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Dance of the Clones

Quote from: islander on October 10, 2013, 02:06:06 AM

Ms. Isle, suheto man jud ka bahin og mga kolor, unsa man nga shade of blue ang lagay ni Mr. Legolas, este, Lesula?

Quote from: islander on October 10, 2013, 11:45:03 AM
oops, kerpul.  --> blue balls

--> naay one blue ball ra...

He he...

Mushy!

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 10, 2013, 01:07:28 PM
Tino kono Bay Hubs kay aron makumpleto ba:

Santi + Tino = Santino

Aw, pwede pud baya Santi + Tigbao = San Tigbao...

Attabotoy!

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 10, 2013, 12:47:05 PM
But wait there is more. Matud pa sa mga weather bureaus, may usa ka Tropical Depression sa may Guam nga karon nahimugso. Posible ni sijang mosud sa PAR inig ka Friday, October 11, 2013 or early Saturday. Kung makasud na sa PAR ning mao nga bagjo tawgon na ni sija ug Tino.

Tino? Di diay Tigbao?

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 10, 2013, 12:53:57 PM
The blast released more energy in one-tenth of a second than our sun has released in 100,000 years.

Jawa ra! Kujaw...

The Whole Bushel

In 1979, astronomers discovered a new neutron star and named it SGR 1806-20. The object was identified as a soft gamma repeater (SGR) and magnetar. It is located on the far side of our Milky Way galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius. Generally speaking, magnetars are known to have extremely powerful magnetic fields. They give rise to strong bursts of X-rays, gamma rays, and superflares. To date, SGR 1806-20 is the most highly magnetized object ever observed, with a magnetic field that is one quadrillion (short scale) times stronger than Earth.

On December 27, 2004, SGR 1806-20 experienced a massive gamma-ray burst that reached Earth. It produced the largest explosion in history and the biggest witnessed event since the SN 1604 supernova observed by Johannes Kepler in 1604. The blast released more energy in one-tenth of a second than our sun has released in 100,000 years. It occurred 50,000 light-years away from Earth, but if SGR 1806-20 had been located within 10 light-years, it could have potentially triggered a mass extinction on Earth.

At a close range, it has been estimated that the blast would have demolished the ozone layer and produced an impact similar to a 12-kiloton (50 TJ) TNT nuclear blast at 7.5 kilometers (4.6 mi). Bryan M. Gaensler, who conducted an observation of the afterglow, noted that only the Sun and perhaps a handful of spectacular comets have even released more total energy on Earth than SGR 1806-20. The blast was 100 times more powerful than any previously observed SGR flare.

The event has baffled astronomers and forced them to confront the question of how such a tiny object, about 20 kilometers (12.5 mi) across, could unleash such a powerful burst. The explosion has been heavily investigated by NASA in hopes of identifying a similar threat in the future. Currently, the closest known magnetar to Earth is 1E 1048.1-5937, which is approximately 9,000 light-years away.

http://knowledgenuts.com/
By Bryan Johnson on Wednesday, October 9, 2013





In A Nutshell

SGR 1806-20 is a neutron star and magnetar. It is different from other stars because it has a strong magnetic field and rotates slower. On December 27, 2004, SGR 1806-20 experienced a massive starquake and released a gamma-ray burst equivalent to 1036 kW in intensity. The event was so powerful that the radiation reached Earth, and it became the brightest explosion ever sighted from outside our solar system.

In search of tourists

UNESCO conferred World Heritage status on the Serra da Capivara in 1991, but tourists remain thin on the ground, which frustrates Guidon.

"After putting in a great amount of effort (to promote the site) we are up to 20,000 visitors a year," the archeologist said.

Image provided by the Museum of the American Man Foundation shows a general view of the Serra da Cap …
But "World Heritage sites get millions, and we are prepared to receive millions," she added.

The interior of the Piaui region is marked by widespread poverty, which has much to gain from tourism, Guidon stressed.

But resources are lacking to promote the attractions in a remote corner of the giant nation, she said. The nearest city is the modest town of Sao Raimundo Nonato, which has spent years trying to have an airport built.

The EU is promoting both the new exhibit as well as a swath of conferences on the area under the auspices of UNESCO, Brazil's Institute of Parks and the country's Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage.

"The idea is to promote cultural, historic and nature-based tourism in order to aid the development of areas adjoining Brazil's major parks -- and especially the Serra da Capivara, which has the most modern infrastructure," with 172 sites to visit, said Jerome Poussielgue, European Union cooperation and development officer for Brazil.

And the foundation behind research into the park is backing development projects -- including a ceramics factory that reproduces images of the cave art, a program aimed at giving local women work experience.

"We would like to help in the development of a region where women suffer hugely from violence," says Guidon.

The widely held theory has suggested human beings only reached the Americas some 12,000 years ago from Asia, crossing the Bering Strait to reach Alaska.

Some archeologists contend flaked pebbles at the Brazilian sites are not evidence of a crude, human-made fire hearth made some 40 millennia ago, but are rather geofacts -- a natural stone formation, not a man-made one.

But Guidon said she believes the Serra dwellers may have come originally from Africa, and she said the cave art provides compelling evidence of early human activity.

The paintings are estimated to date back some 29,000 years, she said, noting: "When it began in Europe and Africa, it did here too."

Other sites, including Valsequillo in Mexico and Monte Verde in Chile, also indicate the presence of communities tens of thousands of years ago.

These sites have led archeologists to speculate that peoples traveled various routes to reach the Americas and at different stages, archeologist Gisele Daltrini Felice told AFP.

The 100 items on display in Brasilia, including cave paintings and ceramic art, depict animals, ceremonies, hunting expeditions -- and even scenes from the sex lives of this ancient group of early Americans.

The artifacts come from the Serra da Capivara national park in Brazil's northeastern Piaui state, on the border of the Amazon and Atlantic Forests, which attracted the hunter-gatherer civilization that left behind this hoard of local art.

Since the 1970s, Franco-Brazilian archaeologist Niede Guidon has headed a mission to carry out large-scale excavation of Piaui's interior.

"It's difficult to think there exists a site anywhere with a higher concentration of cave art," the 80-year-old Guidon told AFP.

Many paths led to Americas

Other traces of the civilization include charcoal remains of structured fires, explained Guidon, who hails from Sao Paulo.

"To date, these are the oldest traces" of human existence in the Americas, she emphasized.

Image provided by the Museum of the American Man Foundation shows cave art in a cavern at Serra da Capivara National Park in Brazil. (AFP Photo/Joaquim Neto)


Prehistoric Brazil artifacts star in exhibit, spark debate


AFP Yana Marull 16 hours ago


Brasília (AFP) - It's no secret humans have been having sex for millennia -- but recently discovered cave art suggests they were doing it in the Americas much earlier than many archeologists believed.

A new exhibit in Brazil showcases artifacts dating as far back as 30,000 years ago -- throwing a wrench in the commonly held theory humans first crossed to the Americas from Asia a mere 12,000 years ago.

Pastilan pud ning sore loser type ba. Tungod sa garbo kutkoton ang kasingkasing sa kaligutgot. Angkona na lang gud ang imong kaparotan.

Dihang napildi si Lucena, iyang gidala ang biktima sa balay sa usa ka Eugene kinsa igsuon niya duol sa tulay sa Bangkal sakay sa usa ka open cab nga motor nga gimaneho ni Luigi Trazo Seno.

Pag-abot nila sa lugar, gipanaug ang biktima ug gipahulat.

Dihang mibalik ang suspek, duna na kini dalang .38 revolver ug gipusil ang biktima usa ka higayon sa tuhod apan milahos ang bala sa tiyan sa biktima.

Human sa hitabo, daling misibat ang suspek samtang ang biktima daling gidala sa Southern Philippine Medical Center diin naa karon sa talandugon nga kahimtang.

Sa gipahigayon nga hot pursuit operation sa kapulisan, nasikop dayon ang suspek kinsa nakuhaan og .38 nga revolver nga dunay upat ka mga buhing bala.

Gihikay na ang posibleng kaso nga kaso batok sa suspek ngadto sa korte. (Jeepy P. Compio)

SuperBalita Davao
Wednesday, October 9, 2013


USA ka lalaki ang nasikop sa kapulisan human namusil sa iyang kaduwa og bilyar human mapildi alas 8:00 sa buntag, Martes.

Ang insidente nahitabo didto sa NHA Relocation, Bangkal, siyudad sa Davao.

Ang Talomo police nag-ila sa biktima nga si Jerson Silong Morales, 18, ulitawo, drayber, residente sa Diwata Street, Central Park, Bangkal samtang ang suspek mao si John Dave Codiban Lucena, alyas Dodong, 18, drayber, ug molupyo sa Block 25, Lot 30, NHA Relocation, Bangkal.

Subay sa imbestigasyon sa Talomo police, nasayran nga nagduwa og bilyar sila Morales ug Lucena.

Quote from: hofelina on October 09, 2013, 04:07:18 PM


Montserrat monastery
Magnificent views of Catalan’s landscape

The mountain Montserrat with the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat lies about 45 km northwest of Barcelona. Already from afar, the about 1,200-meter-high mountain is a grand sight. Even from above, you can experience a view far into the landscape of Catalonia.

Wow, kanindot aning dapita, Ms. Hof. Wish ko lang to be able to visit this place one day...

Ming-lungtad ning imbawa kay nagmalinawon ra man gud sa iyang kinabuhi. Kadtong burukinto, impas jud dayon.

Ah, kana diayng magsakit atong pus-on...

Blue balls is a slang term for the condition of temporary fluid congestion (vasocongestion) in the testicles and prostate region, accompanied by acute testicular pain, or a prolonged dull aching pain emanating from the prostate, caused by prolonged and unsatisfied sexual arousal in the human male. The term is thought to have originated in the United States, first appearing in 1916. Some urologists call the condition "epididymal hypertension". --Wiki

Some of the same sensors are used by the car in its self-parking mode. This allows the car to scan for a suitably sized space and maneuver into and out of the spot, without the driver needing to be in the car. Ford estimates that car widths have increased 16 per cent in the last decade and parking sizes haven't got any bigger, so it's touting the system as one answer to the door scraping that comes with tiny parking spaces.

Self-parking cars are nothing new. Volkswagen showed off a self-parking car in 1992, Toyota has its Intelligent Parking Assist System (IPAS) that comes with some Lexus and Prius models, and Audi and Volvo have also got similar systems. Ford hasn’t given a data for the release of its try in the area, but has promised some news by Christmas.

While the new Ford systems appear to work as specified Google must be rather amused by the hoopla with which the car manufacturer is making over the technology. When you've built a car that can actually drive itself without incident then parking and slow-speed object avoidance must look like a piffling production.

"You're driving down the road and a pedestrian or something comes out from either side of your vehicle in your peripheral vision where you don’t have a good look at it then obstacle avoidance can sense that that object is coming across the front of your vehicle," said Barb Samardzich, VP of product development at Ford of Europe.

"If it doesn't sense you responding accordingly by braking or maneuvering it will take over and apply the brakes so that you avoid that collision."

That said the system isn’t perfect. Ford tested it out at speeds of up to 38mph, so if you're planning a high speed chase and want the car to avoid the inevitable baby in a pram for you, you're out of luck.

Trying to run someone over in your next Ford? No dice, it won't let you

It's the end of jokes about women parking, too

http://www.theregister.co.uk/
By Iain Thomson, 9th October 2013


Ford has been showing off the latest gizmos it plans to add to its cars, including collision avoidance system and a self-parking mode designed to squeeze cars into smaller parking spaces.

At a testing facility in Germany the company has been showing off the latest gizmos that have been built into one of its Focus cars. The vehicle is equipped with radar, ultrasonic sensors, and a camera to scan up to 200 meters in front of the vehicle and these manage the Obstacle Avoidance System, developed in partnership with other car manufacturers.

Quote from: islander on October 02, 2013, 05:49:54 PM

Mao jud. Baboy na gud na. Gustong tagdon.

Heating Machines

Aswad used to dye, knit and finish fabrics at the unit where the fire started, Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, said by telephone after visiting the site.

“It seems the fire was sparked by heating machines and flames leapt upward and spread to the top floor,” Akter said. The top floor was badly burnt and machines were damaged, she said. Workers at the unit had been unable to douse the fire as the presence of highly inflammable material caused it to spread fast, Akter said, citing a stores officer.

Bangladesh’s garment industry expansion has been marred by factories operated in buildings with poor electrical wiring, an insufficient number of exits and little fire-fighting equipment. That has put pressure on international retailers to improve work conditions.

Last month, thousands of garment factory workers staged violent protests, seeking to more than double their monthly pay to $104 and forcing about 400 of the country’s 5,000 garment factories to close.

H&M, Primark

H&M doesn’t have any direct business relationship with Aswad, though the plant delivers fabric to a factory used by the Swedish retailer, it said in a statement. A supplier of Next Plc (NXT) obtained fabric from the Aswad mill, though the U.K. retailer had no direct contact with the factory, it said by e-mail.

Primark, the budget fashion-chain owned by Associated British Foods Plc (ABF), said it placed its last order with the factory in March and indicated it would place no more following the identification of violations of its code of conduct and management’s unwillingness to resolve these. A small amount of outstanding orders was stored in the warehouse at the affected factory awaiting shipment, a Primark spokeswoman said by e-mail.

Loblaws in May announced its commitment to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh and said at the time it would stay in Bangladesh.

Hudson’s Bay said its last order was placed with Aswad in October 2012 for delivery in April 2013.

“We had determined at that time that we would not be placing subsequent orders with Aswad,” Tiffany Bourre, a spokeswoman for the Toronto-based company, said in an e-mailed statement.

‘Under Control’

“The fire is under control now,” fire department official Jibon Miah said by telephone. “We are still investigating how the fire started.”

In the last two years, Aswad, using an address in Gazipur, shipped dozens of containers to customers including Hudson’s Bay and Loblaws, according to ImportGenius.com.

Loblaws has seen documents that suggest that some suppliers may have outsourced production against company policy, spokeswoman Julija Hunter said in an e-mailed statement. The retailer has a “no-tolerance policy” over unauthorized outsourcing and is investigating, Hunter said, adding that Loblaws is confident it hasn’t placed any orders from Aswad.

The deaths put added pressure on the South Asian nation as it struggles to rebuild its image after the April collapse of a factory complex killed more than 1,100 people in the country’s worst industrial disaster.

Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest garment exporter and its apparel industry supplies retailers from Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart to Hennes & Mauritz AB.

“It’s a very sad day,” Abdus Salam Murshedy, president of the Exporters Association of Bangladesh, said by telephone. “It will be very difficult to do business with global retailers after all these troubles coming one after another.”

Nafis Sikder, managing director of Aswad, declined to name his company’s customers. Television images showed the top floors of the factory going up in flames.

http://www.bloomberg.com/
By Arun Devnath & Mehul Srivastava - Oct 9, 2013 2:25 PM PT

A fire at a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka killed at least nine people, renewing concerns about safety in the country’s $19 billion garment industry that supplies retailers globally.

Three out of five units housed at the Aswad Composite Mills Ltd. in Gazipur were damaged by the fire that broke out Oct. 8, police inspector Amir Hossain said by telephone from the scene. Aswad has supplied goods to two Canadian companies, Loblaws Inc. that owns the Joe Fresh brand, and Hudson’s Bay Co. (HBC), according to shipping data provider ImportGenius.com.

The factory is also a source of fabric for some Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) suppliers, Megan Murphy, a spokeswoman for the company said in a statement.

It also has a geographic component. Women in Appalachia, the Cotton Belt, the Ozarks, and the Great Plains have shown the most significant decrease in life expectancy, while the trend is not nearly as strong in the Northeast and Southwest.

Unfortunately, scientists remain at a loss to explain the pattern. One of the lead researchers on the University of Wisconsin study tells Wyler, "Clearly something is going. It could be cultural, political, or environmental, but the truth is we really don't know the answer."

However, a study from Harvard University published this May examined why white women without high school diplomas were dying sooner, and indicated that "having a job mattered, and it mattered more than income or other signs financial stability, like homeownership," writes Monica Potts at The American Prospect. "In fact, smoking and employment were the only two factors of any significance."

Still, it is unclear what specifically about having a job correlated to a longer life span. As Potts discusses, considering unemployment as a factor in the life expectancy of these women raises a lot of questions:

Would any job do? Why would joblessness hit white women harder than other groups? Overall, men lost more jobs during the Great Recession. Why are women losing years at a faster rate? [The American Prospect]

At the same time, while men without high school degrees may have lost more jobs, half of them are in the workforce, compared to just one third of their female counterparts. Even worse, for women in the region hit hardest by the decrease in life expectancy â€" the rural South â€" they may be pressured to provide the entirety of financial and emotional support for their families.

Traditional familial demands combined with the modern expectations of breadwinning may be taking its toll on the health of these women. Ironically, these rural and poorer regions in the South "often wants to remain unchanged from the 1950s ad 1960s," writes Potts. Now, as a result, "their women are now dying as if they lived in that era, too."

http://www.floridatoday.com/
Oct. 9, 2013
 

Dangerous bacteria linked to scores of illnesses and several deaths this summer in Florida have infected seven people in Lee County, including two people who later died, state health department officials confirmed Tuesday.

Vibrio vulnificus lives in salt water and, in rare cases, can be fatal. It also can cause skin lesions and blisters, prompting some to call it a “flesh-eating” bacterium â€" a label that Dr. Judith Hartner, the health department’s director in Lee County, called an exaggeration.

The two fatal Lee County infections involved one county resident in his early 50s, who died last month, and a visitor to the area, who died in July and was older than 60, Hartner said.

Both were infected after going into the Gulf of Mexico with open wounds, Hartner said. She said she does not know where they entered the water. The other five victims, all Lee residents, were infected with less-dangerous Vibrio varieties, she added.

Lee County typically sees about five such cases a year, Hartner said. Most are not serious, she said.

“It’s pretty rare,” she said.

From 1988 to 2006, about 900 U.S. residents have reported Vibrio infections, most from Gulf Coast states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based in Atlanta. Florida sees about 30 such cases a year.

http://theweek.com/
By Emily Shire | 6:48am EST
 

While the average life expectancy for American women (and men) has increased over the past three decades, new research suggests that positive trend is far from universal. In fact, in some parts of the country, women are dying at a younger age than their mothers, with no clear explanation for this unprecedented reversal.

Two major studies over the past year have documented the startling trend. In March, researchers at the University of Wisconsin published a study showing that between 1992 and 2006, female mortality rates increased in almost half of American counties, compared with just 3 percent of counties with an increase in male mortality rates during that time period.

In July, the University of Washington published a report finding female life expectancy stagnated or declined in 45 percent of U.S. counties from 1985 to 2010. During that same time, the average American life expectancy rose by about four years.

The data is especially alarming considering the overall progress in health and medical development during this period. As Grace Wyler at The Atlantic writes, "While advancements in medicine and technology have prolonged U.S. life expectancy and decreased premature deaths overall, women in parts of the country have been left behind."

Furthermore, the studies have isolated which demographic is suffering this shortened life span: White female high school dropouts.

This population of women has had the most dramatic decrease in life expectancy, falling five years over just the last 18. Such a "radical decline is virtually unheard of in the world of modern medicine," writes Wyler.

And yet she did become a writer â€" a great one â€" even though she left the fairy Gotham godmother for a tiny Midwestern town, where she now teaches, writes, and revels in the unconditional unfanciness and comforting underwhelmingness of it all. After a recent visit to the city to meet with her agent â€" for though a Real Writer may live anywhere, a Real Writer’s agent invariably lives in New York â€" she reflects:

New York was a strange land, and I was still a stranger and would always be one. Overall, that visit was fun. The city was good to me and I looked forward to returning and soon. But. There was nothing for me to say goodbye to in New York because I never truly said hello. I became a writer without all the glamorous or anti-glamorous trappings of New York life I thought I needed.

But despite being admitted into NYU â€" her most dreamsome fulfillment of idyllic fantasy â€" her parents had their doubts about the city’s dangers and distractions, so they sent her to a prestigious school a few hours away. And yet Gay continued to fuel the fantasy of New York’s make-or-break magic wand of success â€" a fantasy especially entertained by aspiring writers:

New York City is the center of the writing world, or so we’re told. New York is where all the action happens because the city is where the most important publishers and agents and writers are. New York is where the fancy book parties happen and where the literati rub elbows and everyone knows (or pretends to know) everything about everyone else’s writing career. At some point, New York stopped being the city of my dreams because it stopped being merely an idea I longed to be a part of. New York was very real and very complicated. New York had become an intimidating giant of a place, but still I worried. If I wasn’t there as a writer, was I a writer anywhere?

Roxane Gay, author of the beautiful Ayiti, recalls her first impressions of New York as a child in Queens â€" its city-street grit, its Broadway glitter, its daily human tragedies and triumphs unfolding on every corner. Above all, however, the city sang its siren song of unlimited diversity and unconditional acceptance to her â€" a young black girl with an artistic bend â€" as she became obsessed with attending college there:

If I went to school in New York, surely all my problems would be solved. I would learn how to be chic and glamorous. I would learn how to walk fast and wear all black without looking like I was attending a funeral. In adolescence, I was becoming a different kind of stranger in a strange land. I was a theater geek and troubled and angry and hell-bent on forgetting the worst parts of myself. In New York, I told myself, I would no longer be the only freak in the room because the city was full of freaks.

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= truthful, toothful Botoy

Photograph by Berenice Abbott from ‘Changing New York,’ 1935â€"1939.

Writing now from her small study in scenic Connecticut, two hours north of the city, she reflects on her choice to leave after â€" and despite â€" having attained her teenage dream:

My city broke its promise to me, and I to it. I fell out of love, and then I fell back in â€" with my small town, its winding country roads, and the ladies at the post office who know my name. I did my best to become the airbrushed girl on its billboards, but even airbrushed girls grow up. We soften over time, or maybe harden. One way or another, life will have its way with us.

And though she became a writer â€" a Writer in the City â€" Shapiro found herself strangely, subtly, yet palpably unfitted for the kind of life the city required:

I could lecture on metaphor; I could teach graduate students; I could locate and deconstruct the animal imagery in Madame Bovary. But I could not squash a water bug by myself. The practicalities of life eluded me. The city â€" which I knew with the intimacy of a lover â€" made it very possible to continue like this, carried along on a stream of light, motion, energy, noise. The city was a bracing wind that never stopped blowing, and I was a lone leaf slapped up against the side of a building, a hydrant, a tree.

She moved to the alive side at nineteen, to live with a boyfriend she soon married, only to find herself divorced at twenty. (“How many people can claim that?,” Shapiro asks clearly rhetorically â€" and, clearly, she’d be surprised.) Now, thirty years later, she has a Dear Me moment as she looks back:

I wish I could reach back through time and shake some sense into that lost little girl. I wish I could tell her to wait, to hold on. That becoming a grown-up is not something that happens overnight, or on paper. That rings and certificates and apartments and meals have nothing to do with it. That everything we do matters. Wait, I want to say â€" but she is impatient, racing ahead of me.

Dani Shapiro, author of the freshly released and wonderful Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life â€" had a rather different experience:

The city, was what people from New Jersey called it. The city, as if there were no other. If you were a suburban Jewish girl in the late 1970s, aching to burst out of the tepid swamp of your adolescence (synagogue! field hockey! cigarettes!), the magnetic pull of the city from across the water was irresistible. Between you and the city were the smokestacks of Newark, the stench of oil refineries, the soaring Budweiser eagle, its lit-up wings flapping high above the manufacturing plant. That eagle â€" if you were a certain kind of girl, you wanted to leap on its neon back and be carried away. On weekend trips into the city, you’d watch from the backseat of your parents’ car for the line in the Lincoln Tunnel that divided New Jersey from New York, because you felt dead on one side, and alive on the other.

Yoko Ono's hand-drawn contribution to ‘Mapping Manhattan’.

That realization was the beginning of the end. On a cold February afternoon, Strayed and her husband began packing their New York lives into a double-parked pickup truck. They were done after dark, long after they had anticipated â€" for living in New York is the art of transmuting a shoebox into a bottomless pit of stuff, only to have it unravel into a black hole of time-space that swallows you hole each time you move shoeboxes â€" and all that remained was that odd morning-after emptiness of feeling, which Strayed captures with her characteristic blunt elegance:

I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan. I went willing to live there forever, to become one of the women clad in slim pants and killer shoes and interesting coats. I was ready for the city to sweep me into its arms, but instead it held me at a cool distance. And so I left New York the way one leaves a love affair too: because, much as I loved it, I wasn’t truly in love. I had no compelling reason to stay.

Strayed writes:

I couldn’t keep myself from thinking everything in New York was superior to every other place I’d ever been, which hadn’t been all that many places. I was stunned by New York. Its grand parks and museums. Its cozy cobbled streets and dazzlingly bright thoroughfares. Its alternately efficient and appalling subway system. Its endlessly gorgeous women clad in slim pants and killer shoes and interesting coats.

And yet something happened on my way to falling head over heels in love with the place. Maybe it was the man getting stabbed that no one worried about. Or maybe it was bigger than that. The abruptness, the gruffness, the avoid-eye-contact indifference of the crowded subways and streets felt as foreign to me as Japan or Cameroon, as alien to me as Mars. Even the couple who owned the bodega below our apartment greeted my husband and me each day as if we were complete strangers, which is to say they didn’t greet us at all, no matter how many times we came in to buy toilet paper or soup, cat food or pasta. They merely took our money and returned our change with gestures so automatic and faces so expressionless they might as well have been robots. … This tiny thing … grew to feel like the greatest New York City crime of all, to be denied the universal silent acknowledgment of familiarity, the faintest smile, the hint of a nod.

The magnificent Cheryl “Sugar” Strayed â€" one of the finest hearts, minds, and keyboards of our time, whose Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is an existential must and was among the best psychology and philosophy books of 2012 â€" had a rude awakening to NYC. On the warm September afternoon of her twenty-fourth birthday, she saw a man get stabbed in the West Village. He didn’t die, but the shock of it â€" and the shock of the general bystander-indifference as a waiter assuringly said to her, “I wouldn’t worry about it,” while pouring her another cup of coffee on the sunny sidelines â€" planted the seed of slow-growing, poisonous worry about the greater It of it.

Illustration by James Gulliver Hancock from ‘All the Buildings in New York.’ Click image for details.

More than half a century later, 28 of today’s most extraordinary, diverse, uniformly interesting women writers revisit the eternal story of devotion and departure in a new anthology titled after Didion’s iconic essay: Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, envisioned and edited by Sari Botton, tells tales â€" funny, poignant, irreverent, deeply human â€" that ring immutably familiar to anyone who’s ever called Gotham home or dreamt of being able to, yet, like the city itself, always infuse our expectations with subtle surprise. Though the stories differ enormously in both style and substance, one thing unites them: Like Didion’s original meditation, they bespeak a level of intimacy with the city that takes on the language of romance, of sex, of infatuation â€" a persistent pattern that transforms these personal, autobiographical accounts into stirring universal letters of love, and loss, into paeans of lyrical, conflicted nostalgia for the imperfect lover whom you chose to leave yet whose loss you still secretly grieve.

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
http://www.brainpickings.org/
By: Maria Popova


“I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.”





“I was in love with New York,” Joan Didion wrote in her cult-classic essay “Goodbye to All That,” found in Slouching Towards Bethlehem â€" the same indispensable 1967 collection that gave us Didion on self-respect and keeping a notebook; she quickly qualified the statement: “I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”

Bwahaha!

Cute bitaw kaayo ang donkey...

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In order to get their dose of sodium, butterflies in the Amazon rainforest turn to crying turtles. Scientist Phil Torres points out that while turtles get plenty of salt from their carnivorous diet, butterflies (and most herbivores) have a harder time finding the important mineral, especially in the west Amazon rainforest where there is very little salt at all. Their solution lies, in part, in the damp edges of turtle eyes. Torres wants to study the behavior more to find out if there are other minerals in the moisture that the insects are after. -- Jaymi Heimbuch, http://www.treehugger.com/

The clam was apparently still alive when the scientists initially dredged it up - to date it, however, they were forced to cut through the shell to count the growth rings. Acknowledging the sad irony, the scientists expressed hope that they could glean information about long-livelihood and senescence - the process of growing old - from the diminutive mollusc. The official record for longest-lived animal, as determined by the Guinness Book of Records, had been previously held by a (wait for it) clam, discovered in 1982 aged 220. Unofficially, however, an even older clam - aged around 374 - was found by the Bangor team a few years ago.

Chris Richardson, a professor in the School of Ocean Sciences, is also hoping to use the clam as a proxy for studying past climate regimes and to make some predictions about the future impact of global warming.

"The growth-increments themselves provide a record of how the animal has varied in its growth-rate from year to year, and that varies according to climate, sea-water temperature and food supply. And so by looking at these molluscs we can reconstruct the environment the animals grew in. They are like tiny tape-recorders, in effect, sitting on the sea-bed and integrating signals about water temperature and food over time," he explained.

Jeremy Elton Jacquot
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Beating out other perennial favorites such as Harriet, the Galapagos land tortoise - who, before she passed away at a little over 175 years, seemed almost sprightly by comparison - an ocean quahog clam, affectionately named "Ming" (after the Chinese dynasty in power when it was born), has laid claim to the vaunted title of "world's longest-lived animal". Clocking in at around 405 years, Ming was plucked off the seafloor near Iceland's north coast by a team of researchers from Wales' Bangor University.

Shy boy Botoy...

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/
08 Oct 2013 
Written by Jonathan L. Mayuga


A GOVERNMENT staff reported sighting a Rafflesia manillana, the world’s largest flower, in the forests of a northern Philippine mountain range.

I was speechless when I saw its beauty, said Forester Max Millan Jr., a field personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 3 (Central Luzon) office.

Millan was with a team of biologists from the National Museum of the Philippines in the Sierra Madre mountain range, Aurora province, when he spotted the rafflesia.

Led by mycologist Edwin Tadiosa, the national museum team was conducting a routine biological survey, according to Millan.

The team was surveying reptiles and amphibians inside the 5,000-hectare Aurora Memorial National Park.

“The flower is in full bloom, with a diameter of 17 centimeters,” Millan said.

Found only in the Philippines, the parasitic plant Rafflesia manillana is already in the DENR’s list of threatened species, according to Millan’s boss Maximo Dichoso.

“The presence of this flower only proves the rich biodiversity in Aurora’s forests,” Dichoso, executive director of the DENR Region 3 office, said.

Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau Director Theresa Mundita Lim added that the discovery affirms the recognition given to the Philippines as a “mega-diverse country” not just for animals but for plant species, as well.

“We are now the country with most number of rafflesia species more than other Asian countries,” she said.

Hmm, diin ba ang galing mo at ang galing mong bumukiki sa uyok ng mga salitang ugat...

Quote from: bugsay on October 09, 2013, 10:00:02 AM
nyahahahahha!!!;D
salamat kaayo nga bisan sa lakbit
nahibsan ang dughan nga naghuot ug kasakit
sa mga balak ako nahimuot
matag lindog ako nakautot..

Gikalipay ko ang taho bahin sa imong pangutot
Apan labi kong ikalipay kon ikaw makaigit
Kay diha-diha mahuwasan ka sa imong kapungot--
Maingon tang sa maong paagi ikaw nahilangit.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 09, 2013, 11:23:55 AM
"She was cruelly interrogated for 6 hours after a 15-hour flight and held without food and water. Derogatory racial slang was hurled her way and she was shown and threatened with a jail cell. Her belongings were careless rifled through, wedding cards and gifts from relatives for the couple plainly visible throughout this process," Shaw said in a separate statement.

"She was cruelly interrogated for 6 hours after a 15-hour flight and held without food and water. Derogatory racial slang was hurled her way and she was shown and threatened with a jail cell. Her belongings were careless rifled through, wedding cards and gifts from relatives for the couple plainly visible throughout this process," Shaw said in a separate statement.

He said he tried to get the full names of the immigration officials but was told there was no need to disclose their names to the public.

"My fiancée is now heart broken â€" not only for her mother having to miss her wedding but also for the cruel treatment she was forced to endure by the government of the country she now calls home," Shaw said.

In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said they are ready to assist Filipino travelers who feel aggrieved by the treatment of foreign immigration agents.

DFA Spokesperson Raul Hernandez said millions of Filipinos enter other countries with little or no incidents.

He also said that the government expects all nations to treat Filipino travelers with respect and dignity and to observe international standards for the treatment of foreigners.

The officials also called her a liar and accused of her trying to work in the US as a caregiver. A supervisor, a certain Mr. Caldwell, warned Grande to tell them what they wanted to hear or suffer the consequences.

"If I lie, they would have to arrest me and put me in jail. He even showed me the jail cell. I said, 'I am telling the truth, and that they can put me in jail because I will never ever admit doing the things I am wrongly being accused of.'"

Grande said Caldwell gave her 2 options: be deported to the Philippines on the next flight or be thrown in jail and barred from entering the US for 5 years.

After being held for 6 hours without food and water, Grande eventually agreed to return to the Philippines.

"Exhausted, hungry, and sleep-deprived, I chose (to be deported)...It is disheartening that at my age, I didn't receive any respect from these officials," Grande said.

Ken Shaw, the fiancé of Grande's daughter, supported her statement.

Pinay flies to US to attend daughter's wedding, is sent back to PHL
ANC â€" 17 hours ago



Carina Grande in an earlier visit to Seattle.


US immigration authorities at the Seattle International Airport are being accused of harassing, insulting and eventually deporting a Filipino early this month.

Carina Yonzon Grande, 63, said she went to the US to attend her daughter's wedding.

But immigration officials at the airport allegedly held her claiming she was undocumented and threatened to put her in jail if she refuses to be deported.

She stressed that she had the proper documents to travel to the US and that she had traveled to the US 13 times in the span of two decades. Grande, who also worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), has also traveled to Australia, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Vanautu, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.

Gaatang, nangandam nga kuniskunison ang ilaga nga molabay...

Quote from: islander on October 07, 2013, 04:56:09 PM
frying in their own fat?  dako gyod tuod nang problemaha.

Hmm, frying in their own smelly fat?

Gisusi sa mga sakop sa Soco ang patay’ng lawas ni Roberto Kepti human nakigpinusilay sa mga sakop sa Talomo Police Station sa Durian Extension, Juna Subdivision, Matina, dakbayan sa Davao kagahapon sa hapon. (Seth Delos Reyes)

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Also, the alcohol-exposed group had signs of oxidative stress, a process that produces chemicals called free radicals that, when at the wrong place at the wrong time, can impair normal cellular functions. Free radicals are highly chemically reactive.

Beyond this, the alcohol-exposed group had significantly lower levels of a protein called osteopontin. Osteopontin, along with a second protein called SDF-1, are involved in recruiting stem cells to the injury site. These stem cells mature into bone cells.

To better understand this complicated connection between alcohol and bone health, Natoli and his team turned to mice. The researchers divided ordinary lab mice into two groups, one exposed to alcohol levels about equivalent to three times the legal limit for driving, and a control group given no alcohol.

The researchers found differences between the control group and the alcohol-exposed group in the hard bony tissue that forms around the ends of a fractured bone, called the callus. In the mice exposed to alcohol, the callus was less mineralized, meaning not as much bone was forming. Moreover, the bone that did form was not as strong.

Alcohol abuse is a double-punch problem for bone health, explained Dr. Roman Natoli, an orthopedic surgery resident at Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine and lead presenter of the study.

"Many bone fractures are alcohol-related, due to car accidents, falls, shootings, etc.," Natoli said. "In addition to contributing to bone fractures, alcohol also impairs the healing process."

Yet the occasional nip might be good for bone health. A study published in 2012 in the journal Menopause found that up to one drink a day could curb bone loss in women over age 50. And a 2008 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that people who consumed a half to one drink a day had a lower risk of hip fracture compared to both abstainers and alcoholics.

Now a team of researchers from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., has found how alcohol slows bone healing at a cellular and molecular level. This effect of poor bone healing, the researchers said, would apply to binge drinkers as well as alcoholics.

This problem can be particularly serious during the adolescent and young adult years, when the body is building stores of calcium in bones for long-term bone health.

The researchers present their findings here yesterday (Oct. 6) at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2013 Annual Meeting.

LiveScience.com By Christopher Wanjek, Columnist 22 hours ago

BALTIMORE â€" It's a long-known association: hard drinking leads to weak bones. Doctors know that alcohol abusers are more likely than abstainers to suffer from frequent bone fractures, and slow bone healing.

However, precisely why this is the case has been a mystery. Doctors have attributed the association to multiple reasons, such as the malnutrition commonly seen among alcoholics, as well as myriad interactions between alcohol and hormones.

The Duckling Who Lived!

Hmm, sounds familiar...

Kini, syaro...