TACLOBAN CITY– A six-year-old boy, while on his way to school, died due to electrocution on Thursday (June 1) morning in Leyte, Leyte.
Report from the local police said the young boy, Edson Bismonte, accidentally touched a live wire that was blocking his way at about 7 am in Sitio Camansilis, Barangay Palid I, Leyte, Leyte.
The boy, who was in Grade 1, was with his elder sister, Eliza,10, during that time and they were on their way to Palid-II Elementary School.
Eliza tried to help her younger brother by pulling his backpack but was thrown away due to the electric shock.
She then asked for assistance from the people nearby who helped rush her brother to the rural health unit.
However, the attending physician declared the young victim dead on arrival.
The management of the Leyeco V Electric Cooperative (Leyeco V), who owns the live wire that electrocuted the boy, has yet to issue any statement on this incident. (JOEY A. GABIETA)
Congestion in big cities like Metro Manila reduces the overall efficiency of cities, slows down traffic, and harms the environment. While various attempts have been made to tackle this issue, including improving public transport and encouraging the use of bicycles, congestion continues to plague many urban areas. One potential solution to this problem then is the development of countryside areas to decongest cities.
Decongesting cities through the development of the countryside involves expanding or creating new countryside areas that offer an alternative location for people to live, work, and play. This can include building new housing developments, creating new job opportunities, and providing recreational activities. Developing the countryside in this way can help to shift some of the population out of the city, reducing congestion.
To make countryside development a viable option for decongesting cities, transportation infrastructure must also be improved. This can involve building new roads, including highways and bypasses, and improving transport links between cities and the countryside. It is also essential to improve public transport between the city and the countryside, to make it more convenient for people who may still need to travel to the city for work or shopping.
When considering countryside development as a solution to the problem of city congestion, it is crucial to consider the environmental impact of such developments. Efforts must be made to create eco-friendly towns and cities that are sustainable and do not cause further harm to the environment. This can include initiatives such as planting trees and developing green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions, promoting renewable energy sources, and designing buildings that are energy-efficient.
To address these considerations, policymakers can work towards a sustainable solution that benefits both cities and the countryside.
Writing is one of the most important skills that children need to learn in order to communicate effectively. It allows them to express their thoughts, ideas, and opinions clearly and concisely. As a teacher, I find it important to understand the different approaches to teaching writing to children in order to ensure their success.
First is to provide them with a supportive, encouraging environment. It is important to create a safe and positive atmosphere where children feel comfortable sharing their ideas and thoughts. This helps to build confidence and self-esteem, which is essential for effective writing. Teachers should be supportive and encouraging, providing feedback and guidance that is constructive and specific. By fostering a positive environment, children are more likely to be engaged and interested in the writing process.
It is important to teach children the basic mechanics of writing. This includes things like sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation. Children need to understand the rules of writing in order to effectively express their ideas. A good approach to teaching mechanics is to use simple and age-appropriate examples, such as children’s books or stories. This helps to make the process of learning more enjoyable and engaging for children.
Let them focus on the writing process itself. Writing is not just about putting words on paper; it also involves a series of steps that include planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Each stage of the process is important and should be emphasized in order to help children become better writers. By teaching children how to organize their thoughts, plan their writing, and revise and edit their work, they will develop stronger writing skills overall.
Aside from focusing on the mechanics and process of writing, a teacher should also encourage children to express their own ideas and thoughts. This can be achieved through a variety of creative exercises, such as journaling, free writing, and creative writing prompts. By giving children the opportunity to express themselves in their own unique way, they will develop a stronger sense of self and a deeper understanding of who they are as individuals.
Using peer feedback is another useful technique for teaching children how to write. By allowing children to read and critique each other’s work, they will learn to identify strengths and weaknesses in their writing. This also helps to develop critical thinking and analytical skills, which are important for effective writing. Teachers can guide students through the feedback process by offering their own input and recommendations, while also allowing children to develop their own voices and perspectives.
A teacher can make writing fun and enjoyable for children. Writing should be seen as a creative and expressive activity that children look forward to. Teachers can achieve this by using engaging and age-appropriate writing prompts, letting children choose their own topics, and encouraging them to experiment with different styles and genres. By creating a fun and exciting environment, children are more likely to become enthusiastic and engaged writers.
Indeed, teaching children how to write is an important part of their education and development. It is essential for effective communication and self-expression, and can provide a path towards creativity and personal growth. Teachers can help children become more proficient writers and develop stronger critical thinking and analytical skills overall. By instilling a love for writing at a young age, teachers can help children develop skills that will serve them well throughout their lives.
CLEMELLE L. MONTALLANA,DM, CESE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR III
Oxymorons may be something that has been old fashioned for a long time and lay dormant for a while but it has resurfaced to be an important inspiring stories.
Grammarly blog define it as : An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” Oxymorons may seem illogical at first, but in context they usually make sense. An oxymoron is a literary device that juxtaposes contradictory terms. Oxymorons are often used poetically as a way of bringing out a fresh meaning in a word or phrase. Like a paradox, an oxymoron is what’s known as a “contradiction in terms,” although oxymorons and paradoxes are two different things, as explained below.
The word oxymoron is an ancient Greek word, which translates most closely to something like “sharply dull” or “cleverly stupid.” In other words, the oxymoron definition is itself an oxymoron. (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/oxymoron/).
For now having passed the difficult Bar Examinations and the Board: Licensure Examinations for Teacher we have a Blind Lawyer, Blind Teachers.
Michaerl Palisoc Morano, Nerikka Escario are just two of the Blind people who had surmounted the Board Licensure Examinations for Teachers, Mark Anthony Dulawan Emocling though just visually impaired, is the first one to pass the Bar with said condition.
In my youth I have known Carol Catacutan, the Pinay Dubbed as the Philippines Helen Keller. Carol is a graduate of Ramon Magsaysay High School (RMHS), Espana, Manila, Batch ’83. She completed a degree in European languages then pursued a Mass Communications course and graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC. Carol is a professional writer, teacher and one of the founders of ATRIEV (Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration & Empowerment of the Visually Impaired). She’s writing teleplays including her life story, entitled “Liwanag”, which appeared on ABS-CBN television show, “Maalaala Mo Kaya”, hosted by Charo Santos and portrayed by Claudine Barretto. Carol is a contributing writer to various national magazines in the Phlippines including the Sunday Inquirer Magazine and wrote romance novels. She was the anchorwoman at Radio Veritas. Her successful accomplishments are beyond compare. (https://mlvla65.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/while-theres-life-theres-hope-feature-article-at-the-age-of-15/).
Overall, these highlight reels of achievements are worthy of the attention that they are getting. For one, these are inspiring REAL stories that creates hope and push the human spirit breaking the barriers of disability and attaining a fighting chance like normal mortals . It showcased grit and stamina and even persistence unheard of with the many whiners out there.
According to a well-known pair of denim jeans’ commercial, these are inspirations that are always in trend. These, in my opinion, are preferable to the depraved oxymorons we encounter frequently, such as police-criminals, teachers-predators, legislators-lawbreakers, etc.
There is promise in these oxymorons.
YES, what it reminds us of is that we need to reflect and channel the very Trinitarian life of God in our own life. That means that just as in God there are three persons who are perpetually engaged in perfect knowing and loving, we too should try our best to know and love God and everybody else all our life the way God knows and loves himself and all his creation, especially us.
Obviously, in our case, this perpetual process of knowing and loving will have a beginning, but it is supposed to end up by being carried up in the perpetual knowing and loving of God in heaven. Here on earth, we should just try our best to live that process as far as we can.
And the way to do that is to follow what Christ himself told us as the new commandment we need to live, and that is to love one another as he himself has loved us. Following that new commandment of Christ would necessarily link us in a living way to God the Father and the God the Holy Spirit in the way Christ is linked with these two other persons in the Trinitarian God.
If we truly follow Christ’s commandment, then we would have the same sentiment that God in his Trinitarian life has towards us. Or said in another way, we can only follow Christ’s commandment if we have the same sentiment God in his Trinitarian life has towards us.
And what is that divine sentiment? We are clearly told about it in the gospel of this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity that this year falls on June 4. (cfr. Jn 3,16-18)
“God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life,” the gospel says. “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.”
We as persons are patterned after the Trinitarian persons of God. Like God, we have to know God and everybody else, as far as we can, the way God the Father knows himself and everybody else.
We should try that our knowledge of God and of everybody and everything else should be as perfect as God knows himself and everybody else. This perfect divine knowledge is personified in God the Son, who as God who became man offers us the “way, the truth and the life.”
We have to be properly known the way God the Son, the pattern of our humanity, is known perfectly by the Father. In other words, our knowledge of God and everybody else should go as faithfully as possible as the knowledge God has of himself and of everybody and everything else—a knowledge that is personified in the Son.
And we have to love God and everybody else the way God loves himself and everybody and everything else, as personified in the Holy Spirit. This is what Trinity Sunday in the end reminds us of.
In the above-cited gospel, we are told that only when we believe in Christ, “the way, the truth and the life” for us, can we avoid condemnation. (cfr. Jn 3,18) And believing in Christ precisely involves the process of knowing and loving God the way Christ knows and loves God and everybody else. Only then can we reflect and channel God’s Trinitarian life in our life.
People are now being conditioned that power outages are in the offing. The alleged cause is the diminishing capacity of power supply from electric companies. The reduced power generation is projected to peak this summer when power demand is high. The situation has been a perennial cycle that has not been given apt solutions.
Basically, the problem is technical requiring technical solutions that could be solved by our expert electrical engineers. Unfortunately, external power, chiefly from the political, and economic forces outweighs the technical aspect of the power problem.
What appears unconscionably unthinkable is how the power supply would be greatly affected when the country has other sources, mainly, geothermal energy, power generated by windmills, and solar power. These could produce a power reserve that could serve as a buffer when the country would need it most. We could not blame people for complaining about a hot issue that had not been given priority by the government.
It appears that power play by politicians and the strong interference by big business individuals and entities had set appears as the national direction insofar as power and energy management of the country is concerned. The unwritten policy is skewed towards the interest of big business to the detriment of the consuming public.
Already, people who deserve better public service from electric and water utilities are placed in a helpless situation as they get into the proverbial fire out of the frying pan. The heated condition in homes pushes people to go out to beaches and malls to rid themselves of the scorching heat at home.
Those who have access to beaches are able to breathe fresh air and find bonding time with family members. But the hours spent away from home result in an increase in power consumption at the malls and beaches where people converge until power is restored. In the end, the poor and hapless consumers are always at the losing end of this cyclic problem.
