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Pope Francis I waves to the waiting crowd from the central balcony of St Peter's. He is the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Photograph: Getty

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French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran announces Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected by the conclave at the Vatican. Photograph: Reuters

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13 March 2013, pm


White smoke emerges from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel

http://www.mirror.co.uk/

13 March 2013


Black smoke has issued from the Sistine Chapel in Rome, signalling that the second and third votes in the Papal election have been inconclusive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

12 March 2013
The Vatican Conclave voted for the first time today and as expected, there is no new Pope yet, as the crowd saw black smoke rising from the chimney, the sign the vote did not find the necessary 77 votes needed.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/

expression ug unsa?

Quote from: Pikoy on March 13, 2013, 05:02:44 PM
bugay2x gyud ni si daddam oi.. mangadye dam unyag makatunob ug tae sa kalabaw mo sing-git ug Laamon, Bate' pa gyud..tsk tsk... fhaet, kindly regards lolla dam give my to her.. thnks..

oldataym, piks.  ikaw na god na... your wish is my command, kurog pa...

lolla, modawat na kuno si pikoy ug kinusipad nga durian.

kindly go to his post at

Re: Ipagawas Ang Inyung Gibati « Reply #5350 on: March 13, 2013, 02:37:32 PM »

http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=12266.msg575863;topicseen#new

(sorry, ambot sakto ba ning akong pagka-post dinhi as link...)

a request for tblanders to offer these prayers for fr chic as you read:

Dear Lord, I[we] look to you in patient expectation. Renew my[Fr Chic's] strength like the wings of eagles. Help me[him] and uplift me[him] by the power of Your Might. Then I[he] shall go forth in strength and wholeness. I[He] shall run and not be weary. I[He] shall walk and not faint.

Oh Lord, You are good to those who seek you, those who revere your name. You, who are the only source of health and healing, the spirit of calm and the central peace of this universe, grant to me[Fr Chic] such a consciousness of your indwelling and surrounding presence that I[he] may permit you to give me[him] health and strength and peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

di ko uy.  i'm not a good shot.  where i wish to hit between the eyes, ang tugpa sa bala adto hinoon sa itlog.

with prayers, fr chic.  prayers just for you this time.

bitaw, kalipay na lang nako nga bol-anon nga nia mo ni lolla, piks. bisan tuod ug di ko kahibawo mo-arabo, inshallah gihapon!

Quote from: Pikoy on March 13, 2013, 03:11:47 PM
physicists unsa mani sya Dam? dhont eningles2x am nat iskuling.. Y

di ba na mga manghihilot, kanang gitawag ug physics therapists?

kung mag-bol-anon ko kasabot ba kaha ka nga cebuano man kang dako?  hahaha!  naay thread wa ka kasabot unsay kanaw? 

arang gajod ning among migo nga kun mangadye piskay paminawon... "amahan namo ay/ anaa sa mga langit du..."

i'm clueless. what does the 'THAT' refer to?   what did you DO?

Quote from: Lollapalooza on March 13, 2013, 02:41:27 PMaiiyeee borit jud...

Quote from: Pikoy on March 13, 2013, 03:04:56 PM
yeee borit kilig si lolla.. ni tuskig si PIkoy..

hehe, moliko pa gyod diay sa forum sa mga boritlogists bisag busy sa physicists' forum.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on March 13, 2013, 02:58:50 PMaw kung permi magdokdok ni si Engr. malingaw gyud ka Madam CJ... kaso, talagsa ra man gud ni makabuhi ba... usahay manglugnot pa gyud para lang makabuhi... hehehehehe peys Engr...

dako kog duda nga nagpasumangil ra na... mas busy siya sa forum sa mga physicists.

naa ba dihay conclave sa mga hubag?

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 09, 2013, 01:33:04 PM
Mao bitaw giingon sa article...

ay, oo nga pala.  kining di ta kamemorya sa tibuok article, unsaon na lang...

kana gyod loll, sukol!  punographic language ra bitaw na...

yeheeey!  lingaw na pod ko aning duha...

Of course, the new pope could always choose to be called Benedict XVII â€" certainly a possibility because Benedict XVI appointed most of the cardinals who will choose his successor. But such a selection might disappoint Catholics who are hoping for a reformer after a papacy marked by a sexual abuse scandal, other missteps and shrinking membership in the United States and Europe.

Beyond that, it’s anyone’s guess. The new pope could choose to make his mark and choose a name never used before. Reese said he has always wondered why no one has adopted the name Pope Joseph.

Or he could set 1.2 billion Catholics around the world scratching their heads.

“The new guy,” Reese said, “could be John Paul Benedict I.”

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/

Church analysts say there are several names to watch for as hints to the new papacy.

The choice of Leo XIV could be a call for social justice, said Matthew Bunson, senior correspondent for the Catholic publishing nonprofit Our Sunday Visitor. Leo XIII, who served at the turn of the 20th century, and sought to help the world understand the dignity of workers.

Choosing Pius XIII, on the other hand, would be a more conservative choice, and a “statement of determination to defend the teachings of the faith,” Bunson said. Pius V led in opposition to the Protestant Reformation, and Pius VI and VII both died prisoners.

John Paul III, even if only as a tribute to the beloved, globetrotting John Paul II, might be seen by the world as a repudiation of Benedict, Reese said.

When John Paul I died just 33 days later, he was remembered so adoringly that Reese recalls making a bet with a colleague that the next pope would take the same double name.

“He just caught everybody’s imagination,” Reese said. “This smiling pope. It was just a whole month of very positive response to him.”

He won the bet, and Pope John Paul II led the church for the next 27 years.

This time around, only one bet would be a sure loser. No pope has chosen to be called Peter II. There’s no rule against it, but it is seen as poor form â€" an honor reserved for the first pope.

But the choice is not always a nod to papal history. The reformer Pope John XXIII, elected in 1958, said he picked the name it part because it was the name of the small parish church where he was baptized. John is by far the most popular name for a pope to choose, making it  difficult to predict what a John XXIV would be signaling by taking the name.

In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani declared himself Pope John Paul I, the first pope to choose a double name â€" and the first to declare himself “the First.”

He said that he meant the name as a tribute to his two immediate predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI. They had led the church through the Second Vatican Council, which modernized the church’s relationships with the rest of the world and other branches of Christianity.

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope, in 2005, he chose Benedict XVI as a tribute to two men. One was the previous Pope Benedict, who guided the church through World War I. But Benedict XVI said that he also meant the choice as homage to St. Benedict, an intellectual like Ratzinger and one of the patron saints of Europe, for his “powerful call to the irrefutable Christian roots of European culture and civilization.”

In particular, Benedict XVI prayed to his saintly namesake to help Catholics keep Christ at the center of their lives.

“Benedict saw Europe as the key problem and the place where we really needed to focus,” Reese said.

He chose to go by John II. Since then, most popes have abandoned their birth names and adopted tributes to saints, popes and even relatives who have gone before.

On purpose and by chance, Americans join crowd in St. Peter's Square to watch for signs of a newly elected Pope.

“You’re trying to pick up some of the glow of your predecessor,” said the Rev. Thomas Reese, Vatican analyst for the National Catholic Reporter.

It is a solemn decision. Newly-elected popes are asked only two questions by the senior cardinal inside the chapel. The first is whether he wants the job. The second: “By which name do you wish to be called?”

First question for new popes: 'By which name do you wish to be called?'


Reuters; Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Left, Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful for the last time. Right, his namesake Pope Benedict XV, circa 1915.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

The first clue about what kind of leader the next pope will be â€" liberal or conservative, reformer or by-the-book â€" will come only minutes after the smoke clears at the Sistine Chapel.

From a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica, the world will learn not just who has been elected but what he chooses to call himself, a decision steeped in centuries of church history â€" and a good indicator of the new pope’s vision and inspiration.

Until the sixth century, popes went by their given names. There was a Pope Sylvester, a Pope Julius and a Pope Victor. Then, in 533, a priest named Mercurius was elected to lead the church and decided that a pope named after a pagan god  â€" "Mercury" â€" just wouldn’t do.

The meeting with Hitler never happened.

In later life, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist founded the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy - a powerful forum that brings together the world's top diplomats and defence officials to discuss global policy issues.

US Senator John McCain paid tribute to his "friend of three decades", saying: "I learned a great deal over the years from Ewald's wise counsel and statesmanship. I enjoyed the great pleasure of his company and the privilege of his friendship, for which I will always be grateful."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

'Wise counsel'

Born in 1922 in an area of north-eastern Germany that is now part of Poland, Mr von Kleist came from a long line of Prussian landowners.

While an infantry officer, he was approached by Col von Stauffenberg - who suggested he wear a suicide vest under a new uniform he was due to be modelling for Hitler.

Mr von Kleist later recalled how his father gave his blessing to the suicide mission.

"Fathers love their sons and mine certainly did, and I had been quite sure he would say no. But as always, I had underestimated him," he said.

But, the plot did not go to plan - the briefcase was moved out of the way and Hitler escaped the full force of the blast.

Col Von Stauffenberg, along with von Kleist's father - a known opponent of Hitler - and others involved in the plot were arrested and later executed.

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, but was later allowed to return to combat duty.

The meeting did not come off, but months later he played a key role in what became known as the 20 July plot.


the young Lieutenant Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist

He was supposed to carry a briefcase packed with explosives to a meeting with the Nazi leader, but in a change of plan the bomb was planted by plot mastermind Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Col von Stauffenberg - played by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film of the plot, Valkyrie - placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was meeting his officials inside the "Wolf's Lair", Hitler's command post in East Prussia.

12 March 2013

Hitler assassination plotter Von Kleist dies


Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist in 2010
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist later founded the influential annual Munich Conference on Security Policy that brings together diplomats and defence officials

A former German army lieutenant who took part in a plot to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler in 1944 has died.

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist died aged 90 at his home in Munich last Friday, his wife Gundula told the Associated Press.

Mr von Kleist was just 22 when he volunteered to wear a suicide vest at a meeting with Hitler.

nagplano bitaw ko, loll.  problema lang kay there's no assurance that the next provider would be better.  maghibat pod unya kog samot kay di baya ko techie.  enough miracle na ni nga nakakat-on kog dokdok ug tb.  sa sinugdanan, natarantar ko kay arang kadagkog letra, hahaha!

bitaw, way ayo baya gyod ning atong services.  postpaid kunohay, pero advance baya ug one month ang bayad.

it truly works, lorenz.  i get attracted to things i cannot afford, thus i get to keep my money.

nisakit akong bag-ang tungod sa sapot aning akong broadband connection.  kompleto tag bayad, nireklamo na ko, ambot unsay sunod ani.

hehe, no sweat.  si sotto bitaw nga senador only, ni-quote man pod ana.  kita pa kaha nga tblander?

the last time i was in tagbilaran (early february, this year), sugod na ang political campaign.  klaro asa ang route sa caravan, with enrile and gordon on board.  wa gyod paagia sa busloton kay ang gi-reroute nga traffic kadto rang mga "tourist highways".

at least makaingon na lang ta nga kamao pod ta motago ug daotan.

hinoon, naa may mga tourists who choose to take the untrodden paths, especially those backpackers who tend to be young and caucasian, kanang mo-take in sa locality imbis magsalig sa ilang given schedule as a tour group.  anha makita ang scattered.

Visitors watch a mass at St. Peter's Basilica shown on a video monitor in Vatican Square attended by cardinals before sequestering themselves in the Sistine Chapel for the conclave to elect the next pope at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Visitors line up in St. Peter's Square to attend to a mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There's no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Members of the media take photos of a pilgrim in St. Peter's Square during a mass at St. Peter's Basilica attended by cardinals before sequestering themselves in the Sistine Chapel for the conclave to elect the next pope at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

A tourist holds an umbrella over a pilgrim in St. Peter's Square during a mass at St. Peter's Basilica attended by cardinals before sequestering themselves in the Sistine Chapel for the conclave to elect the next pope at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

12 March 2013


VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - MARCH 12: Pilgrims gather in St Peter's Square as cardinals attend mass before entering the conclave on March 12, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI’s successor is being chosen by the College of Cardinals in Conclave in the Sistine Chapel. The 115 cardinal-electors, meeting in strict secrecy, will need to reach a two-thirds-plus-one vote majority to elect the 266th Pontiff. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

di lang kay singkit, tag-iya pa gyod sa spratlys ug scarborough shoal with my nine-dash line.

Ballots have been burned since the 1417 conclave, but the practice of using white smoke -- created by adding dry straw to the ballots, or, more recently, chemicals -- to signal the election of a pope was first recorded in 1914. Before that, church bells were rung and cannons fired to signal the election of a pope.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

The papal conclave, 1799â€"1800 was held in San Giorgio Monastery in Venice, the last papal election site outside of Rome. (wikipedia)

aguy.  hinaot unta nga duna tawoy clemency.  porbida gyod intawon.  sa saudi pa nga death penalty ang drug trafficking, por santo.

After the Viterbo debacle, Pope Gregory X in 1274 established what we know today as the conclave (Latin for "with a key"), in which the cardinals are essentially locked inside a room -- and in olden times deprived of meals -- until they settle on a successor.

In modern times, conclaves usually last less than a week, and often no more than a day or two. The last long conclave was in 1740 and lasted six months.

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Pope Benedict XIV was elected in the conclave of 1740

In 1970, Pope Paul VI ruled that cardinals who were more than 80 years old when a pope died could not take part in a conclave; there are a total of 207 living cardinals, but 90 of them are more than 80 and cannot vote. Two others have said they cannot take part, leaving 115 electors.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/



Pope Paul VI

Until modern times, a pope could also be elected by a compromise among the cardinals or by "acclamation," which means that all of the cardinals would have to unanimously declare their support for a single candidate. Now a candidate must win a secret ballot, no matter how long it takes.

At times there have been as few as a dozen cardinals voting in a conclave. Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) set the top number at 70, and that was not changed until the 20th century when the ceiling was gradually raised to 120, though John Paul II often surpassed that limit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

For several centuries, the Roman aristocracy and secular rulers often controlled the process. The College of Cardinals wasn't given the principal right to elect the pope until 1059.

In 1179, the College of Cardinals was given the exclusive right to choose a new pope, and a two-thirds majority was set as the threshold for a winning vote (later changed to two-thirds plus one).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

In 236 A.D., a man named Fabian -- not even a candidate -- was acclaimed pope after a dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, landed on his shoulder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/



Pope St. Fabian

Fabian was a layman who became pope in 236, chosen, according to Eusebius, because a dove landed on his head when the community gathered for the election. He was a good administrator. He divided Rome into seven areas each served by a deacon.

He organised building works in the cemeteries (Catacombs) and brought back the bodies of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus from Sardinia. His fourteen years as pope seems to have been mostly a period of peace, but when the persecution of Decius took place he was one of its first victims. His epitaph in the catacomb of St. Callistus reads: "Fabian, bishop, martyr." (http://j2.catholicireland.net/)

more papal conclave trivia

Cardinals picking a pope in a conclave held in the Sistine Chapel is actually a (relatively) recent development. In the early centuries of the church, the pope -- who is the Bishop of Rome -- was elected in various ways, though usually by the clergy of the diocese, a choice that was then affirmed (or rejected) by the people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

the non-italian popes (and year when elected):


Benedict XVI (German, 2005)


John Paul II (Polish, 1978)


Adrian VI (Dutch, 1522)


Alexander VI (Spanish, 1492)


Gregory III (Syrian, 731)

Other conclave trivia

The last time a pope was elected who wasn't a cardinal was Urban VI in 1378 - he was a monk and archbishop of Bari.


Pope Urban VI

Pope Pius XII, who was pope during World War II, left a document informing the College of Cardinals that they should hold a conclave and elect a new pope if he were taken prisoner.


Pope Pius XII

While the Italians have had a stranglehold on the papacy over centuries, there have been many exceptions aside from John Paul II (Polish in 1978) and Benedict XVI (German in 2005). Alexander VI, elected in 1492, was Spanish; Gregory III, elected in 731, was Syrian; Adrian VI, elected in 1522, was from the Netherlands.

Source: AP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Youngest and oldest Popes elected

Pope John XII was just 18 when he was elected in 955. The oldest popes were Pope Celestine III (elected in 1191) and Celestine V (elected in 1294) who were both nearly 85.

Benedict XVI was 78 when he was elected in 2005.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/



Pope John XII, elected 955
youngest pope ever elected


Pope Celestine III, elected 1191
and

Pope Celestine V, elected 1294
oldest popes ever elected

Shortest conclave

Before 1274, there were times when a pope was elected the same day as the death of his predecessor. After that, however, the church decided to wait at least 10 days before the first vote; later that was stretched to 15 days to give all cardinals time to get to Rome.

The quickest conclave observing the 10-day wait rule appears to have been the 1503 election of Julius II, who was elected in just a few hours, according to Vatican historian Ambrogio Piazzoni.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/


Pope Julius II (5 December 1443 â€" 21 February 1513), nicknamed "The Fearsome Pope" (Il Papa Terribile) and "The Warrior Pope" (Il Papa Guerriero), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513. His papacy was marked by an active foreign policy, ambitious building projects, and patronage for the arts - he commissioned the destruction and rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica, plus Michelangelo's decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. (wikipedia)

Hoping to avoid a repeat, Gregory decreed in 1274 that cardinals would only get one meal a day if the conclave stretched beyond three days, and served bread, water and wine if it went beyond eight.

While the meals served these days at the Vatican's hotel are by no means gourmet, the cardinals won't go hungry - no matter how long they take picking a pope.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

This is the original building - still standing today, even after WWII bombing. This was the conclave where the rations of the cardinals were reduced to bread and water while the ceiling began to be removed.

The papal election from November 1268 to September 1, 1271, following the death of Pope Clement IV, was the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church. This was due primarily to political infighting between the cardinals. The election of Teobaldo Visconti as Pope Gregory X was the first example of a papal election by "Compromise." The election was effected by a Committee of six cardinals agreed to by the other remaining ten. The election occurred more than a year after the magistrates of Viterbo locked the cardinals in, reduced their rations to bread and water, and legendarily removed the roof of the Palazzo dei Papi di Viterbo.

As a result of the length of the election, during which three of the twenty cardinal-electors died and one resigned, Gregory X promulgated the apostolic constitution, Ubi periculum, on July 7, 1274 (or 16), during the Second Council of Lyon, establishing the papal conclave, whose rules were based on the tactics employed against the cardinals in Viterbo. The election itself is sometimes viewed as the first conclave. (wikipedia)

Longest conclave

In 1268, a conclave began that lasted nearly three years - 33 months, to be exact.

Pope Gregory X was elected pope, but not before residents of Viterbo, north of Rome, tore the roof off the building where the cardinals were staying and restricted their meals to bread and water to make them hurry up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

tubag ni kuya: sige, mo-ate na lang pod ko nimo.

congratulations, loll!  taga-inyo man diay ni siya.

why not?  sometimes it could mean kuyamad.  and it's much better than being called "lolo".

‘God will do the rest’

Leode John Tulang, the sixth placer in this year’s batch of PMA graduates, who comes from Prosperidad in Agusan del Sur, has this to say to those reaching for the pie in the sky: “You have to find a way to pursue your dreams and God will do the rest.”

“I cannot vividly recall it but my parents told me I used to crawl under our house when I was just 2 years old, like I was on military training,” Tulang, a son of a retired Army soldier, told the Inquirer by phone.

Tulang was class valedictorian in elementary and high school in his hometown. Before joining the PMA, he took up math at Philippine Normal University-Agusan, where he became active in his basic Reserve Officers’ Training Course.

“My studies in PNU, where I focused on math, served as my foundation and helped me a lot to excel well in the PMA, where mathematics and sciences were major academic subjects,” Tulang said.â€"With a report from Chris V. Panganiban, Inquirer Mindanao


PMA Class 2013 top cadet Jestony Arman Lanaja is shown with the four female cadets in the Top 10 (upper photo): Maryam Balais, Joselyn Advincula, Vanessa Factor and Marila Maniscan. ANDY ZAPATA JR.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

Living in a small, two-bedroom house of bamboo and coco lumber in the village of Sacub, the Lanajas survived on Antonio’s earnings as a tuba gatherer and revenue from the small sari-sari store that his wife, Erlinda, operates. He also raised a cow, some pigs and goats.

Lanaja gathers tuba from 17 coconut trees on land owned by a relative of his wife, who gets P45 as monthly rental for each tree. He gathers at least 10 gallons of coconut wine every day. Each gallon is sold at P30.

In 2010 and 2011, Lanaja suffered mild strokes, making life more difficult for the family. Still, he was thankful that he is able to see his son fulfill his dreams.

“I cannot describe how I am feeling right now. My heart is full of happiness. I am so thankful to the Lord for hearing our prayers,” he said.

He said the family will travel to Baguio on March 14 to witness Jestony’s graduation from the PMA.

Jestony Lanaja graduated valedictorian at Sacub Elementary School in 2003. He was a consistent honor student at Digos City National High School, where he graduated in 2007.


Jestony Lanaja

But because of poverty, the family was unable to send Jestony to college. Instead, after high school, the boy took a short electrical course at Carmelo de los Cientos Vocational School in Padada town, where he finished at the top of his class a year later.

Lanaja said his daughter Angeline, 19, had to stop studying after high school. The youngest, John Patrick, 18, is a special child who helps him gather tuba.

‘Tuba’ gatherer is proud papa of PMA top gun

By Orlando B. Dinoy
Inquirer Mindanao
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013


AIMING HIGH Things are looking up for “tuba” (coconut wine) gatherer Antonio Lanaja, whose son, Jestony, topped the PMA Class of 2013. ORLANDO DINOY/INQUIRER MINDANAO

HAGONOY, Davao del Surâ€"Antonio Lanaja has a lot to thank God for his answered prayers.

The 46-year-old tuba (coconut wine) gatherer in this farming town outside the provincial capital of Digos remembers that he had to sell some of his farm animals so he could send his son Jestony to Quezon City to take his entrance examination to the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).

On Monday, Lanaja was beaming with pride as he talked to the Inquirer about how he had struggled to send the eldest of his three children to school, who will graduate at the top of his class at the military academy in Baguio City on Sunday.

i'll bid for this, fr chic.  i'll wait for months because i'm in no hurry.  but i'll bid for this.  mangamungi ang mangamungi...

how to pack so i get this intact: take it out of the frame and roll it.  easy does it.  remember, there's a lungay artist flowing hereabouts...

one more feather in the cap for the little medicine that could...

prize catch: the most sought-after bachelor

Quote from: Confused Seuss on March 10, 2013, 05:37:53 PM
1. niwang ko
2. way kwarta
3. way trabaho

ikaw nganong single pa man ka

a.  gapasabot ba ni nga ang mga minyong lalaki

    1. tambok
    2. daghag kwarta
    3. naay trabaho
           ?

b.  unsang klase man tawong babayhana ang moapas ra ani? 

exceuss me, seuss...

-from 14 Lifehacks You Shouldn't Miss,
2/19/2013, http://www.oddee.com/item_98489.aspx

Use that jacket as a laptop bag.

Track your medicine intake.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi



November 24, 2009: Michaele and Tareq Salahi from Virginia attended a White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, without being invited.

They were able to pass through two security checkpoints (including one requiring positive photo identification), enter the White House complex, and meet President Barack Obama.

Fallout from the incident included an array of security investigations, legal inquiries, and sensationalistic reporting. (wikipedia)


Cool Michaele

Karl Power (far left), sneaks into a Manchester United team photo. Photograph: Valeria Witters/Empics Sports Photo Agency


yikes.  who dat?

Mark Tufano

When Gary Oldman turned down the chance to play avant-garde comedian Andy Kaufman in the biopic Man on the Moon, that looked to be the end of it. So when director Milos Forman and producer Danny DeVito received an audition tape from Oldman they were pleasantly surprised at his change of heart. DeVito even called him back to discuss the project further. The tape, however, featured a 31-year-old British actor called Mark Tufano impersonating Oldman impersonating Kaufman. The real Oldman was not amused, but Tufano insisted it was “an artistic statement”; he added: “I think Gary Oldman is jealous of me.” Photograph: Rex Features

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/

Dorothy Lawrence

In the tradition of Joan of Arc, Lawrence was a British war reporter who posed as a man to fight in the first world war. With a borrowed uniform, strategic binding of body parts and a buzzcut coloured with furniture polish, she arrived at the Somme with forged papers as Private Denis Smith. She spent 10 days tunnelling and mine-laying, but fearing being exposed she turned herself in. Lawrence paid a heavy price for her actions: she was interrogated as a spy, accused of being a prostitute and refused permission to write about her experiences. She ended up in Colney Hatch psychiatric hospital. Photograph: Public Domain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/

Ellis Ward

The 29-year-old from Ware, Hertfordshire came to prominence during the riots last year when he posed as Inspector Winter, a specialist plain-clothes officer with the Metropolitan Police. On his Twitter account and in broadcast interviews and an article for the Daily Telegraph, Winter gave first-hand accounts of the looting that drew on his experience of military service in Iraq and with the Territorial Army. Not all of it was invented â€" it’s said that he was present in north London and carried fake warrant cards, stop-and-search forms and handcuffs. Ward is awaiting sentencing for credit-card fraud and is charged with several other offences. Photograph: Public Domain

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Arnaud du Tilh

In 1548, in the village of Artigat, in Ariège, south-west France, Martin Guerre disappeared; eight years later, a man claiming to be Guerre returned. An uncle and four sisters were convinced, as was Guerre’s wife, Bertrande â€" so much so that she had two children with the man, one of whom survived. Over the years, doubts emerged, in particular when a soldier passing through noted that he couldn’t be Guerre, because the real Guerre now had a wooden leg. Still, he hung on and Arnaud du Tilh was only uncovered when Guerre dramatically turned up at his trial in person. Tilh confessed and was promptly hanged. Photograph: Public Domain

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Maurice Flitcroft

Flitcroft, a crane driver from Barrow-in-Furness, had never played a full round of golf in his life when he decided to have a crack at the British Open. At the qualifying event in Formby in 1976, he carded a round of 122, the worst in Open history, an enormous 49 over par. The public loved it, the golf establishment didn’t, but the adventures of the self-proclaimed “Golfer Extraordinary” didn’t stop there. Forced to play under a pseudonym, he returned to the Open in 1983 as Gerald Hoppy, a Swiss pro, and shot 63 for nine holes before being rumbled. His final outing, as James Beau Jolley from the States, lasted just two holes in 1990. Photograph: Christopher Thomond

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The Moscow Philharmonic

Between 7 and 13 August 2000, the Moscow Philharmonic played a series of sell-out concerts in Hong Kong to 10,000 enthusiastic locals. Except they didn’t: the real Moscow Philharmonic, one of the world’s finest orchestras, was otherwise engaged in France, Spain and Portugal at the time. No one in the audiences spotted the ruse and the mystery has never been fully unravelled, though it is speculated that they were a crew of musicians from less auspicious Russian orchestras on the make; the group turned over more than $300,000 in a week. Photograph: Alamy

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Milli Vanilli

Remember when Milli Vanilli were one of the biggest bands on the planet? Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan’s debut album went platinum six times over, spewed out No 1 singles and won them a Grammy for best new artist in 1990. Pilatus called himself “the new Elvis”. Then at a “live” show, the recording of their vocals jammed and skipped and they fled the stage; in late 1990, the LA Times confirmed they hadn’t sung any of their hits. The Grammy was withdrawn and fans were eligible for a refund on albums and concerts. The story ends tragically: Pilatus was found dead from a suspected overdose in 1998. Photograph: Rex Features

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ME Clifton James

James was born in Perth, Australia but after volunteering for the British army, ended up in Leicester in 1940. Here, his impersonation of General Bernard Montgomery, one of the architects of the D-Day landings, came to the attention of Lieutenant-Colonel David Niven â€" yes, that one â€" and MI5. A performer back home, James’s greatest role would be in Operation Copperhead acting as a double for Montgomery to convince the Germans that the allied invasion would come from southern France, not Normandy. The part required him to give up booze and cigarettes and wear a prosthetic finger. Photograph: Public Domain

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Madhura Nagendra

It was one of the tightest security operations in British history, but that did not deter off-the-cuff impostor Nagendra from crashing the Olympics opening ceremony. An MBA student and trained dancer from Bangalore, Nagendra was part of the entertainment for the night but, in the excitement she says, ended up joining the procession of Indian athletes. In a red hoodie and turquoise trousers, she was not inconspicuous marching among the squad’s gold saris and turbans. Nagendra was not punished here, but was told to return home by her parents and has faced “routine” questioning from police. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images

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Frédéric Bourdin

Bourdin is a serial con artist, known as the Chameleon, who has impersonated people in five languages in more than 15 countries. His most famous stunt â€" the subject of a documentary, The Imposter, released on 24 August â€" was when he took the identity of a missing Texan boy called Nicholas Barclay in 1997. Bourdin was almost a decade older than Barclay and French-Algerian, not blond, blue-eyed and all-American, but his deception was so convincing he managed to convince the FBI and â€" this is really surreal â€" Barclay’s family. But as the new film shows, that was just the start of the story. Photograph: Jean-louis Duzert/AFP/Getty Images

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the latest caper of impostors is that of fake cardinal napierski who tried to enter the papal conclave.  the world will always have his kind, nevertheless.


fake cardinal napierski (in purple sash and fedora) and his entourage of fake clerics

impostor - im·pos·tor or im·pos·ter  (m-pstr) n.
One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
[French imposteur, from Latin impostor, one who assigns a name, from impostus, variant of impositus, past participle of impnere, to place upon; see impose.]

An impostor (also spelled imposter or, in early usage imposture) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but just as often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement. (wikipedia)

yes, yes and yes.  bisan tuod ug kontra ang incumbent mayor sa newspaper nga nag-release ani nga news, dili ikalimod nga purya intawon ang mga dalan sa tagbilaran.  mahiadto ko, mahadlok intawon kog i-rehab na pod kog balik tungod sa akong likod nga morag mabali kay sigeg untol kun mosakay kog pedicab.  with tagbilaran as the entry point for tourists, well, kamo na lay sumpay...