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Quote from: ms da binsi on March 07, 2008, 05:27:02 AM
The way to be most impressive and effective is to most authentically be the person you are. Pretense and true confidence cannot both exist in the same space. Drop the pretenses, and watch your confidence rightfully soar.


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I dont have to pretend to be liked and my motto for this Topic:

THOSE WHO LIKE ME ARE MINE, AND THOSE WHO DONT-I DONT CARE.

I am yours, Baby Maring Bil!

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US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is supporting a bill that would award pension benefits to Filipinos who fought under the US flag during World War II when the Philippines was a US commonwealth.

Obama issued a statement urging his colleagues in the Senate to provide the veterans with the recognition he says they deserve.

"Approximately 250,000 Filipino troops joined American forces to fight in World War II, but too many of these heroes are still being denied benefits," Obama said in the statement that was posted on his campaign website on Monday.

The Senate veterans affairs committee has already passed a broad bill that includes the benefit measure, but the full Senate has yet to vote on the legislation.

The committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Richard Burr, is opposing the measure proposing benefits for Filipino veterans. He has submitted an alternative bill that excises that portion of the legislation, saying the government should instead spend its money on veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Senator Burr believes the special pension for Filipino veterans is the wrong priority for taxpayer dollars at a time of war," said his spokesperson, Chris Walker.

But Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Hawaii Democrat and chair of the veteran affairs committee, is backing the Filipino veterans bill. Akaka is also a US veteran of World War II.

The Filipino veterans joined units under US command at a time when US law mandated that all Philippine citizens owed allegiance to the United States. The law also stipulated US control over Philippine national defense and foreign affairs.
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Barack Obama

After the war, however, the US Congress passed the Rescission Act of 1946, stripping Filipino veterans of their status as US veterans. The move denied Filipinos the same benefits available to other veterans of US military service.

Filipino-American veterans, who are mostly now in their 80s, have campaigned for decades to win the benefits they were promised.

They have had some victories. The US Congress has passed a bill allowing thousands to immigrate and become US citizens. Burial rights in national cemeteries came a decade later.

In 2003, President George W. Bush also signed a bill making Filipino-American veterans in the United States eligible for the same federal health care other American veterans receive.

The latest measure seeks to give pension benefits to Filipino veterans living in the Philippines.

Akaka's office said an annual pension of US$3,600 had been proposed for each individual veteran and US$4,500 for a married veteran.

The provision would cost an estimated US$24 million in its first year and less each year after that.

Akaka told the Senate earlier this month that some 18,000 Filipino World War II veterans were still alive and that only a few of them were expected to live in another decade.

souce:  goodnewspilipinas.com

yum!

pasta with pesto sauce

annual

really, hello, nice, beautiful, so?

give me 5 world leaders that you admire the most.



(OT:  Gai, same here!  At some point I even collected different languages of that book!  I left my collection in the Phils.  I watch the DVD often like a kid! )

PHOENIX â€"  A Mesa teenager says he fatally shot his father last month because he wouldn't let him use the Internet, police reports show.

According to a Mesa police report released Wednesday, 15-year-old Hughstan Schlicker told a homicide detective that he considered committing suicide in front of his father after finding a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition in the garage of their home, but decided to murder his father instead and then commit suicide.

Hughstan apparently surprised 49-year-old Ted Schlicker, who was standing in the kitchen when the boy approached him from behind, the police report said.

Police arrested Hughstan after the slaying at the Pueblo Seco Condominiums and accused him of first-degree murder.

After the slaying, "the defendant first called his friend and told her what he had done. He told her he was going to kill himself but she told him not to. She convinced him to call the police and deal with the situation," the report said.

Hughstan told detectives that he used the Internet to communicate with his friends and since his father took the Internet away, he was "just so depressed all the time," the report said. Specifically, Hughstan said he hated his father because he was restricting his use of the MySpace Web site, MyFOXPhoenix reports.

source:  fox news

I guess today is the last day before we close the poll.

This is a good one.  While reading this, I had to check myself if I have pretenses in life. I still have to think some more...

turn off the alarm, curl up some more in bed, go to the bathroom, open the window drapes, check for emails

give me 5 places you want to visit someday.

ID, ATM card, money, picture, postage stamps

give me 5 names of flowers

(OT: Gai, favorite diay nimo ang The Little Prince by St. Exupery?  that's my number 1 favorite!)

Gorgonia, Gorgonio

computer, pencil sharpener, fax machine, memo pad, books

give me 5 of your favorite books.

(nalimtan na pod nko ang question busa gi modify! )

Ngano diay, Shei?  Kinsa may gi diagnose ug CFS? 

Eulogio, Editha, Eladia

hhahahah ka abtik ba nakamatikod.  sorry.

give me 5 plants you have in your backyard.

bake pumpkin pie for second agenda, visit an old friend in the care home, laundry, ironing of clothes, walking

ATM card, nail clipper, rosary, hand sanitizer, money

give me 5 of your favorite dishes

insufficient

I wish I am able to do this job kay gusto nko ni ing-ani na job. 

I am more of the dainty and demure personality.

Candice

allegation

Quote from: svetlana on March 06, 2008, 02:40:58 PM

Quote from: gelyan on March 05, 2008, 11:31:31 AM
kuyog pud ka ani svet?

Murag limpyo man akong planner kana nga mga dates, murag kuyog ko Gelyan. I always try to join mga TB EB's man jud. Unya kini Grand EB na gud ni! hehehe faet kung di kaapil, galaway na raba kos lechon daan! hahaha

Shei, i suwat na kanang Grand EB aron dili na ma ilog pa ug lain na laag. hehehehe

according

Yuck, Macks!  Pero ay ka, ning kaon si Lumine ani sa elementary pa mi para lang di sya magutman mag adto skwela.  Wa man to damha naa diay live creature.  though nakit-an nya, desperate sya makakaon before mag adto sa school.

adobong bongkaras (ambot naa pa ba ni.  I heard endangered  fish ni sya sa una and yet ginadakop gihapon!)

Naa pod snap peas (tawag sa akong inahan ana kay Baguio beans!).

borrower

good for you both, Maring and Aya san!  Sige lang, I'll get there ra.  For now, hinay-hinay sa ako.

M as in Mari, Aya san?  Unsa ba na Sakura cake, dear? 

Welcome to Tubag Bohol, lifeisbeautiful!  Let's all have fun in here.  Daghan kaayo mga basahonon na sa sulod so dayon ug pagpahiluna na sa lantay sa sa atong Payag ug sugod na'g basa ug dokdok while ga higop sa imong mainit na sikwati, pinarisan ug pan de sal.

Quote from: Mari on March 06, 2008, 05:58:11 PM

Quote from: grazie7y on March 06, 2008, 06:49:26 AM
wow, that is so nice, Mari!  Na touch ko sa imong gi ingon dear!

yes ms grazie, i have high hopes, i never give up so easy bisan pa nagkalisud na...kung maagwanta pa ha...hehehehehe

Pareho ra ta, Mari.  At times, I can ask myself, "how did I make it through?"  And the only possible answer was that I never lose hope for a better tomorrow.

Bitaw luoy kaayo ug maayo kaayo sya adto.  Ganahan pod ko kadtong iyang gi ingnan si Carrie later part na kadtong gusto na ni Carrie makigbalik na, "You broke my heart!"  Mr. Big kay way klaro man gud oi hadlokan ug commitment.  Dah, typical lalaki. hahahahah

Dearie, matulog na si ako kay midnight na.  Taas pa ra ba akong preparasyon bago maka abot sa bed. 

Kinsa gani iyang bf na gisultian nya ani, Shei?  Si Aidan?  He is my favorite among all her boyfriends. 

mirrors

There were lots of stories as to where the word Bohol came from. I also read what you read, fdaray, that Bohol may have been named after the place called Bo'ol and or it came from the word buho=buho or holes referring to the caves and caverns.  But favorite is the one that says, Bohol is from the word, also, Bo'ol which is a local name of a kind of tree.  I read this in the doctoral dissertation of Lumin B. Tirol in 1975.  This make more sense to me because we have the penchant of calling our place after a tree.  My barrio is one example - Manga.

Yes, there is a place called Booy and there's also a place called Bool.

agreement

Is this really a gentle giant, Dong?  I hope that too has marshmallow smile.

Cereal it is then!

Aurelio

During our fun night with the Knights of Columbus in December, 2007:

My aunt in red blouse, my cousin in denim jacket, smiffy in the middle and my two other cousins, Rowena and Ivy Zamora.

hahahahha I saw this episode, Shei!

Kaila ka ni Dondon Ampalayo, Yet?

Very nice picture, Dong!  My mother's brothers and nephews and most of our relatives in my Mom's side are fishermen.  They are hardworking people.  When I was young, I thought it was so huge a sacrifice to wake up so early in the morning like 2 or 3 a.m. to go fishing and sometimes, their catch is only a few. 

Quote from: Brownman on March 06, 2008, 03:20:46 PM

Quote from: svetlana on March 06, 2008, 03:18:28 PM
Yet, isa na siya sa reason why I took up Physical Therapy in College, kay gadamgo intawon ko nga mahimong PT sa Sunkist para maduol ni Boybits!  Purbida........ hahahaha

sus pagkaanindot sa imung motive for taking up PT Ms Svet your getting closer to your goal, eheeeemm

hahahahha makalingaw man ka Shei oi!

difficult

Ah mao ba, Yet?  Sige mi mag sakay ana ni Alan Caidec sa elevator sa una sa condo akong gipuy-an sa Ortigas.  Shy na sya.  Naa gani hulagway si Daddy ana ug uban pang mga PBA players kay na timing pag bisita sa akong mga parents, dihay party sa sa mga PBA players sa rooftop sa condo unya among driver sa una sa office kay Bol-anon man unya suod sa mga drivers sa mga PBA players so gidala si Daddy sa party.  Pirte, halos itakin na ni Daddy ang hulagway oi!

suffice

He isn't really dying, is he?  Dugay na kana naa sya'y cancer, Yet?

Bag o na gani ni na player, Yet, wala na sa akong generation.

opportunity

progression

feedback

Access

imposible man ni na way laing ka sabwat ani oi!  the money they stole are hard-earned money or basin, pareho sa imong kaila Gem na gi prenda ang basak para lang maka bayad aning ilang kalaki.  Masakpan ra lagi to sila.

frill

assumption

innovation

Any update on this case, Mike?  Grabeh pod, pati mga pobreng tawo naningkamot lang tawon, daginuton pa jud aning mga illegal recruiters. 

We also thank you, Jun, for giving us this opportunity  to be of help to people who do not know us.  I know what you are saying about molding students at a younger age.  That's what I felt too when went to the university.  So let's all work together to give these kids more chances to succeed in their life.

million, billion, trillion

Quote from: teng on March 06, 2008, 12:58:22 PM

Quote from: grazie7y on March 06, 2008, 09:21:15 AM
Naa pay daghan naglatagaw na mga child molesters.  Dapat, putlan na sila oi ug -blank-!

ahehehhee isoga Ms. Garziey uiii..mamutol man jud

Ayaw saba diha, Teng!

hala tan aw na didto aron tabang tag botar.

nag change na attire si Pinay.  Gibinuangan tawon iyang pagka cute ni Ryan Seacrest!

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Salamat kaayo, Gem!

communism

Quote from: Glen on March 06, 2008, 12:04:47 PM
Hala Grace kanindot ba ana oy! Mag order pod ko nimo og ingana motawag rako nimo ok?

Gem, tinuod ba na nag mukhang sports balls ba na?  Sus, muna-muna baya nako'g tan aw unsay itsura ug mga bola kay na ilhan nako basketball ra jud tawon.  Ga tan aw ko'g NFL pero di man mklaro ang details sa bola.

hahaha unsa gud to na cake, Gem?  Kadtong chocolate/tabliya cake?

Guys, Beth ordered cookies for her apo named Jackson.  She asked for sports ball.  With the help of internet pictures, I tried to make these balls.  Please see if na porma ba na bola kini intawon.

Quote from: orChids on March 06, 2008, 11:50:48 AM

Quote from: B:) on March 06, 2008, 05:36:37 AM
Hello everyone, just would to share with you what I got from Grace/grazie7y. She sent this to me for my step-grandson's birthday. Our family in NJ was so amazed how good they are. It's so delicious that I order for more, sorry Mike ha if I put her to work hehehe.







You have such an unbelievable talent Grace. Thank you so much, you will make my grandson's b-day more special on Sunday.

Hay,makagutom baya.Ipaabot na dire beh,.Kalami tan-awon labi na ug kaunon.

Aya san, how I wish kaso lang strict man oi pagpadala kay naa man ko pirmahan na no food ang sulod sa box.  Mauhon ning storyaha, ma una pa ang mag EB pohon makakaon sa cookies kay naa nay OK ni Amy na mo bitbit sya. 

Quote from: willmerit on March 06, 2008, 11:41:53 AM

Quote from: grazie7y on March 06, 2008, 06:43:21 AM
Ning promise naman ko ni Sis A, Happy, Hazel ug uban pa na padalhan nko for as long as modala si Amy.

walay problema Ging.  ok pa sa alright na!  nakakita nami ug ticket, pero wa pa namo palita, basin ugma puhon kay manawag pa mi una sa immigration.  among napili kay morag cathay pacific to so among port of entry kay sa LA man tingali to.  moinform ra ko nimo sa details puhon ug mawork out na ni namo.

Wow, salamat Ams!  sus noh, hapit na jud mo manguli dear!  Malipay na imong bright boy!  thanks be to God jud!

Makasakit lang sa dughan Gem ba kay wa na lang nila gina isip na 9 months na gidala sa tiyan sa inahan ang kanang ilang gipatay unya most probably naay mga anak na gakinahanglan pakan=on.  If tulis ilang tuyo, ngano pa man patyon oi!  Also, wa uroy sila madunli na ang ilang ipakaon sa ilang pamilya kinawat uy gikamatyan!  Makapanglimbawot ug balhibo!

Quote from: Erwin June on March 06, 2008, 10:45:32 AM
thankzz, gracie....mag post lng nya ko kng naa na bay Lead ang mga kapulisan ining kasuha,,hopefully

Maskin ako nakugang gyud ko aning balitaa..

May he Rest in Peace.........

Sa mga Murderer...Ma konsensya sila..........

Asa na kaha gibutang ang kasing-kasing aning mga murderers ba?  Wala na lang nila gihuna-huna na naay pamilya masakit.

doomed

Bitaw, Shei, bata pa kaayo jud.  She has three young children.  Hopeful man sya mamaayo pa sya so that is really, really good!  Here is Margie  - the one in pink hat.  The one in black beret is my younger sister.

Shopping


OT:  Asa bay na usab gud ang font?

Beth, I don't know what else to say but I am really sorry.  You will be fine ra lagi.

Nagpatabang ka sa mga sano ug sana, ikaw pa man diay nag tikaw2x dear!

Naa pay daghan naglatagaw na mga child molesters.  Dapat, putlan na sila oi ug -blank-!

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Bueng man ka Maring oi!  Kahadlok pod nang sindihan nimo imong kaugalingon. 


Seriously now, the young wife of my cousin just learned last month that she has cancer.  The doctor told our family that it's only miracle that can cure her because it has metastasized already.  I was so sad when I learned this news.  When I called her, I was in disbelief how strong she was.  She has a strong faith in the Lord.  She said, "Ate Ging, gisalig ra man ni nako ni Lord ang tanan!"  And she's only in her late 20s... 

cellular

Okay, salamat, Erwin sa pag update namo.  You are right; basin na abtan ni sa cut off. 

 (Oprah.com) -- Unlucky in love? Can't seem to get past the first date? Patti Novak, one of America's toughest matchmakers, says you may be to blame for your single status.
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For the past seven years, Patti has been bringing people together in Buffalo, New York, a city with one of the highest populations of singles per capita. Now, she's ready to share her tough love with men and women across the country.

On the A&E show "Confessions of a Matchmaker," Patti doesn't mince words when counseling single, divorced and widowed clients. The truth might hurt, but her methods seem to work. On average, Patti matches more than 500 people every month.

Patti says her years of experience have taught her one thing -- millions of women have missed the mark when it comes to love. "Somewhere along the line, and I'm really not sure [when], we lost our common sense," she says.

One of the most important steps to finding love is getting past the first date, something Patti says is a challenge for many women.

"I think we approach it like we're on an interview," she says. "We want to know everything right away. You know, we are nosy creatures. We get to be -- we're women."

Patti says there are a few important rules women -- and men --should keep in mind when meeting someone for the first time. To start, keep in mind that you're meeting a stranger, and you shouldn't ask questions you wouldn't want to answer. "[Don't ask] anything that's none of our business," she says.

Another of Patti's golden rules is to never discuss politics or religion with someone you hardly know. "You don't go there," she says. "Eventually you do --you just don't on the first date."

First impressions are also important& but don't judge your date too quickly. "Look your best. Feel your best. Walk into the room with confidence," Patti says. "He'll sense that. He'll feel that energy. You walk in, you sit down, and maybe he's average looking. But then you start to talk to him, and he turns out to be an 8 or a 9 because he's fabulous. He's kind. He's wonderful."

Patti says you should only spend 10 seconds determining physical attraction and 30 minutes or longer judging emotional chemistry. "It isn't always about beauty or lack of beauty or whether you're a size 5 or you're a size 14," she says. "It's not always about that."

On "Confessions of a Matchmaker,"cameras capture Patti in action as she offers advice to Brenda, a 46-year-old single woman who loves to party. To help Brenda find a love match, Patti doesn't hold back.

"It's crazy the way you party out there at 46 years old," she tells Brenda. "You go out, and you go after men that are, you know, almost untouchable. It's like delusional."

Brenda says she goes to the same bars as her 21-year-old daughter because she's alone, but Patti sees it differently. "It's because you do that you are alone," she says. "One of the most unattractive things to see in a club is this 50-year-old woman acting up like she's 30. It's ridiculous. It's embarrassing."

By drinking and hitting on guys half her age, Patti says Brenda's sending the wrong message to men. "You offer this energy that says, 'I don't want love. I don't need love. I'm content. I'm having fun,'" she says. "So you get the men that offer the same thing in return."

Brenda says Patti's impressions were very hard to hear. "I was mad," she says. "And I was embarrassed."

During Brenda's matchmaking session, she says one observation really hit a nerve. "[Patti said] that everybody could see my desperation," Brenda says. "And I didn't think so. I thought it was cute and funny& it wasn't cute."

Instead of setting her up with eligible bachelors, this matchmaker prescribed some alone time. "Patti is the one who asked me not to date for at least six months. A matchmaker asked me not to date!" Brenda says. "She said, 'Concentrate on your education, go out with friends and stop looking.'"

After taking Patti's advice, Brenda says she started to relax, and her life improved. "I stopped going to places where I ran into my daughter and her friends," she says. "Everything just got calm and so much better."

Like many women, Allison, a 35-year-old chef who loves sports, can't understand why she's still single. "I'm cute. I'm outgoing. This should be a no-brainer," she wrote in a letter to "he Oprah Show."

In one year, Allison says she went on 150 first dates but never got asked out on a second date. "It was almost like going on 150 job interviews," she says.

After hearing about Allison, Patti teamed up with local matchmakers to set her up with two eligible bachelors to see what's really going on.

Cameras went along on Allison's dates with bachelors Rich and Dan to capture the chemistry and conversation.

From the start, Patti says it's clear that Allison follows a first-date formula. She asks both men the same test question, "How do you order your steak?" Then, she asks Rich and Dan who they're rooting for in the Super Bowl and if they've ever been to a tapas restaurant.

Allison may think her dates don't notice& but she's wrong. "It almost felt like she had some pre-planned questions she wanted to ask," Rich says.

Patti also notices that Allison competes with her dates. When Dan mentions he collects wine, Allison says, "Interesting. I have a beautifully signed bottle of Robert Mondavi vintage wine."

After the dates, it doesn't seem that either bachelor will follow up for a second date. "I don't know if the relationship chemistry is necessarily there," Dan says.

"She tries too hard," Rich says. "[It's like,] 'I love my life. It's great. It's perfect.'"

Although Patti says she thinks Allison is a nice person, she says she felt an unkindness in her on the dates --like when Allison corrected one of her date's pronunciation of an Italian city. After hearing Patti's diagnosis, Allison realizes she has become one of her biggest pet peeves. "I think I'm a one-upper," she says.

Allison's take-charge attitude is what Patti calls the pickle jar effect. "We are so successful today, women. We're fabulous. We work hard. We make good money. We parent. Sometimes what happens when we spend a lot of time alone, we forget to let them open the damn pickle jar," Patti says.

"The one thing I don't think is ever going to change on this planet is men still need to feel like men," she says. "So let them open it."

So how does a woman ask a man to do something without compromising herself? Patti says that if he's not in the room, go ahead and open your own pickle jar. But if he's standing there, Patti says it's just as easy to ask him to open it. "And know that you are the smarter, clever one for doing it," she says. "It's about attitude."

Patti says to keep the pickle jar effect in mind when choosing the restaurant for a first date. "We are clearly the most decisive creatures on the planet, women," she says. "And men, please no offense out there, they are the most indecisive. But stop letting them getting away with it."

Patti says to initially let the man pick the restaurant -- even if you think your choice is better. "Let him pick it and pay for it," Patti says. "And if he takes you out for a hot dog, well, it is what it is."

Jennifer's mother e-mailed "The Oprah Show" because she can't understand why her smart, gorgeous, 35-year-old daughter is still single. Patti made a house call to Jennifer's hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, and found that she hasn't always been flying solo. Ten years ago, Jennifer met the man she thought she would marry. "We were just so in love and so enraptured in one another," Jennifer says.

Eight months into the relationship, they became engaged. Shortly after, Jennifer says she saw a change in his behavior. "There were some embarrassing moments in public. He would get angry with me over something very small or minor, and it would just spiral," she says. Jennifer says she sat down and had a talk with her fiancé about his behavior three or four months after initially becoming engaged. Even though she didn't approve of his behavior, she stayed with him for the next six years.

Jennifer says she stayed for different reasons. "Part loyalty and part me wanting to fix it," Jennifer says. "Me thinking that I could help him get through it, or I would be the one woman that he would change for."

After her first failed relationship, Jennifer says she met another man. "[He] was a family guy. Just all the pieces seemed to fit of a guy with a tender heart," she says. But as Jennifer began talking about the future, she says he withdrew. "That's not normal," Patti says. "You know that, right? First of all, you wouldn't let your best girlfriend treat you the way you've let these two men treat you."

Patti tells Jennifer that she needs to stop walking around with blame. "That's what I do. Self-condemnation, it's all over my face," Jennifer says. Instead of blaming herself, Patti wants her to look deeper. "The kind of men that you've chosen is your problem," Patti says. "Why you choose them is even your bigger problem."

After she meets a man, Patti doesn't want Jennifer to feel the need to stay in a relationship if he's wrong for her. "And loyalty, I love that word, by the way," Patti says. "I'm a very loyal woman, in my opinion. But that [can be] a misguided excuse for staying with someone who's mistreating you. They don't deserve your loyalty."

Jennifer has another problem -- she never fully disengages from her exes. Patti says Jennifer accepts their calls, text messages and e-mails. "She still allows herself to be dusted off like a trophy," Patti says. "You need to disengage. Take time out to heal. Rediscover who you are. Because guess what? This next five, 10 years of your life? We just get better."

To fully find herself, Patti thinks Jennifer needs to take time off from dating. "And I think maybe a therapist is a fabulous idea. Spending some time alone and getting in touch with yourself and saying, 'It's okay to be alone.'"

"You get better if you do the work," Oprah says. "And that is the difference between becoming a real woman and just an aging female -- because some women just age. Some women just get older, and they don't get any better. That's a line from Maya Angelou who said, 'Don't just be an aging female --learn to be a real woman.'"

Patti says there is something all single women can do to turn their love lives around. She says this assignment isn't for everyone -- it's for the women who really want to find love. "Find your inner person," Patti says. "Meditate. Because I'll bet you if every one of you ladies in this room went to the most quiet place in your core, you'd know why you were single. I believe you all have your own answer. Find it.

"Take a new hobby up. Painting. Cooking. Dancing. Say, 'This is what I'm going to do this year.' Okay? But go to that place. Find that place in your last relationship -- who ended it? What did you do? You can't fix them. You can only potentially fix you. So you have to work on you."

source: cnn.com

atrick Swayze, who starred in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his doctor says.

"Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far," Dr. George Fisher says in a statement. "All of the reports stating the time frame of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic."

The actor's rep adds: "Patrick is continuing his normal schedule during this time, which includes working on upcoming projects. The outpouring of support and concern he has already received from the public is deeply appreciated by Patrick and his family."

Swayze, 55, started his career as a dancer before turning to acting. His breakout role was as a Catskills dance instructor opposite Jennifer Grey in 1987's sleeper hit Dirty Dancing. He also starred opposite Demi Moore in the 1990 blockbuster Ghost.

On Broadway in the '70s he played the lead role of Danny Zucco in Grease â€" he returned to the New York stage in December 2003, for a brief stint in the revival of Chicago â€" before making his movie debut in 1979's Skatetown, U.S.A. Among his other screen roles were 2001's Donnie Darko and 1995's To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, which he played in fabulous drag.

And while Swayze has been happily married to the same woman, Lisa Niemi, since 1975, only last month Scarlett Johansson said quite seriously during her Hasty Pudding roast at Harvard that the man to whom she'd most like to be linked with romantically is, "Probably Patrick Swayze. My dream come true."

Swayze's diagnosis was initially reported by the National Enquirer and New York Post, which both characterized the cancer as more severe than Swayze's doctor has.

Each year about 33,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas (a large organ that lies horizontally behind the lower part of one's stomach), according to the Mayo Clinic.

Calling the condition "one of the most serious of cancers," the facility's Web site also states, "Pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and is seldom detected in its early stages, which is a major reason why it's a leading cause of cancer death."

source: cnn.com

LONDON â€"  YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or sexually explicit content to the Internet after a 25-year-old mother was filmed while being raped.

A three-minute video showing the mother sexually assaulted by three boys after her drink had been spiked was uploaded soon after the incident, which took place in November.

In the clip, which was filmed with a mobile phone, the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.

The mother, from South London, told The Sun that she had been put through the ordeal after drinking champagne that had been spiked with a date-rape drug.

"Three boys aged 14 to 16 did it and it was set up by two girls," she said. "They came round with a neighbor I trusted and I had no problems with them coming in for a while."

She said that she opened a bottle of champagne "to be social" and that within seconds of having a glass, she began to feel strange.

A video of the episode was later placed on YouTube, but the clip was quickly taken down after a viewer complained about its graphic nature. It is understood to have been seen 600 times.

"Putting (the video) on the internet was an abomination," the mother said. "I was raped on film, and you could hear my daughter and 4-year-old son crying. I cannot understand how any Web site could show such a thing."

A YouTube spokesman said that the site's rules prohibited content such as pornography and gratuitous violence from being uploaded. When people see content they think is inappropriate, he said, they can flag it and it will be reviewed.

"If the content breaks our terms, then we remove it, and if a user repeatedly breaks the rules we disable their account," the spokesman said.

A source close to YouTube said it was impossible for the site to review every video that was posted because more than 10 hours of content is uploaded every minute.

The source added that trained staff acted quickly to take down inappropriate content when it was flagged.

Since the mother came forward last month, the Metropolitan Police have begun an investigation into the incident and three teenagers -- two aged 16 and one aged 14 -- have so far been questioned.

YouTube has said that it cooperates with police when material relevant to an investigation is posted on the site.

Under UK law, sites that host videos posted by third parties must act "expeditiously" to disable access to them in the event of a complaint in order to avoid any liability that may result from the content appearing.

Lawyers said that in this case, there may be liability that would stem from the publication of obscene material.

"It is extremely difficult for YouTube to control this kind of content because in this instance -- where you have a video that may depict a crime -- there's no technical measure the site can apply that will prevent it being posted in the first place," said Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons.

"The only option would be for them to review every video before it is posted and that is unrealistic. What sites like YouTube need is a good reporting mechanism which enables content to be flagged to the site once it has been posted, and YouTube operates well in this sense."

It is not the first time YouTube has been used as a forum for posting violent content.

Last month, a set of videos appeared on the site which showed students from Hitchin Boys' School, in Hertfordshire, apparently fighting with each other while bystanders looked on and gave them encouragement.

The footage has since been removed.

source:  fox news

SANTA ANA, Calif.  â€"  A 52-year-old man jumped to his death from a Southern California courthouse balcony hours after being convicted of child molestation, authorities said.

Carlos Edward Tello was facing more than 20 years in prison when he jumped from a ninth-floor balcony of the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana Tuesday afternoon. A suicide note was tucked into his clothing, authorities said.

A jury in a Fullerton courtroom earlier Tuesday convicted Tello of repeatedly molesting a young girl between 1989 and 1994.

Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown tried to have Tello's bail revoked and have him taken into custody immediately after the verdicts were announced. She said he was carrying a suicide note when he was arrested in 2006 in the case and that he might be in danger.

Superior Court Judge Greggory Prickett declined to revoke Tello's bail, instead ordering him to return to the Fullerton courtroom by 4:30 p.m.

Just after 4 p.m. at the Santa Ana courthouse, an alarm sounded that someone had entered a restricted area, said Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.

A bailiff found Tello standing on the balcony and tried to wrestle him away from the edge, said police Cpl. Jose Gonzalez.

"He said, 'Nobody's stopping me,"' Amormino said, "and he jumped."

Tello died at the scene.


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