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Florentino V. Floro, Jr. (born November 5, 1953) is a Filipino healing and psychic judge. He is popularly known as the world-famous fortune-telling judge who was separated from the Philippine judiciary (on April 6, 2006) because of consulting the three dwarves, LUIS, Armand & Angel.

Early life and education

Florentino V. Floro, Jr. was born in Calvario, Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines, Asia to Florentino C. Floro and Milagros Velasquez. The eldest of five brothers, in his youth, he was an accomplished student, graduating with honors in both elementary and high school levels. He was called to the priesthood and entered the St. Vincent's Seminary, at Karuhatan, Valenzuela, Bulacan (1965-1969); later, he went up the mountains to join the major seminarians of Vincentian Hills Seminary, Angono, Rizal, Philippines (1970). He was admitted to the pre-novitiate of the Society of Jesus and finished A.B. pre-divinity / philosopy (ATENEO DE MANILA, LOYOLA HOUSE OF STUDIES, 1974, with partial Second Honors). He graduated FULL SECOND HONORS at the ATENEO COLLEGE OF LAW (1982, LL.B., with q.p.i. of 85.11). He made the 10 years unbroken record of 91% in criminal law review under Dean Antonio L. Gregorio. Judge Floro placed 12th in the 1983 Philippine Bar Exams with a rating of 87.55% (one of the hardest in bar history, where only 21.3% passed).

Judicial Career

On his natal day, November 5, 1997, his gabays, the 3 angels/dwarves ordered him to cleanse the Philippine judiciary, by applying with the Judicial and Bar Council for the position of RTC Judge. He was duly appointed RTC, NCJR Judge of Br. 73, Malabon, the northern section of Manila, on November 4/5, 1998, his birthday, at the age of 45, as the youngest RTC NCJR Judge.

Barely 6 months from his inagural session on January 5, 1999, he was INDEFINITELY suspended on July 20, 1999 (the longest judicial suspension in world history, until the day he) was fired on April 6, 20007 and fined 40,000 pesos (US$775). The three-year investigation found that he’d claimed he could see into the future and admitted that he consulted privately with mystical magic dwarfs. He now argues that his personal beliefs were being questioned. He told investigators that the invisible dwarfs – Armand, Luis and Angel – helped him carry out “healing sessions” during breaks in his chambers.

The dwarf judge lost his final appeal (August 11, 2006) to keep his job, with the Supreme Court's 75-page ruling stating that Florentino's "dalliance" with Luis, Armand and Angel showed he had a "medically disabling condition of the mind" that rendered him "unfit to discharge the functions of his office" which in turn could "erode the public's esteem of the judiciary" and make it an "object of ridicule."

What caused the Supreme Court most concern, and who can blame them, was Judge Floro’s belief that he enjoyed qualities lacked by other members of the judiciary. Judge Floro is not the first judge to have an inflated opinion of his own abilities, but there are not many who have claimed special powers as “the No 5 psychic in the country”. (The Supreme Court judgment unfortunately provides no information on whether the top four also have legal qualifications and, if so, what marks they obtained in the Bar exams.) In a variation of dress-down Fridays, Judge Floro changed from blue court robes to black each Friday “to recharge his psychic powers”. He was, he suggested, the angel of death and able to inflict pain and sickness on people appearing in his court (a valuable but perhaps disproportionate sanction in dealing with vexatious litigants).

The judge believed that he could write while in a trance, and he had, he insisted, “been seen by several people to have been in two places at the same time”, a very useful attribute in reducing the waiting lists for pending cases. Most impressive of all, Judge Floro had made a covenant with “three dwarf friends named Luis, Armand and Angel”, who would, unseen by others, provide him with assistance in court (presumably when counsel were unable to provide a page reference in the bundles of evidence).

Very generously in the circumstances, the Supreme Court emphasised that it was not ruling that Judge Floro was insane. He was merely suffering from a psychosis that appeared to “cloud his judgment” and so undermined his competence and objectivity. Justice Chico-Nazario concluded that psychic phenomena, “even assuming such exist” (a wise judge never decides more than is necessary to dispose of the case), have no place in jurisprudence. Though it would, I suppose, be helpful to be able accurately to predict how the Supreme Court would deal with a case, and so avoid the expense and delay of waiting for their decisions.

Judge Floro's Blogs, links, pics, documentary and forum threads

[1] - Judge Floro's google entries and results

[2] - Judge Floro’s 400 pages BOOK on dwarves

[3] - pictures of Judge Floro

[4] - The Angel of Death

[5] - Healing Judge

[6] - Psychic Judge

[7] - TV documentaries of Judge Floro

External links

• [8] - The 75-pages Philippine Supreme Court Decision penned by Justice Minita Viray Chico-Nazario, March, 2006

• [9] - The Denial Resolution of Judge Floro's Appeal, August, 2006

• [10] - TimesONLINE, David Pannick, QC, I used to be a Judge, but I am alright now

• [11] - The STANDARD, Florentino and the three dwarves

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Galleries Which Have Exhibited The Fine Art Photography Of Angelo Victor Mercure:

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RITA DEAN GALLERY, Gaslamp District, San Diego, California, June 1992

LAWSON - DE CELLE GALLERY, San Francisco, California, April 1986

Angelo currently maintains two websites of artwork: www.AngeloVictorMercure.com and www.IronBamboo.com

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Jason Witherspoon(born 1986) former Newcastle born South African surf champion. Eldest son of Jackson Witherspoon, former Australian east coast surf champion based in Dunedoon. He is credited with the invention of many aerial surfboard tricks including the Stalefish, Madonnapump, and Flipgawk, and over 80 others, but is most famous for being the first to land the 900 (two and a half rotations—900°—in the air before landing back on the pipe) during the televised June 27, 1999 XXX Games, for which he received an enormous amount of attention. It marked the next level of his rise to fame, solidifying his status as a household name. He retired from competitive surfboard afterwards, but continues to surf and perform at demos.

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Early childhood

Education

Sporting career

Future directions

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Early childhood

Witherspoon was born in Redhead, Newcastle, Australia, to parents Jackson Witherspoon and his wife Aurdey Thomson in 1986. Many people agree that Witherspoon's future as a professional surfer was determined by his father from the moment he come out of his mother, and his father saw he was a boy. As a baby Witherspoon was quickly accustomed to the sea as his father, Jackson Witherspoon (also a professional surfer), would often strap Jason to his back when he went surfing, claiming that it would "get him used to the great ocean". Jason's mother Audrey, also encourage his sea activity from a very young age. Sometimes she would hold him under the water in the bath in order to develop strong lungs. This obviously worked as Witherspoon could hold his breath underwater for several minutes without surfing by the age of seven. Some people claim that holding Witherspoon under water as a young child damaged his brain due to lack of oxygen. Even if these accusations are true, the practice has not impaired his remarkable surfing ability or good looks.

Education

Witherspoon attended St Williams Primary school from the age of six in 1992. He then went on to attend St Alexanders from the age of 15, after being held back a couple of years in his final year of primary school, due to under achiving. Although he excelled in sports and arts. He completed the High School Certificate from St Alexanders in 2004 at the age of 19, and decided not to finish the last two years of schooling to persue his love for surfing, and try and make it his career. This was also encouraged by several offers he recieved from various surfing sponsors, including Billabong, Rip Curl, and Mad Dog.

Sporting Career

Under the expert guidance of his father, from the age of 10 Witherspoon had continued to dominate the local surfing comps along the east coast, particularly in his home town of Newcastle, Surfers paradise and the Gold Coast. By the age of 15 Witherspoon had fast caught the eye of many surf companys, particularly Billabing surf scout Hubert Finn, renowned for taking promising young surfers to the big league. By 2000 Witherspoon had secured a contract with Billabong, who helped to finance and provide further assistance in the development of his surfing career. In 2001, Witherspoon was nominated to represent Billabing and Australia in Bali, Japan and Hawaii in various surf comps including the Hawaii five zero from which Witherspoon managed to take the gold medal. His favorite waves are Pipe in Hawaii and Kirra in Australia. Witherspoon proved to inspire many young surfers with his charisma and remarkable success at such a young age. He was the first person to surf the Nile in Egypt and Yangzee in China, however suffered from several bacterial infections from doing so, due to the high levels of human excrement and chemicals in these rivers.

He is credited with the invention of many aerial surfboard tricks including the Stalefish, Madonnapump, and Flipgawk, and over 80 others, but is most famous for being the first to land the 900 (two and a half rotations—900°—in the air before landing back on the pipe) during the televised June 27, 1999 XXX Games, for which he received an enormous amount of attention.

In 2002 he appeared alongside Garbage singer Shirley Manson in the promotional video for the Garbage single "You Look So Fine". He played a man washed up on a sea shore, rescued by Manson.

Witherspoon has been romantically linked in the past to Pamela Anderson, and (in 2005) to Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen and more recently Cameron Diaz, after her split from Justin Timberlake.

Witherspoon is passionate about preserving oceans globally and protecting temperate reefs in California through his relationship with Reef Check. He is also involved with poverty reduction organization such as The Borgen Project.

In his spare time he plays guitar, and during the 90's he formed a band called The Surfers which released an album of surf music, Songs From the Pipe. He performed a song with musician friend Ben Harper during Harper's concert in Brisbane on August 15, 2006. He also performed "Rockin' in The free World" with grunge band Pearl Jam on the July 7, 2006 in San Diego. Witherspoon is good friends with lead singer Eddie Vedder. He also enjoys playing golf, at which he has become very accomplished.

Future directions

At the age of 21 Witherspoon has suffered several broken bones, including a broken femur which was seen pertruding from his backside after a nasty spill in the 2005 Hawaii five zero. this ijury took 3 months to heal, and took his confidence away from surfing. He had various offers from top modelling agencies which have also influenced his future career choices. He has modelled for agencies including Peter Alexander, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Playgirl, and is currently in a contract with Giorgio Armani. He will stay in the moddeling business until his face gets prunie, then may consider taking up acting, or surf instructing, and most deffinitly proffessional Pigeon farming, which is currently a passion of his. He owns several pigeons, of black, white, brown and grey varieties, his favourite being his no. one racing pigeon Rheegan. His only complaint about his pigeons is "the tend to poo everywhere, all over my house, and the wife dosen't like them anymore".

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