Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino Announces Nominees, #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night on Dec. 12

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The #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night will be streamed on the FDCP’s Facebook page and YouTube channel

Nine out of the 13 films from the Premium Selection Section of the 4th Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP) were considered for the selection of nominees for the #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night to be held virtually on December 12. 

The PPP Premium Selection features titles that had a limited release in the country or have never been shown in the Philippines, along with a non-competition title, opening film “Ang Lakaran ni Kabunyan: Kabunyan’s Journey to Liwanag” by National Artist for Film Kidlat Tahimik, and three restored titles: “Batch ’81” by Mike de Leon, “Brutal” by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, and “Markova: Comfort Gay” by Gil Portes.

The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) made known that only Premium Selection films with Philippine premieres at PPP or had limited releases were considered for the PPP4 Awards nominations:

• “Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids” by Vincent Soberano

• “Cleaners” by Glenn Barit

• “Come On, Irene” by Keisuke Yoshida

• “He Who Is Without Sin” by Jason Paul Laxamana

• “Kintsugi” by Lawrence Fajardo

• “Metamorphosis” by J.E. Tiglao

• “Sila-Sila” by Giancarlo Abrahan

• “The Helper” by Joanna Bowers

• “The Highest Peak” by Arnel “Arbi” Barbarona

“Cleaners” by Glenn Barit leads the pack of PPP4 nominees with 10 nominations followed by “Kintsugi” by Lawrence Fajardo and “Metamorphosis” by J.E. Tiglao with nine nominations each. “He Who Is Without Sin” by Jason Paul Laxamana, meanwhile, has eight nominations. 

The FDCP will also be giving special recognitions during the #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night which will be held on December 12, Saturday, at 8 p.m. It will be streamed on the Facebook page and YouTube channel of the FDCP.

Musical performances at the #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night will be showcased by Raf Bernardino, Acel Bisa, Bayang Barrios and Naliyagan, Joey Ayala, Ice Seguerra, and Ms. Regine Velasquez.

The 4th PPP, which has a 170-film lineup with 90 full-length feature films and 80 short films, will end on December 13. It has drawn more than 8,000 subscribers since it began on October 31. 

With the #PPP4SamaAll tagline, the festival aims to be a solidarity event that promotes Philippine Cinema and boosts the Filipino film industry as it is struggling to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

Below is the official list of nominees of the #PPP4SamaAll Awards Night:

BEST PICTURE

Cleaners

He Who Is Without Sin

Metamorphosis

Kintsugi

The Highest Peak

BEST DIRECTOR

Glenn Barit (Cleaners)

Jason Paul Laxamana (He Who Is Without Sin)

J.E. Tiglao (Metamorphosis)

Lawrence Fajardo (Kintsugi)

Arnel “Arbi” Barbarona (The Highest Peak)

BEST ACTRESS

Sarah Chang (Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids)

Nats Sitoy (Come On, Irene)

Hana Kino (Come On, Irene)

Hiro Nishiuchi (Kintsugi)

BEST ACTOR

Ken Yasuda (Come On, Irene)

Gold Azeron (Metamorphosis)

Gio Gahol (Sila-Sila)

Elijah Canlas (He Who Is Without Sin)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Iana Bernardez (Metamorphosis)

Yayo Aguila (Metamorphosis)

Gianne Rivera (Cleaners)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Phi Palmos (Kintsugi)

Topper Fabregas (Sila-Sila)

Roweno Caballes (The Highest Peak)

Allan Gannaban (Cleaners)

Henyo Ehem (The Highest Peak)

BEST SCREENPLAY

J.E. Tiglao and Boo Dabu (Metamorphosis)

Glenn Barit (Cleaners)

Jason Paul Laxamana (He Who Is Without Sin)

Herlyn Alegre (Kintsugi)

Daniel Saniana (Sila-Sila)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Boy Yñiguez (Kintsugi)

Steven Paul Evangelio (Cleaners)

Takeyuki Onishi (Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids)

Tey Clamor (Metamorphosis)

Emmanuel Liwanag (He Who Is Without Sin)

BEST EDITING

Noah Loyola and Che Tagyamon (Cleaners)

Mai Calapardo (He Who Is Without Sin)

Lawrence Fajardo (Kintsugi)

Mark Cyril Bautista and Big Dipper (Metamorphosis)

Annika Lok Yin Feign (The Helper)  

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Alvin Francisco (Cleaners)

Hai Balbuena and Rolando Inocencio (Kintsugi)

James Arvin Rosendal (Metamorphosis)

Lars Magbanua (He Who Is Without Sin)

Fritz Silorio (Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids)

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Yuji Akazawa and Shichihei Kawamoto (Come On, Irene)

Dale Martin (Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids)

Aian Louie Caro and Erlyn Tomboc (He Who Is Without Sin)

Arnel “Arbi” Barbarona (The Highest Peak)

John Michael Perez and Daryl Libongco (Cleaners)

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Glenn Barit (Cleaners)

Divino Dayacap (The Highest Peak)

Peter Legaste (Kintsugi)

Dale Martin and Tamara Dela Cruz (Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids)

Igo Gonzalez (Sila-Sila)

6 Top-Notch Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare Industries

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The health care sectors are one of the fastest-growing industries. That offers value-based care for millions of people for helping them in saving their life. In today's date, health care industries in America generate more than 1.756 trillion dollars, which is a lot more compared to their per capita income. With disease and accidents becoming more deadly, precise operations are needed to save a life. It can be difficult for a doctor to do, even if he or she has a lot of experience.

With machine learning, the biggest buzzwords of the 21st century. Not only healthcare industries but all industries are evolving at a higher pace. The work process has become more automated than human involvement. And the results yielding are more accurate than it was ever before. With smart machines, the work process has become simple and more effective.
Introduction

Machine Learning has a wide range of applications in the healthcare industry. But the way ML and health care industries are evolving together is quite surprising. In simple words, the application of ML in healthcare industries created many life-saving opportunities in recent times. And we all are grateful for it.

The main goals are to deliver better care to patients, streamline the internal process. Provide hassle-free services, boost staff productivity, and reduce costs. Here are eight top-notch applications of Machine Learning in the healthcare industry. Let's explore each one in turn. 

Robotic-Assisted Surgery; Boon For Humanity

Robotic-assisted surgery is the newest evolution in the market. That is for minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgeries. Instead of dissecting the human body, the machines insert three to four arms inside the human body. Where one arm holds the camera, the other two hold equipment, and the last one helps to move the obstructions.

The advantage of using this process is, it is easy to operate precisely, where humans cannot access it. The major applications are in oncological surgery, pelvic parts, and morbid obesity. 

Virtual Nursing Assistant For Hassle-Free Consultation

Virtual nurse assistants enhance real-time clinical and nonclinical data by improving constant monitoring and interaction with patients. By using analytics, they help patients understand their reports and provide them with better solutions without dedicated doctors.

Virtual nursing assistants use data and analytics to provide more engaging care, better healthcare management, and chronic condition monitoring. 

Dosage Error Reductions is Saving Lifes

Dosages are highly essential for maintaining better health. And the percentage of dosage is so minute that it's very tough for pharmacists, and there are high chances for calculation errors. Misprogramming could cause life loss or health problems. Thus these ML-coded machines track the over-delivery of drugs, electrolytes. Or any other fluids, Dosage Errors Reduction Systems to defense against medicare errors.

Medication errors are a failure in the treatment process. The chances of medication errors are in choosing which medicine or dosage regimen. To use for prescribing the patients or while manufacturing or wrong labeling.

ML algorithms such as KNN algorithm using R can identify patterns with any predictions. Discovering or manufacturing drugs can be expensive. And even a long process because there are several components to consider. 

Automated Image Diagnosis For Precise Reports

Images are one of the largest sources of data in the healthcare industry. That is because you see a lot of diagrams on hospital walls or in the doctor chambers. Thus clinics rely on medical image analysis by serving as helpers to the overworked radiologists by analyzing themselves.

The machine uses time series analysis to provide accurate information about a specific disease. That is about to happen, or in which stage using the automated analysis to deliver faster results.

With ML techniques such as deep analytics, it is even possible to find microscopic deformities in the scanned images. And doctors can diagnose the exact reason behind the health issues.

Advanced techniques like x-ray, CT scan are enough to inspect minor irregularities. But if it's increasing significantly, proper measures are highly essential. To save patients from getting into bad conditions. 

Health Monitoring Over The Internet is Instantly

Though we are in the 21st era, it's even harder to diagnose disease manually. But machines play a crucial role in identifying the disease, monitoring health, and suggesting the next steps. It is easy to detect deadly diseases such as cancer from its early stages.

There are specific ways they took the advantages of machine learning to develop treatments in oncology. The core idea here is to diagnose by automating the process as much as possible, along with different clinical conditions. 

Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) For Patients and Doctors

Register record maintenance is obsolete since the introduction of computers and smart devices. Our present system uses computers to maintain all the connected devices and optimize better networks. As healthcare is crucial, there are always new challenges to offer services to customers.

Maintaining all records in a multispeciality hospital is tedious work. Where many things are happening simultaneously and managing the financial, hospital, and clinical aspects are no less than burdens.

Therefore, hospital information management systems are highly essential to automate different hospital processes. That helps patients to know about the availability of specialist doctors, and also, it helps as a reminder for doctors to the patients they are treating. And it helps to distinguish the emergencies of the patients. 

 
Endpoints

All thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence for the medical revolution we are witnessing today. Using trending technologies alone won’t help unless some dedicated minds and curiosity are applied to develop new technologies.

For that, specialists need to understand the real problems in the health care sectors and do adequate research to find out the solutions to them.

The recent application of ML to the healthcare sector, such as HIMS, Health Monitoring, and robotic surgery, virtual nursing Assistants, and Automated Image Diagnosis may be costly. But they simplify the various processes in the hospital and play a life-saving role.



For this reason, pharmaceutical companies are investing massive amounts of money for AI and ML to get an extra edge over their competitors in drug discovery.

Justice Marvic Leonen faces impeachment complaint

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Like in the impeachment complaint against ex-Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Justice Marvic Leonen is accused of lacking integrity for his supposed failure to file his SALNs when he was a law professor. 

Leonen is now facing an impeachment complaint at House of Representatives filed by an Edwin Cordevilla over alleged delays in resolving SC and House election cases and supposed non-filing of SALNS. Filing facilitated by lawyer Lorezon "Larry" Gadon. 

SALN is trending, because a Marcos relative & Larry "Bobo" Gadon filed an impeachment complaint versus Justice Marvic Leonen for violation of Constitution & non-disclosure of SALN.

KALOKOHAN!

This is about BongBong Marcos wanting to get rid of the man standing in his way in his electoral protest versus Leni!

Gadon filed a quo warranto petition in order to remove Leonen as a justice of the SC. The grounds for removal are likened to the case of Sereno for non-filing of SALN and also failure to exhibit impartiality and probity which are qualities of a justice.

SolGen Calida will file a comment to the petition and another petition to remove Leonen from the SC.

Larry Gadon is as criminally insane as Rudy Giuliani who insists that there's widespread fraud in the US election.

And both are blatantly tainted with many legal suit mishaps!  Who needs them as counsels with awful records?  Duh!

Sising sisi tuloy siguro si Leonen nung di niya tinuluyang kasuhan si Calida at yung Jomar Canlas. Hayss! Di sya titigilan ng nga kampon ni Satanas. Kakapal ng mukha. SALN na naman ang ini-issue pero yung SALN ni Duts wala pa rin.

He may be the lone dissenter sa SC pero he failed to do the right thing on several occasions thinking he will be spared from the wrath of Duterte. Here we are now.

Akala niya titigilan na siya nung di niya tinuluyan. Kaso desperate na si BBM. Lapit na 2022 eh.

Gadon held a presscon after filing the impeachment complaint versus Leonen where he stressed that neither Bongbong Marcos nor his election protest has anything to do with the impeachment complaint. Leonen is in charge of PET case versus VP Robredo.

Gadon said he has not talked to Bongbong Marcos about impeachment complaint, but acknowledged Marcos tried to stop him from pursuing quo warranto.

Bongbong earlier said about Gadon: "We are in touch, nagte-text kami."

So now we know one of them is lying.

Gadon said that Rep. Angelo Barba, a cousin of Bongbong Marcos, endorsed the impeachment complaint only because he represents the district where the complainant, Edwin Cordevilla, resides. 

Gadon called Leonen "incompetent, lazy & biased" supposedly because he has 82 pending cases yet to be resolved and is allegedly critical of Duterte admin and Marcoses.

Leonen is among most vocal dissenters in SC even during PNoy's time, writing extensive opinions. 

Gadon acknowledged impeachment complaint is based on newspaper articles from The Manila Times. Asked for documentary evidence, he said there are documents but the originals and certified true copies will be summoned by the House of Reps.

An impeachment case is not a criminal or a regular case filed in regular courts because in an impeachment case the House has the power to summon documents and to summon witnesses.

Gadon not foreclosing possibility Leonen impeachment complaint will follow same route as ousted CJ Maria Lourdes Sereno's who first faced impeachment complaint before quo warranto petition using evidence gathered from House probe. He insisted probe not fishing expedition.

"Easier to impeach Leonen because the issue here is very simple. The grounds are determinable by yes/no. Is it true there are 82 cases you have not decided on?" 

The impeachment complaint accused Leonen of not resolving 37 of 82 pending cases within 24 months, supposedly violating the Constitution. Gadon said provision is self-executing: "Mabigat ito, direct violation of Consti."

Reacting to impeachment complaint vs Leonen, NUPL President Edre Olalia says complaint is defective in form and substance, “suspect and comes not from the purest of intentions.” Cites the need for dissents in SC, one of issues raised vs Leonen in complaint. 

Congressman Barba endorsed the impeachment complaint againstLeonen. Barba is a cousin of BBM. Go figure. And Gadon is their lawyer? Double go figure. Lol.

Gadon can deny all he wants but this Impeachment Complaint has a big "MARCOS" written on it.

If Gadon has so much time in his hands, he can also do something about Pres. Duterte's secret SALNs and medical records?

Duterte’s time changed our metrics.

Confidence level? From 1 to Gadon.

Bastos level? From 1 to Harry.

Never give up level? From 1 to BBM.

Photo op level? From 1 to Go.

Party level? From 1 to Debold.

Marvic Leonen is one Justice in a Supreme Court overwhelmed by Duterte appointees. Takot pa sila? Impeachment effort? It’s not the case outcome they fear... it’s the spirit of dissent and independence.

DIWA. Malayang diwa. That is what this regime fears most. And THAT is our main weapon against tyranny. Never forget.

This current leadership is just too allergic to dissent, to opposing views. The mentality of a tyrant.