Watch sun dogs with eye care
Solar halos or sun dogs (also called mock suns or false suns because the bright spot in the sky resembles a small sun to the right and/or left of the actual sun) make man suffer from both physical and mental blindness.
Look at what you’ve done last May 7! You’ve taken an “unprotected” look and a couple of snaps, in wonder at that brightly colored oval around the sun. Afterwhich, you jum...
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Repatriation of Victims
The ambassador of Iran to the Philippines thanked some officials in Cebu for taking care of his 20 compatriots who died in last Sunday’s tragedy in Balamban town. The bodies are to be repatriated on Saturday.
Ali Rozbehani said the government and other officials did a complete coordination with them right after the incident up to the repatriation of the bodies.
Rozbehani, in an interview with ...
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OFFICIAL COUNT: 20 IRANIANS ONE PINOY DEAD
Iranian Embassy officials said that the bodies of their 20 citizens, who perished in a tourist bus crash last Sunday in barangay Cansomoroy, Balamban, will be brought back to their country within the week.
Jaime Batoon’s live-in partner Marcelin Marimon await his body at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes to be taken to their house. REYNAN VILLENA
The bodies are now at the Cosmopolitan Funeral ...
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IRANIANS ON WAY TO BALAMBAN OUTING 20 die after bus falls into ravine
At least 20 people, most of them Iranians, are confirmed dead after a bus plunged into a 30-meter deep ravine at the Transcentral Highway in barangay Cansumuroy, Balamban town late yesterday morning.
The JD tourist bus with plate number GWZ-666 was carrying about 55 medical students and doctors to the town of Balamban to go to a beach resort when the accident happened.
As of 9 p.m., 24 people ha...
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Intro to Animation
Moving images is a more effective way of communicating an idea.
Illustration. Design. Art. Text. Animation. Masterpiece! All those gifted with the visual arts have even brighter prospects at the University of Cebu with its new course offering – the Animation Program at P465 per unit payable in four installments – that seeks to tap local artists to fill in the vacuum for both unfilled and expa...
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The Talima Experience
It’s never too late to learn something new.
The invite to the Talima Adventure and Water Park in Barangay Talima, Olango Island is made more enticing with the opportunity to try the all-terrain vehicle, otherwise called quad or quad bike.
Prior to the banca cruise, I surfed for pointers on how to learn quickly the basics of ATV driving being inexperienced myself. A variety of sites on practica...
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A fighting chance
If only it were a perfect world, the advocacy for a gun-less society would have worked out well. But we are not living in such.
The election gun ban is deemed a bane to two objectives – protecting one’s life and training for practical shooting.
It was noticed that the gun ban has failed, ironically, to deter crimes with the reported increase in gang-related violence victimizing people who co...
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Damgo ni Eleuteria Kirschbaum
Out of over a hundred entries that were screened and deliberated by a judging panel, “Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria Kirschbaum (The Dream of Eleuteria Kirschbaum)” makes it to the Final 7 for 2010 Cinema One Originals to be given a P1-million grant for production.
“After a nerve-wracking panel presentation cum interview of the 26 shortlisted filmmakers last April 26 at the ABS-CBN Complex in Que...
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Casaroro Roars
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Some would miss the old trail to Casaroro. It was more challenging, and reaching the Casaroro basin would earn for one the bragging rights. I remember a post from a friend in high school: “Nindot gyod to sa una, (you) hold on to vines and big tree roots. Then you slip a little, tumble a little, here and there. Unlike today…”
Yes, unlike today, Casaroro then was free of those conc...
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Watch sun dogs with eye care
Solar halos or sun dogs (also called mock suns or false suns because the bright spot in the sky resembles a small sun to the right and/or left of the actual sun) make man suffer from both physical and mental blindness.
Look at what you’ve done last May 7! You’ve taken an “unprotected” look and a couple of snaps, in wonder at that brightly colored oval around the sun. Afterwhich, you jum...
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Return to Lake Balinsasayao
“I failed to make my ‘return flip’ from out of the boat to the waters somewhere near the center of the lake. However, my motorcycle crashes did a repeat.”
Two years ago, I found her on a solo flight aboard a motorcycle-for-hire I rented for P250 (the whole day) in Sibulan town, excluding gas purchases. During the weekend, I did return expecting a cozy ride aboard a van with no more of the...
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