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By Dave Llorito

EXPECT the debate on the use of the English language as a medium of instruction to flourish now that the school system has opened for the school year 2007-2008.

There are those in our midst who are saying we should stick to “Filipino” as the medium of instruction in the schools and deemphasize English. We are among the increasing number of organizations and people who are saying we should, in fact, master English in the schools and the workplace as part of our drive for global competitiveness. We should give it due primacy in all educational levels as well as our official communications.

Why the need to master the English language? Because everybody else is trying to do the same.
Right now, there are probably close to 400 million native English speakers, making English the third largest language next to Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Experts say, however, that when combined with nonnative speakers like us Filipinos, English is probably the most commonly used language in the world. And certainly, the number of English speakers is growing as it is now the commonly taught language in Europe, Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Yes, the Chinese, the Koreans, Japanese and the Taiwanese are trying to learn Englishâ€"and fastâ€"because they know the future lies there. English has emerged as the global language that is widely used in information technology, international trade, aerial and maritime communications, the sciences, global sports, as well as in international bodies like the United Nations. About 95 percent of the articles published in Science Citation Index, where breakthroughs in science and technology are published, are written in English.

Of course, critics of the English language have been saying that these countries are not good English speakers yet they are able to industrialize and develop their economies. That is certainly true, but the fact is that these countries right now are sending their sons and daughters to all the corners of the English-speaking world to learn the language. They know they are not secure in their economic perches; they need a hedge and an extra edge in their continuing search for innovation and competitiveness.

Why? Because the shelf life of most economic strategies these days are shorter than, say, a hundred years ago when economic powers had to undergo the Industrial Revolution.
Remember the story of “newly industrializing countries” whose strength came from hosting global production networks by multinational corporations? Singapore is a classic story of that. For 40 years, Singapore rode on the waves of massive doses of foreign direct investments in electronics and semiconductors, thinking the good thing may last forever.

Then the MNCs realized it’s actually more effective to locate the factories in low-cost locations like China, the Philippines and Vietnam, and suddenly the electronics industry that buttressed the “Singapore dream” vanished completely in 2006.

The Singaporeans were rattled, but the tiny island state continues to grow fast (i.e. 6 percent in the first quarter of 2007) on the strength of its services and trading sectors because it has maintained its global competitiveness. Why? Because its people speak the global language on top of its major attraction as a place where the rule of law, transparency and public sector efficiency prevail.

Now, it is trying to leverage these competitive advantages to develop niches in the fast-growing global production and trade in digital media, thus making the Singaporeans a potential threat to the Philippine animation industry.

Japan has been priding itself for its rare virtue of clinging to its language and maintaining its insularity. But these days, many corporate executives are questioning this attitude in the face of increasing competition from Western MNCs that are achieving efficiencies derived from outsourcing, something that Japanese firms couldn’t do because of language barriers.
No wonder, the Japanese are now scrambling to learn English, a fact not lost on the South Koreansâ€"their bitter rivals in the global marketplace for high-end electronicsâ€"who are currently sending their people to the US, Britain, Australia and the Philippines to beat them to the draw.

Even Indians these days are shaking their school systems to improve their English proficiency. If there’s one country that has earned billions of dollars for its people because of its language and science skills, it’s India. Its $20-billion-a-year IT and IT-enabled services provide more than a million jobs to its young population.

But right now, the urgency of improving its population’s English-language skills is not lost on its leaders who are pushing for more English-language skills-upgrading programs in schools.
Of course, some “nationalists” in India are fighting back and are agitating for the primacy of Indian national languages in schools and institutions. However, the joke there is that most of those politicians, while agitating for institutionalizing Indian languages in India’s school system, are sending their sons and daughters to Harvard, Yale and Stanford in the United States so they could master the sciences and tame the English language.

“Do you know why English-language newspapers in Indiaâ€"especially in cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Delhiâ€"are rising? It’s because people, especially the growing middle class, are buying newspapers to improve their English proficiency,” said one editor lately, underscoring an example that bucks the tide of declining newspaper circulations elsewhere. He said that for an increasing number of Indian families, English has become an investment for the future. They know because the new middle class in their midst that are going in and out of the posh campuses of Infosys and Wipro in their brand-new cars speak good English.

The moral lesson? We should not dilly-dally on embracing policies that would restore the importance of English in Philippine society. Actually, we have no choice. Some sources in the business community say more than 60 percent of the country’s GDP are accounted for by the “globalized” sectors of economy (e.g. remittances, merchandize exports and outsourcing, among others). These are economic activities that are conducted, processed and concluded through the English language. Given the structure of the Philippine economy, there’s no doubt where our national interest lies. (davidllorito.blogspot.com)

Filipinos shrug off jobs ban warning
By EUNICE del ROSARIO

A TOP Philippine labour official has shrugged off threats by labour recruiters from Bahrain and other Gulf countries to stop taking in Filipino workers.

In a statement released in Manila on Friday, Department of Labour and Employment acting labour secretary Danilo Cruz said that (Philippine) officials do not believe in nor do they see any truth in the manpower agencies' collective threat.

Gulf manpower agencies said in a meeting in Bahrain on Thursday that they will urge their governments to stop issuing work visas to Filipinos until a dispute over housemaids' wages was resolved.

A meeting of the GCC Recruiters Committee unanimously agreed in Bahrain to submit the request for the ban until conditions set by the Philippines government are revised.

The new regulations seek a minimum wage of $400 (BD150) and improved standard of living for Filipino workers being employed as household service workers in the GCC.

The minimum wage was passed in December last year and maids planning to go overseas must first undergo familiarisation training with the culture, beliefs and practices of their prospective employers.

Employers of Filipino maids are asked to expect to be called for interviews at the Philippine Embassy and they are also now being required to sign a declaration that they will face a BD5 fine everyday if they fail to pay workers their salaries on time.

Labour Ministries in Bahrain and four other GCC countries have said the minimum wage was not legally binding, but if employers do not agree to them then the Philippines government will not process their staff's contracts.

In April this year the UAE and the Philippines agreed to a unified contract for housemaids - which included the raising of the minimum wage to $400 (BD150). Embassies in the region expressed hopes that their host countries would soon follow.

Bahrain Recruiters Society chairman Fareed Al Mahmeed had said that GCC recruiters have approved a decision that they will urge their governments through the chambers of commerce to stop issuing working visas to all skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled Filipino workers.

"We hope our governments will support us," he said.

"It is affecting our citizens, it is affecting business and it is interfering in these countries' policies and rules."

He said that he hoped the decision would give GCC governments an opportunity to speak with their Filipino counterparts and reach a compromise, and claimed the committee's actions would have the backing of Filipinos.

However, Philippine Ambassador Eduardo Maglaya said any such ban would be open to accusations of discrimination.

"If it is specific that they mention only Filipinos then I think that it is discriminatory," he had told GDN.

"Filipinos are the preferred employees in the service industry and we have reasons why we should also take care of our nationals.

"I guess what every normal embassy would do is protect their own nationals in the same manner as the GCC embassies would do for their citizens abroad."

In Bahrain, maids account for 40 per cent of the total Filipino population.

The embassy had estimated that there are more than 40,000 Filipinos in Bahrain. Last year, the embassy handled 4,978 cases of Filipinos with employment problems - 95pc of which involved maids.

Based on data provided by the Philippines Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), the six GCC member-states employed 435,190 Filipinos as of December last year.

This was broken down into: Saudi Arabia - 223,459; UAE - 99,212; Kuwait - 47,917; Qatar - 45,795; Bahrain - 11,736; and Oman - 7,071.

The figures are based on the report of the POEA on the actual departures of overseas Filipino workers at the international airports. dreunice@gdn.com.bh (gulf-daily-news.com)

Gracia Burnham and her missionary husband, Martin, were held as prisoners by Islamic terrorists for almost 14 months in the Philippines. During that time Martin and Gracia Burnham were sick and starving, traveling through the jungles of the area with their captors, occasionally facing gun battles between their captors and the government which was trying to rescue them. After being held as hostage from May 27, 2001 to June 7, 2002, Martin and a Filipino nurse, who had also been held as hostage, were killed in one such crossfire, while Gracia was wounded in the leg and evacuated by the military. Gracia Burnham, however, has never stopped sharing her faith with Muslims, says she would consider going back to the Philippines, and says she and her husband learned to forgive their captors.

March 7, 2001did not start out as a day that looked like the Burnhams would become hostages of Filipino Muslims. Martin and Gracia Burnham were vacationing on an Island in the Philippines, celebrating their 18th anniversary. They were a part of a group of 20 people kidnapped from a resort by the Islamic terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf. Most of the hostages were ransomed and set free by November 2001-except for the Burnhams and a Filipino Nurse.

"We are doing great; the kids are doing well," Gracia Burnham says now despite the ordeal she went through. She made the comments on the website of the Martin and Gracia Burnham Foundation. Martin and Gracia had three children-Jeff, Mindy, and Zach. Jeff is at Liberty University, working on getting licenses to be a pilot and got married to the daughter of a missionary. Mindy is a junior in high school. Zach is a sophomore. All three children were born in the Philippines.

Gracia Burnham says since she was held captive by Filipino Muslim terrorists that she has spoken in so many places she can't remember them all--from California to New York, from Texas to Canada, as well as overseas.. She has written a book about her experience, In the Presence of My Enemies that has sold 300,000 copies. She has also written a second book about her experience, To Fly Again.

Despite everything that has happened to her, Gracia Burnham has not stopped sharing her faith with Filipino Muslims, and she forgives those who had once harmed her. The Martin and Gracia Burnham Foundation collects funds and resources to address the needs of addressing the need of more missionary pilots around the world and supporting the work of tribal missionaries. Gracia works specifically to share God's love with the Muslim community and helps those who are imprisoned or persecuted for their faith around the world.

There is no doubt Martin and Gracia did not have it easy for the 14 months they were held captive by Filipino Muslim terrorists. Each day they did not know if they would live or die-possibly at the hand of their captives, possibly in the crossfire of a battle between their captives and government soldiers trying to free them. They were starving and constantly on the run, as their captors were trying to stay ahead of the government troops. Their captors were constantly demanding money for the freedom of the Burnhams. Their encouragement was to recall all of the Bible passages they could remember.

On June 7, 2002, Martin and the Filipino nurse were killed in a crossfire between government troops and the terrorists. Gracia was wounded in the leg by evacuated by the military. After being evacuated to at the U.S. embassy in Manila, Gracia was debriefed and flown home to Kansas to be with her children.

Gracia thanks people around the world for praying for Martin and her. When others tell her their trials are not nearly as bad as what she has been through, Gracia tells them everyone's trials are equal. She says we should all look at God rather than our problems. Gracia says God is a big God and can give us all strength.

While Gracia may now work with her Foundation to share God's love around the world, she says she is open to going back to the Philippines, close to the Muslim terrorists, whom she forgives. She has not yet felt led to go back yet, however. She says she loves the people in the Philippines.

Gracia recalls as she and Martin wadded through waist high swamp water while held captive after fleeing from the 13th gun battle between the terrorists and the government troops, they were comforted by Bible verses: "I love you with an everlasting love." (Jeremiah 31:3); and "If God be for us, who can be against us." (Romans 8:31)

Gracia Burnham says she learned forgiveness toward the Muslim terrorists, because it did not come naturally. At first, she was bitter toward one man who made Martin carry a bag of rice, despite his frail condition from hunger. She also felt compassion after learning that her captors were all killed in prison after they had controlled the prison for a day, because she knew their chance to receive God's grace were over.

Gracia Burnham has no plans to stop sharing her faith with Muslims and others, and she also has no plans to stop showing love toward even those who were her enemies. (By Mike White of associatedcontent.com)

By Natassia Laforteza
Manila Standard Today

Filipinos are not only known for our athletic prowess, but also for our academic achievements all over the world. In the recently concluded Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which ran from May 14 to 19, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Philippine delegation brought home two Fourth Grand Awards, one Team Projects Fourth Grand Award and a special award.

Bringing honor to the Philippines in the world’s biggest science fair were Melvyn Carl Barroa, 16, of Capiz National High School, Roxas City, who won Fourth Award in Microbiology for his project, Fish Mucus: Its Potential Anti-microbial Effects on Human Pathogens and Possible Role in Innate Immunity, a study that explored his findings of a potential antibiotic produced from a natural defense mechanism of a fish.

Hester Naba Umayam, 15 of Philippine Science High School-Cagayan Valley, garnered Fourth Award in Behavioral and Social Sciences for her research, Ethnomathematics in the Geometric Patterns in Wovern Fabrics of the Indegenous Kalingas of the Philippines. Ethnomathematics is a new branch of mathematics that deals with the cultural aspects of ethnic groups and Umayam’s study gave her a better understanding of the patterns of Kalinga-woven fabrics and its socio-cultural implications in general .

The team of Ivy Razel Ventura, Janine Cindy Santiago, and Mara Elain Villaverde, all 16 years old, of Philippine Science High School-Main Campus, won the Fourth Award in Team Projects for their study, Screening Isolation, and the Characterization of Fluorescent Proteins from Nudibranchs, where they explored the potential of Nudibranchs or sea slugs as useful in tumor research.

Luiji John Karlo Suarez, 17, of Dona Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School, La Carlota City, won a $1,000-scholarship award from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovator Alliance for his research, The Potential of Marine Bioluminiscent Bacteria as Anti-bacterial Agents Against Two Major Rice Diseases Caused by Xanthomonas Oryzae pv. Oryzae and Xantohomonas Oryzae pv. Oryzicola. Suarez introduced a new way of controlling bacteria infection in plants to help farmers in the production of infection-free rice.

All of the winners agreed that they felt happy and honored to bring recognition to the Philippines in the field of science and research. They all hoped that in their winning, they would be able to garner moral and financial support for their and other young scientists’ projects and researchs. Suarez mentioned that lack of financial resources is the biggest hurdle to any scientific research or project.

Before participating in the Intel fair, the six winners bested around 7,000 Filipino high school students who have shown noteworthy potential in science, especially in the field of investigative endeavors, in the Intel Philippine Science Fair. Students join this fair to showcase their knowledge and skill in the field of science and research, and to vie for one of the limited slots in a team that will represent the Philippines in the Intel fair, the world’s largest pre-college science competition, which brings together 1,400 young scientists from 45 countries to compete for over $4 million in awards and scholarships.

mga jokes sa akong classmates sa high school, hangtud karon way paglupad. katawa lang gihapon.

basta bisaya dili gyud ta pul-an maminaw. it's in our blood - the language.

judging the picture, maybe this is a work of a professional photographer. we don't know who she is. this image is in public domain

this is a man-made islet in Panglao Island Nature Resort.
This resort is owned by Fred Ong of the Bohol Quality Corporation.

One of the most expensive in Bohol. Price can go up to P5,000 to P6,000 a night.

The sudden death of Antequera Mayor Elect Jaime Quibel on May 30, 2007 due to cardiac arrest has shocked the Boholano community.

Cong. Edgar M. Chatto expressed his profound sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family. He said “my family and I are deeply saddened with the untimely demise of a good friend, Antequera Mayor- elect JAIME QUIBEL. The late Jaime would have become one of Bohol’s most outstanding town leaders as he was elected unopposed last May 14 and would have assumed as Antequera’s next town chief executive by June 30. In his lifetime, he championed the cause of micro enterprise development in Antequera and in some nearby towns by providing jobs and helping raise the income of many families. We extend our sincerest condolences to the bereaved family as we offer our prayers for the late Jaime’s eternal repose. We mourn with the people of Antequera in this time of great loss.”

It may be recalled that Mr. Quibel was a former Sangguniang Bayan Member of Antequera; a High School Teacher of Christ the King Academy, Antequera; and pioneered Handicraft Exportation in the province. As a Handicraft Exporter, he helped in the poverty alleviation of the municipality of Antequera, neighboring towns and the entire province by providing raw materials, buying the finished products and at the same time conscientiously paying the laborers what was due them.

The kindness of the late Jaime will always be remembered and will remain in the hearts of the people of Antequera. (The Bohol Standard)

By Fred C. Amora

What happens if after winning in the last May 14 elections, a candidate is declared by the Commission on Elections as ‘disqualified’ canceling his or her certificate of candidacy?

The Provincial Comelec office said these disqualified but winning candidates “can still assume office” starting June 30 until their cases reach resolution with finality.

The policy however shall be without prejudice to the continuation of the hearing and resolution of the involved cases.

Cited was Comelec Resolution No. 8063, promulgated on May 26, 2007 entitled: “In the matter of reiterating Comelec Resolution No. 8062 promulgated 18 May 2007 particularly the policy guidelines on the proclamation of winning candidates with pending disqualification cases.”

The resolution stated: The Commission in upholding the sovereign will of the people and in the interest of justice and fair play, RESOLVED as it is hereby resolves to adopt the following policy-guidelines in connection with the May 14, 2007 National and Local Elections: “There shall be no suspension of proclamation of winning candidates with pending disqualification cases, before or after elections, involving issues of citizenship, non-residency, not being a registered voter, nuisance candidate, and/or violation of the election laws under Section 68 of the Omnibus Election Code, Fair Elections Act and other related election laws.”

A case in point is mayor-elect Jose Ugdoracion Jr. of Alburquerque.

His rival, Ephraim Tungol, son of outgoing mayor Efren Tungol, filed a petition to cancel Ugdoracion’s certificate of candidacy (COC) in SPA Case No. 07-042, alleging that respondent (Ugdoracion) “intentionally made material misrepresentation in his COC, he being granted a permanent residency status in the United States of America.”

The petition claimed that Ugdoracion violated the “residency requirement mandated under Section 39 of the Local Government Code and the Omnibus Election Code.”

The Comelec First Division granted Tungol’s petition by issuing a Resolution “canceling” Ugdoracion’s certificate of candidacy on May 8, 2007.

Mayor-elect Ugdoracion however said he certainly will take his seat as the new mayor of Albur comes June 30. “All these are acts of political harassment.”

He also expressed confidence the Comelec will reconsider its resolution saying that he has long surrendered his US green card and the matter is a “dead issue.”

The decision was rendered by the First Division and is now elevated for reconsideration to the Comelec en banc. The Comelec en banc decision could in turn be elevated to the Supreme Court for a final ruling.

Another identical case is that of Guindulman mayor-elect Ma. Fe Añana-Piezas that remains unresolved up to this time. She is also facing a disqualification case arising from her long stay in the United States and as holder of a dual citizenship which disqualifies anyone running for any elective position under the Omnibus Election Code and the New Local Government Code of 1991 (RA 7160).

Mayor-elect Piezas, in a phone interview, said she is confident these issues will be resolved in her favor and that she can serve the constituents of her town starting June 30.

She told the Bohol Standard that the US Consular Office in Manila has already issued a certification that she “applied to renounce her American citizenship” on March 27, 2007 or two days before the deadline for filing of certificates of candidacies for local bets.

She ran as official candidate of the ruling Lakas-CMD party with provincial standard bearer reelected Gov. Erico Aumentado.

Political observers, meanwhile, recalled with reservation the “costly” experience of Batuan mayor-elect Gregoria Pepito who won in the May 2004 elections over incumbent Sixto Dano.

The Comelec ruled that Pepito was “not a qualified candidate” on question of residency, having stayed in the United States for a specified period of time. Despite being proclaimed and had assumed the position for over three months and after spending in countless rounds of legal battles up to the highest court, Pepito eventually lost her mayoralty post.

The Comelec ruling was upheld with finality that Dano was the elected mayor of Batuan being the “only qualified candidate” for mayor during that May 2004 elections.

Pepito however made a stunning comeback in the just concluded May 14, 2007 elections; this time with no more questions of her qualification as a candidate.

She was again elected mayor of Batuan trouncing her closest rival, a former town mayor and councilor Necitas “Bebe” Dumagan. (The Bohol Standard - 6/3/2007)

Ring my four-year old Nokia. Bungol na. Sige ka hagbong.

Pedro: Pre, mananagat man jud ka, naa ko pangutana nimo. matulog ba ang isda, pre?
Juan: Ambot lang kaha pre kay sukad ma sukad wa pa man ko kakita ug isda nga nagdala ug banig.

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Russia - Alexandra Kosteniuk (2540)


Bosnia Herzegovina - Sanja Dedijer (2068)


UAE - Mariam Mansur (1838)


Philippines - Sheerie Joy Lomibao (2163)

To Capitan Berong: Sukol ka nila?

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(AFP) - Poland - A Pole who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power, a television station announced Friday.

Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said.

In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda.

"She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said.

Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He is now making the acquaintance of 11 grandchildren.

Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma.

"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot. Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead," said Getruda.

Poland's communist regime was still clinging onto power when Grzebski had his accident, only losing its grip the following year, in 1989.

On the brash neon-lit streets of new European Union member Poland, the period seems a distant memory.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski. (rawstory.com)

By Martin Waugh (haha.nu)

German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue. (news.bbc.co.uk)

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Texas judge Keith Dean, recently defeated for re- election, decided as he was cleaning out his desk in December that he would order the release of a man that he controversially sentenced to life in prison in 1990. Tyrone Brown was 17 when he committed a $2 robbery, and Dean put him on probation but changed it to life in prison when Brown shortly afterward tested positive for marijuana. (The Dallas Morning News in a series of 2006 articles had reported that Dean had failed to additionally punish a murderer who had tested positive for cocaine several times after his release on probation.)

Clarence Horner’s hobby, apparently, was collecting tombstones, in that upon his death in 2006 in Lincoln, Neb., authorities found 47 of them in his rented storage locker. (mangkatofreepress.com)

from wirelessinfo.com



One or two of us have regrettably lost phones in a place or two (I myself lost a Treo 650 and a Cingular 8125 within the first four months of last year) but our friends across the pond literally flush an astounding 850,000 phones down the crapper each year.

850,000.  Down the toilet.

Research by SimplySwitch, a company specializing in price comparison and switching carriers, found 4.5 million handsets are lost or damaged in the UK each year.  Second to the death by watery grave, 810,000 handsets end up amongst the peanuts and broken hearts at a local pub, 315,000 stay behind for an extra long cab ride, 225,000 keep riding public transportation after their owners leave and 116,000 ended up in some dirty laundry.

Interesting stats, and sure, the stats aren't from a hugely reputable source, but seriously, take care of your phone.

Brewpoint, located in M. Paras and Soledad Streets, is a nice place to hang out while in Tagbilaran. The coffee shop offers free PDI and Sun Star copies everyday.

It's a good location when you set an important appointment with someone.

The sudden death of Antequera Mayor Elect Jaime Quibel on May 30, 2007 due to cardiac arrest has shocked the Boholano community.

Cong. Edgar M. Chatto expressed his profound sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family. He said “my family and I are deeply saddened with the untimely demise of a good friend, Antequera Mayor- elect JAIME QUIBEL. The late Jaime would have become one of Bohol’s most outstanding town leaders as he was elected unopposed last May 14 and would have assumed as Antequera’s next town chief executive by June 30. In his lifetime, he championed the cause of micro enterprise development in Antequera and in some nearby towns by providing jobs and helping raise the income of many families. We extend our sincerest condolences to the bereaved family as we offer our prayers for the late Jaime’s eternal repose. We mourn with the people of Antequera in this time of great loss.”

It may be recalled that Mr. Quibel was a former Sangguniang Bayan Member of Antequera; a High School Teacher of Christ the King Academy, Antequera; and pioneered Handicraft Exportation in the province. As a Handicraft Exporter, he helped in the poverty alleviation of the municipality of Antequera, neighboring towns and the entire province by providing raw materials, buying the finished products and at the same time conscientiously paying the laborers what was due them.

The kindness of the late Jaime will always be remembered and will remain in the hearts of the people of Antequera. (the Bohol Standard)

By Fred Amora

The list of good people who ran but “lost” in the May 14 elections is getting longer.

Out of frustration, I cursed the heavens (pero wa ko nang-gimo ha!) after learning that the most qualified and sincere persons were the casualties in an exercise that supposedly “empowers people” to chart their destiny and change this country for the better.

One honest Guindulmanon, however, lifted my spirits: “Fred, cheer up, you’re still number one kay sa tanang nanglansar, ikaw ray GUAPO!”

He.he...nagsulti lang sa tinood tong tawhana!

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But, I really cannot understand why people keeps complaining about government, (and seeks the help of media) yet when election time comes, the same people that keeps harping, can’t find ways to keep their sanity intact.

They instantly turn stupid and dumb upon sight of a mere P20 -50 bills in exchange for their votes. Ang mga tawo kusog moreklamo, pero diay maoy hinungdan sa tanan.

Pagkaayo dok-dokon ang mga ulo!

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Sa among lungsod, nagtoo ko nga may kausaban ang election kay duna may kandidato nga mikonsad gikan sa US of America, - “where I know for a fact” nga walay vote-buying didto. Na-preso man gani si Mark Jimenez kay mihatag kuarta sa campaign ni Pres. Clinton!

Pero, naunsaay ba nga “wholesale” man hinoon ang pinalitay sa Guindulman - tag P1,500 ang didtos bukid ug P750 sa lowland barangays.

As usual, ang money makabuang!

But people are not realizing they have put into office “criminals” who wantonly violated election laws â€" specifically the crime of vote-buying.

So what can we expect of criminals in government offices?

Karon, humana ang eleksiyon, “what now?”

Kadtong mga midaog, is there honor in such winning?

Sila mismo sayod sa tinood nga ang eleksiyon dinhis ato mora nag King and Queen contest, - kadtong daghan kuarta maoy koronahan.

But, uso pa ba ang words “dignity and honor?”

My town certainly qualifies now (almost in all aspects) to the Hall of Shame!

This is happening because “good people of my town just fold their hands and refuse to do something.”

Could all of these be the reasons also why ang Guindulman gi-duaw sa mga bagyo ug linog? God forbids! Ayaw na tawon Lord!

Ang katawhan sad komusta?

Kadtong kuarta nga ilang gidawat, naa pa ba?

Igo ra jod tingali to sa pila ka kilong bugas ug isdang mangko.

Karon wa namo kinahanglana! Bayad namo!

Busa kon unsay dangatan sa umaabot tulo ka tuig, ayaw mo reklamo ha, kay HILAS paminawon!

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Anyway, di ta magpakawala ug paglaum!

Basin makatabang si bag-ong mayor-elect Dra. Fe Añana-Piezas. Pero dili ko sure pa ha! Diha koy gisugo kay mamaylo unta ko ug kuarta niya, pero mora mag way balita. (Wa daw ko collateral..haskang dimalasa).

But keep faith, “man does not live by loan alone.”

God-fearing ni si Doktora, milyonarya ug Fil-Am pa!

Makatambal sa sakit sa lawas ug sa bulsa!

Ako silingan pa! Lakas jod ko ani!

Sige, ato tan-awon!

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From hereon, (sukad karon), naa gani Guindulmanon nga mosumbong nako ug moreklamo bahin sa pang-gobierno, ako una bendetahan unya pangutan-on.

“Mibotar baka ni Fred Amora?”

Kon moingon siya, “wala raba”, ako siya sultian:

“Meresi ka.”

Lesson for Today: “What ripens fast, does not last.” (kadtong hinog sa pilit, dali malata).

from christiananswers.net

Meaning: Salvation, or "the Lord is salvation," "the Lord Saves."

"Jesus" is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua which was originally Hoshea (Oshea) (Num. 13:8, 16 - the King James Version of the Bible spells it "Oshea"), but changed by Moses into Jehoshua (Num. 13:16; 1 Chr. 7:27), or Joshua. After the Exile it assumed the form Jeshua, from which came the Greek form Jesus. It was given to our Lord to denote the object of his mission, to save. An angel told Joseph (his foster-father), "You are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21).

JESUS CHRIST - Je'sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others with the same name, he is spoken of as "Jesus of Nazareth" (John 18:7), and "Jesus the son of Joseph" (John 6:42).

The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, (1) his private life, till he was about thirty years of age; and (2) his public life, which lasted about three years.

In the "fulness of time" he was born at Bethlehem, in the reign of the emperor Augustus, of Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter (Matt. 1:1; Luke 3:23; compare John 7:42). His birth was announced to shepherds (Luke 2:8-20). Wise men from the east came to Bethlehem to see him who was born "King of the Jews," bringing gifts with them (Matt. 2:1-12). Herod's cruel jealousy led to Joseph's flight into Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus, where they waited till the death of this king (Matt. 2:13-23), when they returned and settled in Nazareth, in Lower Galilee (2:23; compare Luke 4:16; John 1:46, etc.). At the age of twelve years he went up to Jerusalem to the Passover with his parents. There, in the temple, "in the midst of the doctors," all that heard him were "astonished at his understanding and answers" (Luke 2:41, etc.).

Eighteen years pass during which we have no record, except that he returned to Nazareth and "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52). [Some have claimed that during this period, Jesus went to India and learned from Hindu Gurus? Is this true?]

He entered his public ministry when he was about thirty years of age. It is generally believed to have lasted about three years. Each of these years had particular features of its own.

THE YEARS OF JESUS CHRIST'S MINISTRY

   1.       The first year may be called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess are very scanty, and because he seems during it to have been only slowly emerging into public notice. It was spent for the most part in Judea.
   2.       The second year was the year of public favor, during which the country had become thoroughly aware of him; his activity was constant, and his reputation was known through the length and breadth of the land. It was almost wholly passed in Galilee.
   3.       The third was the year of opposition, when the public favor ebbed away. His enemies multiplied and assailed him with more and more persistence, and at last he fell victim to their hatred. The first six months of this final year were passed in Galilee, and the last six in other parts of the land" (Stalker's Life of Jesus Christ, p. 45).

The Gospels are eyewitnesses accounts of the words and work of Jesus Christ in many different aspects.

Jesus was also the name of four other men in the Bible...

   1.      Joshua, the son of Nun (the King James Version says "Jesus" in Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8; all new translations avoid confusion by using the name "Joshua")
   2.       A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11)
   3.       Jesus Barabbas (sometimes just called Barabbas) - prisoner released by Pontius Pilate (Matt. 27:16-17)
   4.       An ancestor of Christ (Luke 3:29). Translated as Jose in the King James Version and NJKV, Joshua in the NIV and NASB.

Quote from: Capitan Berong on June 05, 2007, 08:07:07 AM
      

Mike,

Unparalleled appointment for Tubag Bohol ....

How do we chance to have an "eye to eye" with this feisty, candid and charmful girl in Lady Chin!

Scrutinise her Avatar, you'll get floored !! Bet she's got mutiple Grafenberg spots.....

Newcomers, relish the encounter !! !! !!

Cap, this lady Chin is living on an islet somewhere between Cebu and Bohol islands.

She volunteered to be the Welcome Writer for Tubag Bohol. We know that she's really busy with all her writing duties, yet she decided to handle this part of our site after reading a "warm" Welcome Message for Leo Udtohan which failed to catch Udtohan's attention.

Today more than 50 guests who viewed our Tubag Bohol site come from the United States. According to our statistics, all continents of the planet have been represented by Tubag Bohol guests and visitors.

Cheers for all of us!

We are doing our best to make the site more beautiful and informative than ever before.

Worry is a time and energy robber. It’s natural to worry, but you can shorten the time between when you start worrying and when you begin doing something about it.

Turn off the TV. (Yes, really turn it off!) Enjoy favorite programs but turn the television off when you’re just veggin’ in front of the tube. Ask yourself; “Does this program really contribute to my personal or professional goals?” If not, you may want to turn it off, or at least change the channel.

Plot your route to work and find services, such as dry cleaners, automobile repair, etc. on your way. Stop spending your valuable time trying to save a few pennies. Don’t drive across town to save a few cents on items that you could pick up on the way to work. It’s not worth your time.

Listen to MP3player/ipod on the way to work. Pick one day every week and learn something. The average person spends 500 hours per year in their car. Why not use some of that time to grow personally or professionally â€" or to just be entertained. You deserve it!

Work smarter, not harder. Doing inefficient things “harder” does not do anything but wear you out faster. Figure out ways to shorten tasks by eliminating steps, combining parts and getting more done by working easier.

Manage your to-do list. Start with the most important task and work down. If you accomplish nothing other than your number one priority, you’ll be ahead. Avoid the temptation to tackle fun or easy tasks first just because you like shorter lists.

Never throw business cards into a drawer. That is a good way to frustrate yourself and waste some time trying to retrieve it. Enter the info into a database then throw out the card.

Frequently ask your self the #1 time management question of all time: What’s the best use of my time…RIGHT NOW?

Do everything faster! Walk a step faster, write e-mails faster and get off the phone faster. Search for times where you can gain a few seconds that will add up to a few minutes a day.

Leave yourself reminder voicemails. When you are driving and have that “ah-ha” idea, send yourself a voicemail while the idea is fresh on your mind. You’ll save time trying to remember the brilliant idea that slipped your mind.

According to the Pareto Principle, 80% of your results will come from 20% of your activities. Want to be more efficient? Figure out the 20% that are your most important activities and spend your time mastering those activities.

Use your energy according to your personal peak times. Take on the creative projects when you are the sharpest and do the mundane stuff when you’re least creative. Not everybody is a morning person!

Check yourself and discover how you are spending your time. Do you spend time doing the right things or the wrong things? Well, how well are you doing them? You may be doing the right things wrong or the wrong things right. Focus your energy on doing the right things right!

Create a short-task list â€" things that could be done in five minutes or less. Hint! Sometimes you can complete the entire list while you are waiting on hold.

Create a 10-20 minute file. Most people have at least twice a day when an unexpected 20-minute gap comes up. When those gaps happen, knock out some of your to-do list.

A place for everything and everything in its place. It still works! Searching for your stapler, calculator, note pad or pen is a time-waster, creating stress and frustration. Oh, by the way, throw away those dead batteries. It is a waste of time â€" and frustrating â€" to be searching for the good batteries among the dead batteries.

Are you a paper shuffler? If so, mark the top of the paper every time you touch it. These tick marks will remind you you’re wasting time every time you touch that paper.

Create an e-mail address book and distribution list for those with whom you frequently communicate. Not only will you save time looking up addresses, you’ll save a lot of typing time. Ten keystrokes saved on fifty e-mails a day equals 125,000 keystrokes saved a year. You know how long it takes to press “a” 125,000 times? Don’t try it! Just take our word.

Buy a small tape recorder and put it next to your bed. Now, you can capture all those great ideas that seem to “vanish into thin air” when you wake up.

General rule: if it takes less than five minutes, get it done now.

Set specific goals for two weeks and write the goals down. Then, focus your attention on activities that lead to achieving those goals. You will be surprised how much you can accomplish if you put your goals on paper.

“Group” similar tasks together. You’ll have all the necessary materials together and can save valuable time not having to refocus for each separate task. Fewer transitions between tasks improve your productivity.

Develop an “in-today, out-tomorrow” process for all mail coming into your office.

Keep reading materials handy when you go to the doctor’s office. Most magazines in waiting rooms are from last year anyway, and you waste time just sitting.

Never open e-mails from people whose names you do not recognize or subjects are not important to you. There’s too much “spam” requiring too much time to filter through every e-mail that you receive â€" and there’s too many viruses floating around out there.

Rip and read. Quickly scan the magazines that show up on your desk, evaluate which articles you want to read, tear them out and save for the right time for you to read. Throw away the rest of the magazine. You waste time flipping through the same pages to get to the one article you want to read.

Gr-r-r! Attack procrastination! Do it now! Putting things off seldom improves the quality of your work. It also adds stress when you know that you have something to do that should have already been done.

Reward yourself when you complete a task you wanted to delay. It will give incentive to knock out other unpleasant tasks.

You can never get much of anything done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

“Time is a natural resource â€" like fuel. When it is abundant, we take it for granted; when it becomes scarce, we search for that extra gallon, regardless of cost. Wouldn’t you give anything for another gallon of time with some of your friends who are gone? Time is a precious gift â€" every second, every minute, every day â€" use it wisely. You cannot pay the cost of losing time.” â€" Sonny Gann

Wait! Do these three things before you leave the office: (1) clear your desk, (2) plan tomorrow’s activities and (3) enter your next day’s to-do list in your organizer. Then go home. Planning the next day before you leave reduces stress and allows you to enjoy your time away from the office.

The key to paper management â€" KEEP IT MOVING! (Now, how simple can we get?) Move the paper to your out basket, your file, your “to read” folder or to your trash. Don’t let paper just sit.

Trust me on this, too! Most of all filed materials over a year old are never needed again. Archive the files and get them out of your way. If possible handle the paper only once and avoid the “I’ll just put it here for now” habit.

If you get heartburn from throwing paper away, create a drawer or file to store your stuff for 90 days. If you have not used it within 90 days, you can safely throw those “keepers” away.

Throw things away! Yes, even those ticket stubs from the last football game. Ask yourself, “What is the worst thing that could happen if I throw this away?” Most of the time, you can live with your answer, so start filling that wastebasket!

Create a “quiet time” for planning. Let everyone know your closed door means “do not disturb” unless there is an emergency…or someone in your family calls.

Take a Saturday and devote two hours to reorganizing yourself. Take a fresh look at how you are organized and look for opportunities to improve. You will probably discover several areas where you can eliminate some personal time wasters simply by becoming a little better organized.

How about all those passwords? Tough to remember? Simplify your passwords and have a logical, easy to remember reason for selecting each. Trying to remember a password is frustrating and a total waste of time. You may want to select passwords that can be typed on the keyboard with one hand so your other hand is free.

Use only one time management system. Whether you choose an electronic or paper system, one consistent system will eliminate much wasted time spent searching for information.

Try something new. Read (really) the instruction manual that came with your electronic organizer. Even better, try the manufacturer’s web site to find new software updates and releases that may further your productivity. Bet you will find several time management tools you haven’t used. Let the organizer do the work so you can spend less time organizing yourself.

Get a spiral-bound notebook, date it, and keep all your notes in the book for future reference. Quit writing on loose papers or sticky notes that tend to get lost.

Here’s a suggestion that will help everyone: create a “talk” file for your boss, subordinates, peers and even your customers. Unless it is a real emergency, wait until you have at least two items in the file before calling that person with your questions.

Categorize your To Do list into A, B, and C priorities. “A” priorities are the activities that are critical for your success. “B” priorities are important but not critical. “C” priorities would be nice to do if you get the time. Begin with your “A” priorities and work your way to the “nice to do” items.

Think on paper. Writing things down minimizes confusion and stress. Write down your goals, to-do lists, and even the problems that you’re working on. You’ll find putting things on paper usually clarifies the situation. Committing things to memory can be a waste of brain power, not to mention a poor storage device as well.

Every day something unexpected is going to happen. Count on it! So, set aside some “Oops time!” Don’t let these emergencies disrupt the rest of your day. Plan for them, act on them and then get back to work.

Focus, focus, focus on STARTING tasks rather than finishing them. The greatest challenge is taking the first step and getting started. (Ah yes â€" doesn’t that feel good?)

It always helps to know where your time is going. So, keep track of how you spend your time for two weeks. Sound dull? Boring, maybe? So cut it down to a couple of days. Surprise! Most of your log will show you’re investing your time in people or things not really important to you or your goals.

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” â€"William James

Without the shedding of the blood of Jesus, there is no forgiveness of sins. - Hebrews

Quote from: lumine on June 05, 2007, 12:58:36 AM
exactly! it took me a lot of years to pray for a partner in life. im now 38 and i got married two years ago. it was worth the wait because God gave me a God-fearing belgian poet. it was beyond my dreams to live in a foreign land. GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD to those who pray patiently!

"Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagle. They will run and not weary. They will walk and not faint." - Book of Isaiah

One of the most important on-page SEO factors is often forgotten by many website owners - content. I like the old saying, "content is king" because it still plays a huge part in determining how websites rank in search engines.

Generally, the more relevant content you can provide the better.

Other factors do play a part, such as quality, relevance and optimizing your content, but generally more is better. Why? Because search engine spiders look at the words on your website to assess its topic, content and relationship with other pages. The more content you provide the more text the search engine spider has to read and the more valuable your website will be to search engines and visitors.

So here are 5 tips to keep in mind when creating search friendly content:

Include Targeted Keywords Often

Perhaps one of the most critical factors in your websites ranking is how many times your page includes the keywords you are optimizing for. You need to be aware of exactly what phrases people use to find your website and include them regularly in your page content. By no means does this mean you should "keyword stuff" your page, but rather include your search terms in a natural manner that still maintains readability for the end user.

Write for Visitors not Spiders

Spamming your page with keywords will not only make your website unreadable by visitors, but can also harm your search engine ranking. Search engine spiders use complex algorithms to determine search rankings and can easily spot 'spam' pages, so make sure your page is readable by human visitors.

Add New Content Often

Adding fresh content is a great way to keep search spiders coming back regularly and a natural way to add more content for search spiders to crawl. The more content you create, the more opportunities you are providing to share your information, link to you, and increase the ranking for the optimized keywords on that page.

Don't Repeat Yourself

Duplicate content is an easy way to get your website banned from search results as it is considered a spamming technique by search engines! Don't take the easy way out, create unique content for each page and you should see the ranking benefits you were hoping for.

Use Formatting Elements

Search spiders rely on page formatting elements to highlight headings and important keywords. Using headline tags, bold text and bullet points are a great way to ensure your keywords stand out. Again, only highlight when necessary, and make the text look natural to search engine spiders.

Follow these simple guidelines with your content writing and you should create a website not only popular with search engines, but by human visitors too. (bloggersinterest.blogspot.com)

P.S. www.shaelwebsolutions.com can help you set up an amazing blogsite using the Wordpress program. For a minimal annual subscription fee, you can own a personalized blogsite (e.g. www.yourname.com). And of course, you can use your blogsite to generate extra revenue through ad affiliations. Let me know if you're interested. See sample site: www.balak.mikeligalig.com

I would like to thank you all for making this site a hot commodity. Yesterday Tubag Bohol amassed a record-breaking 2,714 page hits. This may be remarkable for us considering that we are still one-month old.

Cheers for all of us!

Quote from: Bulan on June 04, 2007, 11:23:57 PM
Post it here Mr. Ligalig so the people of Bohol would know his health status. Do you think he can still act as governor? What will happen if he's not capable to work anymore?

If he couldn't act as governor anymore, the vice-governor will take over the empty seat.

If you belong to a big family clan and you want all clan members to interact quickly and easily, you can avail of my forum site service. For a minimal fee every year, your clan can have a forum site with exclusive domain name.

example: www.borjaclan.com or www.aumentadoclan.com

If someone would register this domain name, then you can no longer own it unless the owner of the domain sells it to you.

That's how important having a personal website. Not only is it a good investment for you and your family, your identity, be personal or professional, will be protected.

beach resort of nila montero, friend of mikeligalig.com: photo by Jeab Isma