And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one - our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.
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Mourinho 2 - 1 Alonso
Who said the FA Cup was losing its prestige? Before Real Madrid’s La Liga clash against Granada, former Liverpool midfielder updated former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho with the result of the final.
“Dos a Uno. Carroll.” Alonso told his manager. Mourinho responded by asking how long was left before turning away. Despite showing no emotion or interest, it’s probable that ‘The Special One’ was delighted with Chelsea’s victory. [posted by DV]
By Max Grieve
With apparently false obstinacy, both red and blue repeated the tired lines. “We’ll pick a team that will do this club justice,” said Dalglish. His captain nodded in approval: “We’ve got the game against Fulham, and then we can get ready for Chelsea”. This sentiment was echoed in London. “I have not rested players in the past,” Di Matteo declared ahead of his side’s vital league clash with Newcastle. “All the games are important – we obviously tried to stay in all the competitions. We don’t want to just throw anything away.”
Their respective home losses to Fulham and Newcastle were symptomatic of their contradictory seasons. That Liverpool and Chelsea should be defeated, despite such resolute opposition to the suggestion that they might field weakened sides, reflected a common lapse in focus for this afternoon’s FA Cup finalists. Everybody insisted that their efforts were concentrated solely on the midweek league matches, though as Wembley loomed, it was obvious that minds were wandering. The alternate opinion – that both were actually too focussed – is a similar argument: neither appeared to recognise the importance of the immediate challenge, and had their attentions turned towards the shimmering prize ahead.
winnie the pooh: Eeyore cake! (tutorial)
MANILA, Philippines - There is only so much a tourism campaign can do. With clichéd pictures of white sand beaches, smiling locals forced to look courteous and whirring bokeh shots of the city’s night life, an image of a country is only as good as its soft power import, or its next travel advisory. But as CNN’s Eye On the Philippines feature proved, there are many things that even us Filipinos don’t know about our country. It takes a World Bank and CIA World Factbook to pry our eyes open about certain realities that have been relegated to blind spots and commentary thread fodder.
Thanks to @geeksturr for taking my weird thoughts into consideration! I really had to look for a copy with this one. I find it odd though why it would be so difficult to look for newspapers in a mall. Nevertheless, I found one.
Chelsea win the FA Cup, are on to something special…
A few months ago, Chelsea winning the FA Cup seemed absurd. And the Champions League? Well, if you were even thinking about that then you were either entirely out of your mind or some kind of evil genius. But somehow, Roberto Di Matteo has inspired Chelsea’s old guard to do the unthinkable. After watching this match, Bayern Munich will know that they have no easy test awaiting them.
What were your thoughts on the match? [drawing by the amazing Richard Swarbrick, GIF via. posted by EB]
Coldplay pays tribute to late rapper Adam Yauch. The band played an acoustic version of the normally aggressive “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”
A fitting tribute.
life:
On the anniversary of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, LIFE.com presents pictures of the writer in Cuba — and the unsettling, untold story behind the photos.
Not originally published in LIFE. An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
See more here.
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A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.
“Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue?” asked psychologists led by Boaz Keysar of the University of Chicago in an April 18 Psychological Science study.
“It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less systematic. We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases,” wrote Keysar’s team.
Psychologists say human reasoning is shaped by two distinct modes of thought: one that’s systematic, analytical and cognition-intensive, and another that’s fast, unconscious and emotionally charged.
In light of this, it’s plausible that the cognitive demands of thinking in a non-native, non-automatic language would leave people with little leftover mental horsepower, ultimately increasing their reliance on quick-and-dirty cogitation.
Equally plausible, however, is that communicating in a learned language forces people to be deliberate, reducing the role of potentially unreliable instinct. Research also shows that immediate emotional reactions to emotively charged words are muted in non-native languages, further hinting at deliberation.
Curious though if this applies to bilinguals. And where does one actually draw a line as to which language is foreign and which is native or natural to the person?
Take for example a Filipino born in the US and raised speaking English. To that person, English is his/her native language and not the Tagalog being used by his/her parents at home. Although by ethnicity, that person is Filipino.
Or in the case of Filipinos in non-Tagalog-speaking areas, who were taught English alongside their local language by their non-Tagalog parents at home. And whom would only later learn Tagalog when they go to school. Which then is more of a “foreign language” to that person? English or Tagalog?
Tricky huh?
Parang:
“ano’ng paborito mong kulay?”
“fusha”
“spell fuchsia”
“red na lang.”
