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#704
Talk of the Town / Ang Panata sa Poong Nazareno (Last Part)
January 10, 2013, 11:07:15 AM
Pananampalataya, Himala at Pag-asa:
Ang Panata sa Poong Nazareno (Last Part)
Milagro kay Marlon
Halos walong taon nang namamanata sa Mahal na Poong Hesus Nazareno ang 28-taong gulang na si Marlon Estero, may kapareha sa buhay at naitatawid ang pang-araw-araw na pangangailaÂngan sa pamamagitan ng pagtitinda ng gulay sa Quiapo.
Simple at hindi man kasing-garbo ng buhay ng mga spoiled brat na maÂyayaman, kapag nakaharap si Marlon ay madadama ang galak sa puso nito dahil sa dalisay na panaÂnampalataya sa Itim na Nazareno.
“Nagsimula po akong mamanata nang makaligtas po ako sa salvage. Napagkamalan po siguÂro akong pusher ng drugs dahil ‘yung lugar na pinagdamputan po sa akin sa Caloocan (City) ay malala ang bentahan ng iligal na droga.
“Dinala po ako sa isang hindi ko na po alam na lugar. Kinukuryente po ako. Dasal po ako nang dasal at lahat po yata ng santo na alam ko ay natawag ko na… ang hirap po, ang sakit-sakit ng katawan ko, at pagdating po sa akala ko’y katapusan ko na ay tumawag po ako at mataimtim na nagdasal sa Poong Nazareno.
“Pagkatapos po akong tortyurin, binaril po ako sa noo na tumagos sa kaliwa kong panga. Nabulag po ang isang mata ko dahil sa pagkakabaril sa akin.
“Wala na po akong malay-tao at nagising na sa ospital. Pero ang pagkakasabi po sa akin ay nakita ako ng isang mag-asawa na nakatira sa ilalim ng tulay na palutang-lutang po sa ilog.â€
“Naniniwala po ako na kaya po Niya ako binigyan ng pangalawang buhay ay para sa aking misyon na maging isang deboto ng Itim na Nazareno at maging mabuting tagaÂsunod po sa aral at pagsasakripisyo ng Panginoon,†ayon sa bulag na si Marlon.
Gumaling si Luisa
Isa pa sa deboto na nakaranas ng paghihimala ng Itim na Nazareno ay si Ma. Luisa Avancenia, 56-anyos, maybahay at taga-Caloocan City.
“Ako po ay nakaranas ng isang himala noong 2012. Mayroon akong bukol sa kanang dede ko. Namamanata po ako sa Poong Nazareno.
“Pagkatapos po ng 6 weeks, biglang nawala ang bukol ko… kaya alam ko po na isang himala ang nangyari sa akin… sa tulong ng pamamanata ko sa Poong Nazareno,†paghahayag ng ginang.
Pananampalataya at pag-asa
Taun-taon, makikita ang masidhing pananampalataya ng mga Katoliko sa poong Maykapal lalo na ng mga deboto pagsapit ng kapistaÂhan ng Itim na Nazareno sa Quiapo.
Totoo man ang mga himala, ang mahalaga ay hindi nawawalan ng pag-asa ang maraming Filipino at sa pamamagitan ng paÂnanampalataya sa Diyos ay hindi basta-basta bumibigay sa anumang pagsubok at hamon ng buhay.
Sabi nga ni Bishop Bacani, maraming deboto ang nagsasakriÂpisyo dahil tunay na dinidinig at tinutugunan ng Itim na Nazareno ang kahilingan ng mga manaÂnampalatayang Filipino kaya nagdudumilat ang katotohanan na marami ang namamanata sa Kanyang kapistahan.
Ang Panata sa Poong Nazareno (Last Part)
Milagro kay Marlon
Halos walong taon nang namamanata sa Mahal na Poong Hesus Nazareno ang 28-taong gulang na si Marlon Estero, may kapareha sa buhay at naitatawid ang pang-araw-araw na pangangailaÂngan sa pamamagitan ng pagtitinda ng gulay sa Quiapo.
Simple at hindi man kasing-garbo ng buhay ng mga spoiled brat na maÂyayaman, kapag nakaharap si Marlon ay madadama ang galak sa puso nito dahil sa dalisay na panaÂnampalataya sa Itim na Nazareno.
“Nagsimula po akong mamanata nang makaligtas po ako sa salvage. Napagkamalan po siguÂro akong pusher ng drugs dahil ‘yung lugar na pinagdamputan po sa akin sa Caloocan (City) ay malala ang bentahan ng iligal na droga.
“Dinala po ako sa isang hindi ko na po alam na lugar. Kinukuryente po ako. Dasal po ako nang dasal at lahat po yata ng santo na alam ko ay natawag ko na… ang hirap po, ang sakit-sakit ng katawan ko, at pagdating po sa akala ko’y katapusan ko na ay tumawag po ako at mataimtim na nagdasal sa Poong Nazareno.
“Pagkatapos po akong tortyurin, binaril po ako sa noo na tumagos sa kaliwa kong panga. Nabulag po ang isang mata ko dahil sa pagkakabaril sa akin.
“Wala na po akong malay-tao at nagising na sa ospital. Pero ang pagkakasabi po sa akin ay nakita ako ng isang mag-asawa na nakatira sa ilalim ng tulay na palutang-lutang po sa ilog.â€
“Naniniwala po ako na kaya po Niya ako binigyan ng pangalawang buhay ay para sa aking misyon na maging isang deboto ng Itim na Nazareno at maging mabuting tagaÂsunod po sa aral at pagsasakripisyo ng Panginoon,†ayon sa bulag na si Marlon.
Gumaling si Luisa
Isa pa sa deboto na nakaranas ng paghihimala ng Itim na Nazareno ay si Ma. Luisa Avancenia, 56-anyos, maybahay at taga-Caloocan City.
“Ako po ay nakaranas ng isang himala noong 2012. Mayroon akong bukol sa kanang dede ko. Namamanata po ako sa Poong Nazareno.
“Pagkatapos po ng 6 weeks, biglang nawala ang bukol ko… kaya alam ko po na isang himala ang nangyari sa akin… sa tulong ng pamamanata ko sa Poong Nazareno,†paghahayag ng ginang.
Pananampalataya at pag-asa
Taun-taon, makikita ang masidhing pananampalataya ng mga Katoliko sa poong Maykapal lalo na ng mga deboto pagsapit ng kapistaÂhan ng Itim na Nazareno sa Quiapo.
Totoo man ang mga himala, ang mahalaga ay hindi nawawalan ng pag-asa ang maraming Filipino at sa pamamagitan ng paÂnanampalataya sa Diyos ay hindi basta-basta bumibigay sa anumang pagsubok at hamon ng buhay.
Sabi nga ni Bishop Bacani, maraming deboto ang nagsasakriÂpisyo dahil tunay na dinidinig at tinutugunan ng Itim na Nazareno ang kahilingan ng mga manaÂnampalatayang Filipino kaya nagdudumilat ang katotohanan na marami ang namamanata sa Kanyang kapistahan.
#705
Talk of the Town / PNOY DUDA SA SHOOTOUT!
January 10, 2013, 11:04:14 AM
Inamin naman ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III na duda siya kung nagkaroon talaga ng shootout sa pagitan ng mga miyembro ng Quezon-PNP at sa 13-kataong napatay sa checkpoint.
Pinaliwanag ni PaÂngulong Aquino na kaya niya ipinag-utos ang malalimang imbestigasyon sa insidenteng ito ay dahil sa kanyang pagdududa sa mga natatanggap na impormasyon hinggil dito.
Sa inisyal na impormasyong nakuha ng PaÂngulo kay PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima, ay napaniwala umano siya na may naganap talagang shootout dahil kahit 13-katao ang napatay sa sakay ng dalawang SUV, may mga sugatan naman sa mga pulis na nagmamando ng checkpoint na patunay na may engkwentro.
“However, I asked for a lot of the details at doon sa details medyo napag-isip na ako doon sa salaysay na ibinigay, at Âbrining-up (bring up) ko ito kay Director General Purisima and (to) Secretary (Mar) Roxas also na to look into what seemingly was not normative or normal behavior,†ayon sa Pangulo.
Sinabi ng Pangulo na sa checkpoint, ang mga pulis ang pinapaulanan ng bala ng mga kriminal hanggang magkaroon ng habulan. “Dito parang sa checkpoint mismo, naubos lahat nu’ng supposed to be dadakpin,†pahayag ng Pangulo.
“Well, there will be justice. ‘Yung where it will lead to, I cannot tell at this point in time,†dagdag pa nito. (Boyet Jadulco)
15 pulis pinagulong ang ulo
Dahil sa alegasyong rubout at hindi “shootout†o kaya’y ambus ang nangyaÂring insidente na ikinamatay ng 13-katao sa Barangay Lumutan, Atimonan, Quezon, sinibak sa kanilang posisyon ang mga kasangkot na pulis at nirestrikto sa kani-kanilang kampo, ayon kay Department of ÂInterior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Manuel Roxas II.
Kasama sa mga sinibak si Quezon provincial police director Valeriano De Leon, Supt. Hansel Marantan na lider ng opÂrasyon at kasalukuyang deputy ng intelligence division ng Police Regional Office 4A, at Chief Inspector Grant Gollod, hepe ng Atimonan police.
Binibilang ng team ng Scene of the Crime OpeÂratives (SOCO) ang mga balang pumasok at lumaÂbas sa mga sasakyan ng mga napaslang sa Atimonan, Quezon. (Arnold Bandala)
Ang pagsibak ay batay sa rekomendasyon ng fact-finding committee na binuo ng Philippine NatioÂnal Police (PNP) national headquarters sa pangunguna ni Chief Supt. Federico Castro, deputy director ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).
Sa press conference kahapon, sinabi nina Roxas at PNP chief, Gen. Alan Purisima na lumabag sa standard operating procedure ang mga pulis sa kanilang ‘operasyon’.
Base ito sa resulta ng imbestigasyon ng fact-finding committee ng pulisya.
Ilan sa mga paglabag na naitala ay kawalan ng signage sa ikalawang checkpoint; walang marked police vehicle; at hindi nakauniporme ang mga pulis.
Ipinagtataka rin ng mga superior ni Marantan kung bakit naroon siya sa operasyon, gayung intelligence officer siya.
Sa iba pang kaganapan, nabatid sa imbestigasyon na 15 pulis at 25 naka-fatigue camouflage na sundalo sa pangunguna ni Lt. Col. Monico Abang ang nasa operasyon.
Ang unang SUV ay nagtamo ng 186 tama ng bala, samantalang mga 50 naman sa ikalawang sasakÂyan. P265 libo lang ang narekober na cash sa mga sasakyan; may 15 armas ang narekober dito, kabilang ang 13 lisensiyado at 1 ang walang lisensya at isa ang may mission order ng PNP. Walo rin sa 13 nasawi ang nagpositibo sa paraffin test. (JBSalarzon/Rossel Calderon)
Pinaliwanag ni PaÂngulong Aquino na kaya niya ipinag-utos ang malalimang imbestigasyon sa insidenteng ito ay dahil sa kanyang pagdududa sa mga natatanggap na impormasyon hinggil dito.
Sa inisyal na impormasyong nakuha ng PaÂngulo kay PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima, ay napaniwala umano siya na may naganap talagang shootout dahil kahit 13-katao ang napatay sa sakay ng dalawang SUV, may mga sugatan naman sa mga pulis na nagmamando ng checkpoint na patunay na may engkwentro.
“However, I asked for a lot of the details at doon sa details medyo napag-isip na ako doon sa salaysay na ibinigay, at Âbrining-up (bring up) ko ito kay Director General Purisima and (to) Secretary (Mar) Roxas also na to look into what seemingly was not normative or normal behavior,†ayon sa Pangulo.
Sinabi ng Pangulo na sa checkpoint, ang mga pulis ang pinapaulanan ng bala ng mga kriminal hanggang magkaroon ng habulan. “Dito parang sa checkpoint mismo, naubos lahat nu’ng supposed to be dadakpin,†pahayag ng Pangulo.
“Well, there will be justice. ‘Yung where it will lead to, I cannot tell at this point in time,†dagdag pa nito. (Boyet Jadulco)
15 pulis pinagulong ang ulo
Dahil sa alegasyong rubout at hindi “shootout†o kaya’y ambus ang nangyaÂring insidente na ikinamatay ng 13-katao sa Barangay Lumutan, Atimonan, Quezon, sinibak sa kanilang posisyon ang mga kasangkot na pulis at nirestrikto sa kani-kanilang kampo, ayon kay Department of ÂInterior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Manuel Roxas II.
Kasama sa mga sinibak si Quezon provincial police director Valeriano De Leon, Supt. Hansel Marantan na lider ng opÂrasyon at kasalukuyang deputy ng intelligence division ng Police Regional Office 4A, at Chief Inspector Grant Gollod, hepe ng Atimonan police.
Binibilang ng team ng Scene of the Crime OpeÂratives (SOCO) ang mga balang pumasok at lumaÂbas sa mga sasakyan ng mga napaslang sa Atimonan, Quezon. (Arnold Bandala)
Ang pagsibak ay batay sa rekomendasyon ng fact-finding committee na binuo ng Philippine NatioÂnal Police (PNP) national headquarters sa pangunguna ni Chief Supt. Federico Castro, deputy director ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).
Sa press conference kahapon, sinabi nina Roxas at PNP chief, Gen. Alan Purisima na lumabag sa standard operating procedure ang mga pulis sa kanilang ‘operasyon’.
Base ito sa resulta ng imbestigasyon ng fact-finding committee ng pulisya.
Ilan sa mga paglabag na naitala ay kawalan ng signage sa ikalawang checkpoint; walang marked police vehicle; at hindi nakauniporme ang mga pulis.
Ipinagtataka rin ng mga superior ni Marantan kung bakit naroon siya sa operasyon, gayung intelligence officer siya.
Sa iba pang kaganapan, nabatid sa imbestigasyon na 15 pulis at 25 naka-fatigue camouflage na sundalo sa pangunguna ni Lt. Col. Monico Abang ang nasa operasyon.
Ang unang SUV ay nagtamo ng 186 tama ng bala, samantalang mga 50 naman sa ikalawang sasakÂyan. P265 libo lang ang narekober na cash sa mga sasakyan; may 15 armas ang narekober dito, kabilang ang 13 lisensiyado at 1 ang walang lisensya at isa ang may mission order ng PNP. Walo rin sa 13 nasawi ang nagpositibo sa paraffin test. (JBSalarzon/Rossel Calderon)
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#723
Bible Study / How to Know God
January 10, 2013, 10:22:05 AM
You were designed to know God in a personal wayâ€"to have a relationship with Him, through His Son, Jesus Christ. How do you start a relationship with God?
1. Realize that you are a sinner.
No matter how good a life we try to live, we still fall miserably short of being a good person. That is because we are all sinners. The Bible says, "No one is goodâ€"not even one." We cannot become who we are supposed to be without Jesus Christ.
2. Recognize that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.
The Bible tells us that "God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while were still sinners." This is the Good News, that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place when we least deserved it.
3. Repent of your sin.
The Bible tells us, "Repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away." The word repent means to change our direction in life. Instead of running from God, we can run toward Him.
4. Receive Jesus Christ into your life.
Becoming a Christian is not merely believing some creed or going to church. It is having Christ Himself take residence in your life and heart. Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in . . ." If you would like to have a relationship with Christ, simply pray this prayer and mean it in your heart.
"Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I believe You died for my sins. Right now, I turn from my sins and open the door of my heart and life. I confess You as my personal Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me. Amen."
1. Realize that you are a sinner.
No matter how good a life we try to live, we still fall miserably short of being a good person. That is because we are all sinners. The Bible says, "No one is goodâ€"not even one." We cannot become who we are supposed to be without Jesus Christ.
2. Recognize that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.
The Bible tells us that "God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while were still sinners." This is the Good News, that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place when we least deserved it.
3. Repent of your sin.
The Bible tells us, "Repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away." The word repent means to change our direction in life. Instead of running from God, we can run toward Him.
4. Receive Jesus Christ into your life.
Becoming a Christian is not merely believing some creed or going to church. It is having Christ Himself take residence in your life and heart. Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in . . ." If you would like to have a relationship with Christ, simply pray this prayer and mean it in your heart.
"Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I believe You died for my sins. Right now, I turn from my sins and open the door of my heart and life. I confess You as my personal Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me. Amen."
#724
Inspiration & Hope / Who Is A Real Friend?
January 10, 2013, 10:19:39 AM
A Friend Is...
Anyone can stand by you when you are right,
But a Friend will stand by you even when you are wrong.
A simple friend identifies himself when he calls.
A real friend doesn't have to.
A simple friend opens a conversation
With a full news bulletin on his life.
A real friend says, "What's new with you?"
A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.
A real friend says,
"You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years.
Get off your duff and do something about it."
A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.
A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook
And stays late to help you clean.
A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.
A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over
When you have an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after
You've had a fight.
A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!
Anyone can stand by you when you are right,
But a Friend will stand by you even when you are wrong.
A simple friend identifies himself when he calls.
A real friend doesn't have to.
A simple friend opens a conversation
With a full news bulletin on his life.
A real friend says, "What's new with you?"
A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.
A real friend says,
"You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years.
Get off your duff and do something about it."
A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.
A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook
And stays late to help you clean.
A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.
A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over
When you have an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after
You've had a fight.
A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!
#725
Philippine Business News / National flu outbreak widens
January 10, 2013, 10:16:46 AM
CBS News) The national flu epidemic is getting worse by the day: On Wednesday, Boston -- with a population of at least 600,000 -- declared a public health emergency after the virus killed more than a dozen people.
At least three more states -- Montana, South Dakota and Arizona -- are now reporting widespread flu, bringing the total to 44 states. And the CDC says the percentage of people going to the hospital for treatment of flu symptoms has doubled in the past month.
The emergency in Boston was declared after confirmed cases of flu reached 700. There were just 70 at this time last year. Across the state, 18 patients have died.
"In the last two weeks alone we've doubled our number," said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission. "So, if we continue at this rate to see new cases, we'll have an explosion of flu in the city of Boston. We really need to get ahead of it at this point in time."
Flu surge leads to Boston public health emergency
Centers for Disease Control: High level of flu reports in 29 states
To do that, officials are urging vaccination for everyone six months and older. Clinics will be giving free shots this weekend.
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania is getting as many as 100 patients a day with flu-like symptoms. A tent has been set up to handle the less serious cases.
"We need a full functioning active emergency dept for the community," said nurse Terry Burger, who is in charge of infection control. "And this just enables us to see the patients that are not as sick. So mild illness, mild injuries...see them quickly, and then discharge them."
About 60 miles south in Chadds Ford, the entire Coan family got the vaccine, but eight-year-old Alex came down with the flu anyway.
"You cough a lot," he said, "kind of sneeze a little, lay in bed all day."
His mother Christine said: "As a mom, I was very disappointed that he got the flu, because I had to fight him tooth and nail to get the flu shot."
In recent years, the vaccine has been about 60 to 70 percent effective at preventing the flu. Recently, scientists discovered this year's vaccine is not protecting against a specific strain.
Dr. William Shaffner, who is on the panel that decides what goes in the vaccine, said: "There is an influenza B strain that's out there, an additional strain that's causing about 10 percent of the mischief. And that's not in the vaccine and that accounts for some of the influenza that's out there."
The CDC told CBS News this year's vaccine is still very well-matched to the strains that are out there. Even when the flu vaccine does not prevent the flu, it can still stop complications including pneumonia and even death.
As for how does this outbreak compares historically -- a lot of people don't realize that the flu varies in intensity from year to year. In some years it's mild; it could be moderate; or it gets to be severe. The CDC told CBS News that this is a moderate to severe season, but it's well within what's historically a range of normal.
At least three more states -- Montana, South Dakota and Arizona -- are now reporting widespread flu, bringing the total to 44 states. And the CDC says the percentage of people going to the hospital for treatment of flu symptoms has doubled in the past month.
The emergency in Boston was declared after confirmed cases of flu reached 700. There were just 70 at this time last year. Across the state, 18 patients have died.
"In the last two weeks alone we've doubled our number," said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission. "So, if we continue at this rate to see new cases, we'll have an explosion of flu in the city of Boston. We really need to get ahead of it at this point in time."
Flu surge leads to Boston public health emergency
Centers for Disease Control: High level of flu reports in 29 states
To do that, officials are urging vaccination for everyone six months and older. Clinics will be giving free shots this weekend.
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania is getting as many as 100 patients a day with flu-like symptoms. A tent has been set up to handle the less serious cases.
"We need a full functioning active emergency dept for the community," said nurse Terry Burger, who is in charge of infection control. "And this just enables us to see the patients that are not as sick. So mild illness, mild injuries...see them quickly, and then discharge them."
About 60 miles south in Chadds Ford, the entire Coan family got the vaccine, but eight-year-old Alex came down with the flu anyway.
"You cough a lot," he said, "kind of sneeze a little, lay in bed all day."
His mother Christine said: "As a mom, I was very disappointed that he got the flu, because I had to fight him tooth and nail to get the flu shot."
In recent years, the vaccine has been about 60 to 70 percent effective at preventing the flu. Recently, scientists discovered this year's vaccine is not protecting against a specific strain.
Dr. William Shaffner, who is on the panel that decides what goes in the vaccine, said: "There is an influenza B strain that's out there, an additional strain that's causing about 10 percent of the mischief. And that's not in the vaccine and that accounts for some of the influenza that's out there."
The CDC told CBS News this year's vaccine is still very well-matched to the strains that are out there. Even when the flu vaccine does not prevent the flu, it can still stop complications including pneumonia and even death.
As for how does this outbreak compares historically -- a lot of people don't realize that the flu varies in intensity from year to year. In some years it's mild; it could be moderate; or it gets to be severe. The CDC told CBS News that this is a moderate to severe season, but it's well within what's historically a range of normal.
#726
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 02:33:30 PM
sakto gyud ni fr. aw dr. lorenzo diay...
subay nata sa maayong dalan.....
subay nata sa maayong dalan.....
#727
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 02:28:39 PM
kami neth kay lahi pud... naanad na sa gaba... hehehe
murag mahimo jud kang nag babalaod sa dha neth tungod sa imong pagkanindot nga kasing2x...
murag mahimo jud kang nag babalaod sa dha neth tungod sa imong pagkanindot nga kasing2x...
#728
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 09, 2013, 02:25:53 PM
puhon..
#729
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 09, 2013, 02:16:43 PM
yap, timan-e jud na.. panagsa ra baya ko mo offer..
dili nata anag seduce oi kay manimbawt akong balhibo wala ra ba koy lahutay og mahinayon simbako... hehe
dili nata anag seduce oi kay manimbawt akong balhibo wala ra ba koy lahutay og mahinayon simbako... hehe
#730
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 09, 2013, 01:57:41 PM
layo ra sa municipio oi... murag barrio man ni... puro ka humayan sa akng papa ang kilid... ni ari ra gani mi para mag au sa makina sa pag galing.... uli ra sad mi Cebu karon kay naa pa ra ba mi tagsa2x ka trabaho...
by d way if mosuroy diay ka unya sa Cebu or sa Lapu-Lapu City, ingna ko kay sugaton tka hehe... pag roro lang Jetafi gikan dunggo sa Hilton Hotel sa Lapu-Lapu City... Yaw lang pang seduce ha mangaon lang ta og Alberto's pizza...
by d way if mosuroy diay ka unya sa Cebu or sa Lapu-Lapu City, ingna ko kay sugaton tka hehe... pag roro lang Jetafi gikan dunggo sa Hilton Hotel sa Lapu-Lapu City... Yaw lang pang seduce ha mangaon lang ta og Alberto's pizza...
#731
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 01:42:47 PM
yap dili ko padala idol lorenz..
#732
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 01:37:41 PM
wala intawn ko kasuway mg oi... simbako intawn..
#733
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 09, 2013, 01:34:21 PM
ari dayon kay naa sa MAGTOLIS Rice Mill... ako ra usa gabantay diri sa among galingan og bugas... tan-awon nato og ma seduce bako aw ikaw d i...
#734
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 01:27:44 PM
wow ka nindot pagka sulta... ingon ana akong gusto unya na ang lalaki inig edad nakomog 35...
#735
Tira-Pasagad | Saksak-Sinagol / Dalaga sumambot ng P95M sa lotto
January 09, 2013, 01:23:44 PM
Isang dalagang sari-sari store owner ang pinakabagong miyembro ng 'millioÂnaires club' matapos masambot ang jackpot ng Grand Lotto draw na may premyong umabot sa P95 milyon.
Ayon kay Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager Ferdinand Rojas II, solong nakuha ng 38-anyos na dalaga ang winning combination na 55-38-13-28-41-39 ng Grand Lotto na binola noong Sabado ng gabi.
Nabatid na tumaya lamang P20 ang dalaga at tumataya ito sa pamamagitan ng lucky pick. Pitong taon na umanong tumataya sa lotto ang winner mula sa Laguna.
Plano ng winner na bayaran ang kanyang housing loan matapos makatanggap ng 'forfeiture notice' mula sa bangko na kanilang pinagkakautangan.
Balak din ng winner na ipamahagi ang kanyang napanalunan sa kanyang mga kapatid at mag-invest sa iba pang negosyo.
Nalaman lang winner na napanalunan niya ang jackpot prize ng Grand Lotto nang bumili ito ng diyaryo sa katabi nilang tindahan.
Ayon kay Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager Ferdinand Rojas II, solong nakuha ng 38-anyos na dalaga ang winning combination na 55-38-13-28-41-39 ng Grand Lotto na binola noong Sabado ng gabi.
Nabatid na tumaya lamang P20 ang dalaga at tumataya ito sa pamamagitan ng lucky pick. Pitong taon na umanong tumataya sa lotto ang winner mula sa Laguna.
Plano ng winner na bayaran ang kanyang housing loan matapos makatanggap ng 'forfeiture notice' mula sa bangko na kanilang pinagkakautangan.
Balak din ng winner na ipamahagi ang kanyang napanalunan sa kanyang mga kapatid at mag-invest sa iba pang negosyo.
Nalaman lang winner na napanalunan niya ang jackpot prize ng Grand Lotto nang bumili ito ng diyaryo sa katabi nilang tindahan.
#736
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 09, 2013, 01:21:15 PM
hala naa ra ba ko sa Trinidad karon.... asa man dapit sa ubay MG?
#737
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 01:18:59 PM
ikaw man akong pilion neth... aw girl man diay ka noh..
#738
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 12:12:30 PM
basin unya og matinuod bai hubs... naka feel na raba ko gamay...
#739
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 09, 2013, 08:09:26 AMQuote from: czarprince on January 08, 2013, 08:46:13 PMsort of... simbako intawn...
Are you gay? hehe
#740
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 08, 2013, 05:24:25 PM
pssst ayaw saba ato2x ra na ha...
#741
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 08, 2013, 05:17:25 PM
akong ingnon "wala tay unay pareha ra ta og dugo"...
#742
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 08, 2013, 05:02:32 PM
yap, fan gyud sa akong baby pero ako kay dili na... dili ko ganahan og b***t....
#743
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 08, 2013, 04:54:58 PMQuote from: Lollapalooza on January 08, 2013, 04:46:26 PMdili na karon neth...
hmm i'm guessing you're a Justin Gayber fan Engr? heheheheh jowks
Quote from: islander on January 08, 2013, 04:53:26 PMyou have point bai islander....
how can there be proof when there's nothing to show because the balls aren't there?
#744
Health and Food / Re: Ola, MX-3, but is StemEnhance not far behind?
January 08, 2013, 04:51:34 PM
madala pa gihapon na stemEnhance oi... lolit solis bitaw na lalaki og samot paghuman og pa stemcell...
#745
Health and Food / Re: Ola, MX-3, but is StemEnhance not far behind?
January 08, 2013, 04:44:47 PM
apil good looks kay mo bata man ka...
#746
Health and Food / Re: Ola, MX-3, but is StemEnhance not far behind?
January 08, 2013, 04:31:53 PM
bai hubs... kanang serious pud na tubag...
#747
Philippine Provinces / Re: Party dinilig ng dugo: 2 patay, 4 sugatan
January 08, 2013, 04:23:04 PM
imo man gipatay og samot ang patay bai islander...
#748
Talk of the Town / Re: The Truth About Justin Bieber: Find Out Now
January 08, 2013, 04:09:42 PM
sure? proof beh?
#749
Philippine Provinces / Re: Party dinilig ng dugo: 2 patay, 4 sugatan
January 08, 2013, 04:08:40 PM
nasuya guro sa bag-ong balay ni Mendoza...
#750
Bible Study / Re: Daily Scriptural Verse
January 08, 2013, 12:50:18 PMQuote from: Lollapalooza on January 08, 2013, 11:30:58 AM
'For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.' Isaiah 9:6
#751
Philippine Provinces / Party dinilig ng dugo: 2 patay, 4 sugatan
January 08, 2013, 12:48:51 PM
Patay ang dalawa katao at sugatan ang 4 na iba pa nang bulabugin sila ng putok at pagsabog ng granada na kagagawan ng tatlong hindi pa nakikilalang salarin habang napa-party sa loob ng compound ng bagong tayong bahay sa bayan ng Bocaue, Bulacan kamakalawa ng gabi.
Ayon sa inisyal na report ng Bocaue police, tatlo ang salarin na sumugod dakong alas-otso ng gabi.
Sa imbestigasyon, dead-on-the-spot si Raymond Samson nang sunud-sunod na putukan ng mga salarin pagkatapos nitong pagbuksan ang mga ito ng gate.
Pagkapasok sa compound ay isinunod na pinutukan ang may-ari ng bagong gawang bahay na si Mario Mendoza.
Isinugod sa ospital ang biktima pero binawian ng buhay habang nilalapatan ng lunas.
Matapos barilin si Mendoza ay naghagis ang isa sa mga suspek ng granada sa kumpulan ng mga tao at saka tumakas. Tinamaan ng shrapnel sina Valeriano Nicolas, Raul Samonte, Ronaldo dela Cruz at Alberto Alberto, pawang nasa tamang edad. Sinasabing si Mendoza ang target ng pag-atake.
Ayon sa inisyal na report ng Bocaue police, tatlo ang salarin na sumugod dakong alas-otso ng gabi.
Sa imbestigasyon, dead-on-the-spot si Raymond Samson nang sunud-sunod na putukan ng mga salarin pagkatapos nitong pagbuksan ang mga ito ng gate.
Pagkapasok sa compound ay isinunod na pinutukan ang may-ari ng bagong gawang bahay na si Mario Mendoza.
Isinugod sa ospital ang biktima pero binawian ng buhay habang nilalapatan ng lunas.
Matapos barilin si Mendoza ay naghagis ang isa sa mga suspek ng granada sa kumpulan ng mga tao at saka tumakas. Tinamaan ng shrapnel sina Valeriano Nicolas, Raul Samonte, Ronaldo dela Cruz at Alberto Alberto, pawang nasa tamang edad. Sinasabing si Mendoza ang target ng pag-atake.
#753
General Topic / Re: Happy New Year!!!
January 07, 2013, 03:27:15 PM
palihug ko translate bai hubs...
#754
LGU Philippines / Re: SANGGOL IBINEBENTA NI MOMMY NG P15K
January 07, 2013, 03:24:05 PM
anah... dili mawala ang gilok og dili mapaskan og agungal...
hehe
hehe
#755
General Topic / Re: Happy New Year!!!
January 07, 2013, 03:22:54 PM
dili pa minyo... angkan ra...hehe
#756
LGU Philippines / Re: SANGGOL IBINEBENTA NI MOMMY NG P15K
January 07, 2013, 03:12:27 PM
di kaagwanta sa kagilok sa biga... maong mang laki nalang..
#757
LGU Philippines / Re: SANGGOL IBINEBENTA NI MOMMY NG P15K
January 07, 2013, 02:33:28 PM
aw sorry...
#758
LGU Philippines / Re: SANGGOL IBINEBENTA NI MOMMY NG P15K
January 07, 2013, 02:19:45 PM
ingon gyud diay ng mga babae.. dili ka agwanta... hehe
#759
LGU Philippines / SANGGOL IBINEBENTA NI MOMMY NG P15K
January 07, 2013, 02:11:19 PM
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan --- 'Di na nakapalag pa ang isang 31-anyos na ginang matapos mahulog sa ikinasang entrapment operation ng mga operatiba ng National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Cagayan Valley sa kasong child abuse at human trafficking sa lungsod na ito kamakalawa.
Kinilala ng NBI-Cagayan Valley ang suspek na si Grace Aligado, nangungupahan lamang sa Soldiers Hill sa nabangit na lugar at tubong Antique.
Ayon sa NBI-Cagayan Valley, nagpasaklolo ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 2 matapos itawag ng isang concerned citizen mula sa Soldiers Hill sa lungsod na may nagbebenta ng sanggol sa halagang P15,000.
Dito na agad umaksyon ang NBI at DSWD kung saan ay isang operatiba ang nagpanggap na buyer ng sanggol dala ang marked money kung saan dito na hinuli ang suspek kasama ang paslit na wala pang isang buwan.
Nabatid din sa NBI na ang sanggol ay iniluwal nito sa Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) noong Disyembre 13, 2012 matapos mabuntis sa kanyang kasintahan mula sa lalawigan ng Apayao at kaya niya umano ito ibinebenta ay upang pagtakpan ang kasalanang nagawa dahil ito ay may asawa sa Antique.
Sa kasalukuyan ay hinihintay na lamang ng NBI ang kumpirmasyon mula sa CVMC kung dito nga talaga isinilang ang sanggol at kung tunay ngang ina ng paslit ang suspek habang nasa kostodiya ng awtoridad.
Kinilala ng NBI-Cagayan Valley ang suspek na si Grace Aligado, nangungupahan lamang sa Soldiers Hill sa nabangit na lugar at tubong Antique.
Ayon sa NBI-Cagayan Valley, nagpasaklolo ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 2 matapos itawag ng isang concerned citizen mula sa Soldiers Hill sa lungsod na may nagbebenta ng sanggol sa halagang P15,000.
Dito na agad umaksyon ang NBI at DSWD kung saan ay isang operatiba ang nagpanggap na buyer ng sanggol dala ang marked money kung saan dito na hinuli ang suspek kasama ang paslit na wala pang isang buwan.
Nabatid din sa NBI na ang sanggol ay iniluwal nito sa Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) noong Disyembre 13, 2012 matapos mabuntis sa kanyang kasintahan mula sa lalawigan ng Apayao at kaya niya umano ito ibinebenta ay upang pagtakpan ang kasalanang nagawa dahil ito ay may asawa sa Antique.
Sa kasalukuyan ay hinihintay na lamang ng NBI ang kumpirmasyon mula sa CVMC kung dito nga talaga isinilang ang sanggol at kung tunay ngang ina ng paslit ang suspek habang nasa kostodiya ng awtoridad.
#760
General Topic / Re: Happy New Year!!!
January 07, 2013, 12:20:01 PM #761
General Topic / Happy New Year!!!
January 07, 2013, 12:19:15 PM
happy au si votives nga gisugat niya ang bag-ong tuig kuyog sa iyang anak og mama sa iyang anak....
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#763
LGU Philippines / Re: Suspendidong gobernador sa Sugbo gihangyo nga mosayaw sa grand finale sa Sinulog
January 07, 2013, 09:23:29 AM
nang gawas na gyud ang baho ni gwen... pasalamat sd ta ni magpale kay madawat sa mga sa kapitolyo ang ilang bonus karon adlawa...
#764
Inspiration & Hope / Re: Rags to Riches
January 07, 2013, 08:26:01 AM
anam anama og basa.. dili ko kahibaw mo samarice...
Quote from: BolBuhol on January 04, 2013, 06:18:03 PM
kapoy basa haw... e samarice mo na lang gid to volts...
#765
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 04:12:01 PMQuote from: islander on January 04, 2013, 04:06:45 PM
na, hala... update us unya ha?
unsay update na wala naman mag pahibaw si MG os asa cya dapit adtuon... hehe
#766
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 04:10:58 PM
na mangluod najud ni si lolla if dili na mo dokdok si bai piks...
#767
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Pareson kaayo sila
January 04, 2013, 04:08:17 PM
laki: unsa maning imo inday nanga pikot naman ni..
babaye: unsay nangapikot imo manang mangalukot....
babaye: unsay nangapikot imo manang mangalukot....
#768
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 04:03:01 PM
I'm a woman in love na diay...
#769
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Pareson kaayo sila
January 04, 2013, 03:59:55 PM
kumbate pa diay ng 89 yrs old?
#770
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 03:58:56 PM
a baby is now a lady diay... mura d i og ikaw neth... dalagita nah.. hehe
#771
Philippine Business News / Re: Girl's death triggers gun debate in Philippines...
January 04, 2013, 03:57:58 PM
naanad naman mi ani bai jorge...
#772
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Pareson kaayo sila
January 04, 2013, 03:36:50 PM
ipaagi gyud diay sa tinarong bai hubs.... mao nay nindot...
#773
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 03:22:32 PM
wala neth oi... maau raman ko sulti walay kurso...
sama sa usa ka kanta, akoy pinanganak na torpe dyan sa tabi2x..
sama sa usa ka kanta, akoy pinanganak na torpe dyan sa tabi2x..
#774
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 03:18:06 PM
sagdi lang gud bai islander... na haggit man gud ko... hehe
#775
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 02:50:34 PMQuote from: mg on January 04, 2013, 02:11:57 PMHow so?
suwayi kuno votives ug matablan ba ko
Asa man ka dapit ron ma'am mg kay anhaon tka?
#776
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Pareson kaayo sila
January 04, 2013, 02:40:47 PM
nahurot na tanan paningkamot.. mao lang gihapon... hehe
bahalag pobre nalang basta malipayon....
bahalag pobre nalang basta malipayon....
#777
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 02:02:40 PM
puedi ako ang mohimo nimong normal ma'am mg... hehe jowk ra...
#778
General Topic / Re: No more fireworks? Quadratinid meteor shower to light up nights
January 04, 2013, 09:45:23 AM
yap... i wish to wish the wish you wish to wish...
#779
Inspiration & Hope / Rags to Riches
January 04, 2013, 09:43:27 AM
In a time of rising inequality and sluggish growth, rags to riches stories are harder than ever to come by. Indeed, many of the richest people in the world were born into their wealth.
That makes it even more essential that we remember the people who started with nothing, and through hard work, talent, grit, and a bit of luck, managed to rise to the very top.
These 20 stories remind us that it's possible to overcome just about anything, from parents passing away, to extreme poverty, and more.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster escaped a Brazilian shantytown to become Petrobras' first female CEO
financialtimes/FlickrThe current head of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras spent her childhood in Morro do Adeus, an extremely poor neighborhood that became a shantytown. Her mother worked constantly and her father was an alcoholic. She collected cans and paper to make extra money.
She started as an intern at Petrobras in 1978, but broke through barriers to become the company's first female head of field engineering. Bloomberg reports that her tireless work ethic has earned her the nickname Caveirao, for the armored vehicles police use to clean up crime ridden Brazilian neighborhoods. She became the company's first female CEO in February.
Source: Bloomberg
Do Won Chang worked three jobs to make ends meet before starting Forever 21
LAEDCorp via YouTubeDo Won Chang and his wife, Jin Sook, moved to America from Korea in 1981. When they first arrived, Do Won was forced to work three jobs at the same time to support them, as a janitor, a gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop. Eventually, they were able to open their first clothing store in 1984.
That one store grew into Forever 21, which pioneered fast fashion and is now a multi-national, 480 store empire that generates around $3 billion in sales a year. It's a family business, with the couple's daughters Linda and Esther helping to run the company.
Source: Forbes
Harold Simmons grew up in a shack without electricity and became a multi-billionaire
Now a billionaire several times over, Harold Simmons grew up in the extremely rural town of Golden, Texas, where he lived in a "shack" that had no plumbing or electricity. He still managed to make it to the University of Texas, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. and masters in Economics.
His first venture was a series of drugstores, the first of which was almost entirely financed with a loan. That became a 100 store chain that he sold to Eckerd for $50 million. From there he went on to become a master of the corporate buyout. He currently owns 6 companies traded on the NYSE, including Titanium Metals Corporation, the world's largest producer of titanium.
Source: Forbes, D Magazine
Zdenek Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with only $50 and is now a coal magnate
TuckIn 1980, when he was 19 years old, Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with a $50 dollar bill wrapped in plastic wrap hidden in a sandwich. He made it to Lake Tahoe, where he washed dishes at a Harrah's casino.
He eventually got an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Dartmouth. He went into banking, and eventually back to his home company, opening Credit Suisse First Boston's first officer in Prague after the Wall fell. presides over a coal company with a $2.52 billion market cap and eight production sites across Central Europe, which broke ground on the first privately owned coal mine in Central Europe since 1992.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary to become one of the world's most successful investors
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary after his father paid a government employee, whose Jewish wife he had helped hide in the countryside, to let him pose as his godson. After the war, he escaped the country, which had come under communist rule, in 1947, to stay with relatives in London. Soros put himself through the London School of Economics by working as a waiter and railway porter.
After graduating, Soros sold goods at a souvenir shop before writing managing directors at merchant banks in London until he finally got a job. That was the beginning of a long and enormously successful career in finance, including his famous bet against the British pound in 1992, which earned him more than a billion dollars in profit in one swoop.
Source: Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, The Telegraph
Guy Laliberté ate fire on the streets before introducing Cirque du Soleil to the world
The Canadian-born Laliberté began his circus career busking on the streets: playing accordion, walking on stilts and eating fire. He gambled by bringing a successful troupe from Quebec to the Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1987, with no return fare. The bet paid off, and the circus group was eventually brought to Las Vegas, where they became the world famous Cirque du Soleil we know today.
Today, Laliberté is the CEO of Cirque, a professional poker player and space tourist, with a total net-worth of $2.5 billion.
Source: Celebs101
John Paul DeJoria lived in his car before John Paul Mitchell Systems took off
Eric Henderson As a first generation American, DeJoria had it rough from the beginning. His German and Italian parents divorced when he was two, and he sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family before he turned 10. He was eventually sent to live in a foster home in Los Angeles.
DeJoria spent some time as an L.A. gang member before joining the military. After trying his hand as an employee for Redken Laboratories, he took a $700 dollar loan and created John Paul Mitchell Systems. He hawked the company's shampoo door-to-door, living out of his car while doing so. But the quality of the product could not be denied, and now JPM Systems is worth over $900 million annually. He also created Patron Tequila and has a hand in a variety of industries, from diamonds to music.
Source: Forbes
Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side and now runs Xerox
Before the Lower East Side was cool, it was a hub for gangs. Burns was raised by her single mother in a housing project there. Her mother ran a daycare center out of her home and ironed shirts so that she could afford to send Ursula to Catholic school. She went to NYU, and from there became an intern at Xerox.
She's now Xerox's CEO and chairwoman. Burns is the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 Company.
Source: Bloomberg
Howard Schultz grew up in the Brooklyn projects before becoming CEO of Starbucks
Robert SorboSchultz grew up in the Bayview projects of Canarsie, Brooklyn. He always wanted to climb "over the fence" and go beyond the lifestyle provided by his truck-driving father. Despite destitution, he excelled at sports and earned a football scholarship to the University of Northern Michigan.
After graduating with a degree in communications, Schultz went to work for Xerox before discovering a small coffee shop called Starbucks. Enamored with the coffee, he left Xerox to become the company's chief executive in 1987. After beginning with 60 shops, Starbucks now has over 16,000 outlets worldwide, giving Schultz a net worth of $1.5 billion. He even went on hiatus and came back as CEO to lead Starbucks out of a decline.
Source: Mirror News
Li Ka-shing quit school at 15 to work in a plastics factory and is now the world's richest East Asian
The family of Li Ka-shing fled mainland China for Hong Kong in 1940, and Li's father died of tuberculosis when he was just 15. Quitting school to work to support his family, Li made plastics and later plastic flowers for U.S. export.
By 1950 Li was able to start his own company, Cheung Kong Industries. While at first manufacturing plastics, the company later moved into real estate. Similarly, Li expanded his ownership of different companies, and today has his hand in banking, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets, hotels, domestic transportation, airports, electric power, steel production, ports and shipping, and investing in cool apps, among other industries.
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Francois Pinault was a high school dropout who now leads luxury goods group PPR
Pinault quit high school in 1947 after being teased for his poor background. He joined his family's timber trading business and in the 1970s began buying up smaller firms. His ruthless business tactics â€" including slashing jobs and selling his timber company only to buy it back at a fraction of the cost when the market crashed â€" gave him a reputation as a "predator." He had similar tactics in the real estate business, and did well buying French junk bonds and taking government money to save businesses from bankruptcy.
His self-made worth helped him start PPR, a luxury goods group that sells brands like Gucci and Stella McCartney. At one point the richest man in France, Pinault and his family are now worth an estimated $13 billion, and have historic homes around the world.
Leonardo Del Vecchio was an orphaned factory worker whose eyeglasses empire today makes Ray-Bans and Oakleys
Del Vecchio was one of five children who could not be supported by his widowed mother. After growing up in an orphanage, he went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames, where he lost part of his finger.
At 23, he opened his own molding shop. That eyeglass frame shop expanded to the world's largest maker of sunglasses and prescription eyeware. Luxottica makes brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, with 6,000 retail shops like Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters. His estimated net worth is now $11.5 billion dollars.
Source: Forbes
Kirk Kerkorian went from boxer and Royal Air Force pilot to Las Vegas mega-resort owner
Kerkorian, who learned English on the streets, dropped out of 8th grade to become a boxer. His family was a casualty of the Great Depression, and Kerkorian went about finding skills to help bring income home. He became a daredevil pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II, delivering supplies over the Atlantic on routes that would crash one in four planes.
From the money he made running supplies, Kerkorian became a high roller on the craps table and eventually a real estate magnate in Las Vegas: he bought The Flamingo and built The International and MGM Grand, stalwarts of the Vegas scene. He's worth a few billion dollars today.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Sheldon Adelson is another Las Vegas hotels magnate who tried his hand at a few industries
Adelson grew up in tenement housing in Massachusetts, where he shared a bedroom with his parents and three siblings. His father was a Lithuanian taxi driver and his mother had a knitting store. When he was 12 years old, he started selling newspapers and a few years later ran a vending machine scheme on the same corner.
Adelson tried his hand at a few different industries, from packing hotel toiletries to mortgage brokering. His biggest break came from developing a computer trade show. He turned that wealth into a purchase of the Sands Hotel & Casino, and later the mega-resort The Venetian.
Source: Minyanville
Ingvar Kamprad was born in a small village in Sweden and created a mail-order business that became IKEA
Kamprad lived the farm life growing up. But he always had a knack for business, buying matches in bulk from Stockholm to sell to his neighbors. He later expanded to fish, Christmas decorations, and pens.
Not satisfied with the small stuff, Kamprad took money from his father (a reward for good grades) and created a mail-order business that eventually became IKEA (the name comes from his initials plus those of his village and family farm). Furniture became the company's biggest seller, and Kamprad's use of local manufacturers kept his prices low. Once one of the world's richest men, his net worth has fallen recently to a an estimated $3 billion.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Roman Abramovich was an orphan who turned an expensive wedding gift into an oil empire
Eddie Keogh. After his parents died when he was just four, the Russian Abramovich was raised by his uncle and grandmother. Abramovich got his first break from an expensive wedding gift from his in-laws. He dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests, which at first included selling plastic ducks out of an apartment in Moscow.
He managed a take over of oil giant Sibneft at a bargain price in 1995. He continued to flip his investments into even larger acquisitions, including Russian Aluminum and steelmaker Evraz Group. Over the years Abramovich has been accused of shady dealings, from paying out bribes and protection money to having a role in the gang feuds over aluminum smelters. It seems that being ruthless has paid off for the billionaire: he now owns the largest private yacht in the world, as well as a ton of other cool stuff. He's also the owner of the Chelsea Football Club.
Source: Hubpages
Richard Desmond went from living above a garage to creating an empire that published magazines like Penthouse
Peter Macdiarmid Desmond grew up the son of a single mother after his parents divorced. The two of them lived above a garage, during which time Desmond described himself as "very fat and very lonely." He quit school at 14 to focus on being a drummer, working as a coat-checker to help pay bills. Though he never became rich from his own musical talents, he later opened his own record shops.
Eventually Desmond published his first magazine, International Musician and Recording World. The Desmond magazine empire would expand to publications like a British version of Penthouse and Ok!, a worldwide favorite. He now owns publications around the globe and is involved in philanthropic work.
Source: The Observer
J.K. Rowling lived on welfare before creating the Harry Potter franchise
In the early 1990s, Rowling had just gotten divorced and was living on welfare with a dependent child. She completed most of the first "Harry Potter" book in cafes, as walking around with her daughter, Jessica, was the best way to get her to sleep.
The "Harry Potter" franchise has become a worldwide success and J.K. Rowling is now worth an estimated $1 billion.
Source: Biography
Before Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart, he milked cows and sold magazines in Oklahoma
Walton's family lived on a farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. In order to make ends meet, he helped his family out by milking the cow and driving the milk out to customers. He also delivered newspapers and sold magazine subscriptions.
By 26, he was managing a variety store after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics. He used $5,000 from the army and a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law to buy a Ben Franklin variety store in Arkansas. He expanded the chain, and then went on to found Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He died in 1992, leaving the company to his wife and children.
Source: Biography
Oprah Winfrey turned a life of hardship into inspiration for a multi-billion-dollar empire
The Canadian Press, Frank GunnOprah spent the first six years of her life living with her grandmother wearing dresses made out of potato sacks. After being molested by two members of her family and a family friend, she ran away from home at age 13. At 14, her newborn child died shortly after he was born. She went back to live with her mother, but it wasn't until her mother sent her to live with her father that she turned her life around.
She got a full scholarship to college, won a beauty pageant â€"where she was discovered by a radio station â€" and the rest is history. The Oprah name became an empire, and according to Forbes she is worth $2.7 billion.
That makes it even more essential that we remember the people who started with nothing, and through hard work, talent, grit, and a bit of luck, managed to rise to the very top.
These 20 stories remind us that it's possible to overcome just about anything, from parents passing away, to extreme poverty, and more.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster escaped a Brazilian shantytown to become Petrobras' first female CEO
financialtimes/FlickrThe current head of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras spent her childhood in Morro do Adeus, an extremely poor neighborhood that became a shantytown. Her mother worked constantly and her father was an alcoholic. She collected cans and paper to make extra money.
She started as an intern at Petrobras in 1978, but broke through barriers to become the company's first female head of field engineering. Bloomberg reports that her tireless work ethic has earned her the nickname Caveirao, for the armored vehicles police use to clean up crime ridden Brazilian neighborhoods. She became the company's first female CEO in February.
Source: Bloomberg
Do Won Chang worked three jobs to make ends meet before starting Forever 21
LAEDCorp via YouTubeDo Won Chang and his wife, Jin Sook, moved to America from Korea in 1981. When they first arrived, Do Won was forced to work three jobs at the same time to support them, as a janitor, a gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop. Eventually, they were able to open their first clothing store in 1984.
That one store grew into Forever 21, which pioneered fast fashion and is now a multi-national, 480 store empire that generates around $3 billion in sales a year. It's a family business, with the couple's daughters Linda and Esther helping to run the company.
Source: Forbes
Harold Simmons grew up in a shack without electricity and became a multi-billionaire
Now a billionaire several times over, Harold Simmons grew up in the extremely rural town of Golden, Texas, where he lived in a "shack" that had no plumbing or electricity. He still managed to make it to the University of Texas, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. and masters in Economics.
His first venture was a series of drugstores, the first of which was almost entirely financed with a loan. That became a 100 store chain that he sold to Eckerd for $50 million. From there he went on to become a master of the corporate buyout. He currently owns 6 companies traded on the NYSE, including Titanium Metals Corporation, the world's largest producer of titanium.
Source: Forbes, D Magazine
Zdenek Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with only $50 and is now a coal magnate
TuckIn 1980, when he was 19 years old, Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with a $50 dollar bill wrapped in plastic wrap hidden in a sandwich. He made it to Lake Tahoe, where he washed dishes at a Harrah's casino.
He eventually got an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Dartmouth. He went into banking, and eventually back to his home company, opening Credit Suisse First Boston's first officer in Prague after the Wall fell. presides over a coal company with a $2.52 billion market cap and eight production sites across Central Europe, which broke ground on the first privately owned coal mine in Central Europe since 1992.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary to become one of the world's most successful investors
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary after his father paid a government employee, whose Jewish wife he had helped hide in the countryside, to let him pose as his godson. After the war, he escaped the country, which had come under communist rule, in 1947, to stay with relatives in London. Soros put himself through the London School of Economics by working as a waiter and railway porter.
After graduating, Soros sold goods at a souvenir shop before writing managing directors at merchant banks in London until he finally got a job. That was the beginning of a long and enormously successful career in finance, including his famous bet against the British pound in 1992, which earned him more than a billion dollars in profit in one swoop.
Source: Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, The Telegraph
Guy Laliberté ate fire on the streets before introducing Cirque du Soleil to the world
The Canadian-born Laliberté began his circus career busking on the streets: playing accordion, walking on stilts and eating fire. He gambled by bringing a successful troupe from Quebec to the Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1987, with no return fare. The bet paid off, and the circus group was eventually brought to Las Vegas, where they became the world famous Cirque du Soleil we know today.
Today, Laliberté is the CEO of Cirque, a professional poker player and space tourist, with a total net-worth of $2.5 billion.
Source: Celebs101
John Paul DeJoria lived in his car before John Paul Mitchell Systems took off
Eric Henderson As a first generation American, DeJoria had it rough from the beginning. His German and Italian parents divorced when he was two, and he sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family before he turned 10. He was eventually sent to live in a foster home in Los Angeles.
DeJoria spent some time as an L.A. gang member before joining the military. After trying his hand as an employee for Redken Laboratories, he took a $700 dollar loan and created John Paul Mitchell Systems. He hawked the company's shampoo door-to-door, living out of his car while doing so. But the quality of the product could not be denied, and now JPM Systems is worth over $900 million annually. He also created Patron Tequila and has a hand in a variety of industries, from diamonds to music.
Source: Forbes
Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side and now runs Xerox
Before the Lower East Side was cool, it was a hub for gangs. Burns was raised by her single mother in a housing project there. Her mother ran a daycare center out of her home and ironed shirts so that she could afford to send Ursula to Catholic school. She went to NYU, and from there became an intern at Xerox.
She's now Xerox's CEO and chairwoman. Burns is the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 Company.
Source: Bloomberg
Howard Schultz grew up in the Brooklyn projects before becoming CEO of Starbucks
Robert SorboSchultz grew up in the Bayview projects of Canarsie, Brooklyn. He always wanted to climb "over the fence" and go beyond the lifestyle provided by his truck-driving father. Despite destitution, he excelled at sports and earned a football scholarship to the University of Northern Michigan.
After graduating with a degree in communications, Schultz went to work for Xerox before discovering a small coffee shop called Starbucks. Enamored with the coffee, he left Xerox to become the company's chief executive in 1987. After beginning with 60 shops, Starbucks now has over 16,000 outlets worldwide, giving Schultz a net worth of $1.5 billion. He even went on hiatus and came back as CEO to lead Starbucks out of a decline.
Source: Mirror News
Li Ka-shing quit school at 15 to work in a plastics factory and is now the world's richest East Asian
The family of Li Ka-shing fled mainland China for Hong Kong in 1940, and Li's father died of tuberculosis when he was just 15. Quitting school to work to support his family, Li made plastics and later plastic flowers for U.S. export.
By 1950 Li was able to start his own company, Cheung Kong Industries. While at first manufacturing plastics, the company later moved into real estate. Similarly, Li expanded his ownership of different companies, and today has his hand in banking, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets, hotels, domestic transportation, airports, electric power, steel production, ports and shipping, and investing in cool apps, among other industries.
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Francois Pinault was a high school dropout who now leads luxury goods group PPR
Pinault quit high school in 1947 after being teased for his poor background. He joined his family's timber trading business and in the 1970s began buying up smaller firms. His ruthless business tactics â€" including slashing jobs and selling his timber company only to buy it back at a fraction of the cost when the market crashed â€" gave him a reputation as a "predator." He had similar tactics in the real estate business, and did well buying French junk bonds and taking government money to save businesses from bankruptcy.
His self-made worth helped him start PPR, a luxury goods group that sells brands like Gucci and Stella McCartney. At one point the richest man in France, Pinault and his family are now worth an estimated $13 billion, and have historic homes around the world.
Leonardo Del Vecchio was an orphaned factory worker whose eyeglasses empire today makes Ray-Bans and Oakleys
Del Vecchio was one of five children who could not be supported by his widowed mother. After growing up in an orphanage, he went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames, where he lost part of his finger.
At 23, he opened his own molding shop. That eyeglass frame shop expanded to the world's largest maker of sunglasses and prescription eyeware. Luxottica makes brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, with 6,000 retail shops like Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters. His estimated net worth is now $11.5 billion dollars.
Source: Forbes
Kirk Kerkorian went from boxer and Royal Air Force pilot to Las Vegas mega-resort owner
Kerkorian, who learned English on the streets, dropped out of 8th grade to become a boxer. His family was a casualty of the Great Depression, and Kerkorian went about finding skills to help bring income home. He became a daredevil pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II, delivering supplies over the Atlantic on routes that would crash one in four planes.
From the money he made running supplies, Kerkorian became a high roller on the craps table and eventually a real estate magnate in Las Vegas: he bought The Flamingo and built The International and MGM Grand, stalwarts of the Vegas scene. He's worth a few billion dollars today.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Sheldon Adelson is another Las Vegas hotels magnate who tried his hand at a few industries
Adelson grew up in tenement housing in Massachusetts, where he shared a bedroom with his parents and three siblings. His father was a Lithuanian taxi driver and his mother had a knitting store. When he was 12 years old, he started selling newspapers and a few years later ran a vending machine scheme on the same corner.
Adelson tried his hand at a few different industries, from packing hotel toiletries to mortgage brokering. His biggest break came from developing a computer trade show. He turned that wealth into a purchase of the Sands Hotel & Casino, and later the mega-resort The Venetian.
Source: Minyanville
Ingvar Kamprad was born in a small village in Sweden and created a mail-order business that became IKEA
Kamprad lived the farm life growing up. But he always had a knack for business, buying matches in bulk from Stockholm to sell to his neighbors. He later expanded to fish, Christmas decorations, and pens.
Not satisfied with the small stuff, Kamprad took money from his father (a reward for good grades) and created a mail-order business that eventually became IKEA (the name comes from his initials plus those of his village and family farm). Furniture became the company's biggest seller, and Kamprad's use of local manufacturers kept his prices low. Once one of the world's richest men, his net worth has fallen recently to a an estimated $3 billion.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Roman Abramovich was an orphan who turned an expensive wedding gift into an oil empire
Eddie Keogh. After his parents died when he was just four, the Russian Abramovich was raised by his uncle and grandmother. Abramovich got his first break from an expensive wedding gift from his in-laws. He dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests, which at first included selling plastic ducks out of an apartment in Moscow.
He managed a take over of oil giant Sibneft at a bargain price in 1995. He continued to flip his investments into even larger acquisitions, including Russian Aluminum and steelmaker Evraz Group. Over the years Abramovich has been accused of shady dealings, from paying out bribes and protection money to having a role in the gang feuds over aluminum smelters. It seems that being ruthless has paid off for the billionaire: he now owns the largest private yacht in the world, as well as a ton of other cool stuff. He's also the owner of the Chelsea Football Club.
Source: Hubpages
Richard Desmond went from living above a garage to creating an empire that published magazines like Penthouse
Peter Macdiarmid Desmond grew up the son of a single mother after his parents divorced. The two of them lived above a garage, during which time Desmond described himself as "very fat and very lonely." He quit school at 14 to focus on being a drummer, working as a coat-checker to help pay bills. Though he never became rich from his own musical talents, he later opened his own record shops.
Eventually Desmond published his first magazine, International Musician and Recording World. The Desmond magazine empire would expand to publications like a British version of Penthouse and Ok!, a worldwide favorite. He now owns publications around the globe and is involved in philanthropic work.
Source: The Observer
J.K. Rowling lived on welfare before creating the Harry Potter franchise
In the early 1990s, Rowling had just gotten divorced and was living on welfare with a dependent child. She completed most of the first "Harry Potter" book in cafes, as walking around with her daughter, Jessica, was the best way to get her to sleep.
The "Harry Potter" franchise has become a worldwide success and J.K. Rowling is now worth an estimated $1 billion.
Source: Biography
Before Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart, he milked cows and sold magazines in Oklahoma
Walton's family lived on a farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. In order to make ends meet, he helped his family out by milking the cow and driving the milk out to customers. He also delivered newspapers and sold magazine subscriptions.
By 26, he was managing a variety store after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics. He used $5,000 from the army and a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law to buy a Ben Franklin variety store in Arkansas. He expanded the chain, and then went on to found Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He died in 1992, leaving the company to his wife and children.
Source: Biography
Oprah Winfrey turned a life of hardship into inspiration for a multi-billion-dollar empire
The Canadian Press, Frank GunnOprah spent the first six years of her life living with her grandmother wearing dresses made out of potato sacks. After being molested by two members of her family and a family friend, she ran away from home at age 13. At 14, her newborn child died shortly after he was born. She went back to live with her mother, but it wasn't until her mother sent her to live with her father that she turned her life around.
She got a full scholarship to college, won a beauty pageant â€"where she was discovered by a radio station â€" and the rest is history. The Oprah name became an empire, and according to Forbes she is worth $2.7 billion.
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Inspiration & Hope / Rags to Riches
January 04, 2013, 09:42:06 AM
In a time of rising inequality and sluggish growth, rags to riches stories are harder than ever to come by. Indeed, many of the richest people in the world were born into their wealth.
That makes it even more essential that we remember the people who started with nothing, and through hard work, talent, grit, and a bit of luck, managed to rise to the very top.
These 20 stories remind us that it's possible to overcome just about anything, from parents passing away, to extreme poverty, and more.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster escaped a Brazilian shantytown to become Petrobras' first female CEO
financialtimes/FlickrThe current head of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras spent her childhood in Morro do Adeus, an extremely poor neighborhood that became a shantytown. Her mother worked constantly and her father was an alcoholic. She collected cans and paper to make extra money.
She started as an intern at Petrobras in 1978, but broke through barriers to become the company's first female head of field engineering. Bloomberg reports that her tireless work ethic has earned her the nickname Caveirao, for the armored vehicles police use to clean up crime ridden Brazilian neighborhoods. She became the company's first female CEO in February.
Source: Bloomberg
Do Won Chang worked three jobs to make ends meet before starting Forever 21
LAEDCorp via YouTubeDo Won Chang and his wife, Jin Sook, moved to America from Korea in 1981. When they first arrived, Do Won was forced to work three jobs at the same time to support them, as a janitor, a gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop. Eventually, they were able to open their first clothing store in 1984.
That one store grew into Forever 21, which pioneered fast fashion and is now a multi-national, 480 store empire that generates around $3 billion in sales a year. It's a family business, with the couple's daughters Linda and Esther helping to run the company.
Source: Forbes
Harold Simmons grew up in a shack without electricity and became a multi-billionaire
Now a billionaire several times over, Harold Simmons grew up in the extremely rural town of Golden, Texas, where he lived in a "shack" that had no plumbing or electricity. He still managed to make it to the University of Texas, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. and masters in Economics.
His first venture was a series of drugstores, the first of which was almost entirely financed with a loan. That became a 100 store chain that he sold to Eckerd for $50 million. From there he went on to become a master of the corporate buyout. He currently owns 6 companies traded on the NYSE, including Titanium Metals Corporation, the world's largest producer of titanium.
Source: Forbes, D Magazine
Zdenek Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with only $50 and is now a coal magnate
TuckIn 1980, when he was 19 years old, Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with a $50 dollar bill wrapped in plastic wrap hidden in a sandwich. He made it to Lake Tahoe, where he washed dishes at a Harrah's casino.
He eventually got an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Dartmouth. He went into banking, and eventually back to his home company, opening Credit Suisse First Boston's first officer in Prague after the Wall fell. presides over a coal company with a $2.52 billion market cap and eight production sites across Central Europe, which broke ground on the first privately owned coal mine in Central Europe since 1992.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary to become one of the world's most successful investors
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary after his father paid a government employee, whose Jewish wife he had helped hide in the countryside, to let him pose as his godson. After the war, he escaped the country, which had come under communist rule, in 1947, to stay with relatives in London. Soros put himself through the London School of Economics by working as a waiter and railway porter.
After graduating, Soros sold goods at a souvenir shop before writing managing directors at merchant banks in London until he finally got a job. That was the beginning of a long and enormously successful career in finance, including his famous bet against the British pound in 1992, which earned him more than a billion dollars in profit in one swoop.
Source: Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, The Telegraph
Guy Laliberté ate fire on the streets before introducing Cirque du Soleil to the world
The Canadian-born Laliberté began his circus career busking on the streets: playing accordion, walking on stilts and eating fire. He gambled by bringing a successful troupe from Quebec to the Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1987, with no return fare. The bet paid off, and the circus group was eventually brought to Las Vegas, where they became the world famous Cirque du Soleil we know today.
Today, Laliberté is the CEO of Cirque, a professional poker player and space tourist, with a total net-worth of $2.5 billion.
Source: Celebs101
John Paul DeJoria lived in his car before John Paul Mitchell Systems took off
Eric Henderson As a first generation American, DeJoria had it rough from the beginning. His German and Italian parents divorced when he was two, and he sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family before he turned 10. He was eventually sent to live in a foster home in Los Angeles.
DeJoria spent some time as an L.A. gang member before joining the military. After trying his hand as an employee for Redken Laboratories, he took a $700 dollar loan and created John Paul Mitchell Systems. He hawked the company's shampoo door-to-door, living out of his car while doing so. But the quality of the product could not be denied, and now JPM Systems is worth over $900 million annually. He also created Patron Tequila and has a hand in a variety of industries, from diamonds to music.
Source: Forbes
Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side and now runs Xerox
Before the Lower East Side was cool, it was a hub for gangs. Burns was raised by her single mother in a housing project there. Her mother ran a daycare center out of her home and ironed shirts so that she could afford to send Ursula to Catholic school. She went to NYU, and from there became an intern at Xerox.
She's now Xerox's CEO and chairwoman. Burns is the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 Company.
Source: Bloomberg
Howard Schultz grew up in the Brooklyn projects before becoming CEO of Starbucks
Robert SorboSchultz grew up in the Bayview projects of Canarsie, Brooklyn. He always wanted to climb "over the fence" and go beyond the lifestyle provided by his truck-driving father. Despite destitution, he excelled at sports and earned a football scholarship to the University of Northern Michigan.
After graduating with a degree in communications, Schultz went to work for Xerox before discovering a small coffee shop called Starbucks. Enamored with the coffee, he left Xerox to become the company's chief executive in 1987. After beginning with 60 shops, Starbucks now has over 16,000 outlets worldwide, giving Schultz a net worth of $1.5 billion. He even went on hiatus and came back as CEO to lead Starbucks out of a decline.
Source: Mirror News
Li Ka-shing quit school at 15 to work in a plastics factory and is now the world's richest East Asian
The family of Li Ka-shing fled mainland China for Hong Kong in 1940, and Li's father died of tuberculosis when he was just 15. Quitting school to work to support his family, Li made plastics and later plastic flowers for U.S. export.
By 1950 Li was able to start his own company, Cheung Kong Industries. While at first manufacturing plastics, the company later moved into real estate. Similarly, Li expanded his ownership of different companies, and today has his hand in banking, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets, hotels, domestic transportation, airports, electric power, steel production, ports and shipping, and investing in cool apps, among other industries.
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Francois Pinault was a high school dropout who now leads luxury goods group PPR
Pinault quit high school in 1947 after being teased for his poor background. He joined his family's timber trading business and in the 1970s began buying up smaller firms. His ruthless business tactics â€" including slashing jobs and selling his timber company only to buy it back at a fraction of the cost when the market crashed â€" gave him a reputation as a "predator." He had similar tactics in the real estate business, and did well buying French junk bonds and taking government money to save businesses from bankruptcy.
His self-made worth helped him start PPR, a luxury goods group that sells brands like Gucci and Stella McCartney. At one point the richest man in France, Pinault and his family are now worth an estimated $13 billion, and have historic homes around the world.
Leonardo Del Vecchio was an orphaned factory worker whose eyeglasses empire today makes Ray-Bans and Oakleys
Del Vecchio was one of five children who could not be supported by his widowed mother. After growing up in an orphanage, he went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames, where he lost part of his finger.
At 23, he opened his own molding shop. That eyeglass frame shop expanded to the world's largest maker of sunglasses and prescription eyeware. Luxottica makes brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, with 6,000 retail shops like Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters. His estimated net worth is now $11.5 billion dollars.
Source: Forbes
Kirk Kerkorian went from boxer and Royal Air Force pilot to Las Vegas mega-resort owner
Kerkorian, who learned English on the streets, dropped out of 8th grade to become a boxer. His family was a casualty of the Great Depression, and Kerkorian went about finding skills to help bring income home. He became a daredevil pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II, delivering supplies over the Atlantic on routes that would crash one in four planes.
From the money he made running supplies, Kerkorian became a high roller on the craps table and eventually a real estate magnate in Las Vegas: he bought The Flamingo and built The International and MGM Grand, stalwarts of the Vegas scene. He's worth a few billion dollars today.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Sheldon Adelson is another Las Vegas hotels magnate who tried his hand at a few industries
Adelson grew up in tenement housing in Massachusetts, where he shared a bedroom with his parents and three siblings. His father was a Lithuanian taxi driver and his mother had a knitting store. When he was 12 years old, he started selling newspapers and a few years later ran a vending machine scheme on the same corner.
Adelson tried his hand at a few different industries, from packing hotel toiletries to mortgage brokering. His biggest break came from developing a computer trade show. He turned that wealth into a purchase of the Sands Hotel & Casino, and later the mega-resort The Venetian.
Source: Minyanville
Ingvar Kamprad was born in a small village in Sweden and created a mail-order business that became IKEA
Kamprad lived the farm life growing up. But he always had a knack for business, buying matches in bulk from Stockholm to sell to his neighbors. He later expanded to fish, Christmas decorations, and pens.
Not satisfied with the small stuff, Kamprad took money from his father (a reward for good grades) and created a mail-order business that eventually became IKEA (the name comes from his initials plus those of his village and family farm). Furniture became the company's biggest seller, and Kamprad's use of local manufacturers kept his prices low. Once one of the world's richest men, his net worth has fallen recently to a an estimated $3 billion.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Roman Abramovich was an orphan who turned an expensive wedding gift into an oil empire
Eddie Keogh. After his parents died when he was just four, the Russian Abramovich was raised by his uncle and grandmother. Abramovich got his first break from an expensive wedding gift from his in-laws. He dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests, which at first included selling plastic ducks out of an apartment in Moscow.
He managed a take over of oil giant Sibneft at a bargain price in 1995. He continued to flip his investments into even larger acquisitions, including Russian Aluminum and steelmaker Evraz Group. Over the years Abramovich has been accused of shady dealings, from paying out bribes and protection money to having a role in the gang feuds over aluminum smelters. It seems that being ruthless has paid off for the billionaire: he now owns the largest private yacht in the world, as well as a ton of other cool stuff. He's also the owner of the Chelsea Football Club.
Source: Hubpages
Richard Desmond went from living above a garage to creating an empire that published magazines like Penthouse
Peter Macdiarmid Desmond grew up the son of a single mother after his parents divorced. The two of them lived above a garage, during which time Desmond described himself as "very fat and very lonely." He quit school at 14 to focus on being a drummer, working as a coat-checker to help pay bills. Though he never became rich from his own musical talents, he later opened his own record shops.
Eventually Desmond published his first magazine, International Musician and Recording World. The Desmond magazine empire would expand to publications like a British version of Penthouse and Ok!, a worldwide favorite. He now owns publications around the globe and is involved in philanthropic work.
Source: The Observer
J.K. Rowling lived on welfare before creating the Harry Potter franchise
In the early 1990s, Rowling had just gotten divorced and was living on welfare with a dependent child. She completed most of the first "Harry Potter" book in cafes, as walking around with her daughter, Jessica, was the best way to get her to sleep.
The "Harry Potter" franchise has become a worldwide success and J.K. Rowling is now worth an estimated $1 billion.
Source: Biography
Before Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart, he milked cows and sold magazines in Oklahoma
Walton's family lived on a farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. In order to make ends meet, he helped his family out by milking the cow and driving the milk out to customers. He also delivered newspapers and sold magazine subscriptions.
By 26, he was managing a variety store after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics. He used $5,000 from the army and a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law to buy a Ben Franklin variety store in Arkansas. He expanded the chain, and then went on to found Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He died in 1992, leaving the company to his wife and children.
Source: Biography
Oprah Winfrey turned a life of hardship into inspiration for a multi-billion-dollar empire
The Canadian Press, Frank GunnOprah spent the first six years of her life living with her grandmother wearing dresses made out of potato sacks. After being molested by two members of her family and a family friend, she ran away from home at age 13. At 14, her newborn child died shortly after he was born. She went back to live with her mother, but it wasn't until her mother sent her to live with her father that she turned her life around.
She got a full scholarship to college, won a beauty pageant â€"where she was discovered by a radio station â€" and the rest is history. The Oprah name became an empire, and according to Forbes she is worth $2.7 billion.
That makes it even more essential that we remember the people who started with nothing, and through hard work, talent, grit, and a bit of luck, managed to rise to the very top.
These 20 stories remind us that it's possible to overcome just about anything, from parents passing away, to extreme poverty, and more.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster escaped a Brazilian shantytown to become Petrobras' first female CEO
financialtimes/FlickrThe current head of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras spent her childhood in Morro do Adeus, an extremely poor neighborhood that became a shantytown. Her mother worked constantly and her father was an alcoholic. She collected cans and paper to make extra money.
She started as an intern at Petrobras in 1978, but broke through barriers to become the company's first female head of field engineering. Bloomberg reports that her tireless work ethic has earned her the nickname Caveirao, for the armored vehicles police use to clean up crime ridden Brazilian neighborhoods. She became the company's first female CEO in February.
Source: Bloomberg
Do Won Chang worked three jobs to make ends meet before starting Forever 21
LAEDCorp via YouTubeDo Won Chang and his wife, Jin Sook, moved to America from Korea in 1981. When they first arrived, Do Won was forced to work three jobs at the same time to support them, as a janitor, a gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop. Eventually, they were able to open their first clothing store in 1984.
That one store grew into Forever 21, which pioneered fast fashion and is now a multi-national, 480 store empire that generates around $3 billion in sales a year. It's a family business, with the couple's daughters Linda and Esther helping to run the company.
Source: Forbes
Harold Simmons grew up in a shack without electricity and became a multi-billionaire
Now a billionaire several times over, Harold Simmons grew up in the extremely rural town of Golden, Texas, where he lived in a "shack" that had no plumbing or electricity. He still managed to make it to the University of Texas, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. and masters in Economics.
His first venture was a series of drugstores, the first of which was almost entirely financed with a loan. That became a 100 store chain that he sold to Eckerd for $50 million. From there he went on to become a master of the corporate buyout. He currently owns 6 companies traded on the NYSE, including Titanium Metals Corporation, the world's largest producer of titanium.
Source: Forbes, D Magazine
Zdenek Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with only $50 and is now a coal magnate
TuckIn 1980, when he was 19 years old, Bakala fled communist Czechoslovakia with a $50 dollar bill wrapped in plastic wrap hidden in a sandwich. He made it to Lake Tahoe, where he washed dishes at a Harrah's casino.
He eventually got an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Dartmouth. He went into banking, and eventually back to his home company, opening Credit Suisse First Boston's first officer in Prague after the Wall fell. presides over a coal company with a $2.52 billion market cap and eight production sites across Central Europe, which broke ground on the first privately owned coal mine in Central Europe since 1992.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary to become one of the world's most successful investors
George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary after his father paid a government employee, whose Jewish wife he had helped hide in the countryside, to let him pose as his godson. After the war, he escaped the country, which had come under communist rule, in 1947, to stay with relatives in London. Soros put himself through the London School of Economics by working as a waiter and railway porter.
After graduating, Soros sold goods at a souvenir shop before writing managing directors at merchant banks in London until he finally got a job. That was the beginning of a long and enormously successful career in finance, including his famous bet against the British pound in 1992, which earned him more than a billion dollars in profit in one swoop.
Source: Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, The Telegraph
Guy Laliberté ate fire on the streets before introducing Cirque du Soleil to the world
The Canadian-born Laliberté began his circus career busking on the streets: playing accordion, walking on stilts and eating fire. He gambled by bringing a successful troupe from Quebec to the Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1987, with no return fare. The bet paid off, and the circus group was eventually brought to Las Vegas, where they became the world famous Cirque du Soleil we know today.
Today, Laliberté is the CEO of Cirque, a professional poker player and space tourist, with a total net-worth of $2.5 billion.
Source: Celebs101
John Paul DeJoria lived in his car before John Paul Mitchell Systems took off
Eric Henderson As a first generation American, DeJoria had it rough from the beginning. His German and Italian parents divorced when he was two, and he sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family before he turned 10. He was eventually sent to live in a foster home in Los Angeles.
DeJoria spent some time as an L.A. gang member before joining the military. After trying his hand as an employee for Redken Laboratories, he took a $700 dollar loan and created John Paul Mitchell Systems. He hawked the company's shampoo door-to-door, living out of his car while doing so. But the quality of the product could not be denied, and now JPM Systems is worth over $900 million annually. He also created Patron Tequila and has a hand in a variety of industries, from diamonds to music.
Source: Forbes
Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side and now runs Xerox
Before the Lower East Side was cool, it was a hub for gangs. Burns was raised by her single mother in a housing project there. Her mother ran a daycare center out of her home and ironed shirts so that she could afford to send Ursula to Catholic school. She went to NYU, and from there became an intern at Xerox.
She's now Xerox's CEO and chairwoman. Burns is the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 Company.
Source: Bloomberg
Howard Schultz grew up in the Brooklyn projects before becoming CEO of Starbucks
Robert SorboSchultz grew up in the Bayview projects of Canarsie, Brooklyn. He always wanted to climb "over the fence" and go beyond the lifestyle provided by his truck-driving father. Despite destitution, he excelled at sports and earned a football scholarship to the University of Northern Michigan.
After graduating with a degree in communications, Schultz went to work for Xerox before discovering a small coffee shop called Starbucks. Enamored with the coffee, he left Xerox to become the company's chief executive in 1987. After beginning with 60 shops, Starbucks now has over 16,000 outlets worldwide, giving Schultz a net worth of $1.5 billion. He even went on hiatus and came back as CEO to lead Starbucks out of a decline.
Source: Mirror News
Li Ka-shing quit school at 15 to work in a plastics factory and is now the world's richest East Asian
The family of Li Ka-shing fled mainland China for Hong Kong in 1940, and Li's father died of tuberculosis when he was just 15. Quitting school to work to support his family, Li made plastics and later plastic flowers for U.S. export.
By 1950 Li was able to start his own company, Cheung Kong Industries. While at first manufacturing plastics, the company later moved into real estate. Similarly, Li expanded his ownership of different companies, and today has his hand in banking, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets, hotels, domestic transportation, airports, electric power, steel production, ports and shipping, and investing in cool apps, among other industries.
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Francois Pinault was a high school dropout who now leads luxury goods group PPR
Pinault quit high school in 1947 after being teased for his poor background. He joined his family's timber trading business and in the 1970s began buying up smaller firms. His ruthless business tactics â€" including slashing jobs and selling his timber company only to buy it back at a fraction of the cost when the market crashed â€" gave him a reputation as a "predator." He had similar tactics in the real estate business, and did well buying French junk bonds and taking government money to save businesses from bankruptcy.
His self-made worth helped him start PPR, a luxury goods group that sells brands like Gucci and Stella McCartney. At one point the richest man in France, Pinault and his family are now worth an estimated $13 billion, and have historic homes around the world.
Leonardo Del Vecchio was an orphaned factory worker whose eyeglasses empire today makes Ray-Bans and Oakleys
Del Vecchio was one of five children who could not be supported by his widowed mother. After growing up in an orphanage, he went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames, where he lost part of his finger.
At 23, he opened his own molding shop. That eyeglass frame shop expanded to the world's largest maker of sunglasses and prescription eyeware. Luxottica makes brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, with 6,000 retail shops like Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters. His estimated net worth is now $11.5 billion dollars.
Source: Forbes
Kirk Kerkorian went from boxer and Royal Air Force pilot to Las Vegas mega-resort owner
Kerkorian, who learned English on the streets, dropped out of 8th grade to become a boxer. His family was a casualty of the Great Depression, and Kerkorian went about finding skills to help bring income home. He became a daredevil pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II, delivering supplies over the Atlantic on routes that would crash one in four planes.
From the money he made running supplies, Kerkorian became a high roller on the craps table and eventually a real estate magnate in Las Vegas: he bought The Flamingo and built The International and MGM Grand, stalwarts of the Vegas scene. He's worth a few billion dollars today.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Sheldon Adelson is another Las Vegas hotels magnate who tried his hand at a few industries
Adelson grew up in tenement housing in Massachusetts, where he shared a bedroom with his parents and three siblings. His father was a Lithuanian taxi driver and his mother had a knitting store. When he was 12 years old, he started selling newspapers and a few years later ran a vending machine scheme on the same corner.
Adelson tried his hand at a few different industries, from packing hotel toiletries to mortgage brokering. His biggest break came from developing a computer trade show. He turned that wealth into a purchase of the Sands Hotel & Casino, and later the mega-resort The Venetian.
Source: Minyanville
Ingvar Kamprad was born in a small village in Sweden and created a mail-order business that became IKEA
Kamprad lived the farm life growing up. But he always had a knack for business, buying matches in bulk from Stockholm to sell to his neighbors. He later expanded to fish, Christmas decorations, and pens.
Not satisfied with the small stuff, Kamprad took money from his father (a reward for good grades) and created a mail-order business that eventually became IKEA (the name comes from his initials plus those of his village and family farm). Furniture became the company's biggest seller, and Kamprad's use of local manufacturers kept his prices low. Once one of the world's richest men, his net worth has fallen recently to a an estimated $3 billion.
Source: Smart Money Daily
Roman Abramovich was an orphan who turned an expensive wedding gift into an oil empire
Eddie Keogh. After his parents died when he was just four, the Russian Abramovich was raised by his uncle and grandmother. Abramovich got his first break from an expensive wedding gift from his in-laws. He dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests, which at first included selling plastic ducks out of an apartment in Moscow.
He managed a take over of oil giant Sibneft at a bargain price in 1995. He continued to flip his investments into even larger acquisitions, including Russian Aluminum and steelmaker Evraz Group. Over the years Abramovich has been accused of shady dealings, from paying out bribes and protection money to having a role in the gang feuds over aluminum smelters. It seems that being ruthless has paid off for the billionaire: he now owns the largest private yacht in the world, as well as a ton of other cool stuff. He's also the owner of the Chelsea Football Club.
Source: Hubpages
Richard Desmond went from living above a garage to creating an empire that published magazines like Penthouse
Peter Macdiarmid Desmond grew up the son of a single mother after his parents divorced. The two of them lived above a garage, during which time Desmond described himself as "very fat and very lonely." He quit school at 14 to focus on being a drummer, working as a coat-checker to help pay bills. Though he never became rich from his own musical talents, he later opened his own record shops.
Eventually Desmond published his first magazine, International Musician and Recording World. The Desmond magazine empire would expand to publications like a British version of Penthouse and Ok!, a worldwide favorite. He now owns publications around the globe and is involved in philanthropic work.
Source: The Observer
J.K. Rowling lived on welfare before creating the Harry Potter franchise
In the early 1990s, Rowling had just gotten divorced and was living on welfare with a dependent child. She completed most of the first "Harry Potter" book in cafes, as walking around with her daughter, Jessica, was the best way to get her to sleep.
The "Harry Potter" franchise has become a worldwide success and J.K. Rowling is now worth an estimated $1 billion.
Source: Biography
Before Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart, he milked cows and sold magazines in Oklahoma
Walton's family lived on a farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. In order to make ends meet, he helped his family out by milking the cow and driving the milk out to customers. He also delivered newspapers and sold magazine subscriptions.
By 26, he was managing a variety store after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics. He used $5,000 from the army and a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law to buy a Ben Franklin variety store in Arkansas. He expanded the chain, and then went on to found Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He died in 1992, leaving the company to his wife and children.
Source: Biography
Oprah Winfrey turned a life of hardship into inspiration for a multi-billion-dollar empire
The Canadian Press, Frank GunnOprah spent the first six years of her life living with her grandmother wearing dresses made out of potato sacks. After being molested by two members of her family and a family friend, she ran away from home at age 13. At 14, her newborn child died shortly after he was born. She went back to live with her mother, but it wasn't until her mother sent her to live with her father that she turned her life around.
She got a full scholarship to college, won a beauty pageant â€"where she was discovered by a radio station â€" and the rest is history. The Oprah name became an empire, and according to Forbes she is worth $2.7 billion.
#781
General Topic / Re: No more fireworks? Quadratinid meteor shower to light up nights
January 04, 2013, 09:39:26 AM
cge lang neth naa paman lain moabot...
'Daytime comet' to arrive in 2013
Skygazers are in for a treat when Comet Ison passes by the Earth later this year: it's expected to be so bright that it will outshine the moon and be visible even in broad daylight.
Filipino astronomer Frederic Gabriana calculated that Comet Ison will be seen in the Philippines by November.
Space.com was cited in an earlier report as saying that it might even be seen during the daytime on Nov. 28, 2013 â€"weather permitting, of course.
Related story: Approaching comet may outshine the moon
Officially known as Comet C/2012 S1, Ison was first discovered in September, 2012, by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok at the International Scientific Optical Network (or "ISON," hence the name) near Kislovodsk.
The comet was first seen near the constellations of Gemini and Cancer.
"Comet Ison could draw millions out into the dark to witness what could be the brightest comet seen in many generations â€" brighter even than the full Moon," astronomer David Whitehouse said in an article on the UK's The Independent.
'Galactic litter'
Comets are icy rocks within the solar system that display a fuzzy atmosphere called a "coma," and a visible tail, especially when it comes closer to the Sun.
Comets are believed to be made up of ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, and water.
Also read: Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
Most of the comets are thought to be residents of Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, some 5,000 to 100,000 astronomical units (AU) away from the Earth (one AU = 150 million km).
"Occasionally, giant molecular clouds, stars passing nearby, or tidal interactions with the Milky Way's disc disturb the orbits of some of these bodies in the outer region of the Oort Cloud, causing the object to fall into the inner solar system as a so-called long-period comet," NASA said.
Comet Ison for one, is believed to be a castaway from Oort Cloud.
2013: A year of comets
But Ison seems not to be the only comet visiting the Earthlings this year.
"Another comet, called Comet 2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), was discovered last year and in March and April it could also be a magnificent object in the evening sky," Whitehouse wrote.
In other news: Pinoys urged to plan 2013 holidays ahead
Comet 2011 L4, discovered in the constellation Libra on June 2011, may not shine as bright as Ison but will still be visible to the naked eye.
"The comet is expected to be brightest in February or March 2013, when it makes its closest approach to the sun. At that time, the comet is expected to be visible low in the western sky after sunset, but the bright twilight sky may make it difficult to view," University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy said in a press release.
"2013 could be the year of the great comets," Whitehouse added.
One-time deal?
Whitehouse also said that Comet Ison "may never return."
"Its tail points outward now as the solar wind is at its back, and it fades and the comet falls quiet once more, this time forever," the astronomer concluded. â€" TJD, GMA News
'Daytime comet' to arrive in 2013
Skygazers are in for a treat when Comet Ison passes by the Earth later this year: it's expected to be so bright that it will outshine the moon and be visible even in broad daylight.
Filipino astronomer Frederic Gabriana calculated that Comet Ison will be seen in the Philippines by November.
Space.com was cited in an earlier report as saying that it might even be seen during the daytime on Nov. 28, 2013 â€"weather permitting, of course.
Related story: Approaching comet may outshine the moon
Officially known as Comet C/2012 S1, Ison was first discovered in September, 2012, by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok at the International Scientific Optical Network (or "ISON," hence the name) near Kislovodsk.
The comet was first seen near the constellations of Gemini and Cancer.
"Comet Ison could draw millions out into the dark to witness what could be the brightest comet seen in many generations â€" brighter even than the full Moon," astronomer David Whitehouse said in an article on the UK's The Independent.
'Galactic litter'
Comets are icy rocks within the solar system that display a fuzzy atmosphere called a "coma," and a visible tail, especially when it comes closer to the Sun.
Comets are believed to be made up of ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, and water.
Also read: Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
Most of the comets are thought to be residents of Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, some 5,000 to 100,000 astronomical units (AU) away from the Earth (one AU = 150 million km).
"Occasionally, giant molecular clouds, stars passing nearby, or tidal interactions with the Milky Way's disc disturb the orbits of some of these bodies in the outer region of the Oort Cloud, causing the object to fall into the inner solar system as a so-called long-period comet," NASA said.
Comet Ison for one, is believed to be a castaway from Oort Cloud.
2013: A year of comets
But Ison seems not to be the only comet visiting the Earthlings this year.
"Another comet, called Comet 2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), was discovered last year and in March and April it could also be a magnificent object in the evening sky," Whitehouse wrote.
In other news: Pinoys urged to plan 2013 holidays ahead
Comet 2011 L4, discovered in the constellation Libra on June 2011, may not shine as bright as Ison but will still be visible to the naked eye.
"The comet is expected to be brightest in February or March 2013, when it makes its closest approach to the sun. At that time, the comet is expected to be visible low in the western sky after sunset, but the bright twilight sky may make it difficult to view," University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy said in a press release.
"2013 could be the year of the great comets," Whitehouse added.
One-time deal?
Whitehouse also said that Comet Ison "may never return."
"Its tail points outward now as the solar wind is at its back, and it fades and the comet falls quiet once more, this time forever," the astronomer concluded. â€" TJD, GMA News
#782
Philippine Business News / Girl's death triggers gun debate in Philippines...
January 04, 2013, 09:35:26 AM
MANILA - The death of a girl hit by celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve sparked calls Thursday for stricter gun controls in the Philippines, where unlicensed weapons are widely blamed for rampant violence.
The girl, Stephanie Ella, aged seven, died Wednesday from a gunshot wound to the head, triggering outrage and condemnation of poor law enforcement that allows hundreds of thousands of unregistered firearms to be on the streets.
"This incident should not be allowed to become just another statistic," Vice President Jejomar Binay said in a statement.
"We have enough laws to penalize but the problem has always been in the enforcement of laws," he stressed, as he challenged the police to catch the person responsible for Ella's death.
Ella and her father were watching a fireworks display outside their home in a Manila suburb on Monday when a bullet, apparently fired from celebratory gunfire, struck her.
Ella was the second young victim to die from stray bullets in New Year's eve celebrations, when gun owners traditionally fire bullets into the air or explode powerful firecrackers to make noise.
A four year-old boy was also killed, while a 16-year-old was in a coma after being wounded in a similar incident.
Ella's ordeal, however, was prominently covered in national media, as her grief-stricken parents tensely waited by her hospital bedside as doctors lost the battle to save her.
An outpouring of sympathy followed, led by the office of President Benigno Aquino -- himself a keen sports shooter -- which issued a statement condemning her senseless death.
Prominent anti-crime crusader Dante Jimenez said the government should impose "a total gun ban during the holidays" and not only during elections, when rival politicians are known to engage in blood feuds.
"There should be no guns on the streets during these times. That is the only way," he said.
However, he said the bigger problem was the failure of the authorities to seize all illegal firearms in the face of mounting violence.
There were 1.2 million registered firearms in the Philippines as of last year, according to data from the police firearms and explosives office.
It said there were another roughly 600,000 unlicensed firearms in circulation across the Philippines.
While carrying an unlicensed firearm is punishable by up to six years in prison, it remains relatively easy to acquire guns in the black market, Jimenez said.
The girl, Stephanie Ella, aged seven, died Wednesday from a gunshot wound to the head, triggering outrage and condemnation of poor law enforcement that allows hundreds of thousands of unregistered firearms to be on the streets.
"This incident should not be allowed to become just another statistic," Vice President Jejomar Binay said in a statement.
"We have enough laws to penalize but the problem has always been in the enforcement of laws," he stressed, as he challenged the police to catch the person responsible for Ella's death.
Ella and her father were watching a fireworks display outside their home in a Manila suburb on Monday when a bullet, apparently fired from celebratory gunfire, struck her.
Ella was the second young victim to die from stray bullets in New Year's eve celebrations, when gun owners traditionally fire bullets into the air or explode powerful firecrackers to make noise.
A four year-old boy was also killed, while a 16-year-old was in a coma after being wounded in a similar incident.
Ella's ordeal, however, was prominently covered in national media, as her grief-stricken parents tensely waited by her hospital bedside as doctors lost the battle to save her.
An outpouring of sympathy followed, led by the office of President Benigno Aquino -- himself a keen sports shooter -- which issued a statement condemning her senseless death.
Prominent anti-crime crusader Dante Jimenez said the government should impose "a total gun ban during the holidays" and not only during elections, when rival politicians are known to engage in blood feuds.
"There should be no guns on the streets during these times. That is the only way," he said.
However, he said the bigger problem was the failure of the authorities to seize all illegal firearms in the face of mounting violence.
There were 1.2 million registered firearms in the Philippines as of last year, according to data from the police firearms and explosives office.
It said there were another roughly 600,000 unlicensed firearms in circulation across the Philippines.
While carrying an unlicensed firearm is punishable by up to six years in prison, it remains relatively easy to acquire guns in the black market, Jimenez said.
#783
Philippine Business News / Re: TB breaking news: the webmaster has gotten married
January 04, 2013, 09:27:22 AM
best wishes...
#784
General Topic / Re: No more fireworks? Quadratinid meteor shower to light up nights
January 04, 2013, 09:16:46 AM
same pud diri sa CEBU.... mas makita cguro sa BoHoL..
#785
Philippine Photo Gallery / Re: PRETTY IN PINK
January 04, 2013, 09:15:05 AM
Nicole, 7, biktima ng ligaw na bala
WALANG KUWENTANG KAMATAYAN!
Nagdadalamhati ngayon at umaapela ng hustisya sa mga awtoridad ang pamilya ng pitong taong gulang na si Stephanie Nicole Ella na pumanaw na habang pinagsisikapang maisalba ang buhay sa East Avenue Medical Center matapos tamaan ng ligaw na bala kasabay ng pagsalubong sa Bagong Taon.
Ayon kay Dr. Emmanuel Bueno ng East Avenue Medical Center, dakong alas-2:26 kahapon ng hapon nang ideklarang patay na si Nicole makalipas ang ikawalong cardiac arrest na nagsimula kahapon ng madaling-araw.
Isinugod si Nicole sa nabanggit na ospital makaraang tamaan ng ligaw na bala sa kaliwang bahagi ng kanyang mukha habang nanonood ng fireworks display sa labas ng kanilang ta¬hanan sa Barangay 185, Malaria, Tala, Caloocan City.
Plano umano sana ng mga doktor na operahan si Nicole sakaling gumanda na ang kondisyon nito subalit dumanas ng walong cardiac arrest ang paslit hanggang sa bumigay na. Subalit inamin ni Dr. Bueno na sakaling magtagum¬pay man ang kanilang ope¬rasyon ay magmimistulang gulay naman ang biktima.
“Ang magulang masamang-masama ang loob. Ang mahal na anak, bata pa pumanaw na nang walang kakuwenta-kuwenta, sa indiscriminate firing ng isang walang kuwentang tao,†pahayag pa ni Bueno.
“Walang kakuwenta-kuwenta ang pagkamatay ni Nicole!†ito naman ang galit na galit na pahayag ng ama ng biktima na si Jay Ella na umapela sa mga awtoridad para mahuli ang may kagagawan ng indiscriminate firing upang mabigyan ng katarungan ang sinapit ng kanyang anak.
Ikinuwento ng ama na nanonood lamang sila ng fireworks display nang big¬lang bumulagta si Nicole na inakala niyang na¬dulas lamang pero nang buhatin nila ito ay umaagos na ang dugo dahilan upang isugod sa pagamutan.
Inilarawan pa ng ama na isang masayahing bata ang anak at pangarap umano nitong yumaman para maka¬tulong sa pamilya.
“Malikot din, malikot pero isa siyang masayahing bata, `pag sinuway mo titigil na. Mahilig siya mag-aral, mahilig magbasa, mag-drawing. Pangarap niyang yumaman, basta `yun ang pokus niya, yumaman para makatulong sa amin,†ani Jay.
Samantala, hawak ngayon ng Caloocan City Police ang apat na basyo ng bala mula sa hindi pa mabatid na kalibre ng baril na nakuha sa lugar nina Nicole, upang ikumpara sa punglo na tumama sa biktima.
Ilang bystanders umano ang nag-turnover sa kanila ng mga basyo sa mismong pinangyarihan ng krimen kung saan tinamaan ng ligaw na bala si Nicole.
Ayon kay Senior Supt. Rimas Calixto, hepe ng Caloocan Police, hinihintay lamang nilang makuha ang punglo na tumama kay Nicole at kanila itong ipapadala sa PNP Crime Laboratory upang suriin at doon nila sisimulan ang imbestigasyon para sa posibleng pagkatukoy ng may-ari ng ginamit na baril.
WALANG KUWENTANG KAMATAYAN!
Nagdadalamhati ngayon at umaapela ng hustisya sa mga awtoridad ang pamilya ng pitong taong gulang na si Stephanie Nicole Ella na pumanaw na habang pinagsisikapang maisalba ang buhay sa East Avenue Medical Center matapos tamaan ng ligaw na bala kasabay ng pagsalubong sa Bagong Taon.
Ayon kay Dr. Emmanuel Bueno ng East Avenue Medical Center, dakong alas-2:26 kahapon ng hapon nang ideklarang patay na si Nicole makalipas ang ikawalong cardiac arrest na nagsimula kahapon ng madaling-araw.
Isinugod si Nicole sa nabanggit na ospital makaraang tamaan ng ligaw na bala sa kaliwang bahagi ng kanyang mukha habang nanonood ng fireworks display sa labas ng kanilang ta¬hanan sa Barangay 185, Malaria, Tala, Caloocan City.
Plano umano sana ng mga doktor na operahan si Nicole sakaling gumanda na ang kondisyon nito subalit dumanas ng walong cardiac arrest ang paslit hanggang sa bumigay na. Subalit inamin ni Dr. Bueno na sakaling magtagum¬pay man ang kanilang ope¬rasyon ay magmimistulang gulay naman ang biktima.
“Ang magulang masamang-masama ang loob. Ang mahal na anak, bata pa pumanaw na nang walang kakuwenta-kuwenta, sa indiscriminate firing ng isang walang kuwentang tao,†pahayag pa ni Bueno.
“Walang kakuwenta-kuwenta ang pagkamatay ni Nicole!†ito naman ang galit na galit na pahayag ng ama ng biktima na si Jay Ella na umapela sa mga awtoridad para mahuli ang may kagagawan ng indiscriminate firing upang mabigyan ng katarungan ang sinapit ng kanyang anak.
Ikinuwento ng ama na nanonood lamang sila ng fireworks display nang big¬lang bumulagta si Nicole na inakala niyang na¬dulas lamang pero nang buhatin nila ito ay umaagos na ang dugo dahilan upang isugod sa pagamutan.
Inilarawan pa ng ama na isang masayahing bata ang anak at pangarap umano nitong yumaman para maka¬tulong sa pamilya.
“Malikot din, malikot pero isa siyang masayahing bata, `pag sinuway mo titigil na. Mahilig siya mag-aral, mahilig magbasa, mag-drawing. Pangarap niyang yumaman, basta `yun ang pokus niya, yumaman para makatulong sa amin,†ani Jay.
Samantala, hawak ngayon ng Caloocan City Police ang apat na basyo ng bala mula sa hindi pa mabatid na kalibre ng baril na nakuha sa lugar nina Nicole, upang ikumpara sa punglo na tumama sa biktima.
Ilang bystanders umano ang nag-turnover sa kanila ng mga basyo sa mismong pinangyarihan ng krimen kung saan tinamaan ng ligaw na bala si Nicole.
Ayon kay Senior Supt. Rimas Calixto, hepe ng Caloocan Police, hinihintay lamang nilang makuha ang punglo na tumama kay Nicole at kanila itong ipapadala sa PNP Crime Laboratory upang suriin at doon nila sisimulan ang imbestigasyon para sa posibleng pagkatukoy ng may-ari ng ginamit na baril.
#786
Philippine Photo Gallery / Re: PRETTY IN PINK
January 04, 2013, 09:14:38 AM
walang kwentang kamatayan...
#787
Showbiz & Celebrity / Re: Pareson kaayo sila
January 04, 2013, 09:09:26 AM
tumpak bai hubs... basta naay kwarta, gwapo ta permi...
#788
Family & Parenting / Re: You Cannot Seduce a Happy Husband
January 04, 2013, 08:43:12 AMQuote from: mg on January 03, 2013, 11:18:42 PMsaludo ako sayo ma'am mg... kung ako pato ang gi seduce... sure ko na madala dayon ko... hehe
Thanks. Based on experience na siya. hehehehe! First hand experience. Wa jud tingale nako ang ingon ana. If couples can commit the world will be a better place
#789
Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello everyone!
January 03, 2013, 05:24:58 PM
hi mg... welcome to TB..
#790
General Topic / Re: No more fireworks? Quadratinid meteor shower to light up nights
January 03, 2013, 05:20:52 PM
makita ra gihapon na neth... so, pag andam nalang daghan wish.. hehe
#791
General Topic / No more fireworks? Quadratinid meteor shower to light up nights
January 03, 2013, 05:13:59 PM
The fireworks that lit up the sky on New Year's Eve have already expired, but Pinoys may still get to see a spectacle in the nighttime sky during the first week of the year.
With the weather permitting, state astronomers said "falling stars" may be seen from the Philippines from the start of the year until Jan. 7.
"The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will be active from January 1 to January 7," Pagasa administrator Nathaniel Servando said.
Related story: 'Daytime comet' to arrive this year
It peaks Jan. 3 and 4, with falling stars seen at the rate of at least 40 meteors per hour.
"Meteors from the Quadrantid meteor shower hit the Earth’s atmosphere at the rate of about 40 kilometers per second," Servando said.
This, as the Pagasa chief noted that the meteors are said to be particles from debris ejected by the near-Earth asteroid 2003 EH1.
NASA meanwhile said that the EH1 asteroid may have come from a piece of comet that broke up several hundred years ago.
Related story: Comet may outshine the moon
Meteor shower viewing, however, may be interrupted by the waning gibbous Moon on Jan. 3, Servando said.
Aside from the Quadrantid meteor shower, Pagasa has highlighted other treats for Pinoy stargazers this January.
These include the rise of the "famous equilateral triangle after sunset."
The Triangle is composed of Betelgeuse, the prominent star of the famous constellation Orion (The Mighty Hunter); Sirius, the brightest star in the sky of the constellation Canis Major (the Big Dog); and Procyon, the brightest star of the constellation Canis Minor (the Little Dog).
With the weather permitting, state astronomers said "falling stars" may be seen from the Philippines from the start of the year until Jan. 7.
"The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will be active from January 1 to January 7," Pagasa administrator Nathaniel Servando said.
Related story: 'Daytime comet' to arrive this year
It peaks Jan. 3 and 4, with falling stars seen at the rate of at least 40 meteors per hour.
"Meteors from the Quadrantid meteor shower hit the Earth’s atmosphere at the rate of about 40 kilometers per second," Servando said.
This, as the Pagasa chief noted that the meteors are said to be particles from debris ejected by the near-Earth asteroid 2003 EH1.
NASA meanwhile said that the EH1 asteroid may have come from a piece of comet that broke up several hundred years ago.
Related story: Comet may outshine the moon
Meteor shower viewing, however, may be interrupted by the waning gibbous Moon on Jan. 3, Servando said.
Aside from the Quadrantid meteor shower, Pagasa has highlighted other treats for Pinoy stargazers this January.
These include the rise of the "famous equilateral triangle after sunset."
The Triangle is composed of Betelgeuse, the prominent star of the famous constellation Orion (The Mighty Hunter); Sirius, the brightest star in the sky of the constellation Canis Major (the Big Dog); and Procyon, the brightest star of the constellation Canis Minor (the Little Dog).
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