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Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you. â€"Psalm 55:22

Have you ever had Super Glue or oil-based paint on your fingers? If so, you may have discovered that what seemed impossible to remove can be taken off with the right solution.

Life’s burdens can be that way. Someone I was mentoring sent me an e-mail and asked me to pray. It read: “I can’t shake this burden. It’s something I haven’t been able to give up to God. I’m very sad about it and know that I must hand it over to Him and be transformed. I truly need God’s strength to rid myself of it. I know that God’s forgiveness can clean me if I let it. I just must choose to let it.”

I responded, “The joy of the Christian life is knowing that God can handle anything we hand over to Him. . . . But at the same time, the great burden of the Christian life is that weâ€"weak and helpless individuals that we areâ€"hang on to stuff we know we need to give to God. We all know the feeling.”

Our sins and concerns, big and small, seem to stick to us like Super Glue. The solution? We need to take those burdens off our own hands and put them on God’s shoulders. The Bible tells us: “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you” (Ps. 55:22).

Why carry around those sticky burdens? â€"Dave Branon

God knows our burdens and our crosses,
Those things that hurt, our trials and losses,
He cares for every soul that cries,
And wipes the tears from weeping eyes. â€"Brandt

God tells us to burden Him with what burdens us.

<a href="http://www.rbc.org">Our Daily Bread</a>

Hello Richard Cooper,

We're glad you're with us. Enjoy the hospitality of the Boholano people.

Feel free to share your thoughts with us.

Cheers,

Tubag Bohol Team

Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” â€"James 4:15

Over the years, it has been my privilege to lead several study trips to the Bible lands. In the months leading up to our group’s departure, we would have a series of orientation meetings in preparation for our trip. Schedules, hotel accommodations, contact informationâ€"all could be changed at a moment’s notice.

For that reason, our preparation times always stressed the need for flexibility. A willingness to go with the flow and adjust to whatever changes we might encounter was especially valuable. Life has an element of unpredictability for which flexibility is the best response.

James expressed a worldview of flexibility in chapter 4 of his epistle. While it is wise to plan for the future, we must do so with the recognition that God’s purposes might be different from ours. Instead of rigidly saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city” (v.13), James counseled us to flex to God’s direction in our lives. He said, “Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that’” (v.15).

The adventure of following Christ is one that rests in His perfect plansâ€"and flexibility helps us to be prepared for wherever His purposes might take us. â€"Bill Crowder

He does not lead me year by year,
Nor even day by day;
But step by step my path unfolds;
My Lord directs my way. â€"Ryberg

A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.â€"Proverbs 16:9

from <a href="http://www.rbc.org">Our Daily Bread</a>

I will behave wisely in a perfect way. . . . I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. â€"Psalm 101:2

Officials in Philadelphia were astonished to receive a letter and payment from a motorist who had been given a speeding ticket in 1954. John Gedge, an English tourist, had been visiting the City of Brotherly Love when he was cited for speeding. The penalty was $15, but Gedge forgot about the ticket for almost 52 years until he discovered it in an old coat. “I thought, I’ve got to pay it,” said Gedge, 84, who now lives in a nursing home in East Sussex. “Englishmen pay their debts. My conscience is clear.”

This story reminded me of the psalmist David’s commitment to integrity. Although he made some terrible choices in his life, Psalm 101 declares his resolve to live blamelessly. His integrity would begin in the privacy of his own house (v.2) and extend to his choice of colleagues and friends (vv.6-7). In sharp contrast to the corrupt lives of most kings of the ancient Near East, David’s integrity led him to respect the life of his sworn enemy, King Saul (1 Sam. 24:4-6; 26:8-9).

As followers of Jesus, we are called to walk in integrity and to maintain a clear conscience. When we honor our commitments to God and to others, we will walk in fellowship with God. Our integrity will guide us (Prov. 11:3) and help us walk securely (10:9). â€"Marvin Williams

Lord, cleanse my heart of all deceit
And teach me to be true;
Help me to have integrity
In all I say and do. â€"Sper

There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

from <a href="http://www.rbc.org">Our Daily Bread</a>

photo courtesy of wjbarbon of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>

caption by the photographer: "I got this photo when traversing the sea between Jao Island and mainland Bohol."

photo courtesy of Gary of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>

photo courtesy of HULAGWAY of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>

Bank hit, businessman killed in 2 robberies
By Mia E. Abellana
<a href="http://www.sunstar.com.ph">Sun.Star Staff Reporter</a>
June 30, 2007 (latest update)

THREE members of a robbery gang that pulled heists in Manila, Cebu and Bohol barged inside a secluded thrift bank Friday (June 29) afternoon.

In a separate incident in Sogod town, a businessman was killed Thursday morning when he decided to run away from five armed robbers who blocked his way. He lost an estimated P100,000 cash.

Men identified as members of the San Miguel, Bohol robbery gang ran off with an undetermined amount of cash and personal belongings of those inside the Metro Cebu Public Savings Bank in N. Bacalso Ave., Cebu City at 1:20 p.m. yesterday.

Cora Oliveras, manager of the Metro Cebu Public Savings Bank head office, said less than P100,000 was taken because they were not allowed to maintain a big amount in the bank. They have yet to conduct an inventory to find out how much was stolen.

One of the robbers went directly to the counter while another went behind the security guard to take his shotgun.

The bank’s employees, security guard and three bank clients were shoved inside the vault and threatened not to sound the bank’s alarm system or call the police, or else they would be shot.

15 minutes

A third companion waited outside with their getaway motorcycle.

It was not until they heard the sounds of other bank clients inside the bank that they decided to come out of the vault and call the police.

The Mobile Patrol Group received call for help at 1:35 p.m.

Shown photos of the police file on the San Miguel, Bohol robbery gang, employees identified Casimero “Meloy” Garcia, Cresencio “Bruts” Reguya and Rodolfo “Dupong Junjun” Atega.

Garcia was identified as the one who disarmed security guard Diolito Calago, while Reguya reportedly went to the bank tellers and declared the hold-up.

Atega also reportedly entered the bank at 11 a.m. yesterday to apply for a loan.

Garcia has a pending frustrated murder case in Talibon, Bohol.

2 weeks ago

The Anti-Robbery and Thievery Task Force headed by Supt. Pablo Labra II had launched an operation in Consolacion two weeks ago, hoping to arrest the gang members.

However, most of them escaped except for Garcia’s younger brother Valentino.

Valentino has revealed the group’s plans to rob a convenience store and a payroll courier in Mandaue City by June 30. Police believe they changed their plans when they read about Valentino’s revelations in the papers.

Valentino also claimed they were responsible for the heist pulled in front of Vic Enterprises last April 20, wherein truck manager Cotelde Ablan was shot.

The group has been tagged as responsible for the heists pulled in Unitop, Tagbilaran City on Dec. 28, 2006 where P500,000 was taken, the First Consolidated Bank in Bohol last Jan. 5 that lost P333,000, and the Caltex station in Talibon.

Police are also eyeing them as the ones behind the failed kidnapping of Filford Guani in Cebu City last month.

No signals

Two beat patrol policemen will also be made to explain where they were at the time of the robbery.

The two were assigned in the vicinity of the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT), across the bank.

However, they did not notice anything because there was no commotion outside the bank.

Even social worker Asteria Geraldizo, 45, walked inside casually to withdraw money and was surprised to see an empty bank except for one robber who instructed her to enter the vault.

Police have been on the lookout for a robbery incident after learning that a bank was robbed in Bohol last week.

“We have been initiating counter-measures. However, they chose an unlikely target,” Labra told reporters.

Follow-up operations led police to scour the interiors of Barangay Lorega where the getaway blue motorcycle was reportedly spotted, but they returned empty-handed.

Blocked

As for the Sogod incident, Galicano Montebon in Sitio Cana-an, Barangay Buliwang, Tuburan town was on his way to Barangay Pansoy, Sogod to buy farm animals.

When they reached Sitio Balhin, Barangay Cabangahan, he and his motorcycle driver were blocked by three masked men.
The three men placed bamboo poles with thorns on the road, forcing motorcycle driver Vicente Rondina to stop.

The three declared a hold-up and demanded them to hand over their valuables.

Instead of heeding them, Montebon reportedly reacted by jumping off the motorcycle and running in the opposite direction. He was met by two other masked men who shot him. They grabbed his bag and wallet and then fled.

Concealed

Rondina brought his bleeding employer to the Juan Dosado Memorial Hospital but a doctor declared him dead on arrival.

SPO1 Arsenio Coming of the Sogod Police Station said the five were armed with .38 and .357 revolvers.

Police believe that because the five bothered to conceal their faces with masks, they were from the area.

He said Montebon was a familiar face in the mountains as a businessman who bought farm animals to trade.

Though they are not sure how much was taken from him, relatives told police that he always brought not less than P100,000 with him whenever he went to do business.

Kumusta na ang solid waste management project sa atong probinsya?

Macky,

He who controls the stomach controls the will.

19. You know you're in Bohol when you no longer see the once lovely trees at Plaza Rizal after the GSO of Provincial Capitol mercilessly cut them down.

17. ...inig sakay sa St. Jude - kusog modagan, dugay moabot...

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on June 30, 2007, 01:53:19 AM
Ghost you are superstitious...

14. If you hear people say "cokes" for coke.
15. If people say "smuggle" for sandals (naa pa ba ni ron???)

My lola is still using the term "smagol" for slippers.

Sent to Tubag Bohol News Team from Edie Managaytay

"The Philippines Through the Eyes of a Foreigner"

By Barth Suretsky
Atin Ito Philippine News Feature
April 2007

My decision to move to Manila was not a precipitous one. I used to work in New York as an outside agent of Philippines Air Lines, and have been  coming to the Philippines since August 1982. I was so impressed with the country and with the interesting people that I met, some of whom have become very close friends to this day, that I asked for, and was granted, a  year's sabbatical from my teaching job in order to live in the Philippines.

I arrived here on August 21, 1983, several hours after Ninoy Aquino was  shot, and remained here until June of 1984. During that year I visited  many parts of the country, from as far north as Laoag to as far
south as  Zamboanga, and including Palawan. I became deeply immersed in the history  and culture of the archipelago, and an avid collector of tribal antiquities  from both northern Luzon and Mindanao.

In subsequent years I visited the Philippines in 1985, 1987, and 1991,  before deciding to move here permanently in 1998. I love this country, but  not uncritically, and that is the purpose of this article.
First, however,  I will say that I would not consider living anywhere else in Asia, no  matter how attractive certain aspects of other neighboring countries may  be.

To begin with, and this is most important, with all its faults, the  Philippines is still a democracy, more so than any other nation in  Southeast Asia . Despite gross corruption, the legal system generally works, and if ever confronted with having to employ it, I would feel much  more safe trusting the courts here than in any other place in the surrounding countries. The press here is unquestionably the most unfettered and freewheeling in  Asia , and I do not believe that is hyperbole in any way!

And if any one thing can be used as a yardstick to measure the extent of the democratic process in any given country in the world, it is the extent to which the  press is free.  Nevertheless, the Philippines is a flawed democracy, and the flaws are deeply rooted in the Philippine psyche. I will elaborate. The
basic  problem seems to me, after many years of observation, to be national inferiority complex, a disturbing lack of pride in being Filipino.

Toward the end of April I spent eight days in Vietnam , visiting Hanoi ,  Hue, and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). I am certainly no expert on Vietnam ,   but what I saw could not be denied: I saw a country ravaged as no other  country has been in this century by thirty years of continuous and incredibly barbaric warfare.  When the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, the country was totally  devastated. Yet in the past 25 years the nation has healed and rebuilt  itself almost miraculously! The countryside has been replanted and reforested. Hanoi and HCMC have been beautifully restored.

The opera house in Hanoi is a splendid restoration of the original, modeled  after the Opera in Paris, and the gorgeous Second Empire Theatre, on the  main square of HCMC is as it was when built by the French a century ago.  The streets are tree-lined, clean, and conducive for strolling.

Cafes in the French style proliferate on the wide boulevards of HCMC. I am not  praising the government of Vietnam, which still has a long way to travel on  the road to democracy, but I do praise, and praise unstintingly, the pride of the Vietnamese people.  It is due to this pride in being Vietnamese that has enabled its citizenry  to undertake the miracle of restoration that I describe above.

When I returned to Manila, I became so depressed that I was actually  physically ill for days thereafter. Why? Well, let's go back to a  period when the Philippines resembled the Vietnam of 1975. It was 1945,
the end of World War II, and Manila, as well as many other cities, lay n ruins.  As a matter of fact, it may not be generally known, but Manila was the  second most destroyed city in the entire war; only Warsaw was more  demolished. 

But to compare Manila in 1970, twenty five years after the end of the war,  with HCMC, 25 years after the end of its war, is a sad exercise indeed. Far from restoring the city to its former glory, by 1970 Manila was well on  its way to being the most tawdry city in Southeast Asia.

And since that  time the situation has deteriorated alarmingly. We have a city full of street people, beggars, and squatters. We have a city that floods sections whenever there is a rainstorm, and that loses electricity with every clap of thunder. We have a city full of potholes,  and on these unrepaired roads we have traffic situation second to none in  the world for sheer unmanageability.

We have rude drivers, taxis that routinely refuse to take passengers  because of "many traffic!". The roads are also cursed with pollution  spewing buses in disreputable states of repair, and that
ultimate anachronism, the jeepney! We have an educational system that allows children to attend
schools  without desks or books to accommodate them.

Teachers, even college  professors, are paid salaries so disgracefully low that it's a wonder that  anyone would want to go into the teaching profession in the first place. We have a war in Mindanao that nobody seems to have a clue how to settle. The only policy to deal with the war seems to be to react to what happens  daily, with no long range plan whatever.

I could go on and on, but it is  an endeavor so filled with futility that it hurts me to go on. It hurts me  because, in spite of everything, I love the Philippines.  Maybe it will sound simplistic, but to go back to what I said above, it is  my unshakable belief that the fundamental thing wrong with this country is a lack of pride in being Filipino.  A friend once remarked to me, laconically: "All Filipinos want to be  something else. The poor ones want to be American, and the rich ones all  want to be Spaniards. Nobody wants to be Filipino." That statement would appear to be a rather simplistic one, and perhaps it is.

However, I know one Filipino who refuses to enter a theater until the  national anthem has stopped being played because he doesn't want to honor  his own country, and I know another one who thinks that history stopped  dead in 1898 when the Spaniards departed. While it is certainly true that  these represent extreme examples of national denial, the truth is not a  pretty picture. Filipinos tend to worship, almost slavishly, everything foreign.

If it comes from Italy or France it has to be better than anything made here. If  the idea is American or German it has to be superior to anything that Filipinos can think up for themselves. Foreigners are looked up to and idolized. Foreigners can go anywhere without question. In my own personal experience, I remember attending recently an affair at a major museum here. I had  forgotten to bring my invitation. But while Filipinos entering  the museum  were checked for invitations, I was simply waived through. This sort of  thing happens so often here that it's just accepted as routine.

All of these things, the illogical respect given to foreigners simply  because they are not Filipinos, the distrust and even disrespect shown to  any homegrown merchandise, the neglect of anything Philippine,
the rudeness  of taxi drivers, the ill manners shown by many Filipinos are all  symptomatic of a lack of self-love, of respect for and love of the country  in which they were born, and worst of all, a static mind-set in regard to  finding ways to improve the situation.  Most Filipinos, when confronted with evidence of governmental corruption,  political chicanery, or gross exploitation on the part of the business  community, simply shrug their shoulders, muttering "bahala na," and let it  go at that.

It is an oversimplification to say this, but it is not without a grain of  truth to say that Filipinos feel downtrodden because they allow themselves to feel downtrodden. No pride.  One of the most egregious examples of this lack of pride, this uncaring  attitude to their own past, is the wretched state of surviving architectural landmarks in Manila and elsewhere. During the American  period, many beautiful and imposing buildings were built, in what we now  call the "art deco" style (although incidentally, that was not contemporary term; it was coined only in the 1960s).

These were beautiful edifices, mostly erected during, or just before, the Commonwealth period.  Three, which are still standing, are the Jai Alai Building, the Metropolitan Theater, and the Rizal Stadium. Fortunately, due to the truly  noble efforts of my friend John Silva, the Jai Alai Building will now be  saved. But unless something is done to the most beautiful and original of  these three masterpieces of pre-war Philippine architecture, the  Metropolitan Theater, it will disintegrate.

The Rizal Stadium is in equally  wretched shape.  When the wreckers' ball destroyed Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in  Tokyo, and New York City's most magnificent building, Pennsylvania Station, both in 1963, Ada Louise Huxtable, then the architectural critic of The New  York Times, wrote: "A disposable culture loses the right to call itself a  civilization at all!" How right she was! (Fortunately, the destruction of  Pennsylvania Station proved to the sacrificial catalyst that resulted in  the creation of New York's Landmark Commission. Would there be such a  commission created for Manila ... ?)  Are there historical reasons for this lack of national pride? We can say  that until the arrival of the Spaniards there was no sense of a unified archipelago constituted as one country.

True. We can also say that the high cultures of the nations in the region seemed, unfortunately, to have  bypassed the Philippines; there are no Angkors, no Ayuttayas, no  Borobudurs. True. Centuries of contact with the high cultures of the  Khmers and the Chinese, had, except for the proliferation of the Sung  dynasty pottery found throughout the archipelago, no noticeable effect.  True. But all that aside, what was here?

To begin with, the ancient rice  terraces, now threatened with disintegration, incidentally, was an  incredible feat of engineering for so-called "primitive" people.  As a matter of fact, when I first saw them in 1984, I was almost as  awe-stricken as I was when I first laid eyes on the astonishing Inca city of Machu Picchu, high in the Peruvian Andes.

The degree of artistry  exhibited by the various tribes of the Cordillera of Luzon is testimony to a remarkable culture, second to none in the Southeast Asian region. As for  Mindanao, at the other end of the archipelago, an equally high degree of artistry has been manifest for centuries in woodcarving, weaving and  metalwork. However, the most shocking aspect of this lack of national pride, even identity, endemic in the average Filipino, is the appalling  ignorance of the history of the archipelago since unified by Spain and named Filipinas.

The remarkable stories concerning the courageous  repulsion of Dutch and British invaders from the 16th through the 18th centuries, even the origins of the Independence of the late 19th century,  are hardly known by the average Filipino in any meaningful way. And thanks  to fifty years of American brainwashing, it is few and far-between the  number of Filipinos who really know -- or even care -- about the duplicity  employed by the Americans and Spaniards to sell out and make meaningless  the very independent state that Aguinaldo declared on June 12, 1898.  A people without a sense of history is a people doomed to be unaware of  their own identity. It is sad to say, but true, that the vast majority of  Filipinos fall into this category.

Without a sense of who you are, how can  you possibly take any pride in who you are? These are not oversimplifications.

On the contrary, these are the root problems of the Philippine inferiority complex referred to above. Until the Filipinos take pride in being  Filipino these ills of the soul will never be cured. If what I have written here can help, even in the smallest way, to make the Filipino aware  of just who he is, who he was, and who he can be, I will be one happy expat.

The following was written by INTEL General Manager Robin Martin about the
Philippines:
 
Filipinos (including the press, business people and myself) tend to
dwell too much on the negative side, and this affects the perception of
foreigners, even the ones who have lived here for a while. The negative
perception of the Philippines is way disproportionate to reality when
compared to countries like Columbia , Egypt , Middle East, Africa , etc.

Let us all help our country by balancing the negative with the positive
especially when we talk to foreigners, whether based here or abroad.
Looking back and comparing the Philippines today and 1995 (the year I
came back), I was struck by how much our country has progressed
physically.

Consider the following:

1. The great telecom infrastructure that we have now did not exist in
1995. 1995 was the year the telecom industry was deregulated. Since then
billions of dollars have been invested in both fixed line and cellular
networks producing a system with over 5,000 kms of fiber optic backbone
at a world competitive cost. From a fixed line capacity of about 900,000
in 1995 we now have over 7 million. Cellular phones practically did not
exist in 1995; now we have over 11 million line capacity.

2. The MRT, many of the EDSA flyovers (including the Ayala Avenue
flyover), the SKYWAY, Rockwell and Glorietta 4, the Fort, NAIA terminal
2 and most of the new skyscrapers were not yet built in 1995.

3. If you drive to the provinces, you will notice that national roads
are now of good quality (international quality asphalt roads). I just
went to Iba, Zambales last week and I was impressed that even a not so
frequently traveled road was of very good quality.

4. Philippine exports have increased by 600% over the past eight years.
There are many, many more examples of progress over the last eight
years. Philippine mangoes are now exported to the US and Europe

Additional tidbits to make our people prouder:

1. INTEL has been in the Philippines for 28 years. The Philippines plant
is where Intel's most advanced products are launched, including the
Pentium IV. By the end of 2002, Philippine operations became Intel's
biggest assembly and testing operations worldwide.

2. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS has been operating in Baguio for over 20 years. The
  Baguio plant is the largest producer of DSP chips in the world. DSP
chips are the brains behind cellphones. TI's Baguio plant produces the
chip that powers 100% of all NOKIA cellphones and 80% of Erickson
cellphones in the world.

3. TOSHIBA laptops are produced in Santa Rosa , Laguna.

4. If you drive a BENZ, BMW, or a VOLVO, there is a good chance that the
ABS system in your car was made in the Philippines .

5. TREND-MICRO, makers of one of the top anti virus software PC-Cillin
(I may have misspelled this) develops its "cures" for viruses right here
in Eastwood Libis, Quezon City . When a virus breaks in any computer
system in the world, they try to find a solution within 45 minutes of
finding the virus.

6 . Today a majority of the top ten U.S. Call Center firms in the U.S.
have set up operations in the Philippines . This is one area in which I
believe we are the best in the world in terms of value for money.

7. America Online (AOL) has 1,000 people in Clark answering 90% of AOL's
global e-mail inquiries.

8. PROCTOR & GAMBLE has over 400 people right here in Makati (average
age 23 years) doing back-up office work to their Asian operations
including finance, accounting, human resources and payments processing.

9. Among many other things it does for its regional operations network
in the Asia-Pacific region here in Manila , CITIBANK also does its
global ATM programming locally.

10. This is the first year ever that the Philippines will be exporting
cars in quantity courtesy of FORD Philippines. (I have an idea this
article was written between 2001 - 2002, so this operation should have
been on-going for the last 3 years or so. CYN)

11. The government is shedding off graft and corruption slowly but
surely. This is the first time in our history that a former president is
in jail and facing charges of plunder. Despite all odds, we are still
pursuing the ill-gotten wealth of Marcos now enjoyed by his unrepentant
heirs.

Next time you travel abroad and meet business associates tell them the
good news. A big part of our problem is perception and one of the
biggest battles can be won simply by believing and by making others
believe. This message is shared by good citizens of the Philippines who
persevere to hope and work for our country.

paul, mai kaw chai. pum phuud thai dai mai.

      Ten college students from the Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Technology and Forestry will get full college scholarship from the First Consolidated Bank, starting school year 2007-2008.

      The FCB scholarship recipients are: Anne Pearl C. Apura, John Carlo D. Balag, Maryknoll Barbarona, Syntyche Q. Clamosa, Valeriano L. Labor Jr., Rhenalyn H. Lambus, Joseph I. Saligan, Harlene M. Salpocial, Jemarie O. Sumagang, and Jerome T. Vistal.

      The recipients were selected on the basis of their academic records and performance in the qualifying exams given for this purpose. They must belong to a family with not more than P50,000 in per capita income.

      The FCB scholarship will cover full tuition and school fees and allowance for books and other incidental expenses of the recipients. FCB has earmarked about P1,000,000 for this scholarship for the next five years.

      In addition to the scholarship grants, the FCB scholarship will provide summer job employment to the recipients at the branches or units of the bank when the need arises.

      The FCB scholarship are good for four years for those taking education courses and five years for those taking engineering and computer courses.

      Since 1989, the FCB Alfonso Uy College Scholarship Program has provided scholarship to financially hard-up but academically-deserving students.

      More than 100 recipients of the FCB Alfonso Uy College Scholarship Program has obtained college degrees. Many of them are now teachers, accountants, engineers, and lawyers.

      FCB is giving these scholarship as part of its corporate social responsibility, which focused on education, health and livelihood.

      The is also bank’s way to thank the people of Bohol for their support in consistently making FCB one of the most successful banks in the country.

Hi babhe,

si Stephen Cagulada. Amigo kaayo mi.

Quote from: !!! on June 16, 2007, 11:17:33 PM

Kung ang atong kagumkom nga mga pulong ang gamiton, mao nay gi ingon nga "gilubong nga buhi."

Sa mga katuigan sa pagsulat nako ug mga balak, wa pa jud ko kagamit anang pulong nga "kagumkom." Thanks Rose!

Hahahah, it's up to you, Paul.

Macky,

Sa akong pagsabot, adunay mga gamhanang kamot nga nagpaluyo ani ngano nga gibaliwala sa mga oil/treasure hunter ang singgit sa mabagang duot sa katawhan.

Tubag, Gov. Erico Aumentado! The news said you learned about the nearly fatal tornado only four days after it hit Bohol.

Now, how many days will it take for you learn about this latest rape of Bohol seas, Gov?

Asa naman ang mga NPA nga manalipod man kaha sa mga katawhan? Unsay inyong mabuhat aron panalipdan ang atong kalikopan?

Kung ang gobyerno dili makasanta sa mga moamong-among sa atong kadagatan, asa naman ta padulong ani?

Mangutana ta ni Jes Tirol sa kahulugan sa mga pulong wala-diri, wala didto.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on June 29, 2007, 10:37:17 PM
Yeah you are absolutely right Riva...good idea.... also instead of bikinis, they should wear a skimpy saya or short patadiong... and the venue for photography would be in our very own Kainggit public beach in order to cut the cost.....hehehe....

Macky,

The best place for pictorial is inside our monumental Agora Market Building in front of BQ Mall.

you're right, Riva.

I remember there was one beauty pageant in our town. The lady of ceremony asked one contestant: "What can you do in order to protect or preserve our environment."

Contestant: "We should stop illegal lodging."

I was there on that fateful night. A little boy curious about many things.

Paglabay sa kinse ka tuig, mogiit gihapon ang pahiyom sa akong panagway kung managingting sa akong alimpatakan ang "Stop illegal lodging."

I think the last line supports my earlier statement.

Riva,

Sa dugay nga panahon amo kang gihandum, gidamgo, gihanduraw, ug gilitok ang imong matam-is nga pangalan sa naughan na namong mga ngabil, apan imo ming gi-deadma.

Tubag, Rose...

How about the first gf?
 

Pasensya ta tanan, gi-deadma ta ni Lugapakboy.

Bisag pangatsi, wa gyuy nilugapak.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
<a href="http://pia.gov.ph">Philippine Information Agency</a>

Basing on reports gathered from Cabilao residents, the controversial oil exploration in Bohol seas has started contrary to beliefs that the project proponents would respect their word of honor to resolve unsettled issues first.

Random telephone calls to Pantudlan in Cabilao Island off Loon indicate that since Thursday, project proponents have been sending advisories against diving in the vicinity of the island, while reports reaching the city state that the operations have been suspended.

Residents have also visually sighted MV Pacific Sword from the coastlines, and local fishermen have felt the activity’s impact with the drastic decline in fish catch noted in the island.

Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC) a non-government organization spearheading the awareness campaigns on possible environmental effects of the seismic survey said the project proponents have started gathering the fish aggregating devices in the area. Aside from being navigational hazards, the devices could snag the survey operations.

Proponents have commissioned a special ship, Mv Pacific Sword to conduct the seismic survey. The ship is reported to drag some six kilometers of cable with sensors to record every detail of the sea surface.

Loon Mayor Cesar Tomas Lopez, in a radio interview Thursday promised to send somebody to check on the reports that despite unresolved issues on the environmental impacts and compensation of affected fishers, the survey team has indeed started.

Over the initial reports from concerned Loon residents that the project proponents went on with the survey despite an unresolved request for a temporary restraining order, Participatory Research Organization of Communities towards Education and Self-Reliance Project Director Emilia Roslinda sai she is frustrated at the things are happening in Bohol.

Roslinda is among the personalities comprising the Technical Working Group tasked to benchmark the effects of the survey on communities and the environment within the survey scope.

Lawyer Raul Barbarona, ELAC executive director, along with City Legal Officer and environmentalist Doni Piquero, Integrated Bar of the Philippines Bohol representative and lawyer Florendo Columnas and Bohol Alliance of Non-Government Organizations (BANGON) requested the courts to grant a temporary restraining order on the survey.

Even then, groups opposed to the seismic survey to determine the presence of oil and gas trapped under Bohol seas showed force Monday during a simultaneous activity in front of the Capitol and at the survey venue, Maribojoc Bay.

Close to two hundred commercial fishers and marginal fishermen set to be directly or indirectly affected by the survey showed protest as they festooned orange banners on their boats and paraded in a show of force Monday, the biggest gathering of boats so far in Bohol history.

On the filed prayer for TRO, Regional Trial Court Branch 4 presiding judge Achiles Melicor has given the oppositors chance to explain the merits of their plea and has set the hearing for July 2.

The same may be true to project proponents who shall be heard, Barbarona hinted.

In early coordination meetings in the city, Barbarona said NorAsian Energy Limited and the Department of Energy has committed not to start with the survey until issues on environment impact assessment, compensation and sharing is resolved.

Loon Mayor Lopez said the proponents have intimated to pay P115 to every affected fisher for the survey duration. Separate reports said the proponents have indicated no compensation to fish aggregating devices owned by commercial fishers, of which more than a hundred are still there.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
<a href="http://pia.gov.ph">Philippine Information Agency</a>

“Every fever case should be seen with caution now that dengue hemorrhagic fever is again on the up-trend,” health authorities here in Bohol warn.

Voicing out the joint call for more awareness on the dangers of dengue, health authorities from the Department of Health, Provincial Health Office and the City Health Office issue the alarm just as Bohol has seen resurgence in cases from January to June this year.

Provincial Health Office (PHO) Statistician Merlin Nemenzo reported over at the weekly Kapihan sa PIA that the office has recorded 206 cases here from January to June 19 this year.

“This is alarming,” she said, “as whole year of 2006, Bohol dengue cases only totaled 231, or just 25 cases short, and we are still in June.”

“Majority of the dengue cases are reported from Loboc, Dauis and Jagna,” Provincial Dengue Coordinator Polizena Rances said.

Taking the traditional herbal “tawa-tawa concoction” as an anti-dengue preparation, Provincial Health Team Leader Dr. Portia Reyes said, there has never been any scientific proof that such could help abate the fever, much more cure it.

“The fever may subside”, Dr. Reyes said, but she stressed that “it may not be a condition to be lax as in dengue cases, the fever tends to lie low when the patient has weakened. This is a telltale sign of internal bleeding, and the case may have gone serious.” 

Confronted with the reality of costs in treating the disease, authorities here said prevention is still the best way against the onslaught of the disease, which the DOH has classified as mutating into a hyper-endemic, meaning it may be already impossible to reduce the number of cases to its previous levels.

Dengue, a fatal fever that is caused by daylight biting mosquitoes called aedes egypti has accordingly come to another furious biting year due to global changes in temperature. DOH national epidemiology center director Dr. Eric Tayag has reportedly said the warmer temperatures now make the mosquitoes hungrier for blood, causing more eggs and more carriers.

Moreover, this year, DOH through health secretary Francisco Duque noted about four strains of the virus, a condition the country share with other Asian regions where dengue infection has since doubled.   

At this alarm, local health authorities call for more preventive measures and community support and strictly observe the national anti-dengue campaign.

For this, Dr. Reyes reiterated that seeking and destroying mosquito-breeding places, making up measures for personal self-protection, seeking immediate medical attention and saying no to indiscriminate fogging is the government’s tips.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
<a href="http://pia.gov.ph">Philippine Information Agency</a>

Slay suspect on the loose Hilario “Larry” Diola has been reportedly spotted roaming in the vicinities of Inabanga, Buenavista and Danao, Camp Dagohoy chief investigator John Gilbert Basalo shared.

Identified as the prime suspect in the murder of Bohol Bayan Muna secretary general Mario Auxilio, the suspect has since evaded the police who were trailing his escape route since June 15 when he shot three times his close friend Auxilio.

Unconfirmed sightings of the criminal remaining scot-free and reported by Bayan Muna networks have placed the apparent blame on the police who still could not run after the killer, two days after the incident.

Updating the media, PCInsp. Basalo, during a phone interview said they have filed a case against the suspect June 22. The police has supported the case with material evidence in slugs recovered at the crime scene and at the victim’s body during autopsy.

The Provincial Investigation and Intelligence Bureau has taken over the case from Bien Unido Police, and Bohol Bolice chief, PSSupt Edgardo Ingking has vowed to look at all angles to prosecute the case.

“We would be treating the investigation like any ordinary criminal case” Ingking told media during a press conference two days after the murder.

Now, after the hot pursuit operations time regulation has lapsed and with the courts still to conduct preliminary investigation on the case filed last June 22, PSSupt. Ingking said the police can still apprehend the suspect and evade from a possible illegal arrest rap.

“Tools of the trade,” Ssupt Ingking said when pressed on how they may operate before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor could issue the arrest warrant on the fleeing suspect.

With the suspect sighted, Governor Erico Aumentado has caused the release of P50T from the provincial intelligence funds as a reward to anybody who could provide the police information leading to Diola’s arrest. Last Monday, Aumentado met Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, Camp Dagohoy official at the Governor’s Mansion to update on case.

Police have earlier reported that they are baffled over the case in their hands: a suspect on the loose and a crime with still a vague motive.

Last June 15, at about 10:30 pm in Bien Unido, suspect Diola reportedly gunned down peasant leader Mario Auxilio.

Police authorities said they are looking at possible leads on the gist of the talk the victim and assailant had for more or less 20 minutes before the fatal shooting happened.

At least seven witnesses have positively identified gunman Hilario Diola, the victim’s friend.

The victim survived the three gunshot wounds and was rushed to the nearest hospital until he expired two days later due to complications.

“We are also digging up if the gun used in the murder is licensed, as it could be an aggravating circumstance for the crime,” Basalo said.

By Rey Anthony Chiu
<a href="http://pia.gov.ph">Philippine Information Agency</a>

Dog bites, despite being one of the top cases jamming hospital emergency rooms is still considered a primary case, and the rural health units could easily manage the cases, Dr, Edgar Pizarras of the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) said.

GCGMH, one of the two places in Bohol with a set-up government bite treatment center is catering to major cases and illnesses. The government funds vaccine accounts in these hospitals through the congressional representative allocations.

But with the expensive vaccination shots, a bitten patient has to get, more and more rely on charity medicines a the same hospitals.

Together with other patients, the onslaught of patients needing only primary attention has kept more serious cases aside, as patients have filled the hospital over its capacity.

And in efforts to be as effective in attending to these cases needing immediate medical attention from a tertiary hospital like the GCGMH, a hospital policy is in place to send back dog bite patients to the town health centers where rural health personnel could administer them.

Gallares is a tertiary hospital, and to help decongest, we have a policy that dog bites be first referred to Municipal Health Officers (MHO) and the City Health Officer (CHO), Pizarras told listeners at Kapihan sa PIA Thursday.

This, as the provincial government of Bohol, in cooperation with Family Vaccines and Specialty Clinics opened up three more animal bite treatment clinics in spaces provided for them in the province-run hospitals in Jagna, Carmen and Loon. Such a move is in response to the clamor for more bite treatment centers so patients all over the province can go to alternative centers near them.

Reiterating this, Dr Pizarras said only those patients belonging to the catchment of Dimiao, Lila, Loay, Panglao, Dauis, Baclayon and Tagbilaran are given the preferential option to go to Gallares for vaccination.

He however said except in major bite cases when immediate surgery is required, all cases should first be seen by the MHO or the CHO, Pizarras bared.

Though perceived as a drawback in the government’s anti rabies drive, the hospital’s information officer said they have to do it as they can only accommodate as much. 

At this, Dr. Portia Reyes and PHO’s Polizena Rances has begged GCGMH to be a bit considerate, considering that the Provincial Government has yet started its implementation and is still to retrain the MHOs on the new bite treatment and management.

Without committing himself fully to the request for accommodation until the MHOs could prove to be capable in handling cases, Dr Pizzaras said the hospital hopes the policy could slowly discipline the referrals and thus keep the hospital open for more serious cases.

Bohol last year reportedly had the highest animal bite cases and human rabies in the Central Visayas, Provincial Veterinarian Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz said.

To respond to his, Bohol is se to implement P16M rabies prevention an eradication launch with a long term vision of declaring Bohol as rabies free in the future.

By Eli Dalumpines
<a href="http://pia.gov.ph">Philippine Information Agency</a>

Tagbilaran City -- Bohol’s tourism industry is expected to improve following the completion of the 2nd Phase of its circumferential road rehabilitation project recently.

The P1.5-billion road project, funded under the Japanese Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC), was first integrated into the Regional Development Plan 2004-2010 by Bohol Governor Erico B. Aumentado to improve access to the different tourist destinations in the island province.

To recall, the first phase, which was completed earlier, covers the 124-kilometer stretch from Calape to Candijay on the island’s northern coastline.

Phase II, which covers the 136-kilometer stretch from Calape to Valencia on the northern coastal route, was completed last April. Implemented under the Arterial Road Links Development Project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the project included the rehabilitation of 46 bridges located within that road stretch.

A month before its completion, the Regional Development Council (RDC) passed another resolution endorsing Phase 3 of the project which is intended to rehabilitate the road networks of the provincial capital and the other towns of the eastern coast, including that of Panglao island.

Once implemented, the project is expected to decongest the roads of the provincial capital and the adjacent towns and facilitate a faster movement of people and services in these areas.

The Bohol Circumferential Road Project is part of the government’s thrust to improve the transportation facilities in Central Visayas to facilitate trade and boost the region’s tourism industry.

i-volunteer,

second violation means your membership in this website will be revoked. and your IP address will be banned for life. please, don't post images not suitable for minors or kids.

i have no problem with whatever pictures you want to post here. but this website is very much accessible by children. would you like your own children to see such lewd images?

don't be selfish, i-volunteer.

huna-huna pud ang uban nga lud-on makakita sa ing-ana nga picture. what if nagkaon sila while nagbrowse sa Tubag Bohol?

dili man sama tanang tawo nga isog ug ginhawa pareha nimo, think of others pud nga dili maka-tolerate sa mga gruesome images.

kanang imong penguin nga nilugapak, wa jud nay problema. but i really have a problem when you start posting horrible images.

hope this is clear to you.

i-volunteer, WARNING.

don't post that kind of image again. never again.

source: <a href="http://www.neatorama.com">NEOTORAMA</a>

Ad hoc: Literally meaning "for this," it’s generally used to mean improvised.

Ad infinitum (not to be confused with et cetera): "To infinity, without end."

Caveat emptor: "Let the buyer beware."

Citius altius fortius: "Faster, higher, stronger" - the motto of the modern Olympics.

Columbarium: A collective tomb in ancient Rome that was also used as a house for pigeons and doves.

Corpus christi: "The body of Christ."

Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos: "Whoever owns the land it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths." The state of Kansas used this law in the 1970s to argue that airlines could not serve liquor when flying over Kansas, a dry state. "Kansas," Attorney General Vern Miller said, "goes all the way up and all the way down." (If that’s true, Kansas can lay claim to, and prohibit drinking in, about 82,282 square miles of western China.)

Deus ex machina: "A god from the machine," usually referring to an awkward and contrived resolution to conflict. The phrase got its start from the plays of Euripides, in which a god was lowered down onto the stage via a mechanical crane to sort out intractable conflicts and confused plots.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes: "And he sent forth his spirit among the unknown arts." A beautiful quote from Ovid.

Id est: "That is," often abbreviated "i.e."

In media res: "In the middle of things." Stories like Paradise Lost or The Odyssey or Sweet Valley High #17 begin in the middle.

Ipso facto: "By the very fact," i.e., "absolutely, regardless of circumstances."

Lupus est homo homini: "Man is wolf to man." No one knew this better than the Romans.

Magnum opus: Great work.

Nolo contendere: When you want to enter a plea of No contest" in as fancy a way as possible.

Opus Dei: "The work of God" or "An outsized villain in a bestselling novel."

Quod erat demonstrandum: "That which was to be demonstrated." Abbreviated QED, often the end of a mathematical proof.

Sic semper tyrannis: "Thus always to tyrants," the motto of Virginia and the last thing John Wilkes Booth said before shooting Abraham Lincoln.

Sic transit gloria: "Glory fades," popularized by Max Fischer, founder, Rushmore Double-Team Dodgeball Society.

Sub poena: "Under penalty," as in "Do this or you’re in trouble."

Tabular rasa: A "blank slate" - John Locke’s description of the human mind without knowledge.

Veni, vidi, vici: "I came, I saw, I conquered," and the most oft-mispronounced Latin phrase in the world. It should be pronounced, WAY-nee, WEE-dee, WEE-kee.

source: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo News</a>

CHICAGO (AFP) - In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said.

The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according to the study published in Science magazine.

The enzyme is still far from being ready to use as a treatment, the authors warned, but it offers a glimmer of hope for the more than 40 million people infected worldwide.

"A customized enzyme that effectively excises integrated HIV-1 from infected cells in vitro might one day help to eradicate (the) virus from AIDS patients," Alan Engelman, of Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, wrote in an article accompanying the study.

Current treatments focus on suppressing the HIV virus in order to delay the onset of AIDS and dramatically extend the life of infected patients.

What makes HIV so deadly, however, is its ability to insert itself into the body's cells and force those cells to produce new infection.

"Consequently the virus becomes inextricably linked to the host, making it virtually impossible to 'cure' AIDS patients of their HIV-1 infection," Engelman explained.

That could change if the enzyme developed by a group of German scientists can be made safe to use on people.

That enzyme was able to eliminate the HIV virus from infected human cells in about three months in the laboratory.

The researchers engineered an enzyme called Tre which removes the virus from the genome of infected cells by recognizing and then recombining the structure of the virus's DNA.

This ability to recognize HIV's DNA might one day help overcome one of the biggest obstacles to finding a cure: the ability of the HIV virus to avoid detection by reverting to a resting state within infected cells which then cease to produce the virus for months or even years.

"Numerous attempts have been made to activate these cells, with the hope that such strategies would sensitize the accompanying viruses to antiviral drugs, leading to virus eradication," Engelman wrote. "Advances with such approaches in patients have been slow to materialize."

New experiments must be designed to see if the Tre enzyme can be used to recognize these dormant infected cells, he wrote.

"Although favorable results would represent perhaps only a baby step toward eventual use in patients, the discovery of the Tre recombinase proves that enzymatic removal of integrated HIV-1 from human chromosomes is a current-day reality," he said.

The researchers who developed the enzyme were optimistic about their ability to design additional enzymes which would target other parts of the virus's DNA.

However they warned that there were significant barriers to overcome before the enzyme could be used to help cure patients.

"The most important, and likely most difficult, among these is that the enzyme would need efficient and safe means of delivery and would have to be able to function without adverse side effects," wrote lead author Indrani Sarkar of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

"Nevertheless the results we present offer an early proof of principal for this type of approach, which we speculate might form a useful basis for the development of future HIV therapies," Sarkar concluded.

source: <a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com">Rands In Repose</a>

The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less.

It's unfair, it's imprecise, and there's a good chance that I make horrible mistakes, but there's a lot more of you than me, and while hiring phenomenal teams is the most important thing I do, I'm balancing that task with the fact that I need to build product and manage the endless stream of people walking into my office.

But here's a glimpse. I'm going to walk through the exact mental process I use when I look at a resume. I don't know if this is right or efficient, but after fifteen years and staring at thousands of resumes, this is the process.

The First Pass

Your Name. It's simple. Do I know you? Whether I do or not, I'm going to immediately Google you to see if I should. Oh, you a have a weblog. Excellent.

Company Names. Do I recognize any companies that you worked at? If I do, I don't look at what you actually do, I assume that if I recognize the company, I'm in the ballpark. If I don't know the company, I scan for keywords in the description to get a rough idea. Hmmmmm... networking words. Ok, you're a networking guy.

Job Description and History. Here I'm looking for history and trajectory. How many jobs have you had and for how long? How long have you been in your current role? Where'd you come from? QA? Or have you always been an engineer? This is when I start looking for inconsistencies and warning flags.

Other Interests and Extracurriculars. Yeah, this is part of the first pass. I'm eagerly looking to find something that makes you different from the last fifty resumes I looked at. More on this in a moment.

So, we're done. It's been ten to twenty seconds and I've already formed an opinion. There's a good chance that I've already made a call whether to move forward on you. If there are other folks checking the resume out, I can certainly be convinced to take a second look, but a basic opinion has been formed.

Before we move to the second pass, let's talk about the parts of your resume I didn't look at and never will.

Professional objective. This is likely your lead paragraph and I skipped it. Career center counselors across the planet are slamming their fists on their desks as they read this because they've been telling students, "You need to write a crisp career objective. It defines your resume."

Yes, it does, but I still don't read it and it's not because there isn't good content there, it's the time issue. See, if your resume is sitting in my inbox it means someone has already mapped you to an open job in my group. Reading your objective is going to tell me something I already know. Besides, my job title and description scrub will tell me whether we're in the ballpark or not. If I've got a Jr. Engineering position open and you've got 10 years experience, I'll figure out that mismatch when I look at your history.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't include this objective in your resume. As you'll see below, there's more to the process than just me reading your resume, and different folks are looking for different content.

Skills. I skip the skills section not only because this is information I'll derive from job history, but also because this section is full of misinformation. I'm not going to say that people lie in the skills section, but I know that if a candidate has heard the word Linux in the workplace, there's a good chance they're going to put Familiarity with Linux as a skill on their resume.

Besides, again, I know you've goofed around with Linux because you said so in the description of your last job, right?

Summary of Qualifications. Similar to Skills, this is another skip section for me. Here's a good example from an imaginary resume: "Proven success in leading technical problem solving situations". This line tells me nothing. Yes, I know you're trying to tell me that you're strategic, but there is no way you're going to convince me that you're strategic in a resume. I'm going to learn that from a phone screen and from an interview.

Unlike Skills, which I find to be a total waste of time, I will go back to Summary of Qualifications if we end up talking. When you write "Established track record for delivering measurable results under tight schedules", I am going to ask you what the hell you mean on the phone and if your answer isn't instant and insightful, I'll know your qualifications are designed to be buzzword compliant and don't actually define your qualifications.

The Second Pass

If I can't decide whether to schedule a phone screen after the first pass, I go for another. The goal now is, "Ok, I saw something I liked in the first pass, is it real?" This is when I do the following:

In-depth Job History. I'm going to actually read the job history for the past couple of jobs. Not all of them, just the last two or three. What I'm doing is fleshing out my mental picture of you. I'm looking for more warning flags. Do your responsibilities match your title? How long were you at your most recent job? If it was a long time, can I get a sense of how you grew? If it was short, can I figure out why you left? Do your last two jobs build on each other? Can I get a sense of where you're headed or are you all over the place?

Your job history, -- your professional experience -- is the heart of your resume. This is where I spent my time vetting you and this is where you should spend your time making sure I'm going to get the most complete picture of who you are and what you're going to bring to my team.

School. Yeah, this is the first time I'll notice whether you went to college or not. I purposely do this because I've found over years of hiring that a name brand university biases my opinion too early. There's a lot to be said for a candidate who gets accepted to and graduates from Stanford or MIT, but I've made just as many bad hires from these colleges as great ones.

Seeing a non-Computer Science degree is not a warning flag. In fact, I'm a huge fan of hiring physics majors as engineers. For whatever reason, the curriculum for physics has a good intersection with computer science. Any technical major for me is perfectly acceptable, and even non-technical majors with a technical job history make for a resume worth thinking about.

Ok, so that second pass took another 15 to 30 seconds and we're done. You've just given me the opportunity to change your life by potentially bringing you in for an interview and that chance is over. Next!

What's unfair about what just happened is this. You spent hours working on your resume. You sent it to close friends for review and you edited it. You agonized over the different sections and you stressed about the tone, and here I am, the hiring manager, and I read 1/10th of your work in 30 seconds.

Don't despair. There are some easy things you can do to improve your chances.

Differentiate, Don't Annoy

Design your resume to downgrade. Your resume needs to withstand some formatting abuse. Go get your resume right now and convert it to plain text. Can you still see the different sections? Is your job history still cleanly formatted? Can you still see the different jobs as well as the start and stop dates? Screw around with the margins, too. Where are your line breaks? They'd better not be after every line because that means visual chaos if a well-intentioned recruiter starts messing with fonts.

Never include a cover letter. I don't read them. Recruiters don't pass them on. Make sure the key points of your cover letter are living in your career objective and your job history.

Embrace honest buzzword compliance. Remember, I'm not the only who is going to read your resume. I'm likely the most qualified to make a call whether you're a fit for my job, but before your resume gets to me, its going to be passed through a couple of different recruiters and these folks are just as busy as I am.

The lifeblood of the recruiter is the keyword. Java, C++, Objective-C. The more specific relevant keywords and buzzwords you can shove into your resume, there more likely you're going to make it past the initial cut.

As I said above, I skip the Skills section because most folks already know that recruiters are just searching for specific words when they're sourcing candidates, so they shove every possible buzzword into their resume. Know this, if you claim to Strong Java Background in your resume, I'm going to be compelled to figure out how strong your skills actually are. Don't include any keyword or buzzword that you aren't comfortable talking about at length.

Differentiate, don't annoy. You're likely going to start developing your resume from a template. Maybe you'll use a friend's resume that you like as a starting point. Excellent. How are you going to make it yours?

Remember, I've looked at thousands of resumes, which means I've seen all the standard templates. I know when you're using Microsoft Word and I know when you've developed a format of your own. Right this second, I'm flipping through a dozen college resumes and the ones I'm spending time on are the ones that grab me visually, where there is something different. On this one, the fellow put a subtle gray box around each of his section headings. On this other one, the candidate used a nice combination of serif and sans serif fonts to grab me.

A couple of subtle visual differences to your resume goes a long way toward keeping me engaged in reading it, but remember, we're engineers here and efficiency matters. Differentiating your resume to the point that I can't quickly parse it is going to frustrate me. You're not applying to be a visual designer; you're an engineer. Keep to the standard sections and don't make me work to figure out who you are.

Sound like a human. Here's a doozy, this intern says he "planned, designed, and coordinated engineers efforts for the development of a mission critical system". ZzzzzzzzzzZzz. What did this guy actually do? I honestly don't know. Let's call this type of writing style resume mumbo jumbo and let's agree that usage of this style is tantamount to saying nothing at all.

What was the mission critical system? Why was it critical? How in the world did an intern plan, design, and coordinate the engineering efforts? I'm a fan of giving interns real world work, but it'd take a world-class intern to plan, design, and manage engineers on whatever this mission critical system is.

Take time to write your resume for a human. You need to hit all the right buzzwords and keywords to get yourself past the layers of recruiters, but I'm the guy who is really going to take apart your resume, and if you're saying nothing with resume mumbo jumbo, I'm learning nothing. Give me specifics and give them to me in a familiar tone. I'm not an automaton; I honestly want to know what you do. Tell me a story.

Include seemingly irrelevant experience. This applies mostly to college types who lack experience in high technology. You're going to stress that your job history doesn't include any engineering and you're thinking your summer working at Borders bookstore is irrelevant. It's not. Any job teaches you something. Even though you weren't coding in C++, I want to know what you learned by being a bookseller. Was it your first job? What did you learn about managers? How did you grow from the beginning to the end of the summer? Explain to me how hard work is hard no matter what the job is.

A Glimpse and a Hook

A resume will never define who you are. It's not the job of your resume to give me a complete picture, and if you're struggling to include every last detail about who you are, you're wasting your time. Your resume should be designed to give me a glimpse and a hook.

The glimpse is a view into the most recent years of your professional career. It should convey your three most important accomplishments and it should give me a good idea where your technical skills lie.

The hook is more important. The hook will leave me with a question. Maybe it's something from your other interests section? How about an objective so outlandish that I can't help but set up a phone screen. I'm not suggesting that you make anything up, I'm asking you to market yourself in a way that I'm going to remember. A resume is not a statement of facts. It's a declaration of intent.

Quote from: HazEL on June 29, 2007, 06:24:21 PM
what if dili pure...half boholana like me.. pwede gihapon?

Hazel, pwede kaayo. Bisag 1/4 or 1/5 or 1/11th. Tanang Filipino naay dugo gikan sa Bohol. Do you know that?

Location: Cabanugan, San Isidro, Bohol

submitted by lordcosmotv of Tubag Bohol

Quote from: buenavista on June 29, 2007, 04:51:31 PM
ok ra ba na bisan dili sa Bohol ang view?

Ok ra bisan dili sa Bohol ang view. Ang importante mga Boholano ug Bohalana ang mga panagway ug nakahilam-os.

from Oprah's interview:

Question 10: According to Dr. Oz, how often should you have sex?

A) Once a week
B) Twice a week
C) 10 times a month
D) 200 times a year or more

The correct answer is D.

"If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years," Dr. Oz says. He bases the number on a study done at Duke University that surveyed people on the amount and quality of sex they had. "They looked at what happened to folks that are having a lot of intercourse over time, and the fact is, it correlated."

Among the benefits of having sex often, Dr. Oz says, is that it can prove that your body is functioning as it is supposed to. "But in addition, having sex with someone that you care for deeply is one of the ways we achieve that Zen experience that we all crave as human beings," he says. "It's really a spiritual event for folks when they're with someone they love and they can consummate it with sexual activity … seems to offer some survival benefit."

Source: <a href="http://www.oprah.com">OPRAH</a>

Here's the answer:



photo submitted by Elvie Budiongan, Tubag Bohol member.

Rose, di matabang...

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Location: Barangay Cabanugan, San Isidro, Bohol

photo submitted by Elvie Budiongan, Tubag Bohol member

photo submitted by Elvie Budiongan, Tubag Bohol member

Pari gihapon nagsulti ani nga joke, Rose, kadtong high school pa ko.

Ang pari nagsakay ug bus unya nakatapad man siya ug tigulang. Mao ni iya prayer: "Lord, deliver me from temptation."

Pag-abot sa sunod lungsod, mikanaog ang tigulang. Ug ang nakapuli sa bakanteng lingkoran usa ka sexy nga batan-ong babaye.

Mao ni prayer sa pari: "Your will be done."

Rose, deliver me from temptation...

<a href="http://www.afp.com">Associated Free Press</a>

LONDON (AFP) - British pop group the Spice Girls, who made "girl power" a buzzword for a whole generation of teenagers, are getting back together for a one-off world tour.

The 1990s all-female band, one of the most successful acts in pop music history, said Thursday they will play 11 dates on six continents in December 2007 and January 2008.

Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton appeared together at a press conference in London to break the news, a move pre-empted by an announcement on their Web site.

"We wanted to say thank you to our fans. It just feels very right for us," said Chisholm.

Beckham, wife of former England football captain David Beckham, said there would be a "huge creche" provided to accommodate the seven children the women will have produced by then.

"Our priority is going to be our families. We want to have fun. That's one of the many reasons for this, for our children to see what we used to do," she said.

She added that her husband, whose fame has eclipsed her own in recent years, would be joining her and their children on tour, adding: "I'm going to be the cool one in the family for once!"

"Posh", "Ginger", "Scary", "Sporty" and "Baby", as the thirtysomething multi-millionairesses were known, stressed they would not be reuniting for good.

Nor would they be performing at Sunday's memorial concert for the late princess Diana in London because Bunton is about to give birth.

The first stop on the tour is Los Angeles on December 7. It will then go to Las Vegas, New York, London, Cologne, Madrid, Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney and Cape Town before ending at Buenos Aires on January 24, 2008.

The group denied that they were reuniting for financial reasons, amid reports that each was to receive multi-million pound (euro/dollar) fees for their reunion.

"Money is not an issue," Halliwell said.

"We're doing this because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a Spice Girl again. Who would turn that down?

"For us, it's about celebrating the past, and it's about our fans. It's really, really the right time. It was now or never."

With organisers expecting high demand for tickets, fans face putting their names into a lottery for the chance to see the group, although their Web site adds that extra dates may still be announced.

The Spice Girls sold over 50 million records worldwide and scored nine British number one singles in the 1990s.

They formed in 1994 after their management company placed a newspaper advertisement.

Their first hit, "Wannabe" in 1996, was followed by a string of others including "Stop", "Spice Up Your Life" and "Say You'll Be There".

The group became icons of "Cool Britannia" -- Britain's booming popular culture scene in the late 1990s -- and met figures including Nelson Mandela, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, whose bottom Halliwell pinched.

The five coined the phrase "girl power", a never fully defined concept which encouraged their mainly teenage and pre-teenage female fans to be more assertive.

The Spice Girls also spawned a vast range of marketing spin-offs, from their 1997 movie "Spiceworld" to chocolate, dolls and deodorant.

The band's death knell sounded in 1998, when Halliwell quit, but they only formally split up in 2001.

By then, though, all of the group had forged successful, although short-lived, solo careers.

Beckham was the only member of the group not to secure a British number one on her own.

But today, she is by far the best known of the group -- the British press features almost daily stories, many hostile, about "Posh" and her husband, who will move clubs from Real Madrid to LA Galaxy in the United States within days.

Brown, meanwhile, has also been back in the media limelight recently because of a paternity battle with Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy, who she claims is the father of her baby daughter, Angel.

The Spice Girls' announcement comes after another 1990s teen band, Take That, launched a successful comeback last year, although without founder member Robbie Williams.

<a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com">ABS-CBN News</a>

South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries will invest $684 million in its shipbuilding facility in the Philippines, on top of the $1 billion it initially earmarked for the yard, a newspaper reported.

Manila Standard Today, quoting Hanjin director and general manager Shim Jeong Sup, reported on Friday that the company was investing the additional money due to an increasing number of vessel orders.

In May, the group won shipbuilding orders worth a total of $2.2 billion from companies in Germany, France, Turkey and India.

By Veronica Uy
<a href="http://www.inquirer.net>The Philippine Daily Inquirer</a>

The results of the June 2007 nursing licensure examinations will be released in August, or a month later than the results of past tests have been, a member of the Board of Nursing (BoN) said Friday.

“The release of the June 2007 nursing licensure examination results will be out by August 15 or 17 up to 31 at the Professional Regulation Commission office in Manila,” Marco Sto. Tomas of the BoN, which prepares and oversees the entire exam process, said.

He explained that the month’s delay is primarily due to the volume of examinees this year.

Some 78,000 nursing graduates took the June 10 and 11 exams, almost double the usual 40,000 examinees. Among them were some 13,000 passers of the June 2006 exam who retook tests 3 and 5 again on the recommendation of the United States Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS).

The June 2006 nursing board exam was marred by the leak of test questions to some review centers. This controversy spurred congressional and criminal investigations, court cases, the replacement of the BoN members, and even a visit of CGFNS lawyers to observe this year’s board exam, as well as the preparations for it.

Sto. Tomas said the PRC's three optical machine readers, which can read and correct only 10,000 test papers a day, will take longer to come with the scores.

“We hope and pray that none will conk out [during the correction],” he said.

After the scores are known, the test papers will have to be matched to the examinees because “the test papers do not contain the names of the examinees, just their assigned numbers,” Sto. Tomas explained.

Then, the BoN will have to establish the mean passing score, which is computed from the highest and lowest scores.

Sto. Tomas said the BoN members will again go into isolation once the test papers are being corrected. At the moment, they are still preparing the answers.

He said this second period of isolation is to prevent the possibility of any of them being influenced to change the results of the exam in favor of selected examinees.

The BoN went incommunicado during the printing of the test questions, to dispel any suspicion they might leak out the test questions.

“Everything is being done to restore the integrity of the Philippine nursing licensure examinations. This exam is not the work of any one member of the board, but all of the board,” he said.

The Philippines' Department of Health has warned consumers against possible health risks that imported food products from China may pose, amid reports that 200 food factories in China had been shut down for using hazardous ingredients such as formaldehyde, illegal dyes, and industrial wax.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III advised consumers to check China-made food products for the presence of Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) certificate of product registration numbers before buying them.

"If there is no BFAD seal then don't buy the food product because it could be risky. And when it comes to our health, we shouldn't be taking any risks," said Duque in Filipino.

The health secretary also asked consumers to patronize locally made products and temporarily refrain from buying food imports from China, even if these may be relatively cheaper.

"Buying these cheaper products is more problematic. We're happy at first because we save money, but we end up cursing after our family gets ill," Duque said.

As this developed, Duque said customs agents have confiscated shipments of food products from China suspected of being treated with industrial chemicals.

He cited initial information which showed that the shipments mostly contained "biscuits and flour-based products."

However, it is not immediately clear how large the shipment volume was and if the confiscated products indeed contained toxic chemicals.

Duque dispatched BFAD health regulatory officers to check if the food items contain formaldehyde, formalin, and other carcinogenic substances.

China has closed 180 food factories after inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in products from candy to seafood.

The closures came amid a nationwide crackdown on shoddy and dangerous products launched in December that also uncovered use of recycled or expired food, the China Daily said.

Formaldehyde, illegal dyes, and industrial wax were found being used to make candy, pickles, crackers and seafood, it said, citing Han Yi, an official with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which is responsible for food safety.

International concerns over China's food safety problems ballooned this year after high levels of toxins and industrial chemicals were found in exported products.

US health officials said Thursday they were detaining three types of Chinese fish â€" catfish, basa and dace â€" as well as shrimp and eel after repeated testing turned up contamination with drugs unapproved in the United States for use in farmed seafood.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said sampling of Chinese imported fish between October and May repeatedly found traces of the antibiotics nitrofuran and fluoroquinolone, as well as the antifungals malachite green and gentian violet.

Of particular concern are the fluoroquinolones, a family of widely used human antibiotics that the FDA forbids in seafood in part to prevent bacteria from developing resistance to these important drugs. The best known example is ciprofloxacin, sold as Cipro, which made headlines as a treatment during the 2001 anthrax attacks.

"Clearly the addition of these drugs, it's a deliberate event," Margaret Glavin, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, told reporters. "If they stop adding them, the problem is going to go away."

Beyond the fish, federal regulators have recently warned consumers about lead paint in toy trains, defective tires, and toothpaste made with diethylene glycol, a toxic ingredient more commonly found in antifreeze. All the products were imported from China.

China, meanwhile, insisted Thursday that the safety of its products was "guaranteed," making a rare direct comment on spreading international fears over tainted and adulterated exports.

FDA officials said the level of the drugs in the seafood was low. The FDA isn't asking stores or consumers to toss any of the suspect seafood.

Other problems plague Chinese seafood imports as well. In May alone, the FDA stopped shipments of frozen crab meat found to be filthy, as well as roasted eel laced with unsafe additives, tilapia fillets tainted by salmonella and an unidentified fish mislabeled as catfish. - with a report from AP, GMANews.TV

Over 200 passengers bound for Cebu from Cagayan de Oro were stranded at sea early Friday after the engine of their passenger ship conked out during the trip.

Radio station dzBB reported that the passengers, instead of arriving in Cebu at 7 a.m., were still stranded between Siquijor and Bohol as of Friday morning.

It cited initial information indicating the engine of the M/V Princess of the Ocean, a vessel owned by Sulpicio Lines, failed at about 1 a.m. Electric power in the ship was cut.

A separate report on dzRH radio said the vessel was carrying 225 passengers, including 16 children and 10 infants.

Myrna Po, one of the passengers, was quoted as saying on dzBB radio that they were relatively safe and did not experience any problems.

However, the Philippine Coast Guard said it could not contact the ship's captain, initially identified only as Ferrer, for further details about the ship's condition.

The Philippine Coast Guard has dispatched a team to rescue the stranded passengers. - GMANews.TV

-- press release from Cebu Pacific sent to Tubag Bohol

Cebu Pacific (CEB) will start direct flights from Manila to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Macau this September and October with seat sale fares that are 85% lower than those currently available for these routes.

One-way fares exclusive of surcharges and government tax are pegged at P888 for Manila-Guangzhou, Manila-Xiamen, Manila-Macau, and P1,888 for Manila-Shanghai.  This seat sale will run from June 28 to July 4, 2007 and is good for travel until December 15, 2007.

CEB's daily service to Shanghai and Xiamen will begin September 12 and 26, respectively. The four times weekly flights to Guangzhou will start on October 10, while the thrice-weekly Macau service will start on October 11.

"We are aware of the importance of these markets to our country's tourism agenda and now that we are ready to operate these routes with our trademark low fares, we hope we can successfully stimulate travel to and from these China markets." Lance Gokongwei, CEB President and CEO announced.

China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is particularly important to the Philippines because of its growing tourist arrivals. Xiamen, Guangzhou , and Shanghai have also become top business destinations while Macau is fast developing into a leading meeting, convention and leisure hub in Asia.

"With this development, CEB now offers the most routes to and destinations in China from the Philippines, than any other carrier." Gokongwei said.

After its seat sale, CEB's lowest 'Go' fare to Macau, Xiamen , and Guangzhou is P1,999 one-way -- a reduction of as much as 70% from the existing lowest year round fare to these destinations.  CEB's 'Go' fares to Shanghai starts at P2,999 one-way -- almost 76% lower than the current applicable lowest year round fare.  Fares are exclusive of applicable taxes and surcharges.

"The best way to purchase tickets is through CEB's website, (cebupacificair.com)," Gokongwei said.

"We feel that it's quite fitting that one of the world's fastest-growing airlines, CEB, is a proponent in strengthening the link between the Philippines and the fastest-growing economy in the world, China," added Gokongwei.

Now in its 12th year, CEB currently has 14 new Airbus aircraft and is acquiring up to 20 more. It has also recently placed an order for up to 14 ATR 72-500 aircraft with the delivery of the first two in early 2008. CEB expects to operate a fleet of 46 aircraft by 2013.

--- Press Release from Cebu Pacific Office sent to Tubag Bohol website

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the country's low-fare leader and leading domestic airline, registered a 122% growth in passenger traffic over the past 12 months ending May 31, 2007 in Tagbilaran.

CEB's passenger carriage for the Tagbilaran â€" Manila (vice versa) service rose from 72,420 for the period of June 2005 to May 2006 to161,154 the period of June 2006 to May 2007.

Candice Iyog, CEB VP for Marketing and Product announced, "We are very glad to see that we have given more people with the opportunity to travel by air through our year round low fares and our continued domestic expansion."

"We are the fastest growing airline in the country and one of the fastest in the world. With our recently announced fleet expansion, we hope that we can bring more people closer and we can encourage Filipinos to travel and see our country. This is good for our country's tourism and the local economy as a whole," she added.

CEB also carried close to 520,000 passengers in May for all of its domestic and international flights, the highest the airline has ever carried since it started operation in 1996.  CEB is expecting to carry more than 5 million passengers this year and 10 million by 2013.

Iyog added that with the arrival of another Airbus aircraft late this year, CEB will be able to add more capacity into its network and offer more seats at lower fares.

CEB currently has 14 new Airbus aircraft and is acquiring up to 20 more. It has also recently placed an order for up to 14 ATR 72-500 aircraft with the delivery of the first two in early 2008. CEB expects to operate a fleet of 46 aircraft by 2013.

Ghost, nothing offensive in Rose's statement.

By the way, your two new articles are based on research, thus the MTRCB won't touch them.

French police are investigating the mysterious death of a 14-year-old girl who lost consciousness while riding on a roller coaster at Disneyland Paris.

The Spanish teenager’s friends noticed she was unconscious when the RockNRoller Coaster ride had stopped. Medical teams at the theme park tried to revive her but by the time an ambulance arrived, the girl had died.

A preliminary inspection of the roller coaster found no machinery malfunction, but the ride remains closed. Disneyland spokesman Pieter Boterman said the ride would not reopen until the cause of the girl’s death was determined.

The ride is at the Walt Disney Studios Park in Marne-la-Vallee, east of the French capital.

source: <a href="http://www.dlrpmagic.com">DLRP Today</a>

By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com

ASPEN, Colorado - You don't have to pack your bags quite yet, but passenger travel to the Moon is on the flight manifest of a space tourist company.

The price per seat will slap your wallet or purse for a swift $100 million - but you'll have to get in line as the first voyage is already booked.

Space Adventures, headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, is in negotiations with the customers who will fly the first private expedition to circumnavigate the Moon.

"I hope to have those contracts signed by the end of the year," said Eric Anderson, Space Adventures' president and CEO.

Anderson outlined the future for his space travel firm during Flight School, a workshop for commercial space and private aviation ventures, held here June 20-22 at the Aspen Institute.

Lunar leap: free-return

A Space Adventures team has blueprinted a circumlunar mission using a unique blend of existing and flight-tested Russian technology. At the heart of the lunar leap is Russia's venerable Soyuz spacecraft. A pilot and two passengers would depart Earth in their Soyuz, linking up in orbit with an unpiloted kick stage for a boost outward to the Moon.

"The Soyuz was originally designed as a circumlunar spacecraft. It hasn't flown with people around the Moon, of course. But the Soyuz would fly a free-return trajectory - a boomerang course - around the Moon. So there's not a lot that needs to be done to the Soyuz to accommodate for that...it could probably fly around the Moon right now," Anderson told SPACE.com. "There will be some upgrades to the communications systems...and we would make the window bigger too."

Anderson said that the Soyuz pilot and two passengers would not go into lunar orbit. "That comes later," he added, as a follow-on public space travel trek.

A practice run of mission hardware in unpiloted mode is likely, Anderson continued, "so we would test it all out, even though we think we could do it [the expedition] without a test flight."

The two-passenger, $100 million per couch flight adds up to a $200 million mission.

"I personally think that it's the biggest thing in private spaceflight. It would change the way the whole world thinks about private spaceflight. It is definitely doable for under the $200 million price tag," Anderson explained, thereby signaling a radical reduction in cost of any past piloted lunar flight.

Sales are up

Space Adventures is no stranger to liftoffs of public space traffic. It bills itself as "the world's leading space experiences company," with a flight record to prove it.

Among its offerings, the group has handled five private space trips to the International Space Station (ISS). For example, in April of this year, Charles Simonyi took advantage of their services, as did Anousheh Ansari last September. They joined the ranks of fellow private space trekkers, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito - each spending roughly $20 million to $25 million for their sendoffs into the heavens.

Sales are up for future public hops to the orbiting outpost. Customers are lined up for Soyuz seats to the ISS in 2008, in 2009, and potentially beyond, Anderson said.

"We're trying to talk to the Russian Space Agency about how to increase the numbers of Soyuz flights to the space station. It is scheduled to go from two to four in late 2009...but there may be ways to increase the number of Soyuz flights even beyond that in the future," Anderson noted. "My confidence level is high," he said, that those seats can be filled with customers.

"I do believe that the Soyuz will be for many years, maybe not the only, but certainly the most reliable way to get to orbit," Anderson pointed out. "So it's important for us to continue to expand that business. I think that the market can bear five or 10 seats per year."

Spacewalking on tap

Anderson said that he has been in the personal space travel business for nearly a decade.

To date, Space Adventures has sold almost $200 million worth of spaceflights. They've booked flights into the future, even selling a couple more than the company has announced. Their clients have spent some 60 days cumulatively in Earth orbit, Anderson said.

And there remains another exploit for the public space traveler to master - a space walk.

"I'm hoping that will happen in 2009," Anderson said. "We have conditional approval from the Russian Space Agency to be able to pull this off."

Given the right client matched with the right training requirements, "I think for a private citizen to go out and do a spacewalk would be huge," Anderson said. "Of course it'll have to be approved by NASA and by everyone else. This person will be very well trained...go outside the airlock and kind of hang around for an hour or two...then come back in."

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Municipal Officials of Inabanga, Bohol
(2004-2007)

JOSEPHINE SOCORRO JUMAMOY
Mayor

HERMOGENES CENABLE JR.
Vice Mayor

Councilors

WENCESLAO LAO
JUVELIN AÃ'ANA
RODRIGO JUMAMOY
JOVANNA JUMAMOY
FRANCISCO ALESNA JR.
DOROTEO TORREFRANCA
ALEXANDER LOFRANCO
AMORMEO DELA TORRE

Municipal Officials of Getafe, Bohol (2004-2007)

THERESA M. CAMACHO
Mayor

CESAR A. FUENTES
Vice Mayor

Councilors

CAMILO TORREMOCHA
VICENTE TORREGOSA
RAYMUNDO TORREJOS
EDUARDO TORREMOCHA
FEDERICO TORNIADO
MACARIO JIMENEZ
FIDEL ABELLAR
VICTORIANO SUELLO

Evaluate them now. Only in Tubag Bohol.

Municipal Officials of Garcia-Hernandez (2004-2007)

MYRNA N. SCHREURS
Mayor

MIGUELITO GALENDEZ
Vice Mayor

Councilors
TITA GALLENTES
PIO SALMASAN
MATIAS GALIMBA
ARTURO SALISE
EDWIN BAJA
ALVIN MANGUBAT
NEMESIO ALABA
CANUTO GALIDO

Kumusta ang ilang term of office? Evaluation begins here.

Municipal Officials of Duero, Bohol (2004-2007)

MANUEL TAN
Mayor

PATTON OLANO
Vice Mayor

Councilors

JESUS ACENAS
JULITO CAGASAN
EDGAR CAGASAN
MANSUETO CASTINO
MANSUETO OLANO
ROBERTO PELIGRO
EDUARDO TAN
ROGELIO RAÃ'A

Evaluation begins here...

Municipal Officials of Dauis, Bohol (2004-2007)

LUCIANO BONGALOS
Mayor

TEODULFA H. REFAMONTE
Vice Mayor

Councilors

NICASIO BOLOS JR.
JAIME JIMENEZ
BONIFACIO GACAYAN
PEDRO HONCULADA JR.
MARIO LOQUIAS
JOSELITO HONTUCAN
ANN MERCY LOQUELLANO
MERELO EBOJO

Municipal Officials
(2004-2007)

SOFRONIO APAT JR.
Mayor

ANANIA DAVID
Vice Mayor

Councilors
HEGENIO DUMAGAN
HECTOR HORMACHUELOS
CESAREO SALINGAY JR.
ANDRES AMPOLOQUIO
MARCELINO RULIDA JR.
ROMEO BANDALAN
CONSTANCIO OLARITA JR.
PABLO LEO MAYOL JR.

Evaluate their performance now.

Municipal Officials of Cortes, Bohol (2004-2007)

APOLINARIA BALISTOY
Mayor

VIVENCIO CALIMUTAN
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ALODIO VIÃ'AS
MILAN REBUSA
ROLANDO DELA TORRE
MERIAM CHIU
SOLEDAD LIGAN
RODRIGO DENNIS UY
IRENEO LACEA

Municipal Officials of Corela, Bohol (2004-2007)

VITO RAPAL
Mayor

ISABELO DAQUIPIL
Vice Mayor

Councilors
MA. ASUNCION DAQUIO
RAYMUND RAUL LOGARTA
EXPEDITO LUMAIN
DIOGENES BUAGAS
GODOFREDO ADO
PATRICIA CURSO
TIMOTEO EJERA
FELIX SALANG

Rose, you are an exemption.

If you were a contestant, I would buy a dozen of tickets. I want to listen how you answer the final question.

babe, daghan ko ug higala sa valencia, mga Cagulada. i love the serene hills of Taytay, Valencia. perfect for poetry writing.

Ryan, you said it right... some of the contestants were fed to Bohol's businessmen and politicians...

I hate beauty pageants! It's a non-sense circus concocted by the bayots of the world! This is my personal view.

It is not intellectual robbery when you cite sources of your articles and photographs submitted to Tubag Bohol.

They call it "research."

ghen, basin gastador ang asawa.

nagtiniil pa jud. i like it.

the photo captions says she was on her way to Tagbilaran from Alona Beach, Panglao.

photo courtesy of Sae-Khow of flickr.com

Quote from: riva on June 29, 2007, 08:16:10 AM
AND THAT MR.LIGALIG MAKES UP FOR ALL THE HURT (sniff, sniff) PEACE,friends?

i was just being my usual catty self. hahahahahaahahhahahahaha but, i am a lover dude, not a fighter. i go for flower power (singing here*insert giggles!)

Dodge the pain, Riva.

Laughter is the best medicine, anyway.

Peace. A bilateral Peace! Sealed today.

Quote from: !!! on June 28, 2007, 08:58:18 PM

Mike a.k.a. Ferdinand Marcos indeed. I hope his first lady wouldn't be Imelda-like.

and to you, our darling Rose, Marcos declared Martial Law. I declare WAR.

riva, the Internet is an open universe. Tubag Bohol is open to all - whether or not you're a member.

we have surfers and guests who are minors.

i know you're brilliant, riva. you don't need to be insulted.

Quote from: riva on June 29, 2007, 08:05:30 AM
it was removed because it gave wives from all over an idea on how to bring home their wandering hubbies!!!!!!!! and it also shows just how weak men are when it comes to sexual innuendos. this is not martial law folks, this is the classic battle between sexes!hahahahahahaha...

what was so sexual about it anyway?

So be it, Riva. So be it, Riva. So be it.

Let the BATTLE BEGIN. TODAY.

Ang unang mamilok pilde...

What road sign best describes you?

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">BBC NEWS</a>

The US Senate has blocked a vote on a landmark immigration bill, dealing a major blow to one of President George W Bush's key policy planks.

Senators rejected a motion to take the bill to a final vote - meaning action on the planned law is now unlikely until the presidential poll in 2008.

President Bush had argued the bill would give the immigration system a much-needed overhaul.

But its conservative opponents said it gave an amnesty to illegal immigrants.

The planned law would have enabled some of the millions of illegal immigrants already living within the US to eventually seek citizenship.

It would have also offered some would-be migrants the chance to apply for a guest-worker programme.

The bill also proposed tougher border controls to prevent more illegal immigrants from entering the country.

'Stunning' defeat

President Bush spent much of Thursday morning on the phone, trying to persuade senators to back the bill.

As the vote neared, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez approached senators directly outside the chamber in an effort to win them over.

Eventually, 53 members of the 100-seat Senate voted against limiting debate on the immigration bill and taking it to a final vote.

Much of the opposition came from conservatives within President Bush's Republican party, as well as from Democratic senators who represent conservative areas.

In a brief statement after the vote, President Bush said immigration was a burning issue for the American people and "Congress' failure to act on it is a disappointment".

"The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws," he said.

"A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn't find common ground. It didn't work."

The Senate now goes into summer recess.

According to the BBC's Washington correspondent, Justin Webb, Thursday's vote marks a stunning political defeat for the president.

He says the Senate vote could open the floodgates, heralding a series of defeats for the president's other plans - including a potential troop surge in Iraq.

And it leaves unsolved the controversial and highly emotive issue of immigration, our correspondent says.

Security priority

Business leaders and lobbyists for immigration reform voiced upset at the result.

"We were looking to politicians for leadership on this issue, and there has been none and it's deeply disappointing," Sheridan Bailey, a co-founder of Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, told Reuters news agency.

"It's like in Vietnam when they said 'we had to destroy the village to save it,' - well, here they are destroying the economy to save the U.S. border," Mr Bailey said.

But opponents of the bill said the vote highlighted citizens' concerns that boosting border security was the biggest priority.

Americans want "action, they want results, they want proof, because they've heard all the promises before," Republican Senator David Vitter told the AFP news agency.   

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Mutya sa Tagbilaran 2006
Photo by Ryan Macalandag

Mutya sa Tagbilaran 2006
Photo by Ryan Macalandag
(Tagbilaran-based photographer)

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Officials of Clarin, Bohol from 2004-2007

HERMOGENES DIEZON
Mayor

CELESTINA ZAFRA
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ALLEN RAY PIEZAS
FELIMON ALISON
ALPINIANO DEGANO
ANDRES PELIAS JR.
REGINO DUNGOG
SAMUEL JUDE SALERA
ANDRES AMEJAN
RIZALITO LANOY

Municipal Officials of Catigbian, Bohol (2004-2007)

ROBERTO L. SALINAS
Mayor

FORTUNATO N. CONCON
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ZIP R. LASTIMOSA
TEOFREDO A. TONGCO
VIRGILIO L. LUROT
REYNALD M. LACEA
DORIS D. OBENA
TEOFANES N. ANGILAN
ROBERTO C. BATULANON
MARIANO L. MAGLAHUS JR.

Municipal Officials of Carmen, Bohol
(2004-2007)

PEDRO BUDIONGAN JR.
Mayor

JOSIL TRABAJO
Vice Mayor

Councilors
RAMONITO TORREFRANCA
RUFINO ADLAON
GUILLERMO ESPEJO
MARIO SORIA
TEODULO GUIRITAN JR.
TITO MONTAJES
NATHANIEL BINLOD
MARILOU TAMARRA

Candijay, Bohol Municipal Officials (2004-2007)

SERGIO G. AMORAK JR.
Mayor

JULIETA H. LIM
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ROMEO C. GUDILOS
NECITO G. NAPUTO
ANTONIO L. PO
TEODORA G. HINACAY
PEREGRINO C. CASTRODES
RAUL A. FIGUERO
MOLINA L. TUTOR
ANTONIO TUTOR

Municipal Officials of Calape, Bohol
(2004-2007)

ERNESTO C. HERRERA II
Mayor

JESUS YVES B. YU
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ROLDAN DAMALERIO
TEODORO RUIZOL
EDGAR CO
GERARDO REGALADO
VICENTE YU
ELEUTERIO ZULUETA II
ZORAIDA RULONA
GERARDO CUADRASAL JR.

2004-2007 Bilar, Bohol Public Servants

FANUEL O. CADELIÃ'A
Mayor

ELEUTERIO S. TEJADA
Vice Mayor

Councilors
NORMAN D. PALACIO
DANILO S. CAL
REYNALDO J. TABEL
ROBERTO MALIMA
LORD A. FUERTES
PATERNO S. DELFIN
ARNEL M. TAÃ'EDO
HENRY B. VIDAL

Batuan, Bohol Municipal Officials
(2004-2007)

GREGORIA D. PEPITO
Mayor

SEVERINO L. SUMAMPONG
Vice Mayor

Councilors
ARIES G. POLINAR
TEODORO M. AJOC
RONALD T. DAMPOG
NECITAS S. DUMANGAN JR.
SERAPIO O. MACABUDBUD
CONSOLACION D. VINLUAN
JUSTIMANO BAGUIO
MATEO B. FULLIDO JR.

Municipal Officials of Anda, Bohol (2004-2007)

PAULINO T. AMPER
Mayor

EDIL F. TAN
Vice Mayor

Councilors

NILO J. BERSABEL
DOMENCIANO A. DELIGERO
CONCORDIO O. FELICITAS
ALEJANDRO B. TONGCO
REINERIO H. MAKINANO
AGUSTIN C. MAKINANO
HERMONEGILDO H. ESCOBIDO
ERMINIO HE. TINIO

By Leo Udtohan

In Anda, visitors can discover a world of earth and sea so elemental it fills you with a deep sense of belonging to the infinite.

Anda is located at the eastern tip of Bohol. Like other towns in Bohol it is rich in history and culture, but nature’s drama prevails most completely over the imagination.

Virtually at every turn, you’ll encounter a stunning prospect of heathered hills, sparkling river, or the all-embracing white sandy beaches.

Why go to Palawan and other places when in fact we have it here in Anda? Visitors can discover the white sands and take dive in barangay Candabong, Virgen, Bacongand Poblacion.

There are unexplored caves in Candabong, Bacong, Virgen, Tawid, Casica and Talisay. Barangay Casica has the Anda Falls and in barangaysTanod and Linawan one can find the mountain paradise “Blue Heaven.”

Interesting things to see is the shrine of Potenciana Saranza popularly known as Inday Potenciana. She is said to be a miraculous woman healing and granting wishes to those who believed in her. Inday Potenciana’s body is preserved even at the passing of times.

Inday Potenciana was a teacher in Gingoog City and after her death in 1953, she performed miracles where many people are healed of their sickness and ailments. To those who want to go abroad, pass the exams, believers shared she granted wishes. Locals here venerated her as a saint.

I have had heard spooky stories about Inday Potenciana when I was a kid. My mama Inday visited Inday's remains when she was 3 years old. According to my Mama, people from different parts of the Philippines paid homage to Inday Potenciana.

People would offer candles and flowers. They would touch the glass cover of the tomb and made a symbol of the cross. They even wiped the glass with their handkerchiefs because they believe that the “moist” from the glass would heal them.

Also an interesting place to visit is the Lamanok Point in barangay Badiang to see the “rock painting.” The place is so isolated as to be inaccessible except by boat or on foot. Huge fruit bats and other birds circle the cliffs where visitors bask in the wild beauty of moor and heath. Keen-eyed visitors (like me) may spot indigenous orchids and many species of plants.

Cave paintings can be found in Lascaux, France and some parts in Spain. In the Philippines, it can be found in Bohol. The rock painting is an evidence of civilization during the Paleolithic or Stone Age era. The rock painting in Anda is different from the Lascaux because there were no images of bison, horses and cattle. However, the “art” here is abstract were made such attention to detail subtle shading that they seem to confer a kind of power and dignity giving a pictorial narration by the ancient Boholanos. The ancient people here used the so-called red hematite painting (with the use of stones as tools and blood from animals) to create hand paintings as if giving messages that “we are here...”

Why not visit Anda, the cradle of civilization?

Many thanks to Anda Tourism Officer Arvin Rubillos for his assistance. He is an amazing host. Arvin grew up in Cebu City and graduated from San Jose Recoletos. Where home is where the heart is, life brought him back to Anda (his mother’s hometown) and he instantly fall in love with the place and accepted the job as tourism officer. He is an ambassador of Anda promoting the town he called “paradise” possibly he can even without the support of the LGU. I met also his angels: Annabel Jandayan and Jackielyn Peligrino (who has a multitasking jobs like our driver, beauty queen, story teller....etc).

Arvin, Annabel and Jackie are members of the group called FRIENDS (Federation of Responsible and Intimate Envoys for Non-violence and Disciplined Society of Anda. The group was established on June 18, 2004 for public service.

The bottom line here is: if only people know how to value their past... then, they can move on to the future.

For Anda tours, contact Arvin Rubillos at (038) 528-2009 or 0906-733-1168.

3D Image of SongHyeKyo, a Korean actress
Illustrated by Max Edwin Wahyudi
Country: Indonesia

The power of 3D imaging...

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A HUSBAND in Nanjing salvaged his cache of cash from a septic tank after his unwitting wife mistook his secret money hoard as rubbish and flushed it down the toilet, the Nanjing Morning Post reported today.

The husband, surnamed Huang, wrapped 2,000 yuan (US$262.47) of ``secret'' income in a black plastic bag and hid it in the water tank of the toilet in his apartment last month.

"My wife controls the incomes and expenses of our decoration material shop," Huang said. "I didn't want her to know this money."

Time passed and the husband was always too busy to deposit the money into the bank. But yesterday, his wife found a problem with the flushing of the toilet.

The couple were engaged in a furious quarrel when police were called to their residential area in Baixia District, said the report.

According to the wife, she opened the water tank to check what was wrong and found a black parcel.

"I thought it must be something useless, so I got it out of the water and flushed it down the toilet without a second thought," the wife said.

With the help of the police, Huang quickly got his money back.

He cut open the plastic coverage carefully and found the paper cash inside undamaged.

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