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Bohol Plaza




Receiving area at Bohol Plaza
One of the dining areas and function
halls at Bohol Plaza.
Come to the heavens
                                     

A view of the wonderful pool at Bohol Plaza

A  soothing frisk of thrill awaiting you at the top view
Let the steep hike creep into your nerves as you take the heights
to where a caper must exalt you
that's Bohol Plaza Resort and Restaurant
...a niche teasing your imagination
touch the heavens right here...overlooking like gods and goddesses
right at Bohol Plaza Resort and Restaurant

Grasp the shapes of the clouds as they shift forms before your eyes
as you watch the sun sinks by dusk and rise by dawn
What the sight has to keep?
Across the island, star-like flickers tease your night
...Let Bohol Plaza Resort and Restaurant show you
An experience just for you...discover...a must
...and a dream-lush take off to the trail on the delights of Bohol
at Bohol Plaza Resort and Restaurant,
you will learn what sumptous dining means at the Native Restaurant set off with the live band
plush swimming by the cascades pool
or have a piece of Eden from a different point by the Scenic Elevator
or pamper yourself at the Island Nature Spa
Take pride in partaking history shaping up in conventions preferred at
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Who said heaven is only in after life? Why wait for tomorrow when you can enjoy Bohol Plaza? What are you waiting for? 
Bohol Plaza a place you surely will never forget.










Jose Mari A. Pacampara (3k3)


References:
http://www.boholplazaresort.com/
http://www.boholplazaresort.com/index.php?page=gallery

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Bohol's Pride- The Baclayon Church



The Second Oldest Church in the Philippines: The Immaculate Conception in the town of  Baclayon. According to the Lay Minister who conducted a brief story telling of the history of the church, it was built by the Jesuits, the Spanish Missionaries. The construction of the church began in 1717 and took a decade for the Filipino to finish it under forced labor.The church is uniquely made of coral stones and millions of egg whites as alternative of the cement at that time.

As I entered the church, the ambiance of the place is relaxing where many saints and figures can be seen which are preserved there.

The old organ used by the Spaniards wayback is still existing and functioning. The sound of silence can heal and make you meditate as you enter the place.

Lastly, what makes us so impressed is when our tour guide introduced us that there is a face that was formed in a wall outside the church. It looks like Padre Pio ,a Franciscan priest or also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.

Our visit there was great and memorable that we will cherish for the rest of our lives. 


-Gladys Grace Alvisor Ruel-TCM3K3

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2013 Most Anticipated Movies

Have you been waiting for so long of a sequel of your favorite movies? Well, wait no more! Here are the top 20 of 2013’s most anticipated movies.

  

 
1)      Iron Man 3

In Theaters: May 3, 2013

In Marvel's "Iron Man 3," Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his world reduced to rubble by a malevolent enemy and must use his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him as he seeks to destroy the enemy and his cohorts. Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

2)       Fast and Furious 6
 May 24, 2013
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) and the crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to pull off a high-octane heist on the streets of Europe – with federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) hot on their tails.

3)      G.I. Joe: Retaliation
March 29, 2013
When Cobra spy Zartan has most of the Joes assassinated, the remaining Joes band together to strike back.

4)      Dorothy of Oz

Back in Kansas, Dorothy Gale decides to return to Oz in order to help her friends.
 The plot begins as Dorothy returns to Kansas to find it devastated by the tornado that sent her to Oz. Before she can react to the destruction of her home, she is transported back to Oz, where her three friends (Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man) have disappeared. She meets a charming man made of marshmallows who can’t quite think for himself, a tiny china doll princess whose bossiness is a cover for her fragility, and a tugboat with as many personalities as he has pieces. Dorothy must help this group band together against the Jester, a wicked new villain who believes that all of Oz should be under his control. How will Dorothy and her new companions work together in a seemingly disastrous time to restore Oz to the place we all know and love?

5)      Star Trek Into Darkness
May 17, 2013
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

6)      The Wolverine
July 26, 2013
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.
7)      Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
August 16, 2013
Based on the huge best-selling series by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, continues his epic journey to fulfill his destiny, as he teams with his demigod friends to retrieve the Golden Fleece, which has the power to save their home and training ground, Camp Half-Blood.
8)      Man of Steel
June 14, 2013
A child sent to Earth from a dying planet is adopted by a couple in rural Kansas. Posing as a journalist, he uses his extraordinary powers to protect the his new home from an insidious evil.
9)      Scary Movie 5
April 12, 2013
Snooty, aloof, imperious, and oversexed French dance company director Pierre is putting on a new production. Jody, a Caucasian late-20s mother of two and her late-20s African American friend Kendra are both vying for the lead in the production. Jody's extremely controlling former dancer mother is determined that Jody will have the brilliant career that eluded her. The highly skilled mid-30s Diva veteran dancer with the company, Heather Daltry, gets cut from the production and goes berserk.
10)   Thor: The Dark Worlds
November 8, 2013
In the comicbooks, Algrim the Strong (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) was the most powerful of a race of Dark Elves, who is coerced by Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston) to fight Thor (Chris Hemsworth). After he's betrayed by Malekith and injured during a battle, Algrim is healed and transformed into a much more powerful being called Kurse, who is twice as a strong as Thor.
11)   Monsters University
June 21, 2013
Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met at University of Fear they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.
12)   The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
November 22, 2013
Follows Katniss Everdeen who has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
13)   World War Z
June 21, 2013
A researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors of the flesh-eating zombie attack from all over the world in order to put together a post-mortem on a war that destroyed every country around the globe.
14)   Texas Chainsaw 3D
January 4, 2013
Legendary horror icon Leatherface is back for more murder and mayhem. Texas Chainsaw 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family – or so they thought. Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.
15)   Riddick
September 6, 2013
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
16)   The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 13, 2013
The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with 13 dwarves.
17)   Despicable Me 2
July 3, 2013
The return of Gru (Steve Carell), the girls, the minions and a host of new characters.
18)   The Hangover: Part III
May 24, 2013
This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

 A Los Angeles-based story that will deviate from the forgotten-debauchery formula of the first two films. It's safe to say a reunion between Stu and Jade is on the itinerary.
19)   The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
August 23, 2013
Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
20)   Zero Dark Thirty
January 11, 2013
The story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man. For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and




By: Jose Mari "Jomar" A. Pacampara


Reference:

http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/anticipated/2013/

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HOME ALONE

Home Alone is a 1990 American Family Christmas Comedy Movie and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy, who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. While initially relishing time by himself, he is later greeted by two would-be burglars played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci. The film also features Catherine O'Hara and John Heard as Kevin's parents. As of 2009, Home Alone was the highest grossing comedy of all time.

In its opening weekend, Home Alone grossed $17 million in 1,202 theaters, averaging $14,211 per site and just 6% of the final total. Home Alone proved so popular that it stayed in theaters well past the Christmas season. It was the #1 film at the box office for 12 straight weeks, from its release weekend of November 16–18, 1990 through the weekend of February 1–3, 1991. It remained a top 10 draw at the box office until the weekend of April 26 that year, which was well past Easter weekend. It made two more appearances in the top 10 (the weekend of May 31-June 2 and the weekend of June 14–16) before finally falling out of the top 10. The film ended up making a final gross of $285,761,243, the top grossing film of its year in North America. The film is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest grossing live-action comedy ever.
By the time it had run its course in theaters, Home Alone was the third-highest-grossing film of all time, according to the home video box. In total, its cinema run grossed $477,561,243 worldwide.
 
by: Sheila Marie Ancheta
 
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone

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Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

With three or four multi-million dollar blockbusters popping up every summer, it's clear that film is important to American culture. In fact, the top three movies of 2006 grossed nearly $1 billion altogether. At its peak, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the highest grossing movie of 2006, was shown in over 4,000 different theaters. You have to spend money to make money, though, and that's no different in Hollywood. That said, here are the most expensive movies of all time.

Highest Budgeted Movie Ever MadeWith a budget of $258 million, Spider Man 3 (2007) cost more to produce that any movie before or after its release. With its amazing special effects, top dollar stars and devoted fan base, it's little wonder that the movie merited such a high budget. Yet this expensive film is only the third most expensive movie when you take inflation into account.


Most Expensive Movie Ever Made in the USCleopatra (1963) was produced at a total cost of $44 million, which is over $295 million in today's currency. Starring Elizabeth Taylor in the titular role, this film chronicles Cleopatra's life form the advent of Caesar's reign to her own death. With this original being a mere $2 million, it nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. While Cleopatra is the most expensive movie ever made in US, it's only second most expensive movie ever made.



Most Expensive Movie Ever MadeThe Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" was produced in 1968 for over $100 million. Originally released in 4 parts, War and Peace has a running time of just over 8 hours. Even with its phenomenal budget, it took 7 years to produce. The film was also featured in the :Guinness Book of World Records" for the Battle of Bordino scene whichm with its 120,000 soldiers, is one of the largest battles ever filmed. At an estimated adjusted cost of over $500 million, it's not likely the most expensive movie ever made will be unseated anytime soon.

Reference:
http://most-expensive.net/movie-ever-made

By:
Gladys Grace Ruel

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History of the Motion Picture

The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera. The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often
credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention. The Cinematographe made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better be said that Lumiere's invention began the motion picture era. In 1895, Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person. The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.. References





By: Gladys Grace Ruel

Reference:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

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First Home Movie Ever Made

Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)

Early movie history is surrounded in the mists of time, as different competitors develop movie technology simultaneously. However, the Roundhay Garden Scene is thought to be the oldest surviving film on record.

The Roundhay Garden Scene was directed by the French inventor, Louis Le Prince and features some members of Le Prince's family playfully walking around a garden. The film lasts about two seconds.



ROUNDHAY GARDEN SCENE (1888)



Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince, considered to be the world's first film ever made using a motion picture camera. According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, it was filmed at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom on October 14, 1888. It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley in the garden, walking around and laughing. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for inly 2.11 seconds. Le Prince later used his camera to shoot trams and the horse-drawn and pedestrian traffic in Leeds Bridge. These pictures were soon projected on a screen in Leeds, making it the first motion picture exhibition. After returning tpo France, in September 1890, Le Prince was preparing to go back to UK to patent his new camera, followed by a trip to the US to promote it. Before his journey, he decided to return home and visit friends and family. Having done so, he left Bourges on 13 September to visit his brother in Dijon. He would then take the 16 September train to Paris, but when the train arrived, his friends discovered that Le Prince was not on board. He was never seen again by his family and friends. No luggage nor corpse was found in the Dijon-Paris express nor along the railway. No one saw Le Prince at the Dijon station, except his brother. No one saw Le Prince in the Dijon-Paris express after he was seen board it. No one noticed strange behavior or aggression in the Dijon-Paris express. The French police, Scotland Yard and the family undertook exhaustive searches but never found his body or luggage.
The Mysterious disappearance case was never solved.






References:
http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/09/27/roundhay-garden-scene-1888/
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-first-movie-ever-made-history-film-firsts-679245.html

By: Sheila Marie Ancheta

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