Thursday, June 24, 2021
Learn About The True Meaning Of Commitment
But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15
An old Doonesbury cartoon by Gary Trudeau pictured a young man who was being interviewed by the president of an advertising company. The dialogue went like this: The executive says, “So you want to be an ad man, eh, son?” And the young responds, “Well, I think so, sir. I mean, I can’t be certain, of course, but it seemed worth looking into, you know, to see if it worked out, if it felt right, and … I … uh…” That’s commitment… or, is it?
Commitment is a word that doesn’t get a lot of coverage today, and when it does, it is often used in jest or humor. I’m thinking of the cartoon picturing a young man talking to his girlfriend. He says, “If you ever leave me, I’ll have you committed…” Being committed to someone and having them commit to you is hardly the same thing.
“Commitment,” according to the dictionary, is the act of giving, or putting something in the trust of another. In the broader sense, it is the act of pledging or binding yourself to a certain course of action, or to a person as the case my be.
Commitment is what a pilot must have when he sits on a runway and guns his engines. There is a point at which he has to commit himself to the flight. He can sit on the runway and gun his engine until it runs out of fuel, but he will never get off the ground until he commits himself to a course of action.
Commitment is what Charles Lindberg had when he flew the Atlantic, the first man who ever to perform such a feat. Lindberg had taken his map and drew a line at a certain point, a line which he called, “the point of no return,” and when Lindberg crossed that line, no matter what happened, he had made the decision to go on, because it was closer to Europe than to the North American continent.
Commitment is the decision to go forward, to hang in there when the going gets tough, to take one more step when you are convinced all strength is gone. Commitment is the decision to stand by someone no matter what the temperature of a relationship may be, or the force of the wind that blows against it.
Today, however, the attitudes of the world mitigate against commitment. “Do your own thing”; “Seek your own fulfillment”; “Find your joy;” “If you don’t love your mate, leave. You deserve happiness”–all of these attitudes are viruses that destroy commitment.
I am convinced that commitment is an ingredient which we vitally need today, and that commitment involves three important areas of your life: (1) Your marriage; (2) Your career, and (3) Your relationship to God which should come before 1 and 2 because it vitally effects both you marriage and your career by giving a sense of spiritual purpose to life, without which there is often little reason to follow through with any commitment.
An individual who is deeply committed to something today often stands out from the crowd as someone who is different or even a little weird. He or she is considered something of an anomaly or a throw-back to another generation. I have news for you, friend. The individual who is successful, who has a sense of purpose in his life, and who knows where he or she is going, is a person of deep commitment. Show me a failure, and I’ll show you a person who lacked commitment to his mate, to his job, to himself, and to his God as well.
Commitment has always been part of God’s plan, His way. As Paul put it, “…be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 15:58, KJV).
Resource reading: Joshua 1:1-10
https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/learn-about-the-true-meaning-of-commitment/
LIST: New congressional districts in the 2022 elections
So far, there will be nine new seats for district representatives in the House
The House of Representatives will be bigger by a few more seats in 2022.
Due to multiple redistricting laws, there will be nine new congressional posts, so far, up for grabs in the May 9, 2022, elections.
Five of these districts were created during the current 18th Congress. The other four were created in 2019, but their seats will be filled for the first time in 2022.
Here is a list of these new districts. The most recent reapportionments are listed first.
Bulacan – 2 new districts
Republic Act 11546, signed in May 2021, reapportioned Bulacan’s four congressional districts into six.
The new groupings of the Bulacan cities and towns are:
- First District: Hagonoy, Paombong, Calumpit, Pulilan, and Bulacan
- Second Distict: Baliuag, Bustos, Plaridel, Guiguinto, Balagtas, Pandi, and Bocaue
- Third District: Angat, Doña Remedios Trinidad, San Ildefonso, San Miguel and San Rafael
- Fourth District: Meycauayan, Marilao and Obando
- Fifth District: Norzagaray and Santa Maria
San Jose del Monte City is unaffected and will continue to have its own district.
Caloocan City – 2 new district
The first district of Caloocan City was split into two after RA 11545 was signed in May 2021. The new district will be known as Caloocan’s third district.
Barangays 1 to 4, 77 to 85 and 132 to 169 will remain in the first district, while Barangays 170 to 175 and 177 to 179 will comprise the new third district and Barangays 176 and 180 to 188 will comprise the new fourth district.
Rizal – 3 new districts
Rizal's first and legislative districts was split into four via RA 11533, signed in March 2021.
The towns of San Mateo and Rodriguez will have district, to be known as the new first district, respectively. The rest of the towns – Baras, Cardona, Jala-jala, Morong, Pililla, Tanay, and Teresa – will be in the fourth district.
Santa Rosa City, Laguna – new district
The city of Santa Rosa was carved out of Laguna's first district via RA 11395 in August 2019. As a result, San Pedro City will become the sole component of the new first district.
Because RA 11395 was enacted after the 2019 elections, the district will have its first representative in the next local elections in 2022.
Mandaue City, Cebu – new district
Mandaue City was split from Cebu's sixth district by virtue of RA 11257 signed in April 2019. This will leave Consolacion and Cordova in the revised sixth district.
The law was enacted too close to the 2019 elections, thus its first representative will be elected in the next polls in 2022.
General Santos City, South Cotabato – new district
General Santos City got its own congressional district via RA 11243, which carved the city out of the first district of South Cotabato. The law was approved in March 2019.
The updated first district is composed of Polomolok, Tampakan, and Tupi towns.
Because the redistricting happened months before the May 2019 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) initially held off the election for the province's first district representative. (Since the ballots have already been printed, voters were still able to cast their votes for the position.) The poll body then scheduled a special election for October 2019 to fill up the seats for the reapportioned districts.
However, the special polls were cancelled after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Shirlyn Bañas Nograles, who received the most number of votes cast in May to represent the first district in the House. Nograles successfully argued that General Santos City remained part of the first district until the next national polls in 2022.
Southern Leyte – 1 new district
Southern Leyte was split into two in February 2019 by virtue of RA 11198, months before the polls that same year. The composition of the new districts are:
- First district - Maasin City, Bontoc, Limasawa, Macrohon, Malitbog, Padre Burgos, and Tomas Oppus
- Second district - Anahawan, Hinunangan, Hinundayan, Libagon, Liloan, Pintuyan, San Francisco, San Juan, San Ricardo, Saint Bernard, Silago, and Sogod
At first, Comelec also suspended the election of representative of the lone district of Southern Leyte, originally set in the May 2019 polls, until the special election scheduled for October that same year for the two new districts. (Like in South Cotabato, voters were still able to cast their votes for the position in Southern Leyte, since the ballots have already been printed.)
However, due to the SC ruling on the General Santos City district, Comelec likewise cancelled the Southern Leyte special polls. The poll body later proclaimed Roger Mercado, who received the most votes cast in May, as representative of the lone district.
The election of representatives of the two districts will take place in 2022.
Total House members
These nine new seats will raise the total number of district representatives in the House to 252.
As a result of district seats having a new total, the seats for party list representatives will also increase by two. This will bring the party list seats to 63, which is 20% of the total House composition, in line with the 1987 Constitution.
Will there be more?
As of writing, there are at least three redistricting bills in the House that are nearing approval.
The House bill that seeks to reapportion Bataan into three districts, from two, has been transmitted to the President in late May 2021 for approval.
Meanwhile, the redistricting House bills for Iloilo City (into two districts) and Agusan del Norte (with Butuan City) have been sent to the Senate for their consideration.
https://www.rappler.com/nation/elections/list-new-congressional-districts-philippines-2022-polls
Filipinos Are Watching Less TV Due to ABS-CBN Shutdown, According to Study
Going digital.
TV viewing in the Philippines dropped in lockdown year 2020, defying the global trend of increased television use as the country saw the shutdown of its biggest media network ABS-CBN.
TV usage slid to 61%, down by five percentage points, to become the third top source of news in the country, behind online (87%) and social media (72%) according to The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021. A total of 2,029 Filipinos were polled for the online survey conducted between January and February 2021 by British market research firm YouGov.
“The decline in TV viewing may have been partly influenced by the closure of ABS-CBN’s free-to-air stations after the House of Representatives refused to renew its franchise to operate,” it said.
ABS-CBN went off the air in May 2020 following the expiry of its franchise. The House of Representatives in July of the same year refused to grant the network a new one, prompting a more aggressive digital push.
As expected, rival network GMA saw a 79% jump in profits from the previous year for the same period, while other media firms reported reduced earnings.
"Besides benefiting from the airtime advertising resulting from ABS-CBN’s closure, GMA’s online and digital ad sales grew 36%. It has launched a DTT receiver, GMA Affordabox, and mobile dongle, GMA Now," the report said.
The report also noted that "many big television networks have taken to rebranding or reformatting programs in a bid to engage consumers."
Going digital
More Filipinos have been getting their news from social media, which saw a rise of four percentage points to 72% in 2020, the study showed.
Facebook remains the top social media source of the latest updates at 73%, followed by YouTube at 53%, Facebook Messenger at 36%, Twitter at 19%, and Instagram at 12%. Video-sharing platform TikTok, which saw its popularity boom in 2020, is also becoming a destination for news among Filipinos at 6%, the report said.
"Dependence on smartphones to access online news, including on social media, has grown among Filipinos during what was one of the world’s longest lockdowns due to COVID-19. Not surprisingly, consumption of traditional media, particularly print, has gone down," it said.
Nearly half of Filipino internet users at 47% share news via social media, messaging, or email, while 17% pay for online news.
In terms of news trust, overall confidence in news among Filipino internet users increased by five percentage points, but declined in social media by two percentage points due to "concerns over misinformation on the internet."
You can view the full report here.
https://www.esquiremag.ph/politics/news/filipinos-watching-less-tv-due-to-abs-cbn-shutdown-a4736-a2593-20210624-src-reportr
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