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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis delivered another criticism of some members of his own Church on Thursday, suggesting it is better to be an atheist than one of "many" Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.

In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning Mass in his residence, he said: "It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life."

"There are those who say 'I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association'," the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.

He said that some of these people should also say "'my life is not Christian, I don't pay my employees proper salaries, I exploit people, I do dirty business, I launder money, (I lead) a double life'."

"There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal," he said. "How many times have we all heard people say 'if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist'."

Since his election in 2013, Francis has often told Catholics, both priests and lay people, to practice what their religion preaches.

In his often impromptu sermons, he has condemned sexual abuse of children by priests as being tantamount to a "Satanic Mass", said Catholics in the mafia excommunicate themselves, and told his own cardinals to not act as if they were "princes".

Less than two months after his election, he said Christians should see atheists as good people if they do good.

Uwaw ta kay

Gamay
Ra
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Baby Aylandil...

He he, basig si Ondoy na pud ang malisang...

Kini maoy buotan nga sawa nga asawa...

Hmm, P1.4M ra? Kuwang ra pambayad sa consultancy firm...

Tsk, tsk, tsk, nagkinahanglan og matso ning bayhana aron maulian...

Palace: Lascañas part of 'demolition job' vs Duterte
Monday, February 20, 2017
By RUTH ABBEY GITA


MALACAÃ'ANG on Monday dismissed as a mere “demolition job” the claim of a former Davao policeman that President Rodrigo Duterte was indeed connected to the so-called Davao Death Squad (DDS).

“The demolition job against President Duterte continues,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement. Andanar’s statement came former Senior Police Officer 3 (SPO3) Arturo “Arthur” Lascañas, who retired from the Philippine National Police in December last year, told a press conference that the DDS really exists.

Lascañas, who was presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV at the Senate on early Monday, said that the members of the supposed death squad were paid by Duterte, a former mayor of Davao City, from P20,000 up to P100,000 depending on their target. “The existence of Davao Death Squad or DDS is real,” Lascañas said.

“Mayor Duterte was paying us P20,000 sometimes, or P50,000, and it depends on the status of our target. Sometimes, it’s P100,000. I am receiving the allowance from the Office of the Mayor [at the rate of] P100,000.

At a Senate inquiry last year, Lascañas denied the existence of the DDS, calling it merely as a “media hype.” But Lascañas said he revealed the truth because of conscience.

Andanar, however, shrugged off the latest allegation hurdled against the President and stressed it was just “part of a protracted political drama aimed to destroy the President and to topple his administration.”

He cited that the Commission on Human Rights, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Senate Committee already absolved Duterte in his alleged involvement in the DDS. “Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics orchestrated by sectors affected by the reforms initiated by the Duterte administration,” Andanar said. (SunStar Philippines)

After his group informed Duterte about the capture of the suspected mastermind of a kidnapping in Davao, Lascañas quoted the mayor as saying: "All right, make it clean."

Another target was radio commentator Jun Pala, who was critical of Duterte.

He was killed in 2003 by gunmen, who then got financial rewards from the then mayor, Lascañas said.

He said the members of the supposed death squad were paid by Duterte, from P20,000 up to P100,000 depending on their target. "Mayor Duterte was paying us P20,000 sometimes, or P50,000, and it depends on the status of our target.

Sometimes, it’s P100,000. I am receiving the allowance from the Office of the Mayor [at the rate of] P100,000," he said.

"The existence of Davao Death Squad or DDS is real."

Lascañas was presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV at the Senate early Monday, February 20. (AP/With Ruth Abbey Gita/SunStar Philippines)

The killings under the crackdown, an expansion of his anti-drug campaign when he was a longtime mayor of Davao City, have alarmed the United States, other Western governments and the UN rights officials.

In many public speeches, Duterte has told policemen to defend themselves if drug suspects fight back and has openly threatened drug lords and dealers with death.

Lascañas's comments came after he denied to a Senate hearing last year that he had been involved in any extra-judicial killings in Davao.

He testified at the inquiry last October 2016 after he was implicated by another witness, Edgar Matobato, a former militiaman who said Duterte ordered him and others to kill criminals in gangland-style assaults that left hundreds of people dead.

Breaking into tears at one point, Lascañas said Monday, February 20, that he was speaking up because he was bothered by his conscience, including his role in the deaths of his two brothers, whom he ordered killed because they were drug users.

"I had my own two brothers killed. Even if I end up dead, I'm content because I've fulfilled my promise to the lord to make a public confession," he said.

Lascañas narrated several killings that he said Duterte had ordered, permitted or financed as mayor of Davao, including the 1993 bombing of mosques as retaliation after Muslim rebels were blamed for the bombing a Roman Catholic cathedral.

Lascañas said he and his group shot dead a kidnapping suspect along with the man's pregnant wife, young son, father-in-law and two others with the consent of Duterte.

Monday, February 20, 2017



MANILA. Flanked by lawyers Arno Sanidad (left) and Jose Manuel Diokno (right), retired police officer Arthur Lascanas tells a news conference at the Philippine Senate in Pasay City on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017.


(AP) MANILA (Updated) -- A retired police officer said Monday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was Davao City mayor, ordered and paid him and other members of a so-called liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents, including a kidnapping suspect, his family and a critical radio commentator.

Human rights lawyers who presented Arthur Lascañas at a news conference said his allegations could be grounds for impeaching Duterte.

But Duterte's camp dismissed Lascañas' statement as a mere “demolition job.” “The demolition job against President Duterte continues,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement Monday.

“Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics orchestrated by sectors affected by the reforms initiated by the Duterte administration,” he added. 

Duterte has denied his administration backs unlawful killings of suspects under his deadly crackdown against illegal drugs that is feared to have killed more than 7,000 mostly drug users and petty drug pushers since he took office in June.

Hmm, di galing tangil, basin bolitas lang...

Kagud jud, he he. Hmm, sinaw kaha galing ang bagol human sa kagud, huso tanang lubi, seguradong espeso ang resultadang gata...

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO Davao City, Philippines.


DUHA ka mga babaye ang nagbugno gumikan ilang giilugan ang usa ka lalaki nga maayong moromansa ug modala og palami ibabaw sa kama.

Ang insidente nahitabo alas 12 sa udto niadtong Lunes sa usa ka hardware sa usa ka dakong mall sa dalang Quimpo Boulevard, dakbayan sa Davao. Alas 8:08 sa gabii niadtong Lunes, nagpatala sa buhatan sa Talomo Police Station ang usa ka Mariel (bansagon gitago sa SuperBalita), 23, promodiser, ug nagpuyo sa Barangay Catalunan Grande ning dakbayan.

Si Mariel nagtug-an sa pulis nga samtang naa siya sa trabahoan, kalit miabot si alyas Stephany, 24, usa sab ka promodiser, kinsa maoy kanhi girlfriend sa iyang uyab nga si Jack (apilyedo gitago), 23.

Giingong hilabihan ang kasuko ni Stephany kay gibulagan siya ni Jack kay di kini kabalo nga modala sa ilang kombate ibabaw sa kama. Dugang nasayran nga misamot ang kasuko ni Stephany dihang gisultihan ni Mariel nga nakapa-booking na sila og kuwarto sa lodging house ni Jack alang sa mainiton nilang pagsaulog sa ilang Valentine's Day kagahapon.

Sa kasuko ni Stephany, iyang gisagpa si Mariel tumong sa tuong bahin sa nawong ug gibira ang buhok hinungdan nga mibalos og dumog ang nagreklamo. Sa kaulaw ni Mariel kay nasaksihan sa daghang mga kustomer, iyang gipatala ang nahitabo kaniya sa Talomo Police Station ug nakatakda silang mag-abot sa Barangay 74-A aron sila husayon.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Pebrero 15, 2017.

Quote from: MIKELIGALIG.com on February 17, 2017, 06:58:26 PM
Chang Jordan from the Women’s Legal Bureau, highlighting the weakness of market conditions to provide equal opportunities to women, particularly in poorer countries, cautioned that ASEAN integration may not succeed if it fails to take into consideration the systemic and intersectional dimension of discrimination, oppression, and exclusion.

Looks like the idea of Asean integration will fail for reasons more basic than "the weakness of market conditions to provide equal opportunities to women". Will fail long before any substantive talk on "the systemic and intersectional dimension of discrimination, oppression, and exclusion".

Kuyaw ni kay karaan na, basin maabariya ta sa kahanginan...

Gangstaboy...

Mao na ni ron. Mahal ra ba ning solar, unya ulan lang ang katapat. Imbis spark, subaw na hinuoy maani...

Kini nna pud kahay atong buhatan og balak. Sugdi, Bay Rogamz...

Wa pa ba kaha matokhang ning mga hayopa...

Mag-iyahay na lang una tag bangag karong panahona...

Dagko na bitawg ulo ning mga Indonesyan karon...

Kaluoy pud kon EJK-hon ni sila. Pila ra guy wisi-wisi...

Kini na lang diay kaha, Bay Rogamz...

Nabiyaan na intawon sa tren ang mga nognog...

He he, nagpraktis na si Ondoy Alan Peter sa umaabot niya nga pwesto isip Secretary of Foreign Affairs...

Bwahaha!

Made in China galing ang battery nga nag-supply og power sa itlog...

He, he, goodbye cruel world jud. Malagmit una pang maimpas ang government employees kaysa drug addicts...

Korerek! Makahahadlok kay basin matokhang kon maoy sulod sa ulo, ma-EJK pa kon magkalisod...

Wa ko ana nga lingaw kay dali kong mangluod kon balibaran. Naanad man gud ta sa mga humok og ilong...

He he, daghan na sila nga magsalig og Viagra...

Kini kay catsolarium...

Quote from: rogamz on February 05, 2017, 02:05:25 AM
“I will have zero tolerance for non-performing government workers,” matud pa ni Duterte sa iyang mensahe atubangan sa mga biktima sa bagyong Yolanda sa syudad sa Tacloban, Leyte kagahapon.

Agoi, naa pa ba kahay mahibilin nga empleyado sa gobyerno ani...

Nadugayng padaplin, nakalimtan ra jud...

Lasting friendships start early...

What's a Snow Moon?

Every month's full moon has at least one nickname that can be traced back centuries to Native American tribes. February's full moon was appropriately dubbed the Snow Moon, because this month typically sees the heaviest snowfall of the year. Some tribes have also called it the Hunger Moon as the winter weather made it difficult to hunt and forage for food. [From Lunar Wolves to Worms, These Are the Full Moon Names of 2017]

As with most skywatching events, it's best to be mindful of light pollution and other aspects of your surroundings that could hinder the view, such as tall mountains, buildings and trees, Petro said. For viewers in the western half of the Americas, in particular, where the eclipse occurs as the moon is low on the horizon, tall objects could block your view of the moon. Clouds that get in the way may also make it difficult to notice any changes to the moon during the eclipse.

To observe Friday's eclipse from North or South America during moonrise, look toward the eastern horizon to find the moon. If you're having trouble locating the moon or don't know what time the moon rises at your location, you could try using a mobile stargazing app. Or you can simply type "moonrise" and your location into a Google search.

Petro recommends going outside for a "practice run" about 24 hours in advance to locate the moon and determine the best spot for your lunar observations. "Use that opportunity to start looking at and paying attention to the moon," he said.

This image taken by Akash Anandh in Singapore shows the varying shadows cast over the moon during the penumbral lunar eclipse on Sept. 16, 2016.
Credit: Akash Anandh

How to see it

Although the penumbral lunar eclipse is a 4-hour-long event, its effect won't be noticeable that entire time. The moon will appear darkest when the eclipse is at its maximum at 7:43 p.m. EST (0034 GMT on Feb. 11).

Because the eclipse happens in slow motion, its darkened tone might not be so obvious. "You might be able to notice that the moon looks a little weird" if you go outside and look just once, Petro said, but "it's best to go out and look periodically as the eclipse unfolds." Better yet â€" stay outside the entire time to take photos of the moon intermittently so you can compare them later, Petro added.

In most of North America and the western half of South America, the eclipse will peak while the full moon is still rising. Viewers in the Midwest and in the Pacific states may miss the beginning of the eclipse, as the moon will rise close to the horizon around the same time as the sunset. Observers in East Asia will encounter a similar scenario, because the eclipse will be at its maximum at the time the moon is setting (and the sun is rising).

Regardless of where you are watching it, the first and last 40 or so minutes of the eclipse will probably not be noticeable, Sky & Telescope senior editor Alan MacRobert said in a statement. "The outer part of Earth's penumbra is so pale that you won’t notice anything until the moon's edge has slid at least halfway in," MacRobert said, "so start looking about 90 minutes before mid-eclipse."

When to see it

The moon will first enter Earth's shadow at 5:32 p.m. EST (2232 GMT), and its moonlight will slowly but surely grow dimmer for a little over 2 hours. After the eclipse peaks at 7:43 p.m. EST (0034 GMT on Feb. 11), the bright glow of the full moon will take about another 2 hours to return to normal. The moon will be completely outside of the penumbral shadow by 9:55 p.m. EST (0255 GMT on Feb. 11).



During the lunar eclipse on Feb. 10-11, the moon skirts just outside Earth's dark umbra. Look for deep penumbral shading on the north half of the lunar disk.
Credit: Sky & Telescope diagram

Diagram illustrating the penumbral lunar eclipse of Feb. 11, 2017
Credit: Fred Espenak/NASA


Noah Petro, a research scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Space.com that the best place in the world to see this eclipse would be "on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean." But a boat is certainly not required to appreciate the sight of this subtle lunar eclipse.

Where to see it

Friday's penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible from most countries of the world, with the exception of Australia, New Zealand and the East Asian countries along the Pacific coast. In the U.S., the state of Hawaii will miss out on the event.

Skywatchers across Europe, Asia, Africa and North America will all be able to see the lunar eclipse, though some regions will have a better view than others. The best places to see the eclipse from beginning to end are Europe, Africa and the eastern side of South America (including most of Brazil).

An astronaut standing on the moon when it's in Earth's penumbra would see the sun only partly hidden by Earth but completely covered from locations within the umbra. (Illustration not to scale.)
Credit: Sky & Telescope illustration

By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer | February 8, 2017 03:30pm ET
http://www.space.com/


February's Snow Moon will be no ordinary full moon for skywatchers in most parts of the world, as it coincides with a special lunar eclipse that will cast a shadow over the full moon's usual bright, glowing face.

On Friday (Feb. 10), just 10 minutes after the full moon peaks, so will a penumbral lunar eclipse. The moon will spend more than 4 hours coasting through Earth's outer shadow, called the penumbra, and it will appear darker than normal.

While penumbral eclipses can be difficult to see and don't look nearly as dramatic as a total lunar eclipse â€" in which the moon passes through the darkest, central part of Earth's shadow â€" Friday's penumbral eclipse will be darker and more noticeable than most lunar eclipses of its kind. That's because the moon will veer so deeply into Earth's penumbral shadow that it will be almost entirely submerged in shade.

Taking a hard line against criminals is always popular for politicians. I was also seduced into taking a tough stance on drugs during my time as president. The polls suggest that Mr. Duterte’s war on drugs is equally popular. But he will find that it is unwinnable. I also discovered that the human costs were enormous. We could not win the war on drugs through killing petty criminals and addicts. We started making positive impacts only when we changed tack, designating drugs as a social problem and not a military one.

A successful president makes decisions that strengthen the public good. This means investing in solutions that meet the basic standards of basic rights and minimize unnecessary pain and suffering. The fight against drugs is no exception. Strategies that target violent criminals and undermine money laundering are critical. So, too, are measures that decriminalize drug users, support alternative sentencing for low-level nonviolent offenders and provide a range of treatment options for drug abusers. This is a test that many of my Colombian compatriots have failed. I hope Mr. Duterte does not fall into the same trap.


César Gaviria was president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994 and the secretary general of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004.

What do we propose? Well, for one, we do not believe that military hardware, repressive policing and bigger prisons are the answer. Real reductions in drug supply and demand will come through improving public health and safety, strengthening anticorruption measures â€" especially those that combat money laundering â€" and investing in sustainable development. We also believe that the smartest pathway to tackling drugs is decriminalizing consumption and ensuring that governments regulate certain drugs, including for medical and recreational purposes.

While the Filipino government has a duty to provide for the security of its people, there is a real risk that a heavy-handed approach will do more harm than good. There is no doubt that tough penalties are necessary to deter organized crime. But extrajudicial killings and vigilantism are the wrong ways to go. After the killing of a South Korean businessman, Mr. Duterte seemed as if he might be closer to realizing this. But bringing the army in to fight the drug war, as he now suggests, would also be disastrous. The fight against drugs has to be balanced so that it does not infringe on the rights and well-being of citizens.

Winning the fight against drugs requires addressing not just crime, but also public health, human rights and economic development. No matter what Mr. Duterte believes, there will always be drugs and drug users in the Philippines. But it is important to put the problem in perspective: The Philippines already has a low number of regular drug users. The application of severe penalties and extrajudicial violence against drug consumers makes it almost impossible for people with drug addiction problems to find treatment. Instead, they resort to dangerous habits and the criminal economy. Indeed, the criminalization of drug users runs counter to all available scientific evidence of what works.

This heavy-handed approach to drugs did little to diminish the drug supply and demand in Colombia, much less in markets like Western Europe and the United States. In fact, drugs such as cocaine and heroin are as accessible as ever from Bogotá to New York to Manila.

The war on drugs is essentially a war on people. But old habits die hard. Many countries are still addicted to waging this war. As Colombia’s current president, Juan Manuel Santos, said, “We are still thinking within the same framework as we have done for the last 40 years.” Fortunately, more and more governments also concede that a new approach is needed, one that strips out the profits that accompany drug sales while ensuring the basic human rights and public health of all citizens.

If we are going to get drugs under control, we need to have an honest conversation. The Global Commission on Drug Policy â€" of which I am a founding member â€" has supported an open, evidence-based debate on drugs since 2011. We strongly support reducing drug supply and demand, but differ fundamentally with hard-liners about how this should be achieved. We are not soft on drugs. Far from it.

We Colombians know a thing or two about fighting drugs. Our country has long been one of the world’s primary suppliers of cocaine. With support from North American and Western European governments, we have poured billions of dollars into a relentless campaign to eradicate drugs and destroy cartels. I was personally involved in taking down the planet’s most notorious drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, in 1993. While we managed to make Colombia a bit safer, it came at a tremendous price.

My government and every administration since threw everything at the problem â€" from fumigating crops to jailing every drug pusher in sight. Not only did we fail to eradicate drug production, trafficking and consumption in Colombia, but we also pushed drugs and crime into neighboring countries. And we created new problems. Tens of thousands of people were slaughtered in our antidrug crusade. Many of our brightest politicians, judges, police officers and journalists were assassinated. At the same time, the vast funds earned by drug cartels were spent to corrupt our executive, judicial and legislative branches of government.

President Duterte Is Repeating My Mistakes
By CÉSAR GAVIRIA
FEB. 7, 2017



In Quezon City, Philippines, inmates sleep on a basketball court at Quezon City Jail, one of the country’s most congested jails on Oct. 19, 2016. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times


BOGOTÁ, Colombia â€" Illegal drugs are a matter of national security, but the war against them cannot be won by armed forces and law enforcement agencies alone. Throwing more soldiers and police at the drug users is not just a waste of money but also can actually make the problem worse. Locking up nonviolent offenders and drug users almost always backfires, instead strengthening organized crime.

That is the message I would like to send to the world and, especially, to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Trust me, I learned the hard way.

Tambagi ko Noy Kulas: Way spark


Dear Noy Kulas, Tawga lang ko og Jaz, 29 anyos but single pa kay nagapos sa responsibility sa akong parents. Ako ang kinamaguwangan sa among magsuon. Ang tanan nakong mga manghod nangaminyo while ako single pa. Human nako og gasto nila sa eskwela ug naka-grad­uate, nisulod sila sa kaminyuon samtang ako maoy nabinlan sa among parents kay naa na silay mga responsibility. Kining among parents sa una pa, ari magsalig nako human ko nakatrabaho kay gamay ra og suweldo ang among tatay. Di malikayan, dunay panahon nga apeke ko sa kwarta, ari ko makapanghuwam sa akong officemate nga mga duha ka tuig nang nanguyab nako. Buotan baya siya, Noy Kulas, pero way spark kon magkuyog mi. Duha ka tuig na siyang serious nga nanguyab nako pero wa nako gisugot kay di lang ko ganahan niya. Way laing nanguyab nako gawas lang niya. Unsa kaha, ako siyang sugton ug mo try og love niya? Maayo kaha, Noy?

JAZ


Jaz, Suwayi ang pagsugot niya. Basin pa diay ma-develop ang imong feeling anang tawhana kon magsige na mo og kuyog. Pareho sa friendship, naay mga higayon nga mo level up, mosangko sa uyab-uyab tungod sa tumang ka suod. Basin mao nay kuwang diha, ang pag-discover sa usag usa. Kanang spark mao nay instant attraction sa opposite sex. Mahimong mo last og dugay ug mahimong dali ra mawagtang. Ang uban gani nga nagkadayon, wa magtuo nga sila magkauyab kay sa sugod way spark. Dihang nagkasuod, diha na nila ma-discover ang usag usa nga magkasinabot sila ug ganahan sila sa usag usa na. Basin, mao na ang mahitabo ninyo. Give it a try.

NOY KULAS


http://www.sunstar.com.ph/superbalita-cebu/

Quote from: fdaray on February 07, 2017, 11:04:06 AM
Hawod man mamimike ang Pinoy, kaya ma pike ang kwarta, credit cards ug mga ducoments.Ang Pinoy is very initiative, resourceful, fakeful

Fakeful mo lang...

Quote from: rogamz on February 07, 2017, 11:07:40 AM
The results of her nasal endoscopy displayed the menacing cockroach sitting on her skull between her eyes for 12 hours.

Agoi, basin nangitlog to didto...

He he, wa sa ta ron kay hapit na Kwaresma. Basin mapornada ang atong powers...

Quote“Don’t dare me to a gunfight (because) I will not back down, you sons of bitches,” Mr. Duterte said in a raised voice. “Wait for me. Six years from now we will see each other again. As I have said, I’m not a weak leader chosen by the rich in Metro Manila. I was voted by the people.”

Six years from now? Tiguls na ang tanan by that time...

Bitaw. Hain na kaha silang Bugsay, Taga Tigbao, Pikoy, Bolbuhol, Chriswise, et al. Simbako lagong nga nangahilambigit sa tokhang...

He he, mora man kag gimingaw og mga GRO, Bay Rogamz...

LIMA ka mga babaye ang nangalisang ug nagkabuang pagpanagan dihang giihian sa usa ka lalaki samtang nangaon sila sa karenderya kagahapon, Miyerkules. Ang insidente nahitabo alas 3 sa kaadlawon sa usa ka karenderya sa Times Beach, Ecoland, Barangay 76-A Bucana, dakbayan sa Davao.

Daling miresponde ang kapulisan sa Talomo Police Station sa dapit diin gikuha si Randy (bansagon gitago sa SuperBalita), 32, residente sa Barangay 76-A Bucana, tungod gireklamo sa tag-iya sa kan-anan.

Saysay sa blotter sa kapulisan, nasayrang kalit misulod sa karenderya ang suspek dayon gipagawas iyang kinatawo atubangan sa mga babaye nga pulos call center agents nga nangaon niadtong orasa.

Giingong nangihi pa ang suspek atubangan sa mga babaye nga nakurat dihang giwisi-wisi sa suspek iyang kinatawo. Nagkabuang pagpanagan ang mga babaye mao nga nasuko ang tag-iya sa karenderya, nanawag dayon og police assistance.

Samtang gikalap kining balita, ang suspek naa sa prisohan nagpaabot sa kaso nga ipasaka sa tag-iya batok kaniya.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Pebrero 02, 2017.

He he, ikaw maoy welcome back, Bay Rogamz. Ako, aw, mao lang gihapon. Sigi lang gihapon og kinulokoy...

"Low socioeconomic status is one of the strongest predictors of premature mortality worldwide, but health policymakers often do not consider it a risk factor to target," Lifepath said in a statement.

"Because these circumstances are modifiable, they should be included in the list of risk factors targeted by global health strategies," said Silvia Stringhini of the Lausanne University Hospital, the lead author of the study.

Smoking, drinking and physical inactivity are already the focus of national and global public health policies.

Social rank could be improved by government policies on tax or education, for example, said the study, published in The Lancet.

The researchers reviewed data from 48 previous studies covering more than 1.7 million people from seven countries -- Australia, Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States.

They conceded that their research was limited by the fact that they had used the participants' occupation -- whether a street sweeper or a CEO -- as the sole measure of socioeconomic status.

AFP Relax
February 1, 2017


People on the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder may live two years less on average than those at the top, according to a large-scale study published Wednesday.

This makes social rank a bigger risk factor for illness and premature death than either high alcohol consumption or obesity, and it nearly equals the risk posed by physical inactivity, researchers said.

On average, a low social rank shaved over 25 months off the average lifespan, compared with six months for heavy alcohol intake and eight months for obesity, according to Lifepath, a European Commission-funded consortium that conducted the study.

For diabetes, the risk was almost four years in lost life, and for smoking nearly five.

The study was the first attempt to weigh the health risk of socioeconomic status against other "modifiable" factors, the authors said, at least in high-income countries.

He he, makalingaw bitaw jamo ni nga thread...

Halo, Bay Rogamz, long time no see but now sinaw! He he, pahuway lang ko gamay, ikaw kinahanglan magpermi na pud ka tambay diri...

Aha! I was doing it right all along...

Traditionally, doctors use a stethoscope to listen for abnormal crackling or bubbling sounds in the lungs. If they suspect malaria or tuberculosis - whose symptoms also include respiratory distress - the time lost treating those rather than pneumonia could be deadly for the patient.

The team is working on patenting the kit, which has been shortlisted for the British Royal Academy of Engineering's 2017 Africa Prize. Plans are under way to have the kit piloted at Uganda's referral hospitals and then trickle down to remote health centres.

According to Unicef, most of the 900,000 annual deaths of children under five due to pneumonia occur in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This beats other causes of childhood death such as diarrhoea, malaria, meningitis or HIV/Aids.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

JAN 23, 2017, 5:00 AM SGT


KAMPALA (Uganda) • A team of Ugandan engineers has invented a "smart jacket" that can diagnose pneumonia faster than a doctor, offering hope against a disease that kills more children worldwide than any other.

Dubbed Mama-Ope or Mother's Hope, the kit consists of a biomedical smart jacket and a mobile phone application that does the diagnosis. The jacket, which is still only a prototype, can diagnose pneumonia up to three times faster than a doctor and reduces human error, according to studies by its inventors.

Each year, pneumonia - a severe lung infection - kills up to 24,000 Ugandan children under the age of five, many of whom are misdiagnosed as having malaria, according to United Nations children's agency Unicef.
   
A lack of access to laboratory testing and infrastructure in poor communities means health workers often have to rely on simple clinical examinations to make a diagnosis.

With the easy-to-use Mama-Ope kit, health workers merely slip the jacket onto the child, and wait while its sensors pick up sound patterns from the lungs, as well as the child's body temperature and breathing rate.

Buffy coat separation using the hand-operated paperfuge took 15 minutes of spinning. In proof-of-concept experiments using 30 microliters of blood sample spiked with 7.5 percent Plasmodium falcipuram parasitemia, the group showed it could identify the parasites with fluorescent microscopy after buffy coat separation and that quantitative results were similar to those obtained using a commercial electric centrifuge.

Other devices have been proposed for centrifuging in low-resource settings. Researchers at Texas A&M University, for example, developed a method using the blades of a quadcopter, or drone, while others have pioneered methods using salad spinners.

The Stanford group also developed 3-D printed versions of the paperfuge, as well as a microfluidic disc made of polydimethylsiloxane, which they called a "PDMS-fuge" and suggested could be easily mass produced.

The latter, "

• pens up possibilities to design integrated lab-on-a-chip devices that do not require external pumps or electricity," the researchers wrote. However, they noted, "the choice of paper as a substrate further opens opportunities for incorporating origami-based geometries, embedding optics, paper-based microfluidics, and ultimately integrated lateral-flow rapid diagnostic assays."

The researchers first modeled the engineering properties of a whirligig toy, which they refer to as "a nonlinear, non-conservative oscillator," deriving the equation that governs its angular acceleration and torque. From this, the group developed theories about design that they used to guide and optimize development of the paperfuge.

The Stanford team's ultimate device was made of paper disks mounted with tiny plastic capillary tubes.

The group was able to demonstrate complete separation of plasma from red blood cells in 1.5 minutes using a finger-prick sample, or about 20 microliters, of whole blood. Experiments with human blood samples showed the device yielded 100 percent pure plasma.

The team also experimented with a design that included a plastic float in the capillary tube for quantitative buffy coat analysis.

Buffy coat typically contains white blood cells and platelets. However, this technique can be a critical component of certain kinds of blood parasite testing, since buffy coat mixed with the dye acridine orange will cause parasites to fluoresce under UV light.

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Jan 10, 2017





NEW YORK (360Dx) â€" Inspired by a children's toy, researchers at Stanford University have developed what may be the world's fastest non-motorized centrifuge.

Called a "paperfuge," the device is capable of separating plasma from whole blood and purifying malaria parasites from blood samples, and could potentially be used for rapid, inexpensive diagnostics.

As described in a paper published Tuesday in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the paper-based device costs $.20 to make. The paperfuge can achieve maximum speeds of 125,000 RPM for an equivalent centrifugal force of 30,000 g, approximately the maximum force of a standard benchtop microcentrifuge used for small tubes of sample.

Researcher Manu Prakash and co-authors took inspiration from a children's toy called a whirligig. This toy, examples of which date to 3,000 B.C., consists of a small wheel in the middle of a length of coiled string attached to handles. Stretching the string causes the string to unwind and the toy rotates. Releasing the string causes it to coil up again and the toy to spin in the opposite direction.

Dako ang kakurat niini gumikan kay bayut ang mitagbo kaniya ug laing babaye ang gipa-ila ug gipatuo nga si Jessel, apan dako kaayo ang kalainan sa nakaila niini sa social media hinungdan nga buot sa biktima nga dalhon kini sa pinakaduol nga police station apan nagdumili ang mga suspek.

Dali na lamang nga midangop si Ross sa Police Station 1 sa Divisoria ug nibalik sa hotel kauban ang kapolisan. Atol sa pagresponde, nakuhaan usab ang suspek nga si Harris og mga drug paraphernalia kinsa kamulo og suyop sa ginadili nga droga.

Gibutyag usab ni Divisoria Police Station 1 Chief Maricris Mulat nga ilang iduso ang kaso sa Anti-Cyber Crime sa Camp Alagar alang sa tukmang disposisyon samtang ang suspek nga si Harris ang posibleng makasohan sa kasong may kalambigitan sa druga tungod human kini nasapon sa paggamit sa ilegal nga droga sulod sa inn.

Sa pagkakaron, ang dinakpan ang kasamtangang nagtingkagol sa Maharlika Detention Cell ning dakbayan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Enero 25, 2017.

Samtang gipanghimakak ni Harris ang alegasiyon sa pakighinabi sa SunStar SuperBalita nga iyang giilad ang Amerkano, gumikan kay dili kini ang iyang ka-chat ug ang iyang ig-agaw nga si Jessel, 27, adunay kaipon nga taga Iligan City, ang tinuod nga kasabot sa Amerkano ug ang nagdawat sa kwarta niini nga gipadala.

“Ang ig-agaw gayud nako ato ang iyang ka chat, di man siya kaadto di ako na lang ang nitagbo niya sa airport mao to amo siya’ng gitagbo diri kay first time biya niya diri. Nalooy ko sa kano, wala man kaayo nakapaminaw sa akong side si Frank, wala gayud koy nakuha bisan piso,” pahayag ni Harris.

Nasayran nga nagkaila pinaagi sa dating site sila si Ross ug Jessel niadtong bulan sa Nobyembre tuig 2016. Nagpadayon ang kumonikasiyon pinaagi sa Facebook ug nakuha na niini ang iyang pagsalig hinungdan nga sa dihang nangayo kini og kwarta kay lage adunay mga problema pinansiyal, nagpadala si Ross sa ka-chat nga mikabat sa $1,445 gikan Nobyembre hangtod Enero 20 ning kasamtangang tuig.

Giingong nagkasabot na ang duha nga magminyo ug magkita unta niadtong Enero 23 ning tuig sa Laguindingan Airport apan wala’y mitagbo kaniya ug miingon ipadiretso na kini sa usa ka hotel ning dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro nga nahimutang sa Capistrano-Yacapin.

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA





NAGDALA pa sa divorce paper ang usa ka Amerkano gumikan kay buot gayud niini nga makigminyo sa naka-chat apan pakyas sa dihang nasutang usa diay ka bayut ang gikasabot.

Naghilak si Lucien Franklin Ross, 67, divorce, usa ka retired US Marines, taga California, USA, nga niasoy sa iyang kasinatian. Samtang ang bayut naila nga si Angel Harris, 19, residente sa Sabayle Street, Iligan City.

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