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Finding your inner deer: Man wears deer head mask every day for five years

Tuesday 26 Mar 2013


Oh deer: Luo Dan dons his head mask (Picture: Rex)

If you could be any animal what would you be and why?

It’s one of life’s most thought-provoking questions which can be used with deadly effectiveness in an interview or, less so, by a drunken mate down the pub (probably time to go home).

But for Chinese painter Luo Dan, 32, there will only ever be one answer to the question having worn a deer head mask every day for the past five years.

He began wearing the unusual disguise in 2009 and quickly got used to putting it on while working or relaxing in his spare time.

Spain

In Elche, Spain, the location of the biggest palm grove in Europe, there is a tradition of tying and covering palm leaves to whiten them away from sunlight and then drying and braiding them in elaborate shapes. (wikipedia)



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Antonio Banderas attends the Maria Santisima de lagrimas y favores procesion during Holy Week celebration on March 24, 2013 in Malaga, Spain. Photo: Europa Press, Europa Press Via Getty Images

Romania and Moldova

In Romania and Moldova, Palm Sunday is known as Duminica Floriilor or simply Florii, translating Flowers' Sunday.  (wikipedia)

Poland

A palm in Łyse, Poland.

Many Polish towns and villages (the best known are Lipnica Murowana in MaÅ,opolska and Łyse) organize artificial palm competitions. The biggest of those reach above 30 meters in length; for example, the highest palm in 2008 was 33.39 meters high. (wikipedia)

Philippines

In the Philippines, communities re-enact Jesus' triumphal entry with a procession. A statue of Christ astride a donkey (the humenta) or the officiating priest on horseback processes around or towards the local church along with congregants bearing ornately woven palaspas (palm branches). In some towns, elderly women spread heirloom tapis ("aprons" made for this sole purpose) or large cloths along the route. Children dressed as angels sometimes sing the Osana ("Hosanna") whilst strewing flowers about. (wikipedia)

Netherlands

In the Saxon regions of the Netherlands, crosses are decorated with candy and bread, made in the form of a rooster. In the diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden, a great procession with oil lamps is held the night before Palm Sunday in honour of the Sorrowful Mother of Warfhuizen. (wikipedia)

The Levant

In Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, Palm Sunday â€" known as Shaa'nineh in Arabic- is perhaps the best-attended service in the Christian Calendar, among the Orthodox, Catholic (Latin rite and Eastern rite), Maronite and Anglican Churches, perhaps because it is notably a family occasion. On this day, children attend church with branches from olive and palm trees. Also, there will be carefully woven crosses and other symbols made from palm fronds and roses. There will normally be a procession at the beginning of the service and at some point, the priest will take an olive branch and splash holy water on the faithful. (wikipedia)


for palm sunday, woven palm fronds in palestine

Malta

All the parishes of Malta and Gozo on Palm Sunday (in Maltese Ħadd il-Palm) bless the palm leaves and the olive leaves. Those parishes that have the statues of Good Friday bless the olive tree they put on the statues of "Jesus prays in the Olive Garden" (Ġesù fl-Ort) and the "Betrayal of Judas" (il-Bewsa ta' Ġuda). Also, many people take a small branch of olive to their homes because it is a sacramental. (wikipedia)

Lithuania

When Christianity came to Lithuania, plants which sprouted earliest were honored during spring feasts. the name "Palm Sunday", is a misnomer, the "verba" or "dwarfed spuce" is used instead. According to tradition, on the Saturday before Palm Sunday the Lithuanians take special care in choosing and cutting well-formed branches, which the women-folk decorate with flowers. They flowers are meticulously tied onto the branch, making the "Verba". Palm Sunday and Kaziuko mugÄ— are celebrated together. (wikipedia)

Quote from: fdaray on March 27, 2013, 03:51:27 PM
Why are some countries has different way of celebrating Palm Sunday?

local culture steps in, as well as local plants.

Latvia

In Latvia, Palm Sunday is called "Pussy Willow Sunday", and pussy willows â€" symbolizing new life â€" are blessed and distributed to the faithful. Children are often woken that morning with ritualistic swats of a willow branch. (wikipedia)

Italy

In Italy palm leaves are used along with small olive branches, readily available in the Mediterranean climate. These are placed at the entrance of houses (for instance, hanging above the door) to last until the following year's Palm Sunday. For this reason, usually palm leaves are not used whole, due to their size; instead, leave stripes are braided into smaller shapes. Small olive branches are also often used to decorate traditional Easter cakes, along with other symbols of birth, like eggs. (wikipedia)

India

In the South Indian state of Kerala, (and in Indian Orthodox, Church of South India(CSI), Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite) congregations elsewhere in India and throughout the West), flowers are strewn about into the sanctuary on Palm Sunday during the reading of the Gospel at the words uttered by the crowd welcoming Jesus, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who is come and is to come in the name of the Lord God." These words are read to the congregation thrice. The congregation then repeats, "Hosanna!" and the flowers are scattered.


Flowers (in this instance marigolds) strewn about the sanctuary in an Oriental Orthodox church in Mumbai, India on Palm Sunday

This echoes pre-Christian Hindu celebrations in which flowers are strewn on festive occasions; however, this also echoes the honour shown to Jesus upon his entry into Jerusalem. Indian Orthodoxy traces its roots to the arrival in India of St. Thomas the Apostle in AD 52 (according to tradition) and his evangelism among both the Brahmans of the Malabar Coast and the ancient Jewish community there. Its rites and ceremonies are both Hindu and Jewish, as well as Levantine Christian, in origin.



In Syro-Malabar Catholic Church's palm leaves are blessed during Palm Sunday ceremony and a Procession will take place holding the palms. (wikipedia)

Finland

In Finland, it is popular for children to dress up as Easter witches and go door to door in neighborhoods for coins and candy. It is an old Karelian custom called Virpominen. (wikipedia)

Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Palm Sunday is known as Tsvetnitsa (tsvete is flower) or Vrabnitsa (varba is willow). People with flower-related names, (for example Tsvetelina, Tsvetelin, Tsvetana, Tsvetan, Tsvetko, Margarita, Ralitsa, Lilia, Violeta, Yavor, Zdravko, Zjumbjul, Nevena, Temenuzhka, Rosa etc.) celebrate this day as their "name day". (wikipedia)

Belgium

In Hoegaarden one of the last remaining Palm Sunday processions take place every year. A fellowship of Twelve Apostles carries a wooden statue of Christ around the town, while children go door to door offering the palms (box) for coins. (wikipedia)

Vatican City

In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday is marked by the distribution of palm leaves (often tied into crosses) to the assembled worshippers.

The difficulty of procuring palms for that day's ceremonies in unfavorable climates for palms led to the substitution of boughs of box, yew, willow, olive, or other native trees. The Sunday was often designated by the names of these trees, as Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday. (wikipedia)

The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory in the Greco-Roman culture of the Roman Empire, and became the most common attribute of the goddess Nike or Victory. For contemporary Roman observers, the procession would have evoked the Roman triumph, when the triumphator laid down his arms and wore the toga, the civilian garment of peace that might be ornamented with emblems of the palm. Although the Epistles of Paul refer to Jesus as "triumphing", the entry into Jerusalem may not have been regularly pictured as a triumphal procession in this sense before the 13th century. In ancient Egyptian religion, the palm was carried in funeral processions and represented eternal life. The palm branch later became a symbol of Christian martyrs and their spiritual victory or triumph over death. In Revelation 7:9, the white-clad multitude stand before the throne and Lamb holding palm branches.

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In many lands in the ancient Near East, it was customary to cover in some way the path of someone thought worthy of the highest honour. The Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 9:13) reports that Jehu, son of Jehoshaphat, was treated this way. Both the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John report that people gave Jesus this form of honour. However, in the synoptics they are only reported as laying their garments and cut rushes on the street, whereas John specifies fronds of palm (Greek phoinix). In Jewish tradition, the palm is one of the Four Species carried for Sukkot, as prescribed for rejoicing at Leviticus 23:40.

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According to the Gospels, Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there laid down their cloaks in front of him, and also laid down small branches of trees. The people sang part of Psalm 118: 25â€"26 â€" ... Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord ....



The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war. A king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode upon a donkey when he wanted to point out he was coming in peace. Jesus' entry to Jerusalem would thus symbolize his entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king.

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In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem takes place about a week before his Resurrection.



The symbolism is captured in Zechariah 9:9 "The Coming of Zion's King â€" See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey". It was perceived that Jesus was declaring he was the King of Israel to the anger of the Sanhedrin.

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Why Palm Sunday?

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels.


Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1320) by Pietro Lorenzetti: entering the city on a donkey symbolizes arrival in peace rather than as a war-waging king arriving on a horse

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i love this well-written piece.

oh, yes, when one country starts interfering in another country, unbidden, uncalled for... it's up to you to finish this sentence...

aguy, this series of "blessings" of pets courtesy of fr chic kay mora lagi ug baptism sa mga neocatechumenates (with apologies).  no, i just want my pets to be simple mainstream roman catholics.

curious ko kun kinsay mangitlog ani.  wa na lang sa unsa kadak-a.

homily sa pari atol sa palm sunday, in summary:

ang palms nga gibenditahan sa palm sunday dili anting-anting.  ibutang sa mga pultahan aron way daotang espiritu nga makasulod?  mag-unsa na lang kun ang daotang espiritu naa sa sulod?  di makagawas.

hahaha! arang kusuga nakong nikatawa ani nga homily uy.  pang-tubagbohol nga klase.

hehe, sayoha pod nimong nag-"seven last words" bai hubs.  karon na nang good friday uy...

ang abay di angay ug apurahay kay ang sangpotanay sinumbagay.

aguy, someone's in the wrong job after all.

daghang angay taktakon pod sa rtc sa cebu baya.  dugay rang uso diha nga kada hearing mangayo ang mga stenographers ug certain amount (years ago, taktak 500 pesos every time, in my experience). 

they cite a certain republic act for that.  well, i'm not much of an idiot... hatag na lang ko bisan no receipt and the republic act is unbelievable.  tiaw bay di tagdon imong kaso ug di ma-schedule ang hearing... kapoy na; just get it over and done with.  maayo pay hutdon na silag taktak.

samok bitaw gyod ning diskoral.  kini pong biktima, aw, ambot.  charitable lang gyod siya.  ako, bisan mga iring namo magbugno, likay gyod ko kay kahibawo kong maapil ko sa kamras.

hehe, not really.  all for fairness' sake.  this guy's too much of a hypocrite and actor, honest.  ing-ani na lang ba gyod ta ka-ilaronon?

i'm sure as hell, aw heaven diay, that bergoglio was the best of daydreamers.

hehe, kung mo-apply kag driver ni pope francis, mas mapareha ka ni ernest hemingway...

And now let us begin this journey, the Bishop and people, this journey of the Church of Rome, which presides in charity over all the Churches, a journey of brotherhood in love, of mutual trust. Let us always pray for one another. Let us pray for the whole world that there might be a great sense of brotherhood.


We must not be afraid of goodness or even tenderness!


Whenever human beings fail to live up to this responsibility, whenever we fail to care for creation and for our brothers and sisters, the way is opened to destruction and hearts are hardened.

-http://www.quoteauthors.com/


Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross. He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which marked Saint Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison (cf. Mt 25:31-46). Only those who serve with love are able to protect! (from Pope Francis's inaugural homily)

Pope Benedict XVI: 'Faith is Believing in God's Unfailing Love'

Through faith, the deepest meaning and truth of our human existence is revealed.

Faith offers us sure hope and direction amid the spiritual confusion of our times. Before all else, faith is a divine gift which enables us to open our hearts and minds to God’s word and, through Baptism, to share in his divine life within the community of the Church. Yet faith is also a profoundly human act, engaging our intelligence and freedom. (Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, VATICAN CITY, OCT. 25, 2012, http://www.zenit.org/

With his Apostolic Letter of October 11, 2011,Porta Fidei. . . , Pope Benedict XVI declared that a "Year of Faith" will begin on October 11, 2012 and conclude on November 24, 2013. October 11, 2012, the first day of the Year of Faith, is the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. . . (Vatican II) and also the twentieth anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. During the Year of Faith, Catholics are asked to study and reflect on the documents of Vatican II and the catechism so that they may deepen their knowledge of the faith. http://www.usccb.org/

Before he became pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (from 1981â€"2005), appointed by Pope John Paul II on 25 November 1981.

The Pope was a man of prodigious energy who played a crucial yet insufficiently explored role in some of the most momentous events of our time, including the collapse of European communism, the quest for peace in the Middle East, and the democratic transformation of Latin America. This updated edition of Witness to Hope explains how this "man from a far country" did all of that, and much more -- and what both his accomplishments and the unfinished business of his pontificate mean for the future of the Church and the world. (from book description, http://www.amazon.com/

and each pope does embody a particular virtue for which they will be identified for years to come.

bahala na lang nga mamoso si bugsay... aw, mamoso ang iro ni bugsay.  bahala na lang kun kinsa nang iyang giboso.  gusto lang kong makahibawog giunsa pagbangag nang bungbong nga neat man kaayo ang pagkabangag, morag gilimbasan.

from catholic memes...

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 25, 2013, 01:38:31 AM
Pope Francis tells Benedict 'we are brothers'

When the duo went to the chapel, Lombardi said, Benedict offered Francis the traditional kneeler used by the pope, but Francis wanted the pair to kneel together on the same pew, saying, "We are brothers."

The private meeting lasted about 45 minutes, said Lombardi, who called it a "moment of profound and elevated Communion."

http://www.usatoday.com/

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 25, 2013, 01:38:31 AM

The two popes embraced on the helipad when Francis' helicopter arrived, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said on Vatican Radio. The two were dressed in white, with Pope Francis wearing a cape and sash to distinguish himself from Benedict, who wore a simple white cassock.

http://www.usatoday.com/

The helicopter carrying Pope Francis, sitting next to left window, flies on its way to Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Crowds are beginning to gather in the central square of Castel Gandolfo to catch a glimpse of history: Two popes meeting for lunch and presumably discussing the future of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis flies by helicopter Saturday to the papal residence in the Alban Hills south of Rome where Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has been living since resigning Feb. 28, the first pope to step down in 600 years. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

i'm lucky to be alive during these times when such scenes are taking place, to bear witness to this rare moment in history.  never had two popes been together, alive.  this is the greatest of moments.   

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 26, 2013, 08:32:32 PM
Well, you can study the innards and be a haruspex
And then perhaps as such be anytime prepared for sex.

gender thus is in your innards?
you must be some health hazards.

Quote from: chicogon on March 26, 2013, 10:07:53 PM
Nice lesson to add to our lesson bank

tekret: shakespeare had defied these rules many times.

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 26, 2013, 09:01:12 PM
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill

my favorite anti-preposition ending rebel, that's why this is one particular grammar rule i sometimes defy.

more, more!

we always have one of those, every year.  i can say we have a collection of dried palm fronds.  i wish to know from fr chic whether it is true that it is the previous year's blessed palm that's burned and its ashes are the ones used for the current year's ash wednesday, mixed with holy oil.

if so, then i'll burn our dried palm collection of years, put the ashes inside an urn, mix them with holy oil, and i'll have one more blessed thing on our altar.  (no, i won't use them for ash wednesday, hehe.)

5. Only Food is Done; Projects are Finished

You’ve probably been chided by someone at the dinner table for saying you’re “done” instead of “finished,” but that aunt or grandfather was holding on to a belief that doesn’t make any sense. This “rule” surfaced in the early 1900s, but the style guide that started it gave no reason. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage speculates that the advice was based on bias against the usage’s “Irish, Scots, and U.S.” origin.

You can argue the point with Aunt Millie, but at work, there’s no harm in sticking with “finished.”

Don’t: I’m done with this project.

Do: I’m finished with this project.

http://www.thedailymuse.com/

4. “Slow” is Never an Adverb

Fussbudgets will tell you that signs shouldn’t say “drive slow”â€"they should say “drive slowly.” The bearers of this news ignore the existence of flat adverbs (those that don’t end in -ly). Even William Strunk Jr., of Elements of Style fame, used them: Co-author E.B. White reported that Strunk often told students, “If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud.”

Still, the belief that flat adverbs are wrong is so widespread, it’s safer to use the non-flat adverb form.

Don’t: He talks so loud we can hear him three cubes down.

Do: He talks so loudly we can hear him three cubes down.

3. Don’t End a Sentence With a Preposition

This “rule” was made up in 1672 by John Drydenâ€"a writer so famous in his time that some refer to the years of his prime as the Age of Dryden. His influence assured that the rule made it into schoolbooks, and it’s been widely taught ever since. Nevertheless, there’s no logical basis for the rule, and modern language experts have fought back in force.

The only reason you’ll find in most current language books for avoiding an ending preposition is to save you from offending someone who still thinks it’s wrong. But, in the workplace, that’s actually not a bad reason.

Don’t: Now that’s something I hadn’t thought of.

Do: Now that’s something I hadn’t considered.

2. Never Split an Infinitive

You split an infinitive when you put an adverb between “to” and a verbâ€"for example, “to boldly go.”

The rule against splitting infinitives was made up by a few fellows in the mid-1800s, and even they weren’t that adamant about it. They generally thought it was better to avoid splitting infinitives, but they didn’t say that splitting was the unforgivable sin that some people seem to think it is today.

Even though splitting isn’t wrong, moving the adverb rarely changes the meaning of your sentence. Just do it.

Don’t: She wanted to loudly tell her boss to pound sand.

Do: She wanted to tell her boss loudly to pound sand.

1. “Data” Can Only Be Plural

In Latin, “data” is the plural of “datum.” Therefore, some people insist that “data” can only be plural in English (“the data are here,” not “the data is here”). Now, these same people would never ask you to send them the meeting “agendum,” even though the “agenda/agendum” pair is just like “data/datum.” And that’s because English is a rogue and has no problem giving a makeover to words it takes from other languages.

Nevertheless, you’re safest keeping “data” plural. If it sounds weird to you, use a different word, such as “information” or “results.”

Don’t: This quarter’s data is going to get us fired.

Do: This quarter’s results are going to get us fired.

5 Stupid Grammar Myths (and Why You Should Follow Them at Work)

by Mignon Fogarty
December 24, 2012

Ever been chided for doing something you know isn’t wrong? Your brother-in-law insists that guacamole is made only with lemonâ€"never limeâ€"and that you’ve ruined it with your tiny green citrus. His mama taught him to make it with lemon, and he doesn’t care how much you cite Alton Brown.

The same goes when you’re writing at work. Although modern grammarians and reference books firmly assert that all five of the “rules” I’m going to give you are baseless, they’ve been taught as law in many schoolsâ€"especially to people old enough to be your boss.

So read up. Be informed. Know they are mythsâ€"and follow them in your writing at work anyway. Believe me, it makes life easier.

but i must admit a study of linguistic history is worth the time.

a thread for linguistics, no doubt.  it's like opening an animal's carcass to study its innards.  me?  i prefer literature to the study of linguistics.  i prefer to run and play with animals rather than study their insides.

nevah.  sa panahon sa micro-mini, madala-dala pa.  sa panahon sa pakigol, purya.  kamo na lang, bai hubs.

yikes!  kontra ra ba gyod nako ning makakita kog ulo ug lechon nga tibuok.  surefire gyod nga mawad-an kog ganang mokaon kung makakita ko ani.  glad it's holy week now.

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on March 26, 2013, 02:43:46 PM
akong anak ang huguson sa amoa, ang upat ka anak nako akong gi present jud nga ma anghel heheheh

wow! mokanta diay ang imong mga anak, raqz! how nice.

ganahan kog hugos sa dimiao ug loay kay ang mokantang bata mora gyod ug anghel ang tingog, unya tubag-tubag dayon ug kanta ang ubang anghel.

goodness me.  moluto ba diay mog alien diha, fr chic?  i won't go to your place then.  i might end up in the frying pan. 

(mas nalingaw kong gatan-aw nimong niwanggot na.  kanang lobster, aw, mora na tingali nag lami ug kopras.  mas tam-is man kuno ang gagmay, matod pa sa akong mama.)

aw, asa man diay anang duha ang imong ipasabot nga iring nga klarong liwat sa tag-iya?  ijara ka, aw, iyara ka...

lami ba kaha ang iyang himbis tsitsaronon?

they should not, please.  i mean, there's got to be a law to protect their partnership, as in who has the primary right to a partner's estate upon his death, but a union in the eyes of the law?  sorry, but that's beyond me as it is beyond us to be one of four wives allowed by some other religion.

atot ba nimo hubag uy.  mahal gyod nang klaseha sa boysda.

wa pod ka kadungog kun naa bay mo-hello/goodbye lang nga shark, raqz?  at least, kanang di manghiwi...

suya lang ka kay di man kabuhion ang iyang kigow.

tinuod ba ning nahitabo?  anybody here who can separate fact from fiction?  mahiluna na gyod akong kalag if i get to know the truth here.  my reason is simple; ako ning i-estorya bisan ni kinsa nga foreign tourist nga akong makaila nga moadto ug bohol, labi na ug among guests, hehe.

kun tblander man galing tong lakiha (heaven forbid), pasayloa na lang ko; holy week bitaw karon.  sure hinoon ko nga di to si hubag o bugsay o chongki kay dakog puruhan nga mga pizot pa to sila atong panahona.  samokan pa ug mga babaye kay mas gusto pa ug jolernz.  as for lorenz, no sweat.  nag-utaw-utaw ka pa sa cosmos ato.

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 10:56:49 AM
for those of a certain vintage, circa 1970s, sa panahon nga wa pay fastcraft plying cebu-bohol...

tinuod ba tong estorya akong nadunggan sa una, diha kuno sa news pero estorya ra ang akong nadunggan...

dunay manag-oyab, college students kuno, puro bol-anon.  sakay sa sweet lines (kay sweet lines pa man to, wa pay oceanjet, etc.) alas 12 sa udto ang sked.  somewhere along the way, nag-away kuno ang duha.  unya kalit nga gialsa sa ni lalaki ang babaye ug gilabay, overboard.

wa kuno makalihok dayon ang crew ug ang ubang pasahero, understandably tungod sa shock over the scene ug tungod kay shark-infested kuno tong dapita. 

pero dihay tourist, german kuno, nga way kalibotan nga shark-infested, diretso ug dive ug save sa babaye.  (this act is believable; i know europeans, especially germans, act on impulse to help anyone in distress.  that's simply part of who they are, regardless of history.)

anyways, niabot kuno ang german tourist sa tagbilaran to a hero's welcome.  ang ginikanan sa babaye andam pod ug kiha sa lalaki.

that's reassuring.

for those of a certain vintage, circa 1970s, sa panahon nga wa pay fastcraft plying cebu-bohol...

tinuod ba tong estorya akong nadunggan sa una, diha kuno sa news pero estorya ra ang akong nadunggan...

dunay manag-oyab, college students kuno, puro bol-anon.  sakay sa sweet lines (kay sweet lines pa man to, wa pay oceanjet, etc.) alas 12 sa udto ang sked.  somewhere along the way, nag-away kuno ang duha.  unya kalit nga gialsa sa ni lalaki ang babaye ug gilabay, overboard.

you know better gyod, pamils.  hinaot ang imong concern moabot niya.  makatabang ba ang magsunod in case naay sharks?

who knows?  we can exchange tarsiers and pandas one day as some kind of quid pro quo.  better to exchange pets than islands, eh?

Quote from: islander on March 26, 2013, 10:06:58 AM
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada got a taste of international panda diplomacy on Monday with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan to two Canadian zoos.

Speaking as the two giant pandas arrived in Toronto from China, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Junsai - who gave the animals the VIP designation - noted that when he started his posting in Canada two years ago, he was greeted only by the Canadian director of protocol.

But the panda pair, Er Shun, 5, and Da Mao, 4, merited a personal welcome from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who reached an agreement on the panda loan during a visit to China last year.

hahaha!  sorry, your excellency.  you are only an ambassador, not a panda.

...just a reminder from a much smaller tarsier.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper his wife Laureen look at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/

Canada got a very special package, and a taste of international panda diplomacy on March 25 with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan from China to two Canadian zoos.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)


One of two Panda bears arrive at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R), his wife Laureen, and Zhang Junsai, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Canada, look at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill

China has frequently loaned pandas to foreign zoos, in deals that can be lucrative to both sides. Fees paid by the host countries help fund panda research in China, but the zoos hope to recoup that in extra visitors.

Other costs include the vast quantities of bamboo that the two pandas will eat - they spend 10 to 16 hours a day eating 14 to 20 kg (31 to 44 lbs) of bamboo.

FedEx Corp, which flew the pandas to Canada from China, will fly in 600 to 900 kg (1,320 to 1,980 pounds) of bamboo each week from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee because "pandas are picky eaters," it said.

(Writing by Randall Palmer; Editing by Sandra Maler)

http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/

 "I am very delighted to officially welcome to Canada ... a pair of China's national treasures," Harper said at the airport.


A Federal Express aircraft carrying two panda bears arrives at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013. The two bears are on loan to Canada from China for 10 years. They will spend the first five years at the Metro Toronto Zoo after which they will be moved to Calgary, Alberta, for the remaining five years of their visit. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

Officials hope that Er Shun, who is female, and Da Mao, who is male, will mate during their five years in Toronto and five subsequent years in Calgary, Alberta, to produce the first Canadian-born panda cubs.

"China wants to be known for other than economic prowess," Gordon Houlden, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, told CTV television. "This helps serve that purpose."

"Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada from China

By Fred Thornhill | Reuters 26 March 2013



TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada got a taste of international panda diplomacy on Monday with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan to two Canadian zoos.

Speaking as the two giant pandas arrived in Toronto from China, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Junsai - who gave the animals the VIP designation - noted that when he started his posting in Canada two years ago, he was greeted only by the Canadian director of protocol.

But the panda pair, Er Shun, 5, and Da Mao, 4, merited a personal welcome from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who reached an agreement on the panda loan during a visit to China last year.

hehe, ako morag nawong ug iring.  btw, si sir balong morag nawong ug anghel.

malditohang iringa diay uy.  mo-disguise man gyod as a baby.

22 March 2013



http://i.telegraph.co.uk/

another one bites the keyboard dust...

tb dokdoker nga nabuntagan

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 16, 2013, 11:30:36 AM



Bugalbugalon jamo...

nganong niabot man ni dinhi nga thread nga iro man na?

Other religions


Buddhism
Risshō Kōsei Kai    
Nichiko Niwano, President



Judaism
Italian Jewish Community:    
Riccardo di Segni, Grand Rabbi of Rome

Riccardo Pacifici, President of Rome's Jewish community

Chief Rabbinate of Israel:    
Oded Wiener, Director General



Islam
Islamic Community of Serbia:    
Muhamed Jusufspahić, Mufti of Serbia and Vice President of Rijaset of Islamic Community of Serbia

Islamic Community of Latin America:    
Mohamed Youssef Hajar, Secretary General of the Islamic Organisation of Latin America
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-wikipedia and various online sources for images

Orthodox Church in America    
Metropolitan Tikhon, Metropolitan of All America and Canada



Anglican and Old Catholic Churches

Church of England, John Sentamu, Archbishop of York



Episcopal Church
Pierre Whalon, Bishop-in-Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe



Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic)
Joris Vercammen, Archbishop of Utrecht

Religious figures

Christian Churches

Eastern Orthodox Churches

Orthodox Church of Constantinople
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople



Armenian Apostolic Church
Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians



Russian Orthodox Church
Hilarion (Alfeyev), Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Partriarchate



Serbian Orthodox Church    
Metropolitan Amfilohije (Radović), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral and Administrator of Eparchy of Buenos Aires (and Central and Southern America)

International Organizations

European Union
Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament

From left to right: Mr Martin SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament; Mr José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission; Mr Herman VAN ROMPUY, President of the European Council.


United Nations
José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)



Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Prince and Grand Master Matthew Festing

asa na man tong imong iring?  si doggie na man pod na?  either, puro cute gyod.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on March 25, 2013, 04:37:17 PM
YESSSSSS kadakong kalipay nako ron kay gitagaan ko ug 1 week extension para mafinalize ang Registry of Qualified Applicants (RQA) for Teacher 1 Applicants... may na lang less pressure ug makarelax ko gamay karong Holy week.. I'll be spending Holy week at Pikit, North Cotabato starting tomorrow.. Mao na akong napili nga lugar kay way temptasyon ug laag... kay kung molaag ka didto, maabot na lang ka sa kuta sa MILF wa damha heheehheeh gyera pa..

ayo-ayo sa imong cenaculo, loll!  ako puyo ra ko diri to avoid the traffic.  not going anywhere kay wa tugti si banana republic to leave the place bisan way trabaho.  kinahanglan gyod kuno on call siya during the period.  na, hala... wa gyod koy problema ana.  basta makaadto lang kog simbahan, payts na ko.

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 05, 2013, 03:26:53 PM
I will recommend, isles, this following beautiful prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola

i've passed this on to her the very day you posted this, lorenz.  thanks much.

Quote from: islander on March 05, 2013, 02:52:45 PMbeen bothered these last 2 weeks over a friend's domestic troubles.  cruel husband gyod iyaha uy.  gisayon-sayon ra man siyag ilis ug laing baye, hahay.  akoy gipahungawan tawon ani nga friend, and i'm treading carefully as i wait for her to get over the damnation of feelings of rejection.

my friend's story had finally ended.  she's readying herself to walk out tonight.  almost every day, she contacts me through YM to give me the bloody details.  she understands enough that it's affecting me, and apologizes along the way.  but she needs a listening ear.  or a seeing ear in this case. 

somehow having things and people around us in the proper order of things is reassuring.  they are our own comfort zone.  now they're asunder.  thus do i mourn too.

Quote from: expat on March 25, 2013, 10:47:31 AM
Most young Catholics aren’t aware of past excesses. Catechism classes didn’t include Vatican scandals.

in the same way perhaps that other religions wouldn't teach their young adherents about their own bloody past and how their religions came to be.  out of curiosity, do anglican religious teachings dwell on the reason behind the church of england's henry VIII?

time was when popes had temporal powers and were thus selected with much interference and influence of european royalty and politics.  the author pachico "chiking" seares didn't bother to explain the time and place of such irreverence. 

i can say though that i know the background of chiking seares, he who made the sunstar newspaper what it is.  this piece of his is no surprise.  i still have to read him praising anyone, though i won't discount articles of those he favors politically.  talk of objectivity...

magkalisod gani ta bahin ug interpretation ug balaod, mo-refer dayon ta sa US nga atong gisunod more or less.  pero bahin na gani ani nga istrikto kaayo ang US sa morality sa ilang leaders, wa gyoy makahunahuna ug US.

na, hala, manila.  botari.  you deserve him kun inyong padag-on.  gastoso sa una ang security aning lain-laing pamilya ni erap uy.  they all have to be provided with presidential security.

Families of Joseph Estrada aka Erap:



Former First Lady and Senator Loi Ejercito
First Family = Luisa Pimentel aka Dr. Loi, Former First Lady and Senator of the Philippines
Children: Jose "Jinggoy" ( married Presentacion Vitug)
Jacqueline ( married "Beaver" Lopez son of Manolo, CEO/COB Meralco)
Jude (married Rowena Ocampo)



Honorable Guia Gomez, Mayor of San Juan City
2nd First Family = Guia Gomez, aka Former de facto First Lady of San Juan
Son: Jose Victor "JV" Ejercito



3rd First Family = Laarni Enriquez aka First Lady of Wack-Wack
Children: Jerika Lariza, Juan Emilio, Jacob



4th First Family = Joy Melendrez aka The other First Lady
Son: Jose aka Joma


(no image)
5th First Family = Peachy Osorio aka Another First Lady
Children: Joel Eduardo "Jojo", Ma. Theresa "Techie"


(no image)
6th First Family = Mary Ann Murphy aka The Last First Lady we know of
Daughter: Joan


other families not on this list:


(no image)
7th First Family(?) = (?) Larena
Son: Jason



8th Family (?) = Ma. Rowena Gomeri Lopez
Former PAL Flight Attendant
alleged child with Erap was given birth in the US


-various sources, mostly from https://groups.google.com/forum/

do you remember when?  a look back...

Wives and children live lavish lifestyle

By Sheila Coronel
November 15, 2000
Updated: 10:46 am, April 11, 2011

excerpts:

Whether it is his own home or that of his mother or one of his wives, the president’s architectural and design preferences tend toward opulence â€" heavy draperies, antiques, carved wood and crystal. All these of course add up to princely sums. But especially extravagant, say those who have seen them, are the more recent constructions attributed to either Estrada or one of his special women.

These homes have been described consistently as being done in a style in which it was obvious that cost was not a concern. For instance, says an interior designer, a house supposedly for one of the presidential wives, in New Manila, Quezon City, features a swimming pool with real sand and a machine that churns artificial waves.

A two-story mansion being built on a 5,000-square-meter lot on Harvard Street in Wack Wack, Mandaluyong, has a mini-theater, a gym, a sauna and three kitchens on the ground floor and another upstairs. Until the furor over the construction made it too controversial, this house was supposedly designed especially for Laarni Enriquez, a long-time Estrada companion, and her three children.

more at http://www.publicintegrity.org/2000/11/15/3251/wives-and-children-live-lavish-lifestyle

ngayon


The rulers of San Juan (from left): Convicted plunderer Joseph Estrada, his son Rep. JV Ejercito, and his mistress Mayor Guia Gomez (http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/01/29/)