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3 An animal vanished during the making of this picture

At an early stage, Millais included a water vole (which an assistant had fished out of the Hogsmill) in his composition, gently paddling alongside the stricken Ophelia. In December 1851, Millais showed the uncompleted painting to relatives of Hunt.

“Hunt’s uncle and aunt came, both of whom understood most gratifyingly every object except my water rat,” he notes in a diary entry of the time.

“The male relation, when invited to guess at it, eagerly pronounced it to be a hare. Perceiving by our smiles that he had made a mistake, a rabbit was next hazarded. After which I have a faint recollection of a dog or a cat being mentioned”.

By the time the painting was unveiled at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1852, the rogue rodent had vanished, although a rough sketch of it can still be found, tucked away in an upper corner of the canvas now concealed by the frame.

2 Desperate times called for desperate measures

When November 1851 brought bitter winds and snow to the Surrey countryside, Millais decided he needed some kind of shelter and oversaw the building of a peculiar hut “made of four hurdles, like a sentry-box, covered outside with straw”.

Sitting in it, with his paints (probably stored in pig bladder cases â€" collapsible tubes had only recently been invented and were still scarce) and with stray pieces of straw whistling around his ears made him feel, he said, like Robinson Crusoe.

His friend and fellow Pre-Raphaelite artist, William Holman Hunt, who was simultaneously painting his own great work The Hireling Shepherd a little along the river, was so taken with Millais’s hut that he had an identical structure built for himself.

Ten things you never knew about Ophelia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
by Benjamin Secher
12:01AM BST 22 Sep 2007


Ophelia, John Everett Millais’s bewitching depiction of Hamlet’s sweetheart sinking to a watery death, is one of the most familiar images in art.

It has adorned the walls of the Tate for most of the 110 years since the gallery opened, attracting millions of viewers to admire its forensic detail â€" and buy the postcard, which remains a runaway bestseller in the gallery shops.

As the painting takes centre stage in a new Tate exhibition of Millais’s work, here’s an alternative guide to some of the lesser known facts about his masterpiece.

1 Millais suffered for his art

After identifying a suitably bucolic setting for his picture, Millais perched at his easel on the banks of the Hogsmill River in Surrey for up to 11 hours a day, six days a week throughout a five-month period in 1851. He was determined to capture with unprecedented accuracy the natural scene before his eyes â€" but such devotion to his art came at a cost.

“The flies of Surrey are more muscular, and have a still greater propensity for probing human flesh,” he grumbled in a letter to a friend.

“I am threatened with a notice to appear before a magistrate for trespassing in a field and destroying the hay… and am also in danger of being blown by the wind into the water. Certainly the painting of a picture under such circumstances would be greater punishment to a murderer than hanging.”

Liu Li-Gang and Zhou Hao, economists at ANZ Bank, said China's sliding export sales were also a result of a rising yuan.

They said activity was further hurt by the Mid-Autumn festival, which fell in the middle of September this year, reducing the number of working days in the month compared with 2012.

"The strong renminbi has eroded China's export competitiveness," ANZ Bank said in a note. It said there were risks that China's economic growth may miss market forecasts this year, but predicted 2013 growth would hit 7.6 percent.

The yuan, which hit a record high of 6.1090 to the dollar on August 12, has gained 5.7 percent against 60 other currencies since January, data from the Bank of International Settlements showed, outstripping a 3 percent rise in the dollar.

Albeit patchy, the rebound in the global economy helped lift China's total trade growth to 6 percent in the third quarter, from 4.3 percent the previous three months, Zheng said.

A breakdown of the data showed exports to Europe, the second-biggest buyer of Chinese good after the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia all fell last month. Shipments to Taiwan struck a 17-month low while those to Australia posted their worst growth in three months.

Japan was the lone bright spot, registering growth for Chinese exporters for the first time in eight months. Sales to the United States cooled, even though the monthly value of exports were at their highest in over a year.

The dismal exports performance comes after the world's No. 2 economy showed encouraging signs of stabilization, having fought a slowdown that lasted in 12 of 14 quarters. Trade, factory production and the services sector all picked up in the past two months.

Attention now turns to China's third-quarter gross domestic product data and other figures for September due next week.

The median forecast of 21 economists in a Reuters poll showed economic growth is expected to quicken to 7.8 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, up from 7.5 percent in the previous three months.

"Developed economies have shown signs of recovery but they are still unstable. The global economic situation is still complicated," Zheng Yuesheng, a spokesman for the customs office, told a media briefing on Saturday.

Imports fared better, rising 7.4 percent in September from a year ago, better than forecasts for a 7 percent increase, shrinking China's monthly trade surplus to $15.2 billion.

Analysts said weak exports underscored worries about flagging global demand, which may crumble further in coming months - especially in emerging markets - when tighter U.S. monetary policy pushes investors away from developing economies.

Indeed, the data showed Chinese exports to Southeast Asia, China's fastest-growing export market in the past year, dived to a 17-month low in September. Capital outflows from the region on bets that the U.S. central bank will cut its bond purchases had hit demand, said Louis Kuijs, an economist at RBS in Hong Kong.

"Looking ahead, export data may be quite weak in the coming months," Kuijs said, adding that financial turmoil in several emerging markets had dragged on global demand.

Reuters â€" 3 hours ago
By Xiaoyi Shao and Koh Gui Qing



A worker rides his bicycle past piles of steel coils for export at a port in Yingkou, Liaoning province August 9, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer


BEIJING (Reuters) - China's export growth fizzled in September to post a surprise fall as sales to Southeast Asia tumbled, data showed, a disappointing break to a recent run of indicators that had signaled its economy gaining strength.

China's exports dropped 0.3 percent in September from a year earlier, the Customs Administration said on Saturday, sharply confounding market expectations for a rise of 6 percent, and marking the worst performance in three months.

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« Sent to: hubag bohol on: October 12, 2013, 07:10:21 PM

hihihi. bugha man jud imong bagol bagol rong pila ka adlaw. reserved 8 silver bullets for my magnum .357. keep posting. the fun begins on all souls day

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 01:30:52 PM

A variation thereof:

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 05:02:32 PM

for all of us. tinuod gajod.

Indeed it is true. And this is true, too:

Quote from: islander on October 11, 2013, 05:01:57 PM
right, those cats are patient.  but they're holding the laptop hostage.

They know how to deal with their human companion in the house. "Give us the food, or else you can't use your laptop." Verdict on the cats: patient yes, idiots no.

Provenance and valuation

Ophelia was purchased from Millais on 10 December 1851 by the art dealer Henry Farrer for 300 guineas. Farrer sold the painting to B.G. Windus, an avid collector of Pre-Raphaelite art, who sold it on in 1862 for 748 guineas. The painting is presently held at Tate Britain, London, and is valued by experts at least £30 million.

In popular culture

The painting has been widely referenced and pastiched in art, film and photography.

Laurence Olivier's film Hamlet (1948) based its portrayal of Ophelia's death on the painting.

In Ken Russell's 1967 television biopic of Rossetti, Dante's Inferno, composition is used to symbolise Elizabeth Siddal's own death.

The video of Nick Cave's song "Where the Wild Roses Grow" depicts Kylie Minogue mimicking the pose of the image.

The cover of The Wind Kissed Pictures by Christian Death features the painting on the cover.

The song of Tori Amos 'Ophelia' was inspired by this painting and by the story of Shakespeare.

It was used in an episode of Season One in Cold Case.

Reception

When Ophelia was first publicly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1852, it was not universally acclaimed. A critic in The Times wrote that "there must be something strangely perverse in an imagination which souses Ophelia in a weedy ditch, and robs the drowning struggle of that lovelorn maiden of all pathos and beauty", while a further review in the same newspaper said that "Mr. Millais's Ophelia in her pool ... makes us think of a dairymaid in a frolic". Even the great art critic John Ruskin, an avid supporter of Millais, while finding the technique of the painting "exquisite", expressed doubts about the decision to set it in a Surrey landscape and asked, "Why the mischief should you not paint pure nature, and not that rascally wirefenced garden-rolled-nursery-maid's paradise?"

In the 20th century, the painting was championed by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. In an article published in a 1936 journal, he wrote, "How could Salvador Dalí fail to be dazzled by the flagrant surrealism of English Pre-Raphaelitism. The Pre-Raphaelite painters bring us radiant women who are, at the same time, the most desirable and most frightening that exist." In 1906, Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki called the painting "a thing of considerable beauty" in one of his novels; since then, the painting has been highly popular in Japan. It was exhibited in Tokyo in 1998 and travelled there again in 2008.

An 1854 self-portrait by Elizabeth Siddal, who acted as Millais' model for Ophelia


Ophelia was modelled by artist and muse Elizabeth Siddal, then 19 years old. Millais had Siddal lie fully clothed in a full bathtub in his studio at 7 Gower Street in London. As it was now winter, he placed oil lamps under the tub to warm the water, but was so intent on his work that he allowed them to go out. As a result, Siddal caught a severe cold, and her father later sent Millais a letter demanding £50 for medical expenses. According to Millais' son, he eventually accepted a lower sum.

Painting process


Millais produced Ophelia in two separate stages: He first painted the landscape, and secondly the figure of Ophelia. Having found a suitable setting for the picture, Millais remained on the banks of the Hogsmill River in Ewell â€" within a literal stone's throw of where fellow Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt painted The Light of the World â€" for up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, over a five-month period in 1851.

This allowed him to accurately depict the natural scene before him. Millais encountered various difficulties during the painting process. He wrote in a letter to a friend, "The flies of Surrey are more muscular, and have a still greater propensity for probing human flesh. I am threatened with a notice to appear before a magistrate for trespassing in a field and destroying the hay ... and am also in danger of being blown by the wind into the water. Certainly the painting of a picture under such circumstances would be greater punishment to a murderer than hanging." By November 1851, the weather had turned windy and snowy. Millais oversaw the building of a hut "made of four hurdles,[8] like a sentry-box, covered outside with straw". According to Millais, sitting inside the hut made him feel like Robinson Crusoe. William Holman Hunt was so impressed by the hut that he had an identical one built for himself.

It has often been claimed that a human skull is depicted in the foliage in the riverbank at the right, but there is no extant evidence that this was intended by Millais.[6] However a naturally formed skull shape is indisputably used by Hunt in his companion piece The Hireling Shepherd, which depicts a death's head moth.

At an early stage in the painting's creation, Millais painted a water voleâ€"which an assistant had fished out of the Hogsmillâ€"paddling next to Ophelia. In December 1851, he showed the unfinished painting to Holman Hunt's relatives. He recorded in his diary, "Hunt's uncle and aunt came, both of whom understood most gratifyingly every object except my water rat. The male relation, when invited to guess at it, eagerly pronounced it to be a hare. Perceiving by our smiles that he had made a mistake, a rabbit was then hazarded. After which I have a faint recollection of a dog or a cat being mentioned." Millais painted the water vole out of the final picture, although a rough sketch of it still exists in an upper corner of the canvas hidden by its frame.

The alleged skull in the foliage

Ophelia's poseâ€"her open arms and upwards gazeâ€"also resembles traditional portrayals of saints or martyrs, but has also been interpreted as erotic.

The painting is known for its depiction of the detailed flora of the river and the riverbank, stressing the patterns of growth and decay in a natural ecosystem. Despite its nominal Danish setting, the landscape has come to be seen as quintessentially English. "Ophelia" was painted along the banks of the Hogsmill River in Surrey, near Tolworth, Greater London. Barbara Webb, a resident of nearby Old Malden, devoted much time to finding the exact placement of the picture, and according to her research, the scene is located at Six Acre Meadow, alongside Church Road, Old Malden.[3] Millais Road is now nearby. Millais' close colleague William Holman Hunt was at the time working on his The Hireling Shepherd nearby.

The flowers shown floating on the river were chosen to correspond with Shakespeare's description of Ophelia's garland. They also reflect the Victorian interest in the "language of flowers", according to which each flower carries a symbolic meaning. The prominent red poppyâ€"not mentioned by Shakespeare's description of the sceneâ€"represents sleep and death.

Theme and elements

The painting depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing while floating in a river just before she drowns. The scene is described in Act IV, Scene VII of the play in a speech by Queen Gertrude.

The episode depicted is not seen onstage, but exists only in Gertrude's description. Ophelia has fallen into the river from a tree overhanging it, while gathering flowers. She lies in the water singing songs, as if unaware of her danger ("incapable of her own distress"). Her clothes, trapping air, have allowed her to temporarily stay afloat ("Her clothes spread wide, / And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up."). But eventually, "her garments, heavy with their drink, / Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay" down "to muddy death."

Ophelia's death has been praised as one of the most poetically written death scenes in literature.

Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. Currently held in the Tate Britain in London, it depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark.

The work was not widely regarded when first exhibited at the Royal Academy, but has since come to be admired for its beauty and its accurate depiction of a natural landscape. Ophelia has been estimated to have a market value of around £30 million, or just under $47 million.

From Wikipedia





Artist   John Everett Millais
Year   1851â€"1852
Type   Oil on canvas
Dimensions   76.2 cm × 111.8 cm (30.0 in × 44.0 in)
Location   Tate Britain, London

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 01:30:52 PM
tinuod ba ?!

Bwahaha! "Retard" is the operative word here...

The water had been turned off that day to allow for maintenance work in the 16-story building, which was built in 1964 and contains 275 apartments.

Theresa Racht, a lawyer for the co-op board, told AFP that it appeared to have been a freak accident.

"This is a horrific incident. Everybody feels terrible that such a thing could have happened," she said.

"It certainly makes me think twice about flushing the toilet when the water's been turned off."

She said four toilets in the building exploded but that no particular evidence of wrongdoing had yet been found.

"It has never happened before and certainly nothing has happened since," she said.

"The only conclusion anybody has reached -- and they're still investigating -- is that there was a buildup of air pressure in the pipes so that when it came back on, the pressure was just pushed through the pipe and caused the explosion."

"This could be very well what we call a true accident."

Three other tenants were also injured by what the Daily News website dubbed "the porcelain bomb."

The website said Pierre was briefly knocked unconscious and covered in blood by the explosion on October 2 in Brooklyn, an increasingly well-heeled part of New York.

"It sounds silly but I'm still scared," Daily News quoted Pierre as saying. "Maybe someday it goes away but right now I'm in pain."

Rubenstein said a lawsuit would be filed against the management company of the building so that a jury could decide how much compensation Pierre should be paid.

The full cost of his medical bills and whether he needs plastic surgery are not yet known, Rubenstein said.

"Obviously there is a serious problem in the building," the lawyer told AFP.

AFP
8 hours ago



(AFP Photo/Stan Honda)


New York City (AFP) - A New York man was seriously injured when a toilet exploded in his face after he pulled the handle to test the water pressure in his Brooklyn apartment.

Michel Pierre sustained shrapnel wounds from flying shards of porcelain that pierced his face, arms and legs, and required 30 stitches, his lawyer told AFP.

The 58-year-old information technology specialist is now so fearful that he uses a rope to flush the toilet from behind the bathroom door at a safe distance.

"Those fears are part of his damages," said his lawyer Sanford Rubenstein. "Clearly toilets are supposed to flush, not explode."

Pataas sa hangin (samtang lingaw jamo)...

Hmm, Bohol congressman?

Quote from: islander on October 11, 2013, 05:00:37 PM
go on to charity.  and keep quiet.

Agoi, naa na puy nadukdokan sa hubon!

Bwahaha! Moral lesson: Ajaw pagmilagro kon Crayola ka...

Quote from: wardiflex on October 12, 2013, 02:04:14 PM
abi nako ug ikaw na ni Hubagz.

Bwahaha! Wa man gani tay one thousand sacks sapal. Gawas pa, bisag mamilyonir pa ta tinuod, di tawon ta klase nga mopagarpar...

- Elon Musk: The PayPal/SpaceX/Tesla founder is our front-runner here at Yahoo Finance due to his amazingly diverse holdings and the fact that, at just 42 years of age, he has plenty of time to create even more wealth. Sure, Musk is only worth about $6 billion as of 2013, but if even one of his world-changing ideas takes off in a major way â€" electric cars, commercial space travel, ultra-high speed rail â€" that number will likely increase exponentially.

- The House of Saud: Saudi Arabia’s royal family is a different story and, in fact, the 2,000 or so members of the core group already control a fortune estimated at over $1.4 trillion, based on their land holdings (the entire country technically belongs to them) and multi-generational oil wealth. Still, it takes one person, not 2,000, to make a trillionaire, and the price of oil needs to keep rising if any members of the family want to stay in the hunt.

- His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge: He certainly has the age advantage, having been born just this past July, but the son of the UK’s Prince William and Princess Kate (also known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) likely won’t be appearing on any trillionaire lists in his lifetime. That’s because the bulk of the royal family’s wealth is tied up in land holdings and the crown jewels, which technically belong to Britain, not the family. Even Queen Elizabeth II, the richest of the bunch, can only claim $515 million or so in personal holdings.

- Jeff Bezos: OK, let’s get real here. At just 49 years old, Amazon.com (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has time on his side if he hopes to reach $1 trillion, and he’s well-positioned in a growth industry. But with a current net worth of around $25 billion, will the value of Amazon’s stock really increase 40-fold over the next few decades to get him there? It's a long shot.

- Larry Ellison: The billionaire founder of Oracle (ORCL) likes to throw his $43 billion fortune around, recently hosting the America’s Cup sailing competition in his home city of San Francisco, but the bulk of his wealth is tied up in Oracle stock. He owns about one-quarter of the company, which means his own fortunes will rise and fall alongside the notoriously fickle technology sector.

- Warren Buffett: Legendary investor Warren Buffett’s $58.5 billion fortune may make him the second-richest person in the U.S., but he has a long way to go to becoming a trillionaire. Like Slim, his holdings are very diverse so he’s generally protected from wild swings in market value at any one company, but at 83, Buffett will likely not live to see anyone reach the $1 trillion threshold. And his portfolio would have to go up by some 1,700% for Buffett to get there personally.

- Carlos Slim: Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim lost the title of “world’s richest” in September 2013 when the value of his stock portfolio fell by a fraction of a percent, leaving him with a mere $69 billion in net worth. Still, he does make a fair case to be the world’s first trillionaire â€" his assets are spread across a number of industries, including construction and manufacturing, and he remains one of the primary players in the Mexican economy. But he is 73 years old and would need to boost his fortune more than 14 times over in his remaining years to reach the trillion-dollar mark.

- Bill Gates: The Microsoft (MSFT) founder recently reclaimed his spot as the world’s richest person with a net worth of about $72 billion. He’s a long shot to get to a trillion, though, due to his age â€" he’s currently 57 â€" and the fact that a large portion of his wealth is tied up in Microsoft’s stock, which hasn’t been performing too well in recent years. He’s also extremely charitable, and has stated that his goal is to give away the bulk of his fortune by the time he dies. That won’t help Gates if he wants to become the world’s first trillionaire.

“Two generations ahead, future extrapolation of current wealth growth rates yields almost a billion millionaires, equivalent to 20% of the total adult population,” the bank wrote in its annual Global Wealth Report, published Wednesday. “If this scenario unfolds, then billionaires will be commonplace, and there is likely to be a few trillionaires too â€" eleven according to our best estimate.”

Sure, two generations is a pretty long time â€" about 60 years, according to most sociologists â€" but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the world’s first trillionaire has already been born and is already hard at work accumulating their fortune.

Let’s consider some of the likely candidates.

By Tim Sprinkle | The Exchange â€" 9 hours ago





One trillion dollars.

That's a "1" followed by 12 zeroes. It sounds like a goal that Austin Powers’ arch nemesis Dr. Evil would shoot for but, according to Swiss financial services firm Credit Suisse, it could eventually become a reality for a select few worldwide. Not anyone you or I know, of course, but we’re on track to see our first trillionaire sometime in the next century.

"...always and forever, till death do us part."

Tesla's tower with dome frame, completed in 1904.

Tesla pleaded with Morgan for more financial support, but the investor soundly refused. To make matters worse, the stock market crashed and prices for the tower's materials doubled. High prices combined with Tesla's inability to find enough willing investors eventually led to the demise of the project.

In 1905, after some amazing electrical displays, Tesla and his team had to abandon the project forever. The newspapers called it, "Tesla's million dollar folly."

Humiliated and defeated, Tesla experienced a complete nervous breakdown. "It is not a dream," he protested. "It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive... blind, faint-hearted, doubting world."

As the tower construction slowly increased, it became evident that more funds were sorely needed. But Morgan was not quick to respond. Then on December 12, 1901, the world awoke to the news that Marconi had signaled the letter "S" across the Atlantic from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland. Tesla, unruffled by the accomplishment, explained that the Italian used 17 Tesla patents to accomplish the transmission. But Morgan began to doubt Tesla. Marconi's system not only worked, it was also inexpensive.

Wardenclyffe machine and glass-blowing shop
(side away from tower).

Morgan offered Tesla $150,000 to build a transmission tower and power plant. A more realistic sum would have been $1,000,000, but Tesla took what was available and went to work immediately. In spite of what he told his investor, Tesla's actual plan was to make a large-scale demonstration of electrical power transmission without wires. This turned out to be a fatal mistake.

For his new construction project, Tesla acquired land on the cliffs of Long Island Sound. The site was called Wardenclyffe. By 1901 the Wardenclyffe project was under construction, the most challenging task being the erection of an enormous tower, rising 187 feet in the air and supporting on its top a fifty-five-ton sphere made of steel. Beneath the tower, a well-like shaft plunged 120 feet into the ground. Sixteen iron pipes were driven three hundred feet deeper so that currents could pass through them and seize hold of the earth. "In this system that I have invented," Tesla explained, "it is necessary for the machine to get a grip of the earth, otherwise it cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip... so that the whole of this globe can quiver."

The article caught the attention of one of the world's most powerful men, J. P. Morgan. A frequent guest in Morgan's home, Tesla proposed a scheme that must have sounded like science fiction: a "world system" of wireless communications to relay telephone messages across the ocean; to broadcast news, music, stock market reports, private messages, secure military communications, and even pictures to any part of the world. "When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts," Tesla told Morgan.



Wall Street financier, J. Pierpont Morgan.

http://www.pbs.org/



Promotional illustration for Tesla's "World System"


When Tesla returned from Colorado Springs to New York, he wrote a sensational article for Century Magazine. In this detailed, futuristic vision he described a means of tapping the sun's energy with an antenna. He suggested that it would be possible to control the weather with electrical energy. He predicted machines that would make war an impossibility. And he proposed a global system of wireless communications. To most people the ideas were almost incomprehensible, but Tesla was a man who could not be underestimated.

Synchonized swinging, constantly, till blue in the face, world without end...

List of genres

Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery or Detective
Romance
Science fiction
Western
Inspirational

--Wiki

Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. Genre fiction is generally distinguished from literary fiction. Screenwriting teacher Robert McKee defines genre conventions as the "specific settings, roles, events, and values that define individual genres and their subgenres". These conventions, always fluid, are usually implicit, but sometimes are made into explicit requirements by publishers of fiction as a guide to authors seeking publication. There is no consensus as to exactly what the conventions of any genre are, or even what the genres themselves are; assigning of works to genres is to some extent arbitrary and subjective. --Wiki

Tigbasa ba ka og genre fiction?

Kaluoy ni Whitey. Gisapawan ni Blacky...

Kaberks, log out una si Botoy to attend to his business empire. Hurot iyang oras. Makaadik man gud ning unggoy, oi...

Kaluoy tuod kon bijaan...

Giahak pud ning tinaytolan sa Banat, oi...

Ni Bryner Diaz/EIM (Banat) | Updated October 12, 2013 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Usa ka lalaki ang naangol human gidunggab og gunting sa igsoon sa gikapuyo niini human sa ilang sinumbagay diha sa barangay Patupat sa lungsod sa Barili pasado alas 9:00 sa miaging gabii.

Ang biktima naila nga si Rafael Pagar, 37 anyos, residente sa barangay Patupat sa lungsod sa Barili, samtang natanggong karon sa karsel ang suspetsado naila nga si Paolo Lijano Tabanao, 40. Base sa report gikan sa Cebu Provincial Police Office nga hubog ang biktima ug ang suspetsado tungod kay nagsaulog sila sa adlaw nga natawhan sa anak sa biktima.

Ang biktima naglagot sa iyang gikapuyo nga si Panie Tabanao tungod sa pagpukaw kaniya nga miresulta sa ilang panaglalis maong misaka ang suspek ug miresulta sa sinumbagay sa duha, apan nakapunit og gunting ang suspek ug gidunggab ang biktima.

Ang biktima gidala sa Barili District Hospital samtang mitahan ang suspek ug gitunol ang gunting nga gigamit sa krimen. (BANATNEWS)

There! Flex your muscles in public for all to see!

In rural areas of India, the Earth Institute has begun testing new moisture sensor technology, which can automatically irrigate crops based on the dryness of the soil. The idea is to prevent crops from being over watered, though the technology is still above the target price point for most developing world farmers.

In the US, the challenges are far larger in scope. In its annual report card on the state of US infrastructure, for instance, the American Society of Civil Engineers assigned a "D" grade to the country's dams and drinking water systems, calling for new investments to meet the growing demands of industries and civilians. Federal spending has been a divisive topic on Capitol Hill, but experts say that failing to invest in the nation's water infrastructure could lead to disastrous results down the road.

"Many dams around the country are nearing their end-of-life, and huge investments will be required to maintain the current water storage and supply," Russo says. "We will need to invest heavily in infrastructure maintenance and improvement over the next few decades. The timeline is relatively short."

Russo says that the technology to efficiently manage water already exists, citing low flow fixtures and irrigation sensors that can automatically regulate agricultural flows. But it's difficult for farmers and companies to decide whether to invest in these tools without an accurate way to measure the true value of water. Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is "unable to systematically analyze the value of water to the US economy, resulting in potentially inefficient resource protection and management decisions."

Studies have cited hydraulic fracking as another driver behind US water scarcity, pointing to the vast amounts of water the drilling process requires, but agriculture demands far more resources both nationally and across the globe. According to the UN, an estimated 70 percent of the world's water use goes toward irrigation; in developing countries, that figure can be as high as 90 percent. The challenge, then, is to balance efficient water use with the humanity's rising demand for food.

In a paper published earlier this year, the Columbia University Water Center said the water crisis may impact far more US metropolitan areas than previously believed, including New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Population growth is widely seen as the primary driver behind water scarcity; the Columbia study notes that the US population has grown 99 percent since 1950, while water withdrawals have increased by nearly 130 percent. Assuming these trends continue, the only solution is to manage water use more efficiently.

"The drivers of water scarcity are often mismanagement rather than a true lack of resources," Tess Russo, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, said in an email to The Verge. "We use water inefficiently because it's cheap."

"WE USE WATER INEFFICIENTLY BECAUSE IT'S CHEAP."

Governor Brown's announcement comes just one week after Florida filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia, accusing its neighbor of consuming more than its fair share of water from a shared river basin. In the lawsuit, filed with the US Supreme Court, Florida blames Georgia's overconsumption for depleting the basin's freshwater and devastating the oyster industry that depends on it. This consumption, Florida argues, has raised salinity levels and disease rates along the Gulf Coast, but Georgia blames the oyster collapse on recent droughts.

Similar disputes have erupted across the southwestern US, but the crisis isn't limited to traditionally drought-stricken areas. New York's Rockland County, which sees comparatively regular precipitation, is considering building a new desalination plant amid fears that its current water supply won't sustain the county's mushrooming population.

Source: United Nations World Water Development Report 4

Gerten's results echo findings from the World Bank and other organizations that have linked global warming to water scarcity. It's not clear when the world's water crisis will come to a head, but many countries are already starting to feel the pinch. In the US, states have begun waging battles over water supplies, and politicians are starting to take action.

Just this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a slew of new laws to increase water access across the state, where persistent droughts have wreaked havoc for farmers and consumers alike. One of the newly signed laws calls for the state to begin developing technology to recycle wastewater for drinking or cooking, while another offers funding to poor communities to help clean water that has been contaminated by fertilizers or agricultural chemicals.

The paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, found that an average global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius â€" a best case scenario â€" would expose an additional 486 million people to new or more severe water scarcity. If population growth continues and emissions are not reduced, that number could soar to well over one billion, according to the researchers' models.

"The earth is not only getting warmer, but precipitation intensities and patterns are changing," Dieter Gerten, the study's lead author, said in an interview with The Verge. "Regions in the high north and parts of the tropics would benefit from more precipitation, but regions in the sub-tropical zone, spanning from the southwest US to north Africa to Central Asia, would see less precipitation due to the circulation patterns in the atmosphere."

Dried up: climate change could leave another billion people without enough water
Scientists say global warming will expose more regions to water scarcity
http://www.theverge.com/
By Amar Toor on October 11, 2013 02:00 pm





The wars of the future may be fought not over gold or oil, but instead over a resource far more mundane: water.

In a study published this week, researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany warned that climate change will put further strain on the world's water sources, as warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns expose more regions to drought and shortages. More than a billion people currently live in areas where water is scarce, and experts say climate change and anticipated population growth could jeopardize supplies for at least half a billion more.

One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
Three, four,
Open the door;
Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
Seven, eight,
Lay them straight:
Nine, ten,
A big, fat hen;
Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.

There! Flex those atrophied muscles, old geezer!

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 12, 2013, 07:27:30 AM
Base sa data gikan sa DOST ug NOAH, mao ni ang mga lugar nga giagian ni Santi sa dihang mitabok sija sa Luzon:



Source:
PAG-ASA
DOST-NOAH

Ningpatighulog man diay si Santi. Matod sa earlier forecast adto sa may La Union mogawas ang bagjo.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 07:20:47 AM
The diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders include:

1. Delusions of reference
2. Rapid thinking/ thoughts
3. Repetitive thinking
4. Incoherent thinking and ideation
5. Manic episodes

Pastilan, naa man jud tanan. Thanks, Doc, your scientific explanation confirms my pedestrian suspicion.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 07:10:24 AM

Some examples of ideas of reference and delusions of reference:


1) Believing that events (even world events) have been deliberately contrived for them, or have special personal significance for them

2) Seeing objects or events as being set up deliberately to convey a special or particular meaning to themselves

3) Thinking 'that the slightest careless movement on the part of another person had great personal meaning...increased significance'

4) Thinking that Facebook posts or Internet blogs have hidden meanings pertaining to them.

Salamat. Kasabot na ko. Mao diay...

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 12, 2013, 07:08:13 AM
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference describes a phenomenon in which an individual holds a belief or perception that is irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous and assumes a connection to something else, on account of some special personal significance, that is otherwise unrelated. It is "the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny."

Thanks! Loud and clear. That fully explains some strange behavior I've observed around here.

Not to be forgotten is the standard swing-a-ling with an equally rickety buddy...

In the fights, the handlers poke and prod their insects with a piece of hay or a small stick to irritate them. A judge then removes a divider between the two crickets so they can tussle with each other.

Loud chirps indicate the crickets have been significantly riled up but getting them to fight is not easy.

Judges follow a set of strict guidelines, most dating back to the 13th century, to determine match points. Results were tallied by gauging which cricket was able to overcome the other and then posted for viewing just outside the match hall.

Winning teams moved through elimination rounds over the two days, with points deducted for failing to abide by rules such as delivering the crickets to the organizers six days before the competition.

As for Man, his crickets did not lose a single match but his team placed fourth overall. (Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Cricket handlers wait for their turns while judges measure the weights of crickets during the Beijing Cricket Fighting Competition September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

A man feeds his crickets which are kept in jar containers as he waits for his match during the Beijing Cricket Fighting Competition September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

The insects have a lifespan of 100 days or so and are in their prime in the autumn. Every year, 25 major cities in China hold regional fights and the winners advance to the prestigious contests in Beijing.

At the national championships, each team was allowed 35 crickets and each insect was weighed and labeled the day before the competition.

"We must have crickets within the same weight category compete, just like what we do with wrestling, weight-lifting and boxing," said Zhao Boguang, the organizer of the championships.

A judge checks a scale for weighing crickets during the Beijing Cricket Fighting Competition September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Man, 54, has a diverse collection of at least 70 crickets from all over China, some worth more than 10,000 yuan ($1,600).

They are kept in modest clay jars on the shelves of his cricket room in a traditional Beijing courtyard. He feeds his fighters a mixture of bean paste and water as part of a high-protein diet and trains them regularly.

Cricket raising and fighting are associated with Beijing's old timers but Man said the sport still has a devoted following.