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When the Magi Gave Their Best They In Turn Received

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Malacañang pushes Aquino version of FOI bill

Corona and other Arroyo Justices resig-nation will restore SC credibility

Storm Hit Near My Island Of Paradise

Filipino-American midwife is CNN Hero of the Year for 2011

Dr. Ofelia DirigeMsgr. Gutierrez Ben MaynigoCitizens’ Caucus

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The Parshooters Golf Club of San Diego in action. Front row standing left to right: Santi Rabanal, Laurence Lazaga, Jim Quitania, Ed Hernandez, Al Nunag, Lito Parani, Vic Oliquiano, Dan Riego, Popo Bautista, Ed Bassig, Joe Tuquero, Juan Luna, Lito Ferrer, Jun Calalay, Nori Gamboa, Nestor Mendiola, Gus Martinez, Amor Garingo, Doy Longanilla, Jess Trapse, Ted Delunas, Flor Villegas, Camilo Abalos, Armando Bareno, Art Buangan, Manny Jacinto. Second row sitting down, left to right: Ted Calaustro, Doming Abella, Billy Javate, Bob Navales, Joe Ico, Pres. Matt Mazon, Ed Madriaga, Rino Belisario, Vic Oropilla, Rene Nicanor, James Lorenzo. Members not in the picture: Phillip Gabriel, Femie Cupit, Jim Esperon, Nick Sunga, Carl Pangilinan, Joey Pangili-nan, Bob Hernandez, Nick Abrenica, Bong Banaga, Ben Cueto, Raul Gonzalez, Jack Horcher, Romy Quinto, Andy Velbis. Renton Valledor, Eddie Mendiola.

Championship on December 13, 2011 at the Eastlake Country Club in Chula Vista.

The event was highlighted by the

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No Limitation By Ted Laguatan, Global Balita | 1/6/2012--If Renato Corona had been more sensitive to issues involving honor and pro-priety, he would have immediately declined when former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) offered to mid-night appoint him as Chief Justice. He knew the law and he knew that his appointment was illegal if not immoral. Instead

of refraining, he accepted the offer.Likewise, the Arroyo appointed

Justices should not have engaged in the dark conspiracy to le-galize Corona’s appointment. Ignoring public feelings about propriety and legality, they arrogantly and blatantly utilized their majority numbers to rule

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By Cathy Yamsuan, Cyn-thia D. Balana, Norman Bordadora | Philippine Daily Inquirer | MANILA, 1/5/2012 -- President Benigno Aquino III has issued marching orders to offi cials of Malacañang to push ahead with its version of the Freedom of Informa-tion (FOI) bill, which seeks to provide the public access to government documents, the undersecretary in charge of coming up with the adminis-tration’s take on the transpar-ency measure told reporters on Wednesday.

Senators and members of the House of Representa-tives welcomed Malacañang’s move to prioritize the FOI bill, saying they would en-sure that the measure would be signed into law during the Aquino administration.

The Palace version re-moves the provision on the creation of an information commission, which would have been the arbiter on disagreements on whether a piece of information could be disclosed on the basis of public interest.

Layer of bureaucracyUndersecretary Manuel

Quezon III of the Presidential Communications Develop-ment and Strategic Planning Offi ce (PCDSPO) said Mr. Aquino saw the commission as another layer of bureaucra-cy that could get in the way of achieving transparency.

At a news briefi ng in Mala-cañang, Quezon announced what he said was very good news.

“In our discussions today, we presented the results of our studies and the various con-sultations that the President had instructed us to do. And the President’s marching or-ders to us was—and this was his words—to ‘push ahead with Freedom of Informa-tion,”’ the undersecretary said.

Before the briefi ng with the media, Quezon sat in a meeting with Mr. Aquino, presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, Energy Secretary Rene Almendras and Secretary Ricky Carandang, head of the PCDSPO.

The FOI bill, one of the campaign

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Seven years ago a young man of 22 years old left their own travel agency business and started cooking for a Hawaiian Barbecue Restaurant. He slaved and toiled for six years learning all about the Hawaiian Barbecue Restaurant business. As a reward for his hidden dreams and hard work, he was promoted to manage and help establish several of this franchise stores in the San Diego County, CA area.

As the saying goes, “TIMING IS EVERYTHING”, Jason Jacob Mal-icsi (known as JJ to his friends) on his

seventh year of his chosen career now owned his own successful “Hawaiian Barbecue Restaurant” at Grand Plaza

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JJ with mom and sisters

by KD SuarezPhilippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines, 12/12/11 - For advocating maternal and child health for poor Indonesians, Filipino-American midwife Robin Lim was declared the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday (Monday morning in Manila) at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Ange-

les, USA.She was declared

CNN Hero of the Year in a star-studded gala broadcast world-wide on the cable news channel, best-ing 9 other nominees from around the world.

“Ibu Robin” (“Mother Robin” in the local language) established birthing clin-ics in Bali and Aceh, Indo-nesia, where mothers re-ceive free pre-

natal care, birthing services, and even medical aid to anyone in need.

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Almost everyone who is in the United States chasing their American dream aspires to become a natural-ized U.S. citizen. With citizenship comes certain benefits, one of which is that you no longer need to fear that you may be subject to deporta-tion. Thus, as soon as one is eligible and meet all the requirements, it is advisable to file a naturalization application. There is, however, a class of foreign-born children who automatically become U.S. citizens without the need for filing a natural-ization application.

The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 which went into effect on Febru-ary 27, 2001 provides for automatic citizenship for certain foreign-born children of U.S. citizens. To be eli-gible, a child must meet the follow-ing requirements:

The child must have at least one United States citizen parent (by birth or naturalization); The child is under 18 years old; The child has been admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident or has adjusted status; The child is currently residing permanently in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the U.S. citizen parent. The law also applies to adopted children provided they meet the above-requirements. As to the legal

custody requirement, the USCIS presumes that the U.S. citizen parent has “legal custody” in cases where the child is a legitimate or legiti-mated child. For those children who meet the requirements, citizenship is acquired automatically by operation of law on the day of admission to the United States as an immigrant or on the day the last condition for acquir-ing citizenship is satisfied. There is no need to apply for naturalization. However, if the child wants evidence of his U.S. citizenship he can either apply for a U.S. passport with the Department of State or for a Certifi-cate of Citizenship with the USCIS.

To illustrate, let us take the case of 25 year old Mateo who was born in the Philippines in 1985. At the time of his birth, his parents were not married. Subsequent to his birth, Mateo’s father who was a beneficia-ry of a family-based petition filed by Mateo’s grandparent immigrated to the United States. A few years later, his father returned to the Philippines, married his mother and immediately filed an immigrant petition for Ma-teo and the mother. In 1994 Mateo’s father became a naturalized U.S. citizen. When, Mateo was 11 years old he came to the United States as a lawful permanent resident with his mother. During the Labor Day weekend, Mateo had one drink too many at his cousin’s house. While driving erratically on his way home, he noticed a police car following

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by Cesar D. Candari, M.D. FCAP Emeritus | Henderson, Nevada

Introduction: There is that deep dread-

ful feeling that Filipinos will plummet to the bottom of the unknown. The fol-lowing brief history of the Philippines, is probably closest to the truth about ourselves.

This is a summary of interesting tidbits of history of the Philippines for every Filipino American to know. These are opinion pieces put together in a coherent fashion and reckoned in units of time - the glimpses of Philippine conditions from Spain’s colonization to the present democratic Philippines. It may educate many Filipinos wherever they are today.

In all honesty, the country nowa-days is being subjected by oddity of events that it becomes a less-attractive place to live in permanently. As a retired physician, I thought of our country as my favorite place of retirement; many other Filipinos working abroad have similar plans. We all now know that it is a politically beleaguered homeland that several are having second thoughts about it.

Yesterday Under Spanish Rule: In 1521, when

Magellan used fire in burning the homes of our forefathers in Mactan off Cebu Island, Lapu-Lapu rose and took up arms. He and his warriors killed Magel-lan and several of his European soldiers along the shores of Mactan Island.

Lapu-Lapu was a hero and he could be considered the forerunner of a national-ist – even if the archipelago at that time was bogged down in tribal wars. It is admitted that a Filipino nation was not born despite the defeat of Magellan. We were under the Spanish rule for more than three centuries (1565-1898), after Spain sent a second expedition to Cebu. As they say, the rest is history. The intolerable abuses of the Spanish regime resulted into the formation of a group of reformist movement that later paved the way for the Philippine Revolution. Local revolts against Spanish imperial corruption, racial discrimination, and church abuse happened intermittently before but only succeeded late in the nineteenth century. Some of the initial revolts called for reform of the econom-ic-political system but not for outright independence. Rebellions were waged by native firebrands in many parts of the archipelago. Not one succeeded. A young doctor-writer, Jose Rizal, used his pen to expose the brutalizing, depressive and inhumane treatment of the Spanish colonizers. Dr. Rizal was arrested and then executed by a firing squad at Ba-gumbayan on December 30, 1896. Dr. Rizal, who was just 30-years old when he was executed, aroused the Filipinos to support the rebellion, spurred by the Katipunan that was organized by our heroes Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo. Dr. Rizal strongly dis-agreed with Bonifacio to engage in war. Between Bonifaio and Aguinaldo, how-ever, they engaged in an ugly infighting resulting in the execution of Bonifacio.

They failed to coalesce their forces and fight side by side against the enemy and the leaders lost their souls to greed and thirst for power.

In 1898 The American-Spanish War ensued. Commodore George Dewey invaded Manila Bay and over-powered the dull Spanish Navy. The Spaniards eventually surrendered to the Americans.

American Time: On June 12, 1898, in Cavite el Viejo (now Kawit), Cavite, Philippines, the KKK (Katipu-nan) patriots of General Aguinaldo proclaimed the Philippine Declaration of Independence. With the public reading of the Act of the Declaration of Indepen-dence, Filipino revolutionary forces un-der Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain. However, on December 10, 1898, the Americans annexed the Philippines with Spain by the Treaty of Paris. This brought about the Filipino-American war in February 1899 that lasted for three years. 4,000 American soldiers lost their lives; Filipinos were outgunned, 250,000 to 1,000,000 were killed in the fighting. This led to the capture of Aguinaldo by U.S. forces on March 23, 1901, and swore allegiance to the U.S. On July 4, 1902, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed a full and complete pardon and amnesty to all people in the Philippine archipelago that had participated in the conflict, effec-

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ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) formally unveiled the sixth an-nual “IBM 5 in 5” (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next fi ve years:

People power will come to life You will never need a password againMind reading is no longer science

fi ction The digital divide will cease to existJunk mail will become priority mailThe next ibm 5 in 5 is based on

market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s research labs around the world that can make these transformations possible.

At IBM, we’re bridging the gap between science fi ction and science fact on a daily basis. Here are how fi ve technologies will defi ne the future:

People power will come to life.Anything that moves or produces

heat has the potential to create energy that can be captured. Walking. Jogging. Bicycling. The heat from your com-puter. Even the water fl owing through your pipes.

Advances in renewable energy tech-nology will allow individuals to collect this kinetic energy, which now goes to waste, and use it to help power our homes, offi ces and cities.

Imagine attaching small devices to the spokes on your bicycle wheels that recharge batteries as you pedal along. You will have the satisfaction of not only getting to where you want to go, but at the same time powering some of the lights in your home.

Created energy comes in all shapes and forms and from anything around us. IBM scientists in Ireland are look-ing at ways to understand and minimize the environmental impact of converting ocean wave energy into electricity.

***You will never need a password

again.Your biological makeup is the key to

your individual identity, and soon, it will become the key to safeguarding it.

You will no longer need to create, track or remember multiple passwords for various log-ins. Imagine you will be able to walk up to an ATM machine to securely withdraw money by simply speaking your name or looking into a tiny sensor that can recognize the unique patterns in the retinal of your eye. Or by doing the same, you can check your account balance on your mobile phone or tablet.

Each person has a unique biologi-cal identity and behind all that is data. Biometric data – facial defi nitions, retina scans and voice fi les – will be composited through software to build your DNA unique online password.

Referred to as multi-factor biomet-rics, smarter systems will be able to use this information in real-time to make sure whenever someone is attempting to access your information, it matches your unique biometric profi le and the attempt is authorized. To be trusted, such systems should enable you to opt in or out of whatever information you choose to provide.

***Mind reading is no longer science

fi ction.From Houdini to Skywalker to X-

Men, mind reading has merely been “wishful thinking” for science fi ction fans for decades, but their wish may soon come true.

IBM scientists are among those researching how to link your brain to your devices, such as a computer or a smartphone. If you just need to think about calling someone, it happens. Or you can control the cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about where you want to move it.

Scientists in the fi eld of bioinfor-matics have designed headsets with advanced sensors to read electrical brain activity that can recognize facial expressions, excitement and concentra-tion levels, and thoughts of a person without them physically taking any

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Citizens’ Caucus - Conserva-tism, Cash, Christian Values, Combat Warfare Consumers

Confer – Creativity Conquersby Benjamin Maynigo | McCLEAN,

VA, 1/6/2012 --

CITIZENS’ CAUCUS

The formal process of choosing a Republican alternative to President Obama started last night. The citizens of the State of Iowa caucused to select among Romney, Santorum, Paul, Gin-grich, Perry, and Bachman. Huntsman was also a candidate but ignored the process and the State.

Fully aware of the make-up of the voters, each of the candidates projected himself or herself as a staunch con-servative.

As in any election, Issues, Organization, and Cash played very signifi cant roles.

Romney campaigned on his record as an experienced man-ager in the private as well as in the public sector (as Massachusetts Governor). Those who were concerned about the economy and the issue of electability chose him over the others. He also had the organization and the cash. According to reports, he spent $156 per vote.

The Evangelicals preferred Santo-rum, who was a former Pennsylvania Senator. He ran on Christian (Roman Catholic) values and relied on the organization of the religious organiza-

tions supporting him. He visited and campaigned in all the 99 counties of Iowa. He spent only $21 per vote.

Ron Paul, no doubt, had conserva-tive credentials, but his foreign policy proposals such as non-interventionism, anti-combat warfare, and withdrawal of all American troops from foreign lands made the same constituency uneasy. He also disagrees with the idea of threatening to bomb Iran. He has very strong support from the young and the military. He spent $104 per vote.

Gingrich ran on his record as a for-mer Speaker of the House who led Re-publican forces to follow the “Contract with America” agenda. His brilliant showing as a debater initially propelled him to frontrunner status in Iowa. But a barrage of negative ads relating to his past affected his standing. He spent

$92 per vote.Perry virtu-

ally put most of his eggs in Iowa’s basket. Spending $480 per vote, he outspent all the others combined. He could not re-cover from his dev-astating showing in the debates and in some interviews.

Bachmann was born and raised in Iowa. She was

hoping to galvanize her relatives, classmates, neighbors and town mates. They were not enough. She spent only $4 per vote.

In the ultimate analysis, the caucus of the conservatives was a battle between and among Cash (Economy), Christian Values (Religion), Combat Warfare (Non-Interventionist Policy).

Economy represented by Romney won over Religion personifi ed by

Santorum but only by 8 votes. The non-interventionist Paul managed a close third place fi nish.

CONSUMERS CONFER

By the time you read this column, I will probably be in Las Vegas attending the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012.

My CES Planner says that in my next article I should be able to report on the State of the Consumer Electronics Industry both nationally and globally. I will attend the unveiling of new and the latest products. So expect a description of some that I consider amazing, and which will affect our daily lives.

Many of the technology companies such as Google, LG Electronics, Sam-sung, Panasonic, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Intel, Microsoft and others have scheduled separate press conferences to launch their latest creations. I intend to write about the ones that I feel would be of interest to consumers in general.

Apple Computers will not be rep-resented formally but accessories and apps for Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iPods will be on display. Of course, many of the attendees like me will be holding iPhones and iPads.

Last year, I attended and participated in two events, which I found very interesting: the “Last Gadget Standing” and the “Mobile Apps Showdown”. I intend to do so again.

This year, the 10 fi nalists of the “Last Gadget Standing” are:

Lytro – described as a simple box-like camera that takes the photo fi rst and then let’s you bring the photo into focus.

Playstation Vita – according to the Judges, its sleek design puts it at the current pinnacle of portable gaming systems. The system’s graphics is noted for its speed so that they make the iPad look tortoise like.

Autom Robot – a weight loss robot that engages you in a dialog about your goals.

Cotton Candy – an Android on a stick that has everything an Android tablet has at its core. It is supposed to be as light as cotton candy.

WIMM One Dev Preview – looks like a wristwatch but can be trans-formed into a Twitter watch, stocks, weather, and phone.

Origami - a new high tech baby stroller which has an electronic dash-board replete with a pedometer, iPod holder, and recharges itself while it’s in motion.

Swivi – a simple iPhone dock that

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can swivel to track your movements as you talk and walk about.

Basis – body monitoring device that not only measures your exercise but measures everything from body tem-perature to sweat.

The other 2 fi nalists will be chosen and announced at the start of the Show.

The 10 fi nalists for “Mobile Apps Showdown” are:

1. SecuraFone – a multi-purpose smartphone app that functions as a per-sonal safety solution. It helps prevent distracted driving.

2. Macaw Mobile App – turns your smartphone into a mobile health monitor.

3 CIA: Operation Ajax – brings the comic to the next level.

4. Aurasma – blends the physical and virtual worlds together.

5. AppGear – an innovative line of apps that seamlessly interact with cool, collectible toys, shifting digital gaming into your reality.

6. SkyQ – an easy to use as-tronomy app that locates and identifi es virtually any celestial object visible in the sky.

7. Viper Smart Start – an app that allows users to start, stop, lock, unlock, pop the trunk plus more.

8. Cinefy – mobile video editing platform for the iPhone where users create and share videos mixed with high quality special effects.

9. Magisto – app that takes raw videos and turns it into a beautifully edited and produced clip.

10. RoadBike – app that makes your iPhone the bike monitor of your dreams

All of the above plus the 2 still unknown gadgets will be demonstrated during the scheduled events. The last gadget standing and the best mobile app will be voted upon by the audi-ence, which would include me.

It will be a busy week in Las Vegas. I am narrowing down the list of booths to visit and the CEOs to interview. I expect to receive some samples to evaluate.

There are also social events. One big night is sponsored by Lenovo and Microsoft; another night by Intel, then by Qualcomm. The closing party at the Venetian Hotel should be a big one. I also plan to attend the International Academy Web Television Awards.

Indeed, the things we have to do for Consumerism and Journalism. As my barber said, “it’s a tough job, but some-body has to do it”.


After 15 years of public planning and collaboration, a project that beautifi es the San Diego waterfront will fi nally begin.

The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Phase I Project, which incorpo-rates an area on North Harbor Drive - from the Navy Pier to the B Street

emony on the western edge of Lane Field, located at the corner of West Broadway and North Harbor Drive.

“Projects of this magnitude and grandeur don’t happen overnight, and don’t happen without a lot of public debate and scrutiny,” said Scott Peters, Chairman of the Board of Port Commissioners. “But in

the end, we got it done because we brought the parties together and found common ground for the com-mon good and for the public benefi t. That’s how we get things done here in San Diego, and it’s a better proj-ect for it,” he said.

Hundreds of people are antici-pated to attend the event, which will include remarks from City of San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, City Council President Pro Tem Kevin Faulconer, Board of Port Com-

Pier and a portion of West Broadway - will break ground Thursday, Janu-ary 5, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. The event is open to the public.

The Port of San Diego, City of San Diego and Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC) will celebrate its start with a groundbreaking cer-

missioners Chairman Scott Peters, CCDC Board Director Laurie Black, and former Port Commissioners Stephen P. Cushman and Mike McDade.

“The revitalized North Embarca-dero will connect downtown San Di-ego to the waterfront, creating acres of new park space that San Diegans,

visitors and future generations can use to enjoy our beautiful bay,” said Kevin Faulconer, Chairman of the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Joint Powers Authority.

The North Embarcadero Vision-ary Plan Phase I is part of a com-prehensive project to beautify the waterfront and create new public open space that welcomes resi-dents and tourists. The project also includes signifi cant improvements to

Project to Beautify San Diego’s Waterfront to Break Ground January 5

Community


Kyle Crawford, 4, of San Mateo, CA. In addition to Kyle Crawford, there are other patients in the SF Bay Area who need a marrow donor, like 12-year-old Vicky Tran, who is of full Chinese descent. “The important thing is that anyone of non-Caucasian ancestry join the Be the Match registry by going to a drive or request-ing a home kit,” says Carol Gillespie, executive director of the Asian American Donor Program (AADP).

San Francisco, CA – Kyle Craw-ford, 4, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, on December 7, 2011. He is in urgent need of a marrow trans-plant, this is his only hope for long term survival. Kyle is Chinese and Caucasian and lives in San Mateo.

It’s diffi cult to watch a loved one with a long-term illness linger, when with more resources their pain might be eliminated and they might have a new lease on life. Those who are not Caucasians are more likely to die of leukemia or of other blood cancers. This is because there is a shortage of multi-ethnic donors on the national Be the Match® registry.

What’s the solution? Encouraging more people of multi-ethnic heritage to join the Be The Match® registry and potentially save a life. Each of us can “Be The One to Save a Life!” For Kyle, as no family members are a match, it is likely that someone of Asian or bi-racial heritage will be a marrow/stem cell match for him. A marrow trans-plant can extend and/or save Kyle’s life. Aplastic anemia is a disease of the bone marrow that occurs when your body stops producing enough

Four-Year-Old Boy Needs Marrow Match to Survive

Be the One to Save a Life Drives on Sat. Jan. 7 and Sat. Jan. 14

new blood cells and platelets. Aplas-tic anemia leaves you feeling fatigued and at higher risk of infections and uncontrolled bleeding.

“We need everyone of Asian, multi-ethnic and ethnic minority ancestry to step forward and join the marrow registry,” says Carol Gillespie, execu-tive director of the Asian American Donor Program (http://www.aadp.org). “There is a shortage of non-Caucasians on the Be The Match® national registry. This means that patients have to wait longer than is ideal to fi nd a match.” AADP staff continues to provide education about the need and how relatively easy it is to register and to donate if needed. If you are found to be a match, the do-nation procedure will either be mar-row collection or Peripheral Blood Stem Cell collection (PBSC). In Kyle’s case, marrow donation will probably be requested.

How You Can Help• Go to one of the upcoming drives

and do a cheek swab to join the “Be



ASIAN JOURNALThe fi rst Asian-Filipino weekly in Southern California

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Kalusugan Community Services (KCS) had many volunteers since

its inception in 1995 and this continues up to the present. They worked in our projects such as the “Siglang Buhay: Food, Fitness and Cancer Prevention”, “Healthy Eating Active Living Campaign”, and especially the “Filipino American Arts and Cultural Festival (FilAmFest)” where many young people are in-volved. They are valuable to any organization so we should treat them as gold.

A. Why should one volunteer?1. It benefi ts the Organization.

Volunteers are unrecognized assets to the organization and therefore we always welcome them. As our con-sultant Melissa Pregill said, “They have an obvious strong personal in-terest in the work, they don’t ask to be paid, often they become the most committed board members, and in large measure they become signifi -cant future fi nancial donors. So let’s build a program that identifi es their interests and expertise; gives them consistent, respectable work; devel-ops, recognizes and rewards them; and suitably honors their service. Let’s treat them as gold nuggets!

The need for volunteers became crucial for KCS in 2010 when we

Why Volunteer And How To Do It More Effectively:Volunteer Opportunities

were in a period of transition due to the passing away of our Founder and President, Dr. Riz A. Oades. Coupled with this is the economic recession that started in 2008 and continues to the present. This has tremendously affected our funding sources and due to lack of revenue we had to lay off staff and resort to volunteers to assist us with some tasks. Because of our contact with the community, previous participants of our projects came to our rescue and have been helping us tremen-dously.

2. It benefi ts the individual by providing:

Purpose, meaning and fulfi llment to life. Volunteering or serving has personal

advantage to an individual. Our Pastor, Mike Meeks, of Eastlake Community Church, mentioned that all of us have a desire for greatness, fame and fulfi lled life. We try to reach for it by excelling in school, having a good career, earning a lot of money, getting married and having children, and living a life of pleasure and ease. But when we come to the place that we have accomplished all this, there is that void or yearning for something that would satisfy us. Only being a “ser-vant” can fi ll the void.

I am reminded of King Solomon in the Bible who was the richest and wisest man who ever lived on earth. He had everything that his heart desired—wealth, wisdom, women,

fame, pleasure, possessions, and worthwhile projects. Yet he stated in the Book of Ecclesiastes:

“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired: I refused my heart no pleasure.

My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward of my labor.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands have done, and what I had toiled to achieve,

Everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind:

Nothing was gained under the sun.”

The pastor mentioned that the only way to fi nd fulfi llment is to help or serve others. By serving we can be like Jesus Christ, the Master, who came not to be served but to serve. Peter the Apostle also said that “each one should use whatever gifts he has received to serve others.” I fi nd that serving gives me joy and happiness beyond compare. Try it and you will experience the joy that volunteering gives. So let’s give and serve.

Experience and contacts for young people aspiring to climb the career ladder. A high school or college student or young professional can gain work experience in their fi eld while working for the organization which can eventually help advance their career. If diligent, they can usually get a good recommendation from the Director if they are going to college/graduate school, applying for scholarship, or looking for a job. Oftentimes, after they have proven their worth, they can eventually be hired as staff of the company or recruited as board member of the organization.

B. How can one be an effective volunteer?

There are three ways that one can fi nd purpose and fulfi llment as a volunteer:

1. Availability- One should be available at all times and not wait until we are called or have time. A farmer who waits for perfect weather will never plant or if they watch every cloud, they will never harvest. Let’s be ready anytime.

2. Passionate- We should be pas-

sionate about the group’s mission and serve gladly. We should be happy when we do it and glad that there is an opportunity to help while we are still strong. Let’s not be lazy when coming to work thinking that anyway they can get along without us.

3. Faithful- We should be faith-ful in what we do, confi dent that nothing done is a waste of time and effort. Let’s stick to our commit-ments no matter what, for we know that we will be rewarded if not here, in heaven

C. What makes a successful VOLUNTEER PROGRAM?

In 2010, we started a formal Volunteer Program fi rst by inviting a consultant to help us develop a program for volunteers. Melissa Pre-gill, founder of Cipher, a marketing communications business, conducted a workshop for us on “Volunteer Programs that Work.” She gave us nine tips to develop a successful program and KCS has been follow-ing on these:

1. Let the community know you need volunteers- This can be done through emails, website, direct mail solicitation, personal contact, con-tinuous request at board meetings, social occasions or whenever there is an audience who can help announce the need to the community. KCS has been advertising the need in the community through all these means and have been successful.

2. Develop a Volunteer Pro-gram- A program should include development of policies, systems, procedures, forms, methods and techniques, so one does not handle issues and people differently over time that leads to valuable effort and sending unintended mixed messages. KCS started formalizing its volun-teer program in 2010 and continues to refi ne it this year 2012.

3. Qualify them carefully- As for any other position, determine if there is genuine motivation, if they are passionate about the mis-sion, what their skills are, and if they indeed have time to devote to volunteer work. KCS will deter-mine this through the questionnaire that applicants will fi ll out and by interviewing them during sign up or orientation time.

4. Educate them about your mis-sion and role- During orientation, KCS staff will inform recruits about the work of the organization and what their roles and responsibili-ties will be in supporting that work. Often volunteers become bored or disillusioned because they don’t know what they are supposed to do and most often, won’t ask.

5. Keep a Watchful Eye- Volun-teers are often out in the community as ambassadors, so some thoughtful oversight is in order, especially if they quietly become disgruntled. One unhappy volunteer can spread ugly and damaging gossip faster than the speed of light.

6. Find ways to reward and acknowledge them publicly- Salute their successes privately and in pub-lic such as the giving of a certifi cate and acknowledgement during the anniversary or special occasions or give-aways throughout the year such as grocery store gift cards, movie tickets, or complimentary tickets to special events and shows. KCS recognizes volunteers at their an-niversary celebration by the giving of certifi cates and small gifts all year round.

7. Help them grow- For those that show interest and capacity, let them develop new skills, which will require close watch to see when they are ready. Many programs just ask people to do the same thing all the time, leading to boredom and disap-pointment.

8. Are they board material? - The most committed board members come from the volunteer pool. They know the organization, have dem-onstrated their loyalty, and now just need to know what board service entails. KCS has recruited staff and board members from our volunteer pool.

9. If they leave, fi nd out why and stay in touch- Sometimes volunteers just fade away, not showing up for activities or not returning phone calls. Maybe something has hap-pened in their personal or profes-sional life that they don’t want to announce, so a private visit or phone call will show the respect and con-cern they deserve. If they don’t want to participate anymore, graciously ask why, wish them well, and stay in

touch in case circumstances im-prove.

D. Who are the KCS volunteers and what do they do?

Meet some of our volunteers who are also Board members:

1. Demy Din- MPH- A Commu-nity Health Initiative Director for the American Cancer Society for 6 years with an MPH degree in Public Health major in Health Promotion from SDSU. She is an advocate for the Healthy Eating Active Living Campaign and assists in workshops related to health, cancer, nutrition and food.

2. Ben Macayan- Ben retired in 1986 after serving 20 years in the Navy. Two months later he was hired by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in downtown San Diego District Offi ce. He retired in August 31, 2007 after complet-ing 41 years of combined federal government services. He lives in El Cajon with his wife Tess. He is past President of FilAm Toastmaster and past Vice-Chairman of Sa-mahan Filipino American Heritage. As board member, he helps in the overall operation of the Center such as working with our exhibit booths at health fairs.

3. Paul Ones- Three times Presi-dent of COPAO and Co-Founder of KCS during one of those years and active member of UPM-FACC, San Diego Scripps Lions Club, Knights of Columbus Council No. 13688, and COPAO. He has been in and out of the country, traveling to the Philippines for the past 12 years helping others especially in Indang, Cavite where he came from origi-nally. Aida, his wife and a registered nurse, is also an active volunteer of KCS. Paul helps in the overall administration of the Center.

4. Bette Ponce-Poblete – She is from Santiago, Ilocos Sur, a Centro Escolar University high school and University of the East BA graduate. She was secretary to the Base In-dustrial Relations Offi cer, US Naval Base, Subic Bay, PI; Secretary to the Chief Administrative Offi cer and Contract Administrator, County of SD, retiring in 2000 after 30 years; and chaired the fi rst Philippine Faire of COPAO. As board member she is chair of the fundraising committee donor solicitation program.

5. Fe R. Rivero- Currently, Sec-retary, SD Cosmopolitan Lion’s Club; Vice-President of Subic Bay Complex-FilAm Association of SD; and Treasurer of SBTFASA, Tooma Park. She was a former KCS Healthy Eating Advocate. As board member, she is a member of the Fundraising committee donor solicitation program. She is a BSBA graduate in Accounting in the Philip-pines.

6. Paul Valen- One of the coordi-nators of the Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP) and organizer with Anakbayan SD, an organization working for the rights and welfare of Filipinos worldwide. As a volunteer, he mans the Center every Tuesday and helps update our contact list.

Other volunteers featured in the 9th anniversary article in the Asian Journal includes: Beth Dalindin, Lydia Duro, Doreen Felicitas, Alice Legaspi, Rudy Liporada, Elvie Mag-sarili, Leony Pamintuan, and UCSD Students (Jeannette Soriano, Alice

Last week I wrote my list of New Year’s Resolution that I had

every intention of keeping. I offered this list of resolutions that should have been amaz-ingly easy to keep. At least I thought so at the time. So now that we’re a week or so into

2012, let’s see how well I’ve done.

Easy New Year's resolutions that I

hope I kept

1. Remember to turn off the lights (okay, this is a personal issue coming from a parent of kids who haven’t yet realized that a light switch works both ways) Yes

2. Eat slightly healthy food (why get carried away, right?) Yes

3. Drink plenty of fl uids – of one sort or another. Yes

4. Get better at your job – what-ever that job happens to be Yes

5. Be cool (yes, you can be cool past 19. It’s not easy, but it’s pos-sible) Um, probably not

6. Yes, it is No it’s not7. Go somewhere I went to San

Jose so I’m sure that counts even if it is San Jose

8. Do something (yes, I know this is vague so it ought to be easy) Yes I did indeed do something

9. Watch TV What’s a morning without CNN?

10. Don’t watch more TV Yes11. Read the newspaper Yes indeed12. Read this newspaper Always13. Be grouchy Oh yes14. Be grouchy some more It’s me

remember?15. Eat breakfast 50/5016. Eat lunch Yep17. Eat dinner Yep18. Do not confuse any of the

meals above with eating nachos in movie theatres. That just doesn’t count. Ever. No problem – didn’t go to a theater this week

19. Kiss someone Oh, yes20. Kiss someone again Oh, yes

again21. Kiss someone you know this

time Absolutely22. Be nice before noon (it

shouldn’t be that diffi cult if you try hard enough) No, no, no

23. Take a vacation No24. Pay for the vacation (yes, this

is harder) N/A25. Let someone else pay for the

vacation (see time-share promotions) N/A

26. Take another breath I’m still here so I must be doing this one

27. Smile at someone who doesn’t expect it (oh, go ahead, just mess with them) Who, me? Smile? I don’t think so.

28. Frown at someone who doesn’t expect it (unless they're big, have lots of tattoos, wear chains around the neck and drive a Harley) No problem here

29. Make sure your health insur-ance is paid up (see number 28 above) Always

30. Pay the electric bill early Does

ResolutionsHow long did they last?

on time count?

31. Go somewhere that’s not in a travel brochure Does Santee count?

32. Help someone fi nd something I help my kids fi nd something daily, so yes

33. Stay in bed longer Nope 34. Ignore the laundry Nope35. Ignore the kids Ignoring my

son was easy – he was away at a Sea Cadet training in Port Hueneme. My daughter, on the other hand, would willingly climb on my head and twist my ears until I paid attention. So this is 50/50

36. Ignore your husband or wife, signifi cant other, boyfriend, girl-friend or me. Heck, just ignore someone – you’ll feel better and af-ter all, isn’t that what it’s all about? Not a problem at all

37. Ignore number 36 above No38. Demand peace worldwide

Sure but no one listens to me39. Work for peace worldwide Yes40. Strive for peace worldwide Yes41. Decide to do something you’ve

never done before No42. Decide to actually have fun

while doing number 41 above No again

43. Be nice to your boss Absolute-ly – I like them both so it’s easy

44. Be nice to your employees Yes45. Be nice to yourself Yes46. Just...be nice Well, I don’t

know if I’d go that far47. Decide to vote in the next elec-

tion Always48. Be glad you’re alive Yep49. Be glad someone else is alive

Oh yes indeed50. Go back to school. There's

probably no better time than during a recession to get more education, get a new education, or get retrained. Strive to keep yourself up to date and relevant for jobs and the job

market I work at this daily51. Create an electronic social

identity and use it - make sure you know how to use all the important social media sites to your advantage (employers want employees to be up to date) I keep updating mine so that counts

52. See what's out there in this great big world - and enjoy it Prob-ably not this week – I’ll work on it later

So that’s how I’ve done so far;

how are you managing?


IMMIGRATION 911 by Atty. Susan V. Perez | SAN DIEGO, 1/6/2012 --

Antonio, a native and citizen of Ven-ezuela, entered the United States without inspection in April 2003 and did not depart the United States until February 2007. Antonio was thus inadmissible to the United States under our immigration laws for having been unlawfully present in the United States for more than one year. Antonio is married to a U.S. citi-zen and they have a child together, born in 2005. Antonio wants to come back and reside in the United States so he could be with his U.S. citizen spouse and child. Antonio then filed the Application for Waiver of Grounds of Excludability (Form I-601). The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) denied said application on the ground that An-tonio failed to establish that his wife and child would suffer extreme hardship if Antonio were to live in Venezuela.

In general, a foreign national (other than an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residency) who has been unlawfully present in the United States for one year or more, and who again seeks admission within 10 years of the date of such alien’s departure or removal from the United States, is inadmissible. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the sole discretion to waive this inadmissibility in the case of an applicant who is the spouse or son or daughter of a United States citizen or of a legal permanent resident, if it is estab-lished to the satisfaction of DHS that the refusal of admission to such foreign na-tional would result in extreme hardship to the citizen or legal permanent resident spouse or parent of such alien.

To be successful in I-601 waiver, Antonio must first establish that his U.S. citizen spouse would suffer extreme hardship were she to remain in the Unit-ed States while Antonio resides abroad due to inadmissibility. Antonio’s wife claimed that she will suffer emotional and financial hardship. In a declaration, she stated that she is suffering depression

due to Antonio’s absence. In addition, she noted that prior to Antonio’s depar-ture, he would work nights and care for their child during the day, but since his departure, she is the sole caregiver for her child and such a situation is causing her hardship. Finally, Antonio’s wife as-serted that prior to Antonio’s departure, he was financially assisting the house-hold but since he left the United States, she has been forced to move out of her apartment, as she is unable to afford the monthly payments on her own. She was forced to reside with her parents. How-ever, her parents are facing the risk of foreclosure due to interest rate modifica-tion and economic crisis. In support of the emotional hardship, Antonio’s wife submitted her diagnosis of depression, her need for antidepressants, and the rec-ommendation that she be excused from work due to her impairment in function-ing. For the financial hardship, Antonio submitted her wife’s parents’ increased monthly house payments due to an interest rate adjustment, and their debt of almost $20,000 on the home, which may lead to foreclosure. Antonio also sub-mitted documents showing his financial contributions to the household prior to his departure from the United States, to support the assertion that his wife needs Antonio’s financial contribution.

Antonio’ spouse claimed that the country of Venezuela has problematic conditions with crime, violence and economic problems. A statement from the Department of State was provided for support. She also pointed out the substandard quality of living in that country, using the example that her child fell ill while visiting Venezuela in the past due to the lack of drinking water, unsanitary conditions and lack of basic supplies, like milk and rice. She had to make 3 separate visits to a clinic in one month, due to her child’s acute diar-rhea, vomiting and inflammation of the

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***The digital divide will cease to exist.In our global society, growth and

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There are 7 billion people inhabiting the world today. In five years there will be 5.6 billion mobile devices sold – which means 80% of the current global population would each have a mobile device.

As it becomes cheaper to own a

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For example, in India, using speech technology and mobile devices, IBM enabled rural villagers who were illiter-ate to pass along information through recorded messages on their phones. With access to information that was not there before, villagers could check weather reports for help them decide when to fertilize crops, know when doctors were coming into town, and find the best prices for their crops or merchandise..

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Top: Ric Tanega, birthday cel-ebrant (center w/ hat and wife Linda) with Mc Buddies members. Bottom: Celebrant with wife in the center sur-rounded by the Mc Buddies wives.

Once again McBuddies members had another get-together at their headquarters in Mc Donald’s at Palm Avenue when one of their active member Ri-cardo Perea Tanega cel-ebrated his 83 birthday with some family mem-bers and Mc Buddies friends last December 28, 2011, and gave thanks to God for all the bless-ings he re-ceived from the time he joined the US Navy, worked in the civil service, to his retire-ment and presently on his current birthday.

Ricardo

Perea Tanega, retired navy senior chief was born in Naic, Cavite on December 28, 1928. He joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 in 1946 at

Cavite Naval Shipyard. He retired after 30 yrs. in the service as a re-tired Senior Chief at the age of 46 as a commissary man.

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He was promoted E7 in 1959 and sent to Yokohama, Japan to run the Navy Mess. But he was assigned temporarily to manage a Zebra Club, one of the largest military club in the Navy as a manager without any experience in this fi eld. He lerned the operation of managing the club in 3 months. The commander decided not to hire any civilian manager. He managed the club with a capcity of 500 people. He hired fl or shows from the US, Philippines, and Hongkong. He ran the club for 2 years where he got his Senior Chief promotion.


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83 Years of Ric Tane-ga’s Colorful Life

He was sent to Keyport Naval Station to manage the General Mess. In a 2 years time the Enlisted Mess was selected “The second best mess assure” through out the Navy. The prize the Navy gave him was to attend to a culinary school at Ne-wheaven, Rhode Island and became the team leader to put out Asiatic Dishes.

He was sent to New York to learn

commissary store operation for 2 years. But after 18 months he was sent to Subic in the Philippines to manage the Meat and Produce Department operation. He was sent back to New York to learn about running a commissary store. He was chosen as an advisor to visit the commissary stores from Great Lakes to South West in the entire Pacifi c commissary for 2 years. Then he was sent in San Diego, the largest commissary store, to do the same job.

After retiring from the military,

he was hired as a civilian employee for 10 years by the Navy doing the same job. At the age of 57, he retired again in the civil service job. Presently, he is happily living with his wife Erlinda P. Magno. They got married last April 16, 2010. Sr. Chief Ricardo P. Tanega, has 3 sons from his fi rst marriage, Richard, Robert and Ronald, they are now residing at San Francisco, California.

Phil-Am Law 10 by Atty. Rogelio Karagdag, Jr. | Member, State Bar of California & Integrated Bar of the Philippines | SAN DIEGO, 1/6/2012 -- In a previous article, we wrote about the perils of a “secret mar-riage”. We related the story of Ambo who was petitioned as an unmarried son by his immigrant father. When the U.S. Embassy checked Ambo’s fi les in the NSO, they denied his immigrant visa application because they learned that he was in fact already married.

We recently heard a similar story from a client. Let us call her Jenny to protect her privacy. Jenny is al-ready 43 years old but has remained unmarried, so she thought. Way back in 1990, she and her boyfriend James went to the Pasay City Hall and “secretly” got married. Many of

you have perhaps heard this same story. Or perhaps you have expe-rienced this yourself, as half of a sweet-looking couple who happened to be in that place, being cajoled by city hall fi xers into a quick wedding inside one of small offi ces there.

Jenny’s fi ancée petition has al-ready been approved and she is just waiting for her fi les to be forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in Manila. However, Jenny was being bothered by her “secret marriage” and she feared that if the consular offi cer discovered her real status, her fi an-cée visa would not only get denied but she would even be blacklisted for immigration fraud. So, she went to the NSO and requested for her marriage index. The results came back positive. Fortunately, her fi ancé was very understanding and even

encouraged her to seek proper legal advice so they can fi nd a solution to the problem.

When Jenny approached us, we reassured her that she was doing the right thing in honestly confronting her situation, instead of continuously being in a state of denial. We also told her that she should not regret what she did because she still has a chance to go to the United States. The goal was to revert back her status to being single so she could qualify as a fi ancée. However, we made Jenny realize that regardless of whether her fi ancé remained inter-ested in bringing her to the United States, she owes it to herself to cor-rect her status.

So, we started by interviewing Jenny and examining her documents. When she showed us her marriage contract, we instantly knew what to look for. Many of these quickie weddings performed many years ago, because they were hastily done, had licenses issued on the same day as the wedding. And, ninety-nine percent of the time, those quickie marriage licenses were just bogus numbers concocted by the city hall fi xers.

The next thing we did was to request for a certifi cation from the civil registrar of Imus, Cavite which supposedly issued the license. Our suspicion was confi rmed when it certifi ed that it did not issue the mar-riage license. Armed with this, we are confi dent that Jenny will have

her “secret marriage” declared void by the court, and be able to revert to being single.

This is because Article 35 of the Family Code provides that marriages that were solemnized without a mar-riage license are void from the be-ginning. Actually, this rule is an old law, as it was also embodied in the Civil Code that preceded the Family Code. So, if Jenny can prove that she got married without a license, then the court will declare her marriage as void from the very start, as if she was not married at all.

As regards her fi ancée petition, Jenny’s fi ancé can always revive

or re-fi le it, or they can get mar-ried and then Jenny can go to the United States as already a green card holder. Jenny need not worry that U.S. immigration offi cials might brand her as a fraud, since she has been upfront about her real status the moment she got the NSO results. It would be harder for her had she continued to pretend to be unmar-ried and allowed the U.S. Embassy offi cials to unearth her “secret” marriage.

Atty. Rogelio Karagdag , Jr. is licensed to practice law in both Cal-ifornia and the Philippines. He prac-tices immigration law in San Diego and has continuously been a trial

and appellate attorney in the Philip-pines since 1989. He travels between San Diego and Manila. His offi ce address is located at 10717 Camino Ruiz, Suite 131, San Diego, CA 92126. He also has an offi ce in the Philippines at 1240 Apacible Street, Paco, Manila, Philippines 1007, with telephone numbers (632)522-1199 and (632)526-0326. Please call (858)348-7475/(858)536-4292 or email him at [email protected]. He speaks Tagalog fl uently. Articles written in this column are not legal advice but are hypotheticals intended as general, non-specifi c legal information. Readers must seek legal consultation before taking any legal steps.

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Jan, Oscar Baterina Jr, and Parinda Sukavivatanachai).

E. What are the VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES?

KCS is recruiting volunteers for the coming year starting January 2012 for a period of 3-6 months to 1 year. One may serve as receptionist at the Center, do general secretarial work, set up and man exhibit booths, take blood pressures (nurses), assist during workshops at registrations, order and serve food, conduct evalu-ation, disseminate information, send email blasts, and maintain and fol-low up on our contacts.

If interested, call Dr. Dirige at (619) 477-3392 or send email to [email protected] or visit our Web-site at www.fi lamwellness.org to fi ll out the volunteer form. Orienta-tion will begin January 28, Saturday, from 9:00 AM to 12 noon at the FilAm Wellness Center, 1419 East 8th St, National City, CA 91950.

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AS THE BAMBOOS SWAYBy Rudy D. Liporada

Twice, on visits to Barnes and Nobles, I already picked up to buy the book

on Steve Jobs that was launched a month after his death in Oct. 5, 2011. Twice, while already in the pay line, I reneged to buy.

In spite of be-ing on sale from its priced $35.00, I thought I could use the discount-ed $25.00 for something else.

But I really wanted to read the book. So, when one of my daughters-in-law gave it as Christmas gift, my year was made. From Christmas Day to within three days, my eyes swam through 627 pages where author Walter Isaacson revealed to me the genius, eccentric-ity, craziness, rudeness, and other traits of Steve Jobs whose phases of ingenuity launched thousands of shifts of ideas that changed virtual communication – audio and visual – from creation, transmission, and reception. Virtually, anyone from any spot on the world could audio-visually communicate with anyone in Timbuktu. Virtually, Star Trek Captain Kirk’s fl ip phone became obsolete. Virtually, any idea could be beamed to anyone in the planet.

Wikipedia’s fi rst paragraph sum-marized Job’s life: “Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief execu-tive offi cer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Dis-ney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.”

In Isaacson’s biographical sketch of the barefootin’, LSD dropping, vegetarian, fruitarian, non-bathing – over-all weird - Jobs, the au-thor presented how Jobs, cajoled, pushed, harassed, or inspired his ‘A’ relatives, friends, associates, even enemies, to evolve the Mac and I-tools that virtually could connect everyone in the universe.

Starting in the late 1970s, with his Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, Jobs engineered one of the fi rst commercially successful se-ries of Apple personal computers. From then on, there was no stopping him from pushing companies he led where

engineering and designed converged. In doing so, he evolved to be one of the icons that mattered on this earth with the likes of the Archimedes, Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin, and so forth and so on.

With Jobs on the lead, the per-sonal computer had evolved from a humungous machine with earlike buttons to a mere slide and touch tablet all powerful IPad – from just literally a computer where one can only calculate number at a slow speed to having on one’s palm virtu-ally all information one needs in a zip of seconds.

And one’s palm can even a one year old’s. Even my grandchildren in the nurseries already receive their assignments via email. My four year old grandson can make his own movies along with his yearling cousins.

And that is along the totem pole of legacies of the Jobs – making the sophisticated simple where a one year old could dabble of music, photography, music, and much more through a cell phone.

And yes, right after reading the book, I took off my Apple IPhone from its case. I studied its seamless

architecture, assured that even the network of wires and chips inside it is neatly positioned for Jobs believed in perfection even for those that are hidden from the eyes. I admired more the power in my hand – now so seemingly easily available it is deemed ordinary. I appreciated more the Man and the men who made it all possible for mere fi ngertips to further propel the world faster to further higher, glorious heights.

Thanks to, as Apple’s ‘Think Dif-ferent’ commercial in 1997, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Jobs may have died relatively young but he has pushed himself to be unforgettable beyond this era. And although, ad-mittedly, he has not really invented anything, he has pushed computer related inventions to the maximum of what they can do. He had pushed whatever were just dreams to reali-ties. In his ‘reality distortion fi eld’ he pushed for how dreams could be done. He had problems with President Barack Obama because the president ‘kept fi nding reasons on why things could not be done’ instead of fi nding the ways of how things could be done.

On this score, as long as they can mathematically be possible, no one should have doubts that they could be created. In Ecclesiastes 1:9, it said “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” To me, this means that everything is already on earth, one just have to piece them all together so they could be of good use to hu-manity. To me Jobs had been great at piecing things together. To me, that is his legacy.

With this, I have no doubt that in the not so distant future, the com-mand “Beam me up, Scottie,” will be a reality.

BTW, I will still have to buy the latest IPad to download ‘Steve Jobs’ so I could further internalize and be inspired by his story. At the age of 60, though, perhaps a long shot, I might still push for something that humanity could remember me by – though far, really remote, from the gargantuaness of Steve Jobs.



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Jan. 8: Epiphany

Joke of the Week: The Wise Men were truly wise men. Unlike most men, they stopped to ask for directions. A deacon mistakenly read Matthew 2: 11, “They presented Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and mirth.”

Scriptures: First Reading: Isa-iah 60: 1-6. The prophet envisions a new era when all people will be welcome in Jerusalem, when all will be just, and God’s presence will be a light to the nation. Second Read-ing: Ephesians 3: 2-6. St. Paul empha-sized the universal aspect of salvation in Christ Jesus: the Gentiles now share in the mystery and inheritance that were promised fi rst to the Jews. This mystery remained hidden in the past is now revealed to all through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Gospel: Matthew 2: 1-12. In the fi rst reading today, Isaiah proclaims that the long night of exiles has ended. The exiles are returning home to Jerusalem and bearing the wealth of nations. The wealth is a tangible manifestation that God has blest his people. The gospel reading echoes the same theme, with one excep-tion, it is now at Bethlehem where Gentile witnesses bearing gifts will praise the wonder of God’s mani-festation to all nations through the

Newborn King.

Refl ections: The Magi or Ma-goi were considered either wise men of a Persian origin who interpreted dreams and heavenly portents or magicians and charlatans. Since today’s gospel did not specifi cally point out the home county of the magi, there are different specula-tions regarding their place of origin. Because the magi followed the star, some scholars believe that they came from Babylonia where astrology was

important. Since the magi offered gold, frank-incense and myrrh, some scholars think that they came from the Arabian Peninsula.

Still other scholars consider Persia as the magi’s place of origin where wise men functioned as priests. The Western and Eastern Christians have transformed the magi into kings, numbered them as three (because of their three gifts), and given them names as Balthasar, Gaspar, and Melchior. Gradually a separate feast was reserved for them on July 23. It is believed that their “relics” were brought to Cologne in 1164 where they are still honored today.

The Church’s celebration of Epiphany, January 6th, the twelfth

When the Magi Gave Their Best They In Turn Received the

Very Best

night of Christmas (now it is moved to the Sunday after Dec. 25th to highlight the reason for the celebra-tion: Christ). This feast originated in the Eastern Church during the third century. Around 360, the Feast of Epiphany came to be celebrated in the West on January 6th as a second nativity festival, distinguished from December 25th, and focused on the visit of the wise men to the newborn Savior. In earlier times, the twelve nights of Christmas were called “Smoke Nights” because the Chris-tians went from house to house and barns burning incense and blessing homesteads. Especially on the feast of the Epiphany, the early Christians blest their homes with holy water (a reminder of our baptism) and chalk-ing (a reminder of dust of which we were made) the inside of the main door with the initials of the magi and the numerals of the New Year con-nected with small crosses. Therefore for this year, the initials and numer-als would be: 20+C+M+B+12.The initials of the magi stand also for the Latin phrase: “Christus Mansionem Benedicat” (May Christ bless this house.).

The Feast of the Epiphany is part of a series of manifestations or revelations of the Lord (to the shep-herds, to the family, to the nations of Gentiles and Jews, and in baptism). It is therefore a “missionary” feast, because the magi representing the gentiles or pagans found the Light to all nations. The magi who traveled from afar to offer their gifts received instead the Best Gift of all: the Child Jesus. God is never outdone in his generosity. The Child who is the Light of the world must continue to shine in our world that is partly under the shadow of tyranny and fear. The gospel clearly stated that the Child came under threat from the tyrannical and selfi sh interest of another ruler. This Herod the Elder had ordered two of his sons to be strangled and he also murdered more than three hundred public offi cials on suspicion of conspiracy. He also killed one of his wives. Truly, Jesus was born in a world of death, terror, and tyranny. As the world observes his birth and epiphany or manifesta-tion to the nations, the world has not

changed much since his time. The Feast of Epiphany is a reminder for all “wise men” (on what pertains to God) to let Christ’s light shine through them and overcome the shadow of darkness in the world. It is in giving of ourselves that we will receive a hundredfold.

Several centuries ago in Eu-rope, a wealthy nobleman decided to build a church as a legacy to his townspeople. At its grand opening, the people marveled at the beauty of the new church. Then someone asked, “Where are the lamps? It is really dark in here.” The nobleman gave each family a lamp, which they were to bring with them each time they come to worship. “Each time you are here the place where you are seated will be lighted. Each time you are not here, that place will be dark. This is to remind you that whenever you do not come to church, some part of God’s house will be dark.”

Quotation of the Week: “On ac-count of Him there have come to be many Christs in the world, even all who, like Him, loved righteousness and hated iniquity.” Origen.

Friday December 30, 2011

One of the hardest things in life is to let go of old hurts. We often say, or at least think: “What you did to me and my family, my ancestors, or my friends I cannot forget or forgive. ... One day you will have to pay for it.” Sometimes our memo-ries are decades, even centuries, old and keep asking for revenge.

Holding people’s faults against

them often creates an impenetrable wall. But listen to Paul: “For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see. It is all God’s work” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18). Indeed, we cannot let go of old hurts, but God can. Paul says: “God was in Christ reconcil-

ing the world to himself, not holding anyone’s fault against them” (2 Corinthians 5:19). It is God’s work, but we are God’s ministers, because the God who reconciled the world to God entrusted to us “the message of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:19). This message calls us to let go of old hurts in the Name of God. It is

the message our world most needs to hear.

Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc.

Letting Go of Old Hurts

Nakaluhod ako ngayon sa harap ng altar at sa Panginoon natin ako’y nagdarasal na ipag-adya ka sa mga kapahamakan at batid ko na ako ay Kanyang pakikinggan. Dito sa puso ngayon ay aking nadarama mga sagot Niya sa aking hiling sa Kanya kahit walang nadidinig na mga kataga nasisiguro kong sa Kanya ito’y nagmula. ‘Di ako humiling ng anumang kayamanan ni katiting ng nakalalasong katanyaga batid ko na kahit anong aking kahilingan hindi mo mamasamain ito kailanman. Isang uri ng yaman itong aking hiniling na hindi agad-agad makukuha sa akin at hindi rin madaling basta ito’y sirain sinumang nilalang na may budhing mainggitin.

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Witness How An Overseas Mother’s Love Surpasses Deprivation, Separa-tion And Degradation Only To Tri-umph Unwaveringly In The End.

MANILA, Philippines - Comedi-enne Pokwang’s first solo movie, A Mother’s Story, was graded “A” by

the Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB). Films graded “A” and “B” by

the Board are entitled to amusement tax reward that commensurate with the amusement tax levied on and col-lected from the films by Metro Manila cities and municipalities, and by other highly urbanized and independent component cities in the Philippines, pursuant to Sections 141 and 150 of Republic Act No. 7160.

Grade “A” films qualify for 100 percent of the amusement tax col-lected while Grade “B” films are eli-gible for 65 percent of the amusement tax collected, where the remaining 35 shall accrue to the funds of the Film Development Council of the Philip-pines under which the CEB serves as the film evaluating body.

A Mother’s Story is ABS-CBN The Filipino Channel’s (TFC) latest movie offering to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) around the world.

The film revolves around the story of Medy, played by Pokwang,

a make-up artist who dares to make a life in the United States as an illegal immigrant in exchange for saving the life of her infant daughter.

It focuses on the everyday sac-rifices that millions of Filipino parents make as they leave their homes to find jobs overseas.

In an earlier report, Pokwang said she is a former OFW herself and can relate to the hardships and chal-lenges experienced by Filipinos who decided to try their luck overseas in order to provide a bright future for their families.

“Totoong-totoo ‘yung emotions na naibigay ko talaga. Kasi alam ko ‘yung naramdaman ng mga nanay, especially yung mga magulang na nawalay sa mga anak (The emotions I felt were real because I know what mothers feel, especially those parents who were forced to separate from their children to work abroad),” she said.

“For TFC’s initial offering, we dedicate A Mother’s Story to all the Filipino parents and children who continue to live and love apart,” explained John-D Lazatin, the director of A Mother’s Story.

The movie also showcases both the travails and triumphs of illegal im-

A Mother’s Story receives “A” grade from RP’s Cinema Evaluation Board

TFC’s first film venture to premiere on January 8 in Manila, followed by January 12 theatrical run nationwide

SHOWBIZ WATCHER By Ogie Cruz | SAN DIEGO, 1/6/2012 --

Inilabas na ang Top 20 Earning Fe-male Stars of 2011 in the Philipines, nangunguna si Sharon Cuneta na kumita ng more than 100 million ng katatapos na taon dahil sa dami ng projets nito at commercials na may mataas na presyo.

Pumangalawa naman ang Super-star na si Nora Aunor na kumita ng 57 Million ng bumalik ito sa Pilipi-nas at siempre sa dami rin ng proj-ects at sa kanyang mother studio na binigyan siya ng chance na makaba-lik sa TV via kapatid Network.

Pumangatlo lang si Kris Aquino na sangkaterba ang product endorser nung nakaraang taon at idagdag pa rito ang kanyang Tv show sa kapamilya network na kumita ng 34 Million , hindi pa rito kasama

ang kinita niya sa movie niya na “Segunda Mano’” dahil siya ang pinaka-producer nito baka nga lama-pasan pa niya ang dalawang nauna na nabanggit.

Pang-apat naman si Sarah Geron-imo dahil paggawa ng movies, concert sa ibang bansa pati mga commercials. Kumita ito ng 27 Million.Panglimang puwesto naman si Angel Locsin na kumita ng 24 Million.Pang-anim naman si Marian Rivera na may kita na 21 Million, si-nundan naman ito ni Anne Curtis na may kitang 17.7 Million.Pangwalo lang ang Star For All Seasons dahil hindi naman masyado naging aktibo dahil sa pagiging Governadora ng Batangas na kumita ng 17 Million.

Pang siyam naman si Toni Gon-zaga na kumita ng 15.6 Million,pang

sampu naman si Mariel Rodriguez na 15 Million naman.11) Shalani Soledad- 12million, 12) Kim Chui-7.8 Million 13)Claudine Barretto-6.6 Million 14)Kristine Reyes-6 Million 15) Jennelyn Mercado-5.5 Million 16)Erich Gonzales-4.8Million 17) KC Concepcion-4.5 Million 18)Alex Gonzaga- 3.9 Million 19)Kathryn Bernardo-3.6 Million at 20) Julia Montes-3.2 Million.

Ang tanong bakit wala si Charice,samantalang dollors ang ti-natanggap nito sa ibang bansa?Hindi pa namin alam kung anu ang dahilan.Bakit wala rin si Maricel Soriano, matagal pong nanahimik ang Diamond Star nung nakaraang tao dahil sa depression nito sa buhay.

KRIS AQUINO, 2ND TOP GROSSER ANG MOVIE SA MMFF !!!Bongga ang Kris Aquino, natupad ang pangarap niya na mag-ing top 2 ang sa kita ang movie niya na kasali sa 37th Metro Manila Film Festival.As of January 1,2011 kumi-ta na ito ng 94.6 Million na nilam-pasan na nito ang Panday 2 ni Sen. Bong Revilla na kumita naman ng 86.3 Million.Siempre nag-iisang Top Grosser na hindi matinag ang movie nina Ai-ai at Vic Sotto na kumita ng 183.2 Million.Pang-apat naman ang movie nina Judy Ann Santos at Ryan

Top 20 Earning Female Stars of 2011 !!!

Agoncillo na 42.58 Million, saman-talang ang Shake,Rattle …naman ng Regal Films kumita ng 41.9 Million.

Asiong Salonga naman ni Jeorge Estregan kumita ng 31.78 Million at ang pinakakulelat yung movie ni Maricel Soriano na kumita lang ng 7.35 Million.Hindi na kuminang ang Diamond Star, pero nanalo naman

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Kris Aquino (Continued on page 19)

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Fantasy Land, Chapter 18

Greetings from Lee and Manny Doria

The Doria Family wishes to extend to all a prosperous New Year and Years to come. Let’s stand positive to all the challenges ahead of us.

The year 2011 is an excellent year for the family for adding a fourth grandchild (granddaughter) and fifth coming soon in January 2012 (grandson) to our lives. They are precious.

I got my real estate broker as well, independently owns the “Leonida T. Doria Realty and Mortgage” as a sole proprietor. My goal is to expand my mortgage loan licensing to other state(s).

Fortunately, I was able to assist some homeowners (free of charge) in their loan modifications. My greatest accomplishment is that I was able to have those homeowners stay and live in their homes for good. My advice to everyone who are struggling in their mortgages is to communicate with the lenders soon as you miss the payments. The banks/mortgage lenders are the nicest counterparts. Never be ar-rogant as you talk to the lenders, they are human like we. One of the bank negotiators asked me why my service is free when I am a real-tor. My response is “I don’t want these homeowners to live in the street either”

To all my clients and friends, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ASSIST YOU IN EVERYTHING I COULD WHETHER INCOME TAXES, ACCOUNTING AND REAL ESTATE. I AM HERE TO HELP . MY PHONE IS (619) 708-1618.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.

Lee Doria

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Chapter 18

The anti-graft cam-paign of Pablo No-lasco turned out to be

a mess. He literally accused the whole offi cialdom of the government of corruption.

For who among those who have served in the government for years would not have been tainted by it? The culture of corruption in Fantasy Land’s bureaucracy has been preva-lent since the country’s beginning and has thus become a way of life. Because the practice has tainted the culture in this manner, anyone considered incorruptible has become the exception to the rule.

There is a Fantasy Land saying that nobody who had touched a sooty clay pot would have clean hands. The same could be said of Fantasy Land’s government employ-ees. Therefore, when Pablo Nolasco and his team took a look at the life-styles of top government offi cials, be they President Lino Majeras’ allies or enemies, they found out that almost everyone had assets that did not add up to their offi cial earnings. Senators, congressmen, governors, mayors and top offi cials of govern-ment corporations and departments owned a lot of properties. They were also able to send their children to ex-pensive schools abroad. How could these offi cials afford such assets and expenses? Nolasco asked himself.

His own people were puzzled why he was asking such a question. In fact, it was so common that people

The Wayward Traintook it for granted to see government offi cials living beyond their offi cial pay.

The answer, which was obvious to everyone, was that the offi cials were involved in graft; which was the reason why they spend millions of

pesos just to get elected to a public offi ce.

How else could they recover their investments and make up for their hard work if they do not commit graft and earn extensive profi ts for the endeavor? If they were to depend on their salaries alone, no one would pursue a government position.

For instance, there was a movie actor who won a governorship of a province merely because of his pop-ularity as a celebrity. After holding on to such a post, his three-term lim-it had expired. Like everybody else

who would not give up the post, he tried to establish a political dynasty by grooming his son for the posi-tion while he pursued the offi ce of a senator. The son won but when he was defeated in the next election by a priest who ran on anti-corruption platform, it was found out the father and son had pocketed millions of pe-sos of lahar fees, the volcano debris the government had allowed private companies to collect. The priest-turned-governor had quadrupled the fees the government had collected compared to those the father and son reported for years! Yet the two were not charged for obvious corruption practices because they were allies of the previous administration. To top it off, the priest-turned-governor, despite his successful anti-corruption campaign, was toppled from his post by a wife of a gambling lord who spent millions of pesos during the campaign to buy the governorship.

The actor not only won the sena-

torship but had been re-elected when his term expired, despite the fact he had done nothing except collect his salaries, and surely earn a lot more money through corrupt practices.

Almost all of the top offi cials cam-paigned for a post as a poor and cru-sading outsider. Once they won, they hanged on to the position, becoming affl uent and corrupt insiders.

The president of the senate had admitted to cheating during elections when his boss, the former dictator,

was toppled down by a peaceful People Power Revolt. Yet, despite his admissions of past sins, he had remained in power by being re-elect-ed all over again. The bodyguards of his only son had been rumored to have killed a patron of a nightclub merely because their boss didn’t like the way the victim looked at the son. Later on, the son was said to have killed the movie-actor boyfriend of his sister after the latter had hit the girl during an argument. The offi cial ruling was that the actor committed suicide, with his parents, perhaps un-der pressure, publicly supporting the fi ndings. The son is now a congress-man from their family’s bailiwick and is eyeing a senatorial post in the next election.

There are many ways government offi cials could make money beyond their legitimate salaries. Those who worked for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs had the most opportunity. Most of them lived beyond their means.

Pablo Nolasco and his men there-fore had a pond full of corrupt fi sh before them. All they had to do was to run a standard lifestyle check and almost all would fall suspect to the corruption charges. But in so doing, he would be stepping on the toes of powerful people, especially those with strong connections with the president. They could pressure, if not blackmail the president, to take it easy, otherwise, the president’s projects won’t be supported by them. Worse, they might be able to amass enough votes to launch an impeach-ment proceeding against him. This is now the dilemma the president was facing, “a damn if you do, and a damn if you don’t” scenario.

President Lino Majeras knew he was to blame for the situation. It was he who had been urging his people to implement his anti-corruption campaign. And when a dedicated, single-minded incorruptible of-fi cial like Pablo Nolasco took his campaign to heart and zealously followed his instructions, the reper-cussions, Majeras, now realized, could boomerang against him. The president thought that by merely keeping his nose clean, by being in-corruptible and not getting involved in any anomalies, his position would be secure. He didn’t realize he him-self needed to appease his corrupt political allies to survive politically more than he needed their support to launch his anti-graft campaign.

Pablo Nolasco, his incorruptible point man, was like a wayward train, ramming aside those that came its way.


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ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2011) — The Mediterranean diet has proven benefi cial effects not only regarding metabolic syn-drome, but also on its individual components including waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol levels, triglycerides levels, blood pressure levels and glucose metabolism, according to a new study published in the March 15, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiol-ogy. The study is a meta-analysis, including results of 50 studies on the Mediterranean diet, with an overall studied population of about half a million subjects.

“The prevalence of the metabol-ic syndrome is increasing rapidly throughout the world, in parallel with the increasing incidence of diabetes and obesity, and is now considered a major public health problem,” said lead investiga-tor Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Ph.D., associate professor in Biostatistics-Epidemiology of Nu-trition, Department of Science of Dietetics -- Nutrition, Harokopio University of Athens. “Addition-ally, the metabolic syndrome is one of the main causes of cardio-vascular disease (directly or indi-rectly), associated with personal and socio-economic burdens. As a result, prevention of this condition is of considerable importance.”

The Mediterranean diet is a di-etary pattern characterized by high consumption of monounsaturated fatty acids, primarily from olives and olive oils; daily consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grain

cereals, and low-fat dairy products; weekly consumption of fi sh, poultry, tree nuts, and legumes; a relatively low consumption of red meat; and a moderate daily consumption of alcohol, normally with meals.

The Mediterranean diet, according to Dr. Panagiotakos and Christina-Maria Kastorini, MSc, Ph.D. cand., is one of the best-known and well-

studied dietary patterns, which has been shown to be associated with decreased mortality from all causes, lower risk for cardio-vascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and some types of cancer. Additionally, it has a benefi cial effect on abdominal obesity, lipids levels, glucose metabolism and blood pressure levels, which are also risk factors for the develop-ment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The antioxidant and anti-infl ammatory effects of the Mediterranean diet as a whole, as well as the effects of the indi-vidual components of the diet, and especially olive oil, fruits and vegetables, whole grains and fi sh, also confer to the benefi cial role of this pattern.

“To the best of our knowledge, our study is the fi rst work that has systematically assessed, through a large meta-analysis, the role of the Mediterranean diet on metabolic syndrome and its components,” he said. “Our results add to the existing knowledge, and further demonstrate the protective role and the signifi cance that lifestyle factors, and mainly dietary habits, have when it comes to the devel-opment and progression of the metabolic syndrome.”

Encouraging adherence to a healthy dietary pattern like the Mediterranean diet, as well as the adoption of an active lifestyle, seems to be a cornerstone in developing public health strategies for the pre-vention of the metabolic syndrome, Dr. Panagiotakos suggested. Taking into account the limited fi nancial resources many countries face in the 21st century, better eating seems to be an effective and affordable means for preventing cardiovascular diseases, at the population level, he suggested. In addition to its various health benefi ts, this dietary pat-tern can be easily adopted by all populations and various cultures. -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307161851.htm

Mediterranean Diet: A Heart-Healthy Plan for Life

The Mediterranean diet has prov-en benefi cial effects not only regard-ing metabolic syndrome, but also on its individual components including waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol levels, triglycerides levels, blood pres-sure levels and glucose metabolism, according to a new study. (Credit: iS-tockphoto/Dinamir Predov)

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Whether you like yours hot, iced, black or with sugar, one thing’s for sure: Coffee serves up plenty of health benefi ts. Not only can a cup of Joe help ward off depression, but it has even been linked with a decreased rate of skin cancer and increased fertility. Read on to learn about the unexpected heath benefi ts of coffee, plus other brew-related facts.

1. It may help ward off depression.Anyone who perks up after the

fi rst sip of morning coffee will tell you that it has mood-boosting ef-fects. Now there’s proof: A study from the Harvard School of Public Health, published last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that women who regularly drink fully caffeinated coffee have a 20% lower risk of depression than non-coffee drinkers. The study, which followed a group of women for 10 years, found that as more coffee was consumed (up to six cups per day), the likelihood of depres-sion decreased.

2. It may help promote a healthy weight.

Drinking an espresso or cappuc-cino after a meal is more than a relaxing habit. “When you drink cof-fee after a meal, it causes your body to more slowly process the meal you just ate,” says Chris Kilham, medi-cal researcher, founder of Medicine Hunter, Inc. and author of Psyche Delicacies. According to David Levitsky, PhD, professor of nutri-tional science at Cornell University, “Caffeine decreases the rate at which the stomach dumps its contents into the duodenum—a part of the small intestine where digestion takes place—and also increases metabolic rate.” Keep in mind, though, that java isn’t a miracle brew: Down-ing it after dinner won’t make the pounds melt away; rather, sipping a cup post-meal could, in small part, help promote a healthy weight.

3. It may boost fertility in men.“Studies have shown that caf-

feine has a positive effect on sperm motility—the ability of sperm to move toward an egg—and could increase your chances of [getting pregnant],” says John Wilcox, MD, FACOG, managing partner and reproductive endocrinologist at HRC Fertility in California. In fact, a study conducted at the University of Sao Paulo found that sperm motil-ity was markedly higher in coffee drinkers versus non coffee-drinkers. And it turns out that it doesn’t matter whether you drink one or ten cups a day: The only detectable difference was found between coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers.

4. It can harbor bacteria.When you think of the germiest

places in your house, you probably picture the kitchen sink or garbage disposal. But your coffee machine’s reservoir also tops the list. A study performed by NSF International, a not-for-profi t health and safety organization, found that the coffee reservoirs they studied were “loaded with yeast and mold organisms,” says Robert Donofrio, PhD, director of NSF International’s microbiology labs. “Hardly any of the volunteers we spoke to cleaned or disinfected their reservoirs. The residual water in that area, plus the fact that it’s a humid part of the machine, con-tributed to bacterial growth.” To properly clean your coffee machine, follow the manufacturer’s clean-ing protocol. If nothing is specifi ed, clean it once a month by adding three or four cups of undiluted vinegar to the reservoir, allowing it to sit for 30 minutes and then run-ning the vinegar through the unit. Finish by adding fresh water to the reservoir and running the machine through two or three cycles to wash away vinegar residue.

5. It may reduce the risk of skin cancer.

Staying out of the sun and regu-larly applying a liberal amount of SPF should always be your number

7 Surprising Health Facts About Coffee

one line of defense against skin cancer. That said, a new study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee a day had a 20% lower risk for basal cell car-cinoma, and men had a 9% reduced risk. However, the research did not indicate that coffee consumption reduced the risk of squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma, the deadli-est form of skin cancer, making it all the more important to protect your skin when outdoors.

6. It’s not truly addictive.While many people claim that

they can’t make it through the day without a few cups of java, Liz Applegate, PhD, faculty member and director of sports nutrition at the University of California at Davis, explains that caffeine is not addic-tive. “Caffeine is a mild stimulant, and the World Health Organization states that it is wrong to compare caffeine intake to drug addiction, since people can reduce or eliminate caffeine from their diet without the serious psychological or physical problems that result from a true addiction.” However, serious coffee drinkers may experience symptoms such as fatigue and irritability if they reduce their intake. According to Dr. Applegate, people who consume 600 milligrams of caffeine (about six small cups of coffee) daily are most likely to experience these symptoms, but they will usually resolve them-selves after a few days.

7. It doesn’t necessarily cause stomach pain.

If you’ve ever blamed java for stomach discomfort, you might want to visit your doctor to see what else could be at the root of the prob-lem. According to Lauren Gerson, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the Stanford University School of Medi-cine, “There is no evidence from reviewed studies that coffee causes ulcers or more pain in patients with documented ulcers.” She also notes that there is no evidence that coffee could be the cause of stomach pain in patients with indigestion. How-ever, there is one type of digestive issue that coffee can aggravate; Dr. Gerson explains that drinking coffee may worsen heartburn symptoms, since it stimulates the stomach to produce gastric acid. -- http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com

9/15/2011 -- Trying to maintain a youthful appearance but don’t want to undergo the knife, Botox, or some other invasive procedure? Natural herbs and nutrients can help. Here are 11 of the best ones for anti-aging:

1. Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA): ALA is a powerful antioxidant that helps protect your body from free radical damage. It also helps to recycle other antioxidants like vitamins E and C, giving you greater protection against free radicals. Free radi-cals are to blame for aging and disease, including skin damage and wrinkling.

2. Bilberry: Packed with antioxidants, bilberry is potent medicine against many age-related concerns. It is helpful to preserve vision and prevent degenerative eye diseases.

3. GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid): Declining levels of HGH are linked with many of the symptoms linked with aging: fat gain, muscle loss, loss of energy, poor sleep, skin changes, bone density loss, and a decline in libido. Supplementing with GABA, a natural amino acid helps to maintain levels of HGH naturally, less-ening these unwanted symptoms. Avoid GABA if you are prone to seizures.

4. Garlic (Allium sativum): Garlic is renowned for its potent effects on viruses and bacteria, but it also reduces choles-terol levels and helps lower blood pres-sure. In one Japanese study, garlic slowed age-related memory loss in animals.

5. Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba): There is solid scientifi c research that supports the use of ginkgo to increase blood fl ow to the brain, one of the areas that is commonly affected by aging. European research shows ginkgo’s capacity to help people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia to become more sociable and alert. You can take 60 to 240 mg of standardized ginkgo extract per day.

6. Ginseng (Panax ginseng): Among the Chinese, ginseng is considered the Fountain of Youth. According to renowned herbalist Dr. James Duke, it tones the skin and muscles, improves ap-

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roadways, utilities and storm water systems.

When completed, a 105-foot wide esplanade will adorn the waterfront. The esplanade will have formal gardens, plazas, shade pavilions and a waterfront promenade that will allow downtown residents, work-ers and visitors to stroll, jog, cycle, enjoy public events or just relax.

West Broadway will serve as a gateway connecting downtown San Diego to the bay. It will be defi ned by special paving and medians, rows of elegant Medjool Date palms and decorative lighting. In the future, adjacent developments will further enhance the area with additional public spaces along the gateway to the bay.

The North Embarcadero Vision-ary Plan Phase I Project is a green project. Drip irrigation will be used to water drought-tolerant plants, and the project has the ability to use reclaimed water in the future. Storm water drainage improvements will provide a water treatment system along the bay front esplanade on North Harbor Drive, preventing pol-lution from entering the bay.

Featured public art includes internationally-acclaimed artist Pae White’s designs, which will be integrated into the project’s architec-ture. White will embed words from the popular 1970 novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach into the roofs of pavilion buildings. The words will cast sunlight on the ground during the day and be illumi-nated on the roofs at night.

White’s design will be visible in the shapes of both a café building and an information center that are part of the project. The buildings will be transparent and constructed of colored glass. Additionally, her designs will be incorporated into the vertical concrete walls that will comprise the new public restroom building.

The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Phase I project will accom-modate transportation options with convenient access to the nearby Santa Fe Depot and trolley stops. There will be shuttle bus stops, bicycle storage and signage along North Harbor Drive.

The Port of San Diego, City of San Diego and CCDC, on behalf of the Redevelopment Agency of San Diego, worked collaboratively to provide funding for construction and long-term maintenance of the new public spaces and amenities.

USS Cal Builders was awarded the construction contract for the project in November 2011. It is anticipated that the $28.6 million project will be completed in the summer of 2013.

The design team for the project is led by Project Design Consultants and includes Civitas, Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects, Joseph Wong Design Associates and Leni Schwendinger Light Projects LTD, among others.

The Port of San Diego was cre-ated by the state legislature in 1962. Since then, it has invested $1.7 billion in public improvements in its fi ve member cities – Chula Vista, Coronado, Imperial Beach, National City and San Diego.

The Port oversees two maritime cargo terminals, two cruise ship ter-minals, 17 public parks, the Harbor Police Department and the leases of more than 600 tenant and sub tenant businesses around San Diego Bay.

City of San DiegoCity Council President Pro Tem

Kevin Faulconer has represented the City as Chair of the North Embar-cadero Visionary Plan Joint Powers Authority since 2007.

Faulconer proudly represents San Diego’s 2nd District, which includes downtown, uptown, Mission Bay and the beach communities.

Centre City Development Corpo-ration (CCDC)

CCDC is a public, nonprofi t corporation established in 1975 by the City of San Diego to plan and facilitate the redevelopment of the 1,500-acre downtown area.

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More about Kyle CrawfordKyle’s favorite things in the

whole world are fi sh and sharks and whales. One day he would like to swim next to a great white shark. His favorite game is Angry Birds, and he is really good at it. He loves super heroes, too. And, he loves his baby sister, who is only eleven months old. His parents always tell him that his birthday is a really lucky day because he was born on 7/7/07.

Shortage of Multi-Ethnic Do-nors—What’s the solution?

The Be The Match® registry re-cruits hundreds of thousands of donors each year through an exten-sive network of more than 100 local and regional recruitment organiza-tions. All of these organizations re-cruit for the national Be The Match® registry and each person only needs to join once.

A marrow/stem cell transplant may be the only chance for patients with leukemia or other blood cancers to survive. Those who are not Cauca-sians are more likely to die of these illnesses. This is because there is a shortage of multi-ethnic donors on the Be The Match Registry, oper-ated by the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP). Only 30% of the time can a searching patient fi nd a match from one of his or her siblings.

Finding a Needle in a Hay Stack“Finding a marrow/stem cell match

can be like fi nding a needle in a hay-stack,” says Carol Gillespie, AADP

executive director. “Patients need a marrow/stem cell transplant as soon as possible. Saving lives is what we’re about. People of all ethnicities are encouraged to join the Be The Match registry. You could potentially match anyone in the world, this is truly a global effort.”

When a donor that is a close

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Marrow/stem cell matches are very

different than blood type match-es. Just as we inherit our eyes, hair and skin color, we inherit our marrow and stem cell tissue type.

“Those whose marrow/stem cells

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Donors must be in good general

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migrant Filipinos. TFC chose host and comedi-

enne Pokwang to play Medy because her own personal life epitomizes the struggles of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW).

“Pokwang has lived the story. She has a full grasp of what sacri-fi ce means to the overseas Filipino,” Lazatin pointed out.The successful comedienne once worked as an OFW in the Middle East and in Japan.

While A Mother’s Story will premiere on January 8 at Cinema 5 of Trinoma Mall in Quezon City, Philip-pines, it has already screened success-fully abroad, namely in some areas in the US, Canada, London and Milan. It will also hit Philippine theaters nation-wide on the same day. (abs-cbnnews.com, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau, Balitang America, ABS-CBN Interna-tional)

lymph nodes. A Medical report and the corresponding translation was provided to prove this. Antonio’s spouse claimed that moving to Venezuela would be detrimental to her life, since she would be moving to a Country that is not famil-iar to her, she would have to leave her support network of family and friends, her long time job, her community and church. She also has concerns for her child’s safety and welfare.

The Administrative Appeals Offi ce (AAO) found that the situation presented in this application rises to the level of extreme hardship. However, granting a denial of the waiver also hinges not only on the issue of extreme hardship, but also on the discretion of the secretary and conditions and procedures as he may by regulations prescribed. The alien bears the burden of proving eligibility in terms of equities in the U.S. which are not outweighed by adverse factors. In this case, the favorable factors consid-ered were: the extreme hardship that Antonio’s U.S. spouse and child would face if the applicant were to remain in Venezuela, regardless of whether they accompanied Antonio or remained in the United States, community ties, support letters, active involvement with the church, gainful employment, the apparent lack of a criminal record, and the passage of more than six years since Antonio’s unlawful entry to the United States. The unfavorable factors in this matter are Antonio’s unlawful entry to the United States and unlawful presence and employment while in the United States.

The AAO found that Antonio has established that the favorable factors in this application outweigh the unfavor-able factors. It was established that Antonio has sustained the burden of establishing that the application merits approval. The AAO sustained the appeal and approved the I-601 waiver applica-tion.

A successful I-601 waiver case re-quires not only good arguments but also credible, well organized, and presented evidence. The adjudicator may only have minutes to make a decision in each case. A well-organized and presented evidence can make the adjudicator’s job easier. I always submit I-601 waiver with a brief, which is separate from a cover letter. A well-written brief can as-sist the adjudicator in making a decision.

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It is estimated that California is amongst the top 3 states in the nation for human traffi cking. By its very nature, human traffi cking, in all of its forms, is largely hidden from view. This is due in part to the large im-migrant communities, within California, which provide for good conceal-ment of a traffi cking operation - in many cases, these persons can be hidden in plain sight. Many of these communities are not trusting of law enforcement and tend to maintain cultural norms – some which dictate maintaining silence in the face of illegal enterprise.

The state’s extensive international border, its major harbors and air-ports, its powerful economy and accelerating population, its large immi-grant population and its industries make it a prime target for traffi ckers. Apart from the harm that this crime causes its victims, the infrastructure that is necessary to support this heinous crime can serve the needs of ter-rorist wishing to smuggle themselves and/or dangerous weapons into the country.

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petite and digestion, and restores sexual energy.

7. Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica): Fre-quently used in India to improve memory and extend longevity, gotu kola is excel-lent when made into an herbal tea.

8. Horsetail (Equisetum arvense): Loaded with the mineral silicon that often declines with age, horsetail plays a role in increasing the silicon in arteries, skin, bones, cartilage and connective tis-sues. Horsetail is also available as a tea.

9. Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum): Since the liver has more than five hun-dred functions, including processing and filtering medications and environmental toxins, it can suffer from the stresses of the modern world. Silymarin, an active ingredient in milk thistle stimulates liver cell regeneration to help the liver rebuild after it has been damaged. A standardized extract of 140 mg of silymarin per day is suitable to help protect and repair the liver.

10. Peppermint (Metha peperita): In addition to helping with digestion and gastrointestinal problems linked with aging, peppermint contains antioxidants that help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other age-related disorders. It is read-ily available as an herbal tea.

11. Turmeric (curcuma longa): Tur-meric is powerful against many types of pain and inflammation associated with aging. A spice, commonly used in Indian curries, you can add it to your soups, stews, and curries to benefit from this valuable spice

12. Vitamin D: vitamin D helps protect against bone loss linked with aging, as well as many chronic illnesses like dia-betes, cancer, and heart disease. Staying free of these diseases can certainly help you live a longer, healthier life.

It isn’t necessary to take all of the above herbs and nutrients to benefit from their anti-aging properties. Even one or two taken consistently can help. Start by drinking horsetail, gotu kola, or peppermint tea regularly and eating more curries with garlic and turmeric. Follow the manufacturer’s suggested dose for tinctures, capsules or tea. Consult a quali-fied health professional before taking any herbs or combining them with medica-tions. -- Posted by mayank http://mytech-nologyworld9.blogspot.com/2011/09/12-anti-aging-herbs-and-nutrients.html

Poem No. 67

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Exit Valley Boulevard

Same here

I am tired

I am at the end of the road

Have to make an exit

Away from your world

I am not asking for the Universe

All I am asking is for you to be free

And I realize it is not going to happen!



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The Vatican’s offi cial news-paper has given strong

endorsement to research by Italian scientists which sug-gests that the Turin Shroud cannot be a medieval fake and may be the authentic

burial cloth of Christ.By Nick Squires, Rome, 12/29/11“For science, the shroud continues to

be an ‘impossible object’ – impossible to falsify,” L’Osservatore Romano said in a lengthy article on Thursday.

After conducting fi ve years of advanced laser experiments, a team of experts from Enea, the National Agency for New Technologies and Energy, concluded that the imprint of a bearded man’s face and crucifi ed body could not be reproduced by modern scientifi c techniques.

The 14-ft-long, 3.5-ft-wide cloth was therefore not a medieval fake, the team said.

They concluded that the iconic image was created by “some form of electro-magnetic energy (such as a fl ash of light at short wavelength)”.

The researchers presented their results with “extreme caution” and had stopped

short of putting forward theories that “strayed from science”, the Vatican daily said.

But the implication of their work was that the enigmatic marks on the cloth were created at the moment of Christ’s Resurrection by some sort of miracle.

Kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case in Turin Cathedral, the shroud is imprinted with the fi gure of a crucifi ed man, complete with wounds to his hands and feet.

Monsignor Giuseppe Ghiberti, the president of the Turin commission responsible for the relic, told the news-paper: “Revelations about the shroud easily assume a sensational tone, but in this case the measured way the scientists speak of their research is to be appreci-ated. It’s a rare thing that gives the news added seriousness”.

He said the Catholic Church would welcome more tests being conducted on the holy relic.

“New technologies will enable non-invasive experiments to be conducted on the fabric. But it will be important to respect scientifi c rigour and procedures, in order to avoid sensationalism and to respect the great religious meaning that the shroud has for Christians.”

The results obtained by the Ital-ian scientifi c team were credible, L’Osservatore Romano insisted, in con-trast with the many outlandish theories that have emerged about how the shroud may have formed.

“In recent years the announcements of ‘new discoveries’ and ‘surprising revela-tions’ about the shroud have become a veritable industry – it has been linked to the Knights Templar or Martians,

Vatican’s offi cial newspaper says science cannot explain Turin Shroud

millions in property. The devastation brought by the typhoon has com-pounded the miseries of the people. It was proclaimed a state of calamity. Entire communities, not only of homes and schools but incalculable repositories of culture and human memories, were gone in a mad instance of Nature, washed to the lowland of Cagayan de Oro, poor people living along riverbeds suffered. We ask if there will be deliverance from these crippling maladies. So many poor people died. Some bodies were found on the shores of Camiguin island, 77 kms. away. In spite of calamities like this one, life must go on . We pray that the people of Northern Mindanao and Eastern Visayas are strong to face the reality in life. In times like this all that we can say is – pray. Calamities are part of this world. And it’s just us humans who can’t accept that sad truth. The Philippines is often hit by storm because warm bodies of ocean water surround it. But mostly, in the east part of the Philippines is always visited because it is facing in the Pacifi c Ocean. Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, are vulnerable to storm surges and fl ooding. Such storms are becoming more frequent, more fi erce, more destructive. The fury of Typhoons Ondoy, Peping, Peding, Reming, Quiel, and now Sendong were adding wretch-edness to our kababayans. We must help our kababayans. While government agencies are working on the affected areas, the global Filipinos are collecting relief goods as well as cash contribu-tions to be sent to the devastated areas. That is “bayanihan” in action. We must simply learn the true meaning of Bayanihan (working together), the embodiment of what a true Filipino like you and I should be. The words “Bayanihan” have inspired and spirited our people in forging the Philippines into a great nation. Building mutual goodwill all the time and as Filipino Americans , we must help our poor countrymen, not just during calamities like this one in Mindanao but also work for a change of mindsets and as the Filipino Diaspora, we must continue to rebuild our nation recover from these calamities and the specter of poverty. It is common knowledge that our countrymen are facing the realities at hand concerning different narratives of tribulations in the midst of natural wealth and beauty of our land: confl ict, war, poverty, and as the events of the last week have shown, increasing environmental damage. The enormity of problems continued to reel from the terrible legacy left by the undesirable former presidents of our country - the massive institutionalized corruption, crony capitalism, bad or weak leader-ship and a host of other problems - it is time to wake up. And now this tragedy of Nature, the typhoon Sendong. Let it be known that living in a democratic government in the Philippines is not enough. We need reforming our erratic and ineffective justice system. Political reform must be done. Noynoy Aquino is right in saying, “The core principle of this reform program is this -- the guilty should be made accountable because if not, it would like we have kept the door open for anyone who would want to abuse our people... We are all working for a new Philippines, one where there is equality, where whoever does wrong, whatever his status in life may be, is punished, a country where justice rules.” HALLELUJAH. Calamities like these come and go and do not affect a relationship one has with God unless one starts to blame God. Our ‘bayanihan spirit’ as Filipinos will stay ! ******* Despite of the current calamities and sadness in these areas of Mindanao, I will share my memorable story I encountered in Cagayan de Oro years ago. I visited Camiguin Island, not too far from Cagayan de Oro. Here was my unforgettable sojourn in the Island of Paradise. I was with my friends from San Diego, Jake Jacob and Art Gairanod who are both from Misamis Oriental located in the Northern Mindanao region. From Cebu we fl ew to Cagayan de Oro City. We stayed at the VIP Hotel. Immediately that morning, we drove to Iligan City. The following day, we were at the “Island of Paradise”. Camiguin Island is a well-known tourist resort in the northern part of Mindanao. After landing at the pier in Barangay Benoni, we rented a passenger jeep to the town of Mambojao. The road was passable, asphalted and single-lane. The surround-ings were lush green trees and other vegetations hugging the edge of Bohol Sea where coral reefs abounded. Apparently, Camiguin was teeming with natural wonders conducive to diverse activities, affectionate folks, and nostalgic sceneries with a romantic aura. Camiguin is a pear-shaped island that still shows evidence of volcanic eruptions from Mt. Hibok-Hibok in the not-too-distant past. We stopped at the Department of Agriculture in the town of Mambojao and introduced ourselves. A pretty receptionist was kind enough to volunteer as our guide. We took a tricycle that was the common means of transportation in town. Our fi rst agenda was to visit the different beach resorts. A two-kilometer trip using a motorized banca to a nearby-uninhabited white island was exciting. The islet was no more than 5,000 square feet and shaped like a dumbbell. People said it was once a rounded islet, but one night an

and there are those who claim that it was created by Leonardo da Vinci,” the newspaper, the daily gazette of the Holy See, said.

The experiments carried out by the Enea team contradicted carbon-dating tests conducted by laboratories in Ox-ford, Zurich and Arizona in 1988 which suggested that the shroud dated from between 1260 and 1390 and was indeed a medieval forgery, the paper said.

Although the Vatican has never as-serted that the shroud is incontestably genuine, Pope Benedict XVI came close to endorsing its authenticity during a visit to Turin in May 2010.

“This is a burial cloth that wrapped the remains of a crucifi ed man in full correspondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus,” he said.

The relic was “an icon written in blood; the blood of a man who was whipped, crowned with thorns, crucifi ed and injured on his right side,” the Pope said.

unknown boat anchored by and sucked almost all the white sands. The blue, knee-deep water surrounded this beautiful, serene place. The blue waters from turquoise blue to sapphire blue are inviting. It is almost similar to Boracay island’s inner beauty. By the way, the latter is 40 kilometers from my home town. We swam in the warm water until some of the native fi shermen landed nearby, bringing with them their fresh catches. We checked in at the Caves Resort. After dinner that evening, our guide suggested that we go to the Ardent Hot Spring, six kilometers up in the wooded mountains using a four-wheel-drive jeep that she borrowed from the department. A female tourist from Germany and a local male guide came along. Due to the recent rains, the rugged terrain uphill was almost impassable; still, we managed to reach the spring in thirty minutes. The spring was in its natural setting of hot water that fl owed into a lagoon, a six-foot deep Olympic-size swimming pool. The heated waters originates from the vents of Hibok-Hibok Volcano. The pool was well lit but the surrounding jungle was pitch dark. The distinct chirps of crickets and other insects fi lled the air. The water percolated through one’s skin in a most invigorating manner at ninety-two degrees, dilating the superfi cial veins of the sub cutis. The soothing effect was diffi cult to describe. This water was noted for its therapeutic effects on various bodily ailments and on one’s soul. This was an once-in-a-lifetime swim in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, and in the ambience and aura of a romantic jungle

positive by working to become a profes-sional midwife. She and her family then left the US and settled in Indonesia to “reinvent their lives,” leading her to establish the Bumi Sehat Foundation.

Bumi Sehat, according to the group, is a “non-profi t, village-based organization that runs two by-donation community health centers in Bali and Aceh, Indone-sia,” serving thousands of children and adults annually.

“Since 2003, Lim’s “Yayasan Bumi Sehat” (Healthy Mother Earth) clinic has provided medical assistance to thou-sands of women,” CNN said in Lim’s CNN Heroes profi le.

Lim, 54, was born to a Filipino mother and an American father and was raised in the Philippines. In a profi le pub-lished by the Philippine Daily Inquirer in October, Lim said she was inspired by her maternal grandmother Vicenta

CNN Hero of the Year


Munar Lim to pursue traditional healing methods and to become a midwife.

“Lola Vicenta had such a profound infl uence on my life that I did not iden-tify with my American-half. I became deeply Filipino, like my mother, and my lola, so much so that when I was a teen-age mother-to-be, I chose to give birth, not in a hospital with a doctor, but with a midwife,” she told the Inquirer back in October.

She is the second CNN Hero of the Year to have connections to the Philip-pines. In 2009, “pushcart educator” and Cavite youth leader Efren Penafl orida won the award, annually given by the global news giant to “individuals who go to extraordinary lengths to serve others.”

Aside from a $50,000 grant (given to all the fi nalists), Lim will receive an ad-ditional $250,000 for the foundation.

The multi-platform campaign received thousands of nominations worldwide, CNN said in its press release. People from all over the world were able to vote for their preferred Hero, and are encouraged to donate to the causes they advocate, at CNNHeroes.com.


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Pusoy, A Russian Poker by Rudy D. Liporada | Chapter 25

After a week, we heard from con-tacts from Manila that many under-ground houses in the urban areas had been raided right after Martial Law’s declaration because a member of the Political Bureau had been captured and tortured. He had squealed and many, yet undetermined, including national and regional leaders, had also been taken. Some of those who have fallen have also succumbed to the tortures and nobody really knows if the conflagration trail of captivi-ties, tortures, and squealing have ceased.

The area leadership with me and Simon on the lead, decided to fan throughout towns in the region to establish links and insure continued flow of communications, personnel, and resources with the countrysides. Those identified as high risked in the urban areas were advised to go to the hills. Only those known to be still able to operate in the urban area, who could not have yet been profiled by the enemy or have relatives in the government echelons, had to remain as vital links.

After establishing the skeleton cells in the region, I had to say goodbye, once again, to Cynthia. We figured that her uncle would stand for her should government person-nel get to her. Her pregnant status should also give her slack. More-over, she had not really been that deeply involved. I had to go because the longer I stayed in the city, the higher chance of me being caught.

Simon had to go back inside, too, but we had to go separate ways.

Before going inside, however, I had to stay the night at one of our sympathizers’ house in a town close to the hinterlands. We had been using this house as a spring board several times in the past. The son of the owner had been wounded in an encounter and now recuperating. What I did not know was he had an uncle who was a general and that the captured Politburo member had already pointed out that the house was a transit area for comrades.

“So, what’s your name?” a man, with a gruff voice said.

“Edward Sandico,” I said. I could not peer behind the blindfold smacked on my eyes from the time the men in plainclothes shackled me at the sympathizer’s home and boarded me into a vehicle. The shackles on my hand and feet now ate at my flesh.

“Okay, Edward, what is your real name?”

“It’s Edward.”I heard the sliding of what ap-

peared to be a chair. Heavy footsteps passed me and a door creaked and slammed closed.

Feeling alone within the darkness of the blindfold, I tried to make up a personality for the Edward I claimed to be. If needed, I planned to claim to be a mere activist and not know anything else about the movement. I would not know about members or places. But I wondered what the son of the sympathizer or former sympathizer has already told them about me. He did not really know me but what could he have told them if he did tell them anything? Is he still a comrade?

I wondered, too, if I do not tell them who I really was, would I ever see Cynthia again? She is pregnant. How will she know what could or might happen to me?

I heard the door open slow-ly. Unhurried footsteps approached. There was gentle tagging behind the back of my head and the blindfold swished off over my eyes. I found myself in a cramped office. Only a pad of yellow paper and a pen were on top of the table. A military man, in a well pressed camouflaged uniform, sauntered towards a chair opposite the small desk in front of me. The insignia on his lapel told me that he was a lieutenant. He smiled as he unhurriedly sat down.

“Edward, Edward, that’s your real name, right?” he said, sounding almost friendly.

“Yes.” The lieutenant sighed. “Do you

know of the six students who hi-jacked a Philippine Airlines to China back last year?”

“That’s all over the newspapers.” “Could you tell me what hap-

pened?”“Only what I read in the newspa-

pers.”“Could you write what happened,”

the lieutenant said, pushing the pad and pen toward me.

“Sure,” I said. That’s easy enough, I said to myself, wondering, how-ever, what it had to do with me.

Sometime in March of 1971, six

long haired students boarded a Phil-ippine Airlines jetliner and hijacked the plane while in midair. They instructed the pilot to proceed to China. Since the plane was only for domestic flights and in fact bound only for Davao in Mindanao, the plane had to refuel in Hong Kong first before proceeding. Although the students wanted to land in Peking, the plane’s fuel could only make it to Canton.

The hijackers said that they were commandeering the plane for

‘ideological reasons.’ Some of the hostages would soon say that the hijackers appeared to be between 17-25 years old. They were courteous and nervous all throughout. Two or three were armed with small pistols. Funny but one brandished a pair of scissors. They kept saying that they had a bomb, though it was not evident, which will blow if the plane does not reach Red China. Philip-pine authorities suspected that they must belong to one of the radical student groups.

After a week or so, the Chinese au-thorities released the plane back with its hostage passengers saying that they did not condone the airplane piracy. The hijackers, however, remained in China.

I pushed back the pad towards the lieutenant.

After apparently reading what I wrote, the lieutenant barked out, “Sergeant!”

The door barged open and the heavy boots of a dark skinned hefty soldier thundered into the room. His crumpled fatigue’s sleeves were rolled up above his elbows. “Yes, sir,” he said in his gruff voice.

“Check this out and tell me if you still think that it’s him.”

The Sergeant appeared to read the write-up. After a brief while, he said, “It’s him sir. I am positive. He described the scene like of one who could only describe it because he was there.”

“Well, well,” the lieutenant turned to me. “Welcome back to the Philip-pines. When did you arrive?”

“But, I just wrote…” “The sergeant here says that you

look very much like one of the hijackers. Do you know that because you have endangered the lives of hostages, the penalty for your crime is death?”

“But, I am not…”The sergeant leaped upon me and

whacked me on the face with the back of his hand. I felt saltiness on my bloodied lips.

“No, don’t do that,” the lieutenant said. “Leave us.”

To be continued…

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By Dan Rowinski

A phishing attack aimed at new Mac us-ers was launched the week after Christmas looking to obtain the credit card infor-mation of people signing up for a new Apple ID. The well-timed attack tries to redirect users signing up for an Apple ID to a phishing site designed to look like the Apple sign-in page asking users to update their account information.

Security firm Intego found the attack and posted the information on its company blog. The phishing email comes from [email protected]. This should give users their first pause as all Apple emails come from the @apple.com domain. The next red flag is that the URL that users are getting redirected to is not an apple.com email address but rather goes to a numbered IP address.

The sign-in page asks for users profile information, including the credit card information that is tied to an Apple ID account.

One of the first rules users should be aware of when checking for malware and spam in email is to hover over a suspi-cious URL with to see the location of the URL they are about to click. Tell tale signs of phishing, malware and malicious sites are when the URL does not appear to be headed to an official page from the company in question.

The phishers behind this attack have likely been sitting on it a while, waiting for when users received new Apple prod-ucts during the holiday season. Malware makers are very sensitive when it comes to the timing of attacks. Zero day hacks are often stockpiled and unleashed when the impact will be optimal. Other malware and spam attacks are saved up for big news stories, such as what was seen dur-ing the Japan earthquake in 2011 or the death of Osama bin Laden. Spammers will then hit search engines with poisoned results and attempt to fill email inboxes with links to malicious sites. While the phishing attack aimed at Apple users was not a zero day attack, it is an example of phishers knowing when the best times are to launch an offensive. -- http://m.read-writeweb.com/archives/phishing_attack_aimed_to_obtain_apple_users_credit.php

Phishing Attack Aimed to Obtain

Apple Users Credit Card Information

siya ng Best Actress sa 37th MMFF.Tiyak lalong yayabang itong si

Kris dahil pangalawa ang movie niya,pero infairness ang daming nag-sasabi maganda raw ang movie ng taklesa sa MMFF.

Kayo sa palagay nyo sino ang mas kikinang sa taong 2012 sa tatlo, kina Kris Aquino, Sharon Cuneta at Mari-cel Soriano dahil sila ang magkaka-level na ngayon?

PASABOG NI MADAM AUR-ING SA 2012 !!! Nakakaloks ang beauty ni Madam ngayon dahil nagkalat sa mga social networks ang picture ni Madam na naka-swim suit siya, at talagang pang-sexy ang suot niya.

Imbes na mga predictions niya ang lalabas sa panimula ng taong 2012,aba picture niya ang nagkalat.Tignan nyo na lang kung mabibig-

hani kayo o maduduwal?Madam nasaan na ba ang mga hula

nyo, bakit wala kaya kayong mga Tv Guesting,unlike si Ms. StarGazer, kaliwat kanan ang guesting nito sa mga Tv shows?

DR. WINAH BAUTISTA OF CLEAR SKIN BACK IN SAN DIEGO!!! Dumating na pala si Dra. Winah Bautista mula sa kanyang successful ng Pre-Launch ng Human Growth Factor Hair and Skin Prod-uct na ginanap last Dec. 15,2011 sa Marriott Hotel sa Pilipinas.

Nakausap na nga namin siya sa telepono, sabi pa nga niya magka-karoon ulit ng launching pero mas malaki ito sa March sa Pilipinas pa rin.

Natawa lang siya dahil may ilang movie reporters siya mga nakilala roon na dumalo sa nasabing event at take note nagkaroon pa ng intriga, pero showbiz intriga lang at walang kinalaman sa product na ini-endorse nilang magkapatid na si Dra. Amy Bautista Tinaza.

Ganon talaga ang showbiz,natawa na lang kami.

environment. The following day, prior to returning to Cagayan de Oro City, we stopped at the Benoni Lagoon. Here, we catched fish, crabs, and prawns and gather shells and have them cooked to our liking. A floating shaded raft, paddled by local boys, could be rented for twenty pesos an hour. And that was exactly what we did, as we enjoyed lunch the whole time. There is no comparison to the joy and invigorating vacation that I had experienced in this island. This is a call for a challenge… to

all Filipinos to visit our islands and know first hand what makes every island tick. In the past few years my wife and I visited Paris, France, and Rome and the Vatican City in Italy; however, I prefer this island resort in the Philippines - a tropical paradise flooded with beautiful colorful tropical flowers. It was almost like heaven.

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“Another fresh new year is here … Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and laugh and give! This bright New Year is given me, to live each day with zest … To daily grow and try to be, my highest and my best!” – William Arthur Ward

We ushered in the New Year with sheer optimism and great faith to mark a fresh beginning in our life. We reflected on things that we were thankful for and actions that we were not so proud of. We thought of ways and means of improving our life, and making a difference in the lives of others.

Why look back? It’s good to look back in order to evaluate where we succeeded and where we have failed, and to look forward in order to structure what needs to be changed and what needs to be improved. We are hoping that 2011 is the end of our economic woes and 2012 the beginning of an economic revival. We also want to fill this New Year with things that are truly good – especially in our personal, national and global relationships.

If in the past we were care-less in the things we said, or forgot others in need, this time we want to be a positive influence to others. So while deciding what our New Year’s resolutions would be, we are seeking for opportunities to bless

others. And to experience the joy of seeing the light of hope come into their eyes.

We may not really know, but something we consider unremark-able – like giving a helping hand, a warm smile, a kind word, a simple act of kindness, and little gifts of love – may make an ordinary day extraordinary to someone else. These simple things we do for others are ways of making a difference.

In the process of seeking new opportunities, we bank on our positive outlook on life and an open mind. George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

We become what we think about! Those who think about con-crete and worthwhile goals tend to have them; those who don’t, tend to live a life of confusion and frustra-tion.

That is what’s good with each New Year – we can always start anew! Each New Year we can open a new chapter in our life. Each of the pages in this chapter is blank, and we are going to put the words on them ourselves. Our spirits are rejuvenated through faith, hope and love. Especially love!

Poet Henry Van Dyke asked: “Do you believe that love is the strongest thing in the world; that it is stronger than hate, stronger than evil, and stronger than death? Do you believe that the Blessed Life which began in Bethlehem years ago is the image and brightness of Eternal Love? If you do, can you

keep love for a day? And if you can, can you keep it for always?”

The above sentiment was also expressed by Mother Teresa in the same vein albeit different words: “There is light in this world, a heal-ing spirit much stronger than any darkness we may encounter. God speaks in the silence of the heart, the spirit of love emerges in extraordi-nary ways, and people listen and act on it.”

During the New Year, wishes assume greater significance. We send the most loving and expressive wishes to our loved ones to convey how much we care. Here are my wishes for each and every one of you, each and every day of this New Year:

Happiness deep down within, serenity with each sunrise, and close and caring friends. Special memories of yesterdays, a very bright tomorrow, and dreams that all come true. Success in every facet of your life, a loving family beside you, and love that never ends. Blessings for the New Year are also of paramount importance. From the pages of the Holy Book, are bountiful blessings: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”- Numbers 6: 24-26.

We don’t need to think hard to know that each New Year is a gift. It’s a gift of time! It’s a gift of new beginnings! If the New Year could talk, it would probably say:

“I am the New Year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time. I am your next chance at the art of living. I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months.

All that you sought for and didn’t find is hidden in me, waiting for you to search for it with new determination. All the good that you’ve tried for and didn’t achieve is mine to grant when you have fewer conflicting desires.

All that you dreamed of and didn’t do and all that you hoped for but did not accomplish – they slum-ber waiting to be awakened by the touch of a strong purpose.

And most of all, I am your op-portunity to renew your allegiance to HIM who said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’”

We have to be thankful for God’s gift of time and apportion each segment in such a way that we would accomplish more. None of us have been given more time than any-one else. All of us have the same 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, and 525,600 minutes.

Let’s make every minute count! Obviously, time is one of our most prized possessions. We can waste it, we can worry over it, and we can spend it any way we please. Or we can invest it in making a dif-ference!

Best always! - zsb

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A New Year to Make a Difference

Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. is preparing for what promises to be one of the biggest years in the Elvis world as plans take shape for a year-long celebration of the life and legacy of the Rock ‘n Roll icon on the 35th anniversary of the late singer’s passing.

The 35th Anniversary Year of El-vis will kick off in Memphis during the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s annual birthday celebration held Thurs-day, January 5 - Sunday, January 8, 2012, followed by The Elvis Cruise from Jacksonville, FL, to Nassau, Bahamas on January 6 – 12, 2012 and continues through Elvis Week 2012 which is expected to draw 75,000 fans from around the world making the pilgrimage to Memphis to visit Graceland and take part in a week-long event that celebrates the music icon.

Three new exhibits starting with “Elvis on Tour” that opens to the public on January 5th. The exhibit celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Golden Globe award-winning documentary of the same name. “Elvis…Through His Daughter’s Eyes” will open on February 1st, Lisa Marie Presley’s birthday, and will highlight the relationship between Elvis and his only child. The largest exhibit launching during the 35th Anniversary year, “Icon: The Influence of Elvis Presley,” will open on March 1st and will feature many artifacts on loan from the Rock and Roll Halle of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. The exhibit will celebrate Elvis’ status as a music pioneer and icon that paved the way and influenced many of to-day’s artists and notable celebrities.

Numerous licensees and partners are also celebrating the 35th An-niversary Year of Elvis with special events, promotions, products and tours on a global scale. The largest ever international Elvis Presley exhi-bition will be unveiled in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2012 featuring hundreds of artifacts on loan from Graceland in Memphis. Elvis Presley in Con-cert, an astounding production that reunites former Elvis band mates live on stage with a state of the art video-projected Elvis, is returning in March of 2012 for a 16 date tour through Europe which includes London, Paris, Dublin, Zurich and Frankfurt in addition to Sao Paulo, Brazil, timed to coincide with the opening of the grand exhibition.

The new theatrical concert

experience ELVIS LIVES “The Ultimate Elvis Tribite Artist Event” will embark on a 29 city U.S. tour featuring finalists from The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest as they perform in an unforgettable multi- media and live musical journey across Elvis’ life. Licensed Elvis festivals will be taking place all over the world in 2012. From Elvis’ birth-place in Tupelo, Miss. to Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia, fans will be gathering to celebrate Elvis Presley during this special year. In August 2012, tens of thousands of fans from around the world will gather at Graceland in Memphis from Friday, August 10th through Saturday, August 18th for a week of special events, concerts, panel

discussion ad more during a multiple day celebration which has become known as Elvis Week. One of the largest events during the week, and one that has become a rock ‘n’ roll

pilgrimage for many, is the annual Candlelight Vigil on August 15th.

“International fan clubs that normally bring 50 or 100 fans to Memphis for Elvis Week have told us they are bringing 500 or more in 2012,” said Scott Williams, Vice President of Marketing and Media for EPE. “And thanks to the growth of social networking, fans will be able to join us online making this the biggest celebration of Elvis in history.”

In recent years, the 20th, 25th and 30th year anniversaries saw a dramatic increase in awareness and participation by the media, licensees and fans from all over the world. During the 30th Anniversary celebration in 2007, some 75,000

Graceland Launches 35th

Anniversary Celebration

people attended Elvis Week events and toured the king’s castle, Grace-land, during the 7 day celebration in Memphis. In 2012, there will be even more ways than ever for fans, many of whom were not yet born when Elvis passed away, to celebrate their love for the undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

2012 will be an exciting time to visit Graceland. For more infor-mation about planning a trip to Graceland or to buy tickets, visit Graceland’s online travel planner. For additional information on the year-long 35th Anniversary celebra-tion of the life and legacy of Elvis Presley, please visit Elvis.com or ElvisWeek.com.


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It’s customary to look ahead at the retail trends that will shape 2012 and the buzz, profi ts and challenges to profi table retailing. Here then are the good, the bad, and the ugly…

1. Expect renewed interest in customer experience. Many brands, having come off of two successively better holidays than anticipated, will free more money to improve training for their employees.

2. At the same time, expect more technology to debut making em-ployees into call centers with legs. From the fi tting room to the kiosk to the smartphone, retailers will roll out technology fraught with unfore-seen consequences that will give the impression of increased speed of service but build resentment in the employees. Here’s one example.

3. Suppliers and manufacturers will be squeezed even more to make a deal so expect more dating so that manufacturers can push more of their merch to the retailer, inhibiting their competitors from being able to do so later when the merchandise actually could sell. (Think toy stores here.)

4. More frustrated writers, looking to save a penny, will cover even more stories about how “deals” are the only way to get people to buy. This trend continues to ramp up with the perception that since everyone is offering them, they must be work-ing. It’s just that a lot of people are getting less creative and discounting even more.

5. Expect sales managers to put more pressure on the fi eld sales force to deliver orders and expect more retailers to hold back. You can’t just call on them with dollar signs in your eyes, you have to do a

better job being a business partner.6. Expect the popularity of social

media of course to increase. This will allow many retailers to think it is just as important as their sales fl oor. Which it isn’t. While F-commerce will get more buzz, the well-trained salesperson will still be the primary way to get the sale.

7. Expect luxury customers to con-tinue to increase. Brands are status and products which make us feel important will continue to give us the illusion of safety in an increas-ingly complex world.

8. Expect more stalking by compa-nies on the web who install cookies in your browser and continue to show you ads for something you may have only searched once for.

9. Expect increased retail vacan-cies as retailers, strapped for margin, give up. As mobile technology pulls the price down to online warehous-es, costs for shipping the product to the store and from the store will be assumed to be eaten by the smaller retailers. Which they can’t.

10. Expect the hype around mobile to again be pitched as a great thing. Except that Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla in the room no matter how many points you virtually give a customer who “checks in,” no mat-ter your fancy app, your “omnichan-nel strategy.” All of that falls by the wayside when your bricks and mortar boutique is made into Ama-zon’s showroom. Yes, we’ve had big boxes devour independents – now big boxes who have the most name brand product, have the potential of being devoured by Amazon.

11. Expect greater turnover at the top of larger retailers as inves-tors become more vocal about poor

Six Trends That Will Cause Bricks and Mortar Retailers to Lose Sleep in 2012

performance and about those who haven’t turned it around to be given the boot.

12. Retail therapy will still be very much alive. The best retailers will realize the customers go to stores to meet interested and interest-ing employees who can help them ultimately feel smarter and better about themselves. Figuring out how to achieve that and deliver it again and again is the hard work they are committed to solving.

The best retailers will show the ul-timate engagement of a customer is not a website, the palm of a custom-er’s hand, or an app, it is through the human being that has been carefully trained to deliver an exceptional experience.

The worst retailers will continue to come out with geewhiz technology that masks the hidden truth that fun-damentally, they believe people are too hard to manage. Their market-ing messages will be pinned on the house of cards deals.

It will be this fundamental differ-ence between banking on technology or people that will make the differ-ence in 2012.

If you’d like some help with anticipating and meeting the challenges of 2012, especially in regards to your retail sales training or marketing efforts, please contact me.Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor® The Retail Doctor, 518-444-8082, [email protected] -- http://www.retaildoc.com/blog/12-retail-trend-predictions-for-2012/

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2011) — In a feat of technology tweaking that would rival MacGyver, a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis has transformed everyday iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices. With materials that cost about as much as a typical app, the decked-out smartphones are able to use their heightened senses to perform detailed microscopy and spectroscopy. The team will present their fi ndings at the Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2011, taking place in San Jose, Calif. Oct. 16-20.

The enhanced iPhones could help doctors and nurses diagnose blood diseases in developing nations where many hospitals and rural clinics have limited or no access to laboratory equipment. In addition to bringing new sensing capabilities where they are needed most, the modifi ed phones are also able transmit the real-time data to colleagues around the globe for further analysis and diagnosis.

“Field workers could put a blood sample on a slide, take a picture, and send it to specialists to analyze,” says Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, a physicist with UC Davis’ Depart-ment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Center for Bio-photonics, Science and Technology, and lead author of the research to be presented at FiO.

Microscope MakeoverThe group is not the fi rst to build

a smartphone microscope. “But we thought we could make some-thing simpler and less expensive,” Wachsmann-Hogiu says.

His fi rst attempt took simplicity too far. “We started with a drop of

water on the camera’s lens,” he says. “The water formed a meniscus, and its curved surface acted like a mag-nifying lens. It worked fi ne, but the water evaporated too fast.”

Then the team turned to ball lenses. These are fi nely ground glass spheres that act as low-powered magnifying glasses. The team used a 1-millimeter-diameter ball lens that costs $30-40 USD in their prototype, but mass-produced lenses could be substituted to reduce the price.

To build the microscope’s lens, Kaiqin Chu, a post-doctoral re-

searcher in optics, inserted a ball lens into a hole in a rubber sheet, then simply taped the sheet over the smartphone’s camera.

At 5x magnifi cation, the ball lens is no more powerful than a child’s magnifying glass. Yet when paired with the camera of a smartphone, the microscope could resolve features on the order of 1.5 microns, small enough to identify different types of blood cells.

There are two reasons why such low magnifi cation produces such high-resolution images. First, ball lenses excel at gathering light, which determines resolution. Second, the camera’s semiconductor sensor con-sists of millions of light-capturing cells. Each cell is only about 1.7 microns across. This is small enough to capture precisely the tiny high-resolution image that comes through the ball lens.

Ball lenses pose some unique problems. The curvature of their sphere bends light as it enters the ball, distorting the image, except for a very small spot in the center. The researchers used digital image processing software to correct for this distortion. They also used the software to stitch together overlap-ping photos of the tiny in-focus ar-eas into a single image large enough for analysis.

Even though smartphone micro-graphs are not as sharp as those from laboratory microscopes, they

are able to reveal important medical information, such as the reduced number and increased varia-tion of cells in iron defi ciency anemia, and the banana-

shaped red blood cells characteris-tic of sickle cell anemia.

Wachsmann-Hogiu’s team is working with UC Davis Medical Center to validate

the device and determine how to use it in the fi eld. They may also add features, such as larger lenses to di-agnose skin diseases and software to count and classify blood cells auto-matically in order to provide instant feedback and perhaps recognize a wider range of diseases.

Simple SpectrometerWhen researchers need additional

diagnostic tools, the microscope could be swapped for a simple spectrometer that also uses light col-lected by the iPhone’s camera.

Spectrometers smear out light from an object, separating it into its composite wavelengths in much the way a prism breaks up white light in the familiar colors of the rainbow. Since atoms and molecules absorb very specifi c wavelengths when ex-posed to light, it is possible to tease out the chemical signature of materi-als by studying their spectra.

Like the microscope, the iPhone’s spectrometer takes advantage of smartphone imaging capabilities. “We had worked with spectrometers for diagnostics, and didn’t think it would be too far a stretch,” Wachs-mann-Hogiu says.

The spectrometer that the research-ers added to the iPhone is easy to build. It starts with a short plastic tube covered at both ends with black electrical tape. Narrow slits cut into the tape allow only roughly paral-lel beams of light from the sample to enter and exit the tube. It is this grating that smears, or spreads, the light into a spectrum of colors that scientists can use like a fi ngerprint to identify various molecules.

“If you didn’t have the slits, light would come in from all different angles and you could never separate it properly,” explains Zachary Smith, an optics post-doctoral researcher in the lab.

Though the spectrometer is still in its early stages, the researchers believe it could measure the amount of oxygen in the blood and help di-agnose chemical markers of disease.

Because smartphone instruments are powerful and cheap, Wachs-mann-Hogiu believes schools could use them to enrich science classes. Spectrometers could help illustrate lessons about light and energy. Microscopes could unveil an invis-ible world of sugar crystals, pollen grains, and microscopic organisms.

By intelligently exploiting smartphone features, Wachsmann-Hogiu’s group promises to both save lives and illuminate science. -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111003132224.htm

Researchers Transform iPhone Into High-Quality Medical Imaging Device


These are images of a sugar crystal taken through polarized light fi lters. Left: traditional microscope. Right: cell phone microscope. (Credit: Z. J. Smith, K. Chu, A. R. Espenson, M. Rahimzadeh, A. Gry-shuk, M. Molinaro, D. M. Dwyre, S. Lane, D. Matthews, S. Wachs-mann-Hogiu.)


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CHAPLET OF THE DIVINE MERCYUsing the rosary beads, recite one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one I Believe in God.

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At three o’clock, implore My mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion,

particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony. This is the hour of great

mercy. In this hour, I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in

virtue of My Passion (Diary, 1320). -- Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Faustina

Kowalska

You expired, O Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and an ocean of mercy

opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable

Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the

Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You. Amen.

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Corona and other jus-tices resignation

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ing: “We have the numbers. We own the Supreme Court. What we say is the law!”

Justices should be highly conscious that they owe their loyalty primarily to the people and not the President who appointed them. If the people had not voted a candidate to become president, he or she would not have had the power to appoint Justices.

Here, it is even arguable whether or not former President Gloria Macapa-gal Arroyo (GMA) actually possessed the legitimate power to appoint Jus-tices. Arguably, she should not even have been President. She is alleged to have resorted to election shenani-gans (“Hello Garci”) and utilizing the Ampatuans and other allied warlords to engage in massive cheating on her behalf.

Having a primary sacred duty to protect the public good, Justices must use the law to serve the interest of truth and justice.

Instead, it appears that the Arroyo Justices did a “one for all and all for one” agreement conspiring to protect the interests of their patroness GMA above that of the people.

To the public, Corona appears to have shook hands with the devil. He is perceived to be GMA’s main man in the Supreme Court — that in ex-change for his appointment as Chief Justice, he is expected to constantly provide the leadership for the cabal of Arroyo appointed Justices in always protecting the interests of the Arroyos. He has not disappointed.

Any person with a modicum of intelligence, who has been following the decisions of the Supreme Court on any Arroyo related matter, would not be unreasonable in concluding that the Arroyos own the Chief Justice and the other Arroyo appointed Justices.

To restore faith in the Supreme Court, is it right and proper for Presi-dent Benigno Simeon Aquino and legislators to use their powers and in-fl uence to bring down erring Justices who abuse their judicial powers?

Here’s my take on this:Most Filipinos sense that the Arroyo

Justices who control decisions in the Supreme Court abuse their powers by continually, blatantly and shamelessly shoving unpalatable clearly biased pro Arroyo decisions down the people’s throats. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely — observed British historian and moral-ist Lord Acton.

How true.GMA and her appointees have obvi-

ously politicized the Supreme Court. In this uncontrolled culture of judicial power tripping, in this unspoken but understood secret conspiracy — prin-ciples of truth, justice and fairness are no longer seen as primary issues but simply incidentals that can simply be given lip service but cleverly ignored.

Tyranny or abuse of power infl icted on the people by a pack of dishonest Justices is no less a tyranny than that exercised by a brutal greedy dicta-tor. Well meaning citizens must fi ght against all forms of tyranny. Our well being and the well being of future generations depend so much on our commitment and courage to be true to the deepest truths within us and our willingness to resist evil.

The Supreme Court is an indispens-able vital institution in a democratic society. The people need to have faith

in the courts. It is belief in the honesty of the courts that prevents people from taking disputable matters into their own hands and resorting to self help frontier justice.

Unfortunately, we now have a Su-preme Court which the people justifi -ably do not trust. If the highest court in the land cannot be trusted, trust for the lower courts will deteriorate even more.

The Arroyo Justices have not only abused the people with their consis-tently biased and unfair decisions but have also abused the Supreme Court as an institution. It is because of them that the people have lost faith in the Supreme Court as a true and fair arbiter of justice.

Corona and the other Arroyo Jus-tices have done enough harm to the Supreme Court and the nation with their tyranny. They can still redeem themselves by resigning.

Corona has vowed to fi ght and defend himself against impeachment charges. Mistakenly, he thinks he can win this fi ght. What he and his few supporters fail to see is that even if as-suming he is not formally impeached, he can never regain his credibility to be able to effectively function as Supreme Court Chief Justice. He cut his own throat the moment he agreed to be midnight appointed as Chief Justice. He dug an even deeper hole for himself when he repeatedly led the majority Arroyo Justices in mak-ing blatant pro Arroyo Supreme Court decisions.

In reality, the impeachment trial of Corona in the Senate is not a true trial where the outcome is based on objec-tive evidence. Instead, it will be based along party lines. Expect also some individual Senators who acquired many concessions from GMA to act as forceful advocates for her and not as objective listening judges. We have already seen some of these goings on in the impeachment trial of former President Joseph Estrada.

There the people sensed that the majority of pro Estrada Senators were not sitting as objective Judges but were set to acquit him. As such, the people took to the streets and forced Estrada out of power. It was right and proper for the people to do so. They have a right to defend themselves against tyranny. In those histori-cal moments, the people correctly defended themselves against the per-ceived corruption of the President and against the tyranny of a conspiring majority of Senators who were blind to the people’s call for justice.

Will the people again need to take to the streets for Corona’s impeach-ment?

In defending himself from im-peachment charges, Corona gathered together some employees of the Supreme Court and essentially deliv-ered a political speech. He attributed the impeachment case fi led against him by a 2/3 majority of the House of Representatives as stemming from Aquino’s desire to be a dictator. He blames Aquino for his troubles as if this was something personal with Aquino and him. He suggests that as Chief Justice, he is in the forefront in defending the Supreme Court.

Corona: “I oppose this dictator-ship that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III is slowly establishing.”

Corona’s big problem is credibil-ity. The ordinary thinking Filipino does not believe him. Most Filipinos believe that Aquino sincerely means well and is not a dishonest power hungry nor greedy egomaniac who wishes to have dictatorial powers. For sure, the humble low key Aquino does not fi t that role.

Moreover, most Filipinos feel that he is perfectly justifi ed in seeking the ouster of Arroyo appointed Justices. They even support him in fully utiliz-ing his extensive presidential powers to impeach or cause the resignation of Corona and the Arroyo appointed Justices.

Filipinos also understand that Aquino’s intention is not to usurp the Supreme Court as an institution but seeks the ouster of these Arroyo appointed Justices because it is the correct moral thing to do and neces-sary. They need to be ousted for the Supreme Court’s credibility to be restored.

This is not a personal battle between Aquino and Corona. As such, the offer of a Catholic bishop to medi-ate and have them shake hands will not amount to much. The issue is not about a frayed personal relationship between the two men. Neither is it a battle between the Executive Branch versus the Judicial Branch.

As such, there is no Constitutional crisis here as Corona, other Arroyo supporters and mercenary journalists would have the public believe. The situation is this: The Filipino people simply want an honest and just Su-preme Court that they can believe in. In or-der to have that kind of Supreme Court, they recognize that the Arroyo appointed Justices need to be impeached or be pressured to resign. They recognize and appreciate Aquino’s strong moral leadership in leading this sacred fi ght and fully support him.

It is noteworthy that Aquino who comes from a wealthy and powerful family could easily have avoided confl ict by betraying the people and entering into a secret modus vivendi agreement with the wealthy and powerful Arroyos and the Arroyo Justices. So many of our leaders have betrayed us by siding with the wealthy and powerful for mutual tit for tat arrangements and personal gain.

It speaks well for Aquino that he has fol-lowed his father’s lead. Ninoy could easily have avoided imprisonment and acquired a high position in Marcos’ government. All he had to do was cooperate with Marcos’ evil and provide legitimacy to his lies. But Ninoy knew that at stake was the Filipino’s free-dom and honor. By being true to his God and his conscience, he paid the ultimate price. He could not be bought nor intimidated. So he was killed.

His sacrifi ce brought down a brutal and greedy dictatorship which would most likely be existing today had Ninoy not been true to his deepest self.

Good versus evil. Truth versus lie. Right versus wrong.

Life is constantly about the decisions we make and which side we are on.

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promises of Mr. Aquino, was slated to be approved by the 14th Congress but a lack of quorum in the House of Representatives toward its adjournment kept the bill from being passed.

Quezon said the working draft of the Palace version of the bill was based on the measure fi led by Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III but with inputs based on the consultations the administration panel had with various stakeholders.

Money trailQuezon said an important aspect of

the bill was making mandatory the disclosure of a lot of information.

What kind of information? The kind you have already begun to see being put out there specifi cally in terms of what the media is most interested in for their stories. The money trail,” he said.

“What is budgeted for what? Who is it released to? How is it spent and that sort of thing. The different documents and paperwork that are required to do that,” he added.

Quezon said this was already being done “particularly on the Department of Budget and Management website and on the (Department of Interior and Local Government) website.”

Asked whether the public could expect Cabinet offi cials to voluntarily disclose their statements of assets, lia-bilities and net worth (SALN), Quezon said, “One of the provisions … is that every agency is required to post online the SALNs of its living offi cials.”

ExceptionsHe said the exceptions to the man-

datory-disclosure provision were those “recognized by law and jurisprudence (on information that) would harm the ability of the state to, let’s say, protect peace and order or would harm our dip-lomatic relations with other countries.”

“If they would expose police, mili-

tary operations—in other words, put those involved in harm’s way—I think that’s very fair and logical that those would be grounds (for exception),” Quezon said.

He said the freedom of the President “to have the widest consultation and the freest debates within his offi cial family should be protected, while, at the same time, the right of the public to know the basis for offi cial policies should also be given adequate protec-tion.”

PenaltiesQuezon said the Palace version

would seek to penalize lying about a piece of information or a document.

“If you destroy a document, then that is a criminal offense. A proposal is that in other cases there are administrative sanctions,” he said.

“The general tenor of the law and the general approach that was taken is, ‘you should be more interested in facilitating the release of information and making the process clear and easily understood and “followable”—if that’s a correct word—for the public and for the bureaucracy,’” he added.

Asked if the measure would be a priority of the administration in Con-gress, he said that would be based on consultations with the members of the House of Representatives.

He said the Palace version would be introduced not as a competing measure but as a series of amendments either in the House committee or plenary. “So, therefore, you may not even have that need to certify it as urgent.”

Quezon expressed confi dence that the bill would be passed by Congress. “(T)here’s a wide consensus that they want this to be a major achievement of the 15th Congress,” the undersecretary said.

Long overdueIn a text message, Senate Major-

ity Leader Vicente Sotto III said “it is about time” to act on the measure.

Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada said an FOI measure was long overdue. He noted that the chamber passed the measure during the

14th Congress but that it encountered a snag in the House.

“We voted in favor of the bill in the last Congress,” said Senator Francis Pangilinan, the majority leader at the time.

Pangilinan said the Senate would support its passage. “It will greatly help in ensuring transparency and account-ability in government,” he added in a text message.

Senator Gregorio Honasan said the Palace’s communication group sent assurances of the administration’s full support for the bill.

“With so much democratic space we are now enjoying and given the President’s own advocacy and direct hand in purging corruption at whatever level, I think the FOI bill would be a very welcome addition to our entire body of laws,” Honasan said in a phone interview.

Honasan said many of his colleagues in the Senate were hopeful “that we can get this off the ground” within the fi rst quarter of 2012 “notwithstanding the impeachment trial of (Chief Justice Renato Corona).”

TransparencySenator Antonio Trillanes IV, one

of the principal authors of the Senate version of the bill, said Malacañang’s plan to prioritize the measure “will be a fulfi llment of the agenda of transpar-ency as promised by (the President) during his campaign.”

In the House, Eastern Samar Repre-sentative Ben Evardone, chairman of the House of Representatives’ com-mittee on public information which is hearing the FOI bill, welcomed the President’s long-awaited move to expe-dite the passage of the bill.

“We have been very anxious of this development. This will defi nitely hasten the approval of the FOI bill once the fi nal version of the Palace is sub-mitted to Congress. It does not mean, however, that we will adopt it hook, line and sinker. But defi nitely we will give weight to the Palace proposal in the same manner that we took into con-sideration the inputs of other stakehold-

ers,” Evardone said in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

He said the directive also proved the President was still very much commit-ted to the principles of transparency which is the main objective of the FOI bill.

Aurora Representative Juan Edgardo Angara said it was one measure that could radically boost the fi ght against corruption. He said without the Presi-dent’s endorsement, the bill had moved incrementally.

“Hopefully now, it will speed up the process of FOI’s passage. If passed, it will be a quantum leap in the fi ght for good government and it may be his most lasting legacy,” Angara said.

Tañada said it was incumbent on both chambers of the legislative branch to work for the bill’s passage before the 15th regular session of Congress ends in June.

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tively ending the war. The Philippines then remained an American colony from 1902. We became educated, learned democratic principles, Westernized and fi nally we became as an American Commonwealth from 1935 to 1946 with Manuel L. Quezon as President and Sergio Osmeña as

Vice-President. Much learning took place on democratic principles, structure and governance. This became the United States-based Philippine government-in-exile during the Japanese occupation.

The Philippines came under the Japanese empire from 1941-1945, which produced disaster, devastation and an-nihilation of the Filipino people from the Japanese imperialist forces. You all remember the Death March in Bataan. General Douglas McArthur fl ed to Aus-tralia with a promise, “I SHALL RE-TURN.” The American forces returned in October 1944 to liberate the country. Manila City was the second most-devas-tated city (after Warsaw, Poland) in the world during World War II.

Our country celebrated the in-dependence of the Philippines from the Americans on July 4, 1946. Hukbalahap (Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon) led by Luis Taruc wage bloody war with the government. This was considered as a communist rebellion, (Romy Taruc, Luis son, became my classmate and friend in the late 50s.) By then our country was populated by 30% rich and 70% poor. From 1947 to 1972, under the democrat-ic system six presidents were elected, namely Roxas, Quirino, Magsaysay, Garcia, Diosdadao Macapagal, and Marcos. Our politicians and bureaucrats learned to engage in graft and corruption . A common slogan from politicians, “What are we in power for?” – there were zarzuelas then in our Philippine governance in the early times. Quirino in the 1950s was involved in the Tam-bobong wheeler-dealing , the Namarco scam and the war surplus bribery. Phil-ippine economy in the 50s and 60s was said to be good, surpassing Asian coun-tries. Yet, the gap between the rich and the poor remained the same. In 1969 the Moro National Front was founded and it conducted an insurgency in the Muslim areas on the Island of Mindanao. The political violence was blamed on the leftists but it was probably initiated by government’s agents provocateur. The situation led Marcos to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus as a prelude to martial law.

Dictatorship: During the 1972-81 martial law period, Mr. Marcos, invested with dictatorial powers, issued

hundreds of presidential decrees, many of which were never published before they took effect.

In my article “ Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow part 1” Philippine Times southern Nevada Dec. 10, 2011, I said “… With the stroke of a pen, President Marcos closed the Philippine Congress and assumed its legislative responsibili-ties…”

Mr. Marcos claimed that martial law was the prelude to creating a “New Society” based on new social and politi-cal values. Marcos was considered the quintessential kleptocrat, having looted billions of dollars from the Filipino treasury.

Liberal Party leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., was assassinated on August 21, 1983 at the Manila In-ternational Airport when he was shot to death at the tarmac by an alleged assas-sin. Ninoy Aquino became a martyr and his murder became the proximate cause of popular indignation against a corrupt regime of Marcos.

Edsa Revolution: Upon be-ing pressured by a number of people, including President Reagan, Marcos called for a “snap” presidential elec-tion on February 7, 1986. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was a candidate for president against a dictator and presi-dent for twenty-one years. When the Marcos-dominated National Assembly proclaimed Marcos the winner, Cardinal Jaime Sin and key military leaders (in-cluding Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Lieutenant General Fidel V. Ramos) rallied around the appar-ent majority vote winner, Cory, Ninoy Aquino’s widow. On February 22, 1986 I spoke in a rally in San Diego which I considered my omnipotent participation in Philippine political history. Marcos was ousted eventually. The Americans picked up the dictator by helicopter and landed in Hawaii.

The Philippines after the Revo-lution: In 1986, we placed Cory Aquino, in Malacañang. She was virtuous, full of probity, sincere and with good inten-tions for the country. But what happened under Cory? Coup attempts by Greg Honasan and his fellow Reform-the-Armed Forces Movement leaders, power struggles, political squabbles, and the infi ghting for juicy deals harassed the

amateur Cory presidency. The land reform program went down to the Pasig

River behind Malacanang Palace. The real murderer of her husband was never found. Because of the hard life and en-demic abject poverty, the people learned to make sarcastic and sardonic jokes about those in government. If “under the table,” was the order of the day during Marcos’ time, it was “under the table, over the table, and even the table itself ” in the Cory administration. Sad to say, after the indomitable EDSA revolu-tion, the Filipino resolve didn’t happen. People Power was “ningas kugon” power. The billions of dollars that the dictator stashed away abroad were never recovered.

After Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos was elected as the President. He was a proponent of privatization, less govern-ment, more private sector! The economy went on a roll. But all of Ramos’ gains during his presidency faded away into thin air. The poor became poorer than ever. Because he was a popular movie actor, Erap Estrada was elected Presi-dent to manage the country. He enjoyed widespread popularity, particularly among the poor moviegoers. In October 2000, however, Mr. Estrada was accused of having accepted millions of pesos in payoffs from illegal gambling business-es. To quote an anonymous writer, “The ‘jueteng’ bombs exploded! People were aghast at knowing the bizarre drama of alleged bribery, gambling, drunkenness, womanizing, deceit, and corruption.” Estrada was impeached by the House of Representatives, he was forced from of-fi ce on January 20, 2001. Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (the daughter of the late President Diosdado Macapa-gal) was sworn in as Estrada’s successor on the day of his departure. We thought effulgent, eternal splendor fi nally ar-rived. We were inspired that Malaca-ñang regained its honor and dignity. But more total failure happened instead! The peso plummeted to a horrifying US$1 to P51. Electoral sabotage were alleged in years 2004 and 2007 elections. Graft and corruption, plunder, scam and thiev-ery ruled the country. Mr. Estrada was found guilty of plunder and continued to stay in jail. Finally, Erap was pardoned by President Arroyo. Mr. Estrada was permitted by election offi cials to run in the May 2010 elections where he placed second.

To win an election in the Philip-pines you must be fi lthy rich. Is politics in the Philippines simply fi lthy or “as fi lthy as a pigsty”? Filipinos in general have to be responsible; however, they are noted to be openly immature in our politics. A lot of stupidity: between a handsome movie star and an honest-and-brilliant political scientist, many people will vote for the reel celebrity.

Today and Tomorrow Now the Marcos family are

back in power. Would you believe politi-cal dynasties run our country? Many politicians of today monopolize the politics on their respective provinces, like the Marcoses, Arroyos, Roman and Garcia of Bataan, Singson of Ilocos Sur, Garcia and Osmena of Cebu, Zubiri of Bukidnon, etc. The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines (Article 2 - Declaration of Principles and State Policies, Section 26) clearly prohibits the existence of political dynasties in this country. This is down the drain.

The most recent one on May 10, 2010: Simeon Benigno “Noynoy” Aqui-no, III, won the election and became the 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines. What, then, does the future hold for Filipinos? The president stated: “My fi rst task is to lift the country from poverty… Kung walang corrupt walang mahirap… matuwid na daan.. kayo ang aking boss.” Now most recently, Pinoy srikes at the Supreme Court. Reforms are needed in the Judiciary branch. Former President

Arroyo is still in hospital arrest. I hope for the best.

We have a fractured country, a fractured culture developing due to the gross neglect of our leaders, which will destroy our democratic land. It might be corrected which will take many genera-tions to come.

There is one group of Filipinos who wants to improve our lot, however, there is another group who will shoot down anything in their selfi sh way. Yes corrupt politicians are a hindrance. With that being said, power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We are impressed that the Philip-pines is beautiful in many ways- a fealty or a favorite place for all of us, albeit, politically fi lthy.

I sure hope Filipinos are not teetering in the precipice of doom! Sadly, the awful social ills I catalogued that plague our nation are deeply, deeply ingrained in our culture. So ingrained that, I honestly think, any serious at-tempt to banish them is likely to fail. But then that’s just my own humble take. Hopefully, others would prove me otherwise. Our leaders in government leaves a legacy of corruption, cheating, deceit, disrespect for democratic institu-tions, divisive politics, and human rights abuses, among other things. From time immemorial we had been fi ghting for justice, reform of the economic-political system, and most of all, reduce poverty. NoyNoy Aquino, it’s your turn. I mean SAVE OUR COUNTRY!


By Fr. Shay Cullen ([email protected] | OLONGAPO, 1/6/2012 -- For the beauti-ful Philippines to have an attractive, clean and healthy tourism industry, much effort has to be done in eradicating the tarnished image made by the infl ux of thousands of single men seeking sex. We all need to face this harsh truth that thousands of young women and minors are being exploited in the so-called sex tourism business. This is driving away family tourism as millions of prospective decent respectful tourists do not want to be associated with that image.

It brings to mind the story of 15 year-old Jenny who was brought to the beach apart-ment of an Australian tourist in Olongapo city and "sold" by her parents to him as a live-in sex partner. Jenny hated it but could not run away but when her younger 13 year-old sister, Ruth, was introduced to the Australian�s new friend from Sydney to be his room cleaner and then his sex partner, Jenny sought help from the Preda child protection center in Olongapo City.

Ruth was rescued and the two Australians charged with traffi cking and sexual exploi-tation of a minor. But this case and many others like it highlight the complicity of the justice system in giving foreign child sex offenders and traffi ckers leniency and every chance to bribe their way out of trouble.

The two Australians were able to have the charges against them dropped despite available testimony of the minors. The judge ordered Ruth, the strongest witness,

The Challenges for Philippine Tourism in 2012

to be taken out of the protection of the Preda Shelter and given back to the parents who sold her to the tourist. This was the end of the legal action. Ruth, the prime witness was threatened with punishment and silenced. No police action was taken against the parents either. The unwritten government policy appears to be that trials of foreign sex-tourists is bad for business. There have been few convictions of sex tourists or traffi ckers in recent years. Al-though this will hopefully change as Presi-dent Aquino and Justice Secretary Leila De Lima crack down on corruption.

The Philippine government for the past ten years allowed the spread of the sex tourist industry instead of curbing it and protecting the vulnerable impoverished women and children that were recruited and forced or lured into prostitution. The promotion of the gambling business with the spread of gambling casinos where drugs

and prostitution are part of the attraction is equally damaging to the youth. The holding of so-called "beauty contests" where bikini-clad young girls are displayed as models and contestants is to entice sex tourists, both local Filipinos and foreigners, to fl ock to the Philippines. These contests are not much more than a sanitized slave market.

Local governments are accountable too. They issue operating permits and licenses to the sex clubs. The government support and leniency attracts the international sex Mafi a, drug traffi ckers and people traffi ck-ers. Human rights activists are challeng-ing government to drastically change this policy of allowing the industry to continue unchecked and unregulated.

The busy social hygiene clinics, where sex bars and clubs are mandated to have their employees medically examined monthly or so, are evidence of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV-AIDS which is reportedly on the increase.

The most important aims and goals of the Preda foundations programme is to educate and alert local government offi cials and the parents of the dangers and evils of sex tourism and the vice industry. It has to be the aim of all women's and children rights advocates to oppose the existing approved practice and persuade government to ban sex tourism and close the establishments that are fronts for prostitution. We have to inform public opinion through the media as to the damage it is causing and work for its

elimination and encourage the positive kind of tourism for which the Philippines is also well known and famous for.

The Philippines is famous for its tropical island beaches, natural scenic and adventure tourism, scuba diving, golf, heritage and historic tourism. Environ-mental tourism and whale watching are popular and many new opportunities await development. The good tourism is there, it needs investment and development and the commitment of the government to close down the worst kind and promote the good. All of us have the duty to work for these goals. -- Contact Fr. Shay Cullen at the Preda Center, Upper Kalaklan, Olongapo City, Philippines. e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.preda.org

rison with his personal assistant Ms. Josie Clark and also the special NAFFAA Humanitarian award presentation by the Region 10 Chairperson Dr. Aurora Cudal and her Executive Director Jay Ruiz Jr. Femie Cupit, Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of San Diego Paradise Valley introduced the honorable Mayor.

The memorable occasion was held at the Gaporesto & Karaoke Restaurant , players and guests were feted with sumptuous lunch and a Championship cake. Tour-nament Director, Art Buangan emceed the event with additional entertainment by DJ Vilma and karaoke singing by some of the members.

Mayor Morrison and Dr Cudal gave inspirational and motiva-tional speeches, followed by the special awarding program. Of-fi cers sworn in are incumbent; Matt Mazon-President, Ted Calaustro-Vice President, Andy Velbis-Sec/Treasurer, Nori Gamboa-Handicap Chairperson, Art Buangan-Tourna-ment Director/Handicap Chairman. Board Members were Ted Delunas-Sampaguita District, Romy Quinto-Banaue District, Bob Navales- San Miguel District and Gus Martinez-Mabuhay District. Handicap Com-mittee members included Ed Bassig, Nestor Mendiola, Flor Villegas, Jim Quitania, Jim Esperon, Billy Javate, Jesse Trapse, Al Nunag, James Lorenzo and Femie Cupit- Parshoot-ers Fund Raising Chairperson.

President Matt Mazon awarded trophies and plaques to the winners. Bob Navales bagged his second Championship Trophy, an appalling feat becoming only the second mem-ber to successfully achieved it. Per-petual trophies for 2011 were award-ed to the following Champions; Bob Navales-2011 Club Champion, Art Buangan-Sampaguita Open, Romy Quinto-Banaue Open Champion, Ted Calaustro-San Miguel Open, Al Nunag-Mabuhay Open Champion, Andy Velbis-Tournament of Cham-pions, Ted Calaustro-Player of the Year, Jesse Trapse-Rookie of the

Year, Ted Calaustro-Champion of the Elite Seventies, Ted Calaustro-Mabuhay Cup Champion and Ted Calaustro-Fil-Am Tour Number-1 Rank Player. Special recognition and achievement plaques were also awarded to deserving members.

Parshooters Golf Club of San Diego is an affi liate member of the Southern California Golf Associa-tion since 1993 and currently has sixty active members. It sponsors the Fil-Am Tour which plays every Tuesday at several golf courses in San Diego County, Escondido and Temecula area. The club plays at Eastlake Country Club, Salt Creek Golf Club, Chula Vista Municipal Golf Course, Carmel Mountain Ranch Country Club, Carmel High-land Golf and Resort, The Vineyard at Escondido and the Golf Club of Rancho California.

The Fil-Am Tour will play for sixty two games for the 2012 Tour-naments and has added new golf courses that included Riverwalk Golf Course(Mission Valley), Eagle Crest(Escondido) and Redhawk ( Temecula). Parshooters Club will resume it tournament at Vineyard on January 10, 2012. It will open with the Inaugural President Cup/Matt

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The Parshooters Golf Club Of San Diego Concluded Its 2011 Fil-Am Tour With Resounding Success

Mazon Classic, followed by The Doy Longanilla Heritage at Chula Vista Course and Femie Cupit Invi-tational at Carmel Mountain Ranch.

Parshooters Golf Club of San Diego is a very unique organization noted for its generosity and humani-tarian role exemplifi ed by storied history of helping the local Senior Citizens in 2009, Rotary Club of San Diego Paradise Valley eradication of polio and humanitarian mission, helping ABS-CBN Foundation for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy and also the Bantay Bata program in 2010.

It successfully sponsored and fundraised the 2011 Fil-Am Mas-ters at Eastlake Country Club that benefi tted the Fisherhouse of San Diego located at Balboa Medical Center. President Matt Mazon, Vice President Ted Calaustro, Treasurer Andy Velbis, Tournament Direc-tor Art Buangan and Fundraising Chairperson Femie Cupit person-ally presented a check of $1,000.00 to Kristin Palmer, Manager of the Fisherhouse.

While enjoying playing golf, it will continue to champion charitable causes which validates its fi rm com-mitment to help mankind.

Awarding of $1000.00 check to Fisherhouse. From Left to right: Art Buangan, Tournament Director; Ted Calaustro, Vice President; Kristin Palmer, Manager, Fisherhouse San Diego; Femie Cupit, Fundraising Chair; Matt Mazon, President; Andy Velbis, Treasurer.

A famous entrepreneur has once said, “What your mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve”

If we could afford with our time and patience, we should let our children speak what is in their hearts, let them express the inner most of their feelings, their ambition, desires and goals in life. Support them, let them thrive, and be nurtured with our love and care. Yes, God’s Word, “The Holy Bible “said in (Proverbs 24:16) “ For the righteous one may fall even seven times, and he will certainly get up; but the wicked ones will be made to stumble by calamity”. There

will be mistakes along the way but God’s Word “The Holy Bible assures us in (Hebrews 11:6) “Moreover, without faith it is impossible to please [him] well, for

he that approaches God must believe that he is and that he becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking him”. We, as parents should teach our children to seek help and advice from experienced people that they can trust (this has to be developed) .They have to learn that there is always a price to pay in anything that we want and aspire to do! Pay a price, hire a Consultant! Don’t emphasize too much on fi nancial gain; let them thrive on “VALUES & VIRTUES”. These two qualities Value and Virtue will take our children to success in any endeavors that they would like to accomplish.

Jason has lot of support from fami-lies and friends; his lovely wife Leah is always there for him when problems arise at work. His daughter Kaylie is on

Jason’s side most of the time to cheer him up when he is tired. His mother and father in-laws Evelyn and Leo Salvador are always there to support him when funds are low. Jason’s parents are con-

stantly with him with his decisions, giv-ing him guidance and guidelines. Never forget Crystal, his younger sister who after taking “Culinary Arts” in college did not pursue her own career but chose to help her brother to run the restaurant business. Jason’s older sister, Jamie in Germany constantly calls him to give him moral support.

One of Jason’s friends who is an out-standing help in his business

is Mike Hipolito. He constantly brainstorm with Jason on the day to day activities and operation of the restau-rant. The local Filipino Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Oceanside, CA where Jason gets his spiritual nourish-ment never forget to remind Jason to keep on seeking fi rst God’s kingdom and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

In our next article ,we will cover the principles in business in choosing the right franchise to own; we will also discuss Jason’s mentors and friends with their different talents that had helped Jason achieved his aspirations, to own a L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Restaurant. We will share with you the success stories, trade secrets of our friends who are happy and satisfi ed in their differ-ent businesses. In life there are always lessons, growing pains and problems that everyone encounters; they are humps along the way that we must all face and deal successfully. We would always contribute info and websites that covers our fears; provide websites and newest business opportunities.

One of Jason’s mentors is Bill Hahlbohm ; who is a fi rm believer of organic products once said, “IF YOU LOVE YOUR JOB, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE”. Bill had consented for an interview with Asian Journal for his life story. His thousands of growers, packers and shippers of natural food products can testify that the reason for his success is teach your children the right values in life and practice it everyday of your life.

Another mentor of Jason by the name of Vance Reyes Hivoral, a fi nancial consulting expert always reminds Jason; “If you keep on doing the same things over and over again, you will get the same results. If you keep on doing the same things over and over again and you expect a different result; you are insane. If you want a different result, change the approach!

BOTTOM LINE, RESULTS: Results is the bottom line of anything.Jason has received a lot of inquiries regarding the profi tability of owning a business franchise. If you are interested to own a franchise or be a part of a group who is forming one, don’t hesitate to call Jason at 619-274-2654 or at his store 760-290-3036.Send him an email @ [email protected] Or FAX @ 866-579-9104. -- Contributed by:

Ruel M. Borgonia, [email protected]

Sharing and Lending a Hand - A Part Of Filipino CultureJason Malicsi of L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Restaurant in San Marcos


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