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monaco http://mildsiete.multiply.com/ MONACO is a pseudonym i use on the net. no, i'm not from monaco or in monaco and my name isn't mon, but i was named after the prince of monaco. male, pinoy and single. full-blooded la sallian, gadget junkie, car lover, coffee fanatic, beer drinker and one-time chain smoker. a seasoned executive from the customer service/hospitality industry, i'm currently on an extended lunch break... in other words, jobless! visit my blog: KEYBOARD MONOLOGUES (http://keyboardmonologues.blogspot.com/) Mon, 12 May 2008 12:57:29 -0000 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 -0000 monaco http://images.mildsiete.multiply.com/logo http://mildsiete.multiply.com 100 100 beware of dirty keyboards Some <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/is-your-keyboard-dirtier-than-your.html">computer keyboards</a> harbor more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harbored five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats. Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often "a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut". During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned. It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found. Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you're very likely to pick it up from a <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/is-your-keyboard-dirtier-than-your.html">keyboard</a>, according to Dr Peter Wilson Consultant microbiologist The equipment was swabbed for... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/642/beware_of_dirty_keyboards Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 -0000 flushing with the lid down If you flush with the lid up, a polluted plume of bacteria and water vapor erupts out of the flushing toilet bowl. The polluted water particles float for a few hours around your bathroom before they all land. Some of them will land on your tooth brush. Scientists also found that in the home, the kitchen sponge had the highest germ count, followed by the kitchen sink. The lowest bacteria count, out of 15 household locations, was the toilet seat. He said (perhaps a little jokingly), "If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts, he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet". He went on to say what they might do in your sink. So if you flush with the lid up, you are probably brushing your teeth with toilet water. I guess that's one story to tell the males in your household, so that they put the lid down, because if the put the lid down, they have to put the seat down as well. In mid-2001, he and his team looked for five different types of bacteria (E. co... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/641/flushing_with_the_lid_down Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:00 -0000 idol results After the charitable endeavor of <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2008/04/09/idol-gives-back-telethon/" title="Idol Gives Back">Idol Gives Back</a>, it was back to the business of elimination on <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/category/american-idol/" title="American Idol">American Idol</a>. American Idol is never a show to steer away from controversy, which was evidenced by the American Idol finalists performing an encore of “Shout To The Lord.” As Reality TV Magazine reported, <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2008/04/09/american-idol-jesus-controversy/" title="American Idol Jesus controversy">the song was edited</a> to change “My Jesus” to “My Shepherd” during the Idol Gives Back performance. This time, the finalists sang the “My Jesus, My Savior” line. After a celebrity dance video, Ryan Seacrest revealed that over thirty-one million votes were cast for the top 8 finalists. First, Seacrest called <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/brooke-white/" title="Brooke White">Brooke White</a> to center stage. Seacrest had Brooke read his card that revealed she was safe. Next, Seacrest called <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/david-cook/" title="David Cook">David Cook</a> to center stage and revealed that he was safe. Finally, Seacrest called <a href="http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/david-archuleta/" title="David Archuleta">David Archuleta</a> to center stage and revealed that he was also safe.<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">american idol results</a> <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">american idol results</a> After an Idol Gives Back video segment with Forest Whitaker, American Idol 6 winne... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/637/idol_results Thu, 8 May 2008 16:15:00 -0000 link exchange First came <a href="http://www.blogrush.com/">BlogRush</a> and then <a href="http://www.entrecard.com/">Entrecard</a>; does the blogosphere have room for another <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">link/banner exchange</a> program? Since most bloggers would do anything for an extra few clicks, here’s the scoop on <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">BlogUpp!</a>, a free service that promises to “Connect smart.” Signing up is a breeze, without any type of registration. Just enter your blog’s link, grab the snippet of code and embed on your blog. According to the company, “<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">BlogUpp</a>! snapshots your blog and reads your RSS regularly.” <a target="_blank" href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">Blogupp</a> provides a great service on boosting your incoming traffic with a simple widget. It is the easiest and most effective recipe to <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">exchange link</a> by showing the blog thumbnail image. You are not necessary to register the service. Just finish the step 1 and get the code into your blog. http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/638/link_exchange Thu, 8 May 2008 16:02:00 -0000 idol <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">american idol results</a> The last few eliminations on Idol have been difficult for me. First Michael Johns, then Kristy Lee Cook (who was really growing on me), then Carly. OK. I wasn’t so sad about Brooke leaving, but whatever. This week, I will be sad if Syesha,<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html"> Jason Castro</a>, or <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">David Cook</a> goes home. I’ll be sad about Syesha<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">american idol results</a><a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">jason castro is out</a><a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-jason-castro-is.html">jason castro is out</a> http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/639/idol Thu, 8 May 2008 01:10:00 -0000 blogupp <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html"> BlogUpp</a> offers <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">free advertising</a> for your blog, provided it's with quality content. The catch, if you want to call it that, is that <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">BlogUpp</a> reserves 1 impression out of 10 for itself, so that for each 10 unique community impressions your blog displays, it gets shown on other blogs 9 times. And everyone gets bonus impressions from the start. Hence you get free advertising in <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">exchange</a> for giving a little love to other bloggers (who will be doing you the same courtesy). All in all, it’s very easy to setup, as there is no registration required, and no account is needed. Only blogs that are related to yours get advertised on your own blog. <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/blogupp-new-way-to-advertise-free.html">BlogUpp</a> reads your RSS feeds regularly to insure that you’re only hooked up with like blogs, and shares your article along with the snapshot of the blog. http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/640/blogupp Thu, 8 May 2008 01:06:00 -0000 superstition The <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/he-who-must-not-be-named-or-harry.html" title="Harry Potter">Harry Potter</a><a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/he-who-must-not-be-named-or-harry.html"> </a>films are a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">fantasy</a> series based on the Harry Potter novels by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a>. The five films currently released became the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest_Grossing_Film_Series" title="List of highest-grossing films">highest grossing film series</a> of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">USD</a>$4.48 billion in worldwide receipts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_film_series#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> The series consists of five motion pictures with the latest instalment, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix_%28film%29" title="Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</a>, released in cinemas in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> on 12 July 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_film_series#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>, and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> on 11 July 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_film_series#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>. In the United States, the revenue from the midnight opening was $12 million and first day revenues overtook <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2" title="Spider-Man 2">Spider-Man 2</a>'s record ($40.4 million) for the highest Thursday opening at $44.2 million. Warner Brothers holds the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_rights" title="Film rights">rights</a> to produce adaptations of the two remaining novels, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince" title="Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince">Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows" title="Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_film_series#cite_note-trio-returns-4" title="">[5]</a> The first of these entered production in the fall of 2007 and has a projected release date of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">N... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/636/superstition Wed, 7 May 2008 21:33:00 -0000 final four <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/american-idol-top-6-results-goodbye.html">Carly Smithson</a> is gone. Michael Johns was booted weeks ago. David Archuleta is a top-two lock. Asia'h Epperson and Danny Noriega didn't even get well-deserved slots in the final dozen. <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/american-idol-top-6-results-goodbye.html">American Idol</a> has — as it does around this point almost every season — become a little boring.To be fair, none of this season's contestants have been true howlers. But many of the best have made premature exits. Maybe Aussie Michael Johns' rock-soul riffs were too hard to neatly package. Noriega's androgynous sexuality too controversial for Middle America. Too bad. <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/american-idol-top-6-results-goodbye.html">Smithson</a> had, without a doubt, the strongest voice of any contestant this season and one of the best in Idol history. She sounded — and acted — like a real singer. She sometimes looked nervous, seemed awkward and got her feelings hurt (and not in that pouty White way). But when Smithson connected with the right song, it was magic — and light years ahead of anything else we've heard this season. The final battle is shaping up to be a double-Dav... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/624/final_four Tue, 6 May 2008 15:38:00 -0000 surgery scandal The 39-year-old complainant in the <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hall-of-shame.html">Cebu surgery scandal</a> is eyeing administrative charges against superiors of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center over the incident. Lawyer Magdalena Lepiten, one of the complainant’s lawyers, said on Saturday that the aggrieved party will focus on expanding the list of personalities covered by administrative charges. “We believe the hospital administrators and supervisors should be made accountable. If they managed the hospital well, this would not have happened," Lepiten said in an interview on dzRH radio. She said they are leaving it to the Ombudsman to determine criminal charges against those involved in taking a <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hall-of-shame.html">video of the operation</a> and posting it to the <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hall-of-shame.html">Internet</a>. Earlier, the health department named <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hall-of-shame.html">five doctors and nurses</a> who now face administrative sanctions for their involvement in the incident. The lawyer also said that they will push for more sensitivity training for medical professionals, asserting that government doctors do not see anythi... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/625/surgery_scandal Tue, 6 May 2008 15:34:00 -0000 internet It seems like only yesterday that the press was talking about an <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/will-internet-crash-in-two-years.html">Internet collapse</a>, but it actually was more than a decade ago and happened because the press thought <a href="http://www.sobco.com/nww/1996/bradner-1996-11-18.metcaffe-debate.html">Bob Metcalfe</a> was predicting the Internet was going to<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/will-internet-crash-in-two-years.html"> overload </a>and collapse. This time it happened because Nemertes Research, my fellow columnist Johna Till Johnson's company, put out a report that generated a lot of misleading headlines, including <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/111907johnson.html">the one in Network World </a>. Other headlines were the China Daily's “<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/will-internet-crash-in-two-years.html">Internet outages </a>may occur by 2010 as capacity stalls”; iTwire's “Internet to go down in 2010?"; the Times of India's “Superhighway traffic jam could <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/will-internet-crash-in-two-years.html">clog Internet</a>”; and InternetRetailing.net's “E-commerce could slow to a halt by 2010." That would be scary stuff if the report actually said anything like that. http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/626/internet Tue, 6 May 2008 15:28:00 -0000 entrecards again <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/dropping-entrecards-by-remote-control.html">dropping entrecards</a> <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/dropping-entrecards-by-remote-control.html">remote control</a> <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/dropping-entrecards-by-remote-control.html">entrecard</a> <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/dropping-entrecards-by-remote-control.html">entrecard drops</a> <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/dropping-entrecards-by-remote-control.html">DSL connection</a> http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/627/entrecards_again Tue, 6 May 2008 15:25:00 -0000 playboy philippines The Philippines gets its own version of <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hugh-hefner-pulled-out-playboy.html">Playboy magazine</a> without <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hugh-hefner-pulled-out-playboy.html">full frontal nudity</a> in deference to the country’s influential Roman Catholic Church. About 86 per cent of the country’s 91 million people are baptized Roman Catholic, and the government’s classification board routinely deletes scenes of nudity from movies. <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hugh-hefner-pulled-out-playboy.html">Playboy</a> ran into difficulties when it began publishing in Indonesia in April 2006, minus nudity. It temporarily suspended operations because of protests in the world’s largest Muslim population. The Philippines version is the 25th international franchise of Playboy, which has a global readership of almost 15 million people, according to <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hugh-hefner-pulled-out-playboy.html">Playboy Enterprises</a> Inc. The publication will contain articles and fiction from some of the country’s best-known writers, according to Dolor. ******************************** <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/hugh-hefner-pulled-out-playboy.html">Hugh Hefner</a> (born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9" title="April 9">April 9</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926" title="1926">1926</a>) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> magazine publisher, entrepreneur, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_mogul" class="mw-redirect" title="Media mogul">media mogul</a>, best known as the founder, majority owner,and Chief Creative Officer ... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/628/playboy_philippines Tue, 6 May 2008 15:20:00 -0000 american idol finals american idol finals david archuleta david cooke syesha mercado jason castro "American Idol" will host the series' two-night grand finale from a new home at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE Tuesday, May 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) and Wednesday, May 21 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on Fox. After weeks of performing on the American Idol stage, the two remaining finalists will perform live Tuesday in front of a theater audience of over 7000 as well as millions of viewers watching at home. Then, on Wednesday night, at the end of a two-hour music celebration, Ryan Seacrest will announce the next "American Idol." battle of the daves david versus david cooke versus archuleta david cooke david archuleta syesha mercado jason castro http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/629/american_idol_finals Tue, 6 May 2008 15:10:00 -0000 Entrecard dropping <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/let-us-complain-less-and-give-more.html">dropping entrecards</a> entrecard is addicting <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/top-entrecard-droppers-for-april.html">entrecard dropping</a> a drop master dropping 300 entrecards a day <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/top-entrecard-droppers-for-april.html">top droppers</a> for the month <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/top-entrecard-droppers-for-april.html">entrecard</a> http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/630/Entrecard_dropping Tue, 6 May 2008 15:05:00 -0000 page rank PageRank is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_analysis" title="Network analysis">link analysis</a> algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" title="Hyperlink">hyperlinked</a> set of documents, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a>, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithm</a> may be applied to any collection of entities with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal" title="Reciprocal">reciprocal</a> quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E)In other words, a <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/google-is-just-like-paula-abdul.html">PageRank</a> results from a "ballot" among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is. A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion" title="Recursion">recursively</a> and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoming_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Incoming link">incoming links</a>"). A page that is linked to by many pages with high <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/google-is-just-like-paula-abdul.html">PageRank</a> receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support for that page. <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/google-is-just-like-paula-abdul.html">Google</a> assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; th... http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/631/page_rank Tue, 6 May 2008 14:54:00 -0000 American Idol Top 4 After a Tuesday show that saw the musical attributes of the<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-brooke-white-is.html"> American Idol</a> Top Five overshadowed by <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/google-is-just-like-paula-abdul.html">Paula Abdul</a>'s perplexing and new-found ability to predict the future, which contestant would be heading home on Wednesday (April 30)? And why can't <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/04/google-is-just-like-paula-abdul.html">Paula</a> just tell us the results in advance and save me an hour? America's <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-brooke-white-is.html">Nanny Brooke White</a> ends up going home, leaving <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/american-idol-results-brooke-white-is.html">Syesha Mercado safe</a>. http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/632/American_Idol_Top_4 Tue, 6 May 2008 14:50:00 -0000 smoking <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/smoking-what-was-i-thinking.html">Smoking</a> is an addiction. <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=13294">Tobacco</a> contains <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=22807">nicotine</a>, a drug that is addictive. The nicotine, therefore, makes it very difficult (although not impossible) to quit. In fact, since the U.S. Surgeon General's 1964 report on the <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/smoking-what-was-i-thinking.html">dangers of smoking</a>, millions of Americans have quit. Still, more than 430,000 deaths occur in the U.S. each year from smoking-related illnesses. The reason for these deaths is that smoking greatly increases the risk of getting <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=406"> lung cancer</a>, <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=379">heart attack</a>, <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/smoking-what-was-i-thinking.html">chronic lung disease</a>, <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=489">stroke</a>, and many other cancers. Moreover, smoking is perhaps the most preventable cause of <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/smoking-what-was-i-thinking.html">breathing (respiratory) diseases</a> within the USA. Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=32086">secondhand smoke</a> or passive http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/633/smoking Tue, 6 May 2008 14:45:00 -0000 oscar de la hoya <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/steve-forbes-oscar-dela-hoya-fight.html">Oscar De La Hoya</a> (born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a>) — nicknamed "<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/steve-forbes-oscar-dela-hoya-fight.html">The Golden Boy</a>" — is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_American" title="Mexican American">Mexican American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxer</a> who won a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_boxing" title="List of Olympic medalists in boxing">gold medal</a> for the United States Boxing Team at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">Barcelona Olympic Games</a>. De La Hoya comes from a <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/steve-forbes-oscar-dela-hoya-fight.html">boxing</a> family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother Joel Jr. were all boxers, but it was Oscar who took his boxing talent to superstar status. De La Hoya became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring Magazine">Ring Magazine</a>'s "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's top-rated Pound for Pound fighter in the world in 1997. De La Hoya has defeated over a dozen world champions and has won 6 world titles. De La Hoya's amateur career included 223 wins, 163 by way of knockout, with only 5 losses. He won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>' only <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/steve-forbes-oscar-dela-hoya-fight.html">boxing gold meda</a>l at the 1992 Summer Olympics, by knocking down his opponent; a win which he dedicated to his deceased mother. After the superfight with <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/steve-forbes-oscar-dela-hoya-fight.html">Floyd Mayweather</a> in 2007, Oscar De La Hoya became the richest fighter ever in the history of http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/634/oscar_de_la_hoya Tue, 6 May 2008 14:41:00 -0000 food crisis THE SKYROCKETING commodity prices that have made the Farm Belt one of the most prosperous regions of the United States have had a rather different impact on large areas of the developing world. Foodstuffs have gone up 41 percent in price since October 2007, pushing many people over the line from <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/let-us-complain-less-and-give-more.html">poverty</a> into privation or even <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/let-us-complain-less-and-give-more.html">hunger</a>. The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Food+and+Agriculture+Organization+of+the+United+Nations?tid=informline" target="">Food and Agriculture Organization</a>, a branch of the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/United+Nations?tid=informline" target="">United Nations</a>, has identified 36 "crisis" countries, 21 of which are in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Africa?tid=informline" target="">Africa</a>. The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/United+Nations+World+Food+Programme?tid=informline" target="">World Food Program</a>, another U.N. agency, estimates that it will need $500 million on top of what donor nations have already pledged to fill what the WFP calls a global "<a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/let-us-complain-less-and-give-more.html">food gap</a> http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/635/food_crisis Tue, 6 May 2008 14:36:00 -0000 he who must not be named <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/he-who-must-not-be-named-or-harry.html">Harry Potter</a>, <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/he-who-must-not-be-named-or-harry.html">Harry Potter superstition</a>, <a href="http://www.monacome.com/2008/05/he-who-must-not-be-named-or-harry.html">boy wizard</a>, <a href="Harry%20Potter%20is%20a%20series%20of%20seven%20fantasy%20novels%20written%20by%20British%20author%20J.%20K.%20Rowling.%20The%20books%20chronicle%20the%20adventures%20of%20the%20eponymous%20adolescent%20wizard%20Harry%20Potter,%20together%20with%20Ron%20Weasley%20and%20Hermione%20Granger,%20his%20best%20friends.%20The%20central%20story%20arc%20concerns%20Harry%27s%20struggle%20against%20the%20evil%20wizard%20Lord%20Voldemort,%20who%20killed%20Harry%27s%20parents%20in%20his%20quest%20to%20conquer%20the%20wizarding%20world,%20after%20which%20he%20seeks%20to%20subjugate%20the%20Muggle%20%28non-magical%29%20world%20to%20his%20rule.">Harry Potter</a> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_seven" class="mw-redirect" title="Series of seven">series of seven</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy novel">fantasy novels</a> written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a>. The books chronicle the adventures of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponymous</a> adolescent wizard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_%28character%29" title="Harry Potter (character)">Harry Potter</a>, together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Weasley" title="Ron Weasley">Ron Weasley</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermione_Granger" title="Hermione Granger">Hermione Granger</a>, his best friends. The central <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_arc" title="Story arc">story arc</a> concerns Harry's struggle against the evil wizard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Voldemort" title="Lord Voldemort">Lord Voldemort</a>, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizarding_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Wizarding world">wizarding world</a>, after which he seeks to subjugate the Muggle (non-magical) world to his http://mildsiete.multiply.com/journal/item/623/he_who_must_not_be_named Tue, 6 May 2008 08:51:00 -0000 hong kong http://mildsiete.multiply.com/photos/album/3/hong_kong Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:58:35 -0000 keyboard monologues random taps on my keyboard. thoughts. opinions. sentiments. insights. humor. day-to-day issues and concerns. people, places and events. adventures and misadventures. personal accounts. memoirs...at kung anu-ano pang papel sa buhay. entirely from a pinoy http://mildsiete.multiply.com/links/item/1/keyboard_monologues Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:39:24 -0000