Philippines:Super Typhoon, Déjà vu

     On November 2-11 of 2013. The Philippines, particularly on Tacloban was struck by Haiyan, one the world's strongest typhoon ever recorded. It has 6,000+ casualties. Millions of infrastructure was destroyed. Poverty, corruption, and selfishness among Filipino government and citizen was seen all over the world. 
     A year after Haiyan, Another super typhoon named Hagupit, has been hitting the Philippines. It has a maximum sustained winds of 250kph and gust up to 305kph and changed to 175kph when it made it's landfall on north Samar island.
     A still-developing country is near to calamities. Filipino must be organized and well prepared for calamities because every year, A 

Déjà vu of the past, awakens them. 

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       MANILA (UPDATED) - Tropical cyclone Ruby (international name Hagupit) regained strength Friday and is again a supertyphoon, according to the Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Watch Center (JTWC).

The tropical cyclone was packing 1-minute average maximum sustained winds in excess of 240 kilometers per hour (kph) and 296 kph gusts, the US military weather agency said.

The JTWC expects Ruby to reach its peak on Saturday with 250 kph sustained winds and 305 kph gusts.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in the Asia-Pacific, agrees with the JTWC's estimates.

It raised Ruby's status again to a "violent typhoon," the highest category. The JTWC said the tropical cyclone was packing 10-minute average maximum sustained winds of around 194 kph and gusts reaching more than 277 kph.

According to US weather forecasters, Ruby underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, which caused it to weaken temporarily.

The tropical cyclone reintensified again after it gained a new eyewall Friday.

Its predicted track of Ruby, however, differs with other agencies. The JTWC expects the typhoon to make landfall north of Samar island, and make its way across the Bicol region, Calabarzon, and just south of Metro Manila before exiting Manila Bay and into the West Philippine Sea.

SIGNAL NO. 3 RAISED OVER SAMAR PROVINCES

State weather bureau PAGASA, in its latest bulletin issued 5 a.m. Saturday, raised public storm warning signal number 3 over Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, and Samar provinces.

PAGASA said the 3 areas will experience winds of between 101-185 kph in at least 18 hours.

"Residents in low lying and mountainous areas are alerted against flashfloods and landslides. Likewise, those living along the coast are warned on the occurrence of big waves associated with storm surge which may reach up to 4.5 meters," the weather bureau warned.

Public storm warning signal number 2 was raised over the following areas: Catanduanes, Albay, Sorsogon,  Masbate, Ticao Island, Biliran, Leyte, Southern Leyte, northern Cebu, Cebu City, Bantayan Island, Camotes Island, Dinagat Province.

Public storm warning signal number 1 was hoisted over Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Burias Island, Romblon, Southern Quezon, Marinduque, Capiz, Iloilo, Antique, Guimaras, Aklan, Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, rest of Cebu, Siquijor, Bohol, Surigao del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Siargao Island, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Camiguin.

PAGASA said typhoon Ruby was still packing 195 kph maximum sustained winds near the center and gusts of up to 230 kph.

It expects the tropical cyclone to make landfall Sunday morning over the Eastern Samar-Northern Samar area.

PAGASA warned that the typhoon will bring storm surges of up to 4.5 meters (or almost 15 feet high) and heavy to intense rainfall within its 600 kilometer diameter.

The typhoon was last spotted 240 km east-northeast of Borongan, Eastern Samar and is moving west at 10 kph. It is expected to be 45 km north of Borongan, Eastern Samar Sunday morning and will leave the Philippine area of responsibility only around Wednesday.

PAGASA said Ruby and the northeast monsoon will cause dangerous sea conditions over the seaboards of northern Luzon, the eastern seaboard of central and southern Luzon, seaboards of Visayas and in northern and eastern seaboards of Mindanao.

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Print Media to Future

     Print Media. 600 years of holding informative and entertaining content, published through any kind of paper throughout the world. Can it ride on the future age where a black, white or either a colored sheet displaced by a digital slate? It can be yes or no!.
     Started with one experiment, I lay a newspaper on a table and an iPod with a digital version of that newspaper(eBook). My grandmother picked the newspaper and my brother choose the book. It means that the new age are patronizing a modern and convenience  way, while the older age stick on what they have used to be.
     But it doesn't mean that the print media will fall if the older generation will completely be vanished on the world. They should escape from the print media common thing include a not water proof, not portable or hassle to bring.
     The competitor of them includes electronic broadcast and internet media. Acting like an enemy to print, but it is not. It is an Allie and a way that the print media can escape through the "common things" They can use this tools like a microphone and stereo in a common term, a partner, For today, many publication company, is publishing a digital electronic editions on the internet, or in social media.
     Print media was the way, has been the  way and will be the way, why our society keeps revolving from time to time. through this kind of media, we are now handling a big pack of enormous knowledge and information through our live. Print media? Yes! it can survive on upcoming futuristic world, updated and more sophisticated 

Resemblance of Things, Past and Future

I open my eyes, seeing the beauty of mind,
Searching for pathway, I used you so kind,
Being so gentle, you gave me a life,
A life that so colorful, staying in a hive.

I can sway my body from left to right
Fulfilling my skills, enhancing so tight
exploiting wondrous task, merrily so sound,
Declaring my future, I pinned on its bound.

Memories that I used to treasure,
Knowledge that used to pleasure
A way of encoding, storing and retrieving
A perfect road of we called living.

Without memory there is no past,
It’s like a movie without a cast
We can’t live if we deny it,
That memory is resemblance of things,
past and future

Electronic Media Era

  Electronic media is very quotidian way of communication to disseminate an information and entertainment throughout the world. They may include radio, television, internet, fax, CD - ROMS, DVD. It requires electricity for it is a digital encoding of information.
 
     In our 24 - hour- life- cycle we tend to use e - media even if we are driving, taking a bath, shopping and on our less ego situations. television, radio, internet is a daily dose things on our life that we can't leave behind close bars.
     E - media started on 17th century and it became more enhanced and updated when the 20th century falls on our calendar. By the use of gadgets with an access to internet, radio or television, the era of e - media dominated the world.
     The purpose of media: to educate, entertain, and to inform became more broad. thanks to a clever mind of human being who created electronic media.

SWOT Analysis; Electronic Media

Strength – E media can disseminate information rapidly throughout the world because it uses electricity for a digital encoding of information. Television, internet and radio is leading channel of communication, and it is a form of e-media. It help us to discuss situations where the media fails to inform citizens about what happening in any country or state.

Weaknesses – electronic media invades our privacy without knowing about it. Sometimes, some information you gain is not a fact, merely bias to a one situation. It can destroy one people reputation (through netizens) esp. on cyberbullying. Can change one child’s characteristics on what he/she watched or heard from, radio or television .

Opportunity – Jobs are waiting, like media practitioner, writer, broadcaster, Celebrity, news anchor, and more. You can gain money for writing any blogs and make a reputation by doing a documentary about yourself, helping or doing good to other.

Treat – People will become more and more lazy as they depend on e – media on situation like making a project, thesis, research, and information. People can copy text on internet and information on television or radio. Through social media it can easily hack your information because of our less privacy. Our next generation will become arrogant and less respectful on dealing one’s face because of abusing e – media’s role on the society .

Wikang Pilipino: Wikang Pagkakaisa

 
Kayganda ng pagkakalikha ng ating daigdig, dahil tayo’y biniyayaan ng isang pinakamahalagang instrumento  upang tayo’y mabuhay ng matiwasay at nagkakaintindihan. Ito ang wika.

     Ang wika ay isa sa pinakapangunahing anyo ng komunikasyon, berbal man, pisikal o likas. Ang wika ay ating instrumento, kaalaman, at ito ang humahasa sa ating malikhaing pag-iisip. Bawat bansa sa buong mundo ay may sariling mga wika upang ang isang kultura ay magkakabuklod-buklod sa paraang pasulat o pasalita. Tulad nalang sa bansang Pilipinas, Filipino ang pambansang wika  dahil kahawig ito ng lahat ng wika ng Pilipino.  Ginamit sa sentro ng kalakalan, madaling matutunan o bigkasin, ginamit sa himagsikan at maraming naisulat sa panitikan ang isa sa mga batayan kaya’t ito pinili bilang pambansang wika.

     Tuwing buwan ng Agosto, ipinagdiriwang ang buwan ng wika, upang madama na importante ang wikang sariling atin. Ipinahihiwatig sa kaganapang ito, na ang wikang Filipino ay naging isang daan sa pagkakaisa ng bawat Pilipino at ang pagkakaroon ng isang bansa  na may kinikilalang pambansang wika. Ito’y isang tanda na ang bansa ay Malaya at nagsisilbing may pagkakakilanlan.

     Ngunit, ang wikang Filipino ay hindi masyadong tinatangkilik o  nabibigyan ng kahalagahan. Mas nais pa ng ibang Pilipino na gamitin ang dayuhang wika dahil  umano sumisimbilo ito ng katalinuhan , pagiging sosyal, at karangyaan sa buhay  isa ito sa mga rason kung bakit nais  tanggalin sa kolehiyo bilang isang asignaturang panturo at ililipat umano ito sa Senior High School. Sa ganitong sitwasyon, kailangan ng matalinong pagdedesisyon  hindi lang sa sariling kagustuhan, dahil ang wikang ito ay nagsilbing tulay upang mapag – isa ang mga mamamayan.

     Kung wala ang wikang Pambansa tiyak tayo’y isa paring alipin ngayon dahil isang napakalaking kawalan kapag di tayo nagkakaunawaan at nagkakaisa dulot ng iba’t-ibang wikang sinasalita sa bawat lugar na ating kinabibilangan. Kung naaalala mo pa ang bakas ng lumipas na tayo’y ginawang mga alipin ng Espanol ay dahil sa kawalan ng sariling wika.

     Ang kagandahan ng isang tunog sa isang instrumento ay dumedepende kung gaano ito pahalagahan ng isang manunugtog. Tulad  sa isang  wika kapag ang sangkatauhan ay papahalagahan, pagyayamanin  at gagamitin ito ng buong puso tiyak di’ lang pagkakaisa sa bawat Pilipino ang maibabalik nito.

E- PUBLISHING

     On the past years, the book was so called "portable" and has a "random access through its contents". But now through our modern technology, We created a completely different way of publishing, and it can disseminate very rapidly.
     E books is electronically designed books on web, smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Electronic journal decoder will move their journals on the internet.  upload a story, novel, information entertainment on social media, blog sites, websites and e-book sites electronic journal's number is growing rapidly.
     The book need to create a new edition or volume if there's an error.While the electronic text can easily update or corrected.
     "Wattpad" one of the largest writing community in e-book form that can disseminate millions of stories, articles, poem and information throughout the world. It started on the year 2006.
     

†People Power 1: The Role of Communication in a Crisis†

✔The Philippine Revolution of 1986, from 22-25 February, has been acclaimed the first televised revolution in a history. People from all over the world, were glued in their television sets, watching in awe and admiration, as million of Filipinos fought a strange revolution. Not with guns and bullets, but with bare hands, rosaries, religious images, hymns, placards, prayers, flowers, song & faith.

✔The world watched it live, with bated breath, with wide open eyes, through the modern telecommunication and mass communication. About 1,000 foreign correspondents from all over the world were there to cover it.

ヅRadio and television, particularly, led in the election coverage because of their immediacy

ヅRadio Veritas and the alternative press had the highest credibility ratings among the mass media, thus it was the people were already tuned the radio sets, and it reached a crescendo on February 22, 1986.

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★1.World wide Coverage: Because of modern telecommunications and mass communication technology, the snap revolution and the events immediately preceding it were extensively covered by news agencies.

✪2. Role of Radio: Played a primordial role in a crisis-in reporting events as they happened , in airing public opinion, in serving as the communication link among the leaders of the revolution between the rebel leaders and the people, and among the people themselves.

★3. Radio Veritas: Among the radio stations,. Radio Veritas was preeminent. This was mainly because the Catholic radio station's credibility built over the years, probably starting with its reporting of Aquino assassination in 1983.

✪4. Role of Television: A major role, but still secondary to radio was played by television, It was carrying the Marcos line during the campaign and the counting of votes. But when TV 4 was finally captured by the rebels, it became their communication center in Metro Manila and helped catalyze public opinion for President Cory Aquino.

★5. People Power: This phenomenon inspired the production of books and the production of video tapes to record these events for posterity. The Philippine Experience, A videotape by Communication foundation for asia and people power.

✪6. Interpersonal Communication: By word of mouth or by telephone, people in Metro Manila area and throughout the country spread the word and extended the reach of the mass media.

★7. Role of Print Media: It provided more details, more human interest stories about the revolution. more in depth analysis, and certainly a more permanent record of the times which people could refer their grandchildren with pride in years to come.

Social Media: A Snap to Post, A Callous to Undo

     It is part of our lives which interaction among human kind is irresistably easy, like denoting to an up-to-the-minute-world. Merely though it can lay or ruin your world with just a one tap.

     On the 21st century, social media was one of the busiest form of communications, an infinite array of web tools and podium that instantly raise the level of sharing photos, text, videos, music and information through out the world with just a tap and click. It can be applied to business exorbitantly.

     Almost all of us liked or literally loved the way social media is, for it is the one who serves as a bridge towards our gap. It is the source of news or information, it is the voice of our mind. Just like what facebook cites "What's on your mind" As well as partaking pictures on instagram or tumbler is one of sharing the moments and the grin of your soul.

     Apart of being a bridge towards us, Some netizens hated social media for some reasons, like invading the privacy, It is a snap to post but a callous to removed. Many linked websites can destroy a society, group or an individual. Pornography, prostitute, not legit documents or articles, exaggerated non-stop issues and bullies are one of the major knots that tied media off.

     Whether the social media was well - founded or not, the priority of this kind of interaction is to innovate the way we deal with each other, the way we transmit or share information with one another, to embrace social search, differentiating your social presence and to develop actionable insights.