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Quote from: Mari on September 28, 2007, 01:19:50 PM
ang mga baji gud papaliton og pan mohapit pa man og palaman

Kami mga laki ug papaliton ug pan, mohapit sa kalibunan kay mamijabas.

A volunteer at Denver's Municipal Animal Shelter has been suspended and Denver police are investigating claims he was caught in sexual behavior with a dog at the shelter.

"We had an incident," Doug Kelley, director of the shelter, confirmed to CBS4's Brian Maass. "Police are investigating allegations of misconduct by a volunteer. A person has been suspended from being a volunteer."

Kelley said the incident in question occurred Saturday at the shelter and police interviewed shelter employees Monday about what happened.

Kelley declined to provide further details except to say, "There was no apparent injury to the animal."

Kelley said the volunteer could potentially face animal cruelty charges.

Several other sources familiar with the incident said a shelter employee saw the man behind the building engaging in what appeared to be sexual contact with a dog. The volunteer was reported to be at least partially naked.

source: <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5707777,00.html">Rocky Mountain News</a>

Quote from: Mari on September 28, 2007, 01:05:08 PM
oist mr administrator! kabalo ba ka na i was struck by lightning when i was in second year highschool. there was an on going beauty pageant in an open amphitheater at my school when it stormed. i was with some friends and they told me i was left there standing in the open field under my umbrella when they saw a strand of lightning hit me. it brought some tinggling sensation over my body and kinda i feel tired after. they were all worried seeing me they narrated. after that i have noticed that im very sensitive to currents. i get electricuted so easy but im still alive. siguro im mutated now...one of the X-men

Mari, you are now an ex-woman.

Let me tell you this story. Curious ko sauna unsay feeling makuryentehan. So at the staff house sa Mayor sa Anda 16 years ago, I saw an open socket sa bombilya. I turned the light switch on and inserted my two or three fingers into the live socket.

Yours truly nakatulog gyud pagkahuman. Tagam lagi.

I'm so curious of many things even to the point of risking myself.

For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, lived his version of the American dream in Stuart, Florida: washing dishes and living frugally to bring money back to his home country.

Two years ago, Zapeta was ready to return to Guatemala, so he carried a duffel bag filled with $59,000 -- all the cash he had scrimped and saved over the years -- to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

But when Zapeta tried to go through airport security, an officer spotted the money in the bag and called U.S. customs officials.

"They asked me how much money I had," Zapeta recalled, speaking to CNN in Spanish.

He told the customs officials $59,000. At that point, U.S. customs seized his money, setting off a two-year struggle for Zapeta to get it back.

Zapeta, who speaks no English, said he didn't know he was running afoul of U.S. law by failing to declare he was carrying more than $10,000 with him. Anyone entering or leaving the country with more than $10,000 has to fill out a one-page form declaring the money to U.S. customs.

...read more of this story <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/immigrant.money/index.html>HERE</a>

Quote from: C2H4 on September 28, 2007, 12:54:41 PM
Rape is a very real danger in our society, Mr Admin. Of all rape cases, maybe only 10% are reported. Sa giingon ni Miss Mari, tungod pud ni sa perception sa mga tawo nga sad-an ang biktima, nga imbes mo panig sa rape victim, mag blame naman hinuon. Look at what happened to that girl nga gi rape adtong US soldier sa Zamboanga, she was bombarded with criticisms...but she pursued her case, and won.

The weird thing is, rape is not even sexual in nature. It is basically driven by a man's need for control, to prove his strength, his manhood by subduing a defenseless woman.

Also, dako kaayo'g connection ang drugs aning mga rape cases. Sa Chiong case, the rapists were drug addicts. Sa Visconde massacre, the criminals were drug addicts. I saw an episode on rape victims on Magandang Gabi Bayan several years ago...one story was of a 50 year old woman, who got raped repeatedly for a period of time by her own son, everytime the latter got high with drugs. She couldn't bring herself to turn him over to the police because he was, after all, her son.

C2H4, you have an arsenal of shocking stories.

Now I am enraged.

Some say you would have to be barking mad to get hitched â€" and a group of pooches certainly were in the Netherlands in February last year. At a ceremony in Hilversum, 27 doggy couples “got married”. The beasts, who paired up at a speed-dating session beforehand, were all issued with certificates.

(this is a new entry in the Guinness Book of World Records)

The chances of being struck by lightning are about one in three million according to the Met Office - that is more likely than the chance of winning the jackpot in the National Lottery, which is one in 14 million.

Lightning strikes kill approximately 10 per cent of victims - about five people a year in the UK - chiefly through cardiac arrest.

source: news.scotsman.com

Modern times seem to be riddled with growing gaps - the income gap, the achievement gap, the tolerance-of-celebrity-gossip gap. Now here's another one to worry about, according to today's New York Times: the growing happiness gap between men and women.

Two new research papers arrive at this conclusion. One tracked traditional happiness data by asking people how satisfied they are with their lives. It found that women, who in the early 1970s reported being slightly happier than men, are now slightly less happy.

The other analyzed time-use studies over the past four decades to determine how much time men and women spent doing things they found unpleasant. Since the 1960s, men have gradually cut back on tasks they dislike. They now work less and relax more.

Meanwhile, women have replaced housework with paid work (or not replaced as much as added onto), and as a result are spending more time doing things they don't enjoy.

The obvious explanation would seem to be the old "second shift" theory, that women just added their jobs onto their already long and laundry-filled to-do lists. But, according to the Times, this overlooks the fact that women aren't actually working more today than they were 30 or 40 years ago - they're just spending more time on paid work and less on cooking and cleaning.

...read more <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/26/the_skinny/main3299143.shtml">HERE</a>

Quote from: C2H4 on September 28, 2007, 12:36:51 PM
Miss Mari, I would never, ever think of blaming the girl for keeping quiet. She's been through enough hell already. My post was just in response to Mr Admin's wondering why the story hasn't come out in the media yet. And I said, it's probably because no one's talking...not the girl, not the school, and most especially not the criminals. So when no one talks, there's basically no story.

My landlady in CDO (when I was in hs) adopted a baby girl from her former student boarder. She was also a nursing student, coming home late one night after a class, raped by four estambays. She was from Davao. She only told my landlady and no one else. Later on, she found out she was pregnant. She didn't even tell her parents she was pregnant. Immediately after she gave birth, she left. My landlady never heard from her again. The baby is now about 10 yrs old.

Everyone reacts differently to trauma. Lahi lahi atong coping mechanism. The girl coped by forgetting it ever happened, and moving on with her life. She cannot be blamed for that. It's her life, after all. But if she won't talk, we can't go after the criminals or do anything.

That's all I'm saying.

I feel crying reading this account, C2H4.

Quote from: Mari on September 28, 2007, 12:34:42 PM
i watched the movie Sinking of Japan last week at ICM. got some scary thoughts about it. we cant deny we are experiencing a weird climate at the moment, global warming shall we say. unsaon nalang tawn kung mahitabo.

Mari, watch "An Inconvenient Truth" documentary by Al Gore.

Quote from: bisayantek on September 28, 2007, 12:09:35 PM
God Bless nga hinay ra ug walay nakalas nga mga kinabuhi. Dili lalim ang makasinati og linog ilabi na kon nagpuyo kita duol sa dagat. Kini ang nasinati sa katawhan (apil na ko) sa Sitio Bitaugan, West Poblacion, Garcia-Hernandez nga may kalisang pang naglublob sa kahiladman gumikan sa nahitabong linog niadtong Pebrero 10, 1989. Niadtong panahona, ang katawhan namakwit sa bukid aron makalikay sa gikabalak-an nga paghapak sa dagko nga mga balod. Usa ka semana kaming mipuyo sa hataas nga bahin sa among dapit. Apan ang mga kalisang usahay, puypoyon sa katawa sa mga jagajagaon kay nanggawas kuno ang mga gitan-ogan ilabi na ang mga tigulang nga abi sa uban og wala apan bedridden ra diay.

Sus, kujawa jud nang linog! Pero duna baya poy positibong gihatod ning kinaiyanhong katalagman kay ang uban nga nakalimot na sa Ginoo magpanawag man sa iyang ngalan. Hinuon, hangtod ra pod sa pagpanawag kon gikinahanglan sa kahigayonan og nag-ungaw na ang iyang kinabuhi.

I was grade 4 then. We were tendering our school garden. First I heard a helicopter-like sound approaching, then the ground shook, and I saw the ground/land moving like waves of the sea. We dropped to the ground at the prompt of our teacher. When the quake died down, I ran as fast as I could to our house. I was running to our home with so much tears in my ears. I saw the road to our house cracked wide open.

I remember that I cried because I was thinking of my mother. I thought that many people in our town were already killed by that earthquake and we, pupils at the school, were the only survivors. That was my first earthquake experience.

Just as I arrived home, another equally powerful earthquake (Intensity 7 or shook the ground. I dropped to the ground and cried the more, thinking of my mother.

So I will call you Ethyl again.

It would be so hard for a rape victim to come out in public and tell her ordeal.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 28, 2007, 11:46:02 AM
Hahaha, gwapa tung baji from Valencia, Mike?
So what did happen?

She was charming and not so beautiful, but she was a high school valedictorian.
I met her just once and I haven't met her since 1993.

Not really significant and memorable acquaintance. I was just amazed that she wrote so well and I was no match to her writing flair.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 28, 2007, 11:43:05 AM
Putang Ina! Walang yata yung maga construction workers responsible sa rape! They deserve death.

Bran, when I am very angry I also yell "p**** i**. Then I'd ask God to forgive me for my using this phrase.

I was second year high school then. A girl from Valencia, Bohol sent me a Valentine's card and I was surprised.

She wrote so well and this once young boy was too shy to reply with the same force of words.

Quote from: C2H4 on September 28, 2007, 09:14:30 AM
I meet quite a few interesting people, and by interesting, I mean not ordinary. 

I met a character yesterday. He was an older gentleman, probably around 60 or so. He approached me, with a very serious look on his face and said, "Hi, I don't want to cause trouble or anything, but I noticed that the TV (pointing to the TV outside the pharmacy) does not have a nice color hue. I wish you'd tell the manager to adjust the color because it upsets me."

Only in America.

Quote from: C2H4 on September 28, 2007, 09:22:49 AM
Oh, this has been quite the subject of heated debates in Cebuano forums, Mr Admin.

The girl, I believe, is a student at Cebu Doctor's. They say (some people in some forums) the school is denying that any such horrendous event happened. Some say that it really did happen, but that the girl was given hush money by the school administration--to preserve the school's reputation.

Again, this is from what I've read in some Cebuano forums.

I feel so bad for the girl. Rape is the worst, worst, worst offense against women.

Dapat ma lethal injection ning mga rapists.

Ate, the rape did happen. My future stepson is taking up nursing in this school.

I'm wondering why the media did not publish this story.

--e-mailed by Cebu Pacific to Tubag Bohol news team

Low fare carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB), the Philippines' leading domestic airline will start flying Cebuâ€"Taipei and Davao-Taipei (via Cebu) routes starting December 14, 2007.

Both services are scheduled to operate to Taipei 's Chiang Kai Shek International Airport three times weeklyâ€"every Monday, Wednesday and Fridayâ€"using the 150-seater Airbus A319 aircraft.

The Cebu-Taipei flight leaves at 7:50pm and arrives in Taipei at 10:10pm . Conversely, it departs for Cebu at 10:55pm and lands in Mactan International Airport at 1:15am the following day.

The Davao-Taipei service departs Davao at 5:55pm and arrives in Taipei at 10:10pm.  It then leaves Taipei at 10:55pm for the flight back and lands in Davao International Airport at 6am the following day.

CEB is offering a P488 seat sale for these new Taipei routes  from September 28 to October 4, 2007 for the travel period December 14, 2007 to March 31, 2008. The fare is non-refundable, and is exclusive of government taxes and applicable surcharges.

Candice Iyog, CEB VP for marketing and product, said, "We are proud to be the only Philippine carrier to service these new routes to Taipei. With our trademark low fares, we hope to further stimulate tourism and business activities coming from Taipei for both the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

CEB currently operates direct flights to Singapore , Hong Kong, Pusan and Incheon-Korea from Cebu. It also provides a Davao-Singapore and Davao-Hong Kong service (via Cebu).

Iyog stated that the lowest year round 'Go' fares to Taipei from Cebu and Davao starts from P999 one-way. The best way to purchase tickets is via www.cebupacificair.com, though it is also available via CEB ticketing offices and accredited travel agents.

Now in its 12th year, CEB has the youngest fleet in the Philippines . CEB operates 14 brand new Airbus aircraft to its 20 domestic and soon to be 12 international destinations with the addition of Xiamen today, and Guangzhou and Macau next month.

Quote from: C2H4 on September 28, 2007, 08:56:49 AM
Happy Birthday, Mr Admin.

How does it feel to be 28?

Ate, so much grateful and thankful to our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our life and salvation.

The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) said Wednesday it is no longer recommending routine breast self-examinations (BSE) as a way to detect cancer, citing various side effects.

While there is no evidence that BSEs lower breast cancer death rates, such regular exams give women a false sense of security and increase stress and unnecessary treatment, the Society said in a press release on its website.

Often, women who do find a benign lump or a "false positive" often have to go through extensive diagnostic testing that can result in harmful side effects, Heather Logan, director of Cancer Control Policy and Information for the CCS, told reporters Wednesday.

Organized screening with mammography and clinical breast examinations done by a doctor are recommended instead of monthly self exams, according to the release.

The CCS recommends women between the age of 50 and 69 have a mammogram every two years. Women between the ages of 40 and 49 should discuss the risks of developing breast cancer with their physician along with the risks and benefits of mammography.

Women over the age of 40 should be screened every two years by a physician. Women at the age of 70 or older should consult their doctors about screening programs.

Breast cancer death rates among women have fallen by 25 percent since 1986 and more women are living longer after diagnosis of breast cancer.

source: Philippine News Agency

Vietnam - The fatalities from the collapse of the Can Tho bridge that occurred on September 25 has climbed to 64 while some 180 people are currently under medical care by early September 27.

The military zone No. 9 sent more soldiers to the site to help out efforts to find the workers believed to be still trapped in the rubble.

About 250 workers and engineers were reported to be working on the bridge when a 90m long span, which was part of the bridge's approach road, collapsed.

Construction of the Can Tho bridge, which is the longest in the Mekong delta so far, began in 2004 and is slated for completion next year.

The Can Tho bridge, once completed, will be Viet Nam's longest cable bridge at a total length of 2,750m and a four-lane carriageway of 26m wide.

It will have a clearance height of 39 metres to allow 15,000 DWT-sized ships to pass under.

The bridge will significantly improve the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's accessibility to Ho Chi Minh City .

A consortium of Japanese contractors - the Taisei Corporation, the Kajima Corporation and the Nippon Steel Corporation- is building the bridge while Nippon Koei-Chodai is the supervising consultant.

source: Philippine News Agency

The top executive of one of the world’s leading business processing outsourcing (BPO) firms on Wednesday cited the Philippines as the place to be for investors looking forward to cash in on business havens in Southeast Asia.

Kenneth Tuchman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TeleTech, one of the world’s leading BPO firms, described Teletech’s Philippine operations as his company’s “biggest success story.”

Tuchman made the glowing remarks on Philippine business conditions during the luncheon he hosted in honor of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her economic team at the Louis Suite of the Waldorf Astoria Towers.

Invited to the noontime gathering were top leaders of US businesses, who had signified their interest in learning more about business prospects in the Philippines.

Also present during the luncheon-meeting were Finance Secretary MargaritoTeves, Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo.

Saying that Teletech’s Philippine investment has paid off handsomely, Tuchman urged his fellow American businessmen to explore the investment opportunities that abound in the country.

In her response, President Arroyo told the US business leaders that the Philippines offers an environment that is highly conducive to growth, citing the world-renowned reputation of the Filipinos as hardworking, easy to get along with, and versatility in the English language. TeleTech first expanded into the Philippines in 2001.

Since that time, the country has become TeleTech's fastest-growing geography, boasting unprecedented growth from several hundred employees five years ago to 13,000 employees in 10 delivery centers today.

It is now the biggest BPO company operating in the country with the number of employees expected to reach 30,000 by next year.

source: Philippine News Agency

Quote from: Bambi on September 28, 2007, 06:30:56 AM
Hi Mike!

What's wrong with you?  Where is your love and loyalty?  Why surrendering?  Didn't I tell you that we need those intillectuals for the future and peace in our country?  What will the queen of your heart decision then? Crimes happens everywhere and anytime.  Fear is not a weapon against this present problem otherwise, we will be subject to be doomed.

Bambi,

Journalists in the Philippines are killed every now and then - highest rate all over the world.
I can do many things for our country if I am based outside.
There are many who are based in our country who ruin our country.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that more pregnancy-related and neonatal deaths will occur in the Philippines if no effective reproductive health program would be established and implemented by the government, according to a news report.

In a press briefing in Makati City organized by the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop), WHO medical officer Howard Sobel said 529,000 women in the world die of birth-related causes, leaving one million children motherless and vulnerable.

"In the Philippines, about 10 mothers a day die in childbirth, with almost 30 very young children being orphaned or having difficulty surviving everyday. In fact, the country is one of the 42 countries that accounted for 95 percent of global under-five mortality," he said, adding that motherless children are 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those with mothers.

Four out of five maternal deaths are reportedly the direct result of obstetric complications, making maternal mortality highest during labor and the two days following birth. Hypertensive disorders followed by postpartum hemorrhage along with abortive outcomes are also among the causes of maternal deaths.

Young Filipina mothers aged 15-19 are twice more likely to suffer from maternal complications than those in their 20s while 50 percent of neonates die in the first two days due to unskilled attended births and delay in the start of breastfeeding, Sobel added.

source: Sun Star Davao

Quote from: asianfairy on September 28, 2007, 02:11:12 AM
Mike salamat ani. I just heared from my brother about this thru the phone. Miawas daw tubig as among swimming pool unya mga tawo nanagan daw padong sa bukid kay abi nila mag tidal wave. Kalooy sa Ginoo ok ra mga tawo. Mas kusog daw didto sa Duero.

Asianfairy, what you wrote here is more dramatic than what we can get from the media. Information sharing is powerful.

Quote from: gulle_brms on September 28, 2007, 01:55:25 AM
Hello Mr. Administrator,

Mahal ba pod property dra sa Thialand? Any info on properties in Thailand. Thanks

Non-Thai citizens cannot own a house and lot, but they can buy a condo.
Properties are much cheaper than in the Philippines.

Not all details of a particular incident can be reported by the media.
If all our people in Bohol have PCs and Internet connection, Tubag Bohol
would have been flooded with pictures of cracked walls.

Bran, if I become a professor, I like to teach history, international relations, marketing, business strategy, and journalism. I also like to teach computer-related subjects particular on web development.

Having a friendship-based relationship with Dubai is a good start, Bran. In fact some suggest that a man should marry his best friend.

Mild quakes rocked Butuan City in Mindanao and Bohol province Thursday, but state seismologists said no casualty or damage was reported.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the first quake was recorded off Butuan City in Agusan del Norte province at 11:45 a.m. Thursday.

It said the quake was tectonic in origin and registered at magnitude 3.9. The quake was felt at Intensity IV in Butuan City, Intensity II in Mainit, Surigao del Norte and Intensity I in Cagayan de Oro.

A second quake was recorded at 1:36 p.m. in Bohol province in Eastern Visayas. Phivolcs said it was tectonic in origin and measured at magnitude 4.

The quake was felt at Intensity IV in Garcia-Hernandez; Duero; Jagna; and Valencia, Bohol; Intensity II in Carmen, Bohol; and Intensity II in Cagayan de Oro City and Mandaue City.

source: gmanews.tv

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on September 28, 2007, 01:23:50 AM
I even heared that an anti-virus company is creating a virus and selling an anti-virus for it.

Lawyers are jobless without disputes.
Physicians would be idle without diseases to treat.
Anti-virus companies have no reason to exist without virus.

Since this is your personal statement of devotion to your hometown, I have to honor it, Bran.

Almost all companies are beneficial to society. It's the bad elements that are running the companies that ruin the whole thing.

Alturas Corporation is good but when it starts to manufacture its own brand of this product, that product (which are harmful duplicates of the original ones and infringement of intellectual rights of other companies), then it fails to place social welfare over personal gains.

And you had a Ukrainian girlfriend, Bran? How's the Dubai connection?

My would-be wife is opposed to the idea of Prof. Michael Ligalig.

But for you, Bran, you can be a physician and at the same time professor in a medical school in the U.S. There are international universities in Dubai.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 27, 2007, 01:39:44 PM
Thank you, pare.

I think when I'm established here in the United States, I think then I'll be ready to go back to Valencia. It is my home town, where members of my clan, the Salise, the Tan, the Salvo and the Ingnalan reside. What better place to run for office and have actual reasons to run for office. Where it counts most, home.

But there are things I need to accomplish first before I run for municipal office. I need experience.

Bran, if you want to serve people, build an NGO. Asianfairy and her comrades in Sweden have initiated a Filipino Charity Organization.

I believe that you can do more to the public when you are acting on private.

You can even be killed for aspiring a political seat. And when one is killed, he or she can no longer advance his/her charity works.

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 27, 2007, 09:38:10 PM
Mike that was cute....

You know what mike??? if i retire here???

mag pahimo ko ug balay sa Bohol... i would rather live there kay sa Dipolog... ining uli nako mag scout ko ug place nga akong paliton adto sa ngilit dapit...

Bel, mas ganahan ko mo-retire in Thailand. The current peace and order situation of our country is alarming. We can be vanished from the earth instantly because one criminal wants your cellphone.

Let's build our own company, Macky.

I met one of the top five managers of the Royal Thai Airways. He studied in Silliman in Dumaguete then in UP-Dilliman - that was more than 30 years ago before our country introduced Tagalog in the foreign students' curriculum.

This manager told me that Airbus gave hefty discounts for every delayed delivery of Airbus 380, two or three units of which will be delivered to the Royal Thai Airways in 2009. 

Bran, Dagohoy, is a perfect example. His revolutionary movement against the bastard Spanish was the longest in Philippine history.

We are freedom-loving people and our ancestors gave their lives for freedom and independence.

Unfortunately, the present breed of politicians had practically squandered the legacy of our ancestors.

Bran, when I was still living in the Philippines, I couldn't be bothered by what is happening in the Asian region just as many of us Philippine-based Filipinos are not either.

Outside our country I see the world quite differently now.

I am thinking of getting a PhD on International Relations.

I don't really think that rats have some sort of similarities with us humans.

But the only way for the so-called scientific world to convince us that their studies are valid is to convince us that their test samples will also work in humans.

Many medicines have brought more troubles than benefits to humanity because the laboratories where the medicines are tested are using animals as test samples - only to find out later that humans react to certain chemicals quite differently.

Yes, Bran. There are perhaps more than a million Burmese illegal immigrants in Thailand and they do all kinds of lowly jobs in Thailand. Myanmar's currency is less than worthless - nobody accepts it anywhere in the world.

Thailand shares hundreds of kilometers of national boundaries with Burma. Through these boundaries, which are not as protected as the U.S. had done to its boundaries with Mexico, Burmese tried their luck and landed in the streets of Thailand.

I have several Burmese friends - they are quiet, calm and moderate souls.

Filipinos are fighters at any time of history. In fact we fight a lot and to the extreme. Our house helpers in the Middle East would even kill Arab employers when pushed to the wall.

Bran, India is already plagued with headaches caused by Pakistan. Lately, Pakistan acquired nuclear arsenals perhaps courtesy of China, Russia, and North Korea. India has no stake in Burma (aka Myanmar).

India has been confronting China, albeit subtly, over the latter's train line constructed somewhere near Kashmir. This train rail connects China to the borders of India. India felt China has intruded to its territories, but India is moderate on its public pronouncement.

Rats are rats. Humans are humans. They don't have the same brain ingredients.

Maybe China is trying to be a good poster girl in this crisis in Myanmar.

China benefits from the Burmese laborers, cheapest in the world. Burmese laborers work in Chinese factories like dogs.

These protesting citizens of Myanmar are not armed, yet they were killed.

In 1988, thousands of students who protested against the military junta were wiped out from the earth.

Today, we urge all fellow Boholanos to be one in prayers for one of our own.

Today, former NEDA Chief, Romulo Neri - a Boholano - will be an expert witness in the controversial US$330-million National Broadband Network. The deal seemed to inordinately favor a Chinese telecom supplier called ZTE Inc. with a loan linkage from a Chinese bank.

Under oath, Neri will confirm if the P200-million bribe to him offered by perceived "chief broker" Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos is for real.

If that is true - as well as the allegation of ZTE rival (Joey de Venecia) that the First Gentleman Mike Arroyo pointedly (literally, now) asked him to "back off the deal" at the Wack Wack golf club (where Abalos is president) - then the ZTE stench that smells now - from Aparri to Jolo - will be linked to the Palace (or at least to FG).

The value of Abalos - as Comelec chief - cannot be overstated considering the Garci controversy of 2004 and the Maguindanao et. al. "magic" of 2007.

That Benjamin Abalos (a municipal judge fired by Ferdinand Marcos for alleged cause and linked to the botched Comelec election computerization scam) is linked to Palace interests could be as believable as the fact that "night follows day." Except in a lunar eclipse.

Not that Neri is bereft of unsolicited prayers. Already scores of organizations are doing prayer groups to give Neri the "light of the Holy Spirit" and the intestinal fortitude to tell the truth.

As certain as knowing the crow is black - his telephone is bugged.

Before he could testify last Thursday - shadowy figures cased Neri's house in Sta. Mesa Heights. When Secretary Ermita responded with PSG guards, it was found out the casers were reportedly "intelligence operatives."

Talks were wild in Manila the other day that Neri will be brought to New York for a U.N Conference (sic) - thus bodily preventing him from testifying at the Senate again today. Text messages circulated in the metropolis - egging Neri to be brave and exposed the game plan.

By evening, the Palace music had changed - it was mere "miscommunication" - and that indeed Neri will be staying to testify today.

According the Philippine Star, Neri almost resigned in April 19 because some powerful official arm-twisted him to change from his original position of "build operate and transfer" last year to a purchase with loan arrangement - to give way to ZTE's preference.

Hopefully Neri will belie claims that NEDA approved the NBN-ZTE deal because he said "NEDA merely endorsed the broadband concept, not the company."

The NBN-ZTE deal has been shot with controversies: Joey de Venecia claimed Abalos bribed him with US$10 million (P400 million) to get off the back of ZTE; a supply agreement/contract has been sealed prior to consultation with the Monetary Board for the loan portion; the original MOU was "lost" - reappeared and then "reconstructed" (though no one has seen it); it has reportedly been overpriced - moving from the original US$130 million to US$2690 million to the current figure of US$330 million.

Neri told Star columnist Jarius Bondoc (who had received death threats for breakfast as well) that a big-time businessman, who was assigned to raise election funds for the administration, lobbied for the last increase of US$60 million. Was this to be for reimbursement for the contributors to the administration campaign kitty?

What Secretary Romy (let's call him that) will explode in the Senate Halls today will define further his unsullied performance as a government professional. He said there is a "time and place for everything-" and the Senate will provide him his place in history today.

Every kind of mud has been thrown in his way by detractors of Neri -many of them we have heard. However, a good man wears a teflon and they just bounce off his body like inconsequential irritations.

When asked in the Senate, we know Secretary Romy will not perjure himself. We are confident his allegiance will be to the truth and the welfare of 80 million Filipinos - not bureaucrats and private suppliers salivating at the kickbacks in wait in this deal and elsewhere.

To say the least, Secretary Romulo Neri is a square peg in a round hole in a government operating in a country dubbed by independent appraisers as the "most corrupt nation in Asia."

At CHED he had canceled the P180-million calling center project and before blasted the cartel in the energy industry that had resisted economic reforms. Neri had doubted where Government can find the "pump-priming funds" to achieve a programmed GNP growth next year. Neri had likewise blown the whistle on 21 projects with ODA funds which have questionable overpriced tags and stopped their DBM funding.

On nationwide television he has called our own (Bohol Irrigation Project) BHIP-2 Project as excessive and illegal - condemned it as the most "expensive dam" and said that the NIA was "authorized to buy a Toyota and bought a BMW instead."

As Chief Economist-Secretary Neri knows much - maybe too much - about the economic highway robberies going on in our country.

What he will spill today will not end with ZTE - that is our prognosis. It will be the proverbial "Pandora's Box" that will shock the nation leading into other billions of corrupted deals going on in our country.

Secretary Neri will not just be therefore "The Man of the Hour," he will be "The Man of the Year" as the investigations continue into the other projects perhaps until the year is over.

It is therefore for all these reasons that we worry for the safety of our province-mate - a patriot in the making.

May God be with him today - and always.

The Land Transportation Offices in both this capital city and Jagna town welcomed new registrars following their respective assumption to office yesterday.

Joel Maloloy-on assumed yesterday as the new LTO registrar of Tagbilaran office after Macky Getaruelas was re-assigned to head the LTO in Toledo City. Getaruelas' stint here was perceived as "less corrupt" compared to the previous LTO chief executives assigned here.

source: www.boholchronicle.com

Acting swiftly to control the spread of the deadly pest, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bohol passed a Resolution urging the local government units in the province to act fast by regulating and monitoring and contain the infestation of the so-called coco leaf "hispine" beetle, or Brontispa Longissima Gestro. .

Presiding the session last week, Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera stressed that along with this measure, there must be massive information campaign to raise awareness among coconut farmers in the province.

The vice-governor said that with the approval of the Resolution the LGUs must also give their fair share in the prevention of the infestation.

Initiated by the agriculture committee, the Resolution introduced by committee member Board Member Josil Trabajo, was strongly recommended by Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog and the top guns of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) led by Timoteo Lago Jr. Both Quirog and Lago and other PCA personnel personally met with Herrera to give updates of the infestation.          

PCA said that there are now three municipalities - Baclayon, Alburquerque and Dauis - that are affected by the pest.

source: www.boholchronicle.com

The Sangguniang Panlalawi- gan (SP) expressed alarm on the seizure of allegedly carnapped vehicles being sold to Boholano residents by unscrupulous dealers allegedly linked with a carnapping syndicate.

Prov'l Kagawad Ae Damalerio sounded off the alarm after some sectors in the community started to question the legitimacy of the operations conducted by Cebu- based operatives of the Traffic Management Group (TMG) under P/Supt. Doroteo Tolentino.

At least eight vehicles were rounded up by the team, four of which were immediately shipped to Cebu City last week.

During this week's session, Prov'l Kag Yul Lopez, as presiding officer of the prov'l SP, tasked the committee on public utilities under Damalerio as chairman and the committee on peace and order under Prov'l Kagawad Ma. Fe Lejos to jointly conduct a probe on the matter amid fears from car owners that the random operations might just victimize their own vehicles anytime while the team is presently based in the province.          

The probe is also geared to check on TMG's procedure in conducting the "seize and recovery" operations of the alleged hot cars.

Damalerio told the Chronicle that the probe will invite P/Insp. Eduardo Mara, head of the Bohol Provincial Motor Vehicle Clearance Office, P/Supt. Victoria de Guzman of the PNP Crime Laboratory and newly installed LTO registrar Joel Maloloy-on.

Nilo Sapong, one of the owners of the seized Mitsubishi Adventure told the Chronicle yesterday that his unit was flogged down by the TMG, a day after two other Adventure units were also seized by the group.

Two other units of the same source, identified as a certain Ms. Depio, were also seized by the group. Sapong said he will be filing charges against the source of the unit since it was already a "hot car" when he purchased the unit in 2002. He recalled that after he got his unit, two other Adventure units arrived here from Manila.

Sapong even narrated that when he was apprehended in Loboc town he was surprised to overhear a certain P/Insp. Tolentino, head of the TMG Cebu team commented saying "Mayron ba tayong pang dinner dyan, at saka kulang pa nga yung aming pang bayad ng boarding house." (Is there anything for our dinner, and we ran short to pay for our boarding house).

Isidoro Manalo, another owner of a Mitsubishi Adventure denounced the manner his unit was seized by the TMG. He strongly questioned the TMG report narrating that he "voluntarily surrendered" his unit to Camp Dagohoy. He explained that he went to the camp, not to surrender his unit but to check after the Adventure owned by his friend, Handel Sarabosing was impounded.

source: www.boholchronicle.com

I will continue.

I turn 28 today and I am not feeling well. I slept at 6 a.m. and woke up at 7:30 a.m. to work.

My father was discharged from the hospital today. I thank the Lord that my father has started to realize that life on earth is temporary.

Hope this works from YouTube. Some sceneries in Bohol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-GZwTKDpK98

Quote from: pubbles on September 27, 2007, 06:38:46 PM
hello mga kapwa taga bohol!!!lipay jamo ko member ko ani ba at least d sad ko maiwit sa mga happenings ky layo jamo ko huhuhu :'(and moreover..makakita sad ko mga friends...

Pubbles, we're glad you found us.

God bless!

The dollar has fallen to yet another all-time low against the euro, after further weak US economic data.

Figures showed that US consumer confidence has fallen to a near two-year low, while house prices have seen the sharpest drop in 16 years.

Analysts said the data boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates still further.

In early trading on Wednesday, the euro hit a high of $1.4162, before pulling back to $1.4131 by 2230 GMT.

'Anti-dollar momentum'

The Fed cut US interest rates to 4.75% from 5.25% last week, in a move aimed at restoring confidence in both the housing and financial markets.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Quote from: Melrose on September 24, 2007, 10:22:04 AM
nano man hadlok ka drive car, mikey mike? 

okay lang bisekleta, motor, kariton, helicopter, or airplane, Melrose.

Ayaw lang nang four wheels. I don't want to learn driving. Magbisekleta lang ko.

Asa na diay ka naka-base karon? Have you been to Bohol lately?

Unsay apelyido, higala?

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Shelley

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William B. Sprague

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

Kuyawa aning Macky, makapatandog ug makapakurog man sab ning imong balak. Salamat kaajo, Macky!

Macky, most of the balaks I posted here were written years and years ago, and to be honest, I write poems detached from realities. I cannot even interpret my own poems except for those poems that I specifically dedicated to family members and strangers...

And when friends ask what I meant with those poems, I cannot give an answer because I don't know what I'm writing.

Now some people may wonder why I cannot decipher my own poetry. Well, that is poetry. Poetry is complex as the poet is. Poetry cannot be interpreted by what is perceived by human senses.

I'm in love with words, and if I say in my poem: "ug napalong ang kahayag sa adlaw sa pagbuka sa imong mga mata...", that would be outrageous for the sunlight cannot be extinguished by any human invention. But why did I write that in the poem? The answer is that I love the words and I want to stir the imagination of the reader.

Also, I write poems out of people's experiences and feelings that I know from them and I take those feelings as my own - it's like putting myself in their shoes.

My problem now is that many of the readers would rush to see myself in my poems. But that is the fate of a complex poet.

Macky, in my poems I am not there.

And in your poem now, you are not there. And I was not there, too.

I walked six kilometers to and from school - that's why I was so slim in those years.
Thus, I miss the walking time.

How can Sigbin live without you, Ginger?

Quote from: Mari on September 27, 2007, 04:03:33 AM
mai pen lai ka!

nah, wa na ko kasabot, mari. i never strive to learn thai. di pa ko kamao moihap gani.

Quote from: Mari on September 27, 2007, 03:56:44 AM
Sawadee ka. Happy birthday Mike! More years to come... cheers!

God bless you, Mari. and thank you. Sabaidee mai khap? sakto ba ni? 

Quote from: Mari on September 27, 2007, 03:45:15 AM
happy birthday bossing! cheers! naa pa ko diha 'route 66' ta. more blessings to you and your family.

Mari, ayaw lang ko tawga ug boss uy, maulaw ta. we are all friends here.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on September 27, 2007, 03:18:23 AM
Wow, is it really your birthday today Mike? Where is your virtual cake?

My best wishes and may God's force be upon you.

I guess we share the same fate. Twice in my life I had forgoten my birthday. The first one, when I was just single at that time. My mother called to greet a belated wish, only to know 5 days had passed. The second, I came from a busy work when my wife, kids and neighbors surprised me with a dinner. Now that I have a son with the same birthday, I will never forget my birthday.

To God be the glory who gave us life and salvation in Christ Jesus.

Macky, it is acceptable to forget our own birthday, but not the birthdays of our loved ones.

I remember I forgot the birthday of my sister and she was hurt by that memory lapse.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on September 27, 2007, 03:33:00 AM
Ladies and Gents, your attention please. I propose a toast for Mike's Birthday.

"Cheers for a long and happy life"

Where's the virtual cake?

Thank you, Macky.

And toast to our business plan. Hope things would get better in our province and in our country.

Quote from: Ginger on September 27, 2007, 02:42:56 AM
Mike, atangan namo ang matag pakli sa imong sugilanon.

This won't be an autobiography, Ginger, but just a reflection - sort of random thoughts for this week.

Quote from: Ginger on September 26, 2007, 10:10:24 PM
Maayo nalang gani…
makuyog ka pa nako sa pagbordo-bordo
****

Mike, what does bordo-bordo mean?

zel, it means "aimless strolling."

Quote from: galen on September 26, 2007, 10:28:17 PM
you can still access the database right?

galen, kapoy na kaayo manghuling sa mga sekreto nila dinhi. anyway, dili bitaw pud threat to national security kanang ilang mga PMs diri.

my assurance is that i will never venture into their private thoughts.

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 26, 2007, 10:16:43 PM
I'm glad to hear that admin...

hala tanan kabalo ka sa among mga tsismis sa PM? hahhahahha

kani si Bambi ma sakpan ra gyud ning ka igat ani... hahhahha

PM (personal messages) cannot be accessed even by tubag bohol admin. that's the good news.

Quote from: galen on September 26, 2007, 09:37:22 PM
hahaha! imo jud ni gidibdib boss mike?

Galen, I was sending articles to the Bohol Standard and then moingon sila sa office didto sa ato nga wala sila kadawat sa articles, unja diay ang hinungdan tua gibutang sa Yahoo ang Gmail e-mails nako sa SPAM folder. It's unfair kay kadaghan na gud ko nagpadala ug e-mail using the same address sa sender ug recipients.

Anyway, Businessweek Magazine has confirmed my suspension.

(gibalak ni nako sa pantalan sa tagbilaran niadtong 2004 panahon sa sandugo festival.) the program was organized by CCAD and Kaka (Kaliwat ni Karyapa, organization of Bohol writers and thinkers)

Ukay-ukay

Diha sa nagtumpil, nagwatak,
nagtipon-og nga mga sapot -
gihikling sa kubalong mga kamot -
nasiplatan ko ikaw

Mituhop sa akong panan-aw
ang di kasagaran mong disenyo -
lahi kang klase nga sinena -
dili mugna sa pakaras nga hunahuna

Busa gilabni ko gilayon ikaw;
basin maunhan pa ko sa uban

Gisukod ko ang imong gidak-on;
gisusi ko kon wa ka bay gisi,
o mansa, o kunot nga di na maplansa

Maayo nalang gani…
makuyog ka pa nako sa pagbordo-bordo
Bisan tuod girobo-robo ka na sa lain
ug napahimuslan na sa makadaghan sa uban;
putli gihapon ang imong mga tahi

Unya, seguro sa dihang nanimaho ka nang anino
buot ka na untang himoong trapo -
apan ambot! naunsa!
nasaag kas Pilipinas;
sinalikway ka sa Amerika -
apan nasapnay sa buslot kong bulsa

Karon, kon ako tamayon
nga ikaw akong gigakos:
kaulaw ayaw -
garbo ka namong mga kabos!

This is the Internet - access to information is free and unlimited.

I am always monitoring the ins and outs of Tubag Bohol and I notice that there are many guests (those who have not decided to join the fun and laughter and weeping here) love to print topics posted in Tubag Bohol.

Being the admin, I can keep logs of all Tubag Bohol activities.

Isn't it flattering that our Tubag Bohol guests love to print the things that we write here?

I will be writing my thoughts about life, about the world, and about many thoughts that may visit me as I meet a new year of my life on earth. To God be the glory!

This chronicle of life's story will be released in installment. It seems that Balong's style has an influence on this thread. And it's good since the computer keyboard does not own my restless fingers all the time.

First: When I turned 27 last year I forgot it was my birthday. Our Tubag Bohol first lady had to remind me it was my birthday. On that day, I still vividly remember, nag-abli lang ko ug tinapa para paniudto - and I cooked my own rice.

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 26, 2007, 08:49:38 PM
hahahhaahhahha

nalisang ang mga lalaki sa TB! hahhahha

No fear. No retreat. No surrender.

Tubag Bohol men, arise!

The Provincial Government of Bohol celebrates National Tourism Week, Sept. 24 to 29. In line with World Tourism Organization's celebration of World Tourism Day, the province has adopted the theme "Tourism Opens Doors for Women."

World Tourism Day 2007 is an occasion to celebrate women's achievements in the tourism sector and stimulate continuous action in support of UN's 3rd Millenium Development Goal of Promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.

A simple kick-off program highlighted with trivia quizzes with prizes to lucky winners was held at the Acacia Court, Provincial Capitol Compoundlast Monday. Capping the weeklong celebration to be held at the Activity Center of the Island City Mall on Friday at 4:30 p.m. will be song, dance and choral presentations by the educational institutions in the province offering related courses to tourism, highlighting the show along with trivia quizzes and prizes to be given away to lucky winners.

The AFP-Centcom is comprised of units from the military's major services - the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force.

Ibrado said Centcom is eyeing to relocate here since they have plans of housing only its administrative offices in Camp Lapulapu in Cebu City, its current command base.

The Centcom commander considers Bohol as a strategic place for their operations center.

The CVSCAFT on the other hand held Miss Tourism Personality Tilt and Tourism Quiz Bowl in celebration of the occasion, while the Mater Dei College of Tubigon conducted seminars and workshops on Tourism, Hotel & Restaurant Management & Housekeeping Techniques, the Whats and Hows of a Tour Agency, and a symposium on the Current Trends and Issues on Tourism. They also exhibited native industries which they held at the Mater Dei College Activity Center in Tubigon.

Another highlight of National Tourism Week is the Annual Provincial Tourism Quiz which will be held on Saturday at the BQ Mall Atrium.

Organized by the Bohol Island Tour Guides Association of the Philippines or BITGAP, it is also sponsored by the Bohol Tourism Office.

source: <a href="http://www.theboholchronicle.com">The Bohol Chronicle</a>

This is our home... Welcome to Tubag Bohol, Meo.

the biggest sex organ is the brain.

i rest my case.

Few days ago I complained of Yahoo's crazy Spam algorithms. My dissatisfaction and disgust of Yahoo's e-mail system became more unendurable when many of e-mails (newspaper articles) sent from Gmail went to the Spam folder of Yahoo. But none of Yahoo's e-mails ever landed on my Gmail's Spam folder.

Isn't it unfair that Yahoo is not treating Gmail nicely while Gmail is very sweet to Yahoo? Is this intentional? When will Yahoo make a concrete action on this troubling issue?

Now today I read Stephen Bakers's blog in <a href="http://www.businessweek.com">Businessweek Online</a> and I can only sympathized with Stephen's courtesy of Yahoo.

This is what Stephen Baker of businessweek.com has said:

QuoteI was on the road yesterday, in Washington, and trying to close a story at the same time. I had my editor send messages to my Yahoo account, which goes into my (personal) Blackberry. Today I see that Yahoo stuffed all of his mail into my spam folder. Doesn't its machine they see that I do a lot of legitimate traffic with addresses ending in businessweek.com? Could it possibly be because my article mentions the word "spam?" and "viagra?" Could their spam filter be working on such primitive key words? (I just experimented on that, sending the same story to my Yahoo account, and it got through.)

This issue extends far beyond spam. If Yahoo wants to close the gap with Google, the company must teach its machines to analyze our written words (and other data) with ever greater sophistication and precision. Am I wrong to think that a spam filter this far out of kilter signals problems in that area?

By Stephen Baker
businessweek.com

According to a business survey in 13 countries, 30% of those of us laboring in the "enterprise sector" think that e-mail fails to make us more productive. Dimension Data, which carried out the survey, reports that barely half of them (53%) belief that telephones, fixed and wireless alike, have a "positive impact on productivity."

This sketchy report has not come out in major dailies.
Perhaps this story will be published tomorrow.
I won't name names.
I won't also tell you the source of this story
for security reasons.
And of course I won't mention the name of the school
where the rape took place.

A nursing student in Cebu was raped by construction workers
inside the toilet/comfort room at the school compound.

I don't know who the rapists are but I am furious when I
learned of the story.

It's difficult to describe the pain the girl is going through right now.

Let's pray for her.

Actress Lorna Tolentino reveals that her family is effectively coping and reaching each other for support amid the serious ailment that has stricken her husband, action star Rudy Fernandez.

Rudy is currently battling ampullary cancer and is currently undergoing a series of chemotherapy sessions here and abroad.

“Sa likod ng aming pag-iisip, siyempre ganoon pero iniiwasan naming yon. Ginagawa naming normal ang lahat ng mga bagay. Parang hindi naming iniisip na may sakit si Rudy kundi siguro iniiwasan naming yon para lalong maging mabuti yung pagharap naming sa future,” Lorna tells GMA-7’s Startalk, a showbiz talk show she co-hosts.

“Bawa’t araw, bawa’t oras, bawa’t minuto lalo naming pinapakita sa isa’t isa yung pagmamahal namin,” she added.

Lorna said Rudy is currently under the knife to have a portacatheter inserted. “Para siyang may pacemaker para hindi masyadong masakit sa mga veins niya yung chemo na ginagawa sa kanya,” Lorna said.

The multi-award winning actress also said Rudy is taking the ailment positively and in high spirits.

“Rudy is so positive about everything. So kahit na medyo nanghihina siya pagka-after ng chemo niya for a while lang yon. Nilalabanan niya yon. Kasi masyadong depressing siguro kung talagang i-nenega (negative) mo pa yung emotions.”

Amid all the trials, she said she noticed a stark change in their kids and even Rudy’s son with actress-politician Alma Moreno, Mark Anthony Fernandez.

source: www.inquirer.net

She presents the Screening Room, she's a classically-trained musician and she's got a passion for stargazing. Just who is Myleene Klass?

1. Myleene is CNN International's newest presenter, hosting a monthly film show called "The Screening Room."

--read more about Myleene <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/29/myleene.facts/index.html?section=cnn_latest">in CNN Online Here</a>

National Power Corporation president Cyril Del Callar recently assured the House Committee on Appropriations that they will soon take over the operation of power generation and supply in the small islands in the first district.

This was after the persistent follow-up by first district Representative Edgar Chatto and the resolution from BOHECO I supporting the move.

n an interview with the local media, Chatto explained that taking over by small power utility group (SPUG) will mean lower power costs in the island barangays which are now charged almost double the rate of mainland consumers.

He said SPUG is in charge of providing "mercy power services" to non-economically viable areas.

Among the barangays to benefit the SPUG take-over are Cabilao, Pamilacan, Balicasag, Mantatao, and the six island barangays in Tubigon.

source: <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net">Bohol Sunday Post</a>

Being a coastal town, the decade-old fight against illegal fishing thrive in the checklist of priorities of the Municipal Peace and Order Council which held its regular meeting on September 11 at JJ's Foodstream here.

Mayor Luna Piezas, chairman of the MPOC, had a chance to discuss the matter with Provincial Police Director Senior Supt. Edgardo Ingking who was invited to the meeting.

With perfect attendance of MPOC regular members, non-government organizations, peoples organizations and fishermen tackled issues and concerns on the eradication of illegal fishing activities in this coastal town, leading to the creation of "task force Maomaoan" under Coastal Law Enforcement Council-second district chapter (CLEC-2).

During the meeting, Ingking emphasized the role of all sectors of the community in curbing illegal fishing activities.

source: <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net">Bohol Sunday Post</a>

After a series of trainings and seminars, 20 members of San Jose Women Association of barangay San Jose, in 'Talibon finally received SEA-K funds taken 'from the Revolving SEA-Funds (RSF) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development regional office.

The total amount of P100,000 was deposited at Coastal Bank in Clarin, Bohol and the P60,000 was withdrawn to be distributed to 12 members as first release.

The amount of P40,000 will be withdrawn a month after the first release and will be distributed to nine members of San Jose women who are chairmen and secretaries or treasurers of each group.

This is to enable the officers of each group to religiously monitor the weekly payments of the seed capital.

While it is payable in two years, no interest is imposed on the funds received.

Teresita Diez, manpower development officer of DSWD-national based in Tagbilaran City turned over the money to Municipal Councilor Virginia Item, on behalf of the mayor who was out-of-town for official business, to Municipal Social Welfare Officer III Sosima Gabisan, to barangay captain Alejo Balundo, to the president of SEA Association then to the members of each groups.

source: <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net">Bohol Sunday Post</a>

Under the new leadership of Mayor Niño Rey Boniel, the Coastal Law Enforcement Council of the 2nd congressional district (CLEC-2) gears towards more intensified efforts on preserving the ecological balance along world-renowned Danajon double-barrier reef.          

CLEC-2, which jurisdiction include the stretch of Danajon Reef, tried to come up with a refined operational routine that will place the double-barrier reef's protection on top of other issues and concerns.

This was discussed during the recent meeting of CLEC-2 presided by Mayor Boniel.
Boniel called on other coastal towns in the jurisdiction of CLEC-2 to work together for a better coastal management to address ecological issues.

Also during the council meeting, former CLEC-2 chairman Mayor Eutiquio Bernales of Ubay turned over the patrol boat to Mayor Boniel.

The council also held an election of officers wherein Buenavista Vice-Mayor Ronald Lowel Tirol was chosen vice chairman; Diosdado Jimenez of Bien Unido, secretary; Bien Unido Sangguniang Bayan (SB) Member Sotero Macua Jr., treasurer; Talibon SB Member Jose Wayne Evardo, auditor; while the press relations officers are Anecita Gulayan of FISH project and Wenny Reyes of the local media.

source: <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net">Bohol Sunday Post</a>

Hundreds of job-seekers from neighboring towns flocked here when a Cebu-based recruitment agency conducted a sort of a jobs fair from September 17 to 21.

Nonstop Overseas Employment Corporation had coordinated with Mayor Juanario Item for last week's special recruitment for possible employment in the Middle East countries.

The one-week activity was purposely conducted in consonance with Mayor Item's agenda job generation.

The mayor even asked Miss Antonnette Fan of Nonstop Overseas Employment Corporation if it would be possible for the agency office to install a recruitment office here to make it easy for Talibongnons to process applications for jobs abroad.

The routine started with employees of the Office of the Mayor particularly at the desk of the Public Employment and Service Officer (PESO).

--read more <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net/2007/sep/23/roundbohol5.htm">Here</a>

G-Hernandez Mayor Myrna Scheurs chose to keep mum on allegations made by her former employee arising from an illegal dismissal suit.

One of the most explosive revelations made by Arlene Sayson, a former employee of the G-Hernandez mayor was the allegation that she was used as dummy in several interrelated business establishments owned by the town executive.

In a three-page Vehement Opposition to Admission of and or to Strike Out Complainant's August 28, 2007 Position Paper Sent thru the Mails on August 31, 2007, Mayor Scheurs, thru counsel lawyer Rodulfo Acido, instead of commenting on the illegal dismissal case chose to delve on technicalities.

In the same document, the G-Hernandez mayor questioned the substitution of counsel in the labor case filed before the office of the National Labor Relations Commission.

...read more <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net/2007/sep/23/roundbohol3.htm">HERE</a>

The almost 700 participants of the recently concluded four-day 4th National Convention of the Philippine Association of Building Officials (PABO) at the Bohol Tropics Resort brought a piece of Inabanga when they went home.

This after host Bohol Association of Municipal Engineers (BAME) tapped the One Town One Product (OTOP) Center of Inabanga to produce the convention ID jackets as well as frames for the plaques of appreciation for the resources speakers and special guests.

The Local Government Code of 1991 names the municipal engineers as building officials unless a local government unit appoints one. Aside from municipal engineers and building officials however building inspectors and other staff also attended the convention that revolved around the theme Building the Nation under the Code.

Engrs. Rosavilla Villamor and Nila Gatab represented Inabanga at the gab.

source: <a href="http://www.boholsundaypost.net">Bohol Sunday Post</a>

Today the game is known as tubag tubag...

Quote from: asianfairy on September 26, 2007, 07:41:32 AM
Hi Ginger,

I'm back. Sore medyo nadugay ko balik dires TB kay grabe gyod kahago ning mamalhin ta balay unya way lain motabang. Maayo gani akong duha ka anak kay mitabang alsa ug mas kusgan pa cla nako.
Hangtod ron wa pa mahuman pahiluna ang tanang butang.
Hopefully next week mahuman na pahiluna tanan.

Hi to Happy, Bambi, Ms Da binsi, Proud boholana, C2H4, Willmerit naadict na diay pod ka. he..he..
Bitaw hi pod sa mga gwapong members dire. labi na gayod ni ondoy Lorenzo.
Gimingaw ko ninyo tanan ug salamat sa mga PM ninyo.

Sabaidee mai khrap, Asianfairy?

source from www.wikipedia.org

Quote from: pinaybayan on September 25, 2007, 09:49:03 PM
paeta ani oi, la ko apil kay europe man ko..

There's a Tubag Bohol reunion in Sweden in 2008 to be hosted by Asianfairy.

On August 15, 2007, Bambi registered with Tubag Bohol. Two days later she posted a message asking for help to locate a best friend whom she had lost contact since 1992. That was Bambi's first ever post from Germany.

Today, Bambi's search is over. This can be one of the milestones of Tubag Bohol.

In the meantime, let me give the floor to Bambi. She will narrate the whole story, hopefully...

kalimti ayaw si Balong. nangita pa to ug sinsilyo para ihulog sa Internet cafe.