Mediating Housing

From experience, know the travails of acquiring real estate. Now a smart, socially- conscious entrepreneur, Jack Ng, Jr. has come up with housing priced at exactly the limit of the government loan- P 450, 000.

Successful mediation!

Mediating Maids' Loans

Desperate housemaids get into debt before and even during employment abroad.

"HelperChoice is one of several online services cutting out the middleman- recruiters who charge would-be maids exorbitant fees- and helping them to avoid getting trapped in debt bondage to exploitative employers." Thomson Reuters Foundation

Divine Mediation

After DU30 tirade on God and the Catholic Church, he forms his team to meet the offended party.  Would that God make His Almighty Presence felt, as Bro. Eddie Villanueva warned.

Actually, all that DU30 has to do is temper his tongue, but of course he may believe in the Holy Spirit so is not entitled to His Gifts.

Magaway

The name of the PNP point man on their misencounter with the AFP is ominous.

Depending on mobiles while on the field in remote areas is a no-no in effective communication. 

Puckoon

Not a new word for sensitive.
It's a Cinema Europe feature on this place in Ireland. Of course, one character calls wine "liquid Christianity" that has to be respected.

Here, DU30 doesn't even respect Christ! How can he respect Christians? Useless to mediate when the mind and heart are closed.

Dictators Rulebook

NAT GEO's feature on free spirit Picasso was ironically taken over by this one on regimentation.

No dictators allowed in mediation. Only the two disputants' will is followed.

Lucky Strike

PCOO had another one- mistaking Sherwin for Winston.

Details like these have to be precise in Compromise Agreements.

Oral Orders

They are just for meals in restaurants. For DU30 to be taken seriously and without misunderstanding leading to denials and further putdowns, he has to set it in writing, right?

Like a compromise agreement.

Adam Boyd

"Of Highland, Michigan, he is a seasoned contractor who built houses for a living. Nobody would have guessed the lengths he would go to make his daughters happy.

He built a 2-storey wooden play house that awe for both kids and adults alike...Inside, chalkboards adorn some walls, allowing them to draw freely on them."

Like in mediation, instead of telling disputants what they cannot do, give them tools to come up with creative compromises.

American in Paris

Gene Kelly's starving artist character had this to say,"Back there in New Jersey, they said I didn't have talent. They just say it nicer here."

Could lead to a compromise agreement or in this movie, a wealthy patroness!

Mr. Imperium

This TCM feature was about a king and an actress.
It had an interesting way to deflect a proposal.

"Do you love me?"

"Fa, sol, la..."

Jose Rizal

Our national hero tried to mediate between his compatriots and Spain. We all know what he got for it.

Thank God, mediators do not have to suffer the same fate.

Making It Legal

The cartoon Mother Goose & Grim had this strip about it.

"What? You got married?"

"No, she gave me a restraining order!"

As in compromise agreement, always good to be clear.

Kadama-y

In a rare moment of mercy, DU30 once allowed this band of homeless people to Occupy Houses meant for soldiers. Now, they are at it again, more demanding and insistent.

Compromise is always based on goodwill and corresponding behavior.

Less is more

Effective communication, i.e., according to CNN panelist Indira Lakshmanan on the coverage of today's news. She states that info explosion just confuses people, if not makes them leave in disgust, missing the central point being driven in the first place.

So in mediation, after a brief statement of the conflict, there is a move to what both disputants can do to resolve the matter.

Race

This movie seems to be the American sequel to the one from the German Dassler family's point of view. They made the sport shoes of the American Jesse Owen for the Berlin Olympics. He won gold but, of course Hitler stepped out of the stadium rather than shake the victor's colored hands.

Race then had a double meaning. Good to clarify terms in mediation.

3H Couple

Tom Hanks and Ruth Wilson credit Honesty, Humor and Humility for their lasting marriage; aside, of course, from loving the right person.

Now we know what was in that box of chocolates!

Sitter cum Campaigner

Aside from a colostomy bag alleged by a nurse, DU30 needs his daughter to watch his behavior and probably pitch her Senate run at the same time. Bongo seems to have beaten her to it. She has retaliated with an ad for a brand of soap, which she could use on her dad's mouth!

Motives are an essential element in mediation.

Ilyushin

This name of the Chinese plane that landed to refuel at the Davao Airport sounds like the state of our independence and sovereignty we are supposed to celebrate today.

If only both parties abide by the International Arbitral Tribunal's decision in our favor.

Meeting of Muscles

Nuclear, i.e. The world prays as USA and NoKor decides its fate.

Anyone wants to mediate?

Me-dia thing

Yesterday rained blessings. Going out of our village, we were handed by the guard a letter from the Kiwanis (K) International President extending his well wishes on our year of heading K Club of Arista Place. Then witnessed the book donation of KC Makati of Lt. Gov.-Elect Tan Yu lll to our member Sr. Eva Maamo, MD of nearby Our Lady of Peace Hospital's Foundation.

KC Makati brought us to our next appointment with the Ronald McDonald's House Charities' Read to Learn program, where we enrolled Sr. Eva's Subic Aeta Village school.

Then it was off in the rain to celebrate family at Sunshine Place!

Fortune-telling

Now they have found a cat to predict the winner of the World Cup, after a cup of tuna?

Mediation doesn't need a prop cat, just good ole! Will!

Waze of Time

A driver got into a flooded area in Quezon City and was almost carried away, literally

Better to trust your memory of such danger spots and avoid them. Good tip for disputants too.

Channeling Conflict

Facebook has become a viral opinion page among netizens
myself included.

As I have expressed online, what a waste of physical and intellectual/ moral energy! Also join far Faura rallies to be counted. But there has to be a proactive, productive and effective way out of this mess facing us today!

Buck Stabber

The stabbing to death of a pregnant Prosecutor from the Office of the Ombudsman supposedly for fighting back a hold-upper deserves a deeper investigation herself.

1. What cases were she handling?

2. Is this another "nanlaban" case of the war on drugs in reverse?

3. Who gave the suspect those bruises?

4. Surprisingly immediate solution, with her mobile phone recovered...

5. Again, back from abroad, the President had an ominous announcement...

Kiss of Death

The female OFW in Sokor surely needed succor- in empowerment.

As they say, there would be no abuser without a willing and even honored abused!

Archaelogy in Space

Along with the drones taking front page of TIME, CNN also features them being used by archaelogists.

Now if only we can bring about s-peace.

Mediating Magistrates

New members of the Bar were warned not to puke nor do anything else unsavory during their Induction.

Magistrades vs Magistraights!

Mediating Vice

Met some schoolmates yeaterday, one of whom had to go downstairs to smoke.
Another had quit cold turkey.
No, we didn't have it for lunch, sadly.

Told them am organic down to vice. Nail-bite Lol

Who Guards the Guards

The OSG seems to mean Office for Security Guards, as its head who took down the CJ heads the Vigilant agency over government offices.

Like the 8 Ass-ociate Justices who voted for the SolGen's motion, he doesn't seem to see any conflict of interest here. Interesting bunch!