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From: aimee@wpd.sgi.com (Aimee Manosa)
Subject: Re: Graphics Library in Silicon Graphics IRIS
Keywords: GT Graphics Library User's Guide
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: soc.culture.filipino
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:08:11 GMT

In article <71539083014759@cosmo.mcs.anl.gov>, calima@cosmo.mcs.anl.gov (Odilio J. Calima) writes:
 
|> access to it (in terms of hours, room-use-only, etc).  So is there anyone
|> out there who could help me?  please?  :-)

Is this like the biggest nudge or what??!???  

So, send me some email.


-- 
        ~
Aimee Manosa		aimee@wpd.sgi.com	Opinions are mine!
			Silicon Graphics, Inc
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From: bernal@spss.com (Raoul Bernal)
Subject: Little League champs too old?
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:22:48 GMT

from the Chicago Tribune:

                 Little League champs too old?

  Williamsport, Pa. - The director of a suburban Los Angeles Little
League district said Thursday he intended to file a complaint
alleging the Philippines team won the World Series dishonestly.

  Bob McKittrick, administrator of the district that produced the
runner-up team representing Long Beach, Calif., said he intended to 
prove that not all Philippine players were from the geographic area
assigned to the Zamboanga City Little League.

  He said he also would pursue reports that some of the Philippine
players were older than 12, the limit for Little League.

  "If I can prove this team was illegal and Little League [headquar-
ters] does nothing about it, then I will see them in court," McKitt-
rick said.

  The Philippine team defeated Long Beach 15-4 Saturday.

  Little League spokesman Dennis Sullivan said the organization had
no intention of investigating the Philippine team unless it had a
challenge from within the league.

  McKittrick said at least two players, including Ian Tolentino, the
star of the championship game, were from a town hundreds of miles
away from Zamboanga City.

  Tolentino also was mentioned in a Philippines newspaper column
Wednesday suggesting some of the players may have been older than 12.

=======end of article========

I think this is an interesting development.  However, I remember one 
of the commentators of the game discussed the ages of the players.  He
said Ian Tolentino (???) was one of the oldest of the team, who has
turned 13 last Aug 15.  He also said he met the cutoff date of August 1
(no player should turn 13 earlier than the cutoff date).  If that's the
case, I don't see the problem with his age then.  I wonder if the Philip-
pine newspaper referred to in above article knows about this.

As to the residency issue, I cannot comment as of now.  Perhaps other
netters have more information about this.

Comments welcome, fellow netters.

-Raoul
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 16:25:08 CDT
From: <U25720@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject:    Re:wanted: Petrologists, volcanologists, etc.

Maridai had some questions about kimberlites and volcanoes:
1. Kimberlites, the host rocks of diamonds, are unfortunately not found
in the Philippines. They are deposited in a rapid fashion by intrusion
(from below) with origins deeper than the crust (>35 km.).
2. kimberlites and volcanic eruptions like those of Pinatubo are not
related, and hence no diamonds can form from the Pinatubo ashes. One
good thing that can come out of the eruptions are refertilized soils
(after some time).
3. The biggest problem with the lahar deposits is that the surrounding
areas around the drainage systems in Pinatubo are heavily populated, and
people are loathe to leaving their homes. I recall last year, when
Professor Kelvin Rodolfo, an authority on lahars who teaches at UIC,
told people in the lowlands to start relocating their houses because
even if the eruption was over, the problem of lahars was just about to
start!!
If you want more info about volcanoes and lahars, let me know.
Carlo "Caloy" Arcilla                    * * * *
Dept. of Geological Sciences          xx    Civilization exists by
University of Illinois at Chicago   xxxxxxx  geologic consent ...
U25720@UICVM.BITNET              xxxxxxxxxxx  subject to
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                                           without notice -- Will Durant
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From: jpdia@mbunix.mitre.org (Dia)
Subject: Re: More LLWS News!!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:34:16 GMT

In article <francis.53.0@mpl.ucsd.edu> francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo) writes:
>
>6. In the third inning, the Philippine coach (Lugay) called time out and 
>pulled his faltering starting pitcher (Ramacho). He chided his pitcher, 'Ang 
>hina ng bato mo!' [Your pitches were weak!] I felt sorry for the kid who I'm 
>sure tried his best. Contrast this to the style of the American coach who, 
>when he pulled his starting pitcher (who gave up eight runs, several hits 
>and walks), put his arm around him assuringly and said, 'You did well.'
>

From what I remember from my days back home, this kind of "treatment" was 
commonplace.  I guess the coaches think that they can motivate you by
deriding your performance.  Then again, maybe I just stunk to high heaven!

jay

P.S. So, Francis, how have you been?  Haven't talked to you in ages...
From: Batang-Maynila
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Strange last name for a Filipino
Date: 3 Sep 1992 17:04:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Milpitas, CA.
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In article 17437@u.washington.edu, sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse) writes:
>Uhh, I thought the P.I. barred the ethnic Chinese minority from citizenship?
>has this changed. I know there are Spanish lineage in a lot of families there,
>and even more with Chinese intermixtures; maybe the "Lims" were one of these.

 No, hindi, nungka...  No minority has ever been barred from becoming a Pinoy citizen.

  What do you think was Cory's ancestors (Conjuango) were?   Do you remember Bagatzing
(former mayor of Manila)? - he's Indian.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: sobejana@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Regina Sobejana)
Subject: Re: Imelda Claims Marcos' Spirit Caused Hurricane Andrew
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:03:30 GMT
Organization: Bill & Dave's Garage

dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia) writes:
: 
:  Sabi na nga ba!
: 
:  Patay na nga ang tao, nanggugulo pa. :-)
: 
:  Ulianin na talaga si Makoy, biro mo nagalit siya sa Pilipinas
:  at binagyo niya ang Florida atbp. :-) 

  Maybe he took his dead brain cells with him, 
  that is why he lost his sense of direction ....
  ...err mind that is  8-)


-ginnie

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From: francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: LLWS
Date: 3 Sep 1992 20:22:40 GMT
Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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In article <23152@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> dguerrer@oak.cel.scg.hac.com (Daniel Guerrero) writes:

>Congrats to the champions from the Phil.  I have just recently seen
>a videotape of the game and I was very impressed by their play.  However,
>I was very disappointed that the local station here did not show the 
>last inning.  A thought occured to me.  Since the USA team was losing,
>and losing badly :-), the stations probably had no incentive to air
>the game to its conclusion.  After all, the USA team was "playing a bunch of
>no-names from a small country" (the TV station's rationale, NOT MINE!!!)
>However, if the situation had been reversed, and the 
>USA team was winning, I wonder if the game would have been aired in
>its entirety.

I think it was more because the game was pretty much over by the end of 
the 4th inning. I understand that in the 5th and 6th innings, the LB coach 
brought in some of his bench warmers so everyone can get to play in the Big 
Game.

Comments welcome.

   - Francis
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: sobejana@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Regina Sobejana)
Subject: Re: Bakit maporma ang mga Pilipino?
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:25:32 GMT
Organization: Bill & Dave's Garage

zax@kenpo.Corp.Sun.COM (Sonny Dionida) writes:
: 
: From: <1992Aug31.214137.7401@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
: > : VP> Aimee, you wench! St. Michael's "tiny" boxers, very soft cotton!
: > "tiny" eh!  Is that the new men's size now a days, as lady's petite size?
: > (gees men's size is a lot complicated than I thought! :-) )     
: > Or are you talking about how much material your boxers have .... ;-)  
:   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:                                     ^^^^^^^^
: 
: Are you referring to the material as in the type of fabric or
I was referring to 'how much fabric', you lil' twit!  ;-)

: the *material* men carry inside our boxer shorts?  8-{)
: 
..that sounds scarry  /8-}
 
: 
: ---sonny
: 

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From: tuaso_jj@archsci.arch.su.oz.au
Subject: G'DAY!
Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:29:45 GMT

I just found out about this newsgroup today, after looking for some new
groups to subscribe to. I'm running out of time at the moment. I did check
some of the mails (how do you call them? --- i've never used unix before and
i am still trying to learn this machine) and had some goose bumps while
reading 'em. Anyway, I'm from Sydney and I`d be following this group from
now on. Gotta go mates!

joeyboey1992
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Imelda Claims Marcos' Spirit Caused Hurricane Andrew
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:15:36 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Former first lady Imelda Marcos claims
the restless spirit of her late husband has spawned a series of natural
disasters, including Hurricane Andrew.
	Mrs. Marcos, who is trying to win government approval to bring the
body of her husband, the deposed Philippine dictator, to his homeland
for burial, said, ``I believe that when our spirit, our soul ... is not
in harmony with God, humanity and the universe, nature would get angry
at us.''
	In reference to Hurricane Andrew and several recent Philippine
natural disasters, she added: ``Look at these typhoons, volcanic
eruptions, and now what is happening in America. For the sake of the
Republic of the Philippines, for the Filipino people, (we must) put the
remains of the president to rest so that these negative vibrations will
leave us.''
	A civilian revolt drove Ferdinand Marcos from power in 1986. He later
died in exile in Hawaii, where Mrs. Marcos has kept his remains in a
crypt.
	She has been negotiating for permission to return the body, but the
Philippine government fears the former first lady will use a funeral to
rally supporters of the late dictator.
	Mrs. Marcos ran for president this year, but lost. She also faces
numerous civil and criminal charges stemming from allegations she and
her husband stole billions from the Philippine treasury during Marcos'
20-year reign.
	Mrs. Marcos says her husband's dying wish was to be buried in the
Heroes Cemetery in Manila, with full honors as a former president and
World War II guerrilla leader.
	President Fidel Ramos has said the government will grant the late
dictator simple military honors, but not the state honors the Marcos
family wants. Ramos has also barred a Manila funeral, decreeing that the
late dictator be buried in his hometown, instead.
	Earlier this week, Mrs. Marcos tried but failed to have the
government pay for a flight to return her husband's body from Hawaii.
	Mrs. Marcos claimed she could not afford a chartered flight herself,
despite her well-known lavish lifestyle.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: calima@cosmo.mcs.anl.gov (Odilio J. Calima)
Subject: Graphics Library in Silicon Graphics IRIS
Keywords: GT Graphics Library User's Guide
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:40:30 GMT

I know this is not the newsgroup for Computer Graphics, but here it goes:
I'm doing my Senior Design/Project at school (UIC) and I'm going to be
doing something in Scientific Visualization.  I have to use an SGI machine,
and I have to learn to use the Graphics Library.  Does anyone know how I
could get a copy of the "GT Graphics Library User's Guide"?  This is a manual
that comes with the machine; hence it's not available in the bookstore 
(I think).  It is available in the lab of my advisor but I have limited 
access to it (in terms of hours, room-use-only, etc).  So is there anyone
out there who could help me?  please?  :-)

Comments, suggestions, even FLAMES welcome!  (I'm desperate! :-)

-Odie

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: jke2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Joselito K. Estrada)
Subject: Re: Little League Team
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:52:12 GMT

If I'm not mistaken, baseball was played in the Philippines during the 
Commonwealth period. 

I wonder if this sport could be revived. Given the capital-intensive
nature of the sport (e.g. gloves, bats, cleats, helmets, playing fields),
would the game gain support on the grassroots level like basketball?

--
Jojo Estrada
Department of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
jke2@Ra.MsState.edu
From: andym@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Andy Means)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Is it "Pilipino"? or "Filipino"???
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:06:49 GMT
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA

Can somebody tell me how the word "Pilipino" change into
"Filipino"?  Is the "F" version stateside?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Strange last name for a Filipino
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:48:41 GMT
Organization: 3Com Corporation

In article <3390@creatures.cs.vt.edu> cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horacio Cadiz) writes:
>woonsun@blitzen.uucp (25853-belen) writes:
>
>> [ stuff deleted ]
>>There's a famous military general named Lim in Philippine history.
>>Don't remember the first name though. Anyone knows?
>
>
>  General Vicente Lim, P.A. was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
>No one knows how, where, and when he was killed.  His remains have never
>been recovered.  
>
>***********************************************************************
>* bombim cadiz             | Theorem:   The early bird gets the worm. *
>* cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu | Corollary: The early worm gets eaten.    *  
>***********************************************************************

Bombim,

I thought Gen. Lim was killed by firing squad when the Americans re-entered
Manila. 

/Danny
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: jnebres@bach.helios.nd.edu (Jose V. Nebres)
Subject: Zamboanga City - baseball, atbp.
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:43:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.021456.4059@imag.fr>,
from arnie@imag.fr (Arnulfo AZCARRAGA), writes:

>From memory, Samar, Laguna, Rizal, and Zamboanga-Basilan are the provinces
>that produce the best baseball/softball players.
>
>It's funny that, despite the expensive equipement, baseball and softball
>are more popular in the rural areas of Zamboanga than in the city proper.
>In the city itself, it's mainly basketball for the young, cockfight (which
>we call "Gallera") for the not-so-young.

I think little league baseball is well supported in elementary public
schools in the Philippine rural areas. In each elementary public school
that I know of in my hometown, there was always at least one set of
mitts and a bat. I believe this is supplied by the Department of
Education as part of Physical Education equipment throughout the country.

During district, provincial and regional athletic meets in the rural
areas, little league baseball take center stage as the team sport for
the young. Rural athletic meets are well integrated with the Philippine
public school system which are mostly composed of elementary schools.

Elementary pupils are too young to play good basketball and other sports
which are dominated by the big kids. The older teenagers are usually in
high schools and colleges, which are concentrated in the urban areas.
Small kids in the cities like to play basketball more probably because
of the inaccessibility to open fields, their admiration for PBA and NBA
players and for lack of a better alternative to piko.


--Ting Nebres

_____________________________________
Jose V. Nebres
Hessert Center for Aerospace Research
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
jnebres@bach.helios.nd.edu
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Bong Bong Tours Malacanang
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:59:09 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- The son and namesake of the late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos toured the presidential palace for the first time
Tuesday since his family was driven into exile in a 1986 revolt and
posed for a photograph beside a portrait of his late father.
	Ferdinand Marcos Jr., now a congressman representing his father's
northern district, visited the rooms where he lived with his parents and
two sisters during the former president's 20-year rule.
	``So many things have changed,'' the young Marcos told reporters,
shaking his head and tears welling his eyes.
	The 34-year-old legislator was at the palace to take his oath as a
member of the Northern Alliance, a group of lawmakers from the country's
northern region, before President Fidel Ramos.
	Ramos, his father's second cousin, led the civilian-backed military
revolt that toppled the former president.
	A member of the alliance who also joined the palace oath-taking
ceremony was Rep. Juan Ponce Enrile, the late dictator's defense chief
who turned against him and co-led the revolt with Ramos.
	Entering his father's study, the young Marcos noted that the deposed
ruler's table was gone. His sister Irene's room has been converted into
an office for staffers of the presidential museum.
	Striding past a hallway of portraits of past Philippine presidents,
the young Marcos was urged by House Speaker Jose de Venecia to pose in
front of his father's picture for the cameras.
	He agreed but requested that the portrait of former president Corazon
Aquino, which was hung beside his father's, should be excluded from the
photographs.
	``I don't ever want to be seen with Cory, not even in a photograph,''
he said.
	The Marcoses have accused Aquino of vindictiveness after she ordered
a freeze on all the family's assets in an effort to recover billions of
dollars they allegedly plundered from the nation.
	She also banned the return of the late president's remains from
Honolulu, where he died in 1989, and her government filed more than 80
criminal and civil suits against former first lady Imelda Marcos and her
children.
	She converted part of the palace into a museum where Mrs. Marcos'
extravagance was showcased, including her 1,200 pairs of shoes and
fabulous gown collection.
	Aquino had accused the late dictator of involvement in the 1983
assassination of her husband, Benigno Aquino, a popular opposition
leader who was Marcos' arch political rival.
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Satur Ocampo Released
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:00:15 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Alleged top communist Satur Ocumpo packed
his bags and walked to freedom from an army prison Tuesday, after two
lower-court judges ordered his release on instruction from President
Fidel Ramos.
	``The order just came about ten minutes ago. I'm preparing to leave
now. I want to relax a bit,'' Ocampo told United Press International by
telephone from his cell at the suburban Fort Bonifacio army
headquarters.
	Ocampo, 53, the alleged chairman of the underground National
Democratic Front, was ordered freed without bail by two judges hearing
kidnapping and illegal arms charges against him.
	The NDF is a grouping of 14 underground organizations led by the
outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and its military arm, the
13,000-member New Peoples Army.
	Judges had earlier recommended Ocampo's release on bail, but military
prosecutors objected.
	However, Ramos -- in a move to forge peace with the country's left-
wing and right-wing rebels -- last week ordered the release of Ocampo,
four other communist leaders and 16 soldiers involved in right-wing coup
attempts.
	Ramos has also offered to legalize the Communist Party, and grant
amnesty to detained communists and guerrillas. Government negotiators
are also holding exploratory talks with exiled communist leaders in the
Netherlands, in hopes of ending the NPA's insurgency.
	Ocampo, who represented the rebels in peace talks with former
President Corazon Aquino's government in 1986, spent nine years in jail
before staging a dramatic escape in 1985. But he was recaptured in 1989.
	Ocampo Tuesday said he wanted to relax and spend time with his four
children before buckling down to work for release of 644 political
activists who still remain in prison. 
	He called Ramos' order to release political detainees a ``very small
step'' in healing the breach between the government and rebels, but
nonetheless praised it as a positive signal.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: bernal@spss.com (Raoul Bernal)
Subject: Re: Little League Team
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:39:55 GMT

am402@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alex Canada) writes:


>   I just watched the Philippines little league team defeat the
>Dominican Republic 5-1 in I guess the semifinals? Do they play
>the US team for the championship now?
>   I didn't even know baseball was played in the Philippines, me of course
>grown up in the states and haven't been back there since I was 4. Is
>baseball popular out there? is it as popular as basketball and soccer?

>Alex

Yes, Alex, they play little league in Phil. grade schools.  Also, you
might like to know Filipino kids have their own version of hopscotch. :)

I remember little league days in fourth grade, playing in the Division
Meet (local schools' division).  Baseball at that age is fun, because
things weren't too competitive.  We played after classes end around 
mid-afternoon, and I wonder now how we withstood the blistering heat
and the sun.  I guess we really had fun back then.   Fact is, I got
more inclined to watching baseball here (compared to football) simply
because of those little league days.

I am just proud of those Filipino kids winning the international division.
Here's wishing them luck for the World Series title this weekend!

-Raoul
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