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Kylemore Castle was built as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy doctor from London, whose family was in textile manufacturing from Manchester, England. He moved to Ireland, when he and his wife, Margaret, purchased the land around the Abbey and became a politician, and was also an MP for County Galway from 1871 to 1885. The castle was designed by James Franklin Fuller, initially together with Ussher Roberts. Construction first began in 1867, and took one hundred men four years to complete. The castle covered approximately 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) with over 70 rooms and the principal wall was two to three feet thick. The facade measured 142 feet (43 m) in length and is made of granite brought from Dalkey by sea to Letterfrack and limestone from Ballinasloe. There were 33 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 sitting rooms, ballroom, billiard room, library, study, school room, smoking room, gun room and various offices and domestic staff residences for the butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants. Several other building including a Gothic cathedral and family mausoleum containing the bodies of Margaret Henry, Mitchell Henry and a great grand nephew.

The Abbey remained in Henry's estate after he returned to England, and the castle was sold to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester in 1909, they resided there several years, before being forced to sell the house and grounds due to gambling debts. In 1920 the Irish Benedictine Nuns purchased the Abbey castle and lands after they were forced to flee Ypres, Belgium during World War I. Previously the nuns, who had been based in Ypres for several hundred years, had been bombed out of their Abbey during World War I. The nuns continued to offer education to Catholic girls, and opened an international boarding school and established a day school for local girls. They were forced to close the school in June 2010.
Walled Victorian Gardens, Kylemore Abbey

The Estate includes large walled Victorian Gardens, which have been open since the 70s, to public tours and 'nature' walks. The Benedictine community have restored the Abbey's gardens and Cathedral with donations and local artisans, in order to be a

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By: Rob Lever
Agence France-Presse
9:48 am | Sunday, May 27th, 2012
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WASHINGTON â€" The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile Internet.

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Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! are all in the struggle, along with the Norwegian-made Opera browser and the open source Firefox software from Mozilla.

The motive behind the wars is not just bragging rights. The company that controls the mobile Web can direct users to its websites, and importantly, gather data that can be used in targeted advertising.

“The browsers need to be present on the mobile device for survival,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Opus Research.

“Everyone is trying to manage their strategy in this multiscreen and multiplatform world.”

Research firm StatCounter found that global access from mobile devices, not including tablets, doubled in the year to January to 8.5 percent of all Internet usage.

Google stepped up its effort earlier this year by releasing a full version of its Chrome browser for mobile devices, which will over time replace the unnamed browser on devices powered by Google’s open Android platform.

The Google-Android browser by April had grabbed 21.5 percent of the mobile Web, overtaking Opera, the early leader that had 21.3 percent, according to StatCounter.

“Chrome is definitely the up-and-comer because of Android, and it has a lot of momentum on the PC,” Sterling said.

Running third was Apple’s Safari, the default browser on iPhones, with 20 percent. Nokia, BlackBerry and a few others hold small shares.

When tablets are included, Apple is the dominant player with 63 percent, according to data from Net Applications’ NetMarketShare survey, but Android is gaining with nearly 19 percent.

The push by Google meshes with its strategy of gathering information about users across platforms, so that someone searching on a mobile device might get an ad on a PC, or vice-versa.

And Google just completed its $12.5 billion deal to buy mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility, freeing the California company to build its own handsets that play into the strengths of its

software.

“Everybody wants to have that first point of contact with the user to control the experience from that point, capture certain data and direct them to services,” said Al Hilwa of the research firm IDC.

“It’s all about control, about who is further up on the stream of data.”

Meanwhile Microsoft, in its effort to get a share of the mobile space, is pushing its own Internet Explorer browser for devices running Windows, but critics say the software giant is limiting compatibility.

Mozilla’s Harvey Anderson complained in a blog post that Microsoft is limiting the “advanced” capabilities for outside software, effectively shutting out browsers like Firefox.

Anderson said Microsoft in its new Windows 8 devices was signalling “an unwelcome return to the digital dark ages where users and developers didn’t have browser choices.”

Yahoo! became the latest to boost its effort in the mobile space, introducing its Axis browser designed for mobile devices.

“It is meant to replace Safari,” Yahoo! product management director Ethan Batraski said of Axis. “You will never have to use Safari ever again.”

Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Capital who follows Google, said the Internet search giant will also introduce a version of Chrome for the Apple operating system.

Schachter said in a note to clients that Google benefits from Chrome by reducing the payments from “traffic acquisition costs” and that a Chrome browser for iPhones and iPads could

“meaningfully” reduce what Google pays Apple.

But Apple can tweak its strategy without competing head-on against Google, Sterling said. He said Apple’s Siri voice assistant and its new maps software offer a type of search. And as tensions rise with Google, it could change the Safari search engine to Microsoft’s Bing, or another.

Analysts say it remains unclear to what degree device makers will try to block out competing browsers, and if this will trigger a government response. In the 1990s, Microsoft’s efforts to lock out competing browsers prompted actions on both sides of the Atlantic.

The battle for control of the mobile Web raises questions about Facebook, which is groping for a mobile strategy after a troubling response to its massive share offering.

One report said Facebook was eyeing Opera, which could solve some of the perceived problems for the social network giant by offering a platform to get better data on mobile usage for targeted advertising.

“It wouldn’t surprise me” if Facebook were to acquire or tie up with Opera or develop its own browser, Hilwa said.

Another player to watch, said Hilwa, is Amazon, which has developed its own browser for the Kindle Internet device â€" a move that can also steer users various services, earning cash along the way.

Hilwa said Amazon, like the others, is pursuing a strategy that includes hardware and software, but can also sell goods and services.

“They have content, they sell stuff, they have Web services,” he said. “They have a lot of assets and have been successful. I would watch them.”

The clear signs of aging
By: Efren Ll. Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:41 am | Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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Question: What is the ideal age in which I should start focusing on retirement planning? I have heard people say that five years is good enough. I am quite young and still have my whole life ahead of me.â€"Fast-rising young executive.

Answer: Some say you should start preparing for retirement when you start to age.  What are the signs that you are aging? Here are some common symptoms:

The topic at your lunch table turns from magical vacations to medical prescriptions.

You find yourself searching for music compilations from yesteryears.

You start holding your cell phone farther from you just to read text messages.

You get very “high scores” in your lab results (i.e. high blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides).

Your moisturizer now includes anti-aging ingredients.

You begin your admonitions with, “In my time…”

You still watch the shows you grew up with like Hawaii “Five-0” and the Simpsons.

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Amazed at illicit relationships among OFWs
By: Emily A. Marcelo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
4:59 pm | Saturday, December 31st, 2011
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Dear Emily,

I’ve been working here in Saudi Arabia, and it’s amazing to see some of our married kabayans engage in illicit relationships while they still have spouses there in the Philippines.   We call them TFCs, or “the false couples.”   They even show bogus marriage certificates to the religious police,  live in apartments reserved for families,  and have the gall to attend church functions as couples.   If you didn’t know these people, they can, in fact, pass as married.

I once asked a friend of mine point blank what happens when he goes back home for vacations.   He said it’s like having controlled amnesia, and simply forgetting his illicit relationship abroad.   Once home, they go back to their families, act like the loving husband or wife,  dote on the achievements of their children,  and go to church like what a devout parent and spouse does.    When they return from their vacations, they go back to the same illicit relationships like nothing has happened.

What is the dynamics for this sort of relationships?

â€"David

Who knows what goes on in the minds of these people?  Loneliness?  Giddiness at their newfound freedom?  Revenge at how fate has dealt them a bad deck of cards?  Anger at not finding the promised milk and honey in the streets of the dreamt-up  paradise?  Self-pity and despair at indebtedness despite nonstop hard work?   It’s almost like provoking fate with the arrogance of,  “So what if I am blatantly having an affair? So, what now!?”   Imagine being in a strange country with almost no close friends at arm’s length to tug at their moral consciousness. So,  what’s a lonely person to do?

Isn’t it ironic, if not pathetic, that the reason these OFWs go abroad is to earn money to improve the lives of their children by providing them the kind of education they never had?  Or to build that dream house to grow old in? Yet, they have shortsighted  and flash-in-the-pan relationships that destroy the very essence of those dreams.  And these rootless,  permissive  scenarios are happening like it’s nobody’s business.

Similarly, some of those husbands and wives left at home suddenly find themselves flush with money,  and give the same excuseâ€"lonelinessâ€"to try some excitement of their own.  Many of those I’ve flown with who are coming home for vacation often lament that instead of looking forward to a warm and pleasant homecoming,  they dread coming back to a broken family, where their spouses  have left them for younger mates.

It shows how people react when left to their own devices.

You, as a man of conscience, cringe at  what you see, while those you’re seeing have comfortably created the “solution” to their perceived “problems.”

Different strokes for different folks?

Many Thanks to Nylne Flores for the pictures..

Google's new flagship handset, a 4.65-inch touchscreen device featuring the brand new Android 4.0 OS.

What's great
A superbly vivid and sharp screen; re-designed Android OS; great multi-media functionality and premium design.

What's not
The camera is a bit disappointing and speech recognition is poor.

The bottom line
While the Nexus is a little underwhelming in certain areas, the updated Android is a joy to use, offering tons of customisation options and a sleek, intuitive smartphone experience on a vast screen.

Review
According to the dictionary, a nexus is "a connection or link; the focus or nub of something". It's a fitting name for a phone that's been at the heart of speculation about Android 4.0, a device that forms a bridge between the current version of Google's smartphone OS and Ice Cream Sandwich (the code name for this update).

The case design is nice but rather vanilla. The Nexus' speaker is housed under a lip on the rear, beneath a textured silver back panel, making it a slightly bottom heavy phone. The front, meanwhile, is all big 4.65-inch show-off screen, a glass panel that extends right to the edges of the handset; unless you tilt the Nexus toward a light source it's hard to tell where the panel ends and the housing for the microphone and alert light begin. A simple volume rocker and power button sit on the curved left and right edges, with a 3.5mm headphone jack and micro USB on the bottom of the phone. In short, it's a solid, classy design that fits snugly in the hand; but it lacks the wow-factor of the iPhone 4S or Nokia Lumia 800.

The screen, however, will induce plenty of oohing and aahing. Colour reproduction, sharpness and clarity are all faultless, and it's perfect for showing off the new-look Android. Icons are much more detailed and really 'pop' on the Nexus; they even seem to float slightly above the new selection of Live Wallpapers. Open up one of the core apps such as Gmail or Calendar and you're introduced to the new vibe of Ice Cream Sandwich: cool, elegant minimalism. Thin sans-serif fonts and muted colour schemes dominate, with slivers of electric blue found on the small-keyed but accurate keyboard and redesigned dialer app. All very slick and stylish.

A neat sound effect accompanies the updated ring unlock system, although as you'd expect with Android, there's an option to change this to a number of other unlock methods, one of which is a new Face Unlock feature. Multitasking is also integral to the Nexus experience, with all your open apps accessible via a tap of the dedicated touch button at the bottom of the screen - up to five of your favourite apps can be placed in the dock too. However, the option to pinch to show all home screens at one glance has mysteriously disappeared - an omission we can't quite understand.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (© Samsung)

Samsung

The bundled browser is super fast both on 3G and wi-fi, and website text is pin-sharp. Smooth pinch zooming, tabbed browsing and easy bookmarking also feature, though this being an Android phone there are plenty of alternative browsers available from the Android Market too. A word of warning: our test handset lacked Flash functionality, but we're 99.9 per cent certain it's in the pipeline.

We were pleased to see a straightforward data usage menu in the settings, which allows you to easily set a mobile data usage limit and monitor which apps are chewing up your megabytes (Google Maps - we're looking at you). Widgets are also easily resizable once you've placed them on one of the home screens (only five unfortunately - odd considering the Galaxy S2 has seven). Calls are crystal clear too.

However, there are some holes in the Nexus' package. For starters, social networking integration is poor. You can download dedicated apps for Twitter and Facebook from the Android Market of course, but there's no straightforward means of merging your status updates, tweets and IM conversations - something many similar-priced handsets offer out of the box. Wi-fi signal strength is rather hap-hazard too, and the speech recognition tool is virtually unusable; compared to Siri, its about as good as understanding voice commands as Del Boy is at understanding French.

Although megapixels aren't the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to digital photography, we expected the Nexus to be packing at least an eight, rather than five, megapixel lens. The camcorder is better, featuring full 1080p recording, and the Panoramic stitching tool works well for super wide-angle shots. But all-in-all the Nexus makes for a distinctly average camera phone at this price. Battery-wise it sits squarely in the middle of the pack. You'll easily get a full day out of it if you're only a light or medium user, but ramp up the brightness to max and kick back with a movie and you'll soon be seeing red.

Verdict
Overall the Samsung Google Nexus is a solid, sophisticated phone that's a pleasure to use and its flaws are more than made up for by the excellent operating system. But with Android 4.0 handsets from HTC, Sony and the Samsung Galaxy S landing next year, the Nexus won't have a monopoly on Ice Cream Sandwich for long.

4.5 stars]
Google's new flagship handset, a 4.65-inch touchscreen device featuring the brand new Android 4.0 OS.

What's great
A superbly vivid and sharp screen; re-designed Android OS; great multi-media functionality and premium design.

What's not
The camera is a bit disappointing and speech recognition is poor.

The bottom line
While the Nexus is a little underwhelming in certain areas, the updated Android is a joy to use, offering tons of customisation options and a sleek, intuitive smartphone experience on a vast screen.

Review
According to the dictionary, a nexus is "a connection or link; the focus or nub of something". It's a fitting name for a phone that's been at the heart of speculation about Android 4.0, a device that forms a bridge between the current version of Google's smartphone OS and Ice Cream Sandwich (the code name for this update).

The case design is nice but rather vanilla. The Nexus' speaker is housed under a lip on the rear, beneath a textured silver back panel, making it a slightly bottom heavy phone. The front, meanwhile, is all big 4.65-inch show-off screen, a glass panel that extends right to the edges of the handset; unless you tilt the Nexus toward a light source it's hard to tell where the panel ends and the housing for the microphone and alert light begin. A simple volume rocker and power button sit on the curved left and right edges, with a 3.5mm headphone jack and micro USB on the bottom of the phone. In short, it's a solid, classy design that fits snugly in the hand; but it lacks the wow-factor of the iPhone 4S or Nokia Lumia 800.

The screen, however, will induce plenty of oohing and aahing. Colour reproduction, sharpness and clarity are all faultless, and it's perfect for showing off the new-look Android. Icons are much more detailed and really 'pop' on the Nexus; they even seem to float slightly above the new selection of Live Wallpapers. Open up one of the core apps such as Gmail or Calendar and you're introduced to the new vibe of Ice Cream Sandwich: cool, elegant minimalism. Thin sans-serif fonts and muted colour schemes dominate, with slivers of electric blue found on the small-keyed but accurate keyboard and redesigned dialer app. All very slick and stylish.

A neat sound effect accompanies the updated ring unlock system, although as you'd expect with Android, there's an option to change this to a number of other unlock methods, one of which is a new Face Unlock feature. Multitasking is also integral to the Nexus experience, with all your open apps accessible via a tap of the dedicated touch button at the bottom of the screen - up to five of your favourite apps can be placed in the dock too. However, the option to pinch to show all home screens at one glance has mysteriously disappeared - an omission we can't quite understand.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (© Samsung)

Samsung

The bundled browser is super fast both on 3G and wi-fi, and website text is pin-sharp. Smooth pinch zooming, tabbed browsing and easy bookmarking also feature, though this being an Android phone there are plenty of alternative browsers available from the Android Market too. A word of warning: our test handset lacked Flash functionality, but we're 99.9 per cent certain it's in the pipeline.

We were pleased to see a straightforward data usage menu in the settings, which allows you to easily set a mobile data usage limit and monitor which apps are chewing up your megabytes (Google Maps - we're looking at you). Widgets are also easily resizable once you've placed them on one of the home screens (only five unfortunately - odd considering the Galaxy S2 has seven). Calls are crystal clear too.

However, there are some holes in the Nexus' package. For starters, social networking integration is poor. You can download dedicated apps for Twitter and Facebook from the Android Market of course, but there's no straightforward means of merging your status updates, tweets and IM conversations - something many similar-priced handsets offer out of the box. Wi-fi signal strength is rather hap-hazard too, and the speech recognition tool is virtually unusable; compared to Siri, its about as good as understanding voice commands as Del Boy is at understanding French.

Although megapixels aren't the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to digital photography, we expected the Nexus to be packing at least an eight, rather than five, megapixel lens. The camcorder is better, featuring full 1080p recording, and the Panoramic stitching tool works well for super wide-angle shots. But all-in-all the Nexus makes for a distinctly average camera phone at this price. Battery-wise it sits squarely in the middle of the pack. You'll easily get a full day out of it if you're only a light or medium user, but ramp up the brightness to max and kick back with a movie and you'll soon be seeing red.

Verdict
Overall the Samsung Google Nexus is a solid, sophisticated phone that's a pleasure to use and its flaws are more than made up for by the excellent operating system. But with Android 4.0 handsets from HTC, Sony and the Samsung Galaxy S landing next year, the Nexus won't have a monopoly on Ice Cream Sandwich for long.

4.5 stars

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DEAR EMILY,

I am a father of two boys and one girl.  We are a beautiful family, everybody tells us. All of my children became commercial models when they were growing up, and two of them still do modeling. My wife was a Miss Something in her youth while I was a known playboy. I broke quite a few hearts along the way, and unwittingly sired a number of illegitimate kidsâ€"some known to me, but mostly strangers, who dot places I’ve visited,  here and abroad. Obviously, I sowed my wild oats. Those were the good ol’ days and I know I am paying for them now. I am being punished at how my three children have turned out.

They’re all well-educated, all married, but all separated. Two have kids of their own, who have all turned gay. Each one of them! I drive in the city and out-of-town highways and marvel at how beautiful my grandchildren are in the advertising billboards. Yes, they’re models. I ask myself constantly what went wrong! Is this a punishment from God for my horrible treatment of womenâ€"turning all my children into homosexuals?

But I have become a better person as I grew older. Doesn’t that account for anything?

REGRETFUL FATHER

Do you honestly believe that having homosexual children is a punishment from “God?” Who is this god you pray to? Does he have a name? Does he have an address?  Do you honestly think he is pea-brained?

Are gay kids worse than having murderers, or drug pushers, or thieves in the family? Would you rather have those? If your only problem with them is their sexualityâ€"why don’t you let it rest and accept it?  Aren’t you being a horrible homophobe?

Besides, what’s wrong with being gay?  Don’t you realize how difficult it is to fall in love with the right person, whether of the same sex or not? The world is already filled with lonely, unhappy peopleâ€"and I cannot understand how it is that fathers like you are making it difficult for the very people you are supposed to be loyal to and protecting, are refusing to be their pillar of strength when they need it most?

Snap out of this constipated mentality.  Why not go down on your knees instead, and thank that one and only God who is all-knowing, omniscient, generous and kind for the blessings right before your eyes, and stop beating your breasts and cursing the light?

For kicks, this wonderful God, who can also play tricks, might show you what punishment is, just to drive home a point.(Inquirer.net)

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JOANNE HUNT

A MASS was held at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, last night for Celia Ferrer de Jesus, a nurse from the Philippines who was found dead on Tuesday after her home was flooded.

Ms Ferrer de Jesus (58) had worked at the hospice since 2001, where she was a member of the household team in the rheumatology rehabilitation unit of the hospice.

Last night’s Mass was organised by Nancy Reyes, a member of the Filipino community who had known Ms Ferrer de Jesus since 2003. Ms Reyes, a care assistant at the Daughters of Charity nursing home in Blackrock, said Ms Ferrer de Jesus had joined her and 30 other members of the Filipino community in Ireland on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land this time last year.

“She was a good friend of ours and every time we had a pilgrimage together we had more time to talk with each other. She was a nice lady and very accommodating.”

Ms Ferrer de Jesus moved to the Republic and began working at the hospice following a recruitment drive in the Philippines more than a decade ago. She is survived by her husband Angelito and son Michael Kevin (19), who remained in the Philippines.

Ms Reyes said she did not yet know when her body would be released for repatriation back to the Philippines but she expected that it would take another four to five days. She said she thought family members of Ms Ferrer de Jesus would come to Ireland but she was not sure who would.

“Without her body, we’ve just planned to have a Mass for her in preparation for the removal.”

Ms Reyes said those at the Mass would also be collecting donations for Ms Ferrer de Jesus’s family.

Fr Pat O’Connell, chaplain to the Filipino community in Ireland, was the spiritual director of the pilgrimage joined by Ms Ferrer de Jesus last year. Before saying last night’s Mass, Fr O’Connell said: “It’s nice to remember where we had been a year ago in this whole horrible tragedy now. It’s a mighty shock.

“It is terribly important for the Filipino community to be with their families at the time of death and for her husband and her son not to be able to be with her at this time is really terrible.”

Hospice chief executive Mo Flynn described Ms Ferrer de Jesus as “a highly valued member of staff who provided excellent service wherever she was required”.

Irish and Filipino authorities are liaising over plans to return Ms Ferrer de Jesus’s body to the Philippines for burial.]Mass held for drowned hospice nurse
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JOANNE HUNT

JAGUAR XFR 2012

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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2011/08/jesus-penis.jpgart vandalized
Agence France-Presse
7:38 pm | Thursday, August 4th, 2011
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MANILA, Philippinesâ€"A Jesus Christ poster featuring a wooden penis glued to his face that has sparked protests in the mainly Catholic Philippines was attacked and damaged by vandals on Thursday, an official said.

An unidentified couple smashed a penis-motif wooden ashtray glued onto the poster and tried but failed to set fire to the entire collage, said Karen Flores, visual arts department chief of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

One of the vandals then gave a lecture on morality to the lone guard assigned to the exhibit and other visitors before the couple casually walked out of the government building, Flores told Agence France-Presse.

“The exhibit will continue,” Flores said, adding the attack may have been linked to an outcry over the exhibit that church leaders and Catholic groups want ended on the grounds it is blasphemous, immoral, offensive and illegal.

The artist has been told of the vandalism and he agreed to continue to exhibit his work, she added.

The controversial collage, by local artist Mideo Cruz, is part of an exhibit showcasing works by alumni from a church-run university aiming to challenge people’s perceptions of figures they idolize.

It also includes a cross made of discarded wood with a woodcarving of a penis attached, and an icon of Jesus that has a red clown nose and Mickey Mouse ears.

Exhibits by two other artists, which have neither provoked the same public response, were also damaged in the attack, Flores said.

The CCP has earlier rejected call for the exhibit’s closure, saying it was covered by freedom of expression guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution.

Congratulation To Dario Adame sa ilang bunyag gahapon sa Raheny Church diri sa Dublin...

A 4 star hotel is being constructed at Guiwanon,Baclayon Bohol.Asturias hotel is a chain of hotels in the Philippines,there is one in Boracay and in Palawan..I'm proud there is one now in Baclayon,that shows our tourism industry is getting stronger everyday..More power for the Bolanon..

Last May 2011 on my holiday i went to Isla De Gallo of Romblon..The diameter is about 2miles and it is uninhabited..We do island hopping from Sibuyan Island to Cresta De Gallo for 2 hours..Watch for more pictures..

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WASHINGTONâ€"Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours on Wednesday affecting millions of users of the Internet communications service.

"Our engineers and site operations team are working non-stop to get things back to normal â€" thanks for your continued patience," Luxembourg-based Skype said in a message on its Twitter feed @Skype.

In a blog post, Skype explained that computers known as "supernodes" had been taken offline by an unspecified problem affecting some versions of Skype.

"Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available," Skype said. "Our engineers are creating new 'mega-supernodes' as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal.

"This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologize for the disruption to your conversations," Skype said. "Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal."

Skype, which was founded in 2003, bypasses the standard telephone network by channeling voice, video and text conversations over the Internet.

The company announced plans in August to raise up to $100 million in shares by listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The service has millions of users around the world and many took to Twitter to complain about the outage in a variety of languages.

"Holy crap. end of the world... #skype is down," wrote Rafael Otero on his Twitter feed @rotero.

"Ugh. #skype went down when I was in the middle of a call," said Carly-Anne Fairlie on @carlyannedotcom.

Technology blogger Om Malik, writing on his blog GigaOm.com, said the outage was a serious issue for a company that is "starting to ask larger corporations for their business."

"If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage," Malik said, adding that Skype "needs to ensure that it doesn't go down. Even for a few minutes."
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By Frederick Arceo


Editor's note: The following Philippine Daily Inquirer article is one of the most shared articles on OFW sites and blogs. Written in Filipino, it has been tossed around so much that many sites don't even know who wrote it anymore. Some have edited it and put in their own remarks. It goes by different titles like, "Iba pa rin sa Pinas," "Ang OFW ay Tao Rin" or "Pagpupugay sa OFW," among others. It often comes with an introduction, like the one posted on qatarliving.com that says, "Here's something for those with spouses, siblings, children, or relatives who are OFWs and especially those who hope to work abroad one day. This may help you better understand what it means to be an OFW."

This is a translation of the original piece, published with the permission of its author, Saudi Arabia-based Filipino, Frederick Montilla Arceo.

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are not rich. We have this notion that when someone is an OFW or based abroad, he or she is loaded. Not true. An OFW might earn from P50K-P300K a month, depending on the location. Those in Saudi Arabia or the United States might earn in the high range. But to say that they're "rich" is a fallacy (amen!).

Many Filipinos seek work abroad because their needs are great. They have so many mouths to feed. Often, 3/4 or half of their earnings go to paying school tuition fees for their children and keeping up with the family's household expenses.

It's hard being an OFW. You need to scrimp and save as much as you can. Yes, food can be good abroad but often you stick to paksiw or adobo or eggs in order to save money. Come the 15th or end of the month, the first thing you look up is the conversion rate of the peso to the dollar, rial, or euro. It's okay to make do with what little is left than let the family go hungry. Come leave time, you also have to have some money left because many relatives will be waiting at the airport or at home. You know how it is among Pinoys, word gets around that you are an OFW and it attracts a lot of kin.

If you don't bring pasalubong (a traditional homecoming gift) they may feel slighted and say bad things about you. Well, not all. But I'm sure some OFWs here have had that experience. Abroad, OFWs are also looked at differently. Very many have experienced not getting their due or being discriminated against in workplaces. You just take it, keep going, cry it out alone, because you think how miserable your family would be if you packed up and went home.

Besides, you really can't count on a job waiting for you back home. And prices of rice, milk, sardines, and apartment rentals are high. So you suffer on--even though you have to work with a lot of jerks (kahit maraming kupal sa trabaho), even though you are sick and have no one to take care of you, even though the food sucks and working conditions bad, even dangerous, and the job difficult. Then when you have remitted money home, everything seems okay again; you call, "hello! kumusta na kayo(how are you all doing)?"

OFWs are not unfeeling (Hindi bato ang OFW). You are human--not money or cash machines. You get tired, lonely (yes, often); you get sick, hungry; you stop and think, too. You, too, need support, if not physically, at least emotionally or spiritually.

OFWs also grow old. Those I have met and spoken to, many have receding hairlines or are balding. Most of them have signs and symptoms of hypertension, coronary artery disease, and arthritis. Yet, they continue to work thinking about the family they left behind. There are many abroad, after 20-30 years, that still have not put away a savings stash. No matter how hard they work, they can't seem to save enough. It's painful when you know that the family you support back home still can't make ends meet, that a child is a drug addict, a daughter, pregnant; and one's spouse is in a relationship with someone else. It recalls that popular old song "Napakasakit Kuya Eddie."

OFWs are heroes. That's true. I, for one, realized this only now, that OFWs really are heroes in so many ways. Not icons or household names like Nora Aunor or Flor Contemplacion but heroes in the truest sense of the word. They could surpass even Rizal or Bonifacio: They have braved more wars and conflicts in order to give their families a better life; they have battled more political intrigues just to keep their jobs in hostile environments; they have exhibited more patience than your usual congressman or senator in the Philippines--all because of the fear of losing that precious pay check.

OFWs are survivors. Pinoys are survivors (Matindi ang Pinoy). They are more tenacious than rats or cockroaches which are said to be able to survive cataclysms. Yet for all their sacrifices, they have yet to see solutions or results.

OFWs are unlucky--unlike politicians. They don't sign autographs or give interviews to media (unless they were kidnapped); they stay on the sidelines. When they leave the country, they are sad and on the verge of tears. When they come home, the lucky ones are welcomed by relatives at the airport. But if they come home without money, relatives are hard to find.

If only OFWs had a voice in Congress like politicians who are financed by the Filipino people and don't have to work under the hot sun, or get scalded by hot oil, or shouted at by foreign employers, or eat paksiw day in and day out to save money, or live in a compound with conditions less than favorable, and be forced to live with people with strange ways if only to be able to live. Politicians are lucky, really lucky.

OFWs are steadfast. Stronger and more steadfast than soldiers or other groups you might know. They are masters of reverse psychology, negotiations, and counter-attacks. Will the OFWs last? Most likely because we still don't know when change and progress will come to the Philippines. Will it come? Is there a chance?

Happiness is imagining yourself in the company of your loved ones every day, watching your children grow in a healthy and loving home. Happiness is eating sitaw, bagoong, lechon, inihaw na isda, taba ng talangka. Happiness is watching a Filipino movie, whether old reruns or new ones. There's still nothing like knowing your neighbors. There's still no place like the Philippines, being with other Pinoys (well, except those with crab mentalities). There's still nothing like being able to tell stories and know that others around you understand what you are saying. There's really nothing like the sound of "mahal kita!", "'day, ginahigugma tika," "Mingaw na ko nimo ba, kalagot!" "Inday, diin ka na subong haw? ganahan guid ko simo ba." There's really no place...like home.

Sige lang. Tiis lang. Saan ba't darating din ang pag-asa. So be it. just suck it in and keep going Somehow, you hope, things will work out.

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The legend of Gen.Yamashitas treasure is best keep secret of world war 2 or is it??


Hirohito's brother Prince Chichibu. His organisation was codenamed kin no yuri (Golden Lily), the title of one of the emperor's poems. Other princes headed different parts of Golden Lily across the conquered territories. Eventually, Japanese sources told us that Ben's wartime master was prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, first cousin of Hirohito and grandson of emperor Meiji.

In 1998, we tested Ben with 1930s photographs of many princes, all the names removed, and he instantly identified prince Takeda, Hirohito's brother prince Chichibu and other princes.

Ben said he had spent time with each of them, bringing them food, tea and cigarettes while they inventoried each treasure site. When he saw our photo of Prince Takeda, Ben froze, then began softly crooning the Japanese folk song Sakura, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms), which he said Takeda often sang to himself.

In the final stages of work on a biography of Japan's imperial family titled The Yamato Dynasty, we were told that in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned where some of the Japanese loot was hidden in the Philippines, and quietly recovered billions of dollars worth of gold bullion, platinum, and loose diamonds. This information, if true, revealed the existence of an extraordinary state secret, something the United States Government kept from its own citizens for more than half a century. There was no time to include this in the biography. It had to be investigated separately. Here is some of what we have since learned:


After surrendering on September 2, 1945, General Yamashita was charged with war crimes over gruesome atrocities committed in Manila under the order of an admiral, while Yamashita had ordered withdrawing troops to leave the city unharmed. During his trial, there was no mention of plundered treasure, or of looting during the war.

But we now know there was a hidden agenda. Because it was not possible to torture General Yamashita physically without this becoming evident to his lawyers, members of his staff were tortured. His driver, Major Kojima Kashii, was given special attention. In charge of the torture of Major Kojima was a Filipino-American intelligence officer named Severino Garcia Santa Romana, whose friends called him Santy. He wanted the major to reveal each place where he had taken Yamashita, where bullion and other treasure was hidden for recovery after the war. Supervising Santy during the torture was Captain Edward Lansdale, later one of America's best known ''Cold Warriors''.

Early that October, Kojima broke and led Lansdale and Santy to more than a dozen Golden Lily treasure vaults in the rugged country north of Manila. What they found astounded everyone from General Douglas MacArthur all the way up to the White House. After discussions with his cabinet, President Harry Truman decided to keep the recovery a state secret.

Santy's ensuing recoveries greatly altered America's leverage during the Cold War. According to senior US government officials and high-ranking US Army officers, the Truman administration set this treasure aside along with Axis loot recovered in Europe, as a secret political action fund to fight communism in the Cold War.

Crudely put, it would be used to bribe statesmen and military officers, and to buy elections for anti-communist political parties. The idea for a global political action fund based on war loot had originated with US secretary of war, Henry Stimson. During the war, Stimson had a brain-trust thinking hard about recovered Axis plunder, and how it should be handled after the war. Their solution was to set up what is informally called the ''Black Eagle Trust'', after the black eagle emblem of Hitler's Reichsbank in Berlin.

The Black Eagle Trust was first discussed in secret during July 1944, when 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to plan the post-war economy. This was confirmed to us by a number of high-level sources, including former CIA deputy director Ray Cline, who knew about Santy's recoveries in 1945, and continued to be involved in attempts in the 1980s and 1990s to hide blocks of Japanese war loot still said to be in the vaults of banks in New York.

In November 1945, General MacArthur strolled down row after row of gold bars stacked two metres tall during a tour of vaults opened by Santy. >From what was seen in these vaults alone, it was evident that over a period of years Japan had looted billions of dollars in treasure from all over Asia.Much of this plunder had reached Japan overland earlier, from China through Korea, but the rest was hidden in the Philippines, unable to be shipped to Japan by sea because of the successful US submarine blockade.


According to Ray Cline and others, between 1945 and 1947 the gold bullion recovered by Santy and Lansdale was moved discreetly to 172 accounts at banks in 42 countries.

There were important reasons for all this secrecy. If the recovery of this huge mass of stolen gold was known only to a trusted few, the countries and individuals that had been plundered could not lay claim to it. Truman recognised that the very existence of so much black gold, if it became public knowledge, would cause the metal's fixed price to collapse. But as long as the gold was kept hidden, prices could be maintained and currencies pegged to gold would be stable. Meanwhile, the black gold would serve as a reserve asset, bolstering the prime banks in each country, and strengthening the anti-communist governments of those nations.

To hide the existence of all this treasure, Washington had to tell a number of lies. Especially lies about Japan, which had stolen most of the gold. America wanted Japan to become its anti-communist bastion in Asia, where the mainland was being overrun by communists. If American conservatives and Japanese conservatives were to ally effectively against communism, they had to begin by enlarging their financial resources for the Cold War.

Above all, the source of much of this hidden wealth must never be acknowledged. Washington had to insist, starting in 1945, that Japan never stole anything, and was flat broke and bankrupt when the war ended. Here was the beginning of many terrible secrets.

Because they remained ''off the books'', these enormous political action funds got into the wrong hands, where they remain to this day. We can reveal that in 1960, then vice-president Richard Nixon ''gave'' one of the biggest of these political action funds, the US$35-billion (about HK$272 billion) M-Fund, to leading members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In return, he is believed to have sought their support for his presidential campaign that year.

The M-Fund, now said to be worth more than US$500 billion, is still controlled by members of the LDP.

Officially, we are told that Japan's wartime elite the imperial family, the zaibatsu (large industrial business conglomerates), the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and the ''good'' bureaucrats ended the war as impoverished victims of a handful of ''bad'' military zealots. We are told that Japan was badly damaged and impoverished, barely able to feed itself at war's end.


In fact, Japan emerged from the war far richer than before, and with remarkably little damage, except to the homes of millions of ordinary Japanese who did not count, at least in the view of their overlords.

Evidence of Golden Lily loot comes also from straightforward legal actions in America. Such simple things as the probating of the will of Santa Romana (Santy), verification of his tax records, and legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong and elsewhere, provide hard proof that the world is awash with clandestine bank accounts growing out of Golden Lily.

Other lawsuits in the US prove that Golden Lily war loot was indeed hidden in the Philippines. Rogelio Roxas, a Filipino locksmith, found a one-tonne solid-gold Buddha and thousands of gold bars hidden in a cave near Baguio only to have it stolen from him by President Ferdinand Marcos. Roxas was subsequently tortured and died in suspicious circumstances. Some believe he was murdered. In 1996, a US Federal Court awarded his heirs a judgment of US$22 billion against the Marcos estate.

As the 1951 Peace Treaty was skewed by secret deals, thousands of Japan's victims have been deprived of any compensation for their suffering. According to Article 14 of the Treaty: ''It is recognised that Japan should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless it is also recognised that the resources of Japan are not presently sufficient.'' To reinforce the claim that Japan was broke, Article 14 noted that ''the Allied Powers waive all reparations claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan...'' By signing the Treaty, Allied countries concurred that Japan's plunder had vanished down a rabbit hole, and all Japan's victims were out of luck. In return for going along with the Treaty, the Allies received portions of the gold bullion recovered by Santy.

We have evidence from former CIA deputy director Cline that the gold bullion Santy and Lansdale recovered was secretly moved to national treasuries and prime banks in more than 42 countries, including Great Britain. We also have evidence from British archives confirming this.

More than half a century later, the last battle of the Pacific War is being waged in courts in the US and Japan where surviving prisoners of war, slave labourers, comfort women and civilian victims of Japan have filed billion-dollar lawsuits to win compensation so mysteriously denied them after the war. In 1995, it was estimated that there were 700,000 victims of the war who had still received no compensation.

Today, their numbers are dwindling rapidly because of age and illness. Backing them is an extraordinary coalition, including international law firms with years of experience, fighting for compensation from German industries and Swiss banks, for crimes committed and money looted during the Nazi Holocaust.


Sterling and Peggy Seagrave are the authors of ''Golden Warriors''. This is an edited extract of the book's prologue. It will be published in French by Editions Michalon in November]Yamashita's Gold - Eyewitness
Reveals Truth Of Fabulous
WWII Hidden Treasure
By Sterling and Peggy Seagrave
South China Morning Post
9-3-1

In the closing months of World War II, in the Philippines, several of Japan's highest ranking imperial princes hid tons of looted gold bullion and other stolen treasure in caves and tunnels, to recover later. This was the wealth of 12 Asian countries, accumulated over thousands of years.

Expert teams accompanying Japan's armed forces had systematically emptied treasuries, banks, factories, private homes, pawn shops, art galleries, and stripped ordinary people, while Japan's top gangsters looted Asia's underworld and its black economy.

There were 175 ''imperial'' treasure sites hidden throughout the Philippines. When American tanks were close, the chief engineers of those vaults were given a farewell party 67 metres underground in Tunnel 8 in the mountains of Luzon, stacked with row after row of gold bars. As the evening progressed, they drank great quantities of sake, sang patriotic songs and shouted banzai (long life).

At midnight, General Yamashita Tomoyuki and the princes slipped out, and dynamite charges were set off in the access tunnels, entombing the engineers. Their vaults would remain secret. The princes escaped to Tokyo by submarine, and three months later General Yamashita surrendered to American troops. Japan had lost the war militarily, but the princes made certain Japan did not lose financially.

This grisly event has remained unknown until now, and the hidden treasure was brushed off as a fanciful legend of ''Yamashita's Gold''. But an eyewitness to the entombment has taken us there and given us his personal account. During the war, Ben Valmores was the young Filipino valet of a senior prince, who was in charge of closing all imperial treasure sites in the Philippines. A sometimes sentimental man, the prince spared Ben's life and led him out of Tunnel 8 just before the dynamite was detonated.


Japan's looting of Asia was overseen by [then-emperor] Hirohito's brother Prince Chichibu. His organisation was codenamed kin no yuri (Golden Lily), the title of one of the emperor's poems. Other princes headed different parts of Golden Lily across the conquered territories. Eventually, Japanese sources told us that Ben's wartime master was prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, first cousin of Hirohito and grandson of emperor Meiji.

In 1998, we tested Ben with 1930s photographs of many princes, all the names removed, and he instantly identified prince Takeda, Hirohito's brother prince Chichibu and other princes.

Ben said he had spent time with each of them, bringing them food, tea and cigarettes while they inventoried each treasure site. When he saw our photo of Prince Takeda, Ben froze, then began softly crooning the Japanese folk song Sakura, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms), which he said Takeda often sang to himself.

In the final stages of work on a biography of Japan's imperial family titled The Yamato Dynasty, we were told that in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned where some of the Japanese loot was hidden in the Philippines, and quietly recovered billions of dollars worth of gold bullion, platinum, and loose diamonds. This information, if true, revealed the existence of an extraordinary state secret, something the United States Government kept from its own citizens for more than half a century. There was no time to include this in the biography. It had to be investigated separately. Here is some of what we have since learned:


After surrendering on September 2, 1945, General Yamashita was charged with war crimes over gruesome atrocities committed in Manila under the order of an admiral, while Yamashita had ordered withdrawing troops to leave the city unharmed. During his trial, there was no mention of plundered treasure, or of looting during the war.

But we now know there was a hidden agenda. Because it was not possible to torture General Yamashita physically without this becoming evident to his lawyers, members of his staff were tortured. His driver, Major Kojima Kashii, was given special attention. In charge of the torture of Major Kojima was a Filipino-American intelligence officer named Severino Garcia Santa Romana, whose friends called him Santy. He wanted the major to reveal each place where he had taken Yamashita, where bullion and other treasure was hidden for recovery after the war. Supervising Santy during the torture was Captain Edward Lansdale, later one of America's best known ''Cold Warriors''.

Early that October, Kojima broke and led Lansdale and Santy to more than a dozen Golden Lily treasure vaults in the rugged country north of Manila. What they found astounded everyone from General Douglas MacArthur all the way up to the White House. After discussions with his cabinet, President Harry Truman decided to keep the recovery a state secret.

Santy's ensuing recoveries greatly altered America's leverage during the Cold War. According to senior US government officials and high-ranking US Army officers, the Truman administration set this treasure aside along with Axis loot recovered in Europe, as a secret political action fund to fight communism in the Cold War.

Crudely put, it would be used to bribe statesmen and military officers, and to buy elections for anti-communist political parties. The idea for a global political action fund based on war loot had originated with US secretary of war, Henry Stimson. During the war, Stimson had a brain-trust thinking hard about recovered Axis plunder, and how it should be handled after the war. Their solution was to set up what is informally called the ''Black Eagle Trust'', after the black eagle emblem of Hitler's Reichsbank in Berlin.

The Black Eagle Trust was first discussed in secret during July 1944, when 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to plan the post-war economy. This was confirmed to us by a number of high-level sources, including former CIA deputy director Ray Cline, who knew about Santy's recoveries in 1945, and continued to be involved in attempts in the 1980s and 1990s to hide blocks of Japanese war loot still said to be in the vaults of banks in New York.

In November 1945, General MacArthur strolled down row after row of gold bars stacked two metres tall during a tour of vaults opened by Santy. >From what was seen in these vaults alone, it was evident that over a period of years Japan had looted billions of dollars in treasure from all over Asia.Much of this plunder had reached Japan overland earlier, from China through Korea, but the rest was hidden in the Philippines, unable to be shipped to Japan by sea because of the successful US submarine blockade.


According to Ray Cline and others, between 1945 and 1947 the gold bullion recovered by Santy and Lansdale was moved discreetly to 172 accounts at banks in 42 countries.

There were important reasons for all this secrecy. If the recovery of this huge mass of stolen gold was known only to a trusted few, the countries and individuals that had been plundered could not lay claim to it. Truman recognised that the very existence of so much black gold, if it became public knowledge, would cause the metal's fixed price to collapse. But as long as the gold was kept hidden, prices could be maintained and currencies pegged to gold would be stable. Meanwhile, the black gold would serve as a reserve asset, bolstering the prime banks in each country, and strengthening the anti-communist governments of those nations.

To hide the existence of all this treasure, Washington had to tell a number of lies. Especially lies about Japan, which had stolen most of the gold. America wanted Japan to become its anti-communist bastion in Asia, where the mainland was being overrun by communists. If American conservatives and Japanese conservatives were to ally effectively against communism, they had to begin by enlarging their financial resources for the Cold War.

Above all, the source of much of this hidden wealth must never be acknowledged. Washington had to insist, starting in 1945, that Japan never stole anything, and was flat broke and bankrupt when the war ended. Here was the beginning of many terrible secrets.

Because they remained ''off the books'', these enormous political action funds got into the wrong hands, where they remain to this day. We can reveal that in 1960, then vice-president Richard Nixon ''gave'' one of the biggest of these political action funds, the US$35-billion (about HK$272 billion) M-Fund, to leading members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In return, he is believed to have sought their support for his presidential campaign that year.

The M-Fund, now said to be worth more than US$500 billion, is still controlled by members of the LDP.

Officially, we are told that Japan's wartime elite the imperial family, the zaibatsu (large industrial business conglomerates), the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and the ''good'' bureaucrats ended the war as impoverished victims of a handful of ''bad'' military zealots. We are told that Japan was badly damaged and impoverished, barely able to feed itself at war's end.


In fact, Japan emerged from the war far richer than before, and with remarkably little damage, except to the homes of millions of ordinary Japanese who did not count, at least in the view of their overlords.

Evidence of Golden Lily loot comes also from straightforward legal actions in America. Such simple things as the probating of the will of Santa Romana (Santy), verification of his tax records, and legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong and elsewhere, provide hard proof that the world is awash with clandestine bank accounts growing out of Golden Lily.

Other lawsuits in the US prove that Golden Lily war loot was indeed hidden in the Philippines. Rogelio Roxas, a Filipino locksmith, found a one-tonne solid-gold Buddha and thousands of gold bars hidden in a cave near Baguio only to have it stolen from him by President Ferdinand Marcos. Roxas was subsequently tortured and died in suspicious circumstances. Some believe he was murdered. In 1996, a US Federal Court awarded his heirs a judgment of US$22 billion against the Marcos estate.

As the 1951 Peace Treaty was skewed by secret deals, thousands of Japan's victims have been deprived of any compensation for their suffering. According to Article 14 of the Treaty: ''It is recognised that Japan should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless it is also recognised that the resources of Japan are not presently sufficient.'' To reinforce the claim that Japan was broke, Article 14 noted that ''the Allied Powers waive all reparations claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan...'' By signing the Treaty, Allied countries concurred that Japan's plunder had vanished down a rabbit hole, and all Japan's victims were out of luck. In return for going along with the Treaty, the Allies received portions of the gold bullion recovered by Santy.

We have evidence from former CIA deputy director Cline that the gold bullion Santy and Lansdale recovered was secretly moved to national treasuries and prime banks in more than 42 countries, including Great Britain. We also have evidence from British archives confirming this.

More than half a century later, the last battle of the Pacific War is being waged in courts in the US and Japan where surviving prisoners of war, slave labourers, comfort women and civilian victims of Japan have filed billion-dollar lawsuits to win compensation so mysteriously denied them after the war. In 1995, it was estimated that there were 700,000 victims of the war who had still received no compensation.

Today, their numbers are dwindling rapidly because of age and illness. Backing them is an extraordinary coalition, including international law firms with years of experience, fighting for compensation from German industries and Swiss banks, for crimes committed and money looted during the Nazi Holocaust.


Sterling and Peggy Seagrave are the authors of ''Golden Warriors''. This is an edited extract of the book's prologue. It will be published in French by Editions Michalon in November

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According to DYRD news a 15 years old female student of Grace Christian School was gunned down in broad daylight yesterday while waiting for a tricycle.She was hit twice resulting to her death. The murderer escape by motorcycle.

What happen to our beloved city of friendships?

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osted By Lady And The Scamp, Thursday, 4 November 2010 11:05 GMT
Have been in a relationship for five years now & have a rather difficult problem. The trouble is the longer it’s gone on the harder it is to actually tell him. Despite having a good regular sex life my partner has never made me come â€" sadly, not even close! What worries me is that he doesn’t seem to have even noticed! (While gladly getting his own satisfaction of course!) I don’t know how to even bring up the subject now as, like I said, too much time has gone by. What should I do??

Josie

Kevin says:
He’s never made you what? Come? Come where? I don’t get it. Where is it you want to go exactly? OK, I’m joking â€" obviously I know everything about the cliteron and j spot and stuff.

So (seriously now) I think there are two possible reasons for this â€" a) he doesn’t know, or b) he doesn’t care. And you better hope it’s a).

Not every man can be a sexual virtuoso like Russell Brand or Eamonn Holmes. Some chaps have just never really honed their technique, or been shown how to. So do everyone a favour - show him! Also, while some men will ask “how was it for you?”, others will just assume. So while you’re keeping schtum about your frustration, he’s probably bragging to his mates that he’s “never had any complaints (wink wink)”.

As for option b), many men are habitually lazy, whether it’s inducing sexual ecstasy in a spouse or fixing the leak in the bathroom. It’s not necessarily that he’s disinterested or even incapable, but if he can get away with not doing the extra work, he won’t. Unless someone tells him to.

So my suggestion is to create a situation where you can organically slip it into conversation. For example, watch a TV show about orgasms on BBC3 together, then you can remark “Ooh they sound good, I wouldn’t mind having one of those”. He may react with incredulity, embarrassment or utter confusion, but it’s a conversation you need to have. Alternatively, give Eamonn Holmes a call.

Christine says:
Five years? Sorry, I thought you said FIVE years…my friend, this is as close to a tragedy I’ve heard since they cancelled The Bill. Life is rarely a Jackie Collins novel, thank God, or we’d all be called Lacey McSexpot and we’d never get anything done, but come off it.

As tempted as I am to lay all the blame (and a sex manual) at his door, you have to take a hand in this as well, probably literally. What have you been doing for five years? (Apart from being incredibly frustrated.) If you have been ‘faking it’ all this time then I’m afraid you’ve made your bed, which is why you’re now lying in it, bored and resentful. Men aren’t mind readers, some aren’t even readers, and if he thinks you’ve been enjoying yourself, then you’ve effectively been lying to him and you’re going to have to pluck up the courage to come clean if you’ve got any chance of coming at all.

If you haven’t been faking it, and he’s just a selfish so-and-so, then it might be time to tell him to get you off, or get out. Some men are naturally good in bed, and some men are naturally good at reversing a car at speed into an unfamiliar driveway. Most importantly, do you know how to make yourself come? If not, then that’s probably the main issue. If you don’t know, then how would he? If you do know, then for heaven’s sake show him! For the sake of your relationship and all womankind.


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      A Yahoo! User Sat 20 Nov 2010 14:09 GMT Report Abuse

          Iv told my man what i like in bed but no still no joy...quick sex and over in 2mins..i do it myself when,hes at work !

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      Safari Sat 20 Nov 2010 10:26 GMT Report Abuse

          My coments to all those who are complaining of not being sutisfied by their mates:
          i) You'll be satisfied by only who you ascribe as your splendid choice and you are proud of in your life
          ii) Satisfaction techniques can vary from one to another(I mean what satifies Agness can not neccessarily do the same for Julie). Mates should therefore be free to request their fellows do them what they exactly want.

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      Babadeji Thu 18 Nov 2010 03:38 GMT Report Abuse

          try me

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      Vernon Wed 17 Nov 2010 17:57 GMT Report Abuse

          Afraid Your Guy is the type whom has no problem finding a bar but a slight problem finding Your Clitoris.
          If you have romped for 5 years You alone must know how to encourage . if you dont then perhaps He is not
          particularly interested .

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      Megan Charm Wed 17 Nov 2010 02:42 GMT Report Abuse

          Some men is good at making love, some men aren't. I stayed with a men who I wanted to have sex with him whenever I saw him for a year, but sex was that all I got from the relationship. I also stayed with another man for four years who never made me come. What can I say? Men are different. Make sure if the sex is really important to you.

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      A Yahoo! User Fri 12 Nov 2010 20:47 GMT Report Abuse

          i have a partner who also has never made me orgasm and it's frustrating,because you sometimes think that there is something wrong with you.

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          I'm 70, a widower for 9 years but have a wonderful partner a couple of years younger than myself. We have great sex. The secret? We have found the perfect position to satisfy us both and one which allows me to stimulate her by hand during penetration. It took me years to discover how to satisfy but the answer is to keep experimenting until you find the perfect solution. Good luck

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          hahahahaha, come down here, go black and you will never go back they said.

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      Josie Thu 11 Nov 2010 20:02 GMT Report Abuse

          Thanks for all the advice guys ! No have never faked it & yes can give myself a hand when needed !? Just always thought it would happen one day - trouble is like I say 5 years have slipped by & still no nearer !?.Anyway - have decided am just going to have to tell him !! Got rid of the kids this weekend,bought some new undies & am planning a nice romantic eve on our own.Couple of glasses of wine should help me find the words - so wish me luck !!!!

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          i suggest masturbation : have fun

     

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Man arrested for posting sex video on Facebook

By Nina Calleja
Philippine Daily Inquirer


Je-an Albert Bunyi, a resident of Barangay (village) Hulo, Mandaluyong City, was collared by police in Barangka Market at around 11 a.m. Friday, said Senior Police Officer 1 Eleonor Eleazar, head of the women and children's desk.

He was later charged at the Mandaluyong prosecutor's office with violating the Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act of 2004 and RA 9995, also known as the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act.

His 24-year-old ex-girlfriend went to the women's desk to seek police help as her nude photos and a video of her sex acts with her former boyfriend had been uploaded on Facebook, a popular social networking site.

She told the police that to “blackmail” her, the suspect posted on Wednesday her nude photos and a sex video on Facebook through an account created under her name.

The photos and videos were taken some time in July this year with her consent but the suspect used them to win her back after they broke up.

The woman said Bunyi had twice threatened her.

Copies of the photos were also mailed to her Muslim parents in Mindanao, she said.

"My whole family was embarrassed. I could no longer go back to Mindanao to face them," the weeping victim told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The supply of shabu circulating in the province comes from suppliers based in Ozamis City and Cebu City passing through the various ports where monitoring is reportedly presumed to be weak.

This was revealed by Steven Valles, intelligence officer of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) during the meeting of the Provincial
       

REVIVING the Provincial Drug Abuse Council (PDAC) is among the objectives of Gov. Edgar Chatto (second fromleft) in stepping up a serious drive against illegal drugs in the province as tackled during a closed door meeting following a discussion with the Provincial Peace and Order Council. With the governor are Provincial Director Constantino Barot Jr. (third fromleft) and Lt. Colonel Romeo Brawner (extreme right) of the Phils. Army. Not in photo is Prov'l Administrator Ae Damalerio and representatives of PDEA.
Peace and Order Council (PPOC) held at the Governor's Mansion yesterday.

He said that these regular supplies are brought in by couriers who take the boats docking at the Tagbilaran City port as well as in the ports of Jagna, Tubigon, Loay, Talibon, Bien Unido, Loon and Getafe towns.

The PDEA officer admitted there is lack of coordination between the port police and the law enforcement agencies which makes drug trafficking "easy and smooth" even as he likewise complained on the lack of manpower to monitor all these ports of entry.

Valles likewise reported on existing Marijuana plantations in the province wherein some are being cultivated on movable containers and some on pots.

This had been monitored in the municipalities of Maribojoc, Loon, Bilar, Inabanga, Pilar, Danao, Sagbayan, Guindulman, Carmen, Garcia-Hernandez, and other mountain barangays in the province, based on the PDEA records.

However, the PDEA official denied reports that there are some drug manufacturing activities in the province.
        

During the months of September and October this year, PDEA-Bohol had recorded eight drug-related arrests, three of them involved possessors and five pushers.

During the period, there had been no much remarkable change in the price of illegal drugs, Valles added.

Valles, however, said that the prices of illegal drugs in Bohol, especially shabu, had "slightly went down" which he said can be attributed to the constant operation towards narcotics supply reduction and demand reduction of PDEA-Bohol.

The drugs supply and demand reduction programs of PDEA-Bohol has the support of other law enforcement units and the participation of concerned populace, he added
While he confirms zero presence of cocaine in the province, PDEA is having the problem in controlling the sale of Nubain since this is not classified as "dangerous drugs."

"There is no existing local ordinance that penalizes Nubain abusers," according to the PDEA official.

PDEA monitoring showed that Hydrochloride Methamphetamine, more popular as shabu, still remains as the favorite of drug users and pushers, while Cannabis Sativa or Marijuana ranks second.

Nubain, an injectible drug, remains the third choice of drug users.

"The street price of shabu ranges from P7,500 to P9,000 per gram, while a marijuana stick commands a street price of P10-P15," Valles reported.

On the prevailing drug situation here, PDEA-Bohol recommended the need to launch an anti-narcotics operation against high-profile targets, port interdiction by a joint team of law enforcement units, and province-wide drug prevention education seminars and symposia in schools and barangays.

PDEA also recommended Drug Detection and Information Gathering trainings for barangay police (tanods) with the aim of organizing our barangay intelligence network and to activate BADAC.

To also improve awareness on drug prevention efforts, PDEA proposed the institutionalization of on-the-spot essay writing and poster or slogan-making contests for secondary schools in every congressional district.

In the past two months, PDEA-Bohol had conducted one drug symposium participated in by 255 students, and had supervised the drug testing of the 41 graduating Criminology students. (AV)]The supply of shabu circulating in the province comes from suppliers based in Ozamis City and Cebu City passing through the various ports where monitoring is reportedly presumed to be weak.

This was revealed by Steven Valles, intelligence officer of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) during the meeting of the Provincial
       

REVIVING the Provincial Drug Abuse Council (PDAC) is among the objectives of Gov. Edgar Chatto (second fromleft) in stepping up a serious drive against illegal drugs in the province as tackled during a closed door meeting following a discussion with the Provincial Peace and Order Council. With the governor are Provincial Director Constantino Barot Jr. (third fromleft) and Lt. Colonel Romeo Brawner (extreme right) of the Phils. Army. Not in photo is Prov'l Administrator Ae Damalerio and representatives of PDEA.
Peace and Order Council (PPOC) held at the Governor's Mansion yesterday.

He said that these regular supplies are brought in by couriers who take the boats docking at the Tagbilaran City port as well as in the ports of Jagna, Tubigon, Loay, Talibon, Bien Unido, Loon and Getafe towns.

The PDEA officer admitted there is lack of coordination between the port police and the law enforcement agencies which makes drug trafficking "easy and smooth" even as he likewise complained on the lack of manpower to monitor all these ports of entry.

Valles likewise reported on existing Marijuana plantations in the province wherein some are being cultivated on movable containers and some on pots.

This had been monitored in the municipalities of Maribojoc, Loon, Bilar, Inabanga, Pilar, Danao, Sagbayan, Guindulman, Carmen, Garcia-Hernandez, and other mountain barangays in the province, based on the PDEA records.

However, the PDEA official denied reports that there are some drug manufacturing activities in the province.
        

During the months of September and October this year, PDEA-Bohol had recorded eight drug-related arrests, three of them involved possessors and five pushers.

During the period, there had been no much remarkable change in the price of illegal drugs, Valles added.

Valles, however, said that the prices of illegal drugs in Bohol, especially shabu, had "slightly went down" which he said can be attributed to the constant operation towards narcotics supply reduction and demand reduction of PDEA-Bohol.

The drugs supply and demand reduction programs of PDEA-Bohol has the support of other law enforcement units and the participation of concerned populace, he added
While he confirms zero presence of cocaine in the province, PDEA is having the problem in controlling the sale of Nubain since this is not classified as "dangerous drugs."

"There is no existing local ordinance that penalizes Nubain abusers," according to the PDEA official.

PDEA monitoring showed that Hydrochloride Methamphetamine, more popular as shabu, still remains as the favorite of drug users and pushers, while Cannabis Sativa or Marijuana ranks second.

Nubain, an injectible drug, remains the third choice of drug users.

"The street price of shabu ranges from P7,500 to P9,000 per gram, while a marijuana stick commands a street price of P10-P15," Valles reported.

On the prevailing drug situation here, PDEA-Bohol recommended the need to launch an anti-narcotics operation against high-profile targets, port interdiction by a joint team of law enforcement units, and province-wide drug prevention education seminars and symposia in schools and barangays.

PDEA also recommended Drug Detection and Information Gathering trainings for barangay police (tanods) with the aim of organizing our barangay intelligence network and to activate BADAC.

To also improve awareness on drug prevention efforts, PDEA proposed the institutionalization of on-the-spot essay writing and poster or slogan-making contests for secondary schools in every congressional district.

In the past two months, PDEA-Bohol had conducted one drug symposium participated in by 255 students, and had supervised the drug testing of the 41 graduating Criminology students. (AV)

ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2010) â€" New research has revealed up to 16,000 endangered turtles are being caught each year by villagers in just one region of Madagascar, despite a government ban.


Researchers from the University of Exeter and Blue Ventures Conservation say the figure, thought to be a conservative estimate, is the first direct assessment of turtle exploitation on the island.

The study highlights the extent of small-scale fishing, traditionally very difficult to monitor, and could be vital in finding a way to sustainably manage turtle fishing in the region.

Dr Annette Broderick, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (Cornwall) at the University of Exeter, said: "We conducted this study because we know this small-scale, artisanal fishing is going on despite it being illegal to catch turtles under Malagasy law.

"Because turtles are an endangered species, it's important for us to know what's going on in the region so we can work with the local community to find a sustainable way forward."

Traditionally it has been very difficult and expensive to get data on small-scale, artisanal turtle catch because of the difficulty of access to these remote areas.

This research used a new approach, involving locals in the process by paying a village representative to document each turtle caught, including taking a picture of each one.

Frances Humber, who works for Blue Ventures Conservation, said: "Catching turtles for their meat is an important part of Malagasy culture for many coastal people, but the villagers also understand the importance of ensuring the future of this resource.

"This study is a great way of involving communities in the process of finding a sustainable way forward. Obviously we can't be sure every turtle catch is reported, so we view the figures from this study as a conservative estimate which is still nevertheless very valuable for informing policy."

The research monitored the harvest of marine turtles at 12 coastal villages in Madagascar and documented a total of 699 marine turtle landings, including four species -- with the majority being green turtles.

Combining these data with those from previous studies in the region produced a conservative estimate of annual turtle catch in the south-western province of Madagascar of between 10,000 and 16,000.

Frances Humber admits the figures from this study are a cause for concern, but insists Madagascar should not be singled out.

"We'd expect similar harvests in many countries in the tropical coastal developing world, so this isn't an isolated issue, but clearly it is a cause for concern when dealing with endangered species," she said. "It's possible the model for this study could be used elsewhere to get a better idea of numbers.

"Until we get more details, it's difficult to draw conclusions about what is sustainable and how we can find solutions. Clearly making turtle fishing illegal hasn't worked, so we need to work with communities to promote sustainable practices."

The research is due to be published in Animal Conservation.

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and are protected from exploitation in most countries. It is illegal to collect, harm or kill them. In addition, many countries have laws and ordinances to protect nesting areas.

www.garda.ie]Written By: Editorial Team, Posted: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Preventing Car Theft



Despite these recessionary times, car thieves persist in stealing cars, and, these days, motorists simply can’t afford the prospect of having such a valuable investment stolen. For this reason, this month we’ve decided to compile a list of useful tips to help secure your car against such unwelcome attention.

Tips When Parking Your Car:
Hide Your Belongings: Keep iPods, sat navs, laptops and other valuable items out of view when leaving your car unattended. If you must store belongings in your vehicle, place them in the boot. An Gardai Siochana also encourages drivers who have sat nav units fitted in their car not to programme them with the location of their home!

Turn Wheels Towards the Curb: Turning your car’s wheels towards the curb when parking is a simple yet effective way of making a car thief’s job more difficult, as it means the car won’t be easy to tow away. You should always engage the handbrake, too.

Bring Your Keys With You: This may seem like a no-brainer, but almost 20 percent of cars stolen have the keys in them! Most modern cars are difficult to steal without the keys, and as a result, thieves will always try to get their hands on keys first. So, always take your car keys with you, even if you only are running to the ATM, post box or to pay for petrol.

Check Windows Are Closed: We have all left our car’s windows open unintentionally at some stage. You don’t want to make a car thief’s job any easier by leaving the windows open, even if it’s only by a crack, so always double-check.

Park in Busy Areas: Research reveals that over half of all car thefts occur at night. For this reason, you should only park in well-lit and busy areas, both of which will put car thieves off.

Precautions While Driving:
Derived from ‘car-hijacking,’ the term ‘car jacking’ refers to instances when drivers are forcibly ejected from their cars by thieves. Car jacking is most likely to occur at moments when the driver is getting in or out of their car, such as at traffic lights or car parks. Although instances of car jacking are rare in Ireland, it does happen, so you should always be vigilant while driving. Here are some simple tips to help prevent it.

-Always lock your car doors whilst driving.
-Keep your windows closed when stopped in traffic.
-Avoid being boxed in by traffic, and leave room between your car and the vehicle in front to facilitate an emergency getaway.
-If a car jacker demands your keys, just give them up. Always remember that no matter how valuable your car is, it is not worth the risk of serious injury.

How to Secure Your Car:

Install an Alarm: If your car doesn’t already have an alarm and immobiliser installed, then get one fitted! Most modern cars will have both of these systems fitted. There’s a wide variety of alarms to choose from nowadays, varying from basic, cost-effective units, right up to high-tech alarms that send texts to your mobile phone when the alarm is triggered! Another good idea is to put stickers on your car showing it has an alarm installed. Do not get stickers that display which brand of alarm system is in the car, however.

Crook Locks: Put simply, crook locks are designed to make a car thief’s job more difficult. They are mechanical locking devices that can be clamped either onto the gear stick or steering wheel (to prevent the thief from putting the car in gear or being able to steer the car). Again, crook locks are a cheap but effective way of putting thieves off a potential target!

Disable Your Car: When you are leaving your car parked over longer periods, such as in airport car parks while away on holidays, you should disconnect your car’s battery and the ignition fuse. Both procedures can be done in a matter of minutes but make a car impossible to start until reversed.

Hiding Spare Keys: An Garda Siochana recommend that you do not hide spare keys in your car. Car thieves know all of the usual places where people hide keys, and will take the time to look for them. Hide an extra set at home instead!

Registration Number Etching: All of your car’s windows, such as the windscreen, rear window, side windows and even the mirrors, should have the car’s registration number etched into them. This simple procedure can help to deter thieves, as it makes the car more difficult and costly to sell on.

Keep Details Close to Hand: Keep your car’s registration and license plate number in your wallet or purse. This means that in the event of car theft, you will have the relevant info immediately to hand to present to the Gardai. Do not leave valuable information, such as your tax book or insurance policy documentation, in the car, however, as a thief could use these to sell your vehicle on!

For more information on preventing car theft, see [url=http://www.garda.ie]www.garda.ie
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Ka looy sab kining mga artista nga sa sikat pa sila gato diri gasto didto karon mamaligya na lang ug BBQ..'
By JULIEN MERCED C. MATABUENA
November 13, 2010, 2:02pm
Melissa Mendez admits to selling barbeque, siopao, siomai and imported perfumes but denies that she does so having sunk into poverty.
Melissa Mendez admits to selling barbeque, siopao, siomai and imported perfumes but denies that she does so having sunk into poverty.

MANILA, Philippines â€" Melissa Mendez admits to selling barbeque, siopao, siomai and imported perfumes but denies that she does so having sunk into poverty.

This she said after blind items circulated about a character actress who had allegedly resorted to selling siopao and barbeque because she’s already “outdated.”

Melissa, who appears in the Cinema One Originals 2010 finalist “Third World Happy,” told Journal Online that there’s nothing wrong with selling things. She refuted the poverty rumor by saying that she has three houses and cars to her name. She also boasted that her business has a lot of patrons and that she’s earning almost as much as what she gets as an actress.

The actress revealed that she started this business during the times when she did not have projects.

However, not all actors are as lucky as Melissa.

After overcoming drug addiction, sexy comedienne and dancer Janice Jurado recently appeared in a taped interview with Korina Sanchez on “TV Patrol” aired last Nov. 8 to tell about her life now and yet another battle with a serious disease.

She admitted that nowadays, she sells barbeque for a living and that she is scheduled to undergo another operation on December for breast cancer.

Janice was highly emotional when she addressed her children, all of whom, it seems, have already turned their backs on her.

“Sana naman bago ako mawala sa mundo… papasok na naman ako sa isang operasyon. Pakinggan naman nila ko,” she pleaded.

“Bigyan niyo naman ako ng pagkakataong bumangon. Bigyan naman niyo ko ng pagkakataon na ipakita naman sa inyo kung papano ulit magagawa ni Janice Jurado ang bumangon. Huwag naman niyo akong ikondena.”

Another actor, Joseph Bitangcol, has also resorted to selling barbeque in order to support his family. It was in early October when the young actor appeared on “Paparazzi” to tell about his life outside the limelight.

His showbiz career had gone lackluster after starring in the movies “D’ Lucky Ones” and “Walang Kawala.” With fewer projects that came his way and with the onslaught of financial blows, he returned to selling barbeque which his mother Lydia revealed that he has been doing anyway as the family’s main source of income before entering show business.

Joseph, however, is happy and grateful that despite these setbacks, a few showbiz friends remained true to him. He also expressed his wish to find a new management that would help revive his showbiz career.

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MANILA, Philippinesâ€"The number of Filipino nurses aspiring to practice their profession in the United States continued to drop year-on-year in the third quarter, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said over the weekend.

In a news release, TUCP secretary-general and former senator Ernesto Herrera said only 2,227 Filipino nurses took the US NCLEX for the first time from July to September, down 38 percent or 1,355 fewer compared to the 3,582 in the same three-month period in 2009.

TUCP now expects some 5,000 fewer Filipino nurses taking the NCLEX the whole of this year, according to Herrera, former chairman of the Senate committee on labor, employment and human resources development.

Thus far, a total of 7,780 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time from January to September, down 35 percent or 4,074 less versus the 11,854 in the same nine-month period last year.

The NCLEX is the licensure exam administered by the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. The number of Filipino nurses taking the test for the first time is a reliable indicator as to how many of them are trying to enter the profession in the US, Herrera said.

A total of 15,382 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX for the first time in the whole of 2009, down 5,364 or 26 percent from 20,746 in 2008. All told, since 2005, some 90,000 Filipino nurses have taken the NCLEX for the first time, that is, excluding repeaters.

Despite the decline in the number of Filipinos nurses seeking US employment, Herrera said the Philippines remains America's largest supplier of new foreign nurses, after India, South Korea, Canada, and Nigeria.

Outside the US, the Philippines is also the United Kingdom's third biggest supplier of new foreign nurses, after India and Australia.

Herrera said many Filipino nurses have temporarily sought employment in local industries, mainly services, while waiting for more gainful work in foreign labor markets.

"We now have thousands of registered nurses engaged in services that have nothing to do with their profession, working as contact center staff, baristas, cashiers, even lotto terminal operators," Herrera said.

The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) earlier estimated at 200,000 the jobless nurses in the country. "A total of 37,679 new practitioners passed the local licensure exam in July. They are now competing for jobs with some 160,000 unemployed nurses," PNA said.

TUCP supports the continued deployment of Filipino nurses to lucrative overseas labor markets. "We obviously have a large surplus of nurses," Herrera said.

"We would prefer that government encourage the deployment of nurses, and discourage the placement of domestic helpers overseas," Herrera said.

"Filipino nurses abroad are generally less vulnerable to employer abuse. Their skills protect them. Their skills are not easy to replace, so employers are careful not to mistreat and drive them away," he said.

"As to domestic helpers, they are extremely susceptible to abuse because they live with their employers, and their skills are easy to replace," Herrera said.

"In Hong Kong for instance, for every Filipino domestic helper, there could be dozens of Indonesians, Thais, and even local Chinese replacements waiting in line. This is also true in the Middle East. Potential substitutes from Sri Lanka and Indonesia abound," he added.

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By Ted Laguatan, Esq.
INQUIRER.net First Posted 10:11:00 10/10/2010 Filed Under: Migration, Crime and Law and Justice, Americas - Canada

CALIFORNIA, United Statesâ€"In January of this year, I wrote the following material which was published and included as a part of my regular column by three newspapers. It was a response to a letter sent by a reader. Since then, I have had so many requests to have the material reprinted. Here it is.

Dear Attorney, I am a 72-year-old retired accountant who did well in the US. A widower, I married my attractive 25-year-old wife three years ago. We come from the same barrio in Nueva Vizcaya. I brought her to the US and she certainly has a much better life now. I gave her parents a generous sum of money when we married and send them money now and then. I was very happy until I discovered her affair with a co-worker. I discovered the sizzling exchanges of romantic text messages in her cell phone. I confronted her and she tearfully confessed, asking for forgiveness. She says this young man had been very aggressive and she tried to resist but eventually gave in. She has been seeing him for three weeks now. I want to hurt this guy. I feel devastated and hurt by the betrayal. I want my wife deported. Can you please help me on this?â€"Ben

Dear Manong Ben, Here’s my take on your situation: I understand your anguish, confusion, and anger. You cannot eat, sleep, or concentrate. Conjured scenarios of your young wife in wild passionate sensual engagement swirl in your brain with tortuous repetition. Your initial reaction reeks of revenge: Deport her. Condemn her back to barrio poverty and boredom. Get a hit-man to bury this bum alive. Rip his head off. Chop off his thing.

You would not be human if you had no such reactions.

Cool it and look at reality and the big picture. Most likely she married you not so much for your Piolo Pascual looks but because of your tender waysâ€"legal tender that is. You made yourself attractive by going green. You showered her parents with green bucks. Your fat wallet and your blue US passport made you super pogi. You gave her an offer she could not refuse: escape from the barrio, a green card, nice clothes, nice cars, great food, a nice house and spending money. That’s fine. Hey, you do what you gotta do to achieve your goal. You made other old guys’ fantasies a reality. That shows guts. But Manong, marrying an attractive woman 47 years youngerâ€"I am sure you are awareâ€"has its risks. You assumed that risk.

Most likely she never intended to cheat on you. Extramarital affairs are often unintended. But shift happens. Her attention shifted to another guy. Kalibidohan, kakulangan, and kalungkutan are to blame, operating singularly or in combination.

It’s a friendly planet except when an old guy’s young attractive wife meets a young aggressive stallion. I am sure she initially resisted the stud’s advances but because of kalibidohan, that is, tyrannical biological and hormonal imperatives, resistance eventually converted to welcomed acceptance. Kakulangan is simply unsatisfied kalibidohan, which may have been a factor. Kalungkutan, loneliness, may have also played a part.

What then? Anger, hate, resentment, thoughts of revenge? These won’t help. These destructive negatives increase your blood pressure, eat you up, and drown you in constant misery and depression. They can even drive you to insanity.

What then should you do? Here’s my advice: For your psychological-emotional survival and because it is the right and good thing to do, unconditionally forgive her and cease demonizing her.

Deeply understand that she is only human like all of us. Once you forgive her and forget her indiscretions, your peace will come back to you. The tightness in your chest, the headaches, sleepless nights, thoughts of revengeâ€"all will vanish like sidewalk ice melted by the hot sun. You can then proceed with your life. Forgiving heals your hurt and makes you feel good about yourself. This is good science.

Forget about deporting her. Revenge and bitterness won’t do much good. And, since you had a genuine good faith marriage, a good lawyer can prevent her from being deported. I know I can.

If she leaves you or if you leave her, genuinely wish her well. You gave her a chance for a better life. Be happy about that. You made a big difference in one person’s lifeâ€"maybe several persons, if you include her family. In exchange, you had her for three good years, enjoyed her company, made love to her. She made you feel young again. She may even have been a good cook.

Do your crying, sincerely forgive, forget, and move on. Don’t let your dark side dominate.

If you cannot really live without her, then tell her so. Love her not only as a wife but as a human being. Affirm your love despite her extramarital liaisons. Risk being a fool. It’s all right. Love begets love, especially true, honest-to-goodness love. Who knows, she might get tired of her young lothario and appreciate you more and truly love you.

If this does not work, nothing prevents you from divorcing her, returning to your barrio and marrying another woman. Maybe Manong, a little older this time? Good luck. Take care.â€"Ted]  By Ted Laguatan, Esq.
INQUIRER.net First Posted 10:11:00 10/10/2010 Filed Under: Migration, Crime and Law and Justice, Americas - Canada

CALIFORNIA, United Statesâ€"In January of this year, I wrote the following material which was published and included as a part of my regular column by three newspapers. It was a response to a letter sent by a reader. Since then, I have had so many requests to have the material reprinted. Here it is.

Dear Attorney, I am a 72-year-old retired accountant who did well in the US. A widower, I married my attractive 25-year-old wife three years ago. We come from the same barrio in Nueva Vizcaya. I brought her to the US and she certainly has a much better life now. I gave her parents a generous sum of money when we married and send them money now and then. I was very happy until I discovered her affair with a co-worker. I discovered the sizzling exchanges of romantic text messages in her cell phone. I confronted her and she tearfully confessed, asking for forgiveness. She says this young man had been very aggressive and she tried to resist but eventually gave in. She has been seeing him for three weeks now. I want to hurt this guy. I feel devastated and hurt by the betrayal. I want my wife deported. Can you please help me on this?â€"Ben

Dear Manong Ben, Here’s my take on your situation: I understand your anguish, confusion, and anger. You cannot eat, sleep, or concentrate. Conjured scenarios of your young wife in wild passionate sensual engagement swirl in your brain with tortuous repetition. Your initial reaction reeks of revenge: Deport her. Condemn her back to barrio poverty and boredom. Get a hit-man to bury this bum alive. Rip his head off. Chop off his thing.

You would not be human if you had no such reactions.

Cool it and look at reality and the big picture. Most likely she married you not so much for your Piolo Pascual looks but because of your tender waysâ€"legal tender that is. You made yourself attractive by going green. You showered her parents with green bucks. Your fat wallet and your blue US passport made you super pogi. You gave her an offer she could not refuse: escape from the barrio, a green card, nice clothes, nice cars, great food, a nice house and spending money. That’s fine. Hey, you do what you gotta do to achieve your goal. You made other old guys’ fantasies a reality. That shows guts. But Manong, marrying an attractive woman 47 years youngerâ€"I am sure you are awareâ€"has its risks. You assumed that risk.

Most likely she never intended to cheat on you. Extramarital affairs are often unintended. But shift happens. Her attention shifted to another guy. Kalibidohan, kakulangan, and kalungkutan are to blame, operating singularly or in combination.

It’s a friendly planet except when an old guy’s young attractive wife meets a young aggressive stallion. I am sure she initially resisted the stud’s advances but because of kalibidohan, that is, tyrannical biological and hormonal imperatives, resistance eventually converted to welcomed acceptance. Kakulangan is simply unsatisfied kalibidohan, which may have been a factor. Kalungkutan, loneliness, may have also played a part.

What then? Anger, hate, resentment, thoughts of revenge? These won’t help. These destructive negatives increase your blood pressure, eat you up, and drown you in constant misery and depression. They can even drive you to insanity.

What then should you do? Here’s my advice: For your psychological-emotional survival and because it is the right and good thing to do, unconditionally forgive her and cease demonizing her.

Deeply understand that she is only human like all of us. Once you forgive her and forget her indiscretions, your peace will come back to you. The tightness in your chest, the headaches, sleepless nights, thoughts of revengeâ€"all will vanish like sidewalk ice melted by the hot sun. You can then proceed with your life. Forgiving heals your hurt and makes you feel good about yourself. This is good science.

Forget about deporting her. Revenge and bitterness won’t do much good. And, since you had a genuine good faith marriage, a good lawyer can prevent her from being deported. I know I can.

If she leaves you or if you leave her, genuinely wish her well. You gave her a chance for a better life. Be happy about that. You made a big difference in one person’s lifeâ€"maybe several persons, if you include her family. In exchange, you had her for three good years, enjoyed her company, made love to her. She made you feel young again. She may even have been a good cook.

Do your crying, sincerely forgive, forget, and move on. Don’t let your dark side dominate.

If you cannot really live without her, then tell her so. Love her not only as a wife but as a human being. Affirm your love despite her extramarital liaisons. Risk being a fool. It’s all right. Love begets love, especially true, honest-to-goodness love. Who knows, she might get tired of her young lothario and appreciate you more and truly love you.

If this does not work, nothing prevents you from divorcing her, returning to your barrio and marrying another woman. Maybe Manong, a little older this time? Good luck. Take care.â€"Ted

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Yamaha FZ 16 red (Lava red)

Unlike the Yamaha YZF R15 (sports bike), the Yamaha FZ-16 is a macho street fighter. The bike gets its looks from the global FZ series known for awesome looks and tremendous power. Just one look at the bike is enough to make you fall for it and buy it !
Yamaha FZ-16 : Just one look at the bike is enough to make you fall for it !

Yamaha FZ-16 Design elements: Big center mass, tough looking front forks, tough looking chassis, mid-ship stubby silencer, super wide tyres, rugged shaped body parts !

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Yamaha FZ-16, SIZE DOES MATTER !

Everything about this bike is huge and cool - the super wide tyres, the large size fuel tank etc…
Yamaha FZ 16 Specifications

    * Engine: 153.7 CC four-stroke, air-cooled, single-cylinder, 2 valves, SOHC

    * Power: 15PS @ 8,400 RPM (Estimated)

    * Gearbox: 5-speed

    * Fuel System: 26mm CV Carb

    * Wheels (F/R): 5-spoke 17? die-cast alloys

    * Tyres(F/R): 100/60-R17, 140-60-R17

    * Brakes(F/R): 267mm single cross-drilled ventilated rotor with 2-pot calipers / 130mm drum

    * Suspension: Front: 41mm Telescopic Forks - Rear: Monocross type

    * Headlight: 12V 35W Halogen with Multifocal Reflector

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The Yamaha FZ-16 is surely one of the best looking naked bike in its class with its macho and muscular looks. The macho tank, aggressive front heavy stance and the rear view with street fighter looks will make you fall for it. FZ-16 will be powered by single-cylinder, four-stroke, four-valve, fuel-injected 150cc engine. The bike would weigh about 124 kg and the top speed will be around 140 km/h.

The mini-Fazer will feature state of the art - YTPS (Yamaha Throttle Position Sensor), for better throttle response and fuel efficiency and will be loaded with a fully digital console with digital readout for RPM, Speed, Trip and Odometer.

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WELLINGTON â€" A New Zealand teenager tried to sell some sexy photographs of his mother on an Internet auction site after the pair had an argument, a newspaper here reported.

The 18-year-old student opened an auction for "five naked photos of my Mum" on the Trade Me site after being told to clear the family garage and sell any unwanted items on the site, the Herald on Sunday said.

Trade Me pulled the auction the next day, but the student, identified only as Michael, was soon back trying to sell a series of eight-year-old "glamour" shots of his mother, including one of her in underwear.

His mother Jennifer, 44, who did not want the family name published, told the paper she was "pretty annoyed" when she found out about the first set of photographs.

"He was quite naughty... I thought 'you cheeky little git'," she said.

But she was also annoyed that Trade Me withdrew the second set of pictures, of which she approved.

"I insisted Michael show me first, the little bugger. They are quite artistic. There is nothing dodgy about them."

"I wanted 50 per cent of the sale, but more than that I miss the nice comments."

Trade Me spokesman Jon Macdonald said both auctions were withdrawn because of "inappropriate" photos.

"We don't really want to be the place where people list photos of their mums in their underwear," he said.

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MANILA
, Philippinesâ€"Memorizing a deck of cards in precise chronological order under one minute may seem like a superhuman feat because it has been accomplished by only less than 1 percent of the world’s population.

But it’s not because they are naturally gifted, according to memory experts. The feat simply has only been attempted by a few.

A Filipino, Johann Randall Abrina, has tried it in the international arena, with astonishing results. So has Roberto Racasa, a “kristo” or bet-taker in a cockfighting arena in Marikina City.

Abrina, a registered nurse and sports psychology student from Marikina City, memorized a deck of 52 cards in sequence in 80 seconds at the United Kingdom Open Memory Championships on Aug. 26-27, beating Ben Pridmore, the current World Memory Champion, in one discipline and winning a silver medal.

Pridmore, a three-time World Memory champion, finished as the overall UK Memory champion.

To attain the rank of Grandmaster of Memory in the world, one requirement is to be able to memorize one shuffled deck of 52 cards in two minutes.

If Abrina succeeds in future performances to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour and the precise order of 10 shuffled decks in the same amount of time, along with his incredible skill in speed cards, he will be joining an elite group composed of less than 40 grandmasters in the world.

Pridmore, whose memory feats have been the subject of many TV documentaries in England, has memorized 27 packs of cards, in order, in under 60 minutes.

Plucky Pinoys

Pridmore lost to Abrina in a discipline where he has a personal best of 24 seconds, according to memory enthusiasts, because he was going for another world record and made costly mistakes.

In a field of 14 memory experts from the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland, Poland and Slovenia who competed in Paddington, London, Abrina was beaten in the speed cards discipline only by the Austrian Corina Draschl, who memorized the whole deck in 78 seconds.

Abrina finished ninth place overall.

Racasa, the “kristo,” finished 11th, beating competitors from the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia and Lithuania.

The plucky Filipinos traveled more than 11,000 kilometers to participate in the event for the first time.

“The performance is impressive and unexpected,” said Klaus Kolb, president of the German Memory Council and founder of the German Memory Championships whose candidates often dominate the world rankings.

Pridmore, a 33-year-old accountant, sits on top of the world rankings but the rest of the top 10 are dominated by Germans who, among them, have produced three world champions. The Germans also hold seven world records in 10 memory disciplines.

But the performance of the unheralded Filipinos is nothing to be sneezed at, said Kolb, also a famous memory trainer in Germany and author of several memory books published in Europe.

“Their performance in their first international memory tournament is proof that with enough time and discipline, Filipinos can be a major threat to memory athletes, if not in the world, at least in Asia,” Kolb said. “Certainly, they are coming into the World Memory Championships in December with a lot more respect than before.”

Racasa also placed a respectable sixth in the marathon 30-minute card discipline, memorizing 156 cards in sequence in 30 minutes while Abrina memorized 130 cards.

Abrina bolted into the top 10 of the UK championships with another respectable finish in the random words discipline, memorizing 77 words in 15 minutes.

624 cards in 30 minutes

Considering the world record in speed cards held by Simon Reinhard of Germany is 21.9 seconds and that Pridmore can memorize 624 cards in sequence in 30 minutes, the Filipinos may still have a long way to go.

“But compared to the United States
, they can very well hold their own,” Kolb said, adding the Filipinos can probably handily beat the Americans at the US Memory Championships if they are allowed to compete.

The current record for speed cards in the US championships is one minute and 27 seconds. Abrina has already done it in under one minute.

Mental decathlon

The Memory Masters is a mental decathlon and sporting tournament with a following in 20 countries.

For the last 17 years, the World Memory Championships have been held in Europe, the Middle East and Asia where astonishing records are set by the world’s best memory athletes in 10 disciplines that include memorizing decks of playing cards, pages of random numbers and words, names and faces, poems and historical facts.

A record holder can recall over 180 names within 15 minutes or more than 300 numbers within five minutes.

Competitive memory has been an organized sport only since 1991 when Tony Buzan, a business consultant and author of 82 books on brain and memory, organized the first international competition in England.

Buzan calls it mental olympics, focusing on training the mind to develop its latent abilities in much the same way athletes train their bodies to perform to their fullest potential.

Mental, physical fitness

The training required for competitive memory sports is like training for the Olympics, stressing the need both for mental and physical fitness,

In the last 17 years, the sport has grown in popularity with national championships held in the United States, Germany, South Africa
, Australia, Singapore, China
, Japan, and Mexico.

The first Philippine Memory Championships will be held next year under Memo Masters Philippines in cooperation with the Center for Memory Training and Creativity based in Germany.

Those interested are encouraged to join and train for free under Kolb, who stresses that high IQs are not required to do well in the sport, simply remarkable amounts of focus and discipline.

Kolb underscored the importance of memory training in learning.

“Learning requires more than understanding. You only really learn what you remember and what you have forgotten you have not learned,” Kolb said.

“Students have to learn vast amounts of information in vocabulary, historical facts, scientific terms and learning can be made easy and fun if you know the best strategies. This is where memory training comes in.”
(Editor’s Note: Gemma Luz Corotan is a former Inquirer reporter)

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