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Philippine Print Media

by Jose Carillo: With the Philippine print media now admirably keeping a much tighter watch over their English grammar and usage, there are obviously fewer opportunities for Jose Carillo's English Forum to do instructive critiques of their grammar errors. This is why for the past several weeks, the Forum has been gradually shifting to new areas of focus in English grammar and usage improvement. It opened a Students' Sounding Board section last January to provide college and high school students with their own online forum for improving English proficiency. It expanded its "Use and Misuse" section last June 4 to more strongly encourage Forum members to discuss any aspect of English that baffles them, and to share interesting experiences about English use and misuse at work, in school, or in the mass media. Then, last June 11, it relaunched its "Pour Out Your Mind" section as "My Thoughts Exactly," which features expositions by Forum members in a mo

Ban Smoking in Public Schools

The Department of Education (DepEd) asserts, schools are no smoking zones and anyone caught violating the order would be suspended. And the ban holds true, even to teachers and non-teaching staff. DepEd official and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said anyone caught violating the no smoking rule will be brought to the principal's office, or if a teacher or non-teaching staff is caught, he will be prosecuted and suspended. "There have been existing DepEd orders on smoking ban but with this, we want to affirm that the schools – including the students, teachers, and non-teaching staff – are covered," Secretary Mona Valisno said in reports. Over the announcement, DepEd has accordingly instructed all principals and school heads to ban smoking inside the campus, even in open or covered spaces around school buildings and instructed regional and division officials to oversee the implementation of the order. Secretary Valisno said the DepEd order No. 73 or the "Smoking Ban

Doctor Specializing in Weight Loss Diet

In what is perhaps the most shocking announcement made in some time regarding the diet and health industry, a lady doctor has just released what some authorities are calling the world's "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret!" The woman doctor, whose name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, has really upset the major food & drug industries, as well as weight loss manufactured food companies. In the past 6 years she has worked largely in secret developing what may be the "cure" for obesity -- and testing this first on herself, and then on a select group of volunteer patients who anxiously awaited salvation from the harmful effects of suffering "the battle of bulge." So valuable her SHOCKING findings and PROVEN results are, that she's now just released her simple and easy-to-do system under the aptly titled: "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret!" And her timing couldn't be better! ... - Since recent studies reveal obesity has now reached epidemic proportions