A Recipe for Safe Food ... p. 6 The Law of Relativity .. p. 11 Mike Arroyo plotting smear campaign against Aquino? by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. Publisher & Editor in Chief, Asian Journal San Diego Chapter 3 Resident Felisa Morta points to a sign of the village named af- ter Marie Rose Abad in Manila, Philippines on Aug. 3. Fantasy Land Crime Does Pay Shamcey Supsup, Miss. Philippines Another conspiracy theory Shamcey Supsup shines in 2011 Miss Universe in Brazil A tiny resident gets a GK home Dr. Ofelia Dirige Msgr. Gutierrez Ben Maynigo Maria Mabilangan Haley: Model In The Strictest Sense .. p. 8 (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 22) (Continued on page 20) The original and first Asian Journal in America 550 E. 8th St., Ste. 6, National City, San Diego County CA USA 91950 | Ph: 619.474.0588 | Fx: 619.474.0373 | Email: [email protected] | www.asianjournalusa.com PRST STD U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 203 Chula Vista CA 91910 San Diego’s first and only Asian Filipino weekly publication and a multi-award winning newspaper! Online+Digital+Print Editions to best serve you! (Continued on page 9) September 16-22, 2011 How much do we owe Ninoy Aquino? By Ducky Paredes, Malaya ‘Will Oplan Bwelta succeed or will PNoy’s boys prove to be smarter than they seem?’ ACCORDING to a source, a luxurious condominium unit at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig is the de facto war room of former first gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo and friends, advisors and business associates. The condo is near enough to St. Luke’s Hospital, convenient for the husband to watch over his wife, former President Glo- ria Macapagal-Arroyo who is still undergoing treatment for her spine problems. The unit is where, says my source, “Oplan Bwelta” was conceived and implemented. Loosely translated, “bwelta” means to get back at, or, in modern street lingo, to “resbak”. The target: President PNoy! PNoy is determined to pursue cases that involve graft and corrup- tion committed during and by former president GMA’s administration. Ar- royo family members are apparently in the President’s crosshairs. First, Congressman Mikey Arroyo and his wife were charged by Bureau of In- ternal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares with tax evasion. This was followed by the issue of misap- propriation of Philippine Amuse- ment and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) funds under the Arroyo administration. Then the allegation of poll rigging in the 2004 polls via switched election returns at the Batasang Pambansa was resurrected, as with the Jose Pidal case. Then, the former FG’s alleged involvement in the Philippine National Police (PNP) helicopter overprice controversy was brought out. Now, even Con- gressman Iggy finds himself in the crosshairs. My source tells me that enough should have been enough but with the continuing heat that the Arroyos were feeling, something had to be done. Thus, the order went out for the GMA’s faithful to create counter issues versus PNoy and members of his official family. They had to divert public attention away from controversies involving the Arroyos. It was this underlying thought that supposedly became the mission of Oplan Bwelta. Political strategists, media advisors, and legislators loyal to the Arroyos formed a think-tank to map out a plan of action. This included creating diversionary issues that would eventually be linked to President Noynoy Aquino and his allies, or embellishing otherwise upfront investigations in order to sow intrigue. According to my spook: “Matatal- ino yung mga bata ni PNoy, pero sa Some kind of fantasy occurred in Fantasyland when the next president was elected. It was a fantasy not be- cause it was the wish of many people, but rather because it was an event no- body in his right mind would believe could ever happen. Ten years before, few would agree a high school drop- out, who went on to become famous for his tough-guy roles in the movies, would eventually become president. But he did. In a country where education was highly valued, the uneducated politician defied the odds, although a movie actor had once become president of the United States. But the Philippine version carried much more baggage. He was a known womanizer, sir- ing at least a dozen children with different women, a fact he did not deny. It would have been a career-killer, but not to him, for his on-screen persona, an unsophisticated and uneducated tough guy defending the poor, assumed his political identity. Fantasy Land prided itself as the only Catholic nation in all of Asia. Eighty percent of its population are Catholics supposedly. But the Fantasylanders had no qualms in electing a womanizer and adulterer as their president, the first citizen of the country, one who was assumed to be AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Es- poso , The Philippine Star Speaking after they’ve won the Battle of Britain, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, said these words that have since been immortalized in the pages of history: “Never had so many owed so much to so few.” The few, whom Churchill had referred to, were the brave men and women of the RAF (Royal Air Force). The RAF destroyed the air force of Nazi Germany, effec- tively preventing a Ger- man conquest of the United Kingdom. Indeed, the Battle of Britain proved once more the value of the human and individual factor as when terribly outnumbered and less equipped forces man- aged to defeat their larger and better-armed foes. History is rich with the heroic sagas of people who became the big difference for their cause or country during a critical period. The Maid, Joan of Arc, became the unexpected rallying point for the French people seeking to drive away the English from French soil. Ruled by a weakling of a Dauphin, demoralized by a string of English victories, the French people rallied behind Joan, won key battles and got their Dauphin crowned King. Joan’s inspiration led to the even- tual withdrawal of the English from France after her martyrdom. (Continued on page 19) Practical Shooting Bridges Phl’s Political Family Rivalry By Artemio A. Dumlao Laoag City, Ilocos Norte (Au- gust 19, 2011) – Practical shooting is bridging the gap between the country’s biggest political family with President Benigno Aquino III and Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., both avid practical shooting sportsmen, competing this September 7-11 in historic an idyllic Paoay town here for the “Bongbong Marcos Cup 2011” (Asia Pacific Senator Marcos tries a caliber 22 LR RIM FIRE during the Riffle Match ( SNIPERS short course) and fires a caliber 40 STI Handgun for the ceremonial shoot-off for the PHILIPPINE OPEN, BONG BONG MARCOS CUP 2010 at the Marcos Combat Shoot- ing Firing Range, Brgy. Suba, Paoay, Ilocos Norte, September 18, 2010. /TOOTS SOBERANO Poor Filipinos have 9-11 victim to thank for homes MANILA, Philippines — A street sign in Manila shows an American businesswoman and Sept. 11 victim smiling down on a community whose transformation would have warmed her heart: Children frolicking on tidy brick alleys near brightly colored houses. Miss Philip- pines Shamcey Supsup was a star, fan favorite and finished 3rd in the Miss Uni- verse Beauty Pageant 2011 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Supsup was ranked high by fans in the swimsuit and evening gown competitions. The magna cum laude graduate and architecture board topnotcher joined other candidates in the final five namely 2011 Miss Universe Leila Lopes of Angola, first runner-up Olesya Stefanko of Ukraine, sec- ond runner-up Priscila Macha-
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A Recipe for Safe Food ... p. 6
The Law of Relativity .. p. 11
Mike Arroyo plotting smear campaign against Aquino?
by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. Publisher & Editor in Chief, Asian Journal San Diego
Chapter 3
Resident Felisa Morta points to a sign of the village named af-ter Marie Rose Abad in Manila, Philippines on Aug. 3.
Fantasy Land
Crime Does Pay
Shamcey Supsup, Miss. Philippines
Another conspiracy theory
Shamcey Supsup shines in 2011 Miss Universe in Brazil
A tiny resident gets a GK home
Dr. Ofelia DirigeMsgr. Gutierrez Ben MaynigoMaria Mabilangan Haley:
Model In The Strictest Sense .. p. 8
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How much do we owe Ninoy Aquino?
By Ducky Paredes, Malaya
‘Will Oplan Bwelta succeed or will PNoy’s boys prove to be smarter than they seem?’
ACCORDING to a source, a luxurious condominium unit at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig is the de facto war room of former fi rst gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo and friends, advisors and business associates. The condo is near enough to St. Luke’s Hospital, convenient for the husband to watch over his wife, former President Glo-ria Macapagal-Arroyo who is still undergoing treatment for her spine problems.
The unit is where, says my source, “Oplan Bwelta” was conceived and implemented. Loosely translated, “bwelta” means to get back at, or, in modern street lingo, to “resbak”. The target: President PNoy!
PNoy is determined to pursue cases that involve graft and corrup-tion committed during and by former president GMA’s administration. Ar-royo family members are apparently in the President’s crosshairs. First, Congressman Mikey Arroyo and his wife were charged by Bureau of In-ternal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares with tax evasion. This was followed by the issue of misap-propriation of Philippine Amuse-ment and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) funds under the Arroyo administration. Then the allegation of poll rigging in the 2004 polls via switched election returns at the Batasang Pambansa was resurrected, as with the Jose Pidal case. Then, the former FG’s alleged involvement in the Philippine National Police (PNP) helicopter overprice controversy was brought out. Now, even Con-gressman Iggy fi nds himself in the crosshairs.
My source tells me that enough should have been enough but with the continuing heat that the Arroyos were feeling, something had to be done. Thus, the order went out for the GMA’s faithful to create counter issues versus PNoy and members of his offi cial family. They had to divert public attention away from controversies involving the Arroyos.
It was this underlying thought that supposedly became the mission of Oplan Bwelta. Political strategists, media advisors, and legislators loyal to the Arroyos formed a think-tank to map out a plan of action. This included creating diversionary issues that would eventually be linked to President Noynoy Aquino and his allies, or embellishing otherwise upfront investigations in order to sow intrigue.
According to my spook: “Matatal-ino yung mga bata ni PNoy, pero sa
Some kind of fantasy occurred in Fantasyland when the next president was elected. It was a fantasy not be-cause it was the wish of many people, but rather because it was an event no-body in his right mind would believe could ever happen. Ten years before, few would agree a high school drop-out, who went on to become famous for his tough-guy roles in the movies, would eventually become president. But he did.
In a country where education was highly valued, the uneducated politician defi ed the odds, although a movie actor had once become president of the United States. But the Philippine version carried much more baggage. He was a known womanizer, sir-ing at least a dozen children with different women, a fact he did not deny. It would have been a career-killer, but not to him, for his on-screen persona, an unsophisticated and uneducated tough guy defending the poor, assumed his political identity. Fantasy Land prided itself as the only Catholic nation in all of Asia. Eighty percent of its population are Catholics supposedly. But the Fantasylanders had no qualms in electing a womanizer and adulterer as their president, the fi rst citizen of the country, one who was assumed to be
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Es-poso , The Philippine Star
Speaking after they’ve won the Battle of Britain, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, said these words that have since been immortalized in the pages of history: “Never had so many owed so much to so few.”
The few, whom Churchill had referred to, were the brave men and women of the RAF (Royal Air Force). The RAF destroyed the air force of Nazi Germany, effec-tively preventing a Ger-man conquest of the United
Kingdom. Indeed, the Battle of Britain proved once more
the value of the human and individual factor as when terribly outnumbered and less equipped forces man-aged to defeat their larger and better-armed foes.
History is rich with the heroic sagas of people who became the big difference for their cause or country during a critical period. The Maid, Joan of Arc, became the unexpected rallying point for the French people seeking to drive away the English from French soil. Ruled by a weakling of a Dauphin, demoralized by a string of English victories, the French people rallied behind Joan, won key battles and got their Dauphin crowned King. Joan’s inspiration led to the even-tual withdrawal of the English
from France after her martyrdom.
(Continued on page 19)
Practical Shooting Bridges Phl’s Political Family RivalryBy Artemio A. Dumlao
Laoag City, Ilocos Norte (Au-gust 19, 2011) – Practical shooting is bridging the gap between the
country’s biggest political family with President Benigno Aquino III
and Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., both avid practical shooting sportsmen, competing this September 7-11 in historic an idyllic Paoay town here for the “Bongbong
Marcos Cup 2011” (Asia Pacifi c
Senator Marcos tries a caliber 22 LR RIM FIRE during the Riffl e Match ( SNIPERS short course) and fi res a caliber 40 STI Handgun for the ceremonial shoot-off for the PHILIPPINE OPEN, BONG BONG MARCOS CUP 2010 at the Marcos Combat Shoot-ing Firing Range, Brgy. Suba, Paoay, Ilocos Norte, September 18, 2010. /TOOTS SOBERANO
Poor Filipinos have 9-11 victim to thank for homes
MANILA, Philippines — A street sign in Manila shows an American businesswoman and Sept. 11 victim smiling down on a community whose transformation would have warmed her heart: Children
frolicking on tidy brick alleys near brightly colored houses.
Miss Philip-pines Shamcey Supsup was a star, fan favorite and fi nished 3rd in the Miss Uni-verse Beauty Pageant 2011 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Supsup was ranked high by fans in the swimsuit and evening gown competitions.
The magna cum laude graduate and architecture board topnotcher joined other candidates in the fi nal fi ve namely 2011 Miss Universe Leila Lopes of Angola, fi rst runner-up Olesya Stefanko of Ukraine, sec-ond runner-up Priscila Macha-
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September 14, 2011 by Jean S. Tinsay, Esq. Jon and Kate own and operate a
successful real estate business in California. In addition to owning a beautiful home, they had acquired several homes and apartment build-ings which they rented out.
In 2008, when the U.S. economy was struggling and the real estate business was sluggish, Jon and Kate decided to take a long vacation in the Philippines. While enjoying some rest and recreation, Jon and Kate decided to invest in a condo-minium development project. The couple initially intended to stay only for two months, but decided to extend their stay for another four months to monitor the progress of the project.
Just before they were to return to the United States, Kate discovered she was pregnant with twins. Since Kate was already in her early 40s, the pregnancy was a difficult one. Her doctor ordered complete bed rest for the entire duration of her pregnancy and travelling was an absolute no-no. Jon and Kate who had been trying to have children for a decade were ecstatic.
Per the doctor’s order, they postponed Kate’s trip to the United States and Jon ensured that she be provided with the best possible care. To the relief of the parents, the iden-tical twins were born healthy. Jon who was a U.S. citizen immediately applied and obtained U.S. passports for the twins and made plans for his
family to return to the United States. However, by this time, Kate who was a lawful permanent resident had been outside the United States for over one year.
A lawful permanent resident’s absence from the United States for over one (1) year is normally con-sidered abandonment of residence in the United States and conse-quently will bar her entry to the United States as a lawful permanent resident.
However, a lawful permanent resident’s absence from the United States of over one (1) year will not result in abandonment of U.S. resi-dency if the following requirements are met:
The alien was a lawful permanent resident at the time of departure from the U.S.
The alien had the intention of returning to the U.S. and has not abandoned this intention;
The alien is returning to the U.S. from a temporary visit abroad and, if the stay was protracted, this was caused by reasons beyond the con-trol of the alien.
A lawful permanent resident who has remained outside the United States for longer than one (1) year who meets these requirements may be eligible for what is called a Returning Resident Immigrant (“SB-1”) visa. The SB-1 visa ap-plication is submitted to the near-est U.S. Embassy or Consulate. A consular officer will review the SB-1 visa application and support-ing documentation and if approved,
this will allow the lawful permanent resident to enter the United States and resume permanent residence.
What is important in determining eligibility for the SB-1 visa is the alien’s intent – whether the law-ful permanent resident intended to return to the United States after a temporary absence. Examples of documentary evidence that may be submitted to establish that the alien intended to maintain a U.S residence include: driver’s license, U.S. Income Tax Returns filed for the past years, ownership of real and personal property located in the United States, salary paid by a U.S. employer, children’s enrollment in a U.S. school and evidence of family and social ties in the United States.
In addition, the lawful permanent resident must establish that she intended to stay abroad for a tempo-rary period of time and that the delay in returning to the United States was due to reasons beyond her control. The following factors are considered in determining temporary intent: the trip abroad was for a specific purpose, the visit is expected to terminate within a relatively short and predetermined date and the alien expected to return to the United States as an actual home or place of employment.
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gulangan, paglalaruan lang sila nina FG.” He could be right, of course.
Where to begin?An issue that draws consider-
able attention away from the used helicopter controversy is the cur-rent Congressional inquiry on the missing imported shipments of approximately 2,000 container vans (recently increased to over 3,000) trans-shipped from the Manila Inter-national Container Port and the Port of Manila to the Port of Batangas. My Intel claims that the seemingly hurried manner of how this issue developed to such an enormous pro-
portion is the work of Oplan Bwelta.This began with Customs Com-
missioner Angelito Alvarez ordering an audit of all transshipments to the Port of Batangas. The audit under-taken by the Commissioner himself discovered that shipments were not filed with corresponding import en-tries, hence neither duties nor taxes were paid. According to regulation, an entry must be filed within 30 days at the Port of Destination (in this case, the Port of Batangas) from the time the goods are received. Docu-ments later showed that the Port of Manila and the Manila Interna-tional Container Port had complete paperwork, proving that the goods in question were all received at the Port of Batangas, and yet no entries were ever filed.
Because it was evident that the anomaly was exclusive to the port
of destination, Alvarez immediately relieved the man in charge, District Collector John Tan, and reassigned him pending further investigation. Little did Alvarez know that by do-ing what he believed to be his job, this open-and-shut case would send a storm of inquest his way and even-tually drive him out of his post.
Shortly after Tan was placed on floating status, the House Sub-Committee on Tariff and Customs quickly conducted an Inquiry re-garding the missing containers. My Intel tells me: “If you paid close at-tention to the hearing, it would have been immediately obvious that the members of the panel – Zambales Rep. Mitos Magsaysay, Valenzuela Rep. Magi Gunigundo, Dasmariñas Rep. Pidi Barzaga, and Davao del
by Cynthia MinnaarIt is not just Moms who are look-
ing for ways to earn from home but many men want to work at home too. The reasons they are looking for home based business ideas for men are varied. This could be because they have either been retrenched, want to replace their jobs with a home business or would like to supplement their income.
In this article we take a look at 8 home based business ideas for men.
1. Get involved in affiliate market-ing and make use of the Internet to sell other people’s products.
With affiliate marketing you can get paid for getting leads as well as get paid by the click. Another way to make money is by recruiting af-filiates in two-tier affiliate programs where you will get paid a commis-sion on the products your recruits sell.
2. Have you thought of consulting? Using your expertise you can teach other people who will pay you for consulting if it helps them accom-plish things they need done.
3. Start repairing cars at home. You can build a competitive business working out of your own garage and this can be personally enjoyable as well as very profitable.
4. Get involved in direct sales. It is not only women who get involved with direct sales companies. Men are also selling Amway, Tupperware, Avon, Herbalife and other direct sales products.
5. Start a day care centre for chil-dren. A day care business is not just for women. Many stay at home Dads these days are taking care of other people’s children.
6. Start an online network mar-keting business. There are many to choose from and the Internet makes it much easier to build a business from home. It is not uncommon for men to work with their wives and
build their business as a team which is also a good way to do it.
7. Get involved in Joint Ventures. If you are working online look for other Internet marketers and do a joint venture together. You may be able to combine your particular skill or interest with that of another person to build a successful online business.
8. Make money freelance writ-ing on the Internet. Writing ebooks and selling them on ClickBank or Amazon is very popular right now. Writing for other Internet marketers as an article writer or a blog writer can be extremely lucrative.
If you have a flair for writing the big money is in copywriting and you will find courses online to help you with this.
The above are 8 home based busi-ness ideas for men. Thanks to the In-ternet both men and women can now get involved in the same businesses, so some of the above will overlap.
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SAN DIEGO—The Water Reliability Coalition (WRC) has launched its website (http://sdwa-tersupply.com/) to help educate San Diegans about the possibility of wastewater recycling in San Diego. The WRC, a broad-based affiliation of environmental, consumer, rate-payer, business, labor and technical organizations, supports exploring wastewater recycling as a potential strategy to develop a safe, reliable, sustainable and cost-effective local water supply. Also known as Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR), this process of recycling wastewater into purified drinking water is already used in places such as Orange County and Las Vegas.
On the WRC’s website, the Water Dilemma page informs San Diegans about the region’s current water supply crisis. Its Solutions section answers a series of frequently asked questions to help people understand the technology and history behind water recycling in San Diego. The News Channel keeps readers updated with local and worldwide IPR news and includes a calendar of water supply events happening in the San Diego area.
The WRC event listings include tours of the City of San Diego’s Demonstration Project, which cur-
rently tests whether San Diego’s infrastructure and geologic makeup will allow wastewater recycling to occur safely. If the pilot project is successful, IPR water will be piped into San Vicente Reservoir for reservoir augmentation, where it will blend with existing water supplies before being treated again and fi-nally delivered to taps. The project is expected to conclude next summer.
Those interested in staying in-formed on IPR development in San Diego can sign up for the Water Re-liability Coalition’s newsletter in the right-hand sidebar of the website. They can also follow the organiza-tion’s Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/SDWaterSupply) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Water-ReliabilityCoalition) pages to get the most up-to-date news.
The Water Reliability Coali-tion is a broad-based affiliation of environmental, consumer, business, labor and technical organizations that have come together to support exploration of Indirect Potable Re-use (IPR) as a potential strategy to develop a safe, reliable, sustainable & cost-effective local water sup-ply. Visit at http://www.sdwatersup-ply.com/index.php.
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Team members are invited to apply for this engaging position at one of San Diego’s best attractions, the USS Midway Museum. Assist museum guests from all over the world - welcoming them onboard and helping them to find their way around an aircraft carrier while as-suring their safety.
Training is provided. Subjects include communication skills (us-ing ship’s radios), guest relations, way-finding (the layout of the ship and museum tour route), CPR/first aid, location and use of basic safety equipment and more.
Requirements: A minimum com-mitment of 6 months, with monthly participation of 20 hours or more. Folks with good ‘people skills’ as well as good memory and retention are encouraged to apply. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age and be able to climb the ship’s ladders and stairs. Applications must be submitted in advance.
No military experience is required. For information about this or
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When: October 21-22, 2011 Where: University of San Diego
San Diego Earthwork’s 3rd annual Bright Green Future Conference
the 2011 Theme is Energy and Na-tional Security with plenary presen-tations by local veterans:
- Friday: “Local Perspectives on Energy & National Security”
- Saturday: “Off Fossil Fuels by 2015: Why it’s Imperative for Na-tional Security.”
Headliners on Friday include State Senator Christine Kehoe, and former
“Navy Mayor” , USD Vice Presi-dent, Len Hering.
Topic tracks on Friday: Green Business, Green Building, Zero Waste, Water, and Climate Change/Transportation
Special events on Friday: San Diego Mayoral Candidate’s Forum (5:30pm) hosted by the San Diego Sierra Club and followed by a Green Networking Reception.
Topic tracks on Saturday: All About Food, Green Jobs Workshop,
Climate Change, Zero Waste and Water
Special Events on Saturday: All-day Green Jobs Workshop, Million Letter March Activist Workshop, “Permaculture and Graywater,” Electric Car Owners Panel, Cal-Green Building Codes Workshop
11 Tracks, More than 40 Presenta-tions by Working Professionals
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Bright Green Future Conference at USDby Megan AndersenMany companies do not consider
the telephone to be an important part of a business decision. After all, run-ning a business – especially start-up companies – is hard work, and there are many things to consider on the road. How important can a telephone number be?
If the telephone number just hap-pened to be a vanity number, it may as well cost the company its success – or so part of it.
Vanity numbers can make a big difference in a company’s day to day operations and profits; making it quite worthy of careful consideration for businesses of all sizes. Regard-less of the product of a company or an approach, vanity numbers are one of the most cost-effective purchases.
The highest advantage of vanity numbers is the name recognition that instantly develops a business phone line. Studies have shown that humans can recover up to seven digit number from their short-term
Vanity numbers - The Power of Toll Free Vanity Numbers
memories, but have a much easier time remembering the patterns and words.
This name recognition is also an opportunity to brand companies using the toll free number. It is one thing to buy a number that will be free for customers to call, but it is another thing to buy a number that is free for callers and easier to remember. This is what companies do with vanity numbers, building an automatic response from their cus-tomers, simply showing the number regularly in commercials and printed ads.
Vanity numbers are a power-ful symbol of establishment in the business world. In the right hands, it is a great advantage that can help develop corporate accounts that otherwise would be completely impossible to obtain.
The best performance of a vanity numbers come from the incorpora-tion of other technologies. With a high quality telephone system, for example, small businesses may seem bigger than they really are. More calls can be handled at the same time because of advanced telephone system and more calls will come through the vanity toll free number.
Companies with vanity numbers aim for more than their competitors without vanity numbers – at least when it comes to telephone traffic through the selection of a memo-rable brand name and the establish-ment of the telephone number. It is a worthy investment for developing companies who need help in estab-lishing a name, even in crowded markets.
Any company that does not take advantage of their toll free number is resigned to receiving less business opportunities and less overall inter-est of business partners and other sources. Like any successful entre-preneur, any worthy investment is essential if it is for long-term benefit and success.
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“See, when the peso devalues compared to the dollar,” said Jenny the following day, “the cheaper will the imperialists buy the raw materi-als from us and the more expensive the fi nished products they bring into the country.”
“Really?” I said pretending that I understood everything she was say-ing. I sipped my coke at the canteen.
“And when the price of gas goes up, everything else spirals up. Goods, services, tuition fees, etc.”
I am a scholar, I said to myself. What do I care about tuition fees?
“And crime will also rise. You know, prostitution, gambling, rack-eteering, hold-ups…”
I think we’re safe at the bowling alley and the boarding house.
“See, Rodel, everything is inter-connected.”
I wish, I could connect with you, Jenny, but you are a communist. I am just tolerant of you because of your eyes and your lips and, damn! Why do you have to be a commu-nist?
She was continuing her harangue when, mercifully, the bell for the next period rang.
I had fulfi lled my promise.“Room 10 at 4:30?”I avoided her eyes, focusing on my
knapsack. “Not today, sorry. Okay, bye. I have to rush for my Physics class now.”
“Tomorrow then?”“We’ll see,” I took a last sip and
rushed out of the canteen without turning to her. I just imagined her eyes fl uttering and her lips mounting into a pout.
“What is your answer to number 3?” I asked Simon. We still had fi ve minutes before Mr. Javier enters our physics class.
“45 psi,” he said.“Great, that’s what I got, too.”Simon had sat beside me at the
beginning of the semester. He had come from this remote barrio in the lowlands I have never heard of and had fi nished his high school also from a school I never heard of. His coarse hands told me he must have been planting rice which he admitted he did. Plus he donned yellow shirts with green pants and blue socks. We wondered how he passed the entrance test until, in one quiz, out of twenty of us, he was the only who got the answer right. He had become my physics assignments soundboard, my soccer teammate, fraternity brother, and my college best friend.
Nonetheless, like the horde of those who were being attracted to Jenny, Simon told me that he wished he could court Jenny but he was shy and there were so many ahead of him. He contented himself in seeing her at Room 10 at 4:30 since that School for National Democracy started.
“Why don’t you come back there with me at 4:30?” Simon had asked.
“Do you believe the nonsense they are discussing in there?”
“They actually make sense if you really think about them, you know.”
“C’mon. The last time I was there, that guy was saying that Jose Rizal should not be our national hero. Is that not nonsense to you?”
“Not really. You should come so you really understand.”
“I thought you told me that you go there only because of Jenny.”
“Well, that, too.”
“Well, I can’t come. I have other things to do.”
The very fi rst thing I had to do after arriving at the canteen at the bowling alley after school was to call Cynthia. In spite of the mud and the skate boarding maneuvers with my dilapidated rubber shoes, I still wanted, perhaps masochistically, to go back to their place. All I needed was a fl ashlight when coming back home.
Aunty Cecile answered the phone. “She is not here but she told me to tell you if you call that you could meet them at Camp John Hay if you like.”
If I like? Of course, I like. “But I don’t have a pass to enter Camp John Hay.”
“This is what you do.”
The taxi driver maneuvered his cab ready to make a U turn when he dropped me off by the gates of Camp John Hay that early evening. I zipped up my thick jacket as I brisk-ly walked towards the sentry post manned by three security guards in camoufl aged uniforms. They wore bonnets and had thick gloves. They did not have to squint at me with the bright lights fl ooding the gates.
“Mrs. Samson is expecting me.” Mist curled out of my mouth.
The guard fl ipped papers on a clip board.
“Rodel Morato?”“Yes.”“I.D., please.”As I handed over my student I.D.,
one of the other guards started to frisk me.
The one holding my I.D. made a call. After some time, he said “Rodel Morato is here, ma’am.” I imagined that he was given instructions and then he said “okay.”
After hanging up, the guard directed me to wait at a shed just across the post.
The shed had a cement stall where I sat, cold sipping unto my behind. From there I saw a Toyota stop by the gate. The driver fl ashed some kind of I.D. and the gates opened. The car zoomed in.
Why couldn’t we, Filipinos, just enter freely this base? Why do I have to sit down here in the cold while that one just enters just be-cause he has a pass?
“Why do you think the US paid
twenty million dollars for Spain to cede the Philippines to the United States?” I remembered Jenny posing the question earlier at the canteen. “Would one invest that kind of an amount if one does not expect any-thing in return?
“They came here not to liberate us from Spain. They came here for our natural resources which they needed to produce fi nish products which they sold back to us. Where do you think soap, sugar, cigarettes, and others come from? They come from our copra, sugar canes, tobacco and others.
“While they get these raw ma-terials cheap, they sell the fi nish products at a more expensive price. With this continued exchange, we fi nd ourselves poorer and poorer as our coffers are drained…
“And did you know that they mas-sacred around 600,000 Filipinos to quell the revolutionaries who fought against them?”
“Come on,” I had responded. “That is not in our history books.”
“Not in history books they wanted us to read.”
Cynthia appeared and approached, bright lit by the gate’s lights. She walked towards me in her thick pink sweater and blue skirt. I met her up and soon we were walking passed the guard who she waved to and who waved back appearing to know her well.
Several meters past the gates, we turned at the side of the road. We clambered up a railing and were on a trail lined with tiles.
“Not muddy, huh!” she said, teas-ing.
A band was blaring Purple Haze when we entered Half Way House at Camp John Hay. Cynthia wove me around dining tables until we reached one by the corner far-thest the band out front. There, Kuya Romy and Manang Maritess munched on hamburgers and fries.
“I already ordered for us,” said Cynthia. “I hope you like cheese-burgers and fries.”
]Like them? Only those who can afford cheeseburgers in dollars and can enter John Hay could afford cheeseburgers and fries. “That will be fi ne. Thanks.”
I started craning my neck around.“Are you looking for someone?”
Cynthia asked.
“Your mom, where is she?”“She is on the slots at the other
side but you cannot approach her now. She might say you are malas – bad luck.”
Manang Maritess and Kuya Romy told me that Mrs. Samson frequented the slot machines at Camp John Hay. Most of the extra dollars from what Mr. Samson sends and what they profi t from the black market are gobbled up by the one arm bandits. Often, Manang Pamela and Cynthia scold Mrs. Samson specially when their tuition fees could be lacking but Mrs. Samson had already been drawn by the twirls and lights of the machines too deep.
She had started being friendly with the machines long time ago when she got bored without Mr. Samson. This is better than having a stop gap boyfriend, she had justifi ed. She started with fi ve dollars, had a fi rst timer’s lucky jackpot, and got hooked.
The band shifted to a mellow
sound and the lady vocalist started to sing
“We skipped the light fandango…”“That’s A Whiter Shade of Pale,”
I said.“We could dance if you like,”
Cynthia said.She had already grappled at my
hand before I could ask her if she did want to dance. Again we wove through the tables toward the dance fl oor. Even though the lights were darkened, I noted that the passage-ways to the restrooms were on the opposite sides of the stage. Left for the men, right for the women.
I expected to be frustrated again like at the Explorer’s ball where my right arm ached to just pull her an inch close to me. She did plant a gentle kiss on my cheek at the ba-nana grove that night but tonight…well her mother, her sister and her brother-in-law were just close by.
“…There is no reason and the truth
is plain to see. But I wandered…”Cynthia pressed her bosom unto
my chest and rested her head on my shoulder.
“…who were leaving for the coast and although my eyes were
open…”“See the one on lead guitar?”
whispered Cynthia as she forced me to lead her to sway so I faced the band.
“Yes. Why?”“That’s Orlando.”I glanced at the long haired player.
His head was bowed at his guitar.“I wanted him to see you, so he
would not try to mend things with me.”
“Are you using me?”“Gosh! No. I really like you.”“Only like?”Suddenly, she stiffened and pulled
herself and braced her left hand on my right shoulder. “Its mommy,” she said.
Mrs. Samson was approaching to use the restroom.
I giggled. Cynthia did, too.“So why did you break up with
him?” “He acts too cozy with too many
women.”“Well, he is in a band. Band mem-
bers are natural magnets to women.”“I am the very jealous type.”“But you did like him.”“At fi rst I was really taken by his
songs.”“But?”“He does not want to continue his
studies. He says he would just be a band player forever. I mean, I will be a nurse.”
“So, you are using me.”“Stop it,” she fl uttered her eyes.After awhile, Mrs. Samson came
from the restroom and waggled back to the slot machines. Cynthia rested her head on my shoulder again. Her bosom felt warmer on my chest. The singer now crooned:
“Hey, look what you have done Showing me the sun And now, it’s shining through
It’s nice to be with you…”
Back at the table, after fi nishing our cheeseburgers and fries, Cynthia asked me if we could “split a banana split. Mommy had already paid for everything.”
Would I like a banana split? Only those who could afford in dollars could afford banana splits in John Hay. “Okey, sure.”
We were in the last slurp of the ice-cream when Mrs. Samson came to the table. “Are you all ready to go?” She was smiling.
“Did you win, mommy?” Manang Maritess asked.
“Rodel must have brought me luck tonight.”
To be continued…
(Publisher’s Note: Pusoy is Rudy D. Liporada’s second novel and third book being serialized in Asian Journal. One can get a copy of the book through Amazon.com – A Russian Poker - or by calling the author at 858-722-1465.)
Camp John Hay
SAN DIEGO (September 8, 2011) – VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) will host the fourth National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego, September 18 – 23, 2011. Recently injured combat Veterans from around the country will participate in the Clinic, which will include innovative adaptive sporting events such as sailing, kay-aking, surfi ng, cycling, rowing, and track and fi eld events. The week-long program is designed to provide a supportive environment for healing and rehabilitation, and to promote a healthy lifestyle for Veterans who are newly injured.
“San Diego offers a perfect cli-mate, picturesque scenery and ocean breezes – we hope this will create a healing experience for these Veter-ans,” said VASDHS Acting Director, Robert M. Smith, MD. “We provide the highest quality health care to our Veterans every day, and we’re pleased to be able to offer this Clinic as an extension of the medical, men-tal health and rehabilitative care we already provide.”
The event is open to 100 recently injured military Veterans who have spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, certain neurological condi-tions, amputations, other mobility impairments, or post-traumatic stress disorder. For many injured Veterans, this will be their fi rst opportunity to participate in recreational sports and activities after being injured.
“We know from our experience with VA’s other national rehabilita-tive events, that the camaraderie of participating with other veterans in
San Diego VA to Host National Sports and Rehabilitative Clinic
Read up and learn more. One in four adults in our community experience
depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder
and other emotional problems. Though not often
talked about, there is no shame in seeking help.
San Diego, CA -- The Annual San Diego Praise Fest is becoming an event San Diegans are putting on their summer to do list with the fam-ily. This free event will take place on Saturday, September 17, 2011 in the Webster community on Federal Boulevard between Euclid Avenue and 48th Street from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Styled after a traditional street fair, the San Diego Praise Fest is designed to provide the San Diego community with an opportunity to come together for a day of fun, food, music, community information and
more.In 2010 the San Diego Praise Fest
attracted more than 6,000 attendees and this year organizers are hop-ing to attract 15,000 people to the Webster Community. Through the attraction of great gospel music, the Praise Fest plans to spread the word about resources and information on topics such as education and mentor-ship, healthy cooking and eating, and fi tness and health awareness.
The Praise Fest is being pre-sented by Cox Communications and TVOne and will feature an Open-
4th Annual San Diego Praise Fest Bringing Community Together for A Day of Fun and Honoring Local Heroes
Air Marketplace, three live music stages featuring the best in local and international talent, a Mentorship Recruitment Zone, a food court, a Health Pavilion and a Kids Zone complete with free carnival rides. The theme of the San Diego Praise Fest is “Praising The Good in Our Communities” and will feature an awards ceremony where seven un-sung heroes from around San Diego county will be honored for all they do to make our communities a better place to live.
When: Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to noon
Where: 3950 Calle Fortunada in Kearny Mesa.,
Age limit: All agesCost: Free
On Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., the San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter of the American Red Cross will team up with KPBS for a preparedness event!
The fi rst 1,000 people at the event will receive a free American Red Cross/Cal EMA safety tube or pet fi rst aid kit; there will be 500 of each kits available. The event is part of the statewide Totally Unprepared awareness campaign that KPBS is participating in to help inspire Cali-fornians to get prepared.
In addition to receiving a free
Totally Unprepared: American Red Cross and KPBS To Distribute 1,000 Free Safety Kits
safety kit, attendees can visit Red Cross and KPBS booths for ad-ditional preparedness information and visit with other community preparedness partners including the
San Diego Humane Society and San Diego Fire. A mobile Red Cross store will also be open for those attendees ready to take the next step towards preparedness and purchase a 72-hour disaster kit for them and their family.
The Totally Unprepared public awareness project is another avenue for KPBS to educate, inform, enter-
The Daily Telegraph reports that Tuesday’s earthquake in Virginia generated more than 5,000 tweets per second. That’s more than went out about Osama Bin Laden’s death and as many as were sent during the
Sendai earthquake in Japan. When an earthquake strikes, people turn to social media to communicate. 140 characters’ worth of information may be all you need to let loved ones know you are okay or crack wise about the
disaster. -- By Elizabeth Rood: US East Coast earthquake generated more Tweets than Osama bin Laden death
(Link: www. totallyunprepared.com)
Drop, Cover, and Send a Tweet? Twitter Blows up During Virginia Earthquake
tain and empower their audience. This multi-media campaign centers around two web-based television series and is supported by a website containing news, resources, pre-paredness tips, regular blogs as well as Totally Unprepared social media sites.
Connect with Totally Unpre-pared for the latest information and resources at the following websites: www.totallyunprepared.com; www.YouTube.com/weareunprepared;
www.Facebook.com/totallyunpre-pared; and www.Twitter.com/weare-unprepared.
Location: American Red Cross San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter: 3950 Calle Fortunada, San Diego, CA 92123, Google Map
Source: www.totallyunprepared.com
San Diego, Calif.—September 14, 2011—Catch the music stars of tomorrow and some of San Diego’s favorite bands on the Air National Guard stage Friday through Sunday during the 47th annual Air National Guard San Diego Bayfair on Mis-sion Bay.
More than 25 bands will be performing live and whether you like rock, hip-hop or reggae music, chances are there is a band playing that fi ts your taste. Each band will play a 45-minute set, showcasing their best songs in front of thousands of boating-racing fans.
Dave Rodger of Live Event put out a call to Southern California bands looking to perform at Air National Guard San Diego Bayfair. Not only did he bring in some up-and-comers but musical artists that could be household names in the next two years.
“In the near future some of these bands are going to be very success-ful,” Rodger said. “When they hit it big, you can be the fi rst to say you saw them at San Diego Bayfair.”
A new band will perform every hour with live music starting Friday at 10 a.m. San Diego’s The Farmers will close out the live music with a show at 2 p.m. Sunday. The musical entertainment is included with the ticket into Bayfair.
San Diego Bayfair features more than 120 of the world’s fastest boats, including the Air National Guard Hy-
San Diego Bayfair to Showcase 27 Bands
on Air National Guard Stage This Weekend
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C’mon people; where’s your imagination?
Recently Travelocity, the travel company owned by billion-dollar Sabre Holdings, held a survey ask-ing customers about their dream vacations. What Travelocity found out, it seems, is that there’s not a lot of imagination out there when it comes to a great many travelers. The Travelocity site decided to find out where families would go if money was no object. Take a look at some of the places people would go. Orlando? I take it that means
Disney World and the other enter-tainment parks in that Florida city. Fair enough.
Oh please. If money didn’t mat-ter would you head off to central Florida? If you could go to Tokyo, Beijing, or Calcutta you’d go to Orlando?
Granted, Orlando has more than just Disney World. You can also see Epcot, Sea World, and Disney’s Ani-mal Kingdom. Plus there is the Uni-versal Orlando Resort that’s made up of Universal Studios Florida, Universal’s Islands of Adventure
Dream Vacations
(with the Wizarding World of Harry Potter), Wet and Wild Water Park, and who knows what else. Trip Ad-visor says there are 152 attractions in Orlando. 152? Seriously? Are they counting every McDonald’s?
I don’t have anything against Orlando. It’s a great place and there are a lot of things to do there. I’m
just saying that of all the places in all the world, 9% of the people responding picked Orlando.
Families
Travelocity’s most recent survey of customers found having kids doesn’t have to mean the end of travel. In fact, it turns out families who travel with children are more likely to have dream vacations planned than those respondents who do not. I can believe that – the logistics of traveling with kids seems to make one want to get it right.
Eighty-eight percent of respon-dents to the survey have a dream trip they would take if money was no ob-ject. Of those, the majority (60 per-cent) stated that having an authentic, local experience was what mattered most on their dream trip. The other 40 percent said it was more impor-tant to experience the best service possible. Excuse me? They just want good service? If you want, “the best service possible” then go to a McDonald’s drive-thru. That’s great service – they’ll have you in and out with your order in minutes.
Kids and travel
“It’s telling that families who trav-
el with children are more likely to have dream trips in mind than those who don’t travel with kids,” said Eileen Ogintz, family travel expert and author of the weekly syndicated column Taking the Kids. “They want to show children the world and know travel is the most wonderful gift you can give a young person.
What families may not realize is their travel dreams are far more at-tainable than they may think.” In terms of the type of trip parents would like to take with their chil-dren, a tour of a foreign city came in on top with 37 percent of the vote. The second-most popular choice was relax on a beach (22 percent. Um, relax on a beach? With kids? Why does this sound more like something for busy, stressed-out parents than for kids?), followed by take a cruise (18 percent), visit a theme park (12 percent) and see exotic wildlife (11 percent).
There are more places than Europe for an “authentic trip”
“Given the fact that parents named having a local experience and tour-ing a foreign city as key factors of their family dream trip, it’s no sur-prise that Europe was the number-one destination they would pick,” said Genevieve Shaw Brown, Edito-rial Director at Travelocity. “Fall is a perfect time to explore Europe, with lovely weather and fewer crowds. Top that off with cheap flights and hotel deals that don’t exist in the summer months and suddenly a dream vacation is within reach.”
Family Travel Dream Vacations
1. Europe (27%) 2. Hawaii (25 %) 3. The Mediterranean (9%) 4. Orlando (9%) 5. Australia (6%) 6. Africa (5%) 7. Costa Rica (3%) 8. The Galapagos Islands (3%) 9. Asia (2%)
*the remaining 11 percent of respondents chose “other” as their dream destination.
I want to meet those other 11% of respondents. In fact, I’d like to travel with them. People who chose “other” instead of Europe or Hawaii or Orlando sound like my kind of people. Yes, Europe is nice; yes, Hawaii is the perfect tourist destina-tion for those wanting a more-or-less tropical vacation on the cheap (at least during the off season); and yes, Orlando is a wonderful place where you can pay others to run your vaca-tion for you. But how could only 2% choose Asia?
Think of all the places there are to visit in the vast area of Asia. Why
did only 2% choose it? Could it be that too few people know enough about the diverse areas and places of Asia? Do we really not know enough about Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, China, Ma-laysia, Indonesia, India, Hong Kong, Brunei, and so many other nations to know how special and unique they are?
I don’t know about you, but I’m joining up with the 11% who chose “other” as their destinations. I’ll be with them in some other place hav-ing the time of my life.
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Have you cooked some dish or went out to eat and had been poi-soned by rotten or spoiled food? It is not always possible to tell whether a food is safe by how it looks. We all had that experience and suffered the effects of it…tummy ache, vomiting, diarrhea, hospitalization and even DEATH!!!!!!! for some.
According to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, ensuring that food is safe to eat is a critical part of healthy eating. The guidelines emphasized following the four safety principles to reduce risk of food borne illness (FBI). The last issue of the Union-Tribune also gave sugges-tions for a safe and healthy lunch.
I once had a very grave experience of eating a favorite soup in one of the restaurants and was severely ill after that. The food looked alright and I ate it with gusto as I wanted to have soup that day. After several hours, I had diarrhea and was not even able to reach home when I started to throw up in my car. At home, the vomiting continued after so many hours. The next day I was not feeling well so I went to the clinic, was told by the doctor that I was dehydrated due to vomiting and was given potas-sium intravenously. I was so weak after that and I vowed that I will not order that same soup again. I will just make it myself…as it is safer.
Every year, food borne illness (FBI) affects more than 76 M individuals in the U.S., leading to 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. The Center for Disease Control estimates that there are 48 M food borne illnesses each year.
That means, one of every six people becomes ill from food every year. Kalusugan Community Services is aware of this pervasive and deadly problem so they are sponsoring a “Food Safety Workshop” on Septem-ber 23, Friday from 8:30 AM to 12 noon. Everyone is invited to attend: restaurant chefs and workers, grocery owners and workers, food serv-ers, parents, cooks, healthy eating advocates and anyone interested in preparing safe & healthy food.
FOOD SAFETY WORKSHOP
The speakers for this workshop are: Adel Jamorabo-Ruiz, PhD, RD, Pro-fessor of Nutrition and Food Science, Polytechnic University of the Philip-pines, “Harmful Bacteria to Watch Out For”; Virginia Claudio, PhD, RD, Nutrition Consultant from Las Vegas Nevada, “Chemicals to Keep Away from Food”; and Dina Ellorin, BS, Supervisor, San Diego County Environmental Health Services, “Physical Safety in the Workplace”. Dr. Ruiz and Dr. Claudio are here in San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Dietetic Association to be held September 24-27, 2011 at the Convention Center. Ofelia Dirige, DrPH, RD & Presi-dent/CEO of KCS will be presenting a poster session at this meeting on the “Healthy Eating Campaign”.
The sponsors for this workshop are Kalusugan Community Services, University of the Philippines Alumni Association of San Diego, Filipino American Women’s Club, Kuya Ate Mentorship Program, Salad Master, Cosmopolitan Lion’s Club, Manila Sunset, Point Point Restaurant,
and JNC Pinoy Mart. Continental breakfast and a light lunch will be served, compliments of Point Point Restaurant and Manila Sunset. There will be raffle prizes, handouts, and networking. Donations of $5-10 dol-lars are welcomed.
FOUR BASIC FOOD SAFETY PRINCIPLES
Food may be handled many times as it moves from farm to their own homes. Individuals in their own homes and those who work in restaurants can reduce contaminants and keep food safe to eat by follow-ing safe food handling practices. The four basic food safety principles that work together to reduce the risk of FBI are: CLEAN, SEPARATE, COOK AND CHILL. These 4 prin-ciples are the cornerstones of Fight BAC!, a national food safety educa-tion campaign.
A.CLEANMicrobes (bacteria & virus) can be
spread throughout the kitchen and get into hands, cutting boards, uten-sils, countertops, reusable grocery bags and foods. This is called “cross-contamination.”
Hands- Hand washing is key to preventing contamination of food with microbes from raw animal products (raw seafood, meat, poultry, eggs) and people (cold, flu, Staph infections). Hands should be washed before and after preparing food especially raw animal products. It is also recommended after going to the bathroom, changing diapers, sneez-ing/coughing, tending to someone
who is sick, touching animals, and handling garbage. Hands should be washed with soap and water ( no need to use anti-bacterial soap as over time this can lead to growth of microbes resistant to these agents).
Surfaces- Frequent cleaning of surfaces is essential in preventing cross-contamination. Surfaces should be washed with soap and water. This includes tables, countertops, sinks, utensils, cutting boards, appliances and microwaves. Wipe up spills immediately—clean food contact surfaces often. Clean the inside and outside of appliances especially buttons and handles. At least once a week throw out refrigerated food that should no longer be eaten.
Food- All produce, regardless of where it was grown or purchased should be thoroughly rinsed. Rinse fruits and vegetables under running water before eating or cooking. Do not use soap or detergent.Scrub firm produce such as melons, watermel-ons with a clean brush while you rinse it. Dry the produce with a clean towel to further reduce contamina-tion. Seafood, meat and poultry should not be rinsed as bacteria in these raw juices can spread to other foods, utensils and surfaces.
B. SEPARATESeparate foods that are ready to
eat from those that are raw or that otherwise contain harmful microbes. This should be done at every step from purchase to preparation.
Separate foods when shopping- Place raw seafood, meat and poultry in plastic bags and separate them from other foods. Store them below
ready-to-eat foods in the refrigerator. Clean reusable grocery bags regu-larly, i.e., canvas or cloth bags in the washing machine and plastic bags in soap and water.
Separate food when preparing & serving food- Always use a clean cutting board for fresh produce and a separate one for raw seafood, meat and poultry. Always use a clean plate to serve & eat food. Never place cooked food back on the same plate or cutting board that previously held raw food.
C & D. COOK AND CHILL Seafood, meat, poultry & egg
dishes should be cooked to the recommended safe minimum internal temperature to destroy harmful microbes. A food thermometer should be used to ensure that food is cooked safely. It should be placed in the thickest part of the food, not touching bone, fat or gristle. Fol-low manufacturer’s instruction on amount of time needed to measure the temperature of food. See the Dietary Guidelines 2010 for the recommended temperatures for cook-ing food.
When cooking using a microwave, foods should be stirred, rotated, flipped periodically to cook evenly. Microwave ovens can cook unevenly and leave “cold spots” where bacte-ria can survive.
Keep food at safe temperatures: Hold cold foods at 40 degrees F or below.
Keep hot foods at 140 degrees F or above
Foods are no longer safe to eat when they have been in the danger
zone of 40-140 F for more than two hours.
To thaw frozen food do it in: a) the refrigerator, 2) in cold water, in a leak proof bag, changing the cold water every 30 minutes, and c) in the microwave. Never thaw food on the counter.
Keep refrigerator at 40 degrees F or below; and freezer at 0 degrees F or below
WARNING!It is not always possible to tell
whether a food is safe by how it looks. Harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites do not always change the look or smell of food. This makes it impossible for us consumers to know whether a food is contaminated. Eat-ing raw or undercooked animal food products (eggs, ground beef, milk & milk products, and seafood) increas-es the risk of FBI. Cooking foods to the safe internal temperature is the best way to reduce food poisoning.
Some individuals such as pregnant women and their unborn child, young children, older adults and individu-als with weakened immune systems are more susceptible than the general public to the effects of FBI. The outcomes for these individuals can be severe or fatal. They need to take special care to keep foods safe and to not eat foods that increase their risk of FBI.
They should constantly follow the four principles of food safety.
CONCLUSION:The suggestions above are just a
few of the basic recommendations to ensure that food is safe and to avoid food borne illness. There are many more things that we need to know and remember and we can’t learn them all at one time. Thus, to get more information and make sure the facts stick in our minds, I sug-gest that one should attend the Food Safety workshop on September 23 to ask questions and clarify items that are not clear to you. For Information call (619) 477-3392 or send email to HYPERLINK “mailto:[email protected]” [email protected] LET”S HEAR FROM THE EXPERTS.
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IMMIGRATION 911 by Atty. Susan V. Perez., Asian Journal | SAN DIEGO, 9/26/11 -- I am sharing with you a nov-el case that came down from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) late last year. This is the first case interpreting the term “sought to acquire” found in section 3 of the CSPA. As most of you already know, the CSPA provides relief to children who “aged-out” as a result of delays by U.S. Citizenship and Im-migration Services (USCIS) in process-ing visa petitions. It offers a formula to determine whether the derivative is
a “child” as defined by the Immigra-tion and Nationality Act. The statutory formula is the child’s age freezes as of the date that a visa number becomes available for the petition in question reduced by the number of days that the petition was pending, but only if the child seeks to acquire the status of a le-gal permanent resident within one year of the date the visa became available.
The facts of the case are as follows. Gerardo is married to Jessica who has a son, Gabriel. Gerardo’s visa petition has a priority date of October 16, 1995, and was approved on August 8, 1996. At the time, Gabriel, who was born on May 8, 1984, was 12 years of age and eligible for derivative benefits as the “child” of the Jessica. On June 1, 2003, the visa for the family became available. At the time Gabriel was 19 years old and thus still a “child” under the CSPA. It was only on February 1, 2005, or over 20 months after the visa became available when USCIS
received the application for adjustment of status based on Gerardo’s approved visa petition. Gabriel was over 21 years old by then. However, Gabriel established that he retained the services of an attorney to file for adjustment of status in April 2004, less than a year after he became eligible. At the time, Gabriel was still eligible for derivative benefits.
USCIS denied Gabriel’s application for adjustment of status. A few months later, removal proceedings were insti-tuted against Gabriel. The Immigration Judge (IJ) found Gabriel was eligible for adjustment of status under CSPA. The IJ based upon her conclusion that the application for adjustment of status did not necessarily have to be timely “filed” by the derivative child alien to meet the “sought to acquire” lawful permanent resident status language in the statute. The IJ said determined that the phrase “sought to acquire” could, in certain cases, be satisfied by circum-stances short of filing the adjustment application. According to the IJ, the “sought to acquire” was satisfied in Ga-briel’s case because the record showed Gabriel hired an attorney to prepare his adjustment of status application in April 2004, within a year of his immi-gration number becoming available, he filed his application within a reason-able period thereafter (20 months), and he was still under the age of 21. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appealed. It argued the “sought to acquire” language in section 3 of the CSPA contemplates only the actual filing of an application. Since Gabriel was over 21 when USCIS received the application, he was no longer a “child”.
The BIA disagreed with DHS and dismissed its appeal. The BIA said the Congress chose to use “sought to acquire,” rather than “file,” “submit,” or “apply.” The term “file” is defined as “to deliver a legal document to the court clerk or the record custodian for placement into the official record” and the term “apply” means “to make application.” The BIA believed that the Congress could have easily used the term “filed,” or any comparable language if this is what Congress intended. The BIA concluded that the term “sought to acquire” is broad
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enough to include substantial steps taken toward the filing of the relevant application during the relevant time pe-riod but which fail short of actual filing or submission to the relevant agency. The question remained whether Ga-briel’s actions constituted substantial steps taken within the relevant time period such that he remained eligible under the CSPA.
The BIA found Gabriel clearly dem-onstrated an intent to file his applica-tion and made such substantial steps toward having the application prepared and filed during the one-year period that he properly was found to have “sought to acquire” lawful permanent resident status and remained eligible for adjustment. This interpretation is in accordance with the very purpose and intent of CSPA, which is to protect a foreign national “child” from “aging out” due to “no fault of her own.”
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I was about to write my column under a different theme when I heard the
news that Maria Mabilangan Haley died. Cause of death was aneurysm. I immediately changed the topic and decided to pay tribute to her instead.
I never knew her until she made a surprising call one day. She intro-duced herself on the phone as she described her involvement with the presidential campaign of then Gov-ernor Bill Clinton of Arkansas. She invited me to an event in New York and even guaranteed a photo-op with
the Governor. She also asked me to join the campaign and asked for names in the Filipino community whom she should call to help.
I remember mentioning David Valderrama who was then the fi rst elected Filipino State Delegate (As-semblyman) in Mainland, U.S.A.; Gloria Caoile who was the assis-tant to the President of AFSCME (Association of State, County and Municipal Employees); and Belen Macaranas de la Pena, President of PACAS (Philippine American Culture and Arts Society). I told her why they were the right leaders to start with. She agreed and asked for their numbers. She probably already knew. If she was able to obtain my contact numbers, she could have easily done the same to the better-known Filipinos that I mentioned.
David Valderrama later on became one of the campaign managers tar-geting Asian Americans. Of course, he had to coordinate with Marilou (as many friends called her). Al-though the Table of Organization did not show, Marilou was indeed high up there in the Table of Power as far as the Clinton campaign and Presidency is concerned. I learned this later as the campaign was in progress.
Meanwhile, there was also a presi-dential election in the Philippines. Then Secretary of National Defense Fidel Ramos who was endorsed by President Cory Aquino just got elect-ed and was going to be inaugurated on June 30, 1992.
Helping Dave in his duties, I came up with an idea that I thought would
endear Clinton to the Filipino-American voters and automatically elevate him to an almost Presidential status. The idea was for Presidential Nominee Clinton to send a message to the new Philippine President Fidel Ramos, appoint Dave as his Ambas-sador to the Inauguration and to hand carry Clinton’s message.
Dave presented it to Maria Haley who liked it and referred it to Tony Blake, Clinton’s foreign and secu-rity affairs adviser. The latter, who became President Clinton’s National Security Adviser, immediately ar-ranged for his deputy to meet with Dave and I at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. where we dis-cussed the plan.
MARIA HALEY WAS A WOM-AN OF ACTION, a team player who knew how to leverage power or infl uence in achieving specifi c goals as shown in later years.
The fact that the incumbent Secre-tary of Foreign Affairs was Raul S. Manglapus at the time of the Presi-dential Inauguration was of course, a big bonus to our plan. He was already a friend of David Valder-rama. Ramos ran and won under the banner of Manglapus’ political party, NUCD. But most importantly, it turned out that Maria Haley and Secretary Manglapus were already friends’ even years earlier. The fact was, the latter even introduced her to her husband.
I accompanied Dave to the Philip-pines. With the help of our friends there, Dave was treated Ambassador-like both at the Inauguration where we were seated at the stage and at the Inaugural Ball where Dave personally handed over Clinton’s message which was drafted by Tony Blake with the help of Maria Haley. Cabinet Secretary Elaine Chao headed the delegation representing President George H.W. Bush.
This happening got substantial publicity both in the Philippines and
in the United States especially in areas where many Filipinos reside. We attained our goals and eventu-ally, Clinton became President.
UPON HEARING THE NEWS OF MARIA HALEY’S DEATH, FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON was the fi rst to release a statement related to Haley’s death. Clinton noted:
“Maria Haley was a great public servant, a wonderful person, and my friend for more than thirty years.
“When I was Governor of Arkan-sas, Maria was invaluable in opening foreign markets to our products, recruiting foreign investment in our state, and supporting my work in the National Governors Association. Af-ter I became President, I nominated her to the board of the Export Import
Bank of the United States. During her service, from 1994 to 1999, the Export Import Bank doubled fi nanc-ing for small business exports.
“Before and after her time at the Export Import Bank, she served as Special Assistant to the President and as Deputy Director of the Presi-dential Personnel Offi ce, helping other qualifi ed and dedicated people serve in important positions.
“Maria was really a world citizen, who never lost contact with her na-tive nation, the Philippines, where she served as an adviser to Presi-dent Gloria Arroyo. Thousands of
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On the need for Filipino American leadership: “We have come a long way. We are part of this economy. Until you are seated at the table helping make policy, then you really have no power.” -- Maria Mabilangan Haley in the fi lm “Sandaan”: Coming of Age Stories, a docu-mentary by Noel M. Izon which was presented during the Smithsonian Centennial Celebra-tion at Miramar College in San Diego (2006)
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people in Arkansas, throughout the United States, and in the Philippines, benefi ted from Maria Haley’s life-long commitment to bring economic opportunities to more people. As we mourn her passing, we also must be very grateful for her life.”
MARILOU WAS KNOWN FOR BEING AN EDUCATED AND SMART KARILAGAN FASHION MODEL in the Philippines before getting established in Arkansas. A successful exponent of Free and Fair Trade as proven in her stint in Ar-kansas and in the U.S. EXIMBANK, and never forgetting her Philippine roots, she has become a Model for Filipinas in particular, and hard-working women in general.
Gov. Mike Beebe who appointed her as Executive Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDCO) said it best: “Maria Haley did more for the State of Arkansas than most people will ever know. Her tireless mission to create and keep jobs in Arkansas
was a primary factor in our ability to ride out the recession as well as we have. After living all over the world, Maria made Arkansas her adopted home, and dedicated herself to its betterment for more than 30 years. She was one of the fi rst people I wanted on my team when I became governor, and she will be dearly missed as a friend and colleague.”
BORN IN THE PHILIPPINES AND DAUGHTER OF A PHILIP-PINE DIPLOMAT, she was edu-cated in India, Pakistan, France and Spain. She was multi-lingual.
Marilou was awarded the Ron Brown Award for Advancing Trade Opportunities by the U.S. Small Business Exporters Association, and the Philippine Presidential Award by the Commission on Filipinos Over-seas. She was the recipient of the 2000 Stan Suyat Memorial Leader-ship Award from the Asian American Government Executives Network and received the 2006 Corporate Leadership Award from Filipinas Magazine.
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Suspsup was sharp and intelligent during the question and answer portion. She was asked, “Would you change your religious belief to marry the person that you love?”
She answered “I would not marry the person I love because the fi rst person I love is my God and the person loves me, he should also love my God.”
She was the only top 5 candidate who did not use any translator.
Shamcey is the fourth Filipina to have placed third at the presti-gious pageant after Lalaine Ben-nett (1963), Maria Rosario “Chat” Silayan (1980), and Maria Desiree “Des” Verdadero (1984). Last year’s bet Maria Venus Raj, placed fourth in the competition.
In the announcement of the Top 16 fi nalists, Shamcey was the second to the last contestant called. Mean-while, she was the seventh beauty and one of the two Asians (the other was Miss China) who was declared as part of the Top 10.
Shamcey both placed second in the fan polls of the swimsuit and
evening gown competitions. She donned a yellow two-piece bikini with a light blue scarf which merited
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her a score of 7.0. The fans, mean-while, gave Shamcey a score of 6.7 for her long, beige glittery gown.
Miss Venezuela (9.1) and Miss Angola (7.2) respectively topped the two categories.
In the “Getting to Know the Top 10” VTR, Shamcey related her dreams of becoming an architect who will build “beautiful and sus-tainable structures” for her country-men as well as that of becoming a teacher who will “hone young minds and prepare them for the future.”
One of the judges in this year’s Miss Universe was Tony award-winning singer-actress and Disney legend Lea Salonga. - From Good News Philippines
Shamcey Supsup, Miss Philippines 2011
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by Dr. Romy R. Protacio
Unlike most ac-tors who had to struggle their ways into stardom, Ronnie Ricketts (Ronaldo Naldo Ricketts in real life) seemed to have his destiny all laid out for him, with very little obstacles along the way. He entered the public eye first as a ramp model and then as an actor who became known for his martial arts expertise. In the span of more than 20 years, Ronnie has carved his name in the annals of Philippine films, not just as a versatile actor, but also as a scriptwriter, director and producer.
In July 2011, I was in San Diego
to watch the concert of Armida Siguion-Reyna’s “Aawitan Kita sa Amerika.” It was during this time that I met Ron-nie’s parents, Max and Edith Ricketts. His parents are based in La Mesa, California, where they manage their real estate business, the Naldo-Ricketts Realty. I have been trying to get a schedule to inter-
view Ronnie but I was not fortu-nate to do so because of his busy schedule. I was so glad to have met Edith. She helped me in setting up an appointment to interview Ronnie. Finally, I met Ronnie in his office
during my recent trip to the Philip-pines in August 2011. He was very candid in sharing his life in showbiz, bits and pieces of his family life, and more so of his current challenges as the Chairman and CEO of the Optical Media Board (OMB). He was very generous of his time and his stories and he readily answered questions I asked, offering some words of wisdom, from time to time.
Although his mom, Edith Naldo is a Bicolana from Iriga, Ronnie was born and raised in Manila. He started his primary schooling in Don Bosco and later spent his high school days at the Philippine Chris-tian University-Union High School of Manila (PCU-UHSM). He was a famous player in the school’s “Pan-thers” basketball team, where he was the team captain for several years. After graduating from high school, he then enrolled at PCU College for a degree in Mass Communication. Again, Ronnie joined the school’s varsity team and he made the team proud in several occasions.
His movie commitments soon made it impossible for him to fin-ish his college studies right away. However, a couple of years back, he enrolled with PCU’s PACE pro-gram, a self-paced distance learning program that allowed him to finally obtain his baccalaureate degree. It is just one of the many proofs of Ronnie’s determination and self-discipline that enables him to pursue his goals in life.
Ronnie joins the roster of several prominent figures who graduated from PCU. The list includes Marita Zobel and Amalia Fuentes (both my high school classmates), Ronaldo Valdez, Willie Revillame, and Mari-anne dela Riva. The school has also produced non-showbiz personalities such as Leddy Vidallon Cariño (also my classmate) who was the Dean of the UP College of Education for years before her she passed away. Congresswoman Cynthia Villar of Paranaque (wife of Senator Manny Villar) is also a proud alumnus of the school, which is known for its Christian-based education.
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Gawad Kalinga Village: Marie Rose Abad and her legacy
In this photo taken Aug. 4, Rudy Abad is overcome with emo-tion at his home in Tagaytay City, south of Manila, Philippines.
Marie Rose Abad was killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Unlike many victims of the 2001 attacks who are remembered mostly by their family and friends, Marie Rose Abad’s legacy lives on half-way around the world in a once-notorious Manila slum now turned into an orderly village that carries her name.
Her Philippine-born American husband had the community of about 50 one-story houses built in her memory in 2004 as a tribute to their 26 years of marriage and her unfulfilled desire to help the poor in the Philippines.
“She’s a hero around here,” said Nancy Waminal, a 37-year-old mother of two. The neighbor-hood used to be a shantytown rife with garbage, human waste and crime. But residents now see Marie Rose Abad Village as a bright spot spun out of the disaster thousand of miles away at Ground Zero.
“This used to be a dreaded area,” said Waminal, who heads the village homeowners’ association. “Now there is no more fighting, no more stabbings, no more drinking on the street.”
The black-and-white image of Ma-rie Rose is on the side of a framed, rectangular sign welcoming visitors to the community.
Residents reverentially wipe the picture each day with cloth and refer to her as though she were family, though few know details of her life.
Fairytale marriageBefore she became one of the
nearly 2,800 killed in the unprec-edented terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Abad was a senior executive at the New York-based investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
She was at the twin towers when the second plane slammed below her 89th-floor office. In her final cellphone call that day to her Long Island home, the 49-year-old Abad urged husband Rudy Abad to pray before hanging up.
Her husband froze a few minutes later as he watched her tower crum-ble on TV, ending what he called a
fairytale marriage in an American dream.
A New York-born daughter from an Italian immigrant family, Marie Rose Abad had a soft spot for chil-dren and the underprivileged.
The couple’s encounter with the crushing poverty that afflicts nearly a third of the 94 million people in the Philippines came as a surprise during a 1989 visit.
It was the first time back home for Rudy Abad, who was from an affluent family, since he left Manila
in 1963 to study in the United States, where he eventually acquired citi-zenship and married Marie Rose. He had told his wife that the Philippines was a paradise.
What they saw appalled them.“I could not believe what I was
seeing because right there from the airport I could see the squatters, the shanties and everything,” he said during an interview at his home south of Manila. “We were looking at each other because my story to her was the Philippines is beautiful.”
Her pledge to helpThe childless couple were out jog-
ging without cash near a cathedral one day when they were mobbed by street children aged 4 and 5 peddling lottery tickets. They were overcome with guilt that they couldn’t help the kids.
“That was the first time she felt the pain,” he said, recalling that Marie Rose asked him to take her to a bank, where she got about $12 worth of Philippine coins.
They returned to the church, where she announced to the kids’ applause that she would buy all of their tickets.
Later, he said she told him: “I don’t know when, where and how but some day, I’m going to come back and I’m going to do more than this.”
Their romance included a weekly coffee ritual at the World Trade Center towers.
Every Monday, he would drive her to work and park in front of the
skyscrapers while they chatted and enjoyed a thermos of their favorite brew.
She would bid him good bye and when he returned home, almost like clockwork, “the email is there: ‘Thanks for driving me to work,’” he said.
For the rest of the week, Abad would drive her to a nearby train sta-tion and then return home to prepare for his work as an stocks investment adviser, as he did on Sept. 11, 2001, a Tuesday.
On that morning, he was exercis-ing in his basement when she called to tell him she was all right despite the plane crashing into the first of the towers. He switched on the TV and later watched in disbelief as the second plane smashed into her tower.
Final call: ‘It’s too hot’Her voice became frantic in suc-
ceeding calls as chaos engulfed her office. Then, the final call:
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Wika ni paruparo sana siya’y nakakalakaddito sa lupang mayaman na sadyang napakalapadsa malawak na putikan mga paa ay ibabadmagtampisaw sa tubig kapag umulan ng malakas.
Sana ay tulad mo maabot ko din ang aking ilongmahaplus ng mga kamay mga halamang mayabongmakayuko ako sa lupa at magpagulong-gulong hindi kakayanin nitong mga pakpak na malutong.
Ano nga kaya’t ako’y magkaroon ng mga paaat ng marating ko’t malangoy ang malawak na sapakaya lang baka naman ‘di maging masaya si Alahkaya kuntento na ako sa mga pakpak kong dala.
Masaya na kaming nagkanya-kanya ng aming landasmagkahiwalay na daan masigla naming tinahakpareho kaming sa ginawa ng Diyos ay naganyaksa magkaibang paraan kami ay nagpasalamat.
Rome, Italy, Sep 11, 2011 / 02:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At the midday recitation of the Angelus, Pope Benedict marked the anniver-sary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a call for a rejection of violence and for a “Eucharistic spirituality” that rejects indifference towards others.
“I invite the leaders of nations and men of good will to always refuse violence as the solution to problems, to resist the temptation toward ha-tred and to work in society, inspired by the principles of solidarity, justice and peace,” he said.
He entrusted the attacks’ victims and their families to “the Lord of Life.”
The Pope also wrote a Sept. 11 letter to the U.S. bishops’ conference president Archbishop Timothy Dolan saying that terrorism cannot be justi-fied under any circumstances.
“Every human life is precious in God’s sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere,” he said.
Pope Benedict delivered his Angelus message at a shipyard in the Adriatic port of Ancona, where he presided at the conclusion of the 25th Italian National Eucharistic Congress. An estimated 100,000 people attended Sunday Mass with the Pope, Vatican Radio reports.
The Pope’s homily at Sunday Mass reflected on the congress’ theme “The Eucharist for Everyday Life.”
In giving himself daily in the Eucharist, he explained, God offers “the path to avoid indifference to the fate of our brothers and sisters, to enter the same logic of love and (the) gift of sacrifice of the Cross.”
“Those who know how to kneel before the Eucharist, those who receive the body of Christ cannot fail to be attentive, in the unfolding of the day, to situations unworthy of man and (to) know firsthand how to bend over the needy, how to break bread with the hungry, how to share water with the thirsty, clothe the na-ked, visit the sick and imprisoned.”
He praised a “Eucharistic spiritual-ity” as an antidote to “individualism and selfishness.” This spirituality leads to the rediscovery of gratuity and the centrality of relationships, especiall our relationship with God.
“Man is incapable of giving life by himself. He can only be understood starting from God. It is our relation-ship with Him that gives consistency to our humanity and makes our lives good and right,” the Pope com-mented
On Sept. 11, Pope asks world leaders to reject violence
and hatred
Sunday September 11, 2011 The great danger of the turmoil
of the end-time in which we live is losing our souls. Losing our souls means losing touch with our center, our true call in life, our mission, our spiritual task. Losing our soul means becoming so distracted by and preoccupied with all that is happening around us that we end up fragmented, confused, and erratic. Jesus is very aware of that dan-ger. He says: “Take care not to be deceived, because many will come using my name and saying, ‘I am the one’ and ‘The time is near at hand’ Refuse to join them” (Luke 21:8).
In the midst of anxious times there are many false prophets, promising all sorts of “salvations.” It is impor-tant that we be faithful disciples of Jesus, never losing touch with our true spiritual selves.
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Usapang Paro-paroThe Law of Relativity
Joke of the Week: A protes-tant minister noticed the pastor of a neighboring church was having some success with posters display-ing slogans exhorting this and that, and decided to follow suit. After much thought he devised a win-ner: “If you’re tired of sin, step in.” Imagine the minister’s chagrin when the next day he saw written below his text, “If you are not, come to the neighboring church.”
Scriptures: First Reading: Isaiah 55: 6-9. God’s people felt betrayed and forsaken. They thought that God had already forgotten his covenant he made with their ances-tors that He is their God and they are His people. The prophet challenged the people to choose between two conflicting issues: to trust in God amidst their afflictions and be set free or lose faith in Him and remain in misery. The choice is between trusting God as the Lord of his-tory even during difficult times or doubting His greatness. The prophet reminds the people that God does not act the way humans behave and think. His thoughts are not their thoughts and His ways are not their ways. He always keeps his promise and eventually manifests that he is control over man’s destiny.
Second Reading: Philippians 1: 20-24, 27. Writing from prison at Ephesus, Paul presented to the Christians at Philippi his “win-win” situation. Whether he dies or lives, he is always a winner, because he is united with Christ. Christ’s love on Paul is so powerful that he chose the spiritual needs of his flock over his own personal happiness.
Gospel: Matthew 20: 1-16. Jesus teaches that the new era ushers in a society where everybody will be rewarded by the way they lead lives of unselfish love. The conflict that everyone faces is between working with love and working with mun-dane motives, such as material gain, competition, selfishness.
Reflections: In the late 6th century, Pope St. Gregory the Great listed seven capital sins and ranked them on the degree from which they
offended against love of God with one’s entire being and love of others as much as self. Most of these sins are interlinked. They are called capi-tal (Latin caput, head) sins, because they stand at the head of the other sins. For example, inordinate loves of self or pride is implied in gluttony or lavishly and wastefully eating or drinking; avarice leads to theft.
The laborers who were first hired to work at the vineyard were guilty of the capital sin of envy. What they did not know, however, is that they were also guilty of other capital sins. Dante’s Divine Comedy (In Purgatorio) defined envy as “love of one’s own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs.” An envious person is not contented with what he already has; he still desires to possess what others have. An envious person is resentful of others for their good fortune and for their possessions. An envious person does not acknowledge what he has acquired because his focus is on his neighbors’ goods. He is unhappy be-cause he always belittles what he has and exaggerates what others have.
In Greek history we read of a young man who so distinguished himself in the public games that his fellow citizens raised a statue in his honor to keep fresh the memory of his victories. This statue so excited the envy of another rival who had been defeated in the races. One night he decided to sneak in under the cover of darkness to destroy the statue. But he only nicked it slightly. He then gave it a final heave and it fell … on top of him … and killed him.
The Catholic Bishops of the US in their document on Economic Justice for All wrote, “Biblical justice is
more comprehensive than the subse-quent philosophical definitions. It is not concerned with a strict definition of rights and duties, but with the rightness of the human condition before God and within society. Nor is justice opposed to love; rather it is both a manifestation of love and a condition for love to grow.”
THE FIRST-HIRED LABORERS’ ENVY OR RESENTMENT OF OTHERS FOR THEIR GOOD FOR-TUNE is connected to other sins. Since the laborers wrongly thought of themselves as more productive than those hired late, they are guilty of pride or excessive self-esteem. Their pride and envy led them to wrath or anger or inappropriate feel-ings of hatred or revenge. Dante’s description of wrath was “love of justice perverted to revenge and spite.” But above all, the greatest sin of the first hired-laborers was that their excessive lust for mate-rial goods blinded them from truly loving God and their fellow labor-ers who were equally in need of a decent life.
Aesop narrated this fable to il-lustrate how envy got punished. A bee from Mt. Hymentus, the queen of the hive, ascended to Olympus to present to Jupiter some honey from her combs. Jupiter delighted with the offering of the honey, promised to give her whatever she should ask. She therefore besought him saying, “Give me a sting that if any mortal shall approach to take my honey, I may kill him.” Jupiter was much displeased, for he loved the human race. But he could not refuse the request on account of the promise he had made. He therefore answered the bee, “You shall have your request; but it will be at the peril of your own life. For if you use your sting, it will remain in the wound you make, and then you will die from the loss of it.”
Quotation of the Week: “Pride
is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.” William Barclay.
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“It’s too hot, this might be the last time that I will talk to you,” she said.
“I remembered her last words to me at the time was, ‘Ru, pray, pray,’” he said.
“I said, ‘Yup, OK’ ” and they hung up.
A few minutes later, he saw her tower collapse to the ground.
“Every time, if I think of that, I feel how all that concrete came down on her,” he said, weeping. She had survived the first terrorist at-tempt to topple the twin towers with a bomb in 1993.
“I was there when she came down full of smoke on her face because they had walked down 110 stories,” he said, adding that she was stunned and just wanted him to bring her home instead of taking her to the hospital.
Abad said he drifted aimlessly dur-ing the three years after her death, unable to work. He tried to find a new meaning in life. “I lost the other half of me so my half didn’t know what to do,” he said.
Then he met Philippine friends involved with the Gawad Kalinga charity, which seeks to transform slums across the country into decent, productive communities through
volunteer work and donations.
Transformed by 9/11
Abad remembered his wife’s promise to help the poor and decided to donate more than $60,000 for the construction of a village for destitute families in Manila’s Tondo slum.
When construction began, Abad brought wealthy Filipino friends to the site to help lay bricks and paint the houses.
A friend who owns Starbucks outlets brought tables, chairs and a glass showcase for a village cafe, where young students now hang out and study.
“It’s the good side of 9/11,” Gawad Kalinga volunteer Jun Val-buena said.
Abad, who has retired and now shuttles between homes in Las Vegas and Manila, has become an advo-cate of philanthrophy, urging rich Filipinos to help the poor beyond giving alms.
He says Sept. 11 transformed him, teaching him about suffering.
“If the tragedy that happened to Marie did not happen … I don’t know that I would have been moved to do the same thing,” he said.
“It was the tragedy that opened up your eyes, that makes you want to do something far and beyond.” -- Story courtesy of Good News Pilipinas
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by Ogie CruzMiss Philippines Shamcey Supsup
was third-runner up in the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant 2011 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Miss An-gola, Leila Lopes, was crowned Miss Uni-verse besting 88 other candidates.
“I would not marry the person I love because the fi rst person I love is my God and the person loves me, he should also love my God,” that was how Suspsup
Miss Phl Shamcey Supsup is 3rd in 2011 Miss Universe
answered during the question and answer portion.
She was asked, “Would you change your religious be-lief to marry the person that you love?” She was the only top 5 candi-date who did not use any translator.
Supsup was ranked
fi rst by fans among the top 5 and second in the swimsuit and evening gown competitions.
(Source: Good News Pilipinas)
SHOWBIZ WATCHER By Ogie Cruz | SAN DIEGO, 9/26/2011 -- Nagsalita na rin ang Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga, pati kasi siya ay naiintriga at kung bakit napakadali ng Question na binigay niya kay Ms. An-gola that made her luto the process.
Nawala raw tuloy na dapat kay Shamcey Supsup ang crown ng Ms. Universe kaya maraming pinoy ang nagalit sa kanya, at pati ilang movie reporters na kasamahan namin nadis-maya pagpabor sa Ms. Angola Leila Lopes.
“I ranked Shamsey Supsup second, if I’m being honest, “ sabi pa ni Lea Salonga.
“Just so you all know, I did write
the my question.All questions are pre-written and each judge is assigned one,”stressed by Lea.
Pero iba raw talaga ang dating ng candidate na si Ms. Angola, “She radiated grace and elegance from the moment she stepped on stage, and gave a great answer to fi nal ques-tion which I happened to ask her.Lest anyone think that I made luto the process, No Way,” pagtatanggol pa ni Ms. Salonga.
Nagtataka kasi ang maraming pinoy at kung bakit 3rd runner up lang si Shamcey samantalang siya ang rank-ing highest in the online poll, ranked second evening gown and Q & A portion best answer without any pause and any interpreter.
“I placed her higher. But I’m only 1 of 9 judges and someone might have place her 5th . Law of averages put her in 4th place.
“The exception, however, was Ms. Angola, who was crowned this year’s Ms. Unverse.All unanimous in our decision,” said by Lea Salonga.
PATI SI MS. OPRAH WINFREY, NAGSALITA rin tungkol sa naging result ng Ms. Universe last Monday via NBC news.Si Shamcey raw ang
dapat tinanghal na Ms. Universe.“ I have no reservation with the
results if the only basis is the Q and A portion, after having been trimmed down to 5.Ms. Philippines deserved to win.
“What made her different from the rest is that she had no seconds to rethink of her answer as she had no interpreter to break the ice. The rest had their interpreters and having breaks on seconds to think about her answers.
“Hands down, Ms. Philippines an-swered straight to the point,” pagtata-pos pa ni Ms. Oprah Winfrey.
PROTESTA NAMAN ANG GUSTO NG SEN. MIRIAM DE-
FENSSOR SANTIAGO, paano raw nangyari at naging 3rd runner up lang si Ms. Philippines ganong ang mataas ang score nito.Hahanap daw siya ng legality para i-protesta sa nama-mahala ng Ms. Universe pagkatapos bilang siyang tumawa.Ewan lang namin kung nagbibiro lang siya para mag-protesta.Abangan na lang natin si Sen. Santiago.
DINUMOG ANG CONCERT NI LEA SALONGA SA SYCUAN
CASINO !!! Last Saturday, na-invite kami Vicki Marangos ng Sycuan Casino para makita ang show ng International Singer na si Ms. Lea Sa-longa, grabe dinumog ng mga pinoy ang naturang show.
Malakas pa rin talaga ang hatak Tony Award Winner sa mga pinoy dito sa San Diego California.Nakita rin namin kung paano pagkaguluhan si Lea,na hindi namin ini-expect.
Patok ang lahat ng kanta ni Lea sa mga Pinoy dito sa SD California,
Kung Bakit 3rd Runner up lang si Shamcey Supsup: “Someone might have placed her 5th” - Lea Salonga-
pumila pa nga sila para lang magpa-autograph sa kanilang nabili mula sa product ni Lea Salonga with matching pa-picture with her.
Agaw eksena pa nga si Ms. Clarita, na halatang tuwang-tuwa at napanood niya ang
Ms. Angola is Miss Universe
Ms. Philippines Shamcey Supsup
Ms. Philippines, 3rd runner up
Lea Salonga at Sycuan
Ms. Clarita, no. 1 fan ni Lea
concert, sabi pa nga niya sa amin siya raw ang no. 1 fan ni Lea Salonga.Ipinakita pa niya sa amin isang CD album at picture ng naturang Inter-national singer na binili niya sa show para pa-autograph kay Lea.
Pumila na rin kami at nilapitan nga namin ang Tony Award wwinner Ms. Lea Salonga para magpakilala na kami ang taga-Asian Journal na nag-interview sa kanyan over the phone, nung nasa Pilipinas pa lang siya.Natuwa nga siya at nakilala niya kami, sayang at hindi siya nakadalaw man lang sa offi ce ng Asian Journal bago siya pumunta ng Brazil para mag-judge sa Ms. Universe.
The offi cial website of TV celebrity host Oprah Winfrey has denied that the talk show queen said Miss Philip-pines Shamcey Supsup should have won the Miss Universe 2011.
Oprah Winfrey
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MEMPHIS, TN, Aug. 30, 2011 - The great American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote, “Many people die with their music still in them … too often it is be-cause they are always getting ready to live …”
Cody Slaughter, the 2011Ul-timate ETA World Champion, is not among those many that Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote about. Cody is young and vibrantly alive! His music is being shared for all to see and enjoy! In fact, he lives and breathes music – Elvis music that is. Only 20, Cody has accomplished what people twice his age can only dream of!
Cody is the youngest tribute artist ever to win the title of Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist World Champi-on. Charismatic and good-looking, Cody has the moves, the looks, the voice, and the showmanship of the young Elvis. His passion for excel-lence earned him the title of “the best of the best!”
Twenty-six tribute artists from around the world participated in the Fifth Ultimate ETA Contest held at the Orpheum Theatre during Elvis Week here in Memphis this August. The contest was one of the many highlights of Elvis Week commemo-rating the 34th anniversary when our beloved Elvis left that narrow bonds of earth to touch the face of God.
After a grueling two rounds of semi-finals and finals, the ranking Top 5 winners this year were: 1st place – Cody Slaughter of Harrison, Arkansas, winner of the Tupelo El-vis Festival; 2nd place – Ben Klein
of Spokane, Washington, winner of the Ultimate ETA Contest at Chi-nook Winds Casino Resort; and 3rd place – Pete Storm from England, winner of the Collingwood Elvis Festival.
Rounding out the Top 5: Ted Torres of Orlando, Florida, winner of the Silver Slipper Casino Ultimate ETA Contest, 4th place; and Mark Anthony from Australia, winner of the Penticton Pacific Northwest Elvis Festival, 5th place. Mark also won the “Ultimate Spirit of Elvis Award” voted on by the tribute artists themselves, and presented to the contestant who demonstrated the most integrity, sportsmanship, help-fulness, and fan appreciation.
Cody is in his element as the “young Elvis.” He came out on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre attired
in a pink jacket, followed by a crim-son jacket, and for the finale, a white jacket. He looked like the young Elvis come to life, and according to some, like the Elvis in the billboards advertising Graceland. That’s so true! He has that stunning resem-blance to the king, and charisma galore!
And to think that he was not even born yet in 1977 – the year when our most-loved “Entertainer of the Century” had finally “left the building.”
According to his manager/agent Brenda Hart, Cody began his entertainment career at 13. Born and raised in Harrison, Arkansas – gate-way to the Buffalo National River and the beautiful Ozark Mountains – Cody’s true passion for Elvis’ music has directed his career path.
This talented young man has landed multiple performances in many theaters in Branson, Missouri and in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Cody was the headliner at the 1,000-seat resort complex “The Tennessee Shindig”, where he performed for a year when he was just 17. He also appeared on MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16” in 2008, and has been performing at special events, cor-porate functions, and entertainment venues throughout the United States. His amazing love and respect for the “Greatest Entertainer of All Time” is apparent every time he performs.
Some of Cody’s accom-plishments include: winning “The
People’s Choice Award” at the “Images of the King” contest during the 2008 Elvis Week; placing 3rd in the “Images of the King Contest” in August 2009; 2nd place winner of the Ultimate ETA Contest in Tupelo, Mississippi in June 2010; and 1st place winner of the Memphis Hard Rock Ultimate ETA Contest in 2010. Cody turned 20 on the day he won the Tupelo Elvis Fest.
Now, this young performer belongs to that elite group – the most talented Elvis Tribute Artists in the world! Cody said, “My greatest joy is when I am paying tribute to Elvis and his music and trying to keep his spirit alive with fans.”
As of this writing, Cody is scheduled to do a Farewell Show in his hometown in Harrison, Arkansas. He has signed a one-year contract with the Million Dollar Quartet to perform in its upcoming U.S. tour. No folks, he is not leaving for good – it will be a farewell-for-now show!
There were three rounds of competition at the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist contest this year. In Round 1, held Thursday afternoon (August 11), the 26 contestants sang one song each. The 26, win-ners of preliminaries held around the world, were: Cody Slaughter, Tim “E” Hendry, Mario Kombou, Johnny Fortuno, David Allen, Kraig Parker, Kevin Mills, Mark Anthony, Gino Monopoli, Ben Klein, Jay Zanier, Jake Slater, Joe Ramsey, Bobby Simpkins, Daisuki Kiryu,
Congratulations, Cody Slaughter!!
2011 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest World Champion
Pete Storm, Ted Torres, David Lee, Gordon Hendricks, Elias Jamhour, Stephen Freeman, Ben Portsmouth, Lee Birchfield, Travis Allen, Roy LeBlanc, and Eddie Miles.
At the end of Round 1, fifteen were selected to compete in the Thursday evening’s semi-finals: Johnny Fortuno, Bobby Simpkins, Ben Portsmouth, Travis Allen, Ben Klein, David Allen, Cody Slaughter, Ted Torres, Kraig Parker, Daisuke Kiryu, Pete Storm, Kevin Mills, Gordon Hendricks, Mark Anthony, and Stephen Freeman.
During Round 2 in the evening of the same day, the 15 semi-finalists sang one song each, and then came out again for a second song. The Top 10 were: Pete Storm, David Al-len, Ben Portsmouth, Gordon Hen-dricks, Johnny Fortuno, Ben Klein, Kevin Mills, Ted Torres, Mark Anthony, and Cody Slaughter.
The suspense was palpable while waiting for the Top 5 to be
named. Here they are, with their final song: Cody Slaughter – “Mean Woman Blues”; Ben Klein – “Baby, Let’s Play House”; Pete Storm – “Polk Salad Annie”; Ted Torres – “The Impossible Dream”; and Mark Anthony – “My Way.”
Everyone at the Orpheum The-atre that night will always remember Cody Slaughter saying, “I can’t be-lieve it!” when he was announced as winner and presented with a gigantic check for $20,000.
The EAS Band, the official Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE) Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist back-up band, provided live music for the contestants. This band, considered as the definitive ETA back-up group (not counting the original Elvis TCB band of course) is composed of: John Crenshaw – band leader and drums; Jason Parks – keyboard; Tom Madden – lead guitar; Rick Crenshaw – bass guitar; Al Babyok – piano; Donetta Crenshaw and Cherryl Crenshaw – vocals.
The contestants were judged
on the following criteria: vocals – the ability to match the sound and quality of Elvis’ voice; appearance – the ability to create the look and style that represents Elvis well; stage presence – the ability to recreate the charisma Elvis created when performing on stage; and overall performance – the quality of the overall performance. What the con-test judges were really looking for was “the best representation of the legacy of Elvis Presley!”
The judges this year were: Simon Cantlon, Director of Digital Media for 19 Entertainment; Alexis Grace, Season Eight “American Idol”; Brad Birkedahl, rock ‘n’ guitarist and former member of The Dempseys; and Michael Detroit, Associate Producer at Playhouse on the Square.
There was something new that highlighted Elvis Week this year – the “Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert” Show. This multi-media event was a theatrical experience that was larger than life! The “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” himself was pro-jected on state-of-the-art screens all over the Orpheum Theatre.
This musical event presented a hot studio session band and back-up vocalists on stage, a virtual Elvis Presley concert experience with Elvis singing lead vocals presented exactly like one of his classic live performances at the Las Vegas Hil-ton showroom. All the sound, other than Elvis’ signature vocals, had been pulled out of his best concert performances in the epic film “Elvis: That’s the Way It Is.” All musical accompaniments in this concert were performed live except for Elvis’ voice.
The Elvis’ Imperials made a special appearance and sang a few of Elvis’ favorite gospel numbers. Hosted by Joe Guercio, Elvis’ musi-cal conductor and close friend for many years, this was a rare oppor-tunity for Elvis fans to experience something completely new and different in the city known around the world as the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll.
Celebrities, authors and friends of Elvis were on hand Friday through Sunday (August 12-14) for the autograph session hosted by the Elvis Memorabilia Fan Club at the former home of Vernon Presley at
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prices going up, and cures in short supply, more and more people are turning away from their medicine cabinets and to their pantries and gardens for remedies. And they are experiencing a certain amount of success.
Whether looking to help a stuffy nose or something more serious, the answer can be as close as an arm’s reach away with a look at these 100 healthy remedies that are right in your home.
Common Healthy Remedies That Are Right In Your Home
The below are commonly found in the average home and can help in many ways.
1. Water : Because dehydration can cause a range of symptoms from fa-tigue to headache, a simple glass of water can sometimes work wonders. Other problems that can arise from lack of water include increased heart rate, dark urine, muscle cramps, and nausea. To avoid these, make sure you get your eight to ten glasses a day.2. Club Soda : Not only useful for getting out stains, it can also help with an upset stomach or dehydra-tion. Because it is free of the sugar and additives of regular sodas, you can get the benefi ts without the negatives. 3. Chocolate Milk : Often thought of as more of an indul-gence than healthy remedy, there are actually benefi ts to your child-hood favorite. When drank after a rough workout, chocolate milk can actually be very useful as a recov-ery drink. 4. Honey : From healing wounds to fi ghting infections, honey is said to be one of the most ancient and turned to remedies across the world. It is even used to combat diarrhea, indigestion, stomach ulcers and gastroenteritis. 5. Apple Cider Vinegar : From Hippocrates to modern day doctors, apple cider vinegar has been used to treat many ailments. They include aches, pains, lack of energy, warts, and are even used on animals. 6. Lemon Water : That yellow wedge on the end of your glass can be so much more than a garnish. Combining lemon
100 Healthy Remedies That Are Right in Your Homewith water helps alkalize both your blood and body, keeping it from becoming too acidic. 7. Cinnamon : Studies have shown that a half of a teaspoon of cinnamon per day can lower LDL cholesterol. Cinnamon can also help with diabetes, arthritis, and even leukemia. 8. Ginger : Used as a healthy remedy for centuries, the ginger in your home can actually help with many modern ailments. They include ovarian cancer, motion sickness, heartburn, and more. 9. Garlic : This clove has been used on everything from preventing the fl u to the Bubonic plague. Raw garlic has also been used on a range of ailments including both acne treat-ment and managing cholesterol. 10. Hydrogen Peroxide : The subject of much controversy, this substance can help with everything from allergies to gingivitis.
Healthy Remedies To Help You Lose Weight
Avoid the dangers of supplemental weight loss pills by giving the below homemade remedies a try.
11. Milk : Studies showed that those who drank a glass of fat free milk before lunch experienced decreased appetite and calorie intake compared to those who drank fruit juice.
12. Almonds : One of the healthi-est of all the nuts, research has been found that people with a diet rich in almonds lost more pounds than those without. They also helped with blood pressure. 13. Vinegar : Some studies suggest that vinegar can increase metabolism. This in turn helps the body process food and burn more calories. 14. Jalapenos : Similar to the above, the spice found here can also increase metabolism. In fact, many naturally spicy foods tout similar properties. 15. Evening Primrose Oil : The oil is extracted from a plant of the same name and contains an essential fatty acid that can help with metabolism. Other benefi ts include combating choles-terol, fatigue, improper hormone levels, and more. 16. Make It Raw : Because cooking food can remove nutrients while leaving fat, some
people choose a raw diet. 17. Co-conut : The oil found in coconuts is said to have weight losing proper-ties. Try taking a tablespoon or two before meals to see if it works for you. 18. Pine Nuts : Use these nuts as a garnish to many dishes to help naturally decrease your appetite. The pinolenic acid found in them is what makes it work. 19. Flaxseeds : Similar to the above, they also help suppress appetite. The seeds also contain omega-3 fats and fi ber as well.
Healthy Remedies For BeautyLook good on the outside as well
with these homemade remedies for beauty.
21. Aloe : Most commonly used for sunburn, it can also be used to treat wounds and other types of skin infl ammation. There are even studies suggesting that aloe can help with constipation.22. Cocoa Butter : Extracted from cocoa beans, the white, waxy material can be applied to dry skin for a natural remedy. It can also be purchased at a store in stick or cream form. 23. Avocado : Often used as a main ingredient in face masks, the oils in avocados contain high levels of Vitamin E that are essential for healthy skin. Simply grab one, puree it, spread on your face, and leave for 20 to 30 minutes. 24. Toothpaste : Not just for a healthy smile, it can also be used as a spot treatment for acne. As soon as you feel a growth coming, apply toothpaste to the effected spot. If you feel it tingling, that means its working. Do not use as an overnight treatment. 25. Eggs : The protein found in eggs can be used to restore the strength of your hair. Simply mix one egg and one or two oils rich in moisturizing fats like coconut or ses-ame, apply to the hair, and wrap. 26. Ashes : Got a wart? Then grab some cool ashes from the fi replace to treat it naturally. 27. Banana Peel : Wrap one of these around a wart to help dissolve it. However, the time it takes to work – weeks to months – can have even the reasonably patient driving to the pharmacy. 28. Castor Oil : Use this on both your
skin and hair for optimal results. The oil can also help with constipation, menstrual disorders, and more. 29. Mayonnaise : Coating your hair in this spread once a week can help restore its shine and manageability. Be sure to use the real kind, made of egg and oil. 30. Oatmeal : Not just a healthy breakfast, the beta glucan in real oatmeal can help your skin. Use a washcloth wrapped with oatmeal and rung into a sink to splash on your face for amazing results.
Healthy Fruit Remedies That Are Right In Your Home
That wicker basket in your home can contain a healthy remedy, along with a tasty snack.
31. Pomegranate : This super fruit can help with everything from anti-aging to fi ghting cancer. Simply choose a product that has pomegran-ate as one of the top three ingredi-ents.
32. Acai Berry : Long before Oprah was touting its benefi ts, Acai berries were well known for their antioxidant content. These can help with free radicals, disease, and are often found in juice or granola. 33. Watermelon : Containing high levels of glutathione, the pulp in water melon is another powerful antioxidant. Because it is made up of so much water, it can also help with dehydration. 34. Grapefruit : The amount of Vitamin C alone found in this fruit is reason to eat it. However, it also contains fl avonoids and other nutrients. But this fruit can also be bad for you if drenched in sweeteners. 35. Cherries : If you have arthritis or any kind of joint problem, cherries are sweeter than you think. The Arthritis Foundation recommends drinking tart cherry juice mixed with water three times a day for its anti-infl ammatory properties. 36. Orange : Not just a high boaster of Vitamin C, oranges also have other uses. In fact, the peel of an orange can be rubbed against rough or dead skin as a healthy remedy. 37. Apples : It’s true that this fruit actually does keep the doctor away. Conditions it can help include prevention of cancer and Al-zheimer’s, along with diabetes and cholesterol management. 38. Berries : Both raspberries and blueberries contain high levels of antioxidants and other nutrients that can help a number of conditions. Those with al-lergies should defi nitely give a daily dose of this fruit a try. 39. Tanger-ines : If you want to slow the growth of cancer cells, take a look at this home healthy remedy. Like many other brightly colored fruits, they contain the cancer fi ghting substance fl avonoids. 40. Papaya : This fruit’s high levels of Vitamin C, E, and oth-ers help it combat a number of ail-ments. Anyone looking to combat a cold or cancer should reach for this.
Healthy Remedies For Your Im-mune System
With cold and fl u season in full swing, these items found in your home can help boost your immune system.
41. Elderberry : Used to treat a Panamanian fl u epidemic in 1995, its antioxidants are a powerful force. Available as a juice or supplement, it can also help with cholesterol, vision, and heart health.42. Mush-rooms : Not necessarily the ones in the backyard, but the right mush-rooms contain both antioxidants and selenium to boost your immune system. The best kind are button. 43. Cabbage : Containing both anti-oxidants and glutathione, both help the immune system function. Don’t know which to get? Traditional, white, red, and even Chinese are all good sources of the preceding. 44. Wheat Germ : It contains both zinc and antioxidants to help fi ght infection, in addition to Vitamin B. Hate the taste? Then switch out part of the fl our in a recipe to sneak in a little wheat germ. 45. Yogurt : The cultures found in it can both fi ght disease and keep them from happening. The best kind to get are those with no added sugar, low fat, and loaded with Vitamin D. 46. Spinach : Good for more than sail-ing cartoon characters, the folate in spinach helps cell production. It also contains fi ber and Vitamin C for extra help. 47. Broccoli : Much like the above, even if you don’t like the taste of this vegetable, you’ll enjoy it more than having a com-promised immune system. Full of Vitamins A, C, and D, it can help with a variety of ailments, including infection. 48. Sweet Potato : Switch
Even though you know a healthy breakfast has many benefi ts, you may not be sure what exactly counts as a healthy breakfast.
Here’s what forms the core of a healthy breakfast:
Whole grains. Examples include whole-grain rolls, bagels, hot or cold whole-grain cereals, low-fat bran muffi ns, crackers, or Melba toast.
Low-fat protein. Examples include peanut butter, lean meat, poultry or fi sh, or hard-boiled eggs.
Low-fat dairy. Examples include skim milk, low-fat yogurt and low-fat cheeses, such as cottage and natural cheeses.
Fruits and vegetables. Examples include fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, 100 percent juice beverages without added sugar, or fruit and vegetable smoothies. Choose low-sodium versions of beverages, though.
Together, these core groups provide complex carbohydrates, fi ber, protein and a
The basics of a healthy breakfast
small amount of fat — a combination that packs big health benefi ts and that also can leave you feeling full for hours. Find options from these core groups that suit your tastes and interests. And try to choose one or two options from each category to round out a healthy breakfast. -- Mayo Clinic
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He has two brothers, Christopher (“Topher”) and Alex. He shared the same love for martial arts with Topher, who unfortunately died at an early age. Together, they were part of a team that trained American sol-diers who visited the country during the Philippine-USA Balikatan exer-cises. Unknown to Ronnie at that time, it was his expertise in martial arts and good looks that would open many doors to him in the future.
His Life as an ActorRonnie started his career in the
limelight as a fashion model for high-end couturiers like Rudy Fuentes, Auggie Cordero, Mike de la Rosa, and Gerry Katigbak. Even before male models graced the life-size billboard ads in EDSA as they do now, the likes of Edu Manzano, Miguel Rodriguez, and Ronnie Ricketts were already into ramp modeling, showing off their good looks while flashing the creations of the big names in Philippine haute couture.
He was first noticed by RVQ, Dolphy’s film production as a potential handsome action star. He was introduced in the film, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”, where he was paired with Maricel Soriano. For some time, he was featured as a regular in some of RVQ films, where he would often play action roles. Ronnie remembers how Dolphy used to say, “Pag fight scenes, bigay mo kay Ronnie, karatista yan!” He was casted in several Dolphy-Alma movie flicks such as the “Profes-sor” series – “Crazy Professor” and “Good Morning, Professor”.
Eventually, he got offers from oth-er film outfits such as Regal Films. Under Regal, he made “The Gradu-ates” and “I Love You, I Hate You” with Maricel Soriano. His movies were a blend of drama, comedy and action, although he was always at his best with action roles. He worked with other actions stars that were also at the peak of their careers- Lito Lapid, Dante Varona and Bong Revilla. His unforgettable portrayal was with Bong Revilla in the Imus Production’s “Sparrow Unit”, where he won an award as Best Supporting Actor.
He soon landed lead roles in mov-ies such as “Baril Ko ang Uusig”, “Target: Maganto”, “Gapos Gang” and “Matira ang Matibay” to name a few, some of which he did with his own movie outfit, Rockets Produc-tions. He had the chance to play opposite many leading ladies such as Beverly Vergel, Vina Morales, and his real life partner, Mariz.
His Venture into Film ProductionIn 1994, Ronnie started producing
movies through Rockets Produc-tions. He was one of the youngest producers in tinsel town, who was able to produce quality films at rea-sonably low budgets. The company produced films which he himself wrote and directed. “Noon, para ma-infiltrate ko ang market, kailan-gan ako ang mag-produce, because nobody believed in me at that time”, Ronnie fondly remembered.
He was finally able to prove that he can achieve what others did not think possible. One of his projects, “Mano Mano” (1995) was a testa-ment of his creative talent – he wrote the script, did the lead role, directed and produced the movie, which became a big hit. The movie was so popular, that a follow-up was inevi-table. There were two sequels to the film – “Mano Mano 2” and “Mano Mano 3”. Other films that he pro-duced, line-produced and/or directed are “Matira ang Matibay” (1997), “Huwag Mong Isuko ang Laban” (1997), “Ang Boyfriend Kong Pari” (1999), “Dayo” (2002), “Uno” (2005), and “Lagot Ka Sa Kuya Ko” (2006). He starred in over 50 movie hits. He garnered several awards and acclamations for his talent, creativity and efficiency. He also became one of the Past Presidents of the Film Actors Guild.
Through it all, Ronnie remained an unassuming actor, director and pro-ducer who valued self-discipline and clean living. He is well known for his strict work ethics that he also ex-pected from the people who worked for him. He is against all forms of gambling and drinking during film shoots. He insists on punctuality and he sets a good example of being an efficient leader and team player, qualities which drove his success not just in the film industry but also in his other endeavors.
A Dedicated Family ManI don’t doubt that Ronnie must
have had several romantic affilia-tions before he settled down, but I did not really ask him about his past loves. He is happily married to Mariz, who is also his business
partner and who handles the finance side of Rockets Production. Mariz belonged to the stable of German Moreno’s talents, and for some time, she graced the radio waves with her musical talent. She also did a couple of films and currently co-hosts Ger-man Moreno’s “Walang Tulugan” TV show.
Ronnie fondly recalls that it was ER Ejercito, (now Governor ER of Laguna), his best friend and movie contemporary, who introduced Mariz to him. “Si ER ang cupido -- siya ang nag-cupido sa amin ni Mariz,” Ronnie said. Ronnie re-members telling ER one day, “Pare,
wala pa akong girlfriend, ihanap mo nga ako.” At that time, ER had a picture of Mariz and ER said, “Eto kilala ko ito.” Mariz was an aspiring singer back then and had not yet en-tered the movies. Love blossomed between the two and a wedding at the San Antonio Church in Forbes Park sealed their destinies together. Among their wedding sponsors were Ronnie Poe, Erap Estrada, Dolphy, and Inday Badiday. They are blessed with two daughters, Marela (16) and Marie (13). Like all the other roles he handled
it is...it’s overwhy is it so hard for me...for me to accept!it was already over...even before...before it beganit is a game...a game...a game...of “GAME OVER”game!the ashes of yesterdaybreeds the seeds of the futurescattering seeds all overdevouring the ashes of the past to nourishwhat ever seeds scatteredwhether it would beseeds of hatredseeds of prosperitythe effect of which reflects the pastlike a present in the NOWthese seeds are a gift from the pastthese seeds are the scars from the pastthese seeds....
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Laking gulo ang lumitaw sa usaping politika,Bangayan at tuligsahan, ‘di nga tama, tama nga ba?Mamahalin na sasakyang pinambili nuong PERA,Na bigay ng PCSO, sa OBISPO, tulong anya. Ang totoo ay ‘di dapat na manggaling sa gobyerno,Ang tulong sa mga PARI o sino man na OBISPO.Para bagang nagsanib na ang SIMBAHAN at ESTADO,Kung dumating ang panahon, bawat isa, PROBLEMADO. Pitong Obispo ang sangkot sa panahon ni Arroyo,Bigay agad ang hiniling at binili ng PAJERO.Ngayong ito’y natuntun na, namroblema ang OBISPO,Nagiisip na isauli’t matigil ang pambabato. Maganda man ang adhika sa tanggap na perang tulong,Hindi ito nararapat ano man ang siyang MISYON.‘Dami namang MAYAYAMAN, mga MIYEMBRO na
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The DASH diet has been proved to reduce blood pressure, which can help you live a longer and healthier life. Try these delicious recipes. -- Mayo Clinic
DASH Diet Recipes from the Mayo Clinic
Dietitian’s tip:Serve these potato skins, which are
a very good source of iron, vitamin B-6 and fi ber, with chunky salsa. Two tablespoons of salsa adds less than 10 calories.
By Mayo Clinic staffServes 6Ingredients6 large baking potatoes1 teaspoon olive oil1 teaspoon chili powder1/8 teaspoon Tabasco sauce6 slices turkey bacon, cooked until
crisp, chopped1 medium tomato, diced2 tablespoons sliced green onions
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheeseDirectionsPreheat the oven to 450 F. Lightly
coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
Scrub potatoes and prick each several times with a fork. Micro-wave uncovered on high until tender, about 10 minutes. Remove the pota-toes from the microwave and place on a wire rack to cool. When cool to the touch, cut each potato in half lengthwise and scoop out the fl esh, leaving about 1/4 inch of the fl esh attached to the skin. (Save potato fl esh for another meal.)
In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, chili powder and hot sauce. Brush the olive oil mixture on the insides of the potato skins. Cut each half of the potato skin in half again crosswise. Place the potatoes onto the baking sheet.
In a small bowl gently mix to-gether the turkey bacon, tomato and onions. Fill each potato skin with this mixture and sprinkle each with cheese.
Bake until the cheese is melted and the potato skins are heated through, about 10 minutes. Serve immedi-ately.
Nutritional Analysis(per serving)Serving size: 4 wedgesCalories 181 Cholesterol 20 mgProtein 6 g Sodium 199 mgCarbohydrate 28 g Fiber 5 gTotal fat 5 g Potassium 424 mgSaturated fat 2 g
Calcium 93 mgMonounsaturated fat 2 g
Southwestern potato skins
Day 1 menu Breakfast 1 small whole-wheat bagel2 tablespoons peanut butter1 medium orange1 cup fat-free milkDecaffeinated coffee
Lunch
Spinach salad made with:4 cups of fresh spinach leaves1 sliced pear1/2 cup canned mandarin orange
sections1/3 cup unsalted peanuts2 tablespoons reduced-fat red wine
vinaigrette12 reduced-sodium wheat crackers1 cup fat-free milk
Dinner
Herb-crusted baked cod, 3 ounces1/2 cup brown rice pilaf1/2 cup fresh green beans, steamed1 small sourdough roll1 teaspoon trans fat-free margarine1 cup fresh berries with chopped
mintHerbal iced teaSnack (anytime) 1 cup fat-free, low-calorie yogurt
Calcium 1,226 mgMonounsaturated fat 23 g Day 1 DASH servings Grains and grain products 7Vegetables 5Fruits 5Dairy foods (low-fat or fat-free) 3Meats, poultry and fi sh 3Nuts, seeds and dry beans 2Fats and oils 3Sweets 0
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Filipiniana Bookshelf: First Among PeersFirst Among Peers
Th e Offi cial Biography of Marcial Valenzuela
Chapter 3
Tatay Marcial Took Historic Pictures Th at Spoke A Th ousand Words
By Arturo G. ValenzuelaSixth in a series of articles
� e daring exploits of Tatay Marcial as one of the Philippines’ � rst photojournalists lasted � om 1927 to 1968, a period of 41 years
The following is the full text of the interview with Tatay Marcial by the very popular newspaper columnist and TV host Jose “JQ” Quirino that appeared on October 10, 1955 in the Saturday issue of The Daily Mir-ror, the country’s leading afternoon newspaper of the 1950s until the 1970s, and sister newspaper of The Manila Times.
HERE IS ONE LENSMAN WHOSE SHOTS HAVE MADE HISTORY
By JOSE A. QUIRINO | The Daily Mirror, October 10, 1955
Few living cameramen can equal the record of 48-year old Marcial Valenzuela, veteran Ilocano fl ash-bulb burner.
He has covered all the presidents of the Philippines from Manuel L. Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay; photographed punitive campaigns against various outlaw groups; hobnobbed with over 50 generals among whom were Generals Doug-las MacArthur, Ike Eisenhower (he was a colonel at that time), Jonathan “Skinny” Wainright, Segundo, Lim, Capinpin, Vargas, and 11 Constabu-lary Chiefs from Brig. Gen. Charles
Nathorst (1927-1932) to the incum-bent PC head, Brig. Gen. Manuel Cabal.
Started in 1924
A camera bug since he was only that big, Valenzuela’s formal educa-tion in photography dates back to 1924 when he became an apprentice to Jacinto de Jesus, owner of the Luz Studio in Tondo (Manila). De Jesus taught him all the phases of photog-raphy.
“ROMANCING THE CAMERA” at age 19, Marcial S.Valenzuela was one of the Philippines’ fi rst photo-journalists and perhaps the youngest .He skillfully took dramatic photos that spoke a thousand words from 1927 until he retired 41 years later in 1968. He was called the “Dean of Philippine Press Photographers” in his senior years. His photos always landed on Page 1, above the fold, of the iconic The Manila Times with the credit Timesphoto by Marcial S. Valenzuela. He is shown in photo above clutching what appears to me is a German-made Leica camera. Leica was the fi rst to introduce a small compact camera in 1913 in
35mm horizontal format.In 1927, after three years of ap-
prenticeship, Valenzuela was hired to take pictures by the La Defensa, a Spanish newspaper, and the Philip-pine Free Press. It was at this stage of his career that he covered General Nathorst, affectionately called by his men as “The Tiger” and “Old Man.” Quezon then was a fast rising leader of the Filipinos in the constant struggle for independence.
The Constabulary troopers at that time were fi ghting “Emperor” Flor-encio Intrecherado and his fanati-cal followers in Negros Occidental (Central Philippines). Intrecherado claimed to be in communication with a spiritual guide and threatened the people with fl oods, earthquakes and other natural calamities if they would not follow him.
With 300 followers Intrecherado attacked the municipal building of Victorias (town) in Negros Occi-dental and took over the municipal government after killing two police-men. Pacifi ed and brought to Manila by the PC (Philippine Constabulary), Intrecherado was later declared in-sane and confi ned at the San Lazaro Hospital (in Santa Cruz District in Manila). Valenzuela was able to take
pictures of intrecherado for the La Defensa.
Transfers to the Herald
After his three-year stint with the La Defensa and the (Philippine) Free Press, Marcial transferred to the Philippines Herald in 1933. For six months his pictures covered the pages of the Herald.
That same year, he applied for a job at the TVT (Tribune-Vanguardia-Taliba) and was hired as a photog-rapher by the late Alejandro Roces, Jr., general manager of the TVT Publishing Company.
On the day he was hired, Marcial was told by the late Jose G. Claudio, chief of the TVT photo section to cover a “special assignment.” Dave Boguslav, Tribune editor, Manuel Villa-Real, La Vanguardia editor, and Deo del Rosario, Taliba editor, began congratulating Valenzuela for his photo coverages.
Covers the Sakdalista uprising
On May 2, 1935 the Sakdalista revolt erupted in the provinces of Laguna, Rizal, Tayabas (Quezon), Bulacan and Cavite. The insurrection, which lasted up to May 14, started in the towns of Cabuyao, Laguna and San Ildefonso, Bulacan. Valenzuela was assigned to cover the uprising.
Over 1,000 Sakdalistas captured the town of Santa Rosa, 300 of whom were dispatched to as-sault Cabuyao, Laguna which was
guarded by the valiant PC detach-ment of only nine men under Lt. (now colonel and commander of the 3rd Military Area) Cornelio Bondad. Bondad and his men repulsed all at-tempts of the Sakdalistas to capture the town.
At this juncture, reinforcements under Captain L. Angeles arrived to aid the beleaguered Bondad and his handful of men. With the reinforce-ment was Valenzuela who was immediately engrossed in the task of taking pictures right and left.
(In my personal conversations with him in later years, Tatay Marcial related to me that during the govern-ment campaign against Sakdalista rebels in Laguna province, he was embedded with the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines covering live exchanges of fi re when a bullet whizzed past him and landed on the wall behind him. He ducked lower and did not move for several minutes after which he sought a safer cover. He was also embedded with the soldiers during the military campaign against communist rebels in Central Luzon. He told me that he would wrap consumed fi lms and send these by bus to his newspaper offi ce way ahead of the afternoon deadline. The following morning his newspaper would banner his photos on the front page for the whole nation to read and with the accom-panying credit “Photos by Marcial S.Valenzuela.”---Author)
Bondad and his men were de-
ployed around the municipal building 2,200 yards away from the Sakdalistas who were fi ring from the church. Bondad himself was wounded in the back while Lt. Eu-logio Balao (retired AFP vice chief of staff with the rank of Brigadier General) was wounded in the knee. Over 100 Sakdals were slain (whose corpses were piled) in front of the church. Laguna Governor Cailes ordered the arrest of two congress-men implicated in the revolt.
“It was a gory sight,” Marcial recalls. “Corpses of the Sakdals were piled in front of the Cabuyao church. (Nonetheless) it was one of my exciting photo coverages.”
The Asedillo Campaign
Shortly after the Sakdalista upris-ing of May 1935, the provinces of Laguna and Tayabas (now Quezon) were again the scenes of a prolonged bandit campaign. Again Valenzuela covered the punitive drive to bag
notorious bandit leaders Teodoro D. Asedillo and “Kapitan Kulas” Encallado.
Dismissed as Chief of Police of Paete, Laguna in 1929, Asedillo founded the “Anak Pawis,” (Child of Sweat) a communist inspired or-ganization in San Antonio, Longos, Laguna. He went into hiding after the Minerva cigar factory strike in Manila in 1934 where two police-men were killed in a riot. He later joined the forces of Encallado.
“ROMANCING THE CAM-ERA” at age 19, Marcial S.Valenzuela was one of the Phil-ippines’ fi rst photojournalists and perhaps the youngest .He skillful-ly took dramatic photos that spoke a thousand words from 1927 until he retired 41 years later in 1968. He was called the “Dean of Phil-ippine Press Photographers” in his senior years. His photos al-ways landed on Page 1, above the fold, of the iconic The Manila Times with the credit Timesphoto by Marcial S. Valenzuela. He is shown in photo above clutching what appears to me is a German-made Leica camera. Leica was the fi rst to introduce a small com-pact camera in 1913 in 35mm horizontal format.
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It was Major General Vargas, chief of staff, then a lieutenant, who ended the life of the mustachioed and goateed bandit leader on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1935. Vargas killed Asedillo in the latter’s hideout near the Maladiangaw Falls of Sampaloc, Tayabas (Quezon). Two of Asedillo’s henchmen, Vicente Anerela and Juan Delantar were (also) killed by the men of Vargas while a third follower, Valentin Blaza, hurled himself into a rocky stream and escaped but later surren-dered in Cavinti, Laguna.
Valenzuela took pictures of the corpses of Asedillo and his men when they were brought to the poblacion. People whom the bandit leader terrorized while he was still living spat on his corpse.
Encallado surrenders
After Asedillo’s death, the PC (Brig. Gen. Basilio Valdes was then Constabulary chief) concen-trated their efforts in the capture of Encallado who was accompanied by three of his sons and 15 followers. Because he was already an old man and he could no longer bear the con-stant hounding of the peace authori-ties, Encallado fi nally surrendered (in) Cavinti, Laguna on January 17, 1936. As usual, Valenzuela was there to take pictures of the event.
When several offi cers, among whom were Vargas, Balao,
Angeles and Bondad were decorated for their outstanding work in the peace and order campaign against the Sakdalistas and other bandit groups, it was only proper that Marcial was at hand to ‘record’ the ceremonies.
Other important coverages
Valenzuela covered all the impor-tant events during President Que-zon’s administration. He captured on fi lm the Commonwealth inaugura-tion on November 15, 1935.
This short but indefatigable pho-tographer was with Quezon when the latter met Princess Tarhata (in Mindanao) during the negotiations for the surrender of her husband, Datu Tahil.
When Major General Jose de los Reyes (PC chief from 1936 to 1938), accompanied by 10 PC soldiers went to Arayat, Pampanga to accept the surrender of the notorious de la Rosas (this father-and-son team led their own group (of bandits)), Valen-zuela had a whale of a time burning fl ashbulbs.
During the term of President Elpidio Quirino as secretary of (the) interior, a Japanese smuggling syn-dicate (north of the Philippines) was busted by PC operatives. Quirino, accompanied by his PC advisers, inspected the Babuyan Islands and confi scated a Japanese fl ag in the area. The interior secretary also personally investigated the circum-stances of the rampant smuggling in Babuyan and questioned some Japanese suspects. All these events were duly photographed by the up-and-coming Valenzuela.
Dangerous mission
When Japanese forces were enter-ing Manila, Luis Hizon, veteran Mir-ror reporter, and Valenzuela (who were both) desirous of covering the event, met the hostile forces in Parañaque. The two rode in a small car with a big white fl ag. Machine-guns were trained on the newshound and the photographer but the two proceeded with Valenzuela snapping pictures right and left. Fortunately (for them), Secretary Jorge Vargas and (Japanese) Consul Nihiro were at the Parañaque town plaza.
“We thought we would never see the day of liberation when those Japs pointed their weapons at us,” Marcial candidly stated.
Interviews (Communist leader) Taruc
After Huk Supremo Luis Taruc was elected congressman (of Pam-panga province in Central Luzon), he went into hiding because he was wanted by the authorities. Reporter Callanta and photographer Valen-zuela were the fi rst to interview the elusive Huk leader at his hideout in Lubao, Pampanga.
Since the launching of the anti-dissident campaign, Marcial has been in the fi eld several times taking photos of actual combat operations. He was with Major General Mari-ano Castañeda when the latter was directing the anti-dissident drive in Bulacan, Pampanga and Nueva Ecija (provinces).
Other important events covered by Marcial included the negotia-tions for the acquisition of the Turtle Islands (in southern Philippines near the border with Malaysia); the trip of United Nations (UN) President Carlos P. Romulo to Indonesia and other Asian countries; the erup-tion of Mayon and Hibok-Hibok volcanoes. Every now and then Valenzuela meets with what he terms “hazards of my profession.” There was the incident when he and Times reporter Ray Veloso were mauled by the Makati police in 1954.
Valenzuela today
Manong Marcial, as he is af-fectionately called by his fellow photographers, is still going strong although people continuously advise him to go slow especially after he collapsed from high blood pressure while he was covering a photo as-signment at the V. Luna Hospital on
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Challenge).Interestingly, Sen. Marcos’ father—the former
President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. –was born on Sep-tember 11, the last day of the competition and the former strongman believed his lucky number as “7”.
Invitations were sent to President Aquino III (including avid shooters in the cabinet), said Ryan Remigio of the sponsor club –Ilocos Norte based Marcos Combat Shooters, Inc.
Dubbed as “Worldshoot XVII Tune Up Match” to prepare Filipino shooting sportsmen for the 2011 World Shoot XVI in Athens, Greece this October, the Level III, International Practical Shooting Con-federation (IPSC) and Phil. Practical Shooting Asso-ciation (PPSA)-sanctioned match will pit hundreds of shooting champions and affi cionados all over the country and abroad in the grueling 17-stages inter-national competition at the Marcos Combat Shooters Firing Range in barangay Suba, here.
The Marcos Combat Shooters Inc., one of the country’s pioneer practical shooting clubs, also said team as well as individual division championship fetes are at stake in perhaps one of the country’s biggest practical shooting competitions.
Already, various gun clubs all over the country have vowed participation in the match, said Remigio, who himself is an avid advocate of peace through sports especially responsible gun ownership.
Sen. Marcos, like his father—former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., is a sharpshooter himself both in pistol and rifl e divisions.
The younger Marcos was also a pioneer in Philip-pine practical shooting sports world with Cagayan rep. Jack Enrile who is the current president of the PPSA.
“He (Boss Jack) hopes to come too,” Remigio of the MCS, Inc. said.
Enrile is the son of the late strongman’s defense chief– now Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile – who in 1986 turned his back against his former boss—to stage the EDSA revolt that ouster the elder Marcos.*** Artemio A. Dumlao***
Practical Shooting
(Continued from page 1)by Fr. Shay Cullen, PREDA
There is nothing worse that can happen to dedicated Christians in the Philippines or elsewhere than to be branded as “an Enemy of the State” for exercising a prophetic role and taking a stand for the poor and the oppressed, the wretched of the earth, the unwanted, rejected and deprived whom Jesus of Nazareth said de-served to inherit the land.
Those who hunger and thirst of justice and peace are blessed in his eyes but in the eyes of the military, authorities and the ruling elite who feel threatened by the preaching of prophets in the wilderness about social justice. They are branded and marked as dangerous subversives.
Bishop Reuel Norman Marigza has taken his stand with the families of the victims who were murdered and cut down by assassins’ bullets, bayo-nets and killing knives in the past ten years during the reign of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s administration.
None of the assassins have been brought to Justice. The dark masters who ordered the killings have never been named. Many of those victims were pastors, preachers, ministers and members of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and other denominations including Catholics.
It was the practice at the time to mark pastors and catholic priests and lay people working to implement the social teaching of the Church as “communists” or terrorists.
Several catholic priests and lay workers were shot and killed for their support for their people protest-ing the destruction of the environ-ment by loggers and mining compa-nies backed by powerful politicians and protected by military units.
By branding the people and their pastors as communist subversives the politicians cum businessmen could then call in the military to silence the protestors and the voice of the people.
In Midsalip, Mindanao today the courageous priest Sean Martin and Sister Patty Dinare are on trial with their brave people for holding back the rampaging mining equipment that would bulldoze their forests and fi elds.
Bishop Marigza has joined his name to a law suite brought by the families of the slain UCCP pastors against former President Gloria Ar-royo, (who is presently a congress woman) holding her responsible for the killings when she was president and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Not all in the UCCP agrees with the bishop supporting the legal action.
Bishop Marino Inong head of the UCCP council of bishops said the council voted to take “a stand with the people”, and supported Bishop
Risking Life Itself
Marigza and the law suite.Far from being infi ltrated by com-
munist ideology the true Christians are most faithfully following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as found in the “sermon on the mount”. (Lk.6:17) Here we see Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man announcing a social and spiritual transformation of society. He announced the Kingdom of God, a world where there would be justice and equality, freedom for those in unjust captivity, where the poor would no longer be hungry, where they would be blessed and inherit the land. The rich, Jesus said, would never be able to survive in such a society. “How terrible it will be for you who are rich now, you had your easy life, you are full now but will go hungry.” (Lk.6:24).
None of this went down well with the rich ruling elite, chief priests and the landowning elders who were po-litically powerful. It was rebel talk, subversive, and threatened the status quo. It was a direct challenge to their religious domination of the Palestin-ian people. They decided that Jesus had to be eliminated. In the end he was arrested, tortured put on trial and was given the death penalty. The pastors, priests and lay Christians who followed him faithfully and preached and lived as he did and still do all over the world face similar fates.
His spiritual revolution goes on to-day and the strength we get from it, his friendship and presence helps us work to continue his mission work-ing for non-violent social change. These are values that Jesus brought into the world. And so we too must take our stand with those who are risking their lives making the gospel a reality in the world today. END
(In my personal conversations with him in later years, Tatay Marcial related to me that during the government campaign against Sakdalista rebels in Laguna prov-ince, he was embedded with the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines covering live exchanges of fi re when a bullet whizzed past him and landed on the wall behind him. He ducked lower and did not move for sever-al minutes after which he sought a safer cover. He was also em-bedded with the soldiers during the military campaign against communist rebels in Central Lu-zon. He told me that he would wrap consumed fi lms and send these by bus to his newspaper of-fi ce way ahead of the afternoon deadline. The following morning his newspaper would banner his photos on the front page for the whole nation to read and with the accompanying credit “Pho-tos by Marcial S.Valenzuela.”---Author)
September 3, 1954. “Thanks to the kind treatment of
the Manila Times administration,” he said. “I have recovered my for-mer health.”
This veteran shutter bug is a native of Mangatarem, Pangasinan where he was born on July 30, 1907. Mar-ried to a childhood sweetheart, he has nine children---two girls and seven boys.
“No, I don’t like my children to follow in my footsteps,” he said when asked if he would like his boys to be professional cameramen. “It is too strenuous,” he added with a twinkle in his eyes.”
After that interview in 1955 with newspaper columnist and TV host Quirino, Tatay Marcial moved on to a regular assignment, covering the sessions of the prestigious Philip-pines senate. (Read Chapter Six.) His parting words in the interview with Qurino became poetic justice later on as some of his boys and descendants took on photography and related works as full time source of income.
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out your baked or mashed potatoes for one of these to take advantage of the immune helping beta-carotene. They are also lower in carbs and contain high levels of Vitamin A for eye health. 49. Salt Water : Got a stuffy nose? Then help your immune system out by fl ushing your nose with salt water and removing virus particles. WebMD recommends mix-ing one quarter teaspoon salt, one quarter teaspoon baking soda, and eight ounces of warm water. Simply fl ush a few times with a bulb syringe to get results. 50. Eucalyptus : Often found in products like Vaporub, this plant can help clear congested sinuses and relieve pain. You can also use menthol or camphor as a substitute.
Healthy Remedies That Are Right In Your Spice Rack
These spices help make your food tasty, along with your body healthier.
51. Epsom Salt : Have you ever seen those foot detoxifi er ads on television? Then save your money and instead soak your feet in warm water and Epsom salt to get the same effect. It can also help in a full bath and is even useful for treating sciati-ca.52. Tumeric : Part of the ginger family, it can be used for a variety of home remedies. Ailments treated in-clude allergies, obesity, Alzheimer’s, in certain cancers, and more. 53. Sea Salt : Have trouble falling asleep? Pour a little of this into a glass of drinking water and it just may help you fall asleep and stay that way. 54. Horseradish : Anyone with a case of congestion knows that a dose of horseradish can instantly help. How-ever, you can also apply it to acne and melasma for a natural reme-dy. 55. Pepper : Not only does black pepper help your food taste better, it also has other benefi ts. The stimula-tion of hydrochloric acid it stimu-lates can help improve digestion and reduce gas. 56. Oregano : Did you know that one teaspoon of this spice has as much antioxidants as three cups of broccoli? Simply add a little to pizza, pastas, sandwiches, and more to experience its benefi ts. 57. Dried Red Peppers : These can include cayenne, paprika, and others. The spices help stimulate digestion and burn fat. 58. Rosemary : This small green spice has been shown to help in heart health. It also helps reduce infl ammation that can trigger many diseases. 59. Thyme : Similar to oregano, this spice is also high in antioxidants. Studies are also look-ing into its benefi ts against respirato-ry functions. 60. Curry : Have heart problems? Then you might have the remedy in your home’s spice rack. Made from turmeric, it contains many of the same benefi ts, along with help against heart disease.
Healthy Cancer Remedies That Are Right In Your Home
Although there is no cure for cancer, use the below to both fi ght and prevent it without ever leaving your home.
61. Legumes : Use this hearty vegetable as a meat substance to get the protein benefi ts without the price. You can also use beans, lentils, and the like as well.62. Soy : This substitute also has the same benefi ts as the above. Varieties such as tofu and miso also contain cancer combating nutrients called phy-tochemicals. 63. Tomatoes : Because they contain high levels of lycopene, they can reduce risk of cancer. Try a tomato paste or sauce to get the most amounts. 64. Fish : Healthy variet-ies such as wild salmon, tuna, and halibut contain many cancer fi ghting substances such as oil. They also contain cancer fi ghting selenium that can be dangerous as a supplement but useful in fi sh. 65. Orange Juice : Containing high levels of folate and Vitamin C, it can help combat can-cer. Be sure and get a healthy variety that isn’t overloaded with sugar. 66. Curcumin : This spice is also part of the turmeric family. Sprinkle a little into your next dish to enjoy it’s can-cer fi ghting and anti infl ammatory aspects. 67. Walnuts : The antioxi-dants and oils in these nuts can help prevent or stave off cancer. You can also substitute pistachio, pecan, and other nuts for similar benefi ts. 68. Caulifl ower : Along with broc-coli, this vegetable helps create sulforaphane in the body to protect healthy cells from cancerous ones. It is also recommended to grow it in your own home. 69. Sunshine : Get your dose of Vitamin D right from your home with this simple remedy. Simply expose at least 40% of your body to ten minutes of natural sun-light to get it. 70. Tea : Containing nutrients called kaempferol, a cup or four of tea a day can help combat
cancer. To fi nd out which kind are the best, see the below.
Healthy Tea Remedies That Are Right In Your Home
Switch out your coffee for one or all of the below to instantly get a healthy remedy.
71. Green Tea : For its high con-tent of both antioxidants and poly-phenols, green tea gets the top spot. It can help fi ght cancer, stimulate metabolism, boost your immune sys-tem, and much more.72. Tea Bags : You don’t just have to drink it to enjoy the benefi ts. Putting warm tea bags over your eyes can help reduce and alleviate pink eye. 73. White Tea : A cousin of green tea, it helps fi ght viruses and bacteria. Read this article for more information on a study done at Touro College. 74. Black Tea : If looking to combat heart disease and stroke, check your home for black tea. It even contains fl uoride to aid in dental health. 75. Oolong : Burn calories, increase blood fl ow, and build stronger bones with the help of this tea. It can also help with an upset stomach. 76. Chai Tea : This tea also contains antioxi-dants and can help in digestion. It can even be found at your local Star-bucks as a hot or cold beverage. 77. Vanilla Tea : This tea is an excellent choice for diabetics. Not only will it satisfy your sweet tooth, but it can help control blood sugar levels. 78. Red Tea : Most popular in Africa, this tea contains fl avonoids that are useful against many ailments. It also helps with the nervous system, kidney stones, and can even be used as a sedative. 79. Chamomile : If you suffer from nervous disorders such as insomnia, panic attacks, and twitches, give this tea a try. It also helps with menstrual cramps and ulcers. 80. Tibicos : Think you can’t get tea from a mushroom? Then try this ancient and little known tea to cure endless ailments and has been used by the likes of Mother Theresa.
Healthy Remedies For Unusual Problems
Right in your home may be the an-swer to that embarrassing or unusual health problem.
81. Bananas : Got a hangover? Grab a banana. Better than a cup of black coffee, bananas contain potas-sium, which was depleted during that long night of drinking. They can also help with upset stomach and nausea.82. Peanut Butter : Try eating some of this before drinking to stave off the hangover. This practice is most commonly found in Africa. 83. Tomato Juice : The last of the
hangover remedies, there’s a reason why the Bloody Mary is the hair-of-the-dog drink of choice. The tomato juice contained in it actually helps your body speed up the process of alcohol. And, of course, it works best when there is no vodka in it. 84. Lemon Juice : If you have diarrhea and can’t leave the house to pur-chase an over the counter remedy, try reaching for those lemons. The juice in them can kill of the patho-gens that cause it. Drinking the juice of one lemon three to fi ve times a day should do it. 85. Powdered Milk : This substance carries the antibod-ies of the E. coli bacteria that can cause diarrhea and a host of other health problems. Some health food stores carry special kinds just for this kind of problem. 86. Gingkgo Biloba : Used as an herbal remedy for cardiac patients, it can also help with erectile dysfunction. The herb can improve blood fl ow to the arter-ies in the effected area. 87. Ginseng : This Asian herb is also used to treat the above. Be sure not to mix the two. 88. Licorice : Because women have embarrassing problems too, use the above to help treat yeast infec-tions. Pouring teaspoon of licorice powder into a pint of boiling water can make a homemade douche. 89. Cranberry Juice : Also used to treat the above, the juice can even help with urinary tract infections. Be sure to get an unsweetened, 100% juice kind. 90. 24 More : For more on this health problem, click here to get a list of ways to treat and prevent if from How Stuff Works.
Lesser Known Healthy Remedies That Are Right In Your Home
When you think of the below, home healthy remedy doesn’t come to mind but should.
91. Bacteria : You read that cor-rectly. Friendly bacteria in your intestines can actually help keep the more dangerous variety out. A variety of probiotics purchased over the counter can help.
92. Oysters : Because raw oysters are often seen to cause more prob-lems than they solve, the benefi ts usually go unnoticed. However, the zinc found in oysters can help stave of the fl u, heal wounds, and yes, increase male fertility. 93. Wine : The polyphenols found in wine actually can act as an antibacterial agent. They can help with everything from fl u to diarrhea. Drinking more than one glass of red or white wine,
the best they could offer among their millions of religious and moral countrymen.
To be sure, the idea of a movie actor and other entertainment ce-lebrities having successful political careers had been planted in Fan-tasy Land before. One was elected senator in the 1950s and almost became a president ten years later had his name not been implicated in a corruption scandal involving an American tycoon who was eventu-ally deported. A television announc-er also became a senator; others followed suit. They were elected not because of their experience and high education but because of their name recognition. The voters, especially the poor, perceived the roles they portrayed in the movies and televi-sions were who they really were.
The movie actor who became Fantasyland’s president started out as a town mayor in a metropolitan area. He defi ed the odds by besting the candidate of a politically-strong and cohesive religious sect whose main headquarter was based in the city. He lost at fi rst, but won one of the very few successful electoral protests in the country. Once he got his grip on power, he never let go, convincing the sect he was their boy, forever earning the group’s much-valued support and loyalty, an asset that later helped him win all the elections he participated in. When the chaos caused by the People Power Movement had died down, he topped the senatorial elections as one of the few, if not the only, candidate outside of the party of the still popular icon of democracy, the housewife who had toppled the hated dictator two years before. After having proven his nationwide support, he won the vice presidency, despite being an unproductive sena-tor previously.
The next step was easy. He culti-vated his popularity, even turning the tables on his critics who mocked his perceived lack of intelligence and inability to speak English. His public relations people, instead of censur-ing jokes in this regard, encouraged them, even helping produce more jokes at the expense of the then vice president. The actor may have been a laughing stock, but he had
the last laugh as the strategy further endeared him to the masses, and did not prevent them from voting him to the presidency. As vice president, he was assigned to head a crime commission by the president who belonged to the opposite party. It was just a token gesture to keep him busy, so he wouldn’t spend his idle time campaigning for the presidency in the next election. This is what some of the previous vice presidents did before. He made good use of this role by solving high-profi le crimes with much fanfare in the newspa-pers, thereby giving credibility to his “tough guy defender of the poor” image and bolstering his popularity. However, he and his men were also involved in some serious scandals, like that of salvaging (killing) their captured suspects so they could take the loots for themselves.
Regardless, he was elected to the presidency with the greatest major-ity of votes at that time. Instead of attending to the poor as he promised, however, he wasted no time enrich-ing himself and his relatives, includ-ing his many mistresses. His critics exposed his profl igate lifestyle, his involvement in stock manipulations, and his midnight drinking sprees in the presidential palace with shady characters. It was dubbed as his “midnight cabinet.” A videographer who released a video showing the movie-actor-turned-president gam-bling in a casino with his buddies mysteriously disappeared. People had no doubt that he was put away and murdered at the instructions of the actor-politician. He remains missing to this day: the case is still unsolved. Nobody in the govern-ment had the initiative to solve the case. They did not see any fi nancial reward from doing so. They were afraid it would lead them to the cul-prits who remain powerful and could go after them later. The fi nal blow came when one of the most powerful politicians in his inner circle, whose reputation was also dubious, broke ranks. The estranged friend feared he was being targeted for assassination by his buddy-president after an inter-nal squabble with another member of their group.
The out-of-grace friend told every-thing he knew, including the presi-dent’s involvement in widespread gambling syndicates. The ongoing
impeachment hearings against the president generated steam, but when his party mates tried to suppress one crucial piece of evidence, the people revolted, launching a second People Power uprising, thereby resulting to the leader’s ignominious ouster. The president was jailed, the fi rst time in the history of the country; after a long trial, he was convicted and pardoned. But that is getting ahead of the story.
His vice president assumed the presidency. At fi rst, she was per-ceived to be clean.
“All I wanted is to be a good presi-dent,” she declared upon taking her oath of offi ce.
The people put their faith in her; after all, she enjoyed a political lineage. Her father was a poor boy who became president. He, despite getting involved in scandals him-self, appeared saintly compared to his successor, the evil dictator. She studied economics at an American university while her father was president. She was presumed to be an economics expert who could cure the country’s economic ills. The president was so religious nobody thought she would also be corrupt. The fi rst sign was when her husband was accused of corruption by a dis-enchanted childhood friend appoint-ed to a social post in the presidential palace just a few months after his wife assumed offi ce.
“I don’t need to steal,” the First Gentleman declared then. “I belong to a very rich family.”
Indeed, he did. His family used to own many lands in the cities and countrysides. But that did not pre-vent him from becoming one of the most corrupt in the country’s history.
The fi rst family got involved in so many high-profi le scandals that it was really a surprise no charges stuck. The president was caught talk-ing to an election commissioner over the phone while the votes were still being counted during her reelection bid. The Commission on Elections was supposed to be a constitution-ally-independent body to preserve its integrity. Her husband’s name was involved in the government’s computerization project involving millions of dollars of grease money. At one time, he was accused of stashing away millions of dollars of ill-gotten money in a secret bank account. His brother came to his rescue, claiming the secret account and the code name belonged to him. During an election, funds intended to purchase fertilizers for the farmers to help boost their production and livelihood were diverted to boost the campaign funds of the administra-tion candidates. The government offi cial involved had to fl ee to the United States - an obvious admission of guilt -to escape prosecution, yet was extradited back by the American government itself. Then there was the scandal involving a rail system in the metropolis. Later, second hand helicopters allegedly owned by the First Gentleman were sold to the police as fi rst hand.
Despite these glaring criminal acts, the couple managed to escape conviction. Plunder cases were fi led against the president every year. It is believed they were fi led by the cohorts of the president who made sure the cases had loopholes or weak proof to beat others from fi ling cases with more convincing evidence. Once their weak case was dismissed, the others would have to wait anoth-er year as the law only allowed one case per year. The following year, the president’s accomplices would fi le another weak case, thereby ensuring the president’s safety until her term ended. The People Power uprising against her did not prosper because there was a lack of credible alternative from the opposition. It was thought it would just mean kick-ing out a criminal to place another criminal in the post.
People who believe that crime does not pay hoped the couple would eventually land in jail. But some doubt it, as demonstrated by how the heirs of the evil dictator came out unscathed after he was toppled, openly fl aunting and spending their ill-gotten wealth from Fantasyland-ers, thousands of whom are dying of hunger each day. – AJ
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Ay multo! dala ng hangin o aninoIsang kaluluwang nagkatawang-taoLumitaw, nawala sa isang segundoEspiritong nagbalik dito sa mundo? Ay multo! panakot sa batang maguloKahit matanda ayaw makita itoAnyo’y nakapaninindig-balahiboAng makasumpong, kakaripas ng takbo. Ang mga multo ay dapat kahabaganKapag nagpakita’y alayan ng dasalPagala-galang walang patutunguhanAng hinahanap nila’y katiwasayan. Dapat ngang kaawaan ang mga multoAng salitang multo’y hiniram ng taoSa gawaing masama’y ginamit itoMasunod lamang ang lahat ng kapritso. Multo’y ikinabit sa katiwalianNg mga taong hangari’y magpayamanPamimili ng mga multong kalakalIsang uri’t paraan ng pagnanakaw. Mayro’ng kung turinga’y pagawaing multoSa papeles ang proyekto ay kumpletoNguni’t hanapin kung nasaan nga itoWalang maituro, pagka’t isang multo. May mga multong pangala’y nakalistaDi naman nagtrabaho’y tuloy ang ganaAng sahod, kanino kaya napupuntaKundi sa multong makapal na ang bulsa. Sa tuwing halala’y may botanteng multoGamit ng mga gahamang pulitikoHindi nangingiming mandaya ng botoUpang maluklok sa hangad na puwesto. Ayon sa ating Komisyong TagasuriNabunyag mga retiradong kawaniBuwan-buwa’y sumasahod ng salapiMga Pensyonadong multo ang taguri. Sakaling may multong makabasa nitoPaumanhin ang kahilinga’t pagsamoHindi ninanasang gambalain kayoNais lamang antigin ang puso ng tao. Ika-2 ng Septyembre, 2011
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in his professional life, Ronnie takes his roles as a husband and Dad seriously. Even with a very busy schedule, he squeezes in quality time with Mariz and their girls. He has not really encouraged his daughters to enter showbiz, but he sees a bit of him in them as they love sports also, the way he does.
A New Challenge in Government Service
In 2009, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Ron-nie as the Chairman of the Opti-cal Media Board (OMB). OMB is responsible in regulating the manufacture of optical media which includes fi lms in CD and DVD formats, software, computer games, as well as CDs of local and foreign musicians. He succeeded other movie personalities – Edu Manzano and Bong Revilla, who handled the same tasks.
In one write up about him, Ronnie was described as a very principled man. He had always believed that he is a man tasked to carry out a mission. Ronnie is a favorite guest celebrity in some events for a worthy cause. He is one of the few showbiz personalities who has an advocacy for clean living. He encourages people, especially the youth, to engage in physical activi-ties such as sports and martial arts, instead of getting involved with drug and alcohol.
He is an advocate of anti-drug/anti-smoke/anti-smut and natural family planning campaigns. He once was offered by a cigarette manufac-turing company the amount of P3.5 million in order to do a commercial for them. He fl atly refused the offer, as he would not endorse a prod-uct that he knows can be bad for people’s health. For such an act, the World Health Organization recog-nized him as a staunch advocate of anti-smoking back in 2004. That was a test of his integrity, and Ron-nie passed it with fl ying colors.
He has been a spokesperson for the Philippine Cancer Society for years, although he is neither a cancer survivor nor does he have any family member who struggled with the disease. Yet he understands the needs of cancer patients and the people who take care of them. Many non-profi t social groups such as the Gawad Kalinga has invited him to grace their events, and even to be a self-defense instructor to some of their staff. He had delivered inspira-tion speeches to the youth on several occasions.
Yet most of his social activities are seldom made public. This is the very trait that has endeared him to many – he operates quietly sans the media coverage and lets the results speak for themselves.
In the short time that Ronnie has held his position as OMB chair-man, he has already made a mark in the anti-piracy initiatives of his offi ce. He has also gained enemies to the extent that he gets life threats from time to time. Recently, he has made raids in Quiapo, Manila and padlocked the illegal distribu-
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tors of DVDs. He is proud to say that the combined efforts of OMB and Mayor Lim have now cleansed Quiapo, which for years has been the hub of pirated fi lms.
While new at his post, it was un-derstandable that some of the OMB employees did not welcome him willingly. A change of management always creates some instability, but Ronnie was eventually able to get the trust of his staff. Being a black belter, he started teaching some of his staff a few self-defense tactics. He renewed patriotism as he revived the fl ag ceremony. He conducts team building workshops once a month and invites guest speakers, like Gov-ernor Vilma Santos.
TodayRonnie lives a happy life with his
wife Mariz and two lovely daugh-ters. He is dedicated to his job as OMB chairman, and looks forward to the day that piracy will become a thing of the past. One of his mis-sions is to provide livelihood for those who get displaced because of the OMB operations. Many are our Muslim brothers who are them-selves, victims to the big syndicates who bring these goods from other countries.
His message to the public is to patronize Filipino talent by not buy-ing pirated foreign fi lms and music videos. He asks people to support OMB’s goal to eradicate piracy and regulate the manufacture of optical media in all its forms. He has also created a Facebook page that details the achievements of OMB.
On the fi rst day, God created the dog and said: ‘Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’
The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?’
So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said: ‘Entertain peo-ple, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.’
The monkey said: ‘Monkey tricks
for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?’
And God agreed. On the third day, God created the
cow and said: ‘You must go into the fi eld with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.’
The cow said: ‘That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years; How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?’
And God agreed again. On the fourth day, God created
humans and said: ‘Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.’
But the human said: ‘Only twenty
years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?’
‘Okay,’ said God, ‘You asked for
it.’ So, that is why for our fi rst twenty
years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grand-children. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to
you.
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Did 9/11 really trigger the bankruptcy of the U.S.?
Before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, on May 1, 2011 Americans and the world claimed victory against the al-Qaeda, when bin Laden was killed by the American forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and even be-lieved that the threat of terrorism has fi nally came to an end. Surprisingly, as early as the second week of Au-gust, the Homeland Security and the White House gave a stern warning not just the White House, Pentagon and New York, but to continental USA and its allies, to be more alert and to be on guard 24/7 for a pos-sible terrorist attack, especially on the tenth anni-versary of 9/11. Most Ameri-cans in Califor-nia and Arizona believed that last Thurs-day’s (Sept. 7) long hours of black out was already a ter-rorist act.
Is it not a quandary why bin Laden and the al-Qaeda hated so much the USA? Tracing back the origin of al-Qaeda was in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. History noted, Osama bin-Laden traveled to Afghanistan and helped organize Arab dissidents to resist the Sovi-ets. Sometime in 1966, bin-Laden became more radical and called the American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia, and in 1998, he outlined his objections to American foreign policy with respect to Israel, as well as the continued presence of Ameri-can troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. From hereon, Bin-Laden used Islamic texts to extort Muslims to attack Americans which resulted the tragic attacks on American soil.
Here is the overview of 9/11. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airlines en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles after takeoffs from Boston, Newark and Washington, DC. Planes with long fl ights were selected inten-tionally for hijacking because they would be heavily fueled. American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 77 from
Washington to Los Angeles crashed into the Pentagon, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco crashed near Shanksville, Pannsylvania and another United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower f the World Trade Center.
Most Americans blamed 9/11 (the war on terror) and foreign wars in Irag, Afghanistan and Paki-stan which is single handidly shoul-dered by the Americans to police the world, and spend billions of dollars causing the US to be bankrupt. We have been hammered with the propa-
ganda that these foreign wars is bankrupt-ing America, but contrary to these, American taxpayers spent more billions on welfare and social ser-vices to illegal aliens, for edu-
cation for the American-born children of illegals, known as anchor babies, and to incarcerate them, in which, according to statistics 30% of all federal prison inmates are illegals.
As reported by Homeland Security in 2005, there were four to ten mil-lion illegal aliens who crossed our Southern Border, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist coun-tries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine,, meth, heroin and marijuana crossed into the US from the South-ern Border. The National Policy In-stitute estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a fi ve-year period. Reports said, in 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 billion in remittances to their countries of origin.
Based on this report, Americans should not be stupid enough to let go this misgivings to happen year after year. Stand up and yell loud enough, to let those people in congress know what is going on and stop politick-ing, do what they have to do to save America and prevent the collapse of our economy. -- Joe C.Son
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“The souls that say this chaplet will be embraced by My mercy during their lifetime and especially at the hour of their death (754).” -- Words of Jesus in the Diary of St. Faustinaespecially at the hour of their death (754).” -- Words of Jesus in the Diary of St. Faustina
CHAPLET OF THE DIVINE MERCYUsing the rosary beads, recite one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one I Believe in God.
On the Our Father beads say this prayer, which was given by Our Lord to St. Faustina (1905-1938).
Eternal Father, I o�er You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
On the Hail Mary beads say:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
In conclusion say three times:
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
The Hour of Great Mercy
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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Over here, we can paraphrase Churchill to say: Never had so many owed so much to just one man. That one man is former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. whose assassina-tion we mark today.
Most Filipinos were not yet born during that period when we were under the Marcos dictatorship. You had to be there to appreciate the control of the country that Dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos wielded. He was unchallenged because he cre-ated a servile parliament and practi-cally exercised combined legislative and executive functions. The then Supreme Court Chief Justice was happy to hold the parasol of the First Lady, Imelda Marcos. Marcos held a fi rm grip on the military and he also controlled media. He and his cronies monopolized the important industries.
In August of 1983, Marcos held all the important levers of power — but he was suffering from a serious renal problem. Sans a succession that could be enforced after Marcos died, there would have been a power struggle and the country could end up in turmoil, even possibly have a civil war.
At that time, when he and his fam-ily lived in Boston, Ninoy Aquino was enjoying the protection of the US government. Marcos allowed Ninoy Aquino to go to the US after Ninoy developed a serious heart ailment that needed bypass surgery. Nobody would have faulted Ninoy if he opted not to return home. In fact, most of his closest relatives and friends advised him to stay in Boston because Marcos was said to have threatened to kill him if he ever returns to upset the power equation or attempt to reshape the succession. At that time, it was largely believed that First Lady Imelda Marcos was the preferred Marcos successor but there were rumblings of dissent from within the Marcos inner circle.
The then Opposition that Ninoy led were an unwieldy group. Martial law destroyed the two-party system that operated under the Nacionalista and Liberal Parties. It was even whispered in political circles that Marcos had effectively infi ltrated all major Opposition groups with his moles. These moles planted seeds of discord within the party and ensured that Marcos was updated always on Opposition plans and undertakings.
Many were manifesting their objections to the dictatorship in whispers that were usually made only among trusted friends and kin. You had real reasons to fear for your life and fortune if you opposed Mar-
cos. One of the few who dared to openly expose the sins of the Marcos dictatorship before big crowds and in media was Ninoy Aquino.
Marcos had good reason to fear Ninoy Aquino as his single biggest political threat. Nobody in the then Opposition or even in the party of Marcos — the KBL (Kilusang Bagong Lipunan) — could ever match the political savvy and cha-risma of Ninoy. Imelda Marcos had the charisma but hardly anything else. The other players and successor wannabes were short on both.
After Ninoy Aquino learned from highly reliable sources that Marcos had undergone a delicate kidney transplant operation and suffered a subsequent kidney rejection — he immediately left Boston and made his historic return to his native land. Ninoy Aquino did not enter-tain illusions that he would be able to mount anything that will give him the inside track to succeeding Marcos. What Ninoy Aquino sought to achieve in returning home was to ensure a democratic succession after Marcos departs. That naturally placed him at odds with what both Marcos and Imelda wanted. In those days, impede an important Marcos political objective and you’ll likely pay with your life.
Until Marcos became president and subsequently, dictator, bloody incidents in Philippine politics hap-pened only at the local level. Until August 21, 1983, no national politi-cian was ever killed. Ninoy Aquino’s assassination changed all that. The reputedly bloody Marcos regime had exceeded itself.
However, the assassination that was obviously intended to stifl e dis-sent during a crucial period of suc-cession backfi red and Ninoy’s death struck deep into the consciousness of the nation. The nation that for so long was afraid to speak out against the dictator suddenly rediscovered its courage, no doubt inspired by the example of Ninoy Aquino. It was Ninoy who once said that courage was infectious and that was what he did — infect the Filipino nation with his courage.
The Makati big businessmen, who would not even want to be seen whispering in coffee shops, suddenly found the courage to raise their voices in dissent and rallied along Ayala Avenue. It sent a signal to the chief sponsors of the Marcos dicta-torship ‚ the US — that Marcos was fi nished. If folks with a lot to lose are suddenly willing to take the ulti-mate risk, expect those with nothing to lose and everything to gain to be in the thick of the fi ght.
The rest, as they say, is history.
When asked if he has political am-bitions after serving as OMB chair-man, he emphatically said “NO.” He believes that he does not need a political position in order to reach out to people who are in need and to continue his advocacy of service. He is happy with his job now and would probably go back to directing and acting once his term is over.
To Ronnie, I am proud that you
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from your work ethics, self-disci-pline and commitment to service. With people like you in the govern-ment service, I am confi dent that change is not at all impossible.
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Sur Rep. Marc Cagas are all ‘attack dogs’ of the Arroyos.”
Perhaps, I wasn’t paying atten-tion but I must admit that I never even thought of that nor do I think as Intel does. He says that Alvarez and his officials were subjected to a “Spanish inquisition” rather than an “investigation”, while Tan was treated like a “house guest.”
Intel notes that the Congressmen seemed to have intimate knowledge about customs operations – allow-ing them to launch a well-prepared, highly specific line of questioning against Alvarez. “The congress-men seemed to know more about the anomaly than anyone else in the room. Who gave them all the information?”
Who, indeed? Was John Tan privy
to Oplan Bwelta? Intel says about Tan: That former Customs Commis-sioner Napoleon Morales appointed him to his post. James Enriquez, Tan’s close friend and the former chief of staff of Morales, is now the advisor of Congresswoman Magsay-say. In 1999, former BOC chief Nel-son Tan, John’s nephew, removed him as District Collector for Cebu. And in 2002, then Customs head Tony Bernardo also relieved John Tan from his post in Davao.
Purportedly, it was Morales and Mike Arroyo’s alleged partner Tom Toh who orchestrated the Congres-sional inquiry, with the promise of media exposure and funding for the cooperative congressmen. The financial backing would not be a problem, as there must be many sources willing to contribute to rid themselves of Lito Alvarez. Every-one hates whoever is the Customs Commissioner!
The backers are said to be a cur-rent lady official of the Bureau of In-ternal Revenue who reportedly has a personal relationship with John Tan who is said to also have close links with some ladies named Crystala and Eloisa. The BIR lady’s son and his partner Boy Valenzuela are also in on the campaign to discredit Alva-rez who stumbled on the mystery of the missing container vans.
The plotters and implementers of Oplan Bwelta are happy. The congressmen involved in the inquiry are getting media exposure and earn-ing pogi points; John Tan looks like an innocent victim of infighting in the bureau; and all the brouhaha in Customs has relegated the helicopter issue to the inside pages of publica-tions and secondary news on televi-sion and radio.
There is still a second phase, which will allegedly bring the miss-ing container vans issue all the way to Malacañang. Someone close to PNoy and part of the Malacañang bureaucracy was apparently for-merly with Pure Gold, which has been rumored as a beneficiary of the highly taxable goods that got lost on the way to the Port of Batangas.
Will Oplan Bwelta succeed or will PNoy’s boys prove to be smarter than they seem?
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“Promised Land” by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.PROMISED LAND, the inspirational
and diffi cult journey of two Filipino cousins marrying U.S. Navy personnel for migration and fi nancial purposes. As a piece of the Filipino-American experi-ence, this story also applies to the lives of all people.
Excerpts from the book“You must join the U.S. Navy so we
can live abroad,” Isabel often told her boyfriend Lando as they walked in the park, weaving dreams for their future to-gether. He would just shrug his shoulders in response. – from Chapter 1 – Her U.S. Navy Dreamboat
The clash of two cultures, Filipino and Mexican, had taken its toll. He grew weary of the enchiladas, tacos, burritos and other Mexican dishes she prepared repeatedly. He longed for the Filipino dishes from his native land that he would always eat as a child. Teresa would not let him cook his favorite adobo and tuyo (dried fi sh) due to their stinking up the house. When he brought her to the Phil-ippines, Teresa refused to stay and sleep in their house in the barrio. “It is hot and there are lizards on the ceiling,” she com-plained. – from Chapter 3 - Trophy Wife
“Let me make this clear with you again,” Ditas once told Romy when he accosted her while tipsy from with friends nearby. “I will never marry you even if you are the last man on earth.” The friends laughed hard and Romy in shame. The next day he left town and she didn’t hear from him until she received a letter from the United States Base in San Diego from her jilted suitor, now a member of the U.S. Navy. – from Chapter 5 - The Last Man On Earth
One evening, when Romy and his friends were drinking in the house, Ditas showed Andy the photo of Isabel. “Check her out, Andy,” she told him. “She’s look-ing for a boyfriend here in America.” “No way,” Andy replied. “I know what she’s up to. She will just marry and leave me once she gets her green card.” “But she’s very pretty,” Romy told his friend. “With your looks, you can never have a wife as beautiful as her.” – from Chapter 8 – Pretty Girl’s Photo
“Is this your fi rst time riding an air-plane?” her seatmate, a woman in her fi f-ties, asked Isabel. “How did you know?” “Because you’re holding your bag tightly and you look scared. And also, that huge envelope in plastic bag contains the x-ray fi lm carried by fi rst time immigrants.” Isabel sheepishly smiled. – from Chapter
12 – Land of Milk and Honey
“Betel Nuts & Other Stories”
by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. Entertaining and easy-to-read short sto-
ries inspired by a Filipino’s experience in growing up in the Philippines.
Excerpts from the book
One day, however, the duckling went inside an opening under the house. Boro-bot waited for it to come out but it did not. He kept waiting even when it got dark, but there was no sign of the duckling. When his father came home that evening, he told him about his missing duckling. His dad took a fl ashlight and pointed it toward the opening. He inserted a long stick inside and tried to stir it. They could hear some squealing but no quacking. Fi-nally, his dad told him the bad news: “The rats have eaten your duckling.” Borobot cried and cried for a very long time. – from Chapter 2 – Childhood Tales
If there is a person that can aptly be called “the son of a bitch”, which in Pilipino, is synonymous to the phrase, “the son of a whore” (“anak ng puta”), it would be Tikboy. Tikboy was one of Er-ic’s playmates on Platerias Street where Eric lived with his family on the second fl oor of his father’s printing business in Manila in 1957. Tikboy’s mother, Purita, worked as a prostitute in a brothel across the street from Eric’s house. – from Chap-ter 6 - Just Like Any Mother
From where he sat, he could tell Juanita had just bathed. Her hair was still damp and the fragrant scent of her cheap bath soap wafted through the air. She hardly noticed him as she was minding her own business. While he pretended to be con-centrating on his reading, he would occa-sionally take a sneak peak at her, feasting his eyes on all of her seductive beauty. For a hot-blooded fourteen-year-old, she was not just an object of curiosity. – from Chapter 9 – Fragrant Scent of Bath Soap And All
By the time they reached Platerias Street, everything was quiet. There was hardly a soul in sight; it was ten minutes past midnight. Narding frantically ran in-side the brothel in search of Clarita, but he was told the Chinese took her just ten minutes before. He ran outside towards P. Paterno Street. Finding no speeding taxi, he ran back towards Carriedo Street, turned right towards Rizal Avenue, hop-ing the taxi holding Clarita had broken down. Finally, a loud, agonizing cry was heard all over in that quiet neighborhood of Quiapo. – from Chapter 11 – True Love
Everyone was looking up at the top of an electric post, where sparks of light shone bright against the dark of the night. When the fi remen trained the spotlight to the top of the post, they saw a body of a man lying on a wood across the post. It was Fred, the drunkard pimp. With-out anybody noticing, he woke from deep slumber and this time, successfully climbed the top of the post. He was elec-trocuted while celebrating his feat. – from Chapter 15 – A Day In The Life Of The People Of Platerias Street
“Philippine Homecoming’s Cherished Memories”
by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.An entertaining and easy-to-read ac-
count of a Filipino American’s home-coming to the Philippines and the inter-
esting memories it triggered.Excerpts from the bookSeeing the Philippines for the fi rst
time after many years would give any former resident a “culture shock.” The roads, which looked to be wider before, appeared narrow. The buildings and the streets, which were dilapidated and dirty before, looked more dilapidated and dirty now. – Chapter 2 – Balikbayan Culture Shock
All of a sudden, the small kids from before were now grown up. Their faces had changed, yet somehow looked fa-miliar. Some of his relatives who lived in a compound beside them had already died. Gone forever during a span of just ten years were his maternal grandmother, three uncles, two aunties and two cous-ins. – Chapter 3 – Like A Video Tape Ex-perience
Their vehicle moved towards the man and again they asked: “Boss, alam mo ba ang bahay ni Maning Bakla (Boss, do you know the residence of Maning, the homo-sexual?)?” The man looked serious and glumly said: “Yes, I am Maning, what do you want?” They were embarrassed as they were sure that Maning did not ap-preciate the unsavory nickname. – Chap-ter 6 – Maning Bakla And the Duty Free Shops In Manila
There was a full moon above, and they could see its refl ections on the water as the waves slapped on the sand. They could feel the cool breeze kiss their face, the warm water wet their feet. On that cold December evening in Maryland
Beach Resort in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines, they wanted to freeze time and enjoy every moment of their stay – Chapter 10 – Nasugbu Market Place And The IUD BBQ
Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas proved to be an innovative mayor; for example, he introduced the free elementary and high school education in the city, the fi rst of its kind in the country. He was also a poet in the vernacular; at every opportu-nity, he would recite or talk in the form of a poem he himself composed. In answer to his critics, he once said: “Marami ang nagtatanong kung bakit ako tumutula, bakit, ang tula ba ay masama (Many are asking why I am reciting a poem, why, is a poem bad)?” Chapter 17 – When “Gat-puno” Villegas warmed his “Salumpu-wit” at Maharnilad
Their playmates from the barrio were cautious and made a sign of the cross when passing ant hills, which they would call “nuno sa punso”. They would rev-erently say, “Makikiraan, po (Please al-low us to pass!)!” Chapter 31 – Nuno Sa Punso And Other Weird Provincial Expe-riences
The boys, usually fi ve at a time, would line up and march without their pants towards the rice fi elds at the back of the house. They would pass by a guava tree, pull out several leaves and wash them in the artesian well. Once in the fi eld, the quack doctor would hammer a stake into the ground made of a branch of a guava tree with the other end bent towards the boy. – Chapter 34 – Circumcision: Why Do Some Boys Walk Bow-Legged During Summertime In The Province?
“Complicated Affairs” by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.The unbelievable but mostly true story
of a man’s complicated affairs.Excerpts from the book:How did you know Richard?” she
asked. Danny was fast to the draw. “I produced his shows there,” he lied. He could see Menchie, the movie star, was impressed. “And I can also produce your show,” he continued the charade. She was pleased. “Do you think people will pay
just to watch me? “Why, are we going to charge them?” he asked instead. Menchie was aghast, but realized he was joking. She hit him on the shoulder. He knew the ice was broken. – Chapter 2 : Movie Star
“So how are you doing?” Danny was pleased to hear from Juanita. “I am okay, how about you?” “So-so,” he replied. “I’ve missed you,” his playboy persona took over again. “Really?” she asked. “I have something to tell you.” “What? “ Danny was rejuvenated. He had not dated for a while and was eager to do so. He saw an opportunity with Juanita. “I just gave birth to a baby girl.” “Congratulations,” Danny said. “Are you sexy again?” He was hoping to renew their relationship but was unsure about it since she was with her husband. Juanita did not answer his question; instead, she said, “And it’s yours.” – Chapter 3 :Another Child
“This is Mindy,” Diaz introduced a pretty twenty-fi ve year old girl to him when he arrived at the dock. “She’s
PROMISED LAND by Simeon G. Silverio Jr.BETEL NUTS AND OTHER STORIES by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.COMPLICATED AFFAIRS by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.THE BOYS OF SUMMER AND OTHER STORIES by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.RICE COOKER: WRITINGS ON FILIPINO AMERICAL LIFE, ISSUES AND PEOPLE by Simeon G. Silverio Jr.THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A FILIPINO-AMERICAN IN SAN DIEGO, California by Simeon G. Silverio JrBALIK TANAW – THE LIVES AND LOVES OF FILIPINO MOVIE STARS OF YESTERYEARS by Dr. Romy ProtacioPHILIPPINE HOMECOMING’S CHERISHED MEMORIES – by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.PHILIPPINE VISIT’S PRECIOUS MEMORIES – by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.PHILIPPINE TRAVELS’ TREASURED MEMORIES – by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.ISANG LAKSANG TULA NG MGA PILING KATATAWANAN ni Joe Cabrera THE RAIN IN SPAIN AND OTHER TRAVEL STORIES by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.
About the author SIMEON G. SILVERIO, JR. was born and
raised in Manila, Philippines, and was educated at the Juan Sumulong Elementary School and Arellano High School, both in Santa Cruz, Ma-nila. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism at the University of the Philip-pines and took graduate courses for a Master in Communications and a Master in Business Administration at the Ateneo de Manila Uni-versity. He worked as a managing editor of Sunburst Publications, publisher of Sunburst International Magazine, Business Outlook in the Philippines & Asia and Yaman Magazine. He also published and edited Business Ven-tures in the Philippines & Asia. He was reluc-tant to leave his thriving career in the Philip-pines when he had an opportunity to migrate to the United States in 1982. However, the assassination of Marcos critic Benigno Aquino a few months later, which resulted in the col-lapse of the Philippine economy, gave him the obvious choice. He knew he would be compet-ing against U.S. educated American journalists whose mother tongue was English if he were to apply as a reporter in a mainstream news-paper. Even if he were hired, he would just be
given minor assignments that would not give him much professional fulfi llment. Aware that his advantage was and remains his knowledge of the Asian and Filipino community, he decided to continue his journalism career and avail of his business training by publishing Asian Journal, the fi rst Filipino weekly newspaper in San Diego County. It had been a successful business up to the present, one that had well-provided for him and his family fi nancially and fulfi lled him pro-fessionally as a journalist. At fi rst, he was like
other columnists who commented about the conditions in the Philippines. Hundreds of writers had done it before; sadly, their sug-gestions often fell on deaf ears. He realized such articles would only be relevant for a few days; they would soon be overtaken by events and would be forgotten. He remembered his parents telling them stories of their childhood during dinners. As an adult, he appreciated and remembered those stories. He lamented the fact his Filipino American daughters, born and raised in America, did not have any idea of their Filipino parents’ backgrounds. From then on, he started writing about his memo-ries while growing up in the Philippines so his daughters and grandchildren will eventu-ally know and appreciate them. He hopes his readers will also pass on such information, as contained in his writings, to their progeny so the next generation of Filipino Americans, at least in San Diego, will not be totally in the dark about their Filipino heritage. This is one of the reasons why he continues to write, and why his writings are published into books - so they can be preserved for posterity. In 1999, he co-founded the Los Angeles Asian Journaland later moved on to focus on his business interests in San Diego, California, where he has resided for over 30 years.
Digna’s sister.” Mindy shyly extended her right hand which Danny shook. He noticed that Digna was teasing her sis-ter, as though there was a pre-arranged plan between Diaz and the two girls un-beknownst to him. Later on, during the course of the fi shing trip, he discovered the plan: Digna wanted Danny to hook up with her sister. “Marry my sister,” Digna told him as they ate lunch aboard the boat in the middle of the bay. “So she can mi-grate to America.” She knew Danny was a divorced American citizen. – Chapter 5: Gone Fishin’
Danny called up his friend Pepito and asked for ideas on how to best help Kate. Pepito was the brother of his comedian friend, Elvis, one of the top entertainers in the Philippines at that time. “Jackpot ka, pare (You’ve got a jackpot, friend),” Pepito told Danny. “She is a gold mine.” “What do you mean?” “We can set her up with rich Chinese men playing at the casinos and charge them at least 50,000 pesos to spend the night with her. I am sure many of them would be willing to spend that much just to be with a beauti-ful white girl like Kate. We will get our commission afterwards.” – Chapter 8 : Leading Lady
After Danny gave him her name, the clerk spent a few minutes in the comput-er. “That’s it,” the clerk said afterwards. “She has pension due her, and you are entitled to it!” Danny was surprised. He didn’t expect this bounty. “How much do you think you will get?” the clerk asked him. Danny was hesitant to give him an amount. He was happy to get $100-a-month. That would go a long way espe-cially if one was living in the Philippines. “One hundred dollars,” he answered. “That’s way too low, make it higher.” “Three hundred?” “Way too low.” “Five hundred?” “Still very low.” “How much?” he fi nally asked. “Try fourteen hundred dollars.” He could not believe what he heard. – Chapter 9 : Windfall
