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hello, norms.  just curious; why is this announcement specifically for guindulman single men?  thanks. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 10, 2014, 07:40:53 PM
Hmm, who knows? Maybe there's a lunar version of Bugs Bunny being hunted by his buddy Elmer Fudd...

i can't g; it seems to me that you're speaking an alien tongue from another dimension.  or are you saying that bugsay has hemorrhoids? 

laing klase gyod, kay supermooning man.  another difference-- the moon up above doesn't suffer from hemorrhoids.

stories of other crimes, from theft to serial killing, do not use such adjectives.  ever come across an item such as a catholic thief or a protestant serial killer?  or for that matter, an irish catholic terrorist or a catholic plunderer senator? 

and may i add that this is the sad part about western media.  it's the western standard use of at sickening adjective, as if religion is the only reason for such atrocities.  it glides over the fact that terrorists, who happen to be muslim, are such a minuscule percentage of the whole muslim population in the world, majority of whom choose peace.  like christianity or some other religions, islam is a religion of peace.

dates to mark down for superyou to watch superman cut a silhouette across the supermoon:

12 july 2014
10 august 2014
09 september 2014

The scientific term for the bright lunar phenomenon is “perigee moon”. It occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth on its orbit. At that moment the moon is 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) closer to the Earth than when it is furthest away from the planet. That happens quite often, on average supermoons occur every 13.5 months.

However, this summer skywatchers are treated to three supermoons in quick succession. The first one was visible on July 12, and the last one is expected to occur on September 9, according to NASA.

more at http://www.interaksyon.com/article/92976/brightest-supermoon-of-2014-perseid-meteor-shower-to-be-visible-this-weekend

12 July 2014



Image at top shows a micro-moon (smallest full moon) superimposed on supermoon (largest full moon). This image â€" an Astronomy Picture of the Day from earlier this year â€" is from Stefano Sciarpetti.

more at http://earthsky.org/tonight/july-12-supermoon-first-of-three-superrmoons

How many cases have there been ?

The CDC estimates there have been more than 3,000 cases of Ebola and more than 2,000 deaths since 1976.

The last recorded outbreaks before the current one in Guinea were in 2012 â€" in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Uganda outbreak involved a total of 24 probable and confirmed cases, and 17 deaths, according to the WHO, which declared it had ended in October 2012.

MSF said the Uganda outbreak had been the Sudan strain, while the virus found in DRC was the Bundibugyo sub-type.

Before 2014, the most deadly outbreak was the 1976 outbreak in then Zaire, when 280 of 318 infected people died, according to the CDC. In 2000, there were 425 cases of Ebola Sudan in Uganda, which resulted in 224 fatalities.

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What should flight crew do if Ebola infection is suspected?

The CDC has issued guidance for airline crews on Ebola virus infections.

“As with many other global infectious disease outbreaks, airline carriers, crew members, airports can be very important partners in that front line,” said Cetron. “Being educated, knowing the symptoms, recognizing what to do, having a response protocol, knowing who to call, those are really, really important parts of the global containment strategy to deal with threats like this.”

The CDC advises that when flight crew members encounter a passenger with symptoms that they suspect could be Ebola, such as fever and bleeding, that they keep the sick person away from other passengers. They’ve been instructed to wear disposable gloves and to provide the sickened person with a surgical mask to prevent fluids from spreading through talking, sneezing or coughing.

The airline cleaning crew are also instructed to wear disposable gloves, wipe down surfaces including armrests, seat backs, trays and light switches. The CDC says that packages and cargo should not pose a risk, unless the items have been soiled with blood or bodily fluids.

When someone becomes ill on a flight, the captain is required by aviation regulations to report the suspected case to air traffic control, according to IATA.

Can plane passengers become infected?

While the CDC acknowledges it’s possible a person infected with Ebola in West Africa could get on a plane and arrive in another country, the chances of the virus spreading during the journey are low.

“It’s very unlikely that they would be able to spread the disease to fellow passengers,” said Stephen Monroe, deputy director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases.

“The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with the blood, secretions, or other body fluids of ill people, and indirect contact â€" for example with needles and other things that may be contaminated with these fluids.”

He added that most people who have become infected with Ebola lived with or cared for an ill patient.

“This is not an airborne transmission,” said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. “There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood.”

Travelers should take precautions by avoiding areas experiencing outbreaks and avoid contact with Ebola patients.

“It is highly unlikely that someone suffering such symptoms would feel well enough to travel,” IATA said in a statement.

“In the rare event that a person infected with the Ebola virus was unknowingly transported by air, WHO advises that the risks to other passengers are low. Nonetheless, WHO does advise public health authorities to carry out contact tracing in such instances.”

This means determining who had contact with the affected person.

How does Ebola virus spread?

The WHO says it is believed that fruit bats may be the natural host of the Ebola virus in Africa, passing on the virus to other animals.

Humans contract Ebola through contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals or the bodily fluids of infected humans.

MSF says that while the virus is believed to be able to survive for some days in liquid outside an infected organism, chlorine disinfection, heat, direct sunlight, soaps and detergents can kill it.

MSF epidemiologist Kamiliny Kalahne said outbreaks usually spread in areas where hospitals have poor infection control and limited access to resources such as running water.

“People who become sick with it almost always know how they got sick: because they looked after someone in their family who was very sick â€" who had diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding â€" or because they were health staff who had a lot of contact with a sick patient,” she said.

What drugs exist to combat the drug?

Two American missionary workers infected with Ebola were given an experimental drug called ZMapp which seems to have saved their lives. The drug, developed by a San Diego firm, had never been tried before on humans, but it showed promise in small experiments on monkeys.

But rolling out an untested drug during a massive outbreak would also be very difficult, according to MSF. Experimental drugs are typically not mass-produced, and tracking the success of such a drug if used would require extra medical staff where resources are already scarce. ZMapp’s maker says it has very few doses ready for patient use.

There are other experimental drugs out there. Tekmira, a Vancouver-based company that has a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an Ebola drug, began Phase 1 trials with its drug in January. But the FDA recently halted the trial, asking for more information.

At least one potential Ebola vaccine has been tested in healthy human volunteers, according to Thomas Geisbert, a leading researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch. And last week, the NIH announced that a safety trial of another Ebola vaccine will start as early as September.

And in March, the U.S. National Institute of Health awarded a five-year, $28 million grant to establish a collaboration between researchers from 15 institutions who were working to fight Ebola.

“A whole menu of antibodies have been identified as potentially therapeutic, and researchers are eager to figure out which combinations are most effective and why,” a news release about the grant said.

How is it treated?

There are no specific treatments for Ebola. MSF says patients are isolated and then supported by health care workers.

“This consists of hydrating the patient, maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure and treating them for any complicating infections,” it says.

There have been cases of healthcare workers contracting the virus from patients, and the WHO has issued guidance for dealing with confirmed or suspected cases of the virus.

Carers are advised to wear impermeable gowns and gloves and to wear facial protection such as goggles or a medical mask to prevent splashes to the nose, mouth and eyes.

MSF says it contained a 2012 outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around its treatment center. An outbreak is considered over once 42 days â€" double the incubation period of the disease â€" have passed without any new cases.

What are Ebola’s symptoms?

Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat. These symptoms can appear two to 21 days after infection.

The WHO says these nonspecific early symptoms can be mistaken for signs of diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, meningitis or even the plague.

MSF says some patients may also develop a rash, red eyes, hiccups, chest pains and difficulty breathing and swallowing.

The early symptoms progress to vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function and sometimes internal and external bleeding.

Ebola can only be definitively confirmed by five different laboratory tests.

What is Ebola, and what are its symptoms?

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.

The virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), where one of the first outbreaks occurred in 1976. The same year there was another outbreak in Sudan.

The WHO says there are five different strains of the virus â€" named after the areas they originated in. Three of these have been associated with large outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in Africa.

These are the Bundibugyo â€" an area of Uganda where the virus was discovered in 2007 â€" Sudan and Zaire sub-types.

There has been a solitary case of Ivory Coast Ebola. This subtype was discovered when a researcher studying wild chimpanzees became ill in 1994 after an autopsy on one of the animals. The researcher recovered.

Finally, Reston Ebola is named after Reston in the U.S. state of Virginia, where this fifth strain of the Ebola virus was identified in monkeys imported from the Philippines. The CDC says while humans have been infected with Ebola Reston, there have been no cases of human illness or death from this sub-type.

Why does Ebola generate such fear?

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) describes Ebola as “one of the world’s most deadly diseases.”

“It is a highly infectious virus that can kill up to 90% of the people who catch it, causing terror among infected communities,” it says.

There is also no vaccination against it.

Of Ebola’s five subtypes, the Zaire strain â€" the first to be identified â€" is considered the most deadly.

The WHO said preliminary tests on the Ebola virus in Guinea in March suggested that the outbreak there was this strain, though that has not been confirmed.

Ebola virus: Nine things to know about the killer disease

August 9, 2014
by CNN Wire

   

Hundreds of people are dead as the worst Ebola virus outbreak in history sweeps through West Africa.

It began as a handful of cases in Guinea in March but quickly spread to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Here are nine things to know about what the World Health Organization calls “one of the world’s most virulent diseases.”

well, if china can come up with a grim one-child policy, they could come up with a solution for their millions of "excess" men; let them marry each other. 

if china wish to challenge the United States' power, they might as well go the way of monkey sees, monkey does, like legalizing same-sex marriage.  

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 08, 2014, 09:13:56 PM
A great story. Brava!

thanks.  it's in the telling, dear.  aherm, one learns something from masters like you, like writing and having the last word. 

kung tutuusin, bata ra baya gyod ko ato nga nangilog ug di ako, hihihi.   

some kind of sad postscript: that daughter of our cousins' household help died while she was still in her mid-30s.  she fell off a motorcycle and may have suffered from internal hemorrhage.  i never saw her again before then, but i asked her relatives about her, and this was their story.

pwede jamo, mr webmaster.  pwede gani iapil nimo nga wa gyoy makapukaw sa girl kay hambaton sa iyang iro ang bisan kinsa nga moduol as long as the girl is in bed.  palami gyod ang girl ug hila-hila, maugtas na lang iyang papa dayon ingon, 'pareha na man gyod mog baho ni gwendolyn.'  and the girl who lived happily ever after malipay jamo because she took it as a great compliment.

kalooy.  i wish him well. 

taym sa ra god.  morag naay gimingawan bai hubs da...

pity the blind and those suffering from acute sinusitis.  does this research mean that they have no memory?

uy, gwapa man diay koh.

it's quite late, though i hope that it's none too soon anyhow, to thank that seafarer whose name i never got to know but whose smile of understanding is forever etched in my memory. 

thank you for your kindness, fellow boholano, my paisano, whoever and wherever you are now, mate.

gwendolyn died when the girl was already into her fourth year of work as a professional.

needless to say, growing up became much more bearable and happier for that 11-year-old girl.   

i should know.  i was that 11-year-old.

it's all right, one of the smiling men said.  we're not here to get cutie.  we only want to visit her and see how she is.

her name is not cutie, the girl snapped.  it's gwendolyn.

and that was how the 11-year-old girl became the sole owner, playmate, bedmate, and constant vacation buddy of many summers of the puppy named gwendolyn.  the puppy was soon to become the dog who knew how to shell and eat peanuts and relished eating bread dipped in soda drink.

the seafarer was back, the little girl heard one day, and he's asking about his puppy. 

two men knocked on the girl's door.  someone opened it, and what met the men's eyes was the girl sitting on a low stool, puppy on her lap, arms held tight around the puppy.  she eyed the two men with dagger looks and tried to scare them away with her worst possible scowl.  it could only have meant armaggedon if the girl and the puppy were parted.

give it to her and don't bring it back, the head of that household commanded their help's daughter.  it was a command that brooked no resistance, it rendered the ten commandments a whit tamer.

and that was how the girl became the de facto owner of the puppy that she named gwendolyn.

but aside from her who was about the same age as the girl, it seemed as if everyone in that family regarded the puppy more as a nuisance that nobody wanted, an imposition tolerated at best and regretted at worst.


the sadness of the unwanted dog

the 11-year-old girl grew fonder of the puppy and made it a point to borrow and play with it every day, after school on weekdays and throughout the day on weekends.  it became a source of quarrel between the two pre-teen girls.

indeed, fate played its tricky hand as the daughter of the household help had the misfortune of being in a family that disliked the puppy.

the girl got wind of the puppy in that temporary shelter of her cousins' home.  she began to visit the puppy regularly to play with it.  later, she got bolder by borrowing the puppy and bringing it home, on the condition that it be returned by early evening. 

always, it was the daughter of the household help of the puppy's temporary home who came to claim the puppy at the agreed time.  she set the rules anyhow, to begin with.

and that was how the girl became subservient to the wishes, whims and caprices of that family's household help's daughter.


a likeness of that puppy

there was once a seafarer who left his puppy with his friend's family before he boarded his ship.  It was a temporary arrangement, a favor asked with the promise to come back for his puppy after a few months.

as it happened, that family had a next-door neighbor of relations.  among them was an 11-year-old girl.

kun sa binisaya pa ni, tabla ra sa moingon ug "tsura lang, mora uroy ug naay itlog".

duda kong mga tblanders ni sila.  now pa ko nakasabot why naay emoticon dinhi nga nigawas ang dila.

ang dugo nga mibaswak sa nadunggaban, mura ba kahag tuba? 

moral lesson: di gyod angay mosukol sa tighabwa ug kasilyas.  duol ra kaayo siya sa weapon of mass destruction nga kuyaw pa gyod sa radiation.

tabla pa unta sila kun ang giinom dili tuba.  wa pa tingaliy daotang nahitabo kun ang gihabwa na lang sa kasilyas ang ilang gimantiniran.   

had tried this a while ago.  the sneeze was faster than my tongue.

aaahhh, my kind of life!

I wonder why the cop is pulling them over…

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WHY HAS THE MILITARY NOT MASS-PRODUCED THIS?

Sulley from Monster’s Inc. would have a chopper.

If you have hemorrhoids, there are still ways to ride a bike.

That’s one kind of helmet.

Is this a cult?

Who needs a sidecar?

That’s a barbecue.

Comfy.

That sheep isn’t even wearing a helmet!

There’s a bike under there somewhere.

A one-door motorcycle.

That can’t be safe.

If he hits a bump, he’s screwed.

Yes, there’s a child in there somewhere.

A four wheel motorcycle.

The Weirdest Show on Wheels: Bizarre Photos of Crazy Motorcyclists

By Jeffrey Rindskopf
July 10, 2014

There’s an oft-unspoken rivalry between motorcyclists and us average motorists. Car-drivers are always eager to jealously complain about bikers unfairly passing them by in traffic or curse their deafening engines roaring by.

It’s in that spirit of resentment that we present this [slideshow] featuring a few of the weirdest sights you’ll ever see on the road, all of them on motorcycles. The photos of crazy motorcyclists just give you the feeling that there’s some sort of strange story behind them. We don’t know what those stories are â€" and, frankly, we don’t really care.

What’s most important to use about these pictures is that they’re funny. And isn’t that what life’s all about in the end?

ngeeeh.  hukason ba kaha usa paakon?  should i get this as a gift, ipasok gyod ni nako sa ilong sa giver, hihihi.

yes, yes, you are a great forever dog.  you take precedence over any two-legged up-and-coming boyfriend.  if he doesn't make you a great forever dog, then he becomes a forever out-of-my-life future ex-boyfriend.  i promise.

fan pa gyod siya ni edgar allan poem.

dia pa.  siyaro.

di mo magmahay ani.

and calling it the "first supper"?  cool.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 28, 2014, 11:09:27 AMAnother thing that makes boodle fight truly Filipino is the use bare hands in place of utensils.

but is this truly filipino?  i thought this is more subcontinental south asian.  meanwhile, most of our neighbors in southeast asia use chopsticks.  what's filipino is the use of a spoon instead of a table knife.  eating with bare hands during picnics on the beach, probably.

grrrrr!  purya gaba.  maestra pa gyod. 

“In addition to the high cost, we also experienced ISPs implementing weird techniques to encourage their customer to upgrade to a more expensive plan,” he said.

“For example, our Globe internet connection in Fort Legend Tower will auto disconnect randomly and assign itself with a different IP address a few times a day. Besides assigning the connection with a different public IP, certain IPs that are assigned are not accessible publicly (behind their proxy),” Goh said.


“[Our two connections are still] somewhat insufficient due to the quality of the ISP here [because] our back up connection can be as slow or just as unreliable [as our primary]. In other countries, we have never needed to fall back to our redundant service provider so far,” [he said].

read more at PH slowest Internet speed in Asean by Matikas Santos |INQUIRER.net   
Saturday, July 26th, 2014, http://technology.inquirer.net/37815/ph-slowest-internet-speed-in-asean

“In general, internet access in the Philippines is more expensive and more restricted than other countries. Our provider in [One Global Place], PLDT, has a slow internet plan [and] the cost is certainly not cheap,” Goh said.

“We are paying around P8,000 per month for 8 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 1 Mbps upload connection. In Malaysia, we are able to get 10 Mbps download/upload for about P5,000 per month only,” he said.

Goh also noted troubles with their first business center in Fort Legend Tower which has Globe as its internet service provider (ISP).

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A woman cries during a religious service held by villagers in memory of the victims at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. AP

aguy.  either jail facility improvement and expansion are not on the pdaf or dap budgets or we are populated by too many criminals.  i wonder how our jailed legislators would fare here.

now pa ko nga "she" diay ning ngan nga wendell.

Monument near Chicago, Illinois, USA

wikipedia/

Roman Kowal's Holodomor Memorial in Winnipeg, Canada

Memorial cross in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Monument in Boryspil, Ukraine, Kiev Oblast

"Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in Kiev

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on 17 May 2010 near Memorial to the Holodomor Victims in Kiev

Remembrance


Candles and wheat as a symbol of remembrance during the Holodomor Remembrance Day 2013 in Lviv

To honour those who perished in the Holodomor, monuments have been dedicated and public events held annually in Ukraine and worldwide.

Since 2006, Ukraine officially marks a Holodomor memorial day on the fourth Saturday of November.

Photograph by Alexander Wienerberger, 1933

Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and several other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.


Photograph by Gareth Jones showing starving children during the famine

During the famine, which is also known as the "Terror-Famine in Ukraine" and "Famine-Genocide in Ukraine", millions of citizens of the Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.


Passers-by and the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, 1932

The Holodomor (Ukrainian:"Extermination by hunger" or "Hunger-extermination; "Killing by Starvation")was an orchestrated famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed about 4 million Ukrainians.


Pedestrians walking past bodies of starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933.

is that the latest design of a gasoline pump?

Quote from: islander on July 24, 2014, 02:21:40 PM
As part of the settlement, the United States did not admit legal liability but agreed to pay on an "ex gratia" basis US$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims.

ex gratia

(adverb & adjective)

-(with reference to payment) done from a sense of moral obligation rather than because of any legal requirement

-A sum of money paid when there was no obligation or liability to pay it.

-Ex gratia is latin for "by favor"; in essence, "out of goodwill"


whewww!  i'm whistling.  no wonder iran mistrusts the u.s. until now.

7. Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (2001)


Oleksandr Kuzmuk, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense who resigned after the military short down Siberian Airlines Flight 1812.  (Robert D. Ward/DOD)

Perhaps the strangest precedent for the Malaysian Airlines crash in Ukraine is a shoot-down in 2001 caused by military forces in … Ukraine. On October 4, 2001, 64 Siberia Airlines passengers and 12 crew members onboard a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154 en route from Novosibirsk to Tel Aviv were killed when the plane was shot down over the Black Sea by a Ukrainian missile.

It took a while for Ukraine to admit that was what had happened, but after pressure from Russian investigators, Ukraine's then-president, Leonid Kuchma, accepted that the Ukrainian military was at fault. The day of the shoot-down, the Ukrainian military was conducting a massive military exercise which involved shooting 23 missiles at drones. "Experts say that the radar-guided S-200, among the farthest-flying and most capable antiaircraft missile in the arsenal of former Soviet nations, simply locked onto the Russian airliner after it raced past the destroyed drone some 20 miles off the Crimean coast," the New York Times' Michael Wines reported.

Kuchma accepted the resignation of his Minister of Defense, Oleksandr Kuzmuk, following the admission that the military was at fault. From 2003 to 2005, Ukraine paid $15.6 million to families of victims following a deal with the government of Israel.

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6. Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (1973)


Israeli defense minister General Moshe Dayan (to the right of then-Prime Minister Golda Meir) apologized for shooting down Flight 114, and Chief-of-staff General David Elazar (to her left) gave the initial order. (AFP/Getty Images)

On February 21, 1973, a Libyan Arab Airlines (a wholly owned part of the Libyan government) Boeing 727 flying from Tripoli to Cairo got lost and flew over the Sinai peninsula, which had been under Israeli control since the Six-Day War in 1967. After giving signals to land and firing warning shots, Israeli jets shot down the plane, killing 108 of the 113 people on board, and leaving four passengers and a co-pilot alive.

David Elazar, the chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces, took responsibility for ordering the shoot-down. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called the event an "error of judgment" and the Israeli government compensated the families of victims. Libya condemned the attack as "a criminal act" while the Soviets called it a "monstrous new crime."