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Banksy’s talents aren’t limited to paint and the occasional pencil drawing. He has been responsible for a number of social commentaries involving replacing hundreds of Paris Hilton CDs with CDs of his own creation. He has sneaked his own work into several art museums, including a prehistoric-looking piece at the British Museum which the museum decided to add to their own permanent collection.

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There is good reason for leaving us guessing about Banksy. Banksy’s work has been equated with vandalism on several occasions, and many have called for his prosecution. His choice of subject matter coupled with his medium (typically spray paint on public walls) ruffles feathers no matter where he is (or who he is).

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His refusal to be interviewed in person or even to reveal his real name has added to his mystique over the years. In the UK (and, increasingly, in other parts of the world) Banksy-spotters claim to know the artist’s real identity on a fairly regular basis. Although he’s been caught on CCTV a few times, he is clever enough to keep his identity a mystery.

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And although the pseudonym and the signature style of the artist are well known, there’s not much else that we know for sure about Banksy. A few tidbits of information are widely accepted: he is from Bristol, UK, and got involved in graffiti art sometime in the early 90s. He began to gain widespread notoriety around 2003. He was born in or around 1974 and sports a silver tooth. He is, according to the few people who have met him as Banksy, an unassuming and typical-looking man.

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Who is Banksy? We may not know his real name, but his art is unmistakably the work of a passionate individual. So what do we know about Banksy? His paintings, stencils, and other art pieces frequently address serious social issues. He takes on capitalism, war, poverty, and governments with grace. His work often displays a keen sense of humor, making it equally possible that you will laugh or cast your eyes down thoughtfully upon seeing a Banksy piece.

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UK-based street artist Banksy is a notable half-exception to this rule. His work is currently seen around the planet. There are few in the art world (street or otherwise) who don’t know his signature style. The exception, though, is that no one is sure just who he is. There have been many claims to know his true identity but none have ever been definitive to date.

Who is He? About Banksy: Famously Anonymous Street Artist

Article by Delana


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The life of the street artist is, by necessity, one of anonymity. In many of the world’s cities, the most noticeable and breathtaking pieces of art aren’t created by world-renowned talents. They are created by the unknown street artist under cover of darkness. We never see them and they are known only by their tagging pseudonyms. This is part one of our complete eight-part guide to  Banksy Art and Graffiti..

Quote from: islander on May 05, 2015, 10:54:29 AM
Regarding a cat mural created on this trip, he writes: “a local man came up and said ‘Please â€" what does this mean?’ I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website â€" but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.”

but of course.

Crossing into Gaza from the north generally requires Israeli permission, hence the tunnels as an alternative- there is no functioning airport, sea vessels are turned away by the blockade and land access is limited though possible through Egypt in the south. Some argue Banksy’s work is one-sided with regards to Israel and Palestine, ignoring the role of Hamas in the ongoing conflict that has rendered so much of Palestine into rubble, and this new series is sure to spark some serious conversations, arguments and debates.

http://weburbanist.com/

The title of the video below, “Make this the year YOU discover a new destination,” framed as a sort of satirical low-budget travel ad, speaks volumes about his opinions and intentions in revisiting Palestine, where he has worked previously and along similar lines (mainly on dividing walls in the West Bank).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2dShY8jIo

His snark knows few boundaries, if any, and is sure to spark global debate on multiple fronts: “Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons â€" they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.”

Regarding a cat mural created on this trip, he writes: “a local man came up and said ‘Please â€" what does this mean?’ I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website â€" but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.”

Gaza Strip Graffiti: Artist Banksy Tunnels Back Into Palestine

Article by Urbanist

Well known for polarizing political artwork, the infamous street artist Banksy recently returned to the Middle East and filmed a short video about his new work while also commenting on the culture and conditions in a famously contentious place.

http://news.yahoo.com/, caters news

Ever wondered what life is like in miniature? An Italian photographer has perfected his own brand of macro photography with stunning pictures of miniscule drops of dew on flowers. Alberto Ghizzi Panizza, 40, has been a photographer for 18 years and specializes in macro images. (Caters News)

Photography by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza*

*(replies nos. 46 to 65, this thread)

a good number of dewdrop images have shrunk to a blue framed blob.  where have all the dewdrops gone, long time passing?  i hope it's just my computer...

Pussy Galore is one of the more famous James Bond characters, due to her name, and the portrayal by Honor Blackman. Pussy is not only Goldfinger's personal pilot, but also the leader of the group Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, who work as part of Goldfinger's Operation Grandslam

they must belong to only one clan, considering their colors.  i guess there's one tuxedo in the middle, though.

is this happening in the philippines too?  kahibawo ko nga naay mga kontrasenyas ang mga immigration people and placement agencies at our international airports (most especially in manila) for unwarranted additional payments in the case of ofws (kanyahay ra kausa sa una gipugos gyod kog palinya sa ofw nga queue; wa gyod nako tagda, kun giguyod pa ko, aw, mapugos gyod hinoon kog tagad), pero hilabtan ang passport?  how desperate can airport people get?

PRINCIPAL TECTONIC FEATURES that are thought to be associated with continuing northward push of the India plate against the Eurasia plate have been plotted by the authors, partly on the basis of the analysis of ERTS photographs and partly on the basis of studies of major earthquakes (colored dots), which reveal how the crust has moved along faults.

The straight lines without arrowheads through dots indicate thrust faults. The double-headed arrows indicate normal faults. The pairs of anti parallel arrows indicate movement along strikeslip faults. The areas in color appear to be zones of recent uplift resulting from crustal shortening. The overall impression is that the large Eurasian land mass that lies to the west of 70 degrees east longitude has remained more or less undeformed as China bas been pushed to east. [Originally produced for "The Collision between India and Eurasia," By Peter Molnar and Paul Tapponnier, Scientific American, April 1977; Graphic by Andrew Tomko].

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

SHINGLING EFFECTS occur when tectonic plates collide and create thrust faults. Such shinglingâ€"the result of the India-Asia plate collisionâ€"has occurred in the Himalaya.

Faults of a second type are found near the crest of the Himalaya, dipping northward below the Tibetan Plateau. Constituting what is known as the South Tibetan fault system, these faults share geometric similarities with the thrust faults, but rocks slip along this system in the opposite direction.

This fault system may also mark the top of the fluid lower crustal channel below Tibet. New evidence suggests that northward slip along the South Tibetan fault system and simultaneous southward slip along the southern faults permit the southward extrusion of this channel toward the Himalayan range front. (Tan regions are moving north. Purple and gray regions are moving south.) [Originally produced for "Climate and the Evolution of Mountains," By Kip Hodges, in Scientific American, August 2006; Graphic by Jen Christiansen; Source: “Southward Extrusion of Tibetan Crust and its Effect on Himalayan Tectonics," By K. V. Hodges, J. M. Hurtado and K. X. Whipple, in Tectonics, VOL . 20, NO. 6 , pages 799â€"809; 2001].

HIMALAYAS WERE FORMED when the Indian lithospheric plate drifted northward and collided with the Eurasian plate. The collision is shown here in simplified, vertically exaggerated diagrams.

Some 60 million years ago the oceanic lithosphere at the leading edge of the Indian plate was being subducted under southern Tibet (1).

Magma rising above the Indian plate erupted from volcanoes and formed granite intrusions. Sediments and oceanic crust scraped off the descending plate piled up in an accretionary wedge, which created a forearc basin that trapped sediments eroded from Tibet. Sometime between 55 and 40 million years ago the two landmasses collided (2).

Presumably the Indian crust was too buoyant to plunge far under Tibet; as a result a new fault, the Main Central Thrust, broke through the Indian crust. Subsequently motion continued along the fault (3).

A slice of Indian crust, topped by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sediments that had been deposited on the continental shelf, was thrust up onto the oncoming subcontinent. The accretionary wedge and the forearc sediments were thrust northward onto Tibet. (Much of this material has since been eroded away.) About 20 to 10 million years ago the Main Central Thrust became inactive. Since then India has slid northward along a second fault, the Main Boundary Fault (4).

A second slice of crust has been thrust up onto the subcontinent, lifting up the first slice. The two uplifted slices make up the bulk of the Himalayas; many of the peaks are capped by Paleozoic sediments. The Indian plate bends slightly under the weight of the mountains, and the resulting trough, now filled with sediments, can be detected under the Ganges plain. [Originally produced for "The Structure of Mountain Ranges," by Peter Molnar, in Scientific American, July 1986; Illustration by Ian Worpole]

bilib gyod ko sa mga tingkagol aning kalibotana uy.  i will wait for an installation of piles and pile of dollars named mt. cashmore.

mora lagi nag pet turtle ni fr chic...

India bulled its way under Nepal those many millions of years ago, shoving the northern land skyward. That move began to create the towering Himalaya, including Mt. Everest. The collision is still going on, as India moves several centimeters north each year, and this has created an unstable fissure in the planet's crust, known as the Himalayan frontal thrust fault. This boundary zone, shown below, continues to release enormous earthquakes. Saturday's magnitude 7.8 disaster appears to overlap a segment that released a 8.1 magnitude quake in 1934, according to Susan Hough, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, California. That quake killed an estimated 10,700 people.

Here are illustrations that show, first, how the initial collision occured, then how the thrust fault is continuing to fracture the crust in the area, and finally where the frontal thrust fault lies in relation to other cracks in this very quake-prone zone.

How The Deadly Nepal Earthquake Happened

Saturday's terrible earthquake was the latest result of an ongoing collision of giant pieces of our planet, a slow-moving disaster that started about 50 million years ago.

April 27, 2015 |By Josh Fischman



Between 55 million and 40 million years ago, the northern edge of what is now India began to slam into the giant slab of Earth's crust that today carries Nepal and Tibet. This ancient collision had a terrible after-effect this past Saturday: The deadly earthquake, centered in Nepal, which had an estimated death toll of nearly 4,000 people as of Monday evening.

i respect his courage and the helplessness of his situation.  but will they ever find a body to which his head will be transplanted?

ang akong sungkaan diamonds na gyod ang mga bato.

but isn't that supposed to be insane?

heed, listen, china.  you are killing our corals.

wa na ko say.  di ko manghilabot ana.  linalaki na nang estoryaha. (nanghiwi nga emoticon)

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 29, 2015, 01:36:03 PM
Hmm, hormone-induced nga itlog sa unsa?

imbis itlog ug manok ang obvious, imo pa gyod kong lisod-lisoron.  na, hala, itlog na lang ug tblander.

A rescue team member works to dig out the trapped body of a woman from a collapsed house in Bhaktapur, Nepal April 26, 2015. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

People survey a site damaged by an earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 25, 2015. (Reuters / Navesh Chitrakar)

aguy, evo, unsa man tawoy mahitabo sa mokaon ug hormone-induced eggs?

"By following that reasoning, if we put male hormones in a chicken and we make a homosexual eat it he will transform into a heterosexual."

The dubious potential effects of hormone-infused chicken aside, Morales's warning may be out of date anyway as chicken producers in Europe, the US and many other countries abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/

The Bolivian president since 2005 added that eating chicken could make men go bald.

Morales's theories do not appear to have been immediately accepted by the scientific community, to put it mildly, and have been criticised by Spain's National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, which sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid describing the president's remarks as homophobic.

The president of the Argentina Homosexual Community campaigning organisation, Cesar Cigliutti, said: "It's an absurdity to think that eating hormone-containing chicken can change the sexual orientation of a person.

Adam Gabbatt and agencies
Thursday 22 April 2010

Male pattern baldness and the mysteries of human sexuality are no puzzles for the president of Bolivia, who has declared they are caused by eating chicken.

Evo Morales has claimed that both homosexuality and baldness can be caused by the humble chicken.

Speaking at an environmental conference on Tuesday, Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that "when men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men".

hahaha!  sakpan ra gyod nako unsay buot ipaibot ni hubag.  daan pa lagi ko nga naa gyod niy puzzle nga tukhiunon ang iyang post.


Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken

Bolivian president causes homophobia storm by blaming 'deviant' men on hormone-reared fowl


Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has suggested that eating chicken can cause homosexuality and baldness in men.  Photograph: Evan Kafka/Getty Images/Evan Kafka

why evo morales, bai hubs?  this here is curious.


Evo Morales
80th President of Bolivia
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 22, 2006

Morales is not married and upon becoming president selected his older sister, Esther Morales Ayma, to adopt the role of First Lady. He has two children from different mothers, Eva Liz Morales Alvarado and Álvaro Morales Paredes; politician Juan del Granado is Eva Liz's godfather. He has commented that he is only a Roman Catholic in order "to go to weddings", and when asked if he believed in God, responded that "I believe in the land. In my father and my mother. And in Cuchi-Cuchi." Morales is also an association football enthusiast and plays the game frequently, often with local teams.  He lives an ascetic life, with little interest in material possessions.

magical putin and dobby

i know.  si bugsay nang naniguro ug diaper.  hangtod karon baya.

aray.  naa gyoy mga tawo nga sipok ug bagol-bagol.  wa man unta tawoy mawa niya tungod kay gikawsan ang atabay.  syalan ba.

the top 5 youngest are all in africa.  could it be because their average life expectancy is just as low?  could their median age be younger because most of them don't reach old age?

in terms of life expectancy (as of 2012/wikipedia), out of 193 countries, those countries are ranked thus: niger (176), uganda (175), mali (186), malawi (170), zambia (177). 

leave it to the chinese.  at it from fake crabs to fake islands.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 28, 2015, 09:47:50 PM



Kinsa kaha pud ni...

LeBron James

thrice, as i see it.  this boxer dog is wearing boxer shorts and has boxing gloves on.

There were several ceasefires or truces in the trenches during World War I. In 1914, around Christmas time, both the British and German soldiers put down their weapons, came out of their trenches and exchanged gifts and sung carols â€" ceasing fire to celebrate Christmas. This is now known as the Christmas Truce.

It was very difficult to sleep in the trenches. The noise and uncomfortable surroundings made it very difficult to sleep in trenches. Soldiers were constantly tired and in danger of falling asleep. This is why the watch shift was kept to 2 hours to avoid men falling asleep while on watch.

The trenches were dug by soldiers and there were three ways to dig them. Sometimes the soldiers would simply dig the trenches straight into the ground â€" a method known as entrenching. Entrenching was fast, but the soldiers were open to enemy fire while they dug. Another method was to extend a trench on one end. It was called sapping and was a safer method but took a lot longer. Tunneling â€" which is digging a tunnel and then removing the roof to make a trench when it is complete â€" was the safest method, but it was the most difficult too.

The land between the two enemy trench lines was called “No Man’s Land.”  No Man’s Land was sometimes covered with land mines and barbed wire. The distance between enemy trenches was anywhere from 50 to 250 yards apart.

Trenches typically had an embankment at the top and a barbed wire fence. Often, trenches in World War 1 would be reinforced with sandbags and wooden beams. In the trench itself, the bottom was covered with wooden boards called duckboards. These were meant to protect the soldiers’ feet from the water in the trenches to try and prevent Trench Foot.

Trenches weren’t dug in straight lines, but were instead dug in a zigzag pattern.  The WW1 trenches were built as a system, in a zigzag pattern with many different levels along the lines. They had paths dug so that soldiers could move between the levels.

Soldiers rotated through three stages of the frontline. Most soldiers would spend anywhere from one day up to two weeks in the trenches at a time. They spent some time in the frontline trenches, time in the support trenches and also time resting. Even when they weren’t fighting, soldiers had work to do â€" including repairing the trenches, moving supplies, cleaning weapons, undergoing inspections or guard duty.

Many soldiers living in the trenches suffered from Trench Foot. Rain and bad weather would flood the trenches making them boggy, muddy and could even block weapons and make it hard to move in battle. The sustained exposure to the wet, muddy conditions could cause Trench Foot, which sometimes would result in the foot being amputated. Cold weather was dangerous, too and soldiers often lost fingers or toes to frostbite. Some soldiers also died from exposure to the cold.

Life in the trenches was very difficult because they were dirty and flooded in bad weather. Many of the trenches also had pests living in the trenches including rats, lice, and frogs. Rats in particular were a problem and ate soldier’s food as well as the actual soldiers while they slept. Lice also caused a disease called Trench Fever that made the soldiers itch terribly and caused fever, headache, sore muscles, bones, and joints.

Facts about World War 1 Trenches


Two British soldiers standing in a flooded communication trench during WW1.

It is estimated that there were about 2,490km of trench lines dug during World War 1. Most trenches were between 1-2 metres wide and 3 metres deep.

Trench warfare is a type of fighting where both sides dig deep trenches in the ground as a defence against the enemy. The World War 1 trenches could stretch many miles and made it almost impossible for one side to advance on the other.

The Western Front in World War 1, located in France, was fought using trench warfare. WW1 started on 28 June 1914, and by the end of 1914 both sides had built trenches that went from the North Sea and through Belgium and France. Neither side made much ground for nearly three and a half years â€" from October 1914 to March of 1918.

“Some may regard a trench as a romantic place, but it makes a thankless home. Most trenches were deep and narrow, safe from rifle fire and pretty secure from shrapnel. Nevertheless accidents did occur. A fellow would keep his head too far above the parapet or look too long through a peep hole and get sniped.  Sometimes a bullet penetrated a badly filled sandbag and settled some poor devils account…the trenches zig-zagged all the way, so enemy fire could into enfilade for any distance.  The sun stared down onto the baked earth and searched out every corner.  To provide some shade, fellows stretched blankets overhead, pinned to the walls with bayonets. Sometimes attempts were made to get little comforts, such as seats, shelves and pictures from illustrated papers. But nothing really disguised the horror of these homes.”

Loch, Sydney. To Hell and Back: The banned account of Gallipoli, Sydney: Harper Collins, 2007, p154.
Image: Men in trenches at Gallipoli. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/G00425

http://www.anzacsofgallipoli.com/

World War I Trench Facts

Trench warfare is a war tactic, or way of fighting that was commonly used on the Eastern Front and the Western Front in WW1. In trench warfare, the two sides fighting each other dig trenches in a battlefield to stop the enemy from advancing.

Turks mark what they call the Canakkale War on March 18 -- the day in 1915 that saw the start of the main Allied naval assault on the Dardanelles Straits ahead of the ground invasion.

Some 130,000 soldiers perished during the campaign -- 87,000 of them from the Ottoman side -- before the Turks, under German command, finally repulsed an Allied campaign that was hampered by poor planning.

But it would prove to be one of the Turks' few successes in the war. In November 1918, the Allied fleet sailed through the Dardanelles and took Istanbul without a single casualty.

(Additional reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu in Ankara; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Angus MacSwan)



http://www.reuters.com/

FOES TURNED ALLIES

Security was especially tight at the memorials and graveyards around the peninsula as the former adversaries now face a common threat from Islamist militant violence.

Australian police on Saturday foiled what they said was an Islamic State-inspired attack planned at an event to mark the centenary, a holiday in Australia and New Zealand.

Turkey, which borders Syria and Iraq and has been a major transit route for foreign fighters headed there, is also on alert for potential attacks.

The area has become a site of pilgrimage for visitors from the two countries, who honor their fallen in graveyards halfway around the world on ANZAC Day each year. This year is set to be the largest ever commemoration.

It is also a national touchstone for Turkey, heralding the rise of Ataturk, who as a young officer led the defense. He later founded modern Turkey, the secular republic that emerged from the ruins of the Ottoman empire.

"The Battle of Gallipoli is truly a reminder that the Great War was truly a world war...It destroyed old empires and created new fissures," Prince Charles said in a speech under clear, sunlit skies.

"On this centenary occasion, it seems to me we must remember the heroism of both sides."


Britain's Prince Charles walks in front of the Turkish Memorial before a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in Gallipoli April 24, 2015. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

"Tens of thousands of youths buried their futures in this land," President Tayyip Erdogan told an international ceremony at the main Turkish memorial on the peninsula.

"The soldiers lying in this soil are also our children," he said, a reference to the words of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, then a young officer, who vowed that the foreign fallen were now lying under friendly soil.

Gallipoli was the first time that soldiers from Australia and New Zealand fought under their own flags and is seared in the national consciousness as a point where their nations came of age, emerging from the shadow of the British empire.


Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan (3rd R) and Britain's Prince Charles talk before a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in Gallipoli April 24, 2015. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

Former foes honor Gallipoli's fallen on 100th anniversary

GALLIPOLI PENINSULA | By Dasha Afanasieva

(Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan led commemorations on the Gallipoli peninsula on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of a World War One battle that helped shape the birth of new nations.


Flowers and a picture of Captain H. Hunter are seen next to his name on the wall of Cape Helles British Memorial before a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in Gallipoli April 24, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders have flocked to the peninsula on Turkey's Aegean coast to remember the fallen in an ill-fated Allied campaign a century ago that claimed more than 130,000 lives.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his New Zealand counterpart John Key are also due to lead commemorations including a dawn service on Saturday at ANZAC Cove, the narrow beach where thousands of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) struggled ashore in April 25, 1915.

Lancashire Fusiliers of the 125th Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, bound for Cape Helles, Gallipoli, May 1915. The soldiers have just disembarked aboard Trawler 318 from the transport SS Nile, from the deck of which the photo was taken. (wikimedia)

The campaign was one of the greatest Ottoman victories during the war. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the nation's history: a final surge in the defence of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire crumbled.

The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who first rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli. The campaign is often considered as marking the birth of national consciousness in Australia and New Zealand and the date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "Anzac Day" which is the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in those two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day (Armistice Day).

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The peninsula forms the northern bank of the Dardanelles, a strait that provided a sea route to the Russian Empire, one of the Allied powers during the war. Intending to secure it, Russia's allies Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula, with the aim of capturing the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern Istanbul).[6] The naval attack was repelled and after eight months' fighting, with many casualties on both sides, the land campaign was abandoned and the invasion force was withdrawn to Egypt.

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916.

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salin sa intsik nang kalakiha.  they eat cats and dogs in some parts of china, raw monkey brains in other parts (as reported by national geographic many years ago).

magkurog akong tuhod maghunahuna nga usa tawon sa akong mga iring mabiktima, simbako palayo. 

a ubiquitous snack chain allegedly mixes cat meat in its beef patties that's why its price is so affordable.  suppliers get 700 pesos per  sack of live cats.  my source: a friend of our in-law.  i don't know how true this is (business rivalries cannot be discounted), but it's worth a james bond-like espionage look.       

On numerous occasions over the course of about six months, Key had pulled at her ponytail during visits to a cafe he frequented with his wife, she said.

Despite her attempts to avoid his attention, “the game continued”, wrote the waitress.

“He would come up behind me when I was at the ordering terminal, tug on my hair and then pretend that his wife, Bronagh, had done it (much to her embarrassment), and she would tell him to stop it. As he rounded the corner behind me he commented ‘that’s a very tantalising ponytail’,” she wrote.

more at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/new-zealand-prime-minister-john-key-apologises-for-pulling-waitresss-hair

Speaking to reporters at Los Angeles airport while en route to Turkey, Key repeated the apology saying that there were “a lot of fun and games” at the cafe and “lots of practical jokes”.

The hair-pulling had taken place “in the context of a bit of banter” and he had apologised to her “when I realised she took offence”. Key said when he gave her the wine and apologised, the waitress had told him, “that’s all right, no drama”.

In an anonymous blog post at the Daily Blog site, the waitress accused Key of acting “like the schoolyard bully tugging on the little girls’ hair trying to get a reaction”.

New Zealand prime minister John Key apologises over allegations by an Auckland waitress that he tugged on her ponytail


Apology comes after Auckland waitress revealed that the PM repeatedly pulled her ponytail in what he now says was ‘a bit of banter'

Toby Manhire
Wednesday 22 April 2015


John Key: New Zealand prime minister

Politicians are routinely upbraided for behaviour befitting a schoolyard, but the New Zealand prime minister has now become embroiled in a controversy that centres, quite literally, on hair-pulling.

On Wednesday morning John Key apologised following allegations by an Auckland waitress that he had repeatedly tugged on her ponytail, a pattern of conduct she regarded as harassment.

Through a spokesperson, the prime minister apologised for the hair-pulling, saying it “was never his intention to make her feel uncomfortable”, but did not dispute the waitress’s version of events.

If you are reading this and find wisdom in my pain, share it those those young husbands whose hearts are still full of hope, and with those couples you may know who may have forgotten how to love. One of those men may be like I was, and in these hard earned lessons perhaps something will awaken in him and he will learn to be the man his lady has been waiting for.

http://socialmeems.com/

These are lessons I learned the hard way. These are lessons I learned too late. But these are lessons I am learning and committed in carrying forward. Truth is, I loved being married, and in time, I will get married again, and when I do, I will build it with a foundation that will endure any storm and any amount of time.

In the end marriage isn’t about happily ever after. It’s about work. And a commitment to grow together and a willingness to continually invest in creating something that can endure eternity. Through that work, the happiness will come. Marriage is life, and it will bring ups and downs. Embracing all of the cycles and learning to learn from and love each experience will bring the strength and perspective to keep building, one brick at a time.

20. Always choose love. ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. In the end, this is the only advice you need. If this is the guiding principle through which all your choices is governed, there is nothing that will threaten the happiness of your marriage. Love will always endure.

19. Forgive immediately and focus on the future rather than carrying weight from the past. Don’t let your history hold you hostage. Holding onto past mistakes that either you or she makes, is like a heavy anchor to your marriage and will hold you back. FORGIVENESS IS FREEDOM. Cut the anchor loose and always choose love.