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A pet bird, pierced with a metal hook and attached to a leash, perches on a stick as it waits to play a game in which it retrieves nuts shot into the air via blowgun in central Beijing. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

A woman and her cat stop in front of Tiananmen Square's North Rostrum. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Chinese walk past an impromptu and illegal pet market in downtown Beijing. UPI/Stephen Shaver

An enterprising Chinese man sells kittens on the corner of an intersection in central Beijing. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

A puppy sleeps in a small wire cage at a sidewalk pet market in downtown Beijing. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Chinese shoppers look at various animals for sale, including a floppy-eared rabbit, at a shopping center in Beijing, on July 3, 2012. Only recently in China has the concept of pet ownership become popular, as opposed to buying animals strictly to cook. UPI/Stephen Shaver

A Chinese woman feeds her large pig wearing a dress outside a convenience store in downtown Beijing on May 29, 2013. UPI/Stephen Shaver

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A young puppy on the corner of an intersection in central Beijing. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 23, 2014, 05:03:45 PM
Lorenzo Roca of cleaning firm Chiarissima said an employee was "just doing her job" when she mistook Sala Murat's artwork made from newspaper, cardboard and cookie pieces for trash left behind by workers setting up the Mediating Landscape exhibition at the gallery in Bari, the BBC reported Friday.

Angay ra pud diayng masaypan...

Maoy gidangat...

Maoy gidangat...

Feb. 21, 2014 at 3:49 PM   
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BARI, Italy, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- An Italian cleaning firm said its insurance will cover the loss of contemporary artworks mistakenly taken for trash and tossed out at a gallery.

Lorenzo Roca of cleaning firm Chiarissima said an employee was "just doing her job" when she mistook Sala Murat's artwork made from newspaper, cardboard and cookie pieces for trash left behind by workers setting up the Mediating Landscape exhibition at the gallery in Bari, the BBC reported Friday.

Roca said the company's insurance will cover the estimated $13,722 value of the lost art.

Security workers arriving for duty Wednesday morning noticed the works were missing.

"We are obviously very sorry for what happened," city marketing commissioner Antonio Maria Vasile said. "It's clear the cleaning person did not realize she had thrown away two works and their value. But this is all about the artists who have been able to better interpret the meaning of contemporary art, which is to interact with the environment.

"In any case, the insurance will cover the damages caused," Vasile said.

Guest photobomber...

The Scream photobomb

Quote from: islander on February 22, 2014, 01:53:33 PM
and there we were, repeatedly in the media, ruing the day the country supposedly didn't spend for our own figure skating michael.  there's got to be a mean here, like when is enough, enough.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 20, 2014, 01:48:45 PM
In each case, Olympic investment has resulted in noticeably increased medal totals, but it’s tempting to think about what else could have been done with that money.

Sa Pilipinas, wa nay "it's tempting to think" kay ang tanan nasayod unsay nahitabo sa kwarta sa katawhan.

Most likely a tearjerker...

Quote from: islander on February 21, 2014, 07:22:04 PM
so what do we call those that prepare extraordinary people for an ordinary destiny?

Hmm, either softships or hardplanes. Take your pick.

Pre-birthday treat to myself...

Bag-o galing gihinguk-an si Kitty mao nga gasalig si Ondoy...

Mahiagtang man pud ta ani...

Nag-hallucinate na galing...

Unrequited love...

The ultimate goal is to allow the children in calamity areas to creatively release their trauma as a starting point for teachers and the communities to get to the children and then motivate them to express, Save the Children representatives said.

Save the Children is one of the many international organizations handling the post trauma stress therapies of calamity victims, the organization focusing on children in internally displace communities and their issues.

Arts Month keynote speaker City Mayor John Geesnell Yap also pointed out that the Arts Month belongs to the Hearts Month.

Heart, Joy, Love----the main elements in the Arts Programs for 2014 Philippine Arts Festival (PAF) for the February Arts Month Celebration, will be the workshop’s underlying theme, local artist and literary arts mentor said.

Moreover, after the workshops, Bohol intends to bring in Tanghal Asia here, and set up an International Arts for Healing Festival anytime soon. (RAC)

Adopting Kasing Sining, art on the edge, art with a heart, the workshops are arts for Healing disaster-Impacted communities of Maribojoc and Antequera and Loon this next week.

Using the arts, it aims to restoring the wholeness, life, hope, shelter, community and heritage of people through a movement of culture caregivers and artists for crisis, explains Lutgardo Labad, during a meeting with workshop coordinators and facilitators at Garden Café, a week ago.

The workshop is a continuing activity of the Dayaw Bohol, and One Heart Express, which uses the Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop template to help upgrade the pedagogy experience of local artist teachers, multi-awarded cultural worker Labad added.

Both programs had arts for healing workshops given to disaster hit communities, take its roots from indigenous cultures as well as community experience.

The workshop is aimed at equipping public school teachers with another tool to get into the sensitivities of children in calamity areas to process and provide mental health and psycho-social support using arts as the medium.

http://www.theboholstandard.com/
Sunday, February 9, 2014


Arts Month celebration here opened in style; a simple and austere ceremony, hides what could be Bohol’s innovative contribution to disaster struck communities.

Just as Sangguniang Panlalawigan Bohol Culture and Arts Committee Chair Godofreda Tirol, declared the Arts Month open, somewhere in the sidelines, Boholano artists huddle to finalize a training module which could make Bohol carve another first in Philippine Arts history.

The day the Board Member Tirol declared the celebration open was also the day when a team of local artists visit the venue for the next day’s integrated arts workshop for public school teachers of severely affected towns here.

The goal is to enhance the teaching skills of teachers who would be equipped with special skills in arts for healing therapies, so they can properly process problems of school children which could be disaster trauma related, according to program initiators in Bohol.

Marina Beach, Chennai, India
At around 8 miles long, it's the longest urban beach in India. There's a bit of an undertow, so swimming isn't as popular as hanging out and shopping.

Stockton Beach, Australia
Not only is this beach long (nearly 20 miles long), but it's popular with dune surfers, 4-wheel drive enthusiasts and surfers.

Muizenberg, South Africa
The town of Muizenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, marks the start of a roughly 25-mile beach that curves around to nearby False Bay. Beware, there have been shark sightings in the past.

Long Beach, Washington
At 28 miles long, this claims to be America's longest contiguous beach.

Virginia Beach, Virginia
This East Coast city has 35 miles of beaches and a lot of tourists to show for.

Ninety Mile Beach, New Zealand
Unlike its neighbor to the west, this beach, on the North Island, is really only about 55 miles long.

Playa Novillero, Mexico
Sign us up. This beach is 56 miles long, a third of a mile wide and water that's shallow enough that you can walk about 330 feet into the water.

Padre Island National Seashore, Texas
Off south Texas sits some beautiful stretches of beach that go for some 70 miles.

Ninety Mile Beach, Australia
Yup, you guessed it. This beach is 90 miles long. It's popular with dolphin and whale watchers, fishermen and swimmers alike.

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
The world's longest uninterrupted beach clocks in at 75 miles long (though others say it's a bit shorter). Regardless, the government is focusing on drawing more and more tourists fast, so go before it gets crazy.

Praia do Cassino Beach, Brazil
At roughly 150 miles long, this is considered the world's longest beach by many. It's so long that it stretches from Rio Grande to the border with Uruguay.

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Posted: 02/18/2014 7:40 am EST Updated: 02/19/2014 5:59 pm EST Print Article


Sure, you can hang out on the beach in your bikini, walk along a boardwalk, go for a dip or even surf. Or, you can go for a really, really, really long walk.

Here are eleven beaches where you can show your bikini bod for miles and miles.

It would be easier to dismiss medal-counting as mere competitive fun if countries didn’t treat it like a real measurement of national worthâ€"and spend accordingly. After it failed to win gold at its home Olympics in Montreal '76 and Calgary '88, Canada invested $110 million in its “Own the Podium” program in the lead-up to the 2010 Vancouver games. Ahead of London 2012, Great Britain spent 264 million pounds preparing its athletes. Russia hasn't revealed how much it spent on training athletes before Sochi, but given the games’ $51 billion pricetag, it’s safe to assume they spared no expense. In each case, Olympic investment has resulted in noticeably increased medal totals, but it’s tempting to think about what else could have been done with that money.

Performing well on a global stage like the Olympics can be a potent symbol, especially for the host country, but it is still only a symbolâ€"and a fleeting one at that. (Do you even remember who "won" the games in Turin?) Ultimately, our outsize investment in the gamesâ€"both emotionally and financiallyâ€"says more about America's priorities than it does about our athletic abilities or national strength. There's a different kind of gold medal, for instance, that an American hasn’t won since 1993: The Nobel Prize for Literature. But I haven't heard anyone suggest we fund a multi-million-dollar “Own the Pen” initiative.

Perhaps that’s because the games inevitably breed suspicion, envy, and even anger. In a Gallup poll taken just as the Sochi games began, Americans’s favorability rating of Russia fell to its lowest level in 15 years. Surely, Russia's hospitality toward Edward Snowden and support for the Syrian regime played into thatâ€"but just as surely, so did our Olympic competitiveness with the host nation. Then came the U.S.-Russia hockey game on Saturday, in which a Russian go-ahead goal with five minutes remaining was disallowed by the American referee. The U.S. went on to win in a shootout, and prominent Russians reacted with vitriol, even accusing NBC of buying a favorable ruling. It’s safe to say U.S.-Russia relations won’t be thawing anytime soon.

What's more, the medal count explicitly violates the IOC’s own rules. The Olympic charter explicitly states that “The IOC and the [Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games] shall not draw up any global ranking per country, instead honoring individual medal winners." After all, as the Charter makes clear, “the Olympic Games are competitions between athletes in individual or team events and not between countries.” Despite this, the official Sochi 2014 website prominently features a medal count, as did the websites for London, Vancouver, Beijing, and Turin. (By the way, is there anything sadder than an eight-year-old Olympic homepage?)

Such naked nationalism is all the more glaring given why the Olympics were conceived in the first place. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French founder of the modern games, didn’t just want to promote physical education worldwide. Based on a romanticized reading of the truces and camaraderie surrounding the ancient Greek Olympic games, he was convinced that different nations competing alongside each other would lead inexorably to world peace and mutual understanding. “The important thing at the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part,” said de Coubertin, “for the essential thing in life is not to conquer, but to struggle well.”

The history of the Olympics has been one long story of our inability to live up to that ideal. The most famous games are remembered not for athletic feats but for political symbolism: the 1936 Nazi Games in Berlin, the 1972 Munich Massacre, the "black power" salute in Mexico in 1968, and the consecutive boycotts of Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984. Founded in the shadow of the Franco-Prussian war (the Germans almost boycotted the inaugural games in 1896), the Olympics have endured two world wars and served as one of the most prominent battlefields of the Cold War. It didn't trigger any conflicts, but it certainly hasn’t stopped them.

Stop Counting Olympic Medals!
Our national worth should not be measured in gold, silver, and bronze
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BY CARLO DAVIS
FEBRUARY 19, 2014


With the Sochi games nearing the homestretch, the focus has turned to that most irresistible of Olympic events: watching the medal count. Many publications keep a running tally, and some even investigate why big countries like the United States and Russia haven’t won more, or argue that, adjusted for population and GDP, smaller nations like Norway and Belarus are really the medal leaders. The order of the medal table may be up for debateâ€"Drudge has made it clear he judges by gold aloneâ€"but the concept of the medal table itself has gone conspicuously unquestioned. That’s unfortunate, because our obsession with the medal count has become a symbol of everything that is wrong with the Olympics today.

As economists Kevin Grier and Tyler Cowen noted during the London Games, medals typically go to countries that are rich, populous, and invest significant sums in their Olympic training program (though focusing on specific sportsâ€"like the Netherlands do in speed skatingâ€"can give smaller nations a comparative advantage). For the U.S., the all-time leader in both Olympic golds and total medals, the games are a biennial ego boost at a time when America consistently lags behind the rest of the developed world in several more important metrics. We may not be first in income equality, health care, or math, reading and science scores, but we can still bring home the gold.

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And you thought Pizza Hut couldn't get any more questionable. One of the chain's West Virginia outposts was shut down recently after surveillance camera footage showed a district manager peeing into a dishroom sink.

Although the incident happened after business hours (and at least he wasn't peeing into the pizza), authorities generally view relieving oneself in the area where things get sanitized as a violation of health code. A sign on the door of the shuttered restaurant says that it was temporarily closed because of "conditions within the establishment constituting a substantial hazard to the public health," and it could be days or even weeks before the restaurant reopens. In the meantime, the restaurant's fans will just have to settle for real food instead.

Nice hat decoration...

The company has plenty of critics, some of whom claim its machines aren’t quantum computers at all. And yet, the technology could herald radical changes for the following areas, to name a few:

1. Safer airplanesâ€"Lockheed Martin plans to use its D-Wave to test jet software that is currently too complex for classical computers.

2. Discover distant planetsâ€"Quantum computers will be able to analyze the vast amount of data collected by telescopes and seek out Earth-like planets.

3. Win electionsâ€"Campaigners will comb through reams of marketing information to best exploit individual voter preferences.

4. Boost GDPâ€"Hyper-personalized advertising, based on quantum computation, will stimulate consumer spending.

5. Detect cancer earlierâ€"Computational models will help determine how diseases develop.

6. Help automobiles drive themselvesâ€"Google is using a quantum computer to design software that can distinguish cars from landmarks.

7. Reduce weather-related deathsâ€"Precision forecasting will give people more time to take cover.

8. Cut back on travel timeâ€"Sophisticated analysis of traffic patterns in the air and on the ground will forestall bottlenecks and snarls.

9. Develop more effective drugsâ€"By mapping amino acids,for example, or analyzing DNA-sequencing data, doctors will discover and design superior drug-based treatments.

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Feb. 06, 2014



D-Wave


Computers built on the principles of quantum physicsâ€"as opposed to ‘classical’ physicsâ€"promise a revolution on the order of the invention of the microprocessor or the splitting of the atom. D-Wave, a small Canadian company backed by Jeff Bezos, NASA, and the CIA among others, is the first firm to sell a so-called quantum computerâ€"at roughly $10 million a pop. The vast increase in power could revolutionize fields as disparate as medicine, space exploration, and artificial intelligence.

Bwahaha! Once this law is enforced, unya mo-hire ang gobyerno og random underwear inspectors, kon modawat silag foreign workers segurado jud ko nga mo-apply si Bay Bugsay.

http://www.nbcnews.com/
BY ALEXANDER SMITH


Women took to the streets wearing panties on their heads Sunday as they protested new laws banning lace underwear in Kazakhstan.

The legislation - which includes provisions covering the required level of moisture absorbtion in the garments - will come into force this summer in Kazakhstan as well as Russia and Belarus, according to the Moscow Times.

This sparked the so-called "Panties for the President" demonstrations in the Kazakh city of Almaty on Sunday.

"It irritates me the most that the authorities want to decide what I should wear," Iryna Davydenko, a bank manager who travels regularly between Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, told Al Arabiya English. "As if all other issues in the country are solved and the only outstanding issue is ladies' panties."

Kazakh journalist Dina Baidildayeva tweeted a picture of the demonstrations and said two women had been arrested. Al Arabiya later reported this figure had risen to three. The arrests could not be independently confirmed by NBC News.

The law was passed in 2012 by the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. This trade allegiance was criticized in 2012 by the then secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who said it was an attempt to "re-Sovietize the region."

Lace underwear does not meet a 6 percent threshold for moisture absorption required by the new law, with the synthetic material reportedly reaching only 3 to 3.6 percent. It will come into force on July 1, the Moscow Times reported.

The newspaper said many women had vowed to stockpile the garments before the ban is introduced.

Makapanglimbawot bitaw ni. Naa ra ba koy daghang amigo nga abogado...

Iniwi, kuwang sa seminar ning gwardyaha. A cardinal rule for duty firearm-bearing personnel (soldiers, policemen, security guards, ugbp.) is, mas bale biyaan ang asawa nungka ang armas.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 19, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
Si Emperwa nitug-an nga posible dunay kalambigitan sa trabaho ni Noel ang motibo sa pagpatay niini.

Sa report sa TV Patrol Central Visayas, ang maong abogado nitambong og marathon hearing sa Dumaguete City labot sa robbery case sa iyang kliyente nga gituohang nalambigit sa Ozamiz robbery group.

Sa maong report, nihangyo si Noel sa huwes nga iuswag ang hearing nga ipadayon unta karong buntag tungod kay aduna siyay tambungan nga laing husay sa Camiguin.

Hmm, morag katuhoan pud kini nga anggulo...

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 19, 2014, 05:35:41 PM
Ang Barangay Corro nga didto gi-ambush si Atty. Archival mao ang barangay diin ang patay’ng lawas ni Alona Bacolod-Ecleo gilabay kaniadtong 2002.

Si Atty. Archival maoy mibanos nga abogado ni kanhi Kongresista Ruben Ecleo nga nakonbikto sa iyang kalambigitan pagpatay sa iyang asawa nga si Alona.

Hmm, naa ba kahay kalambigitan?

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 19, 2014, 05:35:41 PM
Ang dapit nga nahitaboan sa pagpamanhig gibana-bana nga mga 500 metros ang gilay-on sa Barangay Banhigan.

Binuanga gud diay...

Si Noel, adunay lima ka mga anak sa asawa nga si Elaine. Nagpangidaron og kapin 20-anyos ang ilang kamaguwangan nga anak.

Si Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Cebu City chapter president Atty. Elaine Bathan hugot nga nikondinar sa nadanga­tan sa ilang kauban nga manlalaban ug nihulagway nga grabe ang pagdumot sa utok o nagbuhat sa krimen.

“Sakit kaayo hunahunaon nga maoy nadangatan sa among kauban nga si Atty. Archival...We really condemn to the highest level ang maong pagpatay kang Atty. Archival,” padayag
niini.

Iyang gihulagway si Noel nga malipayon ug mahigalaon nga abogado nga magdala og alegre samtang maghusay sud sa korte.

Si Cebu City Councilor Nestor Archival, kamaguwangan nga igsuon ni Noel, niingon nga wa siyay nahibaw-an nga dunay kontra ang iyang manghod.

Si Talamban Barangay Councilor Nelson Archival, laing igsuon ni Noel, kinsa maoy niadto sa crime scene, nitug-an nga nakatawag pa si Cortes niya ug nipahibawo, “patay...patay na...si attorney...giambushan mi.”

Si Nestor niasoy nga suod silang upat ka magsuon nga pulos mga lalake ug siya na ang nibarog nga amahan ug inahan human mamatay ang ilang mga ginikanan.

“Being their father, ako may kinamaguwangan, nasakitan kaayo ko. Akoy nag-atiman nila,” sugilon niini sa sibya­anang dyLA.

Si Emperwa nitug-an nga posible dunay kalambigitan sa trabaho ni Noel ang motibo sa pagpatay niini.

Sa report sa TV Patrol Central Visayas, ang maong abogado nitambong og marathon hearing sa Dumaguete City labot sa robbery case sa iyang kliyente nga gituohang nalambigit sa Ozamiz robbery group.

Sa maong report, nihangyo si Noel sa huwes nga iuswag ang hearing nga ipadayon unta karong buntag tungod kay aduna siyay tambungan nga laing husay sa Camiguin.

Alas 6 kagabii, wala pa makuha ang lawas sa abogado gikan sa sakyanan nga gipanag-iya niini.

Base sa pag-ihap, niabot og 31 ka mga lungag agi sa mga bala sa M16 rifle ang nahiagoman sa gisakyan nga sports utility vehicle sa mga biktima.

Mga tinugyanan sa Scene of the Crime Ope­ratives nga nisusi sa crime scene, nakahipos og pasiunang pito ka empty shells sa M16 rifle ug duha ka slug.

Nakuha usab ang usa ka 9mm nga dunay 11 ka mga bala ilawom sa driver’s seat nga ang lisensiya nakapangan ni Noel; sobra sa P40,000 nga kwarta, mga importanteng dokumento, cellphone ug ubang mga butang sa mga biktima.

Usa ka testigo ang na­kakita sa hitabo ug sa mga gisakyan sa mga mamumuno.

Apil sa nangamatay mao sila si Candido Edu Miñoza, 39, aide sa abogado nga anaa naglingkod sa atubangang passenger seat, kinsa dead on the spot usab ug Alejandro Jayme, drayber, kinsa nabugtoan sa kinabuhi sa Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.

Samtang, ang laing aide sa abogado nga si Paolo Cortes, tapad og lingkod niini ang gitabang sa usa ka ospital sa siyudad sa Sugbo.

Sa pasiunang imbestigasyon, si Insp. Rico Emperwa, hepe sa Dalaguete Police Station, nibutyag nga gikan nitambong og husay ang abogado sa Dumaguete City sa sala ni Judge Cenon Voltaire Repollo sa Branch 38 Regional Trial Court kagahapon sa buntag ug pai­ngon na mopauli sa Cebu City dihang gisundan sa mga mamumuno.

Ang gunmen nagsakay sa duha ka Toyota Hilux nga kolor puwa ug itom ug sa pag-abot sa Barangay Coro, dihang natung-an na ang gisakyan sa mga biktima, girakrakan sila ug natusaktusak sa mga bala.

Archival, 2 ka kauban patay sa ambush
SuperBalita Cebu
Ni Astra Zina D. Logarta , Astra Zina D. Logarta , Guam P. Logroño ug Sheila C. Gravinez
Tuesday, February 18, 2014


NATUSAKTUSAK sa mga bala ang lawas sa usa ka inila nga abogado apil na ang iyang duha ka mga kauban dihang gibanhigan sa armadong mga tawo ang ilang gisakyan nga Ford Escape (YGE 240), kolor itom, sa pag-abot sa mingaw nga dapit sa Barangay Coro, lungsod sa Dalaguete, Sugbo ala 1:45 kagahapon sa hapon.

Patay dihadiha si Atty. Noel Archival, 52, minyo, nagpuyo sa Barangay Talamban, siyudad sa Sugbo ug naghupot og mga high-profile case sama sa robbery ug drugas sa Sugbo ug kasikbit nga mga lugar.

Ang dapit nga nahitaboan sa pagpamanhig gibana-bana nga mga 500 metros ang gilay-on sa Barangay Banhigan.

Ang Barangay Corro nga didto gi-ambush si Atty. Archival mao ang barangay diin ang patay’ng lawas ni Alona Bacolod-Ecleo gilabay kaniadtong 2002.

Si Atty. Archival maoy mibanos nga abogado ni kanhi Kongresista Ruben Ecleo nga nakonbikto sa iyang kalambigitan pagpatay sa iyang asawa nga si Alona. Si Senior Superintendent Noel Gillamac, provincial police director, mimando g’yud dayon sa iyang mga sakop nga dili hunongan ang pag-imbistigar sa maong hitabo.  (BANAT NEWS)

Nahibaw-an nga si Archival usa sa mga abogado sa kaso nga robbery nga gihusay kagahapon didto sa sala ni Judge Oliver Repollo sa Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 38. Ang mga huwes ug kaubanang abogado ni Archival dinhi sa Sugbo nakurat kaayo pagkasayod nga gi-ambush ang manghod ni Cebu City Councilor Nestor Archival.

Matud ni Konsehal Archival nga si Atty. Archival nakakontak pa sa iyang office secretary mga ala una sa hapon ug mipahibalo nga nagpaingon na sila balik sa dakbayan sa Sugbo. Ang samaron nga si Paulo Cortez mitug-an ngadto sa mga polis nga pag-abot nila sa hilit nga dapit sa Barangay Corro adunay pula nga Hilux nga miampad kanila ug nakabantay usab sila og laing sakyanan nga nagsunod.

Kalit lang mibukas ang bildo sa bentana sa pula nga Hilux ug kalit migimaw ang sumbohan sa armas ug gipangrapido sila sa mga bala sa makadaghan nga higayon. Si Atty. Archival nakaangkon og daghang pinusilan ug gani nabuslot-buslot ang iyang nawong ug agtang. Gituohan nga ang abogado nagkalingaw og basa-basa og mantalaan dihang sila gi-ambush. Didto si Archival maglingkod sa luyo nga lingkoranan. Matud sa kapolisan nga si Archival ug Miñoza maoy namatay “on the spot” sulod sa ilang gisakyan samtang si Jayme ug Cortez gidala sa Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) apan si Jayme namatay ‘sab. Ang mga crime scene investigators mibutyag nga ang sakyanan nga gisakyan sa mga biktima nabulit og 31 ka pinusilan. Ang mga polis sa Dalaguete nakapunit og daghang kabhang sa M16 Armalite rifle nga nagkatag sa dapit nga nahitaboan.

Ni Romeo T. Limpangog, RUB (Banat) | Updated February 19, 2014 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Gikawat sa wala hiilhing bata ang kargadang shotgun sa usa ka gwardiya nga nadestino pagbantay sa usa ka balay-patigayon sa dalan G. Ouano, barangay Centro sa dakbayan sa Mandaue alas 4 pasado ang takna sa miaging kaadlawon.

Si Alfredo Lañohan, 29, nag-gwardiya sa FHK Enterprise apan wala makabantay nga gikawat ang iyang armas nga aduna pa’y tulo ka bala.

Ang guwardiya matud pa didto kini sa pansayan ug gibilin sa gawas ang kargada niya nga shotgun.

Sa paggawas sa gwardya maoy iyang nakita ang bata nga miambak paingon sa gawas sa koral nga nagdala na sa iyang armas.

Ang gwardya misuway unta sa paggukod sa bata apan didto kini mopaingon sa ngitngit nga bahin sa maong lugar ug wala na gayod niya maapsi.  (BANAT NEWS)

Ni Rene U. Borromeo, Bryner Diaz (Banat) | Updated February 19, 2014 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Giambus ug gipatay sa mga wala hiilhing tawo sila si manlalaban Noel Archival ug ang duha niya ka “bata-bata,” samtang grabe usab nga nasamdan ang laing usa pa niya ka kauban sa sakyanan.

Gawas ni Archival, ang duha ka laing namatay mao sila si Alejandro Jayme, ang drayber sa Sports Utility Vehicle nga ang plate number YGE-240, ug si Candido Miñoza, nga sulogoon sa abogado.

Ang samaran nga nagpaalim pa karon sa tambalanan mao si Paulo Cortez, 54, taga Nasipit, Talamban nga suod nga higala ni Archival.

Silang upat luwan sa SUV ug nagpaingon na unta sa dakbayan sa Sugbo gikan nga mitambong og husay sa kaso didto sa dakbayan sa Dumaguete, Negros Oriental.

Why, hello there, silly ceiling kitty...

Megalo...

Although elephants have been known to help others or to display empathy in the wild, the authors said that evidence has only been anecdotal up until now.

The elephants observed were all between 3 and 60 years old, and adult male elephants were excluded from the sample. In the wild, elephant family groups consist of related adult females and their immature offspring. Male elephants leave their family groups when they reach sexual maturity and either roam solo or form small bachelor herds.

Researchers observed the elephants at regular periods from April 2008 to February 2009.

"With their strong social bonds, it's not surprising that elephants show concern for others," said co-author Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behaviour at Emory University in Atlanta.

"Elephants get distressed when they see others in distress, reaching out to calm them down, not unlike the way chimpanzees or humans embrace someone who is upset," de Waal said.

The events that upset the study's pachyderms included dogs walking past, snakes or other animals rustling in the grass, or the presence of an unfriendly elephant.

"When an elephant gets spooked, its ears go out, its tail stands erect or curls out, and it may emit a low-frequency rumble, trumpet or roar," Plotnik said. "The consistency with which elephants responded to a friend in distress was quite remarkable. Rarely did an elephant give a distress call without a response from a friend or group member nearby."

"Elephants do a lot of touching of others with their trunks. Genital touching is a way for elephants to identify others, and in this case, it may also be a way for the elephants to identify the behavioural state of the others," said co-author Joshua Plotnik, a lecturer in conservation biology at Mahidol University in Thailand and chief executive of the nonprofit Think Elephants International.

"I think the genital touching, in combination with other touches, specifically in this context, serves to reassure the other elephant," Plotnik said. "We also see the elephants put their trunks into each others' mouths, which seems to be a way of saying, 'I'm here to help you."'

Consoling behaviours are rare in the animal kingdom. Humans, great apes, dogs and some birds are known to attend to peers in distress, scientists say.

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February 19, 2014 - 2:26PM



An elephant calf receives a comforting touch. Photo: Rick Stevens


When life gets stressful, Asian elephants help each other feel better by trumpeting sympathetic noises and using their trunks to touch their friend's - um - private parts, according to new research.

In a study published on Tuesday in the journal PeerJ, animal behaviourists observed 26 captive elephants in a sanctuary in northern Thailand. The researchers said they recorded a number of elephant behaviours that they concluded were specifically intended to comfort distressed herd members.

The behaviours included touching the distressed elephant's genitals with their trunks, putting their trunks in the distressed elephant's mouth, or making a high-pitched "chirping" noise.

Quote from: islander on February 19, 2014, 11:29:41 AM
mas maayo ning salisi na lang, makahatag ka pag sip-on ug hilanat.

Unsay "salisi"? Pataka lag pasagad ang Binisaya aning Insika, ay...

Quote from: islander on February 19, 2014, 11:29:41 AM
mao nga ikaw, bugsay, ayaw gyod paabtik pa sa kilat.  mas maayo ning salisi na lang, makahatag ka pag sip-on ug hilanat.

Unsaon ta man nga abtik pas kilat man jud ning imong townmate, morag pari. Abtik pas kilat, pilit pas kwaknit. Tan-awa, bisag gabitay sa palwa nakaraos pa rin...

Quote from: islander on February 19, 2014, 11:29:41 AM
leon kay pantaleon.  gikuha lang ang panta.  kilat kay abtik pa kuno siya sa kilat.  wa lang tawon siya maabtik kun katulgon, mao nga nadunggaban pa gyod ug gitabangan.  some things are simply quicker than lightning, like death and betrayal.

Diha to siyay epektibo kaayo nga angting-anting. Habak pakubol. Ang nakaparat kay niinom man gud siyag ginebra. Di moobra ang dagon kon ang hingtungdan nakainom. Kompyansa lagi kay gatuo nga luwas ang iyang nahimutangan.

Quote from: bugsay on February 18, 2014, 09:59:23 PM
ngano diay tuod nga gitawag man ug Leon Kilat kini si Pantaleon Villegas?

Ang iyang nom de guerre, Leon Kilat. Pero ang iyang nom de plume, Pante Gihulmegas.

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 07:01:42 PM
okay, see you again, saging dawin.

Usa ra tuod ka dawin, pero tindok man pood...

Imbis vetsin, cerumen na lang...

Quote from: bugsay on February 18, 2014, 09:45:37 PM
ahehe...way raro...

He he, way raro kay ikay gihuwat nga moraro. Kini man gud si Islander, sigig panglubog bisag naay namana...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 06:14:57 PM


morag klaro nga naay kaliwat sa bohol da...

Bisag ang gold teeth na lay akoa...

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 26, 2014, 04:58:08 PM
An article in Fortune once noted that Ortega is "difficult to know, impossible to interview, and incredibly secretive," so there's good reason that he's not a household name like some of the others who are among the richest people in the world.

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 06:07:21 PM
how thoroughly european.  well, spain is not hollywood that's fond of exposed innards.

Well, kon ako puy dato, magtago-tago pud ko, oi...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 06:09:48 PM
aguy, pareha man diay tag plano, bai hubs...

Apil-apilon, ay...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 06:19:04 PM
giahak na lang... una, tindok.  sundan ug dawin.  karon dapaldapal.  binisay-a na lang na bi.  why man you speak portuguese here?

Bwahaha! Ikawng Insika ka, pagtuon og saktong Binisaya, oi!

Oops. Oras na diay nga manginhas ko kay hunas na. See you later, investigater!

Wa nay nakahinumdom. Bisan sila mismo posibleng wa gani kahibawo ani nga historical vignette.

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:47:06 PM
mao diay nga ginganlan ug tindok kay abot man diay buktok ang gidak-on as long as di duwendek ang tag-iyak sa buktok.

Kaklaro sa proportion ni Botyok (that's my neighbor's name) nga a la Tutsi. Ang dapaldapal kay mora mag tundan ang porma sa bukton.

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:43:52 PM
mas ngilngig akong mingkay kay mo-solve ug calculus, in greek.

Hmm, your mingkay must be female then. What's her name?

Agoi, huwata ang imong inheritance, Mr. Webmaster, unya piski dayon mi...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:33:06 PM
oh?  you mean they arrest themselves?  i'm blown!

Perfect female feline logic...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:30:31 PM
you mean sa ballet choreography?  you'll have to beat michael martinez on the ice for that.

Hmm, unsa man diay ang script ni Bugsay? Something like "Tragedy on Ice"?

Ay, di man diay maklaro without comparison.





Tan-awa, mas dako pa sa bukton sa akong silingan nga six-footer...

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:28:19 PM
piktyur ug tindok nga banana plant bi.  wa man god ko kaila ug tindok, please.

The plant itself is not too different from other varieties. I won't show one here because they all look the same to your untrained eye.

Ang lahi mao ang gidak-on sa dawin. Mako jamo, an!

Quote from: islander on February 18, 2014, 05:27:35 PM
hehe, ayaw gyod na ipahikap ni misis kay, na...

Oo naman. Pahikapin lang ng lagay.