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ave atque vale!

taym sa, mangita usa kog tissue ha?  mora man ug di na ko kabasa... huhuhu, kalooy sad ani nila uy.  may god in his mercy set them gently down in peace.

Quote from: Lorenzo on December 05, 2013, 09:37:28 AM
O wow ! Kalami uy. You're like my dad, Fr. Roel, hilig kaajo si Daddy Rico og hot food. He loves to put tabasco sauce  or hot sauce sa ijang kanonon. Sometimes when im home in new jersey, maka kita ko ni dad, he always puts tabasco sauce in his meat.

i tried doing it once and i ended up drinking 2 glasses of milk to reduce the fires from my mouth. bwahahaha!

is it a tagbilaranon thing to like hot food?

Quote from: chicogon on December 05, 2013, 09:39:33 AM
The Bicolano in us

pwera hemorrhoids.

we just acquired a secondhand piano for our little girl.  no more electronic keyboard for her.  she was so excited, she didn't go to school for a day.

lorenz and lolla please pray for my cat dixie that she will pull through and get well soon.

Quote from: bugsay on December 08, 2013, 06:21:33 PM
Meowrrrkkkkkkkkkk!!................

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 09, 2013, 08:56:01 AM
Tomorrowwwwrrrrkkkkkkkk!!............

hikikikikikkikkikikikik!.......

Quote from: bugsay on December 10, 2013, 11:15:17 AM
karaan...

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 10, 2013, 11:22:31 AM
...aron dulot nga masabtan, nunot sa buot sa hingtungdan...

Quote from: bugsay on December 10, 2013, 11:44:56 AM
..ug mahinangpon'g maghanduraw sa giagop-opan na'ng kagahapon....

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 10, 2013, 03:47:11 PM
...nga maoy iyang paagi paglingkawas sa badlongong mga tambaloslos nga nag-alirong sa iyang kinabuhi karon...

ug mao kini ang tanghaga sa duha ka mabulokong tambaloslos nga nag-second childhood na...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on December 09, 2013, 10:42:25 AM
Madam CJ Isles:

ola, lolla!  would that one of my cats is as healthy as this.  i came to cebu and one of the first things i did was to bring a cat to the vet because she's so dehydrated and infected.  i blew my top to the catsitters here for not being observant enough.  it's almost a week now and dixie my 7-year-old cat is still holding on at the cat hospital.  natarantar na kong nag-imagine sa bill, but at least i'm assured that she's getting the best treatment around. 

nauwaw ko kay nitiyabaw ko sa animal hospital diri (hospital ang ngan nila kay kompleto naay animal ambulance) atubangan sa kadaghanan after i was told that her chances are not so good.  nalooy tawon ko ni dixie kay gilabay baya ni siya ug koreano nga gipul-an na tingali niya.  that was 7 years ago.  gibukbok pa nako ang pultahan atong tawhana kay natarantar tawon iyang iring sigeg siyagit, nalibog asa padung kay gapareha ra ang hitsura sa tanang pultahan sa condo.  arang isoga man atong tawhana.  so i ended up adopting his rejected cat and named her dixie.  karon tawon nasakit na si dixie.  hinaot nasakit pod unta tong koreano simbako.   

Quote from: Lorenzo on December 08, 2013, 03:17:29 PM
You haven't posted in over a week, where are you now? Just know that I'm praying and thinking of you.

Miss you, Tita!

thanks, toto.  my fault.  i should have given notice for my temporary absence.  been supervising the packing of our household things for our shipment.  moving on.  most of our things are in cebu, so i'm here for this disorienting and stressful activity.  tubagbohol would have been a destressing break, but the computer here is kaput.  now's my first time to try going online with my notebook.

glad to be back.  

mga badlungon ay.  kulinitan man dayon ta nga na-absent...

nekst taym, hubag, dekit-dekit ug tokar ni verdi o ni tchaikovsky ba kaha aron di moreklamo nang batan-on jamo nga ginganlan ug bugsay nga karaan ang imong kanta unya imo dayong ipahid nakoh!

lesson for boyfriends and husbands: get an illiterate girlfriend or wife who cannot count and is too afraid to shop.

wa man klaroha sa news item kun kang kinsang money ang gigamit pag-shopping.  maklaro unta nganong nag-suicide.  his credit card?  his inheritance money?  asows, what a way to go.  dahil lamang sa shopping.  arang katoytoy. 

Now is not the time to point fingers or assess blame. Now is the time to work together -- to encourage global bayanihan -- to get assistance to those that really need it, and to do that in the context of understanding past failures and successes. Like my Filipino friends, I am an optimist at heart, and it is hard not to see a better future in the smiles I saw on the children of Leyte and Samar, children who have experienced more tragedy in their young lives than most of us do in a lifetime. The Filipino spirit is stronger than this event -- not only is it "waterproof", it is pessimist-proof as well.



Stephen P. Groff is the Asian Development Bank's Vice-President for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This article first appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer and in Embassy Magazine.


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For its part, my institution -- the Asian Development Bank -- is committed to supporting the country in response, recovery and reconstruction. We have already released a $3 million grant and will soon be releasing another $20 million grant and a $500 million loan to support reconstruction. While these funds will help, they represent only a fraction of our commitment to the Philippines. Two-thirds of our staff -- nearly 2,000 people -- are Filipino, many with a direct connection to this tragedy. The remainder are expatriates who have chosen Manila as a second home. Alongside our neighbors, thousands of us are contributing in a personal capacity to the ongoing efforts in the Visayas. We will do whatever is necessary to help get these communities back on their feet.

Lastly, we should use the momentum created by this crisis to inject momentum into the fight against climate change. Naderev Saño, the chief representative of the Philippines at the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, pled with delegates at COP 19 on November 11 to "stop this madness". There is significant scientific evidence that the worst storms are getting stronger and that storm surges are compounded by sea level rise. The global community should use this event as an impetus for concrete, immediate action to address climate change.

Past experience shows that while responding to initial needs is often chaotic, study after study demonstrates that failing to support a strong national presence on the ground undermines the government's ability to lead the reconstruction effort, long after emergency responders have departed. This begins with the relief phase being anchored by strong national coordination of both domestic and international efforts. In short, the entire international community -- public, private and civil society -- must support the government's efforts to coordinate all phases of the response.



And what about concerned citizens? In an excellent piece in Slate, humanitarian worker Jessica Alexander urges the civically minded to "donate money -- not teddy bears, not old shoes, not breast milk." Her basic premise is that we need to curb our instinct to donate things, and instead donate money to those organizations that can best determine what things are necessary on the ground. Not only does money travel faster and cost less to move, there is less chance that it will end up unused.

In responding to this tragedy, the Philippines, paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, must allow itself to be influenced by the better angels of its nature -- bayanihan, pakikipagtulungan, mapagpatawad and kaloob.

The rest of the world must accept the lessons from previous tragedies that we too often have stubbornly resisted. In a recent Washington Post piece, Vijaya Ramachandran and Owen Barder urge the world to "Let's help the Philippines -- but not like we helped Haiti". They acknowledge that the immediate aftermath of such disasters can bring out the best in the global community. But much remains to be learned from our response to disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, particularly around transparency and accountability. The Government of the Philippines has made a strong push in this direction with the launch of FAiTH (the Foreign Aid Transparency Hub), an online portal of information on aid received in response to Yolanda.

The Philippines has been my home for much of the time since. My wife and our two amazing children are Filipino. While aware of the challenges faced by a burgeoning middle-income country, we marvel at the beauty of this place and still spend many weekends in the village where I first lived as a volunteer. I may not look it but, deep inside, my heart is here -- Pilipino ang puso ko.

We have all seen how resilient this country is. Through war, typhoons, volcanoes, and earthquakes, the Filipino perseveres with a smile on his face and wonders if you'd like to eat, ready to share whatever she has. This is what will allow the country to overcome this tragedy -- the optimism and generosity of its people. This time though, we must all be Filipino. We must all share in that optimism and generosity.

My life is inextricably entwined with this country. In many ways, I owe my family and my career to the Philippines. I first came here over twenty-five years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer. Newly graduated from college, I was ready to impart all of my "wisdom" to a community of artisanal fishermen, only to find that I had much more to learn from them than they from me. This was my first introduction to the Filipino spirit and to the notion of "bayanihan". People who had very little didn't think twice about sharing it. The community always came together to help someone with a sick family member, to support someone else whose boat was destroyed by a storm or to repair communal dikes in the rice fields.

This Time We Must All Be Filipino

Stephen P. Groff
Vice-President, Asian Development Bank
11/29/2013

Just three weeks ago, millions of Filipinos felt the catastrophic strength of Super Typhoon Haiyan. What can I write in its aftermath that could help ease their agony? What can I possibly say that might lighten their load? Following my visit to Tacloban and surrounding areas, I know that there are no words that will alleviate their suffering; no literary unction that will sooth their pain. I can't pretend to understand the emptiness felt by someone who has lost a child, a parent or a loved one to this disaster by making false comparisons to disappointments I have experienced. Dime-store analogies will never do justice to the enormity of this loss. The only thing I can say is that I know the Philippines can overcome this tragedy and will be stronger for the experience.

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 30, 2013, 09:23:34 AM
Hmm, makes me wonder... You must be the poker, not the poked.

shouldn't have, but you called, so i accomplished my mission.

owwww, come on, lorenz.  you led the counting chorus, teheeeh.

arrruyyy, kontra diay ug arthritis?!

suya bitaw ko pod.  pildero hapit tanan ang akong gibotaran, naunsa ba...

over coffee and native sweets?  real bonding!

klarong katoliko ang bata nga gisabak.

we, the voters, are equally imbecile.

looks good for a cheese monster like me.  but why the name hogshead?  from a place called that?  reminds me of hogsmead of harry potter fame.  and facebook; nabali sa bookface, a letter type.  thinking of hedgehog too... 

ow, why man lisod-lisoron pa man gyod nako ang akong kinabuhi with such ruminations?  ulo ug litson na lang kaha ang reference ani nga cheese...    

au contraire, my eyesight was enhanced.  i now can see two hubags...

Pentacoste icons in the Coptic Orthodox Church

The Holy Spirit, when He assumes a visible form, assumes that which will be symbolic of the thing to be represented. At Pentecost, He assumed the form of “tongues of fire” (Acts 2:30) to signify the miraculous powers of language with which the apostles would be endowed and the power of their message. In the same way, His appearance as the dove symbolizes the gentle Savior bringing peace to mankind through His sacrifice.


S. Michael Houdmann
http://www.gotquestions.org/

White dove with olive branch, stained glass window in the Denis and Saint Sebastian church in Kruft, Germany

Another symbol involving the dove comes from the account of the Flood and Noah’s ark in Genesis 6-8. When the earth had been covered with water for some time, Noah wanted to check to see if there was dry land anywhere, so he sent out a dove which came back with an olive branch in her beak (Genesis 8:11). Since that time, the olive branch has been a symbol of peace. Symbolically, the story of the dove tells us that God declared peace with mankind after the Flood purged the earth of its wickedness. The dove represented His Spirit bringing the good news of reconciliation with God. Of course, this was only in a temporal sense because true spiritual reconciliation with God only comes through Jesus Christ. But it is significant that the Holy Spirit was pictured as a dove at Jesus’ baptism, thereby once again symbolizing peace with God.


J.E.Millais: Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851) /wikipedia


S. Michael Houdmann
http://www.gotquestions.org/

Question: "Why is the dove often used as a symbol for the Holy Spirit?"


Baptism of Christ, by Francesca, 1449 /wikipedia

Answer: All four Gospel accounts refer to the baptism of Jesus by John at the Jordan river (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32). The Luke account says “And the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily shape, like a dove on Him.” Because the Holy Spirit is just thatâ€" spiritâ€" He is not visible to us. This occasion, however, was a real visible appearance, and was doubtless seen by the people. The dove is an emblem of purity and harmlessness (Matthew 10:16), and the form of the dove was assumed on this occasion to signify that the Spirit with which Jesus would be endowed would be one of purity and innocence.


S. Michael Houdmann
http://www.gotquestions.org/

kalami.  thanks, hof.

The Madeira Flower Festival, Portugal

In Madeira, Portugal, the harvest is celebrated every year with the wonderfully aromatic Madeira Island Flower Festival. The streets and parading floats are decorated with thousands of flowers.


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Pongal, India

Pongal is a four-day harvest festival widely celebrated in the South of India. On the third day, celebrants honor their cows, and gift them with garlands of flowers and beads. In preparation, vendors stock up on colorful flora.

Chuseok, Korea

Chuseok is one of the most important holidays on the Korean calendar (both North and South). The three-day event coincides with the autumnal equinox, and is a time when many Koreans visit their families. It is also common to revive folk traditions, such as the tradition jumping dance, poongmul (pictured).

Baisakhi, India and Pakistan

Baisakhi is one of the most sacred holidays in the Sikh religion. Every year, thousands of pilgrims visit the Sikh Shrine of Gurudwara Panja Sahib in Pakistan and Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev.

Sukkot, Israel

In the Jewish faith, Sukkot is a harvest festival, and also a religious holiday. The celebration lasts for seven days, and involves building a sukkah, or temporary house. Sometimes, it's traditional to decorate with hanging fruit.

Blessing of the Sea, Greece and Cyprus

In some communities in Greece and Cyprus, Epiphany Day is celebrated by the blessing of the nearest body of water. A bishop throws a crucifix into the seas, at which point several volunteers dive in to fetch it. The lucky captor is said to have have good luck for the remainder of the year.


In Greek Orthodox communities, the prelude to the harvest coincides with a staple on the religious calendar -- Epiphany Day (January 6). To celebrate the baptism of Christ, and to curry blessing for the coming season, the local bishop leads a procession to the nearest body of water, where he tosses a crucifix into the sea. Volunteers (mainly young men) leap in after it and compete to be the first to catch it. Whoever rescues the cross from the sea will supposedly be granted good luck in the upcoming year. After the waters are blessed, some folks wash their produce in the harbor in hopes of a bountiful Autumn harvest.

Costermonger's Harvest Festival, England

Every year, London's Pearly Kings and Queens -- a charitable group recognizable by their dark suits, embroidered with pearl buttons -- gather to celebrate the Costermonger's Harvest Festival.


For 125 years, the London harvest festival has had a troupe of shimmering mascots. The Pearly Kings and Queens -- deemed Britain's "second royal family" -- are renown for their dark suits emblazoned with hundreds of mother-of-pearl buttons, a tradition started by Henry Croft, an orphan-turned-street sweeper. He first got the idea from costermongers, or street hawkers, who used to line the seams of their pants with pearl buttons found on the street. He took it a step further and coated his whole suit -- top hat and all. Naturally, it wasn't long before he was a popular London fixture; he used his notoriety to raise money for various charities.

Each borough of London has its own Pearly Kind and Queen, and as a whole, the group functions mainly as a charitable organization. According to Doreen Golding, the Pearly Queen of Old Kent Road and Bow Bells, charity and harvest go hand-in-hand.

"It doesn't matter what faith you are. At the end of the year, when all the crops are gathered and have been given to people in the community, it's typical to then give them out to all the homeless people who haven't got any food," she says. Like Croft, the "Pearlies" use their fame to fund raise.

Moon Festival, China and Vietnam

The Moon Festival is one of the biggest celebrations in China and Vietnam. The festival has many customs, though one of the most popular is the consumption of mooncakes -- pastries stuffed with a variety of sweet pastes.

Thanksgiving, USA

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a time-honored feature of the American holiday. The event started in 1924 and features balloons and floats of popular cartoon characters and pop culture icons.

Honen Matsuri, Japan

In the Japanese town of Komaki, the Autumn bounty is preceded by Honen Matsuri -- or the fertility festival. Shinto priests bless a massive wooden phallus, which they offer to the gods in exchange for a fruitful season.


To some, a procession led by a 600-pound wooden penis may seem a strange way to welcome the Spring, but in the small town of Komaki, it's only natural. Honen Matsuri, or the fertility festival, is held every year on March 15, and while the plethora of phalluses on display have made the event a popular go-to for tittering tourists, it is actually a Shinto ritual meant to ensure a bountiful harvest in the coming months.

The main phallus is carved from a single cedar tree in the winter and brought to the local Tagata Shrine for purification. During the festival, it is paraded by a troupe of Shinto priests. In the lead-up to the main event, stalls serve up unending cups of saki to the crowd, and vendors hawk penis-shaped candies. The celebration ends with priests throwing out handfuls of mochi, or rice cakes, to anyone gathered in the shrine's courtyard -- a practice meant to bring good luck for the following year.

Crop Over, Barbados

In the 18th century, Barbados was the wold's largest sugar producer, and they used to celebrate the end of the harvest with a festival. Though no longer a top exporter, the festivities -- called Crop Over -- have become a staple on the cultural calendar.


In 1780, Barbados was one of the biggest sugar producers in the world. Today, that honor goes to Brazil, but the Caribbean country still celebrates the sugar harvest with a month-long festival in July, known as Crop Over.

Pic-O-De Crop -- a kind of "American Idol" for Calypso music -- is one of the festival's most popular events, where finalists are judged for their savvy lyrics, content, melody and diction. Like Brazil's Carnival, the costumes help make the event (that, and copious amounts of rum), and prizes are given out for the most outrageous concoctions at the festival's end.

Pacu Jawi, Indonesia

At the end of the rice harvest, farmers in the West Sumatra race their cows while surfing behind on a wooden plank. The sport -- called Pacu Jawi -- is meant to demonstrate the strength of the herd before they're sold at auction.

Thanksgiving isn't the only colorful harvest festival...

By Daisy Carrington, for CNN
November 28, 2013

(CNN) -- There are all sorts of ways to celebrate a successful harvest. In U.S. of course, people commemorate the season's bounty by giving thanks, overdosing on roast turkey, and turning on the TV to watch an endless parade of cartoon characters float about the streets of New York.

But today's Thanksgiving is not the only harvest festival on the cultural calendar. No matter the time of year, or place, a bounty of vegetables is often all it takes to get people singing, dancing, cow racing -- even parading around giant phalluses. To get in the spirit, we've reaped some of the world's most vibrant harvest festivals.

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Photo: Scott Green

Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, another new addition Photo: Scott Green

Finn and Jake from Adventure Time, one of the latest additions Photo: Scott Green

The Sonic the Hedgehog balloon is seen during the 87th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 28, 2013 in New York City. Photograph by: Andrew Toth, Getty Images for Sega of America

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Workers prepare the giant Snoopy balloon before the 87th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York, Nov. 28, 2013.

The SpongeBob SquarePants giant balloon at Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Nov. 28, 2013. (Photo Sandra Lemaire)

Cheers Greet Giant Balloons at Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Sandra Lemaire
November 28, 2013

NEW YORK â€" Macy’s 87th Annual Thanksgiving Parade kicked off to cheers as the popular giant balloons got the green light to fly under clear skies and mild winds. 

Snoopy and Woodstock were the first mammoths to appear against a backdrop of millions of bundled-up spectators, who lined the streets of Manhattan with their smartphones and cameras in hand.

more at http://www.voanews.com/content/cheers-greet-giant-balloons-at-macys-thanksgiving-parade/1799824.html


The Spider-Man balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, Nov. 28, 2013 (Photo Sandra Lemaire)
you must be an alien if you didn't know this guy

But it was not just military forces defecting from the Marcos military who heeded Keithley. By the second day, the character of the revolution-in-the-making had changed dramatically. It was no longer a military project; instead, it had become People Power.


The remains of June Keithley-Castro arrived at the ABS-CBN compound. Photo by Reyma Buan-Deveza for ABS-CBNnews.com

The hero we bury today was the voice that helped call that power forth.


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Angela Stuart Santiago recorded Ramos’ grateful account of Keithley’s role: “We needed to reinforce our military forces. This is why our call to the people to come and support us was very constant. And we were able to do this through June Keithley and the radio broadcasting crews of Radio Veritas who were on the job, calling on the people, transmitting for us even messages which were tactical in nature. This was the first time in military history, anywhere in the world, when private broadcast media, run by concerned citizens, were used to transmit or relay military orders or directives to military units in the field.” This extraordinary work continued and culminated with the Radyo Bandido guerilla operation. Ramos famously called Keithley “the field marshal of the Edsa revolution.”

This was a crucial find. When the Veritas transmission tower was bombed by Marcos forces, the central source fell silent. Reuter eventually found an unused radio station (much nearer to Malacañang Palace than the Radio Veritas station was, and therefore more at risk), and asked Keithley to anchor the broadcast. In “Edsa 20,” the Inquirer television documentary, Keithley recounted her exchange with Reuter: how he asked her, how she could not say no, how he made a joke about the possibility of being discovered by Marcos forces and being killed in the process.

june keithley was married to the late broadcaster angelo castro jr. who passed away in 2012

CLASPED HANDS These hands belong to Angelo Castro Jr. and wife June Keithley (inset photos) moments before he died. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

When “Radyo Bandido” went on the air, it was Keithley’s voice, and especially her repeated playing of “Mambo Magsaysay,” that convinced people that the new, unknown station was legitimate, the real voice of the revolution. For several hours, it was just Keithley and a couple of intrepid students who staffed the station; in time, a long line of nuns and civilians arrived in the station to serve as Keithley’s bodyguard.

Keithley was one of those who heeded Jaime Cardinal Sin’s appeal to defend the beleaguered anti-Marcos group. Instead of heading for the military headquarters, or joining the growing crowd on Edsa, she went where her giftsâ€"her charism, to use a particularly resonant theological termâ€"led her: to Radio Veritas, the Catholic Church’s lead radio station.

In a very fluid situation, with potentially grave consequences for unarmed civilians caught between heavily equipped and highly trained military factions, Reuter, a communications expert, realized it was vital to have a central source of information, a focus of coordination. He called on his protégé to serve as that focus, that source.

In Veritas, Keithley worked with other anchors; they gave continuous updates, they issued appeals and cautions; not least, they found the perfect soundtrack for a revolution-in-the-making: “Mambo Magsaysay,” the upbeat campaign jingle of the late president Ramon Magsaysay from three decades before.

Known as an accomplished stage actress, one of the most famous of “Reuter’s babies”â€"the students who played roles in the theater productions directed by the late Jesuit, Fr. James Reuterâ€"Keithley was in fact a compleat entertainer. She acted in a Lino Brocka movie; she played a comedienne on TV.

But not many entertainers are led by their talent onto the largest stage conceivable: history itself. For an unforgettable four days in February 1986, Keithley became the voice of a people’s uprising, a peaceful revolution that inspired other opposition movements and stunned the world.

After forces loyal to the dictator Ferdinand Marcos interrupted a post-snap election coup attempt, and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and his reformist soldiers decided to make a last stand in Camp Aguinaldo with Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, leading supporters of presidential candidate Corazon Aquino stepped into the breach.

Editorial

The field marshal

Philippine Daily Inquirer
Thursday, November 28th, 2013



The inimitable June Keithley will be buried today, five days after succumbing to cancer at 66. An awardee of the Philippine Legion of Honor, rank of commander, she fully deserves the military honors that will help mark today’s rites. These are fitting for another reason, however: They help recall Keithley’s extraordinary role in the People Power revolution of 1986.

The President also said the government will still pursue the proposed construction of the Panglao Airport as a feasibility study showed that the site for the airport was not affected by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake.

Aquino said the proposed Panglao Airport would boost tourism and generate jobs.

He noted that Panglao Island is seen as having potential “equivalent to Boracay.”


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On Bohol’s power supply problem, the President said the Luzon grid will be providing a 100-megawatt augmentation for Bohol so the problem of outages in the province will be eliminated by next month.

The National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will offer shelter assistance for those whose houses were damaged or destroyed by the quake, Aquino said.

The earthquake displaced 75,140 families, or 370,836 persons, in Bohol, who are now living in 376 evacuation centers, the NDRRMC reported on its website.

Ona said the hospital in Loon cannot be used anymore and proposed that a new hospital be built to replace it. The Department of Health is partnering with the Loon local government for the construction of the new hospital.

He said the DOH has proposed a P289-million budget for the repair of destroyed and damaged health facilities.

Ona also disclosed that the latest death toll in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake was 208 while 877 persons were injured.

“(The) end point is we want to give you these bridges and other infrastructure built back in a better condition,” he said.

Aquino also said a new hospital has to be built for Loon town.

Health Secretary Enrique Ona has reported that 169 health facilities in Bohol were affected by the quake and estimated the damage at P164 million.

Of the 169 health facilities, 21 were destroyed, including the Congressman Natalio Castillo Memorial Hospital in Loon.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), on its website, estimated the damage to roads, bridges, flood control, school buildings, hospitals and other public structures in Bohol at more than P1.383 billion, as of Oct. 30.

During his visit, the President inaugurated two steel bridges that temporarily replaced the collapsed Abatan and Tagbuane bridges in Maribojoc and Alburquerque towns, respectively.

He said permanent bridges would be built by next year, after tests are conducted, including boring tests, to ensure the best site for the new bridges.

The President said there will be a better location and higher elevation for the bridges.

P5B set for Bohol quake rehab

By Carmel Loise Matus
Inquirer Visayas
Friday, November 29th, 2013


President Benigno Aquino lll. AP FILE PHOTO

TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippinesâ€"President Aquino said Thursday the national government has allocated around P5 billion for the rehabilitation of Bohol province, which was hit by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Oct. 15.

Speaking at a press briefing following a closed-door meeting with the Bohol Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Tagbilaran City, Aquino said he had been assured by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad that “the [funding] needed for Bohol has already been set aside.”

This is the third time that the President visited Bohol after the earthquake.

Quote from: chicogon on November 28, 2013, 06:43:38 PM
Sa first night I had no food to offer the Gawad Kalinga folks but I had red wine. Mao na lay akong gehatag to help forget what just happened

cool!

Quote from: chicogon on November 29, 2013, 12:44:51 AM
That's it?

i can consume a barrel of this my favorite.  bahalag tinumban.

9. Doomed from birth: Those poor turkeys; they don't stand a chance. Just look at the name we gave them. A turkey less than 12-weeks-old is called a fryer-roaster.

10. Talking turkey: Why is it called a turkey? Oh boy, this will take some explainin'. Back in the day, the Europeans took a liking to the guinea fowls imported to the continent. Since the birds were imported by Turkish merchants, the English called them turkeys. Later, when the Spaniards came to America, they found a bird that tasted like those guinea fowls. When they were sent to Europe, the English called these birds "turkeys" as well.

Sources: Smithsonian Magazine, Roto-Rooter, Census Bureau, National Women's History Museum, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Library of Congress, Government of Canada, CNN Belief Blog, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dan Lewis' "Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind The World's Most Interesting Facts."


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7. Born in the U.S.A.: Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday. Canadians celebrate it too. Except they do it the second Monday in October.

8. Break out the menurkeys: The first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving come together today for the first time since 1888. Scientists say the confluence won't occur again for another 70,000 years, give or take a millennium.

5. Gobble, gobble?: Not so fast. Only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females, called hens, cackle.

6. Have it your way: If Ben Franklin did, the turkey would be our national bird. An eagle, he wrote in a letter to his daughter, had "bad moral character." A turkey, on the other hand, was a "much more respectable bird."

3. This land is my land: There are four places in the U.S. named Turkey. Louisiana's Turkey Creek is the most populous, with a whopping 440 residents. There's also Turkey, Texas; Turkey, North Carolina; and Turkey Creek, Arizona. Oh, let's not forget the two townships in Pennsylvania: the creatively named Upper Turkeyfoot and Lower Turkeyfoot!

4. Leaving a legacy: When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme, "Mary had a Little Lamb."

1. A tradition is born: TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! Some industrious soul came up with a brilliant plan: Why not slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side?Thus, the first TV dinner was born!

2. Going shopping?: Not if you're a plumber. Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for them, according to Roto-Rooter, the nation's largest plumbing service. After all, someone has to clean up after household guests who "overwhelm the system."

10 fun facts we bet you didn't know about Thanksgiving

By Saeed Ahmed, CNN
November 28, 2013


Huh. Did not know that

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Black Friday is the busiest day for plumbers

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey as our national bird

There's a reason turkey (the bird) and Turkey (the country) share a name

(CNN) -- When the guests around your Thanksgiving table are busy stuffing their bellies today, here's one way to break the lull in conversation: dazzle them with some tasty turkey trivia.

Here's 10 to get you started. We bet you they'll eat them up!

that is why i never understood how doctors manage to keep sane with such lack of sleep.

happy thanksgiving too to all of us who remain pilgrims at heart!

what a great young man.

goes with the age, i suppose.  you have all the energy.

now i'm listening to "i talk to the trees" from paint your wagon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk#ws

clint eastwood singing?  unbelievable.

yes!  i like his music too.

ugh.  such difference in music taste, hehe.  i'm listening to perry como right now.

Quote from: Lorenzo on November 28, 2013, 02:32:35 PM
bwahahahaha! i'll make sure to bring more than 1 bottle for you, Tita.

thanks!  one is truly fine by me so you can give the rest to others, like mike.  i'll make a pen holder out of the empty bottle.  a great souvenir.

Quote from: Lorenzo on November 28, 2013, 02:25:21 PM
if i can find it here, i'll buy one and test it out.

i'll drink to that!  lorenz, please bring me a bottle when you come this summer for the chess tournament.  leave it with mike if i'm not around.  pleeezzz, i has wantz grumppuccino...

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