't go through the same tender process that we have been through for the men's but we are currently working with the current teams and potential hosts to make sure that series is the best it can possibly be.
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