Greece National Platform
Greece Hellenic National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (HNP-DRR) General Secretariat for Civil Protection (GSCP) Date of creation: 31 May 2012 Website: www.civilprotection.gr
The Hellenic National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (HNP-DRR) is set up as an open network and a forum of governmental agencies and other stakeholders, with a focus on reducing the risk of natural and/or manmade hazards occurring with a major frequency and having a big social and economic impact on the country.
The official institutionalization of activities and the introduction of informal settings in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction among the relevant national stakeholders have been necessary already from the early national attempts to act in line with the strategic approach and the goals set by the Hyogo Framework of Action 2005-2015.
According to the principal national legislation for civil protection (Law 3013/2002, Ministerial Decree 1299/2003) the basic goals of the civil protection system (protection of life, health and property of citizens from natural and manmade disasters) are met through working out prevention plans and programmes for all kinds of risks (natural and manmade), taking appropriate measures of preparedness and undertaking prevention, preparedness, response and recovery actions. These plans and programmes are elaborated with all the component authorities in national, regional and local level. In a wider perspective, Greece, as a member state of the European Union, takes actively part on a wider policy and strategy planning within the EU for disaster risk reduction.
In the past years, the idea of a coherent policy for Disaster Risk Reduction, as determined by its UN definition, has been diffused to a number of governmental policies and sectoral plans, under the responsibility of the relevant Ministries. The multi-sectoral co-ordination of public authorities in disaster prevention and mitigation measures, as part of the wider DDR management, has been one of the main responsibilities of the General Secretariat for Civil Protection/ Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection from the beginning. Coordination activities engage a number of actors included in the forces and means of civil protection, such as: a) Specialized executives for civil protection at national, regional and local level who are assigned with the supervision of development and application of plans, programs and measures of civil protection and co-ordination of all necessary actions, b) all governmental, regional and local agencies and public companies that are in charge at operational level for concrete actions of preparedness and response to disasters, c) Volunteer Organizations as well as specialized volunteers at national, regional or local level included in the planning made by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection and assigned with the support of plans and actions of prevention, preparedness and response.
Concerning multi-sectoral co-ordination and collaboration in disaster risk reduction, the General Secretariat for Civil Protection is responsible for elaborating, planning and monitoring national civil protection policies under the governmental guidelines. For this purpose, it collaborates with the competent Ministries and relevant institutions for drafting regulations and specifications, to prevent natural, manmade and other disasters, while being responsible for approving all regional and local plans of civil protection, per category of risk. General information and public awareness regarding prevention issues and specific directives provided by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection in case of imminent or present disasters are issues of great importance. Identifying risks and developing early warning systems consist also a basic field of its expertise. In this context, the General Secretariat for Civil Protection has been issuing, for example, during the fire season, a Daily Fire Risk Map for the country that specifies the probability of a fire occurring over time and space.
Recently, the catastrophic impact of disasters, such as the devastating wild fires of 2007, have highlighted in the most dramatic way the importance of a coherent DRR policy at national and local level. It has been made rather obvious that DRR, as a complex and cross-cutting issue, requires collective wisdom and efforts from national policy and decision makers from various government sectors and representatives from civil society and private institutions.
The entry into force of the Hellenic National Platform for DRR reflects the idea of addressing DRR issues in the most coherent way, plus recognizing the importance of DRR for the promotion of national sustainable economic growth and progress.
The Hellenic National Platform for DRR (HNP-DRR) is co-ordinated by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection. It builds on existing DRR capabilities.
Within the structure of the Hellenic National Platform for DRR the following bodies and their political subdivisions are represented, at the present:
General Secretariat for Civil Protection
Fire Corps HQs
Independent Department of International and European Relations
Ministry of Environment & Energy
General Secretariat for Environment and Energy
DG for Development, Forest Protection and Forest Environment/Forest Protection and Forest Environment Directorate
DG for Environmental Policy/Climate Change and Air Quality Directorate/Climate Change Office
Special Secretariat for Water/Protection Directorate
Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport
General Secretariat for Public Works/DG for Transportation Infrastructure
General Secretariat for Public Works/DG for Water Engineering and Building Infrastructure
Natural Disasters' Impacts Rehabilitation Directorate
Civil Emergency Planning Office
Earthquake Planning & Protection Organization
Civil Defense Organization – Emergency Plan Policy Office
National Health Operations Center
Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention
Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs
National Observatory of Athens
Institute of Geodynamics
Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications & Remote Sensing
Institute of Environmental Research & Sustainable Development
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
Greek Atomic Energy Commission
Ministry of National Defence
Hellenic National Meteorological Service
Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy
Coast Guard HQs
Hellenic Red Cross
Social Care Division
Samarites, Rescuers and Lifeguards
Nursing Division
Ministry of Culture and Sports
DG for Administrative Support/International Relations Directorate
The Hellenic National Platform for DRR (HNP-DRR) shall be constantly open to new stakeholders.
All common initiatives undertaken by the Platform are co-financed by the participating parties and individual activities are financed by the members of the Platform according to the policy field. At the moment, the Hellenic National Platform has no specific budget.
The members of the Hellenic National Platform will seek additional and differentiated financial resources, giving priority to absorbing funds within the frameworks of other financing instruments.
At local level, the annual national budget dedicated to prevention actions and distributed to municipalities by the Ministry of Interior, after a proposal from the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, will continue to serve also disaster risk reduction purposes.
The aim of the Platform is to facilitate the integration of DRR into decision making processes, mainly at the national administration level (national policies, planning and programmes), but also at the level of local administration with the participation of the private sector and research institutions.
The Hellenic National Platform serves as a co-ordination mechanism for the support of multi-stakeholder co-ordination in implementing DRR activities within the framework of the national legislation and in line with the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Action.
The overarching goal is to establish a "culture of prevention" with activities that will enable the society to reduce human, social and economic losses caused by natural disasters. Special focus will be placed on reducing the risk and impact of natural disasters occurring with a major frequency and having a big social and economic impact on the country. Forest fires, earthquakes, severe weather, floods and landslides are primarily concluded in these.
Under the co-ordination of the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, the Hellenic National Platform for DRR has initiated a series of periodical joint meetings of representatives from the relevant stakeholders.
The Platform's meetings will be:
· Setting the specific goals and priorities for the national DRR policies
· An opportunity of exchanging ideas and reviewing the contribution and efforts of each stakeholder in the field of DRR
· Identifying trends, gaps, concerns and challenges in the implementation of DRR policies
· Monitoring, recording and reporting of DRR actions at national and community levels in line with the Sendai Framework for Action
· Issuing specific measures for raising public awareness on DRR issues through public or private campaigns and in close cooperation with the Media.
A possible establishment of thematic sub-working groups, concerning specific DRR themes, may be decided upon the assent of the platform members for the facilitation of its work.
Throughout the year, communication procedures and circulation of information and relevant documents between the platform members will be carried out under the responsibility of the platform's coordinator.
General Secretariat for Civil Protection of Greece
info@civilprotection.gr
http://www.civilprotection.gr/index_en.php
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Roy Ayers set for summer live date in Liverpool
By Planet Slop
Tue 01 August, 2017
The Godfather of neo-soul Roy Ayers plays 24 Kitchen St this summer.
Living legend and neo-soul pioneer Roy Ayers will be performing live in Liverpool this summer.
Ayers' career has lasted an astonishing six decades, and the Godfather of Neo-soul continues to bridge the gap between generations of music lovers.
He began his career as a sideman with jazz legends such as Curtis Amy and most notably Herbie Mann, performing on nine of the latter's albums between 1966 and 1970.
Throughout this career, Ayers recorded a number of solo albums, and truly hit his stride during the Blaxploitation era, especially with the soundtrack to 1973's Coffy, whilst his late 70s work hit a commercial peak and helped him become one of the most sampled artists in hip-hop.
Having collaborated with Erykah Badu, Tyler, The Creator and house artists such as Masters At Work, he has remained an exciting, relevant artist throughout his career.
For Ayers to play the modest surroundings 24 Kitchen St is a real coup for the venue, and it promises to be a special night all-round.
Support for the gig will come from Liverpool's ever-popular No Fakin' DJs.
Roy Ayers plays 24 Kitchen Street on 17th August 2017, tickets are on sale now.


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Rammang-Rammang Karst: Cruising the Scenic Geopark of South Sulawesi
The octopus-shaped island of Sulawesi is one of the lesser-known corners of Indonesia, a vast country of more than 15,000 islands, so I'm always excited to visit. Last year, a multi-destination blogger tour organized by the Indonesia's Ministry of Tourism had us exploring the sights of Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi, as our first leg. It was my visit time to set foot on Sulawesi, and we had an incredible time discovering its Dutch colonial heritage, scenic waterfront, and pristine offshore islands. I had another opportunity to visit this year through an invitation from the same tourism body, this time to explore Tana Toraja, the cultural heartland of the Toraja people farther inland. Sulawesi may be located just south of Mindanao, but since there are no direct flights, getting there can be an ordeal. It was a long first day, flying to Makassar from Manila, via Singapore and Jakarta. And while Toraja is now linked by flights to Makassar, we took the overland route to get there, after a night's rest at our amazing accommodation, Aston Makassar Hotel & Convention Center. (If you're looking for a place to stay in Makassar, find discounted rooms here.)
It takes a 20-minute boat ride down Pute River to reach Rammang-Rammang's interior.
Before embarking on a nine-hour journey by chartered bus to Toraja, we stopped by the Rammang-Rammang Karst in Maros, 40 km north of Makassar City. The landscape derives its name from rammang, the Makassarese word for "cloud" or "mist", referring to the fog that frequently blankets the scenery early in the morning. The so-called "stone forests" of Rammang-Rammang cover a vast area of more than 45,000 hectares, making it the world's third largest karst area after Tsingly in Madagascar and Shilin in China.
The Pute River is densely lined with nipa palm, an important source of materials for villagers.
One can see some of the "stone forests" along the way.
Arriving at the wooden dock of Kampung Berua.
Some of Rammang-Rammang's limestone towers can be admired from the roadside, but to see the best sceneries in its interior, we had to board a colorful motorboat along the narrow and winding Pute River at a small dock not far away from the main highway. The river was lined with dense groves of nipa palms, whose fruit, we were told, locals make into liquor just like in the Philippines! The limestone hills grew closer, as we cruised deeper down the river. Now and then, we would pass by stilted houses right along the riverbank, and slip beneath makeshift bridges made of bamboo, which were built so low we had to duck as our vessel purred past. My favorite part of the boat ride was passing sections of the river that funneled through narrow gorges and tunnels, like a theme park ride.
Meeting the locals. =)
A traditional Bugis-Makassar house at the foot of the karst hills.
After traveling upriver for 20 minutes, we docked at Kampung Berua or "new village": a rice field accompanied by a few traditional houses and mosque, fenced in by imposing limestone peaks, which reflected beautifully in the fish ponds and water-filled paddies bereft of rice. Reminiscent of the dramatic countryside of northern Vietnam, the village was the very picture of rural serenity. The bright morning sun brought out the colors of the surroundings. I walked down the boardwalk from the dock and rambled around the rice field, drinking in views of the majestic karst hills rising over the bright-green expanse, dotted by a few cattle and villagers nonchalantly going about their daily work. Ducks queued into the rice paddies, and dragonflies perched on blades of grass. It's a shame that we only had a few hours to visit Ramang-Rammang, as the village, while already very scenic, only serves a jumping off point for adventurous treks within the protected area to explore caverns and more geological formations like the stone forest. Before long, we had to return to the jetty and board the bus for the whole day's journey to Rantepao, our home base in Tana Toraja.
This blog post was made possible through Most Unforgettable Experience – Makassar-Toraja, a media tour held last June 5 to 9, 2017 for ASEAN media, organized by the Ministry of Tourism of Indonesia.
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2 Replies to "Rammang-Rammang Karst: Cruising the Scenic Geopark of South Sulawesi"
Hasif Hamsyari says:
Waahhh… I miss this place so much! The view along the river is absolutely beautiful!
eazytraveler says:
I wish we had more time to see the rest of park, and really explore the stone forest and caves. =)
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Dodgers' Yu Darvish impresses Clayton Kershaw…
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Dodgers' Yu Darvish impresses Clayton Kershaw on, off field
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, left, has been impressed by teammate Yu Darvish's willingness to tinker with his skills between starts but also his desire to ask questions and exchange information in an effort to make himself better. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
By Bill Plunkett | bplunkett@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: October 18, 2017 at 7:19 p.m. | UPDATED: October 19, 2017 at 12:27 a.m.
CHICAGO — When Yu Darvish joined the Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw had a bit of advice for him.
Stop thinking so much.
"I'm good at telling people to do that," Kershaw said. "Not think."
Kershaw explained that he had watched Darvish pitch and thought the right-hander was distracting himself with thoughts about things like his mechanics and arm slot during the game.
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"I saw him kind of on the mound thinking about a release point and doing this with his arm (moving it around) and trying to feel it," Kershaw said. "All that stuff was awesome in between starts. But it's hard enough to get major-league hitters out when you're not thinking about your mechanics.
"All I told him was those four days (between starts) you tinker. You work on whatever you need to do. But that fifth day you're out there – your stuff is so good, just go compete. Just go get those guys out and we can look back the next day on the mechanical stuff. I don't know if it's helped or not. But he's pitched really well."
The Dodgers have encouraged Darvish to change a number of things since he joined them from Texas – his arm slot, the rhythm of his delivery and his pitch mix.
"Yeah – except his beautiful face. Is that what Yu said?" Kershaw joked, referring to Darvish's answer at a news conference during the NL Division Series.
The changes seem to have taken hold and are working. Over his past five starts (including two in the postseason), Darvish has a 0.88 ERA, a 0.68 WHIP, 35 strikeouts and only two walks in 30-2/3 innings.
That has earned a healthy dose of respect from Kershaw.
"I can't imagine coming to a new organization, in the middle of a pennant race and wanting to prove that you're the pitcher we traded for," Kershaw said. "And on the cusp of free agency, wanting to showcase your skills and at the same time wanting to tinker with things and change some things to make yourself even better. Yu's been amazing about that.
"He's been so open with guys, talking to them about stuff. He asks a lot of questions too which I thought was great. Somebody who was a superstar in Japan and has been an ace here, striking out the world for his whole career and to have that openness about asking questions and trying to figure things out – that's a really cool trait to have for a guy that's had as much success as he's had."
TRUE GUT
Roberts meets with his coaching staff and members of the front office before every game "and throw crazy scenarios out there … and you kind of go through it and look at their lineup and see every situation that might present itself."
Well, not every situation. Roberts admitted that they never discussed calling back a pinch-hitter and letting the pitcher bat with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth inning of a two-run game – as Roberts did with Darvish in Game 3 on Tuesday.
"We didn't get to that scenario," Roberts said with a smile. "That was probably 99 percent gut."
Roberts said he didn't make the decision until after Joc Pederson had failed to get the runner in from third with less than two outs and pinch-hitter Curtis Granderson was already walking toward home plate.
Darvish drew a four-pitch walk to force in a run and got Roberts four more outs on the mound, pitching into the seventh inning.
SEAGER PROGRESS
Injured shortstop Corey Seager continues to progress in his recovery from a lower back sprain.
Roberts said Seager did some straight-line running and played catch as part of his workout in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He is expected to take swings Thursday for the first time since receiving an epidural injection to treat the injury and hit off a tee.
Roberts said the progress Seager has made over the past few days has made him more confident that Seager will be able to return and play in the World Series.
Bill Plunkett | Sports writer
Bill Plunkett graduated from Michigan State with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He has worked for daily newspapers as a sportswriter since 1983, in Southern California since 1987 and at the Orange County Register since 1999.
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$9.2M Zimmer Durom Cup Hip Implant Award
Jay W. Belle Isle — August 7, 2015
A Los Angeles jury took just 3.5 hours to deliver a $9.2M Zimmer Durom Cup hip implant award. The award is the first plaintiff's victory in the hundreds of pending suits against the company for failure to warn and negligent design of a defective product. The trial lasted three weeks.
Plaintiff, Gary K., developed complications from the metal-on-metal implant shortly after the surgery. The breakdown of Gary's $9.2M award is $6.4M for future non-economic damages, $2.6M for past non-economic damages and $153K in medical expenses. Non-economic damages are usually for pain and suffering, physical impairment, inconvenience, loss of consortium, disfigurement or other non-pecuniary injuries.
While Zimmer reps state the failure rate of the Zimmer Durom Cup implant in 2008 was around 5.7%, other experts argue that the figure is too low and place it closer to 20%-30%. That would be approximately 2,400-3,600 out of the near 12,000 implants done between 2006 and 2008.
Hip replacement surgery implants artificial substitutes for damaged or fractured pelvic bones. The replacements used to be made only of plastic or ceramic and have three basic parts:
The stem – inserted into the femur
A ball – attached to the top of the femur
A cup – attached to the pelvis
As technologies are wont to do, new alternatives emerged. One such alternative was the metal-on-metal variety. Unfortunately, these brought a whole host of problems, such as corrosion and the release of metal ions into the bloodstream. The Zimmer-specific complications include these, as well as fretting, infection, metallosis and device failure. Patients experiencing these complications had to undergo further surgery to remove or replace the implant.
I'm no materials scientist (though I know several and worked in an industry that relied upon such expertise), but it seems to me that metal-on-metal anything in the human body would present incredible potential for just such problems as are actually occurring. There are ways to prevent these complications, but obviously Zimmer didn't choose the correct options. I wish Gary well on his recovery, as I've also known hip replacement patients and it's not an easy road.
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SolrCloud is highly available and fault tolerant in reads and writes.
Write Side Fault Tolerance
SolrCloud is designed to replicate documents to ensure redundancy for your data, and enable you to send update requests to any node in the cluster. That node will determine if it hosts the leader for the appropriate shard, and if not it will forward the request to the the leader, which will then forward it to all existing replicas, using versioning to make sure every replica has the most up-to-date version. If the leader goes down, another replica can take its place. This architecture enables you to be certain that your data can be recovered in the event of a disaster, even if you are using Near Real Time Searching.
A Transaction Log is created for each node so that every change to content or organization is noted. The log is used to determine which content in the node should be included in a replica. When a new replica is created, it refers to the Leader and the Transaction Log to know which content to include. If it fails, it retries.
Since the Transaction Log consists of a record of updates, it allows for more robust indexing because it includes redoing the uncommitted updates if indexing is interrupted.
If a leader goes down, it may have sent requests to some replicas and not others. So when a new potential leader is identified, it runs a synch process against the other replicas. If this is successful, everything should be consistent, the leader registers as active, and normal actions proceed. If a replica is too far out of sync, the system asks for a full replication/replay-based recovery.
If an update fails because cores are reloading schemas and some have finished but others have not, the leader tells the nodes that the update failed and starts the recovery procedure.
Achieved Replication Factor
When using a replication factor greater than one, an update request may succeed on the shard leader but fail on one or more of the replicas. For instance, consider a collection with one shard and a replication factor of three. In this case, you have a shard leader and two additional replicas. If an update request succeeds on the leader but fails on both replicas, for whatever reason, the update request is still considered successful from the perspective of the client. The replicas that missed the update will sync with the leader when they recover.
Behind the scenes, this means that Solr has accepted updates that are only on one of the nodes (the current leader). Solr supports the optional min_rf parameter on update requests that cause the server to return the achieved replication factor for an update request in the response. For the example scenario described above, if the client application included min_rf >= 1, then Solr would return rf=1 in the Solr response header because the request only succeeded on the leader. The update request will still be accepted as the min_rf parameter only tells Solr that the client application wishes to know what the achieved replication factor was for the update request. In other words, min_rf does not mean Solr will enforce a minimum replication factor as Solr does not support rolling back updates that succeed on a subset of replicas.
On the client side, if the achieved replication factor is less than the acceptable level, then the client application can take additional measures to handle the degraded state. For instance, a client application may want to keep a log of which update requests were sent while the state of the collection was degraded and then resend the updates once the problem has been resolved. In short, min_rf is an optional mechanism for a client application to be warned that an update request was accepted while the collection is in a degraded state.
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The Oasis Is No Mirage
Life on land is not a spectator sport. It's a pay-per-view sport.
Greetings from the user- friendly universe of the USA. After discovering the God Molecule, flying a Russian MiG-29 at Mach 2 and Taking A World Cruise in Zero Gravity- I am a mere civilian again.
Life After Luau A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.Aloha Sea Aloha Land. I know travel zoos are no longer in my good graces.Neither is eating on a cruise ship. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. Life off the cruise ships ,however,isn't much of a culinary life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. I have to pay for stuff...as in food stuffs. This is certainly different from the luaus and eat-what-you-kill safaris and big game fishing expeditions I took this year, where no matter where I was ,the stuffed animals on display all looked the same. Staged authenicity and First rule of cruise club-never miss a meal.Second rule-don't forget the first, and don't miss the 6pm all aboard. It has been predictable as an episode of Seinfeld. Yadi yada yada. No more choc-a-holic and midnight buffets. My favorite food on the ships had been Seconds! And the desserts. It was the life of pie. Playing the game of staged authenticity in the tourist themed spaces of Tahiti, Fiji et al.,while it was't the Mcdonald-ization of the South Pacific, it played more like a Disney animated feature film The Burger and The King featuring the fat Elvis belting out his own karaoke version of My Way like a good old hound dog with a few miles left to go. Now, the sum of my problems is the inability to sit quietly alone on a ship! It is easy to mistake motion for progress and no problem is so big and complicated that it cannot be run away from. I should know, I've been at sea for 4 years. Now the ship is not the solution, it's the problem.
The Geography Of Bliss-Write About Here
The ship IS the destination
I was happy to learn the world wouldn't end today because it is already tomorrow
here in Australia
Geography is the topography of ignorance, a finite disappointment not only when the map becomes the territory, but when you actually visit these hole in the wall places. In most cases, it's a lot better to transcend reality with imagination, re-framing the conversation. "Melbourne was awesome", "Ghana? Amazing!" India? a magical delight".
The future just isn't what it used to be. Nevertheless, there is not one ship that doesn't sail to a port where life is not uncomfortable. Yet, you don't quit countries, you quit people, and I have to say the best ships are friendships, and I have met some amazing people while sailing around the world.
Impossible Is Nothing
The Patron Saint of Optimism-Another dopeless hope fiend!
Going out to sea is the infinity of hope, the preview of life's coming attractions where you have final cut in your own movie. You can lose yourself in the ocean's food for thought. Its menu is the meal, and itineraries are full of promises. It gives you a sense of destination and the energy to get started again.
The weather is here wish you were beautiful
Call it faith! A passion for the possible. I am full of it, and shooting from the hip that is to say, having an adventure is something more but nothing less than bad planning. When I cold-called for my first ship job, and got it after a 12 minute elevator pitch, I began to trust myself, and only when you trust yourself can you truly begin to live it up.
But I'm not a sailor . Maybe a sailor with a small s. Living on a ship, however, might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. It's not real life but an alibi. It is like going out of your mind everyday- in order to come to your senses; and a fool who persists in his folly becomes wise. After 10 ships, yes ten, I no longer want to cast doubt on perfection-America. There's nothing I wouldn't do for my country , and there's nothing it wouldn't do for me. And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other.
Embracing the (expat)life forced upon me, I have had nothing to do and all day to do it. An accident of birth, being born in the USA, I won the geographically-desirable-places-to-live-on-the-planet lottery, and have squandered my inheritence in the United States of Unconsciousness, a shared hallucination of "any place but here" and " the grass is greener".
The grass actually is greener where you water it.
Fiji Islands-Rocky Mountain High
Coming home to a place I've never been before. It's Fee-Gee (Fiji)
OMG I'm a Country Boy
John Denver visited this island today-Sunshine On My Shoulders.
You can't get any further away before you start coming back.Imagine sailing across the blue waters of the South Pacific, passing by idylic islands, teeming with exotic fish and majestic coral reefs--Oh wait I don't have to use my imagination because what you see is what you get. Bula.
On Fiji Islands-Suva-PineApple Express
Fiji-Dravuni- Another Day Another Island-Escape To Reality
Fiji-Beachcomber Island-Freedom For Sale
Fiji Islands-Savusavu-Cue The Sun
Fiji vs. Voss-I could drink a case of You Tap Water
To the east of the International Date Line lies an exquisite garland of islands known as Fiji. Dignified smiling people bid you "bula," or welcome, to their unspoiled homeland and give you bottles of water called Fiji, bottled at the "source".
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes
I think of my job as Art Director as leading people to those moments of awe – that brain -gasm that overtakes you when you encounter a new idea, or place.
There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable.
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. Thanks to digital, and my trusted camera, who cares. Just point and shoot, and you capture snapshots of moments. I'm an extremely talkative person. Yet photos speak volumes. I may not be a Master like Ansel Adams, but I agree with what he said---
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
To take a photograph of yourself is to participate in your own mortality, vulnerability, and mutability
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Wish Fulfillment and The Law Of Attraction
Have a mind open to everything and attached to nothing
My definition of Thinking is when your mind is separate from your body: Some call it dreaming. I call it using your imagination. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. That's when you can leap long distances, go forward and backward in time, walk through solid brick walls and never age,
My definition of Magical Thinking, or MT, is when we can manufacture experiences in our mind, and then later, attract these situations into our life. The mind IS, after all, what the brain DOES. Put simply, you attract into your life whatever you consistently think about. I always go back to the importance of being Ernest (Hemingway) That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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I had a liquid Vacation- a Corona and started walking.......
2011 World Cruise Day 96 of 110 @ sea.
A Year ago today I was on the final segment headed for London in West Africa. My college Roommate Gervásio Francisco Das Neves' homeland of São Tomé and Príncipe was finally within sight.
Grey Matters-
Who needed Facebook or wifi ---consciousness was wireless--- I drew a laptop with my index finger in the sand and began typing....S.O.S. and the Sting's soundtrack to Message in The Bottle started playing in my 3lb universe-my brain
No Man Is An Island, yet after age 40, land is seldom seen and you can count your friends on one hand.I am an expat, yet not every country will do. I don't know why, some countries fill the gaps and others emphasize my expat-ness. In reality those that satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them."Life's a beach in an ocean of ennui is the take away from the Maldives. These Islands are extraordinary within their limits, but their limits are extraordinary. Yet if I do the math, an emotional algebra adds up to 1+1=infinity. It's a pristine place.This is no 9 to 5. You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. It is just a fraction of you. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.
Curbing My Enthusiasm.My passion gives me moments of wholeness, but when I lack enthusiasm, It appears like an illness- monotony, boredom, and near-death. You see, Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell. Drawing a salary as the Production Manager for Crystal Serenity made me soft. A glorified production manager, I wanted the mic again, to be the sage on the stage, and pontificate and make outrgeous claims, like I invented the question mark.
A Boat Load of Thomas Kinkade
Art Director Ed Reif with Port And Shopping Guide Mike Thomspon discuss collecting "The Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and his art--- moments of divine inspiration. What drove the massive popularity of the late artist?
These five words (also known as the five P's) just about sum up how we should collect art-Prestige Provenance Process Production and Proportion.
St. Thomas- Time Flys When You're Having Rum
The menu is the meal. Laziness is the religion of the 21st century vacationers who come here to drink,swim and relax.
And religion is the opiate of the masses and the masses of opiates a tourist can do religiously starts with rum... Let me slip into something more comfortable ...like a coma.
Welcome to America Lite- where everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
St Croix- United States of Unconsciousness
Awesome beaches . Time for a brain dump and This Anti-Aging/Mediterranean Low Information Diet--Ya live longer. Tastes like Chicken. Same Same Only Different here in the Caribbean.
Sea♯Pachelbel's Cannon
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When all you care about is here, this is a good
Traveling is like shaving, If I'm doing it everyday, I start to look like a bum. On the other hand, You can only quit once. Now is not a good time.
"Addicted to traveling" or for that matter "Addicted to all-non working activities" shouldn't be a new reason for self-hatred or a diagnosis, rather a pursuit like the arts and entertainment, that permit self-exploration and satisfy your psycho-social needs.
Clapton is God and God is Expensive-6 weeks for six week for $31500.You know, addiction isn't the problem - it's the solution!
You see, in general, if a pastime is not classy, those who love it are labeled with the Dr Phil-Drew-Oprah Psycho Babble rhetoric of "addict." Opera and Symphony aficionados, on the other hand are "passionate" and "driven".
Loading the cultural dice in favor of "reality" over fantasy, we get the sense of adventure beaten out of us when we ask ourselves the most irritating of the question words, "Why?" Why do I have to live in the New York suburbs,where the weather sucks and the people are rude, and there is nothing to do? Then we just tune in turn on the TV, and drop out, watching one of the 1000 channels in a shared hallucination called the superstition of materialism, and fall asleep.
Then you get "The Call" and if you wake up and answer it, and you begin the Hero's Journey that Joseph Cambell talks about in The Power Of Myth, with Bill Moyers, that PBS video series that's a must for all seekers, and you follow your bliss-in most cases your bliss follows you.
I started to travel, as a pastime, on a shoe-string budget, labeled as a drifter, a bum, held in contempt by the uninformed, and over educated who find themselves sinking into the everydayness of their lives. And I didn't care. I just did it anyway. The Calvinists say work is prayer, so is permanent traveling.
In the old days, habits of cultural consumption like listening to jazz music all day and night were considered passions, or forever going to the movies or "The Theatre", allowing us to create new personalities and use them to fulfill unmet psychological needs. Come to think of it, I think I have an internet addiction too! Awesome.
Seagull Management
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." Anais Nin
St Lucia - Banana Bread Winner
Shopportunity Banana Republic is a popular choice for the fashion forward man .
The future is already here in the port town of Castries. It's just not evenly distributed yet. Time to enforce The Buffet Rule of banana re-distribution.
Grenada-How The East Was Won
Blogging is literature in a hurry-a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. Sometimes it's pure digital narcissism, other times, juvenile escapism, today it's just plain old navel gazing geo politics. Madison, Kennedy and Reagan aren't just popular stripper names, they are also US President's.
The Fascists gun in the west--- 666---(Count the letters) R-o-n-a-l-d W-i-l-s-o-n R-e-a-g-a-n ordered one of the most absurd invasions of American history, the tiny island of Grenada, which I happened to visit today. Ron would later joke that he had to do it because Grenada was the world's largest producer of nutmeg. "You can't make eggnog without nutmeg" This was known as MY way or "The Sinatra Doctrine".
The West against The Rest
Once you go Communist you never go back is the Brezhnev Doctrine. While this Caribbean Island has little geopolitical significance. The so called "liberation" of Grenada was a black swan event, because it signaled the end of the Brezhnev Doctrine and set in motion a chain of events that tore down the Berlin Wall and brought down the Soviet Regime.
Cruising with Kierkegaard: Sons of Beaches
Leave the breif case, take the sun block.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ― Søren Kierkegaard
A passport can be a diploma (for a crash course in cultural relativism), The Inner Nightclub of Everlasting Joy. The sex of travel-First you do it for fun, now I seeing the locals, like me, as usual, doing it for money. My personal gold standard for the most attractive example of chaotic urban vitality is Bangkok.
Once you label me you negate me.
Paris is a business class ticket to cool with complimentary mojo on take off, Santorini, Greece a brain dump, New York, a vodka martini served straight up with a twist. The difference between the "tourist" and the "traveler," is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile, not much. Some times I leave my ASSumptions at home, sometimes I don't. When I don't, I'm just a tourist complaining about the people, the food and water, and slow internet connection, or InterNOt-none at all , "Nothing here is the way it is at Starbucks," When I am a Traveler, I'm pontificating "Everything here is the same as it is in Burma — or Thailand or India."
The Caribbean, Population 1, or "Here comes everybody.". At Least I am not hearing invoices---everything is black market wheeler deal Cash. the United States of Unconsciousness verses The "Modern Supermarket" which is a glorified duty free shop and liquor store.
They should be handing out pairs of 3-D glasses for the animation --- Apocalypso Now, Hearts of Darkness, Moods, Masochism, and Mc Murder (Think hamburgers) meets the Titanic-- the ridiculous notion of what "paradise" should look like and who belongs there starts out with a twisty blue waterslides, Bucket-o-Bud bar specials and a poolside "artist" applying airbrush tattoos.
Fear For Sale---Maybe this is what Camus meant when he said that "what gives value to travel is fear" —disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. I traditionally buy things at a store, and not on the beach, but this Caribbean guy is trying to sell me steering wheels. These sons of the beach!
Barbados-An Embarrassment of Coconuts
If St Maarten is the Mitt Romney of vacation destinations---self restraint in an age of rage, then Barbados is the Keith Richards of the Caribbean--it's over the hill, showing signs of age but can still belt out the kareoke hits of Paradise it once sang. A sort of life is going on, beating with a reasonable version of a pulse, but that life consists for the most part of travelers like myself. The very unspoiledness you are there to experience still shows up in unexpected ways, like the coconuts and the flowers.
Caribbean Roadkill- What Am I doing Here?
The newly refurbished Fairmont Royal Pavillion is beautiful. Yet I always end up in that part of the Carribean which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of Cruise Ships who have come all this way to "inhabit" a port for 6 hours.
To be a cruise ship tourist in the Caribbean to escape accountability. Quirks and flaws don't stick to you the way they do back home.
Cruising the open-sea is a Virtue, Shopping the ports of call, a deadly sin.
Coo Coo for Coconuts
You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host port of call is geared to cruisers acting stupidly. YOU are economically significant but existentially loathsome. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out port and shopping guide maps. You don't know how to talk tothe locals, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the cookie cutter mold, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with a thousand other passangers, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding scooters and 4by4's and Jet Skis, taking pictures of each other, bloated, drunk stiill thirsty. There is nothing to think about or lust after but the next shapeless event. Alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have---sunshine, sand and indifference to the treadmill of consumption and "stuff.
Dominica-Carpe Manana-Seize the Tomorrow
When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat. Island life is Project Manana.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good Tourist because I like to form my own opinions
Is it Manana yet.
Mañana: 1. Tomorrow 2. An unspecified future time
Christopher Columbus never actually discovered Dominica, it had merely been detected. After he spotted the island on a Sunday (dominica in Latin, domingo in Spanish...you get the idea). It's more like manana-nothing much gets done on time when it happens, it just happens, life goes on, and you can just pee in the ocean. Carpe Diem verses Carpe Mañana.
Basseterre St Kitts-Beautiful Day
You love this town Even if that doesn't ring true You've been all over And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day
What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now It's a beautiful day .
Napoleon Complex-St Maarten
I am about to go to the zoo, and see all the stuffed animals in their cages. What I mean is the Disneyland effect--bring in tons of white sand, add a backdrop of palm trees and colonial shops, and the copy is better than the orginal- It's beautiful and predicatble, like plastic surgery. The statue's not the saint, but the menu is the meal. Yet, Sint Maarten has a retro Carib-vibe going on in that magical strip of land called Phillipsburg beach, on the Dutch side.
I wrote about this before , The Merchants of Venice., and can say the same for The Caribbean: It's not just visited by tourists, but inhabited by them. It seems in the gaze of locals that "we" are just one critical mass, and more than that ,"Always here" and "Here comes everybody!".
Everybody Wants to Cruise the World
Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to cruise the world
It's my own design It's my own remorse Help me to decide Help me make the most Of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to cruise the world
Take It To The Limit -One More Time
Watch "Oasis Crew Rescues 24 Refugees" on YouTube
This cruise ship is a real feat of human ingenuity. So is this dingy that 24 refugees made to hit dry land.
Moorea, Polynesia---- I am Paul Gauguin and so can you
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The Grass IS Greener @ Saint Andrews
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The Persistence Of Norway-New Zealand vs Fjord Norge
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Isle of Pines- New Caledonia-Escape TO Reality
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Arundel Castle-We Are The English
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 Crystal On Board Launch Party There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything se...
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Why Should You Wear Wigs?
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine.
Periwigs or more commonly known as wigs have been around since time immemorial worn by ancient Egyptians to protect their shaved heads from the heat of the sun. Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Jews in Israel on the other hand have sported wigs for fashion. However, in the past decades wearing wigs is not considered a norm.
Fast forward to 2017, hair pieces have increased in popularity accrediting its comeback to celebrities and social media as well as the huge improvements in application of wigs and its variety. Who could not ignore Beyoncé , Katy Perry, Zendaya, and even Princess Diana? They wear and change their wig or hair piece as often as they apply makeup. In fact, wearing one is now seen as a luxury. Below are great reasons to wear wigs.
Instead of having your hair done by your professional stylist, donning a wig will instantly give your desired look for a cheaper cost. Be sure to take care of the wig to make it last a long time.
2. Changing styles is easy
In fact, this may be the most popular reason why women rock wigs nowadays. Change color as often as you want and more importantly, you can try different lengths of hair. You will never have to stick with one style, change it if you are bored with your look. Lace front wigs are in these days because it gives a more natural look.
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There are days when no matter what we do, our hair is not as good as we want it to be. Wigs save you time and effort. Purchase the style you want, use your fingers to comb and fix it a bit and you're ready to face the day.
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Conceal hair problems in an instant. It is a great solution for receding hair lines, hair thinning or hair loss due to poor nutrition, abuse to hair, and illnesses like cancer.
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Never Let Lose a Strand Of Your Patience
Have you ever experienced a day wherein nothing seems to go well, that no matter how you try to choose the right path, you keep making the wrong turn? Just like having a bad hair day, no matter how many times you comb your hair, it just would not budge.
Life can be challenging at times but there will always be a way to resolve these challenges and come out victorious. Having this in mind will be easy to keep your patience and continue to move forward. Just like losing strands of your hair due to factors beyond your control, you too can do something.
Eat healthy – Eating the right food can alter your mood. Having low-level of folic acid in your body can cause anxiety, hence, food such as asparagus, avocado, salmon, and almond are recommended to fight stress hormones.
Stay calm – Listen to comforting music and reading feel-good stories can help switch you to a calm mood.
Exercise – Exercise releases endorphins that can relieve you from stress and anxiety.
Supplement –Taking in Vitamins such as B-complex can alter mood swings.
Don't let your stress factors contribute to your hair loss. Letting yourself succumb to anxiety will definitely show up to your follicles and this can lead to more hair loss. Hectic schedules and pressure from work, not to mention the pollution and filth outside easily make you feel unease and, at times, irritable. Slow down a bit, have fun and relax. There's no better way to begin with your mane.
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Milk Magic Introduces its New Fresh Milk offering in Modern Tetra Brik® Aseptic Edge Packaging
Milk Magic, the milk brand that offers to fulfill every Filipino's calcium needs, introduces its latest offering, 'Fresh Milk from Australia' which comes in a modern Tetra Brik® Aseptic Edge package from Tetra Pak. Under Consolidated Dairy and Frozen Food Corporation, Milk Magic has produced Full Cream, Low Fat and Chocolate Milk products for more than 15 years in the Philippines. With the launch of Milk Magic Fresh, they are expanding their current portfolio of milk products to give more choices to Filipino consumers.
Milk Magic Fresh comes in 2 carton sizes. It comes in a 1 liter TBA Edge with LightCap 30 ideal for in-home consumption by the family and in a 250 ml TBA Edge with HeliCap 23 for on-the-go consumption so that milk lovers can bring it anytime and anywhere. Both come in Tetra Brik® Aseptic Edge packaging which is the first time in the Philippines. Its modern shape comes with an angled top panel giving it an 'edge' design. Both also come with resealable caps allowing for smooth pouring and convenience so that consumers have a hassle-free drinking experience as they enjoy fresh-tasting milk from Australia. For inquiries, contact Consolidated Dairy at (02) 242-4305.
TADHANA 2017 A celebration of new beginnings
Every milestone deserves to be celebrated in grand fashion. On the occasion of the 13th anniversary of Wedding Essentials—the ultimate guide for the modern Filipina bride and the country's fastest selling bridal magazine—and The Manila Hotel, the country's premier five star hotel, brings to you another year of Tadhana.
The Grand Dame has been one of Manila's go-to venues for luxe celebrations. From its opulent lobby to its festive ballrooms, and now Tadhana's venue, The Manila Hotel's Tent City – The perfect place for large events of up to 2,500 guests, from fashion shows to conventions and exhibits.
The 2-day event, featured wonderfully arranged tablescapes by The Manila Hotel, Natural Art, Scenta Creations, Joyce Aguilar, Gideon Hermosa, Michael Ruiz, Badang Rueda, Creasperson and Co., Spruce by Patricia Pastellero, Gina Galang, Teddy Manuel, and Zenas Pineda; along with creative booth setups by Nelwin Uy, Niceprint Photography, The Write Impression, Christine Ong-Te Events, Metrophoto, and Bethany Dream Cakes
One of the event's highlight is the 35 cover reveals of 35 real couples featured in the latest issue of Wedding Essentials Magazine. The show ended with an array of bridal gowns from young designers—Khai Villanueva, Kat Corpus, Catherine Cavilte, Yeye Pantaleon, Raphael Louis Gonzalez, and Nat Manilag. While seasoned designer Pat Santos, made sure she ended the affair with sheer elegance.
"Tadhana is an event wherein we showcase exquisite Filipino talent and craftsmanship, from gowns, to table setups and food, Wedding Essentials and The Manila Hotel will always make sure to be here with you on your big day", shares Kitten Zapata, Editor-in-Chief of Wedding Essentials Magazine.
The annual event was full of success with the help of its partners, The Manila Hotel, Manila Bulletin Online, Christine Ong-Te Events, Sensitivity Lights and Sound, 4th Wall Productions, The Write Impression, Pixel Image, Bernie Pasamba Orchestra, Teddy Manuel, Michael Ruiz, Gideon Hermosa, Vivere Salon, Randy Sta. Ana, Event Shaker, Audio Dream, Dragon Fireworks, Zbar, Panasonic, Delsey, Skyjet, Air21, Crate and Barrel, La Jeunesse, Limtuaco, Zen Institute, and Emperador.
To know more about the event and get easy wedding reads please visit www.weddingessentials.ph and follow @WeddingEssentialsMagazine on Facebook and @weddingessentialsph on Instagram.
Save the children's #LahatSanta Campaign wants you to put on your Santa hat and be a hero for kids
Save the Children launches its new Christmas campaign #LahatSanta, giving everyone an exciting opportunity to become Santa to poor kids.
"In the Philippines, 1 in 3 children suffers from stunted growth due to hunger and malnutrition, and this means that they won't be able to reach their full potential. Poor families struggle to feed their children and it's estimated that 1.5 million Filipino children go to sleep hungry every night, not having eaten a thing all day," says Dr. Amado Parawan, Save the Children's Health and Nutrition Advisor.
Be a hero, wear a Santa sombrero!
Lahat Santa is a new fun way to celebrate Christmas! Save the Children encourages individuals, schools and companies to wear their Santa hats, raise funds in their own creative way and make the holidays much more meaningful by donating to Save the Children's programs.
Upon signing up on www.lahatsanta.ph, participants get a free fundraising kit which includes a coin bank, Christmas poster, and a Santa hat. The kit includes ways you can fundraise, from bake sale to the good old Christmas caroling – it is up to the participants how they'll spread the cheer.
On the day of action on December 15, Save the Children calls on participants to put on their Santa hats and shout out on social media how they are fundraising for Save the Children using hashtag #LahatSanta. The fun does not stop here. On December 17, a fun run will be organized to benefit Save the Children's Christmas campaign.
Filipino artists and influencers such as Ria Atayde, Bianca Guidotti, Jeushl Wensh Tiu, and Trish Ramos have also expressed interest in the campaign. Many reputable companies have also come together to support Save the Children's campaign, including BPI Foundation, Family Mart, Strong Media Advertising Solutions Inc., Light Network, Nyxsys, OLX, ANC, Business Mirror, Page One, Manila Scope, Philippine Graphic, Lamudi, Manila Times, Manila Bulletin, Manila Business Insight, Pilipino Mirror, Zen Health and When In Manila,
"With every Lahat Santa hat comes great responsibility. Your commitment to Lahat Santa campaign could mean life-saving support for a child. Your donation can provide treatment to babies suffering from malnutrition and help expand our programs that could impact their lives in the long run, Save the Children's Head of Strategic Partnerships, Riel Andaluz, reminds the public.
Steps to join #LahatSanta campaign:
• First SIGN UP on www.lahatsanta.ph to receive a free fundraising pack which includes your coin bank, Christmas poster, and your Santa hat for December 15! We've included some tips and ideas there too.
• PLAN your fundraising activity and gather your family and friends from work and school to help you out. Whether this is through a garage sale, good old caroling, selling artwork and doing Christmas dares. Because you are the Santa, we want you to be as creative as possible.
• SEND your donations to Save the Children. The sooner we receive it, the sooner we can put it to good use.
• WEAR your Santa hat on December 15 and have a shout out post or selfie using hashtag #LahatSanta selfie to show us how you are fundraising for children!
About Save the Children
Save the Children Philippines is part of the global Save the Children movement working in over 120 countries. Present in the country for over three decades, Save the Children delivers programs for Filipino children which gives them a better education and easier access to healthcare, supports them during emergencies while also educating communities on disaster preparedness.
Save the Children has been advocating for policies and holistic programs and projects for mothers, children and their families. We do this by training frontline health and nutrition workers on live-saving care for newborns and their mothers, promoting exclusive breastfeeding, managing community and school-based health and nutrition programs and promoting reproductive health to adolescents. Our work also includes making families more food secure and resilient, for example to natural disaster, by working with governments and other partners to generate alternative incomes and grow nutritious food.
Lahat Dapat is Save the Children's biggest campaign yet against hunger and malnutrition. Save the Children believes that all children have the right to fair and equal access to nutritious food. We know that the rate of stunting of 33% is largely due to inequality of access to nutritious food, long periods of hunger and a lack of nutrition during the first 1,000 days.
Ghost Bride Bloggers Conference with Alice Dixson
A new movie by Direk Chito S. Roño, known for horror flicks like "Feng Shui is going to hit theaters and will star Kim Chiu alongside the beautiful Alice Dixson who said that the project is a "dream come true" for her.
After a long hiatus, Alice Dixson has agreed to appear in this sure-hit movie. She answered some questions in a Bloggers conference held at wang Fu Bistro last October 29th.
The movie is about a poor woman (Kim Chiu) who was forced to marry a dead person in exchange for money.
Her role in the movie
"I play the matchmaker. Isa po syang Fil-chinese. More chinese ang pagkabackground nya. We actually have a background story for her pero hindi pa naman pwede kwento ngayon kasi gusto namin magkaron ng part two based on Angie Lao."
Chinese accent
Alice was challenged and was surprised to know that she will be working with Director Chito Roño. "I was really really excited kasi I have to learn lines in Mandarin, I had to watch a lot of Chinese Movies para matuto ng accent ng Mandarin kasi marami palang klase there's Fookien, there's Cantonese, there's lots of different accents. May Singaporean Chinese, I have to get it right kasi yung mga Filipino Chinese dito mabubuking nila if you don't do it correctly, pinag-aralan ko yun."
"Ang tips ko basically is stay happy, kasi if you're maraming problema all the time lagi mong dinadamdam it comes out in your face. Drink a lot of water because water is actually a cure-all for anything and everything. Exercise and also what you eat is what you are." she answered when asked about her secrets.
Ghost Bride is set for release in theaters on November 1st.
Synergy88 launches its newest mobile games on E-Sports and Gaming Summit (ESGS) 2017
Synergy88 Digital Inc., is set to showcase and launch two of its newest mobile game application on a press conference during the E-Sports and Gaming Summit (ESGS) on October 28, 2017 at the SMX Convention Center Manila meeting rooms 2 and 3.
The two mobile games to be featured on the press conference are Barangay 143: Street League and Ang Panday mobile game.
The storyline of Barangay 143: Street League follows the story of how a young and inexperienced basketball hopeful named Joaquin "Wax" Rivera as he takes his first step into basketball greatness. In the game, he will be challenge by hardcore ballers as he tries to climb up the leagues. The game's simple yet challenging touch mechanics allows the player to be engaged in a skill battle against other league aspirants.
In addition, Ang Panday mobile game explores the world of Panday as Flavio III (played by Coco Martin in the movie of the same title) in his journey towards becoming the Panday. It also serves as a way of bringing the classic Filipino hero to the mobile screens of the Filipinos and is conceptualized with the introduction of Coco Martin as the newest Panday. This mobile app is developed by CCM creatives in partnership with Cosyn Media Tech powered by Synergy88 Digital Inc,.
These two games will be available on the Google Play store soon. To stay updated on the latest updates about the games, like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/synergy88/ and follow us on Instagram: @synergy88digital
Moms Take a Stand for Proactive Prevention against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Moms are superheroes. They take care of you from the moment you were born until you can be independent. The first few years of life is the most crucial and keeping you free of sickness is on her checklist.
With the many roles moms have to play, keeping the family happy and healthy is always top priority. This becomes even more challenging when the rainy season ushers in even more diseases, but with the unpredictability of the weather nowadays, how can moms keep their families safe from illnesses all year round?
Mommy Mundo and the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV) has banded together to help address these concerns and educate mothers on proactive family prevention through "Mom Protect."
Recent health news on mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue and Japanese encephalitis, as well as highly-communicable ones like flu sound scary if they aren't very familiar with ways to prevent them. But with the right knowledge and partners with the same goal, moms can rise shoulder to shoulder in protecting families against these vaccine-preventable illnesses.
"Mom Protect" highlights the importance of awareness of and access to new and better health prevention methods as family health and wellbeing is any mom's top priority.
"We've seen the effect misinformation can have on mothers like in the recent Japanese encephalitis outbreak scare," said Dr. Cecilia Montalban, President of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination. "By leading moms to helpful, effective, and efficient solutions against vaccine-preventable diseases, we'll be empowering them to live worry-free through proactive protection and prevention."
A proactive approach against unpredictable foes
The government has consistently emphasized the importance of vector control to stay vigilant and be prepared against diseases, especially those that are mosquito-borne this rainy season. Though the practice has helped communities prevent outbreaks, Dr. Montalban urges moms to take a more proactive approach when it comes to family.
"Prevention is always better than cure, especially if cure is not always available," Dr. Montalban said. "Advances in medical science have given us highly effective ways to avoid the pain and costs of diseases through vaccination."
Proactive prevention constitutes a three-pronged strategy: Awareness, Diligent practice, and Sharing.
First, moms are encouraged to become actively aware and alert by reaching out to their doctors to know more about prevention methods they can do or apply at home. This is also to ensure that they are thoroughly updated on new medical developments that might be of help in the future.
After, diligent practice of learnings received—even when children are past toddler-age—is recommended as consistency is key in building and fortifying family health and resiliency.
Finally, passing accurate information forward to other mothers is important. Dr. Montalban encourages moms to join communities online to connect with people who share the same experience and those who have successfully combatted these illnesses.
Standing together
Through the Mom Protect discussion, Mommy Mundo and the PFV aspire to give Filipino families peace of mind amid public health concerns by thorough preparation together.
"We are hopeful that with our unified and strengthened resolve as mothers to quell worries with this forum, our families can live healthy and confidently no matter what the season."
"With the information and resources already available to us moms, we know casualties of any of these diseases will lessen and lessen until there are none at all," Dr. Montalban added.
Top Reasons Filipinos Are Less Happy In The Workplace According to Jobstreet's Job Happiness Index Report
Filipinos are less happy in the workplace – JobStreet.com Correspondents said salary increase, getting a new job will make them happier in 6 months
MANILA, October 25, 2017 – The Philippines' job satisfaction level dropped from 5.25 in 2016 to its current rating of 4.97 on a 10-point scale. According to JobStreet.com's 2017 Job Happiness Index, the key factors associated with unhappiness at work are lack of career development and training opportunities, as well as the management style of a company's leadership team.
JobStreet.com surveyed 9,326 Philippine respondents from July 31 to August 31, 2017. The respondents were from different position levels (predominantly junior executives and supervisors) and represented a diverse mix of specializations. Fiftysix percent of respondents came from the National Capital Region, 12% from Southern Tagalog, 7% from overseas, 6% from Central Luzon, and 5% from Cebu City/Province.
"More and more Filipinos are looking for career development. They want to move forward in their chosen fields, but the lack of career development and training opportunities in their current companies seem to hold them back," jobStreet.com Country Manager Philip Gioca said.
When respondents were asked what will make them happier in the next six months, 33% said a salary increase would help, but 23% wish to resign and get a new job.
Colleagues and work location make Filipinos happy at work
The respondents who said they were happy cited colleagues, work location, and company reputation as the top three drivers of workplace satisfaction. This is largely true across all demographics.
Baby Boomers are the happiest
According to the study, in terms of generations, baby boomers, or those born before 1960, are the happiest at 5.63, followed by the those belonging to Generation Z at 5.10.
The same can be said in terms of position level, where the top executives or the more established segment of the workforce, which are expectedly populated by the baby boomers, as well as the Fresh Graduates, have the highest happiness score.
Generation Xers barely managed to score above neutral at 5, while millennials, who compose the majority of workplaces, are below neutral with an average of 4.9.
"The results of this study serve as a wake-up call for companies who wonder why there is such a high turnover rate. Career development, training opportunities, and the management style of the company's leadership team are just some of the reasons why many Filipinos are unhappy in the workplace. It would be best if managers can get to the heart of why this is happening as each company's DNA is unique," Gioca added.
The 2017 Job Happiness Index was conducted in Southeast Asia, with a sample size of 35,513. Job satisfaction is highest in Indonesia (5.27), followed by Vietnam (5.19), the Philippines (4.97), Malaysia (4.65), Thailand (4.55), Hong Kong (4.45), and Singapore (4.31).
For more information about JobStreet.com and the 2017 Job Happiness Index, please visit the website at http://wwww.jobstreet.com.ph.
Elisse on keeping pretty and fresh
Elisse Joson is constantly smiling nowadays. This is despite the fact that she has roles in both The Good Son and Panday, along with the MMFF entry film version of the latter. She's also gearing up to launch her new album soon. Here, she talks about all that she's juggling and how she keeps everything balanced.
On her acting career:
"For The Good Son, I play the character, Sabina, who is an only child. She's from a well-off family, but not your typical rich girl. For Ang Panday, my character's name is Wena. She's the complete opposite of Sabina. Hindi mayaman, kabilang ng isang malaking pamilya."
On how she prepares for these roles:
"I had to get my background story straight for each of the characters. Kailangan alam ko kung ano ang pinanggalingan nila. I read the script and memorize my lines before I even go on set para ready."
On her first Metro Manila Film Fest movie:
"I feel very honored to be part of a big film like Ang Panday. And to be part of the MMFF, it is something surreal. I know I'm very blessed."
On her singing career:
"I've always enjoyed singing ever since I was little. But when I was much younger, I was also very shy. Now I'm so happy because I get to do something I love and even record an album. I can't really talk about it right now since we're still in the middle of production. But I took a lot of inspiration from mine and Mccoy's [de Leon] journey as partners. The song 'If We Fall in Love' is in the album, and it's my favorite one so far."
On what she does when she has time off:
"I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I'm an only child so I really like reaching out to the people I'm close to so we could spend time. But I also like to just relax at home by myself and watch series online, and sometimes play dress up and take photos!"
On advice she would give her younger self:
"Be brave. Stop listening to your fears and doubts. Just step out and do it. Also, don't fall [in love] too fast!"
On challenges that still excite her:
"I know I'm so blessed to do what I'm doing now. I would like to just keep being given opportunities to share my gifts and eventually really reach out to those who are less fortunate. I really believe in giving back."
On how she keeps pretty and fresh despite her busy schedule:
"I know it might seem like a small thing, but scents are really important to me. So I'm very happy that Fiona Cologne is with me all the time. I love how I can go for something sweet like Fiona Cologne Rosy Red, and switch it up the next day with something fresh, like I just came out of the shower with Fiona Cologne Pretty Mist. I'm also in love with Raspberry Drops! It smells so yummy. I really have a hard time choosing, to be honest," Elisse laughingly shares.
A busy schedule filled with shooting and recording days do not seem to faze Elisse. Fiona Cologne, with its charming and attractive scents, brings out the fun and beautiful in everyone and will naturally make its wearer shine in the spotlight. Girls can now be effortlessly confident just like Elisse.
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6th Tinta Awards Pushes Print Creativity In the Age of Disruption
Manila, Philippines -- The print industry has proven itself as still alive and thriving in the age of disruption as the United Print Media Group held the 6th Philippine Tinta awards tonight at the Manila Hotel.
The annual award-giving event accepted a record-breaking 300 entries this year-the most number of entries in the award event's history. The different nominees vied for seven categories which include Best Print/Magazine Advertising (Consumer and Public Service), Best Interactive Print Campaign, Best Special Print Media Execution, Best Online Advertising Campaign and two new categories: Best Magazine and Newspaper layout and design, and Best Special Supplements.
In addition to the competition categories, prizes were also given away for Best Copy, Best Art Direction, Best Typography, Best Illustration, Best Digital Imaging/Retouching, and Best Photography.
For Newspaper/Magazine Craft, awards for Best Overall Newspaper/Magazine Design, Best Newspaper/Magazine Supplement Design, Newspaper Sections/Feature Design, Best Magazine Section/Feature Design, Best Photography and Best Illustration/Infographic were also given away.
The entries were judged by renowned personalities in the creative business headed by jury president McCann Worldgroup Philippines executive creative director Joe Dy, together with IdeasXMachina CEO Third Domingo, TBWA/SMP Executive Director Bryan Siy, PHD Philippines general manager Mickey de Castro, OgilvyOne WorldWide Manila executive creative directro Mike Sicam, Nuworks Interactive Lab, Inc. executive director Joey David-Tiempo, Partner of Gigil Badong Abesamis Publicis JimenezBasic creative group head&head of design Alnair Langkay and Ace Saatchi & Saatchi executive creative director Greg Martin.
Angel Guerrero, this year's award chairperson and publisher of Adobo Magazine, lauded the record number of entries in this year's awards. She said that this record indicates that the print industry is still a compelling and flourish medium of communication in a global media industry that is significantly disrupted and shaped by increasing digitization in the industry.
Likewise, United Print Media Group president Barbie Atienza echoed Guerrero's optimism about the industry, and noted that the record number of entries in the 6th Tinta awards is a sign that publishers and print media firms are further pushing the envelope for creativity because of the digital disruption -- a phenomenon that is good and beneficial for the industry.
As the awards event concluded tonight, the creativity, resourcefulness and industry unity that it fostered and encourage are all clear indications that print is here to stay.
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Target Marketing readers are a discriminating lot. In 2014, the subjects they cared about most were copywriting, mobile email design, direct mail, LinkedIn, legal matters, and the relationship between print and digital marketing. The tally of the most popular Web articles of 2014 is based on the site's analytics and begins with the articles the magazine published online this year. Next up are pieces from past years that readers clicked on in 2014. Both numbers reach through to Monday's totals.
August 24, 2011 Top 50 Mailers 2011 Online Exclusive: National Breast Cancer Coalition
Who still sends mail? Many of the most successful marketers in the United States, according to the 2011 edition of Target Marketing's Top 50 Mailers list. Here's a Web-exclusive look at one of the nonprofits that made the list, but wasn't profiled in the magazine: The National Breast Cancer Coalition. PLUS: Your chance to download the complete Top 50 Mailers List today for free!
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September 15, 2010 7 Direct Marketing Career Tips from Howard Draft, 2010 DMA Hall of Fame Inductee
Many marketers have looked to Howard Draft, chairman of Draftfcb and 2010 inductee into the DMA Hall of Fame, for thought leadership on the present and future of marketing. He recently offered Target Marketing these tips for marketers still making a name for themselves in the world of direct response and target marketing:
August 1, 2010 Testing Levels Strong for Financial, Fundraising
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