BOXING:

SHANE"PIKABOO"ALVAREZ  VS. ANGEL SANTOS 130LBS 

KICKBOXING:

"UNCLE" TON ARRIOLA  VS.  JASON "MYST" RIOS 140LBS.

GRAPPLING/SUBMISSIONS:

NICK "2QUIK" SHOEMAKE  VS. (TO BE ANNOUNCED) 165LBS.

KIDS EXHIBITION GRAPPLING MATCH:

KOBEE BOY MENDOZA  VS.  JOHN ANTHONY HOFSCNEIDER( UNDER 10 YRS.)

BATTLE OF THE FANS!!  TWO LUCKY FANS WILL GET DRAWN AND DO BATTLE IN THE OCTAGON CAGE WITH EXTREMELY OVERSIZED BOXING GLOVES AND WIN PRIZES!! LOTSA FUN!!

MMA:

1. ALVARICK"PRETTYBOY" ALVAREZ  VS.  PAUL QUIZON 130LBS.

2. GINO "BAKA" ASANUMA  VS.  CARL J. TAKAI  135LBS.

3. FASI "QUIKDRAW" JESSE  VS.  NATHAN "NATS" FLORES  155LBS.

4. TJ " YIN YANG" CASTRO VS.  AJ  SANTOS  145LBS.

5. TOM "LIGHTS OUT" KIM  VS.  SAL LIMES  160LBS.

6. CHRIS "NO LUV" LAAYUG  VS.  JOHN OGARTO  150LBS.

7.  TON "DOUBLE HIT" SABLAN  VS. RICK"2SLIK" SAN NICOLAS 200LBS+

FIGHT CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!!

LOCAL REGGAE BAND BURNING BUSH WILL BE JAMMIN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT!!

SEE EVERYONE THERE!! ]]> http://trenchwarrior.wordpress.com/?p=16 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:24:09 +0000 trenchwarrior http://trenchwarrior.wordpress.com/?p=16  

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Bob Schaffer took the low road when he attacked those brave enough to publicly describe the human rights abuses. His actions turned even more deplorable this year when he recommended the guest-worker program from the Islands as something the U.S. should adopt as a model. A series of lies and distractions have been issued from his campaign ever since that recommendation.

Ending the exemptions should bring the textile industry closer in line to what we expect state-side. That said, it's not as if the Department of Labor has been advocating for workers here under the Bush administration either. No, it will take a Democratic President and a progressive Congress to enforce the laws we already have on the books. The same laws that have been ignored for seven years.

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In additional Mariana Island sweatshop cover-up news, Bob Schaffer has been caught in an additional lie. An important diary was posted today at SquareState. Previously, Bob Schaffer and his puppet-master Dick Wadhams told the press and the public that Bob's trip to the Islands while a Representative was handled by Calif.-based Traditional Values Coalition, which Schaffer described as a religious group "concerned with human rights." Wadhams used this organization as a distraction, saying Bob didn't know if Jack Abramoff was associated with it. As it turns out, that wasn't so.

Some hard-working folks went to the CSU Congressional Archive and searched through Bob Schaffer's records from his term as Representative. According to an August 24, 1999 memo from Susan Wadhams (Dick Wadhams' since-deceased wife), the Preston Gates D.C. lobbying firm arranged the trip. Preston Gates arranged this trip for their clients, the CNMI, the Saipan Garment Manufacturers, and the Western Pacific Economic Council. The connection comes in quite easily: Jack Abramoff was the lead lobbyist for these accounts. Will Dick Wadhams continue to lie to the public by insisting Schaffer didn't even know of Abramoff? Puh-leeze!

The same memo contains an itinerary for Schaffer and his wife's trip to the Islands. Between the touring of historical sites that he's admitted to and the parasailing pictures and the meeting with government officials, exactly when did Schaffer have time to visit 20 factories? We've seen one picture of him in a factory. It seems obvious that there should be additional evidence of his activities, whether in final itinerary form, his extensive investigative note-taking or pictures. If he was doing what he says he was doing. Right now, we only have his campaign's commentary of activities and a growing body of items showing his activities and the two aren't agreeing very well.

This fringe rightie has no business representing the people of Colorado ever again.

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Majority of the House votes, 291-117, pushed for the passage of S. 2739 which will apply federal immigration law to the CNMI, as well as create a federal guest worker program, and will establish a non-voting CNMI delegate seat in the US House of Representatives.

President George Bush is expected to sign S. 2739 within days or weeks.

"For too long, abuses took place in the CNMI, and for too long, remedial legislation was held hostage in this body. Let this legislation bring forth a new dawn, a start of a new era, and with a Delegate to this body, let the voices of the people of the CNMI be heard," said US House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), a co-sponsor of the bill.

Irene Tantiado, interim chair of the newly formed Coalition of United Guest Workers (CNMI), told GMANews.TV on Wednesday that a majority of the guest workers in Saipan were already expecting the bill’s passage.

Tantiado, who has been in Saipan for 11 years, said the focus now should be on the promulgating rules and regulations to make sure that foreign workers in the CNMI will have better immigration status under a federal immigration system.

"We are not losing hope that we will be able to get green cards which is a much better deal than the current CNMI law that's why we're still gathering more signatures for our petition to US Congress," she said.

Once S. 2739 becomes a law, the CNMI ceases control of its own labor and immigration. The CNMI is the only US territory that controls its own labor and immigration.

S. 2739 was introduced by US Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) on March 10.

Options for foreign workers

The Coalition of United Guest Workers (CNMI), a newly-formed group of foreign workers, is studying the four options for CNMI employers to hire foreign workers under S. 2739.

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the US Congress, outlined these four options:

1. CNMI and Guam employers may petition foreign workers under federal nonimmigrant H visas without counting against numerical caps for H-1B and H-2B visas. Every year, only 66,000 H visas are issued for employers across the United States. Until 2014, the CNMI and Guam will be exempted from this quota.

2. Employers may acquire temporary CNMI-only nonimmigrant work permits. This option is available, during the transition period, for employers of foreign
workers who are not eligible for H visas.

3. During the transition period, existing CNMI-government-approved foreign workers who are
legally present in the CNMI under CNMI immigration laws on the effective date of the transition period are temporarily protected from deportation.

4. During and after the transition period, CNMI employers can petition for non immigrant status and employment-based permanent immigration status for workers under the same procedures as other US employers.

Victory

News of the US House's passage of the bill spread like wildfire in Saipan - from text messages to e-mails, blogs and just about everywhere Filipinos and other guest workers converge.

When Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, they made CNMI federalization a priority, citing continuous reports of slave labor, prostitution and human trafficking in the CNMI and limited rights for guest workers.

Sally Ramos, 40, who has been in the CNMI capital of Saipan for 11 years, said any immigration status that is better than the annual contract renewal given to them is most welcome.

But Ramos, from Angandana, Isabela, said she won't be celebrating until the bill is signed into law.

Virgin Islands Delegate Donna M. Christensen, a Democrat and chairwoman of the US House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, praised the passage of S. 2739.

She said the measure will "ensure that employers have the ability to fill jobs, continue vocational training to empower CNMI residents with skills needed to succeed in their economy, foster partnerships with neighboring Guam to diversify the region's economy, maintain adequate protections for the non-resident guest worker community, and strategically secure the Marianas archipelago."

"Extending federal immigration law to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas closes the guest worker loophole under which so many were held in modern slavery. The Constitution's guarantee of freedom must apply everywhere in the United States, no matter how remote," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., (D-MI).

Wendy Doromal, a US-based human rights advocate, congratulated everyone who supported S. 2739, saying the legislation "promotes social and political justice, human rights, and economic prosperity for all of the people who live and work in the CNMI."

The chairman of the US House Committee on Education and Labor, George Miller, said they sought these changes so that they could put a stop to the abuse of workers in the garment and tourism industry in the CNMI and to better secure America's borders. - GMANews.TV ]]> http://ndr12.wordpress.com/?p=58 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:24:04 +0000 Norman del Rosario http://ndr12.wordpress.com/?p=58

 wala ang kabila nyan LOL, ang pangit kaya ng sa kanila LMAO! 

10 killed in shandong ship accident
China Internet Information Center| - China
the death toll from a shipping accident in east china 's shandong province has increased to 10, and an unknown number of people are still missing,

OSHA investigating explosion aboard Navy ship
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
But Bob Kilpatrick, president and general manager of BAE San Diego Ship Repair, had said shortly after the accident that investigators were looking into

Chesapeake Bay – danger zone amended

The US Army Corps of Engineers is amending its regulations to modify the danger zone in waters of Chesapeake Bay in the vicinity of Bloodsworth Island, Maryland. The change comes into effect on December 24. 72 Fed. Reg. 65667 (November 23, 2007).

Tinian, CNMI – security zone amendment

The US Coast Guard issued a rule amending the security zone in waters adjacent to Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The security zone will only be enforced when a Maritime Preposition Ship is present or when the mooring balls are anchored and on station. The change comes into effect on December 21. 72 Fed. Reg. 65459 (November 21, 2007).

IMO – North Sea SECA in effect

The IMO issued a news release reminding the maritime community that the North Sea Sox Emission Control Area (SECA) came into effect on November 22. In this SECA (as well as the earlier Baltic Sea SECA), the sulfur content of fuel oil used on board ocean-going ships must not exceed 1.5% m/m. Alternatively, ships may be fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system. (11/21/07).

New Zealand – guidance re safety management systems

Maritime New Zealand issued guidance regarding establishment of safety management systems by companies and ships subject to the International Safety Management (ISM) Code. Guidance Notice Issue 5-2007 (11/21/07).