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But in a later interview with France 2 television Mr. Fabius said that in at least one case “there is no doubt that it is the regime and its accomplices” who carried out the attack.

The United States reacted cautiously to the French announcement.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said more work needed to be done to establish who had used the chemical weapons, in what quantities they were used and under what circumstances.

“We need to expand the evidence we have, we have to make it reviewable, we have to have it corroborated,” he said. “We will continue in that effort.” Earlier, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said there were “reasonable grounds to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used.” But it also said further investigations by a UN weapons panel were needed.

http://www.thehindu.com/
PARIS/GENEVA, June 5, 2013

 

In this March 19, 2013 file photo, a Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village receives treatment by doctors, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria.


The French government said on Tuesday that its tests had confirmed the use of chemical weapons “on several occasions” in the Syrian conflict and that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was responsible in at least one case.

Tests conducted on samples gathered by France had shown that “sarin gas has been used in Syria on several occasions in a localized manner,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement.

The statement did not identify who carried out the attack or where it took place.

The Tiananmen protests â€" also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese â€" were forcibly suppressed when hardline leaders ordered the military to enforce martial law on unarmed civilians in the heart of the country's capital.

Student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks before troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance.

And here's Hofman's duck:



REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Here's the original picture, taken by AP photographer Jeff Widener on June 5, 1989:

Michael Kelley    | Jun. 4, 2013, 8:18 AM





Chinese censors have banned the search term "Big Yellow Duck" after an image circulating on the microblogging site Sina Weibo creatively evoked the iconic image of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

The words "today," "tonight," "June 4," were also censored ahead of the 24th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing.

The picture is a play on the 54-foot-tall duck by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman that that is floating in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor and spawning a bunch of imitations across China.

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 12:48:20 PM
JAZZ... mao ni paborito sa mga unggoy...

Bwahaha! Kon nia sa Pinas tingali. Kon tua sa Amerika, malagmit Coke in can...

Pwede boycott, pwede girlcott, pwede pa jud boygirlcott...

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 12:42:17 PM
nganga mansad ta og apil..

Ka-imagine tingali ka nga imong itlog ang gipislitpislit ni Inday...

Unsa may gusto nimong ipares sa binangkal, Bay Vots? Royal?

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 12:27:50 PM
nag kirig kirig ko og katawa..

Bay Vots, ajaw palabig katawa
Basin hasta ikaw maratsada;
Morag dunay dugo nga mosurok,
Hinungdan nga sija motiurok.

Hmm, unsa man nang kahoy nga gababag sa foreground? Latayanan sa you-know-who?

Quote from: fdaray on June 04, 2013, 09:41:57 AM
Golden rule sa mga Insek: Kon ikaw dili limbong, patay; kon iklaw limbong patay. Maayo pa limbong.

He he, naa bayay gaininsek diri: Kon ikaw dili borit, wala bilib; kon ikaw borit, wala gihapon bilib. Maypa borit.

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 09:40:35 AM
na ka remember nuon ko..

Hmm, bisan gihukas ang amerikana?

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 09:38:13 AM
kaluoy sa monkey gi kaon ni bai hubs...

Gigitik ra nako si bilyakong you-know-who, oi...

Quote from: Votives on June 04, 2013, 07:45:20 AM
LIKE WHAT?

Hmm, sama pananglitan sa...

    --Ajawg salig sa unggoy nga esmokoy labi na kon gikan nga nasyomoy.

    --Sajon ra tuison ang kamatuoran ilabi na kon unggoy ang hingtungdan.

    --Mahimo nga ang maghuhukom isipong unggoy nungka nga ang unggoy isipong maghuhukom.

    --Bata o tiguwang, tambok o niwang, rabanit o milyonir, uwagon o way hilig,
      Ang unggoy mag-inunggoy gajud hangtod sa panahon nga sija mokirig.

"Japan should play a leadership role in looking at how countries in the world have trampled women's rights on the battlefield," he said.

"Japan's comfort women system was wrong. However, militaries in other countries used women. Nevertheless, the world only criticises Japan as it used 'sex slaves'."

"A sex slave is something completely different from a comfort woman," he said without elaborating.

The phrase "comfort woman" is not used in contemporary Japanese as a synonym for prostitute, and there is no mainstream evidence that any other country's military employed a similar system.

The embattled mayor has tried to distinguish between forcing women into sexual slavery, which he says was wrong, and allowing troops to have a sexual outlet, which he says was necessary.

Hashimoto, a lawyer by training, rose to prominence as an outspoken television talk-show guest. He rode the wave of his popularity into local politics and last year established a national party, becoming its joint leader.

He has a reputation for colourful pronouncements that frequently and unapologetically offend.

On Sunday he took to Twitter to demand that Tokyo do more to boost women's rights at a Group of Eight summit taking place in Britain next month.

The United States on Thursday condemned Hashimoto's opinion as "outrageous". In response, he claimed that American troops abused Japanese women during their seven-year occupation after Japan's 1945 surrender.

China, South Korea and the Philippines have all voiced their disapproval at Hashimoto's comments, the latest episode in a decades-long controversy over interpretations of history in East Asia that colours present-day relations.

Unbowed, Hashimoto on Monday hit back at the polls, criticising their methodology.

"The way the Mainichi did the opinion poll is unfair," he tweeted.

"Even though I have repeatedly said that I didn't think the comfort women system was necessary, it is ... based on the premise that I believe the comfort women system was necessary."

Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto said last week these women served a "necessary" role keeping battle-stressed soldiers in line, sparking outrage in China and South Korea and inviting US criticism.

Two surveys carried out over the weekend indicated that Hashimoto's opinion is not shared by many, despite regular foreign criticism that the Japanese public has still failed to come to terms with the country's bellicose past.

In a poll of 1,550 Japanese households conducted by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, 71 percent of respondents said Hashimoto's comments were "inappropriate" against 21 percent who said the comments were "appropriate".

In a separate survey among 3,600 households by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, 75 percent of those who answered said the comments were "problematic", while 20 percent said they had little or no problem with them.

Majority reject Japan mayor on comfort women: poll
By Kyoko Hasegawa | AFP News â€" Mon, May 20, 2013 7:26 PM PHT



Osaka Mayor and Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto speaks to reporters in Osaka, on May 17, 2013. According to the latest polls, a large majority of Japanese people disagree with Hashimoto who recently said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity.


A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls issued Monday said.

Up to 200,000 "comfort women" from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during WWII, mainstream historians say.

OK kaayo, naa puy mais para mahamis. (Ayaw lang nang tilaob para matikyaob.)

Another golden rule: Mind your own (monkey) business.

Quote from: insurectus on June 03, 2013, 11:36:31 PM
lisod ni i apply sa mga nag lending

Bwahaha! Exempted galing ani ang loan sharks...

Quote from: islander on June 03, 2013, 10:50:06 PM
sa tanto-tanto, dyhp's stories pale in comparison.  wa lay background music nga "mr. moonlight" ang real life.

He he, I got the feeling that this is getting to be a case of tragedy as farce...

Quote from: islander on June 03, 2013, 10:47:13 PM
i take second place only to you, lord hubag.

Careful. There are great pretenders hereabouts...

Quote from: islander on June 03, 2013, 10:45:24 PM
thank you too for sounding like your favorite philippine senator tito sotto.

Hmm, plagiarism? That's seems to be standard operating procedure for some...

The slaughterhouse is owned by a small local feed and poultry producer called Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company, according to the government.

A fire at a nightclub in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, killed 44 people in 2008. A senior policeman was jailed for taking bribes to allow the unlicensed venue to remain open.

One of modern China’s worst fire disasters occurred in late 2000, when fire engulfed building workers at a discotheque in a mall in the central city of Luoyang, killing 309.

The vast majority of deadly industrial accidents in China happen in the huge coal mining industry, in which more than 1,300 people died last year from explosions, mine cave-ins and floods.

Hong Kong’s Phoenix Television cited family members as saying that the doors were always kept locked during working hours during which workers were forbidden to leave and that the slaughterhouse never carried out fire drills.

China’s record is poor. Fire exits in factories are often locked or blocked and regulations can be easily skirted by bribing corrupt officials.

Pictures carried by state media showed smoke rising from a long, low-rise building, whose roof had been almost totally burned away, with fire engines and other rescue vehicles parked in front.

Jilin is a largely agricultural province and an important grower of corn and soy beans.

People took to social media sites to express their anger.

“Was this place never regularly inspected by fire safety authorities?” wrote one user on China’s popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo.

“Senior officials need to be sacked because of this,” wrote another.

Victims’ relatives gathered outside the building to “demand the government investigate and announce the cause of the accident as soon as possible”, Xinhua said.

“About 100 workers have managed to escape from the plant whose gate was locked when the fire occurred,” Xinhua said.

“The complicated interior structure of the prefabricated house in which the fire broke out and the narrow exits have added difficulties to the rescue work.”

The exact number of people unaccounted for was unclear, as was the cause of the fire, Xinhua said. The Jilin government said 54 people were injured and had been rushed to hospital.

http://tribune.com.ng/
Written by  Tuesday, 04 June 2013 00:00


A blaze at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in northeast China killed at least 119 people on Monday with several still unaccounted for, officials and state media said, triggering online outrage in a country with a grim record on fire safety.

The fire broke out just after dawn near Dehui in Jilin province. The provincial government said it sent more than 500 firefighters and more than 270 doctors and nurses to the scene, evacuating 3,000 people living nearby as a precaution.

More than 300 workers were in the plant at the time, with employees reporting hearing a sudden bang and then seeing dark smoke, Xinhua state news agency said.

Naghuwat og milagro nga mahimong tawo ang bana...

Quote from: islander on June 03, 2013, 06:46:47 PM
biyutipol!  i don't mind having these in my garden.  in fact, i should see to it that i have these in my garden one day soon.  boy, do i love orchids.  thanks, tigs.

Mahimo jud nga constant reminder...

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 03, 2013, 09:40:04 AM
Lisud ning imong nasudlan nga suliran. Nakamabdos ka og babaye nga wala nimo higugmaa.

Lisud jud. Lisud man gani bisag gihigugma pa...

Quote from: jorgeanna on May 24, 2013, 11:49:45 AM
nice story. worth sharing to everyone

Yes. Dili kay usa ra ka moral lesson ang atong mahagdaw aning maong sugilagming...

Quote from: bugsay on May 12, 2013, 08:25:46 PM
ujon ko ani...

Hmm, sounds familiar...

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 04, 2013, 07:04:34 AM
Initial reports revealed that all 165 passengers escaped the incident unscathed.

Hmm, basin way garas ang lawas pero maayong pagkatay-og ang utok.

The nose landing gear of the aircraft got stuck in the grassy portion of the runway.

The heavy downpour has made it even more difficult to free the disabled aircraft and clear the runway.

As of 11 p.m. Sunday, the disabled aircraft was still stuck along the side of the runway forcing airport officials to close it for operations. (Raymund Antonio and Anjo Perez)

The diverted flight to Cebu was Philippine Airlines flight PR 819.

Cebu Pacific flight 5J 971 landed safely from Manila but veered off to the right side of the Davao International Airport runway during a heavy down pour in the province at about 7 p.m.

Emergency crew from the FBIA rushed to the scene and helped evacuate the passengers. Initial reports revealed that all 165 passengers escaped the incident unscathed.

A statement from Cebu Pacific disclosed that all passengers had been safely shuttled to the airport terminal and that all their needs had been taken cared for.

http://www.tempo.com.ph/
Posted by Online on Jun 4th, 2013
 

Nine flights from and to Davao were cancelled while another flight was diverted to Cebu after a Cebu Pacific plane carrying 165 passengers overshot the runaway at the Davao International Airport Sunday night.

In an advisory, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said among these flights were Cebu Pacific flights 5J 970 (Davao-Manila) 5J 969/972, 5J 979/980, and 5J 973/974 (Manila-Davao-Manila) and 5J 216/210 (Davao-Cagayan De Oro-Cebu).

Other affected flights were those of Philippine Airlines such as PR 820, PR 821, PR 822 and PR 823.

“Flights were cancelled due to runaway closure at Davao airport due to obstruction,” MIAA said.

'Starting Fresh'

Across town in South Central LA, Damien is about to finish his sophomore year of high school. That three-week suspension for alleged gang activities made him believe he didn't have a future at that school, so he took action and transferred. He says he told himself, "All right, this is a new start."

It has been a new start. At Manual Arts High, he's been able to stay out of trouble. And at the LA Unified School Board Meeting where the decision to curtail suspensions was made, Damien testified about how suspensions almost pushed him out of the school system altogether. He's proud he was a part of the process of changing the district's suspension policy.

"Ninety percent of the time, we find out something happened the night before," he says. Issues at home could range from divorce, to a death or even a family member being deported.

"But these are teenagers. They're not going to go and cry to anybody, they're [in] a tough neighborhood," he says. "So when that kid acts out, we get in his face immediately. ... And we resolve it. And you know what? These kids respond well. Their needs were met."

Since there's no money for additional professionals, Huerta has substituted with parents and nonprofit community groups. He says he believes everyone needs to be accountable: students, parents, teachers and the local community.

Jean De Lafayette Elementary School is one of 50 schools slated to be closed in Chicago. Cities across the country are facing similar decisions, and opposition to the closures is growing.

"I didn't come into Garfield saying, 'OK, my mission in life is to lower suspensions.' It wasn't. It was to enhance and improve the instruction," he says. "And because we did, we were successful with a great teacher group, a great administrative staff, great parents."

When a student does act out in class, Huerta says the teachers act quickly with counselors or the student support team to "find out what the real deal is."

Creating A Connection

At Garfield High School, there's no more money for counselors and social workers â€" and there are few suspensions. Principal Jose Huerta says he has a found a third way.

"It's simple. It doesn't cost money. It's just connecting with kids and having a strong instructional program," he says.

The year before Huerta took over as principal, there were 683 suspensions. Heurta says suspending students had become a reflex to poor behavior. But when he took over in 2010, he said, "No more." The results have been dramatic: just two suspensions in the past three years.

The Right To Remove A Disruption

But Los Angeles teacher Martha Infante says she does not believe eliminating suspensions is the right move for her school district.

"If I see the classroom environment is suffering, that the students are getting scared, I will remove the problem student because my other students have rights, too," she says.

She teaches at Los Angeles Academy Middle School. Infante, who has taught for 16 years, says she believes her ability to suspend disruptive students is an important tool to maintain control of her classroom.

"The more time you spend on discipline issues, it affects the classroom environment," she says. "And sometimes, it doesn't matter how much time I take. It ends up not making a difference, and there's no change in behavior."

Infante says she doesn't hand out suspensions willy-nilly, and often just the threat of a suspension can be effective. Otherwise, she says, "You offer counseling, you get services, whatever services are available."

The problem is, in this era of budget cuts, counselors and psychiatric social workers are in short supply.

"As we've gotten to this sort of zero-tolerance mentality, that kind of policy has been especially applied to poor kids and especially black kids; and also, kids with disabilities," he says.

Losen notes that even being suspended once doubles the chance a student will drop out, raising the risk to 32 percent from 16 percent [which is the dropout rate for students who are not suspended]. Suspended two or more times? The dropout rate is 49 percent.

"All the research says that [being suspended] contributes to their disengagement from school," he says. "So you can imagine that for poor students, students from single-parent households or kids who are homeless, they're much more likely to wind up on the streets unsupervised."

In addition to being more likely to drop out, suspended students also have a higher likelihood of falling into the juvenile justice system.

"That brings up another really important issue: The costs of suspending students are really sky high, but they're hidden costs," Losen says.

Secondary School Suspension Rates (2009-2010)

Black: 24.3 percent
Latino: 12 percent
American Indian: 8.4 percent
White: 7.1 percent
Asian/Pacific Islander: 2.3 percent

â€"The Civil Rights Project, UCLA

"As soon as you go inside the class and get in trouble, they say they already expected it," he says. "They already expected for this African-American male to act like that."

In the 2008 school year at John Muir, black students received half of the total suspensions, though they made up 23 percent of the student body.

What Follows Suspension

That pattern extends beyond Los Angeles, says lawyer and educator Daniel Losen, who directs the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles. In April, Losen co-authored the report, "," which found skewed suspension rates for certain demographics.

But there's mounting research that says that out-of-school suspensions put students on the fast track to falling behind, dropping out, and going to jail. Moreover, some groups are disproportionately suspended more than others.

In A Spiral

Damien Valentine, now 16, received his first out-of-school suspension for repeatedly talking to another student in class and talking back to his teacher. That was four years ago at John Muir Middle School in South Central Los Angeles.

Subsequently, the suspensions kept coming. In eighth grade, Damien had a few "confrontations" â€" not fights, he says, just some heated words between students. But he got suspended again. Then, his freshman year of high school, he was suspended from campus for three weeks, accused of helping to start a gang.

Damien says he believes teachers and principals have an unspoken way of seeing boys and girls of color.

by NPR Staff
June 02, 2013 5:36 PM


The effectiveness of school suspensions is up for debate. California is the most recent battleground, but a pattern of uneven application and negative outcomes is apparent across the country.

California students were suspended more than 700,000 times over the 2011-2012 school year, . One school district decided it was getting ridiculous. In May, the board for the Los Angeles Unified School District to ban the use of suspensions to punish students for "willful defiance."

Those offenses include: bringing a cellphone to school, public displays of affection, truancy or repeated tardiness. They accounted for nearly half of all suspensions issued in California last year.

Hmm, tinuod man jud diay ni. Abi kog ga-joke ras Bay Tigs...





The Monkey orchid (Orchis simia) is an orchid species of the Orchis genus. It is known for its pungent odor, which some[who?] say is similar to that of feces.
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Orchideae
Subtribe: Orchidinae
Genus: Orchis
Species: O. simia
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Quote from: hubag bohol on June 02, 2013, 09:53:44 PM
The three-way marital arrangement was fraught as soon as she was officially a co-wife. "It grew tense when Noten began sleeping with me. My mother knew it was inevitable â€" she pushed me into Noten's bed when I was 15 to consummate the marriage. But he quickly began to prefer me to her." In a whisper â€" Mittamoni is hovering nearby â€" Orola relates how her mother once slipped some wild herbs into her food to upset her stomach. "While I was ill, she took the chance to spend the night with Noten."

Hmm, gimingaw intawon sa Noten...

Bwahaha! Nahilisan ba kaha intawon ang bakunawa. Medyo hunit na ra ba...

Quote from: Votives on May 14, 2013, 01:13:08 PM
jolen..

Nasyomoy diay...

“My reaction immediately, it's Mary, they hear us, she's there. I didn't necessarily see it as a sign that Erin is fine and is going to walk out of this, but it's a sign that we're watching over her."

The report describes how the child was diagnosed with cancer.

“Erin was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2007 and since gone through numerous bone marrow transplants. When the miraculous photo was taken, she was about to undergo her second transplant.”

When asked to provide his opinion about those who were skeptical of the incident, Erin’s father provided a different opinion and remained firm on his belief.

“I know she's not alone, I know we are not alone and people who don't want to believe it, that's OK. Whatever happened, you know something powerful and special was there with us I definitely have my moments when I'm falling apart and I'm terrified and I literally grab my phone and I stare at that picture."

In this report, Scott Waring has published a photograph of the incident, along with a YouTube video. He has also included a new report of the incident.

The news report describes the location of the incident and tells us how the family members located the alien in photographs.

“A family from Kirkland, Ohio got a supernatural shock over the weekend when they were looking over photos of their young daughter and noticed a familiar figure hovering near her.”

The father of the cured child believed that the ghost was Virgin Mary.

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/
Date: 01 June 2013





An angel or alien appeared next to a cancer child and the child was cured of the disease soon, in Kirkland Ohio,in May 2013, as reported by UFO Sightings Daily. The report was posted on May 24, 2013. The website, UFO Sightings Daily, is coordinated by Scott C. Waring. He had been affiliated with the United States Air Force at SAC base (USAF flight line). He currently owns an ESL School in Taiwan.

TAKE THE TEST: FIND OUT IF YOUR PET IS A 'LEFTIE' OR A 'RIGHTIE'


If you teach a dog to shake, which paw does it offer you first and most often?

Fill a toy with something delicious and put it in the center of the dog's visual field. Which paw does it use to touch the toy first? Which paw does the dog use to hold the toy?

Put something sticky on a dog or cat's nose. Which paw does the animal use to remove it?

Place a treat or a piece of cheese under a sofa, just beyond a dog or cat's reach. Which paw does it use to try and get it out?

Dangle a toy over a cat's head. Which paw does it lift to bat it?

Put a treat under a bowl. Which paw does the cat or dog use to move it?

When a dog wants in the backdoor, which paw does it 'knock' with?

Dr Schneider said: 'There is research in the human world as well that positive and negative emotions can be located in the left and right hemispheres.

'It seems to go the same way in humans and other animal species â€" that the negative emotions are in the right hemisphere.

'There are many, many overlaps between human and animal brains.'

In 2010, a study found that left-handed people are more likely to be angry, clumsy and awkward because their two brain hemispheres communicate more, spreading negative emotions.

Famously aggressive left-handers include Alexander the Great, Billy the Kid and John McEnroe.

Over at least 50 attempts for each, Dr Schneider, from the University of Adelaide, could establish a left or right preference.

Only 10 per cent of humans are left-handed but the ratio was much more even for dogs. Around a third were classed as left-pawed and a third as right with the remainder being 'ambilateral' or being able to use both equally.

When owners detailed how the  pets behaved with strangers, there was a clear split.

The left-pawed dogs scored almost twice as high for aggression than the ambilateral ones and markedly higher than the right-pawed.

None of the dogs in the project were particularly noted for their aggression, it was reported in the Journal of Veterinary Behaviour.

Left handed dogs are more likely to be aggressive to strangers than their right-pawed friends, a study has found

The left paw is controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, which other studies have shown is linked to negative emotions.

The results mirror those for humans as research has shown the same is true of people.

For the canine project, Dr Luke Schneider studied 75 pets, including labradors, border collies, golden retrievers, Shetland sheepdogs and crossbreeds.

They were given a cylindrical toy containing food, which they tried to get out. Because of the  shape, the dogs had to use one paw to hold it still and the other to get at the treats inside.

Why posties should fear left-pawed dogs: They are more likely to be aggressive to strangers

    'Left-pawed' animals more likely to act aggressively towards strangers
    Dogs are left and right pawed and use one paw over other for tasks
    Left paw controlled by right side of brain -  linked to negative emotions

By Ben Spencer
PUBLISHED: 11:52 GMT, 2 June 2013 | UPDATED: 00:50 GMT, 3 June 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/


If your otherwise well-behaved dog barks at the postman, the reason could well be in its feet.

Scientists have found that 'left-pawed' canines are more aggressive towards strangers than their 'right-pawed' counterparts.

They tested dozens of pets with a special toy to find out which side they favoured and then analysed their behaviour.

Hmm, kausa ra ba kaha mahitabo? Wa man mosulti si Ondoy Carl kon nausban ba...

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 03, 2013, 09:40:04 AM
Napusgay gyud nako ang iyang pagkababaye, Noy, niadtong gabhiona.

He he, napusgay jud. Mora mag garapon...

Carl,

Lisud ning imong nasudlan nga suliran. Nakamabdos ka og babaye nga wala nimo higugmaa.

Nagpadala mo sa inyong mga pagbati nga wala ninyo lantawa ang mamahimong lingtunganay sa inyong gihimo. Mimabdos siya.

Kini maoy problema karon kay wa kay gugma niya. Gawas pa, wala ka sab makahibawo kon duna ba sab siyay love nimo kay di man mo uyab.

Puwede kaayo mong magminyo kay di na man mo mga menor de edad. Apan ang suliran kay ikaw mismo way love niya. Di sab klaro ang iyang pagbati nimo.

Lisud og makigminyo ka nga wa kay gugma. Segurado nga di molahutay ang inyong pagpuyo ug moresulta lang sab sa inyong panabulag.

Useless lang gihapon kon pugson ninyo ang inyong mga kaugalingon nga magminyo kay wa may kasegurohan gihapon.

Hinungdan nga pagpakasal di maoy sulbad sa inyong suliran karon.

Ang inyong buhaton karon mao ang pag-istorya bahin sa inyong sitwasiyon. Sultihi siya nga mas maayong mahibawo ang iyang ginikanan sa iyang gidangatan karon. Naa na man gyud na, busa angay na lang nga atubangon, instead nga tagoan. Kay sa ngadto-ngadto masayran ra man sab na gihapon.

Alang sa imong bahin, kon mahitabong di gyud mo magminyo, angay nga imong suportahan ang bata kay imo man na. Suportahan sab nimo ang babaye samtang magmabdos hangtud nga siya manganak.

Ayaw talikdi ang imong responsabilidad ilabi na gyud ngadto sa bata. Pasabta siya niini aron nga di sab siya ma-depressed og maayo nga makaapekto unya sa bata.

Noy Tikyo

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/

Dear Noy Tikyo,

Ako si Carl, 18, taga siyudad sa Davao. Nagtrabaho isip waiter sa usa ka kan-anan ning dakbayan.

Ang akong suliran bahin sa akong napamabdosan nga babaye. Silingan ra namo og barangay apan mas maguwa iya nako og duha ka tuig.

Napasubo ra ko niya tungod lagi sa akong barkada nga nagtupo-tupo namo.

Dunay kausa nga nagkauban ming duha sa pagpanguli gikan sa usa ka kalingawan sa downtown area. Wala mi midiretso og uli kay gusto pa niyang mohapit mi sa Rizal Park. Tungod kay sayo pa man, ako siyang gipaundayonan sa iyang gusto. Samtang nanglingkod mi sa park, nagka-holding hands mi nagkadikit ang among lawas. Ambot ba nga miinit man ming duha ug nagkaginaksanay og hugot. Nadala mi sa among gibati niadtong tungura.

Nakahukom ming mosulod og lodge aron nga ipahungaw ang among nagdilaab nga pagbati. Grabe ang among romansa niadtong tungura kay pulos man mi first timer. Napusgay gyud nako ang iyang pagkababaye, Noy, niadtong gabhiona.

Karon ang akong problema kay miburos man siya. Unsaon na lang namo ni kay naglisud man siya og sulti sa iyang ginikanan, ilabi na nga bata pa kuno ko.

Gawas niini, wala sab ko mahigugma niya. Hadlok ko nga makasal sa babaye nga wala nako higugmaa. Palihug lamdagi ang akong hunahuna.

CARL

Officials in India already are making plans to expand the vinegar testing to a wider population.

Many poor countries can't afford mammograms for breast cancer screening either. The India study also has been testing breast exams by health workers as an alternative. Preliminary results suggest breast cancers are being found at an earlier stage, but it's too soon to know if that will save lives because not enough women have died yet to compare the groups, said Trimble of the National Cancer Institute.

More progress against cervical cancer may come from last month's announcement that two companies will drastically lower prices on HPV vaccines for poor countries. Pilot projects will begin in Asia and Africa; the campaign aims to vaccinate more than 30 million girls in more than 40 countries by 2020.

"We looked at the ethics very carefully" and felt them to be sound, and visited the project in India, said Trimble of the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Sandra Swain, a cancer specialist at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, also defended the research. She is president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the research results were presented at that group's meeting in Chicago on Sunday.

"There really was no wrongdoing there," she said. "They have no screening anyway," so there is no standard of care now.

"There was a sense of shame about taking their clothes off. A lot of them had their babies at home and had never been to a doctor," said one health worker, Urmila Hadkar. "Sometimes just the idea of getting tested for cancer scared them. They would start crying even before being tested."

But screening worked. The quality of screening by health workers was comparable to that of an expert gynecologist, researchers reported. The study was planned for 16 years, but results at 12 years showed lives were saved with the screening. So independent monitors advised offering it to the women in the comparison group.

An ethics controversy developed during the study. The U.S. Office for Human Research Protections faulted researchers for not adequately informing participants in the comparison group about Pap tests for screening. A letter from the agency in March indicated officials seemed to accept many of the remedies study leaders had implemented.

Others defended the study.

Still, this quick and free cancer screening was a hard sell in a deeply conservative country where women are subservient and need permission from husbands, fathers or others for even routine decisions. Social workers were sent into the slums to win people over.

"We went to every single house in the neighborhood assigned to us introducing ourselves and asking them to come to our health talks. They used to come out of curiosity, listen to the talk but when we asked them to get screened they would totally refuse," said one social worker, Vaishnavi Bhagat. "The women were both scared and shy."

One woman who did agree to testing jumped up from the table when she was examined with a speculum. "She started screaming that we had stolen her kidney," Bhagat said. Another health worker was beaten by people in the neighborhood when women realized they would have to disrobe to be screened.

The research effort was led by Dr. Surendra Shastri of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. India has nearly one-third of the world's cases of cervical cancer â€" more than 140,000 each year.

"It's just not possible to provide Pap smear screening in developing countries. We don't have that kind of money" or the staff or equipment, so a simpler method had to be found, Shastri said.

Starting in 1998, researchers enrolled 75,360 women to be screened every two years with the vinegar test. Another 76,178 women were chosen for a control, or comparison group that just got cancer education at the start of the study and vouchers for a free Pap test â€" if they could get to the hospital to have one. Women in either group found to have cancer were offered free treatment at the hospital.

"That's amazing. That's remarkable. It's a very exciting result," said Dr. Ted Trimble of the National Cancer Institute in the U.S., the main sponsor of the study.

The story of research participant Usha Devi is not an unusual one. Despite having given birth to four children, she had never had a gynecological exam. She had been bleeding heavily for several years, hoping patience and prayers would fix things.

"Everyone said it would go away, and every time I thought about going to the doctor there was either no money or something else would come up," she said, sitting in a tiny room that serves as bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living room for her entire family.

One day she found a card from health workers trying to convince women to join the study. Devi is in her late 40s and like many poor Indians doesn't know her date of birth. She learned she had advanced cervical cancer. The study paid for surgery to remove her uterus and cervix.

"Many women refused to get screened. Some of them died of cancer later," Devi said. "Now I feel everyone should get tested. I got my life back because of these tests."

Pap smears and tests for HPV, a virus that causes most cervical cancers, have slashed cases and deaths in the United States. But poor countries can't afford those screening tools.

This study tried a test that costs very little and can be done by local people with just two weeks of training and no fancy lab equipment. They swab the cervix with diluted vinegar, which can make abnormal cells briefly change color.

This low-tech visual exam cut the cervical cancer death rate by 31 percent, the study found. It could prevent 22,000 deaths in India and 72,600 worldwide each year, researchers estimate.

By MUNEEZA NAQVI and MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Associated Press â€" 3 hrs ago


MUMBAI, India (AP) â€" A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.

Doctors reported the results Sunday at a cancer conference in Chicago. Experts called the outcome "amazing" and said this quick, cheap test could save tens of thousands of lives each year in developing countries by spotting early signs of cancer, allowing treatment before it's too late.

Usha Devi, one of the women in the study, says it saved her life.

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 03, 2013, 09:28:50 AM
Wala nila isalikway ang posibilidad nga gisuyaan ang biktima samtang nagsayawsayaw sa diskuhan, o kaha nakakitag bikil hinungdan nga giatangan sa pagpauli niini.

Labaw pa tingali kangilngig ni John Travolta modalag hiyod-hiyod...

Ang biktima gikatahong hubog kini katapusang nakit-an mga alas 2:00 sa kaadlawon nga nagdisko, apan pagka alas 3:00 sa kaadlawom nipauli nga nag-inusara nga naglakaw.

Sa pag-abot niya sa ngitngit nga dapit mga 200 metros gikan sa ilahang panimalay kalit siyang gi-ataki sa wala mailhing tawo gibunalbunalan ang ulo ug nawong ug kalawasan hangtud nga namatay.

Matod ni PO2 Claro, nga maayong pagkahiwa sa pikas habig sa nawong sa biktima ug mga samad sa lawas.

Wala nila isalikway ang posibilidad nga gisuyaan ang biktima samtang nagsayawsayaw sa diskuhan, o kaha nakakitag bikil hinungdan nga giatangan sa pagpauli niini.

SuperBalita Cebu
Ni Guam P. Logroño
Monday, June 3, 2013


GITUOHAN sa kapulisan nga gisuyaan ang usa ka laborer nga mitambong sa disko hinungdan nga gibunalbunalan hangtod nga namatay atol sa pagpauli niini kagahapon sa alas 3:00 sa kaadlawon sa Barangay Bagay, lungsod sa Daanbantayan.

Si Julito Montisa, ulitawo, hingkod ang panuigon, laborer, patay na nga napalgan sa iyang kabanay pipi­la ka metros gikan sa ilang panimalay kagahapon sa buntag nga daghang samad sa lawas ug gituohang gibunalan og magahing butang ang iyang ulo ug nawong.

Si PO2 Ramil Claro, desk officer sa Daanbantayan Police nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita nagkanayon nga mitambong sa disko sa piyesta sa Sitio Taytayan sa maong barangay.

The operative word is "relevant". Kon mo-apply ka pagka-accountant, di tingali ma-creditan ang imong dancing lessons...

"I've always had a fascination with weather," Samaras said. "I watched 'The Wizard of Oz' when I was a kid and vowed to myself, 'I'm going to see that tornado one day.' Tornadoes have pretty much become a focus of my life."

He continued: "Being close to a tornado is one of those incredible, fleeting moments that sometimes you have to take a couple of seconds to take in."

Samaras also recalled a close call he had with a tornado South Dakota in 2003 when an F-4 "dropped from the sky on a sleepy road" and he deployed three probes in the tornado's path, placing the last one from his car 100 yards ahead of the tornado itself.

"That's the closest I've been to a violent tornado," he said, "and I have no desire to ever be that close again."

It's unclear exactly how the men were killed, but a fellow storm chaser told ABC that their equipment is missing. "The family and overall scientific community would like it recovered to see what happened and what went wrong," the storm chaser said.

Friday's storm "ended up putting many storm chasing lives in danger," Connor Simpson wrote on the Atlantic Wire, "and caused a few chasers to question the practice amid so many disasters and close calls." The Weather Channel's tornado-chasing mobile was picked up and tossed 200 yards during one. Miraculously, all three passengers survived:



Sean Schofer (Twitter)


Last month, Samaras gave an interview to National Geographic about his 30-year storm chasing career.

“This has really shaken up everyone in the storm chasing community," Doug Kiesling, a storm photographer, told CNN. "We knew this day would happen someday, but nobody would imagine that it would happen to Tim. Tim was one of the safest people to go out there."

Samaras' last tweet, published Friday, read: "Dangerous day ahead for OK--stay weather savvy!"

"Tim was not a cowboy," Mike Nelson, chief meteorologist for Denver's ABC affiliate, said. "He was as cautious as possible about his approach to studying these dangerous storms."

"Thank you to everyone for the condolences," Tim Samaras' brother, Jim, wrote on Tim's Facebook wall. "It truly is sad that we lost my great brother Tim and his great son, Paul. Our hearts also go out to the Carl Young family as well as they are feeling the same feelings we are today. They all unfortunately passed away but doing what they loved.

"I look at it that he is in the 'big tornado in the sky,'" Jim added.

The "Storm Chasers" series ended in November after five seasons on the Discovery Channel. The network said it would dedicate Sunday's "Mile Wide Tornado: Oklahoma Disaster"â€"a primetime special on the deadly tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., on May 20â€"to their memory.

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout â€" 7 hrs ago



Tim Samaras (Discovery Channel)


"Storm Chasers" star Tim Samaras, 55, his 24-year-old son, Paul, and a 45-year-old colleague were among those killed when powerful storms, including several tornadoes, tore through Oklahoma on Friday.

"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Tim Samaras, his son Paul and their colleague Carl Young," the Discovery Channel said in a statement released Sunday. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families."

The men died while chasing an F-3 tornado in El Reno, Okla., near Oklahoma City. At least nine people, including a mother and her baby were killed during Friday's storms, officials said.

Matud pa ni Recla, nga si Alburo, mipatulo pa sa iyahang luha nga nangayog pasaylo sa iyang nabuhat dihang nag-atubang sila ni Judge Trinidad.

Gipadayag niini nga nahimo lang niya ang krimen kay hubog siya ug wala makakwarta sa tinguha niyang maputol ang kahoy.

Apan, si Judge Trinidad, kinsa unang nagpatambal sa Perpetual Soccor, nagpakurasyon sab sa Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) nga magamit niini sa pagpasakag kaso batok kang Alburo.

Nagdumili hinuon sa paghatg og komentaryo ang huwes labot sa mga taho nga dunay nagpa­salba didto sa lugar atol sa kaguliyang.

Dugang ni Recla, nga naukay gyud ang mga residente sa lugar, ingon man ang ubang mga tawong nanimba tungod sa maong insidente.

Sa pagrespondi sa kapulisan, si Alburo dali kining gipusasan dayon gipaubos sa liquor test ug positibo ang resulta sa ilimnong makahubog.

Matod pa niini nga hubog nang daan pagkabuntag si Alburo, niduol kini ni Judge Trinidad, nipadayag nga buot niyang putlon ang dakong punoan sa kahoy nga acasia nga nahimutang sa likod nga bahin.

Ang huwes nibalibad ug nipasabot kang Alburo nga dili niya mapaputol ang kahoy kay dili siyay tag-iya niini, gawas pa niini nakahatag sab kinig landong sa ilahang panimalay.

Ang suspek wala mahimuot sa pagbalibad sa huwes hinungdan nga gi-atangan niini human migawas sa simbahan.

“Hubog na siya buntag unya nasuko daw siya kay maka-kwarta naman unta to kun maputol ang kahoy kay magpasuhol man siya ni Judge” dugang ni Chief Insp. Recla.

Si Chief Insp. Aileen Recla, hepe sa Pari-an Police Station sa Cebu City Police Office nga nahinabi sa dySS Super Radyo/Sun.Star Superbalita, nagkanayon nga gikan nisimba si Judge Trinidad.

Sa paggawas niini sa simbahan padulong mopauli sa panimalay sa atbang, giatangan na siya sa suspek dayon gisuntok ang walang bahin sa mata hinungdan sa pagkagisi.

Si Judge Trinidad nidagan kini paingon sa ilang panimalay samtang nangayog panabang sa mga tawo nga nisimba sab niadtong higayuna.

Buot pa untang pusilon ang huwes sa suspek apan nakasulod na kini sa ilahang panimalay.

Apan wala makasibat si Alburo human si Barangay Kapitan Jinggoy Reformina sa Zapatera, kinsa nisimba usab niadtong higayuna, daling nakasikop kang Alburo.

SuperBalita Cebu
Ni Guam P. Logroño
Monday, June 3, 2013


HUWES nabuyong ug nagisi-an sa walang mata dihang gisukmag sa usa ka ex-convict atol sa iyang paggawas gikan nisimba sa Sacred Heart Parish Church kagahapon sa alas 11:00 sa buntag sa dalan D. Jakosalem, Barangay Zapatera, dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Si Judge Mario Trinidad, 63, nagpuyo sa nahisgutang lugar og Presiding Judge sa Regional Trial Court (RTC) 7 Branch 61, sa dakbayan sa Bogo, gitahi ang ubos nga bahin sa walang mata human nagiisan sa pagpanukmag.

Si Charlie Alburo, 40, ulitawo, taga Barangay Basak San Nicolas, ex-convict ug dispatcher diha sa Sacred Heart Church, gibalhog sa Pari-an Police Station ug gikatakdang pasakaan og kasong karong adlawa.

Si Alburo, bag-ohay lang nagawas sa bilanggoan human siya nakapatay niadtong 2005 dihang iyang gidak­daka’g bato ang ulo sa iyang gibiktima.

Punch something. Macaques rarely engage in a serious fight over resources like food, grooming partners, or infants. But Edwards notes that stressed-out macaques will show aggressive behavior to warn another monkey that is causing a problem. "An individual will give an open-mouthed threat as a warning first," she said. "If that is ignored, this may be accompanied by slapping the ground and finally chasing the opponent." Humans might want to try a punching bag instead.

Hug it out. A stressed-out macaque will seek an individual within their network for companionship. Female macaques, who tend to stay close to their relatives, will go to their mother to be embraced. One female, Edwards reported, spent more time embracing another monkey when her level of stress hormones was high.

Grooming and scratching. "Grooming can relax both the individual grooming and the one being groomed," Fuentes said, adding that grooming a friend is similar to how humans pet their cats or dogs when they come home from a long day. Similarly, macaques scratch themselves more if they are stressed, perhaps, he said, because the repetitive physical action is also a calming factor. Note to middle managers: Close office door before scratching.

Dealing With the Stress

So how do macaques deal with their stress? Here are some of the ways. Middle manager humans, feel free to try these out.

Hang out with a baby. A common stress reliever among macaques is taking care of infants. Both males and females love spending time with younger members of the troop, whether their own infant or someone else's. Grooming babies is a relaxing pastime. "They will grab [an infant] and take it over to their friends and groom it together," Fuentes said. "And that helps them calm down." Warning to middle managers: Taken to excess, this behavior could lead you to audition for "Toddlers and Tiaras."

Fuentes, who teaches human evolution and behavior at the University of Notre Dame, added that middle-ranking individuals are under more stress because their interactions are less predictable. "They're not exactly sure how others are going to respond to them and how they should respond to others." He was talking about macaques. But he might as well have been analyzing human middle managers.

Other macaque observers agree that life is no picnic for middle monkeys. "The stress for macaques, like humans, is not so much about getting the goodies within the hierarchy. It's about how others relate to me and how I relate to others," said National Geographic explorer Agustin Fuentes, who was not involved in the study but has been observing macaques in Singapore's urban jungles using Crittercam.

Researchers monitored nine female Barbary macaques for nearly 600 hours and found that the middle-ranking individuals had higher levels of stress hormones in their fecal sample than the others. And human middle managers are likely to suffer a similar degree of stress.

"Although the particular challenges that humans face might be different [from] those seen in other species, the underlying physiology is similar," lead author Katie Edwards of the University of Liverpool wrote in an email. "The idea remains that individuals in the middle of the hierarchy have to contend with challenges from above and below."

Why Monkeys in the Middle Are More Stressed
Study on macaques helps explain why human middle managers have the most stress.



Japanese macaques relax in a hot spring.
Photograph by Tim Laman, National Geographic


Linda Poon
National Geographic News
Published April 11, 2013

Being a monkey in the middle is pretty much like being a middle manager: According to a new study, stress levels for macaques in the middle of a tribe's hierarchy are likely to be higher than those of their counterparts at the lower end of the social ladder.