TYPHOONS 2016: The Complete List

THE PROFESSIONAL HECKLER

IT’S TYPHOON season again in the Philippines. Narito ang listahan ng mga bagyo ngayong taong ito. Gawin ang kaukulang pag-iingat.

Typhoon Duterte
Pabugsu-bugso ngunit napakalakas. Maraming iniiwang patay sa mga lugar na dinadaanan. Mapanganib lalo na sa mga ordinaryo at mahihirap na naninirahan sa matataong lugar.

Typhoon Duterte II
Predictable ang galaw ng bagyong ito. Hahagupit ‘tapos magbabago ng ihip ng hangin ‘tapos hahataw na naman. Nalilito tuloy ang mga weather specialists at nauuwi sa iba’t ibang interpretasyon ang kanilang forecast.

Typhoon Gloria
Nakaalis na ang bagyong ito ngunit muling bumalik at patuloy na lumalakas.

Typhoon Marcos
Maraming pinatay at pinahirapan ang bagyong ito. Hanggang ngayon, marami pa rin ang nawawala. Sagaran din ang pinsalang idinulot nito sa ekonomiya. Ang nakalulungkot lang, iba ang kumakalat na impormasyon ngayon: dapat pa nga raw pasalamatan ang dalang ulan ng bagyong ito dahil naiwasan ang tagtuyot sa ilang lugar.

Typhoon Gina Lopez
Matindi…

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TRANSFORMING AND REFORMING INCOME TAX ADMINISTRATION

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“H.E. PRIME MINISTER INTENSIFIES TO FOCUS ‘RAPID” FOR TRANSFORMING AND REFORMING INCOME TAX ADMINISTRATION”:

“JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED-ABUSE OF POWER, IN ACTION, CARELESSNESS, NEGLIGENCE, MANMARJI, UNDUE DELAYS, LACHES  & DISCRETION AMOUNTS  TO MASKED  CORRUPTION,VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL JUSTICE “=AWAKE NOW  AT LEAST AFTER 7 YEARS REFUNDS PENDING !

GROSS VIOLATION & DESTROYING SPIRIT OF SECTION 10(1) OF INCOME TAX ACT,1961 UNDER THE SHELTER OF OTHER METHODS/PROCEDURES/MISCALCULATIONS/MANIPULATIONS/LAW NOT COVERED UNDER INCOME TAX ACT INCLUDED AGRICULTURE INCOME TO CALCULATE TAX  WITHOUT AMENDMENT THERE TO ?

A matter of serious concern as people  especially poor farmers are being misled,cheated and be fooled  as MASKED TAXATION ON AGRICULTURE INCOME  IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 10(1) OF THE INCOME TAX ACT. which provides: NO AGRICULTURE INCOME TO BE INCLUDED IN TOTAL INCOME TO CALCULATE TAX.ITO FAILED TO COMPLY WITH I.T.ACT RATHER TOOK THE SHELTER,PROTECTION AND PLEA  UNCONSTITUTIONALLY  justifying under the chapter…

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#writephoto: Chains

Jane Dougherty Writes

For Sue Vincent’s Thursday photo prompt.

Dusk. Twilight. Bats create flickering visual noise. The sounds of the city subside here, on the edge of the suburbs, into an uneasy murmur. I should go home, but home is empty. Dark. Echoing with memories too fresh to be neat and tidy. I have things to do, but nowhere to do them. You filled my space with your angry presence, hollowed it out like an army of termites and left it to rot.

You have gone. Left. Taking only a bag. All you consider of value—a few shirts, toiletries, silk scarf. Behind you left the furniture, your old clothes, the bills. You left me. I wish I could go. Pick up and leave. But someone must stay to pay the bills, go to work, feed the cat. I stay. But I can’t go home.

The wind rises as the light fades. Bats…

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Dictation for writers: How to pick the right mike for accuracy—and other tips

Speech recognition for non-email purposes has been a mixed bag for me.

I use it, sure, and I’ve done what I could to train my Dragon, but the accuracy is still not good enough despite the claims of Nuance, the maker of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Premium.

To the rescue, let’s hope, comes Dictate Your Book: How to Write Your Book Faster, Better and Smarter (59 pages and $3 in the Kindle edition and free as a Kindle Unlimited loaner).

For more detailed guidance for dictators—um, not the Putin type, please—a good choice might be The Productive Author’s Guide to Dictation: Speak Your Way to Higher (and Healthier!) Word Counts (The Productive Author’s Guide to Writing Book 1) by Cindy Grigg. It’s 252 pages long and costs $5 for the Kindle and $10 in paperback.

But here I’ll focus on Dictate Your Book. Author Monica Leonelle (personal Web site here) says she…

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A Teacher Tells All About Life in a Joyless No-Excuses Charter School

Diane Ravitch's blog

Julia Fisher taught English at the Achievement First Amistad High School in New Haven, Connecticut. She is now earning a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. In this article, which appeared in the Washington Post, she describes life in a “no excuses” charter school.

She begins:

When I taught at a charter school, I once gave out 37 demerits in a 50-minute period. This was the sort of achievement that earned a new teacher praise in faculty-wide emails at Achievement First Amistad High School, in New Haven, Conn.

Amistad is a No Excuses school, in the mold of high-profile charter networks such as KIPP and Success Academy. The programs are founded on the notion that there can be “no excuses” for the achievement gap between poor minorities and their more affluent, white counterparts. To bridge that gap, they set high expectations and strict behavioral codes. School days are long. Not…

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MEDICINE WHEEL: Disease Demystified – Conquering fear & living free

RIELPOLITIK

Source – myeclinik.com

– “…All human cells die off only when oxygen and nutrient supplies are depleted, or are subjected to persistent parasitic attack, or under heavy chemical intoxication, but certainly not of aging. It is the imperfection of their environment that causes them to fail, rather than our illusory perception of the passing of time”:

DISEASE DEMYSTIFIED

The mainstream discussion about every disease is so overblown; it is flooded with fatalistic statistics rather than the honest exploration of the solution itself.

The overall effect is the birth of unwarranted fear and panic which would then create a “need for institutionalized expert advice” followed by chemical and invasive interventions. The conventional modalities effectively bypass intelligent and scientific home-based alternatives.

It is important to understand that there used to be only three (3) general causes of human ailments. But recent findings indicate a new and deceptive cancer inducing weapon has arrived:

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Honest Head of State: Nigeria is broke, Buhari tells UN officials

African Press International (API)

MOHAMMED MOMOH – Nation Correspondent in Abuja -1 | Ijumaa, Agosti 12, 2016

ABUJA, Friday

President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted to United Nations Population Fund officials that his country is broke and going through hard financial times due to ever dipping oil prices.

The west African nation, the world’s sixth largest oil producer, relies heavily on oil revenue, but the income from the natural resource has plummeted in the last one year causing severe foreign exchange scarcity.

President Buhari said Nigerians were suffering because of the sudden drop in the price of crude oil in the international market.

“Before we came to office, petroleum sold for about $100 per barrel, then it crashed to $37, and now oscillates between $40 and $45 per barrel.”

However, President Buhari said his administration would not relent on its commitment to transparency and accountability.

The Nigerian leader poured his heart out when he received…

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Kenya’s Cheruiyot wins silver, Ethiopia’s Ayana breaks 10,000m WR in Rio

African Press International (API)

STEVE OMONDI -1 | Ijumaa, Agosti 12, 2016

IN RIO DE JANEIRO

World champion Vivian Cheruiyot on Friday won Kenya a silver medal in the women’s 10,000m at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in a race won by Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia in a World Record time of 29:17.45.

Ayana smashed one of the longest-held records in athletics to claim the first gold of the Olympic track and field competition.

Reigning world champion over the distance, Cheruiyot attempted to keep pace with the dominant Ethiopian but fizzled out in the latter stages of the race as Ayana strolled to the finish line in a new World Record.

Cheruiyot came second for silver in 29:32.53 while two-time Olympic champion, Tirunesh Dibaba recorded a personal best time of 29:42:56 to settle for bronze on a memorable day for the Ethiopians.

Cheruiyot had kept close to the Ethiopians with her compatriots…

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REALPOLITIK: Ukraine’s ‘October Surprise’ – may be coming in September – By Justin Raimondo

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Source – original.antiwar.com

– “…In short, the leaders of Ukraine hate Trump, have continually denounced him, and are openly rooting for a Clinton victory in November: by launching a terrorist attack on Crimea, and before that trying to assassinate the President of the rebellious Luhansk Republic in eastern Ukraine – they put a bomb under his car, seriously injuring him – they hope to provoke Putin into taking military action. And voila!, we have an “October surprise”:

(Ukraine’s ‘October Surprise’ – may be coming in September – By Justin Raimondo)

When a Russian FSB agent and a Russian soldier were killed by a team of Ukrainian saboteurs, and one of the captured Ukrainians was shown on Russian media in handcuffs, US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted

“US government has seen nothing so far that corroborates Russians allegations of a ‘Crimea incursion’ & Ukraine has strongly refuted them.”

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How Melinda Gates Became an Education Expert

Diane Ravitch's blog

Melinda Gates, like her husband Bill, believes that the Gates Foundation has the answers for the problems of American education.

She has never taught. She never attended a public school. Neither did Bill. Their children do not attend public schools.

What is the source of their certainty? They are very rich, probably the richest people in the world (Carlos Slim of Mexico might be richer). They are so rich that they think they know what is best for everyone’s children.

Here are some questions that the Gates Foundation should answer:

Does the Lakeside Academy in Seattle use the Gates-funded Common Core standards?

Does it test all students every year with standardized tests?

Does it use either PARCC or SBAC?

Does it evaluate its teachers by the test scores of their students?

Just wondering.

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