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Smiling today (Contributed and Eims)

hello, apollo.

bugs, maayo gyod diay ning apollo nga ngan ug iro.

Cook wrote:

    We declined and brought him home, and we gave him food, and a bed, and everything a puppy wants. You should have seen how excited he was when we fed him in those first few months.

    He recovered entirely from his illness. Slowly, he became the best dog, even at times very cuddly. His favorite thing on the planet is our morning walks.

    He is loving, confident, and sweet--the perfect family pet.

    He is our tiny dachshund's best friend in the world. Recently we had a baby, and from the moment we brought our baby home, Apollo adopted the baby as if he were his own puppy.



Many terrified dogs never have the chance to prove that they are worthy of love - Apollo is one of the lucky ones, thanks to a very special couple who was willing to take a chance.

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    When he tested distemper positive, they told us we could leave him there at the vet, so they could keep him hydrated and as comfortable as possible. Yet by then, we knew he hated small cages.

Despite those early problems - despite the veterinarian's negative declaration that this dog would never make a good family pet - Apollo has blossomed and today, he is that perfect companion.


Puppy goes from terror to happily-ever-after (Contributed and Eims)

Apollo's guardian, Megan Cook, wrote about the difficulties they faced after adopting the terrified pup:

    Of course, we will never know exactly what living on the streets of San Antonio was like, or what his first owner did to him. We know that someone began to tattoo his underbelly in green. We know that he hates drainage ditches of all kinds.

    We know that one of his ears does not stand up due to either a dog fight or lack of essential nutrients and chewing in his early months. Shortly after we got him, we also found out he was distemper positive, and very much on the edge of losing his life.

    When the vet met Apollo, she said he would never be a good family pet, that he was not properly socialized soon enough.

There is a happily ever after for this particular puppy.

A couple took a chance on him, despite his obvious fear and despite the lack of information about what had caused him to become that way.

On Saturday, the couple who adopted this frightened puppy emailed the National Dog News Examiner with a wonderful update on the dog now known as "Apollo."

The transformation of a dog who was so terrified he could not lift his head



A puppy, once housed at the City of San Antonio, Texas Animal Care Services facility, was featured in this column over a year ago.

His photo quickly broke hearts...his head was low to the ground, his back hunched over and his entire demeanor reflected pure and utter terror.

Move aims to weaken food security

A lawmaker warned that China’s move to restrict foreign fishing vessels in the disputed West Philippine Sea was aimed at weakening the country’s food security.

Assistant Majority Leader and Palawan Rep. Franz Josef Alvarez described Beijing’s imposition of a fishing permit on parts of the West Philippine Sea it is claiming as its own as a “blow to our stomachs, and an assault on our food security.” â€" Paolo Romero

The new fisheries law issued by the Hainan Provincial People’s Congress requires foreign fishing vessels to obtain approval from Chinese authorities before they are allowed to fish or conduct surveying activities in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).

The DFA said China’s latest move would only further escalate tensions in the disputed territory and affect peace and stability in the region.

The US slammed China for the new fishing restrictions in disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea, saying they were “provocative and potentially dangerous.”

“Stakeholders in these disputes should refrain from acts that are detrimental to peace and stability of the region and ensure global economic progress through unimpeded maritime commerce,” he said.

The DFA reiterated its strong protest on June 28, 2012 as the jurisdiction of Hainan province includes Philippine territories and impinges on the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

The Philippines called on China to conform to international law, particularly the UNCLOS.

It asked Beijing to immediately clarify the regulation, saying it is a gross violation of international law.

China came under fire Tuesday at a US House joint committee hearing for its alleged propensity to use coercion, bullying and “salami slicing tactics” to secure its maritime interests in the East and South China Seas.

“We take note of the recent pronouncement by members of the US Congress concerning disputes in the seas of East Asia,” Del Rosario said.

He stressed that the Philippine government has always advocated a peaceful and rules-based settlement of disputes in accordance with international law, particularly UNCLOS.

“The reported new Hainan fisheries regulations have serious implications on freedom of navigation, maritime security, respect for UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and regional peace and stability,” Del Rosario said in a statement.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday that China responded to the Philippines’ call for clarification of its new fisheries law, with Beijing insisting that it is not a new measure but an implementation of their fishing regulations covering Hainan.

“As an international issue, all concerned countries should be able to express their views in our common search for security and stability based on the rule of law,” Del Rosario said.

Philippines to bring China fishing law to ASEAN

By Pia Lee-Brago
The Philippine Star
01/17/2014

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines will discuss with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) the new fisheries law of China that raises both regional and international concern for its serious implications.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said yesterday he would raise China’s fishing restrictions with his counterparts at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, which began on Jan. 15 and ends this Saturday.

Del Rosario is in Bagan, Myanmar for the meeting.

taga tigs, happy new year diha!  how are the cats?  storms have come and gone, but asa na man tawon ka?  busy with taxation?

here are hopes that lorenz is not frozen.

it turns out that el greco was a street artist before he became a household name, according to wiki.

hurot akong bilib nga 3D ang mga drawings.  whew!

goodness me, it's in cebu, in camotes island.

...Pacijan Island (also known as Pajican Island) [is] one of the Camotes Islands in the province of Cebu, Philippines.

The small island of Pajican has two interior islands of its own - Snake and Crocodile. The islets can be reached by boats or as part of the scenic lake cruise from Lake Danao Park.

more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Danao_%28Cebu%29

now pa gyod ko kahibawo nga naa diay ta ani.  and am clueless as to where this is.  and why the name snake?  got to find out...

let me guess... the tb resident doctor's schedule is very tight again.  well, a doctor's time is never his.  but see you here soon, lorenz, polar vortex or no.

hehe, lami ba pod imong mga tudlo, loll?

Finally, apropos of the licentious misuse of bears*, this, from Paul Simon:

"Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it's true."


*(among other things, she mimicked masturbation with an oversized foam finger, twerked, and, unforgivably, sexualized teddy bears) - jeffrey goldberg

-excerpts from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-17/old-jewish-men-have-valuable-advice-for-miley-cyrus.html?cmpid=taboola.articles

Bob Dylan, in "Love Minus Zero, No Limit," sang,

"In the dime stores and bus stations/ People talk of situations/ Read books, repeat quotations/ Draw conclusions on the wall/ Some speak of the future/ My love she speaks softly/ She knows there's no success like failure/ And that failure's no success at all."

author goldberg continues:

I would offer Cyrus three more thoughts, from old Jews who have succeeded in her industry.

From Leonard Cohen:

"The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show."

Cohen also made this wise statement:

"When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you."

"If young people say to you, 'Build the Temple,' do not heed them. But if elders say to you, 'Destroy the Temple,' heed them. For building done by young people may be equivalent to destruction, while the destruction done by old people is equivalent to building."

Rabbi Andy Bachman, of Congregation Beth Elohim in New York (quoting Simeon ben Eliazer)

Bachman went on to explain by e-mail the meaning embedded in this quote. "Miley might do well to look at the landscape of hubris-infused rock stars who tumble into self-destruction, usually out of a misunderstood sense of their own power and popularity (dangerous addictions in their own right that only get worse when drugs and alcohol get mixed in)." - author Jeffrey Goldberg

"Three things shorten a person's days and years: Being given a Torah scroll to read and refusing to read it, being given a cup of blessing to say grace and refusing to say it, and taking on airs of authority."

Rabbi Andy Bachman, of Congregation Beth Elohim in New York (quoting Judah HaNasi)

"Thought is a strenuous art -- few practice it, and then only at rare times." 

Erica Brown, a widely respected Torah teacher in Washington (quoting David Ben-Gurion)

"To believe in God means to take for granted that it is man's destiny to rise above the brute and to eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation from human society."

Erica Brown, a widely respected Torah teacher in Washington (quoting the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)

"You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half."

Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles (quoting the non-rabbi Saul Bellow)

the advice of old jewish men to the young miley cyrus:


"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles (quoting the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)

the young miley cyrus complains:

...unnamed senior corporate types are "out of touch" with the desires of today's youth. "With magazines, with movies, it's always weird when things are targeted for young people, yet they're driven by people that are, like, 40 years too old."

She went on, "It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear."

A mesmerizing photograph of Snake Islet in the Philippines:


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wow!  great granddad.  lucky chad.

kasabot ba kaha siya sa 'our father'?  purya tawon ug motubag ug 'my dad is not your dad; his name is richard and he's in minnesota, not in heaven...'

been there, done that, hehe.  one needs more years to understand one's own insignificance, so to speak.

Quick last fact: Getting older will make yourself happier

As a final point, it’s interesting to note that as we get older, particularly past middle age, we tend to grow happier naturally. There’s still some debate over why this happens, but scientists have got a few ideas:

    Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less.

    Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods â€" for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down. Still other work finds that older adults learn to let go of loss and disappointment over unachieved goals, and hew their goals toward greater well-being.

So if you thought being old would make you miserable, rest assured that it’s likely you’ll develop a more positive outlook than you probably have now.

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10. Practice gratitude â€" increase both happiness and life satisfaction

This is a seemingly simple strategy, but I’ve personally found it to make a huge difference to my outlook. There are lots of ways to practice gratitude, from keeping a journal of things you’re grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going out of your way to show gratitude when others help you.

In an experiment where some participants took note of things they were grateful for each day, their moods were improved just from this simple practice:

    The gratitude-outlook groups exhibited heightened well-being across several, though not all, of the outcome measures across the 3 studies, relative to the comparison groups. The effect on positive affect appeared to be the most robust finding. Results suggest that a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.

The Journal of Happiness studies published a study that used letters of gratitude to test how being grateful can affect our levels of happiness:

  Participants included 219 men and women who wrote three letters of gratitude over a 3 week period.

    Results indicated that writing letters of gratitude increased participants’ happiness and life satisfaction, while decreasing depressive symptoms.

9. Meditate â€" rewire your brain for happiness

Meditation is often touted as an important habit for improving focus, clarity and attention span, as well as helping to keep you calm. It turns out it’s also useful for improving your happiness:

    In one study, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and after they participated in an eight-week course in mindfulness meditation. The study, published in the January issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, concluded that after completing the course, parts of the participants’ brains associated with compassion and self-awareness grew, and parts associated with stress shrank.

Meditation literally clears your mind and calms you down, it’s been often proven to be the single most effective way to live a happier life. I believe that this graphic explains it the best:



According to Shawn Achor, meditation can actually make you happier long-term:

    Studies show that in the minutes right after meditating, we experience feelings of calm and contentment, as well as heightened awareness and empathy. And, research even shows that regular meditation can permanently rewire the brain to raise levels of happiness.

The fact that we can actually alter our brain structure through meditation is most surprising to me and somewhat reassuring that however we feel and think today isn’t permanent.

We’ve explored the topic of meditation and it’s effects on the brain in-depth before. It’s definitely mind-blowing what this can do to us.

8. Plan a trip â€" but don’t take one

As opposed to actually taking a holiday, it seems that planning a vacation or just a break from work can improve our happiness. A study published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life showed that the highest spike in happiness came during the planning stage of a vacation as employees enjoyed the sense of anticipation:

    In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation boosted happiness for eight weeks.

    After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people.

Shawn Achor has some info for us on this point, as well:

    One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

    If you can’t take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendarâ€"even if it’s a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.

7. Practice smiling â€" it can alleviate pain

Smiling itself can make us feel better, but it’s more effective when we back it up with positive thoughts, according to this study:

    A new study led by a Michigan State University business scholar suggests customer-service workers who fake smile throughout the day worsen their mood and withdraw from work, affecting productivity. But workers who smile as a result of cultivating positive thoughts â€" such as a tropical vacation or a child’s recital â€" improve their mood and withdraw less.

Of course it’s important to practice “real smiles” where you use your eye sockets. It’s very easy to spot the difference:



According to PsyBlog, smiling can improve our attention and help us perform better on cognitive tasks:

    Smiling makes us feel good which also increases our attentional flexibility and our ability to think holistically. When this idea was tested by Johnson et al. (2010), the results showed that participants who smiled performed better on attentional tasks which required seeing the whole forest rather than just the trees.

A smile is also a good way to alleviate some of the pain we feel in troubling circumstances:

    Smiling is one way to reduce the distress caused by an upsetting situation. Psychologists call this the facial feedback hypothesis. Even forcing a smile when we don’t feel like it is enough to lift our mood slightly (this is one example of embodied cognition).

One of our previous posts goes into even more detail about the science of smiling.

6. Help others â€" 100 hours a year is the magical number

One of the most counterintuitive pieces of advice I found is that to make yourself feel happier, you should help others. In fact, 100 hours per year (or two hours per week) is the optimal time we should dedicate to helping others in order to enrich our lives.

If we go back to Shawn Achor’s book again, he says this about helping others:

    …when researchers interviewed more than 150 people about their recent purchases, they found that money spent on activitiesâ€"such as concerts and group dinners outâ€"brought far more pleasure than material purchases like shoes, televisions, or expensive watches. Spending money on other people, called “prosocial spending,” also boosts happiness.

The Journal of Happiness Studies published a study that explored this very topic:

    Participants recalled a previous purchase made for either themselves or someone else and then reported their happiness. Afterward, participants chose whether to spend a monetary windfall on themselves or someone else. Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the near future.

So spending money on other people makes us happier than buying stuff for ourselves. What about spending our time on other people? A study of volunteering in Germany explored how volunteers were affected when their opportunities to help others were taken away:

     Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall but before the German reunion, the first wave of data of the GSOEP was collected in East Germany. Volunteering was still widespread. Due to the shock of the reunion, a large portion of the infrastructure of volunteering (e.g. sports clubs associated with firms) collapsed and people randomly lost their opportunities for volunteering. Based on a comparison of the change in subjective well-being of these people and of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in terms of higher life satisfaction.

In his book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being, University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman explains that helping others can improve our own lives:

    …we scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

5. Go outside â€" happiness is maximized at 13.9°C

In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor recommends spending time in the fresh air to improve your happiness:

    Making time to go outside on a nice day also delivers a huge advantage; one study found that spending 20 minutes outside in good weather not only boosted positive mood, but broadened thinking and improved working memory…

This is pretty good news for those of us who are worried about fitting new habits into our already-busy schedules. Twenty minutes are a short enough time to spend outside that you could fit it into your commute or even your lunch break.

A UK study from the University of Sussex also found that being outdoors made people happier:

    Being outdoors, near the sea, on a warm, sunny weekend afternoon is the perfect spot for most. In fact, participants were found to be substantially happier outdoors in all natural environments than they were in urban environments.

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day. It also found that happiness is maximized at 13.9°C, so keep an eye on the weather forecast before heading outside for your 20 minutes of fresh air.

The connection between productivity and temperature is another topic we’ve talked about more here. It’s fascinating what a small change in temperature can do.

4. Spend time with friends and family â€" don’t regret it on your deathbed

Staying in touch with friends and family is one of the top five regrets of the dying. If you want more evidence that it’s beneficial for you, I’ve found some research that proves it can make you happier right now.

Social time is highly valuable when it comes to improving our happiness, even for introverts. Several studies have found that time spent with friends and family makes a big difference to how happy we feel, generally.

I love the way Harvard happiness expert Daniel Gilbert explains it:

    We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

George Vaillant is the director of a 72-year study of the lives of 268 men.

    In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

He shared insights of the study with Joshua Wolf Shenk at The Atlantic on how the men’s social connections made a difference to their overall happiness:

    The men’s relationships at age 47, he found, predicted late-life adjustment better than any other variable, except defenses. Good sibling relationships seem especially powerful: 93 percent of the men who were thriving at age 65 had been close to a brother or sister when younger.

In fact, a study published in the Journal of Socio-Economics states than your relationships are worth more than $100,000:

    Using the British Household Panel Survey, I find that an increase in the level of social involvements is worth up to an extra £85,000 a year in terms of life satisfaction. Actual changes in income, on the other hand, buy very little happiness.

I think that last line is especially fascinating: Actual changes in income, on the other hand, buy very little happiness. So we could increase our annual income by hundreds of thousands of dollars and still not be as happy as if we increased the strength of our social relationships.

The Terman study, which is covered in The Longevity Project, found that relationships and how we help others were important factors in living long, happy lives:

    We figured that if a Terman participant sincerely felt that he or she had friends and relatives to count on when having a hard time then that person would be healthier. Those who felt very loved and cared for, we predicted, would live the longest.

    Surprise: our prediction was wrong… Beyond social network size, the clearest benefit of social relationships came from helping others. Those who helped their friends and neighbors, advising and caring for others, tended to live to old age.

3. Move closer to work â€" a short commute is worth more than a big house

Our commute to the office can have a surprisingly powerful impact on our happiness. The fact that we tend to do this twice a day, five days a week, makes it unsurprising that its effect would build up over time and make us less and less happy.

According to The Art of Manliness, having a long commute is something we often fail to realize will affect us so dramatically:

    … while many voluntary conditions don’t affect our happiness in the long-term because we acclimate to them, people never get accustomed to their daily slog to work because sometimes the traffic is awful and sometimes it’s not. Or as Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert put it, “Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.”

We tend to try to compensate for this by having a bigger house or a better job, but these compensations just don’t work:

    Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

2. Sleep more â€" you’ll be less sensitive to negative emotions

We know that sleep helps our bodies to recover from the day and repair themselves, and that it helps us focus and be more productive. It turns out, it’s also important for our happiness.

In NutureShock, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explain how sleep affects our positivity:

    Negative stimuli get processed by the amygdala; positive or neutral memories gets processed by the hippocampus. Sleep deprivation hits the hippocampus harder than the amygdala. The result is that sleep-deprived people fail to recall pleasant memories, yet recall gloomy memories just fine.

    In one experiment by Walker, sleep-deprived college students tried to memorize a list of words. They could remember 81% of the words with a negative connotation, like “cancer.” But they could remember only 31% of the words with a positive or neutral connotation, like “sunshine” or “basket.”

The BPS Research Digest explores another study that proves sleep affects our sensitivity to negative emotions. Using a facial recognition task over the course of a day, the researchers studied how sensitive participants were to positive and negative emotions. Those who worked through the afternoon without taking a nap became more sensitive late in the day to negative emotions like fear and anger.

    Using a face recognition task, here we demonstrate an amplified reactivity to anger and fear emotions across the day, without sleep. However, an intervening nap blocked and even reversed this negative emotional reactivity to anger and fear while conversely enhancing ratings of positive (happy) expressions.

Of course, how well (and how long) you sleep will probably affect how you feel when you wake up, which can make a difference to your whole day. Especially this graph showing how your brain activity decreases is a great insight about how important enough sleep is for productivity and happiness:



Another study tested how employees’ moods when they started work in the morning affected their work day.

    Researchers found that employees’ moods when they clocked in tended to affect how they felt the rest of the day. Early mood was linked to their perceptions of customers and to how they reacted to customers’ moods.

    And most importantly to managers, employee mood had a clear impact on performance, including both how much work employees did and how well they did it.

Sleep is another topic we’ve looked into before, exploring how much sleep we really need to be productive.

1. Exercise more â€" 7 minutes might be enough

You might have seen some talk recently about the scientific 7 minute workout mentioned in The New York Times. So if you thought exercise was something you didn’t have time for, maybe you can fit it in after all.

Exercise has such a profound effect on our happiness and well-being that it’s actually been proven to be an effective strategy for overcoming depression. In a study cited in Shawn Achor’s book, The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with either medication, exercise, or a combination of the two. The results of this study really surprised me. Although all three groups experienced similar improvements in their happiness levels to begin with, the follow-up assessments proved to be radically different:

    The groups were then tested six months later to assess their relapse rate. Of those who had taken the medication alone, 38 percent had slipped back into depression. Those in the combination group were doing only slightly better, with a 31 percent relapse rate. The biggest shock, though, came from the exercise group: Their relapse rate was only 9 percent!

You don’t have to be depressed to gain benefit from exercise, though. It can help you to relax, increase your brain power and even improve your body image, even if you don’t lose any weight.

A study in the Journal of Health Psychology found that people who exercised felt better about their bodies, even when they saw no physical changes:

    Body weight, shape and body image were assessed in 16 males and 18 females before and after both 6 × 40 mins exercise and 6 × 40 mins reading. Over both conditions, body weight and shape did not change. Various aspects of body image, however, improved after exercise compared to before.

We’ve explored exercise in depth before, and looked at what it does to our brains, such as releasing proteins and endorphins that make us feel happier, as you can see in the image below.

10 Simple Things You Can Do Today That Will Make You Happier, Backed By Science

by Joe Martino
January 10, 2014

We are all in search of happiness it seems. For me I prefer to look at it as the search for peace and joy in life as I find happiness can be too conditional and anytime we have to look for or chase something we are looking outside of us. Surely some of this is just semantics but for lack of a better word, happiness in my view is a state of being that comes from within and isn’t fickle.

I came across this great article about the science of happiness and how researchers have been able to discover that various simple things that we can adjust in our daily lives can bring more happiness to our state of being. Again I believe happiness is a long term thing, not short spurts of emotion that we chase, but something that is born within and sustained naturally in our being.

way to go, loll.  mas maayo gyod tuod ning di na lang labdon ang kaugalingong ulo.  simplify.  simplify life.  t-rex na kun t-rex, and a great sunset.  bahala na ang watermelon, hihihi.

This is probably the most insane red carpet moment in history. Lady Gaga wore a meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. And must we remind you that it was made with real meat! Photo from Getty Images

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Nicki Minaj wore a futuristic ensemble with some stuffed toys at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Cute or weird? Photo from Getty Images

Katy Perry knows how to light up a scene... literally... with this LED dress she wore at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last 2010. Photo from Getty Images

What was lacking in Uma Thurman's outfit when she wore this at the 2004 Oscars? A yodel. Photo from Getty Images

Before you judge, there's probably a reason why Faith Hill chose to wear this dress at the 2002 Academy Awards. And it could well very be because she sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" at the Oscars that night. Photo from Getty Images

Quirky singer Bjork didn't suprise us when she arrived at the 2001 Academy Awards as a swan. Photo from Getty Images

In 1999, Celine Dion wore her Dior suit backwards. Weird but she did pull it off. Photo from Getty Images

One look and you'd think, "There's nothing weird about this outfit." But look again. Closely. On her feet. Wearing mismatched shoes at the 2011 Golden Globes is so Helena Bonham Carter! Photo from Getty Images

It's Awards Season folks and we're excited to see what the celebs will be wearing on the red carpet! But before that, let's take a look back at some weird fashion moments from past awards shows. Let's hope history does not repeat itself in this way.



Angelina Jolie probably used Morticia Addams when she wore this dress at the 2000 Academy Awards. Photo from Getty Images

corny, hihihi.

sinimpangkong nga logic, thus, judging from the emphasized places and dates, wa mag-abot ang t-rex ug ang watermelon.  not in the dates, not in the locations.

a safer conclusion: between religion and science, "versus" is not necessary.

the t-rex roamed what is now western north america.  the cretaceousâ€"paleogene extinction event, which rendered extinct the presence of the t-rex and his cousins, is estimated to have occurred 66 million years ago.

Watermelon is thought to have originated in southern Africa, where it is found growing wild. It reaches maximum genetic diversity there, with sweet, bland and bitter forms.

In the 19th century, Alphonse de Candolle claimed the watermelon was indigenous to tropical Africa. Though Citrullus colocynthis is often considered to be a wild ancestor of watermelon and is now found native in north and west Africa, it has been suggested on the basis of chloroplast DNA investigations that the cultivated and wild watermelon diverged independently from a common ancestor, possibly C. ecirrhosus from Namibia.

Evidence of its cultivation in the Nile Valley was found from the second millennium BC. Watermelon seeds have been found at Twelfth Dynasty sites and in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Watermelon is also mentioned in the Bible as a food eaten by the ancient Israelites while they were in bondage in Egypt.

(all data from wikipedia; emphasis mine)

i won't dare answer.  yet.  i don't know whether there were watermelons when the t-rex roamed the earth.

hehehe, how can he be wrong?

below zero? try telling that to lorenz during the polar vortex.

karma. what did he do to the cat?

Sloths are truly the kings and queens of flawless selfies. Let's hope the rest of the animal kingdom can step up their game.

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"Getting ready for a crazy night with my girls! Text us!"

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It's ok dog, nobody looks good in their Monday morning selfies.

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"Partied too hard last night. #WorthIt #NoFilter"

http://i.imgur.com/

"Movie night with the bestie! #excited"

http://i.imgur.com/

Millions of years of evolution have prepared the trunk for the purpose of epic selfies.

http://i.imgur.com/

"Just me and my new pet human!"

http://i.imgur.com/

An unconventional "duckface" attempt.

http://i.imgur.com/

"Just woke up. #AllNatural"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/

11 Trendy Animals Showing Off Their Selfie Skills

Personally, we welcome our eventual animal overlords.

Selfies may be the downfall of humanity, as we've said before, but that certainly doesn't seem to be the case for animals. Animals taking pictures of themselves is actually insanely adorable. Just try looking away.

This super-photogenic sloth.

http://i.imgur.com/

To do this, users can sell Bitcoins on the service. The sell order lets you choose a Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), Metrobank, or BDO account to send the money to. Once a user sends his Bitcoin to a given Bitcoin address and the transaction is completed, the exchange sends money to the bank account noted in the sell order.

Users can also purchase Bitcoins from the service by setting up a purchase order on the site, then depositing cash in a BPI account.

According to TechInAsia, BuyBitcoin.ph co-founder Lasse Olesen said cash payments were currently the most secure channel.

He added that the exchange is planning to add additional payment avenues, including online transfers, this year. â€" Rappler.com

BuyBitcoin.ph: A Philippine Bitcoin exchange arrives

by Victor Barreiro Jr.
01/13/2014
   

BITCOIN IN THE PHILIPPINES. BuyBitcoin.ph wants to be the Philippines' place for Bitcoin exchanges. Graphic from BuyBitcoin Facebook

MANILA, Philippines â€" Philippine Bitcoin enthusiasts will be pleased to know that a Philippine Bitcoin exchange, BuyBitcoin.ph, is now available for use.

The site lets users buy and sell Bitcoins â€" a form of decentralized digital currency â€" and appears to be positioning itself as an alternative remittance service.

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can use the exchange to do faster conversions of money, turning bitcoins into cash that can be picked up by relatives in the Philippines.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 14, 2014, 11:43:13 AM


Australian company makes a toilet paper that is made from 22-carat gold and costs a staggering $1,376,900.00 (around £825,839)

one's ass must be made of gold too.  uh-huh, has anyone bought this?  can this be hocked?  i mean, will palawan pawnshop accept this?

http://www.interaksyon.com/

DAVAO. Business came to a standstill in major portions of the poblacion of Compostela town in Compostela Valley due to flooding from continuous rainfall brought by a low pressure area. (Donna Cuyos)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/

A handout photograph released by 28th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army shows Filipino victims examining their street damaged by landslides triggered by heavy rains in the Marayag Village, Lupon town, Davao Oriental, southern Philippines. (EPA)

http://www.tempo.com.ph/