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September 28, 2008

‘12 hours in memory of Gabriel’

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Office of Sen. Pia Cayetano | 09/27/2008 2:54 AM

Senator Pia S. Cayetano on Saturday leads hundreds of participants and volunteers, including very young children, in a day-long multi-sport event meant to raise funds to help differently-abled children.
 
The fundraiser, called the "6th annual 12-hour multi-sport for a cause in memory of Gabriel," will be staged from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM at the Alabang Country Club, Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa City. 
 
The event is held annually in memory of Gabriel Cayetano-Sebastian, youngest child of Senator Cayetano and lawyer Butch Sebastian. Gabriel was only nine months old when he passed away in the year 2001 from complications of a rare chromosomal disorder called Trisomy 13.
 
This year’s sports events include the "Pinay In Action" women’s triathlon, "Superkids" aquathlon and triathlon, a 5-km and 10-km fun run, and individual and corporate relays (consisting of walking, running and biking).
 
Two volunteer-friends of Sen. Cayetano, Maiqui Dayrit and Joey Torres, committed to complete an ‘Ironman’ distance to raise funds for their respective child-beneficiaries. Their designated route (3.8-km swim, 180-km bike, and 42-km run) will take them in and out of the village to as far as Bacoor, Cavite throughout the day.
 
Registration fees and pledges for the event will go to the Gabriel Symphony Foundation (GSF) to finance the surgery of indigent children with cleft lip and palate, and children in need of brain and spinal operations. Other beneficiaries include blind and deaf children who will receive artificial eyes and Braille books from GSF.
 
Since 2004, the GSF has sponsored cleft lip and palate operations for 341 children at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and 133 children at the General Miguel Malvar Hospital in cooperation of with foreign doctor-volunteers who hold annual medical missions in the country through "Operation Rainbow." The GSF has also funded the operation of 12 infants with cleft lip and palate with the help of the Zugbuana Jaycees in Cebu, and 213 infants with the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro City.
 
The GSF likewise donated 14 hearing aides to children aged from 4 to 14 years in cooperation with the Philippine National Ear Institute. It also donated 16 artificial eyes to blind children in partnership with the non-government Parents Advocate for Visually Impaired Children (PAVIC).
 
One of GSF’s newest beneficiaries is the Pediatric Neurosurgical and Craniofacial Operating Unit of the UP-PGH. The new facility, the first of its kind in the country, performs delicate operations on very young children with congenital malformations of the brain and spinal cord.
 
Since opening last April, the new pediatric surgery facility has performed cranial and spinal operations on 124 indigent children suffering from serious congenital ailments like hydrocephalus, encephaloceles, and spina bifida.
 
Last year the facility received a P340,000 donation from GSF. The fund was used to finance the allowances of its nursing staff and subsidize surgical operations. Improvements need to be done, however, as the facility still lacks air-conditioning, while the instruments are still incomplete and regular budget for personnel staffing still very much depends on the generosity of private donations.

as of 09/27/2008 2:54 AM

September 14, 2008

My autobiography

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I’m Imee R. Gunting 21 years of age I was born on February 28, 1987, now I’m residing at Garcia heights bajada davao city, I am the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Jaime A. Gunting, I am the fourth child in our family, in the house my sisters and brothers called me “meay” as my nickname, my friends describe me as soft spoken, friendly, generous, kind and caring.
When I was a child my parent and teachers asked me what is your ambition in life? I answered”I want to become a teacher”. Since that time I answered that question it motivates me a lot until now there was a time in my life that I felt hopeless because were poor and my family can’t afford to send me in school. I remembered the time when I was in grade 3 when my family decided to transferred in samal the place of my mother, because my father was already paid by the company where he was working. That’s the beginning of the calvary I suffered a lot at the young age I already knew how to gave importance even a single things that I had. I pursued my elementary level in that place where the school was too far from our house my sister and I walked 3 klm. everyday just to reached in that said school sometimes if my mother had no money we had no”baon” in school it’s very hard for me that kind of situation specially when I see my classmates that they had a baon and buy foods that they want I felt self pity to myself and wonder why the world was so unfair why there were rich and poor. That situation strengthens me to fulfil my ambition in life to finish my studies and to become a teacher someday.
When I reached my secondary level I pursued it already in Davao city. My cousin was the one who supported me in my studies I was first year high school that time I can’t take her attitude she was very worst when I can committed a very small mistake it was  very big deal to her there was a time when I late came home just only 5 minutes she already lock the door and told the maid that don’t open her she is not allow to enter even though she don’t know what’s the reason why I’m late, then I transferred to my sister when I reached 3rd year high school until I finished my secondary level because I can’t take it already the attitudes of my cousin it’s like I have no freedom in that place.
My sister is the one who supports me until now she is always there when I need help. She is the one I can lean on when I have problems. She is ready to listen and understand me.
The qualities that I had having those experience that I encountered not only in the past but also for the future is that I am willing to sacrifice for my future I have a strong determination to achieve the goal in my life I struggling and striving hard to overcome those obstacles I encountered and also with the help of our most gracious heavenly father I can do it.
Educating people is not easy as we expected there are times that we fill to give up, a lot of responsibilities facing in our hand it is a big responsibility to the teacher to impart their knowledge in a correct manner because if they teach the wrong one the learner will bring that as they grow up.
I choose teacher as my profession because as a person, an individual in this society teacher is responsible for educating people teaching them how to become a better person. On the other hand their existence is very important for us to achieve our ultimate goal without them we cannot learn things that happened to reached.

Greek Art and Architecture

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Greek Art and Architecture, paintings, sculpture, buildings, and decorative arts produced in ancient Greece, from about 1050 BC to 31 BC. Greek civilization encompassed not only mainland Greece but also nearby islands in the Aegean Sea, the western coast of Turkey (known as Ionia), southern Italy and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia, or Great Greece), and by the late 300s BC, Egypt, Syria, and other Near Eastern lands. Among its best-known monuments are stone temples, statues of human figures, and painted vases.
The importance of Greek art and architecture for the history of Western civilization can hardly be overstated, for the Greeks established many of the most enduring themes, attitudes, and forms of Western culture. The stories told in Greek art and literature of gods and heroes have been retold ever since and continue to form a common ground for the art, literature, and even popular culture of the Western world.
Greek artists were the first to establish mimesis (imitation of nature) as a guiding principle for art, even as Greek philosophers debated the intellectual value of this approach. The repeated depiction of the nude human figure in Greek art reflects Greek humanism—a belief that ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ in the words of Greek philosopher Protagoras. Architecture is another Greek legacy that the West has inherited, as Greece established many of the structural elements, decorative motifs, and building types still used in architecture today.
  A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Historians have divided Greek history into periods that are in some ways based on individual judgment, and the names and dates of those periods vary from one account to another. Without question, however, the roots of Greek culture lie in Mycenaean culture, which lasted from about 1600 to about 1100 BC. This was a time of warrior-kings, fortified cities, and palaces, a time when highly developed monumental art and architecture first flourished on the Greek mainland and bureaucrats wrote in an early form of Greek called Linear B. This era has become known as the age of heroes, through such stories as those of Achilles and Odysseus that Greek poet Homer later recorded in his epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey (8th century BC). Many of the Greek gods (see Greek Mythology) were first worshiped in the Mycenaean age, and the remains of Mycenaean architecture and other artifacts fueled the imagination of later Greeks.

September 11, 2008

The nymph’s reply to the shepherd

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If all the world in love were young

And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,

These pretty pleasures might me move,

To live with thee and be thy love.

 

Time drive the flocks from field to fold,

When river rage, and rocks grow cold,

And Philomel becometh dumb;

The rest complains of cares to come.

 

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields

To wayward winter to reckoning yields;

A honey tongue, a heart of gall,

Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow fall.

 

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,

Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,

Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,

In folly ripe, in season rotten.

 

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,

Thy coral clasps and amber studs,

All these in me no mean can move,

To come to thee and be thy love.

 

But could Youth last, and Love still breed,

Had Joys no date, nor Age no need,

Then these delights my mind might move,

To live with thee and be thy love.

August 22, 2008

AVOIDING PROJECT PROBLEMS

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5-part commonsense approach to software projects:

1. Start on the right foot. This is accomplished by working hard (very hard) to understand the problem that is to be solved and then setting realistic objects and expectations for everyone who will be involved in the project. It is reinforced by building the right team and giving the team the autonomy, authority, and technology needed to do the job.

2. Maintain momentum. Many projects get off to a good start and then slowly disintegrate. To maintain momentum, the project manager must provide incentives to keep turnover of personnel to an absolute minimum, the team should emphasize quality in every task it performs, and senior management should do everything possible to stay out of the team’s way.

3. Track progress. For a software project, progress is tracked as work products (e.g., specifications, source code, sets of test cases) are produced and approved (using formal technical reviews) as part of a quality assurance activity. In addition, software process and project measures can be collected and used to assess progress against averages developed for the software development organization.

4. Make smart decisions. In essence, the decisions of the project manager and the software team should be to “keep it simple.” Whenever possible, decide to use commercial off-the-shelf software or existing software components, decide to avoid custom interfaces when standard approaches are available, decide to identify and then avoid obvious risks, and decide to allocate more time than you think is needed to complex or risky tasks (you’ll need every minute).

5. Conduct a postmortem analysis. Establish a consistent mechanism for extracting lessons learned for each project. Evaluate the planned and actual schedules, collect and analyze software project metrics, get feedback from team members and customers, and record findings in written form.

10 signs that indicate that an information systems project is in jeopardy

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 1. Software people don’t understand their customer’s needs.

2. The product scope is poorly defined.3. Changes are managed poorly.

4. The chosen technology changes. 5. Business needs change [or are ill-defined].

6. Deadlines are unrealistic.7. Users are resistant.

8. Sponsorship is lost [or was never properly obtained].9. The project team lacks people with appropriate skills.

10. Managers [and practitioners] avoid best practices and lessons learned

 

System Engineering

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>Software engineering occurs as a consequence of a process called system engineering. Instead of concentrating solely on software, system engineering focuses on a variety of elements, analyzing, designing, and organizing those elements into a system that can be a product, a service, or a technology for the transformation of information or control.

 

Before software can be engineered, the ”system” in which it resides must be understood. To accomplish this, the overall objective of the system must be determined; the role of hardware, software, people, database, procedures, and other system elements must be identified; and operational requirements must be elicited, analyzed, specified, modeled, validated, and managed. These activities are the foundation of system engineering.

July 29, 2008

Classification of System Engineering

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Business Process Engineering

              The system engineering process is called business  process engineering when the context of the engineering work focuses on a business enterprise.

                 The goal of business process engineering (BPE) is to define architectures that will enable a business to use information effectively.
                 Three different architectures must be analyzed and designed within the context of business objectives and goals:
                             data architecture
                                    applications architecture
                                    technology infrastructure

Product Engineering

                When a product (in this context, a product includes everything from a wireless telephone to an air traffic control system) is to be built, the process is called product engineering.
                 The goal of product engineering is to translate the customer’s desire for a set of defined capabilities into a working product.
                 To achieve this goal, product engineering—like business process engineering—must derive architecture and infrastructure.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

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Intellectual property laws confer a bundle of exclusive rights in relation to the particular form or manner in which ideas or information are expressed or manifested, and not in relation to the ideas or concepts themselves.


 

      It is therefore important to note that the term "intellectual property" denotes the specific legal rights which authors, inventors and other IP holders may hold and exercise, and not the intellectual work itself.


 OBJECTIVE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

      Intellectual property laws are designed to protect different forms of intangible subject matter, although in some cases there is a degree of overlap.
      Copyright may subsist in creative and artistic works (eg. books, movies, music, paintings, photographs and software), giving a copyright holder the exclusive right to control reproduction or adaptation of such works for a certain period of time

July 28, 2008

Avoiding plagiarism

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      In academe, plagiarism is avoided by using a citation style, such as MLA style, Chicago style, or APA style. Generally speaking, facts that are common knowledge (for example, the date that WWII ended) need not be referenced, while facts that are not considered common knowledge in one’s field must be cited. Similarly, a quote from any source, words or information, even if paraphrased, or any ideas not one’s own must be cited.

        For instance, while it is acceptable to copy several paragraphs of text from a book and place them in a paper, if the source of the text (the author’s name and title of the work) is not identified, even if the text is well known this is plagiarism.

      Similarly, it is considered plagiarism to take someone’s idea and then present it as one’s own work. However, it is not considered plagiarism when two (or more) people independently come up with the same thing. This is commonly termed simultaneous inspiration, and comes about as the result of people exposed to the same source and interpreting it similarly.






















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