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Iti Mapukpukaw ('The Missing', 2023)

direksyon ni Carl Joseph Papa

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A Japanese uni exchange student just confessed his love for a friend he made during his time in the Philippines and I AM SOBBING RIGHT NOW 😭😭

This is such a poetic love confession I can't even 😭 I hope Carl gets to see this before sunset boy goes home.

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US Personnel with a pair of Colt SAA Artillery Model revolvers he picked up from a scrap pile during the Battle of Manila - Feb/Mar 1945.

Between 1895 and 1903, the US Army had nearly 17,000 of its SAAs reconditioned and rebuilt by Springfield Armory & Colt. Most of these guns had their barrels shortened to 5½ inches. These refurbished revolvers were issued to troops in the Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection and have been nicknamed “Artillery Models” by collectors. The original long-barrel variations were nicknamed “Cavalry Models”.

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Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann

Botanist and microbiologist Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann was born in 1937 in Manila, Philippines. Ocampo-Friedman was best known for her research on cyanobacteria and other organisms that survive in extreme conditions. In the 1970s, she and her husband, Imre Friedmann, found microbes beneath rocks in Antarctica's frozen deserts. Ocampo-Friedmann collected over 1,000 types of microorganisms from extreme conditions throughout the world. She was a professor of biology and microbiology at Florida A&M University, and later a researcher at SETI's Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. In 1981, she won the National Science Foundation's Congressional Antarctic Service Medal. In 2005, a mountain peak in Antarctica was named after her.

Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann died in 2005 at the age of 67.

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Fast food companies in general are hungry for AI. White Castle has been testing AI provided by speech recognition company SoundHound. And Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, and others use an AI drive-through chatbot that an SEC filing revealed was underpinned by remote human workers in the Philippines most of the time.

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now

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Distraught cancer victims make pilgrimages to the Philippines, where 'psychic surgeons', having palmed bits of chicken liver or goat heart, pretend to reach into the patient's innards and withdraw the diseased tissue, which is then triumphantly displayed.

Leaders of western democracies regularly consult astrologers and mystics before making decisions of state.

Under public pressure for results, police with an unsolved murder or a missing body on their hands consult ESP 'experts' (who never guess better than expected by common sense, but the police, the ESPers say, keep calling).

A clairvoyance gap with adversary nations is announced, and the Central Intelligence Agency, under Congressional prodding, spends tax money to find out whether submarines in the ocean depths can be located by thinking hard at them.

A 'psychic', using pendulums over maps and dowsing rods in airplanes, purports to find new mineral deposits.

An Australian mining company pays him top dollars up front, none of it returnable in the event of failure, and a share in the exploitation of ores in the event of success. Nothing is discovered.

Statues of Jesus or murals of Mary are spotted with moisture, and thousands of kind-hearted people convince themselves that they have witnessed a miracle.

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion - wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P.T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute'. But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic.

— The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (1996)

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Nepenthes - Armored Core Fun Facts: Spoiler Warning

Nepenthes is infamous for shredding Balam's forces as they explore the depths of Watchpoint Alpha, sitting at the bottom of a deep pit and just waiting to blast any unsuspecting MT or AC into dust. As it turns out, this is extremely fitting given its namesake.

"Nepenthes" is the name of a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants found throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, etc. Pitcher plants consume their prey by being brightly colored and slippery so that insects land on them and fall inside due to unsure footing, landing in a thick liquid which drowns and digests them, much like poor footing and lack of cover leave you open to being "digested" by the Nepenthes weapons platform in-game.

The name "Nepenthes" means "without grief", and is a reference to a section in Homer's Odyssey where a potion to quell grief via forgetfulness is titled "Nepenthes pharmakon". Carl Linnaeus (considered the father of modern taxonomy and the man we have to thank for modern binomial nomenclature) named the genus such because he imagined a botanist would "forget past ills" by coming upon and studying this plant.

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Iti Mapukpukaw ('The Missing', 2023)

direksyon ni Carl Joseph Papa

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A Japanese uni exchange student just confessed his love for a friend he made during his time in the Philippines and I AM SOBBING RIGHT NOW 😭😭

This is such a poetic love confession I can't even 😭 Carl I hope you see this page while there's still time left

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Holidays 2.4

Holidays

Across the Universe Day

Armed Struggle Day (Angola)

Box Tree Day (French Republic)

Carl Rogers Day

Colour Supplement Day (UK)

Create-A-Vacuum Day

Day for Change (UN)

Facebook Friends Day

Farmer’s Day (Taiwan)

First Sitting of the People’s Majils (Maldives)

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International Day of Human Fraternity (UN)

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Liberace Day

Lifeguard Day (Argentina)

Montgomery Convention Day

National Day of Courage

National Hemp Day

National Quacker Day

National Wicker Day

Obscurity Day

Philippine-AmericanWar Memorial Day (Philippines)

Port Arthur Day

Rissun (Japan)

Rosa Parks Day (California, Missouri) [also 12.1]

Semen Den (Seeds Day; Bulgaria)

Special Working Day (China)

Spoiled Cats’ Day

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USO Day

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Food & Drink Celebrations

Homemade Soup Day

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National Stuffed Mushroom Day

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Nature Celebrations

International Unicorn Day

Red Primrose (Natural Beauty; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Celebration of the Beginning of the Struggle for Liberation (Angola)

Liberation Day (Angola)

Sri Lanka (from UK, 1948)

1st Tuesday in February

African-American Coaches Day [1st Tuesday]

International Eggplant Day [1st Tuesday]

Safer Internet Day [1st Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Takeout Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

To-Do List Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Tranquil Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning February 4 (1st Week of February)

National Green Week (thru 4.30) [From 1st Full Week]

Festivals Beginning February 4, 2025

Cattlecon (San Antonio, Texas) [thru 2.6]

Colusa Farm Show (Colusa, California) [thru 2.6]

Empire State Producers Expo (Geneva, New York) [thru 2.5]

Iowa AG Expo (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 2.6]

Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Japan) [thru 2.11]

Spokane Ag Expo (Spokane, Washington) [thru 2.6]

Taipei International Book Exhibition (Taipei, Taiwan) [thru 2.9]

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Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 7 (Jia-Chen)

Day Pillar: Wood Dragon

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Full Day (满 Man) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: Spring Festival Golden Week

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Hank Aaron (Sports)

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Photography)

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Fatal Day (Pagan) [4 of 24]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [8 of 71]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Film; 1994)

Across the Universe, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1968)

The Atrocity Exhibition, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1970)

Bennie and the Jets, by Elton John (Song; 1974)

Candle in the Wind, by Elton John (Song; 1974)

The Case of the Maltese Chicken (Inspector Willoughby Cartoon; 1964)

The Cloverfield Paradox (Film; 2018)

Col. Heeza Liar on the Jump (Paramount-Bray Pictograph Cartoon; 1917)

Colour Supplement in the Sunday Times (UK Newspaper; 1962)

The Devil’s Tower (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #21; 1965)

Dick Tracy (Radio Series; 1934)

Dizzy Dishes (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1955)

Down in Dixie (Mutt & Jeff Cartoon; 1923)

End of the Century, by The Ramones (Album; 1980)

Evita, by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Album; 1977)

Facebook (Social Media App; 2004)

Fresh Off the Boat (TV Series; 2015)

Gambling with the Gulf Stream (Technical Romances Bray Cartoon; 1923)

Hen Fruit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Hep Cat Symphony (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1949)

His Day Off (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

The Human Comedy, buy William Saroyan (Novel; 1943)

Justice League: War (WB Animated Film; 2014)

Ko-Ko’s Germ Jam (Fleischer Inkwell Imps Cartoon; 1928)

The Last Juror, by John Grisham (Novel; 2004)

The Last of the Mohicans (Novel; 1826)

The Lion’s Busy (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

Magic Strength (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

Moonfall (Film; 2022)

Mr. Fuller Pep: His Wife Goes for a Rest (Powers Cartoon; 1917)

Naked (Film; 1994)

19th Nervous Breakdown, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1966)

One Step Ahead of My Shadow (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

On the Avenue (Film; 1937)

Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (Play; 1938)

Patton (Film; 1970)

Piano Concerto in E Major, by Reynaldo Hahn (Piano Concerto; 1931)

Poor Is Keeler (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1916)

The Puppy Express (Hot Dog Bray Cartoon; 1926)

Purl (SparkShorts Pixar Cartoon; 2019)

Putting Fritz on the Water Wagon (Paramount-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1918)

Reacher (TV Series; 2022)

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, by M. Scott Peck (Self-Help Book; 1978)

Rumours, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1977)

Scrappy’s Trip to Mars (Scrappy Cartoon; 1938)

Señor Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1958) [Saint #34]

Sock It To Me Baby, by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (Song; 1967)

The Story of a Speeder Cop (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1916)

A Study in Brown, by Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra (Song; 1937)

Throwing the Bull (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1917)

Two Days to Doom or The Last Weekend (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 253; 1964)

Two Moose is Loose or Which One Has the Phoney? (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 254; 1964)

The Ugly Dachshund (Film; 1966)

Videodrome (Film; 1983)

The Wedding Date (Film; 2005)

White Christmas, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1954)

Why Play Leapfrog (Fun Facts About America MGM Cartoon; 1950)

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Disney Cartoon; 1966)

Zeno's Conscience, by Italo Svevo (Novel; 1923)

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Andreas, Rabanus, Veronika (Austria)

Andrija, Ivan, Izidor, Veronika (Croatia)

Jarmila (Czech Republic)

Veronica (Denmark)

Arma, Armi, Armiida, Meida, Miida (Estonia)

Armi, Ronja (Finland)

Véronique (France)

Andreas, Jenny, Veronika (Germany)

Asimakis, Asimina, Malamati, Simeon, Stamatia, Stamatis (Greece)

Csenge, Ráhel (Hungary)

Biago, Gilberto (Italy)

Daila, Veronika (Latvia)

Andrius, Arvilė, Gustas, Joana, Vydmantas (Lithuania)

Vera, Veronika (Norway)

Andrzej, Gilbert, Jan, Joanna, Józef, Mariusz, Weronika, Witosława (Poland)

Isidor (Romania)

Anastasia (Russia)

Veronika (Slovakia)

Gilberto, Juan, Juana (Spain)

Anselm, Ansgar (Sweden)

Byron, Gilbert, Gilberta, Gilberto, Gilmer (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Israel Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 35 of 2025; 330 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 2 of Week 6 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 7 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 27 Tubah 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Poplar (Feb 4-8) [Day 1 of 5]

Hebrew: 6 Shevat 5785

Islamic: 5 Sha’ban 1446

Julian: 22 January 2025

Moon: 43%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 7 Homer (2nd Month) [Aeschylus)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 46 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 5 Gray; Fryday [5 of 30]

Week: 1st Week of February

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 16 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 21 of 29)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 28)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 17 of 28)

Calendar Changes

Poplar [Druid Tree Calendar] (thru 2.8)

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With the V-22 grounded, the Navy's venerable C-2 are coming back into action

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/23/2023 - 21:52in Military

Currently, there is only one tiltrotor Bell V-22 Osprey unit operating in the U.S. military. As a result, the U.S. Pacific Fleet again used the C-2A Greyhound to transport to and from aircraft carriers.

After the fall in late November of a U.S. Air Force Special Operations CV-22B near Yakushima Island, Japan, in which eight aviators died, all the Ospreys of the Navy, the Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force were landed on December 6.

Only the Navy Middle Tiltrotor Squadron VMM-162 (part of the 26ª Navy Expeditionary Unit) flying MV-22B received special permission to conduct limited operations because it has detachments on ships currently deployed, including the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and the USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) in the Red Sea and USS Green Table (LPD-19) in the Eastern Mediterranean.

All the other Ospreys are grounded. This left some U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers without their on-board delivery aircraft (COD). Most Fleet aircraft carriers based on the West Coast began using the Osprey CMV-22B variant as CODs starting with the first deployment of the tiltrotors on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in 2021.

The CMV-22B took over the COD mission both to replace the old C-2As and to serve the Navy's F-35C. Osprey can load the Pratt & Whitney F-135 engine of the Join Strike Fighter and land with it on the aircraft carrier. Greyhound is not big enough to do that.

As a result, the C-2s that served most of the West Coast aircraft carriers in previous decades were transferred to the Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia, on the East Coast, to support the Atlantic Fleet aircraft carriers whose Air Wings do not yet have F-35C squadrons.

Currently, Vinson, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) use Osprey. On Tuesday, Vinson was operating in the Philippine Sea area, while Roosevelt and Lincoln are currently at their home port in San Diego.

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The Japan-based USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is currently in the port of Yokosuka, but is still deployed with C-2 based on land at the Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in Japan. Their status in port allowed the C-2 of the VRC-30 squadron based in Iwakuni to be deployed to Vinson.

First placed on the field in the mid-1960s, the C-2 overcame the first problems to become a true Navy flagship. The same cannot be said of the CMV-22B yet. The grounding that began earlier this month is the second of the U.S. Navy's Osprey fleet this year.

All three Forces flying on Osprey paralyzed part of their V-22 fleets in February due to an ongoing problem with the hard transmission of the tiltrotor. This grounding occurred after USAF interrupted its fleet operations in August 2022 due to the same hard transmission problem.

In 2022, the Pentagon's director of operational testing and evaluation (DOT&E) issued an evaluation stating that the CMV-22B only partially met its reliability requirements. He concluded that Osprey could not meet its operational readiness requirements and had an insufficient ice protection system.

Thanks to its non-pressurized cabin, the CMV-22B cannot fly far above 10,000 feet with passengers (or practically with its crew), which means that it will probably have to fly through weather conditions in which it cannot fly easily. This has made the problem of the insufficient ice protection system more acute and the altitude limitation affects the operations and operational range of Osprey in any climate.

Meanwhile, C-2 veterans now crossing the deck to the Vinson can fly at altitudes of up to 28,700 feet and carry 10,000 pounds of cargo in a range of 1,300 nautical miles, surpassing the 6,000 pounds of cargo of the Osprey in a range of 1,150 nautical miles. The age of the C-2 also makes its maintenance difficult, but it remains a less complex aircraft than the CMV-22B.

The Navy welcomed the Osprey as a COD that can take off and land vertically from the aircraft carrier and other ships, unlike the C-2, only transported by aircraft carriers, but in practice the tiltrotor V-22 operates from a few other Navy ships besides those of amphibious assault, dock landing and transport dock ships. It is not clear whether the CMV-22B operated with these types.

Thus, in the absence of flying Ospreys, the former Navy C-2s (who are on average 34 years old) are compensating for their CMV-22 until the tiltrotors are allowed to fly again.

When returning to the deck of the Carl Vinson for the first time since 2021, the ship's crew will be able to reflect on the fact that the old CODs that now bring their correspondence, high-priority supplies and passengers cost approximately $38.96 million each, a third of the price of the landed CMV-22B ($104.9 million per aircraft).

Until the Ospreys receive the green light again, they will have to continue helping.

Source: Forbes

Tags: Military AviationCMV-22B OspreyGrumman C-2 Greyhoundaircraft carrierUSN - United States Navy/U.S. Navy

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The drug war reinvestigation of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s government has shown dismal results since its launch four years ago, with four homicide investigations now closed, putting six police officials back on active duty, Rappler has learned.

But during the House committee on human rights hearing on Wednesday, June 5, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Deputy Director for Operations Jose Justo Yap said there are actually a total of 30 cases already closed.

Mila [the mother of a young man killed by police officials and whose case landed in the reinvestigation] has participated in the drug war reinvestigation – an initiative launched in 2020 during Duterte’s time – by former justice secretary Menardo Guevarra that intended to review a speck of 52 cases of killings by police. The 52 cases were chosen because cops involved had already been meted sanctions, mostly suspensions, by the police force’s own internal affairs service or IAS.

On a smartphone screen, Mila watched Guevarra be accused by Act Teachers Partylist Representative France Castro of being behind a “coverup.” It is now June 2024, and Guevarra is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s solicitor general.

Mila watched with a blank face as Guevarra explained that the difficulty in reinvestigating was lack of participation. “I participated,” Mila said, “I gave them everything I had.”

“But it’s like they weren’t interested,” she said. Mila said that in the few times that investigators reached out to her, they asked her if she had obtained more evidence. “I wanted to tell them: was that not your job?”

In the four homicide investigations involving nine police officials in Laguna and Cavite, three were “provisionally closed” in August 2022 due to a lack of investigative leads, and one is now closed and terminated because the family is “no longer interested,” according to the NBI.

“Despite commitments made before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the government has been remiss in following up and acting on the commitments made by the former secretary of justice. How can the victims have the confidence in cooperating with government when you have such dismal results in the status of cases?” said Karen Gomez Dumpit, a former human rights commissioner who, during her term, already complained about the “superfluous” reinvestigation.

Of the 52, only one, the case of Carl Angelo Arnaiz, which was a sensational case that merited headlines in 2017, resulted in the criminal conviction for murder of one policeman.

“Mapanlinlang ang reinvestigation na ito para sa mga biktima (This reinvestigation is deceptive for the victims),” Kristina Conti, lawyer for victims and an ICC-accredited assistant counsel, told Rappler on Saturday, June 1.

Conti pointed out that the “cherry-picking” of the 52 cases was suspect from the beginning because the DOJ relied on records that were forwarded to them by the police. “The reinvestigation was a desk review, and this desk review is ineffective, and ultimately has no impact on the search for accountability in the Philippines,” said Conti.

Rubilyn Litao, the coordinator for Rise Up or the organized network of families of victims that Conti works with, said there’s been a little bit more willingness on the part of other families to share their experiences now that Duterte is no longer in power.

Dumpit said a family she’s in contact with expresses some hope from time to time whenever they see another case progress. “The successful prosecution of other cases even if not their kin’s case can regain some of the crumbled trust with the police and in the justice system in the country,” said Dumpit, “but clearly, with what you have gathered, there has been a dearth of investigations, very few indictments and more so with successful prosecutions.”

The Makabayan bloc sees promise in the committee hearing. Castro told Rappler she will try to have the individual police officials be called to the hearing to answer for their deadly operations. [Gabriela Partylist Representative Arlene Brosas] said “it’s also [the families’] time to be heard.”

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