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By Kit Bagaipo
Bohol Chronicle

Two congressmen are now asking national government agencies to investigate the anomalous recruitment of two Boholana overseas workers deployed to the Middle East.

One of the OFWs, Eugenia Baja, died of a mysterious cause in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 24 and whose body was just recently repatriated and was buried in her hometown in Matin-ao, Sierra Bullones yesterday.

Another 23-year old Boholana OFW, Meya Pojas (not her real name) from Dagohoy town who worked as domestic helper arrived home last Monday after escaping her employers in Jordan who repeatedly raped her.

First district Rep. Edgar Chatto and Rep. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela are separately asking the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) to look into the death of Baja and the alleged illegal recruitment of the domestic helper from Dagohoy.

Both solons expressed concern on the welfare of other OFWs in the Middle East while calling for justice on the death of Baja.

"The unknown nature of her (Baja) death warrants an investigation. We are calling on the government to cooperate with the proper authorities to know the real cause of and thus give justice to her death," Ilagan said.

According to Migrante International, an organization of OFWs and their families, Baja's family was informed on March 3 that the OFW died of an illness in Riyadh. A second report from the DFA, however, stated that she committed suicide.

One month before her death, Baja's family received a text message from her asking for help.

The partylist representative also called on the POEA to investigate on the anomalous nature of Baja's recruitment. She purportedly signed a contract with a US-based company to work as a patient server in Saudi Arabia but was employed as a domestic helper. Her family also mentioned that she complained about not being given her salary.

"Our OFWs are not given enough protection by the government despite their help in keeping our economy afloat," Ilagan said. "It is alarming how many of our so-called heroes fell victim to illegal recruitment, illegal detention and exploitation in other countries." (with reports from Ven Arigo)

By Angeline Valencia

      Several Bohol farmers reportedly fell into temptation to mill subsidized certified seeds instead of planting them apparently considering its high recovery level. For every 100 kilos of certified seeds, the minimum yield per hectare is 120 bags at 50 kilos per bag when planted, while the same figure will recover about 80 kilos when milled.

      This helped explain why some unscrupulous farmers chose to convert the certified seeds into well-milled rice instead of planting them to increase production.

      As this developed, a track-down operation is on the way to ferret out cheat of the province’s rice production program.

      The distribution of high-yielding seeds to farmers forms part of the provincial government’s Bohol Seeds Assistance Project (BSAP).

      “The law will come after them [when enough pieces of evidence are gathered],” Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog warns in advance those who milled (if reports are true) and those who are planning to mill the certified seeds intended for planting to ensure improved harvest under BSAP of the Rice Accelerated Enhancement Response (RACER) program.

      Quirog said they just await for the memorandum order that will set the go-signal for an investigation on the matter to proceed with “the official procedure in gathering of evidence”.

      As of now, the report remains unofficial that some individuals in the municipalities of Pilar, Sierra-Bullones, and Tubigon milled the certified seeds obtained through BSAP.

      But this early, Quirog said that “the procedures in gathering of evidence will hopefully start soon so we would like to give an advance warning to those who are or may have been planning to do this illegal activity. The law will come after them if evidence is found”.

      Amid the reports, Quirog appealed to farmers to cooperate for the general welfare and abide by the intentions of the program by planting the certified seeds made available to beneficiary farmers through a subsidy from the Department of Agriculture and financial assistance of the provincial government on a roll-over scheme.

      “Dili nato ipagaling. Naa man goy uban nga tungod kay barato- -P440 raman siya. Mahu’g ra og P11 per kilo ang palay nya and the milling recovery ani taas man. Moabot og 80 percent so og naa kay 100 kilos of palay, 80 kilos nga bugas makuha compared to ordinary palay which has 65 percent ra makuha. Nakakuha man tag report and evidence sa interior towns nga dunay mga tawo nga nagpahimulos ani. Wa motunong. Namalit unya gipagaling. (Let’s not mill [the certified seeds]. There are those who are tempted because it is cheaper. At P440 [per bag], it can be pegged at P11 per kilo and its milling recovery is higher at 80 percent. So for 100 kilos of palay, they will get 80 kilos of milled rice compared to ordinary palay which only has 65-percent recovery. We have received reports and evidence that in interior towns, there are individuals who took advantage of the program. They violated the conditions in availing of the benefits of the program. They bought certified seeds and had them milled,” Quirog explained.

      She hinted that it is more sustainable to plant the certified seeds than have them milled. When planted, the farmers will yield 120 sacks of rice, compared to only one sack when milled outright.

      The provincial agriculturist appealed to farmers to refrain from abusing and betraying the intentions of the government to help them improve their yield to achieve sufficient rice supply in the province.

      Through a roll-over scheme, BSAP will shoulder the farmers’ equity of P1,400 per sack of hybrid rice costing P2,900 of which DA subsidizes P1,500.

      The provincial government allocated P13.8 million for this project, including the incentives of experts.

      In the program, each beneficiary farmers’ association or irrigators’ association manages the fund for the farmers’ equity in the purchase of hybrid rice seeds and the recipient member-farmers will pay it three weeks after the harvest. The proceeds will then be used by the associations to buy hybrid seeds for the next planting season.

      Governor Erico Aumentado launched the expanded version of the RACER program on May 5 in partnership with the mayors in Bohol.

      Quirog said the province had already implemented BSAP in four seasons in 2006 and 2007.

      For its expansion this year, the Governor’s Office, the Provincial Board and the Vice-Governor’s Office coordinated in releasing an additional funds to cover 4,000 hectares more of farmlands from the initial target of 200-300 hectares in the past years.

      In continued partnership with DA under the Ginintuang Masaganing Ani program, the additional target this season will cover 2,000 hectares and another 2,000 hectares towards the end of the year starting October.

      The total target for hybrid rice planting this season covers 3,720 hectares, while for certified seeds the target will cover 13,928 hectares.

      Quirog also announced that the program had already distributed 2,404 sacks of hybrid seeds to beneficiaries and 6,218 sacks of certified seeds to be planted at a ratio of one sack per hectare.

      The existing funding covers the implementation for the period, May-October, while the next release of funding will be for November this year to April next year.

      The campaign on planting high quality seeds is based on the fact that it will give an additional 25 sacks to the farmers’ harvest per hectare.

      For hybrid rice, Quirog said, they patronize the mestizo 1, while for certified seeds they prefer RC 18, one of the popular certified seeds that proved resistant to dry season and can grow even in non-irrigated areas.

      Growing certified seeds will give farmers 15 more sacks of rice at 50 kilos per sack, according to Quirog.

      In Bohol, the irrigated areas total to 21,000 hectares, while rainfed areas reached 26,000 hectares.

      Each sack of certified seeds costs P440, cheaper than the hybrid rice which costs P2,600-P2,900 per sack.

Sunday Post

Theft cases were  readied against two suspects who were arrested earlier for the series of robberies involving service drop wires.

According to criminal investigator SPO4 Justiniano Saco of the city police station, the two were identified as Jason  Basalo, single, a resident of Timbagan, Maribojoc and Arnel Garcia of Tagustusan, Balilihan.

Residents of sitio Karaw-an identified the two as being responsible for the loss of electric wires belonging to an electric  company operating in this city.

The  thieves found it profitable to steal steel wires due to its copper content. Junk shops in this city  are the favorite market for these stolen wires.

When apprehended, several kilos of the stolen wires were found in their possession.

Both jobless, the two are now placed at the city locked up jail.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon “Frank” (international codename Fengshen) have left at least 14 people dead, tens of thousands flooded and also forced the evacuation of tens of thousands in the Philippines, officials said Saturday.

At least 30,000 people were marooned on their rooftops in Iloilo province after a massive flood when a dam broke, an official said. The nationwide casualty figure did not include the lone fatality in Bohol.

"At least 30,000 residents of Iloilo city are stranded in their rooftops because of the flood," said Iloilo City action mayor Jed Mabilog.

He said rescuers have reported that many could be missing or killed, but this could not be independently confirmed.

The Risao river in the town of Upi in southern Maguindanao province overflowed and washed away at least five houses, Army’s 6th Infantry Division spokesman Lt. Col Julieto Ando said.

Ten people drowned while at least eight others were missing, Ando said.

A landslide buried several houses at a slum area in Cotabato city, also in the south, killing two people, officials said.

A 49-year-old woman died after her house collapsed after being buffeted by strong winds in a coastal village in central Negros island.

A low intensity tornado triggered by the typhoon also left one dead after it destroyed 16 houses in Negros, the Philippine Star reported.

The local social welfare department office said nine towns and cities were flooded, forcing the evacuation of over 3,000 people.

In the urban centers of Jaro and Iloilo city, residents could be seen wading in waist-deep waters, with roads rendered impassable to vehicles.

The National Power Corporation was forced to shut down its power plant in the area, triggering a blackout across the province, plant manager Nelson Hemona said.

Roads connecting the southern cities of Cotabato and General Santos were flooded, while a concrete bridge also collapsed, isolating some villages and towns, Catholic-run radio station DXMS reported.

The storm forced over 200,000 people to seek temporary shelter in the eastern Bicol region, the civil defense office said.

Heavy rains battered the Bicol region overnight, and over 600 people were stranded in various seaports there.

It also uprooted small trees, blew away tin roofs and caused power outages in the central Visayas provinces.

Early on Saturday "Frank" was tracking a west-northwest direction, packing winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) an hour.

It was forecast to dump heavy rain over large parts of the Central Visayas region and parts of the main island of Luzon until Sunday, the weather bureau said.

Residents in low-lying areas and near mountain slopes were warned against possible flash floods and landslides, while those in coastal areas were told to watch out for big waves.

Officials said domestic flights going to the central Philippines have been suspended, while inter-island ferry services were also halted.

Government agencies were instructed to stockpile on relief goods, while state-run hospitals were placed on alert.

Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said 21 inter-island ferries were barred from leaving port in the central city of Cebu while one vessel ran aground in the central island of Samar.

There were major power interruptions in towns and cities in Samar as well as in the impoverished province of Leyte, where highways were also inundated, the civil defense office said. Agence France Presse

Reported by Sen Guingguing
Bohol Sunday Post

Like the rest of the Visayas, Typhoon Frank (international codename: Fengshen) pounded the province of Bohol since Friday until yesterday morning with heavy rains and gusty winds leaving in its wake one person dead. 

The lone fatality in Bohol brought to 15 the number of deaths throughout the country as the fury of Frank also dumped heavy rains in some parts of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

The typhoon also forced the evacuation of thousands of others in some parts of the country.

Eight persons who were earlier reported missing in Getafe where later found to be safe after they were rescued in Caubian Island, sitio Dako, Lapulapu City in Cebu.

The eight, all fishermen are now back in barangay Masingin, after a joint rescue operations made up of the local police, Coast Guard in coordination with the local government of the town, was mounted as soon as the alarm was sounded. Only four of the reported and later found were identified. They are  a certain John Mark Dico and Ronel Dico. The two brothers where last seen fishing off the seawaters of Masingin when they encountered strong waves.

A pumpboat owned by barangay captain Artemio Vergara was sent to retrieve the missing fishermen. The rescue team, composed of Benjie Ocaba and Gualberto Ocaba, scoured the seas between Getafe and Lapulapu to look for the two fishermen only to be reported  missing themselves.

Follow up operations by the combined elements of rescuers showed that all eight missing persons are now all accounted for.

While the missing fishermen are now safe in their respective homes in the Getafe island, a laborer from Mansasa  this city was reported to have drowned in the seawaters off  the barangay.

He was identified as Jorge Salao, 33, a native of barangay Poblacion, Mabini town. It was not known what brought him to Mansasa.

Reports reaching the Post indicated  that the victim took a bath in the Mansasa seawaters Friday afternoon.

Although the place where he took a bath is secured from the lashing winds of Frank as it is blocked by the mountain ranges of Dauis, the victim reportedly drowned after he suffered an apparent heart attack.

There were efforts by concerned residents to revive the victim but he was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital.

Until yesterday afternoon, the strong force of the storm appeared to have subsided after two days of heavy rains and gusty winds.

Most of the provinces in the Visayas were not spared by Typhoon Frank. 

As in Bohol, Cebu, Samar, Leyte and Biliran also bore the brunt of the storm’s strong winds and intermittent rainfall. All day long Friday, Bohol experienced heavy rains and howling winds felling trees and destroying ricelands in some parts of Bohol’s interior towns.

Although described by the local Pagasa as slow moving but packing strong winds, the  tropical depression lashes gusts of up to 160 kilometers per hour but moves at only 19 kph.

At the first sign that Bohol is  under Storm Signal Number One, DepEd Regional Director Carolino Mordeno lost no time in suspending classes in elementary and high school levels. The Deped official was in Bohol to broker the misunderstanding between City Mayor Dan Neri Lim

and City DepEd Supt. Norma Varquez.

The announcement to suspend classes apparently came in  late as students had already made it to their schools and went on to attend classes anyway.

In Ubay, a report made by V-Mayor Galicano Atup showed that damage to property in that eastern town was minimal. He made the disclosure in an interview with DYTR News.

While reports of inter-island vessels were not allowed by the local Coast Guard as Typhoon Frank came lashing  in ferocious velocity, a 13-gross tonnage vessel was reported stranded in an island near Southern Leyte after it sought refuge from strong waves.

The MV Lolita 2 which was loaded with 16 passengers and seven crewmembers sent a distress call to Cong. Edgar Chatto of the first district for any financial help.

Losing no time, the first district lawmaker coordinated with Southern Leyte Gov. Damian Mercado and the other Leyte solons.

In Jagna, the passenger vessel M/V Dona Rita of Gothong Shipping Lines made an emergency docking near the seawall of barangay Pagina.

As of yesterday afternoon  both the local Coast Guard and in Cebu are  still prohibiting the  trips of fast craft boats to and from Cebu. When the weather normalizes possibly today, these fast craft ferries will resume their regular schedule.

As Frank slammed Bohol the rest of the day Friday, this city experienced a series of power outages in successive intervals. Tagbilaran is getting its power from the Leyte-Bohol Interconnection Project.

The rest of Bohol however under the service areas of the two Bohol electric cooperatives was spared of any power disruption. 

Asa man kaha ta ug Internet connection for Tubag Bohol Village? Our option is to put up a customized satellite.

Can you see the image? Photograph is courtesy of funny-potato.com

I like the place. Maka-reflect ta ug maayo sa kinabuhi kada hapon ug buntag. I will ask Atty. Aleckoy Lim to help us process the legal papers for this.

Everytime makakita ko ug picture nga EB-EB, or whatever you call it, mopahiyom akong kasing-kasing. The Internet has reunited our Filipino roots.

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Source: Bohol Sunday Post Newspaper

The Regional Trial Court finds 12 members of a cooperative in Inabanga guilty in a libel case filed by Provincial Board Member Josephine Socorro Jumamoy and former Inabanga Mayor Jose Jumamoy.

In a 14-page decision, RTC Branch 47 Judge Suceso Arcamo meted a P100,000 fine to accused Julie Torreon, Zita Conson, Adeline Ybañez, German Divinagracia, Damaso dela Peña, Manuel Pizarras Jr., Jesuree Bautista, Ignacio Amolo, Lourdes Melencion, Rev. Fr. Domingo Boiser Jr., Lydia Misa and Nelda Cadeliña.

Finding them guilty beyond reasonable doubt, the court likewise ordered each of the accused to pay a fine of P3,000 each with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.

The case stemmed from a defamatory article published in a local newspaper by officers and members of St. Paul the Apostle Parish Multi-Purpose Cooperative on October 27, 2002.

The article which read in part as follows: “For the knowledge of all, Inabanga is the bailiwick of a politician who was the opponent and was defeated by Congressman Cajes in the last election. The family of this politician has controlled the town for 15 years. This politician is well known in the town of intimidating and threatening his opponents and enemies in politics, etc…”

Based on evidences and testimonies of witnesses, Arcamo found that the four essential elements of the crime of libel were present.

The decision said that imputing the commission of the crime of intimidation, coercion and grave threats, as cited in the published article, besmirched, discredited and put in contempt the persons of the private complainants.

The court likewise found the publication malicious and identified the Jumamoys as the ones referred to in the article who have ruled Inabanga for 15 years by intimidating and threatening opponents.

Arcamo cited a cross examination of the complainants’ counsel, Atty. Alexander Lim on Fr. Boiser (one of the accused), who admitted that the subject of the said published article were the Jumamoys even though their names were not mentioned.

Published by Bohol Sunday Post

      Sans autopsy, authorities immediately buried a decomposing body of a man found inside a sack floating near the shoreline of a barangay in nearby town of Bien Unido early dawn on the first Saturday of June.

      At around 7 a.m. on June 7, Municipal Chief of Police PSI Domino Garcia Pelecio received a report from Suba Barangay Captain Edem Jao, through cellular phone call, that a body was found in barangay Pinamgo, municipality of Bien Unido placed inside a sack.

      Pelecio then sent a team composed of PO3 Amado Amba, PO3 Cresente Gurrea, and PO1 Armando Abadies to the crime scene.

      The responding team learned that around 5 a.m. that day, residents of barangay Pinamgo, Bien Unido found the body of an unidentified man placed inside a sack floating near the shoreline in the village.

      The dead man bore a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads, “Elsie” and a face of a woman.

      Long-haired and with mustache, the victim looked like he was 25-30 years old, wearing blue maong pants and t-shirt with blue and brown stripes.

      He had medium build and fair-skinned, between 5’6” and 5’7” tall.

      In the absence of a municipal health officer, no post mortem examination was conducted.

      The body’s advance state of decomposition prompted authorities to bring it to the public cemetery of Talibon for immediate burial, as it already reeked foul odor that could pose threat to the health of the residents nearby.

      Police continue its investigation on the incident though.

By Vernon C. Grounds
The Daily Bread

An unmarried missionary had been disparaging herself. She was unhappy with her life in general, but she was especially displeased with what she felt was her low level of spiritual growth.

One morning she looked searchingly at herself in the mirror. Then, very slowly, she said, “God, I thank You that I am myself and can never be anybody else.”

That was her moment of liberating self-acceptance. She realized that by God’s design she was an absolutely unique person, a Christ-redeemed human being who could never be replaced or duplicated.

Do you condemn yourself because you aren’t as spiritual as you think you ought to be? Do you see yourself as a second-rate disciple, lacking the gifts and graces possessed by fellow believers who seem to be models of prayer, witness, and service? We can rise above the mood of self-rejection and enjoy grateful self-acceptance when we put our lives into the nail-pierced hands of Jesus. “In Him we have redemption through His blood, [and] the forgiveness of sins” (Eph. 1:7). We are accepted and chosen by Him (vv.4-6).

If the Lord has accepted us, surely we can accept ourselves! That’s the liberating truth.

By Robert Crowell

1.  Lead â€" Women won’t tell men that they want them to lead, because just having to say it means that the guy does not lead.  A leader does not need permission; they take the risk and just do it.

2.  Ask her advice â€" This may seem contradictory to number 1, but it is not.  Women want men to lead, but they want to be part of their lives and they want to be respected.  The best way that to accomplish both of these is for the guy to decide what they want to do, tell her, then ask for her opinion.

3.  Women choose guys on how they make them feel.  Any guy who can make a girl feel appreciated, protected and cherished is on his way to winning her heart. 
 
4.  Make her laugh!  Don’t take life too seriously.  It can be tough being a woman. There are many roles to play â€" daughter, sister, wife and many goals to meet - good-looking, thin, coordinated clothing, etc.  Give her a break!  If a guy can show her that she does not have to be perfect to be accepted, he will be an unusual guy and she will love him for it.

5.  Hold the door â€" Its something that women’s upbringing may tell them is not needed â€" after all she is independent, but women will usually like it anyway.  Guys do not have to knock her down to get to the door first every time, but getting in the habit of opening doors when he can is a good thing.

6.  Never start a conversation with an apology â€" “Excuse me…”, “Sorry to bother you…”.  She may think the guy is polite, but he is violating rule number 1.

7.  If a guy is in a loving relationship, hold hands!  It shows that he cares for her and that he is not afraid of showing it in front of others.  She will never tell him, but if he does it, he will have a happier life. 

8.  Call Her!!  After every date, call her within a few days.  Email, voicemail and text messaging do not count.  Calling her as soon as he gets back to the apartment may be too soon, but any time later will be OK.     

9.  Even if she asks for the absolute truth, be careful about criticizing her appearance.  If a guy builds a fence around the back yard and asks a woman, “What do you think?” he does not want her to check the plumb on every post and let him know how he might improve his fence building!  He wants her to say that it looks good!  Same with her appearance.  Guys, be very careful of how you answer!

10.  Be passionate about something â€" in addition to her.  This goes back to leadership.  Men should have a sense of what they want to accomplish and how they are going to do it.  Share your dreams and plans with her.  This is one area where it is OK for guys to talk about something at some length.  Even if she does not share his dream, she will respect him for having one. 

It is one of the problems in dating, that there are things that most women want and expect in a man that not all men understand.  The rules of dating and behavior are being constantly rewritten and can seem confusing.  The rules above have withstood the test of time and are as valid today as they were 200 years ago. 

Lord Jesus, have mercy on the family of the victim. I don't know how to react. Again.

The only survivor of a shipwreck was smashed up on a small and uninhabited island.  he prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and everyday he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of a driftwood to protect him and his few possessions.  but then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find out his little hut
in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.  the worst had happened; everything lost. he was stunned with grief and anger. "God, how could you do this to me!" he cried.

Early the next day, however, ha was awakened by the sound of a ship which was approaching the island. it had come to rescue hi,. "How did >you know i was here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers.

"We saw your signal," they replied.

Reflection
It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad.  but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in >the midst of PAIN & SUFFERING. remember, next time when your little hut is burning to the ground---it just may be a smoke signal that summons the grace of God.

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A crazed dad taunted his wife hours before killing their kids and himself on Father's Day.

Brian Philcox, 53, failed to return little Amy and Owen to wife Evelyn after a visit.

He then rang her to say: "I'll make the papers, just you see. I've left you a present."



click here for the full details of the story.

BBC Online News

US regulators have announced plans to impose limits on oil trades overseas.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the London-based electronic exchange would have to comply with US rules.

The move comes as oil prices notch up record highs, amid fears that speculators are distorting the market.

As a result, fuel costs have shot up hitting the global economy. Airlines have been hit badly, with near record losses expected for 2008 in the US.

US airlines were forecast to report $10bn (£5bn) of losses this financial year as sky-high fuel costs erode profits, according to the industry group Air Transport Association (ATA).

Oil prices slipped from their record highs near $140 a barrel reached during Monday trade as investors were cautious ahead of plans by Saudi Arabia to increase production in July.

US sweet, light crude finished down 60 cents at $134.01, while London Brent settled 99 cents lower at $133.72.

The BBC News

A third of the population have genes that could help them in the fight against heart disease, say scientists.

A study of 147,000 patients suggests that certain types of the CETP gene might increase the levels of so-called "good" cholesterol.

UK and Dutch research, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found a 5% cut in heart attacks for those with the key types.

A UK geneticist said it could point to drugs which help many more people.

Scientists already know that cutting the levels of "bad" cholesterol in the bloodstream protects your heart, and well-established drugs such as statins aim to do precisely this.

The relationship between the levels of "good", or HDL, cholesterol, and heart health are less clear, although there is some evidence that raising these levels is good for you.

The team from Cambridge and Newcastle universities, and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, merged the results of almost 100 other studies, involving 147,000 people worldwide.

They looked for the effect of having one of six different variations of the CETP gene.

The most popular three all seemed to carry a modest positive effect, raising HDL cholesterol levels by between 3% and 5%, and people with them were less likely to have a heart attack.

Praise God she is free now. For me, she has nothing to apologize. She did the right thing.

It's showtime.
Image courtesy of Yvette Lee.

Image courtesy of Yvette Lee.

I don't know how to react. I don't know what to say.

Yvette Lee provides this image.

Photo courtesy of Yvette Lee

By Anne Cetas
Our Daily Bread

When Cristine Bouwkamp and Kyle Kramer got married in the spring of 2007, they did something most of us wouldn’t think of doing. Instead of hosting a “sit-down dinner,” they held a simple reception at the church and invited their guests to help distribute food to people in need.

They bought a truckload of food and had it delivered to the church parking lot. Then they and their wedding guests served the people of the neighborhood. Cristine and Kyle said the first thing they wished to do as a married couple was to serve others. Because God had changed their lives so radically, they wanted to “bless God for blessing us with each other.”

The Kramers chose a great start for their new marriageâ€"blessing God by serving others. The apostle Paul encouraged the Christians of Galatia: “Through love serve one another” (Gal. 5:13). Some of them believed that the ceremonial practices of the Old Testament were still binding on the church. So Paul wrote that salvation is by grace through faith. It is by faith we live out our new life in Christ. He reminded them that the law was fulfilled in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (v.14).

As followers of Jesus, we’re here to serve Him out of loveâ€"to “bless God for blessing us.”

By Dave Branon
Our Daily Bread

Each new day, it seems, brings new ways our family sees the body of Christ at work. One demonstration of the fellowship of Christians sits on my desk as I write.

It’s a basket overflowing with letters from people I have never met. Since the time Our Daily Bread readers first learned of the car accident that ushered our daughter Melissa into heaven 6 years ago, we’ve received hundreds of messages from our brothers and sisters in the faith.

They’ve said things such as: “I grieve with you, my brother, and I will keep you and your family in my prayers.” “I weep at your loss.” “I hurt with you.” Many recommended books to read. Others sent poems or articles of comfort and hope. Some shared their own stories of bereavement as we discovered new partners on the path of pain. They demonstrate the principle of love among the family of God that’s commanded in 1 John 4:11.

Each of those gracious notes is different from the others, but they contain a common thread: Because of our shared faith in Christ, I find my heart joined to the hearts of the writers of these messages.

Hearts linked by Jesus create a chain of love that can encourage even the most grieving heart.

Over the course of four months before the defeat of the Japanese forces in March 1945, Mr Makino cut open the bodies of ten Filipino prisoners, including two teenage girls. He amputated their limbs, and cut up and removed their healthy livers, kidneys, wombs and still beating hearts for no better reason than to improve his knowledge of anatomy.

- read the whole story HERE

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Someone forwarded me this email. I hope this would inspire us.


In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock.

Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it.

Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.

Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing
and straining, he finally succeeded.

After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed
a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand!

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

You're welcome, Gem. Wa pa ko ka-reply sa last email nimo. Today, I will.
Kumusta man ka diha, Gem?

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Published by Sunday Post

      Four days of search finally led to the arrest of the three robbery suspects who fled with around P20,000 from a program assistant/collector of Taytay sa Kauswagan Incorporation (TSKI) on June 5 in barangay San Agustin, one of them a minor.

      The first to fall was one Bobby Oroyan, a resident of Barangay Magsaysay, this municipality and a CAA member assigned in the municipality of Sikatuna.

      The composite team of CAA personnel led by Corporal Antonio Planco, assistant cadet commander and of police officers of Talibon Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters led by SPO3 Rogelio Celopas apprehended Oroyan.

      What first caught the attention of the arresting team was the attire of Oroyan which fitted the description on one of the robbers.

      It prompted the teams to hold and turn him over to higher headquarter at Camp Rajah Sikatuna, in Carmen pending confirmation of victim as to the suspect’s identity.

      Police team recovered from him, a dilapidated .38 revolver loaded with three bullets.

      The responding team then contacted the victim and witnesses.

      Indeed, when they saw the suspect, they identified that he was one of the perpetrators.

      The responding team then brought the suspect to Talibon police station for further investigation.

      Oroyan admitted later that he was involved in the robbery together with two cohorts.

      Chief of Police PSI Domino Pelecio positioned his men- -SPO4 Restituto Auza, SPO3 Rogelio Cleopas, PO3 Crisanto Bonghanoy, PO3 Cresente Gurrea, PO2 Margarito Cagogo and PO1 Melcuiadito Aventajado- -to conduct an immediate follow-up operation for the arrest of the two other suspects.

      The operation resulted to the positive identification of one Joseph Cuizon, also of legal age like Oroyan, single and a resident of Barangay Zamora.

      Cuizon voluntarily surrendered to authorities around 11:30 a.m. of June 9, and admitted his participation in the robbery.

      He turned over his firearm, an improvised single-shot cal. 5.56 mm pistol and his Nokia 1100 cellphone which he used in his illegal activities.

      The other suspect identified later was a minor, who served as lookout and communicated with Oroyan and Cuizon through text during the incident.

      The minor was accompanied by his parents when he went to Talibon station to issue his statement.

By ONAD MUNALEM
Bohol Sunday Post

      Municipal honchos in Talibon recently got the approval of the people of barangays Bagacay and Tanghaligue for the plan to develop a special economic zone in the two villages.

      Talibon Mayor Juanario Item told the barangayfolk during the consultative meeting on June 9 and 10 that Governor Erico Aumentado had given him and Councilor Gerson Dulang a task to scout for a conducive site for a special economic zone (SEZ) project.

      Item and Dulang explained how the project will benefit them and solicited their approval to allow the government to buy their properties that will be utilized as the site of the project.

      Among the benefits that the project offers are job opportunities, increased income and improvement in their standard of living, Dulang said.

      Dulang further said that the project’s profile was already submitted to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

      At present, many investors from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and India have shown interest to pour their capital in the Philippines, particularly in Bohol, according to Dulang.

      The mayor, for his part, told them that he had already thought of the project during his first term as town executive, being included in his development agenda for Talibon.

      “When you have a dream it remains a dream until coupled with action that it becomes a reality,” Item told the barangayfolk.

      He explained that the project needs an initial land area of 50 hectares near the shoreline to be expanded towards the upper portion of the barangay.

      The mayor told the affected residents that the project would help reduce poverty.

      Among the development projects that came ahead are the public market and the construction of a commercial center where Alturas Supermarket stands that attracted consumers from neighboring towns, Item cited.

      On the other hand, the mayor also announced that he would declare an area of 700 hectares as seed bank of seaweeds, in preparation for the planned processing plant for seaweeds.

      Item also expressed pride that during his incumbency, he is the only mayor of Bohol who had come up with a Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) which was later duplicated by town executives.

        During the open forum portion of the consultative meeting, Item explained that the price of properties that the government will buy for the SEZ will be determined by a team tasked to do the assessment on their actual value.

        He also assured that all qualified affected residents will be prioritized in the employment opportunities.

      The mayor also explained that a resettlement program will be in place to take care of those who will be displaced.

      After the forum, Barangay Councilor Desiderio Ludivise moved for the acceptance of the multi-million-peso project, seconded by Barangay Councilor Wilfredo Flores.

Hi Alicia, so nice to see you up close and personal. How's your stay in Bohol so far?
Thanks Mari for posting more photos.
Paul, great to see you with our lovely, sweet friends.

Thank you, Mari, for posting this artistic photograph.
Alicia, how I long to see you... Forever in a day.
Paul, naa pay ice ang baso?

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Written By Jes Tirol
Columnist
The Bohol Chronicle

Proem

The anthropologist Benjamin Lee Whorf was among the first to ask the questions: "To what extent is our thinking influenced by the language we use?" "Can communities as a whole have abilities?" According to many linguists, the answer is YES!

Language has symbolism, pattern and system. These characteristics of a language influence the thinking pattern of the brain. If a community has the same thinking pattern, it follows that a common ability will soon develop.

Thinking Pattern

In the province of Bohol, the town of Dauis and to a certain extent the town of Panglao, speaks an abbreviated form of the Sugboanon Bisaya. We are told that mathematics is the shorthand language of science and philosophy.

Therefore the thinking pattern developed by the manner of speaking in Dauis and Panglao is very suited for mathematics. This is the reason why you can find many Dauisanons or people from Dauis who are topnotch in the trade, vocation, or profession that involves mathematics. You can find them in engineering, accountancy, architecture, arts, carpentry, and even in gambling.

In a community like Dauis and Panglao, many of those who do not opt for mathematics related professions tend to be mavericks and non-conformists. According to Dr. Jane Healy, "they tend to make their own definitions and picture." (J.Healy, "Endangered Minds." p. 87).

Dauis-Speak

In Bohol, there are differences in intonations but basically the Sugboanon grammar is the same. However, in the town of Dauis and to some extent those of Panglao, Bohol, have a definite variation in their Sugboanon. We can call it "Dauis-Speak."

The Dauis-Speak does not use articles and connectives. It uses only the comment and topic words. For example, a Dauisanon can perfectly understand the following; "Adto ka Dauis? Sakay jeep ka Aryong." The standard Sugboanon is, "Moadto ka sa Dauis? Sakay og jeep ug adto hunong tungod sa balay ni Aryong." = You want to go to Dauis? Ride a jeep and stop at the house of Aryong."

Sometimes the pattern is carried when speaking English. Question: "What color bird?"

Answer: "Color bird green." However, their schooling forced them to speak the correct English grammar. So a Dauisanon has an advantage; they know the set pattern of their peculiar Sugboanon Bisaya and the continuity pattern of English.

An Analysis

As an engineer, this writer (Jes B. Tirol) has studied mathematics "to the highest level."

I have also studied the Sugboanon language for past 23 years. I have noticed that the language pattern in Dauis, Bohol is practically similar to a mathematical equation.

Notice the similarity in set pattern of "What color bird" with "Two plus four" and the answer, "Color bird green" with "equals six."

It is not surprising therefore to find good engineers, accountants, carpenters, jewelers, etc. in Dauis. These professions are suited to their thinking pattern as developed by their language.

Felipe Penales, who is honored by a street name in Dauis, was the first Filipino Provincial Auditor of the Philippines during the American era. The late Congressman Luis "Yowing" Clarin was a first placer in the Civil Engineering Board examination. He developed a method of simplifying algebraic equations that he called "Clarination."

Those who excel in non-mathematics related courses are always noted to be "different" in their approach.

Why are Dauisanons good in mathematics? It is because their speech pattern is the same as mathematical expressions. Their brains no longer exert effort to untangle the mathematics equatio.

Published by the Bohol Chronicle

The public will closely monitor the turn of events in the administration of Panglao as local governance after its officials confer with top provincial leaders to "reconcile" differences.

Gov. Erico Aumentado and Rep. Edgar Chatto brokered the "peace talks" among the warring political camps of Mayor Benedicto Alcala and Vice Mayor Pedro Fuertes who campaigned together to oust former Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan and vice mayoralty bet, Kagawad Nila Montero during the 2007 polls.

The meeting held at the Governor's Mansion last Sunday have both camps air their grievances against each group which boils down to "disrespect and pride."

Aumentado and Chatto called the meeting as urgent projects particularly the water system has not reach a common ground. Supply of potable water to the island, which is one of the popular tourists' havens in the country, still looks dim.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

After almost 12 years of litigation, some 412 former workers of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) may finally be paid their back wages amounting P66-million.

The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in Tagbilaran City has set on June 25 the mandatory pre-conference for the issuance of a writ of execution on the Supreme Court order granting the payment of the workers' claims.

Labor arbiter Fructuoso Villarin IV said the hearing can no longer be postponed as it is mandated by the high tribunal.

He said that of the 412 former Hanjin laborers that were covered with the SC order, some 200 have already submitted their affidavits for quitclaim and release and agreed to settle directly with the management of the South Korean contractor.

There are also 110 laborers who retracted their quitclaims following the high tribunal's ruling. These former Hanjin workers cited that they were deceived and forced to receive the amount of P40,000 after having been threatened that Hanjin might go bankrupt.

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Written By Joe Espiritu
Sunday Post Columnist

The Municipality of Jagna is already making a name in the field of Solid Waste Management. The downtown area garbage collection system is functioning well. Except from one outlying barrio of metro Jagna and that is Canupao. / The garbage management and collection there is low. It is neither the fault of the municipality or of the barrio folks but rather of the thing called culture.

Canupao is one of the oldest settled barrios in Jagna. Traces of ancient habitations are found there. Stone hedge boundaries dividing properties were once found although they have been used as construction material in the recent times. Traces of old graveyards old bones in dugout coffins were found there although vandals had desecrated the graves. This means the barrio was a thriving community when the Spaniards came.

The ancient people were not particular in their garbage disposal. Relatively few people living in wide spaces just heaved their trash any place convenient as long as the flies or other insects attracted to it would not bother them. Since they do not build permanent dwelling structures, they can just move to other places away from the accumulated garbage when it bothered them.

Only when living close to each other did they try garbage management. While the population of Looc, lower Canjulao, Pagina and Poblacion grew, they managed their trash disposal to achieve a certain degree of sanitation. But not the outlying barrios. They just throw their garbage any place away from their dwellings or into the sea. No one bothered about garbage until people grew in numbers and started living near each other.

We can say urbanization hit the barrios of metro Jagna. Those in the fringes would not be bothered by their self-imposed rules. They still have wide spaces available and the sea. But as the volume of non-degradable material like plastics, tin cans and scrap iron grew, the problem became apparent. Without proper waste disposal training or motivation, they just continued tossing wastes anywhere.

To compound the problem, Canupao was declared an industrial area. Businessmen established their rice mills inside residential areas. Those affected were the so-called lower middle and lower class. Chaff invaded their homes. When the municipal authorities campaigned about proper garbage disposal, those living in clusters complied. Those whose residences are in the outlying areas of the barrios have their garbage dumps, burned combustible trash and sold those which could be recycled to trash buyers.

Segregation of garbage into the three categories is considered a bother. Most of them are trying to earn a living to be bothered, so they say. Some of the just mouth the excuse out of laziness. However, the carrot and stick policy may be applied here. Culprits should be apprehended and fined heavily. A reward system could be imposed. The informant may earn a hefty portion of the fine. The material, which could be recycled, would be sold immediately. Only the dangerous wastes like storage batteries and chemicals are hauled off by garbage collectors.

In the American West, ranchers, cowboys and livestock farmers use mules as beasts of burden. The mule is legendary for its hard headedness. Once it resists, it digs its heel in and the head may be pulled off but it will refuse to move. Whips are taboo. To counter this mule handlers build a fire under its rear.

To impose the Solid Waste Management program, the municipality cannot always rely on the civic spirit of the people. To those who do not bother, a combination of reward and punishment should be applied and a fire building threat would be posed to induce stubborn and lazy people to move.

Interview and Article by Loy Palapos
Columnist, Sunday Post

Hearing about a greenhorn dueling with the political giants in the Third District of Bohol in the 2007 elections, made me wonder how the fresh graduate would survive in a field dominated by the tough and the mighty. Could be because I have always thought that the idea of a David-Goliath theme can only happen in the Bible. This despite his being educated at the Bohol Wisdom School, University of the Philippines, and Ateneo de Manila University. But when it was made known that he passed the Bar before the May polls, I started to envision the neophyte garnering some pogi points.

Learning that he vanquished his veteran and well-endowed adversaries in the political derby, I conjectured it was because a vote for the son is a vote for the father, that his three-term Congressman-father (who performed excellently for nine years) was the reason for the victory of the son. A fluke, so to say, that can only happen in a fantasy drama.

But when I met Congressman Adam Relson Lagrada Jala (ALJ), up close and personal, at his residence at 9:00 AM last Friday for this interview, I met a man, young in years but fully loaded in the brain and attitude department, whose maturity in the performance of his tasks leaves nothing to be desired. Dressed casually in shorts and a comfortable shirt, shod in a pair of slippers that have seen better days, he excused himself from a group of barangay leaders to fulfill his appointment with me. His handshake emanated an inner strength, and his personality does not intimidate. When he started to talk in polished King's Language, about the campaign trail and now that he is a legislator, I can feel how he felt with the burden he has to undertake.

At the porch of his residence, some people were waiting for him, and in the 30-minute interview, my apprehensions about his capabilities evaporated to thin air.

With me was a man who had no pretensions about his role as a law-maker, and who could take the bull by its horns.

LMP: What prompted you to enter politics?
ALJ: My family has already been politically inclined. They had the biggest influence.

LMP: Who persuaded you to join politics aside from your father who has been your mentor?
ALJ: I studied in University of the Philippines, and we all know that this University is very much involved, politically and socially, in national issues and current events. When I entered UP, I was already bombarded by social awareness and social consciousness; it was an eye opener. In Bohol, I was only limited to personal development. When I studied college, my horizon was broadened. It did not anymore involve parochial interests such as family and friends. I became more socially conscious and politically motivated because I saw hunger, poverty and political conflicts in the society and I wanted to make a difference.

LMP: Where you actively involved in campus activities, rallies or demonstrations?
ALJ: Yes. I was even in Edsa II and in the streets during Erap's time. I did not tell my father because he was already a Congressman and we had different political views over the matter.

LMP: If you make a comparison between your environment as a college, elementary and high school student, what distinction could you make?
ALJ: In elementary and high school, I was isolated because Bohol is an island and I've never been to other places. My world revolved around friends and family and my dreams and aspirations were only based on that limited kind of environment.

LMP: But although it was limited, it still helped develop your personality?
ALJ: Of course. Though the atmosphere during elementary was childish and playful, I still excelled in academics. I was one of the top pupils in those days, and I received one or two awards.

LMP: What other talents did you show aside form your academic excellence in elementary and high school?
ALJ: I was the chess champion, and I garnered academic awards in writing essays and poems. I also read a lot of novels. I used to ignore the newspapers before, but right now, I have to read them.

LMP: You started at UP; what made you transfer to Ateneo?
ALJ: I was influenced by my parents. They probably wanted a change of environment. Maybe they regarded UP as more liberal.

LMP: How do you compare the environment between UP and Ateneo?
ALJ: It was so different. UP is so liberal, more of the activist style. Even the professors encourage freedom of expression. In Ateneo, the school is operated by Jesuits. The whole set-up is more disciplined and conservative. Maybe it has something to do with religion; they're stricter. You don't get to express fully your political and social ideas because they try to insulate the institution from political and other social inclinations. There a lot of things you have to conform with.

LMP: Looking at those things now, would you like to consider that you have made the right decision in transferring to Ateneo?
ALJ: The righteousness of my decision is not based on the freedom that was limited. Maybe it was based on the environment. You get to experience a new kind of institution and that is priceless because you can compare the two worlds.

LMP: After UP and Ateneo, have you already formulated a philosophy in life?
ALJ: Yes, but I have to sub-divide it. I have to separate my philosophy in how I deal with my personal life, and how I deal with my political life. With the political life, you have to consider your love for your country. And I think that the greatest thing we can do is to serve and sacrifice our own personal development for public interest. I know it sounds very idealistic, and worst… hypocritical. But we have to have that idea because if we lack it, what else will we aspire for?

LMP: That was after your graduation. Now that you are in Congress, do you still have the same philosophy?
ALJ: Before I entered politics, my ideas were very idealistic. You see the political process from the outside. I saw it in a very ideal way. But as you enter the system, you get to open your eyes and mind to a lot of things you are not aware of. However, I have to remain steadfast and stick to my ideals or else, I will likewise be corrupted by the system. I don't want that to happen because for me, people have to remain strong with their principles. If it's otherwise, you will never be able to make a difference.

LMP: The general consensus was gathered around the fact that you are still very young to go into politics. What is your reaction to that particular commentary?
ALJ: First of all, youth is not a weakness, it is a strength. There might be many criticisms thrown at you, like you're still ignorant and has no political experience, but once you have proven them that you are knowledgeable about this stuff, it becomes a strength.

LMP: As far as being exposed to politics is concerned, you were never a greenhorn because you have worked in Congress already.
ALJ: That's right. I believe that age is just an illusion; just a number. A number of people by the age of 25 are not aware of the political system. Age itself is not an indication why people cannot be a public servant.

LMP: At the time of your campaign, you were just through with the Bar exams and was waiting for the results. How did you handle the anxiety?
ALJ: It was the most critical time of my life. My mind was so heavy with two biggest things happening at the same time. I ran for Congress while waiting to be a lawyer. With God's will, I passed the Bar during the campaign. But my happiness was not yet full since I still have to face the campaign.

LMP: Along that line, the conjecture was this: if you failed the Bar exam, you will really find it hard to win the election. What was your reaction?
ALJ: I told my father, "If I will fail the Bar, I would withdraw from the race; substitute me with another one because I will not be worthy enough for the position, not having been able to acquire the academic success. I'm trying to tell the people that I am knowledgeable in Law, that I can be a Congressman because I studied the law. But if I will fail the Bar, how can people believe me?"

LMP: When you passed the Bar exam, did that give you confidence especially in the campaign trail? Was it an added factor which strengthened your desire to continue?
ALJ: In my perspective, it was the turning point of the whole campaign. Because before that, it was some sort of a losing battle for me since my rivals were veterans and were political bigshots in our province. But when I passed the Bar, it gave me a bit of an edge. At least, I have an academic achievement which was a weapon for me to able to convince my constituents that I am capable of the position; since this is about the legislative process which is making laws.

LMP: It is expected that in your first year, you will be learning a lot as far as legislative procedures are concerned. Does it follow that you will be again available for the next two terms?
ALJ: That is something I have to really think about. As of now, I'm still trying to cope up and learn about the political system. There are many things that I have learned here which I never learned before I entered politics; positive and negative learnings. It encourages and discourages me at the same time. So in the end, I have to sum up my whole experience and see if it's more positive than negative.

LMP: At age 29, you are still single. You are a target as far as the marriage angle is concerned. When are you getting married?
ALJ: It's really funny because everytime I go the municipality, that's the first thing they ask me. The Mayor's would tease me with a lady who's still single. But that's so far from my mind. Right now, I want to focus on public service. How can you concentrate on a serious relationship which will lead to marriage when you are working everyday and you are traveling from Manila to Bohol and back again? I've realized that a politician works everyday; there are no exemptions. People expect a lot from you. The problem on my part is that I have to work twice as hard as an ordinary politician because I'm young. If I won't do something, they say, "a, bata pa gyod siya." But if I do otherwise, they say "a, maayo man di-ay kay mo-trabaho."

LMP: You realize right now that you still have to prove something?
ALJ: Yes, because there are prejudices. I have to prove myself everyday. I guess, when you're old, you don't have to prove yourself that much because you already have the experience. But since you are young, they expect you to be energetic, active, and free all the time. And mga tiguwang makabalibad naman kay kapoyan na.

LMP: Any message to your constituents?
ALJ: I am very grateful for their trust. That's why they are my priority… not myself. I feel being challenged daily, a routine that makes me think of means to serve them better. Serving them the best way possible is my obsession.
The young Congressman has no time for love, no time for himself. Commuting to and from Metro Manila every week, with countless individuals seeking an audience with him, attending to programs, seeing to it that his projects are well-implemented… he only has time to serve his constituents.

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Press Release

The newly-elected Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials of all 50 barangays of Inabanga recently underwent the Integrated SK Organizational, Leadership (ISKOLAR) and Re-Orientation Program and Basic Orientation Seminar (BOS).

The two-day training and advocacy program held at the Inabanga Cultural Center aimed at equipping the participants with knowledge of their duties and functions based on Republic Act No. 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991.

It intended to imbue leadership skills and righteous leadership on the participants, facilitate the formation of the SK's strategic direction or plan of activities considering the local youth situation, as well as orient them on the basic parliamentary rules of procedures.

United States educated Mayor Jose Jono Jumamoy was quick to implement the ISKOLAR-BOS to ensure that the youth live up to their elders' expectations, and above all, manage their affairs by themselves.

Published by the Sunday Post

A brother was brought to the hospital after he was hacked by his own brother while a father was hacked by his own son as violence reared its ugly head in two separate incidents of family feuds.

In Danao town, a man identified as Diosdado Auxilio, 50, sustained hack wounds courtesy of his younger brother identified as Remigio, 49.

Diosdado sustained injuries on his head and other parts of his body after he was assaulted by Remigio who was armed with a bolo.

The incident took place about 3 pm last June 1 when the suspect went on the attack while the victim was walking home in Sitio Sta. Ana, Barangay Concepcion, Danao.

Police investigators said the suspect immediately fled the scene of the attack while the victim was brought to the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital in Tagbilaran City.

It was gathered that the sibling violence was a consequence of misunderstanding over a land dispute.

Meanwhile, two elderly men were brought to the hospital when they figured in hacking incident in Alicia town.

It was gathered that the incident took place about 8 am last June 5 in Sitio Calingganay, Barangay Poblacion, Alicia.

The son, identified as Teodolo Salo, 69, single and a farmer residing in the said place, was assaulted by his own father, Andres, 95, married and a resident of the same barangay.

Teodoro was reportedly in his rice field for the harvest when his father arrived suddenly armed with a bolo.

According to reports, Andres attacked his son with the bladed weapon for no apparent reason.
Teodoro however managed to wrest the bolo and hacked his father three times, hitting him in different parts of the body.

Andres was brought to the Candijay Medicare Hospital but was bused to Tagbilaran for further treatment.
Teodoro meanwhile sought treatment at the emergency hospital in Jagna after the incident.
Investigators are still trying to determine what triggered the violent incident between father and son.

World Tourism Organization has chosen Rep. Edgar Chatto as the moderator of the plenary session during the UNWTO International Tourism Forum of Parliamentarians and Local Authorities to be hosted by the Philippines in October.

The global assembly of high-profile policy makers, which will specifically take place in Cebu City and Bohol as a technical co-host, will be attended by more than 300 delegates from over 100 countries.

UNWTO Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli, whose office is based in Spain, said they would much appreciate Chatto’s honoring their offer.

In a letter last week, Frangialli informed Chatto of the UNWTO desire for the Bohol solon to handle the plenary session focusing on the economic knowledge in tourism in the local level and the length of employment in tourism.

Bohol is considered a Cebu co-host to the world gathering because the delegates will conduct technical visit to different sites here.

Tourism policymakers and stakeholders in both public and private sectors will converge during the global forum, a priority activity of the UNWTO this year.

In selecting the congressman of the First District, the UNWTO cited Chatto’s global personality not just in his capacity as chairman of the Philippine Congress’ tourism committee.

The lawmaker from Balilihan led the country’s delegations to the UNWTO conferences in Tunisia and Colombia last year that won the right for the Philippines to host this year’s UNWTO forum. - The Bohol Standard

By Douglas B. Hontanosas

Fr. Manuel”Momoy’ Romerde, of Totolan, Dauis, Bohol was ordained Priest last Saturday, May 24,2008 at the Cathedral of Newark, New Jersey state. The Boholano community in the tri-states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut rejoiced to have him as their Spiritual

Counselor and proud of his becoming a true servant of the Lord.

New Jersey - From Barangay Totolan,Dauis Bohol where he saw the light of day to Tagbilaran City where he started a teaching career, to the continent of Africa doing missionary works for the Claritian order and now a newly ordained Priest in the United States. Such is the transformation of this Boholano clergyman who responded to the summons of his God. Indeed, it is considered Providential will for a nobody from a secluded barangay to go places beyond our national border, be stationed abroad, and now representing the church of Christ . Just like the way Christ picked ordinary men to become His Apostles when He was still roaming on the face of the earth. Then send them on a mission in faraway lands.

Fr. Momoy, as he is fondly called, received formal ordination rites from the Archbishop of the Jersey State at the Cathedral of Newark, with some members of the Paring Bol-anon in attendance headed no less by the newly appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Monsignor Bernardito Auza, Bishop Antonietto “Yet” Cabahug of the Diocese of Surigao, Fr. Fernando Po, Fr. Jed Sumampong, Fr. Aldo Rebosura, Fr. Ranulfo Docabo, among others. So also the Filipino-American parishioners as well as the Boholano community in the tri-states were there. Filling every available seat on the church pews to witness the joyful moment in the priestly life of this young anointed Boholano, who came to this part of the East Coast six months ago, on pastoral assignment at the Saint Elizabeth Church, where a Boholano Priest, Fr. Fernando Po is currently station. Prior to that, Fr. Romerde while still a Deacon, was in the State of Louisiana to do apostolate and community service since he arrived in America in 2006.

Fr. Romerde, now 38 years old, celebrated his first Thanksgiving Mass that afternoon in Saint Elizabeth Church well attended by Filipino-American, as well as Boholano parishioners. After which, a grand reception was tendered in his honor at the church’s Reception Center. Fr. Moymoy was born on May 4, 1970 to spouses Constancio Romerde and Rosalina Rollorata, both are now retired Public School teachers. He has two other siblings: Marissa, a Computer Science graduate and Marino, a Computer Engineer. He finished Elementary at the Totolan Elementary School, High School in Divine Word College of Tagbilaran and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Education at the same school. He was starting his teaching career at the now Holy Name University when the young careerman accepted the invitation of the Claritian Order and let him pursue Theological studies in their seminary school in Quezon City. According to Mrs. Prolie Mandin, a Boholana Nurse working in Chicago, and Fr. Romerde’s aunt who represented the family in his New Jersey ordination, Fr. Moymoy spent some years doing missionary works in African countries, while still a part of the Claritian Order. It was in his African sorties that the young seminarian hear God’s calling which eventually led him to be a Priest. Now for Fr. Moymoy, his priestly chores has just begun.

Although still enjoying the cheers and best wishes of family members, friends, parishioners, and members of the clergy in the Garden State, Fr. Moymoy decided to pack up his bags in the company of Monsignor Barney Auza and Bishop Yet Cabahug to take that Tuesday flight on May 27, from JFK International Airport in New York to Manila, Philippines, all the way to Tagbilaran City then be homeward bound. Back to the welcoming arms of his loveones, long-lost friends, barangay folks and parishioners both in Dauis and Tagbilaran. He will be back soon in the Jersey State for Fr. Moymoy is given an outright assignment by the Jersey Bishop. - The Bohol Standard

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The Association of Writers and Radio Announcers Foundation, Inc., (AWRAFI), the Bohol Literary Arts Circle (BLAC) and the Lubas sa Dagang Bisaya, Inc. (Ludabi), Metro Tagbilaran-Bohol Chapter, have launched the 2nd Pres. Carlos P. Garcia Memorial Literary Awards for Poem Writing, J. Ning Romea Memorial Literary Awards for Essay Writing and the Bob M. Mejorada Memorial Literary Awards for Short Story Writing.

Pres. Garcia was known as the Prince of the Bisayan Poets while J. Ning Romea was renowned as a feature writer of the Bohol Chronicle. Mejorada, on the other hand, was well known for his published short stories.

The guidelines of the contests are the following:

1.The contests are open to all except the members of the committee on awards. Officers of AWRAFI and BLAC are disqualified from joining the English category and officers of the Ludabi are disqualified from joining the Bisayan category.

2.All entries must be typewritten or encoded through the computer, double-spaced using short bond papers. Each entry must be produced in four (4) copies.

3.Essay writing entries (English and Bisayan categories) must not be less than 300 words but not more than 500 words.

4.Poem writing entries (English and Bisayan) must not be less than five (5) stanzas but not more than fourteen (14) stanzas.

5.Short story writing entries (English and Bisayan) must not be less than four (4) pages but not more than ten (10) pages.

6.An entry must have a title and it must not bear the name and address of the contestant. However, the complete name and address of the participant and the title of the entry must be written on a small piece of paper placed in a small sealed envelope. The small sealed envelope must be placed in a large envelope together with the entry which bears the title only.

7.The decision of the Board of Judges shall be final and unappealable. The Committee on Awards of AWRAFI, BLAC and Ludabi shall choose the Chairman, Vice Chairman and a Member of the Board of Judges of the contest.

8.The criteria for the judgment of the entries shall be as follows:
Organization (Unity, Coherence, Emphasis, Grammar) â€" 50%
Relevance - 25%
Style - 25%
Theme of the contest will revolve around truth and accountability.

9.Prizes for both English and Bisayan categories are P1,000.00 plus Gold Medal for the 1st Prize; P700.000 plus Silver Medal for the 2nd Prize and P500.00 plus Bronze Medal for the 3rd Prize. Consolation prize winners will receive P200.00 each and a certificate of appreciation.

10.The deadline for the submission of entries will be on October 18, 2008.

11.Entry fee for all categories is P20.00. All entries must be submitted to:

ATTY. RAUL BARBARONA
2ND FLOOR, K OF C BLDG.
K OF C DRIVE, TAGBILARAN CITY

By the Bohol Standard

Tagbilaran City government workers must have to wait a little longer for the much-anticipated salary increase.

The good intentions of the Sangguniang Panlungsod in passing a resolution “earnestly requesting the city mayor to implement the 10% pay increase for government workers” failed to convince the mayor on the sincerity of the move.

“No I will not implement the pay increase. The move of the city sanggunian smells of so much politics,” City Mayor Dan Neri Lim declared yesterday during his popular Saturday morning radio program. Mayor’s Report.

“Such resolution carries weight that will point to me and at my expense,” the city mayor said.

He particularly slammed the authorship of the resolution which had the names of city opposition councilors Anne Mariquit Oppus and Bebiano Inting as co-authors, and further sponsored in masse by the whole council which includes Vice City Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso.

Such wage increase was ordered by Pres. Arroyo through her Executive Order No. 611, mandating all government offices and government-owned, controlled corporations to implement such increase retroactive July this year.

The city mayor said the move of the city council did not even specify where to get the funds or whether to pass another supplemental budget for the purpose.

He particularly chided Oppus, Inting who is a certified public accountant and Vice Mayor Veloso.

Auction website eBay has delayed plans to make Australian users pay for items solely via the firm's Paypal service after the country's regulator objected.

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) said competition could be hurt if eBay went ahead with the switch to a single payment method.

EBay said the plan would provide buyers and sellers with more security and said it would lodge an appeal.

The company had planned to introduce the change on 17 June.

Australia was to be the first country to see the roll-out of eBay's Paypal-only plan, which would effectively block other payment services from seeking a share of the lucrative online market.

But the ACCC's draft notification warned that the strategy could "lessen competition".

EBay has moved the planned launch date to 15 July in order for both eBay and other interested parties to lodge submissions to the ACCC. - BBC News

Two children in Spain have been admitted to a mental health institution to be treated for addiction to their mobile phones, Spanish media report.

The children, aged 12 and 13, were sent to the clinic by their parents, who said they could not carry out normal activities without their handsets.

They were doing badly at school and lying to relatives in order to get money to spend on their phones.

They have been learning to cope without their phones for three months.

Dr Maite Utges, who runs the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, near Barcelona in north-eastern Spain, said it was the first time the clinic had treated children who were dependent on their mobile phones. BBC News

An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.

The Skynet 5C platform rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

It joins the 5A and 5B satellites lofted successfully last year and which are already handling secure traffic for UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The £3.6bn Skynet project represents the UK's single biggest space venture.

The investment includes replacing and updating control centres, and the major antennas and terminals used by military ships, land vehicles and planes to communicate through the satellites.

The 5C spacecraft - the last in the Skynet series - left the launch pad in Kourou at 1905 local time (2205 GMT).

Skynet 5 allows the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) to pass much more data, faster between command centres.

source: BBC Online

By the Bohol Standard

A collaborative innovation is underway to attain food sufficiency in household level, earn more by commercial quantity production and, hopefully, make the First District as Bohol’s vegetable and fruit basket.

Fit approaches were discussed in a meeting called Thursday night by Rep. Edgar Chatto with the officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), consultants of the Agrarian Reform Community Development Project 2 (ARCDP 2) and executives of East-West Company.

The initiative will be patterned after the successful vegetable production system in Balilihan and Catigbian, now raising best varieties in commercial quantity.

The Balilihan-Catigbian experience will be expanded townwide and applied to as many other suited areas in the district.

Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Johnson Cinco, ARCDP 2 Chief Technical Advisor Adelberto Banaqued and Field Operations Chief Tomas Cabuenos, both former DAR directors, and Manager Robert Acosta of East-West Corporation committed to the success of the undertaking.

The project is also in pursuance to the food security agenda tackled in the recent joint House consultative conference here with the agriculture sector and stakeholders in Bohol.

The gathering served, too, as a congressional public hearing on the proposal to strengthen, by appropriate amendments, the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA).

The highly rewarding vegetable raising in Balilihan has inspired Chatto to replicate it in other areas after its recent introduction also in Antequera.

Written By June S. Blanco

The P1.4-billion Bohol Backbone Transmission Project (BBTP) is not financially viable, according to initial evaluation and review of the Central Visayas office of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA 7).

Gov. Erico Aumentado however was quick to the rescue. He gave a 19-point justification on top of the two-megawatt (MW) projected load of the Panglao Bohol International Airport Development Project (PBIADP).

In her letter to Aumentado, NEDA Region 7 Director Marlene Rodriguez had said the backbone power transmission project “is not financially viable using a minimum load forecast scenario that already includes the 2-MW projected load” of the Panglao airport.

“In view of this, may we know from your preliminary discussions with investors, the eco-tourism facilities and structures to be built in the province that would require substantial power load,” she wrote.

In reply, the governor emphasized his unqualified support to the BBTP proposed by the National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) for funding under its corporate internal cash generation (ICG) for the reason that the project can improve the efficiency and reliability of the present power for the province.

“Moreover, the project implementation can help pump-prime the economy and lay down the fundamentals to prevent a power shortage in Bohol once the PBIA will be completed and operational by the last quarter of 2010,” he wrote back.

He said the transmission line will provide also the necessary fiber optics for Bohol ’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and participation in the booming call centers industry.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA - Bohol

Studies are now started to determine if doubling the holding capacity of the multi-million Malinao Dam is feasible, says Governor Erico Aumentado, who met a team of Korean experts recently.

  The feasibility study worth a million US dollars is a grant by the Korean Government for the governor’s request on upgrading the Malinas Dam and enlarging its service area. 

  Malinao Dam, of the Bohol Irrigation Project Phase 1 cost 1.4B yen and was designed to catch the waters off Wahig-Pamacsalan River and irrigate 4,960 hectares of prime rice lands. 

  The governor said he personally persuaded Korean authorities to fund the study through a grant, when he was in Korea last year, Aumentado reported in his weekly radio program aired over Bohol radio stations.

  The governor, who was also instrumental in establishment of the P3.6 million Malinao Dam, reported his meeting with the representatives from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KoICA) June 12 night, as an offshoot of his earlier request.

  The study, which the KoICA team is doing would determine the feasibility of doubling the holding capacity of the Malinao Dam, from its current 5 million cubic meters and thus, widening the dam’s service area, according to Aumentado.

Ate Annie, salamat sa imong balak nga gipahinungod alang ni Ate Lita. Tukma ang paghulagway nimo ni Edelweiss (Ate Lita). Talagsaon kining maong balak sanglit kini nagtugkad sa kinauyokan sa kasing-kasing sa gipahinungdan sa balak.

Ang langit magganti ni Ate Lita sa iyang mga kaayo. Ug samtang buhi pa ko, handumon ko kanunay ang mga binuhatan ni Ate Lita. Subo lang palandungon nga wala na si Papa nga makahimamat ug makapasalamat unta ni Ate Lita.

Niadtong EB sa New York, nadayag ang pagkabuotan ug pagkamahigalaon ni Ate Lita.

Dinhi sa Tubag Bohol daghan ang susama ug kinaiya ni Ate Lita: friendly, kind, generous, sincere, heartwarming, loving, caring, understanding, and the list goes on.

Because birds of the same feather are the same birds.

Published by the Bohol Standard

In a radio interview, Department of Public Works and Highways Under Secretary Manuel Bonoan revealed that the real issue in the city drainage controversy is not the illegal tapping of sewerage pipes into the new canals designed for storm or rainwaters only.

“The question here is that if the drainage becomes operational and the outfall is opened, is the water treatment facility ready as it was assured before,” Usec Bonoan asked.

The Usec’s statements vindicated provincial legislators have raised the issue of the city drainage system to their level rather than stay as silent observers.

Board members Yul Lopez and Ae Damalerio, both representing the first district where Tagbilaran City belongs, have been the object of City Mayor Dan Lim’s tirades after the provincial board committees on health, public works and environment jointly discussed the drainage problem with Department of Public Works and Highways officials, the Environment Management Bureau, the Environment Legal Assistance Center and non-government organizations.

Mayor Lim accused the provincial board members of interfering in the city affairs and allegedly is just “politicking”.

He recalled that this city drainage was not among the programmed works of the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project (BCRIP-2), which covered concreting of the main city road CPG Avenue.

“This drainage was a request of local officials and we at the Public Works department walked an extra mile in finding sources of funds to accede to the request,” Usec Bonoan said.

“There is no need for buck-passing here. DPWH can plug those illegal tapping if the city empowers us to do so, through a resolution, since these connections are within the jurisdiction of the local city government. That we can do, no question about that,” he assured.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

The city and provincial governments are again preparing for what seems a futile battle against an application of Bohol Light Company Inc. to recover from consumers franchise taxes it paid since 2001.

An opposition started by City Mayor Dan Lim has drawn the support of Gov. Erico Aumentado, 3rd District Rep. Adam Relson Jala and the alumni association of Holy Name University.

A public hearing is set 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Governor's Mansion with Commissioners Rauf Tan and Jose Reyes of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) presiding over the motion of Bohol Light to impose an increase of monthly electric billings in order to recover franchise taxes paid to the national government from 2001 to 2006 and the city government from 2002 to 2008.

Bohol Light's application to increase its electricity bills to recover the costs of franchise taxes however is sanctioned by the ERC.

The Commission has issued guidelines where private utilities are provided a mechanism to recover franchise taxes imposed by the local and national government.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Tricycle drivers and operators here in the city are given immediate relief of the weekly increases in the price of fuel as city lawmakers yesterday granted a P1 increase on the minimum fare.

City councilor Atty. Nerio Zamora II, chair of the SP committee on public utilities, sponsored a resolution during yesterday's Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) regular session which granted provisional authority for cab drivers and operators to collect an additional P1 on the basic fare rate.

From the minimum fare of P6, drivers can now collect P7 with the usual charges on the succeeding kilometres as mandated under the existing Tricycle Fare and Transportation Code of the city.

"This is just a provisional authority granted to our tricycle drivers and operators as our response to the soaring prices of gasoline," Zamora clarified of the resolution which was adopted en masse by the SP.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Two armed robbers hit a gasoline station in barangay Dao, this city yesterday fleeing with P240,000 in cash.

The couple Felix and Thelma Ayeng, owners of Dao Caltex Gas Station have just boarded their service vehicle to deposit their collections at a bank here about 8:30 a.m. when the still unidentified robbers who were aboard a motorcycle blocked their path.

According to the couple, one of the suspects disembarked from the motorcycle pointing a gun at Thelma who was holding the bag containing the money to be deposited.

The victims could hardly provide police a description of the suspects as they covered their faces with t-shirts and the incident took only a few seconds, according to Thelma Ayeng.

The gun toting suspect approached Thelma without saying a word and went straight to grab the bag which contained the gasoline station's cash collections since Friday.

The lady-victim said she did not attempt to resist the suspect fearing she and her husband will be shot.

Nobody among the gas station employees even noticed the incident, according to the couple. It was only after the suspects fled that the couple called for help.

The 4-day collections were supposed to be deposited last Monday but they were not able to do so since it was a holiday.

Police suspects that the robbers knew the routine of the couple who admitted they usually deposit the preceding day's collection every morning when banks open for business.

The Dao Gas Station does not have a security guard and had been a victim of another robbery several years ago.

Photograph by Shinow Baby of Flickr.com

By Mart De Haan
Our Daily Bread Devotional Book

The high school commencement speaker was the president of a large corporation. He was chosen for the occasion because of his success. Yet his speech came with a most unusual wish for the graduates.

The speaker told the students sitting before him in their graduation gowns, “If I could have one hope for you as you go out into the world, it would be this: I hope you fail. I hope that you fail at something that is important to you.” He went on to say how his own early life had been one failure after another, until he learned to see failure as an effective teacher.

Many of the songs of Israel were born in seasons of failure. Out of desperation came the cry, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God” (Ps. 42:1-2).

Sometimes we are not ready to see the wonder of God’s wisdom and strength until we are gasping for breath in the exhaustion of our own strength.

A recurring story of the Bible is that mountains of faith rise from the valleys of failure. Before discovering the high ground we are looking for, we may need to see the failure of the dreams we hold in our hearts and trust instead in the love, wisdom, and guidance of our God.

By Cindy Hess Kasper
Our Daily Bread

In his book Lessons Learned Early, Jerry Jenkins tells a story about his freshman year in college. It was 1968, a year of tremendous political and social upheaval in the US.

Riots had broken out in many major cities. From the rooftop of his dorm in Chicago, Jerry heard sirens and saw fires burning. Students had been told to stay on campus, but Jerry wanted to see what was happening.

As he ran toward a store that was blazing a few blocks away, a police car pulled up beside him. “Don’t go down there,” the officer warned.

Jerry waited till the car pulled away and then kept walking. The officer returned. This time he made it more clear as he repeated, “Don’t go down there”â€"and leveled a shotgun out the window.

Our rebellious or willful streaks often lead to unhappy outcomes. In anger, Moses struck the rock to get water rather than just speak to it as God had commanded. He forfeited the privilege of entering the Promised Land with his people (Num. 20:7-12). Jonah disobeyed an order to go to Nineveh and was given 3 days to think about his choiceâ€"inside a big fish (Jonah 1).

What does it take for us to obey Him? Will we obey simply because we love Him? (John 14:15,21).

Hi Perez Kelly,

Do you have records of Anunciado, Dela Pena, Salinas, and Ligalig?

By Bill Crowder
Our Daily Bread

A trial has just ended, and the reactions to the verdict could not be more different. The family of the alleged murderer celebrates the declaration of a mistrial due to a legal technicality. Meanwhile, the grieving parents whose daughter has died wonder about a justice system that would allow such a decision. As they stand weeping before a mass of microphones and cameras, they exclaim: “Where is the justice in this? Where is the justice?”

We’ve seen this scenario played out in the news or on TV crime dramas. We instinctively long for justice but cannot seem to find it. The wisest man of his day, Solomon, faced a similar frustration and disappointment. He saw that imperfect human beings could never administer perfect justice. He wrote: “I saw under the sun: In the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, iniquity was there” (Eccl. 3:16).

If all we trusted in were imperfect people, we would lose all hope. But Solomon wisely added in verse 17: “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

The search for justice can be satisfied only by trusting the God who is always just.

By Ric V Obedencio
Published by the Bohol Standard

Officials and stakeholders launched a bold step towards salvaging Balicasag island known for its rich marine biodiversity and beautiful dive sites from further destruction.

In an interview yesterday, environment committee chair Alfonso Damalerio II of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan said that Panglao town officials are strengthening measures, such as an Ordinance imposing user’s fee, apparently to give teeth to the enforcement of environmental measures for the island.

The move came in the wake of destruction by users and tourists. These ruins --- night fishing nearby using fine mesh nets, undisciplined divers taking coral species and the absence of buoys in strategic areas --- may have put the island on the verge of extinction.

During the committee meeting yesterday at the Capitol presided over by Damalerio, the stakeholders, including the Bohol Marine Triangle (BMT) and a group of resort owners identified and tried to seize some opportunities to protect and conserve what is left of the island. These include the already established BMT in law enforcement and dive shops and resorts abound wanted to cooperate.

The stakeholders strongly suggested to the provincial government to initiate a convergence for the authorities of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) and Philippine Navy (PN) and stakeholders concerned to thresh out serious matters affecting the island.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA - Bohol

Cementing a strong educational foundation for the next three years, local officials here have gained step one, pushed by the common desire to uplift the life of the people and transform Catigbian into a green haven of peace, progress and development.

  In this line, the local government officials led by Mayor Roberto Salinas and Vice Mayor Niceta Digaum were just too happy to announce the town’s acquisition of a 4.2 hectare lot in Barangay Haguilanan. 

  As this happens, the highlight would be good news as the town prepares for the Katigbawan Festival, a jubilee timed for Catigbian Foundation Days this week. 

  Mayor Salinas, through a text message said, a hectare of the lot would be donated to the Department of Education (Dep-ED) for the construction of a school building as an annex to the Catigbian National High School (CNHS). 

  The lot, situated along the national road was acquired at the measly cost of P700,000.

  The latest acquisition has raised the town’s land assets to 11 hectares.

  Aside from assets it acquired in the past, the town was also able to get 3.2 hectares farm, upon where now occupies the town’s demonstration farm in Poblacion. Interestingly, the same investment again allows access to informal education to its farmers and younger generation of leaders.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
Philippine Information Agency

What a better way to show ones idea of the brotherhood in humanity than sharing one’s blood?

  Celebrating another milestone in the town’s history, Catigbian would be handling to Bohol health authorities bags of blood from volunteers who wish to make a difference to the lives of patients needing such help.

  At this year’s Katigbawan Festival, residents bank on their blood to save somebody else’s life. This as authorities expect 120 blood donors from different barangays to submit themselves voluntarily to a cause they have committed to support. 

  On June 17, 2008, volunteers are expected to troop to the Catigbian Business Activity Center, where the Blood Coordinating Council of Gov. Celestino Gallares Hospital, Tagbilaran City with the assistance of the Municipal Health Staff and some personnel from the Catigbian District Hospital will be waiting for them.

  When the idea of a Voluntary Blood Donation (VBD) first came, no other than Mayor Roberto Salinas personally and willingly modeled the program and submitted himself to the health personnel during the first bloodletting event, three years ago, Catigbian sources said. 

  The program also happens to be the Department of Health’s venue of ensuring that distribution of blood supply and blood products are adequate, safe, affordable and equitable at local blood banks.

  Doctors have also said that regular bloodletting events are healthful means of giving out blood compared to commercialized blood donation.

  Earlier, the personnel at the Municipal Health Office has spread advocacies on the VBD in the barangays.

  Because of such, barangay captains have coordinated recruitment of blood donors through community and purok meetings. 

  This year, blood donors from different barangays need not come with tentative health concerns having been advised of the advantages and benefits of the activity.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
Philippine News Agency

Catigbian’S promotion as Bohol’s progress hub gets a new carrier, a Katigbawan Festival saddled, to make the ride to development smooth.

Still pitching for more as Catigbian slowly carves a name as one of Bohol’s fastest emerging giants, local leaders agree that the town civil festival has done what the town could do in months. 

And as Catigbian strings the welcome banners this June 13-17, local officials led by Mayor Roberto Salinas bared that this year’s Katigbawan would be adopting the festival as “Tinubdan sa Catigbianong Kahiusahan ug Kaugmaran” as a tribute to the event and the people.   

All through the years, Katigbawan has manifested itself as a very potent tool for our telling the whole world that there is something good happening in Catigbian, Salinas said.

Katigbawan, coined after Katigbi, Tigbaw and Kabawan is a festival of culture and tradition conceived by the town leadership as tool for promotions in tourism, ecology, agriculture, folk beliefs and natural environment. 

It has also been referred to progress, a name the town leaders suggest for adoption by local residents. 

Katigbawan is now harnessed to showcase the whole image of a struggling town and slowly winning its battles, Salinas, a retired navy captain revealed.

This year’s Katigbawan brings in the best of Catigbian: agricultural products at the agri-fair, Katigbi crafts at the crafts fair, best athletes in boxing, basketball, and traditional games, best fighting cocks in the traditional Carambola derby, best livestock and carabaos in the recently popularized Carabao pageant, best dancers in the street dancing competitions, best amateur singers in the musical competitions and the best ladies in the search for Miss Katigbawan 2008. 

The festival officially starts June 13 with the thanksgiving mass at the Immaculate Conception Church at 8:00 followed by a parade from the church to the Catigbian Livestock and Auction Center, festival organizers said.

At the CLAC, the opening of the Agri fair and the Onte-Town-One Product (OTOP) fair officially starts with the ribbon cutting ceremonies in the presence of town and Department of Trade and Industry officials.

Expected to be displayed are Katigbi crafts. Barangay delegations are accordingly putting up displays for an inter-barangay contest, said Dr. Ronald Pumatong, event coordinator.

A volleyball game is also an event filler at the CLAC compound while the people are awaiting for the formal ceremonies.

Boxing hostilities take the center arena at the CLAC at 1:00 PM and extends until the next activity set at 5:00 with the Miss Katigbawan Talent Show to unfold at the Catigbian Business Center.

Music and entertainment extends until about 9:00 when the inter-barangay amateur singing competition picks up at the same venue.   

June 16 is Katigbawan’s Livestock Day at the CLAC and Provincial veterinarian authorities would be dispensing technical help along with local livestock growers. At the same time, the Municipal Demo Farm opens its gates for technical advice and seedling dispersal to interested residents and guests.

Simultaneously, at 9:00, the famous Karambola unleashes gaffs at the town cockpit arena.

Activity shifts to the CLAC at 1:00 where the best decorated and made-up carabaos take the ramp in Bohol’s Carabao pageant.

Laughter is sure to spill with the traditional Hog Catching also at the CLAC after the Carabao Pageant.

At 3:00, another activity takes the courts of Catigbian Community Stage where an exhibition game tips off with the local law enforcers tackling the local members of the Association of Barangay Councils. 

At 7:00, the night curtains open for the Miss Katigbawan pageant night presentation at the CBAC. 

The following day, June 17 Tuesday, opens with the blood letting and blood sugar determination with the local medical professionals and volunteers at the CBAC. At the same time, traditional games are set to unroll at the sports oval.

Throbs of the drums and the tempo of dancing feet gather everyone to the Catigbian Sports Oval at 1:00 PM for the annual festival street dancing competitions.

The festival’s closing ceremonies and awarding of winners is set Tuesday at 5:00 at the oval.

Revelers are also treated to a grand fireworks display at the oval and later, a dinner for all and dance party at the CBAC, organizers reveal. 

Over all these developments, Mayor Salinas bared, “it is not just the local government showing the world the good news.”

What is this TB Village?

The City Health Office has raised the warning on the presence of at least five guest relations officers (GRO), tested as positive of sexually transmitted diseases.

These women are working in videoke bars or nightly joints in the city.

Tagbilaran City health officer Dr. Antonio Porticos bared that the five GROs were tested positive for STD during the weekly hygiene and pop smear test regularly conducted by his office.

The blue cards of these workers were revoked and they are not supposed to work in any establishment until cleared by city health authorities.

The warning was aired as recent studies revealed that STD infections are most likely prone to bloom into HIV Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is spreading in tropical countries like the Philippines and in many Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

- The Bohol Standard

Published by the Bohol Chronicle

The popular dolphin watching off Pamilacan Island seawaters became a "no show."

For three days dolphins seem to avoid the area where rampant illegal fishing has been conducted.

Tour guides who escorted tourists to the area confirmed to the Chronicle that they did not see dolphins at the seawaters fronting the islet last Monday until Wednesday.

"It was a very strange day with no dolphins seen in the area when the weather was fine and sunny," Cecil Remolador, a DOT licensed tour guide reported.

Massive illegal fishing has driven away the dolphins.

This was confirmed by personnel of the Panglao Island Nature Resort in barangay Bingag, Dauis town. They noticed dolphins off shore, coinciding those days when these dolphins were far-off their usual "playing ground" fronting Pamilacan Island, where tourists go to watch.

"It is very rare that dolphins can be seen from this resort since it is situated on the other side of Panglao, not facing Pamilacan Island," according to resort personnel who were surprised to see dolphins dallying offshore their resort early last week.

The report on the sudden dwindling of dolphins off Pamilacan Island came amid mounting complaints from islanders on the unabated presence of commercial fishing.

The Bohol Chronicle

The row on what's finally to be done on the controversial drainage problem in the city seems to find the ultimate move to protect the environment, both inland and the seawaters off Tagbilaran City Port, declared "tourist port in the country."

Nestor Canda, newly designated CENRO of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) categorically declared that the agency will not clear the opening of the exit fall of the new drainage system if the sewerage connections of some 30 establishments along Carlos P. Garcia Avenue will not be disconnected.

The statement of Canda came in the wake of contrasting statements issued by involved agencies regarding the much delayed drainage project recently completed by Hanjin Construction.

He said that per environmental policies, the multi-million project along the city's main street was designed only for drainage, and not for sewerage, thus, it follows that no clearance can be issued if the outfall includes sewerage disposal from establishments in the city.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Almost all private schools here are heeding the call not to implement increases in tuition and other school fees.

Except for Holy Name University (HNU) and Informatics which has applied a 5-percent increase in tuition and miscellaneous fees, all other colleges have retained their old charges.

Only new enrollees however will be affected by the new matriculation fees of HNU. Continuing students will be charged with the old rates depending on the academic programs.

According to HNU Student Affairs Office (SAO) Director Nilo Bulawin, the reason for the increase in tuition and miscellaneous fee is for the improvement of school facilities and school maintenance.

The 5-percent increase applied by Informatics will raise their tuition charges to P447 per unit. Miscellaneous fees will depend on the courses enrolled by the student.

The University of Bohol, Bohol Institute of Technology International College (BIT-IC), STI Computer School and Cristal E in Panglao are not increasing their fees.

The Central Visayas State College for Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT) that will soon be converted into a state university still has the lowest tuition fees.

First and second year students at CVSCAFT will pay P150 per unit including laboratory subjects.

BIT-IC assistant treasurer Hermesa Balite told the Chronicle that they will not be implementing a hike in school fees even with requests of salary upgrades from their professors and instructors.

Over half of the children of first grade ages are not in schools, a serious factor that can delay their learning capacities.

Worst, their late sending to elementary is feared to affect their study attitude and may discourage them later.

Another unwanted consequence of this is the rise of the population of the out-of-school youths, many of whom, according police observations, can end up lawless or community misfits.

Department of Education (DepEd) Bohol superintendent Dr. Elpidio Jala told the Chronicle that 56% of the children of age six have lately been found out not enrolled for Grade I.

He clarified, though, that the statistics is of nationwide application.

Jala would yet verify if such a sorry state is also that obtaining among the supposedly first schoolers in Bohol.

The education official said many parents may have thought that six-year-old children are "too premature" for Grade I.

Poverty situation is also peeped into, especially that the prices now of even ordinary school supplies have gone up. - The Bohol Chronicle

With the 2010 polls two years away, Boholano actor Amay Bisaya has stirred the first ripples in the political waters when he told the Chronicle he was contesting the gubernatorial race.

The veteran actor said he would represent the KBL Party (Imelda Wing) and KAMPI (Bong Revilla group) and had reportedly voiced his intention to both last-termer Governor Rico Aumentado and Boholano multi-awarded actor-director Cesar Montano.

Whatever parties will support him, Bisaya says he will carry senator Bong Revilla who he said is reportedly eyeing the vice-presidency.He mentioned it was Senator Revilla who voluntarily defrayed the transfer of the remains of the late Boholano novel singer Yoyoy Villame - in order to be seen by his province mates for the last time.

Cesar Montano has not made any official announcement regarding his political intentions in Bohol. iN 2007, he was groomed by some Opposition groups to run against incumbent Governor Aumentado. He was prevailed upon instead to run as senator under the administration ticket.

Montano remains very visible in the province since after the 2007 polls. Political pundits have placed him as potential candidate for either Governor or Congressman of the First district as he hails from Baclayon town.

The other names being floated for governorship is last-term First District Rep. Edgar Chatto and Vice Governor Julius Herrera. Unlike Chatto, Herrera has the option to run for the first district. - The Bohol Chronicle

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

With the looming closure of the Tagbilaran City open garbage dumpsite, the new provincial chief environmental officer is pushing for the construction of the Cluster Sanitary Landfill in Albur town.

Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) Nestor Canda said operating a sanitary landfill in Albur is still the most appropriate measure on the garbage problem.

The city open dumpsite in barangay Dampas gets over 100 tons of solid waste daily from the city's 15 barangays. The towns of Dauis and Panglao are also disposing their garbage in said dumpsite.

Operating an open dump is already prohibited under the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law.

Residents in barangay Dampas expressed their desire to close down the waste disposal area due to health hazards and its location near groundwater sources.

Dampas barangay Chairman Fredison Ingles has pointed out that his barangay has the most school drop outs, attracted unwanted scavengers and aired health concerns as raised by his constituents.

In a bid to hasten rescue efforts, the Regional Peace and Order Council-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RPOC-ARMM) tapped Wednesday the Sulu Provincial government to determine the location and possibly negotiate for the release of kidnapped ABS-CBN reporter Ces Oreña-Drilon and three other companions.

The island-province of Sulu, comprising 18 municipalities, is an ARMM component area situated at the tip of southern Philippines.

Sulu Governor Sakur Tan, upon instructions of ARMM Governor Datu Zaldy Ampatuan, has been fully coordinating with all his municipal mayors to monitor the whereabouts of the Abu Sayyaf band that snatched Drilon, television crewmen Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama; and Mindanao State University Professor Octavio Dinampo.

Dinampo, a well-known peace advocate in Mindanao, earlier invited Drilon and her crew for a special coverage in Sulu.

The group, however, was abducted on June 8 by the group of Abu Sayyaf leader Gafur Jumdail Gumbahali while on their way to Maimbung, a depressed town in Sulu.

The group has reportedly demanded P10 million for the release of their captives.

“Governor Ampatuan, as concurrent RPOC-ARMM head, is doing everything to work out the release of the victims,” Oscar Sampulna, ARMM executive secretary, told newsmen here in an interview.

Local authorities remain on standby orders as local government and religious leaders exert all peaceful means to negotiate for the release of the victims.

More so, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebel group that has been negotiating a peace deal with the government has dispatched teams to track down the location of Drilon’s group. - PNA

By David C. McCasland
Our Daily Bread

Denis Boyles knew it would be challenging to interview a man on a roller coasterâ€"especially when the interview took place during an attempt to set a world’s record for continuous riding. After several times around the track, Denis was so overcome with fear he could hardly talk.

Then the man showed him how to use his body and feet to lean into the loops, twists, and turns. Writing in AARP Magazine, Boyles explained how that took away the terror. It also taught him a lesson about risk and fear. The roller coaster felt risky though it was quite safe. But driving his car to the amusement park posed a far greater risk of injury. Risk and fear are easily confused.

As Jesus and His disciples crossed the Sea of Galilee, a storm came up and waves swept over their boat. Incredibly, Jesus was asleep. The disciples woke Him and said, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” (Matt. 8:25). In a gentle rebuke, Jesus asked, “‘Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?’ Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm” (v.26).

Like the disciples, the more we learn about Jesus, the more we trust Him. Our greatest risk is failing to depend on Him when life seems out of control.

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 Holy Spirit School Elementary Batch 1992 will be holding its Second Grand reunion this December 2008.

Activities have already been lined up and all former classmates from all over the world have been sent communication of the said affair. The First Grand Reunion of the Batch was held in December of 1996, 4 years out of elementary.

This activity will mark 16 years since graduation and 12 years after the first reunion.

Another formal meeting is going to be held this coming JUNE 1, 2008 at Campsite Bar & Grill, Inc. at 3 in the afternoon for the refinement of plans and activities.

For more information please contact Shary Manuta at 0917-4059955. - The Bohol Chronicle

Julhambri Misuari, one of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) ranking leaders and one those who spearheaded the Cabatangan siege in November 2001 in this city, is dead.

This was confirmed by Misuari's friend, Shariff Moshin Julabbi, who disclosed that Misuari died of natural death late Saturday in Tuburan town, Basilan province.

He was a kin of former governor Nur Misuari of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao and erstwhile chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

Julabbi said Misuari succumbed to stroke when the latter's blood pressure shoot up.

His mortal remain was buried, in conformity with Islamic tradition, in Basilan on the same day Misuari died.

Stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood supply) caused by thrombosis orembolism, or due to a hemorrhage. - Philippine News Agency

By Rey Anthony Chiu
Philippine Information Agency

Coastal management here continues to generate wakes in environment protection and a people’s organization in Getafe proved anew that the community is still the best resource manager, revealed a newly installed and Talibon based environment officer.

  Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO) Talibon head Alex Estopa shared the good news during a recent guesting at the weekly Kapihan sa PIA, tackling the world environment day Thursday Julne 5 in Tagbilaran City.

  The people’s organization, called KANAGMALUHAN, in Jandayan island in Getafe earned the admiration of evaluators from the government’s environment agency for its pro-active management of the marine sanctuary that boasts not just of seahorses but of excellent dive spots, said municipal CRM coordinator Edgar Escabusa in a phone interview Friday.

  According to Escabusa, the Handumon marine protected area was established with the help of Haribon Foundation’s Project Seahorse, and is now doubling the town accolade for best practices in the country’s marine conservation.   

  The organization handles weekly stock assessments while catering to dive tourists both on sea and on land in the organization’s guesthouses, he added.

  The award for most outstanding marine sanctuary was conferred by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Coastal Zone Philippines and the Marine Protected Area Network and was received recently in awarding rites held in Manila, CENRO Estopa said.

  The recent accolade is again a testament of the people’s effort and the local government’s support to community based management efforts, the CENRO admitted.

  Years back, the town also capped the DENR’s wetland conservation award for the Banacon people’s organization for putting up 484.04 hectares of reforested mangroves and sustainably managing it for their future generations. 

  Both Handumon and Banacon projects lie within the Danajon Double Barrier reef, a rare marine formation stretching from northwest to northeastern Bohol.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA - Bohol

Was the “resisting” inmate killed not by a direct hit but by a ricochet? The question remains without an answer as authorities attempt to seal the rumors of overkill in the recent assault at Bohol's penitentiary.   

  Police crime laboratory authorities have yet to run full tests on the slugs recovered from the head of inmate Nilo Corbita to determine why these were badly mangled and who fired them.

  In his signed report, Police Regional Office â€"7 Crime Laboratory-7 chief PSSUpt Nestor Satur bared that “physical and microscopic examinations reveal the absence of the characteristic markings of value for comparison due to badly deformed condition of the slugs.” Bohol Police superintendent Edgardo Ingking read the report on air Friday. 

  The slug condition also makes it difficult for police crime labs people to determine from whose gun the bullets came, making it almost impossible to pinpoint who among the raiders shot the victim. 

  The crime lab head went on to theorize that the condition of the slug shows that it could have hit a hard object first before imbedding and killing the victim.   

  Reports also revealed that there were more than two bullets fired upon the alleged “resisting” inmate as shown by the bullet holes near the sprawled victim.

  The dead victim was still holding a .38 caliber pistol near his makeshift bed in the kitchen of the facility when authorities allowed media to the scene. 

  Crime lab and doctors from the Provincial Health Office recovered two equally badly deformed slugs from the dead victim, PNP Regional Crime lab said. 

  The victim, one of the “trustees” was tasked by the council of elders to prepare and cook for the inmates’ food, and it explains why he was not in his detention cell during the raid, BDRC spokesperson Antonieto Pernia said. 

  A “trustee” according to prison authorities is someone given privileges for good conduct. 

Ben, we are living in dangerous times. Whether we're in Japan or in the Philippines, bad things happen to both good and bad people. I read the stabbing rampage in Tokyo. The murderer said "he was tired of living." Here is a guy who lives in the second wealthiest nation of the world, but tired of living.

In our country, we hear, read, see reports of robbery and all sorts of crimes. Our country is poor and can never become as rich as Japan, but we are confronted with a different face of evil. What is our option now?

In the U.S., we read reports of young students shooting students and teachers in campuses. Where shall we go?

Ben, be comforted with what Psalm 91 says:

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Pete Lacaba was one of our panelists during a UP National Writers Workshop held in Davao. He's a very humble man. He speaks Tagalog most of the time.

To put the performance of the machine (named Roadrunner) in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.

>Full details of the New York Times article here

Murag kining akong kamot para pang-encode nalang ug pang-agbay.

Macky,

Adunay mga tanghaga nga nagpaluyo aning maong balak nga dili ko na buot pang utingkayon kay lagi sakit ang uwat sa samad nga naalim na kung makanlat pag-usab.

Quote from: Bambi on June 08, 2008, 10:24:25 PM
I will just make a short one...

              BUYOG

Sakit  ug hapdos pa ang samad,
diin hulma sa imong pagpaniba
And dugos sa katam-is gidim-dim,

Ate Annie,

Kanang pulong nga "gidimdim" kanunay nako na gigamit sa akong mga balak.
Masud-ipan man pud ta ning imong balak, Te.

Quote from: Sigbin II on June 03, 2008, 06:35:48 PM
Ang Pamulong sa Usa ka Bayeng Buyog Ngadto sa Usa ka Lakeng Buyog

Paul, imong balak pinalahi ang templa. Kinahanglang lad-okon dretso samtang init pa.

Macky,

Kining imong balak makalunhat sa piang sa dughan. Manginahanglan ta ug banyos ani.

Ako Ang Buyog Sa Imong Pagkabulak
sinulat ni Mike Ligalig
circa 2001

sa tanang mga buyog
nga naniba sa imong kaanyag
akong nasabtan
sa timbangan sa katilingban
ako ang buyog
nga wa magtangag ug bulawan.

ako ang buyog
nga sama sa naglutawlutawng dahon
ug naanod sa imong tiilan
niadtong pyuros pa ang panahon.

buyog nga dili halangdon,
way pakong de makina,
akong tiil naputos sa kapit-os
apan bisan pa man niana
wa mo lingia
ang sapot nga laksot

ug imo kong gipakapyot
sa lunhaw mong aping.

gidapit mo akong
moduyan-duyan sa imong mga dahon,
hapo-hapon ang imong pag-inusara.

ug mipuyo ko ug daghang mga adlaw sa kalipay.

gani sa atong pagsinabtanay
mibuhagay sa akong galamhan
ang talagsaong kahidlaw
apan nasawod
sa akong kahadlok sa Kahitas-an.

mao man gani
wa ko kab-ota
ang pungango sa imong himaya.

mao man gani
daghang higayon nahuwad
ang imong katam-is

apan wa ko dimdima bisan
ang pinisik nga nalagsik
kay di sab ko buot
kawad-on ka sa imong kahumot
nga way pagtugot sa Magbubuot -
ug malarag ang imong kabatan-on
ug magsapnay ka sa mga pagmahay.

unya kalit mihuros
ang hanging mapintas -

napadpad ko

uban sa atong mga damgo

ug niadtong luhaang panamilit
imo gihapong nahunghong kanako -

ug akong gigakos
ang himalatyon mong pulong sa gugma.

Beth, na-surprise ko nimo. Anaa man diay kay tinagoang mga timgas nga pulong sa balak nga karon lang nimo gihabwa gikan sa kinauyokan sa imong pagbati ug huna-huna.

Apple is expected to launch the second generation of its iPhone device in San Francisco on Monday.

The firm's chief executive Steve Jobs is being widely tipped to launch the iPhone 2 at the Apple World Wide Developers' Conference.

The expectations are prompted in part by a lack of availability for current models of the phone at all of Apple's online stores and retail partners.

Analysts predict the new iPhone will have faster 3G wireless connectivity.

The original iPhone received widespread praise for its innovative touchscreen interface, but was criticised for its use of slow 2G mobile networks.

Rival handset manufacturers have also been designing devices which assume the iPhone's mantle as the "most desirable phone on the market", including Nokia's N96 and the Blackberry Thunder.

source: BBC News