Halika 3.0

Bb. Pilipinas Grand Coronation night on March 19, 2005 at the Araneta Coliseum will be shown live on GMA7.

Do bloggers have the right to keep their sources confidential?

Some bloggers want any protection available to journalists at traditional media companies to also be available to them, and journalists at those companies want to make sure that the reporter shield privilege is preserved.

Yet if recognizing a privilege for bloggers means that everyone online can maintain that they are journalists, judges may conclude that rather than giving everyone the privilege, no one should have it. That possibility worries reporters, who could find themselves at new risk for what they write or broadcast. [source]

Guess what the most watched TV show last week was? Find the answer here. It was consistent at above 40% in the AGB overnight ratings.

Orbit is to broadcast a Filipino TV package from GMA Network in the GCC. The Pinoy Plus package will be launched on March 1 and comprises: Pinoy Box Office, GMA7 Channel and Pinoy Prime Sports. The package will also include the 10 standard Orbit channels. [source]

GMA Network has signed a deal with IPS, Inc. for the carriage of its International Channel, dubbed GMA Pinoy TV, in Japan via the Access TV DTH (Direct-to-Home) platform.

Beginning March this year, GMA Pinoy TV will be seen in Japan where there is a large population of Overseas Filipino Workers. Present were GMA Network Chairman, President and CEO Felipe L. Gozon shakes with IPS President/CEO Koji Miyashita and Edgardo Opulencia - IPS Carrier Relations Officer, Joseph Francia – OIC and Head of Operations for GMA International, Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr. – GMA Network EVP-COO, Tomoyuki Maeda – IPS Business Planning and Development Dept. Director, and Masako Uemori, IPS Operations Director. [source here see also inq7]

Sunday, March 06, 2005
‘St. Louis must justify tuition increase’
By Rimaliza Opiña

STUDENTS of Saint Louis University (SLU) Friday criticized the school’s plan of imposing increased fees saying the school is financially capable and should not increase the matriculation of its students.

SLU is set to impose a 10 percent increase in tuition and five percent increase in miscellaneous fees beginning school year 2005-2006.

In a position paper, the rallying students said while they understand the school’s contention that the planned increase is to cover additional expenses brought about by the effects of inflation, SLU could still defray the cost and could still hire additional teachers, increase compensation and modernize equipment without having to increase fees.

The students added that if SLU pushes through with the increase, it has to justify the hike by making public the school’s financial income status. The school was also asked to provide students the actual computation and distribution of incremental proceeds the past years.

“SLU must provide us justifications. If it does not provide clear and truthful justifications, the proposed increase is not only wrong, it is illicit,” the students stressed.

The group also assailed the school administration on its insistence of imposing the “carry-over scheme,” saying this is another form of increasing school fees without having to undergo the mandatory “consultation”.

In 2003, the Arbitration Board formed by both the administration and the Supreme Student Council (SSC) declared “the scheme results to an effective increase of tuition in the non-incoming college levels.” Despite the board’s decision, the administration insists on implementing the scheme.

Last year, the SSC, through Arthur Odsey, filed a petition for the issuance of an injunction against the carry-over scheme before a local court.

The filing of the petition however resulted to the issuance of an advisory to its employees on June 23 last year, which stated that the “the determination and eventual distribution of the incremental proceeds from the tuition increase for school year 2004-2005 can not be done yet at this time due to the pending case of injunction filed by Kasama/SSC.”

But the SSC said the action done by the SLU administration “is a naked denial of what is due the SLU employees in terms of salary increases.”

Odsey, in a letter to SLU president Paul van Parijs dated July 3, 2004, said the “advisory” “is misleading since it indirectly puts the blame on the SSC for the action of the administration in not giving the salary increases of employees.”

Odsey clarified the increase in the tuition of the freshmen “is not covered by the carry-over scheme and is, therefore, also not included in the case for injunction. “That being the case, the SLU administration should give the salary increase from the increase of first year tuition increase.”

Odsey further said “the Kasama/SSC believes that all employees of SLU deserve that increase. To deprive them of what is due them, and to use the case filed by the Kasama/SSC as a reason, would do them great injustice. After all, keeping the compensation package of employees at competitively reasonable levels to maintain a highly competent and dedicated faculty and administrative staff has been one of the usual reasons of the university in increasing tuition.”

Apart from the filing of the injunction, the SSC in June last year, initiated a signature campaign in support of the case filed by the group to stop the “carry-over scheme” from being implemented by the school administration.

“If indeed this scheme is not an increase in disguise, then we should be paying the same amount that our predecessors had paid last school year,” said the SSC in its statement of support.

“The carry-over scheme is an insidious circumvention of the law that requires SLU to consult with the students for any proposed increase in the non-incoming freshmen levels.”

A carry-over-scheme is a yearly increase of tuition of incoming freshmen. The hike is “carried-over” when students enter the next year level such that a student would be paying higher tuition than what is paid by a student of the same year level, the previous year.

Sun.Star tried but failed to get the administration’s comment. The school’s security guards told reporters who tried to get SLU’s side Friday that not one of the school’s officials is available as they are in Pangasinan attending a seminar. Sun.Star Baguio

Caludine Barretto’s next soap.
Together with Diether Ocampo.
Directed by Erik Reyes.
Also
Angelika dela Cruz
Shaina Magdayao
John Lloyd Cruz
Bea Alonzo

There is a growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity CNN.com - Age of anxiety

The link no longer works. But the article talks about Jon Winokur’s Encyclopedia Neurotica

This often acerbic dictionary-style guide is an indictment of the self absorption of the affluent West, and the growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity. “In this country, we just have so much of everything and so much time to analyze ourselves. We seem to medicalize oddity and quirkiness. I also wanted to try to make the point that, as actress Carrie Fisher said, ‘All the good people are nuts.’ This is what makes life so interesting,” Winokur told Reuters. His book quotes Pulitzer Prize journalist Michael Skube, who in 1998 noted: “Of all the countries on earth, we are the leaders in disorders … If we don’t have attention deficit disorder, we have … anxiety disorder, or mood disorder. Other cultures just don’t seem to have the problems we do.”

Article Age of anxiety - ‘Encyclopedia Neurotica’ a guide to modern neuroses
CNN.com / Reuters
February 3, 2005

I found this might also help. The article is towards the right of the document.

When theCongress website got hacked, will the law makers realize that they have a lot to do make our laws attuned to cybercrime?