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#21801
disappointed.  wa ko kaboto.  my name is nowhere as a supposed transferee (from being an overseas absentee voter).  sayang.  i would have had the satisfaction of not voting for legarda, trillanes, binay and all other dynasties. 

lipay na lang ko nga my two siblings verified with me the senatorial candidates who voted no to the rh bill.  maminaw pa gyod diay sila sa simbahan, alleluia.  listo pod kong ni-text, with pakapin.  bisag no to the rh bill si trillanes, exempt him just the same because he's dangerous. 
#21802
Quote from: chicogon on May 09, 2013, 05:23:14 AM
Thank you! I'm doing just fine... busy with parish work as usual and last Saturday I hosted the Fil-Am Santacruzan 2013 and was its designated celebrant and homilist. Wew! Food was superb...
Quote from: Lorenzo on May 10, 2013, 05:26:36 AM
I'm glad to know you're doing just fine and busy ! I thought of you when I had a conversation with a friend of mine, a Filipina Attorney here in Chicago (surname nija ay Salonga), who said that her mother knows you and another Bol-anon priest from Florida daw. The conversation was about Bohol. She mentioned that her mother helps out with the annual Paring Bol-anon event in Florida. Hahaha! Small world. :)

How was the Santacruz event ? Naa kay pictures? If naa ka, can you post here pod? ;)

bantog ra diay... hehehe, sayo man diay ang santacruzan.
#21803
Quote from: chicogon on May 08, 2013, 12:29:10 PM
Posporo na lay kuwang ani... pwede na palupad ;D

no, thank you.  ang ako unyang alingagngag ang molupad, hehehe.
#21804
Fashion Trend / Re: Not coming home anymore
May 13, 2013, 10:23:44 PM
then be more useful by petitioning for all your relatives... ;D
#21805
my hero! 8)
#21806
Quotable Quotes / Re: What lies in the bosom
May 13, 2013, 09:50:39 PM
gikuyawan na man ko ani.  pang-high noon na man.  unsa man diay ni, bai hubs, avsecom ka or immigration officer in a booth, or cctv operator?

hinaot nga sige lang mong duha ug joke, no matter how sick the jokes are.  one of the things i learned in this forum is dito ay walang sinasanto.  it's more preferable than empty praises, if i may add.
#21807


hey, siomai ka na!
#21808


heavy make-up? siopao na mababa ang lipad? 8)
#21809


Siopao is a Hokkien term for baozi which means steamed buns. In Thailand it is called salapao and in the Philippines it’s called siopao. It is a very popular street food in the Philippines which was definitely influenced by the Chinese. There are a lot of variants of these wonderful steamed buns and the most common one is the char siu bao (barbecued pork). In the Philippines the most common one is the Asado Siopao (Sweet Pork), Chicken Pao (Minced Chicken), Bola Bola (Minced Meat) and the special Siopao (mixed meats with duck eggs), for vegetable lovers there are also options like cuapao (Meat with Vegetables). But Pao’s are not limited to savoury types there are also the sweet types like the mung bean paste steamed buns and lotus seed steamed buns.

http://angsarap.net/
#21810
#21811
Quote from: balong on May 13, 2013, 02:48:06 PM
thanks for the assist islander. keep cool 8)

most welcome.  keep cool yourself so your head will stop ringing. ;D
#21812

Two Balangiga bells exhibited at Fort D.A. Russel, now F. E. Warren Air Force Base

wikipedia/
#21813

American survivors of the Balangiga massacre pose with a Balangiga bell. Photo taken in Calbayog, Samar, in April 1902

wikipedia/
#21814
Balangiga bells

The Balangiga bells are three church bells taken by the United States Army from the town church of Balangiga, Eastern Samar in the Philippines as war booty after reprisals following the Balangiga incident in 1901 during the Philippine-American War. One church bell is in the possession of the 9th Infantry Regiment at Camp Red Cloud, their base in South Korea, while two others are on a former base of the 11th Infantry Regiment at F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. At least one of the bells had tolled to signal the surprise attack by the Filipinos while the Americans were eating breakfast. The attack claimed the lives of more than forty soldiers of the US garrison posted in the town.

wikipedia/
#21815
Photos Unlimited / Made-to-order by Bugsay
May 13, 2013, 02:32:44 PM
Quote from: islander on May 13, 2013, 12:09:53 PM

this is called a tv stand.  i don't mind having a tv stand without a tv standing on it.

more at http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=71764.msg586350#new
#21816
bugs, tubag dayon kang lorenz.  (sorry i don't know the price, lorenz.)
#21817
it's only in philippine politics when politicians say they're not buying votes with a straight face; that, even when they have prepared their monetary logistics years ahead.  oh yes, they're not buying votes.  they're only sharing their graces, especially those that came their way as previously elected officials.
#21818
either way makaako sa bohol ug sumbong, o kun makadawat ang bol-anon, di tingali tawgon ug vote-buying. 

allowance ang gihatag.  i heard this just last night.  i told someone i know that in the end, since you yourselves are giving out money, you cannot accuse the other side of vote-buying.  we're not buying votes, he said.  we're just giving allowances.  uh-huh.  a rose by any other name could be an antwanga. :(
#21819
if i couldn't sleeps at night, i sleeps in the daytime.  i makes my eyes tired by reading all sorts in the internet, most of all tb.  in my yesteryears i read books in bed, but in my twilight years my husband is already angry because of the light when i read.  but i cannot reads in the dark, so thanks to the internet and tb, i sometimes lay awakes all night.
#21820
Inspiration & Hope / Re: The Loneliest Whale
May 13, 2013, 12:50:16 PM
hasta diay sa whale world, naa diay poy discrimination.  i hope she gets a real friend soon.  sayang she has no access to the internet.  bisan na lang unta ug social media.  or could she be a criminal in their world, punished for infanticide, parricide, homicide, whalecide?  is she a pariah, a victim of apartheid?  one never knows...
#21821
Family & Parenting / Re: Happy Mother's Day
May 13, 2013, 12:46:19 PM
same to you, ching! :) :) :)
#21822
History / Re: The Fritzl case revisited
May 13, 2013, 12:43:11 PM
this is way, way worse than the monster castro of cleveland.  kaluod.
#21823
#21824
#21825
#21826
#21827
latest order from bugsay: TV stand

#21828
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:02:43 PM
Mark Twain
author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "the Great American Novel." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain passed through a period of deep depression that began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died of meningitis. His wife's death in 1904 and another daughter's on December 24, 1909, deepened his gloom. In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying:

    "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."

His prediction was accurateâ€"Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
#21829
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:02:03 PM
Steve Jobs
entrepreneur

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (1955 - 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies..." In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011.
#21830
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:01:40 PM
Keith Moon (with Paul and Linda McCartney in the picture)
musician

Keith John Moon (1946 â€" 1978) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He was well known for his unique drumming style, and gained notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour. On September 6, 1978, Moon took 32 tablets of clomethiazole (Heminevrin), a sedative which was prescribed to Moon to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. The police determined there were 32 pills in Moon's system, with the digestion of six being sufficient to cause his death, and the other 26 of which were still undissolved when he died.
#21831
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:01:10 PM
Amy Winehouse
singer

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 â€" 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. She was the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Winehouse began binge drinking in 2008 after kicking a drug habit. By summer 2011, she had fallen into a pattern of abstaining for a few weeks, and then relapsing. One such relapse led to her death by alcohol intoxication in the morning hours of 23 July 2011.
#21832
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:00:49 PM
Ronald Reagan
40th US president

Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 â€" 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981â€"1989). Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California (1967â€"1975), and a radio, film and television actor. Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. A conservative icon, he ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents and is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on the American political right. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of 93.
#21833
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 10:00:28 PM
Freddie Mercury
musician

Freddie Mercury (1946 â€" 1991) was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen.  On the evening of 24 November 1991, Mercury died at the age of 45 at his home in Kensington. The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
#21834
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 09:59:50 PM
FDR
32nd US president

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 â€" 1945), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933â€"1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.  He worked closely with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, and restoring prosperity to the nation's economy. On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, he collapsed while sitting for a portrait painting. The president's attending cardiologist diagnosed a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke).
#21835
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 09:59:19 PM
John Candy
actor

John Franklin Candy (1950 â€" 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian who rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the loquacious, on-the-move shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. On March 4, 1994, while filming the Western parody Wagons East!, Candy died of a massive heart attack in his sleep in Durango, Mexico, at the age of 43.
#21836
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 09:58:52 PM
Tupac Shakur
Rapper

Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971 â€" 1996), best known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died six days later. 

#21837
rule no. 10: always get in the way of what humans do.  just so they won't forget who's the boss.
#21838
Family & Parenting / Re: Happy Mother's Day
May 12, 2013, 07:49:01 PM
Quote from: Lollapalooza on May 12, 2013, 12:39:39 PM
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Madam CJ Islander



thank you very much, loll!
#21839
#21840
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 12, 2013, 12:10:13 PM

Indigenous women from the Ixil region attend the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, which is drawing to a conclusion, at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21841
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 12, 2013, 12:09:40 PM

Cadets of the Ukrainian Military academy preparing to celebrate the anniversary of victory over the Nazis at a memorial to World War II veterans in a memorial park in Kyiv, Ukraine.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21842
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 12, 2013, 12:07:51 PM
09 May 2013


The sun is about to come up over the South Pacific Ocean in this colorful scene photographed between 4 and 5 a.m. local time, May 5, 2013, by one of the Expedition 35 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. (Photo released on May 9, 2013)

http://www.voanews.com/
#21843
“I am fond of pigs.  Dogs look up to us.  Cats look down on us.  Pigs treat us as equals.”  ― Winston Churchill

#21844
Photos Unlimited / Re: Lonely at the top
May 12, 2013, 11:46:45 AM
i like this thinking unggoy. ;D
#21845
#21846
ATOT OY.  nagluha kog kinatawa, hahahahuhuhu!  sayang, kun nanganlan lang unta ang lugar ani, my day would have been complete. ;D
#21847
The Taiwanese authorities have condemned the Philippines' use of lethal force against the fishing vessel and have demanded that the government apologize and provide compensation.

The Philippines authorities have suspended 11 law enforcement personnel for their roles in the shooting, pending an investigation, according to Isorena.

Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration has dispatched a vessel to tow the fishing boat back to port, as it suffered an engine failure. Some 32 bullet holes were reportedly found on the boat.

The boat was expected to arrive in Pingtung county in southern Taiwan early Saturday.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/
#21848
Earlier in the day, Philippine Coast Guard commandant Rodolfo D Isorena said the officers were forced to fire at the unidentified boat when it attempted to ram their patrol vessel.

Asis Perez, director of the Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said the patrol vessel returned to port after two other boats, which did not have any identification flags, came to the rescue of the Taiwanese boat.

He said the coast guard officers were unaware that anyone had been injured or killed.

Perez said the shooting took place between Itbayat island and Luzon island. Itbayat is one of the Batanes islands, the northernmost point of the Philippines, and within the Philippines' territorial waters, he said.
#21849
one of our versions...

Taiwanese fishing boat provoked shooting: Philippines

The presidential office of the Philippines said Friday that its coast guard officers reacted appropriately in an incident in which a Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead, claiming that the fishing boat provoked the shooting.

Abigail Valte, a spokeswoman at the office, said at a press conference that the officers made an appropriate response after they fired into the air as a warning and the Taiwanese fishing boat refused to stop.

"The Taiwanese fishing boat attempted to ram our coast guard ship. It was without a doubt a provocative action," Valte said. The ship was operated by the coast guard but is technically part of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

Valte said the presidential office will decide whether to apologize over the incident after the results of an investigation are available.
#21850
if they must suspend the acceptance of filipino workers, so be it.  it won't bring down the philippines.  we have to learn how to stand up to these moneyed neighborhood bullies somehow. 
#21851
may he rest in peace.
#21852
Quote from: balong on May 11, 2013, 08:00:44 PM
p.s. mahimo man ug deretsohon nimo hubs. dili na potol potolon para daghang reply....;D ;D ;D ;D

moputol-putol sad baya ko, sir bals.  presenting an article here at tb in "bite sizes" makes it more readable and less intimidating.  i take it that we're not here for a contest on who has the most number of replies.  so allow those who choose to present articles in a style of their choice. 
#21853
assured gyod hinoon ko kay ubay-ubay man pod ang tigpangadye.
#21854
nakadugang gyod hinoon ug kulba-hinam. ;D
#21855
Sports and Fitness / Re: Bartitsu
May 11, 2013, 03:14:42 PM
siaw pod.  tiaw bay bartitsu, hehe.  maayo kay wa kahunahuna ug bartong fu or barate. ;D
#21856
Inspiration & Hope / Re: The Loneliest Whale
May 11, 2013, 02:16:08 PM
where is she now?  :(
#21857
they are real!  morag tawo, naay round-eyed, singkit-eyed, square-eyed, cross-eyed... all the works.

as for taking my pick, ako na tanan!  mine, mine, mine!  ka-cute gyod nila uy. :)
#21858


in the absence of cabanossi, my favorite is a chorizo from cebu, specifically the one that carries the name 'kwong bee' (leftmost of the image above).  more oily than a cabanossi but it tastes great.  and it keeps; storage inside or outside the ref is okay.
#21859
Chorizo can be eaten as is (sliced or in a sandwich), grilled, fried, or simmered in apple cider or other strong alcoholic beverage such as aguardiente. It also can be used as a partial replacement for ground (minced) beef or pork.

A meatless (vegan) version has been produced in Czech Republic by Vegandeli brand and sold in the UK as well.

Spanish-style tapas bars that serve traditional-style chorizo have gained in popularity in recent years, and now appear in many large cities throughout North America. (wikipedia)


going vegan the czech way
#21860
Spanish chorizo and Portuguese chouriço get their distinctive smokiness and deep red color from dried smoked red peppers (pimentón/pimentão or colorau). Due to culinary tradition, and the expense of imported Spanish smoked paprika, Mexican chorizo (but not throughout Latin America) is usually made with chili peppers, which are used abundantly in Mexican cuisine. In Latin America, vinegar also tends to be used instead of the white wine usually used in Spain. Traditionally, chorizo is encased in natural casings made from intestines, a method used since Roman times. (wikipedia)


lucanian sausage (lucanicas similiter)


this guy may have made untold lucanian sausages
#21861
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 11, 2013, 08:39:44 AM




Hotdog for Islander the sausage monster... ;D

a lifetime's thanks. :P
#21862
Chorizo can be a fresh sausage, in which case it must be cooked before eating. In Europe, it is more frequently a fermented, cured, smoked sausage, in which case it is usually sliced and eaten without cooking. (wikipedia)

#21863
chorizo is spanish sausage

Chorizo or Chouriço(Spanish; Asturian: chorizu; Basque: txorizo; Galician: chourizo; Portuguese: chouriço; Catalan: xoriço) is a term encompassing several types of pork sausages originating from the Iberian Peninsula. (wikipedia)


chorizo
#21864
Cabanossi is a type of dry sausage, similar to a mild salami. It is made from pork and beef, lightly seasoned and then smoked. It traditionally comes in the form of a long, thin sausage, about 30 centimetres (12 in) long, and 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in diameter. Variations include chicken & duck cabanossi. Versions made of turkey are a staple in kosher meat markets and delicatessens. (wikipedia)

some brands in the market:



i like its dryness and smoke flavor.
#21865

my all-time favorite cabanossi

i miss you, my cabanossi.  where will i ever find you in the philippines (without complaining of your price, perhaps, if i found you at all)?
#21866
thus far, my understanding is the word "sausage" is generic.  depending on their kind (that means taste and probably size), the names can be classified further as vienna sausage, hot dog, frankfurter, krakauer, bockwurst, kabanossi, chorizo, etc.
#21867
According to the NHDSC, historians have never been able to find this alleged cartoon, even though Dorgan's body of surviving work is vast.

The real source of hot dog: Like so many unpleasant things in America, it came from Yale. The term had been recorded there as early as 1894 as a sarcastic description of the dubiously composed sausages that vendors peddled from "dog wagons" near the dorms.

http://wiki.answers.com/
#21868
The popular legend on the etymology of hot dog holds that a cartoonist named T.A. "Tad" Dorgan attended a polo match in New York in 1901 where vendors roamed the aisles imploring patrons to "get your red-hot dachshund sausages." Enchanted, Dorgan drew a smiling dachshund nestled in a long bun, but couldn't spell dachshund, so he captioned it "hot dog!" and thus the food got its name. Charming, but untrue.
#21869
In 1871, an immigrant German butcher opened the proto-hot dog stand at Coney Island, selling the dachshund sausages wrapped in a milk roll. By 1893, the portable meat-tubes were already a regular accompaniment to baseball games and other sporting events.
#21870
eureka!  just the answer i needed...

How did the hotdog get its name?

Answer:

In 1852, the butcher's guild in Frankfurt-am-Main created a smoked, spiced sausage in a thin casing, dubbed a "little-dog" or "dachshund sausage" for its obvious resemblance to the low-riding German dog. (Those funny Germans!) Its other popular name was, of course, the frankfurter. Wiener comes from a similar sausage made in Vienna. Unlike the usual wursts, dachshund sausages were usually sold with bread.
#21871






sure, they're all hot, but what's with the name of that which we enjoy and swallow?
#21872

North American Vienna sausage in tomato sauce
#21873

vienna sausage (German: Wiener Würstchen, Wiener)

The word Wiener means Viennese in German.

this sausage is called vienna sausage anywhere else, except in vienna itself. ;D

The sausage was invented by a butcher from Frankfurt (Germany), who had moved to Vienna, which is why in Vienna the sausage is called Frankfurter.

-data from wikipedia
#21874

a hot dog with mustard
#21875

hot dogs, also called franks
#21876
The hot dog, considered quintessential American food owes its origin to two places outside the US. Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna, Austria lay claim to inventing these sausages. Thus franks or frankfurters are merely synonyms for this dish. Wiener comes from the name Wien, the Austrian name for the city English speakers call Vienna. Essentially there is no difference between hot dogs, wieners, and franks, although some say that wieners may be slightly shorter than franks.

http://www.wisegeek.org/
#21877
What's the difference?

basically none, unless one pores over the details.

All hot dogs are sausages, a mixture of meat and spices usually stuffed into casings (or veggies and soy products for a veggie dog stuffed into a veggie casing). Yet not every sausage is a hot dog. There are plenty of sausages that predate franks and wieners, and they can contain mixtures of meat, fat, animal blood, and spices in casing, but don’t have the same taste as the modern wieners or franks. Generally, hot dogs, unless kosher, are a combination of finely ground pork and beef combined with salt and spices. This differs widely from tiny breakfast, spicy Italian, chicken and apple or black pudding sausages.

http://www.wisegeek.org/
#21878
himoa ning entry, bai hubs.  pilay pad, kun maoy makadaog, madawat unya kag free one-way ticket to mars. ;D
#21879
hahaha!  wa gyod hinooy chance ning indoor plants kun naay indoor cats.  the good thing is at least dili mogamot ang mga iring.  kun mogamot pa, ambot na lang... moadto na tingali ko ug psychiatrist nga vet. ;D
#21880
i'll look for that story, raqz.  it will surely make my day.  thanks.
#21881
Philippine Business News / Re: OPERATION TULION
May 11, 2013, 05:02:24 AM
giluod na ko.  what a strange way to play on men's fantasies and scam them of their dollars.  safer than cleveland's castro though...
#21882
Philippine Business News / Re: OPERATION TULION
May 10, 2013, 02:22:24 AM
important warning for potential victims: ask lorenz for advice, kumpisal usa mo kang fr chic, paghinulsol
#21883
Philippine Business News / Re: OPERATION TULION
May 10, 2013, 02:21:13 AM
Quote from: BolBuhol on May 09, 2013, 11:57:37 PM


gropo sang manonoli, bangdido. ;D

lep to rayt: sir balong, lord hubag, manoy chongki, toto bolbuhol, lolo bugsay
#21884
Philippine Business News / Re: OPERATION TULION
May 10, 2013, 02:18:40 AM
hihihi, somewhere in those scraps of metal is a weapon of mass tuli (wmt). ;D
#21885
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 02:14:08 AM

Demonstrators attend a rally in protest of election results at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21886
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 02:13:08 AM

Pope Francis exchanges skull caps with a young girl in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21887
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
08 May 2013

Tourists on a traditional boat sail in the Beihai military water tunnels on the island of Nangan in the Matsu archipelago, off northern Taiwan. The Matsu archipelago, which was once front line against China, is now a military tourist spot.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21888
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 02:01:32 AM

A cloud of volcanic ash shoots up to the sky as Mayon volcano, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, erupts after daybreak, viewed from Legazpi City.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21889
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 02:01:04 AM

Kazakhstani troops march during a parade of the armed forces on Fatherland Defender's Day at Otar military range, some 150km (93 miles) west of Almaty.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21890
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 01:59:59 AM
07 May 2013


A farmer harvests wheat in the fields in Bhaktapur, near the capital Kathmandu, Nepal.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21891
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 01:47:24 AM

A Syrian man wrapped in a Syrian flag with a portrait of President Bashar Assad, walks past anti-riot police during an anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N. office in Tehran, Iran. Iran condemns Israeli air strikes on Syria and urged countries in the region to stand against the attack.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21892
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 01:46:59 AM

A musician from a military band rests before an official ceremony at a military base in the Russian southern city of Stavropol.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21893
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 01:46:25 AM
06 May 2013


Swiss Guards attend a swearing-in ceremony, at the Vatican. The ceremony is held each May 6 to commemorate the day in 1527 when 147 Swiss Guards died protecting Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome.

http://www.voanews.com/
#21894
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 12:42:34 AM

Reuters/Reuters - A student in flip flops and shorts (C) watches as U.S. President Barack Obama (not pictured) receives an honorary degree during the spring commencement ceremony at Ohio State University in Columbus, May 5, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

http://news.yahoo.com/
#21895
Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 12:41:50 AM

Wounded churchgoers lie on the ground as Roman Catholic nuns run for cover after a blast at the St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Roman Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Photos Unlimited / Re: News images
May 10, 2013, 12:41:14 AM
05 May 2013


Libyan protesters hold placards and banners during a demonstration in support of the "political isolation law" in the country's landmark Martyrs Square in Tripoli.

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Learn English Online / Re: Crank
May 09, 2013, 11:48:35 PM
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Learn English Online / Re: Crank
May 09, 2013, 11:45:23 PM
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Learn English Online / Re: Crank
May 09, 2013, 11:42:59 PM
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Learn English Online / Re: Crank
May 09, 2013, 11:39:46 PM
adjective: cranky

Cranky is one of those words that sounds a little bit like what it means: one who is cranky is easily annoyed, irritable, or testy. (https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/)