Cleveland tops Atlanta to open Eastern Conference finals

LeBron James (left) of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots over Paul Millsap of the Atlanta Hawks during game one of the Eastern Conference finals at Philips Arena on May 20, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta (AFP) – LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks97-89 on Wednesday to open the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

With a berth in the NBA championship finals on the line in the best-of-seven series, J.R. Smith set a Cavaliers club record for three-pointers, draining eight from beyond the arc.

His 28 points accounted for all of the scoring by Cleveland reserves.

“I was just trying, if anything, to take good shots,” Smith said. “I got in a rhythm early and just stayed aggressive.”

Smith’s long-range bombs came in bunches, including three in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter as he helped Cleveland build an 18-point lead.

He broke James’s prior Cavaliers record for three-pointers in a playoff game by one. James made three against Washington in game four of the 2006 Eastern conference quarter-finals.

“Those who know J.R. know when he gets hot, he gets smoking hot,” said Cavaliers coach David Blatt.

“He was terrific. Probably overlooked is how well he defended and that he got eight rebounds.”

Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player James scored 31 points, pulled down eight rebounds and handed out six assists for the Cavaliers.

He said defense was the key to the victory.

“We’re the number one defensive team in the playoffs. In order for us to win, ultimately we have to defend,” said James, who is playing in his fifth straight Eastern Conference finals after four appearances with Miami.

“Tonight we shot 44 percent from the field, but we defended. We gave ourselves a chance. When you defend at a high level you’re going to give yourself a chance to win every night.”

James has won two titles with the Heat and returned to his home state and first NBA team the Cavaliers, vowing to bring Cleveland a championship.

He sealed Wednesday’s victory with a thundering dunk in the final minute.

Tristan Thompson added 14 points and 10 rebounds in the win and Kyrie Irving had 10 points and six assists in 27 minutes.

Jeff Teague scored 27 points to lead Atlanta, but the Hawks lost starting forward DeMarre Carroll to a left leg injury in the fourth quarter.

Carroll, who appeared to hyperextend his left knee when he planted his foot to take a shot, crumpled to the floor in pain.

Rival James gave him some encouraging pats as Hawks personnel helped him from the court.

“At the end of the day, we’re all a brotherhood,” James said. “You never want anyone to get injured, even in combat.”

Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said Carroll would have an MRI exam on Thursday to assess the severity of the injury.

“At this point, I think the doctors are saying it’s a knee sprain,” Budenholzer said. “We’ll know tomorrow.”

The Cavaliers will try to strengthen their grip on the series in game two on Friday.

The winners of the series will take on the Western Conference champions in the NBA Finals.

Golden State, the best team in the regular season, leads Houston 1-0 in the Western Conference championships.

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Flashback Friday: Sarah Geronimo, Singer and Actress, was declared as the most beautiful woman of the Philippines in 2014

Flashback Friday: Sarah Geronimo, Singer and Actress, was declared as the most beautiful woman of the Philippines in 2014

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Sarah Geronimo: Most Beautiful Woman of the Philippines (2014)

Sarah Geronimo: Most Beautiful Woman of the Philippines (2014)

Yellow Netizens Firm on Mar Roxas for President

Despite consistent and persistent poor performance in popularity and acceptance surveys, Mar Roxas is far and away the only viable Presidential candidate for 2016 according to Yellow Netizens. This small but vocal segment of the Philippine population is rabidly pro Aquino Administration and considers P-Noy as the best President our country ever had. Among their ranks too is the call for another six years for P-Noy as leader of the land. The Philippine Constitution only allows a single six year term for Presidents so for P-Noy to run for a second term in 2016 needs a Constitutional amendment. Well, if Batman P-Noy can not run next May, then who but Robin Mar should head the Liberal Party ticket. News about some Liberal Party members toying with the idea of adopting Senator Poe as Presidential candidate does not faze the loyal Liberal Party base. Yellow Netizens are banking on the Ombudsman and/or the Justice Department to make life miserable for frontrunning Vice President Jojo Binay. In the Liberal Party wish list are a number of scenarios: Jojo Binay in jail, Jojo Binay suspended as Vice President, and Jojo Binay resigning his cabinet position. It is the view of the Yellow Netizens that a gravely weakened, battered and staggering Binay would somehow find a way for Mar Roxas to win the Presidency.

Justice Secretary De Lima Freezes Investigation of Second Batch Senators in PHP 10 Billion Napoles Pork Barrel Fund Scam

senators 6After months of stating that the second batch of senators for persecution in the PHP 10 Billion Napoles Pork Barrel Fund Scam is in process, now here comes Justice Secretary Leila De Lima to contradict herself and declare that there will be no second batch of senators to be indicted (at least while she remains as Justice Secretary). The Department of Justice is simply too busy to attend to such trivial matter. After all what is a few hundred millions of pesos of public funds going to the pockets of senators, congressmen and congresswomen, plus heads and top officials of the line agencies of the Executive Department. Such an announcement was long predicted by conspiracy theorists that have always maintained that the current administration’s Tuwid na Daan (Straight Path) is just a fancy term that means nothing at all. Actually Tuwid na Daan means Justice in such issues as grand scale graft and corruption which is why sitting senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla are now in jail for PLUNDER. The only problem is that the Tuwid na Daan’s concept of JUSTICE is, in truth, SELECTIVE JUSTICE. Perish the thought of a blindfolded Lady Justice holding court and passing judgment on the poor and the almighty, the well connected and the social outcasts, the professionals and the uneducated.

So who are now getting away scot-free? Senators Bong Bong Marcos, Loren Legarda and Tito Sotto are sleeping better these nights. All three had very prominent roles in the Napoles NGOs involving hundreds of millions of pesos.  Senator Gringo Honasan (of PhilForest fame) also dodged the PLUNDER BULLET. The lesson here is that political opponents of the Aquino Administration go to jail while allies laugh all the way to the bank. Sometimes it does not pay to steal in the Philippines (ask JPE, Jinggoy and Bong) but sometimes CRIME DOES PAY (just ask Bong Bong, Loren, Tito and Gringo).

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Mar Roxas Ilalaglag, Liberal Party Magwawatakwatak

Dala ng mababang pagtanggap kay Mar Roxas ng mamamayang Pilipino base sa maraming survey, kinakabahan na ang mga kaalyado ni Pangulong Aquino at kumakapit na sa patalim sa paghanap ng mas malakas na manok na makikipagsabong sa kasalukuyang Bise Presidenteng, si Jojo Binay. Ang napipisil na pumalit kay Mar Roxas bilang mamumuno ng Liberal Party ticket sa 2016 ay si Senadora Grace Poe, anak ng pumanaw na Fernando Poe Jr., Da King of Philippine Movies. Tatlo ang maaring mangyari kay Mar Roxas, bumaba sa pagtakbo sa posisyong Bise Presidente kung saan natalo na sha nuong 2010 o tuluyan nang hindi tumakbo sa posisyong Presidente o Bise Presidente. Ang pangatlong sitwasyon ay kung saan si Grace Poe at Mar Roxas at parehong tatakbo bilang Presidente at kakalabanin si Jojo Binay. Dito sa pangyayaring ito, mahahati at magwawatakwatak ang Liberal Party kung saan ang mga loyalista at panatiko ng LP ay susuporta kay Mar Roxas, samantala ang mga practikal naman sa hanay nila ay maghahangad kumampi sa may mas malakas na tsansa na magwagi sa eleksyon laban sa nangungunang Binay at ito ay si Grace Poe. Abangan. Sa Oktubre na po ang filing of the certificate of candidacy. Sa Mayo 2016 naman ang pambansang halalan. Si Chiz Escudero bilang bise Presidente po ang gustong katambal ni Grace Poe.

Poe-Roxas or Poe-Escudero  would either downgrade or dump Mar Roxas

Poe-Roxas or Poe-Escudero would either downgrade or dump Mar Roxas

Filipino American Jordan Clarkson is in NBA All-Rookie First Team

LA Lakers Filipino American Jordan Clarkson is in the NBA All-Rookie First Team

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Filipino American Jordan Clarkson of the LA  Lakers was chosen to the NBA All-Rookies First Team

Filipino American Jordan Clarkson of the LA Lakers was chosen to the NBA All-Rookies First Team

Liberal Party could downgrade or dump Mar Roxas in 2016

Aquino adminstration allies are floating the idea of a Grace Poe – Mar Roxas ticket with the daughter of FPJ becoming the standard bearer and main threat to challenge leading Presidential contender Vice President Jojo Binay. Then there are rumors too of a Grace Poe – Chiz Escudero run which is the more natural combination if Grace Poe herself is given the chance of choosing her vice-presidential candidate. Of course, it is pretty obvious that the main reason for all these previously unheard of pairings is the pathetic popularity ratings of Mar Roxas, long considered to be the 2016 Liberal Party Presidential bet. With the chances of Mar Roxas winning the top post derby looking farther and farther away with each passing day, the Liberal Party is in PANIC MODE especially if President Aquino and/or Mar Roxas himself decide to field Mr. Palengke in the Presidential race against all odds. The problem gets bigger if , and when, Grace Poe decides to run for the Presidency against both front-runner Jojo Binay and tail

Poe-Roxas or Poe-Escudero  would either downgrade or dump Mar Roxas

Poe-Roxas or Poe-Escudero would either downgrade or dump Mar Roxas

ender Mar Roxas because the Liberal Party may be split down the line with loyal Liberal Party members opting for Roxas come what may and more practical Liberal Party members supporting Grace Poe who has a hugely better chance (in comparison with Mar Roxas) of winning against the sitting, but politically harassed, Vice President.

Facebook Algorithm Error Punishes Millions of Its Group Members

A tsunami-strength pornography spam devasted hundreds of Facebook group pages as the top social network algorithm failed to recognize a concerted effort by flooders and spammers to bring down the highly popular Facebook group pages. Facebook has always maintained that the responsibility to keep said group pages clean lies on the page administrators. In the course of the usual day-to-day events, page administrators are able to manage their group pages by approving posts and either blocking offensive content from being posted or removing said posts that are not allowed by Facebook rules and regulations. However, when the most recent pornography link was released, it was able to embed itself in the now popular smartphones thru Android applications and thus spread like wildfire since it triggered friends of those who got the virus to release the same to their own set of friends. Facebook group admins quickly recognized the gravity of the problem and acted to remove the deluge of pornographic material (frontal nudity, sex act, triple X videos and pictures). Pretty soon alarmed Facebook group members started reporting the matter to Facebook who, in turn, CLOSED DOWN the groups leaving millions of the group members in cyber limbo. Facebook should have acted quickly to disable the offensive links to prevent its spread or maybe even just removed the ability of the link to show lewd pictures (meaning people would see the link but there would be no accompanying picture). The problem here lies with the Facebook algorithm which failed to run after the evil doers but instead punished the innocent group members and their admins.

Facebook algorithm error  kills hundreds of group pages and leaves millions of its members in cyber limbo or Internet graveyard.

Facebook algorithm error kills hundreds of group pages and leaves millions of its members in cyber limbo or Internet graveyard.

Vietnam exporting pornographic malware (malicious software) through Facebook

The People’s Republic of Vietnam is the world”s major exporter of PORNOGRAPHY. Using social media, Vietnamese hackers and programmers are creating, distributing and causing the massive proliferation of PORNOGRAPHIC material through the Internet, mainly in Facebook. Unwitting Facebook members are enticed by sexy video links that in turn “capture” the victims’ Facebook accounts causing the sending out of the lewd messages thus replicating the virus by distributing the triple-X material to their Facebook friends. Some of the messages are even made to appear as if they originated from the Philippines although most Filipinos can discern the foreign origin of the text due to the FRACTURED TAGALOG USAGE (obviously caused by using translation services that are more literal than linguistically correct).

There is no indication that this cyber porno attack is state sponsored (the government of Vietnam, that is) but it is disconcerting for Vietnamese netizens to target the Philippines (probably because Facebook is banned in China, which is their historical enemy). It is also sad that Vietnam has a glorious military history having defeated their colonizer France and foreign invader United States in wars that left their country in ruins for decades. Now that Vietnam is back on its feet and achieving spectacular economic gains, we see no reason for this cyber display of arrogance. The Philippines should request its telecoms and local branch of Facebook to filter cyber traffic from Vietnam as a fisrt step to stopping these attacks against the very moral

Flashback of circa 1970s poster of the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people against United States imperialism. Today, Vietnam exports PORNOGRAPHY.

Flashback of circa 1970s poster of the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people against United States imperialism. Today, Vietnam exports PORNOGRAPHY.

fiber of the Filipino people. It is no secret that the Filipino youth, predominantly males, are in their formative years and thus are very sensitive to the encroachment and corrosive effects of PORNOGRAPHIC materials on thier young minds.

Social Media Incubating the Next Generation of Pinoy Sex Criminals

Young Filipino boys, high school kids and college level males, are posting thousands of porn spam on Facebook and other social media outlets every day. It is summer time and most students are on school vacation. It is the traditional time for out of town trips, basketball, biking, swimming and computer gaming. In the subset of the computer savvy, skilled in Dota, Grand Theft Auto, Clash of Clans, Warcraft and other blockbuster games, have risen a new breed of flooders and spammers who disdain proliferating selfies and celebrity pictures and post pornography links instead. Facebook personal pages, fan pages and groups are teeming with nude pictures, sex act photos and triple X content. Unwary Facebook members, hoping to catch the latest news from relatives, classmates and friends are shocked beyond disbelief upon seeing graphic photos in their walls (when tagged by a “friend”) or in their news feeds when the offensive pictures find their way to the pages of their friends. Facebook has a faulty reporting system where page owners are mandated to clean their pages when Facebook can actually remove the offensive links themselves. Instead of punishing accounts responsible for spreading the porn viruses, Facebook takes action against the pages where the porn links are posted. Group pages, personal accounts and fan pages are mere victims to the concerted effort of porn spammers yet Facebook takes it against them in their inability to control the sex viruses spam spread. Surely all the sexual content on the internet will have an effect on the national moral fiber and those responsible for the proliferation porn of video or photo links could soon graduate (if they have not done so already)

This is the only photo that we can publish for fear of proliferating pornographic pictures.

This is the only photo that we can publish for fear of proliferating pornographic pictures.

to the next level of SEX CRIMES.