Achievements:

• 1984 & 1988 Olympic Games ( quarter finalist in both games )
• Currently SEA Games record holder in 100m ( 11.28secs ) since 1987 & former 200m record holder ( 23.35secs ) from 1987 to 2001
• Asia fastest women for 8 years from 1982 ? 1990
• 2 gold, 1 silver medals in 2 Asian Games
• 4 gold, 1 silver & 4 bronze medals in 5 Asian Track & Field meet
• 9 gold, 2 silver medals in 5 SEA Games
• 9 gold, 2 silver medals in 5 Asean Cup
• 9 gold in 3 Asean Schools Track & Field meet

Awards:

• Philippines Sports Writers Association ( PSA )

1. 1981 ? Athlete of the Year
2. 1986 ? Athlete of the Year
3. 1987 ? Athlete of the Year
4. 1992 ? Major Award
5. 1993 ? Major Award
6. 1994 ? Special Award
7. 1998 ? Athlete of the Century
8. 1999 ? Millennium Athlete

• Sports Columnist Organisation of the Philippines ( SCOOP )

1. 1981 ? Athlete of the Year
2. 1986 ? Athlete of the Year
3. 1987 ? Outstanding Achievement Award
4. 1993 ? Athlete of the Year
5. 1994 ? Hall of Fame

• Ten Outstanding Young Men ( TOYM )

1. 1993 ? Sports Category

• International Invitation Track & Field Competition, Bangkok

1. 1983 ? Best Female Athlete

• Southern Coast Conference, USA

1. 1986 ? Athlete of the Year

Brief Story of Lydia De Vega ( Extracted from Athletics Digest 1983, Singapore ): Track Queen Lydia De Vega from the Philippines
During all the Asian Games in Delhi, sheer joy and deep dissapointment were never as closely connected as after the 100 metres victory of Lydia De Vega. The 18 year old PE student and film actress from the Philippines had won the final comfortably and unchellenged in excellent 11.76secs but had injured herself after breaking the tape. A pulled muscle prevented her from participating also in the 200 metres.
But still, a dream had become true when Lydia crowned herself as the fastest women in Asia; a dream of a 14 year old schoolgirl who had started to compete in Track & Field meets with a promising 27.5secs for the 200m and the silver medal in the Philippines National Junior Championship and who added a fourth place in the 100m to this success. That was four years ago in 1978.
Only one year later, in 1979 at the age of 15 years, Lydia De Vega already represented her country in the 3rd Asian Track & Field Championship in Tokyo. With a leap of 5.47 metres she came in 7th in the Long Jump competition but also carried home a bronze medal when she came third in the women?s 4x400m relay with her team mates Lorena Morcilla, Carmen Torres and Myrna Ayo.
Still in 1979, Lydia won herself three gold medals in the ASEAN School Championship in Singapore. She took the titles in the 100m in 12.5 seconds, in the 400m in 58.0secs and in the Long Jump with a leap of 5.27 metres. But Lydia also won a silver medal in these Games when her 4x100m relay came in second to Malaysia. On the other hand the Games was already showed very clearly that Lydia was always in danger to be over burdened with too many races in just in a single meet.
This applies also to her participation in the 10th SEA Games in Jakarta, still in 1979. Within four days of competition she took part in the 400m, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay ( in which she came 5th each ), in the 100m? ( in which she was placed 6th and recorded her best result of the Games when she clocked 12.38secs in the heats ), and in the Long Jump in which she came 7th with a performance of 5.45 metres. To cut down her competition programme she resigned from taking part in the Long Jump after having taken the title in this event in the national junior meet of that year.
1980, young Lydia made the news headlines when she won both the 200m and 400m in the first ever ASEAN Cup in Jakarta with times of 24.53 and 55.83 seconds respectively and when she got a ranking in the Asian top-list with 12.0secs in the 100m, 24.53 seconds in the 200m ( this as Asia?s number four ), and with 54.6secs over the 400m, the best time recorded in the one-lap event by an Asian women in that year.
With two silver and one bronze medals in the 4th Asian Track & Field Championship in Tokyo, Lydia De Vega had a flying start into the 1981 season. With a time of 55.39secs, she was second to Japan?s Yunko Yoshida in the 400 metres. In the 200m, she clocked 24.54secs to take the bronze behind the Japanese couple Emiko Konishi and Tomi Ohsaka. Her silver came in the 4x100m relay in which the Philippines team was placed second behind the Malaysia following the disqualification of the winning Japanese team.
At the end of the 1981 season, Lydia De Vega became the undisputed star of the 11th SEA Games in Manila. She assured for the gold medals in the 200m and 400m with outstanding 23.54secs in the shorter distance ( only Chi Cheng was faster in Asia ever ) and with 54.75secs in the metric quarter mile. Silver medals in both relay events completed her success but again showed the danger of being burdened with too many races at the same occasion.
After leaving school and taking up studies in PE at the Far Eastern University in Manila, Lydia De Vega also started an interesting job as a film actress; first in a movie showing the slow but steady progress of an athlete from the modest very beginnings at grassroot level up to setting records and winning gold medals. Her father, Francisco De Vega, who is also her coach, expressed his views about Lydia?s engagements when asked about her future plans, ?Studies first, Sports second, Film third.?
Gold medals were of course also on Lydia?s programme for 1982. Unchallenged again she won herself a triple crown in the 2nd ASEAN Cup in Kuala Lumpur with times of 11.8secs for the 100m, 24.2secs for the 200m and 55.0secs for the 400 metres. Having also won a bronze with her team in the 4x400m relay she had to cancel her participation in the sprint relay due to to slight injury which she got in the 400 metres. This was only three weeks prior to the 9th Asian Games in New Delhi.
In the Indian capital, Lydia seemed to be all right again when she won her heat in the 100m in excellent 11.77secs and clipped off another 1/100secs winning the finals from India?s P. T. Usha (11.95secs) and Korea?s Mo Myung Hee (11.99secs), both of her opponents never being able to endanger the fleet-footed track queen from the Philippines. But Lydia had to cancel her participation in the 200m due to new pains caused by her old injury after her triumphant showing in the 100 metres.
And this is how Lydia De Vega, who is a keen singer in her spare time, who was born in December 1964 in Meycauayan Bulacan, and who stands 1.68 metres at a weight of 61.0 kg, developed so far;

Year????????? Age?????????????? 100m????????? 200m????????? 400m

1978????????? 14 years???????????? 13.2?????????????? 27.5

- 1979????????? 15 years???????????? 12.1?????????????? 26.6??????????????? 58.8

1980????????? 16 years???????????? 12.0?????????????? 24.53????????????? 54.6

1981????????? 17 years???????????????? -????????????????? 23.54???????????? 54.75

1982????????? 18 years???????????? 11.76??????????? 24.20?????????????? 55.0

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Libyan militias from towns throughout the country’s west parade through Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012. This week, Libya will celebrate the one year anniversary of the start of the popular uprising that led to the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi last October. (AP Photo / Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Libyan militias from towns throughout the country’s west parade through Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012. This week, Libya will celebrate the one year anniversary of the start of the popular uprising that led to the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi last October. (AP Photo / Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

FILE – In this Feb. 14, 2012 photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country’s west parade through Tripoli, Libya. This week, Libya will celebrate the one year anniversary of the start of the popular uprising that led to the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi last October. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? One revolutionary militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighborhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant.

As Libya on Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi, hundreds of armed militias are the real power on the ground in the country, and the government that took the longtime strongman’s place is largely impotent, unable to rein in fighters, rebuild decimated institutions or stop widespread corruption.

The revolutionary militias contend they are Libya’s heroes ? the ones who drove Gadhafi from power and who now keep security in the streets at a time when the police and military are all but nonexistent. They insist they won’t give up their weapons to a government that is too weak, too corrupt and, they fear, too willing to let elements of the old dictatorship back into positions of power.

“I am fed up,” said the commander of a militia of fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan who control Tripoli’s airport. Al-Mukhtar al-Akhdar says Libya’s politicians unfairly blame the militias for the country’s chaos while doing nothing to bring real change.

They believe “revolutionaries have no place in Libya now,” said al-Akhdar, who was once a tour company owner in Zintan until he took up arms against Gadhafi and now sports a military uniform. “We paid a very heavy price in the revolution, not for the sake of a seat or authority, but for the sake of freedoms and rights.”

As a result, Libya has been flipped upside down, from a country where all power was in the hands of one man, Gadhafi, to one where it has been broken up into hundreds of different hands, each taking its own decisions. The National Transitional Council, which officially rules the country, is struggling to incorporate the militias into the military and police, while trying to get the economy back on its feet and reshape government ministries, courts and other institutions hollowed out under Gadhafi.

In one sign of the lack of control, Finance Minister Hassan Zaklam admitted that millions of dollars from Gadhafi family assets returned to Libya by European countries ? a potentially key source of revenue ? have flowed right back out of Libya, stolen by corrupt officials and smuggled out in suitcases through the ports.

“The money comes for transit only,” Zaklam said in a Feb. 6 interview on Libya state TV. He threatened to resign if the government didn’t impose control over ports or stop unfreezing the assets. “I can’t be a clown,” he said.

Government spokesman Ashur Shamis blamed revolutionaries in charge of ports and middle- and lower-ranking bureaucrats from the old regime who still retain their posts, known among Libyans as the “Green Snakes,” after the signature color of Gadhafi’s rule.

At the airport, al-Akhdar blamed customs employees and said his fighters are keeping a closer eye on them ? but he insisted stopping smuggling was the police and military’s responsibility.

The militias, meanwhile, are accused of acting like vigilantes and armed gangs, fighting over turf and taking the law into their own hands. Many run private prisons, detaining criminals, suspected former regime members or simply people who run afoul of the fighters.

In a report Wednesday, London-based Amnesty International said it found prisoners had been tortured or abused in all but one of 11 militia-run facilities it visited. Detainees told the group they had been beaten for hours with whips, cables and plastic hoses and given electrical shocks.

At least 12 detainees have died since September after torture, it said.

The militias arose during last year’s 8-month-long civil war against Gadhafi.

Soon after anti-regime protests first erupted nationwide on Feb. 17, 2011, Libya’s second largest city Benghazi and the rest of the eastern half of the country threw off rule from Tripoli. As Gadhafi clamped down in the west, Libyan citizens formed local militias based around a city, town or even neighborhood, taking up arms to fight alongside breakaway army units.

Backed by NATO airstrikes, the militias swept into Tripoli in August, driving out Gadhafi. The militias then were at the forefront of battles for the last regime strongholds, ending with Gadhafi’s capture and killing in October at the hands of a militia from Misrata, a city east of Tripoli that endured one of the bloodiest sieges of the civil war.

Since then, militias have carved up neighborhoods in Tripoli and other cities, establishing their hold with checkpoints at the entrances. There are efforts between them to cooperate: If a brigade chases a suspect into another district, it must seek clearance from the local militia, said Jalal al-Gelani, the deputy police chief of the Tripoli neighborhood of Souq al-Jomaa.

But borders often overlap. Disputes break out over personnel or relatives from one militia detained by another. Then the weapons come out and shooting begins. There are usually no casualties, but the battles terrify residents. In January, a gunbattle between Misrata and Zintan revolutionaries erupted in a turf fight over a sports complex. The two sides fired rifles and heavy machine guns, shattering the complex’s windows and damaging cars.

The police have been eclipsed. When Tripoli fell, most police fled and shed their uniforms, fearful of revenge attacks. The police chief in Souq al-Jomaa never came back. Now there are about 200 police in the Souq al-Jomaa station, about a tenth of the number of militiamen, said one officer, Mustafa al-Darnawi.

At night, policemen vanish, afraid of attacks. Police stations are guarded by militiamen.

“Without revolutionaries, the police are zeros,” said a Souq al-Jomaa resident, 24-year-old Ahmed Hajaji, standing next to the local police station, where a large sign over the entrance read, “No to revenge, yes to forgiveness.”

Last week, top militia commanders from the western half of the country gathered in Tripoli to form a united front to coordinate their activities and avoid fights. The front mirrors a separate bloc created in the east.

The fronts also present a political force to pressure the National Transitional Council and the Cabinet it created, headed by Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Keib, signaling they will not lay down their arms.

NTC efforts to integrate the revolutionaries have already brought opposition.

A newly formed Defense Ministry “Warriors Committee” has so far registered 200,000 revolutionaries, who are given the option to join the army, police, intelligence or get help returning to society, such as a loan to start up a business or even travel abroad for studies.

But according to the former rebels, the committee has also registered members of Gadhafi’s forces alongside the revolutionaries as part of an attempt at reconciliation, angering many in the militias.

“This is out of the question,” said Farag al-Swehli, the commander of a Misrata militia operating in Tripoli. “You can’t bring two people who fought against each other to sit next to each other … There is only one way: revolutionaries are the army.”

At the same time, the militias appear to be pressing for a political say as well, demanding figures they feel come from the ranks of the revolution be given government posts.

And they are confident the NTC and government has to listen to them.

“We can withdraw our troops in one second … but who is going to protect Libya,” said al-Akhdar in a defiant tone. “If they have a national army or police, let them show us. We haven’t seen any so far.”

Associated Press

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“Hey baby, we had such a good year in 2011, I figure we start looking forward to 2012 early with a great Christmas present. But what do you get a man who’s already got all the gear he needs this holiday season? Wait, I’ve got it: a calendar for all the fun things we’ll do next year! ?By golly, there are so many kinds of calendars out on the interweb, where do I start? Puppies, kittens and polar bears are getting boring, and Angry Birds is out of stock. No, I won’t go with the generic crap this coming year. 2012 is going to be all about extraordinary chickens, for just $11 on Amazon. I would prefer them extra, extraordinary in a McChicken sandwich, but this will have to do. The best present for someone who has it all is something he never knew he needed. Merry Christmas, boo!” — NG More »

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Jodie Foster’s father has been dealt a five year jail sentence. Get the full details behind Lucius Foster’s crimes below. Actress Jodie Foster?s estranged father, Lucius Foster, has been sentenced to five years in prison after swindling $130,000 from the elderly and the less fortunate. The sentence was handed down on December 2nd by Judge Dokey in a court house located close to Van Nuys. Foster’s father was found guilty on 21 counts of grand theft, and nine counts for working without a license, according to AceShowbiz. He was said to have told clients that he would be building affordable homes that are made from cargo containers. The actress? eighty-nine year old father was reportedly taking money as a down payment to build the homes that never actually existed. One of Lucius?s victim?s, a woman by the name of Karen Unsell spoke out about being swindled out of the money. ?He’s either the liar of the century, or he’s delusional. Either way he’s dangerous, it does not matter that he’s 89 years old. We all know what he’s capable of.? Don Cocek, who is the deputy city attorney, also revealed that Lucius Foster used his daughter’s celebrity status to establish [...]

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