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Peek-a-boogoy!

Kini jud si Mr. Habagat, killjoy jamo...

How humbling. Makes us think of how puny we humans are, how insignificant our wolfish passions and murine hatreds and asinine threats...

Diana, who was 36 at the time of her death, had divorced Prince Charles a year earlier. Although the police confirmed that they were investigating the latest claims, they said they had not re-opened Operation Paget or their original investigation into Diana’s death.

A decade after the fatal accident, it emerged that Diana had sent a letter to her butler, Paul Burrell, in which she claimed the Prince Charles was planning to have her killed. "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous,” she wrote, in the 1993 note. “My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury.”

Her death, four years later, prompted an unprecedented outpouring of public grief in Britain led by Tony Blair, the newly elected prime minister. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to mark her passing ahead of a funeral attended by her young sons William and Harry, and broadcast live around the world.

Mohammad Al-Fayed, Dodi’s father, claimed that his son and Diana were killed by the British military at the behest of the royal family because they wanted to ensure the couple would never be married. Al-Fayed, the former owner of Harrods, alleged that Prince Philip had instructed MI6 to carry out the hit.

In 2004, Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Lord Stevens, launched an investigation into the deaths of Diana, Dodi, and their chauffeur, Henri Paul. Operation Paget, which was completed two years later, rejected the murder claims and found that Diana was not pregnant nor engaged to Dodi at the time for her death despite the claims made by al Fayed. A spokesman for the Egyptian businessman said in a statement that he would be “interested in seeing the outcome” of the latest investigation, which he expected to be completed “with vigor.”

A decade after the fatal accident, it emerged that Diana had sent a letter to her butler, Paul Burrell, in which she claimed the Prince Charles was planning to have her killed.

The claims will be examined by specialist officers. "The Metropolitan Police Service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility,” a spokesman said.

The letter in question, which has been seen by Britain’s People newspaper, does not include any firsthand evidence. It was written by the parents of a woman who was married to an ex-commando, who recount his alleged claims about the killing.

A spokesman for London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed to The Daily Beast that they have received details of allegations that she was murdered. The claims were made in a letter that came to light during the court martial of a former member of the SAS. In the letter, which was written by the in-laws of a ex-Special Forces sniper, it is alleged that the marksman had boasted that the SAS “was behind Princess Diana’s death.”

Conspiracy theories first emerged within hours of the fatal crash that killed Diana and Dodi Fayed when their car struck the 13th pillar of the Alma Tunnel 16 years ago. Official inquiries concluded that their driver was drunk and had crashed accidentally while being pursued by the paparazzi, although Diana had feared that members of the royal family were plotting to have her killed.

by Nico Hines Aug 17, 2013 7:47 PM EDT


British police said Saturday that new evidence shows a former soldier bragged to his parents that the military was behind the princess’s 1997 death in car crash, reigniting suspicion that foul play was involved in the tragedy.



Jerome Delay / AP Photo


The British military has been accused of masterminding a plot that killed Princess Diana.

Scotland Yard announced Saturday night that police officers were examining claims that the elite SAS Special Forces unit was behind the death of the princess in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

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Tabang mo kay mosugod na pud ang klase wa pa koy ikatubag...


Mao kuno ni ang original language pero otro pud nga di masabtan ang wiris-wiris...

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Lake Baikal as seen from the OrbView-2 satellite

The researchers envision building reactor tubes roughly a foot in diameter and several feet long, filling them with the metal oxide material and stacking them on top of each other. A working system to produce a significant amount of hydrogen gas would require a number of the tall towers, each with its own reactor, to gather concentrated sunlight from several acres of mirrors surrounding each tower.

A paper on the National Science Foundation-funded research was published in the August 2 issue of Science.

Editor's Note: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. See the Research in Action archive.

http://news.yahoo.com/sustainable-energy-breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel-sunlight-140037620.html

Conventional theory holds that producing hydrogen through the metal oxide process requires 1) heating the reactor to a high temperature to remove oxygen 2) then cooling it to a low temperature before 3) injecting steam to re-oxidize the compound and release hydrogen gas for collection. The innovation here is that no swing in temperature is required. The whole process can be undertaken at the same temperature, and can be driven by turning a steam valve on or off.

With the new method, the amount of hydrogen produced to power fuel cells or for storage is entirely dependent on the amount of metal oxide (a combination of iron, cobalt, aluminum and oxygen), and how much steam is introduced into the system.

The CU-Boulder team has devised a solar-thermal system designed to use a vast array of ground mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a single point atop a central tower up to several hundred feet tall. The tower would gather heat to roughly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,350 Celsius) and then deliver it into a reactor containing chemical compounds known as metal oxides.

As the metal oxide compound heats up, it releases oxygen atoms, changing its material composition and causing the newly formed compound to seek out new oxygen atoms. The team showed that adding steam to the system would cause oxygen from the water molecules to adhere to the metal oxide surface, freeing up hydrogen molecules for collection as hydrogen gas. To get the steam, the concentrated sunlight beamed to the tower would heat the water to boiling.

LiveScience.com
Jim Scott, University of Colorado Boulder
21 minutes ago



An artist's conception of a commercial hydrogen production plant


A University of Colorado Boulder research team has moved closer to what some call the Holy Grail of a sustainable hydrogen economy â€" splitting water with sunlight.

He he...

Flat ang ligid sa wheelbarrow, way kalainan sa mga ilong sa gikarga...

Several organizations are carrying out natural research projects on Lake Baikal. Most of them are governmental or associated with governmental organizations. The Baikal Research Centre is an independent research organization carrying out environmental educational and research projects at Lake Baikal.

In July 2008, Russia sent two small submersibles, Mir-1 and Mir-2, to descend 1,592 m (5,223 ft) to the bottom of Lake Baikal to conduct geological and biological tests on its unique ecosystem. Although originally reported as being successful, they did not set a world record for the deepest fresh water dive, reaching a depth of only 1,580 m (5,180 ft). That record is currently held by Anatoly Sagalevich, at 1,637 m (5,371 ft) (also in Lake Baikal aboard a Pisces submersible in 1990).

Russian scientist and federal politician, Artur Chilingarov, the leader of the mission, also took part in the Mir dives.

Ang MV St. Thomas Aquinas sa wa pa motidlom

The 2013 National Heroes Day will be celebrated this coming August 26, the last Sunday of August, a national regular holiday in the entire Philippines. There will be a wreath-laying ceremonies at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Based upon  Act. No. 3827, the Philippines will celebrate the National Heroes Day on the last Sunday of August. The national heroes day is the commemoration of the known and unknown heroes of the Philippine Revolution and the World War II.

The National Historical Commission will lead the celebration, together with other government agencies such as the Department of Education that will support different activities related to the celebration and other events nationwide. -- http://philnews.ph/2013/08/07/national-heroes-day-2013-august-26-regular-holiday-celebration/

Quote from: bugsay on August 17, 2013, 09:11:36 PM

Quoted above mao ang tingsi sa nakasabot...

"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is the title of a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy. Sung by Eddie Cantor in the revue, the song became a major hit in 1923 (placing No. 1 for five weeks) when it was recorded by Billy Jones, Arthur Hall, Irving Kaufman, and others. It was covered later by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, and many more. It also inspired a follow-up song, "I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues", recorded by Billy Jones and others in 1923. --Wiki

Bwahaha!

Discussions as to whether to build a road bridge over the bay have been ongoing for decades, particularly in the more isolated north of the bay. The most recent suggestion was of a "green bridge", flanked by wind turbines and using tidal power to mitigate the environmental damage of its construction. The bridge would be twelve miles (19 km) long making it the longest bridge in Europe. It would stretch from Heysham to Barrow-in-Furness, at the bay's mouth. Feasibility studies are ongoing, though over two years since this version of the bridge was proposed, little progress has been made. In the 2005 UK General Election, Timothy Bell polled just 1.1% of the votes in the Barrow and Furness constituency for the Build Duddon and Morecambe Bay Bridges Party.

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 07, 2013, 01:17:01 PM
Hahahaha. Old karabaw sang bukid hang Hilonggo!

He he, may naa man gid nadugang haw...

The stunning Danxia Scenic Area in Zhangye City, northwest Chinas Gansu Province. Danxia, which means rosy cloud, is a special landform formed from reddish sandstone that has been eroded over time into a series of mountains surrounded by curvaceous cliffs and many unusual rock formations.
Picture: CATERS

The Baikal seal is endemic to Lake Baikal

Mountains at the banks of the Baikal

A fireman is silhouetted against the flames as teams of firefighters from across the country try to stop the forest fire at Moimenta da Beira, Portugal.
Picture: NUNO ANDRE FERREIRA/EPA

Another Two Cute Friends...

The French aerial display team Patrouille de France fly past the Eiffel tower as part of the traditional Bastille day military parade.
Picture: REUTERS

CEBU. A child, who was among the passengers of M/V Saint Thomas Aquinas of 2Go Travel, was rescued and treated at the house of Captain Perla Cabanes of Barangay Tangke, Talisay City. (Photo by JB Oca)

A bigheaded or 'cabezudo' during the giants parade as part of the farewell of the Sanfermines Festival, in Pamplona, Spain. The eight giants, which parade and dance through the streets during the fiesta, represent the Kings and Queens from the four corners of the world
Picture: EPA

How NOT to Tie Your NeckTie





- diwalwal

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 17, 2013, 04:48:05 PM
Sa inisyal nga report sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) sa siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro, nasuta nga gikan ang biktima nga nangahoy sa bukid nga bahin sa maong dapit dihang sa pag-uli niini, kalit lang kining gitagbo sa wala mailang suspetsado nga sa iyang pagtuo walay bitbit nga sundang.

Oi, gikan man kaha diay siyang nangahoy, wa diay siya magdalag sundang?

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 17, 2013, 04:48:38 PM
Giingon nga adunay deperensya sa utok ang suspek

Agoi, maglikay na lang jud kutob sa mahimo...

Dihang anaa na kini sa iyang tungod, kalit lang kining gikawtan sa sundang, hinungdan sa pagkaigo sa liog niini ug pagkasamad.

Nakadagan deretso ang biktima apan gisuwayan pa ug gukod sa suspek.

Dihang misyagit kini ug tabang taliwala sa nagkadugo ang liog, kalit lang kining mitipas ug dalan apan wala na magukod sa mga residente sa dapit.

Ang biktima kritikal ang kahimtang nga gidala sa NMMC ug padayon nga giobserbahan sa mga doctor.

Giingon nga adunay deperensya sa utok ang suspek ug daw lumad nga taga lungsod sa Balingasag, Misamis Oriental. (SVB)

SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro
Saturday, August 17, 2013


DILI tiaw ang naangkon nga samad sa liog sa usa ka lalaki human gitigbas sa wala mailang suspetsado niadtong Huwebes mga alas 5:00 sa hapon sa lungsod sa Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.

Giila ang biktima nga mao si Jerson Emmanuel, 32, residente sa susamang dapit.

Sa inisyal nga report sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) sa siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro, nasuta nga gikan ang biktima nga nangahoy sa bukid nga bahin sa maong dapit dihang sa pag-uli niini, kalit lang kining gitagbo sa wala mailang suspetsado nga sa iyang pagtuo walay bitbit nga sundang.

Robert DeNiro Facts


About

Actor, director, and producer who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.

Before Fame

He played Cowardly Lion in a production of The Wizard of Oz when he was ten.

Trivia Fact

He spent four months studying the Sicilian dialect to prepare for his role in the Godfather II.

Family Life

His father, Robert DeNiro Sr., was an abstract painter and sculptor.

Associated With

He worked on many movies, including the 1973 film Mean Streets, with Martin Scorsese. -- http://www.famousbirthdays.com/

Birthday   August 17, 1943
Birthplace   New York
Age   70 years old
Birth Sign   Leo

Lake Tanganyika is situated within the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, and is confined by the mountainous walls of the valley. It is the largest rift lake in Africa and the second largest lake by volume in the world. It is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of fresh water. It extends for 676 km (420 mi) in a general north-south direction and averages 50 km (31 mi) in width. The lake covers 32,900 km2 (12,700 sq mi), with a shoreline of 1,828 km (1,136 mi), a mean depth of 570 m (1,870 ft) and a maximum depth of 1,470 m (4,820 ft) (in the northern basin). It holds an estimated 18,900 cubic kilometres (4,500 cu mi).[4] It has an average surface temperature of 25°C and a pH averaging 8.4.

Some 319,100 people live along the coastline of Morecambe Bay. The largest town by far on the bay is Barrow-in-Furness located to the north-west of it, whilst the town which adopted its name from the bay (Morecambe was previously called Poulton-le-Sands) has a population of around half of Barrow's. Morecambe relied on the bay for many years, as a popular seaside holiday destination, whilst Barrow still relies on the seas for a large percentage of its economy - Ship and Submarine building.

Quote from: taga tigbao on August 17, 2013, 03:03:56 PM
Hahahaha. Salamat Bay Hubs for that info. Busypresidente ko sa miaging adlaw kay dihay audit ug nagpreparar pud sa workplan nga gipresent ganihang buntag. Karon hayahay na utro!

It's our lucky day, then, Bay Tigs!

1717   France, Russia and Prussia sign agreement
1648   Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1585   Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1579   Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
1577   Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1563   King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1544   Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
1498   Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows and office to marry a French princess
1180   Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira
682   St. Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

http://www.brainyhistory.com/

1846   U.S. fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
1836   British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1836   HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
1835   Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1834   Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana, Chile
1827   Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1808   Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1807   Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1796   English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay
1788   Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1787   Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1743   Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty

1897   W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1896   George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
1894   Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1892   Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1891   1st public bathhouse with showers opens in New York City (People's Bath)
1891   Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1879   Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1877   Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1877   Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)
1876   Opera "Gotterdammerung" premieres in Bayreuth
1870   1st ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington
1869   1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1866   Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty
1863   Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863   Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1862   Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1859   1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1858   1st bank in Hawaii opens

1918   British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1918   Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918   Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1917   Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey
1916   Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1915   German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915   Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)
1915   Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1914   French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins
1914   Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1908   B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City
1908   Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery
1907   Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1905   Dutch government of De Master begins
1904   Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0
1903   Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes

1939   "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
1938   1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1938   Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1933   Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1933   Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1933   Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1926   Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1924   French-German trade agreement signed
1920   In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yankees cancel game with Indians

1948   Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948   Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1948   Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
1946   Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1945   Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1945   Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area
1944   4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
1944   Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
1944   German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
1944   Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944   U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans
1944   U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun
1944   Yankees Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
1943   498 British bombers attack Peenemunde
1943   General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943   U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1942   1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces
1942   1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
1942   Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet
1942   Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942   U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
1941   German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1940   Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission
1940   Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain

1959   7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959   U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1958   Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1958   World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1957   Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1956   Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1955   Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage
1952   Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1951   18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1951   Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1950   Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950   Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park home runs

1969   51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club Dayton, Ohio
1969   Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969   New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1968   Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1966   Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966   Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time home run list
1964   Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval
1963   Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle
1963   Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1962   Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962   E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1961   Building of Berlin Wall begins
1961   Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1960   Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960   Gabon gains independence from France, National Day
1960   Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands

1979   2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979   Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1978   1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1977   Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977   U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977   Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8 )
1976   An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976   Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1975   Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1973   Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1973   Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1972   Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1970   Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus

1989   32nd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 12 -11
1989   Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1988   Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1988   LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988   New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988   Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president
1988   U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987   Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987   Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987   Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1986   Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986   Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986   Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986   Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1986   Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson
1985   1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1985   Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run
1985   Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985   Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1984   Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1983   Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1982   Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1982   South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1980   "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances
1980   Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980   George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401

1999   Earthquake kills 17,000 in northwest Turkey
1998   President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky
1997   79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
1997   First of America Senior Golf Classic
1997   Macy's Tap-o-mania
1997   Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
1996   Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1995   China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994   Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994   New York Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1992   Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
1991   Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league home run since 1983
1990   Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th home run
1990   Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment

2012   Trogloraptor marchingtoni, an unusual spider discovered in 2010 is determined to be a new family of spiders previously unknown in the world of science; the new spider family has been named Trogloraptor, meaning 'cave robber'
2012   The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China
2011   In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
2011   The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry
2010   Afghan archeologists discover the remains of a Buddhist site located south of Kabul
2008   Michael Phelps wins 8 Gold Medals in 2008 Olympics
2000   The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president

The cases handled by the Forced Marriage Unit include a two-year-old victim while the oldest victim was a 71-year-old. Almost half of the 1,500 cases handled a year involve Pakistan, Bangladesh counts for 11 per cent and India eight per cent.

Sameem Ali, a Manchester city councillor, was forced into a marriage in Pakistan when she was 13, and was brought back to the UK months after she became pregnant, aged 14.

She told BBC Breakfast: “I did not know I was going to get forced into a marriage until a week before the marriage actually occurred. I had never seen the guy before. I was in the middle of nowhere and I did not know where I was.”

Charity spokesperson, Natasha Rattu said: “When youngsters ring, if they don’t know exactly when it may happen, or if it’s going to happen, we advise them to put a spoon in their underwear.

“When they go through security, it will highlight this object in a private area and, if 16 or over, they will be taken to a safe space where they have that one last opportunity to disclose they’re being forced to marry.

“We’ve had people ring and say that it’s helped them and got them out of a dangerous situation. It’s an incredibly difficult thing to do with your family around you â€" but they won’t be aware you have done it. It’s a safe way.”

The revelation from Karma Nirvana, a Derby-based charity which runs a helpline for victims of forced marriages, comes after a Government warning to teachers, doctors and airport staff that school pupils who seem to be going away on holiday may in fact be heading towards an arranged marriage.

Forced marriages are especially common during the summer holidays, when there’s less of a chance the child’s absence will be noticed.

The Foreign Office’s Forced Marriage Unit received 400 reports in the three months up to the end of August last year, though it is believed that many more cases go unreported. More than a third of those affected are under 16.

Karma Nirvana, which was set up by Jasvinder Sanghera who was disowned by her Sikh family aged 16 when she refused to marry a man in India, takes about 600 calls a month.

Girls escape forced marriage by hiding spoons in their clothes to set off airport metal detectors

Teenage girls who fear they are being taken abroad to be forced into an arranged marriage are hiding metal objects such as spoons in their underwear to set off airport metal detectors and miss the flight.



Photo: Reuters


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
By Olivia Goldhill
8:11AM BST 16 Aug 2013


A charity said many girls use the trick to be separated by their parents and escape a forced marriage arranged for them in their family’s homeland, according to The Independent.

Drama Queen 

People (mostly girls - but boys play their part) who like to blow everything totally out of proportion because they either:

a) Want to seek attention, or

b) Have some emotional dysfunction and it's their duty to make life harder for everyone around them.

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In 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker in the Philippines, killing more than 4,341 people in the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster.

In 2008, the ferry MV Princess of the Stars capsized during a typhoon in the central Philippines, killing nearly 800 people.

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Associated Press writers Oliver Teves, Teresa Cerojano and Hrvoje Hranjski in Manila contributed to this report.

The 138-meter (455-foot) -long ferry sank in about 30 minutes, he said.

The youngest among those rescued was an 11-month baby, news reports said.

The ferry came from Nasipit in Agusan del Sur province in the southern Philippines on a daylong journey, Agudong said.

Accidents at sea are common in the Philippine archipelago because of frequent storms, badly maintained boats and weak enforcement of safety regulations.

Jerwin Agudong said he and other passengers jumped overboard in front of the cargo vessel after the ferry began taking on water and the crew distributed life jackets.

He told radio station DZBB that some people were trapped and he saw bodies in the water.

"It seems some were not able to get out. I pity the children. We saw dead bodies on the side, and some being rescued," he said.

He said the ferry was entering the pier when the cargo vessel, which was on the way out, suddenly collided with it.

Hundreds of passengers jumped into the ocean as the ship started to sink, according to survivors. Many of the passengers were asleep and others struggled to find their way in the dark.

Rolando Manliguis was watching a live band when "suddenly I heard what sounded like a blast. ... The singer was thrown in front of me." He said he rushed to wake up his wife and their two children but the water was rising fast.

"When the boat was on its side, the water level was here," he said, pointing to his neck. "I thought about my child. It's a good thing that someone helped us immediately."

He said they roped down the side of the ferry into the sea and were put on a life raft.

He said a fisherman arrived at the shore with three survivors and told the crowd gathered that there was a collision and that there were many people in the water.

"We just picked up the survivors and left the dead in the water," he said. "I heard screams and crying."

The crewmen of the cargo ship were throwing life jackets to the people who jumped into the dark waters, he said.

He said there is a large gash at the front of the cargo vessel. "It now has a mouth," he said, describing the ship's bow.

In a statement, 2Go said the ferry "was reportedly hit" by the cargo vessel "resulting in major damage that led to its sinking." An investigation will begin after the rescue operation, the coast guard said.

Danny Palmero, a former fisherman, said he was with friends who responded to the ferry's distress call and rescued seven people on their motorized outrigger canoe.

"I saw many flares being shot," he said by telephone. "As a former nautical student, I knew it was a distress signal."

Tuason said that navy divers recovered at least four more bodies from the underwater wreck early Saturday. Reporters at the site, about two kilometers (1.25 miles) from shore, saw the bodies coated with fuel and oil that spilled from the ferry.

"There could be more bodies there, but there were ropes inside that our divers could get entangled in," Tuason said.

He said that the coast guard will send more divers with deep-water equipment to help retrieve bodies.

The ferry carried 752 passengers, including children and infants, and 118 crew. The number is higher than the 841 earlier reported by ferry owner 2Go, Tuason said.

He said that 213 are still missing, some of them possibly trapped inside the vessel that sank in waters about 33 meters (100 feet) deep off Talisay city in Cebu province, about 570 kilometers (350 miles) south of Manila.

Twenty-eight people, including children, were confirmed dead and 629 passengers and crew had been rescued.

By Bullit Marquez
August 17, 2013


CEBU, Philippines (AP) â€" Divers combed through a sunken ferry Saturday to retrieve the bodies of more than 200 people missing from an overnight collision with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu that sent passengers jumping into the ocean and leaving many others trapped. At least 28 were confirmed dead and hundreds rescued.

The captain of the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas, which was approaching the port late Friday, ordered the ship abandoned when it began listing and then sank just minutes after collision with the MV Sulpicio Express, coast guard deputy chief Rear Adm. Luis Tuason said.

Interaction of Color is an essential piece of visual literacy, exploring such fascinating subjects and phenomena as color recollection and visual memory, the relativity of color, transparence and space-illusion, temperature and humidity in color, and the afterimage effect. Complement it with Goethe on the psychology of color and emotion and The Black Book of Colors.

AFTERIMAGE EFFECT

The 'afterimage effect' demonstrates the interaction of color caused by interdependence of color: On the left are yellow circles of equal diameter which touch each other and fill out a white square. There is a black dot in its center. On the right is an empty white square, also with a centered black dot. Each is on a black background. After staring for half a minute at the left square, shift the focus suddenly to the right square. Instead of the usual color-based afterimage that would complement the yellow circles with blue, their opposite, a shape-based afterimage is manifest as diamond shapes -- the 'leftover' of the circles -- are seen in yellow. This illusion double, reversed afterimage is sometimes called contrast reversal.

Albers defied the standard academic approach of “theory and practice,” focusing instead on “development of observation and articulation,” with an emphasis not only on seeing color, but also feeling the relationships between colors. He writes:


[Interaction of Color] reverses this order and places practice before theory, which after all, is the conclusion of practice. … Just as the knowledge of acoustics does not make one musical â€" neither on the productive nor on the appreciative side â€" so no color system by itself can develop one’s sensitivity for color. This is parallel to the recognition that no theory of composition by itself leads to the production of music, or of art.

Practical exercises demonstrate through color deception (illusion) the relativity and instability of color. And experience teaches that in visual perception there is a discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. What counts here â€" first and last â€" is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision â€" seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen (as in Weltanschauung) and is coupled with fantasy, with imagination.

THE RELATIVITY OF COLOR

A color has many faces, and one color can be made to appear as two different colors. Here it is almost unbelievable that the left small and the right small squares are part of the same paper strip and therefore are the same color. And no normal human eye is able to see both squares - alike.

Albers, who headed the legendary Black Mountain College that shaped such luminaries as Zen composer John Cage and reconstructionist Ruth Asawa, lays out the book’s beautifully fulfilled and timeless promise in the original introduction:


In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is â€" as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. To this end, the beginning is not a study of color systems.

First, it should be learned that one and the same color evokes innumerable readings. Instead of mechanically applying or merely implying laws and rules of color harmony, distinct color effects are produced-through recognition of the interaction of color-by making, for instance, two very different colors look alike, or nearly alike.

Hardly anyone has accomplished more in revolutionizing the art of seeing than German-born American artist, poet, printmaker, and educator Josef Albers, as celebrated for his iconic abstract paintings as he was for his vibrant wit and spellbinding presence as a classroom performer. In 1963, he launched into the world what would become the most influential exploration of the art, science, psychology, practical application, and magic of color â€" an experiment, radical and brave at the time, seeking to cultivate a new way of studying and understanding color through experience and trial-and-error rather than through didactic, theoretical dogma. Half a century later, Interaction of Color (public library), with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains an indispensable blueprint to the art of seeing.