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News for the day
Source: ABS-CBN News Online

Nation
Arroyo cancels order for presidential jet
Philippine leader Gloria Arroyo has cancelled an order for a presidential jet amid public outrage over her alleged extravagant lifestyle during a financial crisis, her spokesman said Sunday.

Business
RP to grow 1.7% this year: research group
Forecast on higher end of gov't target growth rangeAmid dreary forecasts made by various international and multilateral organizations, economic research group IDEA (Institute for Development and Econometric Analysts Inc.) is expecting the Philippines to escape recession this year with a 1.74% gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

Lifestyle
Young fashionistas turn scraps to style
Heaps of scrapped cloth. Fourteen student designers. One challenge: to turn these discarded fabrics into classy fashion pieces

World
North Korea to reopen border with South: KCNA
SEOUL – North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to reopen the border to South Korea its neighbor and allow tourism and family reunions to start again.

Entertainment
Mar, Korina's wedding date set
Months after announcing their engagement on television, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and ABS-CBN News chief correspondent Korina Sanchez have finally unveiled the date of their much-anticipated wedding.

Sports
PNP wins 2 golds in world police table tennis

The Philippine National Police (PNP), showing its finest form ever, captured two gold and two silver medals in the 2009 World Police and Fire Games table tennis event recently at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, Canada .

PO3 Rodel Ireneo Valle and PO1 Henberd Ortalla bested pesky Hong Kong to snare two gold medals in the men’s doubles event, while PCSupt Merio Froilan Medios and PSSupt Bernardo Florece placed third runner-up also in the same event.

“At last, we achieved our goal to win gold medals in this prestigious event after participating here since 2005,” said PO3 Jose Ortalla. Jr., who thanked Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Harry Angping for the support.

“Our hard work and expenses are seemingly paid off with this.”
PO1 Ortalla and SPO2 Maria Deviega won two silver medals for the mixed doubles event.

“We almost did not participate due to financial constraints; we thank our PNPTTC club manager and head coach PO3 Jose Ortalla Jr and PNP officers who made our trip possible,” said PO3 Rodel Valle.
The other members of the Philippine delegation are delegation head PSSUPT. Roberto B. Fajardo; SPO1 Emma R. Abuzu and PSI Robert Nepomuceno.



Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 19:16-22.

Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?" He answered him, "Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." He asked him, "Which ones?" And Jesus replied, " 'You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother'; and 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" The young man said to him, "All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?" Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to (the) poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." When the young man heard this statement, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.



Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online

abstemious • \ab-STEE-mee-us\ • adjective
: marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol; also : reflecting such restraint

Example Sentence:
Anthony's midlife heart attack opened his eyes to the importance of taking care of his body and turned him to a more abstemious and healthful lifestyle.

Did you know?
"Abstemious" and "abstain" look alike, and both have meanings involving self-restraint or self-denial. So they must both come from the same root, right? Yes and no. Both get their start from the Latin prefix "abs-," meaning "from" or "away," but "abstain" traces to "abs-" plus the Latin verb "tenēre" (meaning "to hold"), while "abstemious" gets its "-temious" from a suffix akin to the Latin noun "temetum," meaning "intoxicating drink."



Your money’s worth today
Source: XE.com online

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Teaching for the day
Contributed by: Margarita Garcia of Paranaque City

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. - Robert H. SchullerEverybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. - Malcolm S. Forbes



Joke for the day
Source: Art’s funbox

“Jollibee”
Pasahero: Boss! Jollibee.
Driver: Di ako si Jollibee.
Pasahero: Hindi, Magkano sa Jollibee?
Driver: Depende sa value meal ser
Pasahero: Naknang! magkano ho pamasahe sa Jollibee?
Driver: Ang alam ko walang masahista dun ser.
Pasahero: Ok ka lang? Magkano ibabayad ko hanggang sa Jollibee?
Driver: Ay sorry! ser lampas na tayo.
Pasahero: Grrrrrr!