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Archangel’s small predicaments

lightrays — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:20:03 +0000

Archangel is worried about satellites and outer space. I wonder what he is so hang up about these things. (see info on Philippine Agila II Satellite below.) He wrote this post:

Philippine Weather, Outer Space and renaming PAGASA

The Philippines has a long way to go in weather forecasting. For a long time, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or popularly known as PAGASA has been waiting for its order of at least ten S-band Doppler Radars. The first delivery being half of the lot. This has not happened. More about this post here.

Footnote to Archangel:

I used to be part of the DOST scientific network myself, but I saw how much room there is in the department and its network for expansion and growth. True, on many occasions it used to be the only place in the bureaucracy where talent is clearly rewarded (I used to get as many as eight to ten cheques on certain paydays because of my work in various projects in our division alone), still the accomplishments of the department leave so much to be desired.

It would spell a lot of difference if Filipinos have the heart, think as one, love their country and show their respect for the symbols and the institutions therein. But this is wishful thinking. Our leaders, our people are so terribly divided and following multiple trains of thought aside from thinking solely of the self. No sooner than one will be able to get as simple as an ear of corn, another one will make a hefty effort to grab it, my elders used to say. Typical frontrunners in the rat race.

From a Maslowian point of view as a people, the Filipinos have not risen or transcended their small and petty needs for food, personal safety and security. This is because nearly 90% of our people are educated this way. The rest of the 10% either had to educate themselves away from the defeatist and fatalist mentality, or else were fortunate to have parents, guardians and mentors who taught them to excel away from the race for mundane matters in this universe.

Why don’t we start educating our young in having more esprit d’ corps? Why doesn’t DepEd and the CHED start inculcating through positive curricula that build nationalistic spirit the same as they teach them in Korean, Japanese and many other foreign schools? Why doesn’t the Government and Supreme Court rule that all Catholic and other Churches not hold any congregation unless they display the Philippine National Flag and sing the National Anthem? If nearly all programs in the country include the display of the flag and singing of the National Anthem, there’s no reason why it can’t be done inside a Church. A Mass, as Holy or solemn it may be, is also a program. At the closing of the Mass, secular issues are the agenda. So why not the singing of the Pambansang Awit?

Give me a reason why shouldn’t we shoot the unnationalistic and unpatriotic amongst us who have been pulling our country down, down, down, down until there is nowhere else below to go?

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AGILA II SATELLITE

	SATELLITE VARIABLES
Owner Operator	Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation
Degrees East	146 degrees E Longitude
Present Status	Operational
Launch Date	August 19, 1997
Launch Vehicle	Long March 3B
Type of Satellite	FS 13000
Stabilization	3 axis
Design Lifetime	12 years
Prime Contractor	Space Systems/Loral
Dimensions	2.7 x 2.2 x 2.45 meters
Electric Power	9 Kilowatts
SSPA Power	C-band: 27 W; Ku-band: 110 W that can be combined to achieve 220 W
Number of Transponders	C-Band: 30; Ku-band: 24
Channel Capacity	190 Channels digital programming
Channel Bandwidth	C-band: 36 MHz; Ku-band: 36 MHz
Channel Polarization	3 Axis
EIRP	C-band: 35 to 36 dBW; Ku-Band: 52 to 54 dBW
GT	C-band: -5 to -3 dB/K; Ku-band: 3 to 5 dB/K

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2 Events in 2010 I’d like many to share in

lightrays — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:27:22 +0000

I’d like to take a little rest from the work, but it’s all so exciting and so satisfying. I hope that everyone of you out there feel the same, too. There’s a lot of difference when you really, really love what you’re doing that it doesn’t really matter if it’s wringing every bit of energy from your body.

Two mind-wracking events in 2010 occupy my time right now:

One is the 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in Manila, on Apr 8-15, 2010

The other is my brain child, the One Festival, Rock Concert for the benefit of the victims of Philippine typhoon, earthquakes and tsunami in the ASEAN Region in Rizal Park Grandstand, April 16, 2010.

We encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, ASEAN, financial institutions like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, to support this milestone activity the 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit in Manila from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010. The actual even is as mentioned above.

We encourage everyone to support the One Festival, to raise token assistance for those that were victims to the Philippine floods, the tsunami and earthquakes that rocked many nations in ASEAN.

ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE

The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines. This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades. All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.

Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!

The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates. It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities. The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.

The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.

Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.

HMES 2010 Organizers

ONE FESTIVAL LIVE MANILA 2010 (OFLM)

I conceptualized this Event as a music festival, with a concert and some side lights. A side exhibit on ecology and related subjects will be put up by professional event managers for the organizers. This is basically a marketing strategy.

As an added come-on, separate exhibits for culture, performing arts, similar disciplines with a focus on the global ecology, the Philippine environment, and other featured side shows will also be part of the undertaking. The venues will need not be in one place, except that the entire idea is to internalize a sentiment of “one-ness” in concern for the environment.

This festival, OFLM, is the culminating Event of the 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in Manila. The activity is a Music Festival intended to raise funds for the victims of man-made and natural calamities such as Philippine Typhoons, IDPs in hostilities in various areas in the Philippines, victims of the tsunami in the ASEAN-Pacific Regions, and to support the Private Sector Led database development and the creation of a full-functional integrated geographic information system that will include the ASEAN Flood GIS, Forest GIS, Water GIS, Volcanoes GIS, Earthquake GIS, Typhoon GIS, Political conflicts and hostilities GIS.

I hope and pray to see you all there. Come everyone! You are dearly invited!!!

Click here to Join and Sign Up: OFLM2010 Sign Up

Cory Aquino

lightrays — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:55:10 +0000

Wow Allevii, that’s a quite indecent thing to do to a dead body. Imagine using the carcinogenous body of a dead person just to slake their insatiable thirst for power? I simply wonder what else is decent these days?

Maybe carrie’s raving and ranting that they are satanic is just so-so true…

Before The Scandal Erupts

lightrays — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:05:25 +0000

Allevii is mad! She’s mad over the travesty of the ICRC Kidnapping. she could kill the insects that masterminded the kidnapping and my guess is girbaudz would support her. On the other hand, our famous wacwac would want to eat the kidnappers themselves! Wow Liz!!! Way to go!!!

Better do that before the scandal blows over!!!

Calm after the storm

lightrays — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:48:09 +0000

It is calm. Calm after the storm. In the space of my brief existence on this planet, I have learned that being still is merely a virtue of the dead. Well, so far, I’m very much alive. So I try to keep the pace with the rage of this passing storm.

I like the things that I believe in. So I stick with them. I get not to read so much from what comes from other people’s thoughts anymore. With the exception of the plastic bloggers around, probably the only blogger with sense is the professionalheckler. The rest is shit and garbage. How that happened, I don’t know. I read Filipinovoice.org and it’s the epitome of pure polyethelene. PCIJ is like styropore. Inquirer, sunstar, many other bloggers are simply out of synch. Thank God for sensible posts. At least I get my coffee shot even without the coffee sometimes. (pardon the pun mr. pf lol!)

Goodnight Grand Dame Mila Schön

lightrays — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:02:49 +0000

Blogger shoplecher pays tribute to the demise of a great icon in world fashion: Mila Mila Schön (1916 or 1917) who passed away in September 5, 2008. fast forward to shoplecher’s post…

Sad thing about allevii’s boy friend…

lightrays — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:45:33 +0000

In awe of idiots

I am awed by a guy with a minus 9000 IQ who kept presenting drawings in a blog post as if the readers are all in possession of extremely low intelligence like secretaries in the cabinet. I wouldn’t be surprised why Allevii is so incensed with the shit. Read about this post here…

The GRP-MILF Pact Signed Sealed in Principle

lightrays — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:19:34 +0000

I saw an item in the papers today: Senators to boot Esperon.

It seems unfair and uncalled for. The senador-senadora mafia from the Upos-session, probably think that Esperon is battle-weary, fatigued (not the uniform, dumb, dumb!) and therefore he must resign from his post. Their kakampi, Gov. Sacdalan ang pamimigay ng pera sa Korte Suprema, his partner, Vice Gov. Piñolitika ang Korte Suprema, whose first name is Bro. Mike Velarde’s most favorite term: Emen!… read about the post here…

The Supreme Court TRO vs. Ancestral Domain MOA and the Peace Agreement

lightrays — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:19:57 +0000

I couldn’t say everything I wanted to say in just one post but I liked posting about the Supreme Court’s latest TRO against the government’s and MILF’s peace agreement. It’s not a case of loss for words but it will take a long time to compose the things my heart and my brain wants to say. More on this post in my page…

Hello wordpress and bloggers’ community!

lightrays — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:21:02 +0000

This is my WordPress.com homepage, my first post. My sincerest Thanks to friends for the invite.

I think this is going to be fun and likeable. Hope to see more you peeps and here’s hoping you Will see more of Moi here in my blog.