My Expectations & Preparations, Sports Fest 2008

My expectations in this coming sports fest/intrams is its going to be a fun enjoyable event in my school. There will be a lot of interesting activities and happenings. I don't expect much that I can win the game i joined but i will try my best and have fun. I haven't prepared yet for the Sports Fest but im looking forward to practice and enhance my skills in the field of Table Tennis.^ ^

Enneagram Type 6: The Doubter

Loyal Person, Devil's Advocate, Skeptic, Guardian or Rebel

Overview
You want to be safe and secure, to fit in and belong. More importantly, you want to have certainty and security, putting your faith in a trusted authority, belief system or tradition. You see yourself as faithful, friendly, conservative and/or cautious. You would like others to see you as loyal, dedicated and reliable. Your idealized image is that you are supportive and do your duty.

A bundle of contradictions, you can be wary and cautious one minute and/or rebellious and courageous the next. You possess an endearing childlike reactivity and often take the position of the devil’s advocate. Depending on the situation, you can be friendly and outgoing or reserved and skeptical. A ‘good soldier’, you prefer the role of buddy, loyal family member or trusted employee. You can be a reluctant authority because you fear that taking on a leadership position might make you a target for opposition. You are attracted to people who are strong, protective and/or have prestige. You seek trusted, reliable authorities and allies.

Often identifying with the underdog and distrustful of people’s hidden agendas, you are slow to trust new acquaintances. Fearing that you will be duped or taken advantage of, you are keenly aware of inconsistencies. To determine if someone is trustworthy, you watch for and question any discrepancy you observe. Once someone passes the testing process, you become deeply committed and a most loyal friend. Devoted to your friends and family, you show allegiance over individuality.

You are curious, skeptical and doubting by nature. Because you are afraid of being unprepared or caught off guard, you often rehearse in your mind what you might say or do. Imaginative and visual, you can often see what might go wrong. You may even enjoy scaring yourself by thinking of worst-case scenarios so that you will never be paralyzed by the fear of not knowing what to say or do. Although you are afraid of being afraid, you are capable of being profoundly dutiful and heroic. Once you let go of doubts, your fear turns into excitement and you can surprise yourself with unexpected acts of courage.

Need
You need predictability, a protective, trustworthy authority and the security of feeling that you belong. You long for guidance to manage the feelings of fear and doubt. You are a “proof junkie” who needs to test people, ideas and beliefs over and over again to see if they are worthy of your loyalty. You need reassurance and encouraging, positive feedback from friends and loved ones.

Avoid
You avoid deviance, uncertainty and anything that is different from any group or idea to which you ascribe. You are highly motivated to avoid disappointing friends or authority figures. Fear and doubt can undermine your sense of safety. You are afraid of fear, submission and cowardice, so you vacillate between loyalty and rebelliousness by puffing up and backing down. You fear anything unproven or radical. You also are afraid of deviating from the norm or being different from your peers. Your greatest fear, however, is to be alone and unprotected.

Virtue
Your greatest strengths are your abilities to test for the truth and to recognize and challenge a bad authority. Loyal and dedicated, you understand the value of making sacrifices for the group and are willing to enforce society's rules to ensure safety and security for all. You believe that if everyone followed the rules and cooperated with one another, the world would be a safer place. A hero at heart, you are capable of great acts of loyalty and courage.

Vice
Your vice is fear. This manifests as excessive doubt and playing the devil’s advocate. Your drive for security can cause you to envision a dangerous and divisive world in which you feel persecuted and then may persecute those who deviate from the rules or the norm. When you are afraid, you doubt your own authority and can become provocative and undermining. Seeking security, you try to control others by ensnaring them in your fears and doubts. A lack of faith in your own authority can cause you to overly submit to or challenge others, the rules or authority figures.

Attention
Your attention goes to feelings of fear and doubt and scanning for danger, hidden motives or agendas. You have a tendency to focus on the worst-case scenario. Your fears and doubts can keep you from taking action and/or trusting yourself and others. You may at times be overly phobic and at other times overly counter-phobic.

Spiritual Journey
Your spiritual path is to reclaim your sense of faith and courage and see unity instead of differences. In your search for security, remember that the only real security lies in having faith and in trusting yourself.

Mantra
As you learn to relax and trust yourself, fear will often turn to excitement and courage. Remember, people are far more alike than they are different. Embrace what is new and unfamiliar as an opportunity to remember what you already know and trust. Instead of idealizing those who rescue or protect others, overcome your tendency to hesitate or doubt and take action.

Wing
If you are the Enneagram Type 6 with the 5 Wing, you desire to appear remote. You see yourself as faithful, knowing, intelligent, refined, real and brave.

If you are the Enneagram Type 6 with the 7 Wing, you desire to appear conformist. You see yourself as loyal, casual, related, interested, energetic, warm and wary.

Famous 6s:
Phobic: Jason Alexander, Woody Allen, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger, Candice Bergen, Albert Brooks, George Bush, Lynda Carter, Stockard Channing, Rodney Dangerfield, Ellen DeGeneres, Eminem, Sally Field, Teri Garr, Ed Harris, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Penny Marshall, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Richard Nixon, Lena Olin, Anthony Perkins, Sydney Pollack, Paul Reiser, Pat Robertson, Rene Russo, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Carly Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Meg Tilly, Brian Wilson.

Counterphobic: Ellen Barkin, Warren Beatty, Judy Davis, Phil Donahue, Carrie Fisher, Mel Gibson, Andrew Grove, Gene Hackman, Adolf Hitler, Dustin Hoffman, J. Edgar Hoover, Tommy Lee Jones, Wynonna Judd, J. Krishnamurti, Spike Lee, David Letterman, Gordon Liddy, Charles Manson, Steve McQueen, Michael Moore, Paul Newman, Chuck Norris, Rosie Perez, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Janet Reno, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Steven Seagal, Ben Stiller, Patrick Swayze, Justin Timberlake, Linda Tripp, Ted Turner, Sean Young.

All content Katherine Chernick Fauvre, David W. Fauvre, Enneagram Explorations, © 1995-2007

The President's State of the Nation Address (SONA 2008)

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's 8th State of the Nation Address during the Joint Session (2nd Regular Session) of the 14th Congress of the Philippines
July 28, 2008

Thank you, Speaker Nograles. Senate President Villar. Senators and Representatives. Vice President de Castro, President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen:

http://www.samarnews.com/Presidents_radio_address/sona2008.htm

Curriculum vitae of Rodolfo Z. Razul

Name : RODOLFO Z. RAZUL

Date of Birth : March 7, 1948

Place of Birth : Panabo City, Davao del Norte

Spouse : CARMEN CEBALLOS RACHO
Provincial Treasurer, Compostela Valley Province
From Balilihan, Bohol
Children : Five (5) Romencito Rudolph Allan
Camelia Rudolph Christian
Rudolph Jose
Parents : URBANO G. RAZUL (Father) - deceased
LEONORA ZULUETA (Mother) - deceased
Present Position : Director IV, DILG
Residential Address : 2392 New Pandan, Panabo City, Davao del Norte

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT/HONORS

Elementary : Little Panay Elementary School 1961, First Honor
Secondary : University of Mindanao, Panabo
Junior College, Salutatorian
College : Mindanao State University
Marawi City, 1967

Course: Bachelor of Arts – Political Science (Full Academic Scholar)
Post Graduate : Master in National Security Administration (MNSA)
Studies National Defense College of the Philippines, 1987
Full Academic Scholar, DLG-NDCP

Master of Commerce, Management (MCOM)
University of Wollongong, 1992
New South Wales, Australia
Full Academic Scholar, AIDAB

CIVIL SERVICE/BOARD EXAMS PASSED

1. Teacher, 1969 5. Manpower Development Officer
2. Sub-professional (Second Grade) 6. FLP-BKK
3. Career Service Professional (First Grade) 7. Teacher’s Board
4. Community Development Office

CAREER ELIGIBILITY/SERVICE EXAMS PASSED

1. CES Eligibility conferred on February 2, 1992
2. CESO Rank IV conferred in 1995
3. CESO Rank III conferred in 1998

RELEVANT TRAININGS/SEMINARS ATTENDED

Trainings/Seminars Duration Conducted by

1. Probationary Training for Reserve Nov. 1968 – Apr. 1969 AFP-PA
Commission Phillipne Army (six (6) months)

2. DLGCD Pre-Service Training May – October, 1974 DLGCD
(six (6) months)

3. National Convention of the Public September 1975 DPI, Manila
Information Council

4. Project Feasibility Study Seminar Jan. 05-17, 1978 DAP

5. Introduction to Supervision (SIM) July 06, 1978 CSC

6. Supervisory Development Program September, 1976 DLGCD

7. Regional Investment Program October 23-28, 1978 NEDA

8. Future Leader’s Program (BKK) Aug. 13 – Sept. 24, 1978

9. Skills Training on Project Development, Aug. 10-22, 1981 BLGCD, Mla.
Management and Supervision

10. Local Administration and Development Feb. 1 – Apr. 9, 1982 UP-BLGS
Program (LADP) Class 27 Manila

11. Specialized Course on Local Administration May 1 – June 3, 1983 UP-BLGD
and Reform (SCOLAR)

12. Skills Training on Fiscal Management Nov. 12-23, 1984 UP-BLGD
(Phase II)

13. Management Skills Training (Three (3) cycles) Feb. 1984 to Apr. 1985 USAID-RSC

14. Role of Communications in Organizations Apr. 18-20, 1985 DAP

15. Seminar-Workshop on Mediation Skills Aug. 19-23, 1985 BLGS-ASIA
and Techniqu

16.Training on Consultants on Organizational Jul. 10 to Sept. 13, 1989 UP-BLGD
Development (two (2) months)

SCHOLARSHIPS/FOREIGN TRAININGS/TRIPS ABROAD

1. Master in Commerce (Management) University of Wollongong,
Australia, 1991-1992

2. Visit and Briefing at War College of Singapore Singapore, 1987

3. Decentralization Implementors Enhancement Storra Branbo, Sigtuna, Sweden, 1994
Training and Management

4. Official Visit to Helsinki, Finland Helsinki, Finland, 1994

5. Attendance to the Asia Pacific (IULA) Darwin, Australia, 1994

6. Sponsored Visit to Mitsubishi Corporation Tokyo, Japan, 1999

7. International Seminar on Agricultural Cooperation Tokyo, Japan 2002
and WTO

WORK EXPERIENCE

Position Office/ Station Inclusive Years

1. High School Teacher Davao City High School 1967-1971
Davao City
2 Army Training Filler Off . “A” Company, 30th IB,4ID 1971-1972
(Executive Officer) PA, Cagayan De Oro City

3 Chief of Police Montevista, Davao del Norte 1972-1973

4. Barrio Dev’t. Worker Carmen, Davao del Norte 1974-1975

5. Community Dev’t. Officer I DLGCD, Regional Office, Davao City 1975-1976

6. Municipal Dev’t. Officer MLGCD, Kapalong, Davao del Norte 1976-1978

7. Provincial Training Officer Tagum, Davao del Norte 1978-1983

8. Supervising Local Gov’t. Officer DLG, Davao City 1983-1988

9. City Gov’t. Operations Officer II DLG, Davao City 1988-1990

10. Operations Division Chief DLG-XI, Regional Office, Davao City 1990

11. Provincial Local Government DLG, Davao del Norte 1990-1991
(Operations Officer (PLGOO)

12. Local Government Operations DILG-XI, Regional Office, Davao City 1991-1994
Office VII

13. Assistant Director Local Government Academy (LGA) 1994
DILG, Manila

14. Asst. Regional Director DILG, Region X, Cagayan De Oro 1995

15. OIC Regional Director DILG, Caraga Admin. Region 1996-1997

16. Director III (on detail) DILG, ASEC AHRD 1997-1998

17. Director Planning Service, DILG-CO 1998
Quezon City

18. OIC Regional Director DILG, Region II, Tuguegarao, Cagayan 1998

19. Regional Director DILG, Region X 1998-1999

20. Regional Director DILG, Region X 1999-2004

21. Regional Director DILG, Region XI 2004 to date

MAJOR AWARDS/COMMENDATIONS/APPRECIATIONS RECEIVED

1. Plaque of Appreciation from the Regional Federation of the Association of Barangay Councils (RFABC) as Speaker on the Filipino Ideology, September 29-30, 1983, Davao City.
2. Plaque for Outstanding CJ Leadership as President-Kiwanis Club of Panabo, 1984-1985
3. Plaque of appreciation in the Recognition of Invaluable Assistance to Student Assistance Committee for Community Development (SACCD), Panabo, Davao del Norte, February, 1990
4. Plaque as Mayor Jose J. Café Awardee for Outstanding Accomplishment in Panabo, Davao del Norte, 1990
5. Certificate of Appreciation from Kiwanis Club of Panabo, February 23, 1978
6. Certificate of Appreciation, Office of the Governor, Davao Province, July 1, 1978
7. Certificate of Appreciation, 5th Division 7 Assembly, Kiwanis Club of Tagum and the Kiwanis Club of Panabo; May 30, 1982
8. Certificate of Appreciation, Tanglaw/CMO Seminar, Home Defense Forces Group (Airborne), Philippine Army, September 22, 1983
9. Certificate of Appreciation, Evelio B. Javier Foundation, Inc., Local Chief Executive Leadership Seminar; October 12, 1987
10. Certificate of Appreciation, Araw ng Dabaw, Davao City, March 10-18, 1988
11. Certificate of Commendation, Executive board, Regional Integrated Orientation Training Program, Davao del Sur, April 25-29, 1988
12. Certificate of Appreciation, Provincial Government of Surigao del Sur and the Municipal Government of Bislig, May 13, 1988
13. Certificate Award, National Barangay Operations Office, DLG, on the Experimental Training on the Formulation of Organizational Statement at Malolos, Bulacan, Agust 19-23, 1988.
14. Certificate of Appreciation, the Philippine National Red Cross, 1988 Membership and Fund Drive, Davao City, January 24, 1989.
15. Certificate of Commendation, Federation of Association of Barangay Councils (FABC), Province of Davao, September 11, 1983.
16. Certificate of Appreciation, Drug Abuse Prevention Campaign, Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Council, Davao City, November 13, 1989.
17. Certificate of Appreciation, Davao Lady Lawyers Association, Davao City, March 3, 1990.
18. Certificate of Recognition, Kiwanis International, Philippines South District, October 2, 1990.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL, CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

1. President, Kiwanis Club of Panabo, 1989
2. Member, Reserve Officers Legion of the Philippines (ROLP)
3. Member, Davao Fiber Producers Cooperative
4. Member, Tagum Community Credit Cooperative, Inc.
5. Member, DLG Employees Credit Cooperative, Inc.
6. Member, DILG Consultants for Local Government
7. Member, Davao Norte Press and Radio Club
8. Member, Region XI Organization of Government Scholars
9. Member, Knights of Columbus, Panabo Chapter
10. Presidential Adviser, Filipino Students Association in Wollongong (FILSAWOL), Australia

PAPERS PUBLISHED AND RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED

1. Integrated Approach to Barangay Development, Policy Paper Accreditied by the Niational Defense College of the Philippines, 1987.
   
   DLG Region XI Organization Statement 1985
2. “On the Filipino Ideology”, a lecture-discussion paper to the FABC, Region XI, Davao City, 1983
3. Tri- Dimensional Approach to LGU Management, an Operational Framework.
4. Selective Decentralization: A Policy Proposal – LGA Forum, 1995.
5. The Philippines Membership with the WTO, 2002

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

1. Appointed Rajah Moda, Royal Sultanate of Davao City, December, 1974
2. Specialized Knowledge on Athletics (track and field) Coach, Davao City Team to the Southern Mindanao Athletic Association Meet in 1969.
3. Conferred CES Eligibility by the CESB, February 29, 1992
4. Reserve Officer, AFP – Rank: Lieutenant Colonel (0-101677) PA
5. Career Executive Service Officer Rank III

http://www.dilg.gov.ph/Region11/RD.html

9-11 World Trade Center Attack

Suicide aircraft attacks on The World Trade Center and the Pentagon left untold numbers injured or dead and threw the cities into chaos on September 11, 2001. It began at the height of a morning rush hour in the nation's largest city. A plane, reportedly a hijacked American Airlines jet, slammed into one tower of the 110-story World Trade Center. As smoke and flames poured out of the building and rescue workers battled to save victims, a second plane hit the second tower. The two towers soon collapsed. Huge clouds of smoke hung over Manhattan. The nearby Wall Street financial markets were shut down. A short time later, another plane struck the Pentagon, touching off a massive explosion and fire, and tearing a hole in one side of the historic building.

President Bush vowed 'terrorism will not stand' and immediately broke off a visit to Florida to return to Washington. Police and military forces all around the country are on alert. Special anti-terrorist units were mobilized in many cities. The United Nations and the Sears Tower in Chicago were also evacuated.

The Trade Center was the target of another terrorist strike eight years ago, a car bomb that damaged the building and caused casualties but did not bring either of the towers down. The attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday was not the first on the 110-story twin towers. In February 1993, a truck bomb exploded there, killing six people, and displacing business in the complex for six months. Six Islamic militants were convicted in the bombing, and sentenced to life in prison. The attack was meant to pressure the United States to stay out of the Middle East and curb its support of Israel.

Until Tuesday's attack, the most serious case of terrorism in the United States occurred in April of 1995, when a truck bomb exploded at a federal government office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in June. In a more recent terrorist incident, the US-S Cole was refueling in Yemen's port of Aden in October of last year when a small boat pulled alongside it and detonated explosives, killing 17 US servicemen. US authorities suspect Saudi exile Osama bin Laden was responsible for the incident.

In August of 1998, bombings at the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people. Osama bin Laden is again blamed. In one of the worst cases of terrorism in the air, 270 people were killed when Pan Am 103 (a Boeing 747) exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on a flight from London to New York in December 1988.

In Saudi Arabia in June 1996, an attack on the US military complex at Khobar Towers killed 19 Americans. Members of a Saudi militant group were indicted for the attack. Seven months earlier, a car bomb detonated at a US military headquarters in Riyadh, killing five American service personnel.

In June 1985, Shiite Muslim gunmen seized a TWA passenger jet, forcing it to Beirut. They demanded the release of 700 Arabs held by Israel. A US navy diver was killed and 39 Americans were held until their release a month later after Syrian mediation. In October of that year, a disabled American Jewish man, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed by Palestinian militants were had seized the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. One year earlier, in September 1984, a car bomb at US embassy annex in east Beirut, killed 16 and injured the ambassador. In December 1983, Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of the US and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding 86. In October of that year, Shiite suicide bombers blew up the French military headquarters and a US marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 marines and 58 French paratroopers. In April 1983, suicide bombers blew up the US embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.

Located in downtown Manhattan, the World Trade Center is on a 16 acre site, stretching from Church Street on the east to West Street on the west, and Vesey and Barclay streets in the north to Liberty Street on the south. Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a self-supporting agency of the two states, the Center was developed and constructed by the Port Authority to serve as a headquarters for international trade within the bi-state port area. The World Trade Center's North Tower first opened to tenants in December 1970 and the South Tower recieved its first tenant in 1972. By 1992 the Port Authority had invested roughly $1.2 billion into the World Trade Center.

The decision to build the World Trade Center was made in 1961, with the unveiling of the building plans in 1964, the commencement of site excavation in 1966, and the steel construction phase beginning in 1968.

In all the World Trade Center included some seven buildings: One and Two World Trade Center consisted of two 110-story office towers, Seven World Trade Center was a 47-story office building, Four and Five World Trade Center are 9-story office buildings, Six World Trade Center is an 8-story U.S. Custom House, and Three World Trade Center was a 22-story hotel were all constructed around a central five-acre landscaped Plaza. All seven buildings have entrances onto the Plaza as well as onto surrounding city streets. The Mall at the World Trade Center, located immediately below the Plaza was the largest enclosed shopping mall in lower Manhattan, as well as the main interior pedestrian circulation level for the complex, stations for three of New York's subway systems (IRT, IND, BMT) were located below the tower in the Mall.

The two office towers, each rising 1,350 feet, were the tallest buildings in New York City and the 5th and 6th tallest in the world. The Center contained approximately 12 million square feet of office space, including the two million square feet of office space in Seven World Trade Center. In the two tower buildings, each floor was approximately one acre in size, and each tower contained 4.8 million gross square feet of floor area.

Some 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center. Another 150,000 to 200,000 business and leisure visitors came to the center daily.

More than 200,000 tons of steel were used in the World Trade Center's construction. Construction of the Trade Center used 425,000 cubic yards of concrete. There were 43,600 windows in the two Tower buildings -- over 600,000 square feet of glass. There were 99 elevators, including 23 express elevators in each Tower building. There were five levels below ground including parking for almost 2000 cars.

The existence of "sky lobbies" at the 44 and 78 floors in each Tower thus made each tower essentially three buildings, one on top of another, no regular passenger elevator ran all the way to the top.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/wtc.htm