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An interview with the Tandem cover designer!
Posted on September 30th, 2013 by annakjarzab
I don't know about you guys, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the cover for Tandem, my third YA novel that comes out next Tuesday (!!!!). If you haven't seen the interiors of the book, they are also super beautiful. I'm totally fascinated by the process of creating packages for books–it's a lengthy, and often much-debated process that people outside the industry don't always get a glimpse into. So I asked Sarah Pierson, the designer of both the cover and the interior design of Tandem, a few questions about this mysterious but very, very important part of making a book.
Once you have a title assigned to you, what steps do you take? Does the editor usually have very specific ideas of what they want, or do you read the book and come up with a proposal of what you'd like to do?
These are some of the comps from the first round. The basic concept and all the elements are here, but it took time to get to the end result.
Trying out different girls, sizes of the girl, typefaces, colors, ways of blending the sparrow and girl. I had the basic composition and down. This is just a few of the variations.
This is when we felt like we had hit it.
Livened it up with some color. I tried several different background color variations at this stage.
More color to Sasha's face, more depth in the background, and some fine tuning. Series title is in place and quote at the top.
Knowing that TANDEM was the first book in a series, did that affect how you designed the cover? Did you design it with how you would create the covers for the other books in mind?
Thanks so much to Sarah for giving us a little insight into how a cover gets made! You should absolutely check out her website, which showcases many of the beautiful book covers she's worked on in her career, including many I know you'll recognize.
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- Tagged: Books, covers, interviews, many-worlds trilogy, Publishing, tandem
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What's up with you? Nothin'. What's up with you?
Posted on February 28th, 2012 by annakjarzab
Does anyone love The Sweetest Thing as much as I do? Apparently not, because I tried to YouTube the "Nothin'. What's up with you?" scene and I couldn't find it. Which, honestly, makes me sad. Such an under-appreciated gem of a film. But I digress. (Can you digress if you haven't started making your real point yet? I digress again.)
Anyway, hello there, faithful blog readers! I.e., Shannel, my darling college friend who dropped a comment on my last post just this morning saying that she missed my long, ridiculous ramblings on this here blog thing. What's a blog, you say? It's like Tumblr, but with less Hunger Games fan art. Well, you knew that, or you wouldn't be here, I guess. THE POINT IS, some stuff has happened in these last few months, and I'd like to tell you about it. In great detail. With pictures to illustrate. Aren't you excited?!?!
I guess the first piece of big news (which shows you how little I write in this blog nowadays, because this has been up on my Tumblr for months) is that The Opposite of Hallelujah has, in the order in which I received them:
- A cover
- A synopsis
- A pub date/pre-order link(s)
The Cover:
So, without further ado, here it is!
I don't have a lot to say about this cover except that I think it's really beautiful. I've heard a lot about authors struggling with their publishers to get covers they feel represent their work, but I've honestly never had that experience with Delacorte. They sent me the All Unquiet Things cover and I loved it, had no changes. They sent me this cover, and I loved it to. There were two versions, one with my name in lower case and the title in upper, which I also saw, but my editor and I both preferred the version above. (And, actually, they sent me a THIRD cover that was completely different, although my editor explained it was only for my reference, since she didn't like it and didn't want to use it. It was pretty, but I didn't feel strongly about it. Maybe someday I'll get to show it to you!) So, my cover experience has been pretty boring; I write the books, they make the covers, I love the covers, they use them, we're done! Sorry it wasn't a more exciting story, but it's a lovely cover, so we all win.
The Synopsis (jacket flap copy):
Caro Mitchell considers herself an only child–and she likes it that way. After all, her much older sister, Hannah, left home eight years ago, and Caro barely remembers her. So when Caro's parents drop the bombshell news that Hannah is returning to live with them, Caro feels as if an interloper is crashing her family. To her, Hannah's a total stranger, someone who haunts their home with her meek and withdrawn presence, and who refuses to talk about her life and why she went away. Caro can't understand why her parents cut Hannah so much slack, and why they're not pushing for answers.
Unable to understand Hannah, Caro resorts to telling lies about her mysterious reappearance. But when those lies alienate her new boyfriend, friends, and put her on the outs with her parents, Caro seeks solace from an unexpected source. And as she unearths a clue from Hannah's past–one that could save Hannah from the dark secret that possesses her–Caro begins to see her sister in a whole new light.
Pub date/Pre-order link:
Yay! Wasn't that synopsis intriguing? So The Opposite of Hallelujah comes out on October 9, 2012, according to Amazon. You can pre-order the book at Amazon, or Barnes and Noble, or from your local bookseller via Indiebound.org.
I don't have galleys* yet, but I'll probably be getting them soon, although I'll most likely get, you know, two of them. If I happen to get more, I'll do a giveaway, promise! I'll also let you know if the title ends up on NetGalley, if you're of the sort who frequents NetGalley.
Other than that, I've just been working like a maniac at my day job and writing like a maniac at night and on weekends. I'm hoping to finish a new draft of my work in progress (Tandem, which I sold in a two-book deal to Delacorte last May or June or something) by late April. This will be the fifth draft. It is, by turns, incredibly fun and incredibly difficult to write, and it's really teaching me the value of discipline, hard work, and perseverance. Ah, novels; making authors cray since the 15th century.
*Advanced copies of a book that are available in limited quantities for booksellers, media types, etc. about 6-8 months before on-sale.
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- Tagged: Books, covers, OoH, tandem, The Opposite of Hallelujah, writing
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The dead girl on the cover
Posted on May 13th, 2011 by annakjarzab
Recently, I was talking to an editor (not my editor), and she was telling me that she was using the cover of All Unquiet Things as a comp title for the art form for one of her upcoming books. She was saying that the cover of AUT is the perfect direction for this title also, and, not having read it yet but knowing a little bit about it, that makes sense to me. But she was also saying that now, a year post-AUT and post-Before I Fall, you can't really do the "dead girl laying sideways on the grass" thing anymore. It's just too common, probably because the "dead girl" trope in YA lit is also common. It's something I hear people complaining about a lot on blogs, actually, sometimes in reviews of AUT. "Oh, another dead girl book, how original." Setting aside the fact that nothing is really original anymore, and hasn't been since the ancient Greeks, and we're all telling the same five stories over and over again anyway, it's true. You do see a lot of dead girl (and, I would argue, dead boy) books in YA lit. (You see them a lot in adult lit, too, but let's focus.) And there's a reason for that.
People die in high school.
All of the time.
Recently I was having dinner with three of my friends, and one of them (my roommate) mentioned that a friend of a friend had recently died. My roommate's birthday was several months ago, and she'd bought a pretty, blank notebook and brought it with her to the party for her friends to write notes in, since it was her 30th and she wanted a tangible reminder of that night. This friend of a friend had come to the party and wrote in the notebook and a few days ago she'd been going through the notebook looking for a gift card she remembered leaving in there and came across the friend of a friend's note. This reminded me of going through my junior high school yearbook in which there is a note from my friend Rebecca, who died about a week after she wrote it, right before finals week. I was moving to California, and she wrote, "Don't forget me!" I haven't looked at the yearbook in a long time.
The conversation segued on to the (slightly morbid) topic of people we knew who died in high school, and everyone had a story to tell. Some had several. I couldn't help thinking of my aunt, whose best friend died from illness when she was fifteen, or my brother, whose baseball teammate had died in a car accident when he was fifteen. One of my friends knew several girls in high school who lost their lives to violence. As common a trope as it is in YA, it's actually more common in life. If you've listened to the exclusive interview on the All Unquiet Things audio book, I think (I recorded that a loooong time ago) I mentioned that about a year before AUT was published (way after I'd written the thing) I was doing some Googling around and found out that a murder not unlike Carly's had happened in one of the very towns I mention in the novel. It was, of course, entirely coincidental and completely heartbreaking. But this stuff happens, every day in fact, which is why we write about it. That was very clearly driven home to me at dinner with my friends.
And the thing about teenage death is that, while it is never, ever easy to lose someone who is close to you, or even to tangentially experience the death of someone in your peer group, everything is heightened in high school. It all seems more immediate and intense and of-the-moment, because you're so young and you're so promising and you're so alive. Not to quote myself, but allow me to quote myself:
"Murdered." It was a ludicrous word; it didn't make any sense when used to describe Carly. How could Carly be dead? She was so alive.
Poetry, I know. But anyway. That stuff sticks with you long after you've graduated, when your life is nothing like what it was in high school, when your life is not anything like you even imagined it might be in high school. When other memories have faded, or you feel like all those events happened to someone else whose memories were implanted in your head (this is how I feel all the time about my high school years, for no particular reason), you still remember your deepest losses and brushes with death. And they still come up, years later, over glasses of chilled wine on the patio of a tiny bar in Hell's Kitchen.
I guess I don't have a very clear point to close out this post, which is probably pretty frustrating to everyone who managed to read through to the end (but! if you did! you can use the comment tool now! so you can comment! if you want! no pressure!!!), but I'm just saying…death is not a cliche. Or maybe it is, maybe it's the biggest cliche there is, but that doesn't make it less scary or less mysterious and it certainly doesn't make people less inclined to talk about it.
I think people who follow the publishing industry find "dead girl/boy books" exhausting because they (the people, not the books) are jaded; there are so many books, and they all get lumped into categories because that's the easiest way to process them. And I'm not saying I'm not jaded. I'm totally, 100% jaded! But I also know that All Unquiet Things and, say, Thirteen Reasons Why and Before I Fall and If I Stay (to use some random examples that I can speak to because I've read them) are completely different books. They all happen to have a dead girl in them (or, in the case of If I Stay and Before I Fall, girls who are neither dead or alive but in some sort of 'tween state which eventually resolves itself), but other than that they're not at all alike. The writing styles are totally different–my voice and Jay Asher's voice and Gayle Forman's voice and Lauren Oliver's voice are all distinct–the characters are different, the plots are different, etc. I think saying, oh, just another dead girl book, is a disservice to all of those stories, because they're so much bigger than that. And furthermore, I think teens like them (no joke: Thirteen Reasons Why, Before I Fall, If I Stay–all HUGE bestsellers) because their themes are so relevant to the lives they're living.
I, for one, am looking forward to more "dead girl" books, because I actually haven't figured out how I feel about my own approaching death, or that of my loved ones (because obvs we all die eventually). Reading books and engaging with the ideas they contain is how I process my own fears and dreams and feelings. The work is not yet done. By anyone! I'm not just talking about YA fiction here. I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer prize winner, current ladyfic lightning rod) which was ALL ABOUT death! (At least, I think it was. I'm not sure I totally plugged into Goon Squad and therefore may have slid over some of its Very Important I'm Sure themes.) There was even a dead girl (actually, he was a boy, but same diff in this context). Now I'm reading One Day and I'm pretty sure that one's going to be all about death, too. All books are about death (talk about a cliche). Now I'm just spiraling away from my central point. End of post.
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Cover story
Posted on March 4th, 2010 by annakjarzab
You guys know Melissa Walker, right? Author of the Violet series (Violet on the Runway, Violet in Private, Violet by Design) and Lovestruck Summer? Of course you do, duh, no offense. So because you follow Melissa on Twitter and read her blog incessantly, you're familiar with her Cover Stories feature. I love that feature. Whenever I'm scrolling through my Google Reader, I immediately stop to read it. Anyway, Melissa was kind enough to host me on her blog this week, talking about AUT's cover, which we all know is the best cover to ever grace the face of this earth. I know I'm biased, but even when I attempt to be objective, I still feel that way. Anyway! I'll shut up now and let you head over to Melissa's blog to read all about it.
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Forget it, Jake, it's Fake Cover Town
Posted on July 28th, 2009 by annakjarzab
First of all, just in case you missed it, I posted some thoughtsicles about the recent flurry of discussion around the cover of Justine Larbalestier's brilliant new novel, Liar, on The A Team yesterday. Speaking of The A Team, I'm going to see Joanna tonight! Many nachos and martinis will be consumed, I assure you.
Second of all, 100 Scope Notes has started a little meme called Create Your Debut YA Cover, where you follow a bunch of steps, including generating a fake name, a fake title, and a fake stock photo. It's pretty fun, and if you thought the REAL cover of my REAL debut YA novel was creepy, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Presenting Judy J. Clark's debut novel, Crow:
Sorry you guys. I had to post it, those are the rules. I realize it's terrifying. Sleep with the light on.
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Posted on March 9th, 2009 by annakjarzab
What? I am not leaving all the MC Hammer allusions for Josh Berk to just scoop up in put in his blog I mean really now.
So, anyway, last night I finished my revisions for All Unquiet Things. If everything goes as planned, this should be my last round of revisions before copy edits. I sent them off to my editor and my agent, and I'm left here, twiddling my thumbs, eating cheese, and wondering what to post now.
OH I GUESS I'LL POST MY COVER BECAUSE I FINALLY GOT PERMISSION TO DO SO. Pardon the shouting, this is very exciting for me.
I think it's amazing. When we talked about it months ago, the words "sophisticated" and "arresting" were bandied about, and I think it hits both of those right on the mark. "Beautiful", "elegant", and "creepy" are some more things that have been said, but I haven't heard a peep of dissent about it. Everybody, from my editor to the RH sales department to Joanna to me to my mother, really loves it.
What do YOU think?


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I have created my droplet and installed zpanel on my site with success. I manage to setup a couple of sub domains and an FTP account before following instructions from below to secure my server. http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-secure-ubuntu-1204-lts-server-part-1-basics I've completed the instructions above, but now receiving and 403 forbidden error on my main TLD & zpanel, which are both pointing to jonathanyap.com & zpanel.jonathanyap.com. Including www in jonathanyap.com seems to reachable without the error, and the other sub-domain are working as well (finn.jonathanyap.com & jake.jonathanyap.com). I have no problem connecting to the FTP account I have initially set up via zpanel. I'm a beginner in all these and hope someone can guide me through. Thanks Jonathan

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Tampa Couple Arrested After They Use Stun Gun to Discipline Teen
(TAMPA, Fla.) -- A Florida couple who allegedly zapped a 13-year-old boy in their care with a stun gun to discipline him have been charged with child abuse, Tampa police said.
Christopher Lewis, 22, and Deonijhane "Amy" Menifield, 19, were arrested earlier this week, Tampa police spokeswoman Janelle McGregor said. She said Lewis was a relative of the victim, a 13-year-old boy whose name is not being released for confidentiality reasons, and was taking care of him.
Lewis had bought the stun gun about a week before the arrest, police said. "Since that time, both suspects have been using the stun gun as a form of discipline against the victim," according to a police statement.
"The 13-year-old boy told one of the employees at his school what was going on, and the employee called the police," McGregor said."We noticed visible marks on the boy that were consistent with his story." The teenager had been shocked on his upper thigh, cops said.
Lewis and Menifield were arrested at their Tampa home on Tuesday and were both charged with child abuse. Lewis also faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon. Police said that when they arrested him, he was carrying a 12-inch hunting knife in his jacket.
A neighbor, Frances Helms, told ABC affiliate WFTS-TV that she watches the victim and saw the marks on the boy's arms this week. "It looked like a burn mark," said Helms.
"It's terrible, I would never treat a son of mine like that. It shouldn't be that way," she said.
Lewis told the station the teenager was his brother and denied using the stun gun on him. Police would not confirm the exact relationship between Lewis and the child.
Stun guns, originally developed for use by police, have been abused by private citizens in other recent incidents around the country. Last year in New Hampshire a couple were charged with using a stun gun on their three children, and in Jacksonville, Fla., a mother was charged with battery after she zapped a football coach with a stun gun during an argument.
It is legal in the state of Florida for ordinary citizens to possess stun guns, according to Deputy Dave Burney of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, as long as the guns are hand-held and do not have a "projectile device" like the TASER guns that are only legal for police use; those fire metal probes strung on thin wires which deliver a debilitating shock at a distance.
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The archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, who is on a preaching tour of England, called on Dr Williams, the leader of the worldwide Anglican communion, to "espouse the teaching of scripture" and end his personal sympathy for homosexual couples.
The Australian archbishop is the first senior bishop to voice concerns in line with fundamentalist evangelical fringe groups in the Church of England such as the Church Society and Reform, who called on Dr Williams to step down even before his appointment was confirmed last month.
Dr Jensen launched his crusade, offering strategies to convert a tenth of the population to Bible-based Christianity, at St Helen, Bishopgate, in the City of London. This is the first church in the country effectively to declare UDI by refusing to pay its contributions in protest at Dr Williams' appointment.
After the meeting, he told the Guardian: "From what I have read [Dr Williams] takes a view of the blessing of same-sex unions which I think is contrary to that of scripture, and that is a difficulty for me.
"If the archbishop espouses homosexuality, it does not help us but hinders our work ... I would like him to espouse the teaching of scripture, I would like him to change his mind," he said.
Dr Williams has repeatedly said he respects and will uphold the official position of the church on homosexuality.
The archbishop of Sydney, whose visit was arranged before Dr Williams' appointment, claimed to be unaware of suggestions by some evangelicals that he and other like-minded bishops should exercise episcopal oversight of congregations here unwilling to accept the archbishop of Canterbury's leadership.
"It is not a question which has arisen. I do not know what it would mean. I am offering informal leadership as would the archbishop of Canterbury if he came to my country," said Dr Jensen, who is due to meet Dr Williams at the end of next week, following several speaking engagements across England.


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It never ceases to amaze me. We can get on an aircraft, sip on juice, eat peanuts, read a chapter from a book, take a cat nap, get pictures of clouds and the landscape from a distant, bird's eye view and within 3 hours time be transported to an all together different climate, with contrasting plants, animals, trees and landscape. Seriously, I am in awe every time.
My husband, young girls and I just wrapped up our Florida adventure, where we covered more than half of the sunny state in an eight-day, whirlwind vacation. Our adventure began in Miami where my sister, Laura and bro-in-love, Brendan and their 3 beautiful children live and farm. We toured their 1.5 acre farm complete with a young fruiting orchard, thriving organically cultivated vegetable garden, 5ft diameter composting systems, out-buildings, tall grasses growing wild for privacy, flowers galore, and happy, healthy kiddos. They are in the process of building their dream home - designed to accommodate the natural landscape and climate as ecologically friendly as possible. This was our first visit to their farm, and we were pleasantly surprised at all the amazing work they've been diligently able to complete, considering they are raising 2 young 'uns, work full time, and at multiple side jobs, and manage their homestead. I am super thrilled for them and can't wait to visit again! Here's just a small taste of their plot of tropical heaven (over a 2 day time frame):
They have a trampoline for the kids to release some bouncy fun and energy and get a healthy workout in the process! I even got on it for a bit, and I was soon feeling muscles I didn't know existed! Great fun!! My oldest nephew stopped by for a visit since he lives about 15 minutes from the farm. Kai's dream has always been about skateboarding - as you will notice his stunts carry over onto the trampoline!!
While visiting with our family, we stayed at a local campground, Miami Everglades RV Resort, just around the corner from the Blue Horizon Farm. The camp, we noticed, was mostly a "snow birds" haven of quiet, clean, fun getaway. Kurt and I imagined ourselves in 20 years time loading up an RV and doing the "fly south for winter," snow-bird getaway!! Not a bad idea, whatsoever. We stayed in a cute little cabin for 4, ate our breakfasts out on the picnic table, watched for tiny lizards darting here and there, and enjoyed peaceful nights of slumber here. Great place to visit!!
Across the dirt lane from Laura & Brendan's farm stands towering this enormous Strangler Fig tree that caught my imagination and eye almost immediately. It's overall greatness and flow of the green foliage dancing in the wind made us think of the Studio Ghibli movie, My Neighbor Totoro, a delightful film that my girls have fallen head over heels in love with! Okay, I love it, too! If you have young children, they will adore this magical film. We sang the Totoro song all weekend long, and especially when visiting this magnificent being of a tree! See if you can spot my nephew, Junah among the tree's sprawling branches as he climbed high.
Emilia had the good fortune of planting baby tomatoes with her uncle Brendan and cousins. She's our nature girl who dreams of one day becoming a farmer. She has repeated this throughout her almost 8 years and I do believe she will achieve her goal.
We are looking forward to returning to Blue Horizon Farm and to our Florida family. It was so good to spend quality time together, even though it ended much too soon. Thank you, Laura & Brendan for your hospitality and love!! We had such a fun visit with you all! And Brendan, your vegan chili is the bees knees, my brother! Thank YOU, Sutton family! We love you.
I do have another stop to highlight from our Miami adventures and one positively cool, rocking story of a celebrity meeting to share with you all. Stay tuned for that coming up next! If I've shared the story with you already, please do not spoil the fun. Keep it on the down low until I publish it on the blog for all to read. :) Thank you!!


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A Merry Midsummer
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What beautiful flowers, they look perfectly midsummery. Happy birthday to Charlie, I hope he had a good day. Those tartlets look utterly divine. Oh how I love clotted cream. I could eat a couple of those right now. Love the old recipe book too. Hope you enjoy the rest of midsummer's day. CJ xxReplyDelete
Happy birthday, Charlie. By the way, does anyone know why it's called Midsummer when it's actually the first day of summer?ReplyDelete
Happy birthday to Charlie. Beautiful photos, Sue - I can never see enough of them. And those strawberry tartlets - you can bet I'll be making those soon!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! It looks and sounds like you had a lovely day.ReplyDelete
Gosh, my favourite kind of dinner. Looks delicious.ReplyDelete
I agree, I think Midsummer is a lovely thing to celebrate, even without the justification of a birthday. I always mean to mark it somehow, yet something (usually writing 38 school reports!) gets in the way. I'm glad I can celebrate it vicariously, through your gorgeous blog.
I love the 'Good' in brackets... quite possibly an understatement if pastry and strawberries are involved. I wonder if they were too restrained to indulge in clotted cream...ReplyDelete
The sun's shining and it's so lovely out there. I hope you all enjoyed Charlie's birthday. What a perfect date to celebrate each year.
Yum and Mmm. The flowers look lovely and the strawberry tartlets look.... (good)ReplyDelete
oh my that recipe is confusing. Happy Birthday Charlie. it is the best week for birthdays xReplyDelete
What a beautiful menu, both modern and traditional. I also have no idea why midsummer is on the first day of summer. I blame this on being American.ReplyDelete
That chicken looks so good. What a wonderfully unpretentious, good, honest way to celebrate midsummer. xReplyDelete
That chicken dish is exactly what I cook in summer - freezing cold at the moment and missing the meal and the warmth. Come on summer and long days! Your flower arrangement is lovoly.ReplyDelete
I meant lovely - or loverly??ReplyDelete


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This is it. My family is going to pursue our dream of greener pastures, literally.
When we bought our house, we thought our 900 plus square meter block was HUGE. We quickly set about major renovations, taking out asbestos walls, completely re-painting all of the interior and exterior, major landscaping – a blog entry all of its own really. It took years. A little over three years to be exact.
Whilst that was being done, we also set up trying to create a lifestyle we wanted for our children. We'd barely begun our renovations when we bought our Rhodesian Ridgeback. Soon after our daughter was born my husband expertly created a veggie patch and built a chook shed. Then Wilma and Betty, our two Isa Browns, joined our family much to our daughter's delight.
We wanted our children to understand where their food came from. I wanted to re-create some of the fond memories of my childhood, such as picking strawberries from my grandfathers garden that never quite made it to the kitchen – yum! I wanted my children to know how much better food tastes when it's fresh, to understand the seasons and to experience the joy of watching things grow and learning to cope when things don't work. But as we accomplished each of these things, our massive block started to feel small. We began to notice that we really enjoyed spending time together as a family in the garden. I loved cooking with our produce. In an effort to 'live locally' and eat fresh, we started to source farmers' markets to buy the things that we couldn't grow. We began to buy entire cuts of meat that we would cut into more manageable sizes, thereby being able to afford nicer, more expensive cuts as well as better quality. At the same time my husband and I were growing increasingly frustrated with various aspects about our jobs. We had gotten to the point where we realised that our jobs were not going to change for us, so we had to change instead… As time went on what we used to joke about started to seem like an option that should be given serious thought. Why not move to the country?
So as a way of relieving our stress and to mentally escape, we looked at properties in the country on various real estate sites – just to see if it was feasible. We talked to family friends who lived in the country and I started to read different blogs, just to see what we would be getting ourselves into. Slowly our joking started to become serious. We took weekend trips to different towns, to see if we liked them. Viewed a few properties.
Then a problem occurred.
We found a block of land that we both liked. The land was small enough that we could get financing with a regular loan (it had to be under 10 hectares or you have to get a commercial loan), yet large enough so we could do everything we wanted. It even had internet access. Of course the irony is that it doesn't have electricity, sewer or water…
So the day after our son was born, my husband spent the day negotiating the purchase of 23 acres near the Yass River. I remember holding our new born son, less than twenty four hours old, and watching my husband negotiate over the phone the purchase of a property that will potentially change the course of our life.
We've kept it all 'hush hush' partly because we are still coming to terms with it. It's almost as if, if we talk about it we might wake up from this glorious yet scary dream. We also haven't talked about it with many people because until our house sells, we don't truly know if we can move… If we can afford it. But in the meantime, we own 23 acres in Gundaroo, a tiny little town 35minutes north of Canberra. Gundaroo has all the essentials, a small primary school with 60 students (actually 3 classes of students is quite big for a country town), a church that has services every second Sunday, a large sports oval, a general store/post office/irrigation supply store and two pubs (this is Australia after all).
So now we wait in nervous anticipation for the sale of our house, to know if our dream will indeed become reality.
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There comes a day when we realize that we have grown older than our parents were when they were raising us. That is the day we can forgive them, because that is the day we discover they were no more infallible than we ourselves are. "Da" is a movie about that day, about the day a playwright flies home to Ireland to bury his father and discovers it is not going to be as simple as that.
The movie was written by Hugh Leonard, based on his play, his book and, one presumes, his life. It stars Martin Sheen as a successful Irish playwright, now living in New York, who has his life more or less in order - except for a deep well of frustration and resentment left over from his childhood. When the news comes that his "da" has died in an old folks' home outside Dublin, he returns to the scene of all of his memories, and it turns out that his father is still waiting there for him.
In the movie, as in the play (which I saw in Dublin), this supernatural detail is handled matter-of-factly. Da, played by Barnard Hughes, walks in and sits down and starts to badger his son, and that's that. The old man is both a presence and a memory, both a character in each scene and a character in the mind of his son.
This duality creates two kinds of scenes in which Sheen and Hughes can interact. In some of them, the time is now, and Sheen is the dutiful son, come to bury his father. In other scenes, which are flashbacks, we see actual events in the lives together of father and son. And in some of those scenes, the son is played by younger actors, and Hughes looks younger, too. The flashback scenes are handled objectively, allowing us a way to measure how much of the adult Sheen's anger is justified, and how much is self-indulgence.
Most of the flashbacks involve moments when the young man was embarrassed or humiliated, and of course those moments from childhood stay with us much more vividly than the happy times. In all of the movie, there is no scene more painful than the one in which a quavering old potential employer (William Hickey) comes to call, and is informed by the boy's mother that her son was adopted. This is gratuitous information, unnecessary for the employer to know, but it explains some of the hurt that exists between father and son.
It is only in the "present" scenes, conversations between father and son after da's death, that some of those hurts are resolved and the son is at last able to see that his parents did love him, did care for him and did the best they could. Watching those scenes, I was reminded of a wonderful, overlooked memoir by Clair Huffaker called One Time I Saw Morning Come Home, in which the author, in his 50s, tries to come to grips with the fact that his parents were just a couple of teenage kids when they had him.
Hughes has played the role of da countless times in stage, winning a Tony for it, and he brings to the movie an assurance that is absolutely essential. Precisely because he is a "spirit," he must seem flesh and blood, and as he sits in the parlor of his lifelong home, talking with his son, he seems like the kind of reasonable yet exasperating parent who has never quite gotten over the battles of his own childhood. Sheen, as the son, has perhaps a harder assignment: It is always tricky to express resentment without seeming petulant, but he pulls it off with a certain weariness - as if he has had to put up with his da long enough in life without having to start all over again with his spirit.
"Da" is in many ways a predictable movie; we know from the beginning more or less where it will have to go, and so it does. The texture of the performances and the writing are what make it worth seeing. It is almost impossible, seeing this film, not to think of your parents in a new light, as people who, amazingly, did not have all of the answers and did not even know some of the questions. Perhaps one of the great divides we cross, in our journey through life, is into that age where we can sympathize with our parents against our own insufferable younger selves.
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2013-11-06 — Seven Sadducees travel by train from the same train station, each leaving twice as many hours after the preceding Sadducee as the one before him. How many hours will it be before Jesus busts them for being silly?
Jesus often confounds the unbelievers — the Sadducees, "render unto Caesar," "then who do you say I am?"
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My wife and I just celebrated our 3 year Anniversary and it was so wonderful looking back on our past year and seeing how blessed we were.
We also went through so of the hardest moments of our life with the passing of Kylie and wanted to take time to celebrate her life.
After watching this video my wife and I made, I reflected on some comments people made throughout Kylie's journey.
Many people say that fact tragedies such as children suffering prove that GOD DOES NOT EXIST.
Or at least that an ALL POWERFUL, ALL GOOD God does NOT exist.
After all, God can't possibly be both ALL LOVING (GOOD) and ALL POWERFUL and still allow such unnecessary atrocities in the world to exist. Right?
Wrong. I'm here to prove the contrary.
Suffering PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Here's how:
Whenever someone is tortured, murdered, or dies from so unpreventable disease such as we feel a sense of heartbreak, helplessness, and often anger.
First we must breakdown the types of suffering:
Those brought about by our choices, i.e. moral evils such as murder
Those brought about by nature, i.e. cancer, tornados, etc.
The first can be explained by free will. The fact that humans have free will explain why when people commit an immoral act, consequences of suffering ensues. Otherwise, God would have to make all bad choices have no consequences which would therefore not make it a bad choice, or take away our free will and we could all live as ROBOTS forced to always do the right thing that brings about no suffering.
So the fact that people make evil decisions in the world does not disprove God at all. If there were no God, evil would be subjective and at best we could as a collective group of people decide we don't like certain actions. But we couldn't say that universally RAPE and CHILD ABUSE are evil unless an absolute moral standard exists… and the only way an absolute moral standard exists is if God exists.
Which leads directly to the 2nd type of suffering. This is more frustrating and at times more difficult to explain. How do you explain a child (or a person of any age for that matter) suffering from an incurable disease such as neuroblastoma?
The most natural response to finding out a child suffering from a disease such as this is to say,
"Wow, this is so sad."
"This is so wrong!"
"This just shouldn't happen!"
Any of these are APPROPRIATE responses, however they are completely irrational if you don't believe in God.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it is not right. On the contrary, IF you don't believe in God, diseases such as cancer are completely natural and should be accepted as a part of life. You have no reason to be outraged or upset. These are SUBJECTIVE feelings in response to what is happening. You shouldn't then be objecting to NATURAL SUFFERING.
IF there is no GOD, there is no good or evil… just nature acting perfectly naturally.
Nature is only about survival, so the fact that we feel something is unjust or wrong proves that we have a private, objective standard of what is right or wrong. And if that standard exists… so does GOD.
I could not have written this without the research and help of others. Thank you Peter Kreeft (Professor at Boston College) for sharing your words of wisdom and insight as I researched this topic.


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A New Energy Future
This morning, Governor Kate Brown joined 16 fellow U.S. governors to announce the Governors' Accord for a New Energy Future. The 17-member bipartisan coalition commits to taking action to promote clean energy, clean transportation choices, and a modern electrical grid.
"Efficient and innovative energy solutions are one way to help make Oregon's economy more productive and resilient," shared Governor Brown.
States in the Accord will seek to:
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By all accounts, President Obama is deeply interested in his legacy. And though relatively few American voters see dealing with climate change as a top priority for the federal government, the president famously sees it as the most important issue he can address in his second term. Having failed to shepherd climate change legislation through Congress in 2009, when Democrats had large majorities in the Senate and the House, the Obama administration has shifted to using new regulations to achieve its environmental policy goals. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency introduced its Clean Power Plant Proposed Rule, a sweeping initiative that aims to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The heart of the 2009 legislation — the Waxman-Markey bill — was a new cap-and-trade system, which would allow businesses to trade the right to emit a certain level of carbon. The new EPA regulations are actually much less flexible than the cap-and-trade system envisioned in Waxman-Markey, and they will reduce carbon emissions at a much higher cost to the economy.
So you might be tempted to think that we ought to embrace cap-and-trade. Conservatives often get lectured for failing to embrace cap-and-trade or stringent carbon regulation. Ezra Klein, writing for the liberal news site Vox, observes that Arizona Sen. John McCain favored a cap-and-trade system during his 2008 presidential campaign, and he takes today's GOP to task for being less enlightened.
But if anything, it is McCain who was wrong in 2008, not Republicans who balk at policies that will raise energy prices. Indeed, rather than avoid talking about climate change and the environment, the right should go on the offense. While the president and his allies back price-hiking regulation, conservatives should call for accelerating price-lowering technological innovation.
First, government-mandated price signals aren't set in stone. The carbon price that serves as the basis of a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system is determined in part by (well-meaning, highly-qualified) government officials. But it is inevitable that democratically-elected lawmakers will get involved. And these lawmakers might want to ensure that a carbon price doesn't negatively impact, say, low- and middle-income households, so we'll need to create subsidies to protect them. They will also want to protect important industries in their districts, so we'll need subsidies to protect them too.
If the carbon price proves particularly onerous for one sector or another, it's a safe bet that the system will be "reformed." All industries will seek carve-outs and breaks, and those with the most political muscle will get them. Suddenly a proposal that looks appealing on paper meets the realities of real-world politics, and the results are not pretty.
Consider the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), an ambitious cap-and-trade system first launched in 2005. As Roger Pielke Jr. has observed, the European Union and the United States have experienced the same 6.4 percent reduction in aggregate emissions since 2000, and their paths don't appear to have diverged since the introduction of the ETS. Moreover, the U.S. has actually seen a slightly steeper decrease in its carbon intensity (21 percent) than Europe (19.5 percent). That is, Americans have reduced the amount of carbon they emit per dollar of GDP faster than Europeans in recent years. Pielke maintains that the reason the ETS appears to have failed is that it set the carbon price at a very low level.
Of course, the reason that the EU set the carbon price at such a low level is that European voters would have revolted otherwise. Even Germany, which has gone the furthest among the large European economies in pushing for renewable energy despite the resulting increase in electricity prices, seems to be saying that enough is enough. Germany's coalition government has just backed new legislation that will slow the growth of green energy. Suffice it to say, Americans are even less enthusiastic about higher utility bills than their European counterparts.
Second, even if government-mandated price signals were immune to political pressure, it's not at all obvious how we should go about setting a carbon price. In 2010, the Obama administration estimated that the "social cost of carbon" was roughly $23. The natural implication of this estimate is that measures that cost less than $23 per ton make good economic sense.
As Oren Cass, Mitt Romney's domestic policy director during the 2012 presidential campaign, has argued, however, this line of thinking neglects the fact that climate dynamics are "extraordinarily non-linear." What matters most is not the flow of carbon, but rather the atmospheric concentration of carbon. If the U.S. pursues policies that reduce carbon emissions at the margin, it won't matter much if the atmospheric concentration continues to climb because of rising Chinese and Indian carbon emissions. All we'll succeed in doing is to make ourselves poorer. I don't know about you, but I don't find that prospect terribly appealing.
Cass thus recommends a technology-first approach. Price signals are, to be sure, designed to encourage firms to develop new technologies. Yet what artificial pricing really does is encourage investment in expensive technologies that couldn't survive without an artificial leg up, and which will have a hard time spreading in the low- and middle-income countries that are quickly joining the ranks of the world's biggest polluters.
What would a technology-first approach actually look like? We know exactly what it would look like because, as Jim Manzi explains in National Review, a technology-first approach has given us a revolutionary new technology that has done much to decarbonize the American economy, and that has the potential to do the same around the world. Over the past decade, the chief driver of declining carbon emissions in the U.S. has been the rise of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has led to a sharp decline in domestic natural gas prices. Though natural gas is a fossil fuel, gas-fired power plants emit less carbon than either oil or coal.
The fracking boom is not, as Manzi makes clear, a product of pure laissez-faire. The government played a large role in funding the basic research that made the fracking revolution possible. Yet private entrepreneurs played an equally crucial role in perfecting and spreading the technology at the ground-level, knowing that the tools they were building would be valuable and exportable with or without a boost from artificial pricing.
But can the technology-first approach go further still when it comes to decarbonization, or do we need command-and-control regulation to get the job done? Samuel Thernstrom of the Energy Innovation Reform Project, a new think tank, has identified a number of areas where government, working with the private sector, can make energy cleaner and cheaper, including enhanced oil recovery and advanced nuclear technologies. Robert Zubrin, an engineer, author, and entrepreneur, often touts the environmental and economic benefits of methanol as a substitute for conventional gasoline, and William Ahlgren has called for a "dual-fuel strategy" that would radically reduce American dependence on oil. The possibilities of technology-first are limitless.
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Paige Hull
This Mother's Day, I reflect on how quickly time flies. It seems like it was just yesterday that this photo was taken. But in fact, it's been almost eight years. We'll have one in college, one in middle school, and one in elementary next year. Just seems impossible to utter those words.
The photo below is our crew now - it was taken at our Marburger booth last month.
I'm so thankful for the opportunity to experience motherhood with three healthy, vibrant, and wonderful children and to do it with the help an extraordinary, kind, and loving husband.
Smoot and I decided early on that traveling as a family would be "our thing". Our growing business has provided quite a few family trips but has also added the challenge of balancing work and motherhood. It's a tough and a constant battle. Therefore, building as many memories as we can - is our number one goal.
Memories are what we are left with when our loved ones leave us behind. My mom passed six years ago unexpectedly. This was the last photo I have of her blowing out her candles on her 80th birthday with our two youngest children. One week later, she was gone.
We are very clear that our children will not remember the presents they received while young but will remember the moments we shared, the travel we did together, and will appreciate the photos we leave behind to remember it by.
Motherhood is not easy or for the faint of heart. However, it is a remarkable journey for which I am thankful to God to get to experience! It's taught me to appreciate my own mother's journey even more than I already did. Oh... to walk in another's shoes.
I love, respect and miss you Mom! Happy Mother's Day!


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192280 January 25, 2011 DECISION NACHURA, J.: Before us is a petition for certiorari under Rule 64, in relation to Rule 65, of the Rules of Court, seeking to annul and set aside the Resolutions dated April 29, 2010 and May 17, 2010, respectively, of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in SPA No. 10-046 (DC). First, the undisputed facts. On December 1, 2009, petitioner Sergio G. Amora, Jr. (Amora) filed his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for Mayor of Candijay, Bohol. At that time, Amora was the incumbent Mayor of Candijay and had been twice elected to the post, in the years 2004 and 2007. To oppose Amora, the Nationalist Peoples Coalition (NPC) fielded Trygve L. Olaivar (Olaivar) for the mayoralty post. Respondent Arnielo S. Olandria (Olandria) was one of the candidates for councilor of the NPC in the same municipality. On March 5, 2010, Olandria filed before the COMELEC a Petition for Disqualification against Amora. Olandria alleged that Amoras COC was not properly sworn contrary to the requirements of the Omnibus Election Code (OEC) and the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice. Olandria pointed out that, in executing his COC, Amora merely presented his Community Tax Certificate (CTC) to the notary public, Atty. Oriculo Granada (Atty. Granada), instead of presenting competent evidence of his identity. Consequently, Amoras COC had no force and effect and should be considered as not filed. Amora traversed Olandrias allegations in his Answer cum Position Paper. He countered that: 1. The Petition for Disqualification is actually a Petition to Deny Due Course or cancel a certificate of candidacy. Effectively, the petition of Olandria is filed out of time; 2. COC; Olandrias claim does not constitute a proper ground for the cancellation of the
3. The COC is valid and effective because he (Amora) is personally known to the notary public, Atty. Granada, before whom he took his oath in filing the document; 4. Atty. Granada is, in fact, a close acquaintance since they have been members of the League of Muncipal Mayors, Bohol Chapter, for several years; and 5. Ultimately, he (Amora) sufficiently complied with the requirement that the COC be under oath. As previously adverted to, the Second Division of the COMELEC granted the petition and disqualified Amora from running for Mayor of Candijay, Bohol.
Posthaste, Amora filed a Motion for Reconsideration before the COMELEC en banc. Amora reiterated his previous arguments and emphasized the asseverations of the notary public, Atty. Granada, in the latters affidavit, to wit: 1. The COMELECs (Second Divisions) ruling is contrary to the objectives and basic principles of election laws which uphold the primacy of the popular will; 2. Atty. Granada states that while he normally requires the affiant to show competent evidence of identity, in Amoras case, however, he accepted Amoras CTC since he personally knows him; 3. Apart from the fact that Amora and Atty. Granada were both members of the League of Municipal Mayors, Bohol Chapter, the two consider each other as distant relatives because Amoras mother is a Granada; 4. It is a matter of judicial notice that practically everybody knows the Mayor, most especially lawyers and notaries public, who keep themselves abreast of developments in local politics and have frequent dealings with the local government; and 5. In all, the COC filed by Amora does not lack the required formality of an oath, and thus, there is no reason to nullify his COC. Meanwhile, on May 10, 2010, national and local elections were held. Amora obtained 8,688 votes, equivalent to 58.94% of the total votes cast, compared to Olaivars 6,053 votes, equivalent to only 41.06% thereof. Subsequently, the Muncipal Board of Canvassers of Candijay, Bohol, proclaimed Amora as the winner for the position of Municipal Mayor of Candijay, Bohol. A week thereafter, or on May 17, 2010, in another turn of events, the COMELEC en banc denied Amoras motion for reconsideration and affirmed the resolution of the COMELEC (Second Division). Notably, three (3) of the seven (7) commissioners dissented from the majority ruling. Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal (Commissioner Larrazabal) wrote a dissenting opinion, which was concurred in by then Chairman Jose A.R. Melo and Commissioner Rene V. Sarmiento. In denying Amoras motion for reconsideration and upholding Olandrias petition for disqualification of Amora, the COMELEC ratiocinated, thus: [Amora] himself admitted in his Motion that the Second Division was correct in pointing out that the CTC is no longer a competent evidence of identity for purposes of notarization. The COC therefore is rendered invalid when [petitioner] only presented his CTC to the notary public. His defense that he is personally known to the notary cannot be given recognition because the best proof [of] his contention could have been the COC itself. However, careful examination of the jurat portion of the COC reveals no assertion by the notary public that he personally knew the affiant, [petitioner] herein. Belated production of an Affidavit by the Notary Public cannot be given weight because such evidence could and should have been produced at the earliest possible opportunity. The rules are absolute. Section 73 of the Election Code states:
Section 73. Certificate of Candidacy. No person shall be eligible for any elective public office unless he files a sworn certificate of candidacy within the period fixed herein. Under the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice of 2004 (Rules), the requirements of notarization of an oath are: Section 2. Affirmation or Oath. The term Affirmation or Oath refers to an act in which an individual on a single occasion: (a) appears in person before the notary public;
(b) is personally known to the notary public or identified by the notary public through competent evidence of identity as defined by these Rules; and (c) avows under penalty of law to the whole truth of the contents of the instrument or document. The required form of identification is prescribed in [S]ection 12 of the same Rules, to wit: Section 12. Competent Evidence of Identity. The phrase competent evidence of identity refers to the identification of an individual based on: (a) at least one current identification document issued by an official agency bearing the photograph and signature of the individual. x x x. It is apparent that a CTC, which bears no photograph, is no longer a valid form of identification for purposes of Notarization of Legal Documents. No less than the Supreme Court itself, when it revoked the Notarial Commission of a member of the Bar in Baylon v. Almo, reiterated this when it said: As a matter of fact, recognizing the established unreliability of a community tax certificate in proving the identity of a person who wishes to have his document notarized, we did not include it in the list of competent evidence of identity that notaries public should use in ascertaining the identity of persons appearing before them to have their documents notarized. Seeking other remedies, [Amora] maintained that Section 78 of the Election Code governs the Petition. Said section provides that: Sec. 78. Petition to deny due course to or cancel a certificate of candidacy. A verified petition seeking to deny due course or to cancel a certificate of candidacy may be filed by the person exclusively on the ground that any material representation contained therein as required under Section 74 hereof is false. The petition may be filed at any time not later than twenty-five days from the time of the filing of the certificate of candidacy and shall be decided, after due notice and hearing, not later than fifteen days before the election. [Amora] however failed to note that the Petition relies upon an entirely different ground. The Petition has clearly stated that it was invoking Section 73 of the Election Code,
which prescribes the mandatory requirement of filing a sworn certificate of candidacy. As properly pointed out by [Olandria], he filed a Petition to Disqualify for Possessing Some Grounds for Disqualification, which, is governed by COMELEC Resolution No. 8696, to wit: B. PETITION TO DISQUALIFY A CANDIDATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 68 OF THE OMNIBUS ELECTION CODE AND PETITION TO DISQUALIFY FOR LACK OF QUALIFICATIONS OR POSSESSING SOME GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION
1. A verified petition to disqualify a candidate pursuant to Section 68 of the OEC and the verified petition to disqualify a candidate for lack of qualifications or possessing some grounds for disqualification may be filed on any day after the last day for filing of certificates of candidacy but not later than the date of proclamation; xxxx 3. The petition to disqualify a candidate for lack of qualification or possessing some grounds for disqualification, shall be filed in ten (10) legible copies, personally or through a duly authorized representative, by any person of voting age, or duly registered political party, organization or coalition of political parties on the ground that the candidate does not possess all the qualifications as provided for by the Constitution or by existing law or who possesses some grounds for disqualification as provided for by the Constitution or by existing law. xxxx Finally, we do not agree with [Amora] when he stated that the Second Divisions Resolution practically supplanted congress by adding another ground for disqualification, not provided in the omnibus election code or the local government code. The constitution is very clear that it is congress that shall prescribe the qualifications (and disqualifications) of candidates for local government positions. These grounds for disqualification were laid down in both laws mentioned by [Amora] and COMELEC Resolution 8696. Hence, this petition for certiorari imputing grave abuse of discretion to the COMELEC. On June 15, 2010, we issued a Status Quo Ante Order and directed respondents to comment on the petition. As directed, Olandria and the COMELEC filed their respective Comments which uniformly opposed the petition. Thereafter, Amora filed his Reply. Amora insists that the Petition for Disqualification filed by Olandria is actually a Petition to Deny Due Course since the purported ground for disqualification simply refers to the defective notarization of the COC. Amora is adamant that Section 73 of the OEC pertains to the substantive qualifications of a candidate or the lack thereof as grounds for disqualification, specifically, the qualifications and disqualifications of elective local officials under the Local Government Code (LGC) and the OEC. Thus, Olandrias petition was filed way beyond the reglementary period of twenty-five (25) days from the date of the filing of the disputed COC. Moreover, Amora maintains that his COC is properly notarized and not defective, and the presentation of his CTC to the notary public to whom he was personally known sufficiently complied with the requirement that the COC be under oath. Amora further alleges that: (1) Olaivar, his opponent in the mayoralty post, and likewise a member of the NPC, is purportedly a fraternity brother and close associate of Nicodemo T. Ferrer
(Commissioner Ferrer), one of the commissioners of the COMELEC who disqualified him; and (2) Olaivar served as Consultant for the COMELEC, assigned to the Office of Commissioner Ferrer. Olandria and the COMELEC reiterated the arguments contained in the COMELEC en banc resolution of May 17, 2010. Amoras petition is meritorious. We find that the COMELEC ruling smacks of grave abuse of discretion, a capricious and whimsical exercise of judgment equivalent to lack of jurisdiction. Certiorari lies where a court or any tribunal, board, or officer exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions has acted without or in excess of jurisdiction or with grave abuse of discretion. In this case, it was grave abuse of discretion to uphold Olandrias claim that an improperly sworn COC is equivalent to possession of a ground for disqualification. Not by any stretch of the imagination can we infer this as an additional ground for disqualification from the specific wording of the OEC in Section 68, which reads: SEC. 68. Disqualifications. Any candidate who, in an action or protest in which he is party is declared by final decision of a competent court guilty of, or found by the Commission of having: (a) given money or other material consideration to influence, induce or corrupt the voters or public officials performing electoral functions; (b) committed acts of terrorism to enhance his candidacy; (c) spent in his election campaign an amount in excess of that allowed by this Code; (d) solicited, received or made any contribution prohibited under Sections 89, 95, 96, 97 and 104; or (e) violated any of Sections 80, 83, 85, 86, and 261, paragraphs d, e, k, v, and cc, sub-paragraph 6, shall be disqualified from continuing as a candidate, or if he has been elected, from holding the office. Any person who is a permanent resident of or an immigrant to a foreign country shall not be qualified to run for any elective office under this Code, unless said person has waived his status as a permanent resident or immigrant of a foreign country in accordance with the residence requirement provided for in the elections laws. and of Section 40 of the LGC, which provides: SEC. 40. Disqualifications. The following persons are disqualified from running for any elective local position: (a) Those sentenced by final judgment for an offense involving moral turpitude or for an offense punishable by one (1) year or more of imprisonment, within two (2) years after serving sentence; (b) Those removed from office as a result of an administrative case; (c) Those convicted by final judgment for violating the oath of allegiance to the Republic; (d) Those with dual citizenship; (e) Fugitives from justice in criminal or nonpolitical cases here or abroad;
(f) Permanent residents in a foreign country or those who have acquired the right to reside abroad and continue to avail of the same right after the effectivity of this Code; and (g) The insane or feeble-minded. It is quite obvious that the Olandria petition is not based on any of the grounds for disqualification as enumerated in the foregoing statutory provisions. Nowhere therein does it specify that a defective notarization is a ground for the disqualification of a candidate. Yet, the COMELEC would uphold that petition upon the outlandish claim that it is a petition to disqualify a candidate for lack of qualifications or possessing some grounds for disqualification. The proper characterization of a petition as one for disqualification under the pertinent provisions of laws cannot be made dependent on the designation, correctly or incorrectly, of a petitioner. The absurd interpretation of Olandria, respondent herein, is not controlling; the COMELEC should have dismissed his petition outright. A petition for disqualification relates to the declaration of a candidate as ineligible or lacking in quality or accomplishment fit for the position of mayor. The distinction between a petition for disqualification and the formal requirement in Section 73 of the OEC that a COC be under oath is not simply a question of semantics as the statutes list the grounds for the disqualification of a candidate. Recently, we have had occasion to distinguish the various petitions for disqualification and clarify the grounds therefor as provided in the OEC and the LGC. We declared, thus: To emphasize, a petition for disqualification on the one hand, can be premised on Section 12 or 68 of the OEC, or Section 40 of the LGC. On the other hand, a petition to deny due course to or cancel a CoC can only be grounded on a statement of a material representation in the said certificate that is false. The petitions also have different effects. While a person who is disqualified under Section 68 is merely prohibited to continue as a candidate, the person whose certificate is cancelled or denied due course under Section 78 is not treated as a candidate at all, as if he/she never filed a CoC. Thus, in Miranda v. Abaya, this Court made the distinction that a candidate who is disqualified under Section 68 can validly be substituted under Section 77 of the OEC because he/she remains a candidate until disqualified; but a person whose CoC has been denied due course or cancelled under Section 78 cannot be substituted because he/she is never considered a candidate. Apart from the qualifications provided for in the Constitution, the power to prescribe additional qualifications for elective office and grounds for disqualification therefrom, consistent with the constitutional provisions, is vested in Congress. However, laws prescribing qualifications for and disqualifications from office are liberally construed in favor of eligibility since the privilege of holding an office is a valuable one. We cannot overemphasize the principle that where a candidate has received popular mandate, all possible doubts should be resolved in favor of the candidates eligibility, for to rule otherwise is to defeat the will of the people. In stark contrast to the foregoing, the COMELEC allowed and confirmed the disqualification of Amora although the latter won, and was forthwith proclaimed, as Mayor of Candijay, Bohol.
Another red flag for the COMELEC to dismiss Olandrias petition is the fact that Amora claims to personally know the notary public, Atty. Granada, before whom his COC was sworn. In this regard, the dissenting opinion of Commissioner Larrazabal aptly disposes of the core issue: With all due respect to the well-written Ponencia, I respectfully voice my dissent. The primary issue herein is whether it is proper to disqualify a candidate who, in executing his Certificate of Candidacy (COC), merely presented to the Notary Public his Community Tax Certificate. The majority opinion strictly construed the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice (the 2004 Notarial Rules) when it provided that valid and competent evidence of identification must be presented to render Sergio G. Amora, Jr.s [petitioners] COC valid. The very wording of the 2004 Notarial Rules supports my view that the instant motion for reconsideration ought to be granted, to wit: Section 2. Affirmation or Oath . The term Affirmation or Oath refers to an act in which an individual on a single occasion: (a) appears in person before the notary public;
(b) is personally known to the notary public or identified by the notary public through competent evidence of identity as defined by these Rules; and (c) avows under penalty of law to the whole truth of the contents of the instrument or document. As quoted supra, competent evidence of identity is not required in cases where the affiant is personally known to the Notary Public, which is the case herein. The records reveal that [petitioner] submitted to this Commission a sworn affidavit executed by Notary Public Oriculo A. Granada (Granada), who notarized [petitioners] COC, affirming in his affidavit that he personally knows [petitioner]. [Respondent], on the other hand, presented no evidence to counter Granadas declarations. Hence, Granada[s] affidavit, which narrates in detail his personal relation with [petitioner], should be deemed sufficient. The purpose of election laws is to give effect to, rather than frustrate, the will of the voters. The people of Candijay, Bohol has already exercised their right to suffrage on May 10, 2010 where [petitioner] was one of the candidates for municipal mayor. To disqualify [petitioner] at this late stage simply due to an overly strict reading of the 2004 Notarial Rules will effectively deprive the people who voted for him their rights to vote. The Supreme Courts declaration in Petronila S. Rulloda v. COMELEC et al. must not be taken lightly: Technicalities and procedural niceties in election cases should not be made to stand in the way of the true will of the electorate. Laws governing election contests must be liberally construed to the end that the will of the people in the choice of public officials may not be defeated by mere technical objections.
Election contests involve public interest, and technicalities and procedural barriers must yield if they constitute an obstacle to the determination of the true will of the electorate in the choice of their elective officials. The Court frowns upon any interpretation of the law that would hinder in any way not only the free and intelligent casting of the votes in an election but also the correct ascertainment of the results. Our ruling herein does not do away with the formal requirement that a COC be sworn. In fact, we emphasize that the filing of a COC is mandatory and must comply with the requirements set forth by law. Section 2 of the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice lists the act to which an affirmation or oath refers: Sec. 2. Affirmation or Oath. The term Affirmation or Oath refers to an act in which an individual on a single occasion: (a) appears in person before the notary public;
(b) is personally known to the notary public or identified by the notary public through competent evidence of identity as defined by these Rules; and (c) avows under penalty of law to the whole truth of the contents of the instrument or document. In this case, however, contrary to the declarations of the COMELEC, Amora complied with the requirement of a sworn COC. He readily explained that he and Atty. Granada personally knew each other; they were not just colleagues at the League of Municipal Mayors, Bohol Chapter, but they consider each other as distant relatives. Thus, the alleged defect in the oath was not proven by Olandria since the presentation of a CTC turned out to be sufficient in this instance. On the whole, the COMELEC should not have brushed aside the affidavit of Atty. Granada and remained inflexible in the face of Amoras victory and proclamation as Mayor of Candijay, Bohol. WHEREFORE, the petition is GRANTED. The Resolutions of the Commission on Elections in SPA No. 10-046 (DC) dated April 29, 2010 and May 17, 2010, respectively, are ANULLED and SET ASIDE. SO ORDERED.ANTONIO EDUARDO B. NACHURA Associate Justice WE CONCUR: RENATO C. CORONA Chief Justice ANTONIO T. CARPIO Associate Justice CONCHITA CARPIO MORALES Associate Justice No part due to relationship to a party PRESBITERO J. VELASCO, JR. Associate Justice TERESITA J. LEONARDO-DE CASTRO Associate Justice ARTURO D. BRION
Associate Justice DIOSDADO M. PERALTA Associate Justice (on leave) LUCAS P. BERSAMIN Associate Justice MARIANO C. DEL CASTILLO Associate Justice ROBERTO A. ABAD Associate Justice MARTIN S. VILLARAMA, JR. Associate Justice JOSE PORTUGAL PEREZ Associate Justice JOSE CATRAL MENDOZA Associate Justice MA. LOURDES P.A. SERENO Associate Justice CERTIFICATION Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, I certify that the conclusions in the above Decision had been reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion of the Court. RENATO C. CORONA Chief Justice
Rollo, pp. 59-64. Id. at 65-72. Id. at 96-102. Id. at 115-136. Id. at 77-78. Id. at 144. Id. at 68-72. Id. at 161-172, 180-190. Id. at 204-227. RULES OF COURT, Rule 65, Sec. 1 . Fermin v. COMELEC, G.R. Nos. 179695 and 182369, December 18, 2008, 574 SCRA 782, 796. Dumlao v. COMELEC, 184 Phil. 369 (1980). Agpalo, Comments on the Omnibus Election Code (2004), p. 144. OHara v. COMELEC, G.R. Nos. 148941-42, March 12, 2002, 379 SCRA 247. Rollo, pp. 73-75. Omnibus Election Code, Secs. 73-74 .


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