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10 things that money can't buy

Siddhartha Sharma

Here is how mankind tells money, quoting from the Book of Job: "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther." Here are the ten things money can't buy.

1. Family and friends

The greenbacks won't bring you any closer to your family if you are far too busy earning them. Nor will they guarantee your family understands you at all. (Mummy's cooking is a sub-group in this 'things you can't buy anywhere' list.)

There are exceptions to this. You might just pay off irritating in-laws to stay out of your hair, or order a hit on them. But in the normal course...

With friends, it works the same way, only more so. If your wealth draws them, they aren't real. If they don't stay, or your life has no place for them, you are on your own. With real friends, you've almost got it made.

5 senators gave P1.45 billion to NGOs

by Chi Almario-Gonzalez, ABS-CBN News
08/21/2013



MANILA - The top five senators who used their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or their pork barrel funds from 2007 to 2009 were Senators Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr., Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, Edgardo Angara and Gregorio Honasan.

This is according to a tally from as special audit report of the Commission on Audit (COA) on the use of PDAF from 2007 to 2009.

Under Annex A of the COA report, Revilla requested use of his pork barrel eight times, with a total of P503.85 million.

more at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/focus/08/20/13/5-senators-gave-p145-billion-ngos

how bohol's congressmen in 2007-2009 stood with their disbursements for projects (legislative functions not included):


Legend:

Hard - public works

VILP - Various Infrastructure including Local Projects

Soft - education, health, livelihood, comprehensive integrated delivery of social services, financial assistance to address specific pro-poor programs of the government, historical, arts and culture, peace and order; and small infrastructure projects such as irrigation, rural electrification, water supply, housing and forest management

PDAF - Priority Development Assistance Fund, formerly the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF), aka pork barrel


the releases, in millions of pesos:

Chatto, Edgardo M.
Bohol, 1st District
Hard, VILP: 119.884
Soft, PDAF: 45.300
Other Sources: 9.000
Total Soft: 54.300
Total Hard and Soft: 174.18 million pesos

Cajes, Roberto C.
Bohol, 2nd District
Hard, VILP: 100.000
Soft, PDAF: 46.815
Other Sources: 21.300
Total Soft: 68.115
Total Hard and Soft: 168.11 million pesos

Jala, Adam Relso
Bohol, 3rd District
Hard, VILP: 100.000
Soft, PDAF: 28.200
Other Sources: 6.000
Total Soft: 34.200
Total Hard and Soft: 134.200 million pesos

Jala, Eladio M
Bohol, 3rd District
Hard, VILP: 20.000
Soft, PDAF: 23.000
Other Sources: 0.100
Total Soft: 23.100
Total Hard and Soft: 43.100 million pesos
(Total for both father-son: 177.300 million pesos)


-sourced from http://www.interaksyon.com/assets/documents/SAO_Report2012-03_ExecSummary.pdf                   

Quote from: chicogon on August 20, 2013, 07:51:43 AM
Ajo ra pod dunay mobilization... basin diay pod dunay maayong dungan

nalibog bitaw ko, fr chic, why a former man of the cloth of ours who became a politician has become very rich. 

two elections ago, his wife (a former small telephone business operator of the pre-mobile phone era) who ran against the late aumentado for congress was widely quoted as saying, "sige, iphanay mi ug sinako nga kwarta..." or something like that. 

it is common knowledge that since her husband became congressman and her daughters became politicians as well, their material fortunes rose unbelievably.

too bad, politics in our country is still very much corrupt and corrupting. 

yes, pnoy noynoy, dear employee.  i order you to delete that line, ahora mismo.

Residents hang on to a rope as they pass strong currents along a flooded area in Marikina City on Thursday. AP


Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/246057/wake-up-move-away-from-marikina-river-disaster-official#ixzz2cZZ1V9sF

congratulations, six pototer.  time to take stock of yourself and stop running roughshod over people and stop hamboging about what you do.  it's useless.  advertising man, in the league of saatchi?  give me a break.

whatever you do, you still look like one of the seven dwarfs.

who cares.

go, help the world.  and keep quiet about it.

Quote from: balong on August 20, 2013, 06:20:11 PM
a very gentle reminder. prayers are good. pilak is better. votives is not a charity case but he needs help. why not withdraw a little bit from your dollar account islander. i am doing my part. i already gave votives $200 thru western union. i will continue sending $100 pero wa na naho makita si votives.

so why announce it here?  it impresses no one, mind.

pa-thank you-thank you pa kang mike kintahay aron lang maprontada ang thread bisag puro na lang emoticon, dangling the chess tournament as carrot.  phew!  how obvious can one get.  all the dollars can't get one the respect one craves for, kiddo.  how pathetic.  that's what one gets for thinking and acting as if one can buy people.

puro estorya.

the fire is back!  what's happening?

the rains are back.  natural fire extinguishers are starting to reduce that fire...

waiting for the first news to come in about that ongoing fire.  i can't really tell if it's a building or the building only serves as a foreground of the fire...

this is real time... not a speck of rain now, though it's pretty obvious that the skies are very dark and the rains could come back any minute now.  the irony: from our window, i can see a building is on fire about half a kilometer away, somewhere in the direction of baclaran.  i wish the rains would fall again now if only for that big fire.

di makasuya.  makalagot sa pagkawalay modo, tsk, tsk...

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 20, 2013, 09:41:13 AM



Who is this celeb?

hehe, "purple rain, purple rain..."

WA PA GYOD KA MOUNDANG ANANG IMONG OBSESSION?  DO YOU THINK ANYBODY HERE CARES ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL OR WHAT YOUR PLANS ARE?  LUOD NA KAAYO, UY.  ANG RESULTA ANI, MAPAREHA ANG TB SA IMONG WEBSITE NGA MAWAD-AN UG VISITOR.  PEOPLE GET TURNED OFF, YOU KNOW.  DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY HAVE CHOSEN TO OPT OUT OF HERE BECAUSE OF YOU?  THINK ABOUT IT.  YOU ARE BUT THE OPPOSITE OF MIDAS TOUCH!  WHY DON'T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE DOING, NOT ANNOUNCE IT HERE REPEATEDLY TO THE POINT OF NAUSEA, AND GO H--G YOURSELF ARON KA MATAGBAW.

way baha tuod diri sa amo dapit (thank heavens), pero, through the glass window akong makita nga way undang ang uwan nga horizontal ug ang mga panganod paspas ang flow.  makalisang.  i've never seen anything like this.

Quote from: taga tigbao on August 20, 2013, 01:02:43 PM
Mura man ug dili na moundang ang uwan. Kutob pa ni Huwebes kay si Marin mo u-turn pa pabalik sa Taiwan.

aguy, tigs.  naunsa na man ning wrath of nature dinhi sa atong dapita... akong feeling aning unremitting rains kay morag naa ko gapuyo sulod sa aquarium.  i would be at home wearing a snorkel.

Quote from: taga tigbao on August 20, 2013, 12:36:03 PM
Hahahahaha. Gahapon daw nasuko among landlord kay ang mga iring nasirad-an sa kusina moa nga ang screen nangalangkat kay gusto mosud kay miuwan kono. Pastilan pud, nganong sirad-an man. For the kittens Te, naa nay mga mirequest nga ilahon kono kay cute man jamo. Puro pud laki. Suwerte! Mao nga naay nagrequest.

hinaot makasabot ang landlord nga makagaba ning iring kun hilabtan.

i just lost my mouth!

interesting.  bad eggs as floaters seems like saying figuratively that bad eggs live longer. 

goodness me!  salamat nga wa pa ka igihi diha.  intawon, bai tigs.  would you want me to help you with their neutering and spaying?  i know kittens are irresistible.   

btw, guot baya pod mi ni banana republic.  usahay mora mig mga mummy sa katre, gatul-id lang di molihok kutob sa mahimo kay naay mga iring sleeping on both sides and in-between, ang usa gusto pa gyod mopatong sa iyang nawong, hahaha!  putos pa gyod mig doble-doble nga habol kay usa nila masahista.  masahian gyod mi, ambot why kugihan gyod siya.  (a cat's way of thanking us, i read somewhere).  problema lang, kun di mahinguk-an, apil acupuncture kay purya kahait sa kuko.

Dennis Datu @dennis_datu
BREAKING NEWS: Flashflood sa SLEX- Southwoods pic.twitter.com/F2aAfsJz2b
4:31 PM - 18 Aug 2013

Atom Araullo @atomaraullo
Centennial Road, Cavite. Flooded towns of Rosario and Noveleta practically isolated for now pic.twitter.com/Ot4vYaWEWx
10:17 PM - 18 Aug 2013

Atom Araullo @atomaraullo
Flooding in Kawit, Cavite. Noveleta and Rosario also underwater pic.twitter.com/u4r9rrQyLr
9:43 PM - 18 Aug 2013

Atom Araullo @atomaraullo
Kawit, Cavite. Residents say this is the worst flooding they’ve seen. pic.twitter.com/mqxfveTGqZ
9:57 PM - 18 Aug 2013

Willard Cheng @willardcheng
Ayala Blvd outside PNU and TUP campus in Manila flooded, not passable to light vehicles pic.twitter.com/mfLKDiMqpT
5:47 PM - 18 Aug 2013

OT, oh tigbao!

Willard Cheng @willardcheng
Flood at Taft Avenue corner Finance Road half tire deep, not passable to light vehicles pic.twitter.com/o98BHK8L5v
5:19 PM - 18 Aug 2013

Willard Cheng @willardcheng
Roads outside Manila City Hall still flooded, not passable to light vehicles pic.twitter.com/HDKFV4wvFp
5:03 PM - 18 Aug 2013

i hope your cats were safe.

voila!  drink the iced water!

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on August 18, 2013, 07:41:38 PMEmotion researcher and co-author of the article, Philippe Verduyn said that it is the advantage of studying Facebook use and well-being as dynamic processes that unfold over time as it allows drawing inferences about the likely causal sequence of Facebook use and well-being.

like any academic research gobbledygook, what in hey does this really mean?

kagabii mao pa ni ang baha dinha sa inyo dapit, according to this rappler website photo.  karon medyo ningtaas-taas na, according to your photo.  hinaot unta nga di ni moabot sa imong hawak pag-uli nimo.

sige lang, bai tigs, ulirang anak.  hinay-hinay lang pagtaak sa baha kay aron di ka bitokon.  ugingon kun sa waray pa.  waray upay gyod hinoon.  mag-unsa na lang ang pagka-accountant kun bitokon...

interesting.  now pa ko.

why are you laughing?  abi kay nasulod ko sa laang?  hey, mine was just academic curiosity...

paging, pikoy!  diay inahan nga angay lumsan!

an interesting tidbit from 2008:

Princess of the Stars 5th to sink, not 4th
July 7, 2008

MANILA, Philippines â€" I wonder why the vessel MV Boholana Princess, also owned by Sulpicio Lines, is never mentioned among the Sulpicio vessels that sank. I also wonder why there was no news of the sinking at that time.

I was a passenger on that ill-fated voyage and here’s my first-hand account: MV Boholana Princess left Cebu for Ormoc at 11 p.m. on Dec. 15,1990. Past midnight, the boat suddenly tilted to the left at an angle of 45 degrees. Passengers were startled out of their sleep, wondering what was happening. But there was no announcement through the public address system, or word from the ship’s captain and crew, about what was going on.

The passengers then scrambled to get life jackets. It was so dark outside the boat that jumping into the sea never crossed our minds. We were stranded for hours. Fishermen arrived to rescue us. But up to that point, there was still no announcement from the captain or from any crew member about what was happening. Finally, we started to evacuate the sinking vesselâ€"with help from the fishermen, but none from the crew. Eventually, we all made it out of the ship.

Oh, by the way, before we left the boat, a guy asked us to surrender the vests we were wearing because they belonged to Sulpicio Lines. Yes, this happened many years ago, but everything is still so vivid in my mind because that incident made me scared of riding boats. This may be hearsay: while we were still on board, there was talk that the boat had hit a reef while the crew were in a drinking session. Still, we were all just grateful to God that nobody perished in that accident. It was all that mattered to us thenâ€"that we all came out of the accident alive.

In retrospect, we could have filed a suit against Sulpicio Lines because there was no announcement from the captain and crew about what had happened, and there was no rescue effort initiated by Sulpicio Lines.

Maybe the incident was never reported because there was no casualty. But all the passengers felt that the accident was caused by gross negligence. I hope an investigation into this incident will be conducted, because that will establish that MV Princess of the Stars was the fifthâ€"not the fourthâ€"Sulpicio ship to sink.

â€"GARDENIA LARRAZABAL, via e-mail

We checked this account with the Philippine Coast Guard. It is indeed on record that MV Boholana Princess, among 14 Sulpicio vessels that figured in an accident between 1986 and 1998, ran aground in 1990.â€"Ed. (A Letter from a PDI Reader)

Posted in M/V Princess of the Stars, Thypoon Frank

http://barangayrp.wordpress.com/category/disaster/thypoon-frank/

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama called a press conference to allow officials of 2GO to give updates on the search for passengers of their roll-on-roll-off ship which sank at Lawis Ledge in Talisay City last Friday night.

Labella recalled that he wore his life vest and jumped out of the boat when he noticed that it was about to capsize.

He said he never thought that he would survive the night.

He said his faith in God and prayers made him survive his ordeal.

"I am positive that there are more survivors in this sea mishap since the ship sank near the shoreline," he said.

http://cebudailynews.ph/

cebu city's current vice mayor, edgardo labella, is a sea disaster survivor.  his father is from tubigon, bohol.


Labella: Don't give up on passengers
 
By Michelle Joy L. Padayhag   
18 Aug 2013


Image credit: www.google.com

CEBU City Vice Mayor Edgar Labella called on search and rescue teams not to give up in their efforts to find passengers from the sunken MV St. Thomas Aquinas.

Recalling his own ordeal in the Sept. 8, 1998 sinking of the MV Princess of the Orient of Sulpicio Lines, Labella said he was afloat for 36 hours clad in a life vest until he was found by rescuers.

"I was the last survivor," Labella recalled. The vessel he rode in sailed from the port of Manila even in the middle of a typhoon.

It capsized about 12:55 pm. near Fortune Island in Batangas, leaving 150 of its 388 passengers dead.

Quote from: islander on August 18, 2013, 06:54:59 PM
Philippine Span Asia was previously named Sulpicio Lines Inc.

In October 1988, Sulpicio's Dona Marilyn ferry sank off Leyte island amid a typhoon, killing more than 250 people. In 1988, another 150 were killed when the firm's Princess of the Orient sank in a port near Manila in similarly bad weather.

It also owned the MV Princess of the Stars, which set sail during a storm in 2008 and sank. Only about 50 of the 850 people on board survived.

Arnie Santiago, head of the maritime authority's enforcement division, said Sulpicio Lines was suspended after the 2008 disaster, then re-emerged with its new name of Philippine Span Asia.

this explains it a bit.

Go said changing the company name in 2009 was unrelated to the previous accidents, but did not explain what the reasons were.

Go is the grandson of Sulpicio Go, a Chinese Filipino businessman who founded the firm in 1973.

It cornered a major chunk of the domestic shipping industry in the 1980s by taking advantage of a law that reserved domestic routes for Filipinos.

Currently, its fleet consists of two passenger ferries and 10 cargo vessels that operate nationwide, Go said.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

Philippine Span Asia was previously named Sulpicio Lines Inc.

In October 1988, Sulpicio's Dona Marilyn ferry sank off Leyte island amid a typhoon, killing more than 250 people. In 1988, another 150 were killed when the firm's Princess of the Orient sank in a port near Manila in similarly bad weather.

It also owned the MV Princess of the Stars, which set sail during a storm in 2008 and sank. Only about 50 of the 850 people on board survived.

Arnie Santiago, head of the maritime authority's enforcement division, said Sulpicio Lines was suspended after the 2008 disaster, then re-emerged with its new name of Philippine Span Asia.

Maximo Mejia, head of government regulatory body the Maritime Industry Authority, said both vessels had previously passed safety inspections and were seaworthy.

"There is no reason to believe that the incident has anything to do with questions of stability or structural integrity of the ships," Mejia told reporters, indicating human error may be to blame.

Mejia noted that officials of both firms had been "fully cooperative", with Philippine Span Asia also helping out in the search.

Nonetheless, Mejia said he had temporarily suspended the fleets of Philippine Span Asia as well as that of 2Go Group, which owned the sunken ferry, pending investigations.

But he insisted the company's track record had nothing to do with the accident on Friday night, when his firm's cargo vessel collided with a ferry that quickly sank, leaving 31 people dead and 171 missing.

"It's immaterial to what happened right now," Go told AFP when asked to comment about the firm's history of accidents.

In Friday's incident, the Sulpicio Express 7 cargo ship was trying to leave the central city of Cebu's port via a narrow channel while the St Thomas Aquinas ferry was trying to sail in the opposite direction, authorities said.

After the vessels collided, the ferry sank within 10 minutes while the cargo vessel was able to reach dock with its steel bow crushed in.

Ferry disaster is fifth tragedy for Philippine firm

By Jason Gutierrez | AFP News â€" 18 August 2013

A company whose cargo ship was involved in the Philippines' latest ferry disaster confirmed Saturday its vessels were involved in four other tragedies that claimed more than 5,000 lives.

The first of those accidents occurred in 1987 when the firm's Dona Paz ferry collided with an oil tanker, leaving more than 4,300 dead in the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster.

Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corp. chief executive and president Jordan Go told AFP his family's company owned the Dona Paz as well as the ships involved in the four other accidents.

labad.  hahay nimo, hubag.

obviously this wikipedia list is incomplete.  but considering the incidence, or "batting average" of sulpicio lines to figure in accidents, one can't help but wonder.  bisag giilisan ang mga ngan from doña to princess, ambot intawon.

MV Princess of the Stars

    Owned by Sulpicio Lines
    Date 2008
    Casualties 802

    The ship sank near the Province of Romblon during the height of Typhoon Fengshen (Frank) killing 802.

MV Josille II

    Date 2012
    Casualties 7

MV Princess of the World

    Owned by Sulpicio Lines
    Date 2005
    Casualties None

Sulpicio’s M/V Princess of the World caught fire while at sea, but no injuries were reported.

MV Kimelody Cristy

    Owned by Moreta Shipping Lines, Inc.
    Date 1995
    Casualties 31

MV Gretchen I

    Date 1996
    Casualties 50

MV Doña Marilyn

    Owned by Sulpicio Lines
    Date October 24, 1988
    Casualties 300

The sister ship of the MV Doña Paz, sinks off the central province of Leyte, killing 389

MV Princess of the Orient

    Owned by Sulpicio Lines
    Date September 18, 1998
    Casualties 150

On September 18, 1998, Sulpicio’s M/V Princess of the Orient, sailing from Manila to Cebu, sailed into a typhoon. She capsized at 12:55 p.m. near Fortune Island in Batangas. Of 388 passengers on board, around 150 perished. Passengers were floating at sea for more than 12 hours before rescuers were able to reach the survivors.

Quote from: taga tigbao on August 18, 2013, 02:58:22 PM
Unsa may naa aning Sulpicio Lines nga pirme man maaksidentehan?

sakto tuod, bai tigs.  consider this:

list of the most notable maritime incidents or tragedies in the Philippines

MV Doña Paz

    Owned by Sulpicio Lines
    Date December 20, 1987
    Casualties 4,341

The Doña Paz was en route from Catbalogan, on Samar Island, Philippines, to Manila when, while it was in the Tablas Strait, between islands of Mindoro and Tablas, it collided with a small oil tanker, the Vector, which was carrying 8,800 barrels of petroleum products. More than 4,000 are killed in what is described as the world's worst peacetime maritime tragedy.

MT Vector

    Owned by Vector Shipping
    Date December 20, 1987
    Casualties 11 out of a crew of 13

The Vector M/T Vector, owned by Vector Shipping, Inc., at that time was on a charter voyage for Caltex Philippines, now Chevron.

The Vector's cargo ignited and caused a fire that rapidly spread onto the Doña Paz, which sank within minutes. Two of the 13 crew members aboard the Vector survived but all 58 crew of the Doña Paz died.

Vinegar.
The ingredient that makes your adobo rock can also turn your kitchenâ€"and the rest of your homeâ€"into a sparkling clean haven. Mix ¼ cup baking soda, 1 tablespoon liquid detergent, and enough vinegar to make a paste. Now you’ve got your own homemade cleaning agent!

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Tea bags.
Don’t throw out that Early Grey bag just yet! Cool used tea bags and brush it over wood surfaces, such as cabinets and floors. The tannins in the tea help polish the surface, and clean it, as well!

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Salt.
Got stubborn coffee or tea stains on your mugs? Sprinkle salt on calamansi peel then rub the entire thing on the stains. How about any slow-moving drains? Mix ½ cup of salt with a quart of hot water then pour the solution down the pipe.

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Rice.
Do you use a coffee or spice grinder? Chances are, it’s filled with gunk in little crevices you can’t reach. To clean it out, simply pour in a handful of uncooked rice, and grind away! The rice will absorb all that build-up.

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Olive oil.
Forgot to buy shaving cream at the supermarket? Use olive oil! Olive oil is thick, it cuts down chances of getting nicks and razor burn. Plus, it’s a natural moisturizer for your skin, too; no need to slather on lotion afterwards.

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Eggs.
Egg yolks are rich in fats and proteins, making them great moisturizers; the whites contain bacteria-eating enzymes, which help remove unwanted oils. So the next time you buy a dozen, keep some for your hair. Yes, your hair! For normal hair, use the entire egg; for oily hair, just use the whites; and if you’ve got dry, brittle hair, bring on the yolk! Coat your locks with the egg mixture appropriate for your hair type, leave on for 20 minutes, then rinse with cool water (using warm water might cook the eggs!). Do whole-egg treatments once a month, and whites-only every two weeks.

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Ground coffee.
Before dumping into the trash, consider mixing with some sugar and olive oil for a D-I-Y coffee scrub in the shower! The only downside to this is, you might smell like a walking coffee cup afterwards. (You could remedy that with some moisturizing lotion.) If you’re not keen on a coffee scrub, toss the ground coffee in your vegetable garden instead. Coffee is high in nitrogen, which most vegetable plants love.

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Baking soda.
Use it as a dry cleanser to remove gunk in sinks, bath tubs, and toiletsâ€"they work really well on cleaning chrome fixtures, too! Just sprinkle baking soda on a damp cloth and wipe away. Then simply rinse off with water. Also, did you know you could use baking soda to clean your teeth, too? A paste made out of baking soda and a bit of water works as well as toothpaste. It naturally cleans the mouth and whitens teeth!

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Avocado.
Not only is it yummy, but it also doubles as an anti-aging face mask. Avocado is rich in antioxidants and fatty acids, and its oils help stimulate collagen and elastin production. Puree a ripe avocado and mix in ¼ cup sour cream (the lactic acid in the sour cream will help exfoliate dead skin cells). Spread over your face, and leave for 10 minutes before rinsing.

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10 grocery items that do double duty

When you run out of cleaning agents, moisturizers, or even toothpaste, run to your kitchen for supplies!

By Maui V. Reyes for Yahoo! Southeast Asia


Vodka.
Aside from causing some people to sing off-key, vodka is also a great insect repellent. Because of its high alcohol content, a few spritzes of it on a bug scares the sorry bug away, drunk as a loon. Also, vodka keeps cut flowers fresh longer. Much like friends coming over for a nightcap, you can make flowers last longer by giving them some vodka! Add a few drops of vodka and a large pinch of sugar to the water in the vase. Change the water-vodka-sugar mixture daily to stunt ethylene production (ethylene is the gas that makes flowers age and wilt).

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maminaw ba kaha si bugsay?

“I believe that there is goodness in every person so I’m appealing to that part of every person. You can be better than this. And you cannot deny it. There’s a goodness in you which comes from God. Just let it come and you will be free and happy,” he said.

Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/465001/pork-scam-moves-tagle-to-tears#ixzz2cLpISrFe

someone continues to speak about himself...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has also canceled the passports of Napoles and Lim to prevent them from leaving the country.

DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez said the DFA readily granted the DOJ’s request and canceled the passports of Napoles and Lim.

He said the DFA also informed the Bureau of Immigration and Philippine foreign service posts and consular offices around the world about the cancellations.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

Ordered arrested

A Makati court has ordered the arrest without bail of Napoles and her brother Reynald Lim for serious illegal detention involving Benhur Luy, the principal witness in the pork barrel scam.

Napoles and Lim disappeared after learning that they would be arrested.

They are now the subjects of a nationwide manhunt launched on Thursday by the NBI and the Philippine National Police.

“Out of the 415 accounts, 107 are in the name of Napoles herself, aka Jannet Napoles Lim or Jenny Lim. The accounts are in 17 banks/banking institutions and six insurance companies,” De Lima said.

Among the bank accounts ordered frozen were those of JLN Group of Companies, dominated by Napoles and her family and friends, and 20 nongovernment organizations Napoles allegedly used to siphon off P10 billion in lawmakers’ pork barrel allocations into her bank accounts over the last 10 years.

The appeals court ordered the freeze to grant a petition brought by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) through the Office of the Solicitor General, an agency under the justice department.

The AMLC recommended a freeze following requests from the National Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Ombudsman, which are separately investigating the pork barrel scam.

415 (not 46) Napoles bank accounts ordered frozen, De Lima clarifies

By Tarra Quismundo, Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, August 18th, 2013


Janet Lim-Napoles. INQUIRER.net FILE PHOTO

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Saturday clarified that ordered frozen were 415, not 46, bank accounts of fugitive Janet Lim-Napoles and other persons and nongovernment organizations involved in the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam.

Napoles is allegedly the mastermind behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam that the DOJ and the National Bureau of Investigation are investigating.

The freeze order covered 344 bank accounts, 66 insurance policies and five possibly credit card accounts, De Lima said.

SURVIVORS  Slick-covered survivors wipe the oil from their bodies following the collision of a passenger ferry and a Sulpicio cargo vessel off Talisay City in Cebu on Friday night. As of press time, 32 passengers were reported dead, at least 58 missing and 751 rescued. TONEE DESPOJO/CEBU DAILY NEWS

A Chandra X-ray observatory image of a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a galaxy about 60 million light years from Earth. The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much larger galaxy called NGC 1232. If confirmed, this discovery would mark the first time such a collision has been detected only in X-rays, and could have implications for understanding how galaxies grow through similar collisions. Picture: EPA

Twins pose during the 20th edition of the Fete des Jumeaux (Festival of Twins), a gathering of twins, triplets and quadruplets, in Pleucadeuc, France. Picture: AFP

Giant panda Yuan Yuan sleeps next to her baby panda at the Taipei City Zoo. Taiwan's first new-born panda stayed overnight for the first time with her doting mother, zookeepers said.  Picture: AFP

A lion cub is photographed peeking from its mothers legs. Laura Romin and Larry Dalton from Utah, USA, spent days with the lioness and her three cubs in the Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania, before they got their perfect shot of the playful cub. Picture: LAURA ROMIN / CATERS NEWS

The majority of cases involved Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, although Sikhs and Hindus were also being forced into marriage. Ministers believe that a key to stamping out the practice is better enforcement of immigration rules. Most victims of forced marriages sponsor immigration applications for their new spouse and are too frightened to alert the authorities. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or both of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will.

A forced marriage differs from an arranged marriage, in which both parties consent to the assistance of their parents or a third party (such as a matchmaker) in identifying a spouse, although the difference between the two may be indistinct.

The practice of forced marriage is still practiced in the parts of South Asia, East Asia and Africa and among immigrants to the West from these regions.

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Popeye
first appearance: 1919


Rupert Bear
first appearance: 1920


Winnie Winkle
first appearance: 1920

(some) comics/cartoons started in the 1920s


Buck Rogers
first appearance: 1928


Felix the Cat
first appearance: 1919


Little Orphan Annie
first appearance: 1924

In July 1925, Adolf Hitler published his autobiography. The book, entitled Mein Kampf or My Struggle, was followed by a second volume in 1926, and the People's Edition appeared in 1930.

Winners of Pulitzer Prize for Novels

    1920  (No Award)
    1921  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
    1922  Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
    1923  One of Ours by Willa Cather
    1924  The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    1925  So Big by Edna Ferber
    1926  Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
    1927  Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
    1928  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    1929  Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
    1930  Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

Winners of Nobel Prize for Literature

    1920  Knut Hamsun, Norway
    1921  Anatole France, France
    1922  Jacinto Benavente, Spain
    1923  William Butler Yeats, Ireland
    1924  Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
    1925  George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
    1926  Grazia Deledda, Italy
    1927  Henri Bergson, France
    1928  Sigrid Undset, Norway
    1929  Thomas Mann, Germany
    1930  Sinclair Lewis, United States

Books That Define the Period

The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot
- The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values

The New Negro
by Alain Locke
- A hopeful look at the negro in America

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The American dream that anyone can achieve anything

Strange Interlude
by Eugene O'Neill
- A look at 30 years in the life of a modern woman

The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
- The lost generation of expatriates

Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
- A satirical look at small town life

The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
- Details the moral decay of the Old South

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
- Black life in a Black community

Famous Literary Works (written during the period)

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Significant Lost Generation Members

Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ezra Pound
Sherwood Anderson
Waldo Peirce
Sylvia Beach
Gertrude Stein
John Dos Passos
E.E. Cummings
Archibald MacLeish
Hart Crane
T.S. Eliot

The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein, who said, "You are all a Lost Generation."

The Lost Generation was lost in that the values that its members were being taught didn't fit the reality of life after the brutal and horrifying World War I. The group of writers who moved to Paris believed that America was intolerant, materialistic, and unspiritual. They helped to establish many of the styles and themes that are still used in literature today. (http://1920sgirls.tripod.com/)

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation were young people who came out of World War I disillusioned and cynical about the world. The term usually refers to American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time. Famous members included T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. These authors, also referred to as expatriates, wrote novels and short stories expressing their resentment towards the materialism and individualism that was rampant during this era.

In England, the Bright Young People were young aristocrats and socialites who threw fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts, were seen in all the trendy venues, and were well covered by the gossip columns of the London tabloids.[/i](wikipedia)[/i]


Ernest Hemingway (far right) with John Dos Passos (far left), Joris Ivens (back to camera), and Sidney Franklin in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
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