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Ombudsman runs after Romualdez couple’s $5M Swiss deposits

Congressman Ignacio Tuason Arroyo, GMA’s brother-in-law

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What charges await Mike, Iggy for fakery

LOS ANGELES—Four Filipino-American health workers, who were fi red for speaking Tagalog in the workplace, have won the discrimination lawsuit they fi led against the Bon Secours Health System, a hospital based in Baltimore, Maryland.

The ruling was “a big win for diversity and an important victory for Filipinos in Amer-ica,” said the health workers lawyer, Arnedo Valera, coex-ecutive director of the Wash-ington DC-based Migrant

Heritage Commission (MHC).This is because aside from the

fact that the ruling benefi ts all bilingual and multilingual immi-

GOTCHA By Jarius Bon-doc | The Philippine Star -- It could be revenge — or resolve. But Egypt brought

bed-ridden former president Hosni Mubarak and two sons to court in a cage, for trial for murder. In the Philippines the family that allegedly stole billions of pesos stays un-arraigned. They continue to sway public policy and opinion. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, sons Mikey and Dato, and brother-in-law Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo sit in Congress.

Husband Mike reportedly sits on a multibillion-peso hoard con-cealed in several utilities. Publi-

GMA News -- Former Am-bassador Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez and his wife Ju-liette Gomez-Romualdez now face a forfeiture case before the Sandiganbayan over their Swiss bank deposits amount-ing $5.19 million now held in escrow at the Philippine National Bank (PNB).

The Offi ce of the Ombuds-man fi led the case on Wednes-day, nearly fi ve year after As-sistant Ombudsman Pelagio S. Apostol had approved a Nov. 22, 2006 resolution that rec-ommended fi ling of the case with the Sandiganbayan after the May 2007 elections.

Acting Ombudsman Or-lando C. Casimiro approved the case for fi ling last June 11, or before Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales was appointed.

The case was based on the Presidential Commis-sion on Good Government ’s (PCGG) 2003 complaint that the younger brother of former First Lady and now Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Romual-dez-Marcos only had a total net worth of P2,348,495.22 in his 1983 statement of assets and liabilities.

PCGG investigators traced the couple’s bank deposits on Dec. 29, 1998 after Zurich, Switzerland district attorney Peter Cosandey ordered the release of all “assets, bonds, and other fi nancial instru-ments” — pertaining to Ro-mualdez — to the Philippine government

The couple had two depos-its at UBS-Geneva, account no. CO-920.310.0 contain-ing $4,528.71 as of Dec. 31, 1998; and (Invested Trust) Account No. CO-920.310.1 holding funds amounting to $4,498,000.00 and maturing on Jan. 21, 1999 at an interest rate of 4.621 percent.

Monies in the said ac-counts originated from Stan-dard Chartered Bank-Zurich account no. 7676, which was opened on Aug. 3, 1983 with an initial deposit of $2 million transferred from the Philippine branch of Standard Chartered.

Then PNB vice president and trust offi cer Jose V. Ferro

By Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star) | MANILA, Philippines - The master-minds in the assassination of former senator Benigno Aquino Jr. remain scot-free because justice in the country is “not equal” and is strongly biased for the powerful, Sen. Joker Arroyo said yesterday.

Arroyo, an ally of the martyred senator in the anti-Marcos struggle, said the failure of authorities to pin down the masterminds in the Aquino assassination is just as tragic as his death 28 years ago at the tarmac of the Manila International Air-port, which has since been renamed after him. He was returning from exile in the

‘After 28 years, still no justice for Ninoy’United States when killed.

“Who will dare assassi-nate Ninoy? Up to now, the masterminds are not charged, and that’s the unfairness of it all,” Arroyo said over radio station dzBB, calling Aquino by his famous nickname.

“If you are a big shot, you go scot-free,” the senator said.

A fact-fi nding team set up by the Marcos regime after the assassination named Rolando Galman as the trig-german. Galman, branded as a communist hit man by the Marcos regime, was killed by airport security men and soldiers.

Yellow confetti fl ies around a statue of the late Sen. Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino Jr. as Filipinos commemorated his 28th death anniversary in Manila yesterday. Right photo shows Ninoy’s sister Ditas during a ceremony at the NAIA tarmac, where the former senator was assassinated. Lower right photo shows a pair of giant eyeglass-es, similar to those worn by Ninoy, on dis-play at SM City Marikina. EDD GUMBAN/RUDY SANTOS/WALTER BOLLOZOS

Danny found out the name of his long-lost daughter, who had donated part of her kidney to him, was Marietta. Her mother, Juanita, abandoned her quest for Danny’s whereabouts after a year of trying. She realized Danny was gone for good when her search turned cold.

“I only learned you were hiding from us when my mother died of a heart attack when I was nine-teen,” Marietta told Danny. “She said you had died of cancer when I was a baby, but I wondered why we didn’t have a single photograph of you. Eventu-ally, my relatives told me about you.”

“I am glad you are not mad at me,” the repentant Danny told her.

“I was,” Marietta said. “But my Christian upbring-ing told me to forgive and forget. I looked for you, but when I fi nally tracked down JR through FaceBook, thanks to your identical name, he claimed not to know your whereabouts. I kept trying; fi nally, JR told me you were sick.”

“Why did you donate your kidney and give me a new lease on life? It would have been a sweet revenge on your fa-

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Arroyo said the repercussions of Ninoy’s unsolved death continue to hound post-Marcos administrations including those of his widow, the late Corazon Aquino, and their son Benigno III. Ninoy’s death on Aug. 21, 1983 sparked almost daily street protests that led to the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution which cat-apulted his widow to the presidency. Their son and Ninoy’s namesake, for his part, overwhelmingly won in the 2010 presidential elections mainly on the platform of anti-corruption.

Arroyo said he doubts Ninoy’s death would ever get stricken off the police’s statistics of “unsolved crimes” even if his son is already in power. The previous Arroyo administration pardoned the soldiers convicted for the Aquino assassina-tion. Arroyo said the ordinary foot soldiers convicted for the assas-sination may have unjustly been meted long prison terms. He added they might just have been following orders.

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By: Dennis E. Chua, Esq.

The announcement made by U. S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Na-politano on August 18, 2011 was welcomed by immigration rights advocates. The announce-ment was in line with President Obama’s new policy to exercise prosecutorial discretion in the arrest, detention and prosecution of immigration cases.

The Obama Administration an-nounced the creation of a work-ing group which will review all cases pending before the im-migration courts. Those that are considered “low priority” may be administratively closed. Those that are considered a “high prior-ity” case will be prosecuted more aggressively. An example of a “high priority” case would be a removal case involving criminal aliens.

However, this announcement has also led to confusion and un-scrupulous individuals are now taking advantage of this new policy of the government. The new policy announcement is not an amnesty or a new law which will grant legal status or working permits to persons who are cur-rently in the country in unlaw-ful status. So the public is now being warned by immigration

rights advocates not to believe anyone who tells you that you can sign up for a work permit or get legal status based on Sec-retary Napolitano’s August 18, 2011 announcement. Thus, there is no paperwork to complete for you to fi le any application with the government. The recent policy deals with people who are currently in removal proceedings and their cases may be reviewed by the government as to which cases should be terminated.

Individuals who are now in removal proceedings may benefi t from this new change in policy. Recently, US immigra-tion authorities have agreed to halt a deportation case against a Venezuelan man in a same-sex marriage in California. The immigration judge in that case has agreed to administratively close the removal case against this individual at the request of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Pending the release of the fi nal guidelines by the government as to who can avail of this new policy, each case should be as-sessed to determine whether or not a person in removal proceed-ing meets the standards laid down by the government and be eligible to request for an admin-istrative closure of their cases at

this time.

Atty. Dennis E. Chua is a partner in The Law Firm of Chua Tinsay and Vega (CTV) - a full service law fi rm with offi ces in San Francisco, San Diego and Manila. The information presented in this article is for general information only and is not, nor intended to be formal legal advice nor the formation of an attorney-client relation-ship. The CTV attorneys will be holding its regular free legal clinic at the Max’s Restaurant in Vallejo, California on August 29, 2011. Call or e-mail CTV for an in-person or phone consultation to discuss your particular situ-ation and/or how their services may be retained at (415) 495-8088; (619) 955-6277; [email protected]

Ron • (email)AUG 23 • I live in a community because it has similar interest to

mine. Its not about white, brown, red or black. Its about people with similar views and interest. if I thought Mira Mesa met my views and interest better than Rancho Penasquitos , I would be living in Mira Mesa.

I am tired of special interest groups saying they know what best for me. The 200+ RP signatures collected in favor of grouping RP with Mira Mesa is a very small number compared to the thousands that oppose this marriage.

Go fi nd another community.

Redistricting Open Letter to Asian Americans: We Are Not The “Sick man Of Asia” Of The 19th Century

AMB • (email)AUG 19 • This retrogression is just unfair. The US congress now

is planning to pass this “dream bill”, a bill that is, if enacted into law, would legalize the stay of illegal “stayers” in the US if they are en-rolled in an educational facility. In other words, they are planning to “bless” these ILLEGAL immigrants with these bill while the people from abroad, patiently, properly, and LEGALLY waiting for the past years or decades are suffering from this retrogression. This is just unfair.

January 2011 Visa Bulletin: the Great Retrogression for Family-Based Categories

SteveW • [email protected] 30 • Ingrid Cruz is now an executive member of the (AFT/

LFT). Also after checking with DEPED, Ingrid Cruz’s name did not register as a graduate of any school. Did she falsify has transcripts? This woman does not care about other Filipino teachers who have families and love ones that need their fi nancial support. that’s all.

Ian C. • [email protected] 05 • Ingrid C.. is the one to blame for losing his job. If the

lawsuit didn’t happen, i’m sure you are still employed at this time along with your associates. Next time don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

chris inte • [email protected] 01 • there is also an associated problem here unfortunately,

the predatory placement agencies and its referral system, most of which are fi lipinos themselves who take a very high percentage of these teachers’ pay. they do the same things with fi lipino nurses in kind. not much has been said about these leeches.

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HINDSIGHT By F Sionil Jose (The Philippine Star) Updated MA-NILA, August 15, 2011 -- The artist who set up that controversial Jesus Christ exhibit at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) the other week must be grinning and enjoy-ing all that brouhaha that has made him the central object of attention in the last few days. With that single exhibition, he also brought to the fore one of the most interesting dis-cussions about art, religion, public taste and democracy — meaning the constitutional right to freedom of ex-pression. All this is, of course, very healthy and very good for Filipinos.

Now, let me contribute my two pesos worth in this melee. Bear in mind, I am an octogenarian. I have seen almost every major art museum in the world. I operated one of the earliest art galleries in Manila, Soli-daridad, from 1967 to 1977, with the intention of giving our art a Filipino

The CCP Jesus Christ exhibit:

It ain’t art

and an Asian face. I am also a novel-ist, and, as we all know, literature is the noblest of the arts. I am enumer-ating these not just to establish my bonafi des but to show that I know whereof I speak.

The exhibit should not have been shown at the CCP. If submitted to my old gallery, I would have re-jected it. It is not — I repeat — it is not art! It is an immature and juve-nile attempt at caricature. I have not seen the exhibit itself but I have seen pictures of it and they are enough to convince me of the validity of my conclusion.

First, what is art? I go by this simple defi nition: Being an artist myself although I work with words not with the brush — if I can do it, it is not art. If I were to do the Jesus

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STAR readers, like most Filipinos, see through the subterfuge. They wish Gloria well in battling infection from an implanted shoulder brace. But they also discuss what to charge malingering Mike and Iggy with, for faking a lease to throw off the chop-per probe.

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CynthiaPusoy (A Russian Poker)By Rudy D. Liporada | Chapter 8 –

Cynthia – Continued…It swirled into me that I had been

in that house, that I once played there. Cynthia, her brother, and older sisters were playmates. Underneath the house was the remnant of a Japa-nese wing’s plane which we used as a slide. At the porch, we rolled miniature bowling bowls to strike at miniature bowling pins. I cannot recall, however, if it was Cynthia or one of her sisters who brought me into one of the rooms to show me her veil that she used for her first holy communion.

My parents went there almost ev-ery time Mrs. Samson brought home groceries from the commissary in Camp John Hay. Others would also flock there to avail themselves of the Stateside goods, specially the blue seal cigarettes. Of course, only those who can afford the black market priced goods like Hills Bros coffee and cheese flocked at the Samson’s house. I vaguely recall throwing a tantrum until my parents bought me this box of animal cookies which were drawn as in a cage outside of the box. After I have sparingly consumed the animal shaped cookies over a week, I toyed with that box for months for that was one of an only toy at a time that my parents could afford.

Mr. and Mrs. Samson found the black market more lucrative so they had sold their share to the canteen to my parents who used to be their partners. Besides, going home late after midnight after the bowling business closed, they found their children sprawled, sound asleep on the sofas, in their waiting for them.

“This is not the way a family should be,” Mrs. Samson had said.

So, for every dollar they spent at the commissary, the pesos they received from the goods were equivalent to at least twice more dollars which they bought at the other face of the black market. They rolled these dollars over for more commissary goods, making the Hills Bros coffee and cheese they served me that night, for them, more than virtually free.

MRS. SAMSON BECAME MORE CORDIAL with me after she had established that the date of her Cynthia was the son of her respect-able kumpadre and kumadre even if they have not seen each other for a long time. Somehow, I thought, my parents could no longer afford the Stateside goods as the peso had largely dwindled against the dol-lar so they stopped flocking to the Samson’s house. Besides, aside from the canteen, my parents now ran a students boarding house. I guessed that they did not need profits from the black market anymore, which was just tolerated by the authorities.

Mrs. Samson was in the middle of telling me that Japanese prospectors were recently at the house, request-ing to dig under her kitchen for they were sure that it is there where they buried some gold in their haste to escape the liberation forces, when, there was a berserk cry from a baby from one of the rooms.

A woman with crumpled hair sprang out of the room. She held an empty baby milk bottle. She noticed me with her slit eyes that showed complaint of being unholy awak-ened. “Ay! We have a visitor, pala,” she said in a sleepy tone.

“Aunty Cecile, this is Rodel,” Cynthia said.

“Hello,” Aunt Cecile said. “Excuse me. I just have to fix this for the baby.” She hurried into the kitchen.

With the door ajar, the baby’s cry-ing became more intense. Its crying was soon in concert with two more little ones’ crying from the room. Cynthia got up and slammed the door shut. The crying were not sub-dued. Soon the other door opened and out came a woman with flowing long hair also in a crumpled state.

“Manang, this is Rodel,” Cynthia said introducing me to her older sister.

“Oh! Hello. I am Pamela. Please excuse the crying.”

“I really understand,” I said.By now the baby was howling for

its milk.Aunty Cecile came out of the

kitchen shaking the bottle. “I am so sorry, I am so sorry that I had disturbed you,” she said addressing no one in particular as she hurried into the room.

After awhile, the baby’s howling subsided but the others continued.

By now, other people came out from the other door and from the curtained passageway.

A litany of introductions ensued. “Rodel, this is Kuya Romy, my brother-in-law…Aunty Rosa…Lina, my niece…Uncle Eddie…Lily, a cousin…”

That dawn, there must have been fifteen pairs of eyes gawking at me. There were also some whispers which were loud enough for me to hear.

“That’s the oldest son of Louie and Susie?”

“Yes.”“What uniform is that he is wear-

ing?”“That’s the new boyfriend of

Cynthia?”“Aren’t they still on with Or-

lando?”“Shhh! He might hear you.”AFTER ALMOST EVERYONE

HAVE ALSO PARTAKEN OF THE HILLS BROS COFFEE and cheese, I started my goodbyes.

“Romy lend him your flashlight,” Mrs. Samson said.

“I’ll walk you up to the bananas,” Cynthia said.

As Kuya Romy fetched a flash-light, everyone bid me good morn-ing and dragged themselves into their rooms. As I was forcing on my shoes which had become tighter because the mud had dried, Mrs. Samson was smiling.

“Here,” she said. “Apply this if ever you scrape off the mud.” She

handed me a shoeshine applicator. Black and Made in USA. “Give my regards to Louie and Susie. Tell them I will bring them to John Hay one of these days.”

At the banana grove, Cynthia said “I am really very very sorry, Rodel. It should not have been as hard as this. I did not expect it to rain yesterday.”

“Hey, I had a very nice night,” I said. “I was with you, I met your family. It is me who is worried about you.”

“About what?”Your boyfriend. He would be mad

at you when he finds out you went to a party with another guy.”

“We just broke up.”“Is that why you had a hard time

dancing with me tonight?”

from all indications the contract is bogus. It was notarized on March 16, 2004, but the cedula of Renato Sia, signatory for LionAir, was dated April 2, 2004. Iggy, signatory for LTA Inc., had no ID; only he, never Sia, signed all pages of the lease; there were no witnesses.

More damning, the starting date of the lease, March 16, 2004, contradicts official records that Mike himself presented. The lease detailed the Robinson manufacturer serial numbers and government license numbers of five helicopters. But Customs papers show that the aircraft arrived from America on March 12, 17, and 24, for clearance, assembly and test-flight. Air Trans-port Office certificates show that these were registered on March 16, 23 and 30. Yet incredibly, Mike and Iggy knew and listed the two sets of numbers even before the units were uncrated and formally registered.

Mike made a false statement under oath before two Pasay City prosecu-tors. A false statement made during preliminary investigation makes the complainant liable for perjury (People v. Bautista, C.A., 40 O.G. 2491, cited by Reyes, p.273).

Penalty: imprisonment from four months and one day, to two years and four months.

She smiled. THE FOLLOWING DAY, I told

my mother about Cynthia and Mrs. Samson.

“Son, don’t treat that girl like you did those other girls,” my mother said. “Their family is very close to us and it will be shameful if you do anything foolish. Besides, aside from her being very special, she has a lot of cousins and uncles who will surely beat you up if you be foolish about her.”

“Mom,” I said. “I need a new pair of shoes.”

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 Ama-zon.com – input A Russian Poker - or by calling the author at 858-722-1465.)


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RIDE THE BRIDGE - BIKE THE BAY 2011 is a “Fun Ride” - not a race. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, August 28, 2011. In 2010, more than 2,700 riders partici-pated!

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.

In the study, CU-Boulder Research Associate Ruth Barrientos and her colleagues showed that aging rats that ran just over half a kilometer each week were protected against infection-induced memory loss.

“Our research shows that a small amount of physical exercise by late middle-aged rats profoundly protects against exaggerated inflammation in the brain and long-lasting memory impairments that follow a serious bacterial infection,” said Barrientos of the psychology and neuroscience department.

The results of the study will appear in the Aug. 10 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience.

“Strikingly, this small amount of

running was sufficient to confer robust benefits for those that ran over those that did not run,” Barrientos said. “This is an important finding because those of advanced age are more vulnerable to memory impairments following immune challenges such as bacterial infections or surgery. With baby boomers currently at retirement age, the risk of diminished memory function in this population is of great concern. Thus, effective noninvasive therapies are of substantial clinical value.”

Past research has shown that exercise in humans protects against declines in cognitive function associated with aging and protects against dementia. Researchers also have shown that dementia is often preceded by bacterial infections, such as pneumonia, or other immune challenges.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to show that voluntary exercise in rats reduces aging-induced susceptibility to the cognitive impair-ments that follow a bacterial infection,

and the processes thought to underlie these impairments,” Barrientos said.

In the study, the researchers found that rats infected with E. coli bacteria experienced detrimental effects on the hippocampus, an area of the brain that mediates learning and memory.

Previous research has shown that immune cells of the brain, called microglia, become more reactive with age. When the older rats in the study encountered a bacterial infection, these immune cells released inflammatory

molecules called cytokines in an exag-gerated and prolonged manner.

“In the current study we found that small amounts of voluntary exercise prevented the priming of microglia, the exaggerated inflammation in the brain, and the decrease of growth factors,” Barrientos said.

The next step of this research is to examine the role that stress hormones may play in sensitizing microglia, and whether physical exercise slows these hormones in older rats, she said

Small Amount of Exercise Could Protect Against Memory Loss in Elderly, Study Suggests

Barrientos co-authored the pa-per with CU-Boulder professors of psychology and neuroscience Steven Maier, Linda Watkins, Serge Cam-peau, Heidi Day and Susan Patterson; and CU-Boulder psychology research

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The previous articles on Women’s Issues were on: “Breast Cancer and Importance of Early Detection” and “ Do-mestic Violence and Its Effect on Children”. This article is the last series on Women’s Issues, “ Domestic Violence: Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)”.

All the topics were discussed at Kalusugan Community Services’ workshop held July 16 at the Filipino American Wellness Cen-ter (FWC) in National City.

The speaker for this topic was Anne S. Bautista, Esq., Pro-gram Director of ACCESS, Inc., located at 2612 Daniel Avenue, San Diego, 92111. Anne is an immigration attorney special-izing in representing immigrant victims of domestic violence under the VAWA program. She began this program at Access Inc, in 1998 and has successfully represented thousands of women and children under this law. Access, Inc., is a part of the San Diego Asian and Pacific Islander Community Health Network, a project of Operation Samahan.

Ms. Bautista received her Juris Doctorate degree from Califor-nia Western School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the Uni-

versity of California at Berkeley. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at California Western School of Law teaching “Women and Immigration Law”, a course that takes a critical look at the effect of immigration laws and policies on women immigrat-ing to the U.S. She has received numerous awards for her work on behalf of victims and survi-vors and has trained advocates and students on the protections available to immigrant victims under VAWA.

DOMESTI C VIOLENCE

As defined in previous is-sues, domestic violence (DV) is a pattern of physical, sexual, emotional and sexual abuse in romantic or intimate relation-ships. 41-61% of Asian Ameri-cans report experiencing (DV) during their lifetime. It affects

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA): Allows Victims Of Domestic

Abuse To File For Legal Status

women’s health as they suffer from neuro-logical, heart problems, neck & back pain, and depression as a result of abuse or made worse by the abuse. Most of the women helped suffered abuse while pregnant. For some, the health of the mother resulted in miscarriage and health problems for the baby. Children are also nega-tively affected as wit-ness to abuse of parents (See previous issue).

“ The one occasion where he hit me was when I was 7 months pregnant. He threw me out of our house and told me I was a whore and that my place was on the streets. That night I lost consciousness be-cause I had fallen on the floor and I don’t know what else has happened until I was in bed and he was placing a cotton ball with alcohol under my nose. I regained consciousness and told him that I couldn’t breath and to help me. He told me the only thing I deserve was to die and if I didn’t die he will kill me. I told him I was pregnant and he told me that he did not want this child and that I was more of a value dead than alive to my child. He said that the only reason why I was alive was because the only thing he wanted from me was to have more children.” An immi-grant survivor of DV.

HIGH RISK WOMEN:

There are women who are more at risk for DV. These are women who have been wit-nesses or victims of violence or had husbands or lovers who also came from those kinds of environment. The partner may

also be into substance abuse such as alcohol. Another source of DV are the newly immigrant women from the Philippines or other for-eign countries who are married to U.S. servicemen or permanent resident. Also, the mail-order bride is another example.

Some of the foreign women may be of low education and low socio-economic status and find it difficult to find jobs in their native country. They consider marrying a stateside fellow to get them out of poverty and an op-portunity to migrate to the U.S. If they live in their own country, they are able to adjust better interracially and culturally than moving to the U.S.

In the U.S. they are subjected

to all kinds of stress due to their new cultural envi-ronment and their lack of awareness on their person-al and legal rights. They have to adjust to the cul-ture, language, and way of life. They have to become more proficient in speak-ing English, find a job, so they can be more helpful to their husbands. Frequently, the partner does not have time or incentive to tutor his immigrant wife. Most of these women are also objects of discrimination of their fellow country women living in the U.S. so that they remain iso-lated and lonely.

Another problem is that frequently the partner is on an immigrant visa and if there is a problem she becomes a victim for pos-sible deportation. The hus-band may threaten not to renew her visa so she can’t be a permanent resident or citizen. This becomes a difficult problem for the woman who may not even have a job, does not speak good English and have no other means of economic

support. Here is where the VAWA will be able to help.

Now, the woman does not have to depend on her partner to change her immigrant status. She can file a petition on her own to change her status or visa.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT (VAWA)

Asian American & Pacific Is-landers face numerous barriers to care including lack of health in-surance, limited access to health care, obtaining linguistically and culturally appropriate care, the role of culture and stigma, and immigration restrictions.

VAWA WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS IN 1994 TO PRO-

TECT IMMIGRANT VICTIMS OF SPOUSAL, CHILD AND ELDER ABUSE. It includes a special provision in Immigration Law by allowing the victims to file their own petition for legal status if they meet the following requirements:

Legal relationship between spouse, child and parent. You have to have a legally recognized relationship under immigration law.

Spouse should be legally mar-ried in “good faith” to U.S.C or LPR.

Child should be under 21 and unmarried child of USC or LPR

Parent should be a parent to 21 yr of a USC son or daughter.

Legal Status of Abuser: The abusive spouse, parent or adult son or daughter must have legal status, i.e., U.S. citizenship status or lawful permanent resident.

Joint resident with abuser: Must have lived with abusive partner, parent or son or daugh-ter.

Suffered battery and Extreme cruelty: Victim must have suf-fered battery or extreme cruelty.

Must show she is a person of good moral character.

See also an article published by Fe Seligman in the Filipino Press, March 5-12, 2011 on the front page, featuring an inter-view with Anne Bautista about Domestic Violence.

RESOURCES:

ACCESS, INC- advocates on behalf of DV survivors. In 1997, they created the VAWA program proving the need for immigration services for immigrant victims to self-petition for legal residency under this act. They also estab-lished a network with traditional and non-traditional partners in SD County to address complex needs of victims. They also ad-dress access to health

Anne S. Bautista, Esq., Program Director of ACCESS

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Shanghai Disney ResortDisney building a second

theme park in China


Another Disneyland in China? Well, yes. Here’s what’s going on with Disney and their new Shanghai resort. The Walt Disney Company and Shanghai Shendi Group, its joint venture partner in China, have broken ground on the Shanghai Disney Resort follow-ing approval from the Chinese central government in Beijing. Both companies marked the start

of construction on the first Disney resort in mainland China (the first being in Hong Kong) at a ground-breaking ceremony.

“Today marks a significant mile-stone in the history of The Walt Disney Company,” said Robert A. Iger, President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. “Our Shanghai resort will be a world-class family vacation destination

that combines classic Disney char-acters and storytelling with the uniqueness and beauty of China. Working with our Chinese part-ners, the Shanghai Disney Resort will be both authentically Disney and distinctly Chinese.” “We’re incredibly excited to build

a Disney resort in Shanghai, one of the world’s most vibrant cities,” said Thomas O. Staggs, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. “We are hard at work design-

ing Shanghai Disneyland, which when complete will be a special place where guests of all ages will discover a world of imagination, creativity, adventure and thrills.”

The groundbreaking ceremony paid homage to the culture and people of China. Traditional Chi-nese drum music, a female soloist singing in Mandarin, a 50-voice Shanghai children’s choir and Mickey Mouse dressed in a tradi-tional Chinese costume were on

hand to mark this special occa-sion. Following the entertainment and remarks, Iger and Staggs were joined by Shanghai Party Secre-tary Yu Zhengsheng and Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng to officially break ground on the project.

The new Shanghai Disney Re-

sort is slated to open in approxi-mately five years.

THE SHANGHAI DISNEY RESORT WILL BE HOME TO SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND, a

Magic Kingdom-style park that will blend classic Disney storytell-ing and characters with all-new at-tractions and experiences tailored specifically for the people of Chi-na. The park will feature several themed lands complete with excit-ing, iconic Disney attractions and experiences. At the heart of the park will be an interactive Disney castle that is truly an attraction unto itself with entertainment, din-ing and performance experiences that will be unique to Shanghai

Disneyland. The park will also contain other large-scale entertain-ment venues, indoors and out, that can be used for various purposes throughout the year. A beauti-ful, 11 acre (46,130 square meter) green space at the center of the theme park will differentiate Shanghai Disneyland and rein-force the themes of sustainability and nature that will be integrated throughout the park. The space will also be a place where friends and family can enjoy local cultural celebrations and customs together.

On Opening Day, the Shanghai Disney Resort will be located on a 963 acre (3.9 square kilometer) site in Pudong, Shanghai, with additional room to expand in the future. At opening, the resort will include Shanghai Disneyland, two themed hotels, a large retail, dining and entertainment venue, recreational facilities, a lake and associated parking and transporta-tion hubs.

Disney and the Shanghai Shendi Group

There will be an initial invest-ment in the project of approxi-mately 24.5 billion yuan (US$3.7 billion) to build the theme park and an additional 4.5 billion yuan (US$0.7 billion) to build the other aspects of the resort, including the hotels and the retail, din-ing and entertainment area. The investment amounts will be split between Disney and the Shang-hai Shendi Group with Disney holding 43% of the shares of the owner companies and the Shang-hai Shendi Group holding the remaining 57%. Financing will be proportional to ownership. In addition, a joint venture manage-ment company will be formed with Disney having a 70% stake and Shanghai Shendi Group hav-ing a 30% stake. The management company will be responsible for creating, developing and operating the resort.

SHANGHAI SHENDI (GROUP) CO., LTD. is a 100% state-owned, joint venture invest-



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Impoverished Young Filipinohours of community services during two years of supervised released while the husband was sentenced to six months of home detention with electronic monitoring. The couple paid the victim $57,000 in restitution

at the time of their guilty pleas. They are barred from having any contact with the victim or her family.

The sad thing about this story is - the wife is a Filipina-U.S. citizen. She recruited an impoverished young woman from the Philippines to be her family’s live-in domestic servant.

Let’s call this young woman, Maria. The couple employed Maria from August 2006 through Sep-tember 2009, when she escaped. During these years, Maria was required to work seven days a week, providing full-time childcare, cleaning, cooking, and other domestic services. Maria endured verbal abuse and threats dur-ing her stay with the couple. She was paid a meager amount of $200 to $240 per month. The couple lured Maria with the promise to treat her like family, then ex-ploited and controlled

her. This case should serve as a

warning and a deterrent to any individual who would attempt to exploit others for their own financial benefit. Maria was vul-nerable because of her poverty and illegal status in the United States. The couple took advan-tage of this. This conduct should not be tolerated and should be

IMMIGRATION 911 by Atty. Susan V. Perez | SAN DIEGO, 8/26/2011 --

A couple from Washington state was sentenced on August 22, 2011, by a U.S. district judge after pleading guilty to federal

charges of harboring an illegal alien and unlawful employment of an alien.

The charges stemmed from a probe conducted by Department of Homeland Security that re-vealed the couple had hired and harbored an undocumented alien from the Philippines as domestic helper. The wife was sentenced to four months in prison and 100

A Filipina Domestic Worker in Lebanon. 2.5 million Filipino households rely on do-mestic workers to provide relief to families coping with the conflicting interests of career and family responsibilities. Filipina domes-tic workers are now also employed in house-holds in some 70 countries around the world, and their importance is increasing with the changing patterns of family life and work. Yet the contribution of domestic work has con-tinued to be undervalued, and the struggle to free it from child labour continues. -- Inter-national Labour Organization, 2007

punished. I believe four months in prison was too light.

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ment holding company formed by three sponsors - Shanghai Lujiazui (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Ra-dio, Film and Television Develop-ment Co., Ltd., and Jinjiang Inter-national Group Holding Company. Shanghai Shendi (Group) Co., Ltd. is involved in project invest-ment, construction, and operation through two full subsidiaries: Shanghai Shendi Tourism and Resort Development Co., Ltd. and

Shanghai Shendi Construction Co., Ltd.

Nearly 24 hours of Disney television programming is now available in China every week, reaching 300-360 million people each month. In September 2005, Disney opened its doors to its first theme park in China, Hong Kong Disneyland.

About Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

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world’s leading family vacation destinations: Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, Calif.; Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.; Tokyo Disney Resort, Ura-yasu, Chiba, Japan; Disneyland Paris, Paris, France; and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, located on Lantau Island. In addition, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts includes the Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club, Adven-tures by Disney, a guided group vacation experience to some of the world’s most popular destinations, and Walt Disney Imagineering, which creates and designs all Disney parks, resorts and attractions.


Global Filipino

By PATTY MALUTO, OFW Journalism Consortium | MANILA, 8/10/2011 —A FILIPINO was reportedly hurt during the riots and looting incidents in London, prodding the Department of Foreign Af-fairs to raise alert level one.

The DFA raised the alert level mere hours after reports came out that a Filipino was hurt in the riots and looting in Lon-don’s northern area.

The Filipino, who refused to be identi-fied, is now safe and is recovering, For-eign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said.

His family has already been notified about what happened, Hernandez said.

“The Embassy urges all Filipinos to stay away from high street areas, to avoid large gatherings and to avoid joining or going to places of riots or get involved in any public disturbance,” Charge d’Affaires Reynaldo Catapang said in a statement sent through the DFA.

Meanwhile, the Philippine embassy in London issued an advisory to the Filipino community to exercise “due caution” in light of the riots in the area.

The embassy also called on the Filipino community leaders and members to contact the local police immediately and also the embassy if there are any untoward incidents in their respective areas or to report any information on Filipinos who may have been injured or seriously af-

At least one Filipino hurt in London riots

fected by the riots.“The embassy remains in close contact

with UK authorities and Filipino com-munity leaders and is closely monitoring events and developments,” Catapang said, adding that it has already established a round-the-clock monitoring team to con-tinuously ascertain the situation.

The embassy may be contacted at its trunk line 0207451780 or emergency mobile number 07802790695, as well as mobile numbers 07809737672, 07542095133, 07553203793, and 07817479313.

Meanwhile, British ambassador to the Philippines Stephen Lillie condemned the rioting and looting in United Kingdom’s capital.

In a statement, Lillie branded the “dis-turbances” in London and other parts of the country as “totally unacceptable.”

“The [British] Prime Minister [David Cameron] has condemned the scenes of criminality and has vowed to do ev-erything necessary to restore order to Britain’s streets and to make them safe for the law abiding,” he said.

“The UK police are doing their best to ensure the safety of all the communi-ties there,” Lillie said, adding that all those responsible for the violence will be made “to face the consequences of their actions.”

By JEREMAIAH OPINIANO, OFW Journalism Consortium |MA-NILA, 8/12/2011 —THE Depart-ment of Trade and Industry included overseas Filipinos in the recently-launched 2011-2016 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Plan.

The inclusion of overseas Filipinos comes as the DTI’s Philippine Trade Training Center began its weekly training sessions targeting overseas Filipinos.

According to the plan, overseas migration “is an important factor in economic development” but its potential “has not yet been tapped”.

Thus, the plan said that overseas migration “creates opportunities for MSME development”.

These opportunities come in three ways, the plan wrote, including the following:

Migration raises potential capital for the establishment of MSMEs in the countryside. Remittances can be channeled towards entrepreneurial endeavors such as agri-business, while helping further develop the MSME sector;

Migration can also improve the demand for products and services by MSMEs in both the Philippines and in host countries;

The skills and talent of overseas Filipinos could lead to new forms of businesses, knowledge transfer, and raise the productivity and efficiency of MSMEs.

MSMEs make up 99.6 percent of all total establishments in the Philip-pines, contributed 61.2 percent of the country’s total employment and 35.7 percent of total value added.

The introductory part of the 2011-2016 MSME Plan, developed by the SME Development Council, admitted the “growth of the MSME sector has not been vigorous enough to propel the economy”.

DTI-Philippine Trade Train-

Overseas Filipinos being tapped to improve MSME sector in the Philippinesing Center and the Department of Labor and Employment, through the National Reintegration Center for OFWs, are jointly training overseas Filipino workers to become entrepre-neurs and exporters, thus explaining the weekly two-day training sessions of PTTC for overseas Filipinos.

“These free training sessions consist of key topics on how to start a business, entrepreneurial educa-tion activities where they learn the business cycle, market supply and demand, and selling as well as preparing the business plan,” a DTI release wrote.

The remaining training sessions

will be held on August 16 and 17; August 23, 24 and 31; September 1; September 6 and 7; September 13 and 14; and September 20 and 21.

Migration, in the MSME Develop-ment Plan, is one of four thematic areas together with gender, corporate social responsibility, and climate change.

In 2010, a report by the Private Sector Promotion Program of the German International Cooperation (GIZ) recommended the inclusion of overseas Filipinos in the then prospective 2011-2016 MSME De-velopment Plan.

“There is ample international

evidence supporting the case that… remittances from migrants can be harnessed for generating local investment opportunities,” the GIZ report titled “Intergating Migra-tion as a Competitive Advantage in the MSME Development Plan,” authored by political scientist Jean Franco, said.

Integrating overseas migration in the new MSME Development Plan will see the sector try to weave out interventions related to the four key “outcome portfolios” of the MSME Plan. These are improving the busi-ness environment, access to finance, access to markets and productivity and efficiency.

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The Singapore National Com-mittee for UN Women (UN Women Singapore) and Master-Card Worldwide today awarded a US$25,000 Women’s Empow-erment grant to ‘The Hapinoy Program’ from the Philippines at the Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World Grand Finals held at the INSEAD Asia Cam-pus in Singapore.

Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, (see photo) who represented his team for ‘The Hapinoy Program’, was among the 10 finalists who pitched their project ideas to a live judging panel comprised of today’s top global develop-ment and social entrepreneurial experts, social advocates and business leaders. Their winning project aims to support 1,000 women ‘sari-sari’ (or neighbor-hood convenience store) owners in Luzon in the southern Philip-pines through micro-finance. Ha-

pinoy trains the women micro-entrepreneurs in personal and business development, manage-ment systems, and better priced goods, and introduces additional revenue channels.

The Grand Finals was broad-cast live to a worldwide audience via the Project Inspire website at www.5minuteswww.5minutestochangetheworld.org.

A joint initiative by UN Wom-en Singapore and MasterCard, Project Inspire was launched in March to commemorate the 100th year of International Women’s Day and to celebrate MasterCard’s 25th year in the region. The 10 finalists – from Australia (2), Ghana, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore (2), India and the Philippines (2) – were selected out of 450 youth teams worldwide who submitted their life-changing ideas to empower women and girls across Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa

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grants, it is also the first time the US Equal Employment Opportu-nity Commission (EEOC) came up with a ruling specific to the Filipino language, he said.

“I feel relieved, happy and thankful,” said Jazziel Granada, a 30-year-old health unit coordi-nator who was two months preg-nant when she and nurses Corina Yap, Ana Rosales and Hachelle Natano were dismissed for violating the hospital’s “English-only” policy in its emergency department last year.

In a ruling dated August 16, EEOC Director Gerald Kiel said he found reasonable cause that the health workers were subject-ed to “unequal terms and condi-tions of employment, a hostile work environment, disciplinary action and discharge because of their national origin in violation of Title VII (of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).”

The health workers filed their discrimination suit in June 2010.

The EEOC is an independent federal agency that enforces laws

against workplace discrimina-tion.

“Everyone has the right to speak their own native language in the workplace so long as it does not adversely affect their job performance or put their patients’ lives in danger,” said Valera.

The EEOC has ordered the Bon Secours Health System to dis-cuss a financial settlement with the health workers. The settle-ment may also include a demand for an apology and diversity training for management and staff, according to Valera.

Never in front of patientsIn their affidavits, the health

workers said they made sure they spoke English while performing their work and only spoke Taga-log to each other during breaks.

Natano, one of the nurses, recalled in her affidavit that she had once been reprimanded for replying “Salamat po, doc” (Thank you, Dr.) to a Filipino physician, who had offered her food, speaking to her in Tagalog. -- Posted on ARELLANO (MA-NILA NORTH ) HIGH SCHOOL Yahoo.Group

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Dear Atty. Karagdag,

I have been here in the U.S. for more than five years now without valid papers because I overstayed my tourist visa. Two years ago, I met my current girlfriend. We are both divorcees. We fell in love and decided to live together.

I divorced my ex-wife within a year after my arrival in the U.S. because I see no chance for our reconciliation. On the other hand, my girlfriend has just received her divorce decree from the court. She has been separated for about ten years now from her husband, even before she migrated here. She has more than five years of residence and plans to file her citizenship application soon.

Because my girlfriend is still an immigrant, we have decided not to get married yet. A friend of ours advised us that we must wait for her to first become a U.S. citizen before we get married. Is this correct?

Thank you for your advice.

Respectfully,

Steve

Dear Steve,

Perhaps what your friend meant was that it is better for your girl-friend to first become a U.S. citizen before she petitions you (not that she must first become a U.S. citizen be-fore you get married). On that point, she is correct. A petition for spouse filed by an immigrant not only has to wait for a few years, but the over-

Marry Now, Adjust Laterstaying beneficiary cannot adjust sta-tus when the priority date comes. On the other hand, a petition for spouse filed by a U.S. citizen is categorized as an immediate relative petition, does not have any waiting time, and the beneficiary can adjust status even if he or she is an overstay.

You said that both you and your girlfriend are divorcees, so I see no reason why you cannot get married now, unless there is some other legal impediment you did not mention in your letter. The fact that you divorced your wife many years ago, and that your girlfriend has been separated from her husband for almost ten years now, will help con-vince the USCIS that your forthcom-ing marriage is valid and truthful.

In fact, it is better for you to get married now, and then for your girlfriend to file her citizenship ap-plication, so that by the time you get interviewed for your adjustment of status (green card) application, you would have already accumulated time and joint documents as a mar-ried couple. Let us analyze the time line. Your girlfriend’s citizenship application will take around three months to be approved, and then another month for your girlfriend to take her oath. So, that’s four months. It will take about a month to prepare and file your combined immigrant petition and green card applica-tion, then another five to six months for your interview date. That’s an additional seven months. So, by the time you get interviewed, you would have already been married for almost a year, and would have already accumulated substantial joint documents to prove the validity and truthfulness of your marriage, such as bank account statements, house deed or lease agreement, insurance policy, utility bills, etc.

Good luck!

Sincerely,

Atty. Karagdag

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About Atty. Rogelio Karagdag, Jr.

Atty. Rogelio Karagdag , Jr. is licensed to practice law in both Cal-ifornia and the Philippines. He prac-tices immigration law in San Diego and has continuously been a trial and appellate attorney in the Philip-pines since 1989. He travels between San Diego and Manila. His office address is located at 10717 Camino Ruiz, Suite 131, San Diego, CA 92126. He also has an office in the Philippines at 1240 Apacible Street, Paco, Manila, Philippines 1007, with telephone numbers (632)522-1199 and (632)526-0326. Please call (858)348-7475/(858)536-4292 or email him at [email protected]. He speaks Tagalog fluently. Articles written in this column are not legal advice but are hypotheticals intended as general, non-specific legal information. Readers must seek legal consultation before taking any legal steps.

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In times of economic un-certainty and constant fear of attacks by “enemies of

freedom” – the life, legacy, and timeless values of Presi-dent Ronald Reagan are more relevant than ever.

REAGAN, OUR 40TH PRESI-

DENT, was best known for defend-ing the principles of freedom and

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democracy that made America great. He believed that a strong national defense was required to protect our way of life. That belief was reflected in his vigorous push for rebuilding our military and in his un-abashed support of America’s troops.

In his 1978 speech excerpted below, President Reagan talks about what it means to be an American and how important it is to stand up for freedom and liberty. Today when our country is at its most trying time, when it seems to be torn apart by forces that might bring down its preeminence in this world – it is best to heed Reagan’s words of wisdom:

“The Founding Fathers estab-lished a system which meant a radical break from that which pre-ceded it. A written constitution would provide a permanent form of government, limited in scope, but effective in providing both liberty and order. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cre-ated equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world – nothing more and nothing less.

“To carry out that purpose, our fundamental aim in foreign policy must be to ensure our own sur-vival and to protect those others who share our values. Under no circumstances should we ever have any illusions about the intentions of those who are enemies of free-dom.

“America will remain great and

Ronald W. Reagan, 40th Pres-ident of the United States

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Aug. 24th, 2011 – Distinguished Filipino educator from Alliant International University, Dr. Estela C. Matriano, received the “Excellence in Educa-tion Award” at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Awards Celebration on August 20, 2011 at Paradise Point Resort in San Diego. This high pro-file event honored a select group of leaders from the Asian community.

Dr. Matriano, a professor of cross cultural studies and executive director of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) at Alliant, is so deserving of this award. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Russ New-man, headed the Alliant sponsored table at the celebration. CTFLC of-ficers and a special group of friends and students were also in attendance to celebrate this milestone.

Additionally, Dr. Matriano re-ceived the inaugural “Provost Pillar

Award in Multicultural and International Com-petencies” from Alliant International Univer-sity at its convocation ceremony on August 22, 2011.

On April 26, 2011, she received the “First Award” from Alliant’s International Multi-cultural Education, Research, Intervention and Teaching (IMERIT) committee.

Finally, on October 14, 2011, Dr. Matriano will be recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the United States of America” at the 8th Filipina Leadership Summit: Filipina Voices: Changing the Face of Power in America, held at the Stanford Court Renaissance in San Francisco, California. Alliant officials lead by

President Geoffrey Cox, colleagues and friends will again join her at the event.

All four awards given to Dr. Matriano are a well-deserved honor. She is an outstanding professor, mentor and friend to her colleagues, students and the Filipino-American community.

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Dr. Matriano in 2010 Photo. Dr Estela Matriano, Senator Angara, Consul General Aragon and Tony Olaes at the 2nd International Conference on Filipino as a Global Language, San Di-ego CA (January 2010). AIU offers several tracks for teaching credentials in single or multiple subjects, including one graduate school program leading to a master’s degree. Dr. Estela C. Matriano explained the career option further, “Teachers wanting to teach at the university level can apply for the HSOE doctoral program. Alliant is a smaller, private university that puts an emphasis on giving each student personal attention.”

application of theory and research to prepare students for professional careers in psychology and mental health, education, business and man-agement, forensic studies, and law.

Created in 2001 by the merger of two legacy institu-tions, its combined institutional history in higher education dates back over 100 years.

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Joke of the week: A dinner speaker was in such a hurry to get to his engagement that when he arrived and sat down at the head table, he sud-denly realized that he had forgotten his teeth. Turning to the man next to him he said, “I forgot my teeth.” The man said, “No problem.” With that he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of false teeth. “Try these,” he said. The speaker tried them. “Too loose,” he said. The man said, “I have another pair - try these.” The speaker tried them and responded, “Too tight.” The man was not taken back at all. He then said, “I have one more pair of false teeth - try them.” The speaker said, “They fi t perfectly.” With that he ate his meal and gave the address. After the dinner meeting was over, the speaker went over to thank the man who had helped him. “I want to thank you for coming to my aid. Where is you offi ce? I’ve been looking for a good dentist.” The man replied, “I’m not a dentist. I’m the local under-taker.”

Scriptures: First Reading: Jeremiah 20: 7-9. Jeremiah proph-esied the end of a culture, community, and tradition. He warned the people about their impending exile, the fall of Jerusalem, and the end of the monar-chy. It was a time of great upheaval. He lamented the fact that his con-temporaries did not comprehend the approaching end. Earlier in his life Jeremiah grieved in what was hap-pening in the world, now he lamented in what is happening in heaven! For his unpopular and ominous prophecy, Jeremiah suffered expulsion from the Temple, ridicule, punishment and threatened with death. He thought that God is not fair in dealing with him. For some time the prophet thought that God disrupted his peaceful and quiet life. Unwilling to be at ease with the way of life of his contem-poraries, he refused to accept too the way God deals with him. He did not want to prophecy again. Later on he has learned to accept the truth that the calling of a prophet involves tensions, challenges and opportunities that are transformative and fulfi lling. Second Reading: Romans 12: 1-2. After hav-ing written about Christian doctrine in great length, Paul now turns to the practical aspect of Christian life in the community. He teaches the Christians in Rome to live an exemplary life for the edifi cation of their fellow Chris-

tians and non-believers. Paul teaches that true Christian living is ethical and transformative. These elements come into play when one offers his life in union with Christ fi rst and foremost in the liturgy. Gospel: Matthew 16: 21-27. Earlier Peter had professed that Jesus is the Messiah. Now while Jesus and his disciples remain in the region of Caesarea Philippi, he started preparing them for his forthcoming suffering, death, and resurrection. At the start of his public ministry and shortly after he had fasted for forty days in the desert, Jesus was tempted by the devil (Matthew 4: 1-11). The devil suggested to Jesus that he (Jesus) could fulfi ll his mission in an easy way, without pain, suffering and death. Peter in today’s Gospel acts and thinks as the devil does. Peter who earlier was called the “Rock” now be-comes a stumbling “block” or obstacle to Jesus’ mission.

Refl ections: We live in an age of skepticism. So many of our contem-poraries fi nd it hard to accept the path that Jesus proposes to Peter and his companions that is, the way to holi-ness is paved with thorns and thistles. This is a hard truth and the human response is similar to Peter’s reaction: glory and honor without sufferings and sacrifi ces. God’s way is the Cruci-fi ed Christ!

A few years ago many people were appalled at seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. These people could not believe what they saw portrayed in the movie: a bloody, dusty, and totally beaten Christ! They have been used to seeing the meek and serene face of Christ. Now they saw the stark reality of a blood stained Christ crowned with thorns who willingly sacrifi ced his life in obedi-ence to the Father. Probably, Jesus has never been portrayed before Mel Gibson with all his cinematographic talent tried to capture in his fi lm. So for many it a hard fact that is diffi cult to comprehend and a painful truth that is hard to swallow. The usual response is: “it is just another movie, a Holly-

wood creation, made surreal to earn more bucks.” The truth is that we are accustomed to seeing the divine and calm face of Our Lord, but very seldom do we see and perhaps never realized his bloodied and ugly face and countenance as he was tortured and crucifi ed.

At the bottom of that answer betrays the skepticism of our age to accept the way to glory is through the Cross For instance, many are skeptical about the intention of the Church to be true and holy. They consider that to be hogwash. So they stay away from the Church and her teachings. They also fi nd it hard to accept that marriage can last until death, also that priests, nuns, monks and those who dedicate their life completely to Christ could, with God’s grace, be celibate for life. The normal response is disbelief, skepti-cism and denial or utter disregard for the truth that it is possible, no matter how arduous and painful it is, for someone to be celibate, to remain committed until death, and to be truth-ful. In their skepticism, those people miss the opportunity to grow that comes with tension in choosing the way of the Cross. When tensions are seen as opportunities and challenges to be better Christians/persons, they are wonderful channels for transfor-mation. The author of the Book of

Tuesday August 23, 2011 It is very hard to accept an early

death. When friends die who are seventy, eighty, or ninety years old, we may be in deep grief and miss them very much, but we are grateful that they had long lives. But when a teenager, a young adult, or a person at the height of his or her career dies, we feel a protest rising from our hearts: “Why? Why so soon? Why so young? It is unfair.”

But far more important than our quantity of years is the quality of our lives. Jesus died young. St. Francis died young. St. Thérèse of Lisieux died young, Martin Luther King, Jr., died young. We do not know how long we will live, but this not know-ing calls us to live every day, every week, every year of our lives to its fullest potential.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Judith wrote, “Besides all this, we should be grateful to the Lord our God for putting us to the test. Recall how he dealt with Abraham, and how he tried Isaac … Not for vengeance did the Lord put them in the crucible to try their hearts, nor has he done so with us. It is by way of admonition that he chastises those who are close to him” (Judith 8: 25-27).

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Five Filipino artists will ex-hibit their canvass works at the Council of Philippine American Organizations on August 30, 2011 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. With splashes of their acrylic, pencil, and water color expres-sions, their talents will depict mostly Filipino nuisances with the likes of Luksong Tinik, Anino Ko Pilipino, Regenera-tion Series, and others.

The group composed of Aner A. Sebastian, Salvador M. Con-vocar, Norlie Meimban, Buddy Ching, and Hermes Alegre are

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enroute back to the Philippines after their stint at the Philippine Center, Philippine Embassy in Manhattan, New York where they showcased their works from August 1 – 12, 2011. Members of the group have also invariably exhibited their works in famed hotels and cul-tural institutions in the Philip-pines, Asia, and Europe.

COPAO is located at 832 “E” St., National City. The exhibit is being hosted by Myra S. Lo-pez, sister of Aner A. Sebastian.

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Taguan – Norlie MeimbanGiggling Guitarist – S.

ConvocarUntitled – H. Alegre

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The province of Camarines Sur drew more foreign and domestic tourists last year, besting perennial favorites like Metro Manila, Cebu and Boracay to become the top tourism destination in the country, according to offi cial government data.

All told, a total of 2.33 million visi-

tors came to the province in 2010, drawn mainly to the Cam-sur Wa-tersports Complex and the Caramoan Island.

The January-December 2010 reports of Depart-ment of Tour-ism (DoT) regional offi ces, local tourism offi ces and ac-commodation establishments showed that CamSur posted the biggest arrival volume in the province’s history with 2,330,116 foreign and domestic visi-

tors.CamSur was followed by Metro

Manila with 2,296,475 visitors; Cebu, 1,772,234; and Boracay, 779,666.

The province’s tourist arrival volume was 49 percent higher than the 1,566,447 in 2009. The same data revealed that 461,053 were foreign

visitors while 1,869,063 were local.In Metro Manila, 1,480,871 were

foreigners and 815,604 were locals. In Cebu, 712,400 were foreigners

CamSur is top Philippine tourist destination in 2010

Extreme Waterports and Ecotourism Top List

Pete Jacobs grabbed his second consecutive Cobra Energy Drink Ironman 70.3 Philippines title with a domi-nant wire-to-wire victory on a winning time of 3:51:43 at the rain-drenched CamSur Watersports Complex, Pili, Camarines Sur last Sunday, August 14, 2011. and 1,059,834 were locals, and in

Boracay, 305,569 were foreigners and 474,097 were domestic tourists.

“The provincial government has found a winning formula in promot-ing its two crown jewels—the Camsur Watersports Complex (CWC) in Pili and the beaches of Caramoan

Camarines Sur “CamSur” Watersports Venue is the main attrac-tion for local and foreign tourists alike. Caramoan Islands (right) was once the set for the French-version of Survivor television series.

Island—as one tourism package,” provincial board member Angel Naval said in a statement.

“The best way for our senators to help preserve the province’s inter-national reputation as an ecotourism and extreme sports capital is to ditch the House [move to partition, which]

is guaranteed to mess up this tourism master plan,” Naval added.

In a separate report from the DoT research and statistical division, it was disclosed that of the 3.1 million foreign and domestic tourists that visited CamSur and the rest of Bicol last year, 626,690 were foreigners, 54,969 were overseas Filipinos and

2,441,022 were domestic tourists.The bulk of the foreign tourists who

visited CamSur and the rest of Bicol last year were from Europe at 201,679 and North America at 99,012.

Another provincial board member, Warren Senar, noted that Camarines



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SHOWBIZ WATCHER By Ogie Cruz, Asian Journal | SAN DIEGO, 8/26/2011 -- Pinarangalan ang International and Multi-awarded Singer na si Lea Salonga na kauna-unahang Pinay na napabilang sa Disney Lagends kamakailan dito sa Amerika, sa isang Disney Event sa Anaheim California.

Si Lea kasi ang kumanta ng Prin-cess Jasmine sa Disney movies na “Aladin” at Fa Mulan in “Mulan 1 & 2”.Labing dalawa silang pinaran-

galan sa Anaheim Convention Cen-ter sa , isa at tanging pinay si Lea sa ginawaran ng ganitong pagkilala.

Yes, isang karangalan ito para sa ating Pinoy dito sa Amerika ang pagkilala sa isang tunay na talentong Filipino na puedeng ilaban at ipag-malaki kahit saang panig ng mundo.

MAY DISNEY LAGEND

Lea Salonga Unang Pinay na Disney Legend!!!

SCULPTURE AND BRONZE HANDPRINT SI MS. SALONGA sa ngayon naka-display sa Walt Disney Headquaters, kung gusto nyo makita ang mga ito.Pero huwag kayong mag-alala dahil tiyak ang pagpunta ni Lea dito sa San Diego, California para makita at ma-con-grats natin siya in person sa kanyang natamong recognition sa naturang Disney Event dahil may concert siya na magaganap sa Sept.10 sa Sycuan Casino, at takenote nangako rin ang multi award singer na pu-

punta siya sa offi ce mismo ng Asian Journal para mainterview namin siya in person,di ba bongga?

Nung makausap nga namin siya last week sa telepono,marami kam-ing tanong sa kanya pero iba na rin kung kausap namin siya in person.

Alam nyo ba na natutuwa rin siya sa mga natamong tagumpay dito ni Charice at ni Arnel Pineda, at

least daw nakikilala ng husto ang Pinoy talents sa buong mundo?Sabi nga namin sa kanya ang siya ang nagsimula lahat, kaya nakilala ang talent ng pinoy sa ibang bansa.

Tinanong nga namin siya kung ta-lagang may offer sa kanya ang sikat na show na “GLEE”, sabi niya wala raw pero isa raw ito na favorite niya panoorin.Kaya lang ang hiling niya, na huwag na masyadong gawing issue about yun, kasi baka makulitan daw ang naturang programa mas lalong hindi na siya kunin, dahil pinangungunahan natin, biro pa niya.

Basta , Congrats Ms. Lea Sa-longa!!!

SHARON CUNETA , MAY PASARING KAY PIOLO PAS-CUAL !!! Halatang masama ang loob ni Megastar kay Piolo Pascual, pero hindi niya ito tuwiran sinabi o na-mention ang name ng aktor imbes sa isa pasaring ang kanyang binitawan.

May pinagdadaanan daw si KC Concepcion, pero ayaw isiwalat ito ni Ms. Sharon Cuneta imbes sinabi niya na siya pa rin ang daughter(KC) ni Megastar na handang tumulong at makinig ang isang ina na tulad niya, kung anuman ang pinagdada-anan nito.

Sa isang tv show , inamin ni KC na 10 months na sila ni Piolo Pas-cual bilang lover, kaya lang halatang may problema na pinagdadaanan ang dalaga sa kanilang relasyon.Mukhang hindi siya masaya gaano at

parang may itinatago na problema.Kaya siguro nag-react ng ganito ang ina, at isang makahulugang mga salita ang namutawi sa labi ng Megastar.

Hindi raw niya pinalaki ang anak niya para i-take for granted lang at balewalain ng isang tao, pero nilili-naw niya na ayaw niya makaialam sa love relationship ng anak, kung saan siya maligaya doon sabi pa Megastar.

Isang mensahe ang pinararating niya kay Piolo, mahalin ang anak at huwag balewalain.Ilang beses rin sinasabi ni KC sa “D Buzz” na masyadong busy si Piolo kaya hindi gaano sila nakapag-uusap.Siguro ito ang ikinairita ni Sharon , kaya naglabas ito ng saloobin about Piolo Pascual without mentioning the name of the actor pero alam ng tao si Piolo ang pinagsasabihan nito.

Abangan na lang natin ang sagot ni Piolo, im sure magaling naman sumagot si Piolo at magaling magpa-liwanag.

Hay naku, ‘yan na nga ba ang sinasabi namin.

VILMA SANTOS MAGBABA-LIK PELIKULA SA TAONG ITO!!!Sigurado ang paggawa ng movie ni Gov. Vilma Santos para sa taong ito, si Kim Chiu ang makakasama niya sa isang horror and suspense thriller movie.

Pinayagan na daw siya ng mga nakakasakupan niya sa Batangas na gumawa ng isang movie for this year, kahit sabihin pang very busy siya bilang public servant sa naturang lugar.Laking pasasalamat nga niya at pinayagan siya para sa kanyang unang love ang pag-arte muli sa harap ng camera.

Hindi kaya , isa itong paghahanda para sa Metro Manila Filmfest sa December to think busy rin ang kanyang archrival si Nora Aunor for doing fi lms, para sa isang tapatan ng movies nila.Buhay naman talaga ang Vilma-Nora Rivalry !!!

THE ONE AND ONLY FILIPINO GOLDSMITH IN SAN DIEGO CA.!!! Si Rene S. Moraga ang one and only Filipino goldsmith ang tinutukoy namin dito sa lugar natin sa San Diego.25 yrs na ang kanyang Jewelry Shop sa E. Plaza Blvd. sa National City, pero never na may nagreklamo sa kanya,lahat bumilib sa kanya.

Bumibili siya ng ginto sa malak-

ing halaga, na hindi maaagrabyado ang kanyang costumers.Nakita nga namin kung paano ang method niya para malaman kung ginto o hindi ginto ang isang alahas.

Tubong Davao pala si Mr Rene,ganito rin ang kanilang naging family business sa naturang lugar hanggang sa pinagpatuloy niya rito

Mukhang hindi siya masaya gaano at

sa National City.May 7 pawnshops sila sa Davao, kaya subok na magal-ing sa paggawa at pagkilatis ng gold si Rene.

Kaya punta na sa kanyang shop at tiyak hindi kayo magsisisi, isang kakayahang pinoy na puede nating ipagmalaki sa buong Amerika.

Governor Vilma Santos and Kim Chiu

Sharon Cuneta

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ther who gave you and your mother such heartaches and hardships. You could have confronted me while I was dying and gloat over me for my mistakes.”

“Heartaches, yes, hardships, no!” Marietta replied. “When I was two years old, my mother found a new love who raised me as his own child and provided me with the love and care any father in the world could bestow. He was also a good provid-er, and his tortilla-making business


prospered when he adopted me; in fact, he believed I brought him luck. Unfortunately, he died of a freak accident when I was twelve, but not after he had passed on to my mother his business. So my mom and I lived prosperously ever since.”

Danny found out Marietta was a very wealthy businesswoman married to a chief surgeon of a well-known hospital in Los Ange-les. After a few days, he met his son-in-law and their three children: a fi ve-year-old boy and seven-year-old twin girls.

It took a while for Danny to get

used to his newly-found daughter Marietta. He simply could not be-lieve she would be so forgiving after he had tried to escape his fi nancial responsibility to her and her mother. Eventually, he realized Marietta was an angel who would forgive and forget, and even bestow him and her siblings with love and fi nancial as-sistance. Because of her wealth, she was very generous in giving pricey gifts whenever anyone among her half-siblings celebrated a birthday. She treated them to expensive vaca-tions and hosted luxurious family reunions out of town. This made Danny feel guilty and he refused to accept any fi nancial help from Marietta.

“You have done enough,” he told her. He didn’t need to tell Marietta to take care of her siblings, as she was doing so without requests from any of them. For instance, Carol was able to fi nish her college education without student loans.

Danny, for his part, was fi nancially self-suffi cient. In fact, he got an additional source of income when he was able to convince Braulio to name him as the father of Sheila’s child in the birth certifi cate.

At fi rst, Braulio refused to do so, worried Danny might eventually claim the boy for himself. But he knew the boy was indeed Danny’s child.

“Why do you have to be named as the father?” he asked Danny. “You have plenty of children already; besides, this is our agreement.”

Braulio was prepared to refuse any fi nancial offer from Danny, for he too was fi nancially wealthy from his own racket. Although he was merely a policeman, he was also part of the syndicate in the police department, which received considerable loot from the bribes and protection mon-ey from erring drivers and business people. Another source of income was the ghost employees’ scam in their precinct. Some of their fellow policemen had migrated abroad after their children had petitioned them. But instead of being removed from the roster, they were kept and continued to draw salaries. The sala-ries were divided among those left behind in the precinct. This practice was common not only in the police departments but also in the other branches of government.

“I do not need your money,” Danny told Braulio who had offered him fi nancial reward so he wouldn’t insist on being named as the boy’s father. Eventually, Danny had to

confess his reasons for his request.“If I am named as the father of

Sheila’s child, I can get a pension from the U.S. government. As a pen-sioner, the government will give me $400 a month for my minor child. I have been collecting such pensions from my other two minor children, who I have with my girlfriend Mar-gie and my wife Mindy.”

Braulio still refused to accede to Danny’s request, but when Danny offered to share the pension, he agreed.

DANNY LIVED MANY MORE YEARS after receiving the kidney transplant. He continued to enjoy the love and affection of his children while Mindy had learned to tolerate and be civil to Danny’s two other living girlfriends Margie and Mer-cedes. His childhood friends - Bob-by, Monte, and Mandy - remained his constant companions through the years. While Danny did not respon-sibly plan his life and allow himself to be carried by the waves of events wherever they took him, things turned out to be alright despite some complicated affairs. As he repeatedly told his loved ones until the very end, “I have no complaints.” – AJ

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Christ commentary in oil, I would have used imagination, craftsman-ship, and most important — origi-nality. None of these basic qualities are in the CCP exhibit.

Our problem as art patrons and viewers is that we have somehow lost the capacity to discern, to criti-cize, and also to remember. We go back to the yesteryears, the masters we studied in school, the sculptors of ancient Greece and Rome, the classi-cal writers as well, Homer, Cer-vantes all of them. Even without the superior implements and materials today, the many varieties of oils for the painters, and the modern cutting instruments powered by electricity, the artists of the ancient world were able to produce those sculptures and paintings that continue to delight us with their fi ne detail and their exquisite form.

Now, we say that there is a new way of looking at things and I agree, but the old verities remain: that art-ists are craftsmen, they are a special people, for not everyone can draw, or write.

As a writer myself, I work very hard at my novels. I know grammar although I am not a grammarian. On order, I can write in a few minutes a sonnet — it may not be good, but it will be a sonnet. I can close my eyes and describe imaginary scenes, dia-logues, etc. And I write and rewrite and rewrite. In other words, a work of art is not created at the spur of a moment. It is cerebrated and worked

out through time, with great effort, imagination and most important, craftsmanship.

When I was running Solidaridad Galleries and some young punk came to me with a sheaf of his abstract drawings, I would give him a pencil and ask him to draw my fi st to fi nd out if he could draw. Some of them didn’t come back. The late Hernando Ocampo whom I knew very well was a great craftsman with an acute understanding of color and he did paint so many pictures of daz-zling brilliance and originality. If he could only draw, he could have gone very, very far.

I just saw the ongoing exhibit of Fred Aguilar Alcuaz in Cubao and much earlier that of Fred Liongo-ren. Both did abstracts, both can draw very well, just as many of the Impressionists of the 19th century

were master craftsmen, too. My very good friend, Fr. Gaston Petit, who is a renowned painter and designer, has made an international reputation as an abstract painter, but he, too, can draw.

I bring to mind two women artists I admire very much: Gilda Cordero Fernando —she is a writer and, with a writer’s superior imagination, she has created beautiful pictures with exquisite craftsmanship. Julie Lluch, the sculptor, has also created in ter-racotta unusual fi gures that have no equivalent in reality — they are very imaginative and interesting. But she also sculpted busts, statues of people which exude character and are, therefore, memorable works of art.

There is so much anarchy in the world of art today and much of it is


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crimes. They knew who were the mastermind/s but these people were never brought to court. That’s the tragedy of it,” Arroyo said.

He said any new investigation

due to this dictum that there is “a new way of seeing things.” If I cov-ered the Batasan building — all of it with black cloth — that is not only searing commentary, an achievement — it is also something new. But is it art?

If I put my excrement in a tin can, sealed it like a tin of sardines, that, too is interesting; but again, is it art? If I cut two huge pipes, fused them, is it art? Yet, these have happened and it is for us who know to point out that such happenings, such con-

structions — as they term it — are not art at all unless we give a new and ridiculous defi nition of art.

How I wish our artists would stop claiming freedom of expression all the time that they are criticized. To me freedom of expression is not in-volved with the CCP exhibit. Artistic sensibility and rigid critical values are the norm and they should prevail if our culture is to develop.

We have done it when we were

young, put beards and blackened teeth on pictures of people. If I were to criticize religious faith visually, I would do it much better, more creatively than what this artist had done. The cross alone — I can do so much with it with allegory and sym-bolism. And this is what is precisely wrong with so many of our visual artists: for all their superb crafts-manship, they lack imagination and they don’t think hard enough. Then


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into the murders should be led by an impartial team, whose credibility should not be sullied by any hint of undue infl uence from President Aquino.

Arroyo is pushing for the immedi-ate passage of the Human Rights Compensation bill, which aims for the allocation of P10 billion to be used for compensating human rights victims during the Marcos regime.

Arroyo said the victims deserve compensation even if providing one does not appear to be a priority of

the Aquino administration or even if some victims or their families are not keen on getting compensated.

Arroyo said some personalities merely wanted to have the names of their relatives and loved ones who had been human rights victims in-cluded in a proposed Roll of Honor. “All those (victims), even those who do not claim, will be included in the list,” Arroyo said.

A version of the HR compensation bill prepared by Sen. Sergio Osmeña is pending at the Senate. Arroyo said

he is pushing for additional provi-sions in the bill and is requesting former senator Rene Saguisag and human rights lawyer Jun Factoran to share inputs.

even sweet Jesus would understand; after all, in this earth His people who didn’t know what they were doing, beat Him up, crowned Him with thorns then crucifi ed Him.

Artist Mideo Cruz and the“Politeismo” exhibit


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Unmasked Naku Diyos ko! Ano ba ‘tong nangyayari sa bayan ko,Sa dinami ng problema itong isa ay DELUBYO.Mantakin mong ating bansa ay gusto pang maikambyo,Maging SUB-STATE ang Mindanao, Naku grabe! ‘to’y INSULTO. Paano na ang BAYANING nagbuhos ng mga buhay,Makita lang itong bansa na mayroong KALAYAAN.Dahil lamang sa RELIHIYONG ngayo’y kalat sating bayan.Ay nais pang magsarili na SUB-STATE, kahangalan. Palibhasay nadiktahan nitong bansa sa paligid,Kaya itong mga TANGA naniwalang pa-TAGILID.Nuon pa man dulot nila’y problema na walang patid,Paano na kung MINDANAO, kanila na, naku LINTIK!. Kahit anong paliwanag ng sikat na ABOGADO,DAGA lang ang makikinig at hindi ang mga tao.Mangarap ka ng mangarap, hanggang diyan ka lang, APO,Malabo mong MALOLOKO kaming dugong PILIPINO. LUZVIMINDA, kabuuan nitong bansang PILIPINAS,Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, may damdamin, mayrong UTAK.Sa sino mang magsusulong mag-SUB-STATE itong PINAS,Matakot ka kababayan, may sapi ka ni SATANAS. Mahalin mo itong bansang kay daming nagbuwis-buhay,At ugat ng kasaysayang suma puso at isipan.Mabuo lang itong bansa, kahit kalat, IISA LANG,Sa mithiing KALAYAAN ng bayaning nagsipanaw. Tigilan na ang pagusad nitong planong walang saysay,Pagtuunan ang panahong mapagbuti itong buhay..Tigilan rin ang putukan, pandurukot at pagpatay,Iigting lang yaong galit ng KRISTIYANONG kinalaban. Tandaan mo kababayan kung ikaw ma’y NATURUAN,LASON ito sa isipang sana’y di na nagtatagal.Dati-rati naman tayong pangunawa’y pantay-pantay,Tayo’y mga PILIPINO, tandaan mo kababayan. Di mo dapat na dadalhin, ugali ng ibang bansa,“Extrimist” na kung pumatay pati ulo nawawala.Pilipino ay hindi ganyan, may lawak ang pangunawa,Sukul langit man ang galit, gawa pa rin yaong tama.Batikos ni: Romeo S.Nicolas8/18/2011

Problema sa MILFthe specter of youin full size regalafrom this once upon a time...once upon a time memory lane scenariostarring at me at point blank rangelike we were there togetherbut really...we are notand should have never been...we are... an experimentation gone wildprojecting images of most favored relationlike you...your nationyour nation unmasked...showing the real specter of a face...the empire will and would not hesitate to strikewithin..within its sanctum of crazy logicapplying to its so called possessions so far awaymaking its point with a carrier base groupthis... is who you are...this ...is what you are...most favored nation unmasked!

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“With one third of Del Sur com-pleted, we are getting ready for the next phase,” said Bill Ostrem, presi-dent and CEO of Black Mountain Ranch, LLC, developers of the com-munity located north of state Route 56, just east of Fairbanks Ranch. “A continuation of what Del Sur has provided to date, our emphasis will be on quality community amenities, San Diego-inspired architecture and sustainable building practices.”

In conjunction with grading, Black Mountain Ranch is responsible for road construction surrounding the North San Diego community. These improvements include:

• widening to four lanes Camino Del Sur from San Dieguito Road to Paseo Del Sur

• completing Babcock Street to connect Paseo Del Sur to Camino Del Sur

• widening to four lanes Camino Del Sur from Lone Quail Road to Maranatha Drive.

Del Sur’s next phase of residen-tial construction will accommodate 300 homes in a range of options, including attached homes and large lot estate homes, often with views. An active adult neighborhood of 300 residences also is planned.

The community’s town center is expected to move forward within the next few years. Located at the northeast portion of existing Del Sur neighborhoods, with easy access from Camino Del Sur, the town center is expected to offer 500,000 square feet of office space and 225,000 square feet of retail.

Del Sur’s final school site, 20 acres near Del Norte High School, is now being graded as well. Poway Unified School District will determine tim-ing and type of school, depending on the needs of the community.

As part of the 1.3 million yards of dirt currently being moved at Del

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Sur, the developer is making way for two more HYPERLINK “http://www.delsurliving.com/del-sur-life/parks-pools/” neighborhood parks, more trails within Del Sur as well as connecting with regional trail systems and additional open space areas.

The grading process is contained within the master-planned com-munity, part of the commitment to recycling and sustainability. No truckloads of dirt are leaving the Del Sur. Every shovelful is being repur-posed on the site. Building materials recycling is handled onsite as well, with recycled materials contribut-ing to landscaping and new roads construction.

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The one that I really watch is those infomercials with weight loss program or fitness program. Many of you seen things like Gazelle, Total Gym, and Ab-Master. But in order convince you they need experts to tell you that these things work. That’s why you’ll see Cristy Brinkley and Chuck Norris trying to seel Total Gym. So I’m going to introduce you to a celebrity who is an expert at getting closer to Jesus. That celebrity is Mother Teresa.

Before she became Mother Teresa, Sr. Teresa was with the Congregation of Loreto Sisters for 25 years. Before she left that order, she was a quiet, unassum-ing and ordinary sister. Her fellow sisters never would have imagined that Sr. Teresa could start an order of her own. Then she received a vision from Our Lord regarding her mission.

IN ONE VISION, MOTHER TERESA SAW A CROWD OF THE POOR, those who were poor materially and spiritually. She could make out the great sorrow and suffering in their faces. Our Lady was there in the midst of them, and Mother Teresa was kneeling at her side. Mother Teresa was turned toward the suffering children and so could not see Our Lady’s face, but she heard her say: “Take care of them‚ they are mine--Bring them to Jesus--carry Jesus to them.--Fear not. Teach them to say the Rosary--the fam-ily Rosary and all will be well.--Fear not-- Jesus and I will be with you and your children.” In another vision Mother Teresa was shown the same crowd yet again. This time they were covered in darkness. There, in the midst of an anguished crowd that seemed unaware of his presence, was Jesus on the Cross. Our Lady was before him “at a little dis-tance.” Mother Teresa saw herself there as well, not as an adult but “as a little child” standing directly in front of Our Lady as they both faced the Cross. Our Lady’s left hand was on Mother Teresa’s left shoulder, supporting her, and her right hand was holding Mother Teresa’s right arm, outstretched toward the cruci-fied Jesus. Jesus then said to her: I have asked you. They have asked you, and she, My Mother, has asked you. Will you refuse to do this for me--to take care of them, to bring them to me?

Mother Teresa explains her vision in the following way:

“If Our Lady had not been there with me that day, I never would have known what Jesus meant when he said,’I thirst’”

“Just think God is thirsting--and you and I come forward to satiate His Thirst. Just think of that! So the better we understand, the better we will satiate His Thirst for love of souls. Pray in a special way to Our Lady to explain this to us.”

Because Blessed Mother has been so instrumental in teaching Mother Teresa how to get closer to Jesus, Mother Teresa taught her sisters to depend on Blessed Mother. She said, “That the Society may more easily attain its end, let each Sister choose the Immaculate Queen of Heaven for her Mother. She must not only love and venerate Her, but fly to Her with child like Confidence in all her joys and sorrows.We must imitate her virtues and abandon ourselves completely into her hands.With Mary, we make more progress in the love of Jesus in one month than we make in years while liv-ing less united to this good Mother (de Montfort).”

For Mother Teresa, Our Lady was a concrete, daily presence to be met with, welcomed, known, cherished, and learned from. Mother Teresa taught her followers not only to pray to Our Lady, but to live in company with her. Living with Mary implies an ongoing, daily encounter with her unseen but powerful

Mother Teresa and her relationship to the Blessed Mother


JOURNEY

A few weeks ago I was invited to be one of the speakers in an Asian Pacific American event held at the nearby George Mason University in Virginia. The topic was “My Ameri-can Journey”. The organizers prob-ably thought that my life originating from the Philippines and ending up in the United States was exciting and adventurous enough to merit the ears of an audience who personally shared similar experiences. For the young, it would remind them of their parents’ tales and others who landed in America as immigrants, refugees, or even as illegal aliens with dreams and aspirations.

Each of us has an unwritten journal of experiences worth telling as we continue pursuing a journey towards either a defined and finite future or a destination predetermined by an absolute infinite power.

JOY

Nobody can deny that we are always in the pursuit of JOY or hap-piness, be it material or spiritual. As the song goes, “we want a life full of joy”. Our lives are indeed full of memories mostly depicting events of joy. Sometimes there are moments of sorrow but they are considered mere bumps delaying ultimate joy.

JUSTICE“To say that life is fair is like say-

ing, the bull will not come after me because I am a vegetarian”, I heard this from my Aunt once.

Yes, JUSTICE does not come easily in life. One has to assert and fight for it in order to obtain it. It could be political, social or eco-nomic justice. It could be asking for the rule of law, due process, fighting poverty or getting a job. “Ang sigaw ng bayan ay KATARUNGAN” (The cry of the people is JUSTICE), we used to shout as youth activists in the ‘70s.

I will never forget what Presi-dent Magsaysay said, “Those who have less in life, must have more in law”. To those much is given, much is required. These are sufficient teachings to go by as we seek social justice.

JOBS

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating is low. His reelec-tion bid for Presidency is in jeop-ardy. This is because the economy is performing badly. There are too many people unemployed. He is supposed to come up with a concrete plan or a set of proposals to generate more employment or stimulate the economy this coming Labor Day.

In his last State of the Union Ad-dress, President Obama said that we will “out-educate, out-innovate, out-build” our competitors. On the surface, the three goals would help

generate jobs. I expected him to im-mediately follow it up with specific proposals to attain those goals.

To out-educate, for example, I expected him to propose programs that would target certain industries, re-train the unemployed for targeted jobs, provide support to new, current and graduating students not only for the on demand jobs but also to supply the job requirements of the targeted industries.

To out-innovate, I expected him to come up with programs that would provide incentives and support to individuals and industries that cre-ate new products and technologies. Programs supporting research and development, students pursuing graduate degrees in the sciences, en-gineering, information and systems and other courses on innovation were also expected.

To out-build, I also expected him to pursue programs that would repair, re-build and / or build infra-structures such as roads, bridges, rails and speed trains, broadband highways, and others.

Life as a Journey; Joy, Justice, Job, Jefferson,

Jesus, and other J’s

JOUST OR JOIN

The American people are getting frustrated to the point of near despair compared to the hopes and dreams generated when Obama was first elected as President. The President’s latest approval rating is at an all-time low. The Republicans especial-ly those in Congress are no better.

The Democrats and Republicans are urged to stop jousting. They are expected to work together and join all efforts to jumpstart the economy again.

JEFFERSONIAN

America’s brand of democ-racy is Jeffersonian. It is a republic where the people’s authority and sovereign powers are delegated to Congress for legislation and the President for execution. The representatives are expected to govern on behalf of, for and by the people. They are there to assist in the people’s pursuit of JOY and JUSTICE.

JESUS and the other Js

In the journey towards joy and jus-tice, our job should not be focused on jousting with others but joining them as a team. We start as JUVE-NILES but grow up JADED. Some could end up as JOKES, JILTED or even JAILED. Others would be happy with

JUNKS. A few are lucky to have JEWELS even a JACKPOT.

Such is life. Whether you are a JEEPNEY-riding JOE or a JET-SETTING JANE, you have as much chance to JAM, listen to JAZZ, or watch a J-LO, or a JUSTIN Bieber/Timberlake Concert.

When in JEOPARDY, you can always use your skills in JUDO or JU-JIT-SU. Of course, especially in

desperate conditions, you always call on JESUS, JOSEPH, JA-

COB, JOSHUA, JACINTA, JULKANAIN, JIAO or to some, the JEWISH Mes-siah. -- AJ

presence. This requires not only faith on our part, but also the willingness to invest the time to draw near to her.

If we want to understand Mother Teresa, to imitate her, and to follow in her footsteps on the path to holiness, intimacy with Our Lady is not something peripheral or secondary. As Mother Te-resa herself experienced, Our Lady will begin to arrange the events and details of our life as soon as we give her permis-sion. Our life then increasingly becomes an adventure of grace as she takes the reins of our existence and begins to exercise her spiritual maternity.

Mother Teresa taught her Sisters and co-workers that Our Lady’s was a presence that helps us to see through the darkness, a presence that consoles and sustains us when we are weak, a presence that reminds us of the cry of her Son when we are forgetting him or following the voice of ego.

We need to give to Our Lady, repeat-edly through the day and over the course of the years, our worries, doubts, pains, problems, and all self-reference. This is the key, the last step that will bring full relationship with her and allow her fully to intervene in our lives, to act on our behalf as she did for Mother Teresa, and for many other hidden ones whom history will never know. Without this commitment, without the gift of our willing permission, Mary is not free to act. But once we take even the first steps

to entrust ourselves to her, Our Lady begins to enter our lives in a perceptible way. Her goal is to fashion our soul after the pattern of God first established in her own, to see us transformed into a living temple of the Lord, an Ark of the Cov-enant, that we might carry Christ to the

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Filipiniana Bookshelf: First Among Peers

First Among PeersTh e Offi cial Biography of Marcial Valenzuela

(Second in a series of articles)

Chapter OneTHE FLIGHT OF THE THREE EAGLES

(continuation)

By Arturo G. ValenzuelaIn 2006, our relative, Tiya Consuelo Valenzuela-Arique revealed to me a long-standing

“family secret,” that the brothers Vicente, Mariano and Enrique were originally surnamed Seril and not Valenzuela as they were later to be known.

It will be recalled that at the end of the American-Spanish war and through the Treaty of Paris of 1898, Spain sold the Philippines to the United States for US$20 million, a deal which included Puerto Rico and Guam. The Americans institutional-ized an American system of govern-

ment and went about the business of creating an effi cient public education system for Filipinos. They placed in the pipeline the education and train-ing of native teachers who, in turn, staffed the teaching force of the ear-ly Philippine education system from about 1905 until the 1960s-----a

period when many Filipinos became very conversant in English. (In the 1970s, the American-infl uenced edu-cation system was hit by the fever of nationalism that radically revised the western system of education and the use of local dialects as the medium of instruction.)

In the 1970s while big nations like China were struggling to teach their citizens the rudiments of speaking in English as the international language of communication, the Philippine government shifted gear and used the dialectical system which would prove disadvantageous to many Filipinos seeking jobs in the interna-tional landscape in later years.

When the Philippines was sold by Spain to the United States in 1900, it signaled the dawn of a new age and a renewed hope for a better life. It was also the time when brothers Vicente, Mariano and Enrique left Ilocos Norte for good and migrated to Pangasinan. Upon arrival in Man-gatarem, when Vicente was probably between the age of 40 and 45, the brothers discovered much to their fear that their names were included in the list of Katipuneros (rebels) wanted by the government in Ilocos.

To elude detection and to qualify for a homestead, they changed their family name from Seril to Valenzu-ela, the family name of their mother. Their relatives on the mother side (surnamed Valenzuela) have mi-grated ahead of them and have been living down in Mangatarem for many years prior to the arrival of the three brothers.

Back then---from the Spanish and down to the American regimes---one could apply for a homestead for free of up to 100 hectares of land or even more, provided you cultivate and make the land productive for you to pay taxes otherwise the government would take it back from you.

According to Tiya Consuelo, having been “baptized” anew, the brothers shed off their origi-nal family name Seril and entered themselves offi cially in the books of the American civil registrar in their adopted hometown of Mangatarem as Vicente Valenzuela, Mariano Valenzuela and Enrique Valenzu-ela. They then applied for and were eventually given individual papers for their homestead, each bearing

THE IMPOSING ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH of Paoay in Ilocos Norte the parish of which was founded in 1593, is now a World Heritage Site, which cornerstone was laid in 1704. The Spanish government demanded a huge number of laborers during its construction until it was completed and inaugurated on February 28, 1896 a few years before Lolo Vicente migrated to Pangasinan. He told my father that he worked in the fi nal phase of the con-struction of this church in the late1800s to offset his failure to pay taxes to the Spanish government. However, when he attended to planting rice in the fi elds and failed to render labor in the construction, he was labeled a “rebel,” thus he fl ed Paoay, Ilocos Norte with his brothers Mariano and Enrique and went to Pangasinan for good.

BEFORE (1943) and AFTER (2001) The very same spot, but in a different time. Picture on the left was taken in the summer of 1943 showing the nipa-roofed rice granary as the backdrop for the group picture showing my grandparents and relatives. Fifty eight years later (2001), and after consulting with cousin Antonio (standing third from left, last row in the left picture) who was 80 years old in 2001, I picked the very same spot where I constructed a one-bedroom concrete vacation house complete with humble amenities that make life in a laid back village worth the while. Antonio also helped me locate the original “mojon” or concrete post markers that delineated the boundaries of the properties that I had inherited from our forebears. He succumbed to old age last year (2010) at age 89. As far as I can recall, as this edition is being written April 29, 2011, only fi ve persons are still alive, by the grace of God, from the picture shown at left. These are: Rogaciana Mayo-Olegario, also known as “Manang Rosing,” center, third row directly in front of his older brother Antonio; Luis (Chito) child seated at the center at front row, and myself, small boy standing at center front row. The other two are: Tiya Epay O. Valenzuela (wife of Tatay Marcial’s younger brother Ri-cardo) now in her 90s and residing in California, USA seated on second row in front of Manang Rosing, and Paquito B. Valenzuela, child clutched by his mother standing second from right on second row.

“Gamuy-od” until similar events during that time led her to change her maiden name. (Read about it on page 22.)

It was in Mangatarem where Vicente met the “girl of his dreams,”

adopted hometown of Mangatarem as Vicente Valenzuela, Mariano Valenzuela and Enrique Valenzu-ela. They then applied for and were eventually given individual papers for their homestead, each bearing

their “new” name “Valenzuela”. These homesteads were forestlands which they cleared up and converted into productive rice lands. The brothers settled near one another. The actual area of the homestead was unknown but I estimate the fi gure at not less than 10 hectares of forested lands located beside a beau-tiful karayan (river) in the village of Tagac, Mangatarem, Pangasinan about three kilometers from the foot of the Pangasinan-Zambales moun-tain ranges. (See photos in Chapter Seven.)

The three have successfully completed part one of their intrepid adventure.

Two hectares of Vicente’s original Spanish era homestead are still intact up to these days, and it is now known as the MarGunda Farm, thanks to brother Luis for coining the name, in honor of Tatay Marcial and my mother Segunda Gamueda who herself was originally surnamed

Angela Sugue who apparently belonged to a middle class family residing in the heart of town, the Poblacion. Her brother, Lolo Se-gundo was a local constable (police offi cer) who owned a fi ne-looking horse which was the equivalent of a mid-sized car at that time. With true grit and dedication in the greatest Ilocano tradition of hard work and frugality, the couple, Angela and Vicente raised their family in the vil-lage of Tagac. (See heirloom picture next page.)

The heirloom photo was taken about summer of 1943 by Tatay Marcial right where our story began, at the ancestral home of the Vicente Valenzuela Clan in the laidback village of Tagac in Mangatarem, Pangasinan. Man standing upper-most left is Vicente himself. His wife Angela (née Sugue) is the woman with scarf draped around her shoulder shown seated at the center on the 2nd row. Sixteen years after


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OUR ROOTS CIRCA 1943 Before World War II became a full blown epic, Marcial Valenzuela evacuated his family from M. Natividad Street in Santa Cruz district in Manila to his hometown of Mangatarem in Pangasinan. The war prevented him from pursuing his professional calling.

this photo was taken (1959) Vi-cente succumbed to old age at 100. Men with straw hats in white shirts are Lolo Segundo Sugue, a local constable (policeman) at that time and, Lolo Mariano both brothers of Angela. All the persons in this photo are related to each other, either by blood or consanguinity with Vicente and Angela as the “main roots.”

Vicente’s original real estate prop-erties were passed on to Marcial’s siblings, Felicidad (seated 3rd from right, front row clutching cousin Jovencio), Honrado (standing, extreme left) and Pio (kneeling, right 1st row) who, in later years, passed them on to cousin Paquito (child clutched by her mother on 2nd row, right), son of Tiyo Pedring, Tatay Marcial’s younger brother (kneel-ing, 2nd from right). I purchased all those properties from Paquito (now an Australian citizen since the early 1900s) and modestly developed and preserved them into the two-hectare MarGunda Farm (as coined by brother Luis) in honor of our parents Marcial and Segunda. I am shown as the small boy on the front row standing at center with my brother Luis, seated also at the center.

My mother, Nanay Gunding, deliberately missed this rare photo opportunity as she was carrying my sister Aurora in pregnancy. It was taboo in those days for an expecting mother to be photographed as old folks believed she would suffer from a miscarriage of pregnancy. But I wonder why our siblings Domina-dor, Fortunato, Avelina, Fernando and Manuel did not join in as well. In the background of the photo on the previous page is the old rice granary, which is now the site of the farm house as shown on the next page.

Live for life; It is the greatest God-given gift!

Life is short, and there’s no time for whining, fi ghting, and doing the other guy wrong ...

If there is some kindness left in your heart, pass it on now, for tomorrow may be too late when you could only end up regretting that you should have been a little more car-ing, generous, and forgiving, but you chose not to be.

--- Luis G. Valenzuela

(To be continued)

By: Mozart Pastrano, Philippine Daily Inquirer | CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, 8/15/2011 —The Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro drew the curtains open on a performing arts show that will tour the US and Canada in the next few days.

Putting on center stage 10 members of the clergy headed by Monsignor Urcisino Columbus E. Villamil, rector of this city’s St. Augustine Cathedral, “Only in God” is an hour-and-a-half show featuring over a dozen religious songs in Bisaya, Filipino and English.

“This is our way of giving thanks for the Lord’s blessings,” archbishop Antonio Ledesma declares in a video-taped message at the start of the show, which opened Friday night (Aug. 12) at Rodelsa Hall here, the premier cultural center in Mindanao.

“Proceeds will go to a seminary and the construction work at the cathe-dral,” the archbishop said in the video message.

Conceptualized around the Rosary—the traditional Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries, plus the new Mys-teries of the Light—the show serves as “an inspirational musical concert” that seeks to make the Catholic faith-ful realize that “the mysteries of the Rosary are the mysteries of life itself,” said Fr. Daniel D. Coronel, the show’s scriptwriter.

The stage, designed by Mindanao’s eminent production designer Nash Naganga, is a meditative sprawl with a grand piano at upstage right, fl owers and candles in a candelabra at upstage center, platforms strewn about strategi-cally all over, and a crucifi x hanging in the midst of it all. And this became alive with the songs and dances per-formed by the gamey clergy.

“Lead Me Lord,” “Sa Yo Lamang,” “Panunumpa” and “Gitawag/Ang Tawag” are showcased in the Joyful Mysteries.

With an evocative choreography, “Salamin ng Buhay” topbills the offer-ings in the Sorrowful Mysteries, which include “Kinabuhi Mo, Kinabuhi Ko” and “Huwag Kang Mangamba.”

Father Lourdesio Armstrong P. Bala-cuit’s rap rendition of “Sa Yaweh ang Sayaw” set the tone for the Glorious Mysteries, which also feature “I Will Sing Forever” as well as Gary Valen-ciano’s “Shout for Joy.”

In the fi nal Mysteries of the Light,

Monsignor Villamil broke into a stir-ring “Ako ang Kahayag.” This was followed by “Way Sukod” and “Only in God.”

A procession of the Birhen sa Kote, kept at Xavier University’s Museo de Oro and now enshrined back at the cathedral, segues into a rousing fi nale, “O Bayan ng Dios,” with the audience dancing in praise led by the priests onstage.

The priests who will perform include Fr. Ricardo A. Dancela, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Binuangan town, Misamis Oriental; Fr. Domino D. Olango, assistant parish priest of Balingasay town, Misamis Oriental; Fr. Neil B. Limbaco, parish priest of the Immaculate Concep-tion Parish in Jasaan town, Misamis Oriental; Fr. Ricardo A. Pagatpatan Jr., parochial vicar, St. Francis Xavier Par-ish in Initao town, Misamis Oriental; Fr. Roger M. Gabac Jr., parochial vicar, Sacred Heart Parish in Anakan, Misamis Oriental and chair of the Ecology and Environment Desk of the Archdiocese; Fr. Ronald H. Ledesma, parish priest, Our Lady of Consolation Parish in Opol town, Misamis Oriental and director, vocations promotions of the archdiocese; Fr. Lourdesio Arm-strong P. Balacuit, parochial vicar, San Antonio de Padua Parish, Manticao town, Misamis Oriental, Fr. Jose Alan P. Pulgo, parish priest, San Vicente Ferrer Parish, Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City; and Fr. Eleuterio F. Daloy, parochial vicar, San Roque Parish, Magsaysay town, Misamis Oriental.

The ensemble will leave for the US on Monday, Aug. 15, and will keep the following schedule of performances: Aug. 15-19, Sacramento, California; Aug. 20-21, Stockton, CA; Aug. 22-23, San Francisco, CA; Aug. 24-25, Los Angeles, CA; Aug. 26-27, San Diego, CA; Aug. 28-Sept. 4, Los Angeles, CA; Sept. 5-7, Seattle, Wash-ington; Sept. 8-12, New York and New Jersey; Sept. 13-20, Toronto, Canada; and Sept. 21-23, Vancouver, Canada.

Filipinos abroad who wish to catch the shows must contact the show’s artistic director, Joseph Espadilla, by e-mail joe_espadilla @yahoo.com or through his Facebook account.

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Filipino priests sing and dance in US to raise funds for Mindanao cathedral

By Monsi Serrano, Philippine Daily Inquirer | Manila, 8/21/2011 -- As we commemorate the death of Ninoy Aquino, I can’t help but to look back and make my own refl ection. The gruesome event turned into a blessing in disguise — toppling the (conjugal) dictatorship for almost 3 decades! But the question that keeps bugging my malicious mind is this: “Is Ni-

noy’s sacrifi ce for us really worth it?”Some many unexpected turn of events

took place, thus making this more compli-cated and incomprehensible. The family of the ousted dictator is back in the helm and mutiplying like bacteria, expanding their infl uence again across the solid north.

There is a rumor (Flamma fumo est proxima. Flame follows smoke or If there’s smoke, there’s fi re) that Bongbong Marcos plans to try his luck on 2016 Presidential election While those who fought the dictator claiming as human rights and freedom fi ghters turned into nuts like Joker Arroyo, Rene Saguisag, Jojo Binay to name a few. There are lots of them, some have already lost their integrity because of their greed for power and became turncoats. They said, even the communists who claim to fi ght capitalism and advocates social equality, once they tasted power, they themselves become drunk with it and wanting for more. Just look around and you will see my point.

Looking back and looking also at the present political landscape in the Philip-pines, my question still remains, “Quo vadis Pilipinas?” With all these quagmires that beset our country due to brazen cor-

ruption, power tripping, lies and decep-tions, incompetencies and utang na loob and many more negative traits that have permeated in every political being, are we really worth dying for? When will we ever learn?

I remember what the great Albert Ein-stein said and I quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing all over again, and expect-

ing different result.”At this point in time, the only thing I

could really do is to hope and pray that the future of our country will be brighter as what the present administration envisions to take the M.Scott Peck’s “The Road Less Travelled”. For them to achieve that “Narrow Road that Leads to Straight Path”, they ought to be aware that their actions must not be incongruous with their proclamations. Otherwise, the great Arnold Toynbee will laugh at us rolling and say, “I TOLD YOU SO.” Because he said, “Anyone who has not learned from the past is doomed to commit the same mistake.”

Yes, I still and will always believe that Filipinos are really worth fi ghting for. But we must transcend this statement. We must do something that is consistent to our vision and mission of a better Philippines. If not, every drop of blood that will be shed will be wasted — because the blood that being sucked by the social leeches can never be converted into “dinuguan”. It’s something we can’t feed to the millions of hungry and homeless Filipinos.

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At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physi-cians and educators. Hinohara’s magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation’s top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the board of trust-ees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including “Living Long, Living Good” that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Move-ment, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself. (Unfortunately, we are unable to reproduce a picture of Dr. Hinohara.)

Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as chil-dren, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.

All people who live long — re-gardless of nationality, race or gender — share one thing in com-mon: None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I’ll have some fun, though: I

Tips for a Long Life, according to Shigeaki Hinohara

Shigeaki Hinohara, Author/Physician, Japan’s 97-year-old physician educator offers advice for seniors

plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!There is no need to ever retire, but

if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our coun-try. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100.

Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

My inspiration is Robert Brown-ing’s poem “Abt Vogler.” My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scrib-bles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hos-pitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke’s we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

Don’t be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don’t know when your number is up, and you can’t take it with you to the next place.

Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and

act responsibly so long as it exer-cises power – wisely, and not in the bullying sense – but exercises it, nonetheless. Leadership is a great burden. We grow weary of it at times.

“But if we are not to shoulder the burdens of leadership in the free world, then who will?

“The alternatives are neither pleasant nor acceptable. Great nations which fail to meet their re-sponsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic which had as its assets spirit, optimism, faith in God, and an unshakable belief that free men and women could govern themselves wisely. We became the leader of the free world, an example for all those who cherish freedom.

“If we are to continue to be that example – if we are to preserve our own freedom – we must understand those who would dominate us and deal with them with determination.

“We must shoulder our burden with our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, not counting on mere hope and wishes. We must be willing to carry out our responsibilities as the custodian of individual freedom. Then we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.”

IN REMEMBERING REAGAN’S LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP AND TIMELESS VALUES, the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration in honor of the president’s 100th birth-day this year. The celebration is in full swing right now. New galleries and exhibits are now on display at the Museum in Simi Valley, Califor-nia, according to John D. Heubusch, the Museum’s Executive Director.

A centennial gala in tribute to the life and legacy of our 40th President was held May 24, 2011, in Wash-ington D.C., hosted by the Reagan Foundation. Congressional leaders traced the key moments of Reagan’s life and discussed his lasting impact on the country he so loved. At the Reagan Forum at the Presidential Li-brary and Museum this past Tuesday evening, August 23, 2011, former First Lady Nancy Reagan was in attendance.

However, while walking into the room in the arm of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, the 90-year old Mrs. Reagan apparently lost her balance. In the video shown at KNBC-TV that night, the crowd can be heard gasping as Rubio catches her before she falls to the floor. Rubio and sev-eral people in the crowd helped the former first lady to get to her seat. The young senator from Florida was invited by Mrs. Reagan to speak at the forum.

Next month (Sunday, September 18, 2011), the Second Annual Golf Tournament and State Dinner to ben-efit the Reagan Foundation will be held at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. Civic and business leaders from across the country will hit the links to have some fun and celebrate Reagan’s on-going centennial anniversary. Later in the evening, keynote presenter T. Boone Pickens will help put Presi-dent Reagan’s many achievements in perspective.

The new interactive exhibits of the newly-renovated Ronald Reagan Presidential Music open up the world of President Reagan like never before.

It’s like taking a step back in time!From his days as a movie actor in

Hollywood to his leading role as a primary actor on the world stage, Ronald Reagan changed the course of history. As of its official unveil-ing this past February, the renovated Museum offers visitors the change to view and even participate in those world-changing events up close.

Children can play engaging games that demonstrate Ronald Reagan’s economic policies. Visitors can glimpse the president’s innermost thoughts as they page through his “digital diary” exhibit. And young statesmen and stateswomen in train-ing can re-enact President Reagan’s inaugural address on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building.

Some of the exhibits will stand as living, breathing history lessons for generations to come. For the young people of today, the Cold War is a


Legacy of Leadership: Ronald W. Reagan’s

Presidential Library and Museum

distant memory – it’s not easy to un-derstand what the world was before the Soviet Union collapsed entirely. This uncertain time in history is one of the Museum’s most significant exhibits.

Sections of the Berlin Wall have been faithfully reproduced, serving as a stark reminder of the divide caused by Communism. Gritty details from the Wall’s Eastern side only add to the realism. Barb wire is strewn around the Wall’s perimeter to deter escapees. Messages of des-peration are scrawled in graffiti. The Berlin Wall exhibit helps remind us that Ronald Reagan made the world a better place to live.

A state-of-the-art audio/video tour provides visitors with historical context, creating a truly immersive experience. Visitors are made to feel as though they have been trans-ported back to Cold War Berlin, and then forward in time to President Reagan’s momentous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. President Rea-gan chose the Brandenburg Gate as the site to deliver his speech because it represented the sharp division between East and West.

When he urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” he was looking ahead to a brighter future. In it, East Germans – and all the citizens of the Eastern Bloc – would be given the same economic freedoms as Americans. Harsh political oppression would be a thing of the past, and families that had been torn apart decades before would finally have a chance to reunite.

Just a few days after President Reagan’s speech, the wall came down for good. Slowly but surely, the economies of Eastern Europe emerge from the shadow of Soviet stagnation. Special Ronald Reagan

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confi rmed on June 29, 1999, receiving the Swiss funds in the amount of $4,613,020.76 in the name of the spouses Romualdez. The money was then placed in escrow pending fi nal determi-nation of ownership by a local court.

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Most men on their heyday ages at 20s, 30s and even 40s could not keep tab when was the last time he visited a doctor for a checkup. A recent study revealed that guys who consider them-selves “macho” are 50 percent less likely to seek preventive health care. Study says, men aren’t as used to seeing their doctors every year as women are. Men hate getting poked and prodded and are terrifi ed of their mortality. In their mind, if they go to a doctor they’ll fi nd some-thing wrong.

Not knowing that the key to living a long, good healthy life as a “macho” man is catching early anything that might be wrong. A lot of what happens in our bodies takes place silently, so while he may think he’s just putting his head in the sand, he’s really digging a huge hole for himself. It is a must for macho men take charge of their well-being otherwise, it would be too late for them to realize that life is too short if taken for granted.

It is a fact, that the prime of

men are on their 20s where noth-ing for them is impossible to do. With those crazy 20-something days behind him, he may not run as fast, feel as strong or recover as quickly as he used to be start-ing at age 30. Our body physi-cally starts to age and we see a decline in maximum heart rate and muscles. Experts say, regular exercise and healthy diet can

signifi cantly counter this aging process, and the earlier you start, the better.

How about in his 40s? This is when many men really begin to feel the signs of impelling age, especially if they’ve been ignoring their health on this age. This is where he begins to see a marked increase in weight gain, high blood pressure, diabeted and physical issues like back problems. For most men after ten more years at 50, this is a transi-tion period, if they’re not taking steps to stay healthy, they’re really feeling it by the end of this decade.

In his 60s and beyond, research showed that people at these ages are markedly happier than at other points in their lives, if they avoid crhonic disease and paid attention to diet, exercise and preventive medicine for the past few decades, and may expect the rewards of healthy and machois-tic life. Senior doesn’t mean sed-entary. If he’s not strength train-ing yet, he should start now. You can build high quality muscle mass through your 60s. By your 70s, it’s more about living off what you’ve already built.

People who are healthy con-scious may keep their “macho” will, but for those wealthy conscious, gone were the days. They may just be contented in look and listen. Eyesight and hearing can really start to wane now, which can be dangerous. Declining vision and hearing levels can often lead to falls and injury, causing fractures and potentially serious health issues. Study says, a third of all seniors reported falling each year, the leading causes of death from injury among those 65 and older, and two thirds of those who fall will fall again within six months. You should give priority to vi-sion, hearing and balance test in your doctor’s annual visit.

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dent Benjamin Romualdez’ reported net worth in 1983 of P2,348,495.22 …with the US$2,000,000.00 initial deposit in SA 7676 will show the huge disparity between his lawful income and the secret Swiss bank accounts which he opened during his incumbency as public offi cer,” the PCGG said in its 23-page resolution.

Government lawyers noted that in Aug. 1983, Romualdez had held various positions includ-ing ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Peking (China), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Washington, D.C. (United States), as well as governor of Leyte province. — MRT/VS, GMA News

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MTS Unveils Vintage Trolley


take you back to the days when these wonderful streetcars were in service all over San Diego.” This vehicle is a President’s Conference Committee or PCC Car. In 1929 presidents of various US streetcar companies met to develop a new vehicle design to reinvigorate streetcar popularity. The vehicle became the state-of-the art streetcar. Thousands of these street-cars were produced in the 1930s and 1940s and their name was shortened to PCC. San Diego operated 28 of these cars up until 1949 when the last PCC streetcar was retired.

Since 2006, San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc. (SDVTI) a wholly owned non-profi t subsidiary of MTS, has raised funds and managed the restoration process. No public funds were spent to restore the trol-ley. Led by restoration manager Dave Slater, over 3,000 volunteer hours and $850,000 were spent restoring the fi rst car, Streetcar # 529 to its original glory and adapt-ing it for service on the current light rail system. Harry Mathis added, “Thanks to our volunteers and spon-sors, restoration of PCC car # 529 is just the fi rst step to bring back a fl eet of PCC cars to our city. We have fi ve more cars in the process of restora-tion and I hope this wonderful fi rst car shows our region the opportunity to expand streetcar operations in our region.” For information on San Di-ego Vintage Trolley and San Diego’s streetcar history, visit http://www.sdvintagetrolley.com/

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Several nuns were attending a Yankee world Series baseball game.

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Food for Thought: Tips for a Long Life

they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We de-signed St. Luke’s so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours fi gured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

Science alone can’t cure or help people. Science lumps us all to-gether, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medi-cal ones.

Life is fi lled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo,

a fl ight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Fac-tion. I spent the next four days hand-cuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

It’s wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one’s family and to achieve one’s goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Diffi cult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.

“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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(2) Falsification of public docu-ment. Article 172 penalizes private persons for any of the acts of falsi-fication under Article 171. Included is falsely causing it to appear that persons participated in an act.

Mike and Iggy made it look that LionAir loaned five aircraft to LTA Inc. Yet no lease was contracted since Mike secretly owns the units. Whoever uses or benefits from a fal-sified document is legally presumed to be the author (Serrano v. Court of Appeals, et al., 404 SCRA 639 [2003]). Here it’s Mike, who used and took advantage of the falsified lease.

Penalty: imprisonment from two years, four months and one day, to six years, plus fine of not more than P5,000.

(3) Use of falsified document. Un-der Article 172, an offender will be punished if he uses a document, that he knows to be falsified, to damage another.

Mike used the “lease” as evidence to hold Po criminally liable. Since he used the bogus document, he is presumed to have known the falsifi-cation (Civil Service Commission v. Sta. Ana, 386 SCRA 1 [2002]).

Penalty: imprisonment from four months and one day, to two years and four months, plus fine of not more than P3,750.

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Several readers add another viola-tion — of the Omnibus Election Code.

If indeed Iggy and LTA Inc. leased five aircraft, it was for Gloria’s 2004 presidential run. Yet the P9.8-million “lease” was not listed in her reports to the Comelec of campaign contributions and expenses. Eleven donors of P30 million to P7 million were declared; neither Iggy nor his LTA Inc. was among them. Of the total P101-million spending, P8.62 million — less than the P9.8-million “lease” — went to all types of land, water and air transport.

The Poll Synchronization Act of 1991 (R.A. 7166) decriminalized non-filing of campaign reports. Only administrative sanctions remain: P10,000-fine and bar from assum-ing office. Moreover, election of-fenses prescribe in six years; in this case, 2010. That clears Iggy, who never reported to the Comelec any contribution to Gloria. Still, Gloria swore by her Comelec submissions, so false entries could open her to charges of perjury and falsification, which prescribe in ten years.

Mike and Iggy are getting the suf-fering Gloria into trouble.

* * *Still other readers suggest that the

Senate look into the financial books of LTA Inc. For, the “lease” may be fake, but the family firm may have deducted the P9.8 million from its 2004 gross income. This could spell charges of tax evasion against its president, Iggy. (“Lessee” Iggy’s name does not appear as a passenger in any of the five aircraft flight logs since 2004. Whereas, Mike flew 16


What charges await Mike,

Iggy for fakery

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times and Mikey 69 times in the two choppers alone sold to the police.)

All these cases arise from the fake lease alone. Separate are the fraud and conspiracy that the Senate has unearthed in the chopper switch-eroo. Sir Walter Scott was so right in saying, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.”

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of San Diego will receive bids for work at the Purchasing and Con-tracting Department, Contracts Division, 1200 Third Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, California, where bids are to be submitted prior to time specified. Plans and specifications can be obtained from The City of San Diego’s website: http://www.sandiego.gov/bids-contracts. A pre-bid meeting and/or pre-bid visit to the work site will be held, if indicated, at the time and place specified in the contract documents. Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend these sessions.It is the policy of the City of San Diego to encourage equal opportunity in its construction, consultant, material and supply contracts. Bids/proposals from small businesses, minority-owned, disabled, veteran-owned businesses, women-owned businesses and local firms are strongly encouraged. Contractors are encouraged to subcontract and/or participate in joint ventures with these firms. The City is committed to equal opportunity and will not discriminate with regard to race, religion, color, ancestry, age, gender, disability, medical condition or place of birth and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on any basis.Contractors interested in bidding projects over $50,000 must be pre-qualified. Please contact DAVE STUCKY of the City’s Pre-Qualification Program at (619) 533-3474 or [email protected] to obtain an application.Sign language or oral interpreting services are available at pre-bid meetings and bid openings with a 5 business day notice to the Contracting Division at 236-6000.

1. 87 INCH SEWER FORCE MAIN INSPECTIONBid No. K-12-5156-DBB-C-A. WBS No. S-00728. MANDATORY Pre-Bid Date: September 1, 2011 @ 10:00 a.m. Pre-Bid Location: Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1200 Third Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92101. Bid Opening Date: September 20, 2011 @ 2:00 p.m. Construction Estimate: $101,500. License Requirement: A.FEDERAL EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS.PREVAILING WAGE RATES: FEDERAL, STATE or BOTH.THIS IS A FHWA FUNDED CONTRACT THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION.

Hildred Pepper, Jr.August 18, 2011

Sur’s status as the country’s top tourist attraction should serve as a strong impetus for the Senate to block

the “split Camsur initiative” of the House of Representatives, which they described as an “unpopular, divisive and retrogressive” scheme.

Meanwhile, former Assistant Local Government Secretary Ferdinand Topacio said that, alongside the eventual income loss for the mother province, the proposed Camsur split would disrupt the synergy of the prov-ince’s development agenda, which promotes it as the country’s ecotour-

CamSur is top Philippine tourist destinationism capital.

A case in point is that the proposed new province of Nueva Camarines will disconnect Caramoan Island from Camarines Sur, “thereby destroying the unified promotion of CamSur as a prime destination for wakeboard-ing,” Topacio noted. (Story courtesy of Daxim Lucas of Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Asian Journal August 26, 2011 edition

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Transcript of Asian Journal August 26, 2011 edition