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What exactly do these horrible numbers mean for us? Simply, carbon dioxide is the primary contributor to climate change. Which is why there’s a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions. Only by decreasing our carbon footprint will we be able to save our planet from further degradation and the fast-approaching apocalyptic effects of climate change.

As explained by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) atmospheric scientist Pieter Tans in a press release: “The rate of increase will go down when emissions decrease. But carbon dioxide will still be going up, albeit more slowly. Only when emissions are cut in half will atmospheric carbon dioxide level off initially.”

As scientists continue to warn us of the ominous trend towards worsening global conditions, it seems our government wants to continue believing otherwise. Just recently, well-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a video on his Facebook page with a staunch warning about how ‘science deniers‘ will bring about the demise of our ‘informed democracy’, and a grave reminder to let science do what it is supposed to â€" serve our civilization. And less than a week ago, a historic Earth Day March for Science Protest was held, again underscoring how scientists are become increasingly concerned about the way the current administration is handling matters related to science.

With carbon dioxide levels expected to rise rather than fall, and a government that seems intent on going against what scientific experts are recommending, the future isn’t really looking great right now, especially for those who believe in what science is telling us.

Earth’s Carbon Dioxide Breaking Dangerous Records
We’ve reached a new milestone. And it's not something we can be proud of. In fact, it’s something we should be scared of.
http://wallstreetpit.com/113364-earths-carbon-dioxide-breaking-dangerous-records/
April 30, 2017


Last year, our planet experienced several record-breaking milestones in terms of high temperature. As if that wasn’t bad enough, we also managed to breach a long-standing record involving carbon dioxide. Specifically, the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere surpassed the 400 ppm (parts per million) record it hit back in 2013. The last time our planet had that much carbon dioxide in the air was millions of years back, when our earliest predecessors were probably using stones as tools; the world was a few degrees hotter; and sea levels were several meters higher.

After reaching that alarming milestone in 2013, scientists warned that the situation was degrading even further and that within only a short period of time, we would break that record again. And they were right.

On April 18, 2017, scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii recorded our planet’s most grim milestone yet: our atmospheric carbon dioxide level is now at 410.28 ppm. And while this may not necessarily result in immediate dramatic changes in our climate, it’s still a grave reminder of how much we are trashing our planet.

Scientists first began measuring atmospheric CO2 content in the 1950s. Back then, when the industrial revolution hadn’t begun yet, the amount of CO2 in the air was only 280 ppm. But an extremely powerful El Nino took place, causing a number of forest fires that released a considerable amount of stored carbon into the atmosphere, driving up carbon dioxide levels. And human activities entered the picture, most notably, the relentless burning of fossil fuels to generate power and electricity. Our atmosphere didn’t stand a chance. From 280 ppm, atmospheric carbon dioxide content increased by about 42% to its current level.

Di jud angay magpabuangbuang ning North Korea pag-iming og Pukguksong diri sa Pinas labi na diris Bohol kay, na, suklian jud nako og Pugakhang...

In this Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, photo distributed on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, by the North Korean government, "Pukguksong-2” is launched at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service. The "Pukguksong-2" the North's Korean Central News Agency said was a "Korean style new type strategic weapon system." Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, file

Quote from: MIKELIGALIG.com on April 20, 2017, 08:50:53 PM
Posadas also pointed out that the Philippines is “privileged to have a President that personifies strong political will, which is essentially one decisive factor if a country is to embark on a nuclear power program.”

Kana ba, ajaw gajud kalimot sa dihog...

Hmm, usa kahay pangalaan sa asawa aning Derek? Di kaha Malu?

Adto na lang sa Gabon, medyo dili kaayo kuyaw didto...

Tagam...

The IBP's role

In disbarment cases, the IBP acts as an investigating body for the SC. Their board of governors will issue a resolution and submit it to the High Court for a ruling.

Other disbarment cases may also be referred to the Office of the Solicitor General or to regional trial courts.

"In the event that someone should file a complaint against Congressman Alvarez, he will, of course, be granted the full measure of his right to due process but these shall be the same standards against which his actions shall be measured," the IBP said. â€" Rappler.com

Immorality grounds

Is an extramarital affair grounds for disbarment? There is a legal basis for it.

First is the Code of Professional Responsibility (CPR) for laywers. Rule 1.01 of Canon 1 of CPR says "a lawyer shall not engage in unlawful, dishonest, immoral or deceitful conduct." Rule 7.03 of Canon 7 states, "a lawyer shall not engage in conduct that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law, nor shall he, whether in public or private life, behave in a scandalous manner to the discredit of the legal profession."

Section 27 of Rule 138 of the Rules of Court meanwhile, says a "member of the bar may be removed or suspended from his office as attorney by the Supreme Court (SC) for any deceit, malpractice, or other gross misconduct in such office, grossly immoral conduct." (READ: Lawyer disbarred for having simultaneous marriages)

All of these grounds were used by the SC when it disbarred former Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) commissioner Jose Emmanuel "Noli" Eala because of an illicit affair with a married woman.

In 2015, the Supreme Court disbarred former government lawyer Raymond Pangalangan of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel for illicit affairs.

Alvarez, lawyer and leader of the lower chamber, admitted to having a mistress and even to having "many children" out of wedlock. These admissions came about when a feud between his girlfriend and the live-in partner of longtime friend Representative Antonio Floirendo Jr was pointed to as the reason of the two lawmakers' feud, which reportedly led to a graft complaint and a House resolution, both seeking to investigate Floirendo and his company's contract with the government.

Alvarez defended his ways and said: "Kung meron silang nakikitang ethical issues, ipapa-disbar ako for having a girlfriend? Eh 'di go ahead, mag-file ng complaint! Baka walang matirang abogado!"

(If they see some ethical issues so as to disbar me for having a girlfriend, then go ahead, they can file a complaint! But we might run out of lawyers!)

Alvarez shall be held to highest moral standards â€" IBP
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Supreme Court have disbarred lawyers before for having extramarital affairs

Lian Buan
Published 8:53 PM, March 31, 2017
Updated 9:00 AM, April 01, 2017



POSSIBLE DISBARMENT. The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) says if a disbarment case is filed against Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the highest moral standards expected of lawyers shall be measured against his actions. Photo by Rappler


MANILA, Philippines â€" As Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez finds himself embroiled in a controversy that involves his extramarital affairs, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) issued a reminder that lawyers should always maintain the highest moral standards.

The IBP, the mandatory organization of lawyers in the country, said this in a statement released on Friday, March 31, responding to Alvarez's challenge to critics to have him disbarred over having a girlfriend while he's still married.

"The IBP has always and shall always maintain the highest standards of morality, behavior and professionalism among its members. As members of a noble profession and as officers of the court, lawyers are held to a higher standard than most and these standards are seriously enforced by the Supreme Court," the IBP said.

Agoi, nagtingsi si Botoy morag amaw kay si Dabins ug si Bugsay nanggitumaw! Ayaw tawon mog biya kay morag dugay-dugay na ra ba nga mipalta si Aylandil. Lately mopatim-aw panagsa si Bay Rogamz ug si Sir FD but then, aside from Mr. Moderator and me, mostly ang atong payag mingaw pas Tirana ug sa ubang dapit sa Albania ug sa tibuok Balkan peninsula!

Quote from: MIKELIGALIG.com on March 23, 2017, 09:41:20 PM
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Avoid traffic, shop online at http://ho.lazada.com.ph/SHLYWy

Bwahaha! Depende kinsa nga politiko sa atoa ang imong buot ipaibot...   

Mapugngan pa ang baha, nungka ang biga... 

Lingaw-lingaw lang gud. Sama ani...

Luoy baya pood...

Naa may guy tapolan, unya corrupt pa jud... 

Quote from: rogamz on February 11, 2017, 12:08:47 PM
bay hubs morag dili apil ila operation tokhang na sila.. :P

Hmm, basig toktik? Toktok tiklo? 

Kini ang klarong exotic:





Aha! Luto na!   

He he, dugay na baya kaayo ni nga opisyoha...

How sad kon moabot ang panahon nga maapsan ta sa Myanmar, Laos ug Cambodia. As for Vietnam, morag hapit na...

Welcome back, Ms. Dabins! Long time no see but now sinaw! 

Pangitaon na kaayo ni sa atoa. Pero medyo common pa ning red banana sa ubang nasod.





Mas daghan ra ba nig sustansya kaysa yellow banana...

Agoi, the plot thickens...

In an interview, Mr. Larsen described his method â€" sorting through the contaminants in a process of elimination â€" as “something that anybody can do. It could and should become part of teachings in schools, an aspect of citizen science.”

Dr. Brownlee of the University of Washington agreed. He said that, while many schools try to find cosmic dust particles in programs meant to make science classes more inviting and accessible, few if any succeed. “It could help a lot,” he said of Mr. Larsen’s method. “For education, it’s pretty cool.”

Dr. Genge of Imperial College said Mr. Larsen’s techniques, if adopted widely, might also open a new lens on the cosmos.

The gravitational pull of the planets, he noted, appear to tug on the dust clouds of the solar system and slowly change their orbits. He said a wave of new terrestrial finds could help scientists better map the clouds, raising more questions for science about the structure of the universe.

“I consider my microscope a telescope,” Dr. Genge said. “It can give you a pretty big picture.”

“Once I knew what to look for, I found them everywhere,” he said.

In the Geology paper, the scientific team reports the discovery of about 500 micrometeorites â€" collected mainly from roof gutters in Norway â€" and tells of the detailed analysis of 48 of the extraterrestrial specks. The team includes two of Dr. Genge’s students, Martin D. Suttle of Imperial College and Matthias Van Ginneken of the Université Libre in Brussels.

The team described the cosmic dust as the youngest collected to date, because gutters tend to get cleaned fairly regularly. Also, urban surfaces are recent arrivals in the global landscape compared to polar ice and ancient deserts.

In his travels, Mr. Larsen recently visited with Michael E. Zolensky, an extraterrestrial materials scientist in Houston at the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They not only talked shop but also went up to the roof of the large building that houses rocks from the Apollo moon program.

“It was pretty cool,” Dr. Zolensky said. “The curation building is now a collector of cosmic dust.”

Intrigued, Mr. Larsen suspected it was a cosmic visitor and began to look for more. He collected dust samples from Oslo and cities around the globe, moonlighting as a scientist while vacationing or touring with his jazz group. He took samples from roads, roofs, parking lots and industrial areas.

Put indelicately, he collected hundreds of pounds of dreck â€" sludge from drains, gutters and downspouts, the dregs of civilization that most people try to avoid.

“Still, I didn’t find a single micrometeorite,” he recalled. “It was very frustrating.”

Mr. Larsen then changed tactics. Rather than looking exclusively for cosmic dust, he taught himself how to classify the dozens of different kinds of earthly contaminants, starting a process of elimination that slowly narrowed the candidates and raised the chances that some tiny fraction of the urban debris might turn out to belong to the cosmos.

The breakthrough came two years ago. In London, Dr. Genge studied one of the gathered particles â€" from Norway, not Timbuktu â€" and confirmed that it was indeed a traveler from outer space. Mr. Larsen quickly identified hundreds more.

Jon Larsen looking for micrometeorites on a roof. He was an enthusiastic rock collector as a child in Norway but became a professional musician. His quest for space dust began in 2009. Credit Morten Bilet

Mr. Larsen came to what he calls Project Stardust as a jazz guitarist in Norway, perhaps known best as the founder of Hot Club de Norvège, a string quartet. His group helped spur the global revival of gypsy jazz.

As Mr. Larsen tells the story, he was an enthusiastic rock collector as a child but did so well as a musician that he set aside his early scientific ambitions. Then, in 2009, at a country house outside Oslo, he was cleaning an outdoor table when a bright speck caught his eye.

“It was blinking in the sunlight,” he recalled. He touched the fleck. “It was angular in some way, kind of metallic but so small â€" a tiny dot.”

Matthew J. Genge, one of the Geology paper’s four authors and a senior lecturer in earth and planetary science at Imperial College, London, used an electron microprobe at the Natural History Museum in London to determine the chemical makeup of Mr. Larsen’s finds and confirm their cosmic origin.

In an interview, he said that, over all, the grains that survive the atmospheric plunge and land on the Earth’s surface add up to more than 4,000 tons annually, or more than 10 tons a day. “He’s done a valuable thing in classifying the contaminants,” Dr. Genge said of Mr. Larsen’s work. “It has wide-reaching implications.”

Donald E. Brownlee, an astronomer at the University of Washington who helped establish the field, called Mr. Larsen a true citizen scientist whose work will aid the global hunt for the tiny specks.

“Your car is covered with cosmic dust,” Dr. Brownlee said. “We inhale this stuff. We eat it every time we eat lettuce. But normally, it’s incredibly difficult to find.”

The dust consists of tiny remnants from the solar system’s birth, including debris from the lumps of dirty ice known as comets and from ages of smashups among planets and the big rocks known as asteroids. While most of the particles are interplanetary in nature, some contain grains of matter from outside the solar system, or true stardust. Their diversity makes them excellent windows on the cosmos.

Scientists have found micrometeorites mainly in the Antarctic, remote deserts and other places far from civilization’s haze. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, investigators tried to find them in urban areas but eventually gave up because of the riot of human contaminants.

Significantly, it turns out that specialists trying to establish the cosmic origins of the tiny specks have tended to examine their chemical signatures rather than their overall appearance. That left a large opening for Mr. Larsen.

The diminutive flecks to which Mr. Larsen, 58, has devoted himself represent the smallest parts of a cosmic downpour that has lashed the Earth for billions of years.

Careful observers of the night sky are familiar with shooting stars â€" speeding bits of extraterrestrial rock that plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere, often burning up completely. The biggest can strike the ground, some forcefully enough to dig craters. In 2013, a relatively small rock exploded over the Russian city Chelyabinsk, releasing a shock wave that injured hundreds of people, mainly as windows shattered into flying glass.

But all that represents a tiny fraction of the downpour. Scientists say most of the cosmic material is remarkably small â€" barely the width of a human hair. Known as micrometeorites, they rain down on the planet more or less continuously but have proved remarkably hard to find. Some bits are so small and lightweight that they drift down to the Earth’s surface without melting.

“I hope and believe this will start something,” the musician, Jon Larsen, said in an interview. His goal? “Making it easy.”

His book, “In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micro-Meteorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters,” due out in August, details the secret of his extraordinarily successful hunts. Its 150 pages and 1,500 photomicrographs, or photos taken through a microscope, tell how Mr. Larsen taught himself to distinguish cosmic dust from the minuscule contaminants that arise from roads, shingles, factories, roof tiles, construction sites, home insulation and holiday fireworks.

As his book puts it, “To pick out one extraterrestrial particle among billions of others requires knowledge both about what to look for and what to disregard.”

An international team found that rooftops and other cityscapes readily collect the extraterrestrial dust in ways that can ease its identification, contrary to science authorities who long pooh-poohed the idea as little more than an urban myth kept alive by amateur astronomers.

Remarkably, the leader of the discovery team â€" and co-author of a recent paper in Geology, a monthly journal of the Geological Society of America â€" turns out to be a gifted amateur who devoted himself to disproving the skeptics.

A noted jazz musician in Norway, he rearranged his life to include eight long years of extraterrestrial sleuthing. His hunt has now produced a significant discovery, a colorful book for lay readers and what scientists call a portrait gallery of alien visitors.

https://www.nytimes.com/
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
MARCH 10, 2017



Varieties of space dust, barely the width of a human hair. These photomicrographs were made with a special camera setup that magnifies the dust grains nearly 3,000 times. Credit Jan Braly Kihle/Jon Larsen


After decades of failures and misunderstandings, scientists have solved a cosmic riddle â€" what happens to the tons of dust particles that hit the Earth every day but seldom if ever get discovered in the places that humans know best, like buildings and parking lots, sidewalks and park benches.

The answer? Nothing. Look harder. The tiny flecks are everywhere.

He he...

Yet this isn’t just a matter of individual action, but is also a public policy issue that affects tens of millions of people, their capacity to reproduce and their health and life expectancy.

What’s needed above all is more aggressive regulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals. America has been much slower than Europe to regulate toxic chemicals, and most chemicals sold in the U.S. have never been tested for safety.

The larger question is why we allow the chemical industry â€" by spending $100,000 on lobbying per member of Congress â€" to buy its way out of effective regulation of endocrine disruptors. The industry’s deceit marks a replay of Big Tobacco’s battle against regulation of smoking.

If you doubt the stakes, look at the image with this column of a hapless sperm swimming in circles, and remember this: Our human future will only be as healthy as our sperm.

Perhaps even more alarming, Canadian scientists conducted a seven-year experiment on a lake in Ontario, adding endocrine disrupting chemicals and then observing the impact on fathead minnows. The chemicals had a devastating impact on males, often turning them into intersex fish, with characteristics of both sexes but incapable of reproducing.

The crisis for male reproductive health seems to begin in utero. Male and female fetuses start pretty much the same, and then hormones drive differentiation of males from females. The problem seems to be that endocrine disrupting chemicals mimic hormones and confuse this process, interfering with the biological process of becoming male.

How should we protect ourselves? Swan said she avoids plastics as much as possible, including food or drinks that have touched plastic or been heated in plastic. She recommends eating organic to avoid pesticide residues, and avoiding Tylenol and other painkillers during pregnancy. Receipts from thermal printers, like at gas pumps and A.T.M.s, are also suspect. When in doubt, she consults guides at ewg.org/consumer-guides.

And so are men and boys. Apparently related to the problem of declining semen quality is an increase in testicular cancer in many countries; in undescended testicles; and in a congenital malformation of the penis called hypospadias (in which the urethra exits the side or base of the penis instead of the tip). These problems are often found together and are labeled testicular dysgenesis syndrome.

There is still disagreement about the scale of the problem, and the data aren’t always reliable. But some scientists are beginning to ask, At some point, will we face a crisis in human reproduction? Might we do to ourselves what we did to bald eagles in the 1950s and 1960s?

“I think we are at a turning point,” Niels Erik Skakkebaek, a Danish fertility scholar and pioneer in this field, told me. “It is a matter of whether we can sustain ourselves.”

One recent study found that of sperm donor applicants in Hunan Province, China, 56 percent qualified in 2001 because their sperm met standards of healthiness. By 2015, only 18 percent qualified.

“The semen quality among young Chinese men has declined over a period of 15 years,” concluded the study, which involved more than 30,000 men.

Perhaps you were expecting another column about political missteps in Washington, and instead you’ve been walloped with talk of bad swimmers. Yet this isn’t just a puzzling curiosity, but is rather an urgent concern that affects reproduction, possibly even our species’ future.

Andrea Gore, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor of the journal Endocrinology, put it to me this way: “Semen quality and fertility in men have decreased. Not everyone who wants to reproduce will be able to. And the costs of male disorders to quality of life, and the economic burden to society, are inestimable.”

Human and animal studies suggest that a crucial culprit is a common class of chemical called endocrine disruptors, found in plastics, cosmetics, couches, pesticides and countless other products. Because of the environmental links, The New Yorker once elegantly referred to the crisis as “silent sperm,” and innumerable studies over 25 years add to the concern that the world’s sperm are in trouble.

https://www.nytimes.com/
Nicholas Kristof
MARCH 11, 2017



A sperm under the influence of an endocrine disrupting chemical in sunscreen. Because of chemicals like these, sperm have trouble swimming properly to deliver the goods. Credit Prof. Timo Strünker, Münster, Germany


Let’s begin with sex.

As a couple finishes its business, millions of sperm begin theirs: rushing toward an egg to fertilize it. But these days, scientists say, an increasing proportion of sperm â€" now about 90 percent in a typical young man â€" are misshapen, sometimes with two heads or two tails.

Even when properly shaped, today’s sperm are often pathetic swimmers, veering like drunks or paddling crazily in circles. Sperm counts also appear to have dropped sharply in the last 75 years, in ways that affect our ability to reproduce.

“There’s been a decrease not only in sperm numbers, but also in their quality and swimming capacity, their ability to deliver the goods,” said Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who notes that researchers have also linked semen problems to shorter life expectancy.

China cites 'freedom of navigation,' 'false information'

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang admitted that Chinese vessels sailed across the waters northeast of Luzon to for marine research last year.

The Chinese official said that their vessels were only exercising freedom of navigation and the right to innocent passage "without conducting any other activities or operations."

"The remarks by some individuals from the Philippines are not consistent with the facts," Geng said in a press briefing last Friday.

The reference to "freedom of navigation" and innocent passage stands in contrast to Beijing's repeated objection to the United States Navy's operations in international waters of the South China Sea, west of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, international law professor Professor Julian Ku of Hofstra University said that the Chinese Foreign Ministry's response to the issue is confusing and troubling.

Geng noted that the UN commission approved the Philippines' submission in 2009 claiming Benham Rise is on its extended continental shelf, but the spokesperson also claims that the UN approval does not mean that the region is part of the Philippines' territory.

"Actually, that's what it means. UNCLOS Art. 76(8 ) makes those [Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf] recommendations 'final and binding' if [the Philippines] accepts (it did)," Ku said on Twitter.

Paragraph 1, Article 77 of the UNLCOS states that a state has sovereign rights over its continental shelf for the purpose of "exploring it and exploiting its natural resources."

"The rights referred to in paragraph 1 are exclusive in the sense that if the coastal State does not explore the continental shelf or exploit its natural resources, no one may undertake these activities without the express consent of the coastal State," the UNCLOS states.

China: Philippines can't claim Benham Rise
By Patricia Lourdes Viray (philstar.com) | Updated March 13, 2017 - 10:14am
   

MANILA, Philippines â€" The Philippines cannot claim Benham Rise as its own territory despite it being part of the country's 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone, Beijing said.

In 2012, the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf approved the submission of the Philippines in 2009 with respect to the limits of its continental shelf in the Benham Rise region. This enables the Philippines to carry out exploration and development of natural resources in the area.

"But it does not mean that the Philippines can take it as its own territory," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a recent statement.

The Department of National Defense earlier confirmed that Chinese survey ships have conducted oceanographic research in the region.

The Department of Foreign Affairs had sent a letter to the Chinese Embassy in Manila to seek clarification on the reported incursion into the country's territorial waters.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry, however, said that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) states that "a coastal state's rights over the continental shelf do not affect the legal status of the superjacent waters or of the air space above those waters, nor do they affect foreign ships' navigation freedom in the coastal state's EEZ and on the high seas, or their innocent passage through the coastal state's territorial sea as supported by international law."

Agoi, morag padung na pud angkonon sa mga kanahan...

Puede pood kinilaw..

But-anay ba diay...

He he, pabaho-baho lang...

By Gerry Shih | AP March 7


BEIJING â€" John Oliver won rave reviews for his “Last Week Tonight” interview showing the Dalai Lama in all his candor and wit. Beijing, however, was not amused.

China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader had appeared “deceptive” on the HBO show where he criticized some Chinese leaders as small minded and mocked Beijing’s portrayal of him as “a demon.”

The Dalai Lama’s comments about the contested issue of his reincarnation “appear to be funny and humorous but they’re all lies,” ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference. He dismissed the show that aired Sunday night in the U.S. as merely intended for entertainment purposes.

China’s ruling Communist Party has long depicted the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist and frequently objects when he meets with global political leaders and entertainment figures, seeing those events as suggesting he is a world leader himself.

China’s leadership also insists it has the authority to appoint the Dalai Lama’s successor after his death. Traditional beliefs dictate that the highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism will be reincarnated in a boy who would subsequently be recognized as the new Dalai Lama by senior monks. But the current spiritual leader has said he would be happy if the title ends with his death.

During the interview conducted at the Dalai Lama’s residence in India’s northern hill town of Dharmsala, Oliver asked the Dalai Lama if he was worried about the Chinese authorities naming his successor. The Dalai Lama did not answer the question directly but told Oliver that Chinese hard-liners lacked common sense and “that part of the brain.”

“They describe me as a demon,” the Dalai Lama said, referring to Beijing’s officials. “Then I immediately (say) I am a demon with horns,” he said, sticking his fingers up on either side of his head to laugher from Oliver and his audience.

“Whatever they want they want to say, that’s their opinion. I have no negative feelings. I just feel a laugh, like that,” he added. “I practice taking others anger, suspicion, distrust and give them patience, tolerance and compassion. I practice that.”

Yummy! Unya mao dayon ni ang pahilis...

Ang angay kalingawan kay ang kumlo...

He he, pwede pud higtan og tabili...

OK kaayo. Hangtod sa kahangtoran bisag ipadpad pa sa kapunawpunawan...

Ganahan ka ani, Bay Rogamz. Lab stori man ni.

Matod ni Arnel Pura, NBI 7 special investigator, nga usa ka Choi, kinsa usa usab ka Koryano ang leader sa maong grupo sa Sugbo apan padayon pa kini nga gipangita.

Nasayran nga Marso 1, Miyerkules dihang aduna’y 10 ka Koryano ang na-monitor sa asset sa NBI 7 nga naabot sa Mactan Cebu International Airport kinsa gisugat sa duha ka mga Korean guides niini nga naila nga sila si Andy ug Kim.

Gidala ang mga Koryano nga turista sa beach side hotel sa Marigondon, dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu.

Nasuta usab nga usa ka Alvin, Koryano, ang nangabang sa maong beach house nga eksklusibo sa mga Koryano.

Sa surveillance sa NBI 7, nasay­ran nga upat ka menor de e­­­dad ang lakip sa giabangang mga babaye apan dihang nahina­bi na sa maong ahensiya, di diay.

Human sa mga impormasyon nga nakuha sa ahensiya ug sa koordinasyon sa Provincial Wo­men Commission (PWC) ubos sa buhatan ni Cebu Vice- Governor Agnes Magpale, nihimo og rescue operation ang NBI 7 diin pito ka mga babaye nga biktima sa trafficking ang na-salbar.

Dugang ni Pura nga bisan kon wala sila’y search warrant apan tungod kay nanug-an ang mga babaye nga binayran sila, gipusasan sa agents sa ahensiya ang mga Koryano.

Nasayran nga usa ka Maribeth Bontog, kinsa padayon karon nga gipangita, ang nagkuha sa mga babaye.

Aduna’y bayad nga P2,000 matag adlaw ang mga babaye, diin kuyog kini sa mga Koryano sa tibuok bakasyon niini sa Sugbo.

Gibutyag usab ni Pura nga siyam kini ka babaye, apan na­nguli ang duha atol sa operas­yon hinungdan nga pito ra ang na-rescue nga mga residente ra usab sa Mandaue ug Lapu-Lapu.

Ugmang adlawa, Lunes, hing­pit nga pasakaan og kaso sa City Prosecutors Office sa dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu sila si Bontog, Choi, Andy ug Kim alang sa large scale syndicated human trafficking diin kalapasan sa Republic Act 10364.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cebu Marso 05, 2017.

Ni HERTY B. LOPEZ



Nasikop. Ang 9 ka Korya­no nanampong sa ilang na­wong dihang gi­presentar sa Na­tional Bureau of Investigation 7. Sila giingong nangabang og mga babaye. (Alan Tangcawan)


PACKAGE nga laag alang sa mga Koryano sa Sugbo nga aduna’y escort nga babaye diin mamahimo kini nilang "sex slave" sa ilang pagpuyo nasakpan sa National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 diin siyam ka mga Korean national ang nasikop.

Pebrero karong tuiga dihang nakadawat og impormas­yon ang NBI 7 kabahin niining sin­dikato nga sex tourism tours pi­naagi sa internet diin mga Korya­no nga nagplano mobiyahe sa Sugbo tanyagan niini nga package.

Niadtong Biyernes sa ala 1:30 sa kaadlawon dihang na­sikop ang siyam ka mga Koryano nga aduna’y mga pares, kinsa anaa na karon sa kustodiya sa NBI 7.

Ang nasikop naglakip nila ni Jongnam Ham, Munsu Lee, Joon­tae Kim, Dongkil Kim, Jong In Han, Hosik Park ug Jae Gyu Kim.

Basin sa kabug-at sa bolitas di na hinuon katindog...

https://www.theguardian.com/


Adam Gabbatt
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Friday 16 September 2016 18.46 BST
Last modified on Tuesday 20 September 2016 16.23 BST


New York’s Guggenheim museum unveiled its latest installation on Friday â€" a solid gold toilet titled America.

The toilet, which the Guardian can confirm is fully functioning, is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who describes the piece as “100% art for the 99%”.

Visitors to the museum are able to use the golden toilet in much the same way as they would use a normal toilet. It is located in a standard, pre-existing bathroom on the fourth floor of the museum, a small placard the only indication of its presence.

Ayay, kon mosaghid kanako kanang taas mong buhok,
Pastilan, Inday, unsa kaha kalalim ang kagilok.
Mahaaghat gayod ako kanimo nga mokabayo
Bisan tuod kining akoa dili unsa kadako.

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He he, sa ato pa, bahalag baho, sulong mga insurektos!

Gikabuangan gud. Matokhang man pud ta anang imong kalaki...

He he, naa may English subtitles ang sine aning mga limbaroka ni...

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Edsa, an exchanged life...

Baho-baho man gud, makapagana...