Source: GMA News.tv
CA allows Ermita to skip Magdalo coup hearings
The Court of Appeals has barred a Makati court from compelling Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita to testify in the coup d'etat case of the more than 30 soldiers implicated in the July 2003...
Miriam to bring disqualification issue to Arroyo
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago will bring to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s attention the disqualification case filed against her in connection with her reelection bid in next year's...
Palace orders vigilance after terror try in US
After a foiled terrorist attack in the United States, Malacañang ordered the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines Sunday to be vigilant against similar attempts in...
Mother, daughter killed in Mandaluyong fire
A mother and daughter were killed in a fire that razed their house in Mandaluyong City Saturday night.
CPP wants to increase guerilla fronts to 180
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said it needed to expand its guerilla fronts and recruit more members to win its war against the government.
Showbiz Chika for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Katrina Halili back to endorsing Calayan clinic
Sexy actress Katrina Halili is back to endorsing Calayan Surgicentre after weathering the sex video scandal that she and ex-doctor Hayden Kho, Jr. figured in a few months ago.
‘When you’re blessed, you’re happy’ - Krista Ranillo
Starlet Krista Ranillo, who landed a windfall of projects following rumors linking her to boxer Manny Pacquiao, is havi
ng a “happy Christmas.”‘Ang Panday’ leads MMFF first-day gross
The P16.5 9 M first-day box-office take of “Ang Panday” put the movie on lead among this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) entries.
Sharon attends MMFF parade ‘for Yaya’
Megastar Sharon Cuneta attended the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Parade of Stars last Dec. 24 in ‘obedience’ to what her late Yaya Luring would have wanted her to do.
Lovi Poe denies reigniting romance with Jolo
Although young actress Lovi Poe admits that her ex-boyfriend Jolo Revilla has been sending her flowers and chocolates lately, she denies that they are back in each other’s arms.
Pacquiao to file defamation case against Mayweather
People’s champ Manny Pacquiao will no longer fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr. inside the ring but in court.
Heart’s rebellious years helped her in ‘Mano Po 6’
Heart Evangelista was intimidated by the megastar in their confrontation scenes in Regal Films’ “Mano Po 6 (My Mother).” Yet she pulled them-off beautifully and earned herself positive nods for her acting.
So you think you can… win the ‘AXN Dance Off!’
AXN is proud to announce the launch of “AXN Dance Off,” a dance competition organized in the spirit of the hit TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.”
2009 MMFF Awards Night set Monday night
The 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival Awards Night is set Monday night at the SMX Convention Center.
Isports laang
Source: ABS-CBN News Online
Evans eyes to KO Silva in UFC 108
MANILA, Philippines -- Former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans will go
for a knockout when he mixes it up with Brazilian mixed martial artist Thiago Silva in UFC 108.Wesley So returns to FIDE Top 100 list
MANILA, Philippines – The year 2009 is almost over but for the Philippines’ brightest chess hope, Grandmaster Wesley So, his phenomenal chess career is just beginning.
IOC chief 'disappointed' by Woods
MADRID – International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge says he is "disappointed" with the revelations of Tiger Woods' serial infidelity.
Japeth survives dengue; Jamal vows comeback
MANILA, Philippines - Highly touted forward Japeth Aguilar is out of danger after being hospitalized for dengue but will not be able to rejoin Smart-Gilas when the national team resumes practice tomorrow afternoon at the Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym.
Da who for today
Source: Wikipedia
Karl Friedrich Benz, sometimes spelled as Carl, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer,
Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in automobiles. In 1879 Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which he designed in 1878.Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later. When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father.
Despite living near poverty, his mother strove to give him a good education. Benz attended the local Grammar School in Karlsruhe and was a prodigious student. In 1853, at the age of nine he started at the scientifically oriented Lyzeum. Next he studied in the Poly-Technical University under the instruction of Ferdinand Redtenbacher.
Benz had originally focused his studies on locksmithing, but eventually followed his father's steps toward locomotive engineering. On September 30, 1860, at age fifteen, he passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, which he subsequently attended. Benz was graduated July 9, 1864 at nineteen.
During these years, while riding his bicycle, he started to envision concepts for a vehicle that would eventually become the horseless carriage.
Following his formal education, Benz had seven years of professional training in several companies, but did not fit well in any of them. The training started in Karlsruhe with two years of varied jobs in a mechanical engineering company.
He then moved to Mannheim to work as a draftsman and designer in a scales factory. In 1868 he went to Pforzheim to work for a bridge building company Gebrüder Benckiser Eisenwerke und Maschinenfabrik. Finally, he went to Vienna for a short period to work at an iron construction company.
In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching a mechanical workshop in Mannheim, also dedicated to supplying construction materials: the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop, later renamed, Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working.
The enterprise's first year was a complete disaster. Ritter turned out to be unreliable and local authorities confiscated the business. The difficulty was solved when Benz's fiancée, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter's share in the company using her dowry.
On July 20, 1872 Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer married, later having five children: Eugen (1873), Richard (1874), Clara (1877), Thilde (1882), and Ellen (1890).
Despite such business misfortunes, Karl Benz led in the development of new engines. To get more revenues, in 1878 he began to work on new patents. First, he concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable gas two-stroke engine. Benz finished his two-stroke engine on December 31, 1878, New Year's Eve, and was granted a patent for it in 1879.
Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.
Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 2:13-18.
When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him."Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called my son."When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had ascertained from the magi. Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet: A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more.
Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online
Sturm und Drang • \shtoorm-unt-DRAHNG\ • noun
: turmoil
Example Sentence:
The new film deftly captures the Sturm und Drang of growing up as it chronicles the turbulent lives of two teens in postwar Germany.
Did you know?
“Sturm und Drang” comes from German, where it literally means “storm and stress.” Although it’s now a generic synonym of “turmoil,” the term was originally used in English to identify a late 18th-century German literary movement whose works were filled with rousing action and high emotionalism, and often dealt with an individual rebelling against the injustices of society. The movement took its name from the 1776 play Sturm und Drang, a work by one of its proponents, dramatist and novelist Friedrich von Klinger. Although the literary movement was well known in Germany in the late 1700s, the term “Sturm und Drang” didn’t appear in English prose until the mid-1800s.
Lesson for the day
Source: Art’s Library of life
Human relationship
This story is really worth reading. Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know.
By this way we miss out some warmth in human relationship. You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now."
A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital. He died.
The mother was stunned. She was terrified how she was going to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.
QUESTIONS :
1. What were the five words ?
2. What is the implication of this story?
ANSWER :
The husband just said "I am with you Darling".
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her. If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, andfears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.
Have a nice and blessed day ...
Joke for the day
Source: Art’s Funbox
Two Cannibals
Two cannibals, a father and son, were elected by the tribe to go out and get something to eat. They walked deep into the jungle and waited by a path.Before long, along came this little old man. The son said, "Ooh dad, there's one." "No," said the father. "There's not enough meat on that one to even feed the dogs. We'll just wait."Well, a little while later, along came this really fat man. The son said, "Hey dad, he's plenty big enough." "No," the father said. "We'd all die of a heart attack from the fat in that one. We'll just wait."About an hour later, here comes this absolutely gorgeous woman.The son said, "Now there's nothing wrong with that one dad. Let's eat her.""No," said the father. "We'll not eat her either.""Why not?" asked the son."Because, we're going to take her back alive and eat your mother."
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