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If the whole world were listening, what would you say?

Indonesian baby on 40 cigarettes a day

Describe your First Intimate Experience

Which would you choose, true love with a guarantee of a heart break or have never loved before?

Are you good at climbing trees?

Are you old fashioned?

Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?

Imagine. It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, you hear someone walking around outside your window. Who do you call?

If you had to go back in time and change one thing, if you HAD to, even if you had “no regrets” what would it be?

Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you loved them?

What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up on?

What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you do not love them back?

When and how was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt?

Your best friend dies, what would you do?

Will you watch the upcoming Twilight movie? I won't. The last one was an absolute waste of time.

At least three names surface as interested to run for president of the Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) Bohol chapter after the position will be left vacant by Vice Gov-elect Concepcion Lim.

Lim is presently the ABC provincial president and sits as ex-officio member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.         

The slot to represent the barangay captains at the SP continues to be highly politicized even as barangay captains are mandated to be non-partisan.

The election for provincial ABC president will be done among the municipal ABC presidents.

The probable bets for ABC Provincial president are Crispina Vergara of Mabini, Efren Tanjay of Ubay and Faro Cabalit of this city. - Bohol Chronicle

BBC News - Exercise in green space 'improves health'
Just five minutes of exercise in a green space can significantly improve someone's mental health, a study has found.

Researchers say that "green exercise" not only improves people's sense of well-being but can also have physical and economic benefits.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn's new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it. (Feb.)
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Dogwood by Chris Fabry

In the small town of Dogwood, West Virginia, Karin has buried her shattered dreams by settling for a faithful husband whose emotional distance from her deep passions and conflicts leaves her isolated. Loaded with guilt, she tries to raise three small children and "do life" the best she can. Will returns to Dogwood intent on pursuing the only woman he has ever lovedâ€"only to find there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. The secrets of Will and Karin's past begin to emerge through Danny Boyd, a young boy who wishes he hadn't survived the tragedy that knit those two together as well as tore them apart. The trigger that will lay their pain bare and force them to face it rather than flee is the unlikely figure of Ruthie Bowles, a withered, wiry old woman who leads Karin so deep into her anger against God that it forces unexpected consequences.

Graves in the Wilderness by J.R. Gordon

"Piper Campbell, the son of Ulster-Scott migrants befriends N’Kawa, the only survivor of the East Texas black Indian Karankawa tribe. As brothers, the two become inseparable. The horrors of the American civil war behind them, Piper and N’kawa, ­disillusioned and alone, sell their Texas estate and travel the seven seas in search of new land to rebuild their lives as cattlemen. Settling in Australia, the enterprising two seize an opportunity to establish themselves in Cooktown, a fledgeling port that would see tens-of-thousands of hungry miners pass through on their way to the rivers of gold in the Cape York Wilderness. There, they become unwilling participants of the first overland expedition from Cooktown to the Palmer River as protectors of the ostracised but resourceful Chinese. They soon find themselves involved in yet another war, this time as unwitting participants bearing arms against the local Aboriginals, known as the Merkins, a formidable and ferocious foe. In the events that ­follow, they suffer unimaginable heartbreak and loss. Graves in the Wilderness is a fast paced, exciting, brutal and often confronting novel. Rich in incident, compassion and frustration ... a novel that captures the essence of a by-gone era."

Leadville by James Best

When New York City shopkeeper Steve Dancy moved west to experience the frontier, he wound up embroiled in a deadly feud ... a feud he was forced to settle with guns. Now all he wants to do is follow up on a few business interests, write about his adventures, and continue his exploration of the West.

But in the autumn of 1879, Joseph McAllen asks Dancy for help. Ute renegades have abducted a young girl near Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Pinkerton captain wants him to join the rescue party. Surprisingly, the trail doesn't lead into the San Juan Mountains, but to Leadville -- a rich mining town teeming with the worst elements of a raw frontier. Bitter feuds, vendettas, and greed turn the affair into a bloody conflict that spans the state.

Dancy has proven that he can handle himself in dangerous situations. But will this shopkeeper survive the perils of an untamed mountain wilderness?

First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin

A look at medical ethics and the critical-care decisions made by the ethics committee, doctors, and four sets of patients/parents at Hermann Hospital in Texas between May-October 1988. Quality of life is measured against longevity and consideration is given to expenditure of limited resources. As most of these patients were children or young adults, the book has immediacy for high school students. The epilogue, written four years later, brings closure to decisions made. Young people interested in medicine or the health-care crisis are sure to find this involving. - Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA

The Shopkeeper by James D. Best

A Review:
Steve Dancy is set on experiencing the West. At first glance, he is nothing more than a dilettante Easterner intent on writing a journal about his adventures on the frontier. He's not running away from a hopeless life. To the contrary, he's educated and seems to have enough money for his simple needs. Although anxious to avoid trouble, he can be pushed only so far, and when he chances upon some bad men doing unspeakable things to a woman, he feels he must take a hand. It isn't long before he's caught up in gunplay, which leads him into taking desperate measures, including buying a bank and a hotel, and influencing the upcoming gubernatorial elections. Dancy is a far different man than these Westerners think he is. Wealthy after selling off his Eastern businesses, maybe he should have told them what kind of goods he sold, because he's sure not like any other shopkeepers they know.

This is a fast paced tale with an interesting hero. In structure, with short chapters, crisp dialogue, and lots of movement, it's reminiscent of a thriller. Sadly, neither of the women in this story were enduring, the older too evil and crass to believe, and the younger far from worthy of the infatuation the hero apparently feels toward her. The motivation seems weak for all the mayhem that ensues. Still, you'll certainly find enough twists and turns to provide an entertaining and exciting story. --Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine, August, 2008

GMA NETWORK has filed a civil case against TV personality Mo Twister for alleged breach of contract, and rival station TV5 for hiring the host despite his exclusive contract with GMA 7.

In a 16-page complaint, the network asked the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 217 to issue a temporary restraining order against Mohan Gumatay (Mo Twister’s real name), to prevent him from appearing in TV5 shows.

GMA 7 was particularly referring to TV5’s Sunday gabfest, “Paparazzi.”

The TV network asked the court to order Gumatay to pay P1,040,000 â€" twice his compensation for one year for co-hosting GMA 7’s “Showbiz Central” â€" and P1 million in exemplary damages.

The host and TV5 were also asked to pay P1 million in attorney’s fees and P1 million in litigation expenses.

In the complaint, GMA 7 claimed it had an existing exclusive talent agreement with Gumatay, which he violated after he “rendered services to defendant TV5 as talent and initially appeared on the TV5 show ‘Paparazzi’ as host on May 15, 2010.” -PDI

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed the Anti-Camcording Act of 2009, intensifying the government’s fight against movie piracy in the country.

Considered a “milestone,” the Anti-Camcording Law aims to help curb illegal camcording activities in the country and in the Asian region.

Under the Anti-Camcording Law, any person who is caught using or attempting to use an audiovisual recording device to transmit or make a copy of any part of a performance in an exhibition facility of any cinematographic film or other audiovisual work will be fined from P50,000 to P750, 000 face imprisonment of a minimum six months and one day to six years and one day. - PDI

Our Daily Bread

Today’s technology allows some people to work 24/7. We can bring our work home or take it on vacation. Work is ever-present with usâ€"except when the electricity goes off.

An ice storm last winter covered several states in a thick glasslike glaze. Trees and branches fell, blocking roads and keeping people home. Power lines fell, leaving people in cold darkness, unable to accomplish anything that required electricity.

Whenever something like this interrupts my life, I realize how important my own work is to me. Without it, I feel unimportant, unproductive, and useless. But God doesn’t want work to be that important to us, and we shouldn’t need a power outage to get us to stop. In the Old Testament, God had a plan for getting His people to stop and pay attention to Him. It was called Sabbath. On the seventh day of the week, they were to stop their work (Ex. 23:12).

Although New Testament believers aren’t required to keep this law, rest is still important. Practicing a day of rest can keep us from the faulty belief that our work is more important than God’s.

What does it take to make you stop and pay attention to God?

He gives me work that I may seek His rest,
He gives me strength to meet the hardest test;
And as I walk in providential grace,
I find that joy goes with me, at God’s pace. â€"Gustafson

If we do not come apart and rest awhile, we may just plain come apart. â€"Havner

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While a friend and I walked along the path of the former Berlin Wall, he told me, “This is one of those ‘never say never’ places in my life.” He explained that during the years when the Wall divided the city, he had made a dozen trips through Checkpoint Charlie to encourage members of the church living under continuing surveillance and opposition in East Germany. More than once, he had been detained, questioned, and harassed by the border guards.

In 1988, he took his teenage children to West Berlin and told them, “Take a good look at this wall, because someday when you bring your children here, this wall will still be standing.” A year later it was gone.

When Saul of Tarsus began to attack the followers of Jesus, no one could have imagined that he would ever become a disciple of Christ. “Never. Not a chance.” Yet Acts 9:1-9 records the story of Saul’s blinding encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Within a few days of that life-changing event, Saul was preaching in the synagogues of Damascus that Jesus was the Son of God, to the astonishment of all who heard him (vv.20-21).

When it comes to God’s work in the most difficult people we know, we should never say “never.”

God’s power cannot be confined
To what you think is possible;
So when it comes to changing livesâ€"
Imagine the impossible. â€"Sper

Never say never when it comes to what God can do.

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In a message to the 2002 graduates of Cedarville University, Dr. Paul Dixon encouraged them with these words: “Your times are in God’s hands.” Our family listened and thought it was appropriate for the graduates, which included our daughter Julie.

We had no idea that in 5 days our 17-year-old Melissa would graduate to heaven through a car accidentâ€"and we would be left to recall with new meaning that thought from Psalm 31:15.

Over the years, we have become painfully aware that in God’s mysterious ways, He has planned for some Christians a life that is short. I think of one young Christian girl, the kind with a smile for everyone, who had a sore fingerâ€"and a week later was dead from a raging infection. Or the young believer who was killed while playing softball when a ball hit her in the neck. Or the teen boy who loved Jesus and fishingâ€"and died when a car hit him as he rode his bike home from the fishing hole. Melissa, Heather, Maggie, and Thomas. In their short lives, they created a legacy of faith in Jesus and love for others. They were ready when His time for them had come.

“I trust in You,” the psalmist said, recognizing that his life was in God’s hands alone (vv.14-15). Are you trusting God for whatever comes next on your calendar?

Sovereign Ruler of the skies,
Ever gracious, ever wise,
All my times are in Your hand,
All events at Your command. â€"Ryland

Our times are in God’s hands; our souls are in His keeping.

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In her fascinating book Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Ruth Reichl reflects on her 6 years as a New York Times restaurant critic. Because she was the most influential critic in the country, top restaurants posted her photograph so their employees could recognize her. Hoping to earn a high rating in the New York Times, the staff intended to provide her with their top service and best cuisine.

In response, Reichl developed a clever strategy. Hoping to be treated as a regular patron, she disguised herself. On one occasion, she dressed up as an old woman. The restaurant made her wait a long time to be seated and then was unresponsive to her requests.

In the early church, James spoke out against favoritism: “[If] you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ and say to the poor man, ‘You stand there,’ or, ‘Sit here at my footstool,’ have you not shown partiality among yourselves?” (2:3-4).

When people attend our churches, are they treated impartially? Or do we show favoritism to the wealthy or elite? God calls us to show concern for and interest in all people, regardless of their social status. Let’s welcome all to join us in worshiping the King!

Dear Lord, You welcomed us into Your kingdom, not because of who we are but because of who You areâ€" our loving and merciful God. Help us to open our arms of fellowship to all who enter in. Amen.

God lets us into His fellowship. Who are we to keep others out?

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My Australian friend Graham wasn’t born blind. He was blinded by a freak accident at age 9. Yet he never felt sorry for himself. Wherever he went, he shared what Jesus Christ meant to him. His last trip was to Thailand as a practicing physiotherapist. Besides using his professional skills there, he wanted to share the gospel of Christ.

The four lepers in 2 Kings 7 had some good news to share as well. They had stumbled into the Syrian camp and found it deserted. After helping themselves to the food and loot, they remembered the starving people of Samaria, shut in as a result of a Syrian siege. Their response was: “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent” (v.9). So they went and told their fellow Israelites about the provisions.

Despite their physical and social disadvantages, both Graham and the lepers thought about others. They were thankful for what they had found and considered it too good to keep to themselves.

Do you know someone who needs to know what Jesus has done? Don’t make excuses for what you lack in abilities. Instead, share the good news of what the Lord has done for you, and your life will take on new purpose.

Help us, Lord, to be a lifeline
To a dying world today,
Bringing hope to hopeless people,
Telling them that Christ’s the way. â€"Sper

When we are thankful for what we have, we want to share it with others.

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John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Grapes of Wrath begins with a scene in drought-ravaged Oklahoma during the Great Depression. With the crops dying and the land choked by dust, the women watched the men to see if they would break under the strain. When they saw the men’s will to carry on, they took heart. Steinbeck writes, “Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.” The issue was not happiness, prosperity, or satisfaction, but wholeness. This is the great need of us all.

In the King James Version of the Bible, the word whole is often used to describe Jesus’ work of physical healing. When the Lord encountered a man who had been an invalid for 38 years, He asked, “Wilt thou be made whole?” (John 5:5-6 kjv). After Jesus healed the man, He challenged him to also embrace spiritual wholeness: “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you” (v.14).

If we only want something Jesus can do for us, our relationship with Him will be limited. When we want Jesus Himself, He brings completeness to our lives. Christ wants, first and foremost, to make us whole.

I thank Thee for Thy precious Word
Where Thou didst make me see
My sinful self, my helpless soul,
Made whole by trusting Thee. â€"Anon.

Only Jesus can give wholeness to a broken life.

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The Scripture reading from Luke 18 about children seemed unusual at the memorial service for David Holquist. After all, he was 77 when he died.

Yet the pastor said the verses fit David, a long-time college professor, perfectly. Part of his legacy was that he took time for childrenâ€"his own and others’. He made balloon animals and puppets, and helped in a puppet ministry at church. When planning worship services with others, he frequently asked, “What about the children?” He was concerned about what would help the childrenâ€"not just the adultsâ€"to worship God.

Luke 18 shows us the concern Jesus had for children. When people brought little ones to Him, the disciples wanted to protect Jesus, a busy man, from the bothersome children. But it seems that Jesus was not at all bothered by them. Just the opposite. The Bible says that Jesus was “greatly displeased” at the disciples, and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them” (v.16). Mark adds that Jesus took them in His arms and blessed them (10:14-16).

Let’s examine our own attitude about children and then follow the example of David Holquist. Find some ways to help them come to Jesus.

To those who are teaching the gospel,
With love in their hearts for its truth,
Comes the gentle reminder from heaven,
“Forget not the children and youth.” â€"Anon.

God has great concern for little children.

Get another dose of hilarious scenes from GMA 7’s Sunday night sitcom Show Me Da Manny tonight with the return of Manny Pacquiao.

Tonight’s episode will make viewers anticipate Manny’s “you know” punchline plus his funny spiels and ad-libs after his hiatus abroad. He plays Manny Santos, a guy who went abroad for a while. Marian Rivera portrays Manny’s pretty neighbor Ella Paredes.

Making the episode more side-splitting are the characters of Iza Calzado as Dr. Benda, Enzo Pineda and Sarah Lahbati as Dr. Benda’s nephew Pepe and niece Pilar. - Phil Star

Phil Star: Viewers who tune in to TV5 after coming home from school and work will be delighted with the network’s response to their insistent demand as smash hit Korean drama My Wife is a Superwoman is now showing in the evening Prime Times 5 block, alongside two new Asianovelas Hero and Taiwanese comedy drama Easy Fortune, Happy Life, starting tomorrow.

After its successful run on Gusto Ko Noon noontime block, My Wife is a Superwoman goes primetime at 6:30 p.m.

Due to the positive reception of the show, My Wife is a Superwoman was extended from 48 to 60 episodes in Korea, as well as on TV5, and is now made available to viewers who missed it and want to follow the funny and quirky story of smart housewives competing against each other through their husbands’ positions in the office, in obsession for a glamorous life.

Century Tuna beefs up its health and wellness campaign as it introduces Angel Locsin as the new female celebrity endorser.

“We’re delighted to be joined by Angel as we position Century Tuna as a health and wellness brand. She’s a good role model as she herself embodies the Century Tuna healthy lifestyle with her love for sports and discipline in eating healthy to maintain her fit and sexy body” said Angela Gamboa, Century Tuna senior product manager.

Angel’s fit and sexy body can be attributed to her being a natural sports lover. Before she joined showbiz, she was a competitive swimmer. When she got into the biz, she was more interested in other challenging sports like muay thai, boxing and even diving, to help her maintain her fit body for the action roles which she is known for.

It was no surprise that Century Tuna chose her to become the next Century Tuna image model. Joining Derek Ramsay, Angel is geared to bring into her latest endorsement the kind of discipline and love for the fit and active life that she innately has, which would definitely inspire the public and health and wellness buffs to aspire for themselves.   - Phil Star


Angel Locsin

Phil Star: KC Concepcion has joined thousands around the globe in joining United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in a walk to raise awareness and money to feed hungry school children in the poorest countries on June 6.

Hunger and malnutrition are the biggest threats to global health worldwide. Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes. WFP and its major corporate partners â€" TNT, Unilever and DSM â€" have since joined hands to take action against this important issue by joining the Walk the World in the Philippines, believing everyone can help by taking this first step towards ending hunger.

BBC News - IVF patient: 'Fertility clinic lost my embryos'
The number of mistakes made at IVF clinics in England and Wales has nearly doubled in 12 months.

Figures obtained by the BBC, from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), show that the number of reported incidents and near misses rose from 182 in 2007/2008 to 334 in 2008/2009.

This is despite the fact that the number of IVF cycles has remained the same at around 50,000 per year.

After years of trying for a baby naturally, Clare and her husband went for IVF treatment on the NHS at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, but things didn't go quite to plan.

IVF Wales at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff says that their "success rate in recovering embryos is amongst the highest in the world and that all incidents are reported to the HFEA."

BBC News - Patient receives full face transplant

Surgeons in Spain have performed what they are calling a full face transplant for the first time.

The operation was carried out on a young man who was unable to swallow, speak or breathe properly after a farming accident five years ago.

BBC News - US HIV vaccine trial calls for more volunteers
Scientists and doctors in the US are calling for volunteers to participate in a trial of a new vaccine aimed at HIV.

More than one million people in the US alone live with the virus, and for every two people who receive combination drugs therapy, another seven are diagnosed.

BBC News - SJP admits nerves over Sex and the City 2
Sarah Jessica Parker has admitted to nerves about how Sex and The City 2 will be received by fans, at the films's British premiere.

Ms Parker told Sophie van Brugen she would like "at least a dozen people to show up" before there could be talks about another sequel.

Each of the female leads was dressed stylishly, as expected - with Kristin Davis wearing a vintage dress from a designer who created a Marilyn Monroe classic.

BBC News - Museum of modern art opens in Rome
Italy's new $200m museum of modern art has opened in Rome.

The MAXXI is the first national institution devoted to contemporary creativity in the country.

BBC News - Bill Bryson on the mysteries of home
Bill Bryson is famous for his non-fiction books about backpacking expeditions and scientific facts.

He has sold more non-fiction books anyone else in the UK.

Now he has turned his attentions much closer to home - as he told BBC Breakfast.

BBC News - Dame Julie on her 'devastating' throat surgery
Dame Julie Andrews has said she is ''not singing the way she used to sing'' after surgery on her vocal chords went wrong.

She was asked about the operation and its impact on her life and career by the BBC's Charlie Stayt.

BBC News - Thai film pulls off Cannes shock
The Cannes Film Festival has given its top prize, the Palme d'Or, to the mystical Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the winning film is about a dying man who is visited by his late wife and his missing son, who has become an ape.

BBC News - Romeo Romeo? Juliet inspires letters from the lovesick
Inspired by the love story Romeo and Juliet, people actually write to 'Juliet', asking for advice on their love lives.

The letters have now inspired a Hollywood film.

Duncan Kennedy went to Verona to see how the Italian city responds to these pleas for help.

BBC News - Chaplin film inspires England fan song
With only three weeks until the start of the 2010 World Cup, hundreds of England supporters have composed songs paying homage to the team.

One supporter has taken inspiration from an old roll of film found in a cannister he bought off eBay - as he explained to David Sillito.

BBC News - Film 24 - the week's new films
Mark Kermode reviews the latest UK film releases including StreetDance 3D, Heartless, and Bad Lieutenant.

BBC News - Controversial Berlusconi documentary screened at Cannes
Berlusconi documentary
One of the more controversial films being shown at the Cannes Film Festival this week is called Draquila: Italy Trembles.

The word Draquila is a play on words linking the word Dracula with the Italian city of L'Aquila. An earthquake in the city killed hundreds of people in April 2009.

The film is a comedy documentary and questions the role played by the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the aftermath of the disaster.

BBC News - Naomi Campbell may be subpoenaed by war crimes court
War crimes prosecutors in The Hague say supermodel Naomi Campbell should be subpoenaed to testify at the trial of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor.

They say Ms Campbell "was given rough diamonds" by Mr Taylor in 1997 at Nelson Mandela's house in South Africa. Richard Forrest reports.

BBC News - Christina Aguilera visits a refugee camp in Haiti
Christina Aguilera has visited children living in refugee camps in Haiti.

The star, who has been named Ambassador Against Hunger of the United Nations World Food Programme, spent time with families and children who were receiving food aid.

BBC News - Jerry Bruckheimer honoured in LA
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been honoured on the path outside the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA.

His hand and foot prints were set in concrete.

Tom Cruise, who worked with Bruckheimer on Top Gun, paid tribute to the producer who has won six Oscars and been nominated for 41.

BBC News - Lily Allen wins three Ivor Novello awards
Lily Allen has picked up three Ivor Novello song writing awards in London.

Her hit single 'The Fear' scooped prizes for best song musically and lyrically, and most performed work.

BBC News - Modern life causing loneliness, says Mental Health charity
Modern life is making people feel increasingly lonely, according to a mental health charity.

The Mental Health Foundation says that one in 10 people in the UK often feel lonely.

The figure is much higher among teenagers, the elderly, and mothers with young children.

BBC News - Apple iPad fans queue overnight in London
Apple fans lined up outside the Apple store in London's Regent Street to buy the new tablet computer.

The gadget went on sale in the UK, Europe, Japan and Australia, following delays caused by high demand in the US.

BBC News - Protesters urge 'quitting Facebook'
More than 23,000 web users have joined a campaign to call on Facebook to tidy up its privacy settings.

They say details of their private lives have been made public without their knowledge, and have signed up to quit the social networking site on Monday.

BBC News - Colombians to vote for a president
Voters in Colombia go to the polls on Sunday to cast their vote in the country's presidential election.

Out of six main candidates, two men have emerged as front runners.

They are the country's former defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos, and the former Mayor of Bogota, Antanas Mockus.

BBC News - Deadly storm strikes volcano-hit Guatemala
A powerful tropical storm has struck Guatemala, bringing torrential rains that have added to the disruption caused by an erupting volcano.

At least 12 people have died in mudslides and floods caused by tropical storm Agatha, which is moving in from the Pacific Ocean.

BBC News - Close-Up: Malaysia's roadside food stalls
In an ongoing series, BBC News focuses on aspects of life in countries and cities around the world. What may seem ordinary and familiar to the people who live there, can be surprising to those who do not.

Most urban Malaysians spend their time indoors, but there is one place they will brave the heat and humidity for - the mamak stall.

These open-air food stalls located at most street corners sometimes operate 24 hours a day. Cheap food and drinks draw in crowds at all hours.

BBC News - Eurovision highlights from Oslo
Some of the highlights of Eurovision from Oslo included singers from France, Spain, Romania, Armenia, the UK, Germany and Greece.

The Spanish entry sang on bravely as an audience member tried to join in on stage.

Germany came first and the UK last.

BBC News - Stage invasion during Spain's Eurovision number
A member of the audience came on stage and tried to join in with Spain's performance during Eurovision before security arrived.

The contest organisers gave Daniel Diges a second chance to sing at the end of the show.

BBC News - Man leaps from Eiffel Tower on roller skates

Crowds in Paris watched nervously on Saturday as world champion skater Taig Khris set a new Guinness world record by jumping off the Eiffel Tower with roller skates on.

He launched himself from the famous monument before landing on a giant ramp below.

BBC News - Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now

Actor Dennis Hopper has died at his California home, from complications related to pancreatic cancer, at the age of 74.

His role in Francis Ford Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now was typically dark and edgy.

BBC News - 'Top kill' BP operation to halt US oil leak fails

The latest attempt to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has failed, the oil giant BP has said.

BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the firm was now shifting to a new strategy to stop the spill.

In the failed procedure - known as "top kill" - the firm had been blasting waste material and heavy mud into a ruptured well.

from Our Daily Bread

Before they were a week old, the eaglets were fighting over food. Neither was strong enough to hold up his head for more than a few seconds, so the pair looked like fuzzballs with bobble-heads attached. But whenever the parents brought food to the nest, the bigger eaglet was quick to peck down his brother to keep him from getting a single bite. His aggression would have been understandable if food was scarce, or if the parents couldn’t be trusted to supply what he needed. But nothing could be further from the truth. The eaglets were being fed fish many times their size; there was more than enough for both of them.

The greedy eaglet reminds me of our own foolishness when we try to get for ourselves something that belongs to someone else (James 4:1-5). Conflicts erupt because we want something that God has given to a friend, colleague, relative, or neighbor. Instead of asking God for what we need, we try to get what He’s given to someone else (v.2). But God has something good for each of us. We don’t need what belongs to anyone else. And we certainly never need to harm anyone to get what we need.

Our loving heavenly Father has more than enough for everyone.

The secret of contentment is
To let the Lord supply;
Just do your part and put God first
And on His Word rely. â€"D. De Haan

Our needs will never exhaust God’s supply.

In 1970, the Beatles began work on a documentary intended to show how their music was made. But instead of revealing the process of musical creativity, the film pulled the curtain back on a display of self-interest and bickering. The band members were more concerned about their own songs than the advancement of the group. Shortly after the project was completed, the group dissolved in disharmony and broken friendships.

It’s an age-old problem. In the first century AD, the apostle Paul feared that the believers in the church at Philippi would fall into the trap of selfishness. He knew that when the desire for personal advancement overrides concern for one another, attitudes quickly become disruptive and divisive.

To counteract this dangerous tendency, Paul wrote, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others” (Phil. 2:3-4).

What would a documentary of your life reveal? Selfishness or selflessness? We must look out for one another, for selfless concern will prevent division and build unity in our church families.

Lord, let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way
That even when I kneel to pray My prayer will be for others. â€"Meigs

A heart that is focused on others will not be consumed with self. - Our Daily Bread

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There is a need to modernize the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in order to better serve the need for quality and objective investigations of cases.

Rep-elect Erico Aumentado said this is one of his priority bills when he goes back to Congress in July.

Aumentado finds it significant to reorganize and modernize the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

By reorganization and modernization of NBI, Aumentado means upgrading its equipment and enhancing the skills of its personnel through additional trainings and keep them abreast of the latest technology in investigation and stand at par the investigative and detective capabilities of the private sector.

The efforts must set the NBI one step ahead of criminal groups, Aumentado pointed out.
Aumentado learned of NBI's needs from his recent meeting with NBI Director Nestor Mantaring and Deputy Director for Administrative Services Virgilio Mendez in Manila.

In that meeting, Mantaring and Mendez Both officials explained NBI's current situation and shared to Aumentado their modernization wish list.

In the NBI modernization bill, Aumentado intends to lobby for an allocation for NBI to achieve the standard. - Angeline Valencia

Bohol Chronicle: Power consumption is increasing in the province as temperature continues to remain high during the past days due to the El Nino phenomenon.

Meanwhile, rains can not be expected until the middle or later part of June, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA).

The peak hours which used to be in the evening only during normal weather condition would already register even at mid-morning due to massive use of cooling systems in homes and offices.
Bohol requires 58 megawatts even during day time, according to power distributors here.

A check made the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) revealed that temperature has gone up to 35 degrees celcius recorded on the three hottest days this month, May 12, 15 and 21.
         
Reports from PAGASA said the hot and humid weather may take a little bit longer as the rains are expected to come in the middle or later part of June.

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The Irish Republic's Niamh Kavanagh is one of the contenders to win the Eurovision Song Contest after being voted through to Saturday's final.

The singer, who took the title in 1993, was one of 10 acts to qualify from the competition's second semi-final.

She will be joined by Welsh singer Jon Lilygreen, representing Cyprus, and the favourite Safura, from Azerbaijan.

Automatic finalists France, Germany, Spain, the UK and last year's winners Norway will also compete on Saturday.

There was upset for Swedish folk singer Anna Bergendahl, who was eliminated from the final despite being tipped for success. - BBC

By PIA - Bohol

IF by opera, one thinks only of the elite and bourgeois, think again.

In a rare show of artistic appreciation as a standing ovation in Bohol, the Philippine Opera Company (POC) no doubt has intimately touched the soul of the Boholano masa.

The POC, in its outreach program of bringing down the opera from its elitist pedestal touched base in Bohol through popularizing Filipino opera and music and drama appreciation for the masa, a standing ovation was in order.

Last Friday, at the Bohol Cultural Center, Boholanos had a rare and yet full night of moving renditions of POC’s well-loved repertoire of Filipino music in theaters and opera music.

Brought in Bohol by the Philippine Heritage Festival Incorporated for the Heritage Month of May, the POC was also sponsored by Bohol Provincial Government in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Tourism.

Claiming as the only opera company in the country that produces regular opera productions since 1999, the POC is managed by Filipino classical singers who want to share the celebration of the happy fusion of music and drama in the hope of developing the country’s new generation of classical singers and appreciative audiences.

“POC’s exquisite performance at the Bohol Cultural Center is definitely one important way of bringing to the masa in Bohol a live opera music performed by no less than world class singers doing a rare version of presenting the highly elitist opera to the Filipinos,” admits a cultural worker who paid P150 to claim a seat during the concert.

Performing the company’s package showcasing the evolution of Filipino music through song and movement, the Harana strings authentic indigenous and fuses with western theatrics and yet gets a way with it as it plays with religious tenacity on blending the performance with the native Philippine music traditions.

The Harana repertoire includes the Igorot Suite, which develops on the chanting and the classic Igorot dancing in its Philippine Skyland rituals.

It also brings to the audience the Muslim suite which ornately portrays in vivid colors the Arabian and Indo-Malaysian cultures moved by rhythmic music and dancing.

The Visayan suite was indeed received with ardent applause as the expression of the simple pleasures of living in the lowlands was sang in its most eloquent language through a dance theater.

The company also performed the Maraic Clara suite, while highlighted the women’s role in nation-building, and the contemporary classics ended the presentation prompting a standing for a classic display of theatrical power characteristic of operas. (PIA-Bohol)

By Rene U. Borromeo (The Freeman)

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) yesterday announced that at least 17 private colleges and a state college in Central Visayas will implement a tuition fee increase this year.

CHED regional director Amelia Biglete said her office had granted the requests of 17 private colleges and the public college to ensure that they provide decent salaries to their teachers, and improve their schools.

In an interview over dyLA yesterday afternoon, Biglete said the number of colleges granted a tuition fee increase was only 13 percent of the total 141 colleges in the region.

She said the Asian College of Technology in Cebu City, which is owned by City Councilor Rodrigo Abellanosa, was granted an eight percent tuition fee increase, while Benedicto Colleges in Mandaue City was granted 13 percent.

The Blessed Trinity College in Talibon Bohol will implement a 10 percent tuition fee hike; Bohol Wisdom School in Tagbilaran City, 30 percent; and Cebu Doctors’ University, five per cent.

The Cebu Institute of Technology will have seven percent tuition fee increase, Cebu Roosevelt Memorial Colleges, 14 percent, Foundation University of Dumaguete City, nine percent; and La Consolacion College in Bais City Negros Oriental, 15 percent.

Other tertiary schools implementing increase in tuitions are Saint Louie de Manila College in Bogo City, 9.5 percent; Saint Paul University in Dumaguete City, 10 percent; Saint Theresa’s College, five percent; Trinidad, Bohol Municipal College, three percent; University of San Carlos, 7.98 percent; University of San Jose-Recoletos, 7.5 percent, and University of Southern Philippines-Foundation, seven percent.

Although Biglete announced that there are 18 colleges granted with tuition increase, she only mentioned 16 schools.

According to her, they were glad that schools in the region heeded to their request not to implement tuition fee increases last year.

This is the reason why her office granted their request for a tuition fee hike this year.

School administrators promised that profit from the tuition fee increases will be used not only to upgrade the salaries of the teachers but to improve their facilities as well. â€"/LPM   (FREEMAN NEWS)

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