Spanish parliament passes gay marriage bill
Days after Canada’s parliament passed same-sex marriage legislation, Spanish lawmakers have voted to allow gays and lesbians to legally marry. [source]

It seems this is the only chess move Gloria knows. Read her sacrifice. Remember however, that her first gambit was no different from Miriam’s I lied, ha ha ha ha!
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Any damage-control would by now be worth multimillion dollars
Lapse in judgment

LET’S GET to know seven more new filmmakers who are screening their first full-length narrative movies at the Cinemalaya indie film fest starting July 12:
Michiko Yamamoto, a graduate of the Film Development Foundation’s Screenwriting Workshop, is best known as the writer of the much-awarded film, “Magnifico.” The inspiring drama’s screenplay won first prize in the 2001 FDFPI scriptwriting contest. She was then tapped to work for Viva and Star Cinema, as well as on some telenovelas, including the current hit, “Mga Anghel na Walang Langit.”
In her Cinemalaya film, “Ang Pagdadalaga …

THE DEVELOPMENT Bank of the Philippines-Data Center Inc. (DBM-DCI) recently launched a computer deployment project for Filipinos in the grassroots.
“Kompyuter sa Bawat Pilipino Movement” (KPM) aims to provide Filipinos from various economic sectors an opportunity to own a computer and use them to provide basic e-services.
The project is targeted at housewives, out-of-school youth, returning overseas workers, and other home-based Filipinos.
DCI Chief Operating Officer Andrew Martino Guitarte said the project aggregates several other government and private sector IT initiatives, one of them the People’s PC program maintained by the Commission on …

The National Computer Center (NCC) is about to begin developing a 60 million-peso online payment portal for government-related services.
The NCC has partnered with the Development Bank of the Philippines Data Center Inc. (DCI) as the financial institution for the e-Gov Payment Portal.
Recently, the DCI awarded Fujitsu Philippines the bid to develop the core payment system.
This payment gateway is expected to be available by February next year. It will be integrated with the Gov.ph portal where all government agencies are connected. [source]

If you are concerned with the use of non-sexist language, this is one way of looking at it:
Some careful writers use they when the antecedent is an indefinite pronoun (such as anyone) to avoid making a sexist assumption; however, many other people think this disagreement in number is an error. Rewrite to avoid it whenever possible.
Sexist: If anyone was on top of things, he would know that.
Disagreement: If anyone was on top of things, they would know that.
Rewritten: Anyone who was on …

Teachers of English grammar are engaged in a prescriptivist enterprise. However, Yates and Kenkel believe it is not difficult to demonstrate the irrationality of the justifications of prescriptive rules, and, by extension, the apparent irrationality of those who adhere to them.
Linguistic tolerance: all varieties of English have equal value and merit respect and appreciation of their special beauty and expressiveness.
The goal of teachers of English grammar should be that all students consciously know the most important principles of Standard English (which, of course, need to be identified) so that they …

Feisty Rosanna Roces raises the white flag
By ANTONETTE R. VALDEZ
After a much-publicized word war with Dr. Vicki Belo that led to the courts last year, actress Rosanna Roces has aired her desire to patch things up with her former friend and business partner on ABS-CBN’s “The Buzz” last Sunday.
In an interview with Manila Bulletin last Monday, Osang said,”libel is a very long and painful process at naaabala yung time ko sa apo ko kasi tuwing may hearing aalis ako ng bahay. Actually, sa mga hearing wala naman nangyayaring irapan sa …

Doctors should accept people wanting fertility treatment will travel abroad to get it, experts have been told.
Many people travel for treatment which is either expensive or banned at home, Professor Guido Pennings of the University of Ghent said.
Rather than preventing the practice it should be viewed as a “safety value” helping avoid moral conflict, he said. [source]

Men are overtaking women as the root of infertility in relationships, according to a recent study which shows that, for the first time, male causes are more common than female causes in diagnoses of fertility problems.
Factors such as declining sperm counts, obesity and smoking were largely to blame for the rise, which saw male causes creep from 50 to 51 per cent.
[article by Maxine Frith]
Men overtake women as cause of infertility