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Quote from: hubag bohol on January 23, 2013, 09:51:24 AM
Some women nowadays have become predators themselves.

you mean, you know a male someone who has been molested by a female?  talkin' dog...

patches didn't have to go, huhuhu.  any home, even a 12th floor apartment, is always big enough for a beloved dog.

kalmaha ba uroy.  gipareha lang ang pagpatay ug video games, morag di tawo ang gipatay.  mas motuo pa ko nga nikaratil ang mga taliban kun gahukas si harry pareha sa gibuhat niya sa las vegas. 

layo man gid ang metro manila sa metro balingsya, to.  maski unsaon ug inat ang tiratira, di gyod makaabot ang isig katumoy ani sa duha ka lugar.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 22, 2013, 08:43:42 AM
apparently, may naki join ride din sa baha...




I don’t know for what reason this hater made such comments…

this guy should be let be.  a closer look at his picture would show someone in dire straits, desperate for attention, longing for even a glance.  he must have been dumped by a davao lass.  or a davao lad.

p.s. his sophisticated vocabulary consists of the word "bobo".  too bad the word narcissist is beyond him, he doesn't even know that he's describing himself.   

Quote from: vrglguapo on January 21, 2013, 10:44:54 PM
On my way back home from work at 8:00 am.The morning sun still hiding on the horizon and temperature plunging to sub zero.I saw footprints on the virgin snow.I was walking alone but i saw two pair of footprints,who could it be?

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 22, 2013, 12:51:17 AM
perhaps, two lovers holding hands. imprinting their presence on the snow.

or a lost dog wearing his owner's 2 pairs of shoes.

Richard Blanco, 2013 Barack Obama inauguration

One Today

Richard Blanco

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paperâ€"
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save livesâ€"
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.

The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one windâ€"our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días
in the language my mother taught meâ€"in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but alwaysâ€"home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one countryâ€"all of usâ€"
facing the stars
hopeâ€"a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name itâ€"together.

Elizabeth Alexander, 2009 Barack Obama inauguration

Praise Song for the Day

Elizabeth Alexander 

Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other’s
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.

We encounter each other in words, words
spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed,
words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways that mark
the will of some one and then others, who said
I need to see what’s on the other side.

I know there’s something better down the road.
We need to find a place where we are safe.
We walk into that which we cannot yet see.

Say it plain: that many have died for this day.
Sing the names of the dead who brought us here,
who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,

picked the cotton and the lettuce, built
brick by brick the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day.
Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.

Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,
others by first do no harm or take no more
than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?

Love beyond marital, filial, national,
love that casts a widening pool of light,
love with no need to pre-empt grievance.

In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air,
any thing can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,

praise song for walking forward in that light.

kay wa man siyay uwaw.

yikes, is she sitting on a baby's tram?

about time.

Miller Williams, 1997 Bill Clinton inauguration

Of History and Hope

Miller Williams 

We have memorized America,
how it was born and who we have been and where.
In ceremonies and silence we say the words,
telling the stories, singing the old songs.
We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.
The great and all the anonymous dead are there.
We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.
The rich taste of it is on our tongues.
But where are we going to be, and why, and who?
The disenfranchised dead want to know.
We mean to be the people we meant to be,
to keep on going where we meant to go.
But how do we fashion the future? Who can say how
except in the minds of those who will call it Now?
The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?
With waving hands -- oh, rarely in a row --
and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.
Who were many people coming together
cannot become one people falling apart.
Who dreamed for every child an even chance
cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not.
Whose law was never so much of the hand as the head
cannot let chaos make its way to the heart.
Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child
cannot let ignorance spread itself like rot.
We know what we have done and what we have said,
and how we have grown, degree by slow degree,
believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become --
just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.
All this in the hands of children, eyes already set
on a land we never can visit -- it isn't there yet --
but looking through their eyes, we can see
what our long gift to them may come to be.
If we can truly remember, they will not forget.

Maya Angelou, 1993 Bill Clinton inauguration

On the Pulse of Morning

Maya Angelou

A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.

But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.

You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words

Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out to us today, you may stand upon me,
But do not hide your face.

Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song. It says,
Come, rest here by my side.

Each of you, a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more. Come,
Clad in peace, and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I and the
Tree and the rock were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your
Brow and when you yet knew you still
Knew nothing.
The River sang and sings on.

There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing River and the wise Rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African, the Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheik,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.

They hear the first and last of every Tree
Speak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.
Plant yourself beside the River.

Each of you, descendant of some passed
On traveller, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name, you,
Pawnee, Apache, Seneca, you
Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then
Forced on bloody feet,
Left me to the employment of
Other seekers -- desperate for gain,
Starving for gold.
You, the Turk, the Arab, the Swede, the German, the Eskimo, the Scot,
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, bought,
Sold, stolen, arriving on the nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am that Tree planted by the River,
Which will not be moved.
I, the Rock, I the River, I the Tree
I am yours -- your passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

Lift up your eyes upon
This day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.

Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands,
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For a new beginning.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out and upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.

Here, on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, and into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope --
Good morning.

Robert Frost, 1961 John F. Kennedy inauguration

The Gift Outright

Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England’s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.

their inaugural poems:


The Gift Outright
1961

Robert Frost


On the Pulse of Morning
1993

Maya Angelou


Of History and Hope
1997

Miller Williams


Praise Song for the Day
2009

Elizabeth Alexander


One Today
2013

Richard Blanco

there are only 5 poets who performed (or read) their poems at US presidential inaugurations.  perhaps by happenstance, those inaugurations were of democrat presidents.

1.  Robert Frost - John F. Kennedy inauguration, 1961
2.  Maya Angelou - Bill Clinton inauguration, 1993
3.  Miller Williams - Bill Clinton inauguration, 1997
4.  Elizabeth Alexander - Barack Obama inauguration, 2009
5.  Richard Blanco - Barack Obama inauguration, 2013

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 22, 2013, 11:37:38 AM
O kaha, nabiktima niya ang usa ka tirador?

mangutana tang bugsay, the tb tirador.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 22, 2013, 11:33:47 AM
Way lipod2x, deretso ang kanahan sa iyang piborit tapik...

kanyahay ra nigimaw ug ahat bisag nagsimuaw pa sa pista sa balingsya.

Quote from: Chongki on January 22, 2013, 10:18:22 AM
hmmmm ....  sounds family

because we really are one big family here.

Quote from: bugsay on January 22, 2013, 10:15:40 AM
ginapiko ug ginapala ang personal history?...

ma-dead ta ni bolbuhol ani da.  ipadaplin ang way sala.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 22, 2013, 11:28:10 AM
Sori. Ingnon ta na lang diay nga ang iyang balak morag tira-tira...

meaning, tirador diay si richard blanco?

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 22, 2013, 11:22:12 AM
asa kaha padulong ning istoryaha ni nga tiratira ra man ang bida dire hahahaha

kini gyod si bugsay... take note nga maoy gasugod ug liko ani.  tirador ra gyod.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 22, 2013, 11:16:52 AM
Di man ni tira-tira...

unsa man diay na?  nakatilaw na diay ka ana?

hinawayon.

Quote from: Votives on January 22, 2013, 10:58:52 AM
matud pa sa akong amigo nga minyo...
basta dako gani og kobra... tikangkang
basta gamay gani og kobra... tikongkong

tikingking ba ang way kobra?

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 22, 2013, 10:30:09 AM
basta tikangkang lagi abtik gyud ning mga laki heheheh

sayang lang di sila mosukol ug alimango nga permanenteng gatikangkang.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but alwaysâ€"home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one countryâ€"all of usâ€"
facing the stars
hopeâ€"a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name itâ€"together.

http://abcnews.go.com/

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one windâ€"our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días
in the language my mother taught meâ€"in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.

One Today

Richard Blanco

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paperâ€"
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save livesâ€"
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem.

Richard Blanco, 44, was chosen as President Obama's inaugural poet. In addition to being the youngest of the five inaugural poets in history, he becomes the first Latino and gay man to serve the role.

morag naay tblander nga pareha ani.  sideline ra ug personal history hinoon.

understandable.  imagine if they're kidnapped for ransom.

Quote from: islander on January 22, 2013, 12:40:32 AM
Some of them were even taken out of school to be attacked. It is believed the man, who has not been named for legal reasons, paid between £12-£36 per rape, and the money was used to provide food, clothes and school equipment for the children.

tell that to the marines.  better still, tell that to the chinese marines occupying scarborough shoal.  this lie makes the crime worse.

was this ever picked up by our domestic media?  (i haven't come across this in our media outlets, that's why.  i could have missed this.) 

paging tito sotto!  here's a cybercrime for you!  look for those local attackers, those women who were paid to do the despicable to children.

i suddenly had a headache when i read this.

Some of them were even taken out of school to be attacked. It is believed the man, who has not been named for legal reasons, paid between £12-£36 per rape, and the money was used to provide food, clothes and school equipment for the children.

Police found screen shots of the attacks on the man's computer amongst 100 images of child pornography, and also evidence of "chats" in which he had directed the assaults.

The 52-year old protested his innocence throughout the trial, and claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy.

Liz Berglund, from Sweden's National Bureau of Investigation, said that although this was the first time a case like this had come to court the man was probably not the first to commit such a crime.

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

By Matthew Day
10 Jan 2013

The court in the southern town of Hassleholm also ordered the 52-year-old man to pay a total of £86,000 in compensation to be divided between his 11 child victims, who are aged between five and eleven. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentence of 14 years in jail.

The case had set legal history in Sweden given that the man was in a different country when his victims were attacked, and has given rise to the term "long-distance rape".

During the trial it was revealed that between 2008 and 2009 the man paid local women in the Philippines to find children and assault them on camera.

Man jailed in Sweden for ordering webcam rape in Philippines

A man will serve eight years behind bars after a Swedish court found him guilty of ordering the rape of Filipino children over the internet and then watching the assault via web-cam back home in Sweden.


Police found screen shots of the attacks on the man's computer amongst 100 images of child pornography, and also evidence of "chats" in which he had directed the assaults. Photo: ALAMY

tingali naa sa small snack stores duol sa public elementary schools?  ako wa na ko makakita, honest.  di makakita ang di mangita, right?  wa man ko mangita kay di na man ni nako kaya.  tira, to!

last nako kaon ani nagbakasyon ko sa valencia, bohol sa grade 5 ko, gitagaan kog tira-tira sa may menteryo, a long, long time ago and far away.

may ara pa, di na lang bond paper ang putos.


Modern version of tira-tira wrapped in colored plastic foil (http://365greatpinoystuff.wordpress.com/)

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 12, 2013, 09:52:41 AM


Photo by: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images

But menswear designers have been pushing meggings, mini-mirts, and dude dresses for the past few seasons. What they hadn't previewed until this week, were face masks made out of wood barricades. Thank designer Craig Green (and possibly the renewed interest in Les Miz?) for that contribution.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 12, 2013, 09:54:39 AM
Modalidali kog angkon ani...

bantog rang narusno ang among pantaw...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 12, 2013, 09:54:25 AM


Photo by: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Vivienne Westwood Man graciously provided ideas for your next DIY Halloween costume: evil inspector.

sure ko si pikoy ang inspiration ani...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 12, 2013, 09:55:18 AM



Photo by: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

This man-makeup at the Vivienne Westwood presentation was a little more obscure: milk mustache or just zinc sunscreen for a post-apocalyptic toxic wasteland? You decide.

bantog ra si bugsay wa mopakita...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 12, 2013, 09:57:09 AM


Photo by: Tim Whitby/Getty Images

Forget St. Nick, the shoulder-bearing overcoat from Xander Zhou's collection took its inspiration from Franciscan monks.

lorenz must be thinking twice about this...

di ko kapanghambog sa akon ilonggo kay di ko kahibawo. 

Question 10:
Associate Justice Roberto Abad



On Section 5, which stipulates punishment for aiding or abetting in the commission of cybercrime: “I also have a Facebook account. If I like a post and it appears on my screen, am I not also guilty as the one who published it?

http://www.interaksyon.com/

Question 9:
Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro



On Section 12, or the clause on real-time collection of traffic data: “How can we be assured that only traffic data and not content data is collected by the government through this system?”

Question 8:
Associate Justice Marvic Leonen



“How vulnerable are Filipinos from [these kinds] of Cybercrime? If we strike this [law] down, how can the State protect its citizens from such danger?”

Question 7:
Associate Justice Marvic Leonen



“Amazon collects data from users. If we did a survey of people using the Internet today, would you think all of them would know that Amazon and Google are collecting personal information from them? In other words, private entities are able to get these data from the public. For private companies that could do spam and other commercial things with the data, it’s alright. So where is the balance, for law enforcement officers and for legitimate users of the Internet?

Question 6:
Associate Justice Antonio Carpio



“In effect, [traffic data] are also the data found in your phone bill. The only thing that is not allowed there is your name. In other words, you just have to give me your phone bill and you will just have to blacken your name and address. Isn’t that the effect of securing traffic data? What is wrong with the police asking you for your phone bill? Is that data entitled to protection under the right to privacy?”

Question 5:
Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro



On Section 19: “What would trigger [the determination] of prima facie evidence? Does it mean that law enforcement authorities can snoop around to get them?”

Question 4:
Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta



On Section 19, which gives the Justice Department broad powers to restrict or block access to websites: “Who determines prima facie [evidence]? Can you not consider Section 19 as lawful arrest without warrant, and therefore the search incident [of computer data] is allowed?”

Question 3:
Associate Justice Roberto Abad



On Section 19, also known as the “takedown clause”: “Cannot the government stop a crime in progress as a legitimate exercise of police power?”

Question 2:
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno



“[Justice Leonen] has demonstrated that those who can be made free in terms of expression of thoughts can also be the most capable of inflicting harm. I am concerned about those who commit suicide, those who cannot wait for deleting the posts against them. Does the State not have the right to the invasion of lives of these people so that it cannot be faulted [if something happens]?”

Question 1:
Associate Justice Marvic Leonen



“Technology has evolved in such a way that whoever uses the computer does not need to know the source code of the program, all they have to do is open the software in a website and they can already do what they want. Can you imagine the power of somebody with a 700,000 following [on Twitter] attacking a single person who may not have a Twitter account? What I’m asking is this: Isn’t it the obligation of the State to protect private citizens against these defamatory remarks?”

Top Ten questions by SC Justices on the Cybercrime Law

In the course of the almost five-hour questioning on Tuesday, January 15, it emerged that a number of the high court’s Justices did their homework before entering the SC chambers, as several of them were able to raise thought-provoking questions that tested the mettle of the lawyers defending the petitioners.

oh my.  kalooy gyod sa pamilya tawon uy.  prayers for strength na lang gyod ang atong matabang.

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 21, 2013, 07:11:22 PM
nagpaadap na lang ko sa ija haw.

way gid

uy, good boy swertes lotto diay ka.  adopted son of a milyonir lady. 

maajo ra gyod nga way gid aron malikay sa lintek gid.

Quote sa aprika

ayayay... tiglili diay kag mga igot-igot sa aprika?

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 21, 2013, 05:00:43 PM
itom gid gihapon ni ug igot igot.

ang uban kay bayolet kuno.

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 21, 2013, 04:59:03 PM
ara gid madam kakilala ko, indi sija namingyo, hanap gid sija ondoy haron mabungtis makakita sija sang ijang bata.

tingkagol man diay sija, simbako.  adopt na lang unta sija.  all babies look the same anyway.  unja?  napili ka nija nga amahan sa ijang bata?

only the chinese, if they still have some conscience.

He said, though, in October at a forum at the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines that the matter “is still being studied by our consultants.”

Experts point to two options available to the Philippines: the military optionâ€"which is not really an option considering the inferior state of the Philippine Navy compared with China’s naval mightâ€"and the legal option.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/

Baja said, “We must act and interact before we lose the territory by default and/or estoppel.”

Seven months after China’s occupation of Bajo de Masinloc, the Philippines is still “reviewing” its options.

Asked about the Philippines’ response to China’s declaration it has no intentions of pulling out their ships from Panatag shoal, Del Rosario said, “We are reviewing all our options in accordance with our three track approach encompassing the political, legal and diplomatic means.”

President   Aquino   has refused to discuss publicly the Philippine efforts on Bajo de Masinloc because he said doing so would be “giving the other side a preview of everything that we will do.”

Baja said, “When our ships withdrew from Bajo de Masinloc in June and now (we) could not access the area, the shoal became under virtual occupation by China. “

Baja, who drafted the DOC with Malaysia’s Abdul Kadir, also said Chinese occupation of the disputed shoal has changed the status quo, contrary to the DOC.

Baja said China is exercising what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) calls “effectivités.”

“This is the basis of the Court’s decision on the Ligatan Sipadan case where the court awarded the area to Malaysia over Indonesia. Also the same principle in the case between Chile and Peru and between Nicaragua and Guatemala,” he said.

Lawyer Romel Bagares, executive director of Center for International Law (Philippines), said RA 9522 “does not actually specify whether Bajo de Masinloc consists just of uninhabitable rocks or is capable of economic life pursuant to Art 121 of the UNCLOS. This could be one way of arguing ITLOS has jurisdiction, especially as to the interpretation of provisions. It’s a pragmatic approach, no doubt.”

What is obvious, Bagares said, is that RA 9522 assumes that the shoal is part of Philippine territory in the fullest sense of the term.

Del Rosario said, “To the extent that their three ships are within our exclusive economic zone, this is in gross violation of the DOC and UNCLOS.”

DOC is the Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea signed in 2002 by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, four of them part claimants to islands in the South China Sea, and China. UNCLOS is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Legal experts say the Philippines can ask the ITLOS, which does not deal with territorial disputes, to declare Bajo de Masinloc as a rock rather than an island.

UNCLOS said, “Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.”

Retired Philippine Navy Commodore Rex Robles, who has been to the area a few times for gunnery practice, declares that “Panatag shoal is a rock.”

“It cannot support human life. It is not an island,” he concludes.

Under UNCLOS, “an island is a naturally formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is above water at high tide.”

An island generates its own maritime regimes, which are 12 nautical miles (nm) for territorial sea, 24 nm for contiguous zone, 200 nm for EEZ and 200 nm continental shelf.

Under this definition, the Chinese claim over Baja de Masinloc means the Philippines risks losing not only the 120-square-kilometer strategically vital reef formation but also some 494,000 square kilometers EEZ, representing 38 per cent of the country’s EEZ.

One of the Philippines’ options to protest the Chinese encroachment is going to the United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the arbitration arm of UNCLOS, of which the Philippines and China are signatories.

Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario confirmed this, saying, “In a subministerial consultation, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying had said to our people that China’s presence was permanent and they had no intention of withdrawing their ships from the vicinity of Bajo de Masinloc.”

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) says Bajo de Masinloc has an area of about 120 square kilometers. It is also referred to as Panatag (calm in Pilipino) by fishermen who seek refuge in the area during stormy weather.

Its international name is Scarborough shoal after the tea-carrying British boat Scarborough which sank in the vicinity in 1784. China also claims ownership of the shoal which is 467 nautical miles away from its mainland, and refers to it as Huangyan Island.

Republic Act 9522, which defines the country’s archipelagic baseline, includes Bajo de Masinloc as part of Philippine territory. The law classifies it as a regime of islands under Art. 121 of the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC), which means it generates its own territorial sea, exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

Chinese ‘occupation’ of Bajo de Masinloc could reduce PH territorial waters by 38 percent

Monday, 21 January 2013
ELLEN TORDESILLAS - VERA Files

The Philippines is at a loss over China’s declaration its ships will stay permanently in Bajo de Masinloc, a declaration some experts say could lead to the Philippines losing 38 percent of its territorial waters.

Bajo de Masinloc, a triangular-shaped coral reef formation that has several rocks encircling a lagoon, is located 124 nautical miles west of Masinloc town in Zambales in the northwestern part of the Philippines.

“The shoal is under virtual occupation by China,” said former foreign undersecretary and former Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Lauro Baja.

Quote from: Chongki on January 21, 2013, 04:31:51 PM
sad

luoya sa hinuwat sa mga pamilya intawon.  may they find the strength to cope with their personal tragedy.  and may those victims rest in peace.

He said his office was notifying the families and arranging for the repatriation of the victims' remains, while the government was focused on finding the missing four Filipinos. A team from the Philippine Embassy in neighboring Libya, which covers Algeria, was on the ground in that country.

Four Filipino survivors were treated in a hospital in Algiers, Hernandez said.
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Most of the workers were employed by Japanese companies, he said.

A total of 1,780 Filipinos work in Algeria. They are part of 10 million overseas workers, or 10 percent of the population employed abroad.

http://www.philstar.com/

6 Filipino workers among dead in Algeria

(philstar.com)
January 21, 2013

MANILA, Philippines (AP) â€" Six Filipinos were among the hostages killed by militants who laid siege to an Algerian gas field for four days, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday.

Sixteen Filipinos have been accounted for and four others are still missing since Algerian special forces stormed the plant on Saturday to end the siege, Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters.

He said the information came from Algerian authorities, which expressed their condolences to the Philippine government and the victims' families.

"The deaths of the six Filipinos were a direct result of the hostage-taking incident in the area and mostly by gunshot wounds and the effects of the explosions," Hernandez said.

A man wearing a medieval costume casts his ballot at a polling station in Hanover in the central state of Lower Saxony, northern Germany. (AFP)

Performers participate in the opening ceremony of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2013) soccer tournament in Soweto, South Africa, January 19, 2013. (Reuters)

20 January 2013


Commuters ride on the roof of a train as they come back to the city after attending the final prayer of Biswa Ijtema in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of Muslims joined the Akheri Munajat, the final supplication as the second phase of the Muslims congregation. (Reuters)

blue-eyed ang tag-iya ani...

owned by dyani dip

naa bay baye magpangita pod ug bata, to?

daghan gyod tuod ug kapilian.  take your pick...

George W. Bush (2005)

"We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."

Barack Obama (2009)

"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strained our politics."

http://www.interaksyon.com/

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)

"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

John F. Kennedy (1961)

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Ronald Reagan (1981)

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"

US inaugural speeches, a source of elegant diction

Agence France-Presse
January 21, 2013

WASHINGTON DC - The following is a selection of quotes from US presidents giving their inaugural speeches, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

George Washington (1789)

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency."

Abraham Lincoln (1865)

"Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."

Woodrow Wilson (1917)

"The war inevitably set its mark from the first alike upon our minds, our industries, our commerce, our politics, and our social action. To be indifferent to it, or independent of it, was out of the question. And yet all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it."

the immortal story... men in high places felled by women.

i guess this predatory tendencies have always existed.  it's just that women nowadays no longer keep quiet as victims.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, shown here in Afghanistan in 2011, stands accused of forcible sodomy, conduct unbecoming an officer, and other charges. Photo: DVIDSHUB

An Army general isn’t just accused of sexually assaulting a female subordinate. According to newly released military documents, the one-star general ”threaten[ed] to use his rank, position, and authority to damage or ruin [the captain's] military career if she ended their sexual relationship.” And he disobeyed a direct order from his superior officer to leave the female officer alone. (http://www.wired.com/)

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 21, 2013, 02:10:00 PM
For top officers, the numbers are startling.

Eighteen generals and admirals, from one star to four stars, were fired in recent years, and 10 of them lost their jobs because of sex-related offenses; two others were done in by alcohol-related problems.

The figures show that 255 commanders were fired since 2005, and that 78 of them were felled by sex-related offenses. A breakdown: 32 in the Army, 25 in the Navy, 11 in the Marine Corps and 10 in the Air Force.

Alcohol and drug-related problems cost the jobs of 27 commanders â€" 11 in the Navy, eight in the Army, five in the Marine Corp(s and three in the Air Force.

oops.  di tingali kaayo makabinuang ang taga-air force kay tua man naglupadlupad. 

kining alcohol-related offenses, nag-exhibition ba kaha ning mga officers when they had one too many?

Krista Miller

A report by “The Buzz” on Sunday said “Krista Miller” is the screen name of a 22-year-old student from Valenzuela City who has appeared in the defunct ABS-CBN sitcom “Aalog-alog” and a few indie films. (http://www.interaksyon.com/)

Quote from: islander on January 21, 2013, 02:45:18 PM


This is what Sunshine posted:

     â€I have been quiet. Weeks of texting andsending photos. I was REALLY QUIET but you don’t know the meaning of being DISCREET? I BOUGHT THAT SHIRT and it’s a guy’s shirt for heaven’s sake!, the chocolate is from my sis in law and that is my iphone5. Di mo na dapat ipagmalaki sa social networking.”

bisag ako na man lang... akong mga gifts ipasa ug laing baye?  humantikaan!

Quote from: islander on January 21, 2013, 02:43:11 PMReports have it that Sunshine Cruz caught some Instagram photos of the T-shirt, some chocolate and iPhone 5 proudly posted by starlet Krista Miller whom she ans sister-in-law gave to husband Cesar Montano as a gift which Montano gave to Miller as a gift.

kun tinuod man ning estoryaha... goodness me how tihik ba diay this cesar.  nag-recycle ug gifts?  paano na lang kun siyay nakadaog nga governor sa bohol in the last elections...

but then, who can say kun nitarong pod diay unta siya?

This is what Sunshine’s last post on Instagram:

    “I’m so sorry dear friends and family. I have been really quiet but when kids are affected unfair na yun. It is actually them who told me about this. They are hurt! I’m moving on. With my children. God bless you both for doing this to us.”

Does this mean that Sunshine and Cesar are now OVER?



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This is what Sunshine posted:

     â€I have been quiet. Weeks of texting andsending photos. I was REALLY QUIET but you don’t know the meaning of being DISCREET? I BOUGHT THAT SHIRT and it’s a guy’s shirt for heaven’s sake!, the chocolate is from my sis in law and that is my iphone5. Di mo na dapat ipagmalaki sa social networking.”

Sunshine Cruz to husband Cesar Montano and starlet Krista Miller: “I’m moving on. With my children. God bless you both for doing this to us.”!

January 18, 2013

Reports have it that Sunshine Cruz caught some Instagram photos of the T-shirt, some chocolate and iPhone 5 proudly posted by starlet Krista Miller whom she ans sister-in-law gave to husband Cesar Montano as a gift which Montano gave to Miller as a gift.

Krista is currently playing Marita Zaragoza in the upcoming film “The Turning Cradle: The Untold Story of Alfredo Lim,” directed and starred in by Cesar.

As we can recall, Sunshine and Cesar became an item while filming a movie together before they got married and are now more than 12 years as a couple.

cesar's bride

“Hindi ko masyadong sineseryoso kasi pang ilang beses na 'yang tampuhan ng dalawa. Tapos in the end si Sunshine din naman ang sumu-surrender,” Lorenzo said.

“Hindi bibitiw si Sunshine kasi nung una pa ‘yan, nanliligaw pa lang si Cesar, sinabi ko na sa kanya, ganun ang ugali ni Cesar, babaero ‘yan, ganun. Sinusumbong pa niya ako kay Cesar, which means talagang in love siya. Seloso si Sunshine at very possessive,” he added.

“The Buzz” said it tried to contact Montano, Cruz and Miller but they refused to comment.

Cruz’s lawyer, Alentajan, however, gave a statement to “The Buzz.”

“I respectfully request that the general public respect their privacy. If there is a private matter to resolve, let’s leave it as it is,” the statement read.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

“Ang kwento nya sa akin parang nagsasawa na raw siya kaya tinawagan niya si Attorney Alentajan para daw… bawalan si Cesar na lumapit sa mga bata. Eh pwede ba 'yon kako eh mga anak din niya ‘yan,” the veteran talent manager said.

Lorenzo also denied reports that the whole thing is just a gimmick to promote Montano’s movie.

“Hindi nagpapagamit ng ganun (si Sunshine) maski ‘yung mga naunang pelikula ni Cesar. Pag galit ‘yan, naku, dere-derecho ang bunganga niyan,” he said.

But Lorenzo said he believes the couple will eventually resolve their differences, noting that Cruz had walked out of their marriage before and even lived alone in a condo for a while. But Montano wooed her back and Cruz eventually returned to their home.

Cesar Montano and Krista Miller

“Yung mga anak nila, 'yung three daughters nila, kasakay ni Cesar sa kotse. Tapos may nag-text, nakita ng mga bata, may babaeng naka-bikini. Tapos ‘yung ending daw (ng text message), ‘Miss you, babes, love you, babes,’ ganun. Kinwento sa nanay,” Lorenzo narrated.

Cruz then confronted Montano about Miller, who appears in Montano’s upcoming movie, "The Turning Cradle: The Untold Story of Alfredo Lim."

“Syempre hindi naman daw inamin ni Cesar. Tapos nagaway sila at sinabi raw ni Sunshine, ‘Sige, lumayas ka, ayaw na kita makita dito.” Tuwang-tuwa naman yata si Cesar kasi three days na raw siya ngayon naka-check in sa Manila Hotel. Tapos sabi ni Sunshine sa akin, ‘E hindi ko alam kung kasama niya 'yung babae,’” Lorenzo told “The Buzz.”

But Lorenzo said Cruz denied that the reason she hired lawyer Atty. Bonito Alentajan was because she wants a divorce.

Montano leaves house, staying in hotel

ABS-CBNnews.com
01/21/2013

MANILA, Philippines â€" Actor Cesar Montano has already left their home and has been staying at a hotel for the past three days, according to talent manager Alfie Lorenzo.

In an exclusive interview with “The Buzz” that aired on Sunday, Lorenzo, the manager and close friend of Montano’s wife Sunshine Cruz, said Cruz asked Montano to leave their house after she discovered that a number of her gifts are now in the hands of starlet Krista Miller.

According to Lorenzo, it was the couple's daughters who found out about Miller after they saw a text message from the starlet to her father.

EDIBLE SHOES?

i promise not to chew any of your shoes again, ever...

You Promised Never Again......
But you lied.....

No animals were harmed in the making of this photograph.... (Daneli, photo owner, http://www.flickr.com/)