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Quote from: Lorenzo on August 06, 2013, 08:56:32 AM
You say: "I'm afraid"
God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear
(2 Timothy 1:7)

Yes!

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 06, 2013, 08:46:19 AM
When I say ... "I am a Christian"
I don't speak of this with pride
I'm confessing that I stumble,
and need someone to be my guide

As in the film, The Gunrunner Stumbles...

Red erring...

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 06, 2013, 09:09:40 AM
There are some battles that we simply can't fight - and shouldn't fight in our own strength.

Indeed...

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 06, 2013, 09:04:09 AM
Anger is a natural emotion we all have from time to time. Even the most placid amongst us feel anger at times. It's not exactly wrong to feel anger, after all Jesus displayed anger when he drove out the moneychangers. I believe it's all in how we handle our anger.

If we respond to people and situations in an explosion of angry words and gestures, ranting and raving, then that expression is obviously the wrong way - it's merely 'venting' the anger. When we do this, it's the people around us that get hurt the most.

How, then, do we deal with anger?

I'm still on the journey of discovering how to not react out of anger. One way I believe God has spoken to me concerning this, is in this scripture: Proverbs 15:1 "A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." It dawned on me one day, that if I respond in a 'gentle tone using gentle words', it will squash the anger inside. You see, when we 'vent' our anger it's never 'gentle', it's often loud, blunt, and hurtful with words that we wouldn't normally use. Responding in this way set's a pattern for how we respond, when angry, in the future - and on it goes! This is why I believe we are not to let the sun go down while we're still angry.

These are words of wisdom that should guide both the wise and the otherwise.

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 06, 2013, 09:14:08 AM
Sometimes this is really hard to do - especially if we have been through trauma at the hands of another person. We can feel quite justified harbouring unforgiveness, but it only leads to bitterness. Unforgiveness becomes a lifestyle, a learned attitude. We may find it a lot harder to forgive any offence that happens in our lives. We need to take on an attitude of forgiveness. It is the first step in being healed ourselves. If we saw people through God's eyes, we would see a mirror of ourselves, as we all have sinned. We all have hurt someone, somewhere in our lifetime.

Remember, hurting people - hurt people. So if you're hurting right now because of some offence, will you give it up to God and ask God to help you forgive that person?

Bitterness can take a hold
But forgiving others frees our souls.



http://www.heavensinspirations.com/attitude-forgiveness.html

How well put. I agree completely.

Bitaw, Bay Tigs, matud pa sa kanta, "Bisan ang ulan may pagtu-ang..."

Peek-a-bootoy!

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 05:08:23 PM
aw, kaingon nakog nayungit ka na, mao nga ataon imbis mokaon, hihihi.

"Mokaon nga kangitngit?" As in Death Eaters? Madame, that era is a thing of the past, though yes, the recent past...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:54:59 PM
great teeth, hubs.  btw, ayaw kahibung nga gabitay nang akong post dinha, out of place and out of sense.  ambot kun nakaabot ba ka.  diha toy post ug someone great named terminate.  akong gitubag.  kay terminate lagi iyang ngan, tua, napapas.  mirisi sad kong tubag-tubag dayon, hehe.

Somebody code-named Terminate? Hmm...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:46:47 PM
uy, anginon ba diay ang igo lang gi-thrilling-an ug tan-aw.   

Begging a thousand pardons, Your Royal Highness, but the offer was nothing but a stock formula meant to fulfill a ceremonial function forced upon lowly functionaries like yours truly...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:45:47 PM
hihihi, hubag ra gyod nang tinubagana.  arya, rancho grande!

He he, adjusting my language to yours, Your Honor... 

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:48:58 PM
sayang di ko kasabot unsay "ataon".  pagbinisaya, palihog.

Nia na pud ning Insika, oi. Hahay, ata = squid ink. Ist das klar?

Ang nakaparat kay baldado ang affected leg but not some nearby body parts...

Quote from: chicogon on August 05, 2013, 03:48:18 PM
Dungan mo duha ambak

Dungan basta sunod nimo, Your Grace...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:00:08 PM
simbakog tulo silang moambak.  ikatulo nang bato nga ilang gitungtongan, palayo intawon.  luoy ang bato.

Luoy kon maoy maona ang bato kay madat-ogan intawon...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 04:02:48 PM
we all belong here, no matter what.

As clear as day. What constitutes "we" is, of course, sa Binisaya pa, nalimin sa ataon nga kangitngit...

Hmm, the plot thickens...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes in the Jabal al-Akrad region in Latakia province began around dawn when rebels attacked government forces' posts. It said both sides used tanks, artilleries and mortars in the fighting, while government warplanes took part in the battles.

Although much of Latakia has been under the firm control of Assad's forces, some mountainous regions such as Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkomen have witnessed fighting because they are close to rebel-held areas.

The observatory said 12 rebels, including foreign fighters, were killed in the fighting, as well as 19 troops and pro-government gunmen. Dozens were wounded as well, it said.

The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said at least eight people were killed in the fighting in Latakia province. It added that rebels fired Russian-made Grad rockets at government positions.

SANA quoted Rouhani as saying that Syria will come out of this war "victorious."

Al-Halqi said the Syrian people will "not forget friends who stood by their side during times of difficulties," SANA reported.

More than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against the Assad family's four-decade rule began in March 2011. The revolt later escalated into a civil war, which has uprooted millions of people from their homes.

Assad's and Rouhani's statements came as Syrian troops and rebels fought Sunday some of the fiercest battles in the mountains of the coastal province of Latakia, an Assad stronghold.

"Their political systems belong to the middle ages where there are no parliaments or elections," Assad said.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar that have been among the strongest backers of the Syrian opposition.

Rouhani condemned foreign intervention in Syria, saying that the Arab country is passing through a "failed attempt" to strike at the "axis of resistance and rejection to Zionist-American plans in the region," SANA quoted him as saying.

Damascus and Tehran reject the idea that there is an uprising in Syria and say the country is being subjected to an Israeli-American conspiracy because of its support to militant groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Assad's troops have achieved victories in the past two months mostly near the capital Damascus and in the strategic central province of Homs that links the capital Damascus with Assad's stongholds on the coast.

Assad said his army, which was built to fight a conventional war against its main enemy Israel, has been able to adapt to the guerrilla warfare it is facing.

The Syrian leader criticized Persian Gulf states that he said are demanding democracy in Syria despite human rights abuses in their own countries.

Assad vowed Sunday evening to crush the rebels trying to overthrow him, saying Syria is between two choices: "a state of the law or a state run by thieves and bandits."

Assad spoke while taking part in an iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The iftar was attended by government officials, religious leaders and members of the country's unions and political parties, SANA said.

It was Assad's second public appearance this week after he visited troops in the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Thursday to mark Army Day.

Assad said "terrorism cannot be dealt with politically but should be struck with an iron fist."

Iran has been one of Assad's staunchest backers since Syria's crisis began. Tehran is believed to have supplied Assad's government with billions of dollars since the country's crisis began in March 2011. Iran-supported Hezbollah also has sent fighters into Syria to bolster an offensive by Assad forces.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran aims to strengthen its relations with Syria and will stand by it in facing all challenges," SANA quoted Rouhani as saying in a report from Tehran. "The deep, strategic and historic relations between the people of Syria and Iran ... will not be shaken by any force in the world."

Rouhani was elected in June and was endorsed by the country's supreme leader on Saturday, allowing him to begin acting as president. He was sworn in Sunday.

Hasan Rouhani's comments came as Syrian troops and rebels fought some of the fiercest battles in the mountains of the coastal province of Latakia, an Assad stronghold.

Rouhani made the comments during a meeting in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Sunday with Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi, Syria's state news agency SANA said.

Syria has been Tehran's strongest ally in the Arab world since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Associated Press BASSEM MROUE 6 hours ago



Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, sits in a meeting at the presidency office, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Hasan Rouhani as president Saturday, allowing the moderate cleric to take charge of a country weakened by economic sanctions over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi).


BEIRUT (AP) â€" Iran's new president expressed his country's support to Syria's embattled leader Bashar Assad's regime Sunday, saying no force in the world will be able to shake their decades-old alliance.

Cheer up, scaredy kitty! We should celebrate!

Hmm, which one is the lonely dog? Kanang naka plaster cast ang right hind leg? Diin kaha diay tawon madisgrasya...

OK pud ang design sa wood tiles...

Hmm, not bad. Not bad at all.

Kini ang lami, with all the works...

TB family as a little kitty...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2013, 10:30:35 AM
whatever, i like this fish.  besides, the cloth that is said to have been used to wrap the body of jesus christ had a herring bone weave.

Welcome back, my attorney-at-lawgaw!

I like red herring too, the literal one. Especially its smell...

Angay diay kag trench raincoat, sama ani...

Literary device

In literature, a red herring is a false clue that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion. For example, the character of Bishop Aringarosa in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is presented for most of the novel as if he is at the centre of the church's conspiracies, but is later revealed to have been innocently duped by the true antagonist of the story. The character's name is a loose Italian translation of "red herring".

Logical fallacy

As an informal fallacy, the red herring falls into a broad class of relevance fallacies. Unlike the strawman, which is premised on a distortion of the other party's position, the red herring is a seemingly plausible, though ultimately irrelevant, diversionary tactic. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a red herring may be intentional, or unintentional, it does not necessarily mean a conscious intent to mislead.

The expression is mainly used to assert that an argument is not relevant to the issue being discussed. For example, "I think that we should make the academic requirements stricter for students. I recommend that you support this because we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected." The second sentence, though used to support the first sentence, does not address that topic.

Quote from: bugsay on July 27, 2009, 10:51:25 AM
oatmeal ug duha ka saging ....kay onggoyon...lol

He he, bugoy jud ka, Bay Bugs...

Red herring
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Red herring is an English-language idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue. It is also a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction.

The origin of the expression has a number of theories. Conventional wisdom has long attributed it to a technique of training hounds to follow a scent, or of distracting hounds during a fox hunt, but modern linguistic research suggests that it was most likely a literary device invented in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, and never an actual practice of hunters. The phrase was later borrowed to provide a formal name for the logical fallacy, and is also a formal name for a literary device or technique.

Regardless of sex, children living at home longer put a bigger financial burden on their parents and the economy. Hosting a son or daughter after 18 can cost $8,000 to $18,000 a year, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal. And the fact that around 22.6 million young adults are still living at home also means there are fewer renters and potential buyers of first-time homes in the property market. Only 450,000 new households are being created annually versus 1.1 million before the recession, according to real-estate marketplace Trulia; 18- to 34-year-olds make up half of that demand.

Young women tend to outperform men in post-secondary education. Some 71.3% of female high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college versus 61.3% of males, according to the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The former also appear to be better students. “Females tend to finish college faster than males,” according to the Pew report. What’s more, men who had earned bachelor’s degrees in 2011 had an unemployment rate of 16.1% in October 2011, compared with 11.2% among females, a separate Bureau of Labor Statistics report found.

But there are more worrying factors in play than a taste for the comforts of home, says John Bonini, content marketing manager of Impact Branding & Design in Wallingford, Conn., who regularly carries out research on millennials. Women have consistently outnumbered men when it comes to college enrollment, he says. “Since the economic downturn, with many state and local governments cutting spending, and manual labor jobs doing the same, it would make sense that those with college degrees would see a greater chance of gaining employment than those without one.” Many young men, he says, are getting left behind.

Perhaps a more controversial theory: Sons may also have an easier time at home. Even in 2013, parents expect their sons to do less housework than their daughters, Qian says. “Parents give their sons more freedom than their daughters,” says Kit Yarrow, chair of the psychology department at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, Calif. and co-author of “Gen Y.” For Americans aged 18 to 24, “it’s easier for a young man to live at home and still feel independent than it would be for a young woman,” she says. An even less flattering reason: “Women tend to mature, emotionally, faster than men.”

There are some demographic reasons for the gender gap. On average, men tend to marry later than women, says Zhenchao Qian, chair of sociology at Ohio State University. “There are more single young men than women out there,” he says. “This gives unmarried men more time to live with their parents.” Men marry at around 29 years of age, approximately two years older than the average for women, and both sexes are marrying around two years later in life than two decades ago, according to a 2012 survey by Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research in Ohio.

Women leave nest, men stay with parents
Gen-Y men seem less able or willing to cut the apron strings
http://www.marketwatch.com/
Aug. 4, 2013, 8:16 a.m. EDT
By Quentin Fottrell 


As more adults decide to live with mom and dad, young men appear to be less willing to fly the nest than women, a new study finds. This, experts say, could be an early sign of larger economic problems.

Millions of young Americans are living at home, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The number of “millennials” -- adults aged 18 to 31-- living at home rose to 36% last year. That represented the highest percentage in the last four decades, and a significant increase from 32% just five years earlier. In 2012, 56% of adults aged 18 to 24 lived in their parental home, Pew found, as did 16% of adults aged 25 to 31. However, millennial males (40%) were significantly more likely than millennial females (32%) to live with mom and dad.

Agoi, tugnaw na pud sa ilahang Ms. Lolla...

LPA to bring heavy rain to Davao
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 08/04/2013 8:37 PM | Updated as of 08/04/2013 8:37 PM


MANILA â€" Weather bureau PAGASA has urged residents of Davao region to prepare for heavy rain to be brought by a low pressure area (LPA) Sunday night.

In an interview with DZMM, PAGASA weather forecaster Aldczar Aurelio said the LPA will bring heavy rain, which may cause flash floods and landslides.

At 4 p.m. Sunday, the the LPA was estimated to be 180 kilometers west of Dumaguete City.

The LPA is predicted to cross Visayas and move toward Palawan. While it is over the sea, Aurelio said, the LPA may strengthen into a cyclone, upon which it will be named “Kiko.”

Aside from the LPA, the effects of the intertropical convergence zone will bring rain to Mindanao and Visayas.

There will be occasionally heavy rain showers and thunderstorms in Western Visayas, Zamboanga, SOCCSKSARGEN, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Palawan.

Meanwhile, there will be light to moderate rain showers and thunderstorms in Metro Manila, CALABARZON, Bicol, the rest of Visayas and Mindanao, as well as the provinces of Mindoro, Marinduque and Romblon.

The rest of Luzon will experience isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

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He he, the countdown continues...

Nibasa pa lang sa hamubong gumalaysay, basin baya unta og malamdagan...

The essential idea behind string theory is this: all of the different 'fundamental ' particles of the Standard Model are really just different manifestations of one basic object: a string. How can that be? Well, we would ordinarily picture an electron, for instance, as a point with no internal structure. A point cannot do anything but move. But, if string theory is correct, then under an extremely powerful 'microscope' we would realize that the electron is not really a point, but a tiny loop of string. A string can do something aside from moving--- it can oscillate in different ways. If it oscillates a certain way, then from a distance, unable to tell it is really a string, we see an electron. But if it oscillates some other way, well, then we call it a photon, or a quark, or a ... you get the idea. So, if string theory is correct, the entire world is made of strings!

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about string theory is that such a simple idea works--- it is possible to derive (an extension of) the Standard Model (which has been verified experimentally with incredible precision) from a theory of strings. But it should also be said that, to date, there is no direct experimental evidence that string theory itself is the correct description of Nature. This is mostly due to the fact that string theory is still under development. We know bits and pieces of it, but we do not yet see the whole picture, and we are therefore unable to make definite predictions. In recent years many exciting developments have taken place, radically improving our understanding of what the theory is.

The behavior of all of these particles and forces is described with impeccable precision by the Standard Model, with one notable exception: gravity. For technical reasons, the gravitational force, the most familiar in our every day lives, has proven very difficult to describe microscopically. This has been for many years one of the most important problems in theoretical physics-- to formulate a quantum theory of gravity.

In the last few decades, string theory has emerged as the most promising candidate for a microscopic theory of gravity. And it is infinitely more ambitious than that: it attempts to provide a complete, unified, and consistent description of the fundamental structure of our universe. (For this reason it is sometimes, quite arrogantly, called a 'Theory of Everything').

Our current knowledge about the subatomic composition of the universe is summarized in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics. It describes both the fundamental building blocks out of which the world is made, and the forces through which these blocks interact. There are twelve basic building blocks. Six of these are quarks--- they go by the interesting names of up, down, charm, strange, bottom and top. (A proton, for instance, is made of two up quarks and one down quark.) The other six are leptons--- these include the electron and its two heavier siblings, the muon and the tauon, as well as three neutrinos.

There are four fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces. Each of these is produced by fundamental particles that act as carriers of the force. The most familiar of these is the photon, a particle of light, which is the mediator of electromagnetic forces. (This means that, for instance, a magnet attracts a nail because both objects exchange photons.) The graviton is the particle associated with gravity. The strong force is carried by eight particles known as gluons. Finally, the weak force is transmitted by three particles, the W+, the W- , and the Z.

http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/
           

We live in a wonderfully complex universe, and we are curious about it by nature. Time and again we have wondered--- why are we here? Where did we and the world come from? What is the world made of? It is our privilege to live in a time when enormous progress has been made towards finding some of the answers. String theory is our most recent attempt to answer the last (and part of the second) question.

So, what is the world made of? Ordinary matter is made of atoms, which are in turn made of just three basic components: electrons whirling around a nucleus composed of neutrons and protons. The electron is a truly fundamental particle (it is one of a family of particles known as leptons), but neutrons and protons are made of smaller particles, known as quarks. Quarks are, as far as we know, truly elementary.

No need to identify who owns this face of misery...

Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other on Aug. 2 ahead of an expected vote that would authorize a referendum on whether to finish a fourth nuclear power plant on the densely populated island of 23 million people. Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan and became more so following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. (AP}

What, me worry?

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 04, 2013, 07:42:41 PM

Bwahaha! Hahay, pisot man diay ning pusil ni Django...