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The 180 Degrees Professionals will launch this year, from May 2 to 4,
Operation: Arm and Deploy, the latest installment of the Past Forward
series of personal excellence trainings.

The theme revolves around military concepts to highlight the fact that
there is a war going on everyday. The battlefield is our workplaces,
schools, communities, and our homes.

Our mission in Past Forward ?08: ARM and DEPLOY is to arm the
participants with the values of excellence, passion and purpose as
they wield these weapons against mediocrity, complacency, indifference
and purposelessness often undetected in the workplaces, thus helping
them accomplish  personal and organizational victories.

The course will touch on:

• Knowing and mastering oneself
• Scouting the terrain
• Understanding the nature and schemes of the enemy
• Discerning strategy  to overcome the enemy
• Defining mission tactics and launching combat to attain mission objectives

Stationed for 3 days in the scenic, multi-faceted yet very comfortable
terrains of Pinamungajan's Hidden Valley Training Center and Resort, our trainees, with the help of our speakers,

• Mr. Rex Resurreccion (President of Passion for Perfection and author of "Called to Excel"),
• Mr. BJ Sebastian (Senior Vice President & Chief Strategist of JG Summit Holdings,Inc.),
• Mr. Cito Beltran (former ANC talk show host and one of the country's most renowned motivational speakers)

 
and other speakers, both new and from previous years? camps, will be equipped with
the values of excellence, passion and purpose as foundations for personal and
organizational success.

For inquiries contact:
Sistaine (0916)342-5540
Jenny (0922)331-8866
Gian (0921)323-6661
Celeste or Jenny (032) 516-4326

Venue:
HIDDEN VALLEY MOUNTAIN RESORT, LAMAC, PINAMUNGAJAN,
TOLEDO CITY, CEBU, PHILIPPINES

Ticket Prices:
P 2,000 per person           10 Dorm rooms
P 1,800 per person           2 Family barkada rooms
P 1,800 per person           Big dorm type rooms
[ All rates inclusive of all meals, accommodations, transportation, camp materials and modules ]

Date/Time:
MAY 2 - 4, 2008

CEBU — (3RD UPDATE) THE 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, scheduled for next week in Cebu, has been postponed to January because of a strong storm bearing down on the meeting site, officials here and abroad said Friday.

Ambassador Marciano Paynor, head of the Philippine organizing committee, made the official announcement Friday in a televised news conference from Cebu province, site of the summit.

Paynor denied that the postponement was made because of the travel advisories of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan warning of imminent terror attacks at the site of the summit.

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One Beat!
 Once Dance!
  One Vision!

The annually anticipated Cebuano celebration called Sinulog once more unfolds before your very eyes.

The city is in frenzy… you see people flock to the Basilica Minore to pay tribute to the child God. Business is bomming — vendors of food, Cebuano delicacies, and souvenir items line the pedestrians. You got no choice but to enjoy the festivity and the chaos and revelry that comes with it.

TIPS:
- stuff your backup with something to munch and drink te whole day
- be prepared to W-A-L-K
- wear your most comfortable clothes
- a hat, sunglasses is a must
- keep you cash in check
- don’t forget to bring your camera

For more info, call the Sinulog Foundation at (032) 255-3700 and (032) 254-5010

I read on the news today that there’s another victim added to the list of the unsolved vigilante-style killing. People seem to be oblivious to the fact that it has reached more than 80 victims.

Is it because the victims had a criminal record? Or that we don’t believe in our justice system that we take the law into our hands. What about their rights as a human being?

Whatever the reason is, I hope this won’t set as an example to the youth that taking another’s life is okay even though he’s a criminal. We are trying to establish Cebu as the best destination in the country but with all the unsolved killings, who would want to visit, right?

Just a thought ….

Mayor Tomas R. Osmeña
July 1, 2005

The Vice Mayor Michael Rama, Members of this Honorable Body…

As you know, we have been through a succession of crisis. But one of our priorities is to really focus on our local issues.

We will finally get the titles to the South Reclamation Project. We already have several serious offers from different locators. Much however remains to be done, we will be bidding out the electricity, water, telephones, interior roads. But we are now moving towards our goal. The goal that took the city 15 years to accomplish from its inception in 1989 to where we are today. The goal is to create 30,000 jobs or more and increasing the city’s assets by P15 billion pesos.
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Monday, July 25, 2005

EVERY YEAR, WE MEET ON THIS DAY IN THIS GREAT HALL TO CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY AND TAKE STOCK OF THE NATION: THE COUNTRY AND ITS CONDITION; THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS PERFORMANCE; THE PEOPLE AND THEIR WELL-BEING.

OURS IS A COUNTRY DIVIDED; THE STORY OF OUR NATION IS A TALE OF TWO PHILIPPINES; ALMOST, AS IT WERE, TWO COUNTRIES UNDER THE SAME NAME.

ONE IS THE PHILIPPINES WHOSE ECONOMY, AFTER LONG YEARS OF CUMULATIVE NATIONAL ENDEAVOR, IS NOW POISED FOR TAKE OFF. THE OTHER IS THE PHILIPPINES WHOSE POLITICAL SYSTEM, AFTER EQUALLY LONG YEARS OF DEGENERATION, HAS BECOME A HINDRANCE TO PROGRESS.
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Mga Minamahal kong Kababayan,

For the last several weeks, the issue of the tape recordings has spun out of control. Tonight, I want to set the record straight. You deserve an explanation; from me, because you are the people I was elected to serve.

As you recall, the election canvassing process was unnecessarily slow even after the election results were already in and the votes had been counted.

I was anxious to protect my votes and during that time had conversations with many people, including a Comelec official. My intent was not to influence the outcome of the election, and it did not. As I mentioned, the election had already been decided and the votes counted. And as you remember, the outcome had been predicted by every major public opinion poll, and adjudged free, fair and decisive by international election observers, and our own Namfrel.
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