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In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, elderly Filipino women chat at Rizal Park, in Manila, Philippines.

Still, even in an elder-friendly country like Sweden, aging is not without its challenges. The Swedish government has suggested people continue working beyond 65, a prospect Blomberg cautiously welcomes but warns should not be a requirement. Blomberg also criticized the nation's finance minister, Anders Borg, for cutting taxes sharply for working Swedes but only marginally for retirees.

"I go to lectures and museums and the theater and those kinds of things, but I probably have to stop that soon because it gets terribly expensive," she says. "If you want to be active like me, it is hard. But to sit home and stare at the walls doesn't cost anything." --Associated Press writers Malin Rising in Stockholm, Tran Van Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Amir Shah in Kabul contributed to this report.

"There's no evidence that an aging population is a population that is economically damaged," she says.

Prosperity in itself does not guarantee protection for the old. The world's rising economic powers â€" the so-called BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa â€" rank lower in the index than some poorer countries such as Uruguay and Panama.

However, the report found, wealthy nations are in general better prepared for aging than poorer ones. Sweden, where the pension system is now 100 years old, makes the top of the list because of its social support, education and health coverage, followed by Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. The United States comes in eighth.

Sweden's health system earns praise from Marianne Blomberg, an 80-year-old Stockholm resident.

"The health care system, for me, has worked extraordinarily well," she says. "I suffer from atrial fibrillation and from the minute I call emergency until I am discharged, it is absolutely amazing. I can't complain about anything â€" even the food is good."

In this Sept. 26, 2013 photo, 80-year-old Marianne Blomberg works out at a gym in Stockholm.

Although government hospitals are free, Wasay complains that they provide little treatment and hardly any medicine. He wants to stop working in three years, but is not sure his children can support him. He says many older people cannot find work because they are not strong enough to do day labor, and some resort to begging.

"You have to keep working no matter how old you are â€" no one is rich enough to stop," he says. "Life is very difficult."

Many governments have resisted tackling the issue partly because it is viewed as hugely complicated, negative and costly â€" which is not necessarily true, says Silvia Stefanoni, chief executive of HelpAge International. Japan and Germany, she says, have among the highest proportions of elders in the world, but also boast steady economies.

In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, an elderly man listens to a speaker at a political rally in New Delhi.

Afghanistan, for example, offers no pension to those not in the government. Life expectancy is 59 years for men and 61 for women, compared to a global average of 68 for men and 72 for women, according to U.N. data.

That leaves Abdul Wasay struggling to survive. At 75, the former cook and blacksmith spends most of his day trying to sell toothbrushes and toothpaste on a busy street corner in Kabul's main market. The job nets him just $6 a day â€" barely enough to support his wife. He can only afford to buy meat twice a month; the family relies mainly on potatoes and curried vegetables.

"It's difficult because my knees are weak and I can't really stand for a long time," he says. "But what can I do? It's even harder in winter, but I can't afford treatment."

"Unless you measure something, it doesn't really exist in the minds of decision-makers," said John Beard, Director of Ageing and Life Course for the World Health Organization. "One of the challenges for population aging is that we don't even collect the data, let alone start to analyze it. ... For example, we've been talking about how people are living longer, but I can't tell you people are living longer and sicker, or longer in good health."

The report fits into an increasingly complex picture of aging and what it means to the world. On the one hand, the fact that people are living longer is a testament to advances in health care and nutrition, and advocates emphasize that the elderly should be seen not as a burden but as a resource. On the other, many countries still lack a basic social protection floor that provides income, health care and housing for their senior citizens.

The Global AgeWatch Index (www.globalagewatch.org) was created by elder advocacy group HelpAge International and the U.N. Population Fund in part to address a lack of international data on the extent and impact of global aging. The index, released on the U.N.'s International Day of Older Persons, compiles data from the U.N., World Health Organization, World Bank and other global agencies, and analyzes income, health, education, employment and age-friendly environment in each country.

The index was welcomed by elder rights advocates, who have long complained that a lack of data has thwarted their attempts to raise the issue on government agendas.

In this Thursday, Sept, 26, 2013 photo, Abdul Wasay, 75, sells toothbrushes and toothpaste on a busy street market in Kabul, Afghanistan.

"People at my age should have a rest, but I still have to work to make our ends meet," he says, while waiting for customers at the shop, which sells green tea, cigarettes and chewing gum. "My wife and I have no pension, no health insurance. I'm scared of thinking of being sick â€" I don't know how I can pay for the medical care."

Thao's story reflects a key point in the report, which was released early to The Associated Press: Aging is an issue across the world. Perhaps surprisingly, the report shows that the fastest aging countries are developing ones, such as Jordan, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua and Vietnam, where the number of older people will more than triple by 2050. All ranked in the bottom half of the index.

The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom. It reflects what advocates for the old have been warning, with increasing urgency, for years: Nations are simply not working quickly enough to cope with a population graying faster than ever before. By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors older than 60 will outnumber children younger than 15.

Truong Tien Thao, who runs a small tea shop on the sidewalk near his home in Hanoi, Vietnam, is 65 and acutely aware that he, like millions of others, is plunging into old age without a safety net. He wishes he could retire, but he and his 61-year-old wife depend on the $50 a month they earn from the shop. And so every day, Thao rises early to open the stall at 6 a.m. and works until 2 p.m., when his wife takes over until closing.

Associated Press KRISTEN GELINEAU 8 hours ago



In this Sept. 26, 2013 photo, 80-year-old Marianne Blomberg works out at a gym in Stockholm. Much of the world is not prepared to support the ballooning population of elderly people, including many of the fastest-aging countries, according to a global study scheduled to be released Tuesday, Oct. 1, by the United Nations and an elder rights group. The Swedish government has suggested people continue working beyond 65, a prospect Blomberg cautiously welcomes but warns should not be a requirement. (AP Photo/TT News Agency, Jonas Ekstromer).


The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.

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"Where You Belong"
by Kari Kimmel


If you're feeling down or weak
You can always count on me
I will always pick you up
Nothing's ever gonna change
Nothing's gettin' in my way
I will always hold you up

Anything
Come what may
Don't look back forget yesterday
Forget yesterday

[Chorus:]
It's not where you come from
It's where you belong
Nothin' I would trade
I wouldn't have it any other way
You're surrounded
By love and you're wanted
So never feel alone
You are home with me
Right where you b_long

And the group did not have to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.

But they did have to use a set of extreme conditions, including ultra-low temperatures.

Describing their work in Nature, the scientists said: "The fundamental properties of light derive from its constituent particles - massless quanta (photons) that do not interact with one another.

"However, it has long been known that the realisation of coherent interactions between individual photons, akin to those associated with conventional massive particles, could enable a wide variety of novel scientific and engineering applications."

But it is doubtful these uses will include lightsabres, and is more likely to involve building a super-fast quantum computer, which will harness the power of atoms and molecules to perform memory and processing tasks.

Or the system might one day even be used to create complex three-dimensional structures â€" such as crystals â€" completely out of light.

The scientific discovery is likely to delight Star Wars fans

Harvard and MIT physicists writing in the new edition of Nature say they have discovered a way to bind photons together in order to form a new molecule, which behaves almost exactly like the lethal devices wielded by Jedi Knights.

Harvard university physics professor Mikhail Lukin said: "Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless and do not interact."

This is illustrated when two laser beams are shone at each other, and they pass through one another.

Professor Lukin said: "What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they act as though they have mass, and bind together to form molecules.

"It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to lightsabres. When these photons interact with each other, they're pushing against and deflect each other.

"The physics of what's happening in these molecules is similar to what we see in the movies."

Physicists have found a way of binding light together similar to the futuristic weapon used by Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.





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7:58pm UK, Monday 30 September 2013


Star Wars fans will feel the force is definitely with them after a scientific breakthrough which has turned the lightsabre from science fiction to fact.

He he, kiss ko beh!

Kiss Me, Kate is the 1953 MGM film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name.

Inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, it tells the tale of musical theater actors, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who were once married and are now performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play.

Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of gangsters, who have come to collect a gambling debt from the show's Lucentio, Bill Calhoun. In classic musical comedy fashion, slapstick madness ensues before everything is resolved. --Wiki

Quote from: balong on September 30, 2013, 07:57:23 PM
out of the picture na si hubag bohol. i dont care what he does. he can go to hell

I don't want to go there. I don't want to meet you in person. Hadlok ko sa lisngag nimong ilong.

Patient, yes. Mental patient...

Kuwang ra na ipasok sa imong lubot...

In this case, there's little difference between dream and reality...

Lisngag kaniadto, karon lisngag lang gihapon. In addition to the qualifications, pangag pa jud.

Lisngag,
Pangag.

Perfect rhyme...

Hilom diha, Balonggoy!

A version of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman giant "Rubber Duckie" is towed up the Allegheny River past Heinz Field for its debut in Pittsburgh.

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A version of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman giant "Rubber Duckie" is towed up the Ohio River under the West End Bridge for its debut in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's duck is the first "Made-in-the-USA" version of the Dutch artist's creation. The duck's arrival kicks off the month-long Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, which features theater, dance, music and visual arts from around the world. After the opening night the duck will be moored near the city's two major sports stadiums until late October.

The watcher I'm watching. Sa wa pa mapangag, that is...


Bwahaha!

Some worry that converts are more vulnerable than others to radical kinds of Islam because they know little about the religion's different traditions. That is not quite right, says Leon Moosavi, an expert on Islamic conversions at Liverpool University. The problem for converts is a lack of support, he argues. Some are abandoned by their families. They may not be accepted into mainstream mosques, many of which in Britain resemble ethnic clubs, he says. That isolation can make them vulnerable to extremists who hope that white converts will add credibility to their cause. But converts who turn to terrorism, as Ms Lewthwaite is suspected of doing, are rare. Indeed, the vast, peaceable majority may help to bridge the gap between Muslims and others. In Western countries the growth in converts is part of Islam’s transition from an immigrant religion to a home-grown one.

Calculating convert numbers is tricky. The census in England and Wales does not ask people about their past religions. British mosques do not keep a central record of conversions. Some new believers keep their conversions secret, worried about the reactions of friends and family. But using census data on race and religion, and questionnaires issued to mosques, Kevin Brice, a researcher at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, calculated that around 5,200 Britons turn to Islam every year, and that the total number of converts is about 100,000. In America calculating conversion rates is even harder. The census does not ask about religion and few mosques keep registers of their members, so even the total number of American Muslims is uncertain, let alone that of converts. In 2007 the Pew Research Centre estimated that there were around 2.4m American Muslims; in 2000 President Bill Clinton made reference to a figure of 6m. Pew reckons that just under a quarter are converts, the majority of them African American.

Those who embrace Islam tend to do so after years of contact with Muslims. (Ms Lewthwaite reportedly had a close relationship with Muslim neighbours during her youth.) Some, mostly women who make up around two-thirds of new believers in Britain, convert because they want to marry a Muslim. Others are fed up with what they see as the bawdiness of British society. Many speak of seeking a sense of community. Prisons have proven fertile ground for conversions for men. Some worry that those who convert in jail are exposed to more radical strains of Islam; others say that Islam's discipline and structure, along with the support they received from other Muslims, helped them to cope with life inside.

Sep 29th 2013, 23:50 by J.D.





IN THE wake of the attacks on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, speculation has grown about the possible involvement of Samantha Lewthwaite, a British convert to Islam. Ms Lewthwaite, known as the “White Widow”, was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of the London 7/7 bombers and himself a convert. She is wanted by Interpol and the Kenyan police in connection with a separate alleged bomb plot. Ms Lewthwaite, the daughter of a British soldier who served in Northern Ireland, grew up in the English home counties and converted to Islam in her teens. How common are converts to Islam? And why do they adopt the religion?

That's YOU, mini milyonir...

Bwahaha! Yellow-bellied coyote? Now pa ko. Yellow-bellied and white-egged...

Guo said his team examined what remained of the nose and concluded there would be little chance of viably grafting cartilage there, instead building the nose on the forehead. When the new nose is rotated into position and grafted, it will at first have its own blood supply from links to the forehead, before developing new blood vessels. Later surgery will smooth out all of the skin.

The team first expanded skin on the man's forehead for more than three months before using rib cartilage to build the nose bridge. Lastly, Guo's team built the nostrils.

"We sculpted the nose three-dimensionally, like carpenters," he said.

___

Louise Watt in Beijing contributed to this report.

However, he said it was unclear why the Chinese team built the nose on the forehead rather than in its proper position. A nose graft grown from stem cells would be prepared on another body part first, but this operation is using existing cartilage, Seifalian said.

"They could have made the nose and just put it on the nose, not in the forehead," Seifalian said. "I don't know why they put it there."

However, Seifalian noted that he had not seen any scientific information on the Chinese operation and was just going by media reports.

The patient lost part of his nose in an accident in August 2012 and did not immediately have any reconstruction surgery because he couldn't afford it, Guo said. An infection later ate away much of his nose cartilage, he said.

"We were just interested in helping the man and did not expect it would stir up this much attention," Guo said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press.

Surgeons previously have used cartilage to help rebuild noses in their proper position and are experimenting with growing new ones from stem cells on other parts of the body, such as a forearm. But this was the first known case of building a nose on a forehead.

Alexander Seifalian, a professor of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine at University College London who has worked on transplants using stem cells, said implanting the nose graft in the forehead makes sense because the skin there has the same "structure and texture" as that of a nose.

Associated Press DIDI TANG September 28, 2013 3:12 AM


BEIJING (AP) â€" A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.

Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China's southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged.

The striking images of the implant â€" with the nostril section facing diagonally upward on the left side of the man's forehead â€" drew widespread publicity after they began to circulate in Chinese media this week. Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.

In this Tuesday Sept. 24, 2013 photo, a 22-year-old patient, with a surgical made extra nose out of his rib cartilage and implanted under the skin of his forehead, rests at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, in Fuzhou city, in southeast China's Fujian province. A surgeon in China said he has constructed the extra nose to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind. Surgeon Guo Zhihui at the hospital spent nine months cultivating the graft for the man whose nose was damaged. (AP Photo)

Quote from: robert on September 29, 2013, 02:36:14 PM
hubag bohol has run away because he now understands that i do not make empty threats.

Title of the movie: Ang Daman sa Kuwangkuwang

Bwahaha!

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 29, 2013, 07:48:49 PM
“Both parties nagdala sa ilang kaugalingong partner,” saysay ni PInsp. Zenaido Pastorfide sa dihang nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita.

Maoy gidangat...

SuperBalita Cebu
Ni Flor V. Querubin
Saturday, September 28, 2013


NINGITNGIT ang panan-aw sa bana samtang nagsud-ong sa iyang asawa nga adunay laing lalaki nga gikabayle niadtong miaging gabii nga niresulta sa pagpamusil kagahapon sa kaadlawon.

Ang duha gikatahong pulos nagdala sa ilang mga “kabit” dihang nagkaabot sa baylehan.

Ang biktima nga si Gilda (di tinuod niyang ngan), 23, way pangita, buwag sa bana, taga-Sityo Buyong, Brgy. Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City, samdan sa paa.

Samtang ang suspek nga bana ra usab sa biktima giilang mao si Eddie (di tinuod niyang ngan), 44, empleyado sa usa ka dive shop, nanimuyo na sa Sityo Kalinga, barangay Soong-Mactan.

Base sa nahipos nga kasayuran sa Homicide Section sa Lapu-Lapu City Police Office nga nakaadlawnan ang biktima sa diskohan sa Sityo Buyong.

Nagkaabot sila sa iyang bana uban sa live-in partner niini nga namayle usab.

“Both parties nagdala sa ilang kaugalingong partner,” saysay ni PInsp. Zenaido Pastorfide sa dihang nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita.

Sigun sa asoy ni Ilda sa mga imbestigador nga iyang namatikdan nga nagpunay og tutok ang iyang bana kaniya sa dihang nag-disco sa gipahigayong diskoral sa maong dapit.

Nipauli sa balay ang biktima nianang pagka-alas 2 kagahapon sa kadlawon.

Samtang siya nagbaktas, giatangan siya ni Edie ug nahitabo ang komprontase tali sa managtiayong.

“Ako lang pangagpas gituktok tingali sa bana sa armas (ang biktima) ug wala siyay intensiyon sa pagpusil niini,” matod ni Pastorfide.

Nahitabo ang lamok-lamok sa duruha sa dihang nisukol ang asawa sa nagyawyaw nga bana ug nibuto ang armas nga gibitbit sa suspek.

Naigo si Ilda sa iyang tuo nga paa samtang mikaratil pagdagan ang bana human sa hitabo.

Gidali sa pagdala sa Lapu-Lapu City Hospital ang biktima apan gibalhin sa Vicente Sotto Memorial Me­dical Center (VSMMC).

Samtang wa pa madakpi sa kapulisan ang suspek.

Quote from: islander on September 28, 2013, 12:19:14 PM
no comment.


robert's camp lapulapu army


to the rescue in mall siege, nairobi, kenya

Kitang-kita ang ebidensya...

Wa ang-anga...

Quote from: StevenRan on September 27, 2013, 05:10:43 PM
maka pasaylo ko ni hubag. ngano gong dili. but he has to be taught a lesson. he has to feel FEAR.

surveylance ends at the end of the month. dont worry pipol. i will do nothing. this is my revenge. i will let hubag live his miserable life feeling FEAR. kay gi warningan na sija so many times. mosamot ug gara. naka kita man jud mo. he did not stop calling me IDIOT.

I don't need your forgiveness, Mr. Idiot. Ug wa tawon ko mahadlok anang lisngag nimong ilong. Bwahaha!

This is the life!

Hong Kong has roughly 300,000 domestic helpers, largely from the Philippines and Indonesia, but also from Nepal, India and Pakistan. They are excluded from a minimum wage and other basic rights and services.

A union representing domestic helpers held a protest in March, calling for an end to a law that requires maids to live with their employers, saying the rule exposes them to abuse.

Also in March, Hong Kong's highest court ruled against granting residency to two Filipino maids, dashing the hopes of several hundred thousand other domestic helpers from ever gaining residency in the city.

(Additional reporting by Venus Wu; Editing by Nick Macfie)

The case had done harm to Hong Kong's reputation as a safe place to work and the court's decision was to "send a clear message that every worker is protected by the laws", said Deputy District Judge So Wai-tak.

The Mission for Migrant Workers said last month that a survey of more than 3,000 women conducted in Hong Kong last year found that 58 per cent had faced verbal abuse, 18 per cent physical abuse and six per cent sexual abuse.

"We call on to the Hong Kong authorities and policymakers to make the needed and urgent reforms that will mitigate the possibility of another Kartika in our midst," the Coalition of Service Providers for Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong said in a statement.

Tai Chi-wai, 42, an electric appliance salesman, was jailed for three years and three months and his wife, Catherine Au Yuk-shan, 41, a public hospital assistant, got five-and-a-half years after being found guilty of a total of eight charges, including assault and wounding with intent.

The couple repeatedly assaulted and tortured Kartika Puspitasari, 30, over a two-year period until she escaped last October, beating her with a bicycle chain and scalding her on the face and arms with a hot iron, the District Court had heard.

Kartika also said that she was left in a diaper and tied to a chair without food or water for five days while her employers went on holiday with their children to Thailand, although the judge said he believed some of this testimony had been exaggerated.

By Grace Li | Reuters â€" Thu, Sep 19, 2013



Domestic helpers rally in support of an Indonesian maid who was tortured by her employers, outside Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong September 18, 2013. REUTERS/Bobby Yip


HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong couple were jailed on Wednesday for torturing, beating and abusing their Indonesian maid, who said they once dressed her in a diaper and tied her to a chair for five days while they went on holiday.

This patient’s case, however, was different from the others found in research literature. Others infected with the virus typically had an underlying condition, and some were already in an intensive care unit.

The man they treated was healthy.

Cordell and McCarthy treated their patient by giving him an antifungal medication and putting him a low-carb diet. Within 10 weeks, his symptoms dissipated and his blood alcohol level reached zero and stayed there, according to the study.




“Since this has come out I’ve been contacted by several people who think they have it,” Cordell said. “My heart goes out to them. One woman said everyone tells her husband that he must be a chronic drinker.”

The condition occurs when someone eats heavy carbohydrates and they ferment in an overabundance of brewer’s yeast in the intestines. It’s as if the person’s intestines are home brewing by the gallon. It takes three to four hoursâ€"the same as in someone who has been drinkingâ€"for the alcohol to leave the bloodstream, Cordell said.

It’s hard to tell how many cases of this rare disease have occurred, since many doctors pass these patients off as alcoholics, according to Cordell. Therefore, it’s difficult to study its intricacies and determine the best way to care for the affected  patient.

“When I first found out about it I was pretty blown away,” Cordell said. “I read the literature, where I was like, ‘Wow this is amazing.’ It was the first time I’d heard of anything like it.”

Solving the Mystery

Cordell hadn’t seen anything like it. She believed what most doctors did not: that he wasn’t a closet alcoholic. So she sought help from a college.

Together, they discovered that the man had an extremely rare virus that leads to something known as Gut Fermentation Syndrome, or Auto-Brewery Syndrome, according to a study co-authored by Cordell and Justin McCarthy, who helped treat Cordell’s patient.

In their review, the two found as many as five confirmed cases, including two in children and one in an adult in China.

These “episodes” happened every two or three months in the beginning and lasted three to four hours each, Cordell told Healthline. Then they increased in frequency and severity. They began to happen almost weekly, and the man looked more wasted each time, Cordell said.

“On the breathalyzer, it was too high to read,” Cordell said. “It was .33. I was thinking that’s approaching the lethal level of alcohol in the blood."

It would take 15 drinks in an hour for a 200 lb. man’s blood alcohol levels to reach the same reading, according to researchers.

“I’m sure it was frightening. I can’t imagine being in that situation where you are acting drunk, but you haven’t drunk anything,” she added.

By Sheena Dooley
Mon, Sep 23, 2013
   

A 61-year-old man came to Barbara Cordell, a registered nurse at Panola College, complaining of “dizzy spells” that would make him pass out.

His family saw something else. The man had alcohol on his breath. He stumbled around as if he were drunk. And then there was the breathalyzer test, which showed he had a blood alcohol level of .33, nearly five times the legal limit in most states.

The only problem: the man hadn't had a single alcoholic drink.

Basin gawas nga di niya liwat, klaro nga ang iyang kumpare maoy nagligwat...

Bad Boy Botoy

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 24, 2013, 07:12:44 AM
The least satisfying marriages were those in which both spouses cared strongly about material goods.

Basta mga hangol og kwarta hayan magkabuwag jud.

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer   |   October 13, 2011 07:08am ET


Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that materialists have unhappier marriages than couples who don't care much about possessions.

The effect holds true across all levels of income, said study researcher Jason Carroll, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University. And a materialist marrying a like-minded soul may not get off the hook: The least satisfying marriages were those in which both spouses cared strongly about material goods.

"We thought it would be the incongruent or unmatched pattern that would be most problematic, where one's a spender and one's a saver," Carroll told LiveScience. "Our study found that it's the couples where both spouses have high levels of materialism that struggle the most."

Ang unang unom ka mga tinun-an nga giingong nasudlan ang nagpunay na lang og hilak ug sabasaba.

Duha nila ang gidala sa Cebu City Medical Center samtang ang uban naulian ra usab.

Gitambagan sila nga mangayo og pasaylo sa ilang pagsabasaba atol sa camp fire apan dihang niadto na sila sa punoan sa caimito, giingong nakakita sila og gamay nga tawo nga daw usa ka dwende, asoy ni Cabellon.

Kagahapon sa buntag, laing tulo ka mga tinun-an ang giingong nasudlan usab og dautang espiritu human giingong makakita og usa ka white lady.

Pagka alas 4:00 sa hapon, laing unom na usab ka mga estudyante, usa ka nila ang unang nasudlan niadtong Sabado sa gabii, ang giingong misiyagit ug mihilak sud sa classroom.

Tulo kanila ang gidala sa Mary’s Little Children Community sa Barangay Tabunok, siyudad sa Talisay samtang ang usa gidala sa usa ka tambalan sa Bayanihan, Basak Pardo samtang ang uban naulian ra.

Si Cabellon, nagduda kon nasudlan ba ang mga estudyante og dautang espiritu tungod kay nagpunay ra man sila og hilak ug wa mausab ang ilang tingog sama sa mahitabo sa usa ka tawo nga napossess.

“Sige lang sila og hilak. Dili bitaw pareho sa sine nga atong makit-an nga mag-usab-usab ang tingog unya isog kaayo.” saysay niini sa Sun.Star Superbalita kagahapon.

SuperBalita Cebu
Ni Sheila C. Gravinez
Monday, September 23, 2013


KATORSE ka mga tinun-an sa 1st year ug 2nd year sa Quiot National High School sa dakbayan sa Sugbo ang giingong nasudlan og dautang espiritu sugod niadtong Sabado sa gabii hangtod kagahapon.

Si Severiano Cabellon, chief tanod sa Quiot Barangay Hall nga unang nirespondi sa hitabo niasoy nga unom ka mga estudyante ang giingong unang nasudlan dihang nag-camping sud sa eskwelahan niadtong Sabado sa gabii.

Matod niya samtang nag camp fire ang mga estudyante nga pulos mga miyembro sa Girl Scout of the Philippines nagsige kini og sabasaba ug siyagit-siyagit samtang gipawong na ang tanang suga sud sa tunghaan.

Gidudahan sa mga edaran nga hayan nasuko sa kasaba ang mga nagpuyo sa duha ka karaan nga punoan sa caimito nga duol sa nahimutangan sa mga estudyante.

Asoy sa mga tinun-an nga nasudlan nga giingong gipakita sila og white lady nga dili maitsura ang nawong samtang ang uban nila nakakita nila og daw sama sa usa ka dwende sa punoan sa caimito.

Quote from: robert on September 21, 2013, 08:49:23 PM
the booby boboy traps are set. let us see if to whom it may concern little botoy will step on 8

What a lousy IDIOTic word play...

Whether we will grasp this opportunity for change and enter a new paradigm of growth and development is not a question that can be answered in the air-conditioned boardrooms of the UN. Rather it is up to each and every one of us - by a growing global movement willing to speak truth to power and shift the disastrous course we are on.

Already I have met and read the thoughts of great thinkers, and seen and heard of many powerful actions which are building towards a new paradigm. Having had a glimpse of what this new paradigm could mean I aim to continue to play my part in the fight for social and environmental justice in order to help create a better future. Will you heed the call for climate and social justice and do the same?

Because we the people of Africa, the rich and especially the poor, the vulnerable and secure, the present and the future, because a just future needs you and everyone. I hope that you will.

- Alex Lenferna

TOWARDS SUCCESS

Though we live in a time defined by previous failure, I have hope for our climate and our future. (Although I sometimes fluctuate between a deep sense of despair and hopelessness in the face of what often seems an overwhelming problem). My cause for hope lies in us.

I have seen youth, adults and the aged alike stand bravely against some of the most powerful and rapacious institutions in the world in order to fight for their future.

I have watched the growing climate movement joining forces with other social movements as we increasingly realise that social and environmental issues are deeply intertwined. Indeed much evidence suggests that we are on the cusp of a truly historic international societal transformation.

REGAINING AFRICA'S AGENCY

Make no mistake - Africa will be hard hit by the ravages of a changing climate, which has great potential to further exacerbate existing environmental and social ills. For this reason, we must learn to stand together, to help each other in times of need, to work together to create prosperity in the face of increased adversity, and to adapt.

Yes, it is a gross injustice that we in Africa will be hardest hit by a problem we contributed the least to, and we must fight for climate justice and ensure that those most responsible are held accountable.

However, fellow Africans, we must be wary of playing the blame game. For we and our politicians are often too ready to blame our problems on (Western) others in order to excuse ourselves from our own inaction and failures. As Fayiso Stevens points out, "if Africans spent half as much of their time trying to solve their problems as they did working out who is responsible for them, they wouldn't have any... "

Blaming problems on external agents or forces, regardless of the legitimacy of the blame, can lead to a severe diminishment in perceived agency, and the ability to act to solve one's own problems.

Indeed, a rising a sense of agency across the African continent combatting the discourse of disempowerment will be needed to face this crisis, and so our task, to empower Africa, rings out with an increased sense of urgency in the face of a changing climate.

South Africa provides important lessons for the rest of the African continent, for to avoid achieving the same results we need to redefine our development paradigm to focus on more localised bottom-up development.

This includes ecological, justice and health considerations as vital development indicators for which renewable energies and less resource-intensive development are more suited.

Furthermore, there is an urgency in doing so, for as Faith Briol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency points out, "delaying action [on this] is a false economy: for every $1 of investment in cleaner technology that is avoided in the power sector before 2020, an additional $4.30 would need to be spent to compensate for the increased emissions [and associated climate impacts]".

As Africa continues its proverbial 'rise', we need to learn from and reflect on the lessons of out-dated development paradigms and work towards an Africa that is defined by new measures of success, ones that work for its people and environment.

It is true that South Africa cannot continue to fuel the current industrial economy without mega energy projects, but what products of our current economy are so valuable that they obligate us to do so? Top-down, unequal industrial development often benefits a few at the expense of many. Are we getting the economic and social results we want? For the majority of South Africans, I am not so sure.

We in South Africa need to question and rethink the development paradigm that has allowed us to become one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters and resource-intense economies in the world, while still allowing for such great poverty and inequality, represented by growing urban sprawl with elite pockets of wealth surrounded by burgeoning squatter camps or slums, coupled with environmentally insensitive and often degrading development.

South Africa is now 128th of 132 countries on the environmental performance index, and one of the most unequal societies in the world. Of course, we must not throw the baby out with the bath water and forsake the benefits such development has brought, but we must ask ourselves what further costs we are willing to pay to pursue such a destructive idea of 'development'?

LEARNING FROM FAILURE

Sixty percent of the world's unused arable land, much of its untapped resources, and seven of the ten fastest growing countries are on the African continent, and Africa, in many ways, yearns to develop, to move beyond the constraints of poverty and into a world of possibility.

This drive for change in Africa provides us with a unique opportunity to redefine growth not as something measured by the abstraction of a GDP which causes us to celebrate rapacious unequal growth as success, but rather to define growth by the development of human welfare and happiness coupled with ecological integrity.

In South Africa, as in many places on the African continent, we are faced with an apparent dilemma: we have an expanding industrial economy, which we are fuelling with fossil fuels, but so-called 'green resolutions' that are asking us to do otherwise. It seems like we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. However, now more than ever we need to look beyond this somewhat false dilemma.

Realizing the limitations of global environmental governance, we need to take a more active role in tackling this problem ourselves in order to avoid looking back and blaming a faulty international governance system, when the true power for change lay within our own hands.

As Theodore Roszak may have pointed out, our complete world economy is not made up of the UN, but rather it "is built upon millions [now billions] of small private acts of psychological surrender, the willingness of people to acquiesce in playing their assigned parts as cogs in the great [and in our case destructive] social machine".

Yes, the challenge is ours as individuals, as citizens, as leaders, to create the world we want, or at least the best world we can given the cards we've been dealt.

However, we do have the ability to limit climate change's negative effects but only if we act, only if we change, only if we critically revisit and redefine what it is that drives us, rethink the ideas that underpin our development paradigms, and revisit the goals that motivate us and influence our relationship both amongst ourselves and between us and our environment.

Undeniably, this means a deep reflection, and within that reflection lays a world of possibilities both positive and negative.

By sitting through days and days of frustrating United Nations climate change conferences I have learnt that we cannot rely on global governance structures to save us and our climate - we have predominantly been doing so for over twenty years now, and look at where it has gotten us (Cf. 400 ppm).

Alas, another ten years down the line the UN once again conceded failure, as we realized that both our mitigation and adaptation measures were insufficient and that we are set to suffer significant losses as a result of human-caused climate change or global warming. So, on the back of humanity's collective disappointment, we heralded in the third era of climate change: loss and damage.

Indeed, as the results of cutting edge climate science show, the impacts of our negative contributions are already being felt the world over in the form of more intense and more numerous droughts, floods, hurricanes and many other extreme weather events definitive of a world changed by global warming.

As unpleasant as this may sound, and as frustrating as it has been to watch year after year of missed opportunities for change, this is the reality that this generation faces, and future generations will inherit.

ACCEPTING FAILURE

In the space of my short lifetime, and probably yours too, we have seen the emergence of three so-called eras of climate change.

The first era of climate change arose in the 1990s when governments began to agree that as our industrial societies spewed more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere we were potentially bringing upon ourselves dangerous runaway climate change, and that we needed therefore to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in order not to create a world defined by climatic chaos. Enter the era of mitigation.

About ten years later we realized that we (well, mostly the developed world and the global rich) weren't yet doing enough to mitigate (i.e. to slow down emissions) and that our climate would begin to shift due to our actions and inactions, forcing us to adapt to changing climates, while mitigating to decrease the impact. Enter the second era of climate change: adaptation.

http://allafrica.com/
BY ALEX LENFERNA, 18 SEPTEMBER 2013


We have the ability to limit climate change's negative effects but only if we act, only if we change, only if we critically revisit and redefine what it is that drives us. We must revisit the goals that motivate us and between ourselves and our environment

In December 2012 in Doha Qatar, something significant shifted in the world of climate change politics: the collection of national governments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body responsible for global climate governance, officially admitted our collective failure to protect the climate and ushered in what is being referred to as the third era of climate change: 'loss and damage'.

Thus whether or not you are person concerned with climate change, officially you are a person living in a dangerously changing climate. The question facing us now, collectively, is not if we can stop climate change but, rather, how bad will we let it get, and just how we answer that question may well define our generation.

Quote from: robert on September 22, 2013, 08:46:26 PM
naks naman. you are truely a jet setter. wa pa jud ko kaabot diha sa maldives. wow, iba talaga ang maraming pera. palaging may bakasyon

Iba ang mayaman, iba ang IDIOT.

Quote from: robert on September 22, 2013, 08:39:40 PM
the big boss says you can post all you can. no need to be sporadic

Wa kasabot. IDIOT jud diay...

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 08:33:37 PM
whatever.  let prufrock be.  someone else here is nearer him.

Hmm, let me guess... The IDIOT?