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US revises H-1 visa rules to keep foreign talents
Spouses of workers who have applied for
GC may now work
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Philippine and US officials formally open the Balikatan 2014 joint exercises at Camp Aguinaldo on Monday. They are (L-R) US
Colonel John Rutherford, Defense Sec. Voltaire Gazmin, Foreign Affairs Sec. Albert del Rosario, US Ambassador Philip Goldberg,
AFP chief General Emmanuel Bautista, and Major General Emeraldo Magnaye.
ASHINGTON – The United
States said Tuesday it will soon
start issuing work visas to the spouses
of some foreign workers as part of a
drive to retain highly skilled people.
The change will affect the spouses of
people with so-called H-1B visas, a limited-term working visa that employees
obtain when they are sponsored by their
companies.
As it stands now, their spouses only get
a “dependent” H-4 visa that allows them
to live in the US but not to work.
When spouses cannot work, foreign
families tend not to settle in the United
States, depriving it of many workers
PH, US launch joint military drills
M
ANILA -- Thousands of
American and Philippine
troops launched large annual
exercises on Monday after US
President Barack Obama vowed
“ironclad” backing for its Asian
ally, locked in a tense maritime
row with China.
Filipino Foreign Secretary
Albert del Rosario said the 10day drills were necessary to
deal with the challenge of “aggressive” neighbours intent on
“changing the status quo”.
He did not mention China directly, but Beijing has been robust in its efforts to assert ter-
ritorial claims over most of the
South China Sea, putting a strain
on its relationships with neighboring countries.
“In recent years tensions in
the Asia-Pacific region have
increased due to extensive and
expansive maritime and territorial claims undermining the rule
of law,” del Rosario said at the
opening ceremony.
“Aggressive patterns of behavior aimed at changing the status
quo threaten peace and stability
in the region.”
He added that the military
exercise, known as Balikatan
Abaya, 3 DOTC execs charged with graft
M
ANILA -- A consumers’ group
has filed graft charges against
Transportation Secretary Joseph
Emilio Abaya and other officials of
the Department of Transportation
and Communication over a P1.7billion contract for a train ticketing
system.
Also named in the complaint were
Undersecretaries Jose Lotilla, Catherine Gonzales and Rene Limcaoco
(head and members of the bids and
awards committee).
The National Coalition of Filipino
Consumers (NCFC), through lawyer
Oliver San Antonio, filed the charges
on Monday at the Office of the Ombudsman.
Also named respondents were Undersecretaries Jose Lotilla, head of
the Bids and Awards Committee, and
Catherine Gonzales and Rene Lim-
Pangilinan tapped to clean
up Alcala dep’t
(Shoulder to Shoulder), with its
focus on “maritime capability”,
boosted the Philippines’ ability
to “address these challenges”.
The Philippines last year asked
a United Nations arbitration tribunal to declare what Manila
said was Beijing’s claim to 70
percent of the South China Sea
as illegal and a threat to freedom of navigation.
The seabed is believed to contain huge deposits of oil and gas
and the waters straddle vital sea
lanes.
(Cont. on Page 11)
caoco, members of the committee.
“By awarding the ticketing contract to AF Consortium, it is most
likely that the government stands to
lose and be completely deprived of
its full promised revenue supposedly amounting to P1,088,103,900
as committed by AF Consortium in
their bid,” the group said in its complaint.
(Cont. on Page 11)
Deniece languishes in cramped CIDG cell
highly skilled in science and technology.
Under the changes, spouses of people
with H-1B visas who have applied for
permanent residency ‘green cards’ can
also apply for permission to work.
“The proposals announced today will
encourage highly skilled, specially
trained individuals to remain in the
United States and continue to support
US businesses and the growth of the
US economy,” said Deputy Secretary
of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
“The fact is,
we must do
(Cont. on Page 11)
Francis Pangilinan
M
The agriculture secretary has been under
heavy fire for allowing the pork barrel scam
to flourish under the Aquino administration
as alleged mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles
continued to channel state funds to her fake
foundations with the help of her contact,
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Ophelia
Agawin, from way back in the Arroyo administration.
Alcala has likewise been blamed for the
President’s failure to meet his campaign
promise of reaching full rice sufficiency
and improved food security under his term,
the rise in rice smuggling, and the unabated
corruption in irrigation projects.
While describing his assignment as a
“food security secretary,” Pangilinan said
purging corruption in the DA was part
of his job description.
“The funds are already there for our
farmers, and these just go to waste,” he
said. “The marching orders are clear: to
clean it up. So we will do what we can,
as best we can to help in that respect.”
In a statement, Alcala expressed confidence that Pangilinan “will be effective” in his new post and that the “the
DA family looks forward to discussing
with him his specific assignments from
the President himself.”
ANILA —President Aquino has
tapped former Sen. Francis Pangilinan to do some serious “house cleaning”
in the Department of Agriculture (DA),
which has been wracked by charges of corruption and cronyism under Secretary Proceso Alcala.
“The President said I am here to help clean
up these agencies. Part of this is addressing
corruption and smuggling,” Pangilinan said
in a Palace briefing after being sworn to office by the President as his assistant on food
security and agricultural modernization.
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LOCAL
IMMIGRATION SUCCESS STORY
The whole family of Reynaldo were able to be united with the representation
of Atty. Crispin C. Lozano in the Immigration Court and USCIS.
The San Francisco Post
$4M settlement with eBay over
“no-poach” deal with Intuit
SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney General Kamala
D. Harris has announced a nearly $4 million settlement with eBay over allegations the company
violated state anticompetitive laws by making a
“no-poach” agreement with Intuit between 2006
and 2009.
“California’s technology sector is at its best when
competition and creativity are allowed to thrive,”
Attorney General Harris said.
“No-poach agreements unfairly
punish talented
workers and stunt
our state’s economic growth.
This settlement
compensates employees, demands
improved future
hiring practices,
and refunds the
state for economic harm.”
In November
2012, Attorney
General Harris
filed suit against
eBay and named Intuit as a co-conspirator, alleging that from 2006 to 2009 senior executives at
both companies entered into a “no-poach” agreement restricting each company’s ability to recruit
employees from the other company; in addition
eBay agreed not to hire Intuit employees. As a
result, employees of both companies were prevented from securing potentially better-paying
positions and both companies lost the ability to
hire qualified employees.
Attorney General Harris’ complaint alleged that
the agreement violated California’s Unfair Competition Law, the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act
and the state Cartwright Act.
Today’s settlement, filed in United States District
Court for the Northern District of California in
San Jose, includes restitution payments and civil
penalties totaling $3.75 million and commitments
from eBay regarding the company’s future hiring
practices.
eBay will pay $3.5 million into a settlement
fund, which will include a $300,000 to the state
for the harm the anticompetitive conduct caused
to the state’s economy, which is the first time a
state antitrust settlement has explicitly recovered
additional funds for general harm to the economy.
A portion of the settlement fund will be used to
pay restitution to individuals employed in California by eBay
or Intuit since
2005. Restitution
payments will
be made to three
distinct pools of
current and former employees.
The first pool of
approximately
forty individuals
who were employed by Intuit
and considered
for but not offered a position
at eBay, will receive between
$5,000
and
$10,000 each.
The second pool of approximately 950 individuals who were employed by Intuit and applied for
but were not offered a position at eBay, will receive between $1,000 and $1,500 each. The third
pool includes current and former employees who
fall within the terms of the settlement but are not
included in the first or second pool. While these
individuals did not apply for jobs at the other
company, they may have been indirectly affected
by the anticompetitive conduct and will receive a
maximum payment of $150.
In addition, eBay will pay $250,000 in civil penalties.
eBay has also agreed to not participate in a similar “no-poach” agreement in the future and for
the next five years, the company must provide the
California Attorney General’s office with an annual report describing any violation or potential
violation of this settlement.
18 held in Bay Area massage parlor raids
OAKLAND— Authorities in Northern California said 18 people face dozens of felony
charges, including pimping, after several massage parlors were shut down during a series of
early-morning raids.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy
O’Malley said Friday the arrests came after
federal, state and local law enforcement officers
shut down 13 massage parlors in Oakland, San
Leandro, San Lorenzo and Hayward that they
allege were operating as brothels. The parlors
are owned by five separate groups.
O’Malley said the suspects face more than
100 felonies including pimping, pandering, tax
evasion and other labor code violations. The
search is on for a 19th suspect. She said in addition to the illegal sex trafficking, there was also
numerous instances of money laundering that
could involve millions of dollars.
“60 of those charges are related to pimping and
pandering. 51 of those charges are related to tax
evasion and labor-code violations,” said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.
She added that investigators strongly believe
that there’s a human trafficking component
as well. “We believe that there are at least 50
women who either are being interviewed or will
be interviewed who we’ve identified as working
in those establishments or being forced to work
at those establishments.”
Authorities say the arrests topped off a sixmonth investigation.
O’Malley said the operation sends a strong
message that this type of illicit behavior is not
acceptable in the community.
NATIONAL
The San Francisco Post
Legion calls for VA’s Shinseki, 2 aides to quit
The American Legion called Monday for the
resignations of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric
Shinseki and two of his top aides amid an investigation into allegations of corruption and
unnecessary deaths at the veterans’ hospital in
Phoenix.
Legion National Commander Daniel Dellinger accused Shinseki, Under Secretary of
Health Robert Petzel and Under Secretary of
Benefits Allison Hickey of poor oversight and
leadership failures.
“The existing leadership has exhibited a pattern of bureaucratic incompetence and failed
leadership that has been amplified in recent
weeks,” Dellinger said during a news conference at the organization’s Indianapolis headquarters.
The Phoenix hospital has been under fire over
allegations that up to 40 patients may have
died because of delays in care and that the
hospital kept a secret list of patients waiting
for appointments to hide the treatment delays.
Shinseki announced Thursday that three officials there have been placed on leave.
Dellinger also cited VA’s acknowledgement
that 23 have died as a result of delayed care
in recent years and the findings of an investigation by VA’s Office of Medical Inspector that clerks at the Fort Collins, Colorado,
clinic were instructed last year how to falsify
appointment records. Other problems have
occurred in Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Augusta,
Georgia, he said.
Obama jokes about Putin at
WH correspondents’ dinner
US SC upholds prayers
at government meetings
WASHINGTON — President Barack lengths we have to go to get CNN coverObama joked about Russian President age these days!”
Vladimir Putin and issues much closer to
Obama also turned the humor on himhome as he headlined the White House self and his difficult 2013, including the
Correspondents’ Association dinner Sat- deeply troubled rollout of the website for
urday night.
his health care
The annual
overhaul.
tradition has
First Lady Mithe president
chelle Obama
mocking
accompanied
others and
him to the black
himself as
tie event, and
celebrities
Joel McHale,
mingle with
star of the NBC
journalists
series “Commuand politinity,” was the
cians.
dinner’s featured
Barack Obama laughs as actor and comedian Joel
Obama President
entertainer. CeMcHale speaks during the White House Correspondents’ Asso(WHCA) Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Saturday, lebrities attendmade fun of ciation
May 3, 2014, in Washington.
conservative
ing included Sotelevision
fia Vergara and
hosts’ talk about Putin’s bare chest and the stars of Washington-centric shows
one’s comment last year about Putin be- like “Veep” and “Scandal.”
ing headed for a Nobel Peace Prize. “To
The dinner has often come at key mobe fair, they give those to just about any- ments of Obama’s presidency. In 2011,
body these days,” said Obama, a laureate Obama showed up the day before special
himself.
operations troops killed Osama bin LadThe president also joked about opposi- en. Last year’s dinner came nearly two
tion claims that he had been born over- weeks after the deadly Boston Marathon.
seas instead of the United States.
This time, the U.S. and Europe are anxLooking ahead to a possible successor iously watching Ukraine and Russia’s
in office, Obama said it will be a lot hard- role in the turbulence in the eastern reer for Republicans to prove that Hillary gion of the former Soviet state.
Rodham Clinton was born in Kenya.
The correspondent’s association, which
The president poked fun at CNN’s ex- represents the White House press corps,
tensive coverage of the search for the is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
missing Malaysia Airlines plane. He said
Several journalists were awarded prizes
he was still jet-lagged from his visit in for their coverage of the presidency and
recent days to Malaysia and added, “The national issues.
WASHINGTON — A narrowly divided Supreme
Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start
of local council meetings on Monday, declaring
them in line with long national traditions though the
country has grown more religiously diverse.
The content of the prayers is not significant as long
as they do not denigrate non-Christians or try to win
converts, the court said in a 5-4 decision backed by
its conservative majority.
Though the decision split the court along ideological lines, the Obama administration backed the
winning side, the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of
Rochester.
The outcome relied heavily on a 1983 decision
in which the court upheld an opening prayer in the
Nebraska Legislature and said prayer is part of the
nation’s fabric, not a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion.
Writing for the court on Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that forcing clergy to scrub
the prayers of references to Jesus Christ and other
sectarian religious figures would turn officials into
censors. Instead, Kennedy said, the prayers should
be seen as ceremonial and in keeping with the nation’s traditions.
“The inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part
of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that
its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious
leaders and the institutions they represent, rather
than to exclude or coerce nonbelievers,” Kennedy
said.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court’s four
liberal justices, said, “I respectfully dissent from the
court’s opinion because I think the Town of Greece’s
prayer practices violate that norm of religious equality — the breathtakingly generous constitutional
idea that our public institutions belong no less to the
Buddhist or Hindu than to the Methodist or Episcopalian.”
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US economy adds 288,000 jobs
in April
WASHINGTON -- The US economy
pumped out 288,000 jobs in April,
the highest pace in over two years, in
a fresh confirmation that growth has
resumed after a harsh winter freeze.
Coupled with upward revisions
for the previous two months, Labor
Department data Friday showed a
firm rebound in hiring after a tepid
winter pace that had spurred worries
of a more fundamental downshift in
activity.
The unemployment rate meanwhile
plunged to 6.3 percent from 6.7 percent, the lowest level since September 2008. But that figure was deceiving.
It came out of an unexplained sharp
fall in the size of the active labor
force rather than new hiring, and
pointed to a continued challenge to
bringing down joblessness overall
around the country.
The job gains were widespread, led
by new positions in professional and
business services, healthcare and retail trade.
Jobs in construction also picked
up; the sector fell nearly flat amid
the series of frigid winter storms that
swept the eastern half of the country
repeatedly between December and
February.
The report “signals that American
companies are optimistic the economy will snap back smartly after the
largely weather-related slump in the
first quarter,” said Sal Guatieri of
BMO Capital Markets.
Doug Handler, chief US economist at
IHS Global Insight, said the data was
strong enough to drive a rebound in
second-quarter economic growth to
a 3.0-4.0 percent pace, after the 0.1
percent stall of the first quarter.
It was the 50th straight month of
jobs gains, and all but 113,000 of the
8.7 million jobs lost in the Great Recession have been restored.
“While this month’s report happens to be above expectations, it is
still broadly consistent with the recent trends we have been seeing in
the labor market,” the White House’s
top economist Jason Furman said in
a statement.
As encouraging as the job creation
numbers were, the data behind the
unemployment rate fall contained
some areas of concern.
BANKRUPTCY Q&A
What you should DO and NOT DO when filing Bankruptcy
I
f you are considering bankruptcy, By Atty. Crispin C. Lozano There are legal ways to protect assets.
here are some actions you can do
Transferring an asset out of your name
to protect yourself and your assets.
and immediately filing bankruptcy is
Actions you SHOULD DO:
not a smart way.
1. Take your situation seriously. Ignoring your finan- 4. Take cash advances from one credit card to make
cial trouble will not make it go away. Speak to a bank- payments on another. Once you start juggling credit
ruptcy attorney as soon as possible.
cards, you are in serious trouble. Taking excessive
2. Commit yourself to a budget. This is always the cash advances six months to one year prior to filing
easiest thing to tell someone facing financial hardship bankruptcy may result in an adversary proceeding (litand is sometimes impossible to achieve. But if you igation in bankruptcy) or the court may dismiss your
face a very tight financial situation, you need to try to case.
maintain daily, weekly and monthly budgets. By sim- 5. Pay $600 or more back to relatives or business asply doing this, you will have more and more success sociates who have lent you money. Payment of a total
living within the budget.
of $600 or more to an “insider” (which includes rela3. Be honest about all your debts and assets. To best tives and business associates) within one year before
serve you, you need to disclose all of your financial you file bankruptcy is a “preference.” The trustee may
information to your attorney. Your attorney can pro- recover preferences from the person that was paid and
vide a feasible resolution in bankruptcy. Keeping your divide the money between all of your creditors. (Payattorney informed will create the best results.
ment of $600 or more to any other creditor within 90
4. Continue making payments on vehicles and homes days before the case is filed is also a preference.)
you intend to keep. If you are behind on your payments, your creditors can repossess your property.
Bankruptcy Basics
5. Find a way to entertain your family without spend- 1. Bankruptcy will actually improve your credit within
ing any money. There are a lot of things on how to one year because your unsecured debts are discharged.
enjoy your day without depleting your budget. Family Although the bankruptcy will be in your records for
and friends should be able to recognize that spending 10 years, not filing bankruptcy will make your credit
time together can be as enjoyable as spending money even worse until most your debts are paid.
together.
2. If you are being sued by your creditors, most money
Actions you SHOULD NOT DO:
judgment can be eliminated in bankruptcy.
1. Withdraw money from your 401k. 401k is exempt 3. Collection actions continue and you can be sued if
from seizure under virtually all circumstances. Gen- you are in debt settlement.
erally, this account is exempted in bankruptcy. Un- 4. Chapter 7 will eliminate all unsecured debts. If you
timely withdrawal makes you liable for taxes and pen- are near retirement age, you must eliminate most of
alties that are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
your debts.
2. Buy massive purchases and take out large cash 5. Bankruptcy will stop foreclosure actions. If your
advances from your credit cards before filing. The trustee sale date is 10 days before, you can still file for
Court may consider your petition fraudulent and dis- bankruptcy.
miss your claim if it sees excessive purchases or cash Crispin Caday Lozano is an active member of the State Bar of Califoradvances six months to one year prior to filing bank- nia, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National
ruptcy.
Association of Consumers Bankruptcy Attorneys. He specializes in
3. Transfer property out of your name. Concealing immigration law and bankruptcy law. He earned his Juris Doctor at
your assets is illegal and risky. If you have an asset Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, California. He is
that cannot be protected in a bankruptcy filing, you also a Certified Public Accountant, and a Bachelor of Business Adminneed to discuss your situation with your attorney. istration Cum Laude graduate.
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OPINION
The San Francisco Post
Pacifying the Pacific
aftermath
IofnofthethetheEnhanced
signing
Gov’t needs to review educational plan
T
he other week,
the
International Monetary
Fund said the
Philippines would
once again emerge
as the region’s
standout
when
growth in Southeast Asia slows
THE NUCLEUS OF
down. The IMF
THE MATTER
is expecting the
By
country to sustain
Val Abelgas
its growth momentum this year. Last
year, the Philippines had the region’s fastestgrowing economy, expanding by 7.2 percent.
It was the second-best showing in Asia next to
China.
And yet, one week later, the International Labor Organization reported that the Philippines
has the highest unemployment rate in ASEAN.
According to the ILO’s “Global Employment
Trends,” the Philippines registered an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent in 2013. Ranking
just above the Philippines is Indonesia with 6
percent, the study found. Neighboring Asean
countries Brunei has 3.7 percent, Burma, 3.5
percent; Malaysia, 3.2 percent; and Singapore,
3.1 percent.
The countries with the lowest unemployment
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rates are Vietnam, 1.9 percent; Laos, 1.4 percent; Thailand, 0.8 percent; and Cambodia, 0.3
percent.
“Almost 202 million people were unemployed
in 2013 around the world, an increase of almost
5 million compared with the year before,” the
ILO said in the executive summary of its report
published January 2014. “This reflects the fact
that employment is not expanding sufficiently
fast to keep up with the growing labor force,”
it said.
For the Philippines, it can only get worse considering that more than half a million graduate
from college every year, and counting those
who graduate from vocational and technical
schools, about 700,000 Filipinos join the labor
force every year, and despite the sustained economic growth in the last few years, the economy still cannot keep up with the growing labor
force.
The economy keeps growing every year but
the unemployment rate also keeps rising. In
June 2010 when President Aquino took over,
unemployment rate was about 7.0%. As of January this year, it was 7.5%.
Can you imagine how frustrating it is for parents who literally have to shed blood and tears
to send their children to college only to find out
that very few jobs await them after graduation?
Can you imagine how debilitating this situation
is to the young graduate who spent at least 14
years burning the lamp, so to speak, only to end
up a sales clerk in a department store or, worse,
jobless?
And yet, every single high school graduate still
dreams of earning that much-sought after college diploma and every single parent would still
work his bones off to send his children to college. In the Philippines, a college diploma is the
measure of one’s worth in life and the measure
of a parent’s success in raising his child.
A high school graduate, however poorly he had
passed through the four years of secondary education, attends whichever college or university
is willing to accept his tuition money, coasts
along through four years, earns his diploma and
finds out, to his dismay and disappointment,
that he could not find the job for which he studied and for which his parents spent thousands of
hard-earned pesos.
If he has good grades, he would be lucky to
join the some 10 percent who would get into
the profession that matched their degree, or he
can become one of the lucky ones who end up
as call center agents. Otherwise, he can land a
job as a salesclerk in a department store, a parttime worker selling phone cards in malls, a minor clerk in a small office, or any other job that
would otherwise need just a six-month training
in a vocational or technical school.
Worse, he can be one of the close to 300,000
new graduates who will join the growing ranks
of the unemployed.
Many of these graduates can’t even find a job
in the overseas labor market because many of
these jobs require special skills that do not need
a four-year college diploma and only requires a
six-month, or two-year training at the most in a
vocational school.
In the United States, because of the high cost
of education and the strict and tough admission
requirements of universities, many high school
graduates attend community colleges that have
two-year associate degree course or vocational
and technical course. This way, many students
do not have to accumulate thousands of dollars
in student loans or force their parents to get
money from their retirement funds just so they
can get a bachelor’s degree that do not guarantee them success in the workplace anyway.
In fact, at the onset of the recession, many
people found out that it was the vocational and
technical courses that remained in demand and
paid higher wages, such as mechanics, X-ray
technicians and medical assistants.
The government should start re-assessing the
country’s education program. (Cont. on page 9)
Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)
between
the
United States
and the PhilipPERRY SCOPE
pines,
China
By
unexpectedly
Perry Diaz
took a conciliatory stance.
Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a press
conference that EDCA does not seem to intimidate China. “It is justifiable for people to ask any
agreement between the US and the Philippines be
consistent with this principle and not at the cost
of mutual trust between regional countries and
regional peace and stability,” Qin said. “With regard to President Obama’s visit to the four Asian
countries, we have expounded on our principled
position on China-related issues. We believe that
relevant parties should all make positive efforts to
enhance mutual trust and cooperation and promote
common peace, stability and prosperity in this region, rather than the opposite. The Pacific Ocean
should be kept pacific.”
Land grab
China’s land-grabbing has made China’s neighbors wary of her aggressive attempts to assert control over 90% of the South China Sea. She claimed
that it has been a part of China since ancient times.
Her claims overlap with the claims – partly or
wholly – of Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei,
the Philippines… and just recently, Indonesia.
China insists that the Natuna Islands fall within
the controversial nine-dash line, which arbitrarily
delineates the waters she’s claiming; therefore, she
has sovereignty over them. But the Natunas are
within Indonesia’s 200-mile Exclusive Economic
Zone (EEZ).
Up until now, nobody had disputed Indonesia’s
sovereignty over the Natunas, which gave Indonesia a good enough reason to stay out of the territorial disputes among the six South China Sea claimants. Not anymore.
Recently, it was reported that Indonesia was
beefing up her air presence along the South China
Sea. The report said that Indonesia was upgrading
Ranai airbase on the Riau Islands, which is near
the Natunas, so that it could accommodate Sukhoi
Su-27 and Su-30 fighter aircraft. In addition, four
Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters are be-
ing deployed to Ranai airbase.
Miyako Channel
It is interesting to note that Japan is planning
to militarize Yonaguni Island by installing a military lookout station. It is 93 miles southeast of the
disputed Senkaku Islands and 148 miles southwest
of Miyako Island. “It will allow early warning of
missiles and supplement the monitoring of Chinese military movements,” said a Japanese defense
expert.
In addition to the Yonaguni lookout station, Japan is also planning to convert the civilian airport
at Shimoji Island to military use. Shimoji is adjacent to the strategic Miyako Island, which is 124
miles southeast of Senkaku Island. Between Miyako and Okinawa Island lies the 161-mile-wide
Miyako Channel, which connects the East China
Sea to the Philippine Sea. This is a major chokepoint to the Pacific Ocean.
Bashi and Ballintang Channels
According to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
article, five military camps are being considered
as possible sites for American facilities to be
built in the Philippines under the EDCA. One of
these sites is the province of Batanes, which WSJ
described as a site that offers “an excellent vantage point from which to monitor a key maritime
chokepoint for any vessels departing China for the
Pacific Ocean.” Batanes, which consists of several islands, is located between two channels in the
160-mile-wide Luzon Strait: Bashi and Ballintang.
Batanes is about 100 miles from the main Philippine island of Luzon and about 120 miles from
Taiwan.
First Island Chain
Whoever controls the Miyako, Bashi, and Ballintang channels controls the First Island Group,
which runs from Japan all the to Vietnam through
Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo (Indonesia), Malaysia, and Singapore. Prior to the signing of EDCA,
the Philippines was the weakest link in the First Island Chain. Not anymore. EDCA strengthened the
chain link; thus, containing China to the confines
of East China and South China Seas.
Vince Lombardi once said, “A good offense is a
good defense.” By bolstering the defense capability of U.S. allies – Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines -- along the First Island Chain, Chinese
expansionism into the Pacific Ocean is held back.
Thanks to the vigilance of Japan, Taiwan, and the
Philippines in keeping the Pacific Ocean pacific.
Indeed, not only is the Pacific Ocean pacific, it’s
pacified, too. (PerryDiaz@gmail.com)
INSPIRATIONAL VERSES
Compiled by Atty. Crispin C. Lozano
““Honor your father and your mother, that your
days may be long in the land that the LORD
your God is giving you.”
Exodus 20:12
My personal belief:
T
he LORD commanded us to honor and love our parents.
Love and respect for parents is one of the great virtues we
by:
inherited from our ancestors. Our parents need our support
Atty. Crispin Caday
especially in their old ages. It is just giving them back the love
Lozano
and sacrifices they did for us since we were a baby to the time
we were grown up.
Honor thy father and thy mother, includes esteem of them,
shown in our conduct; obedience to their lawful commands; come when they call you, go
where they send you, do what they bid you, refrain from what they forbid you; and this, as
children, cheerfully, and from a principle of love. We also have to submit to their counsels
and corrections. We should make every endeavor to comfort parents, and to make their
old age easy; maintaining them if they need support. If we observe this commandment
we will receive a long life in the land of the LORD.
WORLD BRIEF
The San Francisco Post
Russia warns Europe on Ukraine clashes
SLAVYANSK: -- Russia warned on Monday that Europe’s peace was at risk over the
escalating crisis in Ukraine, where deadly
fighting raged around a flashpoint eastern
city and the interim president warned of
“war.”
European leaders fearing all-out civil war
was breaking out on their eastern flank have
launched a desperate new peace bid, trying
to force Ukraine and Russia to find a negotiated solution before it is too late.
The chairman of the Orga–nization for Security and Co–operation in Europe, Didier
Burkhalter, was due in Moscow on Wednesday amid calls for his group to mediate between Kiev and the separatists in the east.
But events on the grounds were overtaking
the diploma- tic initiative.
Fierce exchanges of fire were taking place
to the east and south of the town of Slavyansk, the epicenter of the armed insurgency,
as Ukrainian troops corralled pro-Russian
gunmen towards the center for what could
be a devasta- ting showdown.
“They are waging a war on us, on our own
territory,” Interior Minister Arsen Avakov
Deadly clashes erupt in Ukraine as troops
attack rebel-held city
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian security forces and antigovernment rebels clashed
on the edges of this rebel-controlled city on
Monday as the acting president, Oleksandr
V. Turchynov, said roadblocks were being set
up around Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, because of
fears of disturbances or violence during an
emotionally charged holiday later in the week.
As many as 10 rebels and four soldiers were
killed in the fighting, according to the official
accounts from both sides, along with a woman
who was shot while standing on an apartment
balcony during a bloody firefight along the
highway to Slovyansk’s east.
But at the end of the day the violence accomplished little for
either side besides
deepening resentments and anger and
appearing to push the
crisis further from a
chance at peaceful
resolution.
The rebels yielded
a single checkpoint
to the government,
at Rybkhoz, from
which they withdrew
during a morning advance by a Ukrainian armored unit. But the
antigovernment forces still held Slovyansk,
where residents continued to fell trees and
stack tires to create obstacles to any military
push.
The most pitched fighting, at Semyonovka,
at the city’s eastern border, ended with both
sides pulling back with their wounded or dead,
leaving behind pools of blood, burning vehicles and a gas station that was rocked by the
explosion of a commercial propane tank. The
fighting there also included the civilian death,
which is likely to fuel the city’s building sense
of anger and grief.
In Kiev, the provisional government said vehicle checkpoints had been set up at strategic
locations around the capital in anticipation of
potential violence before a holiday on Friday
commemorating victory over the Nazis in
World War II.
“War is in effect being waged against us,
and we must be ready to repel this aggression,” Mr. Turchynov said, announcing the
roadblocks on Monday in an interview on
Ukraine’s Channel 5 television station.
Turchynov also said that Parliament would
meet in a special closed session on Tuesday
for a report by security agencies on measures
to stabilize the country. In a statement, Mr.
Turchynov urged all lawmakers to attend and
said that “important decisions will be taken
related to the security of Ukraine.”
The government seemed to be stepping up
its efforts to counter the pro-Russian disinformation campaign that has flooded the television airwaves in the
country’s east and
portrayed the central
authorities as illegitimate. Mr. Turchynov’s office released
a number of statements, including one
that criticized efforts
by those it called
terrorists to enlist
miners from eastern
Ukraine in antigovernment actions.
Most of the residents of Slovyansk, a small
industrial city, have never experienced war,
and in Khimik, a neighborhood about a mile
and a half from the battle, people crowded
on the upper-story balconies of an apartment
building to listen and watch as the two sides
clashed at an intersection beside the railway
crossing in Semyonovka.
The fighting at Semyonovka raged in the
morning after rebels took up a position on
the highway, one witness said. The Ukrainian
government said the rebels ambushed a convoy, but the witness described it differently,
saying that a patrol of armored vehicles attacked the new rebel position, killing many
of them. At a gas station near the intersection,
ordnance appeared to strike a large storage
tank, causing an explosion that set fire to a
four-door hatchback car, knocked aside another tank and heaved debris that smashed the
front end of a cargo truck.
told reporters as he oversaw the offensive in
the combat zone.
“My mission is to eliminate the terrorists,”
he added.
He said there had been deaths in the exchange of fire by small arms and heavy
weapons, but did not immediately give a toll
for each side.
The advance on Slavyansk was part of a
wider military operation in the east to rootout the insurgents, who are holding more
than a dozen towns and who have declared
two autonomous territories around them.
Singapore plans centers
outside city for migrant
workers
SINGAPORE - Singapore plans to build more recreation centers in the suburbs to draw migrant laborers
away from the city after a rare riot in the congested
Little India district last year, a report said on Monday.
The multi-million dollar centers are the latest in a
series of government measures to better manage areas
where foreign workers congregate after the rampage
by South Asian laborers on December 8 injured 39
people and saw 25 vehicles destroyed.
The Straits Times newspaper said the four new centers will be built next to dormitories sited in industrial
areas away from the city center and will serve as alternative gathering points for workers on their rest days.
They will have a “combined size of more than nine
soccer fields” and will house sporting facilities including cricket and soccer fields and basketball
courts as well as supermarkets and Internet cafes,
the newspaper said, citing planning documents it had
seen.
There are currently four such centers in outlying industrial zones.
Minister of Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin had first announced the new centers in January, in the aftermath
of the Little India riot, which sharply brought into focus the way the wealthy city-state manages its nearly
one million low-paid foreign workers.
Singapore has a total population of 5.4 million, but
only 3.84 million are citizens and permanent residents.
The congested nature of the Little India riot zone was
identified early on as a reason why the situation spiraled out of control, along with the likelihood that the
rioters were drunk.
The government has temporarily restricted alcohol
consumption in the area, where South Asian migrant
workers usually congregate on weekends to shop,
dine and drink.
Migrant labor activist Jolovan Wham said while migrant workers would benefit from the new recreation
centers, “the intentions behind it are questionable”.
“Recreational and social facilities should be built
for the well-being of the community and not because
[the workers] are threats to social order,” Wham, the
executive director of the Humanitarian Organization
for Migration Economics, told Agence France-Presse.
“This approach to low-wage migrant workers is typical of the government. All low-wage foreign workers
are treated as threats to security,” he said.
TAX CORNER
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT IRS BILLS, PENALTIES
AND INTEREST CHARGES
by: Alvin C. Maglan, CPA
I
f you missed the April 15th tax deadline
and unable to file for an extension, there
are certain tax consequences that taxpayers
should be prepared to deal with.
The top 10 most valid points in regards to
IRS bills, penalties and interest charges as
detailed in IRS Publication 594 The IRS
Collection
Process are as follows:
1. Federal income tax returns are systematically checked for
mathematical accuracy. If there is any
money owed, you will be sent a bill. So
don’t worry so much about math errors on
the federal tax return as it will be caught.
Generally speaking if you catch a math
error after the tax return was submitted it
can make sense in many instances to wait
for the IRS to contact you with the changes
before going through the brain damage of
filing an amended federal income tax return. The tangible cost incurred for waiting
will be the assessed penalties and interest
for the difference between the original underpayment and the actual balance owed.
Keep in mind too that a math error on
a federal tax return will also impact your
state income tax return and various states
react differently to errors. So you will
want to reach out to your state department
of revenue with any necessary adjustments
as soon as they are discovered.
2. Generally, interest is charged on any
unpaid tax from the due date of the return
until the date of payment. The interest rate,
determined quarterly is the federal shortterm rate plus 3 percent compounded
daily. This in and of itself is not so onerous however when penalties are added
in a $10,000 balance due for example
can jump to $15,000 in approximately 5
months.
3. If you file a return but don’t pay all
amounts shown as due on time, you will
generally have to pay a late payment penalty of one-half of one percent for each
month, or part of a month, up to a maximum of 25%, on the amount of tax that
remains unpaid from the due date of the
return until the tax is paid in full. The onehalf of one percent rate
increases to one percent if the tax remains
unpaid 10 days after the IRS issues a notice of intent to levy. If you file by the return due date, the one-half of one percent
rate decreases to one-quarter of one percent for any month in which an installment
agreement is in effect.
4. If you owe tax and don’t file on time, the
total failure to file
penalty is usually five percent of the tax
owed for each month, or part of a month
that your return is late, up to five months.
If your return is over 60 days late, the minimum penalty for late filing is the lesser of
$135 or 100 percent of the tax owed.
5. In that you must file your return and pay
your tax by the due date to avoid interest
and penalty charges, oftentimes the funds
necessary to pay your tax can be borrowed
at a lower effective rate than the combined
IRS interest and penalty rate.
6. To ensure your payment on a bill for tax
is credited properly, be sure to return the
tear-off stub on your bill. Make your check
or money order payable to the United
States Treasury. Enter the primary social
security number or employer identification number, the tax year and
form number, and your telephone number
on your check or money order.
7. The penalties for filing and paying
late may be abated if you have reasonable cause and the failure was not due to
willful neglect. If you’re billed for penalty charges and feel you have reasonable
cause, send your explanation along with
the bill to the IRS Service Center
that sent you the bill.
8. Making a late payment as soon as you
are able may help to establish that your
initial failure to pay was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect. Generally, interest charges are not abated; they
continue to accrue until all assessed tax,
penalties, and interest are paid in full.
9. There are possible exceptions to the
general deadlines for filing a return and
paying tax. One possible exception is if
you are a member of the armed forces
and are serving in a combat zone. Refer to Publication 3, Armed Forces’ Tax
Guide, for additional information and
qualifications. Another is if you are a
(Cont. on page 8)
PAGE 5
May 8, 2014 - May 14, 2014
Hundreds killed in Afghan
landslide
KABUL — Afghan police and villagers began a dangerous search for more
than 2,000 people buried under a massive landslide
in a remote
mountainous
region in the
northeast on
Saturday, amid
concern the
unstable hillside may cave
in again.
The United
Nations said at
least 350 were
killed, but officials fear that the toll will
rise sharply as the poor village in Badakhshan province, bordering Tajikistan, is
buried in up to 100 meters of mud.
Villagers and a few dozen police,
equipped with only basic digging tools,
started the search when daylight broke on
Saturday.
“People from surrounding districts of Ba-
dakhshan and Takhar have rushed to the
area to help with the rescue,” Colonel Abdul Qadeer Sayad, a deputy police chief
of Badakhshan,
told Reuters. “So
far today no bodies have been recovered.”
Hundreds of mud
brick homes were
destroyed on Friday when two
landslides, triggered by torrential
rain, smashed into
the Argo district
village.
There is fear another section of the mountainside could collapse as rescuers try to
reach those under the mud.
The Afghan military flew rescue teams to
the area on Saturday, as the remote mountain region is served by only narrow, poor
roads which have themselves been damaged by more than a week of heavy rain.
China refuses Vietnam’s call to stop
oil drilling
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam demanded China stop oil drilling operations
in a disputed patch of the South China
Sea, saying on Monday that Beijing’s
decision to deploy a deep sea rig over
the weekend was illegal.
China dismissed the objections, saying
the activity was being carried out in its
territorial waters.
Beijing’s increasingly assertive territorial claims to the waters, which
are thought to have large oil and gas
deposits beneath them, have angered
Vietnam, the Philippines and other
claimants. The region is widely seen as
a potential area of conflict.
Last week, President Barack Obama
signed a new defense pact with the
Philippines aimed at reassuring Asian
allies of American backing as they
wrangle with Beijing’s growing economic and military might.
The China Maritime Safety Administration posted a navigational warning on its website advising that the
CNOOC 981 rig would be drilling in
the South China Sea from May 4 to
Aug. 15, in an area close to the Paracel
Islands, which are controlled by China
but Vietnam claims as its own.
China’s maritime administration also
said that ships entering a 3-mile (4.8-kilometers) radius around the area are
prohibited.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry said the
area where the rig was stationed lay
within Vietnam’s exclusive economic
zone and continental shelf as defined
by the 1982 U.N. Convention on the
Law of the Sea.
“All foreign activities in Vietnam’s
seas without Vietnam’s permission are
illegal and invalid,” the ministry said in
a statement. “Vietnam resolutely protests them.”
Vietnam’s state-owned oil company,
PetroVietnam, demanded that China
National Offshore Oil Corporation “immediately stop all the illegal activities
and withdraw the rig from Vietnamese
waters.”
Asked about Vietnam’s objections,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the drilling was
taking place in Chinese waters.
Many analysts believe China is embarking on a strategy of gradually
pressing its claims in the water by seeing what it can get away with, believing that its much smaller neighbors will
be unable or unwilling to stop them.
Vietnam has accused Chinese ships of
cutting cables to its exploration vessels and harassing fishermen, as has the
Philippines.
Chinese assertiveness puts Vietnam’s
authoritarian government in difficult
position domestically because anger at
China, an ideological ally, runs deep in
the country.
PAGE 6
May 8, 2014 - May 14, 2014
HOMELAND
Wife of alleged investment scam
mastermind arrested
MANILA —Not even a nose job could make her Fernando City.
Pendulas, who was using the alias Azziah De
elude the long arm of the law.
Abigail Pendulas, the wife and co-accused of Guzman, was among those charged with syndialleged investment scam mastermind Manuel cated estafa in connection with one of the country’s biggest pyramiding
Amalilio, was arrested Friday in
scheme.
Pampanga,
The victims include
Chief Superintendent Raul Pepoliticians, policemen
trasanta, Central Luzon regional
and soldiers, governpolice chief, said Tuesday.
ment employees, mar“(Pendulas) managed to change
ket vendors, farmers,
her pysical look, including artidrivers and overseas
ficial noselift, Petrasanta, said in
Filipino workers.
a text message to reporters.
Petrasanta said intelPendulas refused to tell invesligence operatives had
tigators her role in the scam, Petaken almost a year to
trasanta said.
find Pendulas since she
In an exclusive interview with
was reported to be hidthe Inquirer, Pendulas coning in Central Luzon
firmed she is Amalilio’s wife.
because she underwent
Pendulas said the police treated
Abigail Pendulas, wife of pyramid scam
a “nose lift” that radiher well while in detention.
cally altered her facial
“We are after her well-being suspect Manuel Amalilio.
features.
now,” her lawyer, Rosabel Cui,
“Her eyes and the shape of her face helped us
told the Inquirer.
Cui declined to comment, however, on the syndi- confirm her true identity,” he told reporters.
Petrasanta said Pendulas was arrested on the
cated estafa case.
Police caught Pendulas with a female compan- strength of an arrest warrant issued by Judge Alion identified as May Leechelle Ohales inside Par- berto Quinto of the Regional Trial Court Branch
typlace, an upscale bar, at 11 p.m. on Friday by 1 in Iligan City. She will not be allowed to post
agents of the regional police’s intelligence division bail because syndicated estafa is a non-bailable ofled by Chief Insp. Melvin Montant in Dolores, San fense.
Deniece languishes in cramped CIDG cell
MANILA —A far cry from a posh condo unit, Deniece Cornejo shared a plywood‎ mat with a fellow
detainee during her first night behind bars.
In a cell cramped with 14 female human-trafficking
suspects, Cornejo was the 15th detainee at the AntiTransnational Crime Unit (ATCU) of the Criminal
Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) at Camp
Crame.
It is also at ATCU where she will spend five more
days as one of the suspects for the illegal detention of
actor Vhong Navarro.
She is facing serious illegal detention charges along
with businessman Cedric Lee, Zimmer Raz, Jed Fernandez and JP Calma in connection to the Jan. 22
mauling of Navarro in her rented condominium unit.
Earlier Monday, Cornejo was presented to the
Taguig Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 271 to
return her arrest warrant following her surrender on
Monday.
The Taguig RTC ‎committed Cornejo to the Bureau
of jail and Management (BJMP) at the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) but the her camp
filed a motion to reverse the court’s decision.
While the court has yet to approve her motion, it
issued a status quo ‎order, indicating that Cornejo will
have to stay at the ATCU cell for five days.
Cornejo returned to the folds of law on Monday afternoon before the ‎Philippine National Police (PNP)
chief Director General Alan Purisima after her brief
stint as a fugitive.
A total contrast to her previous lifestyle living in a
plush condominium and mingling with the high society, Cornejo will have to squeeze into a narrow cell
packed with her fellow prisoners.
What one can see inside the detention cell is a makeshift bath‎room, some clothes of prisoners hung on a
clothesline and a monobloc chair. A police source
said ‎the beleaguered model-fashion stylist had a fastfood meal for late dinner that her relatives brought
during her first stay in jail on Monday.
At ATCU, it has set the visiting hours for its prisoners only from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on weekdays.
On Saturdays, the ATCU allows visitors from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. while on Sundays, no visitors are allowed.
Cornejo, based on the court’s status quo order, will
be temporarily detained at ATCU until May 11, Sunday.
Her co-accused, Cedric Lee and Simeon “Zimmer”
Raz, are temporarily held at the National Bureau of
Investigation compound.
The San Francisco Post
2 lawmakers gained from farm subsidies
MANILA —They were the brains and gatekeepers of a
multibillion-peso farm subsidy fund supposedly meant to
prepare the agriculture sector for the country’s trade integration into the Southeast Asian market next year, but official documents showed their bailiwicks became the biggest
beneficiaries of their pet legislation.
Six years after extending in 2007 the Ramos-era Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (Acef) and
allocating P6 billion in fresh funds, former Sen. Edgardo
Angara and former Palawan Rep. Abraham Mitra refuse to
take responsibility not only for the reputed failure of the
project but also for how it was allegedly pillaged by dummy
companies fronting for lawmakers.
Both lawmakers themselves channeled a combined
P410.27 million in Acef money intended for grants and nointerest, no collateral loans to their respective provinces, the
Inquirer has learned.
The documents showed Angara endorsed P100.07 million
in funds for Aurora State University to build a “bangus”
(milkfish) park and research center, coconut processing
plant and feed mill plant in 2008; and another P200 million
for the improvement of the Baler-Casiguran Road in 2008;
while Mitra pushed for the construction of a P10.2-million
abaca farm for Palawan State University in 2008; and another P100 million for the Department of Agriculture (DA)
to eradicate mango pests in his province in 2009.
Angara and Mitra claimed that both of these projects were
fully implemented.
“It’s difficult to make sweeping allegations of a scam. I
think each company that borrowed should be investigated
before making any general conclusion,” Angara said in
a phone interview. He said Acef was a well-intentioned
program that the country needed at the time it was implemented.
20-35% kickbacks
Angara and Mitra said the projects should be classified as
grants and not lumped together with the P4.388 billion in
arrears that the Commission on Audit (COA), in its 2012
annual financial report, claimed that the Department of Agriculture had yet to collect from more than 250 companies.
This represents 80 percent nonpayment of the P5.38 billion
released under Acef before it was suspended by the Aquino
administration in 2011.
As early as 2011, then Sen. Francis Pangilinan, cochair of
the congressional oversight Committee on Agriculture and
Fisheries Modernization, said some of those who applied
for the fund were personalities and politicians “favored” by
the past administration.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala also said legitimate
farmers’ cooperatives balked at the 20-35 percent in kickbacks allegedly demanded by fixers for access to the facility.
The Acef scam resurfaced anew after one of its biggest
recipients was embroiled in the pork barrel scandal. At least
P775 million in Acef funds went for the food processing and
cold chain project of National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor)
in 2007 and 2008.
House starts Chacha ball rolling once again
MANILA -- Charter change will still be a top priority of the House of Representatives when Congress
resumes session today, House Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte Jr. said on Sunday.
The proposed law that seeks to create a new
Bangsamoro region in Mindanao will also be a priority, he said.
Still, as the constitutionality of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro might be questioned before the Supreme Court, the enactment of
an enabling legislation that will legalize the agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will be necessary.
The House is expected to receive a copy of the
CAB from the Palace anytime soon.
In Malacañang, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said
the government will submit the final draft of the
Bangsamoro Basic Law within this month as soon
as the Palace legal team concludes its due diligence
on it.
Malacañang has certified the BBL as urgent, and
Congress’ leaders have committed to pass it in by
December to pave the way for the holding of a plebiscite on the proposed Bangsamoro territory by the
first quarter of 2015.
Chavit pleads not guilty in graft case
MANILA -- Former Ilocos Sur Governor Luis “Chavit”
Singson on Monday afternoon pleaded not guilty before
the Sandiganbayan on the charges filed against him for
funding a company with P16 million in 2001.
Singson underwent a conditional arraignment before the
Sandiganbayan Third Division for three counts of violating Section 3 (e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices
Act (Republic Act 3019) and docketed under Criminal
Case Nos. SB13CRM0946 to 0948.
Singson pleaded not guilty on all three counts.
The Office of the Ombudsman had accused Singson of
unlawfully granting in 2001 a total of P16 million financial assistance to the Multi-line Food Processing International Inc. (MFPII) in violation of Commission on Audit
(COA) Circular No. 95-003 since the entity was neither
a non-government organization (NGO) nor people’s organization (PO). He was still governor during that time.
Presiding Judge Amparo Cabotaje-Tang explained to
Singson that the conditional arraignment was required
before the graft court could act to his pending motion to
travel.
After the Sandiganbayan issued a hold departure order (HDO) against him last month, the former governor
asked permission from the graft court to allow him to
travel this month to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and
Hong Kong for several business meetings.
“May mga negosyo lang na aasikasuhin tapos babalik
din kaagad [There are several businesses that I have to
take care of then I will return immediately],” Singson
told reporters following his arraignment.
Eat Bulaga’s
Ryzza Mae Dizon
ry to ask around
TAmerican
the
Filipino
community and mention
the name RYZZA
MAE DIZON and
laughter will ensue.
Can you just imagLET’S HAVE COFFEE
ine that in 2012,
By
with Eat Bulaga’s
Don Augusto Orozco
search for Miss
Little Philippines
contest a gem of a
child star or maybe
superstar will be born? Yeah that is right. Ryzza Mae Dizon is a phenomenal child star. At a tender age of 7, she
was able to and continue to bring laughter to every home
by watching her in Eat Blaga, Philippines longest running
noontime show and of course prior to EB is her own show
entitled right after her name, The Ryzza Mae Show. All of
which can be seen through GMA Pinoy TV.
…..
A lot people don’t know this. But Ryzza was first seen on
TV thru Willie Revillame’s now defunct Will Time Bigtime. It was unfortunate that the show missed the opportunity to secure her services and talent. Back then for Ryzza and her mother life must go on and tried Eat Bulaga.
Knowing Eat Bulaga’s passion for talent and harnessing
that talent Tito, Vic and Joey immediately grab the opportunity and had her enlisted as one of their co-host. And
just like that, she was able to instantly connect with the
Filipino audience both live and on TV.
…..
The Philippines has never been short of child wonders. I
believe this was started out by Nino Muhlach back in the
70’s. The late 80’s was Aiza Seguerra. A little bit of Serena Dalrymple (isa pa! Isa pang chicken joy!) in the 90’s
and a host of others in 2000’s. But for Ryzza Mae. Man,
she is a gem. Can you just imagine a program host at the
age of 8. I was actually looking at the Guinness Book of
World Records and found nothing on the youngest TV
host category.
…..
Well, we did missed out on Nino, Aiza and the rest so
maybe let us not missed out on Ryzza Mae. Can someone
work on her to be in the Guinness Book of World Record
as the youngest TV host to grace our lunch time past time.
Calling on Eat Bulaga. Calling on Tape Incorporated.
Calling on anyone who may want to consider nominating this child wonder that has put a smile and most of the
times laughter to our faces. Let us nominate Ryzza Mae
Dizon, our child TV phenom to Guinness. Any takers?
…..
IN OTHER NEWS… The mall war continues in the
Philippines. It is of course SM malls VS Robinson Malls
VS Ayala Malls VS Gaisano Malls. Well for those from
the south you will find out that the Gaisano’s have great
mall that can compete against SM and Robinsons mall.
As for Robinson’s, for some reason whenever they open
up a new outlet, which they are doing now, the story of
the snake continue to circle around. Incidentally back
then when Robina Gokongwei Pe, daughter of John and
owner of Robinson Mall’s was asked on the issue of the
snake, she replied that the snake has turned into a handbag displayed in the ladies section. Good answer.
…..
SHORTS. According to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations in the 1st quarter of 2014, 53% of
Filipinos or 11.5 million household believe that they are
poor. What else is new? The poor gets poorer and rich
gets richer. How? They become politicians. LOL…Senator Alan Peter Cayetano is joining in the petition to ask
Senators Enrile, Estrada and Revilla to quit and resign
as senators because of the PDAF scandal. This is similar to the incident involving Manny Villar when it was
alleged that Villar’s businesses benefited from the C-5
project as well as the now infamous double insertions.
Well, Villar is his boss while the 3 are not. That my
friends is what you call double standard….The rivalry
continues. I am not talking about sports but business.
The group of Manny Pangilinan versus that of the group
of Ramon Ang is at it again. Now the fight goes into
broadcast as the 2 are entangled in a bid to buy GMA 7.
Both wanted to be a Kapuso…..The Palace says the list
is all up to De Lima. While De Lima says it is up to the
senate. Well, what are you guys up to? Release the list
now so that we may all know who is in the list.
…..
ERAP jokes is back. One time Erap was at the receiving room when suddenly Loi came in and sat with Erap.
Erap was so impressed as Loi smells really good. So
Erap asked Loi, Ang Bango mo ngayon ha. Ano ba ang
gamit mong pabango? Loi immediately replied “Secret”. Then Erap quipped, teka di ba pinapahid sa Kilikili yan. Hahaha. Teacher: Can you give me an example
of a beast of burden? Erap: Carabao, ma’am! Teacher:
Very good Erap. Can you give another example? Erap:
How about another carabao ma’am? hehehe. For comments please email me at don.orozco@sf-post.com
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The San Francisco Post
Nissan debuts Smart Rearview
Mirror in US
N
issan has announced the US
debut of Smart Rearview Mirror, an LCD monitor that provides
clear rearward visibility to the drivers.
Installed in the company’s new
2014 Rogue at Nissan’s stand at
the upcoming New York International Auto Show, the product enables drivers to switch between the
LCD monitor and the traditional
rearview
m i r r o r,
depending upon
the requirement.
T h e
Smart
Rearv i e w
Mirror
features
a new
narrowangle
camera
and
a
s p e cially shaped LCD monitor, with
a unique aspect ratio of about 4:1,
compared to a conventional monitors’ 4:3 or 16:9.
The camera provides a clear image
and a wider and clearer view than a
standard mirror.
Nissan chief planning officer
and executive vice president Andy
Palmer said Smart Rearview Mir-
ror will give the customers the best
possible view no matter how tall
the passengers in the back seat or
how bad the road conditions.
“It also offers the possibility of
new and exciting designs for our
upcoming models, ensuring that
appearance no longer has to be
compromised for visibility and
functionality. We’ll have the flexibility to create new shapes and to
further improve aerodynamics for
better driving dynamics and fuel
efficiency,” Palmer added.
Nissan’s Smart Rearview Mirror
can offer a clear image in a variety
of environmental conditions including rain, snow, dawn and dusk.
Nissan plans to implement the
Smart Rearview Mirror in the
ZEOD RC, an experimental race
car scheduled to compete in the
2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, and
other NISMO race cars.
The company plans to launch the
Smart Rearview Mirror in global
markets over the next few years,
following an initial rollout to Japanese customers in spring this year.
BMW recalls 156,000 cars
and SUVs
DETROIT — BMW is recalling more than 156,000 cars and
SUVs in the U.S. because the
engines can lose power or stall.
T h e
recall
covers
multiple
models
f r o m
2 0 1 0
through
2012. It
includes
s o m e
128i,
328i,
Z 4 ,
135i,
335i,
528i,
5 3 5 i
and 640i
cars. Also covered are many
X3, X5, and X6 SUVs.
The German automaker says
bolts that hold a camshaft housing can loosen and break. That
can cause reduced power or
stalling, increasing the risk of
a crash.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says
dealers will replace bolts at no
cost to owners. The company
expects the recall to start in
May.
BMW says another 170,000
vehicles from 2010 through
2012 with inline six-cylinder
engines will not be recalled, but
will receive an extended warranty due to the problem.
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BUSINESS
The San Francisco Post
PH has highest Asean
unemployment rate
MANILA — The Philippines has the highest unemployment rate among members of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean), according to a report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) published in 2014.
The Philippines registered an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent as of 2013, according to the Global Employment Trends.
Ranking just above Philippines is Indonesia with 6 percent, the study found.
Neighboring Asean countries Brunei has
3.7 percent, Burma, 3.5 percent); Malaysia,
3.2 percent; and Singapore, 3.1 percent.
The countries with the lowest unemployment rates are Vietnam, 1.9 percent; Laos,
1.4 percent; Thailand, 0.8 percent); and
Cambodia, 0.3 percent.
“Almost 202 million people were unemployed in 2013 around the world, an increase of almost 5 million compared with
the year before,” the ILO said in the execu-
tive summary of its report published January 2014.
“This reflects the fact that employment is
not expanding sufficiently fast to keep up
with the growing labor force,” it said.
On the globally unemployment rate ranking, Philippines is just below Brazil (6.6
percent), Canada (7.1 percent), and Argentina (7.3 percent).
The Philippines is doing better compared
to Great Britain and United States which
both have an unemployment rate of 7.5
percent.
Among the countries with the highest
unemployment rates are Egypt (12.7 percent), Greece (27.6 percent), and Spain
(27.6 percent).
The countries with the lowest unemployment rates are Cambodia, Qatar (0.6 percent), Thailand, and Rwanda (0.6 percent).
Philippine unemployment rate since 2005
has remained around the 7-8 percent range.
MVP calls for innovation,
competitiveness
MANILA -- Business leader Manuel V. Pangilinan has called on Philippine companies to
innovate and improve their competitiveness to
prepare for the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) economic integration by
2015.
“Even before [the ASEAN integration] happens,
Philippine businesses must learn to compete
with the rest of [the] ASEAN without the benefit
of protectionist policies from [the] government,”
said Pangilinan, chairman of the Philippine Long
Distance Telephone Co. Chairman during the
First Stratbase Thought Leaders Forum held at
Manila Polo Club in Makati City recently.
“But certain things are clear: Economies of scale,
which means big business, greater competitive
strength, and a Silicon Valley culture are all imperatives when this integration might happen,”
Pangilinan said during the forum which carried
the theme “Transforming Philippine business
and investments towards ASEAN Integration”.
Cutting-edge political management, research
and advisory firm Stratbase marked its 10th anniversary with the launch of the Stratbase Thought
Leaders Forum. The forum is a series of highlevel events that gathers key business leaders in
intelligent conversations on Philippine development issues, serving as an economic think tank,
inspired by the work and achievements of former
Stratbase Chairman and current Foreign Affairs
Secretary Albert del Rosario.
According to Stratbase Managing Director Prof.
Dindo Manhit, the Thought Leaders series is
envisioned to be “The Forum” for the country’s
most brilliant and influential personae to share
(Cont. from page 5...
TAX CORNER)
citizen or resident alien working
abroad. Refer to Publication 54,
Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and
Resident Aliens Abroad, for details.
The IRS also has the authority
to extend filing and payment deadlines in certain disaster situations.
For more information, enter “disaster” in the search box on IRS.gov.
10. If you believe there is an error on your notice or bill, write to
ideas and explore how to positively respond to
critical issues affecting the country’s development towards becoming a prosperous nation.
Pangilinan said Philippine companies should be
innovative and bold in raising operational efficiencies, developing new products and services
and reaching new markets in ASEAN.
He said to help companies, “the government
must let loose a vibrant and competitive businesses [by] removing exorbitant business taxes,
red tape in approval processes, inconsistencies in
policies and rules, and populist tendencies which
may unwittingly hurt [public] welfare in the long
run.”
“It is imperative that Philippine business and
government work together to ensure that we do
benefit from the fruits offered by [ASEAN] integration,” Pangilinan said.
Another distinguished speaker during the forum,
Ernest Z. Bower, President and CEO of top USASEAN consulting firm BowerGroupAsia and
concurrently the senior adviser and Sumitro
Chair for Southeast Asia Studies and co-director
of the Pacific Partners Initiative at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), noted
the importance of the alliance of the Philippines
and the United States in the ASEAN integration,
“The two partners need the vision to understand
that economic engagement is the foundation of
a sustainable security partnership,” Bower said.
The event was attended by the prestigious network of Stratbase who are among the most successful and most innovative leaders of Philippine
business.
the IRS office that sent it to you
within the time frame given. You
should provide photocopies of any
records that may help correct the
error. Also, you may call the number listed on your notice or bill for
assistance. If you are correct, they
will make the necessary adjustment
to your account and send you a corrected notice. If you do call be
prepared for long wait times on
hold and also be prepared for
inconsiderate unhelpful phone op-
erators. I have found that in most
cases it is usually best to deal with
the IRS in writing.
This article was based on IRS reseources. It may help consumers on
making tax preparation choices.
Al Maglan is a CPA licensed in
California and Nevada. You can
contact him @ 510 432 7438.
You may e-mail tax questions
at amaglan@aol.com or taxsaverspro@gmail.com.
IMMIGRATION
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May 8, 2014 - May 14, 2014
False testimony is a bar to good moral character
W
e will discuss false testimony and
other conditional bars to good moral
character in this article.
obtain an immigration
3. On March 25, 2014,
By Atty. Crispin C. Lozano
benefit. False testimony
we received another
for any other reason does
approval from the Imnot preclude the applimigration Court for
cant from establishing GMC.
waiver of misrepresentation for a client
: Does prostitution constitute a condi- who entered the U.S. as single but actually
married.
tional bar?
: An applicant may not establish GMC 4. On January 24, 2014, we received anif he or she has engaged in prostitu- other approval for waiver of misrepresention, procured or attempted to procure or tation from the Immigration Court for an
to import prostitutes or persons for the pur- alien who entered as single but actually
pose of prostitution, or received proceeds married.
from prostitution during the statutory pe- 5. On January 14, 2014, we received an apriod. The BIA has held that to “engage in” proval from USCIS of a green card under
prostitution, one must have engaged in a law on Registry for a person who has been
regular pattern of behavior or conduct. The in the U.S. since before 1972.
BIA has also determined that a single act of 6. On January 6, 2014, we received an apsoliciting prostitution on one’s own behalf proval of waiver of misrepresentation from
Immigration Judge for a client who entered
is not the same as procurement.
: Does smuggling a person constitute a as single but actually married.
conditional bar?
7. On November 21, 2013, we received an
: An applicant is prohibited from es- approval from USCIS for adjustment of
tablishing GMC if he or she is or was status under SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
involved in the smuggling of a person or
persons by encouraging, inducing, assisting, abetting or aiding any alien to enter or
try to enter the United States in violation of
law during the statutory period.
: Is there an exception to this?
: This bar to GMC does not apply in certain cases where the applicant was involved in the smuggling of
his or her spouse, parent, son, or daughter
(and no other individual) to enter the United States in violation of law before May
5, 1988.
: What if I practice polygamy?
: An applicant who has practiced
or is practicing polygamy during
the statutory period is precluded from establishing GMC. Polygamy is the custom
of having more than one spouse at the same
time. The officer should review documents
in the file and any documents the applicant
brings to the interview for information
about the applicant’s marital history, to
include any visa petitions or applications,
marriage and divorce certificates, and birth
certificates of children.
Q
A
Q
A
Q
A
Q
A
: Does false testimony constitute bar to
good moral character?
:
An applicant who gives false
testimony to obtain any immigration
benefit during the statutory period cannot
establish good moral character (GMC).
False testimony occurs when the applicant
deliberately intends to deceive the U.S.
Government while under oath in order to
obtain an immigration benefit. This holds
true regardless of whether the information
provided in the false testimony would have
impacted the applicant’s eligibility. The
statute does not require that the benefit be
obtained, only that the false testimony is
given in an attempt to obtain the benefit.
: What other acts constitute false testimony?
: While the most common occurrence
of false testimony is failure to disclose
a criminal or other adverse record, false
testimony can occur in other areas. False
testimony may include, but is not limited
to, facts about lawful admission, absences,
residence, marital status or infidelity, employment, organizational membership, or
tax filing information.
: What are the elements that constitute
false testimony?
: There are three elements of false
testimony established by the Supreme
Court that must exist for a naturalization
application to be denied on false testimony
grounds, namely:
1.Oral Statements - The “testimony” must
be oral. False statements in a written application and falsified documents, whether
or not under oath, do not constitute “testimony.” However, false information provided orally under oath to an officer in a
question-and-answer statement relating to
a written application is “testimony.” The
oral statement must also be an affirmative misrepresentation. The Court makes
it clear that there is no “false testimony”
if facts are merely concealed, to include
incomplete but otherwise truthful answers.
2. Oath -- The oral statement must be made
under oath in order to constitute false testimony. Oral statements to officers that are
not under oath do not constitute false testimony.
3. Subjective Intent to Obtain an Immigration Benefit -- The applicant must be
providing the false testimony in order to
Q
A
(Cont. from page 4..THE NUCLEUS)
Our leaders are obviously aware that hundreds of thousands of college graduates are not finding jobs and
swelling the ranks of the unemployed, and yet nothing
has been done to correct the situation. If they can’t provide jobs to college graduates, why not do something to
make sure only the qualified students attend college and
encourage the others to take up vocational and technical
courses that are what the country needs, after all? Why
not assess and close down the hundreds of colleges and
universities that only churn out diplomas that are not
worth anything in the job market?
The Department of Education should start an information drive among students and parents explaining the
advantages of taking up the more sought vocational and
technical courses. College education is desired, but if the
students are not qualified and the parents are not capable
financially, vocational training may be the way to go for
many of them.
And will somebody please tell Filipino students that
nursing, business administration, and hotel and restaurant
management (HRM) graduates are no longer in demand
in the Philippines or abroad?
QA
QA
S
UCCESS STORIES
1. On April 21, 2014, we received an approval of green card after the denial was
appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
2. On March 31, 2014, we received an approval of green card for a client under Violence Against Women Act.
Records show that in 2011, there were more than
400,000 nurses who were not gainfully employed, with
80,000 board passers joining the ranks each year. Add to
these the 420,000 students that are enrolled in over 2,000
nursing schools in the country, only 40 percent of which
will pass the board exams, and you will see why nursing is no longer the desired profession in the Philippines
and yet hundreds of thousands continue to enroll in the
course.
Many of the unemployed nursing graduates, just like
many college graduates, end up in the country’s call centers, a job that perhaps require just a one-month training
at the most.
The government should start redirecting the Filipino students’ enthusiasm to courses that are not only in demand
in the country and abroad, but which the country needs
more, such as agriculture courses, geology, mining sciences, and software engineering, the enrolment of which
are low but which are in demand.
A college diploma is every Filipino’s dream, but it is
never a guarantee to success. One has to make the right
career choice to succeed. And the parents, the teachers
and the government have the duty to help students make
the right choice.
(valabelgas@aol.com)
8. On November 14, 2013, we received an
approval of adjustment of status from Immigration Judge for a client who was originally denied adjustment by USCIS.
Crispin Caday Lozano is an active member
of the State Bar of California, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and
the National Association of Consumers
Bankruptcy Attorneys. He specializes in
immigration law and bankruptcy law. He
earned his Juris Doctor at Western State
University College of Law in Fullerton,
California. He is also a Certified Public
Accountant, a Real Estate Broker and a
Bachelor of Business Administration Cum
Laude graduate. He has offices in San
Francisco, Hayward, San Jose, and Cerritos, California. You can contact him
at 1-877-456-9266. Email questions to
crispinlozano@gmail.com/. Visit our website at www.crispinlozanolaw.com.
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W
hen you enter a traditional
restaurant in Japan, every
member of the staff greets you with
a warm “irasshaimase” which means “welcome to the restaurant” or
“come in.”
At Matsuri
Restaurant
in Vallejo
and Benicia,
you feel the
same warm
welcome
although
sometimes,
it is said
with
just
sincere
smiles from
the staff.
Since 1997,
Matsuri has Matsuri Restaurant Facade in Vallejo
welcomed
thousands of customers from all over Solano County who
enter the restaurant inspired by the welcoming smiles of
the staff and leave with a greatly satisfying experience of
savoring authentic Japanese cuisine.
Following the great Japanese tradition of preparing food,
Matsuri owner Frank Ancheta and his kitchen staff make
by Val Abelgas
Matsuri Owner Frank Anchita
sure that all five senses are satisfied when dining at Matsuri. According to centuries of Japanese cuisine, food
should be enjoyed with all five of the senses: taste and
AROUND TOWN
smell are obvious, but sight figures predominately in Japanese cuisine. The artful arrangement of food on appropriate and beautiful tableware is supposed to add so much to
the enjoyment of the meal. Just as important are the senses
of touch and hearing.
Frank is half-Filipino and half-Japanese, his
father being a Filipino and his mother a Japanese who both lived in Hawaii. As a young
man growing up in Hawaii, Frank had always
wanted to be a chef. In 1987, he came to Cali-
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of respect and warm welcome as the owner, waitresses,
usherettes and sushi chefs greet you with a smile.
Frank believes that the secret to a restaurant’s success is
making the customers feel at home and enjoy great tasting
food in a clean and wholesome environment at a fair price.
Matsuri means “festival” or “holiday” in Japanese, and
Frank and his staff make sure you enjoy a festive mood
when dining at Matsuri. And to make sure customers enjoy their dining experience at Matsuri, he makes sure that
only the freshest of seafood and the best of ingredients are
Matsuri Restaurants:
Satisfy your five senses
fornia and pursued his dream. He won a lot of
cooking competitions, specializing in cooking
and preparing exquisite Japanese food.
The most prestigious of
these awards is the prestigious America Master of
Taste Award, which is given
out every year by the Chefs
in America Foundation to
corporate chefs like Robert
Okura of the Cheese Cake
Factory and the chefs of
MGM Las Vegas, Olive
Garden and other large corporations. CEO-Founder
Jesse Sartain presented
the award to Frank during
the 9th Annual Corporate
Chefs Taste Summit.
His Matsuri Restaurants
in Vallejo and Benicia, of
course, are also consistent award winners, having been voted the “Best
Japanese Restaurant and
Sushi Bar” in Vallejo in
the last three years. Matsuri Restaurant is truly a
pride of Vallejo and Benicia, and, of course, the Filipino community, Frank being an active member.
Matsuri Restaurant offers a very unique taste and the
authentic Japanese art of food cooking and preparation.
As you enter the restaurant,
you can feel at once the aura
used in the preparation of their scores of delicious dishes
in the menu, from appetizers such as ika tempura (deep
friend squid), agedashi (fried tofu with dipping sauce),
and oyster katsu (breaded oysters), to salads, such as ika sansai (smoked squid and vegetable
salad), sunomono (cucumber
salad topped with sashimi)
and poki salad (Hawaiian-style
marinated salad), to sushi and
shashimi, such as chirashi (variety of fish over a bed of sushi
rice), shiro-maguro danburi (albacore served with garlic chips,
shoyu sauce and sake glaze on a
bed of sushi rice) and moriawase
(California roll with four assorted
nigiris), to maki (rolls), such as
tekka maki (tuna roll), sake maki
(salmon) and spicy tuna maki.
Matsuri also offers bento boxes at
affordable prices, such as chicken
or beef teriyaki, salmon shioyaki,
and tonkatsu (pork tenderloin).
Matsuri also has the best noodles in
town, such as zaru soba (cold buckwheat noodles served with dipping
sauce), sukiyaki (rice noodles, beef
and assorted vegetables), and yosenabe (variety of seafood withr cie
noodles and broth).
So come and
enjoy authentic Japanese cuisine at
Matsuri Restaurants at 480 Redwood St #20, Vallejo, CA
94590 (Phone: 707-557-8744) and at 920 1st St #102, Benicia, CA 94510 (Phone:707-747-1585). You’ll enjoy the
unique experience.
May 8, 2014 - May 14, 2014
BEAUTY & FITNESS
IS IT A SKIN TAG OR A WART?
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Stionsthethatmostwecommon
skin condi- skin tags. Warts can be treated by
Another alternative treatment
What’s the real difference?
are sometimes un- freezing its growth, applying cer- is cryotherapy. Liquid nitrogen
aware or oblivious of. Skin tags, tain chemicals or using laser treat- quickly eliminates the growth, givcame across this excellent 3 minute at each chain. The variability of trans fats
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growths or pieces of skin that look
like they’re hanging from your
skin by a thread. Skin tags often
appear on people entering middle
age, but they can also develop at
any time, if you have a genetic history of their presence. Along with
aging factors, other causes of skin
tags include pregnancy, obesity,
diabetes and an individual who
has Crohn’s disease. They do not
have a specific cause. However,
they often seem to grow in areas of
skin friction, such as the under the
breasts, on the eyelids, neck, armpits, stomach, and groin. Per se, if
you have one or two in any of these
areas of your skin, you will probably develop more. They are typically the same color as your skin,
or slightly darker or lighter. One
person may have anywhere from
one to over 100 skin tags. Almost
anyone may develop a skin tag at
some point in their life.
Warts, in contrast, are caused
by a virus, namely HPV, or Human Papillomavirus. This virus is
spread through skin contact, especially during sexual intercourse.
Because the virus is contagious,
it is best to treat the warts when
they appear, to avoid spreading
the virus. They can spread from
one wart to the other. They look
may be flat and smooth. Tiny blood
vessels (capillaries) grow into the
core of the wart to supply it with
blood. In both common and plantar
warts, these capillaries may appear
as dark dots (seeds) in the wart’s
center. They do not dangle like skin
tags, but have a cylindrical shape
with white or pink hues. They can
even appear in clumps, which appear like cauliflowers on the skin.
Although they are unsightly, warts
are not particularly painful, unless
they are irritated through chafing,
including genital warts.
Once you see skin tags or warts
appear, consult a skin care specialist immediately for advise.
Both skin tags and warts can be
removed through surgery, but most
medical insurance companies will
not cover the expenses. Excision
under anesthesia is a typical route
for wart and skin tag removal. Anesthesia strategies vary. For severe
outbreaks, you may need a general
anesthesia, but smaller outbreaks
only require local anesthesia. You
may want to opt for a laser/cautery
treatment , especially if the growth
is in a conspicuous area, including
the face or neck. Lasers and cautery treatments create a smooth
surface that makes it hard to believe that a growth was there in the
your skin care specialist to find the
best treatment for you.
As always, the diagnosis and the
management of your particular skin
concern will require a thorough
skin analysis by your skin care
therapist. Scheduling an office visit
with your trusted skin care therapist is highly recommended.
About the contributor:
Abby Odiamar-Paclibar BSPT,LE
is the CEO and Licensed Medical
Esthetician Wound Care Specialist. Visit her at FLAWLESS SKIN
CARE. Check her website at flawlessfacesspa.com.
more
(Cont. from page 1..US REVISES) to retain
and attract world-class talent to the United States and
these regulations put us on a path to doing that,” said
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
Silicon Valley welcomed the news. The US information technology hub has for years been pushing for
changes in immigration rules.
But a more ambitious immigration reform, which
would go beyond a mere administrative tweak and
for example raise the total number of visas available
for foreign workers, has been stuck in Congress for
nearly a year.
“By sensibly improving these rules, we can help en-
sure that the most talented foreign innovators conduct
their break-through research right here at home,” said
Bruce Mehlamn, head of the Technology CEO Council, a business group bringing together major tech
firms like IBM, Dell and Intel.
“Of course these administrative improvements cannot substitute for the bipartisan, common-sense immigration reforms that Congress alone can advance,”
he added.
This administrative change comes with further easing of restrictions for researchers seeking a green
card.
It will take effect after a period allowing for public comment after the change is published in the
Federal Register.
(Cont. from page 1..PH, US LAUNCH)
Beijing has rejected UN arbitration and urged Manila
to settle the dispute through bilateral talks instead.
About 2,500 US soldiers are joining 3,000 Filipino
troops in the manoeuvres, which began a week after
President Obama assured Manila his government
was committed to a 1951 mutual defence treaty.
Dozens of Australian troops, including Special
Forces, were invited this year as the exercises begin to expand to eventually include other key allies
in the region.
Looking to raise its regional defence platform,
Australia will be bringing P-3 Orion surveillance
aircraft to the drills to help boost Manila’s “maritime domain awareness,” said Wing Commander
Nicholas Pratt of the Royal Australian Air Force.
He said the aircraft would be operating out of the
western Philippine island of Palawan, fronting the
disputed waters.
Also last week, the US and the Philippines bolstered their security alliance with a new agreement
giving American forces greater access to Philippine
bases — part of a US rebalancing towards rising
Asia.
The deal allows US forces, vessels and equipment
into up to five Filipino bases over the next 10 years,
the hosts said.
between the two.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KG_ybdk1VaE#!
Butter Ingredients:
- Churned cream
- Salt
- 0 Trans Fat
- Peru – 24 grams
- Spain – 10 grams
- Denmark – 1 grams
Just consider that in many parts of the
U.S., people are eating fast food multiple
times per day. You can already see the potentials for heart diseases as trans fat consumption is well in excess of the recommended 5 grams or less.
In Denmark, they imposed a restriction
on the use of trans fats in the industrial
food preparation on Jan. 1, 2004.
Margarine Ingredients:
- Liquid Soybean Oil
- Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
- Water
- Buttermilk
- Contains Less Than 2% Of Salt
- Soy Lecithin
- Sodium Benzoate (Preservative)
- Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides
- Artificial Flavor
- Vitamin A Palmitate
- Colored with Beta Carotene
(Provitamin A)
- 2.5 Grams of Trans Fats per serving
Trans Fat
This is where things get interesting. Trans
Fats have been in the news as of late, and
for very good reason. Numerous study has
demonstrated a marked increase in the
rate of heart disease in those that consume
large amounts of Trans Fats. In fact, a New
England Journal of Medicine article demonstrates that as little as two servings (5
grams) of trans fats per day can increase
the chance of heart disease by 25%.
In 2006 the New England Journal of Medicine studied the amount of trans fats in
two food products from around the world.
Specifically they tested french fries and
chicken nuggets from two popular worldwide chains (McDonalds and KFC). They
tested approximately 20 different countries
and cities for the amount of trans fats used
(Cont. from page 1..ABAYA, 3 DOT)
(note: New York’s
Trans Fat ban of 2007 has significantly
reduced this)
AF
Consortium, where Metro Pacific Investments Corp.
(MPIC) and Ayala Corp. are partners , was awarded
the contract in January this year.
The case stemmed from a contract to change the
ticketing system from magnetic to non-contact,
which aims to ease queues and inconvenience of
buying separate tickets for the three rail systems
in Metro Manila—Light Rail Transit 1, Light Rail
Transit 2 and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3.
San Antonio said the government’s move was a
good concept but that “in awarding the contract to
Conclusion
In the battle of butter vs. margarine, butter
wins! This doesn’t mean you should ignore
the saturated fat in butter. Like most things,
moderation is important. Our body knows
butter, we’ve been eating it for thousands
of years. When considering butter vs margarine, consider the rest of your diet and
review how much trans fats you’ve consumed.
About the contributor:
John Pangan is
a Certified Personal
Trainer,
Champion Natural
Bodybuilder and
the co-founder of
Bfitandlive website. For more
diet and excercise
tips, email john@
bfitandlive.com.
Download the bFitandLive Freebook
at www.bfitfreebook.com.
AF Consortium, they [in the Department of Transportation and Communications or DOTC] violated
specific rules on bidding.”
He added that the consortium should not have been
allowed to bid in the first place.
Under bidding rules, an entity with a dispute with
the government is disqualified.
Citing rules for prospective bidders, the complaint
said AF Consortium had a conflict of interest as it
owned more than 50 percent of train operator MRT
Corp. (MRTC).
The MRTC has an arbitration case against the government in Singapore and a case on the DoTC’s purchase of new MRT 3 coaches from China last year.
PAGE 12
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Ali wants
Pacquiao-Mayweather next
BOXING great Muhammad Ali
wants to see undefeated American Floyd Mayweather Jr. and
eighti-division world boxing
champion Manny Pacquiao slug
it out in
the future
a match
considered as
the fight
of the century.
T h e
7 2 - y e a rold Ali
expressed
his desire Muhammad Ali
through
his Twitter account (@MuhammadAli)
saying: “Congratulations @
FloydMayweather. Maybe after you rest up we can see you
rumble with @MannyPacquiao
#AliTweet.”
Ali’s tweet came after Mayweather won via majority decision over Marcos Maidana of
Argentina on Saturday at The
MGM Grand, Las Vegas.
Mayweather remained with a
perfect record of 46-0 in a welterweight world title unification
bout.
The 27-year-old American Mayweather retained his World Box-
ing Council world title and took
Maidana’s World Boxing Association belt, winning the fight on
two of the three judges’ scorecards with the third scoring it a
draw.
“It was a tough
competitive
fight tonight,”
Mayweather
said. “I stayed in
there. I wanted
to stand and
fight.”
M a y w e a t h e r,
who was an 11-1
favourite heading into the fight,
received scores
of 117-111 and
116-112. The third judge scored
it 114-114.Mayweather did not
get the decisive victory that so
many had predicted as the more
aggressive Maidana gave him
all he could handle.Argentina’s
hard-punching Maidana, who
was making the first defence of
his title, suffered the fourth loss
of his career to go with 35 victories.
Maidana was upset with the way
the fight was scored, saying he
was “robbed” of the decision.
“I definitely think I won,” Maidana said. “He didn’t fight like a
man.
The San Francisco Post
SPORTS
Mayweather bloodied but still wins tough fight
LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr. has made such an art of dominance that anything less is quite puzzling. And his opponent Saturday
night was not expected to challenge that mastery.
But Marcos Maidana, a rough, hard-hitting, scrappy and sometimes
erratic Argentine, made Mayweather bleed. He made him pant and
sweat and cringe, and at one point even tackled Mayweather through
the ropes.
Maidana made Mayweather earn a victory at the MGM Grand Garden
Arena that improved his record to 46-0.
Mayweather won by majority decision, with one judge scoring it a
draw and the other two giving him the fight by sizable margins.
Although Mayweather seemed to get the upper hand on Maidana in the
latter rounds, the fight remained competitive throughout.
Mayweather threw about half as many punches (426) as Maidana did
(858), but he landed nine more (230). Still, the 221 punches Maidana
landed were the most by any Mayweather opponent in the 38 fights for
which CompuBox has been keeping statistics.
Early on, Mayweather let Maidana, 30, bring the fight to him in close
quarters, as if to make it more exciting than it needed to be. Maidana
threw many looping punches and pinned Mayweather, 37, to the ropes.
Maidana was aggressive and rough, and he and Mayweather tangled
several times. The referee, Tony Weeks, stopped the fight at one point
to warn Maidana for the roughhousing.
“A tough, competitive fight that the fans wanted to see,” Mayweather
said in the ring afterward. “I wanted to give the fans an exciting fight.”
Fans booed loudly as Mayweather spoke, seemingly unhappy with the
decision.
Maidana certainly did not agree with the outcome.
“He never hurt me with a punch,” Maidana said. “He wasn’t even that
tough. I thought I won the fight.”
Mayweather carefully chose his spots early, getting in a couple of
quick left hooks and straight shots to the body that seemed to stun
Maidana. But Maidana methodically kept coming forward and smothering Mayweather. A cut opened above Mayweather’s right eye in the
fourth round.
It was not until the middle of the fight that Mayweather seemed to start
getting his distance and tagging Maidana with quick, stinging blows.
Still, this was not the precise, dominating Mayweather that people were
used to, and Maidana continued to smother him at times.
In the ninth round, Mayweather seemed to channel his peak form
and asserted himself. He struck Maidana (35-4) with a straight right
and moments later got him with a short overhand right. Later in the
round, Mayweather bounced off the ropes to pepper Maidana with a
two-punch combination. From there, it was closer to a vintage Mayweather performance.
“If the fans want to see it again, we can do it again,” Mayweather said.
Although Mayweather was the big attraction Saturday night, there was
a strong Argentine contingent, many of the fans wearing soccer jerseys
and chanting, “Olé, olé, olé, olé, Chino! Chino!” as they referred to
Maidana by his nickname.
Mayweather took his ring-entrance theatrics to new heights. Not only
was Lil Wayne rapping alongside him, but he had a Las Vegas variety
show of sorts precede him toward the ring as fake money with his face
on it fell from the rafters.
Filipina, 53, rules Asian powerlifting event
A 53-year-old Filipina won four gold medals and established a world
record to emerge as the most dominant athlete in the 2014 Asian Powerlifting Championships at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City on
Thursday.
Anita Koykka hoisted 182.50 kilograms in the
deadlift event to break the old record of 175 kilos
she set in the same championships last year in Manila.
“Powerlifting is a mind game. You need to motivate yourself. You need to set your mind that you
can do it. I really
want to break the
record and I’m
glad that I did
it,” Koykka, who
is from Ormoc
City, Leyte, said.
She also won the
squat, bench press and total categories.
Koykka participated in the master 2
division for athletes between 50 and
59 years old.
About 100 powerlifters from the
Philippines, Japan, Mongolia, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, United
Arab Emirates, Oman, Taiwan and Uzbekistan took part in the tournament.
Reigning world junior champion Regie Ramirez also made his presence
felt by ruling the squat, bench press, deadlift
and total) categories of the men’s junior 59kg. class so as Joan Masangkay, who ruled
the squat, bench press, deadlift and total of
the women’s sub-junior 47-kg.
Also winning four golds (squat, bench
press, deadlift and total) were Darryl Ann
Ancuelo (women’s sub-junior 43-kg.),
Margarette Angulo (women’s sub-junior
72-kg.), Jena Mae Neri (women’s junior
43-kg.), Mia del Mundo (women’s junior
72-kg.), Victorina Calma (women’s masters I 52-kg.), Leticia Mangcao (women’s
open 47-kg.), Raya Maala (women’s open
84-kg.), Romel Gacutara (men’s sub-junior
53-kg.), John Empig (men’s sub-junior 74-kg.) and Marlon Herrera (men’s
masters I 74-kg.).
“We’re looking for more gold medals on the final day of the competition. It’s a great achievement for us knowing how good the participants
in this event are. Everyone’s improving,” said Powerlifting Association of
the Philippines Secretary General and Tournament Director Eddie Torres.
REAL ESTATE
One in three Americans are
spending too much on rent
NEW YORK -- In many of the nation’s
housing markets, the rent has gotten too
damn high.
One out of three Americans now live in
a housing market where rent for a threebedroom home eats up more than 30% of
the monthly median income, the traditional
threshold for affordability, according to
RealtyTrac. And in some cities, residents
are doling out a much larger percentage of
their paychecks.
In New York City’s borough of the Bronx,
the typical household spends nearly 66%
of their monthly income to rent a threebedroom house -- by far the highest percentage of any U.S. county, RealtyTrac
found.
With an overall median income of less
than $35,000, not only does the Bronx
contain some of the nation’s poorest communities, but average rent is high at nearly
$1,800 a month.
Similar trends are occurring in other cit-
ies that are home to large pockets of lowincome residents. Renters in Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, Baltimore and Miami are paying nearly 50% of their income toward
rent, RealtyTrac reported.
The foreclosure crisis turned millions of
former homeowners into renters, while
years of economic uncertainty has kept
many would-be buyers from leaving their
rentals and making the leap into home
ownership, according to Harvard’s Joint
Center for Housing Studies.
That has created big demand for rental
housing and has helped push rents more
than 21% higher since the housing market
peaked in 2006.
Meanwhile, renters have been getting
squeezed on another front: Real income -income after inflation is taken into account
-- has fallen some 14% over the past six
years, according to Chris Herbert, the research director at Harvard’s housing studies center.
SHOWBIZ
The San Francisco Post
Toni cries as she watches Alex’s confession
“Pinoy Big Brother” co-host Toni Gonzaga
couldn’t hold her tears as she watched her sister
Alex, who is one of the 18 housemates, open up
about their relationship in Friday’s episode of the
reality show.
Alex, who
was originally to co-host
the program,
was called
into the confession room
by “Kuya”
to ask her
whether she
has
been
able to adjust to being
a housemate.
The topic
of the con- Toni and sister Alex Gonzaga
versation
eventually
switched to Alex’s relationship with Toni, after
“Kuya” quizzed her on the significance of a necklace the latter had gifted her.
“Nakiki-miss din naman kasi talaga si [Toni],
kasi mabait naman siya,” she said, laughing, when
asked why she was turning emotional.
“Mabait ang ate ako, pero pag magkasama kami,
hindi ko nari-realize na mabait siya. Kasi nga,
minsan, parang masyado ate, protective, parang
masyadong demanding. Hindi mo alam kung may
gusto bang mapatunayan sa paigiging panganay.”
Alex’s confession, as she had guessed, was
shown to Toni. The older Gonzaga’s tearful
reaction was also shown in Friday’s telecast of “Pinoy Big Brother.”
The 26-year-old Alex admitted that she
tends to realize the kindness of her sister
when they spend a long time apart, as is the
case with her entry to the famous yellow
house.
“Pag nagkahiwalay kami, mapapaisip
ako... parang mapapaiyak ka na, ‘Mabait
din talaga siya.’ Kaya naiiyak ako minsan
talaga,” Alex said.
“Kami ng ate ako, hindi kami sweet na
sweet talaga na sobrang sweet, pero talagang marami kaming pinagdadaanan. Atsaka parang kahit minsan, irita ako sa kanya, siya talaga ‘yung tinuturing kong best friend.
Kasi ako naman, tinuturing niya rin ako na [best
friend].”
Alex also admitted that she and Toni, who is four
years her senior, were not close as kids, but eventually formed a strong bond in their adult years.
MANILA -- The Department of Justice (DOJ)
has denied with finality the appeal of movie icon
Amalia Fuentes to reverse a resolution dismissing the libel case she filed against talent manager
Annabelle Rama and actress Bianca Gonzales.
In a two-page resolution Justice Secretary Leila
de Lima denied the motion for reconsideration
filed by Fuentes after she failed to attach in her
appeal the copies of the counter-affidavit of
Gonzales.
The resolution was forwarded to the Quezon
City Prosecutor’s Office Records Division.
Court records showed that Fuentes filed the MR
seeking to reverse the DOJ’s Oct. 10, 2013 resolution dismissing her petition for review.
Fuentes sought a review of the November, 2012
resolution of Assistant City Prosecutor John Patrick Corpuz who dismissed the libel case she
filed against Gutierrez and Gonzales due to lack
of probable cause.
The DOJ denied the petition for review on the
ground of failure to attach to the petition copies
of the counter-affidavit of respondent Gonzales
which is required under the 2000 National Prosecution Service Rules on Appeal.
The complainant was notified of the defects
of her petition when she received a copy of the
DOJ resolution on her petition for review.
However, the DOJ said, in filing the MR, Fuentes still failed to comply with the requirements
of the rules and correct the defect in her petition by failing to attach copies of the required
counter-affidavit of Gonzales.
“With this omission, we cannot relax the interpretation of the rules just to countenance litigants
who obviously slept on their rights. Wherefore,
the motion for reconsideration is hereby denied
with finality,” De Lima stated in the resolution.
Fuentes filed the case claiming that Gonzales’
article in her column in the Philippine Star Sunday Lifestyle published on Feb. 12, 2012 titled
“Love, Laughter & Intrigues with Eddie and Annabelle” was libelous and caused her dishonor,
discredit or contempt of her person.
Part of the alleged libelous article stated that
“She (Annabelle) recalls a time she called Channel 9 and asked to be connected to Amalia Fuentes, who was then dating Eddie. ‘Hoy ang pangit, pangit mo, iwanan mo si Eddie Gutierrez.’
Gutierrez posted in her Twitter account on
March 31, and April 3, 2012 the alleged malicious and libelous comments against Fuentes.
DOJ junks Amalia’s appeal on libel
Chiz still needs church annulment
before marrying Heart
MANILA - “Definitely walang kapantay o wala
pa kong naranasan na ganitong pakiramdam.”
This is how Senator Chiz Escudero described
his
relationship with
H e a r t
Evangelista
in
an interview with
Anthony
Ta b e r n a
on “Tapatan
Ni
Tunying” aired Chiz and Heart
Thursday.
“Kahit
naman sino siguro na may pinagdaanan siyempre mas mataas ang standards, ang antas at ang
hinahanap mo. Nakamit at naabot ko pa rin ‘yon
ngayon,” he added.
The Senator is also proud of the positive influence of his girlfriend to him in separating
his professional and personal lives. “Ngayon
kung may problema man sa opisina, may problema sa trabaho iwan ‘yon do’n. Hindi tulad
noon, wala naman ibang bubuno sa oras at araw
mo, e di dalhin mo na rin problema mo, dalhin
mo sa bahay.”
He’s also happy about Heart’s relationship with his two kids, who, he said,
need a mother figure most of the time.
“Magkasundo sila,” he replied with
a smile when asked abut the actress’
relationship with his kids. “Siyempre
bagamat nakikita nila nang regular ang
mommy nila, iba pa rin ang presensiya
ng babae [sa bahay].
“Well, sa akin nakatira ang mga anak
ko, lalo na may babae akong anak baka
maging brusko ‘yon katulad ng anak
kong lalaki, tulad ko. At least may nakikita siyang hinhin dito sa bahay.”
Since their relationship seems to be
heading to marriage, many are just
waiting for Chiz to propose to Heart.
But the Senator doesn’t want to hurry things
since he still has some issues to resolve before
finally asking for Heart’s hand.
“Siyempre gusto ko, oo,” he replied when asked
if he sees himself marrying Heart. “May inaayos lang akong konti pang gusot sa akin. Pero
sana sa hindi malayong hinaharap para maging
ganap ang aming ugnayan.”
PAGE 13
May 8, 2014 - May 14, 2014
Jericho and Kim’s beachside wedding
ACTOR Jericho Rosales and TV host Kim
Jones exchanged vows Thursday afternoon
at a beachside wedding themed after their
shared love for surfing and the sea.
The
event,
which
started at
around
4 p.m.
a
t
Shangri-La
B o racay
Resort,
gathe r e d
family
memb e r s Mr. & Mrs. Jericho Rosales
a n d
close
friends of the couple, including celebrities
Iya Villania, Paolo and Gabriel Valenciano,
Donita Rose, and Piolo Pascual.
Among the principal sponsors were actress Coney Reyes, veteran performer Gary
Valenciano, Star Magic head Johnny Manahan, and ABS-CBN head of TV production Laurenti Dyogi.
Rosales wore a beige suit by Francis Li-
biran, while Jones, who was escorted by
her brother down the aisle, had on a Vania
Romoff gown.
Jones, a Filipino-British model who grew
up in Australia, met Rosales in March 2011
through the wife of actor Dominic Ochoa.
They became a couple in October of the
same year, but only went public with the
relationship in March 2012.
The two got engaged in August 2013.
During the wedding ceremony in Boracay.
Meg Imperial wants to learn from Angel
Young actress Meg Imperial admits that
she wants to improve her acting by learn-
Meg Imperial
ing from her idol, TV veteran and “The Legal Wife” star Angel Locsin.
“Bata pa lang ako girl crush ko na siya so
fan na fan ako niya. Gusto ko siyang makatrabaho. I think marami akong matutunan
sa kanya,” she said in an interview with
entertainment website Push.com.
Imperial, who stars in the afternoon soap
“Moon of Desire,” praised Locsin’s performance as Monica, which has been a consistent trending topic among social media
sites for the past week.
“Ang ganda, ang galing nilang lahat at ang
story catchy na ngayon, ‘yung tipong hindi
mo na papalampasin ang mga eksena,” she
said.
Asked about she keeps her figure for a
show like Moon of Desire, the sexy actress revealed: “Mahirap kasi pag-taping
maraming pagkain, napapakain ka, siguro
with the support of the cast namo-motivate
ka to go to the gym, so tulong-tulong lang
dito sa set and siyempre balance mo sa sarili mo, proper motivation sa food.”
Imperial, also in the interview, expressed
gratitude to the viewers of the show. She
added that it takes some pressure off her as
a first-time actress.
“Actually at first siyempre for me kasi first
soap ko ‘to, hindi na ako nag-expect ng too
much kasi hindi naman ako kilala ng tao pa
naman. Happy naman ako na ganito ‘yung
nangyari. Hopefully magustuhan pa nila
‘yung story,” she said.
Fox says Naya Rivera to remain on ‘Glee’
LOS ANGELES — Naya Rivera is still
a Gleek.
FOX Network said in a statement to
The Associated Press on Saturday that
there’s no truth to rumors that Rivera had
been fired from the show. Rivera plays
the character Santana Lopez, a lesbian
glee club member, on the popular musical drama.
‘Glee’ had its fifth-season wrap party
Friday. The season finale is set to air in
the U.S. on May 20.
Show co-creator Ryan Murphy has said
the series’ sixth season will be its last.
It’s been a difficult year for the series’
cast and crew. Actor Cory Monteith, who
had been romantically linked to actress
Lea Michele, died in July 2013 of a drug
overdose.
Naya Rivera
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To solve a Sudoku puzzle, place a number into each box so that each row
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HOROSCOPE
Aries March 20 - April 18
Something is changing inside you and in the
way you react to situations. The desire to incorporate life’s more unpredictable aspects
into your personality is the basis for these
changes.
Taurus April 19 - May 19
The planets want to make a deal with you
today, Taurus. Either you stay in bed fantasizing about life as a CEO or rock star or you
get up, get dressed, and do what you have
to do to make your dreams come true.
Gemini May 20 - June 19
It’s possible you could meet someone today
who will act as a kind of Pygmalion for you.
You need to be surrounded and encouraged
by people who believe in you, Gemini, and
it’s good for you have people around to support you.Cancer June 20 - July 21
You are particularly inspired by and sensitive to crisis situations. What that means
is that you can’t stand to see other people
suffer. Sometimes even you suffer because
you don’t allow yourself to do the things you
like best.
Leo July 22 - August 21
Some strange and rather gloomy dreams
could come your way tonight, Leo. They
could, if you let them, catapult you into a
rather depressed mood during the day.
Writing them down might help exorcise
the negative emotions.
Virgo August 22 - September 21
You might have questions about the satisfaction you feel about your personal life,
Virgo. It’s possible you have more demands
than ever. Things seem so urgent to you
now. Why not take advantage of this attitude
to talk about your deepest desires with your
partner? Things will be much clearer.
Libra September 22 - October 21
Today is excellent for just letting your intuition
guide you, Libra. If you have time, you might
want to let your mind go and follow the train of
thought wherever it takes you.
Scorpio October 22 - November 20
Today is the kind of day when all you want to
do is think about a vacation. You’re usually
such a responsible, conscientious worker
that you can afford to escape for just a few
minutes. You could visit the world inside of
you.
Sagittarius November 21 - December 20
A gloomy guest could arrive today, Sagittarius, and likely need some cheering up.
Do the best you can, but don’t try to do it by
cooking a meal. The results of your efforts
might not be all that exciting. This is a great
day to go for fast food.
Capricorn December 21 - January 18
Your natural compassion may have led you
to choose a profession in which healing or
helping other people is your primary duty.
Even if this isn’t the case, Capricorn, the
people around you may seem particularly
demanding today.
Aquarius January 19 - February 17
Gloom over money matters might catch
up with you at some point today, Aquarius.
However, there’s nothing really major to
worry about. Financially, your business affairs should be going well, so you’re probably
doing better than you think.
Pisces February 18 - March 19
You might be upset by certain financial matters
today, Pisces. Either you realize just how much
you’ve been spending lately or you see that
things will be tight in the months ahead. You
should be feeling like your old self again by
evening.
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