Convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff has blamed others for being “complicit” in his scheme, which fleeced investors of billions of dollars.
Madoff is serving 150 years in jail in the US for a $65bn (£40bn) fraud which deprived thousands of investors of their savings.
Now he has told the New York Times a variety of banks and hedge funds “had to know” about his Ponzi scheme.
Such schemes pay out using new investor money rather than from any profits.
Madoff claimed banks and hedge funds who had dealings with his investment advisory firm showed a …

Gawd! I remember Manny’s fight with Oscar de la Hoya! Nag-no-nobena ako na wag masira ang cute na muka nya (Oscar)!
I’m not really into boxing, but if it’s Manny Pacquiao, my face is plastered on the TV screen. But last night with Clottey? Unbelievably – one of the most annoying moments in TV boxing history.
Of course before the boxing event, the media bombarded us with screaming headlines like Joshua Clottey? Bigger, taller and has the edge!!
Wrong!
The media was just playing on all of us to make it appear that …

Greetings to all the avid readers, lurkers, fans and trolls of Barrio Siete around the globe! Antaray haha global talaga noh.
I wont keep this long, in spirit of fun and camaraderie, I give you the 1st ever and hopefully not the last B7′s year-end awards! One reminder though, don’t ever ever as in ever take this seriously, but if you must, bahala kayo haha. Congratulations to everyone who made it on the list

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SOCIAL CLIMBER OF THE YEAR: Eklat
POWER BLOGGER AWARD: Reyna Elena
PUNK’S NOT DEAD AWARD: Silver (noone can stop this punk from …

I’m a party pooper! I had a talent for ruining surprises. I would go as far as looking all over the house, checking the bank account, checking my wife’s purse for receipts, coming home early unannouced, and bribing my children to tell me any information that they have about a gift or a plan that my wife have made. Blowin’ up the surprise is more fun than the surprise itself. But through the years, she has learned to hide things better. And I also realized that it’s not fun for her everytime I screw it up. So, as a loving and dedicated husband, one must just go with the flow.

Bingo is a game of chance played with randomly drawn numbers which players match against numbers that have been pre-printed on 5×5 matrices. The matrices may be printed on paper, card stock or electronically represented and are referred to as “cards.” Many versions conclude the game when the first person to achieve a specified pattern from the drawn numbers. The winner is usually required to call out the word “Bingo!”, which alerts the other players and caller of a possible “win”. All wins are checked for accuracy before the win …

You read it right. What was the teacher’s role, Jena Isle, in the 2009 Emerging Influential Blog Awards by Janette Toral?!

My entry today, focuses on Jena Isle and her role in the 2009 Emerging Influential Blog Awards by Janette Toral. I have reasons to believe that she holds the biggest key to the questionable sprouting of Chem Bloggers blogs in favor of Jedi Bloggers who “won” the awards. Jena Isle claims that she is a teacher and we believe she is. Her blog or most of her other blogs …

Apparently, the Jedi Bloggers decided to get the services of an American blogger as their Spinmaster of the 2009 Emerging Influential Blog Awards by Janette Toral. Here’s a short (real email – not the full contents) conversation:
“As long as nothing in the encouragement of these students to vote for the Jedi Bloggers was against any of the contest rules, then what’s the worry? I’d just ignore it. It’s sad that RE wants to put a taint on the winners.”
“Reynz voted for my blog. I did not reciprocate his gesture. …

Janette Toral chatted with me sometime this year. She asked for my support for her Influential Blog Awards. Given that up to this point, I am still hyper-critical of that other market-their-business-best friends/volunteers/kiss-ur-ass-and-will-continue-to-watch-them-2009-awards, I decided to support her. Why? I liked the idea of making known the small and upcoming talented bloggers. That’s the least that we can do with all these meaningless blog awards. In fact, she even told me na pag-uwi ko raw, just let her know and she will let me speak in one of her seminars. …

Mga Ka-Barrio! Public service announcement lang, nakalimutang kong i-post ito last week. Ngayon ang last day of registration.
Running is not just the latest trendy exercise today – it is now a lifestyle. When you run, you don’t only head towards better health and longer life, you’re headed towards a quality of life that you’d wish you had for many years now, and for many years to come. And, with Globe’s Run for Home, the running trend is literally taken to the streets to take people off the streets.
Run for Home …

Sa aking mga dating adventures bilang estudyante, ang larong CounterStrike ay isa sa aking mga nakasama sa gaming karanasan. Naalala ko noon na kada tapos ng klase ko e bumibirada muna ako ng 2 oras sa CounterStrike. Minsan naman e hahataw ako ng 1 oras bago pumasok sa klase ng hapon. Parang pangtunaw lang. Haha. Mas nakakatawa pa nga nung minsan nahule ako ng dean ko na naglalaro 1 hour bago magumpisa ang academic competition namen noon sa Psychology. Haha. Buti naman e di ako napagalitan. lols.

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Noong weekend ay umuwi ako sa aming bahay.
Nakita kong naglalaro ang aking mga pamangkin sa kanilang mga laruang robot, barbie, transformers action figures, mga electronic toys na hindi ko ma-identify, at marami pang iba.
Ang suwerte naman nila, sabi ko, lahat ng gusto nilang laruan ay naibibigay ng aking dalawang ate. Yung sala namin pag nakita niyo mahihiya ang Toy Kingdom sa dami ng laruan.
Yung isa kong pamangkin gusto lahat ng merchandise ni barbie ay meron siya. Yung isa naman favourite si Dora. At yung nephew ko lahat ng laruan na …