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"I rarely look back, honestly, because there's so much going on in the present and the future. But those moments when I am in the car and I happen to hear an old broadcast or recording, occasionally I am struck and say, 'Wow, I did some good things back then,' " he says.

Winner says that it's often the adults in a prodigy's childhood who determine how they'll fare when they grow up.

"I think it all has to do with how many expectations were put on you as a child: You're a genius. You're going to be a genius when you grow up. That is really dangerous," she says.

"But if you say, 'You're terrifically musical, and you're going to have a wonderfully musical life,' that's a very different kind of message to give to kids, and a much more positive one."

What Haimovitz did may have been exceptional, even for a prodigy. Winner says as prodigies grow up, they struggle to advance their talents.

"The skill of being a child prodigy is the skill of mastering something that's already been invented â€" whether it's Western math, classical music or realistic drawing," Winner says. But adult creators actually do something in a new way. "That's a very different skill, and most prodigies do not make that leap."

It's also hard for prodigies to grow up and suddenly not be so special, she says.

Haimovitz says he's been able to navigate all of this. He has a very full life â€" a wife, two children and music.

"When you start that early, you suddenly start to grow up in public, and I wanted to experiment," Haimovitz says.

So he took his cello into punk rock clubs and coffeehouses. He played Bach and Haydn and Hendrix.

"My teacher, Leonard Rose, we never played any 20th century music. He didn't like it. But once I was exposed to Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and others, I couldn't really turn back. I wanted to know more," he says.

Bow in hand, he even took a stab at Led Zeppelin.

For his part, Haimovitz says he didn't have many friends as a child, mainly because he was so focused on the music.

"There was no time afterwards to party. I would at the time practice four or five hours a day, and I'd have to get my homework done. But I didn't feel like I was missing anything because this is what I wanted," he says. "I chose it. But certainly in terms of friendships, they've been few and intense."

As Haimovitz got older, his friendship with his best friend â€" his music â€" began to change. He became frustrated creatively. He wanted to play other kinds of music but felt constricted by the image and the expectations of the boy prodigy who played classical music and filled concert halls.

It's not clear whether a prodigy's brain is any different from the brain of other children, in part because there have been no studies comparing the brains of prodigies with those of average people.

"But I believe that anything that shows up so early, without training, has got to be either a genetic or some other biological basis," Winner says. "If a child suddenly at age 3 goes to the piano and picks out a tune and does it beautifully, that has to be because that child has a different brain."

Children who are extremely gifted tend to be socially different, too, Winner says. "They feel like they can't find other kids like themselves, so they feel kind of weird, maybe even like a freak, and feel like [they] don't have anybody to connect with."

Gifted children are more likely to be introverted, Winner says, and spend more time alone. "On the other hand, they also long to connect with other kids, and they can't find other kids like themselves."

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Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a world-renowned cellist. He rushed into the classical music scene at age 10 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist, heard him play.

"By the time I was 12, 13 years old I was on the road playing with Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and some of the great orchestras. So it was pretty meteoric," Haimovitz says. "I grew up with a lot of classical music in the household. My mother is a pianist and took me to many concerts."

But nothing in his family history explains where Haimovitz got his extraordinary talent. And that's typical, Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College who has studied prodigies, tells NPR's David Greene.

"People are fascinated by these children because they don't understand where it came from. You will see parents who say, 'I wasn't like this; my husband wasn't like this.' It seems to sometimes just come out of the blue," Winner says.

Ho and Giap, 1945

The general drew on his Dien Bien Phu experience to create the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a clandestine jungle network that snaked through neighboring â€" and ostensibly neutral â€" Laos and Cambodia, to supply his troops fighting on southern battlefields.

Against American forces with their sophisticated weapons and B-52 bombers, Giap's forces again prevailed. But more than a million of his troops perished in what is known in Vietnam as the "American War."

"We had to use the small against the big; backward weapons to defeat modern weapons," Giap said. "At the end, it was the human factor that determined the victory."

At Dien Bien Phu, his Viet Minh army surprised elite French forces by surrounding them. Digging miles (kilometers) of trenches, the Vietnamese dragged heavy artillery over steep mountains and slowly closed in during the bloody, 56-day battle that ended with French surrender on May 7, 1954.

"If a nation is determined to stand up, it is very strong," Giap told foreign journalists in 2004 prior to the battle's 50th anniversary. "We are very proud that Vietnam was the first colony that could stand up and gain independence on its own."

It was the final act that led to French withdrawal and the Geneva Accords that partitioned Vietnam into north and south in 1956. It paved the way for war against Saigon and its U.S. sponsors less than a decade later.

In 1944, Ho Chi Minh called on Giap to organize and lead guerrilla forces against Japanese invaders during World War II. After Japan surrendered to Allied forces the following year, the Viet Minh continued their fight for independence from France.

Giap was known for his fiery temper and as a merciless strategist, but also for being a bit of a dandy: Old photos show him reviewing his troops in a white suit and snappy tie, in sharp contrast to Ho Chi Minh, clad in shorts and sandals.

Giap never received any formal military training, joking that he attended the military academy "of the bush."

Born Aug. 25, 1911, in central Vietnam's Quang Binh province, Giap became active in politics in the 1920s and worked as a journalist before joining the Indochinese Communist Party. He was jailed briefly in 1930 for leading anti-French protests and later earned a law degree from Hanoi University.

He fled French police in 1940 and met Ho Chi Minh in southwestern China before returning to rural northern Vietnam to recruit guerrillas for the Viet Minh, a forerunner to the southern insurgency later known as the Viet Cong.

During his time abroad, his wife was arrested by the French and died in prison. He later remarried and had five children.

"But we still fought because for Vietnam, nothing is more precious than independence and freedom," he said, repeating a famous quote by Ho Chi Minh.

Giap remained sharp and well-versed in politics and current events until he was hospitalized. Well into his 90s, he entertained world leaders, who posed for photographs and received autographed copies of his books while visiting the general's shady colonial-style home in Hanoi.

Although he was widely revered in Vietnam, Giap was the nemesis of millions of South Vietnamese who fought alongside U.S. troops and fled their homeland after the war, including the many staunchly anti-communist refugees who settled in the United States.

The so-called "red Napoleon" stood out as the leader of a ragtag army of guerrillas who wore sandals made of car tires and lugged their artillery piece by piece over mountains to encircle and crush the French army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The unlikely victory, which is still studied at military schools, led not only to Vietnam's independence but hastened the collapse of colonialism across Indochina and beyond.

Giap went on to defeat the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April 1975, reuniting a country that had been split into communist and noncommunist states. He regularly accepted heavy combat losses to achieve his goals.

"No other wars for national liberation were as fierce or caused as many losses as this war," Giap told The Associated Press in 2005 in one of his last known interviews with foreign media on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the former South Vietnamese capital.

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) â€" Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries.

Giap died Friday evening in a military hospital in the capital of Hanoi where he had spent close to four years growing weaker and suffering from long illnesses, a government official and a source close to Giap said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because his death had not been formally announced.

Giap was a national hero whose legacy was second only to that of his mentor, founding President Ho Chi Minh, who led the country to independence.

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it will also boost their pockets

As an end note it is worth mentioning that neither one of the two who committed suicide in the last few weeks would have been likely to be affected by the new moratorium on home evictions. None of them fitted the new conditions needed to benefit from the two-year moratorium on home eviction.

They were victims of the social tragedy that is becoming increasingly profound as the economic crisis prolongs.

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Helena Spongenberg, journalist from City University in London, currently based in Barcelona. She has worked at the EUobserver and has been writing for the Associated Press, Reuters AlertNet among others. In this blog she looks at Spain in times of crisis.

Local police units have also disclaimed their unease of forced evictions, which sometimes come to clashes between police and protesters supporting families destined for evictions. A couple of city councils have even ordered their local police not to assist in forced evictions.

Yesterday’s measures was planned to be a bipartisan agreement between the governing Partido Popular and the Socialist Party in opposition. However, the negotiations failed because the Socialist Party wanted the urgent measures to include a guarantee that there would be a reform of the Spanish law on mortgage repayment â€" something they themselves refused to do when in power between 2004 and 2011 (and which they have now apologised for).

Spanish President Mariano Rajoy and his government then went ahead approving their own measures. Some argue the government fears that talking about changing the mortgage repayment law could create insecurities on the financial markets â€" something they want to avoid just before Europe is set to give the Spanish banks an around 60 billion euro cash injection.

The Spanish system does not sufficiently protect the consumer against possible abusive clauses in mortgage contracts, because it allows evictions to take place before the debtor can claim damages, Ms Kokott argued. The European Court of Justice is expected to hand down its verdict early next year on a query from a court in Barcelona handling a case on forced eviction.

In Spain, even after being evicted people are liable for repaying large amounts on their mortgage as the value of their property has plunged in the crisis.

The social tragedy has led to an increasingly growing social mobilisation against the forced evictions. Associations such as Stop Desahucios (Stop Evictions) and the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca (the Platform for Mortgage Victims) offer advice and human barriers at planned evictions.

There have been a total of almost 400,000 evictions since the crisis started in Spain and the pace has accelerated in the last few months with around 50,000 in the first six-month of 2012 alone. The numbers also include evictions of business properties and second residence.

There have been several motions against the law on mortgage repayment lately. In October, an internal working paper of seven judges in Spain denounced the legal system of evictions as being “abusive” and called for change.

Last week, Advocate General Juliane Kokott stated in a non-biding report that she believed that the Spanish law on mortgages is “incompatible” with EU law because it does not sufficiently protect consumers from banks.

The rushed move comes after a month of increased attention on the mounting forced evictions in Spain and which culminated with the suicide of a 53-year-old woman who jumped from her balcony as she was being evicted from her family home last Friday. It was the third ‘eviction’ suicide or suicide attempt in Spain in just as many weeks.

One man facing eviction hanged himself at the end of October and the following day another man jumped from his balcony â€" he survived the fall.

The worsening economic crisis and the record high unemployment rate of 25 percent has only aggravated the foreclosures of family homes and businesses properties when people find themselves unable to pay back their mortgage.

The social tragedy of evictions
by Helena Spongenberg
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The Spanish government approved new “urgent” measures to help needy families facing home eviction. But the measures stop short of changing the Spanish law on mortgage repayment, which some judges find “abusive”.

The measures consist of a two-year moratorium of home evictions of families in especially difficult circumstances and the creation of homes with low rents for those evicted.

The measures are similar to a voluntary code of conduct on evictions set in place in March for the Spanish banks, which had very limited effects. The scope of potential beneficiaries has now been slightly amplified. In order to avoid being evicted from home, the household must make less than 19,200 euro a year and have a child below the age of three, or be a large family â€" i.e. a couple with three or more children or a single parent with at least two children â€" or with a family member who is either a victim of domestic violence, or disabled, or has a serious illness.

Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was demolished 20 years ago, but it certainly deserves mention. A former Chinese military fort, it became densely populated with squatters in the years following World War II. Inside the walls of the fort, ramshackle high-rises were built largely devoid of creature comforts like heat or running water. In 1987, a survey by the Chinese government indicated there were approximately 30,000 residents inside the tiny 6.5-acre territoryâ€"a population density of 3,250,000 people per square mile. As a means of comparison, the city with the highest population density today is Manila, with approximately 111,002 people per square mile.

Greater Hong Kong largely turned a blind eye to activities within Kowloon Walled City. For years, it was governed by the Triads, Chinese mafia members. Police would only enter in large groups. There were high rates of prostitution, gambling, drug use, murders, and opium dens. Only the faintest trace of sunlight filtered down to the muddy streets, and rats proliferated in the ruin. In the early ’90s, the government finally decided to destroy this anarchic slum. An evacuation was ordered, and in March 1993, the demolition began. Today, the area is occupied by Kowloon Walled City Park, a verdant expanse of gardens and monuments.

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Dajon kayak, kayak-kayak Inday...

Perry concludes:

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck.

Another key obstruction to our sanity is our chronic aversion to being wrong, entwined with our damaging fear of the unfamiliar. Perry cautions:

We all like to think we keep an open mind and can change our opinions in the light of new evidence, but most of us seem to be geared to making up our minds very quickly. Then we process further evidence not with an open mind but with a filter, only acknowledging the evidence that backs up our original impression. It is too easy for us to fall into the rap of believing that being right is more important than being open to what might be.

If we practice detachment from our thoughts we learn to observe them as though we are taking a bird’s eye view of our own thinking. When we do this, we might find that our thinking belongs to an older, and different, story to the one we are now living.

Yet despite the adaptive optimism bias of the human brain, Perry argues a positive outlook is a practice â€" and one that requires mastering the art of vulnerability and increasing our essential tolerance for uncertainty:

You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings of vulnerability. The trick is to increase your tolerance for vulnerable feelings, rather than avoid them altogether.

[…]

Optimism does not mean continual happiness, glazed eyes and a fixed grin. When I talk about the desirability of optimism I do not mean that we should delude ourselves about reality. But practicing optimism does mean focusing more on the positive fall-out of an event than on the negative. … I am not advocating the kind of optimism that means you blow all your savings on a horse running at a hundred to one; I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

Perry goes on to cite research indicating that people who watch television for more than four hours a day see themselves as far more likely to fall victim in a violent incident in the forthcoming week than their peers who watch less than two hours a day. Just like E. B. White advocated for the responsibility of the writer to “to lift people up, not lower them down,” so too is our responsibility as the writers of our own life-stories to avoid the well-documented negativity bias of modern media â€" because, as artist Austin Kleon wisely put it, “you are a mashup of what you let into your life.” Perry writes:

Be careful which stories you expose yourself to.

[…]

The meanings you find, and the stories you hear, will have an impact on how optimistic you are: it’s how we evolved. … If you do not know how to draw positive meaning from what happens in life, the neural pathways you need to appreciate good news will never fire up.

[…]

The trouble is, if we do not have a mind that is used to hearing good news, we do not have the neural pathways to process such news.

At the heart of Perry’s argument â€" in line with neurologist Oliver Sacks’s recent meditation on memory and how “narrative truth,” rather than “historical truth,” shapes our impression of the world â€" is the recognition that stories make us human and learning to reframe our interpretations of reality is key to our experience of life:

Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life. They bring together the past and the future into the present to provide us with structures for working towards our goals. They give us a sense of identity and, most importantly, serve to integrate the feelings of our right brain with the language of our left.

[…]

We are primed to use stories. Part of our survival as a species depended upon listening to the stories of our tribal elders as they shared parables and passed down their experience and the wisdom of those who went before. As we get older it is our short-term memory that fades rather than our long-term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.

I worry, though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war and atrocity.

“I pray to Jesus to preserve my sanity,” Jack Kerouac professed in discussing his writing routine. But those of us who fall on the more secular end of the spectrum might need a slightly more potent sanity-preservation tool than prayer. That’s precisely what writer and psychotherapist Philippa Perry offers in How To Stay Sane, part of The School of Life’s wonderful series reclaiming the traditional self-help genre as intelligent, non-self-helpy, yet immensely helpful guides to modern living.

How To Stay Sane: The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling
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“Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.”

AIR AND LIGHT AND TIME AND SPACE
by Charles Bukowski


”â€" you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create.”

no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.

baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

A deep recession and soaring unemployment in Spain triggered by a housing crash has led to an increase in forced evictions of homeowners unable to pay their mortgage.

Some Spanish gypsy families settled in the area of Puerta de Hierro, near the Palace of Moncloa, in the 1960s and have built brick houses and raised their children and grandchildren there ever since. The settlers are registered with the town hall and have access to public services, but for the past two years have been subject to several evictions under Madrid's town planning board orders, on the grounds that the dwellings are illegal. Members of some families, mostly the eldest, have been relocated to public housing flats in the city, but often their children and grandchildren have been denied the same right to relocation, resulting in many families refusing to go to the rental flats assigned to them because they do not want to leave their children and grandchildren homeless. Out of more than 50 homes that used to stand in the neighborhood, there are only six left now among the debris of those already demolished. (Reuters)

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The Philippine Under-16 team in Tehran. (Photo from the Philippine Under-16 team)


The Philippines will now have two national basketball teams competing in FIBA World Cup events next year after the Philippine U16 team rallied past Chinese Taipei, 77-72, in the semifinals of the FIBA Asia U16 Championship in Tehran, Iran.

By earning a slot in the gold medal match against China, the Philippines automatically gained one of three Asian slots in next year's FIBA U17 World Cup in Dubai.

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Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan markets itself as a “living museum of Philippine customs and traditions.” Aside from reconstructing heritage houses from all over the Philippines, the resort also recreates the communities they once part of. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

Aside from the heritage houses, visitors to Bataan’s Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar may also stay at a hotel in Paseo de Escolta, a street lined with structures that mimic old commercial structures of Manila. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

There’s a restaurant in Bataan’s Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar called the Marivent Café, housed in the resort’s Casa Unisan. The mansion built in 1839 for the Maxino family  is said to be the first “bahay na bato” in Unisan, Quezon. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

Casa Quiapo, as its name suggests, once stood in the Quiapo District in Manila, on Hidalgo Street. It was the first campus of the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts, whose first director was the mansion’s owner, Rafael Enriquez. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

Unlike other structures in Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar which were dismantled and rebuilt, Casa Mexico was reconstructed using materials from a junkyard. It was rebuilt based on an old photograph of the house that once stood in Mexico, Pampanga. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

It was once storage for rice and sugar, then a Japanese garrison during the World War II. Now, Casa Lubao stands in Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan. Built in 1920, the house was owned by the Arastia and Vitug families of Lubao, Pampanga. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

Casa Luna was built in 1850 and was owned by the Novicio family in what was then the town of Namacpacanâ€"now the municipality of Luna (after Antonio and Juan Luna)â€"in La Union. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

Among the Spanish mansions reconstructed in Bataan’s Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is Casa Jaen. The house was once home to the first mayor of the Neuva Ecija town of Jaen. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

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You don’t need a time machine to get a feel of how the so-called principalia, or the noble class, lived during the Spanish era. In fact, you can live the way they did for a weekend. A two-and-a-half-hour drive from Manila could take one to Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar (The Philippine Houses of Acuzar), a sprawling resort in Bagac, Bataan, filled with restored Spanish mansions.

The 400-hectare park was built starting 2003 by property developer New San Jose Builders owned by Jose “Gerry” Acuzar. Acuzar himself chose some 30 old houses and colonial buildings based on their historical, cultural and architectural value from various areas in the Philippines which were transplanted into the Bagac development. It was opened to the public in 2010.

(Photos by Rolen Facundo; text by Kim Arveen Patria)

A viewing tower in the shape of a giant copper puffer fish is seen under construction on the banks of a river in Yangzhong county, Jiangsu province September 21, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer

   
Mga Salmo 27

Mga Salmo 27:1
Si Jehova mao ang akong kahayag ug ang akong kaluwasan; Kinsa man ang akong pagakahadlokan? Si Jehova mao ang kusog sa akong kinabuhi; Kang kinsa man ako malisang?
   
Mga Salmo 27:2
Sa diha nga nagtigum batok kanako ang mga mamumuhat sa kadautan sa pagkaon sa akong unod, Bisan ang akong mga kabatok ug mga kaaway, sila nanghipangdol ug nangapukan.
   
Mga Salmo 27:3
Bisan ang usa ka dakung panon magapahamutang batok kanako, Dili mahadlok ang akong kasingkasing: Bisan ang gubat patindogon batok kanako, Bisan pa niini ako masaligon.
   
Mga Salmo 27:4
Usa ka butang ang gipangayo ko kang Jehova, nga pagapangitaon Ko: Nga makapuyo ako sa balay ni Jehova sa tanang mga adlaw sa akong kinabuhi, Aron sa pagtan-aw sa katahum ni Jehova. Ug sa pagpakisayud sa iyang templo.
   
Mga Salmo 27:5
Kay sa adlaw sa kasamok pagatagoan niya ako sa iyang puloyanan: Diha sa tabil sa iyang balongbalong pagatagoan niya ako; Ituboy niya ako sa ibabaw sa usa ka bato.
   
Mga Salmo 27:6
Ug karon pagabayawon ang ulo ko sa ibabaw sa akong mga kaaway nga nagalibut kanako; Ug magahalad ako diha sa iyang balong-balong, mga halad sa kalipay; Ako magaawit, oo, magaawit ako ug mga pagdayeg ngadto kang Jehova.

Mga Salmo 27:7
Magpatalinghug ka, Oh Jehova, kong magatu-aw ako uban sa akong tingog: Malooy ka usab kanako, ug tubagon mo ako.
   
Mga Salmo 27:8
Sa diha nga ikaw moingon: Pangitaa ninyo ang akong nawong; ang akong kasingkasing miingon kanimo. Ang nawong nimo, Oh Jehova, ang pagapangitaon ko.
   
Mga Salmo 27:9
Ayaw pagtagoa ang imong nawong gikan kanako; Ayaw pag-isalikway ang imong ulipon sa kaligutgut: Ikaw mao ang akong panabang; Ayaw ako pag-itukmod, ayaw pagbiyai, Oh Dios sa akong kaluwasan.

Mga Salmo 27:10
Kong ako pagabiyaan sa akong amahan ug sa akong inahan, Unya si Jehova ang magadawat kanako.
   
Mga Salmo 27:11
Tudloi ako sa imong dalan, Oh Jehova; Ug mandoi ako sa alagianan nga matul-id, Tungod sa akong mga kaaway.
   
Mga Salmo 27:12
Dili mo ako itugyan sa kabubuton sa akong mga kabatok: Kay ang mga saksi nga bakakon nanindog batok kanako, Ug ingon man ang mga nanagpangusmo ug kabangis.
   
Mga Salmo 27:13
Napunawan unta ako, kong wala pa akoy pagtoo sa pagtan-aw sa kaayo ni Jehova Sa yuta sa mga buhi.
   
Mga Salmo 27:14
Maghulat ka kang Jehova: Magmalig-on ka, ug paisugon mo ang imong kasingkasing; Oo, maghulat ka kang Jehova.


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Students react after members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity walk past naked inside the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Manila October 1, 2013. The neophyte members of APO participate in the walk annually, with this year's theme calling for the abolishment of the priority development assistance fund, also known as the pork barrel, of legislators, as part of their initiation and to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the founding of the university. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity walk naked as students gather to watch them inside Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Manila October 1, 2013. The neophyte members of APO participate in the walk annually, with this year's theme calling for the abolishment of the priority development assistance fund, also known as the pork barrel, of legislators, as part of their initiation and to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the founding of the university. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

A member of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity offers a flower to a student during a naked walk in Polythenic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Manila October 1, 2013. The neophyte members of APO participate in the walk annually, with this year's theme calling for the abolishment of the priority development assistance fund, also known as the pork barrel, of legislators, as part of their initiation and to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the founding of the university. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Nude but masked Filipino students protest against government corruption, inside the Polytechnic University of the Philippines campus, to commemorate its 109th Foundation Anniversary, in Manila, Philippines, 01 October 2013. Members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity also demanded that a multi-million US dollar fund set aside for legislators, popularly called the Pork Barrel, be scrapped amid reports of corruption. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN

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An elderly woman reacts while nude Filipino students protest against government corruption, inside the Polytechnic University of the Philippines campus, to commemorate its 109th Foundation Anniversary, in Manila, Philippines, 01 October 2013. Members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity also demanded that a multi-million US dollar fund set aside for legislators, popularly called the Pork Barrel, be scrapped amid reports of corruption. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN

    Relax. Just because you have certain risk factors for developing the disease doesn't mean you'll get breast cancer, or that you should spend your life worrying about getting it. After all, the biggest risk factors for getting breast cancer - being female and aging - aren't exactly something you can change. Instead of worrying, just do what you can to live a healthy lifestyle - you'll reduce your risk, but will also feel better overall.

    Assess your risk. It always helps to be informed. Know all the risks of breast cancer - even ones that can't always be avoided, like starting your period at an early age, having a child after 35, or never breastfeeding - so you know what choices you have. Check the National Cancer Institute or The American Cancer Society for comprehensive lists of lifestyle, genetic, and environment risk factors.

    Don't be shy at the doctor's. Your doctor isn't just there to admonish you when you admit you have a sugar addiction, she's also there to make sure you are knowledgeable about why and how lifestyle choices affect your health. Make sure you ask questions about anything that's unclear to you.

    Support the cause. Everyone goes pink for the month of October, so pick a trustworthy organization and show your support. By donating time or money or dropping a few bucks on a cute product for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you'll be supporting breast cancer research that will help millions.

    Know the facts about birth control. Taking oral contraceptives is one risk factor for developing breast cancer, but the risk decreases to normal levels the longer you are off them (women who took birth control pills more than 10 years ago, for example, have the same risks as women who never took the pill). Weigh the pros and cons of taking birth control and talk to your doctor if you want to know more.

    Drink in moderation. While that glass of red is good for you, excessive alcohol drinking has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. Stick to a one-a-day mantra if you want to reduce your risk.

    Keep exercising. Not only will working out help you maintain a healthy weight, exercising itself has been shown to reduce your risk of developing cancer. The American Cancer Society recommends 45 to 60 minutes of exercise, five times a week.

    Check up on your family history. How many people in your family have had breast cancer? If you don't know, now's the time to check. Having close family members who developed breast cancer increases your risk as well since certain risk factors are genetic.

    Don't be a stranger to your girls. Self breast exams may not have been given a ringing endorsement from the medical community, but you should still be familiar with how your breasts feel and look so you'll notice any changes.

By FitSugar | Healthy Living â€" Thu, Oct 3, 2013 7:52 AM PHT


There are several risk factors that can increase your chances of developing breast cancer. And while the risk increases as we age, there are certain preventative measures every women should do, whether she's in her 20s or in her mammogram years, to help reduce her risk of getting the disease. Read on for 10 things every women should do to help prevent breast cancer.

    Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or obese can increase your risk of developing breast cancer because fat cells produce small amounts of estrogen, which can fuel some cancers.

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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said the current strategy was not a winning one. "Why? ... Because the government shut down yesterday and the Obamacare exchanges opened and continued anyway."

Ironically, Obama and Senate Democratic leaders have said repeatedly in recent days they are willing to negotiate changes in the health care law â€" on another day and another bill.

Even Democrats privately concede that a tax on medical devices isn't likely to survive long, given that 79 members of the Senate backed its repeal on a nonbinding test vote last spring.

What survives is the expansion of the health care law that was passed in 2010, the opportunity for uninsured Americans to obtain private insurance at a cost oftentimes subsidized by the government.

Even before the shutdown began, some moderates said it was time to shift the fight against Obamacare to another arena and allow the government to remain open. A handful of conservatives, backed by outside groups, rebelled when GOP demands for changes in the law were scaled back.

"I feel like we're retreating," said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., while the conservative group Heritage Action said it opposed the last in a series of GOP maneuvers because it fell short of "fully defunding the president's failed law."

Restlessness grows.

In the Senate, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says routinely, "We're in a box canyon."