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the english translation---

Pangur Bán

I and Pangur Bán, my cat
'Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight
Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will,
He too plies his simple skill.

'Tis a merry thing to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way:
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!

So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Bán, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.

Translated by Robin Flower

in its original old irish text (read lang god ta god, bahalag di kasabot)---

    Pangur Bán

    Messe [ocus] Pangur bán,
    cechtar nathar fria saindán;
    bíth a menma-sam fri seilgg,
    mu menma céin im saincheirdd

    Caraim-se fós, ferr cach clú,
    oc mu lebrán léir ingnu;
    ní foirmtech frimm Pangur bán,
    caraid cesin a maccdán.

    Ã" ru-biam ­ scél cén scis ­
    innar tegdias ar n-oéndis,
    táithiunn ­ dichríchide clius ­
    ní fris 'tarddam ar n-áthius.

    Gnáth-huaraib ar greassaib gal
    glenaid luch ina lín-sam;
    os me, du-fuit im lín chéin
    dliged ndoraid cu n-dronchéill.

    Fúachaid-sem fri freaga fál
    a rosc a nglése comlán;
    fúachimm chéin fri fégi fis
    mu rosc réil, cesu imdis.

    Fáelid-sem cu n-déne dul,
    hi nglen luch ina gérchrub;
    hi-tucu cheist n-doraid n-dil,
    os mé chene am fáelid.

    Cia beimini amin nach ré
    ní derban cách a chéle;
    mait le cechtar nár a dán
    subaigthiud a óenurán.

    Hé fesin as choimsid dáu
    in muid du-n-gní cach óenláu;
    do thabairt doraid du glé
    for mumud céin am messe.

This poem was found in the margins of a manuscript in the Monastery of St. Paul, Carinthia, Austria. It seems to have been written by an Irish monk, sometime around the ninth century.

The page of the Reichenau Primer on which Pangur Bán is written

The poem is preserved in the Reichenau Primer (Stift St. Paul Cod. 86b/1 fol 1v) and now kept in St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal. A critical edition of the poem was published in 1903 by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan in the second volume of the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. The most famous of the many English translations is that by Robin Flower. In W. H. Auden's translation, the poem was set by Samuel Barber as the eighth of his ten Hermit Songs (1952-3). (wikipedia)

Quote from: islander on April 02, 2013, 03:08:19 PM
Orvell pointed out that Western culture’s interest in cats extends as far back as the ninth century, when an Irish monk wrote a poem about his cat called “Pangur Ban.” It would prove a lasting trope.

"Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem, written about the 9th century at or around Reichenau Abbey. It was written by an Irish monk, and is about his cat. Pangur Bán, "white fuller", is the cat's name. Although the poem is anonymous, it bears similarities to the poetry of Sedulius Scottus, prompting speculation that Sedulius is the author. In 8 verses of four lines, the author compares the cat's activities with his own scholarly pursuits. (wikipedia)

The most compelling explanation for our interest in cats, however, may be the most simple: we’re in awe of them. Nagelschneider told me that we’re inclined to watch cats climbing trees or walking upside down on walls because we wish we could do so ourselvesâ€"or, in her words, “When we are watching these videos, they just blow our minds.” To whatever extent that's true, it's certainly worth a click.

http://www.newrepublic.com/

There may be more deep-seated psychological responses at play as well. Cats’ famously reserved and withholding personalities naturally seduce us into paying closer attention to them. And unlike humans and dogs, cats are not only natural predatorsâ€"they are also prey, a reason why cats often appear reserved and stealthy. Cats’ inherent vulnerability, Orvell says, naturally solicits our sympathy, and even puts us in touch with our own mortality. “There’s a complex set of reactions to cats, and the videos bring that into play,” Orvell said.

Indeed, the Internet isn’t only a high-volume marketplace of cat memesâ€"it’s also home to very intense communities of cat owners, who gather to share stories and seek answer about their pets. Mieshelle Nagelschneider, author of Random House’s forthcoming book Cat Whisperer, said that cat owners, have taken to the Internet as a means to actively, and collectively, reverse the stigma attached to them: Cat owners have long felt that they don’t get the respect of their counterparts who have dogs, even though there are more domesticated felines (a total of 86 million, according to the Humane Society) than canines. “I think the web has helped emerge this undiscovered beachfront property, that is cat owners,” Nagelschneider says.

But the reason that cats have catapulted to cyber-fame isn’t purely biological: There are social factors at play as well. Steve Dale, a cat behavior consultant and pet journalist, told me that cat aficionados have been particularly drawn to the Internet because they lack other public safety valves where they can express their affection. “In the world of cats, there is no dog park,” Dale says. “For cat owners, the dog park is the Internet.”

But why have cats specifically been so successful at soliciting our attention? One hypothesis is that there is a fateful link between cats and human babies that explains their Internet stardom. According to Michael Newall, a philosopher of art at the University of Kent, our inordinate interest in cats may derive from their formal resemblance to our offspringâ€"their big eyes, smallish noses, and dome-shaped heads trigger the evolutionary nurturing instincts that we have evolved toward babies. There may even be a multiplying “superstimulus” effect at work: Newall posits that the exaggerated proportions of cats’ baby-like features prompt an exaggeratedly intense, and involuntary, response in people.

Orvell pointed out that Western culture’s interest in cats extends as far back as the ninth century, when an Irish monk wrote a poem about his cat called “Pangur Ban.” It would prove a lasting trope. Nine-hundred years later, Christopher Smart would write the poem “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry”; in the 1930s T.S. Eliot wrote his famed Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, which later became the basis for the musical CATS. Outside of literature, cats became a staple of American popular imagery in the twentieth century, from television advertisements to Tom and Jerry. Cat videos on the Internet that garner millions of hits, Orvell says, should be thought of as an animated extension of the cat calendars of yesteryear.

The first thing to acknowledge is that there was a deep interest in cats long before there was an Internet. Miles Orvell, a cultural historian at Temple University who specializes in visual culture, said that what the Internet has done is leverage a preexisting fascination. “There’s a contagious effect of the Internet where something that is there as a latent possibility can emerge at large in society,” Orvell said. “It’s not so much creating this interest in cats, it’s more exploiting this interest that was already there.”

But if we’ve come to accept that cats play an outsized role on the World Wide Web, our understanding of why that’s the case still lags. Most of us would simply plead that we happen to think of cats, and their various digital reproductions, as “cute,” but the sheer magnitude of their popularity suggests that there’s something more than a purely subjective phenomenon at work. Fortunately, natural and social scientists have managed to shed some light on the mystery.

Why Do Cats Run the Internet? A Scientific Explanation

BY PERRY STEIN



Cats may not be man’s best friend, but they’re arguably something even better: man’s key to instant Internet pageviews. It’s a long-established fact that Internet contentâ€"whether it’s a cutesy video, a photoshopped inside joke, or a longform public health articleâ€"has a better chance of achieving coveted “viral” status if it somehow evokes the sound of purring.

mas ganahan ko sa design sa korean cat cafe in the other thread...

ako ning ambisyon... to own a cat cafe one day.  bahalag si fr chic ra ug si lorenz ang customers.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 02, 2013, 06:09:57 AM
"If you need to rescue someone from a burning house... or secure detainees, then you would need certain physical attributes. That is the nature of these jobs and it is not discrimination," she told reporters.

whaaattt?  rescuing someone from a burning house needs height?  does it mean that the rescuer had to be at the ground floor to save someone from the second floor?  uh-huh. 

call it by any other name... call it canonization if you must, it is still discrimination because it distinguishes one attribute from another.

read up, valte and pnoy, read up.  valte isn't tall either.  maybe that's why she didn't make it as policewoman.  so she landed as presidential foghorn instead.

i didn't watch the video.  i may not be able to take it.  i hope the monster dad was dragged to court.

welcome back, jayson! election na pod, hehe. motumaw ba pod kaha tong mga higala nato last 2010, sama nila ni kalamay?

tinuod gyod ni.  pila na kaha ka toilet paper roles ang nausik namo.  mao nga ang among toilet paper tua na sa towel rack.

yeheeey, kahibawo na ko mohimo ug caption!

simon and garfunkel

grrrrr!  kasaba ba aning mga pakulo sa election uy.  di gyod ko mobotar ani nila.  i will deny them my precious vote.  bisan alas 2 kaadlawon, moagi nang sakyanan nga saba kaayo, gapatokar sa ilang jingles that could awaken all the citizens of a cemetery.  ang usa gabalikbalik pa to the tune of "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer".  way makatupong sa ka-amaw gyod.

Quote from: chicogon on March 31, 2013, 01:17:00 AM
I almost named Booboy GOOGLE, kay akong pinakaunang itoy kay si YouTube man hehehe.

haaay, salamat kay wa ka kahunahuna ug ngan nga virus o hacker o troll ba kaha.

pikooooyyy, periko pikooooyyy, asa ra kaaaa?  nabun-og ang bitiis ni lolla, dali ra ning manipa karon...

hala, angay tawgon si pikoy ani da...

buot nimong ipaibot, made in scarborough shoal ni sila?

hahay, nag-corny na pod ang duha... puro ra ba neutered urban cats, hahaha! daghan na mi...

uyyy, nag-unsa na man pod nang duha? abi kay nakagawas sa pantay kadiyot...

look at the view, my sweet.
thanks for this great vacation, dahlin'.

Ma n'atu sole
cchiù bello, oje ne'.
O sole miowww
sta 'nfronte a te!
O sole
O sole miowww...

palag?  isang kumo lang...

the fountain of youth

hehe, daan pa lagi kong brayt ug geometry ang mga iring.

thanks for this, votives.  i have copied and pasted this for my file.  i know i may need to read this again during rough times. 

11 ka slugs?  pangtiwas man gyod.  bata pa ra ba intawon.  maayo ra gyod nga wa na kamata.  di lalim kun moingon pa siyag 'nganong daghan man ug buslot akong lawas?'

may he rest in peace.

nurse and police at the same time, whew, what a rare blend, what a great person.  uy, nganong nabasa man ang akong mata nga nagbasa ani?

nganong nasikwati man nga kanding may gihisgotan?  nakaldereta unta.

a possible scenario... let's say we end up with binay at the top position in government one day.  and he still would stick with the height requirement for the police force and other branches of the defense department.  morag nagyaya ang presidential security force ug grade 2 pupil, hihihi.    

that's why we end up getting appointed kintahay to a clerical position kay nakahuman ug college unya ang ga-appoint elementary graduate nga mayor?  i can't separate fact from fiction now, but i heard d.o. plaza managed to reach grade 4.  but he was filthy rich, and that's no myth.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 02, 2013, 09:16:09 AM
Hmm, unsaon man? Dukdokon ang ulo aron naay bukol?

illusion of height; spike the hair, patindugon morag silhig.  sa mga babaye, ipaulbo ang buhok.  ako bitaw ning giklaro ni banana republic sa una that some other woman is not really taller than i am.  ulbo lang iyang buhok while ang ako flat kaayo.

way height requirement ang atong elective officials.  wa ganiy academic requirement.  pero sila ang magbuot bahin sa mas menos nga mga positions in government.  we're funny.

Thick skin: Robin, originally from East Sussex, says members of the public have made comments about his stature but he was well used to the jokes about his height before joining the police

'My fellow recruits were all incredibly supportive and I always felt included like any other officer.'

PC Port's supervisor, Inspector Matt Lawler, who stands at 6ft, said he has already proved to be a first-rate frontline officer.

'I have been really pleased with PC Port's progress and the work he has done over the last two months,' he said.

'I am pleased to have him with us and continue to support him.

'We employ people for their skills and we have full confidence in his ability and judgment.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
-underscoring mine

Now there are no British forces which still operate a minimum height requirement.

Before training as a police officer, PC Port was in the force's crime data input bureau as a civilian worker.

He was previously in the Army and served in Iraq and Northern Ireland, reaching the rank of Lance Corporal and being awarded several campaign medals.

'I was able to serve the country by joining the Army, whereas being a police officer is a chance to serve the community,' he said.

'When it comes to jokes about being short, I have heard them all so it's nothing new to me.

'I have learned that if people want to make an offensive comment towards a police officer they will find something to pick on, be it too short, too tall or having ginger hair or glasses.

'I've got quite a thick skin which is a requirement in this job. And the uniform still carries with it a lot of authority.'

In the past, male recruits had to be at least 5ft 10in and women 5ft 4in to join many forces. But from the early 1990s, height restrictions have gradually been removed.

Which is evidence enough that this former soldier has what it takes to fight crime.

'I am very confident I can hold my own,' he said.

'I have martial arts training so I don't see myself as more at risk than any other police officer.

'In a situation where I might be faced with a 7ft bloke, their size also makes them vulnerable as I could sweep their legs out.

kahilas god diay nato.  go ahead, make my day.


The tiny police officer who has made British history... 5ft-tall Pc Port

By Luke Salkeld
13 January 2010

They call him Laptop. But as Britain's smallest PC, Robin Port has heard all the jokes before.

At just 5ft tall in his police boots, he has learned that it helps to have a towering sense of humour.

The 29-year-old constable has made an impressive 17 arrests in his first month on the beat for the Devon and Cornwall force.


Small but effective: Britain's shortest ever police officer Pc Robin Port with his supervisor Inspector Matt Lawler (who is 6ft)

klaro kinsay obispo ug mga deacons.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on April 01, 2013, 07:09:32 PM
Included in the new evidences, Mrs. Burgos said, is the picture of her son Jonas inside his detention cell which was taken a few days after he was abducted.

In the said picture, she said Jonas wore a white T-shirt and the clothing/fabric used in blindfolding him was seen already sagging in his neck.

‘The picture’. A photo identified by the Burgos family as that of Jonas Burgos, the missing activist abducted by military agents in April 28, 2007. Edita Burgos, Jonas’ mother, positively identified Jonas and the white shirt he was supposedly wearing when he was kidnapped in a mall in Quezon City. (photo from the Free Jonas Burgos Movement)

Maj Harry Baliaga
2012

Sources said that when the justices started to grill Baliaga on the witness stand, the Army officer was at first composed, claiming he was on “administrative leave” in April and May 2007.

So they went day to day from April 20, and he gave details of his activities.

The justices were asking him to account for his daily activities and on April 22, he claimed he was in the province for a wedding. But when the justices asked him where he was on April 28, he stopped talking, choked and wept briefly. Someone gave him a bottle of water, sources told InterAksyon.com.

Late last year, Edita Burgos, mother of Jonas and widow of the world press freedom icon Jose G. Burgos Jr., had shared a “Dear Harry” open letter to Baliaga, asking him to “search your conscience” and make a clean breast of what really happened.

-from http://www.interaksyon.com

http://freejonasburgosmovement.blogspot.com/

Earlier on Thursday morning, eatery worker Jeffrey Cabintoy had just entered the hearing room of the Courts of Appeals division that is hearing the writ of amparo petition in the Burgos case when he froze, and tugged at his Commission on Human Rights (CHR) escorts and whispered to them, “that is Baliaga,” pointing to a man seated beside the door, in a blue barong, sources said.

The defense had brought Baliaga to court as its first witness, and when the justices were informed that both Baliaga and Cabintoy were in the courtroom, they instructed Cabintoy to stand up and point to Baliaga. “Can you point him out to us?” the justices asked, and Cabintoy nodded, “opo.”

Then Cabintoy pointed to Baliaga, describing him as “the man in long sleeves.”

Later, the justices acceded to the Office of the Solicitor General’s request to hold an executive session, on the ground of “security risk” to Baliaga. Cabintoy was among those led out of the hearing room.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on April 01, 2013, 07:09:32 PM
The CA particularly identified Army Maj. Harry Baliaga as responsible for the disappearance of the activist.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Burgos abduction witness tags Baliaga in court, Army officer chokes when grilled about April 28

MANILA, Philippines -- Lt. Harry Baliaga, the Army officer implicated in the abduction of activist-farmer Jonas Burgos five years ago, was tagged in court Thursday morning by a restaurant worker as among the seven people he saw dragging away Burgos, who remains missing.

And, when the Court of Appeals justices grilled him as he sat as the first defense witness, Baliaga’s testimony stalled, and he wept briefly when they asked him to account for his whereabouts on April 28, 2007, the day Burgos was seized at the Hapag Kainan restaurant at the Ever Gotesco Mall in Quezon City, sources told InterAksyon.com of the court’s executive session.

ambot ba uroy ug kinsay mas hadlok sa duha...

dia pa.  ako pa tingali sa bata, mas bale ug sabakon na lang kog porcupine.

http://www.babble.com/

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lupig white rabbit ni alice in wonderland sa kamahahadlok.

aron pod way tangagon ang uwak.

tua na lagi.  hala, pangahubog pa mo.

Quote from: Votives on April 01, 2013, 02:37:31 PM
kanindot ba dal-an og laki aning love nest oi...

aron ibitay ang itlog ug tangagon ug uwak.

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 28, 2013, 06:09:47 AM
Correction! Di ni itloganan kon dili bitayanan sa itlog...

okay, okay.  i stand corrected.  bitayanan sa itlog aron tangagon ug uwak.

Pin-ups are also referred to as "cheesecake", the male counterpart being "beefcake". (wikipedia)

what are pin-up models?

A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model or cheesecake, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall. Pin-up girls may be glamour models, fashion models, or actresses.

The term pin-up may also refer to drawings, paintings, and other illustrations done in emulation of these photos. The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however, the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. (wikipedia)

loyloy tawon nga coconut model.

-all images from http://www.babble.com/

ang nanay tua na, nagluto ug pamahaw.

himuuuusss kaayo!  thanks, loll!

hahay, kamaayong tiradoron.  nangambisyon na man lang nga ma-unggoy, pasiyagit-siyagit pa.

i am boom, st. boom.

(the dog's name is boom.)   

-more at http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/meet-boom-the-pitbull-who-loves-birds-slideshow/boom-photo--1296464518.html

why man you know?  good research?

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 30, 2013, 02:58:34 PM
Hmm, kabuotan jud sa nawong aning Booboy, morag priest material...

Quote from: chicogon on March 31, 2013, 12:13:39 AM
Mosud daw siyag seminaryo... bwahahaha

taking after st. francis diay si booboy...

moral lesson: next time mas bale peke nga baye ang kuhaon.  way napriso tungod ug peke nga baye.  peke nga kwarta, aw, di maihap ang napriso.  mas labaw tingali ang peke nga kwarta kay sa peke nga baye, in ader words.

mahimong lat-an ug dugay.

hahay.  nganong pasumanginlan man tawon ang alcohol ra?  tingali makatabang, but what about her diet, her lifestyle, her exercises, her genes, her attitude, her relationship with god through her religion?  and don't forget the fact that she has traveled safely, thus her life was not cut short with a cruel accident. 

purya.  pa-pastor-pastor.  giving a bad name to the good ones...

ay nu wat yu min.  yuks, kaluod.  bahalag bugo...

wa ko kadungog nga ang genius naa diay sa dila.  abi nakog naa sa buhok.

kadungog ko nga mas genius kuno ang iro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbK3uQpdb3c#
by The Lettermen

ooops, sorry, but your mother is over there...