30 December 2009

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Top news for the day
Source: GMA News.tv

DOH web advisories hacked, filled with obscenities
The Department of Health website was hacked by unidentified perpetrators, filling a key page with an obscene image and defamatory statements about Health Secretary Francisco Duque III at a time...

Mañana habit leads to long queues of voter registrants
No thanks to their "manaña habit," many Filipinos formed long lines on the last day of the extended voters' registration for the 2010 elections.

3 of 5 Filipinos unhappy with Arroyo performance — SWS
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo got a failing grade as her net satisfaction rating remained "bad" at -38 in the last quarter, with three out of five Filipinos dissatisfied with her performance,...

20 hurt in predawn 'racing bus' accident in Makati
At least 20 people were injured, some of them seriously, after a bus crashed into a flyover column allegedly after racing with another bus in Makati City before dawn Tuesday.

Oil prices hiked anew
(Updated 2:55 a.m.) Pilipinas Shell, Phoenix Petroleum Inc. and Petron are hiking their oil prices by as much as P1.00 per liter effective early Tuesday morning.

Marcos-led party adopts singer, retired cop for 2010 polls
The Marcos-led Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) on Monday told the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that it will be adopting disqualified senatorial hopefuls Romeo Maganto and Anthony Castelo as...


Showbiz Chika for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online

Viva’s ‘Love2Love2Love’ is back!
Viva Concerts and Events chose to bring back the successful formula of “Love2Love2Love” to be its pre-Valentine offering on Feb. 12 at the Big Dome.

Heart Evangelista caps successful year with MMFF win
After bagging the FAMAS Best Actress plum this year for the film “Ay Ayeng,” Heart Evangelista clinched the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the 35th MMFF Awards.

Jude Law is Dr. Watson in ‘Sherlock Holmes’
“It’s certainly an adventure, just as the stories seemed to me when I first read them.”

Nine biggest showbiz scandals of 2009
The year 2009 proved to be a colorful year, what with all the showbiz scandals we hated to love but loved to talk about anyway.

Regine Velasquez to resign from 'SOP?'
Could it be that Songbird Regine Velasquez doesn't want to be part of "SOP" anymore?

Eagle Riggs soon back on ABS-CBN?
In all likelihood, showbiz anchor Eagle Riggs will return to ABS-CBN in 2010 after GMA reportedly refused to hike his salary.

MMFF 2009 opening-day top grosser the biggest award winner
“Ang Panday” copped the most awards – seven, including Best Picture – during the the 35th MMFF awards night last Dec. 28.

Tyra Banks says she's ending her talk show
Tyra Banks is pulling the plug on her talk show. The former model says the syndicated "The Tyra Show" will end after its fifth season.


Isports laang
Source: ABS-CBN News Online

Arum makes final offer or Pacquiao fights Malignaggi
MANILA, Philippines – Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has made a “final offer” to the camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr. aimed at settling the blood test issue that threatens to cancel the American's much-awaited fight with Manny Pacquiao.

Machida, Lesnar vie for MMA Fighter of the Year
MANILA, Philippines – UFC champions Lyoto Machida (light heavyweight), Brock Lesnar (heavyweight), Georges St-Pierre (welterweight) and Anderson Silva (middleweight) are in the running to be the mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter of 2009.

PBA: Cardona leads the pack in scoring
MANILA, Philippines – There seems to be no stopping Mark Cardona of the Talk ‘N Text Tropang Texters.
Cardona, who was named the KFC/Accel-PBA Press Corps Player of the Week for the third time, is the current top scorer of the league with an average of 21.8 points per game.

Patriots brace for hard ABL grind
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Patriots have resumed their daily workout in an effort to stay in shape and keep their competitive form nearing the playoff phase of the Asean Basketball League.

How Tiger defined golf in the Noughties
(CNN) -- In the 10 years since the turn of the century, golf has seen some remarkable twists and turns, but the domination of the sport by one man was a story few other developments could match.


Da who for today

Source: Wikipedia

Robert "Bob" Arum (born December 8, 1931 in New York City) is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney’s Office for the southern district of New York, in the Tax division.

Arum grew up in a Jewish family in New York. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York University, and Harvard Law School. He worked as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice and had little interest in boxing until 1965. He used his education and business savvy to become a boxing promoter, and during the 1980s became a driving force behind the sport, rivaling Don King. Arum put together superfights like Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Durán and Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns.

A particularly touching moment happened when Arum mounted the Hagler-John Mugabi, Hearns-James Shuler double header in Las Vegas on April, 1986. After the Hearns-Shuler fight, Shuler, who had lost by knockout in the first round, showed up at Arum's hotel room to thank him for the opportunity to fight Hearns. Ten days later, Shuler was dead in an unfortunate motorcycle accident.

Arum kept producing big-scale undercards and superfights, including the Hagler-Sugar Ray Leonard bout, the Leonard-Hearns rematch, Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman and many others.

Some of Arum's superstars from the 1990s include former world flyweight champion Michael Carbajal and six-division world champion Oscar de la Hoya and current boxing superstars includes seven-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and three-division world champion Erik Morales
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Arum has concentrated largely on promoting Hispanic fighters in recent years, citing surveys which show boxing is among the most popular sports within the Hispanic community. He has had great success with fighters such as Miguel Cotto, who has won world titles at 140 and 147 pounds, and Antonio Margarito, who held a 147-pound WBO belt from 2002-2007.
He has concentrated many of his shows in the Southwestern portion of the U.S., in cities with large Spanish-speaking populations. He's also the promoter of many of the cards on Telefutura, a Spanish language network.

Arum is a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame.

Arum has been accused of being a racist by Robert Lee, the former president of the International Boxing Federation. Lee said of Arum "I pin the racism charge on him because he once told me: `We will let the Blacks and the Latinos fight in the ring and we will count the money on the outside'."

Arum also filed a lawsuit HBO for overstepping its boundaries in the sport by becoming a defacto promoter while trying to intentionally eliminate him as a promoter. Arum complained that HBO dropped Floyd Mayweather Jr. from his exclusive deal after he insisted his fighter have a tougher bout than the network wanted. The suit was settled of court but Arum continued to criticize HBO by saying "Instead of working with promoters, like they have done in the past, they have become promoters themselves. They make the fights just like promoters and pay fighters," Arum said. "It's their money and they can do what they want, but Don King doesn't have to go along with it and neither do I. King and I can get along without HBO or Showtime."

In 2009, Arum defended Antonio Margarito when he lost his boxing license in the US state of California on charges of illegal handwraps, implied it was racially motivated and stated that Top Rank would not come back to the state of California until the issue was rectified.
In late-2009, Arum called UFC fans "skinhead white guys watching people in the ring who are (sic) also look like skinhead white guys." Bas Rutten accused him of racism for this remark. He also stated that MMA fighters are "guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground."
Earlier in the year, Arum described UFC President Dana White as "nuts" and "a little too much of a loose cannon" for White's use of a gay slur in reference to an MMA reporter.

After failing to promote a Kelly Pavlik at Youngstown State University, Arum blamed the local college for the botched name and marketing job of the Pavlik Espino fight. Pavlik had continually ducked Paul Williams and lost local support. Arum however blamed the school who went out of their way to host the fight as the reason why, and took no responsibility for the botched marketing job. The Kelly Pavlik fight was the first fight with a world championship title on the line to fail to sell out in the Mahoning Valley.


Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 2:36-40.

There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem. When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.


Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online

ominous • \AH-muh-nus\ • adjective
: being or exhibiting an omen : portentous; especially : foreboding or foreshadowing evil : inauspicious

Example Sentence:
Our fears about the picnic being cancelled were heightened by the sight of dark, ominous clouds appearing over the horizon.

Did you know?
"Ominous" didn't always mean "foreshadowing evil." If you look closely, you can see the "omen" in "ominous," which gave it the original meaning of "presaging events to come" -- whether good or bad. It is ultimately derived from the Latin word "omen," which is both an ancestor and a synonym of our "omen." Today, however, "ominous" tends to suggest a menacing or threatening aspect. Its synonyms "portentous" and "fateful" are used similarly, but "ominous" is the most menacing of the three. It implies an alarming character that foreshadows evil or disaster. "Portentous" suggests being frighteningly big or impressive, but seldom gives a definite forewarning of calamity. "Fateful" implies that something is of momentous or decisive importance.


Lesson for the day
Source: Art’s Library of life

Thing on a Higher Plane
by Jim Davidson

Henry Ford (1863-1947) once said, "thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few people engage in it." Today I would like to share some thoughts with you on the important subject of "thinking" and I've titled this column "Thinking On A Higher Plane." In the Bible you will find these words recorded in Proverbs 23:7a, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The Roman Emperor Marcus Arelius once said, "A man becomes what he thinks about all day long." Back in 1957, the late Earl Nightingale wrote and recorded a motivational message titled "The Strangest Secret", which became the only one of its kind to ever sell a million copies. The Strangest Secret is that "We Become What We Think About." It was my good fortune to work personally with Mr. Nightingale for several years.

Yes, from King Solomon on down through the ages, the most successful writers, teachers and philosophers have all come to the same conclusion: It is the quality of our thinking that will ultimately determine the quality of our life. At this point, it might be in order to ask you some very pertinent questions. What do you think about most of the time? Is most of your thinking done on a higher plane? That is, do you reach for the stars in your thinking or is most of your thinking done in the gutter? The truth is, we have only to look about us to see where we are and to see what we have to see the fruits of our thinking.

For fear that I may be misunderstood, I want to make it very clear that we don't have to be a religious person to desire a good, decent, honest and moral life. Sometimes we forget that the greatest have as citizens of this free country is the power to choose. Regardless of who we are or what we have done in the past, we can choose the quality or level of our own thinking. Isn't it great to be able to say, "the past is gone" and I can't do anything about it but from this point forward I'm going to improve my life by improving the quality of my thinking? As I said a moment ago, the choice is yours. What is so tragic for me to realize is that millions of people could have more and be much happier if they only knew it.

While its an individual thing, you may ask, "how do I go about it?" While it's not easy, it's very simple. Station a guard at the entrance of your mind. You must be very careful when you select the television programs you watch, the books and magazines you read and the people with whom you associate. In short, if we are to improve the quality of our thinking, we must be very selective as to where we get our information.

It took several years for me to come to the realization that if I'm going to improve my life, when a filthy program comes on T.V., or even the radio, I just turn it off Its a choice I make because I now realize what it will do to my thinking. How about you? Have you ever given any serious thought to this before? Remember please that "birds of a feather flock together" and you may have people tell you that it does not make any difference what you watch or read or who you spend your time with. But it does. We can trust the words of King Solomon here: "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."


Joke for the day
Source: Art’s Funbox

Men Are Like
...Placemats.They only show up when there's food on the table
...Mascara.They usually run at the first sign of emotion
...Bike helmets.They're good in emergencies but usually just look silly
...Government bonds.They take so long to mature
...Copiers.You need them in reproduction but that's about it
...Lava lamps.Fun to look at it but not all that bright
...Bank accounts.Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest
...High heels.They're easy to walk on once you get the hang of it
...Curling irons.They're always hot and always in your hair
...Mini skirts.If your not careful they'll creep up your legs
...Handguns.Keep one around long enough and your gonna want to shoot it
...Floor tiles.Lay them right the first time and you can walk on them for a lifetime
...Parking spots. The good ones are taken, and the rest are too small
...Bananas. The older they get, the less firm they are.

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