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The old man turned and regarded her, and his voice shook.  "He has been
dead ten days, and besides he--I would not tell you else, but--I could
only recognize him by his clothing.  If he was too terrible for you to
see then, how now?"

"Bring him back," cried the old woman, and dragged him toward the door.
"Do you think I fear the child I have nursed?"

He went down in the darkness, and felt his way to the parlour, and then
to the mantelpiece.  The talisman was in its place, and a horrible fear
that the unspoken wish might bring his mutilated son before him ere he
could escape from the room seized upon him, and he caught his breath as
he found that he had lost the direction of the door.  His brow cold with
sweat, he felt his way round the table, and groped along the wall until
he found himself in the small passage with the unwholesome thing in his
hand.

"Get it," she panted; "get it quickly, and wish--Oh, my boy, my boy!"

Her husband struck a match and lit the candle.  "Get back to bed," he
said, unsteadily.  "You don't know what you are saying."

"We had the first wish granted," said the old woman, feverishly; "why not
the second?"

"A coincidence," stammered the old man.

"Go and get it and wish," cried his wife, quivering with excitement.

"We've only had one."

"Was not that enough?"  he demanded, fiercely.

"No," she cried, triumphantly; "we'll have one more.  Go down and get it
quickly, and wish our boy alive again."

The man sat up in bed and flung the bedclothes from his quaking limbs.
"Good God, you are mad!"  he cried, aghast.

"It's in the parlour, on the bracket," he replied, marvelling.  "Why?"

She cried and laughed together, and bending over, kissed his cheek.

"I only just thought of it," she said, hysterically.  "Why didn't I think
of it before?  Why didn't you think of it?"

"Think of what?"  he questioned.

"The other two wishes," she replied, rapidly.

The sound of her sobs died away on his ears.  The bed was warm, and his
eyes heavy with sleep.  He dozed fitfully, and then slept until a sudden
wild cry from his wife awoke him with a start.

"The paw!"  she cried wildly.  "The monkey's paw!"

He started up in alarm.  "Where?  Where is it?  What's the matter?"

She came stumbling across the room toward him.  "I want it," she said,
quietly.  "You've not destroyed it?"

It was about a week after that the old man, waking suddenly in the night,
stretched out his hand and found himself alone.  The room was in
darkness, and the sound of subdued weeping came from the window.  He
raised himself in bed and listened.

"Come back," he said, tenderly.  "You will be cold."

"It is colder for my son," said the old woman, and wept afresh.

III.

In the huge new cemetery, some two miles distant, the old people buried
their dead, and came back to a house steeped in shadow and silence.  It
was all over so quickly that at first they could hardly realize it, and
remained in a state of expectation as though of something else to happen
--something else which was to lighten this load, too heavy for old hearts
to bear.

But the days passed, and expectation gave place to resignation--the
hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled, apathy.  Sometimes
they hardly exchanged a word, for now they had nothing to talk about, and
their days were long to weariness.

"I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility,"
continued the other.  "They admit no liability at all, but in
consideration of your son's services, they wish to present you with
a certain sum as compensation."

Mr. White dropped his wife's hand, and rising to his feet, gazed with a
look of horror at his visitor.  His dry lips shaped the words, "How
much?"

"Two hundred pounds," was the answer.

Unconscious of his wife's shriek, the old man smiled faintly, put out his
hands like a sightless man, and dropped, a senseless heap, to the floor.

The other coughed, and rising, walked slowly to the window.  "The firm
wished me to convey their sincere sympathy with you in your great loss,"
he said, without looking round.  "I beg that you will understand I am
only their servant and merely obeying orders."

There was no reply; the old woman's face was white, her eyes staring, and
her breath inaudible; on the husband's face was a look such as his friend
the sergeant might have carried into his first action.

"He was caught in the machinery," said the visitor at length in a low
voice.

"Caught in the machinery," repeated Mr. White, in a dazed fashion, "yes."

He sat staring blankly out at the window, and taking his wife's hand
between his own, pressed it as he had been wont to do in their old
courting-days nearly forty years before.

"He was the only one left to us," he said, turning gently to the visitor.
"It is hard."

"I'm sorry--" began the visitor.

"Is he hurt?"  demanded the mother, wildly.

The visitor bowed in assent.  "Badly hurt," he said, quietly, "but he is
not in any pain."

"Oh, thank God!" said the old woman, clasping her hands.  "Thank God for
that!  Thank--"

She broke off suddenly as the sinister meaning of the assurance dawned
upon her and she saw the awful confirmation of her fears in the other's
perverted face.  She caught her breath, and turning to her slower-witted
husband, laid her trembling old hand upon his.  There was a long silence.

"I--was asked to call," he said at last, and stooped and picked a piece
of cotton from his trousers.  "I come from 'Maw and Meggins.'"

The old lady started.  "Is anything the matter?"  she asked,
breathlessly.  "Has anything happened to Herbert?  What is it?  What is
it?"

Her husband interposed.  "There, there, mother," he said, hastily.  "Sit
down, and don't jump to conclusions.  You've not brought bad news, I'm
sure, sir," and he eyed the other wistfully.

His wife made no reply.  She was watching the mysterious movements of a
man outside, who, peering in an undecided fashion at the house, appeared
to be trying to make up his mind to enter.  In mental connection with the
two hundred pounds, she noticed that the stranger was well dressed, and
wore a silk hat of glossy newness.  Three times he paused at the gate,
and then walked on again.  The fourth time he stood with his hand upon
it, and then with sudden resolution flung it open and walked up the path.
Mrs. White at the same moment placed her hands behind her, and hurriedly
unfastening the strings of her apron, put that useful article of apparel
beneath the cushion of her chair.

She brought the stranger, who seemed ill at ease, into the room.  He
gazed at her furtively, and listened in a preoccupied fashion as the old
lady apologized for the appearance of the room, and her husband's coat, a
garment which he usually reserved for the garden.  She then waited as
patiently as her sex would permit, for him to broach his business, but he
was at first strangely silent.

"Herbert will have some more of his funny remarks, I expect, when he
comes home," she said, as they sat at dinner.

"I dare say," said Mr. White, pouring himself out some beer; "but for all
that, the thing moved in my hand; that I'll swear to."

"You thought it did," said the old lady soothingly.

"I say it did," replied the other.  "There was no thought about it; I had
just---- What's the matter?"

"Morris said the things happened so naturally," said' his father, "that
you might if you so wished attribute it to coincidence."

"Well, don't break into the money before I come back," said Herbert as he
rose from the table.  "I'm afraid it'll turn you into a mean, avaricious
man, and we shall have to disown you."

His mother laughed, and following him to the door, watched him down the
road; and returning to the breakfast table, was very happy at the expense
of her husband's credulity.  All of which did not prevent her from
scurrying to the door at the postman's knock, nor prevent her from
referring somewhat shortly to retired sergeant-majors of bibulous habits
when she found that the post brought a tailor's bill.

II.

In the brightness of the wintry sun next morning as it streamed over the
breakfast table he laughed at his fears.  There was an air of prosaic
wholesomeness about the room which it had lacked on the previous night,
and the dirty, shrivelled little paw was pitched on the sideboard with a
carelessness which betokened no great belief in its virtues.

"I suppose all old soldiers are the same," said Mrs. White.  "The idea of
our listening to such nonsense!  How could wishes be granted in these
days?  And if they could, how could two hundred pounds hurt you, father?"

"Might drop on his head from the sky," said the frivolous Herbert.

"I expect you'll find the cash tied up in a big bag in the middle of your
bed," said Herbert, as he bade them good-night, "and something horrible
squatting up on top of the wardrobe watching you as you pocket your
ill-gotten gains."

He sat alone in the darkness, gazing at the dying fire, and seeing faces
in it.  The last face was so horrible and so simian that he gazed at it
in amazement.'  It got so vivid that, with a little uneasy laugh, he felt
on the table for a glass containing a little water to throw over it.  His
hand grasped the monkey's paw, and with a little shiver he wiped his hand
on his coat and went up to bed.

"It must have been your fancy, father," said his wife, regarding him
anxiously.

He shook his head.  "Never mind, though; there's no harm done, but it
gave me a shock all the same."

They sat down by the fire again while the two men finished their pipes.
Outside, the wind was higher than ever, and the old man started nervously
at the sound of a door banging upstairs.  A silence unusual and
depressing settled upon all three, which lasted until the old couple rose
to retire for the night.

A fine crash from the piano greeted the words, interrupted by a
shuddering cry from the old man.  His wife and son ran toward him.

"It moved," he cried, with a glance of disgust at the object as it lay on
the floor.

"As I wished, it twisted in my hand like a snake."

"Well, I don't see the money," said his son as he picked it up and placed
it on the table, "and I bet I never shall."

Mr. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously.  "I don't
know what to wish for, and that's a fact," he said, slowly.  "It seems to
me I've got all I want."

"If you only cleared the house, you'd be quite happy, wouldn't you?"
said Herbert, with his hand on his shoulder.  "Well, wish for two hundred
pounds, then; that 'll just do it."

His father, smiling shamefacedly at his own credulity, held up the
talisman, as his son, with a solemn face, somewhat marred by a wink at
his mother, sat down at the piano and struck a few impressive chords.

"I wish for two hundred pounds," said the old man distinctly.

"A trifle," said he, colouring slightly.  "He didn't want it, but I made
him take it.  And he pressed me again to throw it away."

"Likely," said Herbert, with pretended horror.  "Why, we're going to be
rich, and famous and happy.  Wish to be an emperor, father, to begin
with; then you can't be henpecked."

He darted round the table, pursued by the maligned Mrs. White armed with
an antimacassar.

Mr. White dropped it back in his pocket, and placing chairs, motioned his
friend to the table.  In the business of supper the talisman was partly
forgotten, and afterward the three sat listening in an enthralled fashion
to a second instalment of the soldier's adventures in India.

"If the tale about the monkey's paw is not more truthful than those he
has been telling us," said Herbert, as the door closed behind their
guest, just in time for him to catch the last train, "we sha'nt make much
out of it."

"Did you give him anything for it, father?"  inquired Mrs. White,
regarding her husband closely.

The other shook his head and examined his new possession closely.  "How
do you do it?"  he inquired.

"Hold it up in your right hand and wish aloud," said the sergeant-major,
"but I warn you of the consequences."

"Sounds like the Arabian Nights," said Mrs. White, as she rose and began
to set the supper.  "Don't you think you might wish for four pairs of
hands for me?"

Her husband drew the talisman from pocket, and then all three burst into
laughter as the sergeant-major, with a look of alarm on his face, caught
him by the arm.

"If you must wish," he said, gruffly, "wish for something sensible."

He took the paw, and dangling it between his forefinger and thumb,
suddenly threw it upon the fire.  White, with a slight cry, stooped down
and snatched it off.

"Better let it burn," said the soldier, solemnly.

"If you don't want it, Morris," said the other, "give it to me."

"I won't," said his friend, doggedly.  "I threw it on the fire.  If you
keep it, don't blame me for what happens.  Pitch it on the fire again
like a sensible man."

The soldier shook his head.  "Fancy, I suppose," he said, slowly.  "I did
have some idea of selling it, but I don't think I will.  It has caused
enough mischief already.  Besides, people won't buy.  They think it's a
fairy tale; some of them, and those who do think anything of it want to
try it first and pay me afterward."

"If you could have another three wishes," said the old man, eyeing him
keenly, "would you have them?"

"I don't know," said the other.  "I don't know."

"The first man had his three wishes.  Yes," was the reply; "I don't know
what the first two were, but the third was for death.  That's how I got
the paw."

His tones were so grave that a hush fell upon the group.

"If you've had your three wishes, it's no good to you now, then, Morris,"
said the old man at last.  "What do you keep it for?"

"Well, why don't you have three, sir?"  said Herbert White, cleverly.

The soldier regarded him in the way that middle age is wont to regard
presumptuous youth.  "I have," he said, quietly, and his blotchy face
whitened.

"And did you really have the three wishes granted?"  asked Mrs. White.

"I did," said the sergeant-major, and his glass tapped against his strong
teeth.

"And has anybody else wished?"  persisted the old lady.

He took something out of his pocket and proffered it.  Mrs. White drew
back with a grimace, but her son, taking it, examined it curiously.

"And what is there special about it?"  inquired Mr. White as he took it
from his son, and having examined it, placed it upon the table.

"It had a spell put on it by an old fakir," said the sergeant-major,
"a very holy man.  He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and
that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.  He put a spell
on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it."

His manner was so impressive that his hearers were conscious that their
light laughter jarred somewhat.

"Monkey's paw?"  said Mrs. White, curiously.

"Well, it's just a bit of what you might call magic, perhaps," said the
sergeant-major, offhandedly.

His three listeners leaned forward eagerly.  The visitor absent-mindedly
put his empty glass to his lips and then set it down again.  His host
filled it for him.

"To look at," said the sergeant-major, fumbling in his pocket, "it's just
an ordinary little paw, dried to a mummy."

"I'd like to go to India myself," said the old man, "just to look round a
bit, you know."

"Better where you are," said the sergeant-major, shaking his head.  He
put down the empty glass, and sighing softly, shook it again.

"I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers," said
the old man.  "What was that you started telling me the other day about a
monkey's paw or something, Morris?"

"Nothing," said the soldier, hastily.  "Leastways nothing worth hearing."

The sergeant-major shook hands, and taking the proffered seat by the
fire, watched contentedly while his host got out whiskey and tumblers and
stood a small copper kettle on the fire.

At the third glass his eyes got brighter, and he began to talk, the
little family circle regarding with eager interest this visitor from
distant parts, as he squared his broad shoulders in the chair and spoke
of wild scenes and doughty deeds; of wars and plagues and strange
peoples.

"Twenty-one years of it," said Mr. White, nodding at his wife and son.
"When he went away he was a slip of a youth in the warehouse.  Now look
at him."

"He don't look to have taken much harm," said Mrs. White, politely.

"There he is," said Herbert White, as the gate banged to loudly and heavy
footsteps came toward the door.

The old man rose with hospitable haste, and opening the door, was heard
condoling with the new arrival.  The new arrival also condoled with
himself, so that Mrs. White said, "Tut, tut!"  and coughed gently as her
husband entered the room, followed by a tall, burly man, beady of eye and
rubicund of visage.

"Sergeant-Major Morris," he said, introducing him.

"That's the worst of living so far out," bawled Mr. White, with sudden
and unlooked-for violence; "of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way
places to live in, this is the worst.  Pathway's a bog, and the road's a
torrent.  I don't know what people are thinking about.  I suppose because
only two houses in the road are let, they think it doesn't matter."

"Never mind, dear," said his wife, soothingly; "perhaps you'll win the
next one."

Mr. White looked up sharply, just in time to intercept a knowing glance
between mother and son.  The words died away on his lips, and he hid a
guilty grin in his thin grey beard.

THE MONKEY'S PAW
By W. W. Jacobs

I.

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam
Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.  Father and son
were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving
radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils
that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting
placidly by the fire.

"Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal mistake
after it was too late, was amiably desirous of preventing his son from
seeing it.

"I'm listening," said the latter, grimly surveying the board as he
stretched out his hand.  "Check."

"I should hardly think that he'd come to-night," said his father, with
his hand poised over the board.

"Mate," replied the son.

One day when a monkey was climbing a tree in the forest in which he lived, he ran a thorn into his tail. Try as he would, he could not get it out, so he went to a barber in the town and said:

"Friend Barber, I have a thorn in the end of my tail. Pull it out, and I will pay you well."

The barber tried to pull out the thorn with his razor, but in doing so he cut off the end of the tail. The monkey was very angry and cried:

"Barber, Barber, give me back my tail, or give me your razor!"

The barber could not put back the end of the monkey's tail, so he gave him his razor.

On the way home the monkey met an old woman who was cutting wood for fuel, and he said to her:

"Grandmother, Grandmother, that is very hard. Use this razor and then it will cut easily."

The old woman was very pleased with the offer and began to cut with the razor, but before she had used it long it broke. Then the monkey cried:

"Grandmother, Grandmother, you have broken my razor! You must get a new one for me or else give me all the firewood."

The old woman could not get a new razor so she gave him the firewood.

The monkey took the wood and was going back to town to sell it, when he saw a woman sitting beside the road making cakes.

"Grandmother, Grandmother," said he, "your wood is most gone; takt this of mine and bake more cakes."

The woman took the wood and thanked him for his kindness, but when the last stick was burned, the monkey cried out:

"Grandmother, Grandmother, you have burned up all my wood! Now you must give me all your cakes to pay for it."

The old woman could not cut more dry wood at once, so she gave him all the cakes.

The monkey took the cakes and started for the town, but on the way he met a dog which bit him so that he died. And the dog ate all the cakes. -- http://www.univie.ac.at/

Real title: The Parable of the Monkeys


It happened that there were three monkeys in a cage. Suspended at the top if the cage was a bunch of bananas. There was a ladder from the floor of the cage up to the bananas. One of the monkeys, who was both clever and agile and also liked bananas, decided to head up the ladder to grab a banana.

Imagine his surprise (not to mention that of the other two monkeys) when suddenly a fire hose washed down the cage, blasting all three monkeys over to one side. Cold and shivering, the three monkeys regrouped and thought about what had happened.

Monkeys don’t have a real long memory and, after awhile, a second monkey thought again about the bananas and headed up the ladder. Same thingâ€"a fire hose washed all three monkeys over to the side of the cage. They picked themselves up, shook themselves off and hoped the sun would come out to warm them up.

After another couple of hours, the third monkey couldn’t resist and he went for it. Sure enough, same resultâ€"fire hose and cold, wet, miserable monkeys.

Finally, all three monkeys became convinced that going for the bananas was a bad idea, and went on with the rest of their lives.

Then the zookeeper drafted one of the monkeys for another exhibit and replaced him with a new monkey. The new monkey arrived, looked up at the bananas, looked over at the ladder and couldn’t figure out why the other monkeys hadn’t gone for the bananas. He headed for the ladder and got about 1 rung up when the remaining "experienced" monkeys tackled him, dragged him to the floor and pummeled him into submission. He quickly concluded that climbing the ladder wasn’t a good idea.

A week later, the zookeeper replaced the second monkey. Monkeys are somewhat single-minded. The new monkey spied the bananas, headed for the ladder, and the remaining two monkeys tackled him and pummeled him into submission.

Finally the third monkey was replaced and, you guessed it, the same thing happened. So life went on among the monkeys and after some time the first of the "new" monkeys was replaced with yet another monkey. Sure enough, the new guy saw the bananas, went for the ladder and his two peers then tackled him and beat him into submission.

Why was that? None of these monkeys knew anything about the fire hose. None of them had ever gotten wet for having climbed the ladder in the quest for bananas. Yet the monkeys had been fully culturalized to know that it was a bad idea. And you could likely go on individually replacing monkeys one at a time forever and expect the same result.

The Parable of the Monkeys can be readily applied to just about every organizational community structure in the human sphere. We can laugh at the silly monkeys, but humans are the only creatures on Earth capable of amassing and arming themselves to fight and die by the tens and hundreds of thousands because another human claims yet another human is building firehoses to keep all the bananas for himself. -- http://proliberty.com/observer/20080703.htm

Quote from: Votives on May 23, 2013, 01:03:32 PM
hangtud karon wala lang gihapon ka, ka gets?

Wa jud tawon. Unsa may connection sa lubi, tuli, ug you-know-who?

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2013, 11:47:50 AM
I Juander, unsaon kaha pagsuwat sa ilahang pangan sa papel? BAsin ang ginagmay ra maoy isuwat.

Well, he writes all the 41 names Juan at a time...

OA jamo ning amahana. Daghan nang KSP sa kalibotan...

Quote from: vhinz08 on May 25, 2013, 05:45:53 PM
Opawan ang masakpan.

Labnoton ang bungot...

Quote from: Votives on May 27, 2013, 09:24:44 AM
love your neighbor more than your wife lage...

Kon way asawa, Bay Vots, love your enemy na lang?

Funny Fact: Calment had no living heirs in 1965 at age 90. She made a deal to sell her apartment to lawyer Andrea-Francois Raffray on a contingency contract. This is often referred to as a reverse mortgage. He agreed to pay her 2500 francs every month until her death. Sounds like a smart move on his part considering she was 90 years old. He ended up paying her what equates to $180,000, which is more than double the apartment’s worth. After Raffray’s death in 1995 from cancer at age 77, his wife continued the payments until Calment’s death. How silly would you feel making that deal then having her live over 32 years after age 90? -- http://listverse.com/

Mas sipti ug sayon ning gipalugpitan na lang...

Quote from: jorgeanna on May 23, 2013, 09:05:55 PM


murag nindot pud ning naa sa mountain oi

Hmm, naa ba kahay elevator ning balaya...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 27, 2013, 11:36:25 AM

Ngiga jud bitaw sa kolor sa tubig...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 28, 2013, 11:08:32 AM
Calment became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh's visit brought reporters to Arles.

According to Calment, she met Vincent van Gogh at the age of 13, when he came into her uncle's shop in 1888. She found him to be "Dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable." --Wiki



Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1888

Calment at age 20 in 1895

Acte de naissance de Jeanne Calment

Calment became the last living documented person born in the 1870s when the Japanese supercentenarian Tane Ikai (born 1879) died on 12 July 1995, and was thenceforth more than five and a half years older than any other living human being until her death over two years later; in total she outlived 329 undisputedly-verified supercentenarians. Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study. More records have been produced to verify her age than in any other case.

Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 â€" 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human lifespan in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days. She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, outliving both her daughter and grandson by several decades. Calment became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh's visit brought reporters to Arles. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1988, and on 17 October 1995 became the oldest person ever, having surpassed the (now discounted) case of Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan. --Wiki

Quote from: Votives on May 23, 2013, 01:05:07 PM
putol naman ang bungot utok nalng jud..

Bwahaha! Pero puyra gaba wa jud intawoy angay pabungotbungot, oi...

...segurado jud hinuon nga makaigo lang kon makaotin...

Quote from: Votives on May 27, 2013, 12:57:27 PM
anah.. patay ta sa armalite...

Ma-tetanus ta kon posposan. Bwahaha!

Agoi, naunsa na man tawon ni...

The NPA, which is believed to have about 4,000 fighters, has conducted a series of high-profile attacks this year.

The deadliest occurred in January, when nine police and security forces were killed in another ambush.

Last month, NPA rebels also killed two aides of a town mayor who is a member of President Benigno Aquino's Liberal Party. â€" reports from Edwin Sevidal, dzMM; Agence France-Presse

"We grieve for the brave police officers and the other victims of this unconscionable crime," the government peace panel said in a statement.

The peace panel condemned the rebels' use of landmines, saying it was a violation of the Ottawa treaty which banned them.

"By its insistence on using landmines and its insistence on continuing a regime of violence... the NPA turns a blind eye to the clamor of our people for a peaceful resolution of the armed conflict," the panel said.

The ambush happened after 7 Marines died in an encounter with some 50 Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Jolo, Sulu on Saturday.

The NPA has been waging a 44-year-old Maoist armed campaign that has claimed at least 30,000 lives, according to a government estimate.

The attack came a month after the government announced that peace talks aimed at ending the rebellion had crumbled.

De Gracia said the policemen were on their way to a medical exam in Allapan when the ambush occurred.

He said the rebels belong to the NPA's Danilo Bien Command.

The rebels escaped with 11 rifles and seven handguns from the casualties, Orlanes said.

The victims were all members of the PNP-SAF, an elite police unit trained in counter-insurgency tactics that is typically involved in security operations against communist rebels.

About 30 New People's Army (NPA) fighters hiding on the sides of the road then opened fire on the stunned survivors, regional police spokesman Inspector Cesar Orlanes told reporters.

"The wounded were able to return fire and they managed to retreat. Some of our reinforcements picked them up later," he told AFP.

Seven other policemen were injured.

ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 05/27/2013 7:48 PM | Updated as of 05/27/2013 11:47 PM


MANILA (2nd UPDATE) - Eight members of the elite Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (SAF) were killed in an ambush by suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebels in Cagayan on Monday morning, police said.

A landmine exploded in Barangay Cataratan in Allacapan town at around 8:30 a.m. while the policemen, on board a truck, were passing, according to Director Rodrigo De Gracia, Cagayan Valley (Region 2) police chief.

Quote from: vhinz08 on May 25, 2013, 04:32:21 PM

Taas ra ba nig panimhot ning iro, bisag asa iyang gipangita mahisakspan jod.
But dog is mans best friend. 

Bitaw, taas og panimhot unya taas pog panikma...

Quote from: vhinz08 on May 25, 2013, 05:34:39 PM
Tiger look.

He he, tataw nga naghambin og kaligutgot...

Quote from: vhinz08 on May 25, 2013, 05:41:18 PM
Poll man to bay hubs, kining dula ba games maoy giingon pagdugsakdugsak sa tako unya naay ginabola bola, kay daghan man ang mga bola sa maong duwa.

Hmm, lahi ba kaha pud ang POLL, kanang all capital letters? Naa man guy gabalikbalik nga thread title, pero wa jud hinuon ko moabli ani, basin puno sa sapal...

Quote from: Votives on May 27, 2013, 08:48:21 AM
monkee diay nag hate nimu..

Bwahaha! Ayawg klaroha, basin moulbo na pud ang kaspa...

Agoi, otro pud diay nga nagkurog sa kahadlok si Bay Vots, makalimot na gud...

Kitang ordinary mortals, hadlok tag credit card. Lahi jud ang kinabuhi sa rits en pimos milyonirs...

Agoi, kagwapa sa mga kanahan. Pero mo-swoon ni sila sa ahong charm...

Quote from: Votives on May 27, 2013, 08:49:15 AM
nga unsa? hupo nalang ka?

Nagkabilatbilat intawon og karatil...

Quote from: Votives on May 27, 2013, 09:32:32 AM
murag ni bright na gyud imong day bai hubs dah...

He he, naa pa gihapoy cloudlets, Bay Vots...

El Nido, a protected area in Palawan's northernmost tip, is known for its breathtaking sites as well as its rich history. Tourists are drawn to its stunning beaches, vast mangrove forests and diverse marine life. Thousand-year-old fossils and burial sites also continue to spark visitors' interest. (Photo by Rolen Facundo)

The fossils themselves are only fragments, but they nonetheless provide important information about evolutionary relationships, Stevens said. The Nsungwepithecus fossil is a jaw fragment containing a lone molar tooth, whose shape and other dimensions suggest it came from a species related to other early cercopithecoids. Rukwapithecus had a more complete partial jaw containing one premolar and three molars; preliminary analysis suggests they came from hominoids in the nyanzapithecine group.

Rukwapithecus would have weighed about 26 lbs. (12 kilograms), the researchers estimate. Because Nsungwepithecus is so fragmented, its size is harder to estimate, but it would probably have been slightly smaller than Rukwapithecus, Stevens said. -- http://www.livescience.com/

The fossils were found in a layer of the Rukwa Rift in Tanzania. The region is part of the East African Rift, a tectonic-plate boundary where the Earth's crust is being pulled apart. Changes in the African landscape due to tectonic activity may have influenced the evolutionary split between apes and Old World monkeys, the researchers say.

"These are truly exciting finds, as the oldest previously known cercopithecoid (Old World) monkey is dated to about 20 million years [ago], from Napak [Uganda]," William Sanders, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email to LiveScience. "The split of cercopithecoid and hominoids (apes) from a common ancestor in the Oligocene is not a surprise, as it has been suggested by geneticists," Sanders added.

"These discoveries are important because they offer the earliest fossil evidence for either of these primate groups," said lead study author Nancy Stevens, an anthropologist at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

DNA evidence has long suggested that apes and Old World monkeys diverged from a common ancestor between 25 million and 30 million years ago. But until now, no fossils older than 20 million years had been found.

The age of the new specimens extends the origin of apes and Old World monkeys into the Oligocene Epoch, which lasted from 34 million to 23 million years ago. Previously, only three primate species were known from the late Oligocene globally, Stevens said.

"These finds can help us to further refine hypotheses about the timing of diversification of major primate groups," Stevens said.

Researchers found a tooth from the newfound species Nsungwepithecus gunnelli, the oldest member of the primate group that contains Old World monkeys (cercopithecoids). The team also found a jawbone from the newfound species Rukwapithecus fleaglei, an early member of the hominoids, the group containing the great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and humans) and lesser apes (gibbons).

The fossil remnants of these two primate species date back to 25 million years ago, filling a gap in the fossil record that reveals when apes and monkeys first diverged.

Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff WriterDate: 15 May 2013 Time: 01:00 PM ET 



Artist's reconstruction of two new Oligocene primates, the ape Rukwapithecus (foreground left) and the Old World monkey Nsungwepithecus (background right).
CREDIT: Mauricio Antón


The oldest ape and Old World monkey fossils have been unearthed in a riverbed in Tanzania, a new study reports.

Quote from: Votives on May 23, 2013, 05:00:00 PM
gihilantan ang monkey bwahahaha

Nasobrahan galing sa paugnat sa kusog, nakalitan. Di na tawon kaya. Basin nanglugti ang kabukogan ug nangalugtab ang kaugatan...

Quote from: Votives on May 23, 2013, 04:57:22 PM
ka char oi... kinsa may nag hate nimu bah..

Wa oi, way TAWO nga nag-hate nako...

He he, mao nga--

AWESOME!

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 24, 2013, 11:51:28 AM
Pagkatoytoy!

He he, gipa-rhyme uroy...

Quote from: Votives on May 23, 2013, 04:58:36 PM
salig lang ayaw og laom...

Lihay lang ayawg dagan...

Pasiatab lang ayawg panghulga...

Maayo untag tinud-on nga di na mobalik...

Bwahaha!

He he, nagdawiraw na tawon, morag baboyng irong boang...

He he, ngilngig pas humba liwas sa pista...

Meantime, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipians said the development should be viewed positively because an improving US economy would benefit the entire global economy.

“Offhand, an early normalization of monetary policy in the United States should always be a welcome development. It means the outlook on the US economy is improving,” BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo said.

He said the BSP is closely monitoring developments and that it is ready to implement policies necessary to ensure that the domestic financial markets would remain stable.

Also, Goldman Sachs believes that the peso will not remain weak for long.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas earlier reported that net inflow of foreign portfolio investments reached $2.1 billion in the first four months of the year, nearly three times the $766 million seen in the same period of 2012.â€"Michelle V. Remo

The local currency closed at its intraday low of 41.69 against the US dollar, down by 51.5 centavos from the previous day’s finish of 41.175.

Intraday high hit 41.30:$1. Volume of trade amounted to $1.345 billion from $649.7 million of the previous day.

The peso and other emerging market currencies began to depreciate after the minutes of the latest meeting of the US Fed officials was released. Based on the minutes of the meeting, market players believe that the US stimulus program may soon end.

“The projection is anchored on the view that net inflow of foreign portfolio investments will remain strong,” Tan said in a briefing Thursday.

Rising global liquidity will support demand for emerging-market securities, including peso-denominated ones, he said.

The peso, along with other Asian currencies, weakened on Thursday against the greenback due to investors’ risk aversion, brought on by uncertainties in the global economy.

The peso on Thursday fell to its weakest level in about six months amid speculations that the US Federal Reserve would soon start tempering its stimulus program due to the improving economic climate in the United States.

Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:15 am | Friday, May 24th, 2013


The Philippine peso is expected to appreciate further and may hit 37.50 against the US dollar within the next 12 months, according to Goldman Sachs, citing the likelihood of a surge in foreign portfolio investments.

Mark Tan, an executive director for the investment bank, said that the Philippines, together with its neighbors, would attract more foreign “hot money” on the back of rising global liquidity and optimism on Asia.

Also, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is expected to continue buying dollars in the foreign exchange market to avoid a steep appreciation of the peso, Tan said, but its efforts may not be enough to prevent the peso from strengthening beyond the 40-to-a-dollar territory.

So, the next time someone suggests that credit cards might not be a good idea, keep in mind that they are a financial tool.  A tool can be misused, but as the old parable goes, it is a poor carpenter who blames his tools.  Manage your cards wisely, and you can work your way from a high interest rate one that’s much more favorable for a fraction of the interest you might have otherwise paid.

Now start paying most of your bills with these cards, and before the second year is up get rid of the card with the annual fees.  You can also accept other low interest cards as you receive offers, but try not to keep more than three or four cards.  Also keep in mind number three from above.  An established credit history is very valuable.

Within two years you will have significantly improved your credit score, ideally without paying a dime in the process.  If you were just starting out with credit, you might have had to pay yearly fees for the two years on your card, but they shouldn’t have been more than $300.  In 2013 the average monthly payment in America for a 3 year $20,000 auto loan was $700 for a credit score under 620, and $585 for a score of 720 or more.  That’s a difference of $115 a month!  By using credit cards to build up your credit score, you’re saving almost $4,000.

For the next eight months, all you need to do is switch regular purchases from payment by check or debit card to your credit card, making sure to pay the balance in full every month.  Ideally you’ll be charging at least $250 per month, but not more than $1,000.

This improves your credit score because of the following three key areas:

It establishes financial strength by showing that you have enough income to meet your expenses and still pay your card balance in full each month.
It shows that you are fiscally responsible, by not carrying balances long enough to require interest payment.

It builds a history of making consistent payments.

In about a year other credit card companies with lower interest rates and no annual fees will start mailing you offers.  Select two with the lowest interest rates, and accept their offers.

http://www.myfinancialtips.com/
by Henry Buell on May 18th, 2013


Most financial advisors frown on credit cards.  This isn’t to say that they disapprove of their use, but rather that they recognize the potential for misuse outweighs the benefits for many people.  That said, if you’re prepared to be fiscally responsible with them, they can be put to work saving you money.  You just have to observe a few simple rules.

First, secure one credit card.  The interest rate doesn’t matter, but make sure there aren’t any extra fees.  If you’re new to the world of credit cards, you might have to accept fees for a couple of years, but the savings are worth it.  In a very short period of time, we’ll use this cards to improve your credit score and lower your interest rates on traditional loans.  In fact, if you’ve never had credit before, this is one of the best ways you to build your score.