"CHANGE IT STARTS WITH ME"

                             “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” 

                             Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” 

KANNAWIDAN FESTIVAL

               

                                         KANNAWIDAN FESTIVAL

           Our province is really great; it has a rich historical background and each municipalities have their own products to be proud of. The Kannawidan Festival was opened with a mass at St. Paul Cathedral to give thanks as well as to pray for blessings in the coming festivities. The priority of this campaign is to promote entrepreneurship and create jobs. It encourages local executives of each city and municipality on identifying and developing a specific product, skill, or service that would have a competitive edge. It is important to Ilocos for the reason that it proves our province to truly have the best of the best. Other activities such as the Traditional Tribal Ritual, choir, drum and lyre, street dancing showdown, traditional music ensemble, dance drama, traditional folk dance and contemporary dance are participated by students in elementary and high school to reveal the glimpses of the depth of our province' culture and identity; the Abel Fashion Show to display beautiful and elegant wardrobes weaved by the use of "abel"; the Saniata ti Ylocos to let people see that Ilocanas are beautiful, smart, talented and gorgeous women. 
     Kannawidan has really lived up to its mission and vision: preserving and perpetuating the rich Iloco cultural, artistic, historical and intellectual heritage. Kannawidan gatherings have always been a venue for Ilocanos, relations and friends, sharing and exchanging thoughts, views and insights on how to preserve and perpetuate the beautiful customs and traditions. May this continue and we, Ilocanos must work as one in the spirit of unity, to love our own culture and arts. We must be do these things always, not only during festivals. Ilocos Sur is an amazing, wonderful, magnificent place! Be proud you're an Ilocano! :)

New Year,New Me

                       A year from now ,I'm gonna weigh more or less than what I do right now."Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,with all the wisdom that experience can instill  in us."Cheers to a new year and a chance for us to get it right." Tomorrow is the first blank of my 365-page book.I will write a good one.

                       New year for me is a new beginning of another chapter of my life.I will change the bad attitudes into good ones.Now I've gone for too long .Living like I'm not alive .So I'm going to start over tonight. Beginning with you and I.
                       

"EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES"

                   
                            "EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES"


In a nutshell, women should be give the right to a decent life. That is to say, they should not be denied their right to live peacefully and productively and in harmony with society. They should also be educated to the same heights as men . They should be given the chance to choose a life time partner in order that she may develop her God given abilities instead of ending p in some man’s house where she lives with fear and in an unjust situation. 
Equal opportunities, especially in education, should be assured for all women. A girl should not be dropped out of school while a boy continues his education. Unfortunately for women, our local people believe that if a family educates a woman, that at the end of the day she will end up in a man’s house, forgetting that when she is educated she will impact the knowledge of her children, leading to the progress of our entire nation. But men will only concentrate on himself alone, instead of trying to also impact his knowledge upon his children in order to broaden their minds. As the saying goes, “ If you educate a man you have educated an individual but if you educate a woman, you have educated the nation of Ghana and the world at large.” For this reason, all women should be given equal opportunities for education in order that the entire nation can make progress. 

Equal opportunities for women to work should also be provided if our nation is to make progress. Women should be allowed to work just as men are. As the adage states, “ What men can do, women can do he same and even do it better.” If women are given the same opportunities to work as men, our country will be a happier, more progressive place , causing harmony to grow in our land. By giving women equal opportunities and equal rights to be educated, to work, to be treated decently in the community and in marriage, every person, man and woman, will contribute to making Ghana a country of progress for all." 

CLIMATE CHANGE

                                CLIMATE CHANGE

   Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions . Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming".
     
  Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record — extending deep into the Earth's past — has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable-isotope and other analyses of sediment layers, and records of past sea levels. More recent data are provided by the instrumental record. General circulation models, based on the physical sciences, are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.

  The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause. Accordingly, fluctuations over periods shorter than a few decades, such as El Niño, do not represent climate change.
The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes. In this sense, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term climate change has become synonymous with anthropogenic global warming. Within scientific journals, global warming refers to surface temperature increases while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas levels will affect.

True Essence of Christmas

True Essence of Christmas

  Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way. Oh! what fun it is to ride  In a one-horse open sleigh.  Jinglebells, jingle bells,  Jingle all the way;  Oh! what fun it is to ride  In a one-horse open sleigh.




             It's that time of year again. December has come and with it all the joys of Christmas. But what is the real meaning of Christmas? Is it the gifts under the tree, the lights in the windows, the cards in the mail, turkey dinners with family and friends, snow in the yard, stockings hanging in the living room, and shouts of "Merry Christmas" to those who pass us in the streets? Is this really Christmas? 

              Yet, Christmas can be a season of great joy. It is a time of God showing His great love for us. It can be a time of healing and renewed strength. You see, Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of the Christ child. God sent His Son, Jesus, into the world to be born. His birth brought great joy to the world. Shepherds, wise men, and angels all shared in the excitement of knowing about this great event. They knew this was no ordinary baby. The prophets had told of His coming hundreds of years before. The star stopped over Bethlehem just to mark the way for those who were looking for this special child.

GOING GLOBAL THROUGH ENGLISH

                                                GOING GLOBAL THROUGH ENGLISH 

This year’s theme is Global education: knowledge-based economies for 21st century nations and as registration for the conference is open until February 15, this year’s conference is on track to be the most popular Going Global event ever. Leaders from over 70 countries will be in attendance, including twelve Ministers or former ministers, 58 Vice Chancellors or Pro-Vice Chancellors, and 263 Directors or Rectors from the world’s leading educational foundations and organisations. 

Peter Clack, the British Council’s Head of Education, MENA, said: “We are delighted that so many higher education leaders from Egypt will be joining us at the conference in Dubai. We are expecting more than 220 delegates from the Middle East and North Africa in total and we look forward to their contribution to the conference and the mingling of so many of the region’s best higher education minds.”

As well as global education issues, the conference will offer a chance for a specific look at higher education in MENA, particularly looking at partnerships and the co-creation of knowledge, encouraging enterprise in education and quality assurance in the region.