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Just copy and paste

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I don't intend to write a piece here but only to amuse myself, rather, to try my curiousity and be amused in the process of the ease with which I navigate in this blog, the pictures below are just copy-and-paste. I did not get them here via the tedious uploading process. Just copy-and-paste. Wow! Tim's 25th sacerdotal anniversary with Roming Demigilio and Larry Geronca at the CICM reunion Annual Assembly of NUPL

Thanks for retroactive dilligence

June 21, 2014 Iloilo City  Interior Secretary Mar Roxas ran an extra mile by turning his keynote address into a DRRMO seminar replete with power point presentation to enlighten participants to the annual assembly of the Student Councils Alliance of the Philippines (SCAP). “Victims or leaders? The answer lies in our hands,” Roxas told student leaders from different schools in the country gathered at the Central Philippine University (CPU) here June 20. Roxas’ address-cum-lecture was extensive as he touched on “sea surges” and "geo-hazard" areas already identified in maps and are now a keyboard away from students. “These data are available in our webpage and for free,” he declared. We are grateful for his zealousness in raising our awareness on disaster preparedness. On second thought, he should have done that before super-typhoon Yolanda reduced much of the Visayas into a howling wilderness with its 350 kph winds.  The misery of victims numbering to 350,000 ...

Relief NGO office ransacked; workers gagged, bound

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Iloilo City June 19, 2014 Armed men ransacked the office of relief NGO, bound its employees, and shied away with its properties like computers and a camera, representatives from Gabriela Women’s Party, Bayan Muna Party-list, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Panay Karapatan Human Rights Alliance told reporters here this morning. The five relief workers of the Panay Center for Disaster Response (PCDR),  all women, were beating the deadline to complete their  report to their foreign partners which sent funds to rehabilitate communities in northern Panay Island devastated by super-typhoon November 8, 2014, said Reyland Vergara of Panay Karapatan. PCDR since November last year has been carrying out relief operations, helping communities rebuild their lives in Yolanda-hit towns in Panay. Their assistance includes distribution of housing and carpentry tools, food and medicines, providing school supplies and toys for kids among others. Lately, they ventured into training v...