Philippine Commentary

hat follows is a verbatim transcription of the Reading Text beginning on Page 3 of an instruction module handed out to University of Makati Grade 11 students this past week identified as ENGLISH FOR GRADE 11 WITH FILIPINO LEGACY INTEGRATION. I have taken the liberty however, of marking in red passages that, in my opinion, represent erroneous, deficient or unsatisfactory English instruction--for being negative examples.[My own interspersed comments are in aqua. --DJB] A RECONSTRUCTED

In today's Publisher's Note, Philippine Daily Inquirer's Raul C. Pangalangan takes a "Serious Look at Cartoons" and tackles the Pugad Baboy-Saint Scholastica-PDI-Pol Medina brouhaha, which RCP summarizes succinctly thus: Pugad Baboy’s strip on June 4 spoke of religious hypocrisy toward gays and lesbians. It singled out St. Scholastica’s College for purportedly tolerating lesbian relationships among its students, suggesting that the nuns themselves might be lesbians. On June 6, the Inquirer

Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism:Gauss' Law for Electrical Charge ∇ · E → = 4 π ρGauss' Law for Magnetism ∇ · B → = 0Faraday's Law ∇ × E → = - 1 c ∂ B → ∂ t Ampere's Law ∇ × B → = 1

Last night, I had a very interesting short session on Twitter with these fine folks: @bvergara @bethangsioco @cocoy @SagadaSun @jesterinexile about this web page on the RHLAW at the Philippine Supreme Court website, of which I luckily snapped a SCREENSHOT: This morning the same web page looks like this! So here are the two screenshots of the Supreme Court's MICROSITE on the Reproductive Health Law.