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A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first placeâ€" a company's own workers.

The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running "Computer Crime and Security Survey," and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year.

More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn't come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes "from company insiders."

source: slashdot.com

What's the biggest threat to the success of OpenOffice.org? Is it Microsoft Office? Is it the simple fact that Dell doesn't offer it with computers?

Not according to some participants in the 'open' source project itself, they say the biggest problem with OO.o is the fact that Sun codes, owns & makes all key decisions for the project when it should be more community oriented.

A professor who participates in the project itself said 'enough developers are frustrated by both the technical and the organizational infrastructure at OpenOffice.org' and cites this as 'a real problem that is weighing on the project.'

source: slashdot.com

Forensic chemists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a color-changing spray that can identify people suspected of making or planting bombs.

The chemical turns from yellow to bright red when it comes into contact with urea nitrate, an explosive residue that may be left behind on the hands of someone who has handled an improvised device.

source: slashdot.com

Many women are confused about the signs of breast cancer, a survey suggests.

The charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer found a quarter of women polled thought wrongly that having a persistent cough was a sign of breast cancer.

Some 81% wrongly believed a mole on the breast could be a symptom, while a third incorrectly linked an extra nipple to the disease.

The charity is calling on GPs to help clear up the confusion and improve the number of cases that are caught early.

The survey of 1,190 women aged over 50 found 87% of respondents carry out regular checks for breast lumps.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Dogs-eat-dog Philippines...

Clean energy innovations may be getting off the ground in labs and start-up business plans, but making them commonplace for consumers is another matter.

"We're not getting there very quickly because no one's paying the bill," said Stan Bull, director of research and development at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is exploring alternative fuels such as ethanol from corn stalks, waste paper and wood from forests thinned to prevent wildfires.

The government must do more to speed up the spread of greener technologies, agreed Bull and other experts at Discover Brilliant, a conference exploring sustainability in the business world. Tax breaks and other incentives in Japan, Germany and Denmark have helped to accelerate the development of solar and wind power there, for example, as the United States has lost ground over the last decade and continues to rely upon fossil fuels.

"The bigger problem isn't an energy problem, it's a carbon problem," said Steve Selkowitz, building technologies program leader at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Yet, new laws and tax breaks are only part of the picture. And inventing new gadgets won't achieve progress if Americans continue to waste so much energy. "What we can learn from developing countries are smarter lifestyles," he said.

For instance, heating, cooling and lighting buildings accounts for nearly 40 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, an amount poised to grow faster than in any other sector. Designing new homes and offices as well as retrofitting old ones to shrink energy demands by 90 percent would help, but merely halving energy use indoors would not do the trick, he said.

source: cnet.com

Zero-day exploit codes targeting Yahoo and AOL instant-messenger services could put frequent IM users at risk to new attacks.

A non-vendor disclosed vulnerability within Yahoo Messenger has been exploited by two different code releases Wednesday. This is the third security glitch for Yahoo Messenger in as many months. There is no workaround or patch available yet for these exploits.

source: cnet.com

Quote from: GEC348 on September 20, 2007, 06:01:12 PM

                                  beautiful flower

Now I remember Mari. 

I have posted the answer in another thread.

The difference is not much.

Here are the requirements and qualifications:

Qualifications:

1. Must be at least seventeen (17) years old.
2. Must be physically and mentally fit to operate a motor vehicle
3. Must not be a drug user or alcoholic
4. Must be able to read and write in Filipino or English
5. Must be clean, neat and presentable

Requirements:
1. Duly accomplished Application for Driver's License.
2. Valid Student Permit (at least one (1) month old)
3. Medical Certificate (from an LTO accredited or Government Physician) or valid AFP/PNP organic personnel ID
4. Negative Drug Test result (from DOH accredited drug testing center)
5. Taxpayer's Identification Number (TIN).
6. Must have passed the written and practical examination.
Fees and Charges :

     Application Fee                   Php.             25.00
     Computer Fee                                         52.80
     TOTAL                                                   77.80

     License Fee                         Php.           180.00
     Computer Fee                                          52.80
     TOTAL                                                  232.80

Additional Requirements For Filipino/Foreigner with Valid or Expired Foreign License

1. Foreign License
- Original and photocopy of license
- Translation from Embassy/Consular Office (if license is not written in English)
2. Original valid Visa/Passport with photocopy (Foreigners)

Note: A foreign driver's license is not acceptable for conversion into Philippine driver's license if:
- The foreign license is not written in the English language; or
- The country of origin of the driver's license has no embassy in the Philippines

source: Land Transportation Office

1. Proceed to the Evaluator to have your documents checked for completeness and authenticity, and secure a Driver's License Application Form. download it at www.lto.gov.ph

2. Proceed to the Phototaking/Signature Area when your name is called to have your picture and signature taken.

3. Proceed to the Cashier when your name is called to pay the application fee.

4. Proceed to the Examination Room for the lecture and written exam.

5. After passing the written examination, wait for your name to be called for the practical exam. (No written exam for ARC1.)

6. After passing the practical examination, proceed to the Cashier when your name is called for payment of necessary fees.

7. Proceed to the AMPI Counter when your name is called to have your signature and picture taken.

8. Claim the temporary driver's license (TDL) and the Official Receipt(OR) of payment.

source: The Land Transportation Office

That is if your license has been expired for the last 2 to 10 years, according to the Land Transportation Office.

Requirements:

1.  Expired Driver's License
2.  Duly accomplished Application Form.
3.  Medical Certificate (from an LTO accredited or Government Physician) or valid AFP/PNP organic personnel ID.
4.  Negative drug test result (from a DOH accredited drug testing center).
5.  Must have passed the written and practical examination.


Fees and Charges:
          Application Fee                                    Php.         25.00
          Computer Fee                                                      52.80
                     TOTAL                                                     77.80

          Renewal Professional                          Php.      240.00
          Penalty                                                               120.00         
          Computer Fee                                                      52.80
                      TOTAL                                                   412.80

Now I got the information. I was wrong in saying that expired driver's license may not be penalized. Here's the cost of the penalty. Also, here are the requirements for renewing your expired driver's license. (More than 2 years and 10 years expired)

Requirements:

1.  Expired Driver's License
2.  Duly accomplished Application Form.
3.  Medical Certificate (from an LTO accredited or Government Physician) or valid AFP/PNP organic personnel ID.
4.  Negative drug test result (from a DOH accredited drug testing center).
5.  Must have passed the written and practical examination.


Fees and Charges :
          Application Fee                                    Php.         25.00
          Computer Fee                                                      52.80
                     TOTAL                                                     77.80

          Renewal Non-Prof                                Php.      180.00
          Penalty                                                                 90.00
          Computer Fee                                                      52.80
                      TOTAL                                                   322.80

Hajji, I think you cannot be penalized if you are holding an expired driver's license.

You can say that you're living abroad and you have no idea how to renew your license while away from our homeland. I think that is a valid reason.

Procedures

1. Proceed to the Customer Service Counter to have your documents checked for completeness, and secure a Driver's License Application Form. (This form is available for download here. You can accomplish this form prior to transacting your business at the LTO.) Get a queue number and wait for your number to be called.

2. When your number is called, proceed to the transaction counters to submit all required documents to the Evaluator.

3. Proceed to the Phototaking/Signature Area to have your picture and signature taken when your name is called.
   
4. Proceed to the Cashier when your name is called to pay the necessary fees and obtain an Official Receipt.

5. Proceed to the Releasing Counter, present the Official Receipt and claim the temporary student permit/license.

1. Current/Expired License Card
2. Medical Certificate (from LTO accredited or Government Physician) or valid AFP/PNP organic personnel ID
3. Drug Clearance Certificate (from an LTO accredited drug testing center)
4. Taxpayer's Identification Number (TIN)

source: Land Transportation Office

Documents Required

1. Duly accomplished Application for Driver's License
2. Proof of identity
- Original Birth Certificate with photocopy
- NSO authenticated Birth Certificate with Official Receipt and photocopy
- Original valid Passport with photocopy
- A joint affidavit of two (2) disinterested persons who know the applicant and who can attest to the applicant's identity, accompanied by non-availability of record issued by the Local Civil Registry Office or NSO
3. Any legal or government issued document to prove his age and identity (SSS ID, PhilHealth ID, GSIS ID, TIN ID, Pag-ibig ID, Office ID)
4. Taxpayer's Identification Number (TIN)

Additional Requirements for Minor Applicants (16-18 yrs. old)

1. Letter of Parental/Guardian Consent duly notarized
Additional Requirements for Foreigners
1. Original Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) with photocopy
2. Original valid Visa/Passport with photocopy and any of the following:
- Permit to stay in the country for at least five (5) months and has stayed in the country for at least one (1) month
- Contract from Philippine employer that certifies stay of at least five (5) months

Additional Requirements for Minor Foreigners (16-18 yrs. old)

1. Letter of Parental/Guardian Consent duly notarized
2. Original Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) with photocopy
3. Original valid Visa/Passport with photocopy and any of the following:
- Permit to stay in the country for at least five (5) months and has stayed in the country for at least one (1) month
- Student's School ID

source: Land Transportation Office (LTO)

Sometimes I'm tempted to think that if it is only possible, we should sell our country to the U.S. or UK or Canada, and let them rule over us.

We are immature and we don't know how to rule or govern ourselves.

Our independence is meaningless.

It would have been better if the Americans (like during the early 1900s) were the administrators of our country.

In my previous topic I said that our political system is hopeless because our honorables are even selling their votes to other honorables.

Now you may argue, "Oh, we still have a Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) who can change all these political impurities."

Flashback: all townwide and provincewide SK elections in Bohol were stained with hot and cold cash. That's it.

So young, so corrupt. I rest my case.

Just think of this:

During the recent Philippine Councilors League-Bohol elections, the councilors (who are addressed as honorables) allowed themselves to be bought with hot cash. Councilors buying votes of fellow councilors. Honorables selling votes to honorables. The price was P2,000 plus per vote.

And the world is watching. The general public is gawking at them. Now we have perfect models for our children.

The hoipoloi has a perfect excuse why his or her vote is always on sale.

Vision

It is the vision of TRINIDAD, province of Bohol to be an industrialized municipality, founded on the agro-based development creating an atmosphere of diverse opportunities for employment and livelihood projects, thus, increasing the purchasing power of its people and subsequently transforming the locality into a self-reliant community under a wholesome environment of peace and capable of delivering basic services to its people.

Mission

To maintain its capability-building activities relative to its economic, political and socio-cultural endeavors encouraging the active participation of all sectors of the community to achieve its vision.

Goals

- To establish the importance and contribution of the economic, political and socio-cultural growth of the MUNICIPALITY OF TRINIDAD in particular and our country in general;

- To establish ideal agro-industrial sites within the MUNICIPALITY OF TRINIDAD to encourage investors, which will in turn generate employment opportunities;

- To ensure agricultural revenue.

1. Best Web Design Award LGU/e-Governance Category Cebu Web Awards 2004

2. 2nd Runner Up Winner of the 2003 Search for the Most Outstanding LGU in Region VII
(Municipal Category)

3. 2003 Most Outstanding Agency in Region VII (LGU Category)

4. Consistent Top 3 Placer in the Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran / Clean and Green Program of the National

Government from 1995 to 2003

5. 2002 Gawad Galing Pook Awardee Trinidad Agricultural Production Development Program
Municipal Government of Trinidad, Bohol

Quote from: preciousNpolite on June 30, 2007, 04:53:28 AM
What amazes me is the people here gloat about how proud they are to be a native from here? but, they marry outside their race to get away from the place?
So they are not that proud after all?

Most marry for this one $$$$$ and are hoping for greener pastures from the other side of the fence with their new husband.

Most women who get married here to foreigners have a high rate of divorce after they have a new country citizenship and remarry again in the same country.

Allot of foreigner men come up to me and we laugh together as they tell me how unfaithful their being to their Philippine wives here.

The reason for it is because they are having a boring time here compared to the fast paced life back home.
The Philippine wife is fine with it for me "No Way"!
The foreign husband gets here and he pays for everyone in her family and it is not practiced in our place to get married and be the bread winner for Uncle Joe, Aunt sue, cousin Billy Bob, and the family pet pig.

I am telling you Philippine ladies if you want to lose your foreigner man just keep on washing his pocket book out supporting people he barely knows in your family.
It upsets them but they are too nice to say anything to you about it. So if your happy using a foreigner husband as an ATM machine then I guess it makes sense why you ladies allow these guys to be unfaithful towards you because you hold the legal banking card!

I also notice the Philippine woman married to a Westerner or other white foreigner man here is also changing her style of dress from conservative to non conservative?
She wears more richer threads then a Philippine woman married to her own native race.

I will not change for anyone I do not care what the style of the country is I will respect but not change it or myself
I would never marry to change my status in fact poor men have character and are rich in heart and rich men have everything and they never seem content!  JUST BE YOURSELF AND ACCEPT YOU FOR   HOW YOU REALLY ARE DO NOT DO IT FOR OTHERS DO IT FOR YOURSELF PEOPLE!)

Rich countries became rich because of the sacrifices of poor countries.

I have not been updated of the current status of our TBTK.
The last thing I knew was that there were quarrels and bickering
in the TBTK elections held at the Metro Centre Hotel in Tagbilaran,
and as a result, some TBTK participants walked out from the room
and the election was hanging in limbo. The chaos was damaging
to the image of our TBTK.

From this thread, can you suggest how to revive the TBTK?
Can you suggest how to mend broken hearts of TBTK participants?
Can you suggest how to heal the wounds of broken relationships?

Officials of Tubigon, Bohol until 2006

MAYOR
      LASCO, PAULO

VICE-MAYOR
      FUENTES, PACIENTE

COUNCILORS
1     OMUS, ANTONIO   
2     BAURA, SALUSTIANO   
3     AMILA, MARLON       
4     BATAUSA, ALFREDO     
5     UY, ARDEN     
6     COSGAKA, FROILAN 
7     BUHANGIN, FELIX       
8     CONCHA, LUCRESIO       

Tubigon, Bohol in Perspective

Tubigon, meaning watering hole, is a jump off point to Cebu.  It was the customary docking place for boats coming from southern Cebu.  The Jesuits had already arrived in Tubigon and in 1613 was made a visita of Loboc.  This is probably the same “Tobigu” mention by Pedro Chirino (1600) where he mentions that the people in anticipation of the Jesuits’ arrival built a church.  Tubigon no longer appears in a 1779 inventory of churches, suggesting that the town may have been abandoned.  It was formally constituted a town in 1819 from barrios of Calape and Inabanga, and became a parish under the Recollects in 1854.  All through the intervening years, priests visited the town for Sunday Mass.  No clear dates are available for the construction of the church.

Heritage Site:  The church follows the basilical plan of a central nave with aisles, however, it has a transept, and crossing is covered by an octagonal cupola.  The church fabric shows a mixture of materials, the upper part of the wall and most of the façade is concrete, however, the lower part is of rubble bound by lime mortar.  Metal sheet are also used in the upper section of the nave.  Jose (2001, 100) opines that these modern material were applied between 1928 and 1934, when the bell tower was made.

The nave is covered with metal ceiling decorated by Ray Francia from Cebu, his signature is found over the gospel or left transept.  With Canuto Avila, Francia was commissioned by the Cebu bishops to paint the churches of Bohol in the 1920s and 30s.  These paintings were mostly derived from holy pictures and illustrations from catechism and Bible histories.

At the exterior of the gospel flank, the mortar has been exposed to reveal the presence of stout posts or haligi that support the church’s roof.  These posts are embedded in the mortar of the church fabric.

source: ncc.gov.ph

Executives of Valencia, Bohol

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR
Municipal Mayor HON. HENRIETTA L. GAN,M.D.

OFFICE OF THE MUNICPAL ENGINEER
Municipal Engineer ENGR. INOCENCIO D. TAGUD

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR
MCR MR. FELIPE S. SALISE JR.

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSESSOR
Municipal Assessor MR. PEDRO S. BALDON

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTANT
Municipal Accountant MS. LOURDES G. ABELLANA,CPA

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL TREASURER
ICO-MT MRS. AQUILINA O. AMPIT

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET
Municipal Budget Officer MRS. NATY N. SUAREZ

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL HEALTH
Rural Health Physician ROCELYN S. BAJA,M.D.

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL AGRICULTURE
Municipal Agricultural Officer MR. SILVANO DAJANG

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL SOCIAL WELFARE & DEVELOPMENT
MSWO II MRS. NAOMI C. TAGUBAR

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
HRMO II MRS. GRACE T. CELLAN

SB Officials of Valencia, Bohol. Is this updated? Anyone from Valencia

HON. CALIXTO G. GARCIA (Municipal Vice Mayor)
HON. JORGE BUSLON (SB Member)
HON. JUSTO JAMODIONG (SB Member)
HON. RUFINO PALACA (SB Member)
HON. RODRIGO TAGAAN (SB Member)
HON. PATRICIO BALISTOY (SB. Member)
HON. LILIAN TRABAJO (SB Member)
HON. BENJAMIN GAMALO (SB Member)
HON. ARMANDO NAMOC (SB Member)
HON. NICANOR CAGADAS (Ex-Officio Member- ABC)
HON. JULIET ACERO (Ex-Officio Member- SK)
MRS. MARCELINDA B. NAMOC (SB Secretary)

renegade,

better you start a new topic for every subject rather than prolonging this thread.
this way, comments can be categorized accordingly.

mike

--excerpts from the 2004 Accomplishment Report of Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado

It is axiomatic that in all organizations human resource or manpower are our best assets. Thus we have endeavored to develop the Provincial Government’s human resources, through our human values formation program undertaken by Fr. James Darunday, Capitol chaplain, and the HRMDO.

            We also put in place a Financial Management Information System (FMIS) manned by personnel of the Provincial Accountant’s Office and soon to be networked with the Local Finance Committee offices and the Governor’s Office for a more transparent financial forecasting and processing.

            Similarly, we launched a more efficient collection of taxes due the government by securing the services of a dynamic, young provincial treasurer in the person of Diocesito Butawan, whose efforts paid off with a 97% collection efficiency of our realty taxes from our quarry fees and environmental taxes, which contributed so much in strengthening our yearend financial position.

            This more efficient revenue generation, coupled with our effective austerity and cost-saving measures resulted to an estimated surplus of about P70 million for the year 2004, which provided the Provincial Government the necessary wherewithals to grant a 5,000 CNA bonus and 10,000 additional benefits for each qualified personnel. The surplus also provided the Provincial Government extra funds for its district hospitals, President’s Bridge Program, and the BDRC detainees’ additional food requirement, all amount to about P27 million.

            We also launched this year the computerization and tax mapping program to improve our real property tax collection efficiency, with a 50-50 sharing of the funding therefor, between the Provincial Government and the municipal governments of Bohol. The computerization project is greatly enhanced by a donation of 100 units of accordingly slightly used computers by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd. The Hanjin computers however, need a change of software since they use the Korean language instead of the universal English language. Thereafter, the computers will be deployed â€"on each for the smaller towns and two for the bigger towns.

            The remainder will be deployed to public high schools where no computers have been installed for the use of students.

            For more transparency, we have implemented the new bidding procedure in Republic Act 9184 otherwise known as the Procurement Reform Act. This way, we have reduced considerably the degree of corruption, if not eliminate them altogether in the bidding process. But we are still in search for an electronic billboard as an effective and efficient tool for a more transparent and corrupt-free bidding of government projects and supplies.

--excerpt from the 2004 Accomplishment Report of Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado

The Provincial Peace and Order Council, the 302nd Infantry Brigade and the different units under it, and the Bohol Police Provincial Office registered major accomplishments in the PPOC Peace and Development Program.

            On top of internal security operations (ISO), the military conducted Special Operations Team (SOT) activities that identified and implemented 33 small impact projects like installation of jetmatic pumps, laying out of pipes, construction or renovation of barangay halls or day care centers, construction of perimeter fences, comfort rooms, basketball goals and the like. The SOT also recruited civilian volunteers and organized them, established barangay information networks that led to the surrender of 219 communist insurgents and three of their high-and 20 low-powered firearms, as well as 88 other loose firearms surrendered by civilians. From a high on 283 in 2001, the armed insurgents now number about 64.

Under its civil-military operations (CMO), the brigade joined  the PPOC in 20 civic actions or CIVACs with 12,422 beneficiaries; conducted 195 barangay dialogs, hosted a radio program over DYTR, conducted film showings, facilitated and monitored Kalahi projects in 15 conflict areas as well as Kalahi-CIDSS Rural projects in 813 barangays.

            On the other hand, the Engineer Support Battalion of the Army’s 53rd Engineer Brigade opened the Dagohoy to Carahan farm to market road (FMR) for only P300,000; rehabilitated the Sikatuna-Sevilla-Bilar road, Bilar section at P1.2 million; improved the Cangawa-Cantuba FMR at P185,000 and rehabilitated the Cangawa-Cantuba-Baluarte-Lubang road at P370,000all funded by the Provincial Government with LGU counterpart.

            Meanwhile, the Bohol police report a downward crime trend although the average index monthly crime rate registered a very minimal increase. Index crime or crimes against persons, property and chastity totaled 559 but 421 were solved, hence, an increased crime solution efficiency rating compared to last year’s figures.

            The police support the military’s ISO, and figured in the Lila encounter that resulted to the capture of two suspected communist insurgents, one M-16 Armalite rifle and a .38 caliber revolver. With the Army troopers that encountered the NPAs in Sohoton, Calape, the police helped recovered a caliber .45 pistol and a fragmentation grenade even as two NPAs surrendered to the police.

            On the PNP flagship programs, the police apprehended 100 persons and filed 69 cases for illegal drugs, arrested 103 gamblers and filed 33 cases; served 401 out of 433 warrants of arrests, arrested 50 persons for possession of loose firearms resulting to 59 firearms confiscated, seven surrendered and 11 recovered.

            They apprehended 430 persons for illegal fishing, 15 persons for violating Presidential Decree 105 or the Forestry Law, five persons for carnapping, and one for cattle rustling. In the process, nine motorcycles and two large cattle were recovered.

            Under police-community relations, they participated in CIVACs, conducted Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaigns on crime prevention, and anti drug abuse, among others and established 100% the children’s and women’s desk all over the province.

            Largely with the help of the provincial government, the police installed computers in all police stations for the Provincial-Municipal Police Information and Communication System. With allocations of P585,000 and P150,000 from the province, the brigade and the police helped renovate the Area Coordination Center, and constructed the crime laboratory, respectively, both inside Camp Dagohoy.

            In the course of doing their duty, policemen sometimes get charged, thus the Legal Assistance for Effective Law Enforcement Program (LAELEP) was born. This year, the province allocated a total of P450,000 for the program. The police and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Bohol chapter raised amounts and donated legal services. The program helps defray litigation expenses, posting of bail bond and for the continuing legal education of the policemen.

            For its outstanding performance, the Bohol PPOC was awarded the best Provincial peace and Order Council (Provincial Category) award and the 2004 Lakbay Kontra Droga Award by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

            In Bohol’s march towards progress, the Provincial Government has combined effectively the strategies for peace and development.

--excerpts from the 2004 Accomplishment Report of Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado

Apart from the mega projects, the Provincial Government under my watch has not been remissed in looking after the convenience of the Boholanos and visitors. This year alone saw the completion â€" inauguration â€" of some of the 20 bridges under the President’s Bridge Program costing P188.21 million. Also with national counterpart are the P258-million concreting and asphalting of vital provincial roads.

The counter-parting strategy  forms part of the “bibingka principle” whereby the LGU does not depend on national funding alone, but shells out local funds, too, for a project to take off and move. Sometimes, the local counterpart is bigger than the national counterpart, like the Gawad Kalinga Housing Project wherein so far, the province allocated P1.5 million to President Arroyo’s P1 million.

For its infrastructure projects, the Provincial Government this year acquired a  bulldozer and other heavy equipment worth P53 million. The  projects include the rehabilitation of the Bilar-Sevilla-Sikatuna Road and the Guindulmanâ€"Pilar Road with an aggregate length of 42 kilometers, costing P8.8 million, which the Engineer Support Batallion implemented.

            But the old projects need repair, rehabilitation or enhancement, too. The GSO has completed two standard market buildings in Tubigon, the Capitol annex building, and a two-classroom school building in Catigbian; rehabilitated the PTO, the Governor’s Office, old COA and budget offices for conversion into the new PAO and the Human Resource Management  Office, respectively, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall, pre-conference room and offices, the Governor’s Mansion to house a conference room and offices; renovated the Mansion’s garage into a product display center; repaired and renovated the Cong. Natalio Castillo Memorial Hospital building; reconstructed the perimeter fence of the CPG Sports Complex and improved the water supply of the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC).

            Bohol is an island. The link to other provinces would therefore be the ports. This administration urged and succeeded to work on the Philippine Ports Authority  through then PPA General Manager Alfonso Cusi, to rehabilitate and expand the Tagbilaran City Tourism Port and the roll on-off ports of Jagna, Tubigon and Ubay that are part of President Gloria macapagal-Arroyo’s Strong Republic Highway, all costing about P650 million. Also to allow passage of bigger vessels, the PPA has approved our request for dredging of the approaches to the Tagbilaran, Tubigon and Ubay ports.

            Finally, we have included in the DPWH and Regional Development Council Medium Term/Regional Development Investment Program the improvement of the following strategic roads for implementation: The port to port highway of Tubigon to Jagna via Sierra Bullones, the Loay Interior Road to Trinidad Tourism Highway,  the Alicia-Pilar-Sierra Bullones-Carmen to Clarin Agro-Tourism Highway, the Tagbilaran-Sikatuna-Loboc and Sikatuna to Bilar via Sevilla road network, the Antequera-San Isidro-Catigbian-Sagbayan-danao-Getafe and Mahayag (San Miguel) road network.

            Foremost of all is the preparation of the feasibility study on pro bono basis by Pacific Consultants International for the BCRIP III which covers the Ubay-Mabini-Candijay-Cogtong-anda-Guindulman roads, the Baclayon Bypass, the Tagbilaran Bypass, the Panglao Island Circumferential Road and Center Road Improvement. The feasibility study is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2005, as requested by this representation.

--culled from the 2004 Accomplishment Report of Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado

Consistent with our thrust of a sustainable economic development of Bohol, the Aumentado-Herrera Administration has continued agro-industrial development and tourism as its main economic drivers.

Today, Bohol remains as the No. 1 agricultural producer in Central Visayas, especially with its massive rice and corn hybridization program, fishery and livestock development, and rootcrops, mango, coconut and oil palm plantations all over the province. According to Regional Director Eduardo Lecciones, Jr., Bohol produces 66% of rice, 54% of fish and other marine products, 44% of livestock and 72% of rootcrops in Central Visayas. It tops also in the production of coconut and mangoes, and now, is the only province in Luzon and the Visayas engaged in oil palm plantation.

            The provincial administration has tapped cooperatives, people’s organizations, farmers and fisher-folk associations, the business sector and funding institutions to support Bohol’s agro-industrial development. The most outstanding cooperative, the Bohol Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative (BOFAMCO), has produced hybrid rice seeds under the Provincial Government’s A x B and A x R program, for the rice hybridization project and even for export to Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Leyte and Southern Leyte.

         For 2004, the Provincial Government has loaned the amount of P1.5 million to BOFAMCO for its hybrid rice seed production. This loan has been repaid by BOFAMCO.

            On the other hand, because of its varied attractions and culture, Bohol also remains as the No. 1 tourism destination in the country. To sustain and maintain this position, we are developing “new interests” to complement the “usual” sights â€"Chocolate Hills, Blood Compact Shrine, white sandy beaches, the Loboc River Cruise, tarsier conservation, Bcalayon and other churches.

            The new interests include ecological and cultural tours to the Cambuhat River and village in Buenavista, the biggest man-made mangrove plantation in Banacon Island in Getafe, Panadtaran in Candijay, and Basdio in Guindulman, and whaleâ€" and dolphin-watching in Pamilacan Island off Baclayon that won for us another Galing Pook Award for excellence and innovation in governance this year. Additionally, Banacon and Inabanga are the Philippines’ nominees to the Ramsar International Wetlands Conservation Awards, LGU and People’s Organization categories, respectively.

            Likewise, the Department of Tourism (DOT) has declared this year the Ubay Agri-Park and Wild Duck Sanctuary as the lone agricultural park in the Visayas and Mindanao, qualifying the UAP to more investments. It is a DOT- accredited eco-agri-tourism destination today.

--excerpt from the 2004 Accomplishment Report of Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado

In 2001, Bohol was No. 7 at the bottom of the 20 poorest provinces in the country. Today, December 31, the province has moved up the ladder by nine rungs, and is now in the 16th position, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In determining the ranks of the provinces, UNDP has used as benchmarks health and life expectancy, education and income of the people.

            The poverty reduction program has been felt through our Bohol Poverty Reduction Management Office (BPRMO) programs and projects, the Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO), the medicine para sa masa, indigent assistance program, the nutrition program, the campaign against illegal fishing, the Let’s Help Bohol Project, the Bohol Environment Management Office (BEMO) programs and projects, the CPG scholarship program, high school education through the Special Education Fund (SEF), summer and Christmas jobs for in-school and out-of â€"school youths, the effective operations of our provincial government-run hospitals and other health care programs in tandem with donor institutions and organizations, and the Provincial Peace and Order Council’s Peace and Development Program.

            The other line agencies of the Provincial Government, such as Agriculture, Provincial Engineer’s Office, Veterinarian’s Office, Provincial Planning and Development Office, General Services Office (GSO), Assessor’s Office (PAO), Provincial Treasurer’s Office, Bohol Tourism Office, Provincial Budget Office (PBO), Provincial Accountant’s Office and others have also contributed programs towards poverty reduction under our convergence or counter-parting strategy.

            The Provincial School Board has provided some 200 public secondary school teachers with adequate wages and benefits in accordance with law as well as advanced the educational and cultural thrusts of the students. It has also undertaken to rehabilitate the historic Gabaldon school buildings with an initial outlay of P2.5 million.

Maximizing the effectiveness of our convergence strategy in the fight against poverty, we signed with Social Secretary Dinky Soliman the Memorandum of Agreement on the Kalahi-CIDSS funded by World Bank for the inclusion of 12 towns with high incidence of deprivation. Each barangay in the 12 towns covered is allocated P300,000 worth of poverty reductions interventions made available in three years and on staggered basis.

            The other sources of funding for our poverty reduction program are the Belgian Integrated Agrarian Reform Support Program (BIARSP) III that covers 13 towns, the Australian Agency for International Development â€" Philippine â€"Australian Technical Support for Agrarian and Rural Development (PATSARRD), Fisheries Improved for Sustained Harvest (FISH), the World Bank Agrarian Reform Community Development Program Phase III embracing Tubigon and other towns, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded for Cebu-Leyte-Bohol-Southern Leyte (CELEBOSOLE) Growth Quadrangle with nine coastal towns of Bohol abutting the Danajon Double Barrier Reef, Culion Foundation and World Vision, among others.

            It is our vision and mission to move out Bohol from the list of the 20 poorest provinces in the next three to five years given the present state of the country’s economy.

            Meantime, the Provincial Government’s advocacies on health services, and clean and green program have won for Bohol this year the Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition Award and the Gawad sa Pangulo sa Kapaligiran Finalist title. And in fact it is vying for both the top national awards.

A portion of Gov. Erico Aumentado's 2004 Accomplishment Report

1. The P3.1-billion Leyte-Bohol Interconnection Project (LBIP) Phases I and II are now completed. The LBIP is now providing Bohol with 100 megawatts of geothermal energy from the Tongonan Geothermal Power Plant in Leyte via submarine cables to Bohol. This would make the province energy sufficient for the next 10 years.

2. The P1.58-billion Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project (BCRIP) Phase II is now on-going. BCRIP II covers 136 kilometers of portland cement concrete pavement (PCCP) and about 20 kilometers of concrete asphalt. It traverses the highways from Calape to Valencia via Tagbilaran City (Package I) under contract by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd., and from Candijay to Valencia (Package II) undertaken by C.M. Pancho Construction Co. and China State Construction Co., Ltd.

3. The P2.384-billion Bohol Irrigation Project (BHIP) Stage II can irrigate 5,300 hectares more of rice land in San Miguel, Trinidad and Ubay. The project is on-going, under contract also by Hanjin.

4. On stream is the proposed P4.2-billion Panglao Island Airport Development Project. This is a domestic airport-but of international standard â€" as recently approved by President Arroyo and her Cabinet under the Medium Term Investment Philippine Development Program (2004-2010).

Maraming salamat.  Please sit down.

Maraming salamat, Secretary Gonzales, representing the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jess Dureza, whose father passed away two days ago, which is why he’s not here with us, and we extend to him our condolences.

I’d also like to extend our condolences to General Victor Mayo, whose wife just passed away  today.

Other cabinet members; Governor Aumentado and the other local government officials of Bohol and Central Visayas; our congressmen; participants of the Local Peace and Security Assembly;  men and women of the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police; other guests; ladies and gentlemen,  good morning,  maayong buntag.

We’re here today among the descendants of Dagohoy  in one of the resorts in this beautiful resort province,  to declare our resolve to defeat terror and rout the enemies of democracy. People of Bohol, our hosts, your ancestors did not take savagery sitting down.  Instead, they fought back. Inspired by Boholanos,  from Dagohoy  to Aumentado, we too will fight back and repel the incursions of insurgency and terrorism.

We will not stop until bandits find no more nook to hide in the land they have blighted, and no sanctuary to seek from people they have terrorized and used at  shields.  But, as recommended and presented by the resolutions of this assembly, we do not and will never, employ the bloody means terror employs to compel forced obedience of their obsolete ideas and outrageous demands.

We, on the other hand, complying and in full accord with the resolutions of this assembly will employ all means available in the arsenal of democracy to crush those who wish to transplant the roots of radicalism in our land

As you have recommended, economic development remains our principal weapon against radicalism. Because as markets expand, poverty contracts, and preachers of hate are elbowed out by the advance of progress.

Education is another tool, for enlightenment extinguishes extremism and radicalism.

While our enemies destroy, we will build; while they wreck the fruits of our labor, we will help our people get back on their feet; while they harm, we will heal.  Every infrastructure they will tear down, we will replace, be it the edifice of our democracy or the dwelling of common folk.

They will try to erase our democratic way of life, but they will not succeed.  They will try to scuttle progress, not by rewriting our economic blueprint, for it’s an exercise too complex for barbarians, but through acts of terror and a war of attrition.  Yet,  to  no  avail.

But let me be clear on one point.  In preaching peace and working for progress, we are not foreclosing our use of our military to protect our people and keep them safe.

For those who recognize no other language but force and violence, government will be tough and relentless.

Our soldiers have performed valiantly.  Those who have fallen in the battles of Basilan and Sulu have paid the ultimate price.  Their heroic deeds will never be forgotten.  So, too, those who have perished in the jungles fighting the NPA.  The nation will ever be grateful to them for defending our right to live in peace and freedom.

A Commander-In-Chief cannot ask for more from those who have been in the line of fire. But they have earned the right to ask from me. Without telling them, without them telling me what they are, I know what they are. We will give it to them, the weapons to win battles and the wherewithal to win the peace.

To the military, this is my message: We are currently engaged in three fronts --   the communist insurgency, the rebellion in the south, and sheer terrorism with no pretenses.  Hindi tayo aatras sa pakikibaka upang mabigyan ng kapayapaan at kaunlaran ang bayan. and I am very happy that in the whereas portion of the resolution, the assembly agrees with our specified timeline,  three years,  to end armed rebellion in the Philippines.

The AFP must therefore evolve a strategy of rapid conclusion to address armed rebellion, with the national security council providing policy direction on communist insurgency, Muslim secessionism, and sheer terrorism.

The communist rebels have spent years as a low-level threat.  However, they impede the progress and development of a number of rural areas, and they are responsible for a wide range of human rights abuses.

If we are to become a first world country, we have to put a stop to their ideological nonsense and their criminal acts once and for all.  It is either get rid of them now, or get rid of them later.  Whatever happens, they must be stopped.

The maneuver battalions do the S.O.T., and one of the roots of success in Bohol was that the local government was the senior partner in the S.O.T. in what was called the convergence approach.  The maneuver battalions conduct patrols against the NPA, but they are not security guards.  They clear and consolidate npa areas then leave behind organized CAFGUs as stay-behind forces and move on to clear other areas.  While the CAFGUs do not share the salaries and retirement benefits of the soldiers, they share in the training and they now share in the 40 pesos a day increase in the soldiers’ allowance effective last July.

The AFP must be upgraded towards the acquisition of mission essentials, or what we need to immediately win the war in the three fronts.  This is where the five billion pesos modernization fund in next year’s budget should go.

The armed forces, of course, must have the support of the people as they had the support of the people of Bohol.  Kaya dapat lamang  suportahan ng AFP ang mga pagkilos ng mga pinunong lokal para sa kapayapaan.  Dapat lamang makipagtulungan and AFP at PNP sa mga gobyernong lokal at sa taong-bayan upang pagtibayin ang mga lunsod at pamayanan laban sa anumang pakana ng mga terorista.

At mga sundalo, huwag mapadala sa mga naghahangad hati-hatiin ang hukbo sa bisa ng mga mapalinlang at walang katotohanang propaganda. 

We must engage the support of the people by enhancing civil-military relations.  And I fully agree with the recommendation of the assembly that we should review the reservist and reserve force development program of the AFP, the ROTC and other similar programs consistent with the doctrine of a citizen’s army enshrined in the constitution.

Bukod sa terorista at rebelde, nagbabanta rin sa atin ang bagyo at baha sa ilang bahagi ng bansa, at kakulangan ng ulan sa ibang lugar.  Makipagkapit-bisig tayo upang tulungan ang mga kababayan nating nagdurusa sa pinsala ng panahon.

To the civilian agencies, this is my message:  “the gains of our economic growth have been reinvested in our people through increased infrastructure and social services programs.”

A few days ago, I said, the H.E.L.P. (HELP)  is on the way.  By HELP  (H.E.L.P.),  we refer to health,  education,  livelihood,  progress for Basilan and Sulu.  This is our template not only for Basilan and Sulu but for winning all the three fronts.

On health: DOH and PCSO should work with the local governments to provide health insurance for indigent families and improve long-term care for our senior citizens;  they should send doctors and medical personnel to conduct free clinics together with the soldiers in S.O.T. areas;  they should fast-track the creation of regional heart, lung and kidney centers in medical center of key cities such as Vicente Sotto regional hospital in Cebu so that the poor do not have to spend money to travel to Manila when they have a sophisticated ailment in heart, lung and kidney; and DOH and PCSO should upgrade primary local government hospitals to the secondary level by helping them acquire the equipment to deliver babies and do simple surgery.  I remember when there was the food poisoning here in Bohol.  It took a long time... I mean, it took time for all the children to be brought to Tagbilaran and so therefore, we should have upgraded hospitals in the places that are far from the good secondary or tertiary hospitals.  And that’s how the national government can help the local governments even if DOH or health services are devolved.

The nutrition council, which is now under the DOH, should also work with the local governments on food-for-school programs. The Philippine International Trading Corporation  which though is under the DTI is chaired by the DOH secretary should set up botikas selling half-priced medicines commonly bought by the poor.

On education:   the Department of Education must build and repair schools as needed to have a maximum grade school ratio of 50 students to one classroom for two shifts.  Make sure every grade school student has a textbook in math, science and english.  Maximize the use of distance learning in NPA areas to make sure the content is not infiltrated.  And also to make sure that the deliverer of the content is not infiltrated, train soldier-teachers for those areas.

On livelihood:  the Deparment of Trade and Industry must help the people market their products at better prices and mobilize the private business sector as part of the team of stakeholders together with local governments, the religious and academic sectors and civil society.  The DPWH and DOTC must  improve the  infrastructure most needed in a given area to create an environment in which businesses feel confident to expand and employ more people.

In Basilan, where Secretary Teodoro and I and our Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces and the other military officials and the chief PNP and other police officials were yesterday, the most important infrastructure is the Basilan circumferential road.  And while the Saudi  fund has been signed for that road for next year’s implementation, we are going to frontload it because after all, we have tax money for frontloading and the materials will be provided by the DPWH, the manpower will be provided by the engineering forces.

Here in Bohol, we have of course the Panglao airport which will bring in more and more tourists to Bohol and therefore bring all those ex-NPA’s down because there’s a job waiting for them.

We must wield a new paradigm of peace through the use of both hard and soft power.  The hard power of military might and the soft power that our growing economy allows us the resources to have to strike deeper into the roots of insurgency.  The soft power is to continue to pursue a peace formula of  effective capability-building programs and dialogue  to add or in fact even to be a senior partner compared to military might.

We need to retrace the roots of discontent -- and Bohol did that -- and nip the problem in the bud.  We must wield together...  We must meld together confidence-building measures grounded on economic and basic infrastructure development.

In the remaining areas in Bohol where you still have a few barangays influenced by the NPA that’s because they are inaccessible from a... through national roads.  So there is a bill filed by the two congressmen in whose districts these few barangays are located to transform these local roads into a national road.

Ang eksperyensiya sa Bohol maoy dakong pruweba nga mao kini ang aton kinahanglan karon.  Dili pa dugay sukad sa panahon kon diin ang Bohol maoy base sa mga labing aktibong rebelde sa rehiyon.

And you learned of this experience from Governor Aumentado yesterday.  It took the resolute efforts of a governor, Governor Aumentado, nga hingpit nga gitabangan sa usa ka komander sa militar, nga komander karon sa 7th division sa Fort Magsaysay, si General Juanito Gomez kaniadto, ug gibuligan ug mga nagkalain-laing sektor, naputol na gyud ang local insurgency diri. 

Sa tuig 2005, usa na lang ka front sa mga rebelde ang nabilin kay nalimpiyo na ang ubang fronts.

Ang ilang programa alang sa mga rebel returnees gipadayon karon nila brigade Commander Bellosa under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Cardozo luna ug PNP RD Alarcio.

Labaw pang midako ang kahulugan sa Bohol experience karon nga kadaghanan ang mga rebelde npa nga andam nga mobalik sa kinabuhing malinawon and turn their guns into plowshares.  And your number one recommendation is the amnesty program, so I’m asking our National Security Adviser to call a National Security Council meeting a week from Tuesday.  Oh, no. If we can call it on the evening of august 28, so we have to cancel my appointment on august 28 at night.  Let’s have a National Security Council meeting over dinner  so we can discuss that amnesty proposal.

Kining mga igsuon nato nawala sa dalan ug ni-apil sa mga rebelde tungod sa kapobrehan.

I am looking forward to meet the many local government officials, religious and civil society leaders in other regions preparing for their own peace assemblies.

The resolutions of this and forthcoming peace assemblies, when refined and adopted by all LGUs, will be potent tools for security and stronger local governments and therefore, for a stronger and progressive Philippines.

Naka-una ang Bohol sa anti-insurgency campaign.  Kon ipadayon ninyo kining inyong panaghiusa, ug sigurado ko naman na mapadayon, ga-una pa kamo... Padayon pa kamo ga-una sa kalinaw ug kauswagan.

Daghan salamat, Bohol. Daghan salamat, Governor Aumentado, sa maayong ehemplo nga gipakita ninyo.  Gihatag namo kaninyo ang among makusog nga suporta.  Ipadayon ninyo kini! And to all of you, let there be peace and prosperity in our land.

Daghan salamat.  Thank you.  Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat.   

By Abigail M. Olarte
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Magsaysay, Sevilla, Bohol - Our security escort holding the rusty M-16 rifle grunted as the old, rickety ambulance we were riding leaped a few inches from the road. But he quickly regained his composure, and resumed his hawk-like position, his eyes darting, regarding the trees as though they were enemies.

We were on our way to Magsaysay, the farthest barangay in Sevilla, an interior town 36 kilometers away from the capital, Tagbilaran City. It would take an hour's ride through a suffocating, rugged road from the town's poblacion and through mountains south of Bohol before we would reach Magsaysay. It is a barangay so remote a priest visits it just once a month, and only one bus travels to and from it once a day.

As we reached the village â€" an enclave shrouded in tall trees of coconut and mahogany â€" the burly, dark-skinned policeman in civilian clothes seemed to relax a bit. Nipa huts dotted the clearing; a few meters away rested a military detachment atop a hill.

Magsaysay was once a hotbed for the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. And though its residents say insurgents no longer roam their forests, the threat of a clash between the military and the NPA hangs in the air and slows down efforts to improve people's lives here.

Just last February, a soldier died and two others were wounded when guerrillas from the NPA's Chocolate Hills Command ambushed the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion of the Special Operations Command of the Philippine Army. Still, the military insists the NPA stronghold in Bohol has weakened, with only "20 NPAs" left operating in the province.

In areas like Magsaysay, where poverty fuels latent insurgency, not a few of its youth joined the underground movement, while many chose to live elsewhere. In the 1990s, in fact, nearly half of the barangay's population fled to escape the hostilities. Many have since returned to Magsaysay, which now has about 900 residents. But their lives still mirror that of other villagers elsewhere in Bohol, which posted a poverty incidence of 57.3 percent in 2002 and was among the 40 poorest provinces in the country.

Magsaysay's long-time village chief, 67-year-old Gerardo Barro, says that NPA or no NPA, the lives of the people here have hardly changed through the decades. It may even be that it was the NPA presence here that finally awakened local officials to Magsaysay's plight. A literal battlefield, however, was hardly the ideal spot for any development efforts, and even now the weakest hint of possible combat or even a chase through the village can stop do-gooders in their tracks.

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We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.

(Reuben Archer) R. A. Torrey

We often think of great faith as something that happens spontaneously so that we can be used for a miracle or healing. However, the greatest faith of all, and the most effective, is to live day by day trusting Him. It is trusting Him so much that we look at every problem as an opportunity to see His work in our life. It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have.

-Rick Joyner

Positive thinking reinforces our faith in God that things can be done.

All with God's help and blessings.

Be awed that in our unrighteous anger God reveals the depth of His love on our behalf. It is a heart that is willing to feel angry enough to battle with God that will be surprised into praise. And nothing, but nothing, is the cure for anger like the wonder of grace. It is praise for His grace even in the light of our impotency to eradicate our unrighteous anger that leads, in time, to waiting for God's wrath rather than seeking revenge today.

-Dan Allender

What we need today is not anger but anguish, the kind of anguish that Moses displayed when he broke the two tablets of the law and then climbed the mountain to intercede for his people, or that Jesus displayed when He cleansed the temple and then wept over the city. The difference between anger and anguish is a broken heart. It's easy to get angry, especially at somebody else's sins; but it's not easy to look at sin, our own included, and weep over it.

from Warren W. Wiersbe

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Sometimes it is easier to hide behind self rejection and loathing rather than deal with specific areas of sin that the Lord points out to us. But what is easier often becomes a snare, never allowing us to truly take personal responsibility for our actions. For example, it can be easier to say, "I am a horrible person and utterly hopeless, so why even try?" than to say. "I repent of my selfish anger and with God's grace, choose to work with Him so I no longer live in this anger any longer."

-Katherine Walden

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. -Max Lucado

Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted. -John Bevere

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God. - George F. McDougall

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Suggestions for Fasting and Feasting: Fast from discontent; feast on thankfulness. Fast from worry; feast on trust. Fast from anger; feast on patience. Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others. Fast from unrelenting pressures; feast on unceasing prayers. Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness. Fast from discouragement, feast on hope. Fast from media hype, feast on the honesty of the Bible. Fast from idle gossip; feast on purposeful silence. Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that undergirds.

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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil. - Henry Ward Beecher

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When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself. -Neil T. Anderson

The LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. â€"Proverbs 2:6

Voltaire said, “Common sense is not so common.” He was right! In a society that has grown increasingly litigious, we are inundated with warnings on products, mostly because some people lack common sense. Just read the following instructions.

On a hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping.

On an iron: Do not iron clothes on body.

On a chainsaw: Do not attempt to stop chain with your hand.

Common sense can be learned from experience or the teaching we receive from those we trust. But God’s Word is the best source of all to develop discernment and good judgment.

Three words echo throughout the book of Proverbs: wisdom, knowledge, understanding. God has packed this book with common sense.

Proverbs 11:12 advises restraint: “A man of understanding holds his peace.”

Proverbs 17:27 warns: “He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.”

Proverbs 20:13 is practical: “Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty.”

To get more common sense, consult God’s Wordâ€"the source of wisdomâ€"daily. â€"Cindy Hess Kasper

To Gain A Heart Of Wisdom:
Ask God for it (James 1:5).
Read regularly from the Proverbs.
Seek out godly counsel (Prov. 11:14; 15:22; 19:20).

Knowledge without common sense is folly.

source: Our Daily Bread
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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. â€"1 Corinthians 15:51

An 8-year-old boy, who was learning in school about the way plants grow, was intrigued when told how a tiny seed that germinates in the ground could later burst through the soil as a plant.

During that same time, he and his family attended the funeral of a family member. At the service, the pastor talked about the final resurrection of our bodies.

Several days later as the family traveled past the cemetery, the boy remarked, “That’s where they plant people.” Seeds planted in the ground and bodies buried at death had connected in his young mind.

The apostle Paul used this same illustration of planting seed to describe death, burial, and resurrection to the Corinthian church (1 Cor. 15). He said that even though the body of the believer in Christ is buried in the ground, it will one day be raised to new life (v.42). Our natural body is weak, but our spiritual body will be free from sickness, decline, and death (vv.43-44). Our new body will be glorified, endowed with power, and like Jesus’ resurrection body.

We look forward to that day when the trumpet sounds, the dead in Christ are raised, and “we shall be changed” (v.52). As we anticipate that day, let’s spread the good news of our victory over death through Jesus (vv.56-57). â€"Anne Cetas

Our Savior’s life for us was given
That we might one day bloom in heaven,
Our mortal bodies changed to be
Like His through all eternity! â€"Spicer

Christ’s resurrection guarantees our own.

source: Our Daily Bread

I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints. â€"Psalm 85:8

Gone are the days when a real person greets you on the other end of a phone call. It seems as though whenever we try to “reach out and touch someone,” we are greeted with a computerized voice.

I’m glad this isn’t true of our Father in heaven. He is always there. No voice-mail boxes, no “press 2 for more grace” and no “call waiting” interruptions. Thankfully, “Call to Me, and I will answer you” (Jer. 33:3) has not been replaced by, “All lines are now busy. Your call is important to Me. Please stay on the line.”

Yet I wonder what kind of access He has to us?

Communication with God is a two-way street. He speaks to us through His Word when we come attentively before Him in prayer and through the clear voice of the indwelling Spirit. He paid a great price to keep the lines open so that we can experience the joy of being still long enough to know that He is God (Ps. 46:10). As my grandmother’s favorite hymn “In the Garden” says:

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known. â€"Miles
© Renewal 1940 The Rodeheaver Co.

The joy of hearing His voice is a call you don’t want to miss! â€"Joe Stowell

Is God getting through to you?

source: Our Daily Bread

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 20, 2007, 03:31:59 AM
Tinuud jud na, pre. They are very influential people---they have a strong influence in media and the economy and politics too. The Jewish people are always...very influential..even in Europe before the massacre Hitler initiated. And it is true jud, kai imagine..over 12 million of them were killed by the Nazis, ning balik sila sa ilang homeland sa Israel--the land of David, Abraham, Isaac, Noah, and Jesus. Ning fight sila against so many countries in the arab-israeli wars...and they always WIN. Tinuud jud na..mo believe jud ko..that they are HIS chosen people. He led them from Egypt...from bondage and misery---he swallowed Pharaoh's chariots because they would not let them go. And he provided them a home agian in Israel--after 2000 y ears of being absent from that land. Mo believe jud ko ana...

Also, why do you think the US is always pro-Israel. Because Jewish people have big influence in American policy.

Executives at CNN are Jews.
Most media giants in the U.S. are owned by the Jews.

The database of all information about U.S. is hosted in Israel.

God has promised the Jews that they will be blessed wherever, whenever they are.

The secret to U.S. wealth is its relationship with Israel, according to Biblical point of view. God said to Abraham: "I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you."

During the 6-day war in 1967, at all means it was impossible that Israel would win in that war as most Arab nations were fighting against Israel. But in the end, Israel was even able to expand its territories, occupying the Golan Heights in Syria and a portion of Gaza known as Gaza strip.

God has a special heart for Israel.

Akoy mosumpay beh.

Kamong mga babaye kung basteron ninjo ang laki, bastera nalang ug tul-id-tul-id nga estorya kaysa ingnon mi ninyo nga "Pwede friends lang ta"? 

By Stephen Baker
businessweek.com

Editors will go the way of the linotype machine. Increasingly, human editing will be viewed as an expense and a delay that few can afford. Algorithms, editing software and seach engines will handle much of the work. Communities will bounce around the stories and edit in their own way. In this sense, newspapers will become more like blogs.

A few premium publications will remain edited. And lots of us will flock to them and pay a hefty price, because human editing, when done right, remains a wonderful thing for readers.

If you want to see what the writing looks like without editing, pick up a book. Oh, you might come across one that has actually been edited. (I have a very active editor at Houghton Mifflin, I'm happy to say.) But many books are given a quick line edit and published. From what I've heard, many in the industry are convinced that the key to selling is the concept, the marketing, the blurbs on the back cover-- and that editing just isn't worth the investment. A lot of other print industries, I'm convinced, will come to the same conclusion.

Companies are worried sick that in-house bloggers and social networkers will leak trade secrets. It happens, and sometimes it's serious. But part of adjusting to this world is reanalyzing exactly what's a secret, and what's not. Historical definitions have to be revisited.

The part of the story that drew my attention is that HR is way too busy monitoring data leakage to dwell on the time employees fritter away on the Internet.

What Proofpoint has found is the vast majority of employers don't worry about time wasting. "If H.R. is monitoring an employee's online behavior, it's almost always related to data leakage or the theft of confidential information â€" not time wasting. The productivity concern is a much lower-tier issue. It won't cost you millions of dollars in shareholder value."

source: internet.com and Businessweek.com

Sandakan, Malaysia - A youth from Kinabatangan returned home here today after being held against his wish for nine months at Taganak island in the Philippines, 90 minutes by boat from here.

What started as a picnic trip turned into a nightmare for Sidek Sariman, 21, from Kampung Suan Lamba, Kinabatangan near here when he followed three men, whom he had just befriended, to the island.

The men prevented him from leaving the island unless he paid a ransom of RM2,000, but with the help of a businessman from Sandakan who knew Taganak mayor Omar Khan, Sidek was released unharmed.

On arrival from Taganak at 11 am here, Sidek was flown to Kota Kinabalu to give a statement at the Sabah Police Contingent headquarters.

Four hours later he was safely home.

Kinabatangan Member of Parliament Datuk Bung Moktar Radin said he came to know of Sidek's plight after the youth's mother sought his help.

"Sidek's mother came to see me every month for the last nine months to ask for help and she cried every time we met.

"I received a call yesterday about Sidek coming back to Sandakan today. What is important, Sidek is reunited with his family especially during Ramadan," said Bung Mokhtar.

Asked by reporters, Sidek, an oil palm plantation worker, said he regretted trusting the three men he had just befriended who took him for a picnic at Taganak island.

source: bernama.com

By Karen Lema
Reuters and Philippine Daily Inquirer

A Philippine company that took off selling hair spray in the 1980s and is named after that decade's romantic comedy "Splash" aims to take its fortunes a step further by listing on the stock market next year.

Splash Corporation, the country's largest Filipino-owned personal care and cosmetics company, began as a P12,000-backyard business over two decades ago before growing into a multi-billion peso firm competing with the likes of Unilever and Procter & Gamble Co.

Rolando Hortaleza, chairman and chief executive officer of Splash, started the business in 1985, selling nail polish remover, cuticle remover and solvents in recycled cough syrup bottles in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Manila.

Now, his company is set to become the first Filipino personal care firm to list on the stock exchange, and is targeting its market debut for January 2008.

Hortaleza said Splash, the leading Filipino brand in skin care products, hoped to raise P2.0-2.5 billion ($43-53 million) by selling 25-30 percent of the firm in the listing, which would value the entire company at around P7.0-10.0 billion.

"It is our pride to be listed," Hortaleza said.

Proceeds from the initial public offering will be used to expand its personal care business and its presence in North America and Europe by selling health and wellness products such as flavored virgin coconut oil, he said, adding that the company would also be on the lookout for acquisitions.

 Penampang: A two-and-a-half-year-old Filipino boy believed to have been physically abused died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital last Wednesday.

Police have roped in the boy's 50-year-old grandmother and 14-year-old cousin for further investigation.

District Police Chief, DSP Madang Usat, said police had earlier classified the case as a sudden death report after being informed by the hospital about the death of the boy, identified only as Evin.

"The hospital told us the boy died at about 1.35am, believed due to breathing difficulties É so we (initially) opened a sudden death report," he said.

However, after the autopsy, police were informed the boy had suffered internal injuries, suggesting that he was physically abused, he added.

"We detained the grandmother, an IMM13 document holder, when she came to the station to settle the paperwork to claim the body at about 2pm on Tuesday," he said.

Madang said the boy's cousin was roped in from a restaurant in Jalan Tuaran, near here at about 11pm the same day.

Based on early investigations, he said the boy's parents had been deported to the Philippines, adding the boy lived with the grandmother and cousin near Beverly Hills Apartments here since.

The boy's relatives have been remanded four days under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder, he added.

source: Daily Express

Education officials on Friday said more Filipino 3rd grade pupils have shown an significant improvement in their reading and comprehension abilities, posting an aggregate 22.4 percent increase in their mean percentage score in both Filipino and English.

According to Education Secretary Jesli A. Lapus over 1.8 million pupils from public schools throughout the country took part in the March 2007 Reading Comprehension Test for English and Filipino.

Lapus added, "We are pleased with the test results which was intended to assess the silent reading ability of elementary school learners as well as determine the reading performance of schools over time."

Results of this year's test showed an impressive increase in both the English and Filipino components of the examination.

In the English part, a 19.6 percent increase brought 2006's mean percentage score (MPS) of 49.98 to 59.56 in 2007.

source: bayanihan.org

Two Indians have been arrested by the Philippines immigration department for marrying Filipino women for what is being described as marriages of convenience in order to acquire resident status in the country.

Agents of the Bureau of Immigration arrested Pawan Kumar, 32, and Bhattal Singh, 22, on Tuesday from their home in La Loma, Quezon city. They may now be deported back to India, the online edition of Inquirer reported.

"The two Indians will both undergo deportation proceedings for being undesirable aliens as they acquired resident visas by means of fraud and misrepresentation," said Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan.

He added: "We are warning other foreigners not to contract a 'marriage of convenience' to acquire legal residence here as their visas can be cancelled any time and they will be arrested and deported."

"Kumar was already married to an Indian woman named Jaswinder Kaur, who arrived in the country on July 5, 2006," said Victor Boco, technical assistant for intelligence at the immigration department.

source: timesofindia.com

A reaction letter sent to the editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

“OFWs ARE PROOF OF ECONOMIC boom -- De Castro.” (Inquirer, 9/2/07) If indeed the Philippine economy is booming, why are more and more Filipinos leaving the country for work abroad? They’re leaving the Philippines because there are no job opportunities here. How then can Vice President Noli de Castro claim an economic surge?

It is the overseas Filipino workers who are keeping the Philippine economy afloat, not the government. De Castro is part of the government but he does nothing to stop the exodus.

Thailand is in need of thousands of skilled workers which the Philippines can surely provide. What is De Castro doing? If he can do something about this, maybe he’d earn bragging rights in helping OFWs. We Filipinos are going to Thailand for different reasons, but only with one thing in mindâ€"to find a decent job not available to us in the Philippines. Many of us entered as tourists, then became “TNTs.” Most of us have been successful because there are lot of opportunities here, unlike in the Philippines.

Fortunately, we don’t have domestic helpers here, mostly professionals. If De Castro wants to leave a legacy, he can do so by reducing the number of Filipino teachers who are on the verge of falling into the pit of mendicancy.

What is the significance of education to OFWs who are domestic helpers? Is it necessary to have a college diploma to become a DH? Most of the OFWs have no college diploma; they honed their skills through experience because they could not afford to continue their studies. Diploma is useless nowadays. Special skills cannot be obtained from the universities; they are acquired in the low-salaried jobs.

The Vice President should not brag about a soaring economy while college graduates are making do with menial jobs to survive.

-- LEAN ALBERTO,
lean_al@yahoo.com

By Salven Lagumbay
Cebu Daily News

Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao yesterday made mention of the three Filipino fighters who will be slugging it out against separate opponents in the undercard of his October 6 rematch with Marco Antonio Barrera at the Mandalay Bay.

Pacquiao and Barrera cross paths once again at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas in a rematch of their first encounter won by the Filipino icon in convincing fashion.

In his widely read column which appeared simultaneously on Philboxing.com and Abante yesterday, Pacquiao named the three fighters as featherweight Michael Farenas, bantamweight Jundy Maraon and featherweight Glenn Gonzales.

Both Maraon and Gonzales, along with trainer Noli Pinol, are scheduled for their visa interview this morning, while Farenas has already been given a three-year visa by the US Embassy in Manila along with trainer Jonathan Penalosa.

“Watch out for these three fighters, as I expect them to go places and win big fights,” Pacquiao said in his
column.

By Rey Gamboa
The Philippine Star

In early 2001, the local cement industry led by the multinational companies sought government intervention in what it pleaded was necessary protection for its survival. That year, the prices of domestic cement were plummeting below P100 per bag, widely believed to have been caused by the entry of cement from nearby Asian countries.

These cement manufacturers, composed of Cemex, Lafarge and Holcim and considered the biggest three players in the global industry, immediately filed a case before the Tariff Commission against a Taiwanese and Japanese cement company on dumping charges.

The commission eventually handed down its decision that there was no sufficient evidence to support the Big Three’s claims, and therefore was not in favor of instituting anti-dumping measures including the imposition of duties on cement importations.

The cement companies next brought their case, complete with busloads of “affected” employees and their families plus media fanfare, before the Department of Trade and Industry. Here they found favor. The DTI agreed to the re-imposition of relatively hefty duties on every bag of imported cement.

In exchange, the three multinational cement firms solemnly swore to keep prices of cement between P125 to P135 per bag, which they kept during the whole of 2002. In 2003 until today, as many cynics had predicted, prices had started to creep up.

High prices

We are today in an era where cement is at P175 per bag, roughly three times more than its retail price 10 years ago, and almost double compared with what consumers paid for before duties had been re-imposed on cement importations.

This is surprising since construction growth has not exactly been moving at a feverish rate â€" even taking into account the “boom” that accompanies an election year. And, as our government brandishes, inflation has been consistently tame over the last couple of years.

There are instead rumors of the return of a cartel whose individual members have been sanctioned or indicted in other countries for “price fixing.” Many are raising the question as to whether “price fixing” is happening now in the country.

If we scrutinize prices of cement during the time when the industry was mostly owned by Filipino companies and after, when the Big Three foreign companies bought out the local boys, two distinct patterns seem to emerge.

Before, when the industry was dominated by Phinma and several other smaller family-owned firms, cement pricing was largely dictated by the season â€" during summer, when people would commence building projects, prices increased; and when the rains came, prices dropped â€" but always on fairly steady level.

With the multinational cement companies, prices were more or less stable throughout the year, but always on the uptrend year after year. The only period that this was challenged was when imports had been coming in without duties, thereby freely challenging the price structure maintained by the Big Three.

Of course, it could be argued that cement prices are largely a function of world supply and demand. For example, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998, the selling price of cement dropped to one of its lowest levels.

Yet, during the years after the Big Three took over the industry, cement prices seemed unaffected by production oversupply or the absence of construction projects. Certainly, to any keen observer, this would arouse suspicions of “price fixing,” something that the existing industry’s member companies have already been criticized for in other countries.

A Filipino domestic helper facing the death penalty in Kuwait for killing her female employer could get her sentence reduced after the Philippine Embassy convinced the victim's mother and two siblings to forgive her.

Vice President Noli de Castro, presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers, relayed the news from Ambassador to Kuwait Ricardo Endaya.

De Castro said the embassy was now working to convince the victim's estranged husband as well as another sibling to forgive Marilou Ranario, a move which could reduce the death sentence meted by a Kuwaiti court.

Ranario, from Bicol, admitted to killing her employer in January 2005 after the latter had repeatedly maligned Filipinos.

According to De Castro, the embassy has hired another lawyer to argue Ranario's case in the Kuwaiti Supreme Court which is scheduled to hear the appeal this week.

The Department of Foreign Affairs denied reports that Ranario had only 16 weeks to live, saying the verdict was still on appeal.

source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer

By Cathy S. Babao Guballa
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, a registered nurse, has just taken her place in history. Last Sept. 1, Zenei became the first Filipino president of California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the premier organization of Filipino-American nurses in the United States.

Zenei is one of the four CNA presidents. The others are Americans. “I am deeply touched by the honor bestowed upon me by my fellow nurses,” Zenei tells the Inquirer in an interview.

“To have come so far in my life and now to share the responsibility of advocating for patients and RNs alike is nothing that I could have imagined.”

Zenei’s election marks a watershed moment for nursing, which has increasingly become a global profession marked by steady migration from the Philippines, as well as for the larger Filipino-American people, now numbering more than two million, but is only beginning to acquire the social and political representation it deserves.

Founded in 1903, the California Nurses Association, and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, is one of the nation’s premier nurses’ organizations and health care unions.

Big group

One of the fastest growing health care organizations in the US, the group at present has 75,000 members in 40 states, representing nurses at scores of hospitals, clinics and home health agencies.

Since 2000, over 19,000 RNs at 50 hospitals have elected to affiliate with CNA. It is the largest and fastest-growing organization of direct care registered nurses in the country, dedicated to providing a voice for nurses and a vision for healthcare.

It’s been a long and hard road for Zenei who migrated to the US in the early ’70s. A brother who was with the US Navy sponsored all nine Triunfo siblings, Zenei among them, together with their parents, Aniano Villote Triunfo and Jovita Celi Triunfo.

A 42-year-old Filipino who formerly worked as a driver with the Micronesian embassy in Washington D.C. has been sentenced by the United States District Court in New Jersey to a 26-month term for human smuggling.

Convicted was Enrico Calderon of Laguna who, together with a Micronesian embassy official, made 50 fake passports that were sold to Filipinos wanting to come to the United States for fees up to $25,000.

Earlier, Calderon’s cousin and co-conspirator, Roehl Rivera, who acted as escort for the smuggled Filipinos from Hong Kong to Newark airport in New Jersey was sentenced to time served in jail. But the judge ordered his immediate deportation. Calderon, however, still has to serve up to eight months to complete his 26-month sentence.

He is also facing criminal charges filed May 14 by the government of the Federated States of Micronesia against him and Micronesian diplomat Jesse Marehalau.

source: manilamaildc.net

Philippine-based think-tank IBON Foundation on Monday warned that four deals signed between the Philippine and Chinese governments in January could lead to the lose of over a million hectares of farmland for Filipino farmers because of the financial vulnerability of poor farmers.

In a statement, IBON said the Philippines entered into four agricultural agreements with China which commits the Philippines to convert 1.24 million hectares for cultivation of hybrid rice, hybrid corn and hybrid sorghum.

However, the Philippine Department of Agrarian Reform announced last week, it is looking for 400,000 to 500,000 hectares of land for agribusiness development under an agreement signed with China in January this year. However, the deals said the area could expand to 8.8 million hectares of "idle alienable and disposable lands and forest lands."

But IBON said farmlands distributed to farmers under the agrarian reform program could revert back to moneyed landlords if the deals were implemented. The foundation cites past experience where agreements between farmers and agri-business corporation for production and marketing tie-ups lead to farmers losing control of their land and ownership.

"The Philippine-China farm deals may also threaten the country's food security as more and more lands are shifted from food staples such as rice, to production of crops for biofuels. Since the mid-1990s, the country is already completely a net food importer from being a net food exporter in earlier years," IBON said in a statement.

source: All Headlines News ahn.com

BY JOSE FRANCO

Remittances by Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the UAE grew by 11 per cent to Dh185.42 million ($50.48 million) in July from Dh167.26 million ($45.54 million) in June, according to the Philippine central bank.

The July inflows brought to Dh1.2 billion ($324.8 million) the total remittances from the UAE for the first seven months, an increase of 57.1 per cent from Dh759.5 million ($206.8 million) over a year ago level.

BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) Governor Amando Tetangco Jr announced in Manila of a “sustained growth in remittances” as the Philippine banking system continued to provide overseas Filipinos with various services, including savings and investment needs.

Government statistics posted on the BSP web site show that remittances from the UAE accounted for over 24 per cent of the Dh5 billion ($1.35 billion) sent home by OFWs in the Middle East from January to July.

The BSP includes only Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in its listing of countries under the Middle East.

OFWs in Kuwait had registered an 80 per cent growth in remittances to Dh408.43 ($111.2 million) for the first seven months from Dh227 million ($62 million) while those in Saudi Arabia sent home Dh2.61 billion ($711 million), a 19 per cent increase from Dh2.2 billion ($598.1 million).

source:Khaleej Times Online

By Windsor Genova
AHN Writer

(AHN) - Taiwan has stopped issuing work visas to Filipinos applying for jobs as helpers for Taiwanese households, the Philippine Star reported on Tuesday.

A group of local agencies that recruit Filipino household helpers for Taiwan said the refusal of the Taiwan Economic Cultural Office to issue visas to two Philippine labor attaches in Taiwan caused a 20 percent drop in the deployment of such workers to the island-state.

Jackson Gan, President of the Pilipino Manpower Agencies Accredited to Taiwan (PILMAT), said only 4,000 Filipinos were hired as household helpers in Taiwan in the past two months. Gan claimed that the Taiwanese government is intentionally delaying the issuance of working visas to Filipinos in protest to Manila's "no placement fee" policy.

A Filipino woman will be spending the next three-and-a-half months behind bars after she pleaded guilty to overstaying in the country.

The Bandar Magistrate's Court on Saturday heard that Kamra Halil Uddin, 31, did not leave the country after her social visit pass expired on October 29, 2006.

Last month, the defendant reported herself to the Enforcement Section of the Immigration Department saying that she had lost her passport.

source: brudirect.com and Borneo Bulletin

Taiwan -- Kaohsiung City police have detained an American and his Filipino girlfriend for questioning in connection with the death of cram school teacher broker, Chiu Mei-yun, whose body was found inside a large garbage bag on Saturday.

An official from the American Institute in Taiwan was present at the police station where the suspects were questioned.

Police found traces of blood in the suspects' shared residence as well as dog fur similar to that found on the duct tape used to seal the bag. Investigators announced that DNA tests conducted on the blood stains revealed a positive match with the victim.

Police identified the American suspect only as David, who had called the victim on her cell phone the night she was last seen. According to local TV reports, the American suspect was a cram school instructor and a possible client of the victim.

Police originally targeted a Japanese-national teacher whose motorcycle was caught on surveillance video towing a pull cart loaded with a large sack. The Japanese instructor later told police that she had lent the scooter to the American suspect prior to the incident. The Asian female caught on tape turned out to be the American suspect's Filipino girlfriend. Police apprehended the two suspects Monday night at a tutorial center in Kaohsiung.

source: chinapost.com

The Asia Pacific Downunder Conference in Perth today was told that OceanaGold will utilise a training programme for its growing workforce at the Didipio copper-gold mine in the Philippines for a dual purpose - to train a new workforce and fill holes in its workforce in NZ.

OceanaGold's Vice President NZ Operations, John Kinyon, told Mineweb at the Perth conference that the company, like Newmont Waihi at Waihi on the North Island, was experiencing the same shortage of professional and skilled people. This, he said, had become a broad problem for the global mining sector.

(At the recent NZ Minerals Conference in Christchurch, Waihi Gold Co's resident manager Glenn Grindlay asked "how many mining engineers did it take to change a lightbulb." His answer was one, but the problem was finding one, and if you had one he was probably on his or her way to Australia).

Kinyon said advanced training of some of the Didipio workforce would need to be carried out at the New Zealand mines - Macraes and the recently commissioned Globe Progress at Reefton.

This, he said, offered a great opportunity to fill in the gaps being created at the NZ operations by labour shortages. To help stem the problem OceanaGold had also engaged an agency to recruit more Australasian professionals and skilled miners and mill operators.

He told delegates group gold production for 2007 was expected to reach 190,000 ounces and was estimated in 2008 to lift to 301,000 oz (undoubtedly through an output lift from Globe Progress and from the Frasers Underground mine). In 2009, with commissioning of Didipio group production would rise to 338,000 oz gold and 17,000 tonnes of contained copper metal.

source: mineweb.com

By Kate V. Pedroso
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Nearly one in every ten Filipino families (9.6 percent) was the victim of a common crime in the first half of this year, according to a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The figure is slightly higher than the 8.6 percent victimization rate reported in the same period last year, but represents a general decline from a high of 14.9 percent in August 2004 and 13.2 from September 2006 to February 2007.

The least number of common crimes was reported in the Visayas, the most in Metro Manila.

The SWS victimization figures are much higher than the number of crimes actually reported to the police, and is highest in Metro Manila, SWS said in a statement released yesterday.

The SWS survey, released as the second quarter report for 2007, also found that 8.9 percent of families nationwide lost property to pickpockets, burglars or car thieves, while 1.8 percent suffered physical violence.

In Metro Manila, clearly the most crime-prone region in the country, 15 percent of families reported they had been victimized by pickpockets, 5.3 percent had their homes broken into by burglars, and 4 percent had a family member victimized by physical violence in the first six months of 2007.

About 1.8 percent of vehicle-owning families in Metro Manila experienced car theft over the last six months. No car theft cases were found in the rest of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Luzon was generally second to Metro Manila in the number of reported victims of crimes, with 6.3 percent saying they were victimized by pickpockets, 3.7 percent victimized by home burglars, and 2.3 percent physically hurt in common crimes.

Mindanao had the least number of pickpocket reports (4 percent), but was second to Metro Manila in reported home burglaries (4 percent). In terms of people physically hurt in common crimes, the war-torn southern region was second to the lowest (0.7 percent).

The Visayas had the lowest number of people saying they were victimized by home burglaries (1.3 percent), or physical hurt in common crimes (0.3 percent). Reports of pickpocket incidents were second to the lowest at 4.3 percent.

Mau na jud ni.

Welcome to Tubag Bohol mawjood.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

There is no need for the provincial government to issue a waiver to give City Hall a freehand in buying out the 70-percent holdings of Salcon Group in Bohol Light Company Inc. and Bohol Water Utilities Inc.

This was the categorical statement of Gov. Erico Aumentado during an interview over dyRD’s top-rated “Inyong Alagad” Monday.

The governor was asked to comment on the statement made by City Mayor Dan Lim that Aumentado and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) should first relinquish its rights on reacquiring the 70-percent ownership of Salcon in the two utility companies.

Aumentado stressed that Lim and the city government can tender its offer to Salcon anytime and the provincial government will not pose any objection.

Lim said during his weekly “Mayor’s Report” that the joint venture agreement between the provincial government and Salcon is entitled to purchase the latter’s equity, if ever it should be offered for sale.

The mayor challenged the governor and the SP to give him the authority to negotiate with Salcon if they do not intend to aggressively pursue in reacquiring control over the twin utility companies.

Lim said banks are ready to extend loan to the city government if ever an offer has to be made to Salcon.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

An investigating panel of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) has not turned up hard evidence to prove allegations that there was fund mismanagement at the Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape (RSPL) project.

This after the SP committee on natural resources and environment, committee on tourism and committee on government properties conducted a joint inquiry with those involved in the alleged misuse of funds and improper project implementation.

The project was supposed to get a total of P10-million funding from the New Zealand Aid (NZAid) but was stopped due to complaints made by William Granert of the Soil and Water Conservation Foundation (SWCF) that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) messed up with its implementation.

The investigating panel conducted hearings with Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) Eduardo Inting and barangay captain Chanel Lozano of Riverside in Bilar where the project is situated.

Granert was likewise invited to present his allegations to the joint investigating committee.

The police need clear support from higher authorities.

Is there a demand?

Is there a clamor from airlines?

Is there a clamor from, say, Korean or Japanese tourists?

Development and Crimes are two unrelated things.

I don't understand why some people see them as 1 + 1 = 2.

In Thailand, you cannot even own a house unless you are a Thai citizen.

Even if you have a Thai wife, you cannot become a Thai citizen, but legible for residence visa.

Published by the Bohol Chronicle

“Have you given your best with what you have?” Tagbilaran Mayor Dan Lim asked teachers during the Department of Education educational summit held yesterday at the Cooperative Bank of Bohol conference hall.

Lim issued the challenge as he urged teachers to be true to their calling and to do their best notwithstanding the problems that they face.

The mayor pointed out that “without fear of equivocation, Tagbilaran has become a showcase of government concern for public school education.”

“While many parents are wondering how they will be able to send their children to school, we are giving them all the support that we can give â€" free school uniforms, school bags, school supplies and lately raincoats and umbrellas,” he revealed.

While many pupils do not have a classroom to study, Lim said the city equips every classroom with ceiling fans and hopefully with its own comfort room.

He said that while other teachers do not enjoy official support for their tasks, the city constantly attends to their needs even though they are not directly under its jurisdiction.

“And yet, all of you know that in spite of all these, we still have a long way to go. While you are the object of envy of other teachers, you yourself admit that there is still much to be done as far as improving our system of education - enough to ensure that the children you teach today will be positive contributions to society in the future,” he said.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

At least five stolen vehicles were recovered by the PNP’s Traffic Management Group-Region 7 since Monday.

As of yesterday, the TMG impounded at the Camp Dagohoy 2 Nissan Urvans, 1 Hyundai Starex, 1 Mitsubishi Adventure and 1 Isuzu Crosswind.

The stolen cars, that are on the TMG list of stolen vehicles, found its way to new owners here through second-hand dealers.

Most of the vehicles were registered to its original owners from Metro Manila.

The TMG, led by Insp. Doroteo Tolentino, conducted its operations after noting that second-hand cars are being sold here like “hot cakes” and at cheaper prices.

Police identified the cars during patrols conducted as most of them are now using fake plates.
At the TMG base in Camp Dagohoy, the engine number and chassis number are examined to check if these were not tampered.

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

The Armed Forces of the Philippines Central Command (AFP-Centcom) is considering its transfer here in the province.

This was proposed yesterday during the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting at the Bohol Tropics Resort.

The meeting was attended by Philippine Army chief Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano, brother of new 302nd Infantry Brigade commander Col. Cesar Yano, who was also in the meeting presided by Gov. Erico Aumentado.

Also in attendance were Centcom chief Maj. Gen. Victor Ibrado, 3rd Infantry Division chief Maj. Gen. Jovenal Narcise, Bohol PNP director SSupt. Edgardo Ingking, 79th Infantry Battalion commander Col. Nestor Porlucas and League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) president Mayor Exuperio Lloren.

The AFP-Centcom is comprised of units from the military’s major services â€" 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.

According to Ibrado, they have been asking for a relocation site in Cebu City, but if the city government could not provide them the area, then they may have to transfer here.
Other than Bohol, the AFP is also considering Mactan Island, Cebu.

The proposal for the transfer of its base here will have to be approved by the AFP chief, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon.

A Forwarded E-mail. We need to verify this info if it were true. Anyone from Maribojoc?

Dear Boholanos,

The intent of this letter is to share with you all the tragedy that
recently happened to my family in Maribojoc, Bohol.  I currently am in
California, but maintain a residence in Bohol and the following information
about the murder of my nephew was provided by my family who currently share
my home in Bohol. My 16 year old nephew was recently murdered near the
church of Maribojoc, Bohol located in front of the municipal building.  The
murder happened at 7:00 o'clock in the evening.  The killer is currently in
the Bohol municipal jail.  My sister, (the victim's mother) visited the
killer in jail and he confessed that he was sorry for killing her son.  He
confessed that he realized he killed the wrong person but his rage couldn't
stop him from stabbing my nephew (11 times). *

My deceased cousin's son named Berne has a 15 year old girlfriend, who
happens to be the daugter of the killer who is currently in jail for the
murder of my nephew Macmac.  Prior to the incident, the girl stayed with
Berne overnight because the girl was afraid to go home because her
father(THE KILLER) had previously beatent her up for having a boyfriend. At
5:30 in the morning (the morining of the murder) Berne woke up Macmac to see
if he could escort him to drop the girl off at her home.  Berne was also
afraid of what her father would do, so figured they would be safer if they
were together.  Later that evening, the furious father was searching for
Berne but unluckily Macmac was walking with a friend.  The father knew that
Macmac was related to Berne so he started chasing him.  Macmac was able to
escape from him but since Macmac knew he was not at fault, he felt obligated
to explain the situation to the father, so he came back and confronted the
father.  As he tried to just speak up for himself, the man lost his temper
and started stabbing Macmac.  My helpless nephew ran for help at the nearby
church but no one was willing to help him.  The man followed and continued
to stab him until he died. There were many people outside and nearby and my
family cant understand why no one helped him. *
**

*The worst part of the story, is the killers representatives are attempting
to justify the murder with a ridiculous story that the mans daughter was
raped by Macmac.  As far as I know the girl has stated that she in fact has
not been raped by anyone although she had already submitted herself to her
boyfriend Berne twice. One of the media outlets in Bohol has already issued
an apology for reporting the incident and accusations without any evidence.
If Macmac had raped the girl or if he knew that she was raped by Bernie why
would he take the girl home to her house? I don't think anyone would take
someone home to their father, after raping their daughter, especially
knowing that the father was very angry about the relationship between *

*Berne and his daughter. These boys would be hiding from him if they did
something bad to his daughter. Macmac was a tiny, innocent young man that
cannot even protect himself.  He was brutally murdered by this man so we
want justice for his death. We already talked to someone in "Imbestigador"
but they cannot do anything yet because the guy is already in jail but will
step in if he will be released.*
**

*I shared this agony to all of you because we want to get justice.  Many
times hard core criminals in the Philippines are not being punished because
of the influencial people that they know or their financial standing in the
community.  It is so unfair to the family that lost love ones, and know one
in Bohol or the rest of the Phillippines should stand for this injustice.
We lost a innocent son (Macmac) because he was(brutally killed) and we lost
Berne because he left Bohol without even saying goodbye fearing for his
life. *
**

*I cannot believe that such a crime could ever happen in our place.  My
father (Segundo/Turcolas family) is from Lagtangon and my mother is from the
next barrio which is Giuanon (Baloria/Balatayo family).  We grew up in
Mindanao but when my father died, we decided to move back to Bohol because
we believe that we would be safe there.  I always loved Bohol since I was
young and wanted to retire there someday but now I don't know if Bohol is
really safe for me and my family .If Boholanos are not willing to stand
together against this type of injustice than they should be ashamed of
themselves   *
**

*Please help me find justice in this case.  I believe that a thorough
investigation should be done in order to get justice for this incident. I
don't want this case to die with my nephew.

Quote from: C2H4 on September 19, 2007, 10:33:45 AM
dodong, sige ka'g post sa mga pics sa imong chicks, mag selos jud si jaja, sige ka

Now I understand the word "nangluod." 

Quote from: Bambi on September 19, 2007, 04:16:01 PM
Thank you very much Mike.........you are a real HERO!

Oh, Bambi. I'm just an ordinary human.

Much has been given, much is required. God gives us talents and skills: we are required to use them for good and for His glory.

Because your voice is important.

I was tired of reading the same people whose ideas are always published in the newspaper.

I was tired of hearing the same people being interviewed over the radio.

How about the other Boholanos? I asked myself. Do they have a voice in certain issues? In our society?

Because your voice is important - that's why we have Tubag Bohol.

And, of course, the friendship...

I don't need to look for one, Bran - I have found one. 

The final moments of life for the majority of western Canadians are spent in an "artificial" hospital environment, despite evidence that most would rather die in the comfort of their own home, according to a new report.

The study, released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, looked at 65,000 who died in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in 2003-04. Almost 37,000 people, or 58 per cent, died in hospital.

"People like the comfort of their own home, their own bed, they like to have their family around them," said Dr. Stuart McMillan, a palliative care physician in Regina, adding the home environment is much less sterile and artificial than a hospital.

"I think one of the things (the study) tells us is that there are people who could possibly be looked after at home who are dying in hospitals," he said. "That raises questions about what can we do as a system to support those people more and their families more."

The study examined four categories of patients: terminal illness, organ failure, the frail and sudden deaths.

Researchers found that terminally ill people, such as those with cancer, were the most likely to die in a hospital.

In-hospital deaths were more common in Manitoba, at 68 per cent, and Alberta, at 65 per cent, than in B.C. and Saskatchewan, both just over 50 per cent.

"I think what this study suggests is there is a considerable variation in dying at home," said Anne McFarlane, the institute's executive director for Western Canada.

source: medbroadcast.com

(AP) - Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart.

"If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50 years, we could definitely have more cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, of the department of cardiology at Sweden's Karolinska Institute.

On the sidelines of the European Society of Cardiology's annual meeting in Vienna this week, some experts said the issue deserves more attention. It's well-known that people have more heart problems when it's hot.

During the European heat wave in 2003, there were an estimated 35,000 deaths above expected levels in the first two weeks of August. In France alone, nearly 15,000 extra people died when temperatures soared. Experts say much of that was due to heart problems in the elderly worsened by the extreme heat.

The hardening of the heart's arteries is like rust developing on a car, said Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University. "Rust develops much more quickly at warm temperatures and so does atherosclerosis," said Tomaselli, who is program chair at the American Heart Association.

In higher temperatures, we sweat to get rid of heat. During that process, blood is sent to the skin where temperatures are cooler, which opens up the blood vessels. In turn, the heart rate rises and blood pressure drops. That combination can be dangerous for older people and those with weakened cardiovascular systems.

Extreme events like the recent devastating fires in Greece may complicate the problem. The increasing number of forest fires that have swept through Southeast Asia in the last decade have also brought a spike in heart disease, experts say.

But because there are so many scientific uncertainties about climate change, like how fast it will occur, or what other factors, such as pollution levels or natural phenomena, might affect it, doctors are unsure what exactly to prescribe.

source: medbroadcast.com

Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals, scientists said Thursday.

In a special energy and health series of the medical journal The Lancet, experts said people should eat fewer steaks and hamburgers. Reducing global red meat consumption by 10 per cent, they said, would cut the gases emitted by cows, sheep and goats that contribute to global warming.

"We are at a significant tipping point," said Geri Brewster, a nutritionist at Northern Westchester Hospital in New York, who was not connected to the study. "If people knew that they were threatening the environment by eating more meat, they might think twice before ordering a burger."

Other ways of reducing greenhouse gases from farming practices, like feeding animals higher-quality grains, would only have a limited impact on cutting emissions. Gases from animals destined for dinner plates account for nearly a quarter of all emissions worldwide.

"That leaves reducing demand for meat as the only real option," said Dr. John Powles, a public health expert at Cambridge University, one of the study's authors.

The amount of meat eaten varies considerably worldwide. In developed countries, people typically eat about 224 grams per day. But in Africa, most people only get about 31 grams a day.

With demand for meat increasing worldwide, experts worry that this increased livestock production will mean more gases like methane and nitrous oxide heating up the atmosphere. In China, for instance, people are eating double the amount of meat they did a decade ago.

source: medbroadcast.com

Premier Jean Charest has announced that Quebec schools will eliminate soft drinks and fatty foods starting next January.

Charest told a news conference in Montreal today it won't cost more to offer better food at a reasonable price.

The premier says he also wants schools to attack what he calls an obesity problem.

He says not only do schools have to offer healthy food and exercise but parents need information to make the right choices for their children.

Charest announced his Liberal government will add $11 million to an existing $5-million program to allow schools to develop programs for exercise and healthy food choices.

source: medbroadcast.com

I feel sad. Mike doesn't have baby pictures. 

A few hours before she died this summer at the age of 36, Jolee Mohr lay in a Chicago hospital so swollen by internal bleeding and her failing kidneys that her husband decided against bringing their five-year-old daughter to say goodbye. The girl wouldn't have recognized her mother.

Robb Mohr couldn't bring himself to watch her die and he spent his wife's last hours talking with her helpless and puzzled doctors. One vowed to get to the bottom of the illness, and there were several clues to go on.

The most unusual was this: Jolee Mohr got sick the day after her right knee was injected with trillions of genetically engineered viruses in a voluntary experiment to find out if gene therapy might be a safe way to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. She was dead three weeks later.

The sponsor of this nationwide experiment, Targeted Genetics Corp. of Seattle, has halted the work and 127 patients are being evaluated, according to a company spokeswoman. No other problems have been reported, and the company believes patients were adequately informed of the treatment's risks.

U.S. health officials are investigating Mohr's death, and the case is expected to be discussed Monday by advisers to the National Institutes of Health during a meeting in Bethesda, Md. There's a lot at stake, including answers for Robb Mohr, and the interests of Targeted Genetics. But there are also questions about how medical studies are done and how much study volunteers are told of the risks.

source: medbroadcast.com

The stethoscope has long been one of the most familiar trappings of doctors and nurses. But in future, medical professionals may more commonly be seen sporting an MP3 player as they do rounds.

Yes, that's right, an MP3 player. And no, it won't be for bopping to tunes. A team of researchers from the University of Alberta is exploring whether the popular music players could be the stethoscope of the future, a replacement for an instrument recognized as not the most effective of tools in the medical toolbox.

Dr. Neil Skjodt, a respirologist, and Bill Hodgetts, an audiologist, have been testing MP3 players with built-in microphones to determine whether they might produce clearer, more recognizable lung sounds.

"The quality, clarity and purity of the loud sounds were better than I have ever heard with a stethoscope," Skjodt said in a release.

Skjodt was scheduled to present preliminary findings of the work Monday at the annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society in Stockholm.

Discerning chest or heart sounds through a stethoscope is more of an art than a science. Recent studies have shown that some medical students have to listen to certain clinical sounds up to 500 times in order to be able to recognize one from the other.

Skjodt tested respiratory specialists in training to see if they had more accurate results with lung sounds recorded on an MP3 player. He said they were better at recognizing common combinations of breath sounds and wheezing using the device, though more subtle sounds were still a problem.

Skjodt and Hodgetts intend to provide subjects with reference recordings - a library of chest sounds in MP3 format - that helps them learn to differentiate one from another. And they are studying whether the devices could help doctors listening for heart and bowel sounds as well.

In an interview, Skjodt said MP3 players offer a variety of options that stethoscopes don't. Sounds can be recorded and filed for future comparison. MP3 files could also be transmitted over the phone or via the Internet, allowing distant experts to help analyze a problem in, say, a remote setting.

The devices are inexpensive, and can hold medical podcasts or be used as a recorder for dictating notes.

source: medbroadcast.com

A new study suggests that people with Type 2 diabetes are able to stabilize their blood sugar levels significantly by combining aerobic exercise with weight training.

The study shows that diabetics doing both types of exercise regularly saw their blood sugar levels improve at twice the rate of those doing just one. The findings could impact more than two million Canadians with the disease.

Dr. Ron Siegal is an endocrinologist at the University of Calgary and co-author of the study being published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He suggests such drops in blood sugar levels would be "clinically significant."

"The difference between the combined exercise group and the control group that didn't exercise would translate into a 15 to 20 per cent reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke," he said Monday.

The six-month study, which was also conducted by seven researchers from the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Health Research Institute, used 251 randomly selected people.

While the study showed that those who did one form of exercise were able to lower their blood sugar levels more than those who did nothing, the group that did combined exercises showed the biggest improvements.

Siegal said the two-pronged approach could also help lower the risk of "micro-vascular" problems that often afflict people with Type 2 diabetes such as blindness, kidney ailments and peripheral nerve troubles by upwards of 40 per cent.

Type 2, sometimes known as late-onset diabetes, is the form of the disease that often shows up later in a person's life. It can be prevented or delayed through improving one's health and controlling weight, diet and stress.

source: medbroadcast.com

British hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewelry worn by staff in an effort to stop the spread of deadly hospital-borne infections, according to new rules published Monday.

Hospital dress codes typically urge doctors to look professional, which, for male practitioners, has usually meant wearing a tie. But as concern over hospital-borne infections has intensified, doctors are taking a closer look at their clothing.

"Ties are rarely laundered but worn daily," the Department of Health said in a statement. "They perform no beneficial function in patient care and have been shown to be colonized by pathogens."

The new regulations would mean an end to doctors' traditional white coats, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said. Fake nails, jewelry and watches, which the department warned could harbour germs, are also out.

Johnson said the "bare below the elbows" dress code, which comes into force next year, would help prevent the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every available antibiotic.

Popularly known as a "superbug," MRSA accounts for more than 40 per cent of in-hospital blood infections in Britain, and it's also found in hospitals in North America. Because the bacterium is so hard to kill, health care workers have instead focused on containing its spread through improvements to hospital hygiene.

source: medbroadcast.com

Quote from: ms da binsi on September 19, 2007, 11:18:45 AM
hahahhahahah abi nako sa TUbag Bohol hahhahahhahhahhah

Si Balong kay Tuba Bohol man. Bisan unsa nalang acronym aning Tubag Bohol. But the more fitting is TBTK. Tubag Bohol Tibuok Kalibutan.