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11. As we saw in the "Hairspray" reboot, Travolta can even shake it in a 30-pound fat suit.

10. The actor was willing to dust off his old disco moves for an "Austin Powers" gag.

9. His interpretive dance moves from "Michael" were supremely divine.

8. John made for a great babysitter/dance instructor in "Look Who's Talking."

7. Yee-haw! Travolta also ruled the dance floor in "Urban Cowboy."

6. "Welcome Back Kotter's" Vinnie Barbarino was incredibly cute and could boogie down, too!

5. But he really perfected the move in "Perfect."

4. Travolta's pelvic thrusts in "Grease" were quite memorable.

3. You know you've done the Batusi (created for the "Batman" TV series) while out at the club just like Vincent Vega did in "Pulp Fiction."

2. Who hasn't attempted a few of these iconic "Saturday Night Fever" moves on the dance floor?

1. Nobody struts the streets of NYC better than Travolta.

14 Unforgettable John Travolta Moves

By Paul Rosales
February 18, 2014
Yahoo Celebrity

It's no secret that John Travolta knows how to get down.

The actor danced his way into pop culture history thanks to roles in movies such as "Saturday Night Fever," "Grease," and "Pulp Fiction," so what better way to celebrate his 60th birthday on February 18 than to look back at a few of the most memorable moves of his career.

“There are bills passed without a quorum. That is unconstitutional. Worse, the President signs these bills into law. That is an impeachable offense. And those laws are null and void.”

Somebody pointed out the case of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao. He spends half the year training and fighting abroad. But he collects all his salaries and allowances. He earns billions of pesos from his fights, so he does not need the additional income. Yet he does not pay his correct income taxes. Why do we tolerate members of Congress like him?


excerpts from Unemployment and the abolition of Congress, As I See It, By Neal H. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
http://opinion.inquirer.net/71733/unemployment-and-the-abolition-of-congress#ixzz2tqjGg5n7

Who will make our laws?

“Let the provincial boards make them,” Makalintal said. “They are the ones who know best what they need.”

“After six years, let’s try having Congress back again, but this time on a no-work no-pay basis,” he added. “In other sectors of the government and the private sector, those who are absent get no pay. But members of Congress collect their salaries and allowances even when they are absent or are traveling abroad. There are members of Congress who spend more time being absent than attending sessions.

“Let’s try it for six years,” Makalintal proposed. “Imagine the amount of money we can save for other more urgent needs. Our problem is that so many things need to be done but there is not enough money for all of them.

“For the first year, let’s use the P35 billion saved for the rehabilitation of typhoon-devastated areas. For the next year, use the next P35 billion to build more schools. For the third year, let’s use the money to boost the manufacturing industry. Then build homes for the homeless the next year, more roads the next year, and so forth and so on.”

[For his part,] Romulo Makalintal called for the abolition of Congress. “Without Congress, we would save billions of pesos that we can use for more urgent needs,” he said.

We spend P35 billion a year to maintain Congress. For that amount, what do we get in return? Almost nothing.

Last year, Congress passed only one insignificant law: the one-page postponement of the Kabataang Barangay elections. And the people spent P35 billion for that, to postpone one insignificant electoral exercise! It wasn’t much better in previous years, either.

grabeha uy.  naunsa na man gyod intawon ta uy nga sayon-sayonon ra man ang pagtiwas ug kinabuhi uy. 

sunod ani nga headline mao na ang 'armas gikawatan sa iyang gwardya' o di ba kaha 'armas gigwardyahan sa iyang kawat'. 

hahay baya ning banat.  tigbasa hinoon ko sa 'plasbak' section ani nga tabloid kay magluha man gyod kog kinatawa.  sayang lang nga wa ni online.

no problem.  they should just call it iglesia ni cristo arena.

Philippine Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena being constructed at Ciudad de Victoria, a 75-hectare tourism enterprise zone in Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines. With a capacity of up to 55,000, it will be the world's largest indoor domed-arena.  It is the centerpiece of the many centennial projects of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) for their grand celebration on July 27, 2014. The legal owner of the arena is the INC's educational institution, New Era University. (wikipedia)

leon kay pantaleon.  gikuha lang ang panta.  kilat kay abtik pa kuno siya sa kilat.  wa lang tawon siya maabtik kun katulgon, mao nga nadunggaban pa gyod ug gitabangan.  some things are simply quicker than lightning, like death and betrayal.  mao nga ikaw, bugsay, ayaw gyod paabtik pa sa kilat.  mas maayo ning salisi na lang, makahatag ka pag sip-on ug hilanat. 

okay, see you again, saging dawin.

an opinion worth a second look:

When humans consume food laced in generous doses of glutamate, depending on the capacity of each individual to absorb them, glutamate levels can increase up to fiftyfold!

Based on scientific literature, along with sugar, glutamates have been observed as stimulants for faster cancer tumor growth.

Read more: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/151948/what-we-dont-know-will-make-us-sick#ixzz2tjVMbwK1

In normal conditions, humans have the ability to metabolize glutamate that has a very low acute toxicity. The oral lethal dose to 50% of subjects (LD50) is between 15 to 18 g/kg body weight in rats and mice respectively, five times greater than the LD50 of salt (3 g/kg in rats). Therefore, the intake of MSG as a food additive and the natural level of glutamic acid in foods do not represent a toxicological concern in humans.

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MSG has been used for more than 100 years to season food. During this period, extensive studies were conducted to elucidate the role, benefits and safety of MSG. At this point, international and national bodies for the safety of food additives consider MSG safe for human consumption as a flavor enhancer.

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Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids.

MSG was classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as generally recognized as safe (GRAS)and by the European Union as a food additive. MSG has the HS code 29224220 and the E number E621.

The L-glutamate form of MSG confers the same umami taste of free L-glutamate naturally found in foods. Industrial food manufacturers market and use MSG as a flavor enhancer because it balances, blends and rounds the total perception of other tastes. Trade names of monosodium glutamate include Ac'cent, Aji-No-Moto, and Ve-Tsin.

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History

The harmful effect of glutamate upon the CNS were first observed in 1954 by T. Hayashi, a Japanese scientist who noted that direct application of glutamate to the CNS caused seizure activity, though this report went unnoticed for several years.

The toxicity of glutamate was then observed by D. R. Lucas and J. P. Newhouse in 1957, when the subcutaneous injection of monosodium glutamate to newborn mice destroyed the neurons in the inner layers of the retina.

Later, in 1969, John Olney discovered the phenomenon was not restricted to the retina, but occurred throughout the brain, and coined the term excitotoxicity. He also assessed that cell death was restricted to postsynaptic neurons, that glutamate agonists were as neurotoxic as their efficiency to activate glutamate receptors, and that glutamate antagonists could stop the neurotoxicity.

Subsequent research by Mark Mattson provided evidence for the involvement of excitotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease, and other age-related neurodegenerative conditions that involve oxidative stress and cellular energy deficits.

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Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which nerve cells are damaged and killed by excessive stimulation by neurotransmitters such as glutamate and similar substances.

morag "ice cream on cake" ang iyang plano.

giahak na lang... una, tindok.  sundan ug dawin.  karon dapaldapal.  binisay-a na lang na bi.  why man you speak portuguese here?

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 06:11:45 PM
Hmm, your mingkay must be female then. What's her name?

korean sa greek name nga minerva.

morag klaro nga naay kaliwat sa bohol da...

aguy, pareha man diay tag plano, bai hubs...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on January 26, 2014, 07:39:52 PM
ig-unsa man kaha ni nako? lost tribe ning ortega sa philippines.

if you're the long-lost missing heir, mr webmaster, please remember us.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 26, 2014, 04:58:08 PMAn article in Fortune once noted that Ortega is "difficult to know, impossible to interview, and incredibly secretive," so there's good reason that he's not a household name like some of the others who are among the richest people in the world.

how thoroughly european.  well, spain is not hollywood that's fond of exposed innards.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 04:41:42 PM
And now, Madame Cat Mind Reader, what can you say [read: meow] about this here?

meow, meow, meow! (read: for good energy, the level of the catnip should not exceed a cat's reach, which is roughly equivalent to the knee level of your human that you have scratched...)

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 04:33:47 PM
Dog? Why not monkey?

dog.  only a hippo disguises itself as a monkey.

di gyod diay kasaligan ning fellow revolutionaries.  maniguro lang sa kaugalingon.  purya.  these surnames are still familiar in cebu now.  ila ba kahang ikauwaw ang ilang kaliwat. 

mao diay nga ginganlan ug tindok kay abot man diay buktok ang gidak-on as long as di duwendek ang tag-iyak sa buktok.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 04:47:48 PM
Ako pood. Si Feline mas katuhoan nga gabasa kaysa iyang Human...

mas ngilngig akong mingkay kay mo-solve ug calculus, in greek.

si manash ang nag-photobomb nila ni kitties.

hala, kalain.  di gyod diay ko maka-amulet kay wa man gyod ko makakita ani.

oh?  you mean they arrest themselves?  i'm blown!

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 04:16:53 PM
Hmm, that role is reserved for some wealthy planeteer. As for me, sadly for TB, I have no thespianic aspirations nor Dolphynic cross-dressing talent. Stunt adviser lang ko.

you mean sa ballet choreography?  you'll have to beat michael martinez on the ice for that.  

piktyur ug tindok nga banana plant bi.  wa man god ko kaila ug tindok, please.

hehe, ayaw gyod na ipahikap ni misis kay, na...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 04:04:35 PM
So, do I believe amulets and talismans work? Maybe, yes, if you don’t let your wives touch them! Or go to a wake or visit a cemetery without removing them from your body. Beliefs really die hard despite strong evidence to the contrary.

hahaha, arang gajod mga banaha.  pasumanginlan lang ang mga asawa tawon abi kay nasakpan ilang kunot nga pagtoo.

even religious images are included!

below, middle picture, left side: one looks like an image of our lady of the miraculous medal and the other 2 are images of the virgin of the rule if i'm not mistaken.  the smaller ones could be images of st. joseph.  reassuring, yes.  but are they amulets?  oh, please...





In one of our trips to Quiapo, we gave in to our acquisitive nature and brought home a handful of those bronze medallions with embossed religious symbols and Latin text. Whatever they’re used for, we think they are excellent pieces of folk religious art. (https://traveleronfoot.wordpress.com/)

available at the Evangelista Street side of Quiapo Church in Manila... all kinds of amulets.

Amulet and talisman vendor Sally Sibal, 62, holds an amulet of the "Infinite God" in her shop in Manila, Philippines, 06 July 2003. File photo by Mike Alquinto/EPA

During the martial law regime, a mystical religious cult led by Valentin de los Santos was stopped by the military from marching to Malacañang. They were warned that if they continued the march the soldiers would fire at them. Believing that their anting-anting or amulets would make them immune to bullets, they rushed forward holding only bolos. The soldiers fired, killing all of them, except their leader, who was put in jail.

So, do I believe amulets and talismans work? Maybe, yes, if you don’t let your wives touch them! Or go to a wake or visit a cemetery without removing them from your body. Beliefs really die hard despite strong evidence to the contrary.

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/


Jaime T. Licauco (born July 25, 1940), popularly known as Jimmy Licauco, is a parapsychologist, author, and management practitioner in the Philippines.

He is the founder and president of the Inner Mind Development Institute, a training center for parapsychology, philosophy, psychic investigation, and metaphysics. (wikipedia)

On the other hand, in the early ’80s, we were filming anting-anting practitioners in San Pablo. To test if they would be hit by bullets, the producer/director hired an Olympic sharp-shooter, Tac Padilla, to shoot the anting-anting with his pistol at a distance of eight meters. All the medallions and handkerchiefs, on which magical words were engraved, were hit and shattered by Padilla’s bullets.

What did these fellows say afterward? Did they change their belief in the powers of the anting-anting? Heck, no! They suspected their wives must have touched their anting-anting, that’s why they lost their power or efficacy.

To answer the question of whether such objects work is not so easy. Though there are many in our country who believe in the mystical powers of charms, amulets and talismans, I have not found concrete or strong evidence that they always work. I suppose their effectiveness depends mainly on the belief or faith of the individual wearing such objects.

I know one former chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who personally told me he believed in the powers of anting-anting  because he saw one of his soldiers hit by an enemy’s bullets; his uniform was full of holes, but he had no wound at all.

No concrete evidence

The talisman is usually specially made for a particular person, though it serves the same purpose as an amulet.

The word “talisman” comes from the Arabic word “tilasm,” an alteration of the Greek “telasmo” which means “completion in religious rite” from the word “tello” meaning “I complete, perform a rite.”

In the Philippines, specially made amulets or talismans are believed to protect the wearer from bullets and knife wounds. That is why military men and policemen, including some officers, wear amulets, talismans or anting-anting.

In quantum physics, there is such a thing as a “charm quark” whose “conservation explains the absence of certain strange particle decay models and that accounts for longevity of the J particle,” whatever that means.

Perhaps the main distinction between “charm” and “amulet” is that charm is meant to attract (for example, luck or love) whereas an amulet or talisman is meant to repel (for instance, evil or danger).

The word amulet comes from the Latin “amuletum,” meaning “an object that protects a person from trouble.”

In the Philippines, an amulet is known as agimat, mutya or anting-anting. The most powerful, mutya, is believed to be that which comes from a mature banana tree which falls only at midnight and may be obtained only by somebody who deserves to have it, often by fighting a supernatural or elemental creature that guards it.

A talisman is similar in meaning to an amulet in the sense that it must be energized or magnetized by a master in order to protect someone from harm or physical danger.

Do amulets, charms and ‘anting-anting’ work?

By Jaime T. Licauco
Inner Awareness
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Reader Lawrence Gonzaga sent in the following timely query: “With the recent celebration of the Chinese New Year, so many different charms, amulets and trinkets have proliferated in the market. And some of them are pretty expensive. My question is: Do these charms, amulets and trinkets really work?”

First, let us define what these terms mean. An amulet is any object that is believed to have the power to protect its wearer from physical danger or harm.

Potential amulets may include special gems and stones, statues, coins, drawings, pendants, ring and even parts of plants and animals. In the Philippines, certain special prayers or oracions are also believed to function as amulets.

cool.  hurot na akong bilib sa iring.

nagbasa pa lang, kuha na ang strategy.  he's a dog wearing the camouflage of a cat.

maru sad si kitty.  dictating what to text, hehe.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 03:43:21 PM
Aw, ingna kaha imong poetic townmate, Bugsay by name, nga himoan niya ni og full length play unya TB members ang cast...

sure.  makabasa ra unya to ani.  mo-audition ka for the juliet role?

better watch out for me.  i can always smell what you are up to, 3 years ahead.  aherm.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 01:29:01 PM
What an astutely novel thought from an obviously criminal mind...

ekskyus me.  investigator and profiler po, sir.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 18, 2014, 02:20:27 PM
Ayaw na lang gud panaway sa style. Tan-awa lang ang content. Di ba ill-starred--or star-crossed, whatever--kining ilang gugma? Ang Romeo and Juliet bitaw, maingon baya pud nato nga panagbangi ra to sa hambog sa Montagues and Capulets...

at least naman sa orig nga romeo and juliet atubangay, way lipot, unya maayo choreography ang fencing, gwapo pa gyod ang mga linya sa ilang manorya.  poetic.  sa ngan lang daan, rhyme na: romeo montague, juliet capulet...

kini kaha?  jose cabase?  nosi, nosi balasi/ sino, sino ba sila?

(r.i.p. diay sa naangol.)

06
Records of the myths

by Homer:

The Iliad

The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning. Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War.

The Odyssey

The epic poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.

by Virgil:

The Aeneid

The Aeneid (/əˈniːɪd/; Latin: Aeneis [ajˈneːis]â€"the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

wikipedia/

05
Family Tree Of Greek Mythology




a riddle: which is sillier, this attempt at a greek mythology family tree or the chinese nine-dash line?

Artemis (Diana)
Goddess of the hunt, of maidens, and the moon

Hermes (Mercury)
Messenger of the Gods; god of commerce, speed, thieves, and trade

Dionysus (Bacchus)
God of wine, feasts and the dramatic arts

aw, wa may kalainan sa kinataw-an ni fluffy diay... manghod lang gamay sa kinataw-an ni voldemort.

mao na ron... ang tipaka sa napusgay nga damgo bugnaw pa sa simod sa itoy nga way tag-iya.

ddos diay ang abbreviation sa dewdrops.  now pa ko.

maayo ra pod nga si juliet motestigo batok sa iyang romeo.  kun ing-ana diay ang ginhawa ni romeo nga mopatay tungod kay gibadlong, na, juliet, ikaw gyod untay madunggaban in the future kun ikaw nay mamadlong anang imong romeo.

sa legal angle, okay, si butch napriso kay nakapusil ni romeo.  so attempted murder kay wa man mamatay si romeo?  inig kaayo ni romeo, murder charges ang iyaha?  ayoha ninyo, usjr masscom interns.  learn to follow up.  ayaw ko ingna nga maayo ra mog dunggabay pa...

pagbinalakay lang mog inyo dinha, basta ako wa gyod ganahi aning estoryaha.  gipalamian ang pulong nga gugma, asows, mga intern pa gyod sa usjr ang reporters kintahay.  intern pa, subjected nag tabloid fare.  oh, well... gugma god taton.  clash of egos ra ni.  panagbangi ug mga hambog, oh-oh...

Hephaestus (Vulcan)
Blacksmith to the Gods; god of fire and the forges

Athena (Minerva)
Goddess of wisdom, crafts, and strategic battle

Ares (Mars)
God of war, frenzy, hatred, and bloodshed

how thoughtful of jk rowlings to soften cerberus as fluffy for kids like hubag.

Demeter (Ceres)
Goddess of fertility, agriculture, nature, and the seasons

Aphrodite (Venus)
Goddess of love, beauty, desire, and fertility

Apollo (Apollo)
The Sun God; god of light, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, archery and truth

04
The Twelve Olympians

Meet the major deities of greek mythology: the Twelve Olympians.  The Twelve Olympians live on mount Olympus and are the foundation of greek mythology.  They are led by Zeus, the father of gods.  (with Greek names; in parenthesis are Roman, i.e. Latin names.)

Zeus (Jupiter)
King of the Gods and ruler of Mount Olympus; god of the sky, thunder, and justice.

Hera (Juno)
Queen of the Gods and of the heavens; goddess of women, marriage, and motherhood.

Poseidon (Neptune)
Lord of the Sea; god of the seas, earthquakes, created horses.

03
Chaos (cosmogony)

Before There Were Gods, There Was Chaos


Magnum Chaos represented by Lorenzo Lotto, at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.

Chaos (Greek χάοÏ,, khaos) refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specifically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth.

02
Cerberus  (SUR-buh-rus)



Hades' guard dog, a relative of both the Chimaera and the Hydra. Cerberus was carried up from Hades by Heracles in one his Labors. This was achieved only after a protracted battle in which the hero was mauled by the hound's fangs and menaced by snakes growing from his back and tail. In contrast, Cerberus abandoned his watchdog task and lay down meekly to the strains of Orpheus's lyre when that minstrel journeyed to the Underworld in search of his dead wife Eurydice. The poison used in Medea's attempt to murder Theseus was made from Cerberus's drool.

Mythweb's illustrated encyclopedia of Greek Mythology, www.mythweb.com.
This resource is a fully indexed list of characters from Greek Mythology.

01
Greek Mythology Overview
www.history.com



In Greek mythology, there is no single original text like the Christian Bible or the Hindu Vedas that introduces all of the myths’ characters and stories.  Instead, the earliest Greek myths were part of an oral tradition that began in the Bronze Age, and their plots and themes unfolded gradually in the written literature of the archaic and classical periods. The poet Homer’s 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. They do not, however, bother to introduce the gods and goddesses who are their main characters, since readers and listeners would already have been familiar with them.

The Fascinating World Of Greek Mythology

by Patrick Weber

The earliest myths were known to form sometime around 900BC. Modern scholars look at greek myths to gain an understanding of the religious institutions of ancient Greece. Many of these stories are often alluded to in modern culture.

hehe, ambot bitaw nga kapoyan na man kog tuon bahin ug computer.  just like mobile phones.  naa koy bag-o, igo ra kong nakakat-on paggamit, naa na poy lain.  ay, di na ko.  basa na lang kog latin uy...

nangambisyon pa hinoon ko nga ma-blogger.  di man diay ni blogging dinhi sa tb, matod pa ni fr chic sa una.  i had a friend who made a website for me, aruy, nahanaw ug napadpad ang website kay di man ko kahibawo unsay buhaton, hahaha! 

and the memes aren't far behind.  ces't la vie!

Members of the "Rolex 12"

Tomas Diaz, PMA-Cl '51 - Vice Chief of the Philippine Constabulary

Juan Ponce Enrile - Minister of Defense

Romeo Espino, UP-ROTC - Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)

Romeo Gatan - Chief of the Philippine Constabulary in Rizal Province

Alfredo Montoya, PMA Cl-'51 - Chief of the Philippine Constabulary Metropolitan Command (METROCOM)

Ignacio Paz, PMA Cl-'51 - Chief of the Intelligence Services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP)

Fidel Ramos, USMA Cl-'50; Honorary PMA Cl-51 - Chief of the Philippine Constabulary (PC), future President (1992â€"1998)

Jose Rancudo - Chief of the Philippine Air Force (PAF)

Hilario Ruiz - Chief of the Philippine Navy (PN)

Rafael Zagala - Chief of the Philippine Army (PA)

Fabian Ver, Honorary-PMA Cl '51 - Chief of National Intelligence Security Authority (NISA)

Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco, Jr., Honorary PMA Cl-'51 - present Chairman of San Miguel Corporation.

wikipedia/

The twelve were responsible for many human rights atrocities, although the extent of their responsibility is still being investigated. These atrocities include torture, murder, seizures of property, displacement from homes, and arrest and detention without due process.

The origin of the name Rolex 12 came from a widespread story and some sources that each associate received a Rolex watch from Marcos himself, although this is allegedly proven to be untrue. Others, however, would pursue the argument that Marcos provided them with watches that appear to be Rolex watches but were actually fakes. Historically, each member was just given an ordinary watch by Marcos. But because of the story, the name Rolex 12 stuck and is still used to refer to these twelve Marcos associates. Some of them fled with Marcos when he and his family left the Philippines in 1986, while others like Enrile and Ramos were instrumental in the coup against him.

Rolex 12 is the collective name of twelve of the closest and most powerful advisers of President Ferdinand Marcos during the martial law years in the Philippines from 1972 to 1981.

During the latter years of his second elected term, Marcos conspired with various leaders of the military and Philippine Constabulary. The goal was for Marcos to gain full authoritarian control of the country during his declaration of martial law in 1972. Marcos gave the military leadership powers during martial law, taking over from democratically elected officials and court judges.

related gyod diay ang valentong day ug kalag-kalag, hihihi.  taym sa ra god, why man tawon wa man koy buwak gikan ni banana republic? 

aaargh!  now you're speaking gaelic.  can't make heads or tails of android or ubuntu, hehe. unsaon, isles here hardly literate bahin ug computer.  sigh.

which means okay diay imong access sa tb, vrglguaps.  at least that's reassuring.

whew!  a real, real great read. typical maureen dowd wit.

and who knows, identities of crime suspects may be easy to verify during questioning.  just get the earwax and match.  what a great support for good old fingerprints.

looks like in the near future earwax may be integrated into passports.

no gun of whatever make and caliber, no leather jacket and pants manufactured in china, no deliberately charming look in the eyes ala deniece cornejo, will take away the bikogs of my right side earned while waiting for tubagbohol that's been very slow since this ddos attack.  

sooo true.  but when kaha ang florists happier?  valentine's day or all soul's day?

Evasco said the town had allowed the residents of the area to remain there while they looked for a relocation site for them.

The livelihood of the residents living there, who depend on fishing, has also been affected, he added.

Evasco said they have temporarily provided alternative livelihood to the residents, such as hog raising and organic farming. â€" Carmel Loise Matus

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

The fault line is located in the towns of Inabanga, Loon and Maribojoc, three municipalities that were badly hit by the earthquake that killed at least 200 people.

Phivolcs said the earthquake had caused a general uplift of three-fourths of Bohol island and pushed the southwestern part of the province toward Cebu by 55 centimeters.

The coastline in Maribojoc has risen and appears to have reclaimed 55 centimeters of land.

New fault line found in Bohol

Inquirer Visayas
Monday, February 17th, 2014

CEBU CITY, Philippinesâ€"The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has advised around 100 residents of Maribojoc, Bohol, to leave their houses which are located near the coast after a fault line appeared following the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that rocked Cebu and Bohol on Oct. 15 last year.

Maribojoc Mayor Leoncio Evasco, who was here to attend a forum, said he received a letter from the MGB Central Visayas office advising him to inform the residents to leave the area for their safety.

The earthquake caused a reverse fault in Bohol, with an increase in elevation of about three meters in Barangay (village) Anonang, Inabanga, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.

Samuel Trego and Ben Spiri (R) read to "Stewart," a cat up for adoption, during "The Book Buddies Program" at the Animal Rescue League of Berks County in Birdsboro, PA on February 11, 2014.  (REUTERS/Mark Makela)

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Samuel Trego plays with "Stewart," a cat up for adoption, during "The Book Buddies Program" at the Animal Rescue League of Berks County in Birdsboro, PA on February 11, 2014.  (REUTERS/Mark Makela)