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magsiyagit pa ra ba gyod na sila, morag natarantar.  ambot nang radyoha uy. 

he chose the wrong career.  nag-fiction writer na lang unta siya.  mas creative pa.

hahaha!  paskang sukoa na tingali ron sa editor ug publisher. 

i will repeat myself here, i.e., from another tb thread (title: woman dies of vaginal lock).

sakto na, ayaw na mo pangatawa diha...


Vaginal lock or Penis Captivus

Vaginal lock is an unconfirmed (even mythical) condition in which a woman's vaginal muscles clamp around the penis during intercourse, so firmly, it causes the male to be 'locked' inside her.

This condition has never been medically confirmed and there are no recorded cases on record.

First of all- the vaginal opening and walls of the vagina are lubricated, allowing for smooth, easy passage.

Second- The muscles of the vagina are not that strong, we are talking about a few muscles on the walls lining delicate tissue, Not Arnold Schwarzenegger on steroids.

Third- although cases have been reported where a woman's muscles tighten and prevent the male from penetrating (Vaginismus is an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the vaginal wall) no cases have been reported of the muscles spasming while the man is inside her, and additionally 'locking him in.'

http://wiki.answers.com/

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 29, 2013, 05:06:57 PM
kinsa gid kaya nangaliwa sang ila na duha haw?

ang newswriter nga maayong tiradoron.  ngano man intawong nilusot man ni sa editor uy.

sakto na, ayaw na mo pangatawa diha...


Vaginal lock or Penis Captivus

Vaginal lock is an unconfirmed (even mythical) condition in which a woman's vaginal muscles clamp around the penis during intercourse, so firmly, it causes the male to be 'locked' inside her.

This condition has never been medically confirmed and there are no recorded cases on record.

First of all- the vaginal opening and walls of the vagina are lubricated, allowing for smooth, easy passage.

Second- The muscles of the vagina are not that strong, we are talking about a few muscles on the walls lining delicate tissue, Not Arnold Schwarzenegger on steroids.

Third- although cases have been reported where a woman's muscles tighten and prevent the male from penetrating (Vaginismus is an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the vaginal wall) no cases have been reported of the muscles spasming while the man is inside her, and additionally 'locking him in.'

http://wiki.answers.com/

talkin' dog... unsa man nang sa babaye, guillotine?

maglisod lagi ko ani ug tuo... makasabot ko nga no names, pero sobra na man pod ni nga news item; it veers on the fictional.  no named source, no name of hospital, no doctor being quoted, no police investigator, no specifics of a police blotter, etc.  this is not news.  this is only a story told many times over, and there was never any proof. 

di na lang ko mangutana kun tinuod ba ni o kinsa bay nakasuway ani.  kapoy nag pangutana kinsa ninyoy naglakaw-lakaw nga wa na jamo.  

perhaps we cannot really win this one in the real sense of the word.  whatever the tribunal says, china may not follow out of national pride.  but we have put our point across; we cannot just give in to a big bully of a neighbor without squeaking.

who is this lozano who filed the charges?  he has no first name in the news item.  must be the marcos loyalist lawyer oliver lozano...

a bit on him:

Lozano was the first senatorial candidate to file his certificate of candidacy, under the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, the ruling party during the Marcos regime. Lozano was later joined by radio announcer and KBL candidate Melchor Chavez. Both Lozano and Chavez lost in previous senatorial derbies. In the Philippine general election, 2004 and Philippine general election, 2007, (Independent) Lozano landed on the 36th and 32nd place, with measly 238,272 and 305,637 votes, respectively. (wikipedia)


it looks like he's been shadow boxing against politicians

i wonder why santiago wasn't charged with anything when he called some congressmen and a mayor "fungus-faced"...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on January 29, 2013, 11:06:40 AM
Friendship can start in old age too.

and would remain up to second childhood, to alzheimer with love.

tua, nakigsinumbagay na tingali...

the idea remains regionalistic, even veering on the xenophobic.  this should not be perpetuated.  bahalag taga-asa god unta.  pilipinas ra bitaw gihapon. 

and now for the nitty-gritty... who are/were the victims?  lisod man gani pag-determine kinsay veterans who served in the u.s. army during world war 2 (they need papers to determine that), unsa na kaha ni?  would papers be needed? 

what about those who were summarily executed?  wa tawon silay papers to ascertain if they had really died.  and would jose maria sison be considered a victim?  he became a pariah because of his ideology.  and martial law did him in, too.

mid-1980s, nakakita kog one and only existing jukebox sa usa ka sikat nga restaurant sa merkado sa mangga diha sa tagbilaran.  muna-muna tawon nako nga nakakita ug tinood nga jukebox, nagsige ko ato ug patokar ug beatles...



sadly, videoke man tingali ang nipuli ani karon.  purya na ang akong madunggan.

peligro gyod hinoon.  unsa god tuod ning usoha nga nagdako man ta nga wa ni, wa man pod uroy ta makaagi ug cholera epidemic.  magbawon na lang god ug tubig gikan sa balay.  ambot pod tuod nga sukad nauso ang bottled water/mineral water/distilled water, uhawonon na man ang mga tawo.


sa una nakong pakakita ani, nalibog kog unsa ni.  abi nakog nauso ug balik ang jukebox, nipataas lang. 

heaven be praised!  congrats, fr chic!  you certainly look better and happier.

while human rights watch may issue statements within its parameters, it isn't fair for it to call our laws archaic.  did it ever complain that punishment by death in the u.s. is archaic? 

there's nothing archaic about dramatically interrupting a religious service.  one might as well say that laws on libel and defamation are archaic in keeping with freedom of expression. 

there are other less insulting ways to express one's own stand.  celdran deserves jail time for his exhibitionistic 15 minutes of fame. 

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on January 29, 2013, 05:54:08 AM
Mao pay paghuman nako ug basa sa thread ni To Bol nga Takore karon ing ukab ko ani kay abi nako ug lain napong takore diay takori man diay. Karon pa ko kadungog ani nga brand pud. Kanta kanta raba intawon pud ko ron ug ako si takure gamay ug dako,kini ang kobtanan ug kini ang ipisan kung mobukal mokolo kolo ihaon mo ako ug ibobo.

ka-ignoy gyod diay nako syalan ba ning wa man ko kadungog anang kantaha sukad, raqz.  bahin ug kaka ra man akong nahibaw-an intawon...

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 28, 2013, 11:48:55 PM
ano na haw 101?  te dalmasyang gid na haw?

to, ang 95 dalmasyang tulog pa...

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 28, 2013, 04:23:26 PM
For a really princely lifestyle, enjoy the splendor of old Persia with this...





...tombaga nga tacori. Ang tobig nga guiinit niini tambaw sa caspa ug coricong...

orinola ni sa amo.

i must admit i have my meager collection.  what they are for, i still do not know.  what i know is that two of the expensive pieces were gifts from the banana republic, kanang gitawag nga peace offerings kay iyang gihatag after a blazing row.  payts ming klaro, hatag siyag kwentas sunod adlaw, apan naay pakapin: 'bantayi na ha kay mahal ra ba na.'  di makalipay estoryaha.  tubag na lang tawon kog 'hoy, di ko mapalit ug kwentas.'  puro man diay mi way buot, kanahan...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 28, 2013, 04:16:00 PM
to be honest, i don't have jewelries that's worth more than P500.00 hahahah mas malingaw man gud ko aning mga imitation lang.. mostly mga hinatag lang pod sa akong mga dating supervisors...

practical.  jewelry is a dead investment.  the most that one can do is pawn them during emergencies and get only 30% of their worth.  hinoon, naay mga baye nga malipay ra nga mora silag christmas tree.

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 28, 2013, 04:08:42 PM


may ara dyamante sang ibabaw.

mahal ni gid na takori, teh kung magbakal mo haw, hambali unja ko ninjo kung tagpila gid ni..

dako ra man ning singsinga para sa akong tudlo... himoon na lang ni nakong initanan ug tubig, o kawo ba kaha.

17. This Housewife --> Leonardo DiCaprio



18. George Washington --> Glenn Close



19. The Quaker Oats Guy --> Jimmy Page


http://www.buzzfeed.com/

15. Caesar Augustus --> Vladimir Putin



16. Winston Churchill --> This Baby

13. Rose Wilder Lane --> Maggie Gyllenhaal



14. Ben Franklin --> Billy Joel

11. Young Mark Twain --> Ron Burgandy



12. Gen. George Patton --> Donald Trump

9. Abe Lincoln --> Bill Nye



10. Oscar Wilde --> Hugh Grant

7. Paul Mounet --> Keanu Reeves



8. John Brown --> Charlie Sheen

5. Charles Darwin --> George Carlin



6. Phillip IV --> Mark Zuckerberg

3. Millard Fillmore --> Alec Baldwin



4. Paul Revere --> Jack Black

19 Mindblowing Historical Doppelgangers

How can we even be sure they're not the same person? Hint: We can't. 1.21 GIGAWATTS! Much love - Virgin Mobile

January 9, 2013
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1. Alexander Severus --> Eminem



2. This Dude From 1860 --> Nic Cage

doppelganger

1 : a ghostly counterpart of a living person
2a: double
b: alter ego
c: a person who has the same name as another

German Doppelgänger, from doppel- double + -gänger goer
First Known Use: 1851

There are many different types of doppelganger, as the definition of the term has become somewhat loose, encompassing any sort of double.

akon cellphone weapon of mass destruction man gid...

photogenic.  nitug-an sa tinuod ang cellphone.

yikes.  maayo gani kay di ko paki-cake.

tiwasin na lang nato...

Quote from: Votives on January 28, 2013, 01:36:45 PM
YAP... naay daghan diri sa BANTAYAN ISLAND... diri sad sa office naa pud daghan... girls na nanimahong buwad... hehe

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 28, 2013, 05:46:24 PM
Kong daghang girls, at least lain2x ang mangalimyon--naay bahong boneless danggit, naay dried pusit, lawlaw, pinikas (ha ha ha),  tarorot, bolinaw, tinabal, ugbp...

da, pangadto pa lagi mog kamagong... mirisi.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 28, 2013, 01:12:10 PM


Thanks boss for the masareal..

mabuing gyod ko ani.  sayang lang di ko makahurot ug usa ka planggana kay nagbantay ko sa akong sugar.

dress cum salbabida tingali na nga dress.  when wet, it floats.  when dry, it serves as a parachute.

one goes to the beach in platform shoes?

rare is the hero who crawls, but here is one...

spiegel has great pictures of the world as we know it.  your sharing is most welcome, surely.

cher was born in 1946.  that would make her 67 this year.

japanese?  salamat kay di chinese.

malingaw man ko maghunahuna nga mopalit ani pero usa ka buwan way kaon-kaon unya maimbargo pa gyod ang balay sa bangko.  naa ba kahay ingon ana, sa?

Quote from: hofelina on January 28, 2013, 03:19:06 PM
yes, or takuri tudlo. Kinsang maambong nga lalaki ang mopalit ug tacori para nako?

tawgon na lang kaha nato si sir balong?  duha ka buwan nga sweldo kun magpa-maid ta niya, payts na ni.

diay tacori, hof.  asows, type ra ba gyod nako ang color purple.  barato man diay kaayo.  palit unya ta ani ug tagtulo, hof.

Blushing Rose

Style # SR100P01

Description:
Deep purple amethyst has a thin frame of diamonds set in 18k pink gold for a feminine look with modern glamour. Accentuated with a slender foundation and crescent details, the Tacori gem seal is incorporated for that Tacori touch.
Pricing MSRP as shown: $1,590.00

angay unta kompletohon ang ngan, as in tacori palanggana.

    This undated photo provided by the International Mozarteum Foundation shows Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Researchers at Salzburg's Mozarteum museum announced Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, that they have definitely identified the person in the picture as the musical genius. And it's not any likeness either. They say that of 14 known portraits, it is one of only a few showing him gazing directly at the viewer and without his signature white powdered wig. (AP Photo/Stiftung Mozarteum)

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

for those who have indoor cats and dogs, arm and hammer is your best friend.  even the ordinary arm and hammer baking soda can help with the stink.  of course, cleaning the litter box every day helps.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

- Mark Twain

hahaha!  hasta obispo nga nasantos manumbag.  lupig atong mga senators nga nagsalig ra ug word war.

re the position of arius, which he presented at the council... here's a funny tidbit.

one of the participants at that council was a bishop from myra, nicholas, who throughout the centuries has been traditionally regarded as the basis for santa claus.  (he was regarded as a saint long before canonization by the pope was formalized.)



At the the Council of Nicaea, Arius presented his case before all the attendees.  At some point, Nicholas could no longer tolerate the blasphemies Arius was saying against God, so he got up, walked up to him, and  punched Arius in the face, knocking him to the floor. Nicholas' fellow bishops were outraged that he lost control and hit Arius. The canons of the church forbid clergy from striking any human being, so he was brought before Constantine, who stripped him of his vestments and had him thrown into prison for what would have been the length of the council. Ashamed of his actions, Nicholas prayed to God and asked for forgiveness in the dark of his prison cell. (http://ourorthodoxlife.blogspot.com/)   

Warning indicators:

#They will imply that anyone signing up will become rich within months to a year.

#They will tell potential victims that the route to success is by following “secret formulas” that no one else knows about.

#They will often claim they have been seen on various websites such as Google and YouTube, causing the viewer to assume said websites endorse the product.

#They will use pressuring tactics to get you to sign up quickly, such as claiming that there are only a certain amount of copies of a CD left, or using special discount prices that are only available for a short amount of time.

#Schemes such as this will often employ the tactic of displaying testimonials from “previous users.”

#When trying to navigate away from their website, users are often presented with popup windows offering further discounts, in an attempt to make the user feel special.

-wikipedia

Online get-rich-quick schemes

Get-rich-quick schemes that operate completely on the Internet typically promote “secret formulas” to affiliate marketing and affiliate advertising.

The scheme will usually claim that it requires no special IT or marketing skills and will provide an unrealistic time frame in which the consumer could make hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

Schemes of this nature usually have catchy titles and images associated with wealth and luxury to encourage potential victims into paying signing up fees which can range from several dollars to thousands of dollars. The get-rich-quick scheme will heavily imply that the consumer will be able to earn much more than this small investment when they apply the special, secret techniques revealed in their training material they will send. Such training material is typically in the form of e-books or training CDs.

-wikipedia

Get-rich-quick scheme

A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to acquire high rates of return for a small investment. The term "get rich quick" has been used to describe shady investments since at least the early 1900s.

Most schemes promise that participants can obtain this high rate of return with little risk, and with little skill, effort, or time. Get rich quick schemes often assert that wealth can be obtained by working at home. Legal and quasi-legal get-rich-quick schemes are frequently advertised on infomercials and in magazines and newspapers. Illegal schemes or scams are often advertised through spam or cold calling. Some forms of advertising for these schemes market books or compact discs about getting rich quick rather than asking participants to invest directly in a concrete scheme.

-wikipedia

lorenz, how could you...

a million thanks. these two songs were the first english religious songs i learned before my first communion.  you bet i have mangled some words, but my memory of the tune is as perfect as a child's smooth voice. 

i feel it's been ages since these songs were sung, at least in the philippine setting, except when one attends wednesday's mother of perpetual help novena in baclaran in manila or at the redemptorist church in cebu city.  these songs seemed more common when i was an early grader. 

(the mass i attended last sunday had unfamiliar tagalog songs.  i believe i spent three quarters of the mass sleeping.)

thanks again. 

don't tell me maingon ana si bugsay sa umaabot nga panahon...

The highly leveraged use of margins theoretically gave the speculators equally large upside potential. However, if a bucket shop held a large position on a stock, it might sell the stock on the real stock exchange, causing the price on the ticker tape to momentarily move down enough to wipe out its client's margins, and the bucket shop could take 100% of their investments.

They were made illegal after they were cited as a major contributor to the two stock market crashes in the early 1900s.

House stock scam

The term bucket shop is now applied to any fraudulent stock-selling operation such as a boiler room, which has an undisclosed relationship with the company being promoted or undisclosed profit from the sale of house stock being promoted. A bucket shop promotes (via telephone or email) thinly traded or even fraudulent investments.

-wikipedia

Bucket shop (stock market)

As defined by the U.S. Supreme Court a Bucket shop is "[a]n establishment, nominally for the transaction of a stock exchange business, or business of similar character, but really for the registration of bets, or wagers, usually for small amounts, on the rise or fall of the prices of stocks, grain, oil, etc., there being no transfer or delivery of the stock or commodities nominally dealt in."

The terms of trade were different for each bucket shop, but bucket shops typically catered to customers who traded on thin margins, even as low as 1%. Most bucket shops refused to make margin calls, so that if the stock price fell even momentarily to the limit of the client's margin, the client would lose his entire investment.

-wikipedia

Differences between a Pyramid scheme and a Ponzi scheme:

In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a pyramid scheme, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly. (In fact, failure to recruit typically means no investment return.)

A Ponzi scheme claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors; whereas pyramid schemes explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments.

A pyramid scheme typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it. By contrast, Ponzi schemes can survive simply by persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small number of new participants.

-wikipedia

The Pyramid Scheme

A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment or services, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public.

These types of schemes have existed for at least a century, some with variations to hide their true nature, and because of this, many people believe that all multilevel marketing plans are also pyramid schemes.


The unsustainable exponential progression of a classic pyramid scheme

-wikipedia

Unraveling of a Ponzi scheme

When a Ponzi scheme is not stopped by the authorities, it sooner or later falls apart for one of the following reasons:

The promoter vanishes, taking all the remaining investment money (minus payouts to investors already made).

Since the scheme requires a continual stream of investments to fund higher returns, once investment slows down, the scheme collapses as the promoter starts having problems paying the promised returns (the higher the returns, the greater the risk of the Ponzi scheme collapsing). Such liquidity crises often trigger panics, as more people start asking for their money, similar to a bank run.

External market forces, such as a sharp decline in the economy (for example, the Madoff investment scandal during the market downturn of 2008), cause many investors to withdraw part or all of their funds. (wikipedia)

financial schemes worth watching out for, and avoiding:

The Ponzi Scheme

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.

The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments to investors.


1910 police mugshot of Charles Ponzi, the namesake of the scheme

-wikipedia

the facts:

one manuel amalilio, a filipino citizen and fugitive in malaysia, founder of the company aman futures group phil. inc., and the alleged ringleader of the P12-billion ponzi scheme that victimized 15,000 filipinos in the visayas and mindanao, has had his extradition from malaysia to the philippines stopped by malaysian authorities at the airport of kota kinabalu.  he purportedly is related to a high-ranking official at sabah state and goes by the malaysian name of mohammad suffian saaid.


Manuel Amalilio aka Mohammad Suffian Saaid

ehehehe, morag mopadaplin na ko aning estoryaha kay giatbangan na kog tulokibon nga for adults only... (kay ngano laging gauna-una, da...)

In Bali in 1976, at the first Asean Summit held after the fall of Saigon, I found Marcos keen to push for greater economic cooperation in Asean. We agreed to implement a bilateral Philippine-Singapore across-the-board ten percent reduction of existing tariffs on all products and to promote intra-Asean trade. We also agreed to lay a Philippines-Singapore submarine cable. I was to discover that for him, the communiqué was the accomplishment itself; its implementation was secondary, an extra to be discussed at another conference.

-an observation of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew on the Philippines, its leadership during the martial law years, and what he thought was the problem

He was hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws.

-U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, after his telephone conversation with Marcos, March 1986

I think you should cut and cut cleanly. The time has come.

-U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, in telephone conversation with Marcos just before his downfall, March 1986

i must have taken a bath in february because when i got married in june, i had no bouquet.  honest, i forgot about it.  in fact, i never gave it a thought.  (i didn't have those so-called wedding planners.)

how cruel naman this dracula.

kitay nalingaw.  one truth stands out-- puro dagkog ulo, unsaon na lang.

Quote from: Pikoy on January 27, 2013, 01:30:04 PM
musta dam? ginagmay lang nga lili ug tago2x para may tareling nuh?.. hehe..

okay lang my days, salamat.  kana ba... pamugos gyod ug lili diha kay lisod kaayog medyo magsangkiig ning tb gamay kay wa ang usa ka haligi nga ginganlan ug pikoy, morag gawi ug pikoy, mora pa gyod tingalig hitsura ug pikoy... hehehe, opkors naman jawking only.

obviously this particular story as narrated didn't happen; it's apocryphal and meant only to entertain. 

i like the piece.  the writer uses a number of literary devices, from allusion to satire to roman à clef, to put his point across-- that something funny is going on at the senate nowadays.

In a touching show of solidarity, Enrile’s supporters stood up and to a man gave him a vote of confidence on the issue.

But they all began slouching down in silence when Enrile repeated the statement he gave in a TV interview with Winnie Monsodâ€"that he was too old “from the waist down” to have a mistress and was willing to be tested for erectile dysfunction to prove it.

Murmuring to one another, Enrile’s supporters backed off, hinting that they would not be able to join him on this one.

Finally, Enrile vowed not to deal with assaults on his person anymore: “Let it stay on the record and let the Divine Spirit determine whose truth is correct, where lies the truth.”

As usual, the Divine Spirit refused to comment.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/

Cayetano, in his privilege speech, had also accused Enrile of giving his chief of staff Jessica Gigi Reyes so much power that she acts as if she’s a senator herself. The accusation revived old rumors that Reyes was Enrile’s mistress.

Livid, Enrile, vehemently denied having a mistress. “And I am not pirating this line of defense from any of my male senate peers, because an elected official’s denial of having a mistress or mistresses is already in the public domain,” he magisterially argued.

In a touching show of solidarity, Enrile’s supporters stood up and to a man gave him a vote of confidence on the issue.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 27, 2013, 01:17:33 PM
madugay ani ang ilang awayan kay "Ewww, who farted?"

oops, they will all be guilty.

Whereupon Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, who had fallen ill after tangling with Enrile over the same “Christmas gift” issue, unexpectedly staggered into the Senate chamber and woozily accused him of pirating her high blood pressure. “That act is mine! Do I have to copyright it?”

Whereupon Enrile accused Santiago of lack of originality herself when she returned the $250,000 Christmas gift check he had given her. “It was I who first returned your Christmas gift of biscuits because of your advocacy for the RH billâ€"gaya-gaya ka lang, hija,” Enrile exploded.

“Touche,” Santiago conceded, “but talk about lack of originalityâ€"you faked your own ambush to give an excuse for martial law, then just the other day you faked vacating the Senate presidency so you could get a vote of confidence from our peers. My dear senator of a certain age, you are just repeating yourself!” she yelled before being taken away on a stretcher.

Critics accused Enrile of improperly appropriating the patently low blow that former Supreme Court Justice Renato Corona used during his impeachment trial, when he cast aspersions on his deceased father-in-law’s character for no apparent reason material to his defense.

“I beg your pardon!” Enrile bristled. “My irrelevant below the belt retort is my own original idea. Do I have to copyright that?” Enrile then complained that Cayetano made his blood pressure shoot up.

One of Enrile’s supporters, Sen. Tito Sotto, quickly came to his defense. “I beg your pardon!” Sotto bristled, too. “The Senate president’s irrelevant below the belt retort is his own original idea. Does he have to copyright it?”

Outtakes

Senate brawl worsens; Enrile accused of piracy

By Rene Ciria-Cruz
Saturday, January 26th, 2013

Furiously fending off accusations of doling out public funds to Senate colleagues as if the money were his to give as “Christmas gifts,” Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile now also stands accused of pirating intellectual property.

The latest charge has nothing to do with his best-selling autobiography. Critics instead claim that he pirated another well-known figure’s tactic while defending himself against Senate leader Alan Peter Cayetano’s charges of favoritism and vindictiveness.

The charge of piracy came after Enrile from out of the blue said Cayetano’s late father, who was his former law firm partner, still owed him P37 million, which he had to put up so that the elder Cayetano could feed his family.

Star map showing the planet-hosting star 55 Cancri in the constellation of Cancer. The star is visible to the naked eye. (Image:Nikku Madhusudhan using Sky Map Online)

Astronomers initially assumed the diamond planet’s chemical composition was similar to Earth’s and that 55 Cancri e contained a substantial quantity of super-heated water.  However, according to Yale University researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, the new research suggests the planet has no water at all and is primarily made up of carbon â€" such as graphite and diamond â€" as well as iron, silicon carbide, and, possibly, some silicates.

The identification of a carbon-rich super-Earth means scientists can no longer assume that all distant rocky planets have chemical elements, interiors, atmospheres or biologies similar to Earth, according to Madhusudhan.

Which means there could be other gemstone planets out there just waiting to be discovered.

http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2012/10/

The gemstone planet, called ’55 Cancri e’, has a radius twice that of Earth’s and a mass that’s eight times greater, making it a “super-Earth.”  The planet is one of five found orbiting ’55 Cancri’, a sun-like star about 40 light years from Earth.  Located in the constellation of Cancer, scientists say the star can be seen with the naked eye.

Astronomers first spotted the planet last year as it was transiting its star, which allowed them to measure its radius for the first time.  Using that information, along with their most recent estimate of its mass, researchers used computer modeling to speculate on the chemical composition of the planet.

Previous research revealed that the host star, 55 Cancri, has more carbon than it does oxygen, leading the US-French team to confirm that significant amounts of carbon and silicon carbide, with only a small amount of water ice, were available during the planet’s formation.

Scientists Discover Planet Covered in Diamonds

Scientists have found a planet outside of our solar system which could be a true diamond in the rough.

This gem of a planet is twice Earth’s size, according to the US-Franco team that found it, and its surface appears to be covered in graphite and diamond.

Researchers estimate that at least one-third of the new planet’s mass could be diamond.


Illustration of the interior of ’55 Cancri e’ â€" an extremely hot planet with a surface of mostly graphite surrounding a thick layer of diamond, with a molten iron core at the center. (Image: Haven Giguere)

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 22, 2013, 08:34:06 PM
...the magisterium of science covers the empirical realm: what the Universe is made of (fact) and why does it work in this way (theory). The magisterium of religion extends over questions of ultimate meaning and moral value.

nothing can be clearer.  thanks, hubs.

self-portrait?

haaayyy, salamat.  nigimaw ra gyod.  daghan baya mi nga gahuwat when ka mobalik.  ginagmay lang god nga lili aron alegre gihapon ta...

A close-up view of a South American scarab dung beetle (Oxysternon conspicillatum) (Photo: J. Mark Rowland/Douglas J. Emlen/Courtesy: National Science Foundation)

A new amphibian species, the ‘Mr. Burns Beaked Toad’ (Credit: USFWS)

A jeweled beetle Chrysina gloriosa. The enlarged image in the background shows the insect’s light-reflecting structures. (Photo: Georgia Tech; photo by Gary Meek)

Found in the waters surrounding the Philippines, a moray eel poses for a photo. (M. J. Costello)

A large male purple marsh crab (Sesarma reticulatum) clips cordgrass with its claws. These crabs are nocturnal and typically live in burrows during the day to stay moist and avoid predators. (Tyler Coverdale)

Native to Madagascar, this is an indri, one of the largest living lemurs in the world. (Meredith Barrett)

Titan, the world’s most powerful and fastest supercomputer, is located at the Oakridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Titan’s computational capability is on par with each of the world’s 7 billion people being able to carry out 3 million calculations per second. (Oakridge National Laboratory)

http://blogs.voanews.com/

hehe, we have common relatives at the salise line, lorenz.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 26, 2013, 05:26:06 PM
Hmm, just curious. How do your demons look? Hitsurag purdoy o haruhay?

haruhay uy.  tipong milyonir.

Quote from: BolBuhol on January 22, 2013, 04:52:12 PM


mas bata pa gid sija ani haw.

sa nidako na nang bataa.