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		<title>By: Sgu Medical School</title>
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		<title>By: 2 UST Magna Cum Laude flunks NLE at SaRiSaRi</title>
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		<dc:creator>2 UST Magna Cum Laude flunks NLE at SaRiSaRi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DJB...  can anyone point to a URL that contains the Anti-Terror Law being proposed?  I suspect the issue is not asymmetrical-warfare but rather those fine detail (that supposedly makes law-enforcement more efficient but) which threaten civil liberties.   I am less worried if a foreign national suspected of terrorism is held in Philippine custody for 4 months or 12 months (while investigations are being conducted);  but the Philippine military (or national police) must not be allowed to hold for 6 months or more without any formal charge and/or without supervision by the courts any Filipino (even if said citizen is considered a terrorist suspect). Likewise,  threats to privacy of communications  cannot be given up &quot;in the name of protecting ourselves against terrorism&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DJB&#8230;  can anyone point to a URL that contains the Anti-Terror Law being proposed?  I suspect the issue is not asymmetrical-warfare but rather those fine detail (that supposedly makes law-enforcement more efficient but) which threaten civil liberties.   I am less worried if a foreign national suspected of terrorism is held in Philippine custody for 4 months or 12 months (while investigations are being conducted);  but the Philippine military (or national police) must not be allowed to hold for 6 months or more without any formal charge and/or without supervision by the courts any Filipino (even if said citizen is considered a terrorist suspect). Likewise,  threats to privacy of communications  cannot be given up &#8220;in the name of protecting ourselves against terrorism&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: DJB</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2006/10/13/powderkeg/comment-page-1/#comment-161976</link>
		<dc:creator>DJB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hvrds, I meant stuff like our fictions...but with respect to the Anti Terror Law, I must admit it is not an ordinary law.  In fact, I like to think of it as a Declaration of War.

Ideally, that is really what we should do, is have the Congress approve a Resolution of War on Terrorism, or whatever else a clear menace to humanity would like to be called. 

But there is the dilemma of asymmetry in stark relief. WHO do you declare war on? WHERE is their territory? 

I think viewed as a legal or virtual Declaration of War, the anti-terrorism law can be accepted by Vulcans, Klingons and Earthlings alike.

We ought not be trapped in the intellectual quagmire of requiring a definition of terrorism that has metaphysical precision. An impossibility given the EVOLVING nature of that body of malevolents.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hvrds, I meant stuff like our fictions&#8230;but with respect to the Anti Terror Law, I must admit it is not an ordinary law.  In fact, I like to think of it as a Declaration of War.</p>
<p>Ideally, that is really what we should do, is have the Congress approve a Resolution of War on Terrorism, or whatever else a clear menace to humanity would like to be called. </p>
<p>But there is the dilemma of asymmetry in stark relief. WHO do you declare war on? WHERE is their territory? </p>
<p>I think viewed as a legal or virtual Declaration of War, the anti-terrorism law can be accepted by Vulcans, Klingons and Earthlings alike.</p>
<p>We ought not be trapped in the intellectual quagmire of requiring a definition of terrorism that has metaphysical precision. An impossibility given the EVOLVING nature of that body of malevolents.</p>
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		<title>By: DJB</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2006/10/13/powderkeg/comment-page-1/#comment-161919</link>
		<dc:creator>DJB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hvrds,

some people would consider it an honor to be called &quot;Vulcan&quot; like the cerebral Mr. Spock. And even Klingons were good guys, at least when Jacques Picard ran the Enterprise like the Love Boat, and Whorf had the sexiest sword-axes in the 25th century.

But I get your general drift. However, you are looking at the stars and planets when what concerns the Law in practice are far more simple things.

Take the matter of Mrs. Dulmatin.  I truly believe that he and Umar Patek and the rest of the Bali Bombers have flown the coop. But they really wanted to leave us all a lil CONSUELO DE BOBO as well as save some money for their next big demonstration of sociopathy.

They left Mrs. Dulmatin here, for the Philippine Govt to pay for her plane fare back into the arms of the Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, to which we are now legally bound to DEPORT her for lack of a law that would outlaw SUCH tactics. 

I don&#039;t know about you, but the species I admired the most next to the human beings of course, were the Betans, who saw through stuff like your fictions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hvrds,</p>
<p>some people would consider it an honor to be called &#8220;Vulcan&#8221; like the cerebral Mr. Spock. And even Klingons were good guys, at least when Jacques Picard ran the Enterprise like the Love Boat, and Whorf had the sexiest sword-axes in the 25th century.</p>
<p>But I get your general drift. However, you are looking at the stars and planets when what concerns the Law in practice are far more simple things.</p>
<p>Take the matter of Mrs. Dulmatin.  I truly believe that he and Umar Patek and the rest of the Bali Bombers have flown the coop. But they really wanted to leave us all a lil CONSUELO DE BOBO as well as save some money for their next big demonstration of sociopathy.</p>
<p>They left Mrs. Dulmatin here, for the Philippine Govt to pay for her plane fare back into the arms of the Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, to which we are now legally bound to DEPORT her for lack of a law that would outlaw SUCH tactics. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but the species I admired the most next to the human beings of course, were the Betans, who saw through stuff like your fictions.</p>
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		<title>By: melvinsky</title>
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		<dc:creator>melvinsky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At last the CA issued a ruling but hopefully it will rule quickly and with finality on the issue. Further, if this goes to the supreme court no TRO be issued consistent with the CA ruling that individual cases be filed againts those who participated in the cheating. It is still a long way to prove from benefiting from a leakage to cheating. CA rejected a wholesale retake because the leakage is not widespread and significant enough to nullify test 3 and 5.This is the subject of UST&#039;s MR, i.e. to submit evidence that not only test 3 and 5 but test 1 and 2 and not only in metromanila and Baguio but nationwide to merit total and nationwide retake. Ust and other oppositors to CA ruling must be afforded their right for a full exercise of due process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At last the CA issued a ruling but hopefully it will rule quickly and with finality on the issue. Further, if this goes to the supreme court no TRO be issued consistent with the CA ruling that individual cases be filed againts those who participated in the cheating. It is still a long way to prove from benefiting from a leakage to cheating. CA rejected a wholesale retake because the leakage is not widespread and significant enough to nullify test 3 and 5.This is the subject of UST&#8217;s MR, i.e. to submit evidence that not only test 3 and 5 but test 1 and 2 and not only in metromanila and Baguio but nationwide to merit total and nationwide retake. Ust and other oppositors to CA ruling must be afforded their right for a full exercise of due process.</p>
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		<title>By: The Ca t</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2006/10/13/powderkeg/comment-page-1/#comment-145236</link>
		<dc:creator>The Ca t</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>UP Student,
The nurses from the Philippines when recruited are already green card holders so they have unrestricted work atuhorization.

They do not have to apply for LPN. They do not have to take courses in nursing in the local schools. All they do is challenge the board because our bachelor&#039;s degree is credited in the US educational system as a degree.

That is one thing that we are more competitive with other Asian countries graduating nurses because practically our nursing curriculum is patterned after the United States.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UP Student,<br />
The nurses from the Philippines when recruited are already green card holders so they have unrestricted work atuhorization.</p>
<p>They do not have to apply for LPN. They do not have to take courses in nursing in the local schools. All they do is challenge the board because our bachelor&#8217;s degree is credited in the US educational system as a degree.</p>
<p>That is one thing that we are more competitive with other Asian countries graduating nurses because practically our nursing curriculum is patterned after the United States.</p>
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		<title>By: Karl</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2006/10/13/powderkeg/comment-page-1/#comment-144038</link>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought the metaphor was leading to a star wars analogy,but it turned to be of Star Trek instead.

I also like the comment about Enrile, that Filipinos forgive and forget.
He was said to have staged his assasination that triggered martial law,his son was rumored or allegedly to have been the cause of the passing of a certain matinee idol during the eighties..fast forward... he was accused of dagdag bawas by another senator nad so on.And let&#039;s not forget the pcgg issues.

If we forget that easily,then is that supposed to be a good thing?
What will we say to our selves, if we see Mikey Arroyo become our leader one day,when everything is alreay forgotten,let us say,25 years from now,when the current crop of voters would be at least fortythree years old by then and most of us would be in our fifties or sixties and some of us passed on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the metaphor was leading to a star wars analogy,but it turned to be of Star Trek instead.</p>
<p>I also like the comment about Enrile, that Filipinos forgive and forget.<br />
He was said to have staged his assasination that triggered martial law,his son was rumored or allegedly to have been the cause of the passing of a certain matinee idol during the eighties..fast forward&#8230; he was accused of dagdag bawas by another senator nad so on.And let&#8217;s not forget the pcgg issues.</p>
<p>If we forget that easily,then is that supposed to be a good thing?<br />
What will we say to our selves, if we see Mikey Arroyo become our leader one day,when everything is alreay forgotten,let us say,25 years from now,when the current crop of voters would be at least fortythree years old by then and most of us would be in our fifties or sixties and some of us passed on.</p>
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		<title>By: hvrds</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2006/10/13/powderkeg/comment-page-1/#comment-142827</link>
		<dc:creator>hvrds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sometime it sis easier to use methaporical examples to describe mindsets.  Especially related to the anti- terror bill. An abstract war on the tactics.  Terrorism is after all a tactic.  Just think of the name Mau-Mau. The brutal anti-colonial struggle of the people of Kenya against the British colonizers.. It was brutal. The reaction to it was just as brutal. You pacify by the process of elimination. It seems there are a minority of views that reflect Vulcan/Romullan or Kling-On mindsets. Or for today&#039;s generation the dark side of the force represented by the Sith.

The anti-terror bill is downright revolutionary in the opposite direction. It is attempting to abolish the basic premise of the Bill of Rights. Probable cause.  For the state to act against an individual it must have a predicate or probable cause.  Even when war is declared enemy combatants (insurgents) are due certain basic rights. The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled on that. What we have ongoing today is a magnification of the perceived injustices against the Palestinians by a bunch of well trained eschatological egomaniacs. This bunch feel that the European Jews have come to colonize Arab lands.  Political imposition by force is the highest form of evil. Genocide becomes a strategic imperative.  A Romullan or Kling On belief. The Pol Pot or Temujin model. Now they are trying to figure out how many people have died in Iraq.  I thought 100,000 was the high but apparently they are debating figures from 300K to 600K.  Robert Mcnamara brought modern managment planning and financial (mathematical) analysis of economics to the battlefield. A Vulcan like mindset that introduced the body count similar to today&#039;s formula for analyzing corporations perfoirmance in the stock market. EBITDA.  Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. He brought that mindset to the World Bank and that became the basis of the infamous structural adjustment program. Mathematical models to define realites.  Pure logic of numbers. Dogma of effciency equilibrium. He forgot about the fact that they all start their models with the word &quot;If&quot; or all things being equal. An assumption of perfect conditions. Is the law the letter or the process?  Ask a Vulcan, Romullan or Kling On.  Yoda and Obi Won Kenobi help!!!!

Ron Suskind on writing about our favorite mad dog,Cheney, reminds one and all about the 1% solution formula.  If there is 1% iota of a threat erase it. The terrorist can try 100 times but needs only 1 chance to succeed. It was a U.S. battleship that entered the civil war in Beirut that propelled the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

It created the madness of strike and counterstrike. Lweft and right are guilty of it. A pointed gun is more frightening before it is fired. After your adrenaline takes over and one dives for cover. Andy Mukerjee of Bloomberg says investors are more comfortable now about eventual reunifcation of Korea. The pygmy in North Korea now has a big stick and has probably staved off invasion. I do not think he is a suicide bomber. All out war would probably be disastrous for the world. But you have a mad dog in the White House who believes in that 1% solution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometime it sis easier to use methaporical examples to describe mindsets.  Especially related to the anti- terror bill. An abstract war on the tactics.  Terrorism is after all a tactic.  Just think of the name Mau-Mau. The brutal anti-colonial struggle of the people of Kenya against the British colonizers.. It was brutal. The reaction to it was just as brutal. You pacify by the process of elimination. It seems there are a minority of views that reflect Vulcan/Romullan or Kling-On mindsets. Or for today&#8217;s generation the dark side of the force represented by the Sith.</p>
<p>The anti-terror bill is downright revolutionary in the opposite direction. It is attempting to abolish the basic premise of the Bill of Rights. Probable cause.  For the state to act against an individual it must have a predicate or probable cause.  Even when war is declared enemy combatants (insurgents) are due certain basic rights. The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled on that. What we have ongoing today is a magnification of the perceived injustices against the Palestinians by a bunch of well trained eschatological egomaniacs. This bunch feel that the European Jews have come to colonize Arab lands.  Political imposition by force is the highest form of evil. Genocide becomes a strategic imperative.  A Romullan or Kling On belief. The Pol Pot or Temujin model. Now they are trying to figure out how many people have died in Iraq.  I thought 100,000 was the high but apparently they are debating figures from 300K to 600K.  Robert Mcnamara brought modern managment planning and financial (mathematical) analysis of economics to the battlefield. A Vulcan like mindset that introduced the body count similar to today&#8217;s formula for analyzing corporations perfoirmance in the stock market. EBITDA.  Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. He brought that mindset to the World Bank and that became the basis of the infamous structural adjustment program. Mathematical models to define realites.  Pure logic of numbers. Dogma of effciency equilibrium. He forgot about the fact that they all start their models with the word &#8220;If&#8221; or all things being equal. An assumption of perfect conditions. Is the law the letter or the process?  Ask a Vulcan, Romullan or Kling On.  Yoda and Obi Won Kenobi help!!!!</p>
<p>Ron Suskind on writing about our favorite mad dog,Cheney, reminds one and all about the 1% solution formula.  If there is 1% iota of a threat erase it. The terrorist can try 100 times but needs only 1 chance to succeed. It was a U.S. battleship that entered the civil war in Beirut that propelled the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon. </p>
<p>It created the madness of strike and counterstrike. Lweft and right are guilty of it. A pointed gun is more frightening before it is fired. After your adrenaline takes over and one dives for cover. Andy Mukerjee of Bloomberg says investors are more comfortable now about eventual reunifcation of Korea. The pygmy in North Korea now has a big stick and has probably staved off invasion. I do not think he is a suicide bomber. All out war would probably be disastrous for the world. But you have a mad dog in the White House who believes in that 1% solution.</p>
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		<title>By: UP student</title>
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		<dc:creator>UP student</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A Filipina nursing graduate who has just entered the US will probably not be able to immediately start as a registered nurse. The new-arrival may have an easier time (as long as they have &quot;authorization to work&quot;) to start as LPN. The New York State requirements for LPN are as follows: 

Licensed Practical Nursing
To meet the professional education requirement for licensure as a licensed practical nurse, you must have completed high school or the equivalent, and present satisfactory evidence of either a, b, c or d below.
(a)--graduation from at least a nine-month program in practical nursing registered by the New York State Education Department as licensure qualifying or recognized as preparatory for practice as a licensed practical nurse by the licensing authority or appropriate governmental agency in the jurisdiction where the school is located; or
(b)--completion of at least a nine-month program of study that is satisfactory to the New York State Education Department in a program conducted by the armed forces of the United States; or
(c)--completion of at least three semesters (or four quarters) of an approved U.S. program in professional nursing at the associate, diploma, or baccalaureate degree level, and completed nursing courses with a clinical component in each of the three semesters, having earned 20 semester hour credits (30 quarter hour credits) in clinical nursing courses with a grade of &quot;C&quot; or better in both the clinical and classroom portions of each course within the 20 semester hours (30 quarter hours); or
(d)--graduation from an approved program in general professional nursing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Filipina nursing graduate who has just entered the US will probably not be able to immediately start as a registered nurse. The new-arrival may have an easier time (as long as they have &#8220;authorization to work&#8221;) to start as LPN. The New York State requirements for LPN are as follows: </p>
<p>Licensed Practical Nursing<br />
To meet the professional education requirement for licensure as a licensed practical nurse, you must have completed high school or the equivalent, and present satisfactory evidence of either a, b, c or d below.<br />
(a)&#8211;graduation from at least a nine-month program in practical nursing registered by the New York State Education Department as licensure qualifying or recognized as preparatory for practice as a licensed practical nurse by the licensing authority or appropriate governmental agency in the jurisdiction where the school is located; or<br />
(b)&#8211;completion of at least a nine-month program of study that is satisfactory to the New York State Education Department in a program conducted by the armed forces of the United States; or<br />
(c)&#8211;completion of at least three semesters (or four quarters) of an approved U.S. program in professional nursing at the associate, diploma, or baccalaureate degree level, and completed nursing courses with a clinical component in each of the three semesters, having earned 20 semester hour credits (30 quarter hour credits) in clinical nursing courses with a grade of &#8220;C&#8221; or better in both the clinical and classroom portions of each course within the 20 semester hours (30 quarter hours); or<br />
(d)&#8211;graduation from an approved program in general professional nursing.</p>
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