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CHINA'S NAVY: 250,000 personnel, 66 submarines, 27 destroyers, 52 frigates




Chinese Premier, Hu Jintao, onboard a Chinese Naval Destroyer , as the Chinese Fleet steams across the South China Sea.


Is this a show-off of force to Philippines and other weaker neighbors?



The Chinese Fleet steaming across the South China Sea.


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China's Nuclear Submarine Fleet...

China has the world's largest military, with 2.3 million active personnel and 1.2 million in reserve. By comparison America has under 3 million in total active and reserve personnel.

China's defense budget to grow 12.7 pct in 2011: spokesman


BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China said Friday it plans to raise its defense budget by 12.7 percent to 601 billion yuan (91.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, compared with an increase of 7.5 percent last year.

The year's draft defense budget was 67.6 billion yuan more than 2010, and accounted for about 6 percent of the country's total budget, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the annual session of China's national legislature.

"The government has always tried to limit military spending and it has set the defense spending at a reasonable level to ensure the balance between national defense and economic development," said Li.

The former foreign minister said China's defense expenditure is transparent and defensive in nature.

"There is no such thing as a so-called hidden military expenditure in China, and the budget is subject to auditing from the government and military," he said.

The bulk of the spending goes towards moderately improving armament, military training, human resource development, infrastructure of grassroots units and the living standards of the servicemen, said Li.

China's defense budget is almost evenly divided in three parts -- the living expenditure of the servicemen, expenses for training and maintenance, and spending on equipment, said Major General Luo Yuan, a researcher with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Military Science Academy.

DEFENSIVE AND TRANSPARENT

"The limited military strength of China is solely for safeguarding its national sovereignty and territorial integrity and would not pose a threat to any country," said Li.

"China is committed to peaceful development and a national defense policy that is defensive in nature," the spokesman said during a press conference.

Compared to the world's average, China's military spending is low given its 1.3 billion population, vast land and long coast lines, and its ratio of military spending to gross domestic product (GDP) is lower than many countries Li said.

While China's military spending amounts to about 1.4 percent of its GDP, "that ratio in India is much higher than 2 percent," said Li in response to a question from an Indian journalist.

China's military spending is dwarfed by that of the United States which, at 725 billion U.S. dollars, accounted for about 4 percent of the country's GDP for the 2011 fiscal year, said Luo.

"It is natural for China's defense budget to slightly fluctuate, as it is impossible to always rise at a high rate," said Luo.

To some extent, the increase in military spending was made to keep pace with the rising consumer price index (CPI), said Luo.


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/04/c_13761030.htm

Over a 100 years ago, my great-grandfather left China for greener pastures in the Philippines.

Now, 100 years later, Filipinos are leaving Philippines to look for job / work in the greener pastures in China.

Oh have the tides changed.

The City of Shanghai. The manifestation of 'Pax Sinica'

Today I joked around with babycakes. Since babycakes is half German, i always joke around with her how she's stricta like a Nazi. Bwahaha. It was so cute today when we were driving home with Maxine. I looked to my rear view mirror and I saw both of them. Our Maxine was sleeping and already cuddling.

She joked around, "Now you have two Germans...!" bwahahaha.

Truly, a puppy helps reduce stress and brings a huge smile to people's faces. She's 5 months old, but already 40+ pounds!

Had a long day today. So I came back home today after visiting PAWS, an organization that helps to find parents to adopt animals. After my girlfriend and I visited , we both fell in love with a 5 month old German Shepherd. She's so beautiful. As I'm typing this down, she's sitting next to me by my feet and curled up in a ball sleeping. She's so precious and adorable! (she's snoring!!)

We've named her Maxine. Our little Maxine.

I'm so happy.

A patient comes in to the ER complaining of chest pain and radiating pain to her back , left arm and jaw. You are the senior resident MD on the floor that night. You diagnose her as having Myocardial Infarct. As the resident MD, what is your treatment plan?

Way Sapayan, Doctora!  We have to motivate each other and help each other.

Masel Tov! Barukh Yarushayalum! Barukh Y'israel! 

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 26, 2011, 05:32:49 PM


--Shel Silverstein


http://www.poemhunter.com/

A good Jewish poet.

In all the towns of Southern-South eastern Bohol, it is Guindulman that shows alot of progress, to be honest. The Guindulman Public Market is very large and modern looking and well organized inside (it compares to that of Jagna's own). The recent infrastructural growth in the town of Guindulman is also something to be admired and copied by other towns.

I really liked my many visits to Guindulman, Manay. Mo angay ko sa inyohang lugar'a. Very clean. Very hospitable and very Beautiful People.   

Kahinumdum ko when I was driving to Ubay one time. I stopped by Guindulman to buy some drinks for the ride and was awestruck by how many beautiful mestiza guapas there are in Guindulman. This town is known for their very beautiful women. Tan-aw- tan-aw lang gud.

Quote from: Deepwater on March 26, 2011, 04:03:42 AM
This was a hospital in Cebu. as in Ramiro however, I don't really know if they do use or not because I have never worked there but I know they make use of everything that they have. The patient's family just go home with a lot of bills to pay. In the setting in internship/clerkship cguro, hospitals like CDUH and the like make most of their many interns or PGI's in a code. Also the lasck of knowledge with the use of a defibrillator also comes to mind as well.

This is good information , particularly the work setting information. Thank You very much for sharing this with me.

Excellent!!

For sure. Guindulman, a town with over 32,000 residents, is a large and progressing town!

Kaayohan, that is good to hear that the town had a surplus of 24 million pesos. Good administration!

Padayon Guindulman! Ug mga Guindulman-on!

especially ang mga gwapang baji sa Guindulman...murag daghan mamords dinha sa inyoha...hehe

addendum: this snake can be found in maribojoc.

if i recall, this particular python weighed at 350 kilos. it was lazy because it was recently fed a 35 kilo baktin.

what interesting style. i see the resemblance of the style of the 1920's 'flapper age'. very stylish.

ma'am, you are , indeed, quite pretty.

ah, yes, the vintage look. her porcelain white skin flows so beautifully with her dark brown hair and her dark knee-high dress. conservatively beautiful.

looking pretty sharp there, buddy! nice.

I wonder if she was influenced by the Ukranian 'Orange Revolution' of 2004-2005.



Zdraste Wvidja? Dobre Diin...

haha. but of course. the theme of 'frog'.

 No matter what, good will always prevail. God Bless all life. Born and the unborn!

hahaha, jokester man ka kaayo, Ate Lumine!

palamuut!

US President Obama is greeted by a Chinese Honor Guard upon arrival to the People's Republic of China.

Business As Usual between The Republic of the Philippines and The Republic of Indonesia.

For years the Philippines has watched its ASEAN neighbors grow while itself suffered political instability.
Now the tides have turned. ASEAN powerhouses such as Thailand are now suffering political instability and economic turmoil, while Philippines is gaining ground and becoming a leader in ASEAN-Asia Pacific Affairs.

It is time.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III talks while Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva listens intently.

Tokyo, Japan, September 28, 1966: Philippine President and Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos stand with Japan's Emperor Hirohito during a Tokyo International Airport welcoming ceremony for the Marcoses, who were starting a five-day state visit to Japan. (Teruhiko Kikuchi, copyright Stars and Stripes)

MANILA, March 18 (PNA) - President Benigno S. Aquino III visited the residence of Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Makoto Katsura in Makati City Thursday morning to personally extend the Filipino people's sympathy to Japan over the tragic Great Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami.

"The President was the first to sign the Book of Condolence and reiterated his message of mourning, sympathy and solidarity to the people of Japan," he added.

Lacierda pointed out that the President had communicated his messages of sympathy to the Emperor of Japan and to Prime Minister Naoto Kan "in separate letters in March 13, 2011 and March 11, 2011, respectively."

The Prime Minister of Singapore and the President of the Republic of the Philippines

Singapore's Honor Guard greets The Philippine Eagle.

ot: President Yudhoyono can be mistaken for a Filipino very easily. Its funny how he looks like one of my dad's old kumpare in Bohol.

The presidents of the two largest member states of ASEAN (Indonesia and the Philippines). Aquino and Yudhoyono.

President Aquino Meets President Yudhoyono; Philippines and Indonesia.

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. R. M. Marty Natalegawa and other Senior Government Officials welcomes visiting Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III upon arrival at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to start his five-day State Visits to Indonesia



President Benigno Simeon Aquino III exchanges pleasantries with Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. R. M. Marty Natalegawa upon arrival at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport

United States of America shakes hands with the Republic of the Philippines

The Cultural, Political, and Historical Heart of Spain and the Spanish World.

The ancient Indonesian City of Yogyakarta.

The old dances of Indonesia.

The ancestral home of the Malay Race.

Ramkien Dancer. The Ramkien is the Thai version of the Hindu Epic, Mahabharata.

I don't know which is more beautiful: the dance, their ethnic regalia , or the woman herself. Very beautiful.

A beautiful , sweet Thai dancer showcasing the dance style of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand

The ornaments in their hair coalesces with the ivory white face , and sings in unison with the harmony that is created in their kimono draped bodies...

Anata wa utsukushii desu...

The Japanese Geisha with a soft smile 

Soft as a cherry blossom yet nimble as a butterfly.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 10, 2011, 03:48:00 PM
Isn't it interesting how the word "politics" is made up of the words "poli" meaning "many" in Latin, and "tics" as in "bloodsucking creatures"?

hehe. in addition to the latter part, many species of ticks also play a role in the transmission of diseases such as Lyme disease.

God Bless Japan!

The cultural flowers of the Land of the Rising Sun.

like any good and beautiful thing, too much can be poisonous.

It is the Oedo Nihonbashi Koto Ensemble  that is performing in the background. Powerful performance. Truly, the Japanese culture is amazing.

琴 Traditional Japanese Music and Shrine -Chiryu Temple (412 AC) Oedo Nihonbashi Koto Ensemble

Performer: Michio Miyagi


Traditional Japanese Music - Aki Kaze No Kyoku

Traditional Japanese Music - Kodo Ibuki Taiko Drums

Noriko Tadano & Wadaiko Rindo - Yama No Maki

Aikijutsu - The Martial Art of the Samurai.


 

North Bridge Reenactment Fight: Concord Mass

North Bridge Reenactment Fight: Concord Mass

British soldiers on Mass Ave in Lexington Massachusetts

British Regulars

Lexington Minute Men and HIs Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot, 4th (King's Own); 1st Foot Guards; 5th Foot; and16th Dragoons.

Battle of Lexington , Reenactment April 19, 2010

Even Orthodox are donning the Cyclist style. bwahaha! L'cheim! 

ma'am, you are truly very sexy. i mean, a gorgeous cyclist! 

whoa. nice gears, dude.



ps. this is orlando bloom.

truly a cute cyclist. 

Comment:

In regards to Christian Faith, we are barraged with worldly logic to 'see' in order to 'believe'. We deal with proofs, signs, laws, and things that guarantees stability, credibility, and finality.

Thomas, an apostle, himself was prone to such doubtful faith.

Christ reminds us that in regards to Christian Faith, "believing IS seeing!!"

John 20: 24-29


24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

  But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Quote from: chicogon on March 25, 2011, 01:21:11 PM
Correction: Emperur Josephus "Regina Coeli" Linguini 

correction mandated.

Graci et Salve ! (Gracii por da linguini...bwahahaha)

"WHAT is truth? That was the question Pontius Pilate posed after Jesus said to him:
For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. 'Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.' "(John 18:37)


"If the body of Christ is to follow its Head in its own passion, what the Catechism calls "a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers" (CCC 675), then we too will see a time when our persecutors will ask "What is truth?" When the world will also wash its hands of the "sacrament of truth," the Church itself."

"Tell me brothers and sisters, has this not already begun to be the case in our day?"

John 18: 28-38



28 Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

  “But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.

33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

  34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”

35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”

36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”

37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

  Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate.

haha. He was preceded by a greater Emperor, his adoptive father, Emperor Hadrian the Great. Hadrian is also known (perhaps) as :
Emperor Roelicus Lungani Rex

John 17: 20-24



Jesus Prayed to The Heavenly Father:


20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are oneâ€" 23 I in them and you in meâ€"so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

  24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

  25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

John 17: 1-5



1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

John 16: 16-33



16 Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”

17 At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? 20 Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

  25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

29 Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30 Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

  31 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. 32 “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

  33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 25, 2011, 12:44:42 PM
Elizabeth Taylor Laid To Rest Near Michael Jackson At Forest Lawn Cemetary In Glendale
http://movies.yahoo.com/



The actress died peacefully at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA on Wednesday surrounded by her children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. She had been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, a condition with which she had struggled for some years.

A peaceful death. Rest In Peace, Elizabeth.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN

While Jesus was teaching one day, a man in the crowd tried to test him to see if he would give a wrong answer. He asked Jesus, what he must do to inherit eternal life.

Jesus, who knew the man was a lawyer, told him to follow the law, which says to love God and love your neighbor. In order to justify himself, the lawyer asked who his neighbor was. Jesus then responded with this parable.

Luke 10:30-37: And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?

And Jesus Christ said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 25, 2011, 12:29:08 PM

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

-John 14: 14

Amen!

John 14: 5-14



5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 13: 1-17




1 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

  Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”

10 Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Antoninus Pius was one of the so-called "5 good emperors" of Rome. Although the piety of his sobriquet is associated with his actions on behalf of his predecessor (Hadrian), Antoninus Pius was compared with another pious Roman leader, the second king of Rome (Numa Pompilius). Antoninus was praised for qualities of clemency, dutifulness, intelligence, and purity.

The era of the 5 good emperors was one where imperial succession was not based on biology. Antoninus Pius was the adoptive father of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the adopted son of Emperor Hadrian. He ruled from A.D. 138-161.

Upon taking office as emperor when his adopted father, Hadrian, died, Antoninus had him deified. His wife was titled Augusta (and posthumously, deified) by the Senate, and he was given the title Pius (later, also Pater Patriae 'Father of the Country').

Antoninus left Hadrian's appointees in their offices. Although he did not participate in person, Antoninus fought against the Britons, made peace in the East, and fought tribes of Germans and Dacians (see Map of the Empire). He dealt with rebellions of Jews, Achaeans, and Egyptians, and suppressed the pillaging Alani. He would not allow senators to be executed.

As was customary, Antoninus gave money to the people and the troops. The Historia Augusta mentions that he lent money at the very low interest rate of 4%. He founded an order for poor girls that was named after his wife, Puellae Faustinianae 'Faustinian Girls'. He refused legacies from people with children of their own.

Antoninus was involved in many public works and building projects. He built a temple of Hadrian, repaired the amphitheater, baths at Ostia, the aqueduct at Antium, and more.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/antoninuspius/p/AntoninusPius.htm

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His Imperial Majesty must have had a great barber.

His Imperial Majesty showing his Roman virility.

Roman Emperor, Antoninus Pius with his beautiful beard.

Lucius Verus, co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius