Filipinos heroes at home, exploited abroad

Overseas Filipino Workers

I woke up to a rising sun in Doha, Qatar, one warm Sunday in March and was led to the posh Ritz-Carlton Hotel where I was billeted, when I saw them. They opened the doors of the black car that took me from the airport to the hotel’s main entrance.

‘Kabayan,’ they greeted me, the Filipino word for fellow countrymen and women. It brought me comfort to find a fellow Filipino in a Middle Eastern country I was visiting for the first time. Later in the day, when I went to the city to exchange some dollars for local currency, I saw more Filipinos, my beloved Kabayans.

They were everywhere, sweating in the scorching desert heat, toiling a living for their loved ones at home. I saw them behind the wheels of the hotel’s shiny black Audis, behind bank counters, inside exhibition halls of Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, inside the hotel’s luxurious spa and in the hotel’s lobby lounge.

Two hours from Doha, in the industrial city of Ras Laffan, I boarded a hulking black LNG tanker and saw them staffing the kitchen, cooking for the rest of the ship’s crew.

Overseas Filipino Workers, they all are. Our government calls them unsung heroes and rightly so, because the dollar remittances they send home keep the economy afloat.  According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), recent data shows that remittances from overseas Filipino workers rose by six per cent to $1.68 billion in February from $1.59 billion in the same period last year.

The BSP expects 2013’s total remittances to grow by five per cent from 2012’s figure of $21.4 billion.

According to government statistics, there are 2.2 million overseas workers scattered all over the world, from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong and the US.

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Tim Potter Texas

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Future Free Facebook Calls

FaceBook Dialer and Caller ID

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Facebook, that company that is constantly trying to confuse you by naming its own branded apps after system apps, may launch another app it would now like to confuse you with, and it's called - wait for it - Phone. At least, that's what screenshots from a couple of folks who tipped us seem to say.

Cell Phone

Facebook, as we know, generally does major interface updates to its application server-side, so users occasionally get seemingly random glimpses of new features or UI designs before they launch. The [FB-ONLY] tag on this button for Phone would seem to indicate somebody flipped the wrong switch, and this element went live before it was supposed to. Tapping the button to install or update it does nothing but throw you to a "no page found" error, which is probably because the application is stored internally on Facebook's intranet for security purposes.

What we can divine from this button is, well, not a huge amount - but then again, it does just seem to be a dialer replacement. Phone will block calls from commonly blocked numbers and show you detailed information about incoming calls, a lot like the Whitepages Caller ID app. Presumably, Facebook will also be anonymizing your incoming call data for marketing and research purposes, because why else would they want to release an app like this?

We don't know if or when Phone will come to exist as a thing publicly, but it does seem like Facebook is at least testing it.

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Tim Potter's Copyright Violations and Google

Philippine-Sugar Land Tim Potter's issue with Google

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As I Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land sit back and wonder what would happen if someone stole your photos online or they steal your content. What are the actions you can take.  You can report these offenses to the web master that has the photos or material.  You can report them to the author of the website.  Yet those seem to do little good in the case of Cyber Stalker.  So then you can report them to Google who in reality just press a button for deny.

How do I,  Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land  know this, a Cyber Stalker has followed me around the web for no reason.  He is a jealous bitter old man.   That wishes people to live in his misery.

So then you follow the advice of Google.  Create positive things to outweigh what was said and things that are negative about you.  I Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land created a blog and many online profiles.  I used Blogspot and Google Plus to create these profiles.  You follow the instructions of Google.  Then the cyber stalker goes and steals your content and posts it on his profile.  He steals your Google Plus Profile and Blogspot posts.  So now you inform the website author of the what may happen.  You inform them that he has once again violated your copyright and stole your material.

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So where does that leave us.  Well I  Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land gave him 12 hours to remove all my photos for his website.  I will then report this latest theft of material to Google.  Now seeing that Google Plus and Blogspot are both Google products I doubt seriously they will take kindly to the fact he has stolen from them.  However if they fail to act on this 100% plain action of copyright infringement   It will be the time  to start to exit 100% from the Google world.  As Google has just gone over the top to promote cyber stalkers and pedophiles  In the name of what?  See his site also contain underage girls in sex acts.  Yet Google refused to de-index that site.   Nor take action.   I figure unless you make a million dollars and go to court they refuse to act.  They have even refused to place those images in safe search.  Wow.....

Tim Potter Philippine Sugar Land

There have been reports that ISPs do not entertain image theft anymore.  I  Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land  wonder how true those reports are.  The rub here is you take him to court to take down sites.  This costs you a thousand dollars or so to do as such.  Then for $10 dollars the cyber stalker opens up shop somewhere else.  Yet you are out a thousand dollars to fight back.  Additionally when the person lives in another country there is little you can do in regards to monetary damages as he is an expat in France.  Yet since this guy has a USA passport and his number was published on the web he has has been reported for child endangerment to US Authorities and the FBI.

I  Tim Potter Philippine-Sugar Land  will now sit back and wait for the outcome.  No matter the outcome with Google.  Two things will remain the same.   I will have a wife that is beautiful and would be the envy of any man.  That my cyber stalker will remain jealous and bitter over this fact.

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