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by TESS E. MANZANO      I t’s déjà vu all over again. That’s how I felt reading the report on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration trying to dissuade jobless Filipino women from going to work in Middle Eastern countries (“Scare tactics won’t work on jobless women, says OWWA  ,” 1/21/18). Wasn’t it only some decades ago during the Iraq war when our government offered to repatriate Filipino housekeepers, with a majority of them preferring to stay in those Muslim countries? Is it lack of education or of information about abusive foreign employers that drives so many Filipinos to slavery overseas?   Doesn’t it denote a lack of faith and hope in this nation’s leaders for countless women to leave their families to work in danger zones abroad? Obviously most of those citizens jettison any nationalist feelings to flee this impoverished country. Another story in the Inquirer about Filipino women who worked in Japan as entertainers and chose to stay in that country showed the ob

By  Seriously Science  | January 18, 2018 7:59 am            R omantic attraction is complex and hard for humans to quantify. That’s why these scientists turned to machine learning to see if computers can do a better job.  They asked participants to fill out a questionnaire with “more than 100 self-report measures about traits and preferences that past researchers have identified as being relevant to mate selection,” and used those to train the computer models.  They then had the participants speed-date each other for 4 minutes at a time and had the models predict potential couples. The result?  While the computers could generally tell which people might be more popular in the dating world, they did a terrible job of guessing potential romantic matches. Maybe next time, they need to program in more je ne sais quoi. Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction. “Matchmaking companies and theoretical perspectives on close relati

Personality Traits of a Filipina Bad Girl The TOP 21 List!!! Have you found your new Filipina wife or girlfriend not so perfect anymore? Well maybe there is a perfectly good legitimate reason? Could it be she is really a psychologically incapacitated, disgruntled with a ex bar girl mentality: with a chip on her shoulder??? If you notice more than just a few of the following traits applying to your personal situation, then most likely “ you is buddy ”, and are already “ in big trouble  !  You could be headed for a life of misery until that magical annulment materializes to finally free you of your grief (your asawa) permanently. Or you find a way out of the quagmire to never look at your girlfriend's face again. As you read you may  understand more fully the madness behind their mental deficiencies from another’s experience.. Listed in no particular order. Enjoy! 1. She may be be most concerned with her looks, makeup & wardrobe, eating for the day, and being

Boeing's EA-18G electronic-warfare fighter. (Photo courtesy of Boeing) Remote strike potential would draw nation closer to offensive capability TOKYO --  Japan looks to deploy electronic-warfare aircraft that can neutralize enemy air defences and command systems remotely, blurring the line between strict self-defence and offensive base-strike capability. The country is exploring options including Boeing's EA-18G fighter jet -- nicknamed the "Growler" -- which emits large radio pulses to jam radar and communication systems. The EA-18G also carries missiles to knock out radar facilities. The Defence Ministry intends to write the aircraft into its Mid-Term Defence Program when that plan is revised at the end of 2018, acquiring several jets between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2023. Electronic defences have a range of several hundred kilometres, according to the Defence Ministry's acquisition and technology unit. If necessary, Japan could deploy the aircraft ov