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He he, di kakompyansahan kay dako ra bag lawas, di jud ka kaipsot, Bay Vots...

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 27, 2013, 06:08:21 AM
But the senator’s issues with Heart’s parents had yet to hit the headlines when the latest SWS survey results were gathered in the middle of March.

Conducted on March 15 to March 17, the survey asked 1,500 respondents nationwide: “If the elections were held today, whom would you most probably vote for senator of the Philippines?”

Agoi, samot na diay tingali kon ang survey was after this whole thing hugged the headlines...

Before Ongpaucos’ headlines

But the senator’s issues with Heart’s parents had yet to hit the headlines when the latest SWS survey results were gathered in the middle of March.

Conducted on March 15 to March 17, the survey asked 1,500 respondents nationwide: “If the elections were held today, whom would you most probably vote for senator of the Philippines?”

The survey found six candidates of the administration-backed Team PNoy and two candidates from the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) in the Top 8, while four Team PNoy and three UNA candidates contended for the last four seats, SWS said.

Tied in fifth to seventh places were Nancy Binay (UNA), former Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar (NP/Team PNoy) and Sen. Koko Pimentel (PDP-Laban/Team PNoy) with 47 percent.

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV (NP/Team PNoy, 44 percent) was in 8th place, while Sen. Gringo Honasan (UNA, 43 percent) gained 9 percentage points and rose to 9th place from 15th place in the last survey round.

Escudero falls in latest poll; Cayetano now No. 2
By Norman Bordadora, Cathy C. Yamsuan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:15 am | Wednesday, March 27th, 2013


Still reeling from the controversy brought about by his girlfriend’s parental disapproval of their relationship, reelectionist Sen. Francis Escudero found himself in another challenging spot.

He slid down from second place that he held for quite a while in Social Weather Stations’ election surveys.
Escudero (independent/Team PNoy, 48 percent) lost 14 percentage points and slipped from second place in the previous round to third to fourth places, where he was tied with San Juan Rep. JV Ejercito Estrada (UNA, 48 percent). Estrada gained six percentage points and surged from his previous rank of ninth to tenth place in the previous survey.

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, who went solo most of the way during the first half of the campaign period to conduct what he called “listening tours,” has taken the second place from Escudero.

Loren, Alan: Statistically tied

Trailing usual topnotcher Sen. Loren Legarda by just two percentage points, 59 percent to 57 percent, Cayetano is statistically tied for first place with his fellow administration candidate Legarda because the survey has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

Escudero said the recent SWS survey results were a wake-up call for him to put more work in his reelection bid.

Heart Evangelista, 28, is Escudero’s girlfriend for eight months now. Known as Love Ongpauco in real life, she is the sixth and youngest child of the Ongpauco couple.

Heart’s parents announced in a press conference last week their displeasure over Escudero’s behavior and their fear that the senator would be unable to support their daughter’s material whims in case they end up legally bound to each other.

Agoi, wa ba kahay mga buaya sa gikatikyaoban sa sakayan...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/


KIDAPAWAN CITY -- An official said 10 people have drowned and two are missing in Sultan sa Barongis town in Maguindanao province after their canoe capsized in a marsh during strong winds.

Mayor Allandatu Angas said the canoe overturned around 6 p.m. Monday in the Liguasan Marsh, a remote swamp region in Maguindanao, about 900 kilometers (560 miles) south of Manila.

Angas, the mayor of Sultan sa Barongis town, said 10 bodies were recovered Tuesday, including two children. All of the dead and missing were related.

Among the fatalities were Panunggo Kudtog, 63; Baikong Kudtog, 30; Paano Kudtog, 7; Montoki Kudtog, 9; and Seno Blah, 40, all residents of Barangay Kudal, Pagalungan, Maguindanao.

Their bodies were fished from the mouth of the marsh, reports said.

Angas said there are six survivors. The accident happened on the surface of the marsh at the tri-boundary of Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces during stormy weather.

The banca was overloaded, said Angas, adding that the passengers were on their way home to Pagalungan town after attending a family gathering in nearby Sultan sa Barongis town when the accident occurred.

The marsh is crisscrossed by rivers and covers a large area of about 220,000 hectares (543,620 acres) in the southern Mindanao region. (AP/Malu C. Manar/Sunnex)

Sangko sa langit jud tingali ang pagmahay...

Don’t aim at success â€" the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long runâ€"in the long run, I say!â€"success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it. --Viktor Frankl

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 06:07:20 PM
3. Don’t End a Sentence With a Preposition

This “rule” was made up in 1672 by John Drydenâ€"a writer so famous in his time that some refer to the years of his prime as the Age of Dryden. His influence assured that the rule made it into schoolbooks, and it’s been widely taught ever since. Nevertheless, there’s no logical basis for the rule, and modern language experts have fought back in force.

The only reason you’ll find in most current language books for avoiding an ending preposition is to save you from offending someone who still thinks it’s wrong. But, in the workplace, that’s actually not a bad reason.

Don’t: Now that’s something I hadn’t thought of.

Do: Now that’s something I hadn’t considered.

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 05:25:06 PM
nevah.  sa panahon sa micro-mini, madala-dala pa.  sa panahon sa pakigol, purya.  kamo na lang, bai hubs.

He he, kini siya na lang. Rings a bell?

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 05:23:29 PM
yikes!  kontra ra ba gyod nako ning makakita kog ulo ug lechon nga tibuok.  surefire gyod nga mawad-an kog ganang mokaon kung makakita ko ani.  glad it's holy week now.

Here's some photogenic crispy fish head...





Begging a thousand pardons. Just wanted to help you with your Holy Week resolve.

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 05:58:32 PM
but i must admit a study of linguistic history is worth the time.

Study is always worth the time. Sadly, there is never enough time for that which is always worth the time.

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 05:57:55 PM
a thread for linguistics, no doubt.  it's like opening an animal's carcass to study its innards.  me?  i prefer literature to the study of linguistics.  i prefer to run and play with animals rather than study their insides.

Well, you can study the innards and be a haruspex
And then perhaps as such be anytime prepared for sex.

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 06:17:37 PM
we always have one of those, every year.  i can say we have a collection of dried palm fronds.  i wish to know from fr chic whether it is true that it is the previous year's blessed palm that's burned and its ashes are the ones used for the current year's ash wednesday, mixed with holy oil.

if so, then i'll burn our dried palm collection of years, put the ashes inside an urn, mix them with holy oil, and i'll have one more blessed thing on our altar.  (no, i won't use them for ash wednesday, hehe.)

Hmm, di diay nimo gamiton isip sumpa sa di matagna nga hulga nga mugna sa lampingasan nga mga kasangkayan sa tang-an nga abyan sa panumdoman?

Quote from: Pikoy on March 26, 2013, 06:52:44 PM
maajug naa,?ug wa gibatotin haw..

Bwahaha! As in birok si Barok nga nagbigok sa manok nga natigok sa tamilok?

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 05:12:32 PM
lami ba kaha ang iyang himbis tsitsaronon?

Mo lang. Super pud ni para sa potahe nga crispy ulo...

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 11:37:40 AM
suya lang ka kay di man kabuhion ang iyang kigow.

Laban uroy, klarong pakigol girl pood...

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on March 26, 2013, 02:43:46 PM
akong anak ang huguson sa amoa, ang upat ka anak nako akong gi present jud nga ma anghel heheheh

Good. It's going to be an experience they'll never forget...

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 11:06:54 AM
tinuod ba ning nahitabo?  anybody here who can separate fact from fiction?  mahiluna na gyod akong kalag if i get to know the truth here.  my reason is simple; ako ning i-estorya bisan ni kinsa nga foreign tourist nga akong makaila nga moadto ug bohol, labi na ug among guests, hehe.

kun tblander man galing tong lakiha (heaven forbid), pasayloa na lang ko; holy week bitaw karon.  sure hinoon ko nga di to si hubag o bugsay o chongki kay dakog puruhan nga mga pizot pa to sila atong panahona.  samokan pa ug mga babaye kay mas gusto pa ug jolernz.  as for lorenz, no sweat.  nag-utaw-utaw ka pa sa cosmos ato.

Hmm, basin naay seaman nga maka-confirm ani...

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 10:56:49 AM
for those of a certain vintage, circa 1970s, sa panahon nga wa pay fastcraft plying cebu-bohol...

tinuod ba tong estorya akong nadunggan sa una, diha kuno sa news pero estorya ra ang akong nadunggan...

dunay manag-oyab, college students kuno, puro bol-anon.  sakay sa sweet lines (kay sweet lines pa man to, wa pay oceanjet, etc.) alas 12 sa udto ang sked.  somewhere along the way, nag-away kuno ang duha.  unya kalit nga gialsa sa ni lalaki ang babaye ug gilabay, overboard.

Hmm, angkon na lang gud nga ikaw tong gilabay...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 25, 2013, 06:28:20 AM
“I will be waiting for him in Argao,” said his doting wife Laura.

Dot-dot jud, Indayon...

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 10:43:49 AM
you know better gyod, pamils.  hinaot ang imong concern moabot niya.  makatabang ba ang magsunod in case naay sharks?

Sureness ni nga abayan, oi.

He he, himbison tuod na siya pero ang unod kay pang pork chop...

Indi na gid nisisari hang marids-marids, manugbangga-bangga na lang gid sila sang ilang kaitlogam haw...

Quote from: Pikoy on March 26, 2013, 03:16:38 PM

Lingin hang bola unyag matunok sang tamstak deli ba diay mo lapad... haw de karabaw

Bason hang bola nga buot ipaibot ni Bolbol kay hang ijang itlog de karabaw haw...

O ingon ani na lang kaha...

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 09:04:50 AM
malditohang iringa diay uy.  mo-disguise man gyod as a baby.

Hmm, cat disguising itself as a baby but actually looking like a dog? Agoi, naghalosinit ka na tungod sa kainit sa Kwaresma...

...apan putos ang ulo, hadlok mahanginan ang hubon.

Quote from: islander on March 25, 2013, 11:09:32 PM
nganong niabot man ni dinhi nga thread nga iro man na?

He he, cat in disguise ni siya, oi...

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled on 15 March that the government of Kenya must not evict the Ogiek from their land in the Mau Forest.
http://www.survivalinternational.org/

Quote from: BolBuhol on March 26, 2013, 12:26:20 AM
waay sigoryo lingin hang bola haw

Manogdaog galing hang manok mo Bolbs...

Quote from: Pikoy on March 25, 2013, 02:48:29 PM
way nahimung kaayuhan sa San Juan ug sa tibook palibot sa Pilipinas - tomaS na sa Manila ehhh... aw kung mudaug man ugaling swerting Manila bugha!!

Pwede himoag sine--"Maynila sa mga Kuko nga KERAPsyon"...

A lazy Sunday in the rascally life of a pot-bellied old goat...

Many marine biologists are reluctant to make such grand claims about Turritopsis’ promise for human medicine. “That’s a question for journalists,” Boero said (to a journalist) in 2009. “I prefer to focus on a slightly more rational form of science.”

Kubota, however, has no such compunction. “Turritopsis application for human beings is the most wonderful dream of mankind,” he told me the first time I called him. “Once we determine how the jellyfish rejuvenates itself, we should achieve very great things. My opinion is that we will evolve and become immortal ourselves.”

More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

But the most frustrating explanation for our dearth of knowledge about the immortal jellyfish is of a more technical nature. The genus, it turns out, is extraordinarily difficult to culture in a laboratory. It requires close attention and an enormous amount of repetitive, tedious labor; even then, it is under only certain favorable conditions, most of which are still unknown to biologists, that a Turritopsis will produce offspring.

In fact there is just one scientist who has been culturing Turritopsis polyps in his lab consistently. He works alone, without major financing or a staff, in a cramped office in Shirahama, a sleepy beach town in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, four hours south of Kyoto. The scientist’s name is Shin Kubota, and he is, for the time being, our best chance for understanding this unique strand of biological immortality.

But we still don’t understand how it ages in reverse. There are several reasons for our ignorance, all of them maddeningly unsatisfying. There are, to begin with, very few specialists in the world committed to conducting the necessary experiments. “Finding really good hydroid experts is very difficult,” says James Carlton, a professor of marine sciences at Williams College and the director of the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program. “You’re lucky to have one or two people in a country.” He cited this as an example of a phenomenon he calls the Small’s Rule: small-bodied organisms are poorly studied relative to larger-bodied organisms. There are significantly more crab experts, for instance, than hydroid experts.

Some progress has been made, however, in the quarter-century since Christian Sommer’s discovery. We now know, for instance, that the rejuvenation of Turritopsis dohrnii and some other members of the genus is caused by environmental stress or physical assault. We know that, during rejuvenation, it undergoes cellular transdifferentiation, an unusual process by which one type of cell is converted into another â€" a skin cell into a nerve cell, for instance. (The same process occurs in human stem cells.) We also know that, in recent decades, the immortal jellyfish has rapidly spread throughout the world’s oceans in what Maria Pia Miglietta, a biology professor at Notre Dame, calls “a silent invasion.” The jellyfish has been “hitchhiking” on cargo ships that use seawater for ballast. Turritopsis has now been observed not only in the Mediterranean but also off the coasts of Panama, Spain, Florida and Japan. The jellyfish seems able to survive, and proliferate, in every ocean in the world. It is possible to imagine a distant future in which most other species of life are extinct but the ocean will consist overwhelmingly of immortal jellyfish, a great gelatin consciousness everlasting.

Yet the publication of “Reversing the Life Cycle” barely registered outside the academic world. You might expect that, having learned of the existence of immortal life, man would dedicate colossal resources to learning how the immortal jellyfish performs its trick. You might expect that biotech multinationals would vie to copyright its genome; that a vast coalition of research scientists would seek to determine the mechanisms by which its cells aged in reverse; that pharmaceutical firms would try to appropriate its lessons for the purposes of human medicine; that governments would broker international accords to govern the future use of rejuvenating technology. But none of this happened.

One of the paper’s authors, Ferdinando Boero, likened the Turritopsis to a butterfly that, instead of dying, turns back into a caterpillar. Another metaphor is a chicken that transforms into an egg, which gives birth to another chicken. The anthropomorphic analogy is that of an old man who grows younger and younger until he is again a fetus. For this reason Turritopsis dohrnii is often referred to as the Benjamin Button jellyfish.

Sommer was baffled by this development but didn’t immediately grasp its significance. (It was nearly a decade before the word “immortal” was first used to describe the species.) But several biologists in Genoa, fascinated by Sommer’s finding, continued to study the species, and in 1996 they published a paper called “Reversing the Life Cycle.” The scientists described how the species â€" at any stage of its development â€" could transform itself back to a polyp, the organism’s earliest stage of life, “thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality.” This finding appeared to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world â€" you are born, and then you die.

Sommer kept his hydrozoans in petri dishes and observed their reproduction habits. After several days he noticed that his Turritopsis dohrnii was behaving in a very peculiar manner, for which he could hypothesize no earthly explanation. Plainly speaking, it refused to die. It appeared to age in reverse, growing younger and younger until it reached its earliest stage of development, at which point it began its life cycle anew.

Sommer was conducting research on hydrozoans, small invertebrates that, depending on their stage in the life cycle, resemble either a jellyfish or a soft coral. Every morning, Sommer went snorkeling in the turquoise water off the cliffs of Portofino. He scanned the ocean floor for hydrozoans, gathering them with plankton nets. Among the hundreds of organisms he collected was a tiny, relatively obscure species known to biologists as Turritopsis dohrnii. Today it is more commonly known as the immortal jellyfish.

By NATHANIEL RICH
Published: November 28, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/





After more than 4,000 years â€" almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor â€" man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .”

Quote from: Pikoy on March 24, 2013, 10:17:00 PM
haha bisag asa ana nila bai hubs.. pile lang asay imong ganahan

Lisord ning pangutanaha, bisag daghan tag money morag ma-confused gihapon ta...

Hmm, libog as in Tagalog (higal), or libog as in Binisaya (kompyost)?

He he, pilahay ra guy anti-social, er, social networkingitic ug virtual realititic nga palabtic sa pan-os nga tictic. Libog jud tuod and kutaw sa kwanggolitic!

Bay Piks, no offense meant, di ba? Lingawlingawitic lang gud ning atoa...

But then...

Humbling for those who need to be humbled. For the rest of us ordinary mortals, it's merely a fact of life.

It's a good thing the FDA is learning...

Quote from: jorgeanna on March 24, 2013, 08:27:21 PM
"I don't regret my mistakes because if I hadn't made them I wouldn't know how to make things right."

He he, not to mention dalaritic, wistilnyonyonitic, pinaskohanitic, ugokitic,...

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on March 24, 2013, 08:27:39 PM
Excited jud bitaw ko kay 12 years kong wala ka celebrate ug holyweek ug karon naa na ko sa Bohol murag happy jud ko nga maka experience pud ug holy week akong mga anak. Excited na sila mag anghel sila gyud upat akong gi intra pagka anghel hehehe

Hi, Raqz! Don't miss the "hugos" in my hometown Dimiao!

Quote from: jorgeanna on March 24, 2013, 08:22:41 PM
we celebrate xmas man gud pud with friends all over the world but no other country celebrates Holy Week like we do

Yes, which is quite interesting. It is indeed peculiar to us Filipinos. I've discussed this with Europeans and other non-Filipino Christians and they find it difficult to understand why--as they put it--we put more emphasis on suffering rather than redemption. 

Quote from: jorgeanna on March 24, 2013, 08:17:52 PM
tan-awa nalang ang dagway sa escort, murag kumakaon gyud og O

He he, klaro nga anad og uncooked flesh...

Why you do this?

Because I wear Barong Tagalog? 

Hmm, others don't even wait to get tired; they simply do nothing at all.

Causes

There is a continuing debate as to the reasons for the vowel shift among experts in linguistics and cultural history. Some theories give the cause as the mass migration to southeast England after the Black Death, where differences in accents led to some groups modifying their speech to allow for a standard pronunciation of vowel sounds. Another theory is that there was a sudden social mobility after the Black Death, with people from lower levels in society moving to higher levels (the pandemic also having hit the aristocracy). Another explanation highlights the language of the ruling class: the medieval aristocracy had spoken French, but by the early 15th century they were using English. This may have caused a change to the "prestige accent" of English, either by making pronunciation more French in style or by changing it in some other way, perhaps by hypercorrection to something thought to be "more English" (England being at war with France for much of this period). That rationale is disputed because there is just as much evidence of the hypercorrection to be "more English", as there is for it to be "more French" (French still being the slightly favored language of the upper class). Another influence may have been the great political and social upheavals of the 15th century, which were largely contemporaneous with the vowel shift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

The principal changes (with the vowels shown in IPA) are roughly as follows. However, exceptions occur, the transitions were not always complete, and there were sometimes accompanying changes in orthography:

Middle English [aː] (ā) fronted to [æː] and then raised to [ɛː], [eː] and in many dialects diphthongised in Modern English to [eɪ] (as in make). (The [a:] in the Middle English words in question had arisen earlier from lengthening of short a in open syllables and from French loan words, rather than from original Old English ā, because the latter had in the meantime been raised to Middle English [É"ː].)

Middle English [ɛː] raised to [eː] and then to modern English [iː] (as in beak).
Middle English [eː] raised to Modern English [iː] (as in feet).
Middle English [iː] diphthongised to [ɪi], which was most likely followed by [əɪ] and finally Modern English [aɪ] (as in mice).
Middle English [É"ː] raised to [oː], and in the eighteenth century this became Modern English [oÊŠ] or [əʊ] (as in boat).
Middle English [oː] raised to Modern English [uː] (as in boot).
Middle English [uː] was diphthongised in most environments to [ʊu], and this was followed by [əʊ], and then Modern English [aʊ] (as in mouse) in the eighteenth century. Before labial consonants, this shift did not occur, and [uː] remains as in soup and room (its Middle English spelling was roum).

This means that the vowel in the English word same was in Middle English pronounced [aː] (similar to modern psalm); the vowel in feet was [eː] (similar to modern fate); the vowel in wipe was [iː] (similar to modern weep); the vowel in boot was [oː] (similar to modern boat); and the vowel in mouse was [uː] (similar to modern moose).

The effects of the shift were not entirely uniform, and differences in degree of vowel shifting can sometimes be detected in regional dialects both in written and in spoken English. In Northern English, the long back vowels remained unaffected, the long front vowels having undergone an earlier shift. In Scotland, Scots differed in its input to the Great Vowel Shift, the long vowels [iː], [eː] and [aː] shifted to [ei], [iː] and [eː] by the Middle Scots period, [oː] had shifted to [øː] in Early Scots and [uː] remained unaffected.

The effect of the Great Vowel Shift may be seen very clearly in the English names of many of the letters of the alphabet. A, B, C and D are pronounced /eɪ, biː, siː, diː/ in today's English, but in contemporary French they are /a, be, se, de/. The French names (from which the English names are derived) preserve the qualities of the English vowels from before the Great Vowel Shift. By contrast, the names of F, L, M, N and S (/ɛf, ɛl, ɛm, ɛn, ɛs/) remain the same in both languages, because "short" vowels were largely unaffected by the Shift.

The main difference between the pronunciation of Middle English and Modern English is in the value of the long vowels, described as the Great Vowel Shift. Vowels of Middle English had "continental" values much like those remaining in Spanish and liturgical Latin. However, during the Great Vowel Shift, the two highest long vowels became diphthongs, and the other five underwent an increase in tongue height with one of them coming to the front.

The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1700. The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860â€"1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term.

Because English spelling was becoming standardised in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for many of the peculiarities of English spelling.

Quote from: jorgeanna on March 24, 2013, 04:27:57 PM
mirisi pud kay ngano nang-hire og escort

Mirisi jud. When one hires an escort, he should be ready for all possibilities...

Quote from: Pikoy on March 24, 2013, 07:05:01 PM
(y)eahh... approved with too much thingking

He he, with all due respect, I suggest you reserve your thinking for more debatable issues, Bay Piks. That Erap is a reprobate is nothing less than axiomatic.

Chiz is nothing but a whippersnapper nincompoop without any moral integrity, trying to impress a voluble voting population with the specious argument that being media savvy means ability to be a viable political leader.

Quote from: Pikoy on March 24, 2013, 03:26:56 PM

“The Court finds that [former president] Estrada took advantage of his official position, authority, relationship, connection and influence to unjustly enrich himself at the expense and to the damage and prejudice of the Filipino people and the Republic of the Philippines," the court said over allegations that Estrada profited from the GSIS and SSS purchases of Belle Corporation shares.

Although the defense tried to argue that Estrada simply suggested to former SSS chairman Carlos Arellano and former GSIS president Federico Pascual to buy Belle shares, the court held that, “coming from an appointing power, the calls had coercive effects particularly when repeatedly made."

Pascual testified that he felt that Estrada, in a later call, sounded “agitated" when he learned that he had not acted on his “suggestions" to buy Belle shares. - GMANews.TV

All things considered, Erap is, beyond reasonable human and divine doubt, unfit to hold any government position. Period.

Quote from: jorgeanna on March 24, 2013, 04:41:31 PM
Holy Week makes me homesick

Me, too. It's really a time for a family to be together, and reflect on  relationships with one another. Somehow, even more than Christmastime...

Quote from: Votives on March 21, 2013, 10:11:45 AM
nus-a kaha ma answer akong prayer na modaog pud ko og lotto:)

Magsugod ang countdown sa imong pagdaog when you start buying tickets daily... 

He arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 at 10 a.m. along with his predecessor, emeritus Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales and retired Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.

Tagle and Rosales attended a press conference at the airport while Vidal took a connecting flight to Cebu.

The 55-year-old Tagle said he was glad to return to Manila. “It is really a wonderful gift of God to be part of this singular moment of the Church, which comes quite rarely... and we thank God for the gift of a new pope and he is an extraordinary man of God,” he told reporters.

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He expressed hope that Pope Francis would be able to address the Church issues.

“I think so, because in Argentina he also faced some tough situations and he survived. He seemed to have contributed to the stability of the Church there,” he said.

Tagle said that after the election of Pope Francis, all the 114 cardinals paid homage to the new pontiff as a show of their pledge of obedience.

When it was his turn, the pontiff told him that he had high hopes for the Philippines.

Tagle, who was considered a papabili or candidate for pope, has been evading the media after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in February.â€" With Rudy Santos

By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star) | Updated March 22, 2013 - 12:00am



Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle (left) is accompanied by Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, apostolic nuncio, to the press lounge at the NAIA after arriving from Rome yesterday. RUDY SANTOS


MANILA, Philippines - Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle returned yesterday from the Vatican where he attended the conclave that elected a new pope and witnessed the inauguration of Pope Francis.

Tagle said he is optimistic the new pontiff would be able to handle the issues on sex scandals involving priests, corruption and other problems confronting the Catholic Church.

He also expressed hope that Pope Francis would visit the Philippines in 2016.

Quote from: islander on March 22, 2013, 05:12:30 PM
i still have to meet an alcoholic who admits he is.

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Kaluoy ni Heart nailad intawon sa ambisyoso.

Kon mapresidente na ang ambisyosong iro, ang katawhan na maoy ilaron...

The FDA said consumers should not buy food supplements and herbal preparations that are not approved by the agency, or any products that “claim to cure, treat or mitigate any form of cancer.”

“These products are not only ineffective and expensive, but they may cause adverse reactions and events, some of which may be life threatening,” the FDA said.

It said all FDA regional field offices had been ordered to monitor and conduct spot checks for these products in the market.

“All unregistered products found in outlets or in the possession of vendors shall be seized immediately and reports shall submitted to the FDA legal support service center for appropriate action,” the FDA said.

Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:17 am | Sunday, March 24th, 2013


The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday warned the public against buying unregistered health products and herbal and food supplements that promise to cure cancer.

The FDA particularly warned against three food supplementsâ€"Aro Baro Churo Organic Tea, Aro Guyabano Tea and Aro Baro Churo Guyabano capsules â€"that are being advertised as being more effective than chemotherapy when it came to curing cancer.

“The said products have fraudulently and deceptively been labeled as 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy and that they contain adriamycin that can kill cancer cells,” the FDA said in an advisory.

“Upon verification, FDA records showed that these products were neither registered as herbal drugs nor as food supplements,” it said.

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Manila, Philippines â€" Holy Week (Semana Santa) is a time for prayer, penance, reflection, and spiritual works. Cities and towns observe Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, with â€"Philippine Lenten customs â€"Visita Iglesia, Stations of the Cross, “Pabasa” (passion reading), and Seven Last Words.

As in past years, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) coordinate in peace and security measures, especially at bus terminals, airports, piers, train stations, churches, and pilgrimage sites. The Philippine Coast Guard beefs up security in ports and ferry terminals.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reactivates its “Lakbay Alalay” from March 24 to April 1, 2013, to assist motorists and commuters on the road. Motorists’ Assistance Teams are positioned at strategic locations along national highways to assist stranded motorists. The Department of Transportation and Communications’ (DOTC) “Oplan Ligtas Biyahe” assists stranded motorists and checks roadworthiness of public and private vehicles. Department of Health medical teams man first aid stations. The Bureau of Fire Protection assists agencies and volunteer groups.

The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) deploys traffic enforcers along major thoroughfares, highways, and roads leading to and from bus terminals, seaports and domestic airports. It sets up command posts at entry points of expressways, in traffic choke points, as well as near churches. Metro Manila police patrol communities in coordination with tourist police and barangays councils.

We offer a special prayer to our people for the solemn, safe, and peaceful observance of Holy Week in the Republic of the Philippines. May God bless us all!

Quote from: islander on March 24, 2013, 08:18:59 AM
hahaha!  pag-antiyohos uy.  si memeng nang imong nakit-an, di na ako.

Ikaw na, oi. Kanang giingon nimong memeng, it's one of your body parts...

Quote from: islander on March 23, 2013, 10:32:41 PM
klaro kaayo asa dapit amo, hasta ang among abuhan.

Bitaw, tua ra ka, ay, gatuwad...

Knife fight...

Agoi, kitty snack...

Mila was a 39 year old African elephant who’d formerly spent some 3 decades as a circus performer. She’d been staying at the Franklin Zoo, New Zealand for 4 years, but it was only a temporary arrangement; zoo owner Helen Schofield had plans to have her transferred to a sanctuary in California. Possibly as a result of trauma suffered in the circus (where elephants have been known to absorb terrible abuse), Mila crushed 42 year old Schofield with her trunk. -- http://listverse.com/

Dog consoles boy with Down's syndrome.