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Whats next for Gilas?

Gilas Pilipinas is now
out of contention for a medal in
the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.
They closed out their campaign
with a win against Kazakhstan
but their lead was not enough to
get them into the next round.
With this cycle of Gilas coming
to an end with the retirement of
Jimmy Alapag from
international competitions,
head coach Chot Reyes
explained what could be next
for the team.
What's the future of this team?
We had several goals. [We
wanted to] get back
respectability in Asia and
compete in world stage. We got
it, he said in the post-game
press conference as shared by
Sports5s Patricia Hizon. It
would have been great to medal
here but our goal now is to get
into the Olympics. I think it
would be a shame to judge the
program on this tournament.
We've won in every
tournament we played and
reached historic milestones. The
program continues, Reyes
continued.
The Gilas head coach once again

voiced out his frustration about

the Andray Blatche situation.
We couldn't understand why
Blatche wasn't allowed to play
here but he's committed to
continue to play for national
team, he said. Blatche is
eligible to play in FIBA Asia and
FIBA World. I can't understand
why he can't play here.

We asked the referee from

Korea or Japan if it was allowed.
So we did it. The Iranian referee
nullified it. When we asked him
during time out he said we can
do that, but the original referee
Alapag asked denied it.
Unfortunately we had to do
something like that because we
had to survive.

Douthit stepped in for Gilas but

he had a poor game against
Qatar, which led to a benching
against Korea.

As for the future, Reyes

admitted that there could be
changes in personnel, including
him.

We had a team meeting

yesterday and Marcus
reiterated his apology and said
he's ready to play. The players
asked me to allow him to play,
Reyes explained. [Douthit]s
contract has been renewed. He
is still part of the program if he
wants to.

The players might not be the

same, the coach might not be
the same but the program
continues, Reyes said.

Reyes also took time to explain

the end-game against
Kazakhstan where Douthit tried
to score on the wrong basket.
We had to win by 11. As usual
we fizzled out again in the end.
We didn't have enough gas to
finish strong. We won but we
really lost, Reyes said.

The first step is to reassess the

program and see how we can
get to 2015. But we don't know
which players would be
available. If they still want me
and still ask me to be the coach,
I will continue to make that
commitment.
https://ph.sports.yahoo.com/ne
ws/what-s-next-for-gilas--chotreyes-answers-091515539nba.html

'Anti-Facebook' social network gets viral

surge
In a matter of days, the
new social network Ello,
described as the "anti-Facebook"
for its stand on privacy and
advertising, has become perhaps
the hottest ticket on the Internet.

Based in Vermont, Ello was

launched by a group of artists and
programmers led by Paul Budnitz,
whose previous experience
include designing bicycles and
robots.

Created last year as a "private"

social network, Ello (www.ello.co)
recently opened its doors on an
invitation-only basis.

Budnitz says on his page that Ello

was designed to be "simple,
beautiful and ad-free."
- 'Different politics' -

Because of the limited supply and

strong demand, the invitations
have been selling on eBay at
prices up to $500. Some reports
said Ello is getting up to 35,000
requests per hour as a result of a
viral surge in the past week.
Ello appears to have caught on
with its simple message which
seems to take aim at frustrations
of Facebook users.
"Ello doesn't sell ads. Nor do we
sell data about you to third
parties," the company says.
Its "manifesto" states: "We believe
a social network can be a tool for
empowerment. Not a tool to
deceive, coerce, and manipulate -but a place to connect, create, and
celebrate life. You are not a
product."
Ello's policy states that the
practice of collecting and selling
personal data and mapping your
social connections for profit "is
both creepy and unethical."
"Under the guise of offering a
'free' service, users pay a high
price in intrusive advertising and
lack of privacy."

Nathan Jurgenson, a social media

researcher at the University of
Maryland, welcomed Ello's fresh
approach.
"I love these moments of new
social media when conversation
explodes, moved to imagine how
social media can be different,
questioning core assumptions
instead of just fretting and
complaining -- all before this
paint even dries," he said on his
Ello page.
"Ello is getting so much attention
precisely because it promises
social media of a different politics.
Weve collectively come to the
realization that the rise of social
media has been accompanied by
handing far too much power to far
too few people, and theres energy
to shake things up, even if just a
bit."
Ello's rise also comes amid
complaints against Facebook from
the gay community that the
world's biggest social network
began disabling accounts using
stage names instead of real
names.
A San Francisco protest is planned
against Facebook supporting

"drag queens" who lost their

Facebook accounts. Ello does not
require real names.
- Business plan? It remains unclear if Ello will end
up being a flash in the pan, or if it
will develop a profitable business
plan.
Ello states it plans to remain
"completely free to use," but that
it could start offering some
premium features for a fee.
Some question if Ello can succeed
on this kind of model and keep its
principles.
But former Ello collaborator Aral
Balkan said Ello has already been
compromised by taking $435,000
in venture capital funding.
A designer and founder of ind.ie, a
privacy advocacy group, Balkan
said he worked briefly for Ello but
left when he learned of the
venture investments.
"When you take venture capital, it
is not a matter of if you're going to
sell your users, you already have,"
says a blog post from Balkan.
"It's called an exit plan. And no
investor will give you venture
capital without one. In the myopic
and upside-down world of
venture capital, exits precede the
building of the actual thing itself.
It would be a comedy if the
repercussions of this toxic system
were not so tragic."
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/antifacebook-social-network-gets-viralsurge-044242631.html

The Marcos shadow

September 28, 2014 is
the 25th anniversary of the
death of Filipino dictator
Ferdinand Marcos. This seems
an irrelevant part of the
distant past and the Marcos
martial rule only a page in our
students history books. Yet,
the issue of that dark period
remains very much alive and
forms part of current political
battles.
Of course, the most visible of
the Marcos influence is the
return of the Marcos family in
the halls of power. Marcos
namesake himself, Senator
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is in the
Senate. His wife,
Congresswoman Imelda
Marcos, is in the lower House
while his eldest daughter,
Governor Maria Imelda Imee
Marcos firmly holds the local
power in Ilocos Norte.

previous regimes of the premartial law period. Marcos

imprisoned his rival families,
formed alliances with selected
local political lords, formed
new lines of power through
the military and the barangay
system, abolished Congress
(resurrected in an
emasculated Interim Batasang
Pambansa) later, and cowed
the Supreme Court into a
rubberstamp of his dictates.
He drove the opposition
underground, to the
mountains, or to exile abroad.
Then he started the systematic
pillage of entire industries and
wealth of the nation, using his
cronies as economic generals.
At the end, he was able to hide
and stash abroad more than
half of his estimated US$8.5
billion loot.

The Romualdezes in Leyte also

came back to power. Martin
Romualdez joined
Congresswoman Imelda
Marcos in Congress while
Alfred Romualdez is now the
mayor of Tacloban City.

Without restraints, he
monopolized and bled the
tobacco, sugar, and coconut
industries in the agriculture
sector, the mining and
construction industries, and
almost the entire service
industry.

However, the more insidious

Marcos influence is in the
reshaping of Philippine elite
politics. Dictator Marcos, in his
time, stripped away the
democratic trimmings of what
essentially was the
oligarchical rule of the

He also created the necessary

myths to hide the looting and
maintain political support. The
most pervasive of these is the
notion that martial rule is for
the poor; that it brings
economic prosperity both to
the nation and the family.

However, this is illusory. What

Marcos actually did was to
create loyalist pockets, such as
in Ilocos Norte and other
Northern Luzon provinces, by
using part of his loot but, by
and large, the poor remained
poor. The economy, without
strong industries and capital
inputs, dive-bombed.
The succeeding post-Marcos
governments failed to recover
the larger part of the Marcos
wealth, failed to get justice for
martial law victims, failed to
dismantle the rule of the
Marcos family and their
political and economic cronies,
failed to put in place strong
democratic institutions, failed
to educate succeeding
generations on the lessons of
the Marcos martial rule, and
allowed the Marcos family and
their cronies to return to the
halls of power.
Marcos rule now threatens to
return, ironically, by using the
same traditional politics that
they dismantled in 1972. A
Marcos that did not apologize
for damaging the nation and
its people, a Marcos that now
tries to inveigh against those
who fought them and cynically
imposing their myths on the
new, post-Marcos generations.
The Marcos shadow threatens
us all.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/blogs
/parallaxis/-the-marcos-shadow052929041.html