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with You! .. p.8

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not .. p. 11

Evacuation of OFWs in Libya may not be necessary–DFA

by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. Publisher & Editor in Chief, Asian Journal San Diego

Prologue

Tuko or gecko

A New Novel

Fantasy Land

New Yorkers prepare for Irene

Zena Sultana BabaoMsgr. Gutierrez Ben MaynigoActs of GOD vs. Govern-ment, Governed, Geeks, Gadgets, Google .. p. 17

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‘Tuko’ wards-off dengue virus-carry-ing mosquitoes; Senate Trade and Commerce Committee fi les action

by Patty Maluto, OFW Journalism Consortium | MANILA, 8/22/2011—THE Department of Foreign Affairs said that there will be no need for repatriating some overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Tripoli and its surrounding Libyan areas once the situa-tion stabilizes within the next 24 hours.

Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Antonio Rodriguez said the Philippine embassy in Tripoli has advised the Philippine government to “wait and see” for the situa-tion to stabilize.

There are about 1,600 OFWs remaining in Libya, as about 9,000, have already left the strife-torn country during the height of the crisis in mid-February to March.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is currently in Brazil on an offi cial diplo-matic function, but Rodriguez said that the Secretary is in full contact with the main offi ce on the situations sur-rounding Libya and Syria.

“Kung mag-stabilize ang sitwasyon, ako na mismo ang magsasabi na hindi na kail-angan ng repatriation (If the situation stabilizes, I will per-sonally pronounce that there will be no need for repatria-tion),” Rodriguez said.

He added that if Libyan pro-democracy groups will be able to take over the military base located 10 to 12 kilome-ters of the Philippine embassy in Tripoli, “baka within the next 24 hours tapos na ang boxing.”

The DFA maintained posting an alert level 4—or mandatory evacuation—in Libya, as Foreign Affairs Un-dersecretary Rafael Seguis is currently in Libya to convince Filipinos to leave the country under the government’s repa-triation program.

Under the repatriation program, the Philippine government will shoulder the expenses.

Seguis was supposed to meet Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa but could not do so because of the volatile situation in the Libyan capital.

Rodriguez said that based on

(Feature on the Hongjian Village Visit)

State Visits are grand affairs. By its very nature, such trips made by national leaders to other countries are suffused with pomp and pageantry and punctuated by the clink of the fi nest crystal, china and silver-ware.

All the most power-ful and infl uential people in politics, military and business come along for the ride and are herded ef-fi ciently through a battery of meetings, confabs and jaunts meant to foster better understanding and broaden trade and economic ex-

The President of The Philippines in China: REDISCOVERING ROOTS

changes between two nations.To be sure, President Be-

nigno S. Aquino III will have all the elements of a standard

State Visit when he comes to the Middle Kingdom on 30 August-02 September 2011.

Conferences will be held, banquets will be attended, agreements will be inked and plans to expand bilateral relations on all fronts will be made and fi nalized; all the more so in light of China’s rising global clout and its consequences to the eco-nomic and political make up of the east Asian region and beyond.

The paramount importance the Philippines places in its relations with the People’s Republic of China and its 1.4 billion-strong market and $US5.88

President Benigno S. Aquino III will visit the hometown of his Chinese ancestors in Hongjian Village, located in the township of Jiaomei, Longhai City, Zhang-zhou Municipality, Fujian Prov-ince.

Clear Skin Facial Clinic Grand Opening on Saturday August 27 had a successful turn-out. The Clinic is located at 2332 Reo Dr, San Diego, CA 92139. Standing in front of the clinic, Dr Jean Acido-Pal-ma, MD, Dr. Arwinnah Bautista, MD, and Dr. Amy Bautista-Tinaza, MD, were on hand to welcome clients and well-wishers..

By George M. De La Cruz/ PNS | MANILA, 8/21/2011 -- Manhunt op-erations on those involved in the massive trading of geckos, locally known as ‘tuko’, has been a posi-tive move, or else dengue virus-carrying mosquitoes may multiply which poses a threat on the population of this type of reptile that feeds on insects such as mosqui-toes.

Recent reports stating the rise

in hunting and selling of these reptiles because of their high cost in the international wildlife

Nobody knows where the name came from, but there it was, an archipelago nation called “Fantasy Land”, deemed paradise by many as it was blessed with natural beauty, rich natural resources and warm tropical climate. Many thought the name was a joke, for there was nothing “fantastic” about the hardships and poverty majority, make that al-most 80% of its people, are suffering, with millions forced to leave their families behind to work as maids and laborers, despite their professional education, abroad.

People recall Fantasy Land was second only to Japan in terms of progress before World War II, way ahead of its other Asian neighbors like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, Indo-China and others. These days, however, Bangladesh, a new nation born out of poverty, and which had suf-fered hundreds of natural calamities, as well as Vietnam, which had endured decades of civil war with American intervention, are breathing down its neck in terms of progress, if not way ahead. During the early 1950s, Fantasy Land sent troops to help preserve democracy in the civilwar-torn Korea. During the late forties, thousands of refugees from China came to Fantasy Land to seek refuge, hundreds of them liv-ing on the sidewalks looking for means to make a living for themselves and their families. They plied the streets

GLIMPSES by Jose Ma, Montelibano, PDI | New York, 9/2/2011 -- What a fi rst few days in New York this has been!

Doing my regular rounds in the United States in a continuing journey of discov-ery and engagement remains simply exciting in many ways. Hours after arriving New York, I found myself meeting Filipino-Americans of two generations. fi ve couples in their 50’s and 60’s, and three young Filipino-Americans. If I had not been experiencing it so consistently in my travels

across America these last few years, it would be strange to be with patriots for our moth-erland when they are already part of another country.

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Mario was petitioned by his brother Celso in 1986 – under a 4th preference family-based relative petition (F4). Celso paid for all the immigrant visa fees and affidavit of support fees with the National Visa Center. In June 2011, Mario and his wife Norma (who is a derivative beneficiary under Celso’s petition) were interviewed at the U.S. Embas-sy in Manila; and were issued their

immigrant visas. Having waited for so many years for their visas, Mario and Norma excitedly prepared for leaving for the United States. They planned on immediately petitioning for their 3 children who were not able to get visas under their Uncle

Can Spouse Still Migrate When Principal Beneficiary Dies?

Celso’s petition because they were already over 21 when their immi-grant visas became available. Three weeks ago, Mario suffered a fatal heart attack and died after a week in the hospital.

Norma, his spouse and who is a derivative beneficiary under Celso’s petition, still wants to fly to the United States on September 11, as he and Mario already had their tick-ets booked on that date. Can she still come even without Mario?

Norma’s situation – where the principal beneficiary Mario dies, has the same effect as when it is the family petitioner who dies – that is, the original approved petition is revoked.

While Public Law 111-83 which

came into effect on October 28, 2009, now permits the approval of a visa petition or adjustment of status application and related applications even if the petitioner dies, it benefits only those petitions where the beneficiary/ies are residing in the United States.

We have written several articles on this Public Law 111-83 and the dif-ferent situations it covers – mostly, death of the petitioner in a family-based petition. In summary, Public Law 111-83 permits the approval of a visa petition or adjustment of status application and related ap-plications even if the petitioner dies provided the alien beneficiary (i) resided in the United States when the qualifying relative dies; and (ii) continues to reside in the United States on the date his or her petition or application is decided.

However, for beneficiaries outside of the United States like Norma, “humanitarian reinstatement” ap-pears to be the only relief still avail-able. Despite Mario’s death, Norma can still immigrate as a derivative beneficiary under Celso’s original petition for her husband Mario. However, since Mario died before he can was able to immigrate, Norma can no longer use the immigrant visa issued to her in June, and immigrate without her husband Mario, who was the principal beneficiary of the approved petition.

Either Celso - who petitioned for his brother Mario – or Norma herself, should first file an applica-tion for humanitarian reinstatement. Celso and/or Norma must submit a written request for reinstatement to the USCIS office which originally approved Celso’s petition in 1986, and must include evidence to estab-lish the following:

The impact of revocation on Cel-so’s or Mario’s family in the United States, especially on their other U.S. citizen or lawful permanent relatives living in the United States;

Celso’s advance age or poor health;

Celso’s lengthy residence in the United States, as well as those of other relatives;

Celso’s ties to the United States; and

Significant delay in processing the case after approval of the petition and after a visa number has become available, if the delay is reasonably attributable to the Government, rather than the alien.

In addition, Celso and/or Norma must satisfy all the other eligibil-ity requirements like submission of an affidavit of support from the petitioner, Celso. If Celso’s income is no longer sufficient to meet the requirements, an additional affidavit of support from a co-sponsor must also be submitted.

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White House AAPI Initiative Asks Participants To Submit 3-Minute Videos Highlighting Community’s Change Makers

WASHINGTON – The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders launched an online video challenge today, asking participants to submit personal sto-ries about people who have had an impact on the people around them. The effort, called “What’s Your Story?” aims to highlight commu-nity service by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders whose dedication to a cause has made a difference in their communities. Participants are

asked to submit a video describing unique experiences that have shaped who they are in less than three minutes. White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Island-ers director Kiran Ahuja said the video challenge is designed to help understand more about important issues facing the community and to highlight their contributions. “A community’s stories define who they are,” said Ahuja. “This is an opportunity to highlight the work of people making a difference in our communities everyday. Whether you’re a passionate advocate for nail salon health and safety or working tirelessly to make life a little easier for new Americans, this is your chance to let us know how you’re making a difference.” Entries are accepted in any form, including mu-sic video, public service announce-

Video Challenge Asks Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders: “What’s Your Story?”

White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

ment, short film, video blog or in an interview format. Essays will also be accepted in the place of video entries. All entries should showcase someone’s work around a specific issue facing the AAPI community in under three minutes or with fewer than 1,000 words. Entries should be submitted online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/WhatsYourStory by Tuesday, November 1, 2011. A video describing the Initiative’s effort is available at http://youtu.be/UiSgHYNd53Q?hd=1. A select number of entries will be posted on the White House website and a group of exceptional leaders high-lighted will be selected to attend a White House briefing this fall and given the opportunity to share their stories in-person.

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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2011 – HY-PERLINK “http://sdge.com/index/” San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a unit of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), closed yes-terday a public offering of $350 million of 10-year first-mortgage bonds. This trans-action marks the second time SDG&E has used a minority-owned investment bank as co-lead in a bond offering.

As part of its overall commitment to supplier diversity, SDG&E selected HYPERLINK “http://www.castleoaklp.com/” CastleOak Securities L.P., a New York-based, African-American-owned investment bank, to be one of four joint lead managers, along with HYPERLINK “http://www.db.com/usa/” Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HYPERLINK “http://www.rbccm.com/” RBC Capital Markets, LLC and UBS Investment Bank.

“We are proud of our ongoing com-mitment to provide opportunities for minority-owned banks and investment banking firms to participate on an equal footing with other major financial institu-tions in these kinds of transactions,” said Lee Schavrien, senior vice president of finance, regulatory and legislative affairs for SDG&E.

“Diversity is an everyday core value at SDG&E,” said Schavrien. “Having CastleOak as a joint lead on this deal is

just another example of good business decisions we believe benefit our customers and the communities we serve.”

The bonds bear an interest rate of 3.0 percent and mature on Aug. 15, 2021.

According to the underwriters, at the time of issuance, this deal was record-breaking -- the lowest coupon ever issued for a 10-year utility bond offering -- although new records

continue to be set this week. The bonds are rated “Aa3” by HYPERLINK “http://www.moodys.com/” Moody’s Inves-tors Service and “A+” by HYPERLINK “http://www.standardandpoors.com/” Standard & Poor’s Corp.

Two other minority-owned underwriters -- HYPERLINK “http://www.guzman.com/privacy.html” Guzman & Company and HYPERLINK “http://www.willcap.com/” The Williams Capital Group -- were co-managers on this bond issuance.

Proceeds of the bonds will be used to fund SDG&E’s robust, five-year capital investment plan that includes construction of the Sunrise Powerlink transmission line, which is on target to be in service next year, as well as the purchase of the El Dorado power plant in Nevada from SDG&E’s sister affiliate company HY-PERLINK “http://www.semprageneration.com/” Sempra Generation.

SDG&E Issues $350 Million In Bonds Jointly Led By Minority-Owned Investment Bank

“SDG&E continues to lead the way among California utilities in ‘walking the talk’ on diversity and in creating new op-portunities for minority companies in this dynamic capital market,” said Timothy Alan Simon, a commissioner on the HYPERLINK “http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/” California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). “We commend SDG&E for making significant strides toward the goals of the Commission’s General Order 156.”

CPUC General Order 156 requires investor-owned utilities to submit annual plans for increasing the participation of businesses owned by women, minorities and disabled veterans in utility procure-ment.

HYPERLINK “http://sdge.com/index/” SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.5 million consumers through 1.4 mil-lion electric meters and more than 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The utility’s area spans 4,100 square miles. SDG&E is committed to creating ways to help our customers save energy and money every day. SDG&E is a subsidiary of HY-PERLINK “http://sempra.com/” Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego.

Is Your Business Prepared?

15-40 percent of businesses fail following a natural or manmade disaster.1

94 percent of small business own-ers believe a disaster could seriously disrupt their business within the next two years.2

51 percent of Americans have experienced at least one emergency situation where they lost utilities for at least three days, had to evacuate and could not return home, could not communicate with family members

or had to provide first aid to others.

Are Your Employees Ready?

Only 2 in 10 Americans feel pre-pared for a catastrophic event.4

Close to 60 percent of Americans are wholly unprepared for a disaster of any kind.4

54 percent of Americans don’t pre-pare because they believe a disaster will not affect them.

Only 1 in 10 American households has taken the appropriate prepared-ness steps: a family emergency plan,

an emergency supply kit and training in First Aid and CPR/AED.4

82 percent of Americans agree “If someone could make it easy for me to be prepared, I’d do it”.4

Emergencies Are Inevitable.

The Ready Rating program is designed to help your business or organization get better prepared for emergencies. Learn more about how it works. Visit http://www.readyrat-ing.org/Businesses.aspx

Sources: 1 Insurance Information Institute, 2000, 2 American Red Cross and FedEx Small Business Survey, 2007, 3 American Red Cross/Harris Poll Survey, 2009, 4 American Red Cross Preparedness Survey, 2006, 5 The Aftershock of Katrina and Rita: Public Not Moved to Prepare, 2005

September is National Preparedness Month. Is Your Business Prepared?

American Red Cross: Preparedness Research Findings


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My shoes squeaked new when I hurried to my Poli Sci 101 class that Monday morning. When I entered the room, Mrs. Ritos was already on this bourgeoisie and proletariat contradiction thing. I must have been far more than a few minutes late for

I already had a hard time following what was being discussed. What does diametrically oppose really mean? Besides, I really resisted the subject.

My resistance to understanding the lesson also hinged on my not caring about the subject because my course was geared to make me an engineer. What does this Karl Marx have to do with limits and parabolas?

I did not even want to be at the University of the Philippines branch in Baguio City. I had been under the care of nuns and priests all my

elementary and high school life. My father insisted that UP, for college, was the way to go. I warned him that UP was a harbinger of communists according to the nuns and priests. I mean even if I was no longer a semi-narian and I found a Playboy maga-zine underneath a rector’s pillow, it does not mean that I am no longer a Christian who was taught to oppose

communists. The advice, however, of UP administration personnel and faculty members who bowled at the alley and regularly consumed my mother’s confections at the canteen bore weight on my parents’ insis-tence.

“UP has cheaper tuition fees and only for intelligent students,” my father said.

“Yes, but I have a leadership schol-arship which I can apply anywhere I want to,” I said.

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private schools.”“But almost everyone who studies

in UP become communists.”“You don’t have to be.”

In the end, I took and passed the UP entrance test. I became a scholar ng bayan – of the nation. Only intelligent ones become scholars ng bayan. Yet, I struggled to understand this bourgeoisie and proletariat thing.

I was on my way to my calculus class after Poli Sci when I heard my name being called at the hallway. Jenny caught up with me, panting in her rush to catch me.

“Here is what I promised you,” she said handing me a thin pamphlet titled ‘The Miseducation of the Fili-pino’. “And see you at Room 10 at 4:30. You promised.” And she turned away in search of another face at the hallway.

I promised? Oh! Yes, I promised but that was ions of days ago. I mean who would remember a promise to attend a Monday thing when there is a weekend in between? With Cynthia and other things on my mind, I for-got that I promised that I would be at Room 10 at 4:30.

It was really hard not to say yes and not promise to Jenny. She had these eyes that blinked ‘say yes, say yes, please, say yes.’ A cross between an Igorot and Visayan beauty, she had these lips that would mount a seeming pout if you say no. And she had this smile that rewards you with this far out warmth whenever you say yes.

If she was not a communist, I would have liked her completely.

The least I could do was fulfi ll my promise. After that, I should be done with this communist and I promised myself not to promise her anything again because she was a communist.

To be continued…

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San Diego, Calif.—August 31, 2011—Seven national powerboat racing tours, featuring the world’s fastest boats compete on the waters of San Diego’s Mission Bay, Sep-tember 16-18, as headliner of the region’s largest annual family beach festival and sports competition.

This year marks the fi rst time in three years the Air National Guard Hydroplane Series and the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series have run together on Mission Bay. They are joined by the automotive-powered Grand Prix West Hydroplanes and offshore series newcomer P1 USA, among others during the three-day weekend.

“The Unlimited hydroplanes and the drag boats are truly fan favor-ites,” said Jeff Thomas, chairman of San Diego Bayfair’s Board of Direc-tors. “This is the only race site in the country you can experience both tours on the same body water, same weekend. If you love jet engines or the roar of the pistons and the sheer speed of seeing the fastest race craft with no wheels, Bayfair is the place to be in September.

“But it’s more than just power-boat racing, there’s something for everyone, great vendors, food, music and the shores of beautiful Mission Bay, combined with the best weather of the year.”

San Diego is the fi nal regular sea-son stop for The Air National Guard Hydroplane Series before wrapping up its season in Doha, Qatar in No-vember. Ten unlimited hydroplanes compete for the famed Bill Muncey Cup, which was won last year by the tour’s all-time winningest driver Dave Villwock, who just this year passed Muncey’s record of 62 wins.

Villwock, driving the Spirit of Qatar, and his primary competition driver Steve David in the Oh Boy! Oberto have each won two races this season, though there’s a young, highly skilled group of drivers chal-lenging the two veteran’s domi-nance. Speeding across the water at over 200 mph in the straightaways on the 2.5-mile Bill Muncey race-course, the fastest body of water on the circuit, drivers are subjected to G-forces similar to what a fi ghter pilot experiences. Even there boats are similar, protected in cockpits designed after the Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Returning to Mission Bay after a one-year hiatus, the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series expects as many 120 boats churning up the water in front of Crown Point. Billed as the extreme sport of extreme sports, the series’ Top Fuel Hydros can achieve 260 mph on a quarter-mile course.

As the drivers attest, there is a fi ne line between winning the race and crashing. Drag boats are competing in 11 classes including sportsman, PWC and professional. In addition to the racing action, fans can meet the drivers and watch up-close the boats being prepared for competi-tion.

Here’s a brief overview of the oth-er classes of boat racing at Bayfair:

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(San Diego, August 29, 2011) “San Diego CleanTech Beach: Rid-ing The Green Jobs and Economy Wave” http://sandiegocleantech-beach.eventbrite.com is an event that is designed to help people launch or expand clean technology careers, start-ups and community initiatives by providing briefi ngs from leaders in the Green economy sector.

The September 15, 2011 evening event is hosted by The Connell Whittaker Group LLC (see http://www.missiontohumanity.com). The location is San Diego Environmental Services 9601 Ridgehaven Court , First Floor Auditorium, San Diego, CA 92123 (Free Parking) Thursday, September 15, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (PT)

In the wake of new studies and confusing media reports about the status of the Green economy, many career changers, entrepreneurs, and others are in need of reliable infor-mation and networking to help reach their business goals. CleanTech Beach speakers are leaders in the sector and will offer reality-based briefi ngs on the 2011 status of the local and state Green economy.

Speakers and topics include:• 6:00-6:20 pm Jacques

Chirazi, Offi ce of the Mayor of San Diego, Cleantech Program Manager: “The CleanTECH San Diego Suc-cess Story and Jobs Outlook”

· 6:20-6:40 pm Bill Pow-ers, P.E. Powers Engineering, and Author, San Diego Smart Energy

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Tampa, Fla. (August 25, 2011) – Earthquakes in Virginia and Colorado on Tuesday serve as reminders that earthquakes can strike anywhere in the U.S. without warning. Such events clearly demonstrate the importance of disaster preparation, according to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck just northwest of Richmond, Va., Tuesday afternoon. Reports from various media outlets state the quake was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City, and as far south as Chapel Hill, N.C. The Virginia tem-blor came just hours after Colorado experienced a 5.3 magnitude earth-quake, its largest since 1973.

“As so many people experienced fi rst-hand this week, earthquakes

can strike anywhere, at any time, and without warning,” said Julie Rochman, president & CEO, IBHS. “Effective disaster safety measures can protect lives and property, but only if action is taken before, rather than after, a catastrophe like a major earthquake hits.”

IBHS has a pair of free consumer guides available on its website, www.DisasterSafety.org, which provides information on how to effectively pre-pare their property for an earthquake.

“Earthquake Risks Around the U.S. – How to Protect Your Property” provides information to help residents and business owners better understand the areas of a home or business most vulnerable to earthquake damage and offers solutions to minimize the risk of property losses. The information and

suggestions presented in this guide range from simple weekend tasks that require basic carpentry skills to more complex projects that may require professional assistance.

“Reduce Six Common Earthquake Risks for Under $70” identifi es af-fordable ways to secure fi ve items commonly found in homes. Most of these projects can be accomplished by residents or business owners them-selves or with the help of someone who is handy with household tools.

“IBHS is pleased to offer these guides to consumers, along with other information about earthquake risk reduction,” Rochman said. “We urge consumers to act on this informa-tion to help make their homes and businesses safer, stronger, and more resistant to earthquake damage.”

Earthquakes in Unusual Locations Demonstrate Importance of Earthquake Preparation

The Ready Rating program is designed to help your business or organization get better prepared for emergencies. Below are the fi ve cornerstone preparedness actions of the Ready Rating program. When you join the Ready Rating program, you’ll get access to a detailed Ready Rating Program Guide that guides you through each of these steps. This condensed version of the Program Guide is designed to provide a snap-shot of how the American Red Cross can help your business get better prepared.

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Preparedness Essentials

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 — Americans are relying more and more on social

media, mobile technology and online news outlets to learn about ongoing disasters, seek help and share infor-

mation about their well-being after emergencies, according to two new surveys conducted by the American

Red Cross.

More Americans Using Social Media and Technology in Emergencies

New American Red Cross Survey Finds High Expectations on Response Organizations

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Contemporary Asian American Issues

The Nation’s Premier Conference On Childhood Obesity:

Perspectives


According to U.S. Department of Educa-tion statistics, there

are close to 4400 colleges and universities in the United States. Of those institutions, Alliant International Uni-versity has once again been recognized as a top producer of graduate degrees among

Alliant International University - A leader in graduate degrees

among minoritiesminorities, as published in Di-verse: Issues in Higher Educa-tion Magazine.

With respect to doctoral degrees, Al-liant ranks #1 in psychology across all minority groups, #6 across all disciplines among Hispanics, and #8 in business among minorities.

In terms of masters degrees, Alliant ranks #3 in both psychology and mental/social services among Asian Americans

and #9 in psychology among Hispan-ics. Combining doctoral and masters degrees, Alliant is ranked in a total of 20 categories that span across all disciplines and minority groups. These consistently

high rankings reflect Alliant’s institu-tional commitment to multiculturalism and diversity. They demonstrate Alliant’s continued success in advancing higher education among minorities.

As Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, associ-ate provost of international-multicultural initiatives, remarks, “This is what makes Alliant special; we are an inclusive edu-cational environment where people from diverse backgrounds are welcomed, affirmed, and able to thrive.”

American Council on EducationIn addition to its work as a top produc-

er of graduate degrees among minorities, Alliant International University this fall will join a prestigious American Council on Education (ACE) project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation entitled At Home in the World: Educating for Global Connections and Local Com-mitments, which is aimed at promoting collaboration between internationaliza-

tion and diversity/multicultural educa-tion initiatives on college and university campuses.

Along with seven other institutions named to the project, Alliant will explore

connections between on-campus inter-national and diversity efforts that will better prepare students for the impacts of globalization and improve cultural communication skills among students, faculty and staff. Co-chairs of the Alliant work group, Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden and Dr. Danny Wedding, will meet with ACE staff and team leaders from the other selected institutions to share expe-riences and discover best practices.

“Participating in a project of this mag-nitude is quite an honor. Assuring that we are effectively training our students to be culturally competent professional practitioners in a global world is key for us at Alliant,” said Provost Russ New-man.

“The interface between multicultural and international efforts on campus is a critical place to engage students, who will face an increasingly diverse and global workplace over the course of their careers,” said Patti McGill Peterson,

presidential advisor for global initiatives at ACE. “Competition for this project was quite intense and shows a great desire among applicants to effectively address this important relationship. We anticipate great strides from this learning community.”

Reaching OutAccording to the Commission on the

Future of Higher Education, Depart-ment of Education, “the best colleges and universities actively reach out to students and faculty from a wide range of backgrounds. They believe a diverse academic community contributes to the quality of a student’s education. Cur-rently, the 18–22-year-old full-time undergraduate student represents only 16% of the higher education population.

Of today’s students: 40% study part time, 40% are age 25 or older, and 58% are age 22 or older. The population at US institutions of higher education has undergone tremendous change in the past decade and will continue to change.

Alliant International University and the schools within it, California School of Forensic Studies (CSFS), California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Shirley Hufstedler School of

Education (HSOE), Alliant School of Management (ASM), and San Francisco Law School (SFLS) are at the forefront of change when it comes to diversity, helping students prepare for and benefit from globalization, and preparing lead-ers for a world vastly different from a generation ago.

About Alliant International UniversityAlliant International University is a

WASC accredited private, non-profit university that emphasizes the practical application of theory and research to prepare students for professional careers in psychology and mental health, educa-tion, business and management, forensic studies, and law. Created in 2001 by the merger of two legacy institutions, its combined institutional history in higher education dates back over 100 years. Headquartered in San Diego and San Francisco, Alliant has additional campuses in Los Angeles, Irvine, Fresno, Sacramento, and Mexico City with accredited programs in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

For more details, or registration infor-mation visit: www.Alliant.edu

Sources: US Dept of Education, Sallie Mae, Alliant International University

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by Dr. Ofelia Dirige

As a columnist of the Asian Journal, I was given a media pass to attend the 6th Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference held in San Diego last June 28-30 at the Man-chester Grand Hyatt. I consider it a privilege to attend this conference as it is along my line of expertise and also because I was able to attend it for free. This is of course with the view that I will report on what I had learned at the conference. The media pass was only for one day and I was able to attend only two sessions but was able to view most of the exhibits where I learned a lot about the re-sources available on obesity. Thank you Asian Journal!

THE PROBLEMOne in four California adults is

obese and over half are overweight or obese. This epidemic affects vir-tually all age, income, educational, disability and ethnic groups includ-ing Filipino Americans (FilAms). Rates are highest among those of Latino, American Indian, African American and Pacific Islander descent, Californians from lower-income households, and those with disabilities. Kalusugan Community Services’ survey in 2000 among 458 FilAm adults aged 25-65 years in San Diego (SD) showed that 48% are overweight and 13% are obese.

While healthy eating and physical activity are key to obesity preven-tion, less than 30% of California

adults are eating enough fruits and vegetables and only half enough physical activity. Among FilAms in SD, only 16% ate 5 daily servings of fruits and vegetables and 30% did moderate and vigorous activity most days of the week. Poor diet, inactiv-ity, and obesity contribute to the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, arthritis-related disabilities, depression, sleep disorders, and some cancers.

This 6th biennial conference on childhood obesity is the largest conference of its kind in the nation addressing one of the most critical public health challenges facing our country, i.e., obesity. The theme, “Celebrating Success and Moving Toward Health in All Policies” builds on our accomplishments, including improving school envi-ronments, achieving new beverage standards for child care and secur-ing new federal funds focused on healthy food access. It highlights the necessity and benefits of considering health when making policy decisions at the local, county, state and federal level.

This conference was hosted by California Department of Public Health (Project LEAN, Network for a Healthy California, Califor-nia Obesity Prevention Program and Women, Infants & Children Program), University of Califor-nia, Berkeley, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, The California Endow-

Promoting Healthy Places and Policies

ment, and Kaiser Permanente. Other major supporters are Anthem Blue Cross and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. There are 16 additional supporters that include the American Cancer Society, SPARK and Dairy Council of California.

WORKSHOPSThere were eight tracks or work-

shop topics that tackled the problem of obesity in a comprehensive way.

Participants can go to any one of them. This included : Agriculture and Food Systems; Basic and Ap-plied Research; Built Environment, Land Use and Transportation; Com-munity Nutrition and Physical Activ-ity; Early Childhood Education; Health Care Prevention Strategies; Marketing to Kids; and School/After School Programs and Policies.

The two sessions I at-tended were related to “Agriculture and Food Systems”. The topics were, “Moving toward Healthier and Sustainable Food Systems” and “Farm to Fork: Moving from Theory

to Practice”. These sessions explores the impact of agricultural and food

systems on a community’s physical, economic, social and environmental health. The first topic suggests that availability and affordability of food in low-income communities is an important contributor to diet-related chronic diseases and obesity rates in urban and rural America. Our complex food system needs to be redesigned to deliver more healthful outcomes. The second topic shows

that understanding and navigating the complexity of our food system takes an inter-disciplinary approach to solve the obesity epidemic.

To emphasize the impor-tance of the agriculture and food systems on the obesity epidemic, Dr. Oran B. Hesterman, published a book entitled, “Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All”. This book is an enlighten-ing guide on how to redesign our broken food system, i.e., changing what we eat but also how food is grown, packaged and delivered. Our food system’s dysfunction is our emphasis on efficiency, cen-

tralization, higher yields, profit and convenience. According to him, the

spiraling rate of obesity in the U.S. is one of the many symptoms of our broken food system. For more information, visit the website: www.fairfoodbook.org

Besides workshops, a field trip was arranged to the Tierra Miguel Foundation, a charitable organiza-tion that offers programs to inform and educate about the value of local, sustainable agricultural practices and demonstrates these practices on an 85-acre working produce farm. Exercises such as walking along the waterfront, harbor runs, standing exercise and chair exercise classes were also conducted during the day. The hotel provides a well-equipped fitness room and swimming pool for guests.

EXHIBITSThere were 59 exhibitors that

presented a colorful, interesting and educational information about their programs and samples of materials that they have produced on nutrition and physical activity. Some notable ones is the Anthem Blue Cross, “Family Activity Book: Get Up and Get Moving!” to help one plan fun activities for the whole family and to share with kids to help them be more fit and make good health choices. An accompanying booklet for parents is “Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids.” Their website is HYPERLINK “http://www.anthem.com/ca” www.anthem.com/ca

The Nutrition Services Department of the Neighborhood House As-sociation publishes a 2001 calendar of “365 days of nutrition and health for the family.” Each month is a page loaded with tips on how to eat right, recipes, guides and pictures. It will be a lot of fun for kids. Their website is HYPERLINK “http://www.neighborhoodhouse.org” www.neighborhoodhouse.org.

The Unified NutriMeals is dedicated to providing healthy and delicious meals, diminishing obesity and educating their clients about nutrition and physical activity. They combine all-natural foods and a comprehensive health education to design a customized food service program for each organization. They have a brochure, newsletter, and 21-day cycle breakfast menu.

Their website if HYPERLINK “http://www.unifiednm.com” www.unifiednm.com.

Other interesting organizations with beautiful displays are: A World Fit for Kids!; Accusplit, Inc; Cal-Fresh; California Action for Healthy Kids; California Department of Education; CATCH; WIC; Food Fun; Lakeshore Learning; Lean & Green Kids; Nemours; Network for Healthy California; Public Health In-stitute; SPARK; Superkids nutrition: The Kidshape Foundation; and The Organwise Guys. To obtain a list and how to contact them, send email to HYPERLINK “mailto:[email protected]” [email protected] or visit the website: www.childhood-obesity.net

CONCLUSION:The comprehensive policies dis-

cussed at this conference that impact the places where we live, learn, work and play have a profound influence on our economic health, equity and environmental sustainability. There has been much progress but much more remains to be done if we are to effect long-term changes that will reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

The Planning Committee consist-ing of representatives from many organizations stated that “the nation is poised to realize opportunities for meaningful change in health reform”. They encouraged us to con-tinue to expand our efforts, create more opportunities for collaboration across sectors, and continue the path of innovation through public/private partnerships. The future of our chil-dren depends on us.

I am calling on all Asian Ameri-can organizations and individuals involved to continue the fight to re-duce obesity by helping change poli-cies related to the agricultural and food systems, schools, child care, physical activity and the environ-ment, and healthy food access. Let us unite and work together to make this happen not only for our sake but also for our children.

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Villar noted that although geckos are not classified as either critically endangered or vulnerable, but it is now under threat from over collec-tion which can ultimately lead to vulnerability or extinction.

The government must act in order to save the specie from threats because existing wildlife plays a role in the balance of nature, he added.

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‘Tuko’ wards-off dengue virus-carrying mosquitoes(Continued from page 1)

was causing not only deep concern but virtual panic for many who wiped out the supply of generators and flashlights. People were buying cartons of bottled water, too, and stacking food. Yet, in that shop for costume rentals where the owners played host for the meeting and, of course, provided food as well, there was no panic, not even unusual interest for the coming typhoon. Instead, there only was a thirst for an active and productive connection to their race and motherland.

These American-based patriots of their motherland across the Pacific gathered to hear the latest news about the Philippines, especially on the cause nation-building, the issues of poverty and corruption. But they were not griping about the mess af-flicting the Filipino people; instead, they just wanted to get guidance or affirmation about the solutions they had in mind. Around that long table, it was not dissonance that colored the many and different ideas being brought forth and discussed. Rather, it was a common desire to help the Filipino and build a future full of hope,

The participants of the gather-ing were leaders of Gawad Kalinga and advocates who belonged to different organizations. Yet, it was less the advocacy of each one that was the primary concern but how several groups could converge in activities and share messages that directly contributed to the well being of the poor in the Philippines. The individuals present committed to pursue a direction of convergence and alliance-building for Filipino-Americans. The meeting was so in-tense that it did not end until almost midnight and capped by a meal in a 24-hour Korean restaurant.

The next day, New York was in a more agitated state with Hurricane Irene only a day before hitting land in North Carolina and two days be-fore confronting New York and New Jersey. Advisories were sent out to alert residents that mass transport systems would be shut down. It was educational for me to see how a first world country and superpower was behaving to prepare their psyches and homes for the coming of the typhoon. I kept thinking of the Phil-ippines and how we prepare for our own hurricanes. It upset me deeply to see the great difference between the powerful and the third world, a difference that consistently can be measured by the number killed.

Again, though, I had to set aside that mental comparison that gener-

ated such an emotional response from me. I was preoccupied with what I could speak about in a prayer meeting later that evening of a com-munity that has been so supportive of the work of Gawad Kalinga. Also, I kept thinking of a planned trip to Maryland the next day when the hurricane was expected to hit that state. Cancelling the four-hour drive was logical and seemed like the safe thing to do in the middle of a hurri-cane, but the prospect of not meeting more leaders and advocates of a noble work was not easy to accept.

I was so grateful for the opportu-nity to thank the Bukas Loob sa Dios (BLD) community of New Jersey. The generosity of many have built several homes and villages for the poor, and many of their fellow mem-bers in the Philippines have actually taken on the challenge of hand-holding the beneficiaries towards a new and productive perspective of community living. And the enthusi-asm of their coordinators assigned to work with Gawad Kalinga produced another midnight meal and lively discussions.

When I finally retired for the night at 3 am, I knew I would leave for Maryland later that morning. The report that Hurricane Irene was less strong at category 2 instead of category 3 made me confident that the typhoon was on a weakening trajectory and would be less of a danger during our travel and during our stay in Maryland. We did decide to brave the storm and were on the road before noon, hitting our desti-nation in less than 6 hours follow-ing a leisurely pace. There were no hurricane conditions all throughout, and again only the least of damage all throughout the night in Mary-land. The joy and excitement of being with the Maryland leaders of a common global work completely erased the hurricane from my atten-tion - also because it was not strong enough to do so.

I am now in New Jersey from Maryland and another dinner last night in Staten Island. Tomorrow, I leave for California and more road tours. I would be tired and discour-aged if I do not see affirmation and growth at every turn, everywhere. In my first meeting, when the issue of the Spratlys came up, two young Filipino-Americans said they were willing to go to a motherland they had not been born in, then fight and die if they have to.

Earlier this noon, another young Filipino-American sought me out to tell me that he would like to go home to the native country of his parents, work for Gawad Kalinga

and nation-building, go to night school to be a lawyer, and stay all his life in the Philippines if he could find an opportunity to do so. I asked him why. He said, “I am Filipino.” --- Jose Ma. Montelibano, Gawad Kalinga

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(San Diego, CA, Aug. 30, 2011) Disaster comes with or without warning, happens in an unexpected manner in the most inopportune time, and leave on its wake untold devastation and loss of lives. 2011 seems to be filled with all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made. These disasters remind us that the next emergency is coming – we just don’t know when, where, or what kind it will be.

It’s best to be ready, and prepared-ness starts with you and me!

Hurricane Irene, one of the most deadly and most destructive, pum-meled the Eastern Seaboard and left behind it at least 39 dead, 5-million people without power from North Carolina on up to Maine, damages at $2-billion and growing, and rising floodwater from upstate New York into New England. It packed a lot of wind at the start of its journey from the Bahamas, eased down a little bit as it was leaving the East Coast, and now on its way to Canada.

The amount of preparedness varied – some were prepared, some were not. Many just took what hap-pened in stride – and took it with a grain of salt and a dash of humor. One homeowner boarded his home, and on the board wrote “Goodnight, Irene” – alluding to a song of the same title.

Here in San Diego, there are no storms of Irene’s magnitude, but there is one disaster that California is famous for: earthquakes. The Golden State is situated between two of the earth’s tectonic plates, one of which is the infamous San Andreas Fault. These plates are constantly shifting and causing friction that result in earthquakes, tremors and aftershocks. There have been thousands of recorded earthquakes in California for many years, most of which didn’t do any damage and were hardly felt.

The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, with a magnitude of 7.8, was one of the worst earthquakes in California history. This earthquake killed over 3,000 people and caused $524-million in property loss. An earthquake dubbed “the Big One” has been predicted to happen any time, and would reportedly pack such a magnitude that “part of Cali-fornia will crack off into the ocean.”

The ReadySD and the AAA Auto Club of Southern California rec-ognize that September is National Preparedness Month, and are urging everyone to be prepared before di-saster strikes. More than 82 percent of U.S. residents know that emer-gency preparedness is necessary. However, most people have made little, if any, preparations.

My family is guilty of this. Only one of my three sons, Narrison, is somewhat prepared.

Disaster prevention should in-clude: developing a family plan; creating a disaster supply kit; having a place to go; securing the home; and having a pet plan. One of the most important decisions to make is to evacuate or not. It’s advisable that if asked to evacuate, we should do so without delay.

Here’s a handy checklist of items we may need when a disaster hits, according to Triple A and Ready San Diego:

( ) Water: one gallon per person per day for at least three days

( ) Food: at least a three-day sup-ply of non-perishable food, plus a manually-operated can opener

( ) Extra water and food for your pets, plus extra leashes, treats, and toys

( ) Warm blankets, extra set of clothes, and sturdy shoes for each member of the family

( ) Baby items, such as extra formula and diapers

( ) Special items for seniors or people with disabilities

( ) Prescription medication and supplements

( ) List of allergies to any drug (especially antibiotics) or food

( ) Small hygiene kits for the fam-ily with toothbrushes and toothpaste

( ) Personal sanitation items, such as moist towelettes or disinfecting

wipes, and garbage bags with plastic ties

( ) Mess kits, paper cups, plates, plastic utensils, and paper towels

( ) Battery-powered or hand-cranked radio

( ) Flashlights and extra batteries( ) First-aid kit( ) A whistle to signal for help( ) Dust masks( ) Wrench or pliers to turn off

utilities( ) Local map or GPS device( ) Cell phones with chargers( ) Pocket knife( ) Extra keys to your house or

vehicles( ) Emergency cash in small

denominations and coins( ) Copies of important docu-

ments – such as birth certificates, insurance policies, and passports – in a waterproof container

( ) Permanent markers, paper, and tape

( ) Photos of family members and pets for identification purposes

( ) List of emergency point-of-contact phone numbers

For more information about

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Our local government and the County of San Diego are prepared for everyday emergencies. However, during a disaster, the number and scope of incidents can overwhelm conventional emergency services. The Community Emergency Re-sponse Team (CERT) program has a valuable course designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors, and your neighborhood in an emergency situation.

CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disas-ter situations where citizens may initially be on their own and their actions can make a difference. While people will respond to others in need without the training, one goal of the CERT program is to help them do so effectively and efficiently without placing themselves in unnecessary danger.

In the CERT training, citizens learn to:

• Manage utilities and put out small fires

•How to open airways, control bleeding, treating for shock, and providing medical aid

• Search for and rescue victims safely

•Organize themselves and spontaneous volunteers to be effective

• Collect disaster intelligence to support first responder effort

If you want to become a CERT

volunteer, contact: Carie DeMarco-Krzys (619) 692-4988 Location: 2580 Kincaid Rd. San Diego, CA 92101 Hours: M-F, 8 AM to 5 PM.

Get you and your family pre-pared today … for tomorrow!

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LOS ANGELES -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced 15 arrests in a large-scale U.S.-Mexico prescription drug trafficking organization that used its proceeds to fund criminal activity in the United States. The Califor-nia Department of Justice’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement initiated the investigation after conducting numerous border stops of members of the drug trafficking organization, some of whom were validated gang members. The group would acquire wholesale quantities of controlled pharmaceutical drugs, such as Oxy-Contin and Hydrocodone, smuggle the drugs to Mexico where they were sold, and then smuggle the cash back into the United States to finance their criminal operations. “Pre-scription drug diversion is a growing challenge for law enforcement, and one increasingly coordinated by well-funded criminal organizations,” said Attorney General Harris. “The people of California are safer now that our brave law enforcement of-ficers have disrupted and dismantled this prescription drug diversion net-work.” Anthony Wright, the leader of the organization, boasted that he earned $1,000 a day for the several years the operation was running. In the San Diego area, the organiza-tion brought upwards of $400,000 into the United States from Mexico in just a six-month period. Since 2009, numerous border stops have been conducted on members of the drug trafficking organization, result-ing in the seizure of approximately 1,288 OxyContin pills and 9,500 Hydrocodone pills, with an estimat-ed street value of $78,000. Wright, the primary source for this drug trafficking organization, frequented Dabney’s Pharmacy in South Central Los Angeles, which is believed to have provided large quantities of Hydrocodone and other controlled substances pharmaceuticals without reporting the transactions to the California Department of Justice’s

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Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. This pharmacy has failed to report filling any scheduled prescriptions to the state’s prescription monitoring program since November 2009, as required by state regulations. Agents also believe Wright acquired sig-nificant amounts of pharmaceutical controlled drugs by utilizing a large network of individuals to obtain pre-scriptions in return for money. The controlled substance pharmaceuti-cal drugs were acquired from San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles counties through drug diversion programs, and prescription and in-surance fraud. The pharmaceuticals were then smuggled into Tijuana, Mexico, where they were sold to illicit pharmacies. The traffickers smuggled the money back into the United States and used it to continue financing criminal activities. Ad-ditionally, approximately $66,200 has been seized from members of the drug trafficking organization upon re-entry into the United States and Fatina Hicks and Derrick Belser were arrested on felony warrants for the transportation of controlled substances pharmaceuticals. Five federal indictments were unsealed today, and earlier this month nine felony arrest warrants were issued by the Los Angeles and San Diego District Attorney’s offices. Other agencies participating in the inves-tigation include Homeland Security Immigration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, the Los Angeles and San Diego Counties District Attorney’s Offices, the California Department of Health Services, California Board of Pharmacy, and Los Angeles Police and Oceanside Police Depart-ments, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, California Medical Board, Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration and the LA County Sherriff’s Office.

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Chris Osborne, Red Cross -- Artie and Susanne Wood spent their 23rd anniversary having dinner by candlelight – but not because they were at a romantic restaurant.

The couple lost power in their Beaufort County home after Hur-ricane Irene knocked out six trees and their horse stable on Saturday morning.

“This is the worst weather we’ve ever had here,” Susanne said. “We usually help clean up the church’s yard, but our yard was so bad we

needed to tend to it all day.”“And we just realized that it was

our anniversary,” Artie said.The couple’s son, Lee, is a vol-

unteer firefighter and said he has spent the last 24 hours responding to emergencies caused by the storm.

Red Cross disaster assessment teams spent Sunday canvassing Beaufort County, as it sustained significant damage. Their input will be used to help Red Cross volunteers distribute emergency supplies in these hard-hit areas

Love Trumps Nature’s Fury. Artie Wood hands his wife, Susanne, a branch instead of a bouquet on their 23rd anniversary in Beaufort County, NC.

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reports on the ground, there were no movement of troops earlier this day (Monday, August 22).

There were also unconfirmed reports also that “particular parts of Tripoli have fallen into the hands of the rebels.”

“But there is no actual verification yet on the ground,” he clarified.

Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Esteban Conejos Jr. said that even before the end of the major repatriation program in March, the DFA has al-ready anticipated that another major repatriation program that must be activated in the future.

“We anticipated this in a sense… we thought to make another big push to get the OFWs who continue to want to stay there. That’s why we sent Undersecretary Seguis to con-vince them [OFWs],” he said.

There are currently 86 Filipinos who have expressed their willing-ness to be repatriated back to Manila

because of the rising security tension in Libya.

The DFA is working with the Inter-national Organization for Migration (IOM), which has chartered a ship to pick up foreign nationals in Libya.

There are about 400 reserved seats for Filipinos in that ship, Conejos said.

The ship, once docking clearance is permitted, will pick up foreign na-tionals from Tripoli to Alexandria in Egypt where Filipinos are expected to board commercial flights that will take them home to Manila.

Conejos said that during the major repatriation program for Libya ear-lier this year, the Philippine govern-ment spent about 1.2 million euros for chartering two ships and more than $1.5 million for commercial flights for the Tunisia-Dubai-Manila route.

Pro-democracy groups entered Tripoli on Monday morning, further threatening the 42-year regime of embattled Libyan President Moum-mar Gaddafi.

Armed conflict between the Libyan government and pro-democ-racy groups gained fire in February this year after similar revolts against the autocratic rulings in Tunisia and Egypt.

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Some of our friends have observed that the real estate market in the

Philippines seems to be better than what we have here in the United States. Except on very limited occasions, such as when a massive earthquake devastated northern Luzon and sent prices of Baguio City properties crumbling down some two decades ago (we now regret not having grabbed that opportunity), real estate prices in the Philippines have remarkably remained stable.

In contrast, the U.S. real estate market seems to take a hit every five or ten years. Nowadays, houses are priced at half their value five years ago and while it is now highly profitable to buy them, the banks are very meticulous in giving out loans. On the other hand, government regulations are very strict on cash purchases. These observations have convinced many of us that it is better to invest in the Philippines, particu-larly after the passage of the Dual Citizenship Act which now allows naturalized Filipinos to own lands without restrictions.

The traditional way of finalizing a property transaction in the Philip-pines is for both the seller and the buyer to appear before a notary public to sign the deed of absolute sale. Philippine law requires that the sale must be embodied in a public document (notarized deed) to have legal effect. The notary public will certify that he personally knows

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both the seller and the buyer, and that they are voluntarily undertaking the transaction. The register of deeds will not transfer title to the buyer without a notarized deed of sale.

For a buyer who frequents the Philippines, going there to appear before the notary public to conclude the sale will simply coincide with his trip there. It will not require extra time, effort and expense for him. On the other hand, a buyer who has purchased a valuable property at a bargain price will also not mind making a special trip to conclude the transaction. For him, the special trip would be worth it. But how about a buyer who is investing in a property of small value, and who thinks that personally going to the Philippines will unduly increase his financial exposure?

Again, let’s have a hypotheti-cal. Winslo has already invested in several valuable properties in his native town of Bauan, Batangas. His purchases always coincided with his annual trips there. Truth is, the properties are quite pricey and no one else could afford to buy them, so the sellers had to wait for Winslo’s arrival. He just came back from the Philippines last month for his annual vacation and, again, he was able to purchase another property. A few days ago, his cousin phoned and asked Winslo if he wants to buy an-other lot in Bauan. Compared to his properties, this lot is much smaller and the price is relatively low; in fact he will spend more for his trip if he goes back to the Philippines. But Winslo wants the lot because it is between two of his properties. He is concerned that because of its low price, another buyer might beat him

to it.

There are three things that Winslo can do to conclude the purchase without the need of going back to the Philippines. First, he can sign a separate copy of the deed of sale. Second, he can execute a Special Power of Attorney appointing another person (called an attorney-in-fact) to sign for him in the deed of sale. In both cases, the document must be notarized and authenticated by the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles.

The third option is the least te-dious. The seller can execute what is called a unilateral deed of sale. It is a deed of sale that the seller signs alone. The deed of sale will just mention that the seller is selling the property to the buyer, and then describe the property. It will have the same legal effect as the ordinary (bilateral) deed of sale. The only re-striction is that the unilateral deed of sale must not impose any condition on the buyer. For example, it should not require the buyer to pay the capital gains tax. The reason for this is common sense. The buyer cannot be bound to pay the capital gains tax because he did not sign the deed of sale. On a side note, under Philip-pine law, the seller is responsible for the capital gains tax.

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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buying and selling used bottles and metal scraps, or peddling their native delicacies like taho (soybean sweets). Now, these Chinese refugees have taken over Fantasy Land’s economy, owning most of the banks and big manufacturing corpora-tions, malls, real estate developments and are employing the descendants of the native Filipinos who used to cater to their businesses. South Korea had emerged from economic turmoil after its civil war stalemate and is now employing the same descendants of the Fantasy Land soldiers that helped them, this time, as maids.

What happened? One might ask. Could it be the race itself? Could the people really be indolent as described by their national hero in one of his writings? Many are hard-pressed to fi nd answers because the Fantasylanders had proven to be great and heroic people. Even when the Spanish conquistadors discovered the lands during the fourteenth century, cou-rageous natives had defended themselves heroically, killing the invaders’ leader, Ferdinand Magellan, himself. Although the people were eventually subjugated, their conquerors were not without resis-tance. Uprisings occurred every now and then, from the great tribal leaders named Dagohoy to Raja Sulaiman, Diego and Gabriela Silang, Gomburza, the members of La Solidaridad, the Katipunan heroes, and the early American resistance move-ment. In Bataan and Corregidor during World War II, the Fantasylanders showed the whole world an ideal example of heroic fi ght for freedom. To be sure, thou-sands of heroes had shed their blood and given their lives to obtain the country’s freedom from foreign domination.

Yet, Fantasyland is lagging behind its neighbors, as though time stood still for more than three quarters of century. Its

people had become the servants of the world, better known as domestic helpers in other Asian countries like Hong Kong and Malaysia as well as European nations like Italy and Britain. In fact, at one point, the word “Fantasylander” was defi ned as “a maid” in a European dictionary.

When the Americans took over Fantasyland from the Spaniards, they introduced their brand of democracy, public education and government, among others, things that made the United States of America number one in the world. The American’s “little brown brothers”, the Fantasylanders, were groomed to follow their mentor’s footsteps and succeed like them. While the nationalists claimed the Fantasylanders were at a disadvantage from the start, as parity rights, mean-ing equal rights to explore the country’s natural resources, were also given to the citizens of the former rulers, many politi-cians insisted that indeed the country was independent.

“I’d rather have a country ran like hell by the Fantasylanders than one ran like heaven by the Americans,” one of them declared. He got his wish.

The country’s leaders learned from the start how to help themselves to the coffers of the country, instead of helping their poor countrymen. Public service was not a public trust. Rather, it had become a business among the government workers. Ways to enrich themselves by getting a cut from government projects and expen-ditures were the fi rst lessons the newly-elected or newly-appointed government offi cial had learned. A ten percent cut on the costs of public projects or services farmed out to private enterprises by the approving offi cials became a practice. Nowadays, the offi cial’s cuts had become fi fty percent, resulting to substandard projects and wasteful expenditures.

The country’s deterioration accelerated during the mid-1960s when a self-pro-

claimed “war hero” was elected to the presidency. The people from his region blindly voted for him as a solid bloc, ignoring the fact he was once accused of murder but was just acquitted by a Su-preme Court Justice who had also killed another person when he was a young man. Seeing himself in the convicted killer, he declared the murderer innocent to give him a second chance in life. Had he known beforehand the disastrous effects of his magnanimous decision, he would have let the rascal rot in jail.

Eventually, the so-called “war hero” was unmasked. The twenty-seven medals he allegedly earned during the war, the most any soldier have earned, turned out to be fakes. But not after he had suc-ceeded in enriching himself, imposing his will on the people, and committing the most disastrous plunder the country had ever seen.

To perpetuate himself in power, he declared Martial Law, enabling him to do whatever he wished. His capricious wife, a poor girl from the south, engaged in the “mining industry”, pointing to several businesses and claiming them for herself: “this is mine, that is mine!”

For almost sixteen years, Fantasy Land had become the conjugal dictator’s per-sonal fi efdom, muscling protests with the help of his corrupt army and the blessings of America who saw in them puppets they can manipulate.

But not everything lasts forever. God performed a miracle in Fantasyland when the seasoned and evil dictator was toppled by a mere housewife whose only weapon was the inspiration her martyred husband had imbued on the people. Such a people power way of toppling dictators, a peace-ful alternative to violent revolution, had been adopted all over the world, including in the biggest communist country of them all: The Union of Soviets Social-ist Republics. Perhaps it was the biggest contribution of Fantasy Land to the bet-terment of the world.

The housewife succeeded in doing what she was elected for, bringing back democracy to the country. But that did not guarantee a happy ending for Fantasy-land. With democratic freedom, govern-ment offi cials rediscovered their old ways of enriching themselves through graft and corruption. Whereas the dictator and his cronies helped themselves to the coffers of the country during Martial Law, thou-sands of crooks have spawned to do the same when democracy returned. – AJ

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Inukit na lamang sa bato ang kanilang pangalanhabang umiiyak na lumugmok duon sa libinganat ang kanyang hinahanap na mayamang kaluluwa ngayo’y napagtantong wala palang iba kundi siya.

Sana ay kapulutan ng aral yaring tulang itosa lahat nilang nilalang na hangal at ambisyosoganid sa isipan ay pawiin magsikap ng tododahil palaging sa huli ang pagsisisi ng husto.

Joke of the Week: Two men went up to the church to pray: one was a leading citizen, the other a school-teacher.

The prominent citizen stood, and with eyes turned upward said, “Lord, I thank you that I am not like these professional men, even as the poor school master. I pay half his salary; it is my money that built this church. I subscribe liberally to foreign missions, and to all the work of the church. It is my money that advances your cause.”

The schoolteacher’s prayer was quite different. He simply bowed in humility and said, “God, be merciful to me. I was that man’s teacher.”

Scriptures: First Reading:

Ezekiel 33:7-9. The prophet Ezekiel warned the Hebrews to turn away from their sins: idolatrous practices, injustice, economic irresponsibility, otherwise they would be punished. History shows that the destruction of Jerusalem occurred in 587 B.C. In spite of their sinfulness, Yahweh promises his people a new future. Second Reading: Romans 13:8-10. In Leviticus the word “neighbor” meant compatriot or kin. But for Jesus “neighbor” has a deeper scope and meaning. The one thing that we owe one another is love, because it was God’s motive for redeeming us. This kind of love, not limited by the old requirement of the Torah, is the norm for Christian conduct.

Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20. Ordinarily punishment is meted out to the offenders. In serious matters, an offender is excommunicated or considered expelled from the com-munity. But the teachings of Jesus acquire a new meaning. The power to forgive is by far a greater quality of the Christian community than the authority to excommunicate. Though there should be no compromise with the offender, yet justice should be tinted with compassion.

Reflections: We live in a shat-tered world of broken relationships. We notice these divisions in violence and terrorism, discrimination of vari-ous kinds (racial, religious), unjust distribution of the earth’s resources. Sin that wounds man’s inmost self is the root cause of these divisions. It is imperative for all men of good will

He Loves Me … He Loves Me Not.and for all Christians to mend these divisions and restore unity through

reconciliation. However, reconcili-ation is effective only to the extent that it heals the wound that afflicts humanity: sin.

IN COMPARISON WITH RETRIBUTION THAT AIMS AT JUSTICE, reconciliation flows from atonement (at-one-ment) or oneness. Retribution may further widen the great divide that separates the oppos-ing parties. Atonement unites the offender and the offended, the victim and the victimizer. Reconciliation re-veals broken relationships: with God and with other human beings. Atone-ment mends those broken relation-ships. Reconciliation unites people. Though reconciliation aims at the unification of conflicting parties, yet it does not mean that repentance is to be sidestepped. Reconcilia-tion involves genuine and honest repentance of sins. The offending party promises to amend his life and the offended helps him on his way to true repentance.

RECONCILIATION IS TO BE TINTED WITH LOVE. The strength of that love manifests itself when the sinner shows his sinfulness. With-out condoning the sinful actions of the person, the true lover does not refuse nor withdraw his love when the person shows his weakness and wounded self. On the contrary, true love extends its reconciling and forgiving hands to the sinner.

Reflecting on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Robert Waldron wrote that the father did not excuse, did not renounce anger or resentment, and did not absolve his son from “payment of.” Why did the father of the prodigal son act that way? The only reason is that “love refuses to cast blame-Love loves.” In contrast, the elder son’s self-righteousness blinds him from experiencing his

father’s love, a love with no strings attached - Agape - that is patterned on the unconditional Divine Love.

The elder son condemned his younger brother. The more condem-nation he heaps upon his younger brother and his father, the elder brother becomes more resentful and condemnatory. Isn’t it true that the less we forgive, the more we feel that we have been unjustly treated and maligned by others? The more we refuse to reconcile, the further we delve into the sins and mistakes of others and we notice less and less our own weakness. The more we condemn others, the more we indulge in self-pity. The more we look down on others, the more self-righteous we become. To break the cycle of condemnation and self-pity, forgiveness and reconciliation are important key factors. When we humbly realize that we are all sin-ners, equally guilty and in need of forgiveness, we see ourselves, as we truly should be.

Here’s a story in observance of Labor Day: one of those do-it-yourselfers sauntered in to look over their new machines and gadgets. Brightly the clerk pointed to one of the latest. “This machine will do half your work for you.” “Great,” exclaimed the customer, “I’ll take two.”

Another joke: The farmer

decided to give special attention to the development of his poultry yard, and he undertook the work care-fully and systematically. His hired man, who had been with him for a number of years, was instructed, among other things, to write on each egg the date laid and the breed of the hen. After a month, the hired man resigned. “I can’t understand,” the farmer declared, surprised and pained, “why you should want to leave.” “I’m through,” the hired man asserted. “I’ve done the nastiest jobs, an’ never kicked. But I draw the line on being a secretary to a bunch o’ hens.”

Quotation of the Week: “If we want our sins forgiven, the first step is to acknowledge that we have committed them and need to seek reconciliation.” Anonymous.


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SHOWBIZ WATCHER By Ogie Cruz, Asian Journal | SAN DIEGO, 9/2/2011 -- Itong Linggong ito, kumalat na naman sa mga twitter na namatay na raw ang Comedy King na si Dolphy, itinakbo raw ito sa isang hospital dead on arrival.

Siempre ikinabigla ito ng sambayan-an kung totoo itong kumalat sa twitter, at ikinabigla rin mismo ni Zsazsa Padilla at ang mga anak ni Dolphy lalo na si Epi Quizon.

Naglabas naman kaagad si Zsazsa ng kanyang sagot sa kanyang official twitter account ng ganito, “ Not true.Everymonth na lang? He is sleeping,” at sinundan pa niya ng another mes-sage “Hi Guys.Not offended by news ‘coz no truth to it naman. I am so used to it na.Huwag na lang makakarating sa mga kamag-anak sa abroad kasi, siempre mag-aalala sila.Thanks for all your prayers. Dolphy is fine and still taping for ‘Pidols Wonderlands” for TV 5,”.

So ibig sabihin buhay na buhay pa si Dolphy kaya huwag kaagad maniniwa-la sa mga mensahe sa twitter, chismis lang ang mga ‘yun ng mga taong

Dolphy Death Rumors:“Kung Hindi Sila Makapag-antay,

Mauna na sila,”- Epi Quizon-walang magawa sa buhay.

Siempre nagsalita rin ang mga anak ni Dolphy na kasama rin sa naturang TV show ng Comedy King.”Healthy na healthy pa rin siya paanong mang-yayari yun,” pagtatanggol pa ni Van-dolph.Pabiro namang nagsalita si Epi Quizon na may laman,”Kung hindi sila makapag-antay, mauna na sila,”.Sabi pa nga nila kasama pa nila ama nila sa taping, paano raw mangyayari yun.

Kung sinuman dito ang mga kamag-anak ni Dolphy sa amerika, hindi totoo ang balitang death rumors at huwag kayong mag-aalala.Basta ang alam namin kapag laging ganitong nachi-chismis na patay na si Dolphy, lalong hahaba ang buhay nito.

ROSANNA ROCES NA MESMER-

IZED KAY NORA AUNOR!!! Kasa-ma pala si Rosanna Roces sa bagong teledrama ni Nora Aunor sa channel 5 na “Sa Ngalan ng Ina”, at mesmerized pala ito sa unang pagkakakita kay La Aunor.

Vilmanian si Osang, pero sabi nga niya magaling raw si Vilma pero nang makita niya si Nora in person at nakita nito ang mga matang parang lumu-luha para raw siyang nanuno , at hindi makapagsalita sa nakita.Mata palang raw ni Ate Guy lumuluha na.

Parang birheng maria raw ang na-

kita niya, at na halos gusto na niyang luhuran.First time lang niya nakita ang Superstar, kaya naman ibang-iba ang kanyang naramdaman.Masuerte nga daw siya at napasama siya sa naturang drama serye ng Superstar.

Dagdag pa nga niya, marami raw pagkakatulad ng buhay nila ni Nora sa pag-ibig at career.Feeling nga niya comeback picture daw niya ito , tulad din ni Nora Aunor.

Pumayag naman kaya ang mga Noranians na makasintulad sila ng buhay ni Nora , Osang?Talaga may common sa inyo ni Nora Aunor, baka naman kapag si Gov. Vilma Santos na ang makasama mo sa isang teleserye o movie, e himatayin ka lalo pa aminado ka na Vilmanian ka, say mo Osang?

CLAUDINE BARRETTO AT GRETCHEN BARRETTO BATI NA RAW !!!Bati na raw ang sina Clau-dine Barretto at Gretchen Barretto, ito ang inamin sa isang interview kay Claudine.Sa wakas nagkabati rin ang magkapatid na ilang taon din na hindi nag-uusap ang dalawa at puro masasa-mang balita na namamagitan kapag pinag-uusapan sila , na para silang manok na pinagsasabong.

Aminado si Claudine na madalas silang magkwentuhan ni Gretchen sa cellphone, at hindi na nagkakail-angan ang bawat isa.Pero nilinaw ni Claudine, hindi dahil may sakit ang Dolphy and Zsa ZsaEpi Quizon (Dolphy’s son)

Rosanna Roces

kanilang ama kaya sila nagkabati.Ayaw na niyang elaborate kung

anung nangyari at nagkabati sila ng kanyang Ate, basta ang mahalaga raw in good terms na sila ngayon.Medyo matagal na rin silang nagkakausap, at ngayon lang niya ito inilabas sa media, sana raw bigyan sila ng space ng mga reporters para lalong gumanda ang kanilang samahan.

Hay salamat nagkabati rin ang dala-wang magkapatid.

HIT FAKTORY, A PHIL-AM BAND WANT TO VISIT THE PHILIPPINES NEXT YEAR !!! Last Thursday I was invited to see the show of Hit Faktory at 4th & B, downtown.Puro mga Phil-Am ito pero most of them don’t know how to speak tagalog language.Isa lang yata ang marunong sa kanila, the group was formed early months of 2011 here in San Diego.

The Hit Faktory Entertainment consist of 6 members namely A.J. Rollan De Guzman,Larry Vargas, Randall Ada-mos, Allen Calpito, Richard Anthony and Bryan Bentley.

Magaling sila sa rapping and making hip-hop music, at may fans na rin sila rito.Sabi nga ni Andrew Villanueva, manager of the group,they will visit Phils. next year for a series of show.Eto ang time para makita nila ang Pilipinas at makita ang mga kabataang Pinoy kung paano nila tinatanggap ang Hip-hop Music.

Goodluck in your career Hit Faktory !!!

CLEAR SKIN FACIAL CLINIC LINSENSIYADO ANG MGA DOC-TORS !!! Last Saturday nag-grand opening ang Clear Skin Facial Clinic sa Rio Drive San Diego at nakilala namin ang mga Filipino Doctors dito na sina Dra. Arwinna Bautista, Dra. Jean Garvida Acido-Palma at Dra. Amy Bautista-Tinaza.

Marami silang pasyente, paano ba naman mga linsensiyadong Derma-tologist talaga ang mga ito dito sa Amerika.Si Dra. Amy may clinic na talaga sa Pilipinas gusto lang nila makilala ang galing nila kaya nagtayo rin sila dito sa California.

Basta, one of this days susubukan namin ang kanilang galing siempre magpa-facial kami.Pwes, puntahan nyo na sila ang pinakabagong Facial Clinic in San Diego California.

Claudine Barretto

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tirely dedicated to for my own children was the enforcement of reconciliation on a daily basis. They weren’t allowed to leave the room, or even go to bed, when they were young until they worked through their confl icts. I am sure they thought I was crazy and maybe I was. With me, I carried the many painful ways that we abandoned each other everyday in my childhood. The rage and injury was interrupted with only brief moments for recovery, only to come back for another round.

I have consistently worked to control my emotional break-downs within my family but

am still caught off guard at the ferocity that they still hold. More and more I can sense the buffer slipping and pull away to get some quiet and perspective. But sometimes too many forces collide and I am beside myself, literally, watching some out of control, hysterics coming from my own mouth. It is usually little things that trigger us–a ruined load of laundry, a blend-er’s contents exploding, burnt waffl es–sometimes all of them colliding in a singular moment in time. Something cracks.

I am able to witness almost at once how much damage these tirades infl ict. Caught between shame, guilt and the initial fury that took over. There is no room left for ego. Sometimes apologies aren’t enough. Each person caught in the tantrum has to process for themselves.

Reconciliation is an act between people, one that can only be ef-fective because everyone agrees to it. Sometimes it is easier to hold onto our pain than it is to let go of it and accept someone back into your heart.

I believe that it is less pain-ful to risk being hurt again than it is to stay angry but I know that I cannot convince any-one of this. For many people don’t believe that their hearts get stronger and more resilient with use. They don’t trust their hearts to live through more than one heartache and they confuse humility and humiliation. Don’t misunderstand or think that I am in any way, making light of the nakedness and vulnerability that embodies reconciliation and forgiveness.

IT MIGHT WELL BE THE MOST COURAGEOUS FORM OF LOVE THAT WE HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF and the only real hope we have of ever being fully realized. It is not re-ally ever in what we do right that makes us most ourselves. It is how we do right by what we do wrong that shapes us and leaves a legacy of our humanity.

Wendy Strgar, founder and CEO of Good Clean Love, is a loveologist who writes and lectures on Making Love Sus-tainable, a green philosophy of relationships which teaches the importance of valuing the renew-able resources of love, intimacy and family. In her new book, Love that Works: A Guide to En-during Intimacy, she tackles the challenging issues of sustaining relationships and healthy intima-cy with an authentic and disarm-ing style and simple yet innova-tive advice. It has been called “the essential guide for relation-ships.” The book is available on ebook. Wendy has been married for 27 years to her husband, a psychiatrist, and lives with their four children ages 13- 22 in the beautiful Pacifi c Northwest.

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2011) — There might be a time when instead of just drinking that morning cup of coffee you lather it on your skin as a way of preventing harmful sun dam-age or skin cancer.

A new Rutgers study strengthens the theory that caffeine guards against certain skin cancers at the molecular level by inhibiting a protein enzyme in the skin, known as ATR. Scientists believe that based on what they have learned studying mice, caffeine ap-plied directly to the skin might help prevent damaging UV light from causing skin cancer.

Prior research indicated that mice that were fed caffeinated water and exposed to lamps that generated UVB radiation that damaged the DNA in their skin cells were able to kill off a greater percentage of their badly dam-aged cells and reduce the risk of cells becoming cancerous.

“Although it is known that coffee drinking is associated with a de-creased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer, there now needs to be studies to determine whether topical caffeine inhibits sunlight-induced skin can-cer,” said Allan Conney, director of the Susan Lehman Cullman Labora-tory for Cancer Research.

In this newly-published study, instead of inhibiting ATR with caf-feinated water, Rutgers researchers, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Washington, geneti-cally modifi ed and diminished ATR in one group of mice. The results: the genetically modifi ed mice developed tumors more slowly than the unmodi-

Caffeine Lowers Risk of Skin Cancer: Coffee-Based

Sunscreen Might Work Bestfi ed mice, had 69 percent fewer tu-mors than regular mice and developed four times fewer invasive tumors.

The study also found, however, that when both groups of mice were

exposed to chronic ultraviolet rays for an extended period of time, tumor development occurred in both the ge-netically modifi ed and regular mice. What this seems to indicate, says Conney, is that inhibiting the ATR en-zyme works best at the pre-cancerous stage before UV-induced skin cancers are fully developed.

According to the National Cancer Institute, sunlight-induced skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the United States with more than 1 mil-lion new cases each year. Although multiple human epidemiologic studies link caffeinated beverage intake with signifi cant decreases in several dif-ferent types of cancer, including skin cancer, just how and why coffee pro-tects against the disease is unknown.

“Caffeine might become a weapon in prevention because it inhibits ATR and also acts ad as a sunscreen and directly absorbs damaging UV light,” said Conney. -- Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releas-es/2011/08/110815162337.htm

ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2011) — Sniffer dogs could be used for the early detection of lung cancer, ac-cording to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal.

The study, carried out by research-ers from Schillerhoehe Hospital in Germany, is the fi rst to fi nd that sniffer dogs can reliably detect lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the second most

frequent form of cancer in men and women across Europe with over 340,000 deaths per year. It is also the most common cause of death from cancer worldwide.

The disease is not strongly associ-ated with any symptoms and early detection is often by chance. Current methods of detection are unreliable and scientists have been working on using exhaled breath specimens from patients for future screening tests.

This method relies on identifying volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are linked to the presence of cancer. Although many different technological applications have been developed, this method is still dif-fi cult to apply in a clinical setting as patients aren’t allowed to smoke or eat before the test, sample analysis can take a long time and there is also a high risk of interference. Because of these reasons, no lung cancer-spe-

cifi c VOCs have yet been identifi ed.This new study aimed to assess

whether sniffer dogs could be used to identify a VOC in the breath of patients. The researchers worked with 220 volunteers, including lung cancer patients, chronic obstructive pulmo-nary disease (COPD) patients and healthy volunteers. They used dogs that had been specifi cally trained.

The researchers carried out a num-ber of tests to see if the dogs were able to reliably identify lung cancer compared with healthy volunteers, volunteers with COPD and whether the results were still found with the presence of tobacco.

The dogs successfully identifi ed 71 samples with lung cancer out of a possible 100. They also correctly de-tected 372 samples that did not have lung cancer out of a possible 400.

The dogs could also detect lung cancer independently from COPD and tobacco smoke. These results confi rm the presence of a stable marker for lung cancer that is inde-pendent of COPD and also detectable in the presence of tobacco smoke, food odours and drugs.

Author of the study, Thorsten Wall-es from Schillerhoehe Hospital, said: “In the breath of patients with lung cancer, there are likely to be different chemicals to normal breath samples and the dogs’ keen sense of smell can detect this difference at an early stage of the disease. Our results confi rm the presence of a stable marker for lung cancer. This is a big step forward in the diagnosis of lung cancer, but we still need to precisely identify the compounds observed in the exhaled breath of patients. It is unfortunate that dogs cannot communicate the biochemistry of the scent of cancer!”

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/re-leases/2011/08/ 110817194548.htm

Sniffer Dogs Can Be Used to Detect Lung Cancer, Research Suggests

ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2011) — When it comes to improving bone health in postmenopausal women -- and people of all ages, actually -- a Florida State University researcher has found a simple, proactive solu-tion to help prevent fractures and osteoporosis: eating dried plums.

“Over my career, I have tested nu-merous fruits, including fi gs, dates, strawberries and raisins, and none of them come anywhere close to hav-ing the effect on bone density that dried plums, or prunes, have,” said Bahram H. Arjmandi, Florida State’s Margaret A. Sitton Professor and chairman of the Department of Nu-trition, Food and Exercise Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. “All fruits and vegetables have a positive effect on nutrition, but in terms of bone health, this particular food is exceptional.”

Arjmandi and a group of research-ers from Florida State and Okla-homa State University tested two groups of postmenopausal women. Over a 12-month period, the fi rst

No Bones About It: Eating Dried Plums Helps Prevent Fractures

and Osteoporosis, Study Suggestsgroup, consisting of 55 women, was instructed to consume 100 grams of dried plums (about 10 prunes) each day, while the second -- a compara-tive control group of 45 women -- was told to consume 100 grams of dried apples. All of the study’s par-ticipants also received daily doses of calcium (500 milligrams) and vitamin D (400 international units).

The group that consumed dried plums had signifi cantly higher bone mineral density in the ulna (one of two long bones in the forearm) and spine, in comparison with the group that ate dried apples. This, according to Arjmandi, was due in part to the ability of dried plums to suppress the rate of bone resorption, or the breakdown of bone, which tends to exceed the rate of new bone growth as people age.

The group’s research, was pub-lished in the British Journal of Nutrition. Arjmandi conducted the research with his graduate students

Seeking Reconciliation(Continued from page 11)

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Marami ang nalulungkot sa balitang kumalat na,Na ang kaso ng PABAON ay malamang magtagal pa.Sa dami ng masasangkot, MAJOR, MAJOR na problema,Inako ng isang taong ang PABAON maantala. Ngayong wala na si A.R., paano na, paano na?Saan kaya ihahantong ang usiging parang DRAMA?Hindi kaya magmatigas ang SANGKOT at bawat isa,Tanggihan ang akusasyon at matapos ang SARSUWELA. Sana naman’y ‘wag lumabo ang lahat ng pagsisikap,‘Di na muling maulit pa, GENERAL na puro PALPAK. Magbago na, magbago na, ayusin na ang palakad,Na ‘di laging sa SALAPI, mga MATA, dumidilat. Payo ko lang sa sino mang mamahala sa AFP,Na sa lahat ng “Tansaction”, ang “cash money” ‘wag isali.Nararapat na gamitin, “document” nang ‘di mahuli,At kung TSEKE, “documented”, ang nag-issue at nagtabi. Sa panahong “computerize”, mahirap na ang mandaya,Na tanggihan ang halagang, ‘di tinanggap, ‘di ginawa.Lumundag mang parang ASO, sa pagtanggi sa masama,Huli rin sya’t WALANG SABLAY, sa PABAON, siya na nga. Katulad ng mga kaso, ang nasangkot may tungkulin,Kung sila’y NAGSAPAKATAN, ‘ tagal itong malilihim.Ganyang-ganyan ang katulad, ng HALALAN dito satin,Buti na lang, tinanggap na, “computer’ na ang gamitin. Ang “PABAON”, kahit kailan sa Militar ay ‘di angkop,Lalo’t ito’y KAKALTASIN sa sundalo’t buwang SAHOD.Pati ARMAS na bibilhin, napahinto, kinurakot,Ngayon, heto, at TINUBOS, sa PABAON ay natakot.Batikos No. 8Romeo S. Nicolas 2//10/2011

Tinubos Na Pabaon

Poem No. 20

When I’m asleepI’m truly awakeI pretend to be asleepBut I am awake in my dreamsMy dreams of contrastingStark bright lightsAnd deep dark shadowsOf memories of undecoded pastRumbling senselessly on the cinema of my mindNo thoughtNo senseJust an awareness of my dreamsNothing to make sense ofOther than an emptinessThat needs to be fi lled

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Luckily, while the quake rattled the whole of the East Coast, there was no serious damage or serious injuries. The White House, the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon were evacu-ated in Washington, thousands of alarmed federal workers run into the streets, and items came crashing down from store and offi ce shelves.

I was home on the phone with a foreign client during the earth-quake. I was sitting next to my bookshelf, which came crashing down with all my books and boxes with my gadgets. I men-tioned this to my client calmly describing the event but contin-ued our discussion until he re-minded me, “don’t you think you

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should get out of the house?” I started walking down the stairs and out the door still talking on the phone.

I don’t know why but some-how the earthquake did not bother me.. Perhaps because of my exposure to and experience with them in Manila and Tokyo. And we used to have regular earthquake drills in Huntington Beach High School, California during my teenage years.

Hurricane IRENE is a different story. This was one Act of GOD that Kinetic Analysis reported to have caused damages amount-ing to about $7 billion. It was originally estimated that it could reach as high as $20 billion but later on reduced to $7 billion. “The damage from Hurricane Irene appears to be less severe than initially feared, minimizing the economic impact on both the U.S. and Northeast economies,” said Ryan Sweet at Moody’s Analytics.

It was also reported that at least 29 deaths were blamed on the storm, and millions of people were left without power along the East Coast after Irene passed over the northeastern United States and headed for Canada.

Human beings as well as insti-tutions created by mankind are never matches against Mother Nature. Rains, fl ooding, earth-quakes, tsunamis and other acts of GOD are unstoppable. Their usually devastating effects can only be minimized.

After witnessing a series of man-made disasters in Wash-ington, D.C. brought about by a broken and divided Government as manifested in the debt ceiling debates, frustration to the brink of despair engulfed the American populace.

However, I actually felt hope-ful after observing the actuations of the Government; the Group efforts of the Governed; the usefulness and effectiveness of the technologies and Gadgets produced by the Geeks; the effi ciency of Google in provid-ing timely information; and the

knowledge and entertainment made available and accessible by GoodReader.

“GOD helps those who help themselves.” Asking or pray-ing for GOD’s help in facing the challenges brought about by Mother Nature is expected. But to stop there and hope that a miracle would ensue and there-fore solve all troubles would not necessarily produce expected results.

GOVERNMENT at WORK

Facing the possible damaging effects of IRENE, I saw before and after how good it was to see Government, be it Federal, State or Municipal, at work. It did not matter whether they were Demo-crats, Republicans or Indepen-dents. They were helping others, each other and, in the process, themselves.

Group Actions of the GOV-ERNED

The Governed heeding the ap-peals, instructions and directives of the Government proved to be effective in minimizing damages, injuries and fatalities. Volunteer groups, gift-giving donors and

the goodness of fellow governed lessened whatever devastating impact the hurricane brought.

GEEKS and GADGETS

Scientifi c and Technological advances in weather forecasting, fl ood prevention, architecture, engineering, information tech-nology and other industrial and consumer technologies have been helpful. Preparing for a possible power outage, all my Gadgets were ready for use. The batteries of my IPAD, IPHONE, IPOD TOUCH, ANDROID, Blackberry, Nokia, Battery-op-erated Fan and Radio, MacBook Pro, and my Flashlights were all fully charged. So was my electric Stand and Ride Segway.

GOOGLE and GOODREAD-ER

All my computer and commu-nications Gadgets have wireless and WIFI connections. Installed in them is Google, which allows me to access and search whatev-er data, information, knowledge, photos, songs, audio books, videos/movies and whatever wis-

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GOD

Under French Law, it is called “force majeure”. Under Inter-national Law, it is named, “vis major”. In the Philippines we call it fortuitous events. They all refer to Mother Nature and Acts of GOD – caused by some “su-perior force” which could only be defeated or neutralized by an equally supreme entity, hence the need to pray.

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Th e Offi cial Biography of Marcial Valenzuela

Chapter 2Two Migrations Th at Changed

Th e Life Of Tatay Marcial

By Arturo G. ValenzuelaFourth in a series of articles

At age 14, and lured by the calls of a bustling town, Marcial le� the laid back farm life in the village and joined his eldest brother Gregorio in Dagupan.

Tatay Marcial is the third of the nine siblings born to Vicente and Angela. His story is one for the books; it is also a beautiful story of hard work, migration, fame and adventure. This is his story as told by Tatay Marcial himself to me during the many light moments of reminiscing over a period of many decades. The following accounts are also based largely on materials in the family albums of photographs and printed mementos dating back to 1927 until about 1998 in nine crude volumes patiently compiled by my elder brother Fortunato over a period of more than thirty years which are now in my possession and subject of a planned systematic library compilation.

Tatay Marcial was born on July 30, 1907 to rice-farming parents in a humble village of Tagac in the town of Mangatarem, Pangasinan during the early American occupation and administration of the country as a commonwealth where and when every Filipino was, technically, an American citizen. We could say here that he was born an “American citizen.”

Growing up in the village between 1908 and 1922, he was a young farmer and a fi sherman at the same time; he was a full-time farmer by

business calling and a fi sherman by subsistence. Every year after harvest season, together with his brothers Pedro and Ricardo, and relatives in the village, they would travel in a caravan of 11 kariton or wheel carts pulled by slow-moving carabaos (water buffalos) for three days from Mangatarem to Dagupan town, 80 kilo-meters away, transporting palay for threshing into rice cereal and selling out. Dagupan was then a developing town in the province of Pangasinan. It got its name from the native word nandaragu-pan, meaning “a meeting place.” At that time, the monetary value of 100 cavans of palay (cereal) is the equivalent of today’s 10,000 cavans, quite a fortune in those days.

That time, too, his eldest brother Gregorio (Tiyo Gorio) was already

fi nishing his studies at the Don Alberto College located beside the riverbank of Calmay River in the district of Calmay also in Dagupan. Marcial had dreamed of studying at that college, likewise. But during a great fl ood in 1935, the build-ing of the Don Alberto College was eaten up by the Calmay River

whose banks had collapsed. Today the building remains buried in the murky depths of the Calmay River in Dagupan City.

MARCIAL LEAVES FARM LIFE AND FINDS WORK IN DAGU-

PAN TOWN At the young age of 14, and lured

by the calls of a bustling town, Tatay Marcial left the farm life in the vil-lage some time in 1922 and joined his brother Gregorio in Dagupan. Gregorio was at that time already working as a male teller at the old Philippine National Bank branch in the town.

Tatay Marcial fi rst worked as aguador, toiling everyday and carry-ing on his shoulders pales of potable water which he and his men deliv-ered every day to residential houses of the rich and famous in the town. The task

is today’s equiva-lent of supply-ing min-

eral or bottled water. Back in the early 1920s, there was not enough supply of potable water through pipelines as yet. But when cholera broke out, when many residents suffered from bum stomachs, the American sanidad or sanitary offi cer put a cap on Tatay Marcial and his group.

But he was hell-bent in making it good and big in Dagupan town. Undaunted, he applied for work with a local trucking company and was initially given the job of a checker. This trucking company was into transporting petrol from Manila to Dagupan, mostly gas for kerosene lamps as there was not enough electrical power then supplied for Dagupan town and for the entire Philippines for that matter. Tatay Marcial, who went as far as Grade 7 with American-based elementary education, was in charge of check-ing in and out the arrivals and departures of all company trucks and drivers. (Finishing off Grade 7 that time, when Philippine education was under the administration of the Americans, is the equivalent today of graduating from high school.) The trucking company was owned by the Nava’s, a third generation Chinese-Spanish descendants of

Pangasinan and whose fourth and fi fth generation descendants became my personal friends and fellows in the prestigious Rotary Club of Dagupan City from the 1970s to the 1980’s. (Venancio Nava, native of Lingayen and a descendant of the old Nava clan, was Regional Direc-tor in the 1990s of the Department of Education based in Region 1 in San Fernando, La Union. Another friend of mine, Clemente Nava, a resident of Dagupan City, is the founder of the CMN Group of Companies.)

At night time, the truck drivers would fascinate and regale Tatay Marcial with tales and stories of modern and colorful life in Manila like the afternoon Sunday concerts at the Luneta organized by the Ameri-can colonizers; the glitters of the shopping stores on the Escolta; the two-centavo pansit (noodles) at the famous Chinese Panciteria in Sta. Cruz; the vaudevilles (live stages shows) at the Manila Grand Opera House; the operas and librettos at The Metropolitan Theatre at the foot of the Quezon Bridge; and maybe the girls, songs and dances inside the Sta. Ana cabaret; but most of all, the job opportunities for those who work hard. That caught Tatay Marcial’s imagination.

In the 1920s, there were neither ra-dio stations to listen to nor cable TV nor movies to take in, much more a videoke set to sing along with nor a shopping mall where one could cool his heels especially on warm and humid days. Hence, storytell-ing at night was the favorite pastime among friends. Those with a lot of adventures to tell surely got the ears of everyone.

The sights and sounds of a swing-ing and economically progressive Manila were in Tatay Marcial’s mind. He wanted to be a part of the era and make it good, fi nancially, in the big city so that when he gets back home in Tagac, he could say that he really made it good in Manila, something to be very proud about in those days.

During his sentimental trip back to Dagupan City in 1967, he and Nanay Gunding were much honored guests at my modest apartment hav-ing traveled from the family house

AT THE TIME Tatay Marcial came to Dagupan in the 1920s, it must have looked similar to the photos above. At left is a market-place in Ermita and while at right is a typical street in Sampaloc both in Manila. The word Dagupan is rooted from the dialect “nan-daragupan” meaning where people meet, or “dagup” which means to meet. (Photos from manilahub.i.ph)

ESCOLTA IN MANILA AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY Shown in the photo above is the narrow Escolta Street in the 1920s that caught the fancy of Tatay Marcial from the many stories told to him by the drivers of the delivery trucks of his employer in Dagupan town. Escolta was then Manila’s Central Business Dis-trict (CBD) which was a walking distance to nearby In-tramuros (the CBD in the 17th and 18th centuries under the Spaniards.) Tatay Marcial wanted to be a part of that “Escolta era.” At the far end of the photo could be seen the Santa Cruz church. (Photo from manilahub.i.ph)


THE METAMORPHOSIS By Ernie D. Delfin | 9/2/2011 -- Yester-day is a very unusual day. I started the day early by doing what my wife calls an unorthodox “carpentry” work (a pure enjoyment) finish-ing a wooden carport attached to old trunks of pine trees in front of our house. Once it’s covered by the morning glory vines as well as the grape vines , I believe it will be unique and beautiful. I predict also that our drivers at home will com-pete to get that one cool spot especially during the hot summer months. That is my “physical quad-rant” for about 4 hours as I had to rush to meet a new client in Rancho Palos Verdes in the South Bay.

At noon, I had a couple hours meeting a new client, J.S., re-garding his family’s plan to put up a Foundation to perpetuate the legacy of a Japanese American s family’s contribution to the commu-nity since the late 1800’s. For many decades, the family was quite known in the South Bay (about 35 miles south of Los Angeles) producing fresh fruits, vegetables, fresh flowers and other agriculture products and sold throughout LA county. Do-

One Summer Day, 2011 In The Life Of This Writer

ing this back breaking but noble work, this family contributed much to the community while employ-ing hundreds of people during the years that this family was involved in the farming business. Now, this huge ranch is no longer what it used to be, but still has significant remnants of aging avocado, citrus trees and other fruit bearing trees surrounding the old ranch house, with a 360 degree panorama of the ocean and the lands below it. The property sitting on a mountain has an excellent vantage point to the blue Pacific Ocean to the south and the farm on the opposite direction. As the original Japanese Ameri-can family is no longer around, the heirs have decided to sell the prop-erty for at least a few million dol-lars, hence the need for a Foundation to help alleviate the huge tax bites.

Having seen this beautiful area of Palos Verdes many times and now listening to the plans of the heirs in putting up a Foundation where I was invited to be one of the trustees was a big serendipitous surprise as I just met this family this summer. However in the mysteri-ous work of a Mighty Hand, I am

blessed and happy as I can really re-late and appreciate the nobility of the foundation’s purpose: to perpetuate the harmony and connectivity of all people regardless of national origin, creed or color. To be a part of this charitable Foundation is indeed a gift and also blessing. As they say in Filipino… “Abangan ang susunod na kabanata” meaning “watch for the sequel” of this emerging and colorful story.

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POINTMENT, I had to proceed to a Urology Specialist who I was referred to by my primary care doc-tor. When you are with your doctor, you are automatically reminded of your own mortality and that human instinct to preserve that dear life becomes more pronounced. To live a long healthy life becomes your hope, prayer and novena. This nice doctor (also a Japanese American as the family setting up the Foun-dation!) strongly recommended some procedures just to rule out more serious ailments like can-cer. Sensing that I felt nervous and afraid, he assured me that “I am not dying” that he has done hundreds of this “typical” medical procedure. He added that it is not really pain-ful and it is more of a precaution-ary step to prevent more “serious” consequencies if detected early enough. As a patient, how can you dispute or question your doctor’s recommendation? When you go to a doctor, you are in effect giving him your trust and confidence that he has your best welfare in his heart.

With a very good insurance cover-age, I had to agree to this biopsy procedure for the first time in my

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The center of gravity of Filipino culture will temporarily shift to the San Francisco Bay Area as the Filipino American International Book Festival (FilBookFest) ushers in the Filipino American History Month for 2011.

To be held on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2 from 10 am to 4 pm, FilBookFest will take place in three venues in the Civic Center area of San Francisco: Fulton Street where the booksellers,’ vendors’ and food booths, as well as an outdoor stage will be lo-cated; the San Francisco Public Library where lectures, readings and panel dis-cussions will be held; and the Asian Art Museum, which will host the culinary lectures, food tasting, and a conversa-tion with National Artist BenCab.

For the Filipino American community, this festival is historic and groundbreak-ing. It will be the first-ever book festival in the U.S. to focus on the literature, music, art and performances by and of Filipinos and Filipino Americans.

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Thousands of people – Filipinos and non-Filipinos, young and old – are expected to attend the book festival. Everyone is invited to take part in this FREE public event – as authors, book-sellers, exhibitors/vendors, volunteers, sponsors/donors and performers, or just to enjoy Philippine culture and food at its best.

FilBookFest has something for everyone. For the multi-cultural and multi-generational crowd, the attractions are many:

• BROWSE and buy books of a wide variety of genres, many of them never before available in the U.S. There will be books for adults and children, artists and artisans, gays and straights, for those who seek inspiration and those who provide it, and many more. There will be new books to be launched at the event. Videos will also be available.

• ENJOY fun and informative demonstrations and panel discussions on such topics as how to get published, how to market your book, writing memoirs and novels, translating ethnic literature and more!

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pine art, literature, history and politics.• MEET the largest gathering of

authors of Filipino heritage (outside the Philippines), including National Artists BenCab, Rio Alma and F. Sionil Jose, and well-known authors Ambeth Oca-mpo, Jose Dalisay, Pete Lacaba, Marites Vitug, Cecilia Brainard, among almost a hundred others.

• WITNESS a balagtasan (tra-ditional debate in poetry) by acclaimed balagtasan performers.

• VISIT the extensive chil-dren’s floor that will feature readings of children’s books by well-known personalities, videos of Batibot (a popu-lar children’s TV program), talks for parents and teachers on various aspects of Filipino culture, and educational arts and crafts for children.

• BE INSPIRED by poetry readings, Spoken Word and theatrical renditions of popular novels.

• ENJOY music, comedy and performances by theater groups.

• PARTAKE of culinary lec-tures and a lot of food for free tasting and for sale.

FilBookFest is brought to you by the Literacy Initiatives International Foun-dation (LIIF), a California nonprofit; the San Francisco Public Library, the Philippine Consulate, the Asian Art Mu-seum and the Philippine Department of Tourism, in cooperation with TFC/ABS-CBN Foundation International. Among its sponsors are the Asia Foundation, the University of San Francisco’s Yucheng-co Philippine Studies Program, Inquirer.net and Philippine News.

The organizers call on those who want to actively participate in this unique and groundbreaking festival of Philippine culture and arts. If you want to be an ex-hibitor, there are still a limited number of booths available. If you want to be a donor to ensure the success of the fes-tival, please go to our website at www.filbookfest.org to make a tax-deductible donation.

An Early Bird discount for those who want a booth are available until August 31.

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in Caloocan for some time-off. In one of our free days, my wife Norma and I drove around Dagupan with Tatay Marcial as he fondly toured the city’s streets and familiar places along with Nanay Gunding and my then 5-year old son, Norman who is now successfully based in Sydney, Australia with his family. With a sigh, Tatay Marcial pointed out to the former site of the sunken Don Alberto College at the foot of the broken Calmay bridge; the main road in the downtown area; the city’s concrete vintage water tank beside the public park (plaza); the narrow street of the pandayan where one could have his horse’s shoes fitted and fixed; a trail which is now the busy 4-lane Perez Boulevard; the site of a small lot near the old Chi-nese cemetery which used to be the gas depot of the trucking company where he, Tatay Marcial worked as checker.

He remarked that the face of Dagupan had changed tremendously although I could read on his face the memories of his youth, while living in the bustling town, was very much still there. Historically, Leonor Rivera---who is part of the history of the Philippines being the ladylove of our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal-----was from the Bauzon-Magsanoc family of Dagupan. It was in Dagupan where Rizal used to visit Leonor, who by mean fate would eventually marry British En-gineer Richard Kipping, builder of the (Manila) Tutuban- to-Dagupan railways in the 1890s. Leonor Rivera and Kipping settled down and died in Camiling, Tarlac about 80 kilometers west of Dagupan. I had the chance to meet and converse with the son of Richard and Leonor Kipping, Dr. Carlos Kipping, during one of my regular trips to Camiling in 1965 as a medical representative. He even showed me mementos of his parents.

(To be continued)



Read it all the way through! It’s a good laugh! AND really quite true!!

A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!!

When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communi-cate with me in the modern way. I fig-ured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twit- terfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three min-

utes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it’s red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, “Re-calc-u-lating.” You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me.

Should I Really Join Facebook?She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship.

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to de-velop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around dig-ging under chair cushions and check-ing

bath-rooms

and the dirty laundry bas-

kets when the phone rings.The world is just getting too complex

for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on some-thing themselves but this sudden “Paper or Plastic?” every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid look-ing confused, but I never remember to take them in with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, “Paper or Plastic?” I just say, “Doesn’t matter to me. I am bi-sacksu-al.” Then it’s their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot..”

P.S. I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.

Us senior citizens don’t need anymore gadgets. The tv remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.

life, next month, after our European adventure! (Why not, I may not have another opportunity again, who knows?)

***

IN THE EVENING, my wife reminded me of our commitment to be Eucharistic Ministers in a spe-cial healing mass in our own Catho-lic church that was celebrated by a visiting priest, Fr. Efren Borromeo, from Albay Province in the Philip-pines. Due to his obvious popularity and the wonders of the internet that broadcast his celebrating mass in Or-ange Country, many people came even on a Tuesday night.

Being in the church for a couple of hours with many much older people than my family who were obviously there for their own “heal-ing” , considering what transpired to me during the day, especially the one-on-one conversations with my new Japanese American urolo-gist made me pensively vulner-able, reflecting on this perennial question “What is Life?” as well as what is the “Purpose of my own Life?” Also with us in church were my daughter Donna and her l5 month old baby Olive (our first grandchild), a profound scenario that made me really think and ponder deeply into my own life. The solemn atmosphere inside the church brought me some inner tran-quility but mixed with an indescrib-able mixed feeling of sadness and joy. It was a healthy and beautiful feeling but was also emotionally draining.

Before sleeping that night, many scenes of my life flashed in my mind screen. The scenery formed a long, interesting colorful movie, with all the many trials, struggles, suspenseful events that had taken places in my 60 plus years on this earth. Overall, I am very pleased as I tried my best to balance my life ----with the essen-tial quadrants of a fulfilled life---

- with family, church, community and Rotary by volunteering my time for many years. Although I may not leave a lot of (material) inheritance to my children, as some of some of my really “rich” clients who had acquired material wealth (due to their intense focus on such a pursuit and nothing else) I am still very happy and contented with my life, and whatever ending this life might be. For that I consider myself lucky, blessed abundantly and eter-nally grateful to my own God.

Yes, the most happy people, we were was told in one spiritual retreat, are the Grateful People, who are contented with what they have and never got jealous with oth-ers who may have more. Our own individual blessings are unique and different from each other. Some are endowed with great looks but not much intelligence or vice versa. Some are born of rich parents, many are not. Some never tasted the pangs of hunger, many have. Knowing fully well my own humble beginnings and where I am now, I am indeed blessed and cannot ask for more.

With these entries into my own “diary”, I will end the summer 2011. Someday, these personal sharings and reflection will be read by my own grandchildren and will hopefully make them think deeper that may influence their own philosophy in their own life feel.

To all my readers, I wish you had a great summer and now ready to experience for another Season – Fall and Winter --- of your lives, as I am.

Have a great weekend everyone! See you next month!

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More Americans Using Social Media and Technology in Emergencies

The surveys, one by telephone of the general population and a second online survey, continue to show that the vast majority of Americans believe response organizations should be both monitoring social media during disas-ters and acting quickly to help.

“Social media is becoming an integral part of disaster response,” said Wendy Harman, director of social strategy for the American Red Cross. “During the record-breaking 2011 spring storm season, people across America alerted the Red Cross to their needs via Facebook. We also used Twitter to connect to thousands of people seeking comfort, and safety information to help get them through the darkest hours of storms.”

Key findings include:

Followed by television and local radio, the internet is the third most popular way for people to gather emergency information with 18 per-cent of both the general and the online population specifically using Face-book for that purpose

Nearly a fourth (24 percent) of the general population and a third (31 per-cent) of the online population would use social media to let loved ones know they are safe;

Four of five (80 percent) of the gen-eral and 69 percent of the online popu-lations surveyed believe that national emergency response organizations should regularly monitor social media sites in order to respond promptly.

For those who would post a request for help through social media, 39 percent of those polled online and 35 of those polled via telephone said they would expect help to arrive in less than one hour.

The surveys, which polled 1,011 telephone respondents and 1,046 online respondents, found that those from the online survey population use a variety of technologies to both learn more about disasters and share information about their well-being, in-cluding Facebook, Twitter, text alerts, online news sites and smart phone applications, suggesting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to using these tools during disasters.

In contrast, people participating in the telephone survey tended to be more reliant on traditional media and non-social websites like those belong-ing to local news outlets, government agencies or utility companies. The Red Cross survey also found that women and households with children are more likely to use social media channels to inform others of their safety.

The survey findings show that the increasing use of social media and mobile technologies to get disaster information and to seek help should cause response agencies to adjust their procedures to use social media more to engage with people in times of disaster and to include information from social networks in their response

efforts.“Calling 9-1-1 is always the best

first action to take when a person needs emergency assistance, but this survey shows there is an opportunity for emergency responders to meaning-fully engage their communities on the social web,” said Trevor Riggen, senior director of disaster services for the American Red Cross. “Traditional media such as television and radio are still important ways to reach people with emergency information but the social web offers a chance for emer-gency responders to understand in real time what their communities care about and need – and to become part of the fabric of the community.”

On an average day, the Red Cross is mentioned 3,000 times in the social media space. During a disaster, those mentions grow exponentially and range from people asking for help to those looking for a way to help their neighbors to suggestions for monetary donations.

“As the numbers of people using these new technologies in disas-ter situations continue to increase, response agencies, including the Red Cross have a tremendous opportu-nity to engage the public where they are spending time,” said Harman. “Through social media, we can listen to, inform and empower people prior to emergencies, providing them with useful information about evacuation routes, shelters and safety tips before disasters strike.”

In August 2010, the Red Cross hosted an Emergency Social Data Summit at its headquarters in Wash-ington, D.C. More than 150 people – leaders and experts in the government, social media, emergency response and the nonprofit sectors – attended the full-day summit to discuss how organizations might begin to listen to and potentially act on information that flows through the social web during disasters.

In the year since the Summit, the Red Cross has created a process to route life-threatening cries for help to local first responders. The organiza-tion has also increased its commitment to listen and engage social communi-ties with a planned digital volunteer role, and continues to work with emergency response colleagues on processes and protocols for taking ac-tion on incoming information during disasters.

The Red Cross also offers two free mobile applications—one that provides shelter locations and the “American Red Cross SOS” app that teaches first aid and CPR. The shelter finder app can be accessed through the Apple app store and the SOS app can be accessed through the Android marketplace. The Red Cross has also integrated Facebook and Twitter into the Safe and Well site, so people can register that they are safe and update their social media status and let others know how they are doing.

This is the second year the Red Cross has studied the use of social

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41.Sa Visayas at Mindanao, ginamit ang dagdag-bawasNang sa gayon ang kalamangan ay lumayo ang agwatSa dalawang Kapulungan tagumpay ay inihayagAt ang bansa ay nagkapuno, isang pangulong huwad.42.Dito na nagsimula, mahabang kalbaryo at hirapUnti-unting naglaho ang demokrasyang tinatawagMasahol pa sa batas-militar ang kanyang palakadAng mga militante’y nangawala na lang at sukat.43.Hindi miminsang sinubok na ang “cha-cha” ay isulongAngaw-angaw na salapi, sa Kamara’y isinuholAng maalab na nasang paghahari’y magtuluy-tuloyMuli’t muli’y nabigo ang marubdob nyang nilalayon.44.Napabantog itong bansa sa kahiya-hiyang antasSaan mang dako ng mundo ay nangyaring natalastasAng katiwalian na si Gloria ang nagpalaganapKabulukan sa pamamahala at maling paglingap.45.Ang lahat ng ahensiya’y kanyang pinagtatapalanKinupkop, kinalinga ang mga walang kabusuganNakipagkasundo sa Intsik, negosyanteng dayuhanNa ang nakapaloob ay “tongpats” sa proyektong “Broad Band”.46.Upang hindi madawit, sa usapin ay makaiwasAng mga gabineteng sangkot, sa bansa’y pinalayasMga nasukol ng Senado ay matamang inuriratNguni’t bigong malaman, katotohana’y di nabunyag.47.Totoong walang pakundangan si Gloria kung gumastosKasa-kasama niya’y sandamakmak sa paglilibotBuong angkan, kaibigan pati katulong ay baktotGugol ang salapi ng bayang malaon nang hikahos.48.Wala na siyang nagawa sa malaong pinipitaSambayana’y manggugulo kapag hindi tumalimaAng pagbaba sa tungkulin inabangan nitong masaHinantungan nya’y pagtakbo bilang isang Kongresista.49.Bago siya bumaba sa kataas-taasang pwestoWalang habag na sinimot itong pondo ng gobyernoIniluklok sa Korte Suprema’ng Punong MahistradoAt ang iba pang kapanalig at mga kaalyado.50.Si Noynoy na anak ng mga namayapang AquinoNa kapuwa itinanghal na bayaning PilipinoHinimok ng nakararami, sa halala’y tumakboUpang anya ay makaahon sa masamang estado.51.Nangyaring nahalal nga sa nakalipas na botohanMga pangako’y inihain sa buong sambayananUna’y ang pagsugpo sa palasak na katiwalianPantay-pantay na pagtingin sa lahat ng mamamayan.52.Baguntao’y napasingkaw hila-hila’y panaklayanKalawanging lipya’t sudsod ang linangi’y tutudlinganAng balikwas nyaring lupa sa bukiring anong luwangAnaki’y di matuturol na maayos ang taniman.53.Napipintong ula’t bagyo’y dambuhalang nagbabantaUpang yaong pagsisikap mapaanyo ang tumanaBakit baga maiinip pagmasdan ang gumagawa?Maubos ang hunus-diling gumagapi sa ‘sang diwa.

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media and other technologies in emer-gency situations. The Red Cross de-cided to broaden the survey audience and produce a more in-depth look at trends. This year’s study surveyed more than 1000 members of the gen-eral public and more than 1000 online users. The 2010 survey included only

data from 1,058 online respondents. This year’s survey demonstrates an increasing reliance on online news and information in emergencies as well as increased participation in social networks.

For more information and to view the full survey, visit www.redcross.org


Shirin Hooshmand, Sheau C. Chai and Raz L. Saadat of the College of Human Sciences; Dr. Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Florida State’s Charlotte Edwards Maguire Profes-sor and chairman of the Department of Geriatrics in the College of Medi-cine; and Oklahoma State University statistics Professor Mark E. Payton.

In the United States, about 8 million women have osteoporosis because of the sudden cessation of ovarian hormone production at the onset of menopause. What’s more, about 2 million men also have osteo-porosis.

“In the fi rst fi ve to seven post-menopausal years, women are at risk of losing bone at a rate of 3 to 5 percent per year,” Arjmandi said. “However, osteoporosis is not exclu-sive to women and, indeed, around the age of 65, men start losing bone with the same rapidity as women.”

Arjmandi encourages people who are interested in maintaining or improving their bone health to take note of the extraordinarily positive effect that dried plums have on bone density.

“Don’t wait until you get a fracture or you are diagnosed with osteopo-rosis and have to have prescribed medicine,” Arjmandi said. “Do something meaningful and practical beforehand. People could start eating two to three dried plums per day and increase gradually to perhaps six to 10 per day. Prunes can be eaten in all forms and can be included in a variety of recipes.”

The U.S. Department of Agricul-ture funded Arjmandi’s research. The California Dried Plum Board provided the dried plums for the study, as well as some funding to measure markers of oxidative stress.

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It is a fact, that most men start develop-ing belly fat on their 30s onward, while women irregardless of age start to develop belly bulge after delivering their fi rst born baby. Study says, women are more con-cerned on their belly fats than most men, but women’s problem is how to really get rid of stubborn belly fat which takes more than just regular diet and exercise.

Since women are more concerned in losing weight but can’t get rid of belly fat completely, let’s make emphasis on how to deal belly budge in women’s point of view. You diet, you exercise, you’re even losing weight. But take a look in the mirror, you still have that unsightly bulging belly. You may be twenty pounds more or less lighter after dieting and exercising, but still you are carrying f-a-t! Isn’t it disgusting?

Experts consider it Stress. That’s right, stress! As it turns out, the same diet that’s helping you lose weight might actually be causing you to retain fi gure destroying belly fat. That’s because dieting is stress-ful. You worry about what to eat, when to eat and how much you eat. All that worry leads to what experts called, “Diet Stress”.

And, as we all know, even ordinary, everyday stress can cause your body to increase or retain belly fat. That’s why you can go on a diet, lose weight, but still look thick around the middle. The big question remains, what are you going to do? Experts say, millions of women are turning to weight control adjuncts or add-ons. These groundbreaking compounds are not really diet pills in the true sense of the word. Instead, they help traditional

diet and exercise programs reduce tummy bulge by controlling diet related stress and anxiety, the same stress and anxiety that can lead to stubborn belly fat retention.

Women should face it. They not only want to lose weight, they really want to look good and sexy, which means thinner waist and fl atter tummy. So, if you’re ready to go on a diet, or if you’re already

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Fashion experts say, you have to go with your gut, no need to stuck it in with the shape fx bust enhancing vintage look two-piece suit. The high-waist bottom has a tummy controlling that keeps everything in place or a rounded tummy doesn’t mean you should shy away from wearing bold prints. But the trick is, look for a swimsuit that has a minimizing element like a belt or side tie.

After everything fails, best remedy is illusion. Trick the eye into thinking your slim and sexy and pick a swimsuit that will look great on you and guaranteed to show off what you’ve got to hide or hide your trouble spot, and its up for you to decide.

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“The souls that say this chaplet will be embraced by My mercy during their lifetime and especially at the hour of their death (754).” -- Words of Jesus in the Diary of St. Faustinaespecially at the hour of their death (754).” -- Words of Jesus in the Diary of St. Faustina

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

On the Our Father beads say this prayer, which was given by Our Lord to St. Faustina (1905-1938).

Eternal Father, I o�er You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

On the Hail Mary beads say:

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

In conclusion say three times:

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

The Hour of Great Mercy

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

particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony. This is the hour of great mercy. In this hour, I will refuse nothing to

the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion (Diary, 1320). -- Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska

You expired, O Jesus, but the source of life gushed

forth for souls and an ocean of mercy opened up for the

whole world. O Fount of Life,

unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I

trust in You. Amen.

This made me laugh out loud. I hope it will give you a smile!

A woman and a baby were in the doctor’s examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby’s fi rst exam.

The doctor arrived, and ex-amined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little con-cerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed.

‘Breast-fed,’ she replied.. ‘Well, strip down to your

waist,’ the doctor ordered. She did. He pinched her

nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and de-tailed examination.

Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, ‘No wonder this baby is underweight. You don’t have any milk.’

I know,’ she said, ‘I’m his Grandma,

But I’m glad I came.”

“Red, Bright and Blue Fireworks Spectacular” sparkles with an ex-tended display of red, white and blue fi reworks set to patriotic music and launches the fl ipping of the switch to turn on SeaWorld’s landmark 320-foot Skytower Tree of Lights for the 2011 summer season.

Attractions, Rides and More: In ad-dition to the special summer shows and activities, nearly all of SeaWorld’s other attractions remain open every evening during Summer Nights, including Jour-ney To Atlantis; Wild Arctic; the Sea-World Skytower; the Penguin Encounter; Sesame Street Bay of Play; and Ship-wreck Rapids, which includes two body dryers that allow guests to warm up and dry off after a soaking journey on one of the nine-passenger raft rides. Plus, new attractions this year include “One Ocean” opening May 28 and featuring SeaWorld’s majestic killer whales as ambassadors of the sea with the unifying message that both animals and humans are part of one world, with one ocean, and its future is in our hands to cherish and protect; and opening June 18, Turtle Reef at SeaWorld San Diego will be the largest exhibit in the world dedicated to sea turtles, fea-turing threatened and endangered sea turtles, an interactive gaming wall and an exciting new spinning ride called Riptide Rescue.

Summer Daytime Fun

“Cirque de la Mer”: Returning for its 11th summer, this acrobatic odyssey is performed on land, water and in the air at SeaWorld’s bayside lagoon venue, Cirque Stadium. The popular summer daytime show features acrobats, hand balancers, aerialists, trapeze artists and comic per-formers. “Cirque de la Mer” opens May 28 and closes Aug. 14.

· Daytime animal shows: All of SeaWorld’sfavorite year-round shows can be seen during the summer, includ-ing the all-newawe-inspiring “Blue Ho-rizons” show, the hilarious “Sea Lions LIVE” sketch-basedcomedy show, “One Ocean” the all-new killer whale show and the always-adorable“Pets Rule!”

Tipsfor making the most of your Summer Nights at SeaWorld

· Log on to the park’s website at www.seaworldsandiego.com and pur-chase tickets online using the Print@Home option. Guests also can learn about park discountsand current operat-ing hours online. For moreinformation call (800) 25-SHAMU.

· During projected days of peakat-tendance, SeaWorld allows guests to en-ter the front of the park 45 minutesprior to full-park opening. Early birdscan use this time to pick up a park map and check the show schedule, grab a lightbreakfast and plan their day.

· Arrive at animal shows at least30 to 45 minutes before the scheduled show time to secure a good seat and enjoyinter-active, crowd-pleasing, pre-show activi-ties.

· Visit SeaWorld attractions while-animal shows in the area are occurring: while thousands of guests are watching the “Blue Horizons” show, visit the Shark Encounter located just north of Dolphin Stadium.

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trillion-worth domestic economy ensures that President Aquino’s State Visit to China would be the Philip-pines’ diplomatic highlight for 2011.

Beyond all the stiff formalness of the boardrooms and state guesthous-es, however, President Noynoy’s trip to China will include something more down to earth and closer to the President’s heart.

Coming to China will be an oppor-tunity for the President to reconnect with his roots in southern Fujian province.

Tracing the very steps his mother took more than two decades ago, the President will visit the hometown of his Chinese ancestors in Hongjian Village, located in the township of Jiaomei, Longhai City, Zhangzhou Municipality, Fujian Province.

It is widely known that the late President Corazon Cojuangco-Aqui-no is a fourth-generation Filipino-Chinese descended from Mr. Co Yu Hwan a Chinese immigrant from Hongjian Village who settled in the Philippines in 1861.

Mr. Co (the Chinese character for his surname is read as “Xu” in the national language Mandarin, while “Co” or “Kho” is the way the same character is pronounced in the south-ern Fujian dialect or Minnan Hua also known as Hokkien) converted to Roman Catholicism in the Philip-pines and was then baptized as Jose Cojuangco, the surname Cojuangco being an amalgamation of his Chi-nese Hokkien name, Co Yu Hwan.

Jose’s son Melecio Cojuangco (born in 1871) married another Filipino-Chinese named Tiakla Chico in 1894 and among their chil-dren was Jose Cojuangco, Jr., father to President Corazon Aquino who is the mother of the current President, Benigno S. Aquino III.

Hongjian, a sleepy rural village located near the border of Xiamen’s Haicang District and Zhangzhou Municipality, is home to about 1,700 residents with the surname Xu or Co. Though less than half an hour’s drive from the bustling metropolis of Xiamen Island, it is stands in stark contrast to the city as it has, for the moment, maintained the slow pulse of country life with friendly and hospitable locals who keep the traditional ways.

When President Cory came to Hongjian Village in 1988 she planted an araucaria tree (a genus of coniferous evergreen) to com-memorate her visit. She also lighted incense at the altar of the Ancestral Temple of the Xu (Co) Clan. She was quoted as having remarked “I am the President, but I am also the daughter of Hongjian Village”

This statement has resonated among the local villagers and was much quoted by local media, includ-ing the widely circulated Xiamen Daily, during the coverage of Presi-dent Cory’s passing away in August 2009.

While the araucaria tree planted by the former President was growing, its trunk split into two and now the tree has two tops of equal height. When this happened, villagers took it as a sign that another branch from the former President’s family would rise up and achieve the same stature as the mother who planted the tree.

Consequently, when Benigno Aquino III won the presidential elec-tion of 2010, Hongjian villagers took this as the fulfillment of the event foreshadowed by the tree’s trunk splitting into two with both sections growing to equal height. Today, with the care of local villagers who are blood relatives of the Cojuangcos in the Philippines, the tree has grown to about as tall as a four-storey building.

Presently a park is being con-structed on the site surrounding the tree planted by the former President. Fittingly, Village planners included in the Park the construction of a hall dubbed the Sino-Philippines Friend-ship Memorial Hall, which when completed, shall be dedicated to the memory of President Cory.

As his mother before him had done, President Aquino shall make this spiritual journey back to the cradle of his clan. He will follow lo-cal custom in honoring his ancestors in the Clan Temple, whose pan-theon his mother now joins. But to Filipinos, this is not as foreign as it initially appears. Though Christian-

ized for the better part of half a mil-lennium, Filipinos, like the Chinese place great importance in honoring ancestors and acknowledging one’s roots.

Filipinos have a saying “ang ‘di lumingon sa pinanggalingan, ‘di makararating sa paroroonan”, which roughly translates as “he who does not acknowledge his origins will never reach his destination.”

The President is only one of so many notable Filipinos who have Chinese ancestry. He joins the ranks of other greats, chief of them nation-al hero Jose Rizal whose great-great grandfather Ke Yi Nan (Domingo Lamco) hailed from Qiongque Vil-lage in Jinjiang City, Fujian.

Although cited to the point of cliché, the truth remains that the Philippines and Fujian share ties that go deeper and beyond the diplomatic niceties discussed in Beijing. These ties of trade, history, culture, blood

and kinship are in fact the anchors of Philippines-China bilateral relations.

For despite highs and lows in po-litical and economic ties, the friend-ship for the Filipino people that emanate from southern Fujian and spreads to all other parts of China will always transcend the current, albeit transient, issues of the day.

In tracing his roots in southern Fujian, the President is symbolically acknowledging how truly close the peoples of the Philippines and China are. In planting a tree as his mother did, he will sow new seeds that will also, with care and nourishment, take root and grow tall and strong.

With these roots in Hongjian Vil-lage, Philippines-China cooperation and exchange will grow surely and steadily, nurtured by the very hands of the Filipino and Chinese peoples themselves.

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EL SALVADOR, Misamis Oriental, 9/2/2011 -- On September 8th, pilgrims will be celebrating the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Shrine of Divine Mercy. The date also marks the third anniversary of its status as the Archdiocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy. The solemn observance begins with a worship concert and vigil on Wednes-day evening and continues with a tradi-tional mananita at 2:00 a.m. on Thurs-day, September 8th.

History

“It was in the year 2000, The Golden Jubilee Year - when a group of Divine Mercy devotees started to receive vi-sions, messages and instructions from Jesus to start to build the Church of His Mercy,” the testimony is told in a pamphlet -- published by the non-profit group Divine Mercy Foundation of Mindanao -- and explains the mystery behind the Divine Mercy Hills shrine.

However the response was not an im-mediate yes.

“For three straight years the group ignored the Lord’s request to build His Church out of fear and worry.”

They only had P2,000 pesos in the bank.

“It was an enormous task that the Lord was asking them. They had mixed feelings of doubts and uncertainties how this project, which will be funded from solicitations and donations, will materialize. Their fears and worries even became bigger with with the cata-strophic disaster of the Twin Towers in New York USA in 2001.”

The narrative continues, “However, God’s ways are not man’s ways and the Lord rebuked them for their lack of faith with this message, “Why do you doubt? The fact that you have doubts indicate that you do not know your God, as you should. If your prayer life is infiltrated with doubts, you have denied yourself the greatest single avenue of power that your God has made available to you. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Obedience to my commands al-ways bring fulfillment. When I give you instructions, obey immediately and watch My perfect plan unfold in your life.”

God won out. “Armed only with deep faith in the Mercy and providence of the Lord and convinced of the urgency of the message” the group, comprised of homemakers and ordinary townsfolk,

3rd Anniversary of the Archdiocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy to be Celebrated Sept 8th

frantically followed up with years of activity and outreach letting divine in-tervention miraculously clear the path that was once obscured by doubt and incredulity.

Today, the 50-foot statue of the Divine Mercy Image stands on the hills over-looking the town of El Salvador, now a city, in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao and Macajalar Bay to the east. The red and pale rays in the image are made of stairs that lead up to an inner chamber within the heart of the image where a tabernacle awaits the pilgrim. The im-age stands like a lighthouse for ships at sea.

The symbolism is intentional. Ac-cording to the testimony, “It serves as a beacon of hope for weary souls and a fountain of respite for all people.”

The little town of El Salvador in Min-danao where the Divine Mercy Hills Shrine is ensconced above a valley has become a magnet for pilgrims and trav-elers from all over the Philippines and many parts of the world eager to see the wonders of mercy that the Lord has wrought in this remote part of the world. Among them are the faithful who carry out the deeds prayers and words asked

in the “Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul” by Sister Faustina which reads, “I desire that the whole world know my infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimagi-nable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy.” (Diary 687)

“The site would be in this century what Fatima was in its own century ac-cording to the Lord,” explained Paquita Adaza, the spokesperson for the Divine Mercy Foundation of Mindanao, Inc. and one of the members of the charis-matic prayer group that was inspired to carry out the enormous undertaking.

She explained it took their prayer group three years to act but in the end, the numerous signs, encouragement and inspiration from the Lord won out over what seemed insurmountable obstacles of fear, apprehension, lack of money and procrastination to build a shrine in an obscure town in Mindanao.

“True to His words, when the group submitted to God’s Holy Will, an end-less account of miracles took place, from the discovery of the land, negotia-tions with lot owners, and finding funds for the purchase of the lots, up to the outpouring of donations for its initial developments and the construction of

the P25M-plus, 50-foot statue in only three years.”

Paqits Adaza was in Malibu, Califor-nia for a retreat last week, July 11-16, 2011, where she shared her testimony about the mystery of the shrine and announced the shrine’s last remaining work, the construction of a church for pilgrims which will be consecrated on February 11, 2013, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

The church will be built behind the statue and a leading architectural firm capped the design with a unique build-ing frame in the shape of crown of thorns that will adorn its domed roof.

“Time is short,” according to Paqits Diaz, “We were given ten years by the Lord to complete this work. We started in 2003 and we shall end the work in 2012-2013.”

There is a sense of anticipation in her voice. At the same time, one encounters in the person of Paqits Diaz a sense of peace and joy in the Lord and a total trust in his plan of mercy.

Intercessory Prayer Ministry

The Divine Mercy Intercessory Prayer Ministry, is the powerhouse behind the Foundation according to Paqits Adaza. “This group is composed of simple lay people who are blessed with the gifts of visions and prophecy. It is through the members of this group, particularly Agustina Tante, Merlyn Pacana and Marlyn Aguilor, that God revealed His plan to build the Divine Mercy Shrine.”

Shrine Facts

The shrine is currently co-managed by three organizations: the Divine Mer-cy Foundation of Mindanao, Inc., the Congregation of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Inc. headed by Fr. Jam M. Rokosz, MIC, Superior General MIC and Fr. Jan Migacz, MIC, Superior of the Asian Vicarate of MIC, and the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro head-ed by Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J. The Rector of the Archdiosesan Shrine of Divine Mercy is Fr. Walerian Pozniak, MIC.

The Divine Mercy Hills will feature complete retreat and seminar facilities. Places for reflection and meditation such as Mary’s Rosary Garden and the Stations of the Cross will sprawl over the 12-hectare area.

The 50-foot Statue of Jesus Christ of Divine Mercy is at the center of the shrine. Its base houses the reconciliation rooms while the heart holds a chamber of adoration.

Divine Mercy Hills Information

A book “Mysteries and Miracles: Divine Mercy Hills” details the work of shrine and is available from Divine Mercy Publications, owned by the Di-vine Mercy Foundation of Mindanao. For more information, email [email protected].

Healing Waters

The book “Mysteries and Miracles” contains testimonies of the many mir-acles witnessed at the shrine. It recalls how hidden springs in the hills of the shrine were discovered after much discernment and prayers during the early days of construction at the shrine grounds when construction crews expe-rienced the hardship of hauling water up from the foothills.

The waters have healing properties as revealed by the Lord.

Testimonies

One testimony is of the healing of a

Muslim woman Nurhina Marcampo Udin in July 2007 as reported by Mrs. Raquel E. Cabarron in July 2007.

Another, Alma A. Jovero of Dum-aguete City claimed she was healed of her arthritis after drinking the healing water. Her son, Wilfredo Jovero Jr. was also healed of his drug addiction on the Feast of Divine Mercy last April 15, 2007.

Miracles

According to the book “Mysteries and Miracles” (Page 44) Divine Mercy Hills is Holy Ground. And accounts of miracles give proof to the claim of the visionaries that the place is set apart by divine design.

The site was first visited by the prayer group on the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb 11 in a village coinciden-tally named “El Salvador” (The Sav-ior).

“The Lord in a message said He pre-pared this place a long time ago. It is a place of healing and conversion. A safe refuge where weary souls come for

rest,” according to Paqits Adaza.

Our Lady of the Snows

El Salvador’s patron saint is Our Lady of the Snows. Our Lady of the Snows commemorates the miracle of how an unusual snowfall in the middle of sum-mer in the month of August in Rome marked the footprint of where the Ba-silica of St. Mary Major was eventually built in the year 352 to honor the wishes of the Blessed Mother.

Unexplained Signs

At the Divine Mercy Hills Shrine many have witness many unexplained signs.

According to eyewitness reports, “In August 25, 2004 one visitor, Mike Dial, a balikbayan from Sacramento, Califor-nia, saw a flash of light like a bright morning star moving around the vicin-ity of the Divine Mercy Hills. It stopped above the spot where the Divine Mercy Statue is now standing. It was revealed in a vision to a member of the interces-sory prayer group that the bright morn-ing star is the one protecting the place which is holy ground.” (See bottom photo.)

Pilgrims also witnessed a celestial phenomenon also seen at Fatima, the miracle of the sun, in April 2004 on Good Friday after a recitation of the Stations of the Cross. It would not be the only time. Several times the danc-ing sun appeared especially during the celebration of the Feast of Mercy (Sun-day after Easter) and the birthday of the Blessed Virgin (Sept 8).

Shrine Visit

Pilgrims are advised to observe a prayerful atmosphere when they visit the shrine. To spend time in the chapel praying the Chaplet of Mercy and sim-ply communicating with the Lord. It is likewise advised for pilgrims to observe dress codes when visiting the shrine. Avoid wearing revealing dresses and shorts. This is a holy place not a picnic ground.

For more details about pilgrimage to Divine Mercy Hills, please call the of-fice of the Divine Mercy Foundation Mindanao (Phil), Inc. at Telephone No (088) 350-9095 or text 09295468052. -- AJ [email protected]

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