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Are you one of those who took the August 2013 Physician Board Exam? This time, you are probably excited to check whether your name was listed in August 2013 Physician Board Exam results released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). With a passing rate of 82.58% (1,834 out of 2,211 examinees), the results were released on Tuesday - 3 working days after the last day of tests given the Board of Medicine in Manila, Cebu and Davao.

A lot of social networking sites nowadays are making our lives a lot easier. We can communicate with our friends and love ones as often as possible because of Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger and many more. We get to be informed also through these sites and can join discussions and conversations about different issues. Internet.org aims to connect the next 5 billion to the internet Recently, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook announced the launch of “ Internet.org ” which he described as a global partnership with the goal of making internet access available to the next 5 billion people. It aims to bring wider connections most especially to those who are not yet connected.

Nobody wants to experience a restless night's sleep or wake up feeling groggy or disoriented, but this is all too often the case for millions and millions of people. With so many distractions, stresses and activities in our everyday lives, it comes as no surprise that the minds of millions will still be racing once they hit the sheets – it is this that often leads to poor quality sleep and low energy levels throughout the day. In the past, this was simply unavoidable as many did not have the knowledge necessary to understand what was causing their sleepless nights and groggy mornings. We now have a variety of gadgets, however, that can assist us when it comes to a deep, restful sleep and refreshing mornings. In the following article, we will describe three gadgets that can help you fall asleep and wake up at the opportune moments in order to avoid fatigue and drowsiness.

Pork Barrel Scam in the Philippines. This editorial will somehow be a guide to all students who want to make a reaction paper or a reflection paper about Pork Barrel Scam involving Janet Lim Napoles. It has been a traditional program or funding system of the Philippine government to issue Pork Barrel Funds formally called the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and the Congressional Allocation to every congressman and their congressional districts certain amount supposedly allocated for identified projects based on the approval list or menu of the projects. But recently, a pork barrel scam worth P10 Billion rocked the Philippine’s political establishment. Janet Lim Napoles became the main man for this issue as evidences and some witnesses are all pointing towards her. Further investigation and in fact an order to arrest Napoles was already being declared headed by the secretary of the Department of Justice, Sec. Leila De Lima.