Monday, November 23, 2009
CNN Hero - Efren Peñaflorida (Championing Children
"My gang mates were the most influential thing in my life," says Fajardo, who joined a gang when he was in sixth grade. "We were pressured to join."
He's not alone. In the Philippines, teenage membership in urban gangs has surged to an estimated 130,000 in the past 10 years, according to the Preda Foundation, a local human rights charity.
"I thought I'd get stuck in that situation and that my life would never improve," recalls Fajardo. "I would probably be in jail right now, most likely a drug addict -- if I hadn't met Efren."
Efren Peñaflorida, 28, also was bullied by gangs in high school. Today, he offers Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education.
"Gang members are groomed in the slums as early as 9 years old," says Peñaflorida. "They are all victims of poverty."
For the past 12 years, Peñaflorida and his team of teen volunteers have taught basic reading and writing to children living on the streets. Their main tool: A pushcart classroom.
Stocked with books, pens, tables and chairs, his Dynamic Teen Company recreates a school setting in unconventional locations such as the cemetery and municipal trash dump.
Peñaflorida knows firsthand the adversity faced by these children. Born into a poor family, he lived in a shanty near the city dump site. But he says he refused to allow his circumstances to define his future.
"Instead of being discouraged, I promised myself that I would pursue education," he recalls. "I will strive hard; I will do my best."
In high school, Peñaflorida faced a new set of challenges. Gang activity was rampant; they terrorized the student body, vandalized the school and inducted members by forcing them to rape young girls, he says.
"I felt the social discrimination. I was afraid to walk down the street."
Peñaflorida remembers standing up to a gang leader, refusing to join his gang. That confrontation proved fateful. At 16, he and his friends "got the idea to divert teenagers like us to be productive," he says.
He created the Dynamic Teen Company to offer his classmates an outlet to lift up themselves and their community. For Peñaflorida, that meant returning to the slums of his childhood to give kids the education he felt they deserved.
"They need education to be successful in life. It's just giving them what others gave to me," he says.
Today, children ranging from ages 2 to 14 flock to the pushcart every Saturday to learn reading, writing, arithmetic and English from Peñaflorida and his trained teen volunteers.
"Our volunteers serve as an inspiration to other children," he says.
The group also runs a hygiene clinic, where children can get a bath and learn how to brush their teeth.
Since 1997, an estimated 10,000 members have helped teach more than 1,500 children living in the slums. The organization supports its efforts by making and selling crafts and collecting items to recycle.
Through his group, Peñaflorida has successfully mentored former gang members, addicts and dropouts, seeing potential where others see problems.
"Before, I really didn't care for my life," says Michael Advincula, who started doing drugs when he was 7. "But then Efren patiently dug me from where I was buried. It was Efren who pushed me to get my life together."
Today, Advincula is a senior in high school and one of the group's volunteers.
Peñaflorida hopes to expand the pushcart to other areas, giving more children the chance to learn and stay out of gangs.
"I always tell my volunteers that you are the change that you dream and I am the change that I dream. And collectively we are the change that this world needs to be."
Watch Peñaflorida and his group in action with their push cart classroom »
Take a look at the slums where Peñaflorida and his group spend their Saturdays »
Watch Advincula describe how he met Peñaflorida in the slums »
Source: CNN
Friday, November 20, 2009
Top 10 Facebook Game Application (Nov. 20,2009)
I'm so very surprise that there are Facebook Game App. that have been down the to the list. And there are also some that new to the list.
Compare it from my old post about the Top 10 Facebook Game Application with the updated one.
by: MindJolt
9.
by: Playfish
8.
by: SlashKey
Texas Hold'Em Poker
by: Zynga
Pet Societyby: Playfish
by: Zynga
3.
A fun game where you can feed and play with baby fish! Decorate and clean aquariums to watch fish swim happily in the water!2.
by: Zynga
And the Top 1 is .....
1.
FarmVille
by: Zynga
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TOP 10!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
FriendsForSale Coin Finder
NEED:
1.Firefox
2.GreaseMonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/7483.FFS for greasemonkey script
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56280
4.UPDATE:
i modified the userscript to move to a different profile when it did not find any coin.
changes are in bold// ==UserScript==
// @name Friends For Sale Coin Finder
// @namespace FriendsForSale
// @description CoinFinder
// @include http://apps.facebook.com/friendsforsale/users/show/*
// @author Raymond Go Ho
// Friends For Sale Coin Bot
// Buy me to thank me:: http://apps.facebook.com/friendsforsale/users/show/41252087
// Thank you for using this!!
// jQuery Loader is authored by Joan Piedra: http://joanpiedra.com/jquery/greasemonkey/
// Thanks Joan for making the wonderful script
// ==/UserScript==
// Add jQuery
var GM_JQ = document.createElement('script');
GM_JQ.src = 'http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js';
GM_JQ.type = 'text/javascript';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(GM_JQ);
// Check if jQuery's loaded
function GM_wait() {
if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); }
else { $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); }
}
GM_wait();
// All your GM code must be inside this functio
function letsJQuery() {
// Find out if the coin on the website.
// Note that querySelectorAll is only available in Firefox 3.5 and above
var coin = document.querySelectorAll("#app7019261521_hover_container > [id^=app7019261521_the_coin]");
if (coin.length == 1) {
var c = coin[0].firstChild;
var value = parseInt($(c).text());
// 500k - 999k is a mock value, FFS use it to detect bots
if (value >= 500 && value <= 999) {
window.location.reload();
} else {
window.location = c.href;
}
} else if (coin.length == 0) {
var prev = document.querySelector("a.prev");
window.location = prev;
}
window.setTimeout("window.location.reload();", 1000);
}
5. paste into the edit code and press save
6. then go to the profile your friends in ffs...
7.if you cannot buy my ffs profile just hit thanks here
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