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No account yet? for Registered Users Governor JADE State Of the Province Address 2008 One year ago, I left Manila to humbly accept the mandate given to me by the people of Dinagat Islands to lead them to a better future. Today, I’m proud to share with you the story of the journey we took towards our shared vision. Our story is about obstacles successfully hurdled, fears overcome, weaknesses converted into strengths, and confusion cleared by a common direction. It is a story of faith, courage, commitment, and partnership. A story of people helping each other to transform current adversities to windows of opportunities. With the birth of the youngest province of the Philippines, the expectations of Dinagatnons were mountain high. But instead of cowering from fear of not able to deliver it, we dissected these expectations, set parameters, and placed the parts within a time frame. We built hopes and encourage community participation. We purposively placed key stakeholders on board, and created our vision. Gipangutana ako sa makadaghang higayon kon asa nako makita ang akong kaugalingon duha ka tuig gikan karon. Ug ako mipahiyom. Mipahiyom tungod kay nasayod ako kon unsa ang tumong sa maong pangutana. Ug mipahiyom ako tungod kay wala nako makita ang akong kaugalingon sa bisan asang dapit, kon dili dinhi sa Dinagat Islands, karon, duha ka tuig gikan karon, lima ka tuig gikan karon, o hangtud inyo pa akong gikinahanglan. Daghan kaayo ang angayang buhaton dinhing dapita. Ug ang mga hagit, ang pagbati sa paglaum, ang atong yano nga garbo sa pagka-Dinagatnon, hilabihan ka kusog ug dili kapugngan. Ania ako magapabilin, dili tungod sa bahandi, dili tungod sa pagka-inila, dili tungod sa pagkahalangdon. Ania ako magpabilin aron paghatag sa akong tibook nga pag-alagad alang sa tanang mga Dinagatnon. . . Wala kita mahadlok sa mga hagit kay kita nagtinabangay ug nagkahiusa paingon sa katumanan sa atong mga pangandoy. 4 Flash Games to Help Educate Your Kids  Recently, a friend shared the news that he’d spent half a morning in bed with his 7 year-old son recently playing a simple flash game. It was, as they can be, addictive – but it was also full of learning opportunities and fostered creativity in a way that so many of us want for our children. There are possibly millions of flash-based games out there. And, this short list is a way of sharing a few, but also putting the call out to GeekDad readers. What flash games do you play with your children? What do they learn from them? What games have had to be banned – for their sheer addictiveness? Here are four that GeekDad recommend you try out. Bomomo - http://bomomo.com/ This art-based game is beautiful. It allows you to explore shape, and more beautiful in its open-ended style that allows you to play and create amazing images forever. A series of bubbles follow the mouse in very subtle ways, in the beginning it is a little slow, so may be difficult to hold children’s attention. But, there are ample buttons to click and options to try. And, you can save the final results as a jpg file. Thinking Machine 4 - http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html Ok, it is chess. But, this isn’t just another chess game. When the computer has its turn it begins graphically representing all the possibilities before it. What results is an amazing pictorial representation of the thousands of options a computer considers before making a move. It looks pretty, in fact, it may be a ruse to distract you from concentrating on your next move. Falling Sand - http://www.flashgames2play.com/Downloads/Sand/green.htm This is possibly one of the ultimate flash games. It has appeared in a couple of different forms, but what is nice is that it challenges the concept that people need an end goal, or a points tally to make the game enjoyable and addictive. Using a suite of simple tools you can stop the falling materials, change thgeir direction, gather them up, plant algae in the water and watch it spread, set the oil on fire and watch it burn. The possibilities are endless. It is great for primary aged children to explore a whole range of concepts in simple ways from volume to through to gravity. Physics Invaders - http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/10/physics_invader.html Suggested by a GeekDad contributor (thanks Matt), here we have space invaders turned even more geek by the fact true principles of physics apply. Rather than exploding, aliens bump and plummet into each other and it takes some effort to push them out of the way. This version of the classic game is also set up to be a bit easier, so even pre-school aged children will enjoy the aliens flying and bumping all over the place – just as Newton theorised. Do you have any to match these flash games? Time-wasters welcome.
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