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The Philippine Blog Awards, the first of which was held around the same time that the Mindanao Bloggers Community came into existence, is embarking on a grander and more meaningful undertaking this year. In order to make the Awards a truly Filipino experience, PBA2009 is going to be a nationwide effort, with Regional Awards to be held in Mindanao and the Visayas.

The theme of this year’s PBA is One Blogging Nation.

For us in the South, it was decided by the MBC core group, along with the bloggers of CDO, to hold PBA-Mindanao in Cagayan de Oro City, on the same day as the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit. What this means is, there will be special awards exclusively for Mindanaoan blogs (the same is true for Visayas blogs). There are four special awards for Mindanao:

Mindanao Advocacy Blog

In line with the objectives of the Mindanao Bloggers Community, the Best Advocacy Blog is a blog that exemplifies how an online publication can bring a worthy cause to the consciousness of a broad audience. It is a blog that inspires its readers to take action and participate in an ongoing discussion of the issues at hand. Special points go to blogs that promote the best and true images of Mindanao.

Mindanao PhotoBlog

The Best PhotoBlog is one that brings the most beautiful images of Mindanao to the fore. It is a blog that evokes passion and inspiration, and clearly shows the blogger’s love for Mindanao. However, it must not be a site that harbors untrue or doctored images that lie about the true nature of Mindanao’s land and people.

Uniquely Mindanao Blog

This blog, as soon as it is viewed, is clearly identifiable as being from and about Mindanao. It evokes a feeling of belongingness among Mindanao readers, and an appreciation and understanding of what Mindanao truly is among non-Mindanaoan readers. The Uniquely Mindanao Blog champions the objectives of the Mindanao Bloggers Community, and contributes to the realization of these goals.

Mindanao Destination Blog

Beyond being merely a blog geared towards tourism, the Best Destination Blog strongly represents the locale (city, town, region) that the bloggers writes about. This blog is passionate about the promotion of his or her chosen locale for tourism and/or business, and publishes news and opinion articles for a well-rounded view of the destination.

To be considered for the PBA, you must nominate your own blog; or, you can recommend a blog for nomination. The process is quick and painless. Just submit your blog and follow the instructions. (There is one glitch, though: if you want to nominate more than one blog, you must use a different email address for each submission.)

There are many, many deserving blogs out there. Mindanao bloggers can certainly win in the PBA Major Categories, too, but let’s nominate blogs that deserve to win in the special Mindanao Awards categories. This is very much in line with the MBC’s objectives: to bring out blog content from Mindanao out into the open.

The deadline for submission of nominations for Mindanao and Visayas special awards has been extended to the 27th of August 2009.

source: http://www.mindanaobloggers.com/

MY FAVE SONG
(kapag emo mode :P)


Even though its been so long, my love for you keeps going strong

I remember the things that we used to do, a kiss in the rain

Til the sun shined through, Id try to deny it, but Im still in love with you

I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy, ever since you went away

Every hour of every day, I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

No matter what I say or do, theres just no getting over you

I can see the love shining in your eyes, and it comes as such a sweet surprise

If seeings believing its worth the wait, so hold me and tell me its not too late

Were so good together, were starting forever now, and I miss you like crazy

I miss you like crazy, ever since you went away, every hour of every day

I miss you like crazy, I miss you baby, a love like ours will never end

Just touch me and were there again

Musical interlude

Just one night and well have that magic feeling like we used to do

Hold on tight and whatever comes our way were gonna make it through

If seeings believing its worth the wait, so hold me and tell me its not too late

Were so good together, were starting forever now

And I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

No matter what I say or do theres just no getting over you

And I miss you (baby), I miss you (baby), all the tender love you gave me

When a feeling gets this strong, you know the real thing come along

And I miss you, I miss you like crazy baby, only youre sweet love

Can save me, I miss you like crazy, a love like ours will never end

Just touch me and were there again,

Miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy


http://www.jango.com/music/Natalie+Cole

If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.
Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to
the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged,
ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known.
Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last
week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again
next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it
depends upon the tides of the mind. Disease is metrical, closing in
at shorter and shorter periods towards death, sweeping abroad at
longer and longer intervals towards recovery. Sorrow for one cause
was intolerable yesterday, and will be intolerable tomorrow; today
it is easy to bear, but the cause has not passed. Even the burden
of a spiritual distress unsolved is bound to leave the heart to a
temporary peace; and remorse itself does not remain--it returns.
Gaiety takes us by a dear surprise. If we had made a course of
notes of its visits, we might have been on the watch, and would have
had an expectation instead of a discovery. No one makes such
observations; in all the diaries of students of the interior world,
there have never come to light the records of the Kepler of such
cycles.

To live in constant efforts after an equal life, whether the equality be sought
in mental production, or in spiritual sweetness, or in the joy of
the senses, is to live without either rest or full activity. The
souls of certain of the saints, being singularly simple and single,
have been in the most complete subjection to the law of periodicity.
Ecstasy and desolation visited them by seasons. They endured,
during spaces of vacant time, the interior loss of all for which
they had sacrificed the world. They rejoiced in the uncovenanted
beatitude of sweetness alighting in their hearts. Like them are the
poets whom, three times or ten times in the course of a long life,
the Muse has approached, touched

RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRAPH WITH A DEADLOCK

Explanation:
3 Processes... namely "P1 P2 P3"
4 Resources.. namely "R1 R2 R3 R4"

P1 is requesting to R1 while P2 is holding an instance of R1
P2 is requesting to R3 while P3 is holding an instance of R3
P3 is requesting to R2 while P1 and P2 is holding an instance of R2
R4 don't have any request as well as an instance to hold on.
There is a deadlock because P1 and P2 held the instances of R1 and P3 can't access anymore to R1 because it is busy and no request to process




RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRAPH WITH A CYCLE BUT NO DEADLOCK
2 resources "R1, R2"
4 processes "P1, P2, P3, P4"

P1 and P3 is requesting a process to R1 and R2 respectively.
P2 and P3 holds an instance of R1
P1 and P4 holds an instance of R2
There is no DeadLock



Explanation:
2 Resources and 2 Processes

P2 is requesting to R1 while P1 holds an instance of R1
In this case.. P1 and P2 can request to R2 (depends on its availability)



Explanation: 2 process and 2 resources
P2 is requesting to R1
P1 is holding the instance of R1
P1 is requesting to R2
P2 is holding the instance of R2


This is an example graph of Resource allocation and WAIT-FOR graph