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Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 08:29:13 PM
in terms of space, maybe.  but the world is not only round, it's also wide.

Hmm, wide enough to accommodate a certified IDIOT?

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 08:27:47 PM
unintended.  realized it only on hindsight.

Hmm, TB's resident IDIOT is creeping into your subconscious, eh?

Grabe na jud ang hallucination sa TB's resident IDIOT...

As for me, I saw a goat!

This scum Solis could not hide under the cloak of youth for his crime. There is something cavalier about his mea culpa, reminiscent of the arrogance of the apologia of some aging plagiarist who masquerades as a literary icon.

"Hi there. I am Jane..."

Oops, "Prufrockesque" is the more appropriate word, yes?

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
how quaint can it get.  looking for mermaids, eh?

Hmm, it that meant to be a Prufrockian allusion?

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
maldives?  why even go there?  that country is fast joining the depths of the seas!

For one, there are no circuses here.

Seriously now, this here is not such a bad place at all. You should ask your banana republic to bring you here. I'll not be surprised, though, if you've been here already.

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 22, 2013, 07:18:07 PM
Relampagos, who succeeded Chatto in the chairmanship of the tourism committee in Congress, was bold and confident in saying yesterday of the airport project, “One thing is sure. It’s there already.”

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
credit goes to the banana republic for giving me this kind of life where worrying for my next meal is not one of my concerns.

Hmm, it's now worrying for your next cat?

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
life of ease?  hehehe, it almost sounds oxymoronic (you may delete the first two syllables if you wish), especially if my lower back pains bother me much.

Oh, my...

Over P9 billion will fund the development of air facilities, including the start of the Bohol airport construction within the second quarter of 2014.

The DOTC budget for 2014 shows an increase of over 30% which, according to Chatto, could further prove the president’s sincerity in assuring repeatedly the Boholanos of the realization of their dream airport after its conception over 20 years ago.

Relampagos said the tendering of the bid documents for airport works are set within the first quarter of 2014 en route to the start of project’s concrete implementation between April and June.

The governor and congressman are coordinating in hastening the issuance from the DOTC to the winning bidder of the notice to proceed with the perimeter fencing of the airport site this year.

Relampagos, who succeeded Chatto in the chairmanship of the tourism committee in Congress, was bold and confident in saying yesterday of the airport project, “One thing is sure. It’s there already.”

Bohol’s effort was intensified when Gov. Edgar Chatto on Wednesday presided another meeting of the New Bohol Airport Construction and Sustainable Environment Protection Project (NBACSEPP) â€" Local Project Management Team (LPMT) at the People’s Mansion.

The meeting was attended by Engr. Florencio de la Cruz, Jr. and Larry Holgado of the Department of Transportation and Communications â€" Project Management Office (DOTC-PMO) and consultant Yuki Todoroki of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The governor led the discussion on the progress of the various pre-construction phases of the airport project, which is set for concrete implementation next year until it is finished before the term of Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III ends in 2016.

Updates were provided on the resettlement project, extent of land acquisition which includes the lot for water storage facility, monitoring system on the resettlement action plan which JICA would like to be further strengthened, and livelihood and restoration and employment plan, among other social components of the gigantic airport project.

The Bohol airport project is to be executed under a multi-year fund package involving releases from the Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Philippine government counterpart.

First District Rep. Rene Relampagos said the donor entity which is the the Japanese government thru JICA finances the great bulk of the project, which costs P7.2 billion, while the Philippine government counterparts 10% of the total amount.

Of DOTC’s P48.7 billion funding next year, almost P30 billion will go to the modernization of the country’ transport system, including the development of airports like the new one for Bohol.

http://theboholstandard.com/
Sunday, September 15, 2013
By: Ven rebo Arigo


The new Bohol airport’s rise and the development of other airports in the country are foreseen to make the Philippines to the top one-third of the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI).

The modern international airport which will rise on Panglao island is among the major projects in the public-private partnership (PPP) program of the Aquino administration to address the country’s infrastructure issue.

During the recent World Economic Forum (WEF), the infrastructure concern in the country floated as the most problematic among the so-called 12 pillars of economic development.

The WEF report cited the airport as one of the problematic infrastructures in the country and, according to Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Sec. Gregory Domingo, the implementation of priority airport projects is a key to global competitiveness.

The country placed 59th in the 2013-2014 Global Competitiveness Report of the WEF from 65th spot in 2012 and it has to elevate to the 49th rank to be in the top one-third of the competitiveness index.

The higher slot is attainable once the country’s state of infrastructure, especially involving airports, is raised to higher level.

Researchers said their findings suggest that the brain can survive an extremely deep coma and that inducing such a state could help preserve some brain function that otherwise might cease, causing the brain to atrophy.

Scientists have been steadily probing the nature of brain activity at the border of death. Evidence of a sharp burst in brain activity after cardiac arrest suggest a neural explanation for anecdotes from patients who have recovered from near-death experiences, including a sensation of leaving the body, and deep memories flickering in dream-like fashion.

The most famous example of the phenomena turned into a best-selling book, Proof of Heaven, in which a physician recounted the vivid imagery he experienced during a coma. Neurologists question whether the cortex was fully shut down and suggest these memory functions reflected activity in the brain, not a supernatural phenomenon.

Anecdotes of near-death imagery have varied by culture and changed significantly over time and correlate with the teller’s religious iconography, skeptics note. Heavenly experiences, they suggest, are in the mind of the beholder.

A recent study using mice showed that brain activity after complete cardiac arrest does not gradually wane to zero but is distinguished by phases that include a burst of activityâ€"a phenomenon noted also by the Montreal team.

The Montreal team, however, suggests there is a state beyond the end of cortical activity and that an area of the brain closely associated with memory may be sending signals to its master, the cortex, where higher functions, consciousness among them, are generated.

Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 08:00 Written by Los Angeles Times/MCT


LOS ANGELESâ€"Maybe cats have nine lives, or maybe brain-dead people aren’t so dead.

Parts of the brain may still be active after a commonly used brain activity reading goes to a flat line, according to a study on cat brains published on Wednesday in the online journal PLOS One.

The study came after Romanian doctors noticed odd electroencephalogram (EEG) activity in a patient who had lapsed into a coma while under the influence of anti-seizure medication.

Researchers at the Universite de Montreal put 26 cats under deep anesthesia and recorded their brain activity in the upper cortical regions and hippocampus.

In all of the cats, a previously undocumented “ripple event” was evident in the hippocampus after EEG readouts went “flat,” indicating a silenced cortex. The results appeared to replicate what had been seen in the human patient, according to the study.

The findings could revive debate over the criteria for declaring a person “brain dead.” In the US two such flat-line readings 24 hours apart are necessary, along with other tests of brain function.

Mark Hall, vice president, country manager Singapore for recruitment firm Kelly Services, adds: "One of the challenges when you talk about a growing working-age population is, how do you give them jobs?"

Analysts point out that, despite having young populations to provide labor and spur consumer spending, countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia and India also suffer from an outflow of workers and talent overseas that is sometimes referred to as a "brain drain."

"You have talented workers in India who have grown up in an environment where there is an aspiration to move to wealthier countries such as Australia or Singapore," said Hall. "This perception is difficult to overcome."

India and Indonesia, the two Asian countries hardest hit by the rout in emerging markets, have also been criticized for failing to capitalize on abundant labor resources and low labor costs, as they haven't done enough to attract foreign direct investment, another key factor driving long-term growth rates.

In the parts of Asia that are aging, such as Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan,analysts said they expected to see further steps to increase productivity or change the structure of the workforce to help offset the implications of an aging population.

China,for instance, is expected to continue encouraging its workforce to move out of agriculture and into more productive parts of the economy, while Japan is exploring ways to get more women to enter the labor market.

While there are many ways to limit the growth impact of a declining working-age population, none are easy, said Prior-Wandesforde. "Even with more women in the workforce the problem may not be surmountable if the working age-population is falling rapidly as it is in Japan."

BofAML's Chua says demographics are useful indicators of real GDP growth, noting a strong correlation between changes in working-age population and growth in the real economy over the past decade (2002-2012).

Recent studies by the Asian Development Bank echo this view â€" they suggest that rapidly shifting demographics, especially declining birth rates and increasing life expectancies, will play a growing role in shaping the economies of Asia's developing countries.

According to BofAML, the Philippines should see its labor force grow around 21 percent between 2013 and 2023, while Malaysia and Indonesia will likely see growth of just over 15 percent, followed by Singapore with growth of 14 percent.

"Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines should have seen higher average GDP growth because of favorable demographics over the past decade," Chua at BofAML said.

According to World Bank data, the Philippines' economy grew at an annual rate of 6.6 percent between 2008 and 2012, while Malaysia's expanded 5.6 percent â€" stronger growth than aging neighbor Japan, which expanded 1.9 percent over the same period.

While growth in the working-age population is a key factor for a country's long-term economic performance, economists say it doesn't necessarily result in stronger growth.

"It's a helpful situation to have a rapidly growing workforce, but one needs to think about the demand side as well," said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, director of Asian economics research at Credit Suisse, noting that supply could exceed demand.

http://www.cnbc.com/
Published: Sunday, 22 Sep 2013 | 2:14 AM ET By: Dhara Ranasinghe | Senior Writer



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Asia is expected to see one clear demographic trend emerge in the next decade: a widening divide between the southeast, where the working-age population is growing at a strong pace, and the northeast, where the labor force is forecast to shrink.

"The next decade will be very different from previous decades when most of Asia was still experiencing demographic dividends, including China and Korea," Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Economist Hak Bin Chua said in a report.

"Japan was largely the only country that was aging and shrinking in terms of its labor force and population in the previous decade. But in the coming decade, several Asian countries â€" including China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand â€" will see their labor forces shrink. This will have important implications for GDP [gross domestic product] growth, consumer spending and asset prices, judging from Japan's experience," he said.

Japan is home to the fastest aging population in the world, with almost a quarter of its population over the age of 65. The country has struggled with sluggish growth stemming from a shrinking workforce, which has put pressure on the government to boost productivity levels.

In June, the United Nations (U.N.) revised its 2012 population estimates, which analysts say highlight Asia's demographic divide.

The U.N. sees the working-age population in Indonesia and the Philippines peaking in 2058 and 2085 respectively, later than previously anticipated. At the same time it brought forward forecasts for other Asian countries including China, where theworking-age population is expected to peak in 2015, and its total population, currently around 1.3 billion people, is seen decreasing after 2030.

Quote from: islander on September 22, 2013, 12:50:21 AM
i'm sure hubag would be back sooner than we expect.  like you, i enjoy reading his posts too.

Hi there, Madame. Sorry but I will be posting sporadically in the next two weeks. There would be days that I just can't have the time. You as a woman who lives a life of ease (the real thing, not a make-believe one) would know how pleasure can be so beguiling.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 21, 2013, 10:11:56 PM
I've missed your posts here these pas 2 days. Quite frankly I've been so used to signing on to Tubag Bohol to read your latest updates on animals, nature, health news, Philippine regional news (I like it because you always post in Cebuano), and of course your message-in-a-bottle like posts. Please post some more and come back here because Tubag Bohol is not the same without Hubag Bohol.





A fellow Bol-anon,
I Remain,
Bran Lorenzo

Ta-dah!

Sorry, my young friend. Angay bitaw unta kong mananghid sa akong kaberks diris TB. I was so engrossed with some trivialities (as you all know) that I almost forgot about my scheduled vacation.

Hello, everyone. Greetings from the Maldives.

Quote from: islander on September 20, 2013, 03:27:00 PM
psssssttt, give peace a chance.  billy joel speaking here.

Your wish is my command.

Quote from: islander on September 20, 2013, 03:17:54 PM
wa na ko say kun eggs nay hisgotan. 

Na hala, snacks na lang una ta. Do you like scrambled eggs, Madame?

Hmm, wa kahay extra nga wa malista diha?

Heredity rules.

Boritologism...

Quote from: islander on September 20, 2013, 03:09:30 PM
aw, kana?  sige na lang kay lahi man nang iya.  6D man na, labaw pa sa 3D.  in black and white pa gyod, aw, yellow and orange diay.

Hmm, yellow and orange, as in kolor sa iyang itlog, or what is left of it?

N.B.: It, not them.

Naa man guy patugatugag announce, palpakation in potentia...

What's the name again? Ay, kalisud...

Way sukod sa buwis...

Aw, naa man diay tinuod nga filming sa atoa...

Kuyawa diay ron sa America. Sa Florida pud, naay ongoing attack of herpes-infected monkeys.


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Signs and symptoms

Onset symptoms of infection start about five days (range is from one to seven days) after exposure. The initial symptoms include, but are not limited to, changes in taste and smell, headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and stiff neck. Secondary symptoms include confusion, hallucinations, lack of attention, ataxia, and seizures. After the start of symptoms, the disease progresses rapidly over three to seven days, with death occurring from seven to fourteen days after exposure. --Wiki

Life cycle of N. fowleri and other free-living Amoebae.

Rock transformation

Another possibility is that the main type of rock found at this depth, called olivine, goes through a mineral transformation because of the enormous pressures it is under, which then triggers sliding between different types of rock.

A second paper in the same issue of Science bolsters the case for mineral transformation as the culprit for massive deep earthquakes.

In that study, researchers subjected a tiny chunk of olivine, just a few hundredths of an inch wide, to pressure 50,000 times atmospheric levels â€" equivalent to the pressure felt deep inside the mantle.

The olivine transformed to a different crystal structure called spinel, and shear waves (one of the two main types of waves generated by earthquakes) began propagating incredibly fast.

"These were propagating fast enough that they could radiate ultrasonic waves that we recorded," said study co-author Alexandre Schubnel, a materials scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

The waves also had similar properties to those found in deep earthquakes, Schubnel said.

For instance, the transformation of olivine into its high-pressure crystalline structure is irreversible, so the rock couldn't experience aftershocks. In deep earthquakes, aftershocks are also uncommon, Schubnel said.

Even though the sample was tiny and the nano-earthquakes induced were a million, billion times less powerfujust a small fraction of the size of the biggest earthquakes, the physics behind the phenomenon is still the same, Schubnel said.

Both researchers said they were aware of the other's work, but that more research will be needed to pinpoint the cause of the Russian quake.

Fast rupture

The Sea of Okhotsk earthquake occurred about 378 miles (609 km) beneath the Earth's surface, at a crack where the Pacific Plate was pressing into the mantle, the layer of hot, plastic rock that sits below the crust. Despite the depth at which it occurred, the quake was felt by people in Russia. (There were no injuries or property damage.)

By analyzing global seismological data, researchers determined that the quake was the biggest deep earthquake ever recorded. A prior deep earthquake, in Bolivia in 1994, was the same magnitude, but released less energy.

The rupture occurred at lightning-fast speeds of roughly 9,000 mph (14,400 km/h).

"It ruptured just like a breaking of the glass," Lay told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet. "And yet it's under this huge pressure, so that's something of a mystery. How does it happen?"

One possibility is that water or liquid carbon dioxide somehow seeped into the crack to lubricate it, thereby allowing the two slabs of rock to slide past each other more quickly.

But though water and gas from the ocean may seep into the shallower depths of the Earth's surface, it's difficult to see how water could seep so deep below.

"There may be some source of fluid that we haven't recognized," Lay said.

LiveScience.com
By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer 8 hours ago



Recent earthquakes near the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia, including one of the deepest ever recorded.


It's confirmed: The largest deep earthquake ever recorded happened in May off the coast of Russia. But this massive temblor is still a mystery to scientists.

The magnitude-8.3 earthquake occurred on May 24, 2013, in the Sea of Okhotsk, deep within the Earth's mantle. The earthquake, described today (Sept. 19) in the journal Science, is perplexing because seismologists don't understand how massive earthquakes can happen at such depths.

"It's the biggest event we've ever seen," said study co-author Thorne Lay, a seismologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "It looks so similar to shallow events, even though it's got 600 kilometers of rock on top of it. It's hard to understand how such an earthquake occurs at all under such huge pressure."

Kini ang klarong yataps. Bull's eye sa balls!

My all-time favorite Bond villain...

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 20, 2013, 07:01:33 AM
“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continued, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

Phraseology worthy of a true moral guide...

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 20, 2013, 07:01:33 AM
Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic Church had grown “obsessed” with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception, and that he has chosen not to speak of those issues despite recriminations from some critics.

In remarkably blunt language, Francis sought to set a new tone for the church, saying it should be a “home for all” and not a “small chapel” focused on doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.

“It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time,” the pope told the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a fellow Jesuit and editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, the Italian Jesuit journal whose content is routinely approved by the Vatican. “The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.

Indeed...

Bwahaha! The gods must be crazy! Ang normal monas ginhawa nga gustong ilhong idiot samtang ang tinuod nga idiot nangugat to the max nga dili moangkon sa iyang pagka-tawo, este, pagka-whatever...

Quote from: islander on September 20, 2013, 09:05:05 AM
si ayesha.  pabulhota si ayesha.

Kinsa ni? The feminine side?

Full of sound and fury...

Weather

Issued at: 5:00 a.m., 20 September 2013

At 4:00 AM today, the center of Typhoon "ODETTE" was located based on all available data at 410 km East of Aparri, Cagayan (18.9°N,126.0°E) with maximum sustained winds of 175 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 210 kph. It is forecast to move Northwest at 15 kph. Southwest Monsoon affecting Central and Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/

MTSAT ENHANCED-IR Satellite Image
6:32 a.m., 20 September 2013

Bwahaha!

“The church is the totality of God’s people,” he added, a notion popularized after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which Francis praised for making the Gospel relevant to modern life, an approach he called “absolutely irreversible.”

And while he agreed with the decision of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, to allow the broader use of the traditional Latin-language Tridentine Mass, he said that the more traditional Mass risked becoming an ideology and that he was worried about its “exploitation.” Those who seek a broad revival of the Tridentine Mass have been among Francis’s harshest critics, and those remarks are not likely to comfort them.

In contrast to Benedict, who sometimes envisioned a smaller but purer church â€" a “faithful fragment” â€" Francis envisions the church as a big tent.

“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people,” he said. “We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”

Now, Francis said, he prefers a more consultative leadership style. He has appointed an advisory group of eight cardinals, a step he said was recommended by the cardinals at the conclave that elected him. They were demanding reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, he said, adding that from the eight, “I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial consultation.”

The pope said he has found it “amazing” to see complaints about “lack of orthodoxy” flowing into the Vatican offices in Rome from conservative Catholics around the world. They ask the Vatican to investigate or discipline their priests, bishops or nuns. Such complaints, he said, “are better dealt with locally,” or else the Vatican offices risk becoming “institutions of censorship.”

Asked what it means for him to “think with the church,” a phrase used by the Jesuit founder St. Ignatius, Francis said that it did not mean “thinking with the hierarchy of the church.”

He said he thinks of the church “as the people of God, pastors and people together.”

“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality,” he told Father Spadaro. “I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.”

The interview also serves to present the pope as a human being, who loves Mozart and Dostoevsky and his grandmother, and whose favorite film is Fellini’s “La Strada.”

The 12,000-word interview ranges widely, and may confirm what many Catholics already suspected: that the chameleon-like Francis bears little resemblance to those on the church’s theological or political right wing. He said some people had assumed he was an “ultraconservative” because of his reputation when he served as the superior of his Jesuit province in Argentina. He pointed out that he was made superior at the “crazy” young age of 36, and that his leadership style was too authoritarian.

“But I have never been a right-winger,” he said. “It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.”

From the outset of his papacy in March, Francis has chosen to use the global spotlight to focus instead on the church’s mandate to serve the poor and marginalized. He has washed the feet of juvenile prisoners, visited a center for refugees and hugged disabled pilgrims at his audiences.

His pastoral presence and humble gestures have made him wildly popular, according to recent surveys. But there has been a low rumble of discontent from some Catholic advocacy groups, and even from some bishops, who have taken note of his silence on abortion and gay marriage. Earlier this month, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, R.I., told his diocesan newspaper that he was “a little bit disappointed in Pope Francis” because he had not spoken about abortion. “Many people have noticed that,” the bishop was quoted as saying.

The interview is the first time Francis has explained the reasoning behind both his actions and omissions. He also expanded on the comments he made about homosexuality in July, on an airplane returning to Rome from Rio de Janeiro, where he had celebrated World Youth Day. In a remark then that produced headlines worldwide, the new pope said, “Who am I to judge?” At the time, some questioned whether he was referring only to gays in the priesthood, but in this interview he made clear that he had been speaking of gays and lesbians in general.

The interview was conducted in Italian during three meetings in August in the pope’s spartan quarters in Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse, and translated into English by a team of translators. Francis has chosen to live at Casa Santa Marta rather than in what he said were more isolated quarters at the Apostolic Palace, home to many of his predecessors.

The interview was released simultaneously on Thursday morning by 16 Jesuit journals around the world, and includes the pope’s lengthy reflections on his identity as a Jesuit. Pope Francis personally reviewed the transcript in Italian, said the Rev. James Martin, an editor-at-large of America, the Jesuit magazine in New York. America and La Civiltà Cattolica together had asked Francis to grant the interview, which America is publishing in its magazine and as an e-book.

“Some of the things in it really surprised me,” Father Martin said. “He seems even more of a free-thinker than I thought â€" creative, experimental, willing to live on the margins, push boundaries back a little bit.”

The new pope’s words are likely to have repercussions in a church whose bishops and priests in many countries, including the United States, often appeared to make combating abortion, gay marriage and contraception their top public policy priorities. These teachings are “clear” to him as “a son of the church,” he said, but they have to be taught in a larger context. “The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives.”

Alessandro Di Meo/European Pressphoto Agency
Pope Francis, who has said the church should be a “home for all,” on Sept. 4 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.


By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: September 19, 2013


Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic Church had grown “obsessed” with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception, and that he has chosen not to speak of those issues despite recriminations from some critics.

In remarkably blunt language, Francis sought to set a new tone for the church, saying it should be a “home for all” and not a “small chapel” focused on doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.

“It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time,” the pope told the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a fellow Jesuit and editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, the Italian Jesuit journal whose content is routinely approved by the Vatican. “The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.

“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continued, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

As things stand, the atmosphere is expected to have twice as much CO2 as in pre-industrial times by about 2050. In 2007, the IPCC said the ‘likeliest’ figure was 3C, with up to 4.5C still ‘likely’.

Now it does not give a ‘likeliest’ value and admits it is ‘likely’ it may be as little as 1.5C â€" so giving the world many more decades to work out how to reduce carbon emissions before temperatures rise to dangerous levels.

As a result of the warming pause, several recent peer-reviewed scientific studies have  suggested that the true figure for the sensitivity is much lower than anyone â€" the IPCC included â€" previously thought: probably less than 2C.

Last night IPCC communications chief Jonathan Lynn refused to comment, saying the leaked report was ‘still a work in progress’.

As for the pause, he said ‘it would appear that the IPCC is running out of answers .  .  . to explain why there is a widening gap between predictions and reality’.

The Mail on Sunday has also seen an earlier draft of the report, dated October last year. There are many striking differences between it and the current, ‘final’ version.

The 2012 draft makes no mention of the pause and, far from admitting that the  Middle Ages were unusually warm, it states that today’s temperatures are the highest for at least 1,300 years, as it did in 2007. Prof Allen said the change ‘reflects greater uncertainty about what was happening around the last millennium but one’.

A further change in the new version is the first-ever scaling down of a crucial yardstick, the ‘equilibrium climate sensitivity’ â€" the extent to which the world is meant to warm each time CO2 levels double.

The governments have tabled 1,800 questions and are demanding major revisions, starting with the failure to account for the pause.

Prof Curry said she hoped that  the ‘inconsistencies will be pointed out’ at the meeting, adding: ‘The consensus-seeking process used by the IPCC creates and amplifies biases in the science. It should be abandoned in favour of a more traditional review that presents arguments for and against â€" which would  better support scientific progress, and be more useful for policy makers.’ Others agree that the unwieldy and expensive IPCC assessment process has now run its course.

Prof Allen said: ‘The idea of producing a document of near-biblical infallibility is a misrepresentation of how science works, and we need to look very carefully about what the IPCC does in future.’

Climate change sceptics are more outspoken. Dr Benny Peiser, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, described the leaked report as a ‘staggering concoction of confusion, speculation and sheer ignorance’.

She said  it therefore made no sense that the IPCC was claiming that its confidence in its forecasts and conclusions has increased.

For example, in the new report, the IPCC says it is ‘extremely likely’ â€" 95 per cent certain â€" that human  influence caused more than half  the temperature rises from 1951 to 2010, up from ‘very confident’ â€"  90 per cent certain â€" in 2007.

Prof Curry said: ‘This is incomprehensible to me’ â€" adding that the IPCC projections are ‘overconfident’, especially given the report’s admitted areas of doubt.

Starting a week tomorrow, about 40 of the 250 authors who contributed to the report â€" and supposedly produced a definitive scientific consensus â€" will hold a four-day meeting in Stockholm, together with representatives of most of the 195 governments that fund the IPCC, established in 1998 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

One of the report’s own authors, Professor Myles Allen, the director of Oxford University’s Climate Research Network, last night said this should be the last IPCC assessment â€" accusing its cumbersome production process of ‘misrepresenting how science works’.

Despite the many scientific uncertainties disclosed by the leaked report, it nonetheless draws familiar, apocalyptic conclusions â€" insisting that the IPCC is more confident than ever that global warming is mainly humans’ fault.

It says the world will continue to warm catastrophically unless there is drastic action to curb greenhouse gases â€" with big rises in sea level, floods, droughts and the disappearance of the Arctic icecap.

Last night Professor Judith Curry, head of climate science at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said the leaked summary showed that ‘the science is clearly not settled, and  is in a state of flux’.

They admit large parts of the world were as warm as they are now for decades at a time between 950 and 1250 AD â€" centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and when the population and CO2 levels were both much lower.

The IPCC admits that while computer models forecast a decline in Antarctic sea ice, it has actually grown to a new record high. Again, the IPCC cannot say why.

A forecast in the 2007 report that hurricanes would become more intense has simply been dropped, without mention.

This year has been one of the quietest hurricane seasons in history and the US is currently enjoying its longest-ever period â€" almost eight years â€" without a single hurricane of Category 3 or above making landfall.

But the new report says the observed warming over the more recent 15 years to 2012 was just 0.05C per decade - below almost all computer predictions.

The 31-page ‘summary for policymakers’ is based on a more technical 2,000-page analysis which will be issued at the same time. It also surprisingly reveals: IPCC scientists accept their forecast computers may have exaggerated the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures  â€" and not taken enough notice of natural variability.

They recognise the global warming ‘pause’ first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real â€" and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997.

They are cited worldwide to justify swingeing fossil fuel taxes and subsidies for ‘renewable’ energy.

Yet the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that over the past 15 years, recorded world temperatures have increased at only a quarter of the rate of IPCC claimed when it published its last assessment in 2007.

Back then, it said observed warming over the 15 years from 1990-2005 had taken place at a rate of 0.2C per decade, and it predicted this would continue for the following 20 years, on the basis of forecasts made by computer climate models.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has changed its story after issuing stern warnings about climate change for years

World's top climate scientists confess: Global warming is just QUARTER what we thought - and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong

Leaked report reveals the world has warmed at quarter the rate claimed by IPCC in 2007

Scientists accept their computers may have exaggerated


By DAVID ROSE
PUBLISHED: 21:01 GMT, 14 September 2013 | UPDATED: 13:36 GMT, 19 September 2013


A leaked copy of the world’s most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong.

The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive, six-yearly ‘assessments’ are accepted by environmentalists, politicians and experts as the gospel of climate science.

Utok nga ukay-ukay.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 14, 2013, 12:00:11 PM

He he, gipalu-palo ang lubot ni Goyax ani...

Upat singko nga miyembro sa baratohon nga grupo.

FINALLY BACK. Pardoned overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Dondon Lanuza arrives in the Philippines on Thursday, September 19, after spending 13 years in jail in Saudi Arabia. Photo by Jedwin M Llobrera

Mr. Idiot

Baratohon man ning grupoha.

Hourly update on ODETTE

At 3:00 p.m. 19 September 2013, the eye of Typhoon "ODETTE" was located at 590 km East of Tuguegarao City (17.7°N, 127.9°E).

Weather

Issued at: 5:00 a.m., 19 September 2013

At 4:00 AM today, the center of Typhoon "ODETTE" was located based on all available data at 630 km East of Tuguegarao City (17.2°N,128.5°E) with maximum sustained winds of 130 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 160 kph. It is forecast to move West at 13 kph. Southwest Monsoon affecting Central and Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/

Ayaw lang pud palabii basin maglunop hinuon...

This full moon is called the Harvest Moon because many fruits and vegetables tend to ripen in the late summer and early fall in the Northern Hemisphere. In the days before electricity, farmers relied heavily on this moon's light, working late into the evening to harvest their crops.

As it rises for several nights in a row at or near sunset, the moon will appear larger to observers near the horizon than it does high in the sky â€" a much-discussed phenomenon that is sometimes called "the moon illusion."

Our minds and eyes, used to seeing distant clouds on the horizon and closer ones a few miles overhead, believe that objects on the horizon are much farther away than objects higher in the sky. Since the moon is actually not farther away on the horizon, it appears larger.

This trick of the mind is true for the moon all year round, but it's particularly pronounced with the Harvest Moon because this full moon's path around Earth creates a particularly narrow angle with the horizon. As a result, the moon rises only 30 minutes later every day around the fall equinox, far below the average of 50 minutes.

Sometimes the moon turns orange, just like a fall pumpkin, because of clouds and dust in the atmosphere close to the horizon. So the Harvest Moon may hang low and large on the horizon tonight, like a colorful lantern.

by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor 6 hours ago



SPACE.com reader George Garcia sent in his photo of the September 2012 harvest moon taken on Sept. 29, 2012.


Summer is drawing to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, and a symbol of fall hangs in the sky tonight (Sept. 18) to help drive that fact home â€" the Harvest Moon.

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, the equinox falls on Sunday (Sept. 22), and the moon reaches its full phase in North America overnight from Wednesday to Thursday (Sept. 18-19).

Supercute jamo...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on September 19, 2013, 11:42:43 AM
one gang of meat crooks

Wow. What an unforgettable phrase...

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 19, 2013, 06:39:29 AM
The village idiot in strict terms is a person locally known for ignorance or stupidity, but is also a common term for a stereotypically silly or nonsensical person. The term is also used as a stereotype of the mentally disabled.

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 19, 2013, 06:39:29 AM
The social roles of the two are combined and applied, especially in the sociopolitical context, in the European medieval/Renaissance court jester.

Hmm, why so sad, my friend?

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 19, 2013, 06:39:29 AM
The village idiot was long considered an acceptable social role, a unique individual who was dependent yet contributed to the social fabric of his community.

In the case at hand, the TB community.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The village idiot in strict terms is a person locally known for ignorance or stupidity, but is also a common term for a stereotypically silly or nonsensical person. The term is also used as a stereotype of the mentally disabled. It has also been applied as an epithet for an unrealistically optimistic or naive individual.

The village idiot was long considered an acceptable social role, a unique individual who was dependent yet contributed to the social fabric of his community. As early as Byzantine times, the "village idiot" was treated as an acceptable form of deranged individual compatible with then-prevailing normative conceptions of social order. The concept of a "village savant" or "village genius" is closely related, often tied to the concept of Pre-Industrial Anti-intellectualism, as both figures are subjects of both pity and derision. The social roles of the two are combined and applied, especially in the sociopolitical context, in the European medieval/Renaissance court jester.

Among  ASEAN economies, the Philippines fell behind Singapore, ranked 7th globally, Malaysia (13th) and Thailand (19th). It however bested Vietnam, which bagged 27th in the global list, and Indonesia (37th).

“With the right mix of policies in place, our economy could offer even more opportunities for dynamic businesses,” Hernandez said, commenting on the report.

The Philippines also posted high scores in terms of labor and human capital, 67.9 points, as well as business operating environment, 62.4 points.

“The boost was driven by labour productivity growth of 5.4 percent. Only in China (7.4 percent) did worker output rise faster in 2012,” the statement read.

But the Philippines registered its worst performance in financing environment, where it was given 49.1 points, and science and technology, 19.3 points.

The Philippines performed best in economics and growth where it got 80 points, owing primarily to high gross domestic product growth.

This comes after the Philippine economy's 7.5 percent growth from April to June, the fourth consecutive quarter with expansion above 7 percent under President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino's III's watch.

“The fast-paced growth of the Philippine economy certainly underlined our substantial rise in this year’s GDI,” said Ma. Victoria Españo, chief executive of Grant Thornton member Punongbayan & Araullo.

In fact, Philippines was tagged as the most improved among the 60 economies in Grant Thornton’s “Global Dynamism Index” released Monday, jumping 25 places to the 21st spot this year.

The Philippines even posted greater improvements compared to China, which jumped 17 places to being third globally, topped only by Australia and Chile.

The report, which ranks countries according to changes implemented to make it easier for businesses to grow, gave the Philippines an index score of 55.7 points.