'Naked Gun,' 'Airplane' star Leslie Nielsen dies at 84

From 660 News Radio and The Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Leslie Nielsen had the sombredemeanour and stone-serious face that were just right for dramatic roles. They proved even better for comedy.

"Surely you can't be serious," an airline passenger says to Nielsen in "Airplane!" the 1980 hit that turned the actor from dramatic leading man to comic star.

"I am serious," Nielsen replies. "And don't call me Shirley."

The line was probably his most famous — and a perfect distillation of his career.

Nielsen, the dramatic lead in "Forbidden Planet" and "The Poseidon Adventure" and the bumbling detective in "The Naked Gun" comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.

The Canada native died from complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home, surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent John S. Kelly said in a statement.

Full story at 660news.com.

A Story of Appreciation

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never had a year when he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?" the youth answered "none".

The director asked, "Was it your father who paid for your school fees?" The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees."

The director asked, "Where did your mother work?" The youth answered, "My mother worked as clothes cleaner." The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked, "Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me."

The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning."

The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when they were cleaned with water.

This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, asked: "Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, "I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'

The Director asked, "please tell me your feelings."

The youth said, Number 1, I know now what is appreciation. Without my mother, there would not the successful me today. Number 2, by working together and helping my mother, only I now realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done. Number 3, I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, "This is what I am looking for to be my manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life. You are hired."

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked diligently and as a team. The company's performance improved tremendously.

A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop "entitlement mentality" and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent's efforts. When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the sufferings of his employees and would always blame others. For this kind of people, who may be good academically, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement. He will grumble and be full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying the kid instead?*

You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done.

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Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao will build a University in his province. He will name it Pacman University, also known as Pac U.

The students will soon be known as Pacquers and the school administrator will be Mommy Dionesia, Mother Pacquer for short.

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Manny Pacquiao - From fight rings to the people’s House

From the Philippine Online Chronicles.

Would the legendary boxing champion from the Philippines perform better in public service as a neophyte Congressman?

First-termer Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Dapidran Pacquiao, elected Sarangani representative last May, is ready for his much anticipated fight against Mexican American boxer Antonio "Tijuana Tornado" Margarito on November 13 in Dallas, Texas. At the same time, Pacquiao seems to be keen on his responsibilities as a public servant.

Pacquiao has been in office for only three months but he has already authored/co-authored at least 21 bills and resolutions while learning the ropes as a member of the House of Representatives. He is a member for the majority in 11 committees and is a vice chairperson of the Committees on Millennium Development Goals and Youth and Sports Development.

He immediately took up various issues in Congress, such as: human rights, health, education, national security and concerns of youth, women and other marginalized sectors. He proposed the establishment of breast care centers in every region of the country, the establishment of a provincial public hospital in Sarangani, the prohibition of text or SMS spamming. He also called for support for struggling overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), especially the victims of human trafficking.

In his first privilege speech before the plenary, he expressed his ardent desire to help the poor and to help realize the developmental aspirations of the people of Sarangani.

Read the rest of the article at the Philippine Online Chronicles.

I must say I'm quite impressed. 21 bills and resolutions as a first timer? I think that's more than what President Noynoy did in his entire term as a senator.

Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito Highlights

Manny Pacquiao does it again, his 8th title win in 8 different divisions. Even though Antonio Margarito was taller, bigger and has a longer reach than Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao's speed was just too much for him and Margarito ended up with a badly beaten face.

Here's some highlights from HBO Boxing.

Pacquiao vs Margarito Highlights
- Watch more Videos at Vodpod.
Here's the photo of Antonio Margarito before and after the fight.

Here's the before.

Photo from Orlando Sentinel.
Here's the after.

(Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images) from BadLeftHook.com.

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How I Run My Business On My iPhone

The iPhone is such a wonderful device that I can't imagine how I was able to live without it for the longest time. The new iPhone 4 is the first iPhone I ever owned and all I can say is...wow!

I'm in the consulting business and before the iPhone came out, I used to to carry a ton of stuff. A laptop, a cellphone and a PDA.

For the cellphone, I've always used a Nokia but I never used a high end Nokia phone. I went from the Nokia 3360 to the 8860, Sony Ericsson and then the Nokia 3500. They all worked great as cellphones, but lacking in terms of internet connectivity or use as a PDA.

On the PDA side, I went from carrying a paper based calendar to the Palm Pilot, to the Palm V and then finally to the HP iPAQ.

The best of the bunch was always the Palm Pilot or the Palm V until Palm pretty much failed with the development of the Palm OS. I went to the HP iPAQ on the feature that it included a web browser and WiFi connectivity.

Sad to say, it was all just a promise. It worked great for a few weeks, then eventually, I can never get a proper WiFi signal or connect to the Internet. No amount of updates or setup I do can make it work and it wasn't a faulty device. If I refreshed (hard reset) the device, the Internet will work great for about a week. After that, forget about using it.

No website displays properly and finding apps for it was hit and miss as you were mostly on your own to find a place that has the apps for your device. Once you find an app, you have to make sure it actually worked for your particular model since not every app works for your particular model or MS Windows Mobile OS version.

A few years of this and I was ready to look for a new device. I was looking to jump back to the Palm platform when they introduced the Palm Treo when Apple came out with the iPod Touch. At first it was interesting and did not get into my radar as a PDA replacement. But as I looked more into it, I realized it had pretty much everything I needed as a PDA but it was just marketed as a music player.

So I studied carefully what the iPod offered. I needed a calendar (check), an address book (check), a notepad (check), calculator (check) a web browser that works (CHECK!).

The iPod touch at the time didn't even offer installable apps, it only allowed web based apps. But it didn't matter, it had the basics covered so I decided I will get it as a replacement for my PDA. Best decision ever! By the time I got my iPod Touch (1st gen), Apple already allowed installable apps. Needless to say, my iPod Touch just got more valuable over time.

It worked great over Wifi and never had any trouble connecting to the Internet to check my e-mail on the go or play a little game while waiting for a client.

I wasn't really ready to jump to the iPhone since I just got my iPod Touch, but boy, I did not know what I was missing. Even when I had my iPod Touch, I was still carrying a cellphone, a laptop and my iPod touch. Which was still a lot of devices.


The iPhone

When I finally got my iPhone, I ditched my old Nokia phone and iPod Touch and carry just my laptop and iPhone 4. In reality, I really have no need to even carry the laptop. I can say that I'm carrying my laptop 50% less than previously. Why? The connectivity of the iPhone 4 is top notched. It's pretty seamless and it just gets out of your way and let you do what you need.

Here is how I set up my system to run on the iPhone.

If you work in a corporate environment or have been looking at technology enhancements for your business, there are a few things you need to look at first before you switch over to an iPhone.

E-mail

Everybody runs on e-mail now and it's almost impossible not to be connected to your e-mail all the time. Ever wonder why so many people use a Blackberry? It's not the games, it's the e-mail.

There's a couple of things you have to know when you are setting up an e-mail for your business. E-mail is your tracking system and record keeping system now. You can't afford to lose an e-mail. If you're still downloading your e-mail into your computer using POP3. If your computer crashes, you're out of luck, all your e-mails are gone.

You have to start looking at IMAP services. This is where the e-mails are kept on the server. So even if your computer crashes, just set up your e-mail and everything is back up. A server is far more secure and reliable than a device you carry with you all the time.

Contacts

Same thing with e-mail, if you lose your phone or change to a new phone, you have to transfer all your contacts one by one. You have to find a way to synchronize your contacts and having a server do that is the best way of doing that instead of relying on transferring your SIM card or inputting the data one by one.

Calendar

Same with contacts, synchronization is the key and you can share your calendar with your team.


The Setup

So how do you set up your iPhone to do these? The iPhone has an easy connectivity setting to connect all your data to a Microsoft Exchange Server, Gmail or Yahoo account. Once you set them up, all your information is synchronized.

If you set your e-mail as IMAP or on MS Exchange, when you send or receive an e-mail, a copy is always saved on the server so you never lose the information. When you put a schedule on your iPhone, your calendar on the server is updated as well. If you have a laptop where you want to check your calendar in Outlook, that information is there.

If you share your calendar with your assistant, any updates you do will be shown on your assistant's computer.

Same with contacts, basically, everyone on your team can share all the same contacts.

These are just the basic functionalities for synchronization of your information. How do you expand that to work for your business?

If you're in sales, you can use the iPhone to connect to your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software like vTiger, Salesforce, Zoho or SugarCRM. Some have native apps on the iPhone and some are web based. But since the iPhone can display a full website and not just a mobile edition of the site, you can use any of these CRM solutions easily. You can track leads, accounts, contacts, e-mails and marketing campaigns on your iPhone.

If you need some spreadsheets or word documents, you can easily install some apps for it or just go to the cloud and use Google Docs to get your word documents, spreadsheets or presentations.

You can even do invoicing on your iPhone or some accounting. In short, you can basically leave everything and go to a meeting with just your iPhone. It's pretty amazing.

Of course, having the camera function is wonderful as you can now take a photo of your product and e-mail or blog it right away.

Since you can develop your own apps, you can use the iPhone to track inventory, scan bar codes, take orders or pretty much anything you can think of that's suited to your own business.

With the new Retina Display, the screen of the iPhone 4 is so sharp, you can use that to show clients your products since it's almost like showing a paper brochure.

And most importantly, if your client is late for an appointment, you can always play Angry Birds while waiting.

So how do you use your iPhone for business? Please leave a comment and share your experiences.

Angry Birds Animation

Gregory Cortez did an animation of the popular iPhone game Angry Birds using construction paper and stop motion. It's pretty awesome.

The Brutal Decline of Yahoo

I feel sorry for these guys.

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Pandak

BITOY: Bakit ang pandak mo?

DAGUL: Kasi bata pa lang ako, ulila na ako.

BITOY: Anong koneksyon nun?

DAGUL: Hello? Wala ngang nagpalaki sa akin!

Happy Ka Ba?

Bad Words

Balat Sibuyas

Here's an ABS-CBN report on the latest uproar Filipinos are making about Korean actress Lee Da Hae making fun of Filipino accents.

As if the Philippines doesn't have more pressing problems. Even something as simple as this, people get up in arms angry about it. We shouldn't take ourselves too seriously. People getting so angry to the point that they call her racist? Racist? Really? For making funny accents? Have you seen fellow Filipinos make fun of Manny Pacquiao's accent?

I don't really see why Filipinos should get angry if she's making a funny accent, I don't speak Korean so I don't know if they actually said Filipino accent. But even if they did, so what? Why should we get angry about a joke? Why do we take ourselves too seriously? Why are we "balat sibuyas"?

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What's Harming P-Noy

Have you heard about the faux pas created by Mai Mislang's Tweet when she was part of the delagation of PNoy in Vietnam?

After Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet hosted a state banquet, Mai Tweeted "The wine sucks" and "Sorry pero walang pogi rito sa Vietnam".

I don't know about you, but as part of the official delegation, I would think that these people would be more careful about what they say in public.

Facebook, Twitter and all these other social networking sites is both a boon and a bane depending on how you use them.

It's great that the public gets to know right away what's happening first hand. On the other hand, without proper protocol or control it can lead to a diplomatic incident.

Based on what's been happening since P-Noy became President is that the people surrounding him are the ones that causing a lot of harm.

And you know what's the worst part about this? She's P-Noy's speechwriter!

There's now even a Facebook hate page dedicated to her.

She could have avoided all of these if she just has some good old-fashion common sense. "You do not criticize the food when you are a guest in someone else home". I'm sorry, but that's basic manners.

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Manny! Manny! Manny!