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More than 40,000 apply for one-way ticket to Mars
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It seems that there has been huge interest in signing up to sampling life on Mars in ten years, even though it is a one way ticket.


By Declan Whooley


Mars One â€" a plan to colonise Mars in stages, with the first humans arriving in 2023, won't begin accepting 60-second video applications until July, but already more than 40,000 applications have applied for the unique journey.

Heading off to the Red Planet for good wouldn’t be our cup of tea, but it has spiked the interest right across the globe. Mars One will largely be financed through an application fee of up to $25 and a global reality TV show that will help vet the candidates.

Dutch physicist Gerard Hooft told the New Scientist magazine that the interest levels so far have surpassed what they had anticipated.

“This is many more than I had imagined, although some psychologists and cultural anthropologists had apparently predicted there would be at least a million candidates,” he said.

Mission plan

Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars. According to their schedule, the first crew of four astronauts would arrive on Mars in 2023, after a seven month journey from Earth. Further teams would join their settlement every two years, with the intention that by 2033 there would be over twenty people living and working on Mars.

As of June 2012, the mission plan is as follows:

2013: The first 24 astronauts will be selected; a replica of the settlement will be built for training purposes.

2014: The first communication satellite will be produced.

2016: A supply mission will be launched during January (arriving October) with 2,500 kilograms (5,500 lb) of food in a 5 metres (16 ft) diameter variant of the SpaceX Dragon. The fallback if this is not ready in time is either to use a 3.8 metres (12 ft) Dragon or to delay by two years.

2018: An exploration vehicle will launch to pick the location of the settlement.

2021: Six additional Dragon capsules and another rover will launch with two living units, two life support units and two supply units.

2022: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch with the first group of four colonists.

2023: The first colonists will arrive on Mars in a modified Dragon capsule.

2025: A second group of four colonists will arrive.

2033: The colony will reach 20 settlers.

The Mars One website states that the team behind Mars One began planning of Mars One in 2011. The company states that they researched the feasibility of the idea with specialists and expert organizations, and discussed the financial, psychological and ethical aspects of it.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Mars One is a private spaceflight project led by Dutch entrepreneur, Bas Lansdorp, to establish a permanent human colony on Mars.

Announced in June 2012, the plan is to send a communication satellite and path finder lander to the planet by 2016 and, after several stages, land four humans on Mars for permanent settlement in 2023. A new set of four astronauts would then arrive every two years.

The project is endorsed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft.

The chapels are called Notre Dame de la Paix (Our Lady of Peace) and the Chambre de l'Ermite (Hermit's Room). On August 15 of each year it is still a site of pilgrimage for local Christians. However, the tree had at least one moment of peril after the original lightning strike. The need to survive sometimes precipitates change. During the Revolution the tree became an emblem of the old system of governance and tyranny as well as the church that aided and abetted it. Le Chêne chapelle was to experience its own terror. A crowd descended upon the village, intent on burning the tree to the ground.

However, a local whose name is lost to history had an inspired thought â€" as sometimes people do when they have to think at a speed approaching light. He renamed the oak the temple of reason and as such it became a symbol of the new ways of thinking. It was thus spared the lightning strike of political revolution.

Of course, a tree this old cannot go on forever and Chêne chapelle is showing its age. Poles must shore up its weight where it once it bore its own, like a giant stretching. Wooden shingles have been used to cover areas of the tree which have lost their bark. Yet as much care and diligence is given to the tree as can be, to ensure that it lives on as long as possible even though part of its trunk is already dead. Yet twice a year its loyal congregation gathers and mass is celebrated within the confines of this remarkable chapel of oak.

The oak is the site of a pilgrimage on August 15 (Assumption of Mary).

As such it is still a wood-framed mirror to the history of modern France and of course each country has its disasters. Catastrophe occurred for the oak in the late 1600s. It was nearing 500 years in age when one stormy night it was struck by lightning. A bolt with a temperature approaching 30,000 °C pierced the magnificent tree to its heart.

Yet instead of dying, something astonishing happened. The fire within burned slowly through the center and hollowed the tree out. Perhaps it should then have simply slowly rotted away, but each year new leaves would form and the tree would produce acorns in abundance. In those religious times it was not long before the miraculous tree gained some pious attention.

The local Abbot Du Detroit and the village priest, Father Du Cerceau, determined that the lighting striking and hollowing the tree was an event that had happened with holy purpose. So they built a place of pilgrimage devoted to the Virgin Mary in the hollow. In later years, the chapel above was added, as was the staircase.

Within there are two small chapels, which are to this day used as places of worship by the local people. How old the tree is exactly is the subject of some debate but it is without doubt the oldest known tree in France. While it has persevered the centuries, others have come and gone but Chêne Chapelle (Oak Chapel) has remained.

It was growing when France became a truly centralized kingdom under Louis IX in the thirteenth century. It survived the ravages of the Hundred Years' War with the English. The Black Death, the Reformation, the Revolution and the time of Napoleon all came and went as it spread its branches.

Local folklore places the time at which the acorn first took root as a thousand years ago. They maintain that William the Conqueror said prayers at its base before he went off to thrash the Anglo-Saxons near a small seaside town called Hastings. Yet tree experts put the real age of the tree at around 800, which puts its roots firmly in the thirteenth century.

Chêne chapelle
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The Chêne chapelle (lit. "chapel oak") is an oak tree located in Allouville-Bellefosse in Seine-Maritime, France.

The oak tree is between 800 and 1,200 years old. It is 15m high and its base has a circumference of 16m. Its hollow trunk hosts two chapels, which were built there in 1669: Notre Dame de la Paix ("Our Lady of Peace") and the Chambre de l'Ermite ("Hermit's room").  A spiral staircase around the trunk provides access to the chapels.

It is like something out a fairy tale or perhaps a Tim Burton film. Yet the oak tree in the small French village of Allouville-Bellefosse is not a figment of the imagination or, indeed, an old film set. A staircase spirals around its twisted trunk but neither is this an everyday tree house. Instead of a dwelling place atop or amongst its branches the visitor will discover that the interior holds the secret of this ancient oak.

This imaginative reconstruction of the capture of the ship Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour was painted some 30 years after the event by the French artist Louis Auguste Sainson. Work like this and the more famous 1908 oil painting by Walter Wright (Auckland Art Gallery) helped promote the notion of New Zealand as the ‘Cannibal Isles’ and highlight the interpretation of this event as the Boyd Massacre. The work of Wright has subsequently been dismissed as ‘documentary racism’.

In Sainson’s work two canoes can be seen in the harbour while close to the shore a European woman stands in a vessel resembling a rowboat. Several dead sailors lie in the foreground and people are swarming up the rigging of the ship.

Travel advisory

For some Europeans the Boyd incident put New Zealand in the ‘avoid if at all possible’ category. A pamphlet circulating in Europe warned sailors off the ‘Cannibal Isles’ â€" ‘touch not that cursed shore lest you these Cannibals pursue’.

European utu

Rumours of the incident reached the Bay of Islands, and three weeks later the City of Edinburgh and other vessels to investigate. A Māori chief from the Bay of Islands who accompanied the European force negotiated the return of Ann Morley, her baby and Thom Davis. The taking of hostages secured the release of Betsey Broughton after a short delay.

Asked why they had attacked the ship, some of those involved said that the captain was a ‘bad man’. The whalers present blamed Te Pahi for the incident, even though the real perpetrators declared his innocence. Te Pahi’s pā, Te Puna, was destroyed by the European sailors, with considerable loss of Māori life.

This action resulted in civil war breaking out in the region, and in a final cruel irony, Te Pahi died of wounds received in battle in 1810. When Samuel Marsden arrived in 1814 to establish his Church Missionary Society mission, tensions still simmered. He invited chiefs from Whangaroa and the Bay of Islands aboard his ship, the Active, gave them gifts and asked them to ensure peace between their people.

‘Each chief saluted the other,’ Marsden wrote, ‘and then went around to each one pressing their noses together.’ They also assured him that they would never harm another European.

Survivors

Several Europeans survived both the initial attack and its immediate aftermath. They included Thom Davis (the ship’s cabin boy), Ann Morley and her baby, and two-year-old Betsey Broughton, who was taken by a local chief. Thom was spared because he had tended to Te Ara after his flogging and had smuggled food to him. The second mate was put to work making fish-hooks from barrel hoops, but when he proved incompetent at this task he was killed and eaten.

Te Pahi arrives



Te Pahi


The next morning a large canoe entered the harbour carrying Te Pahi, a prominent chief from Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands who supported trade with Europeans and had visited Sydney in 1805. Shocked by what he found, he tried to rescue the frightened Europeans still clinging to the ship’s rigging. However, Te Ara’s relatives thought the matter none of Te Pahi’s business and killed most of the survivors. In a classic case of mistaken identity, Europeans would later blame Te Pahi for the tragedy.

The Boyd was then towed up the harbour towards Te Ara’s village and grounded on mudflats near Motu Wai (Red Island). The ship was pillaged of its cargo, with muskets and gunpowder being especially prized booty.

During the pillaging a musket flint ignited the gunpowder on board, causing a massive explosion that killed a number of Māori, including Te Ara’s father. Fire soon spread to casks of inflammable whale oil, and the Boyd burned down to the waterline.

Utu is taken

Among the 70 people on board the Boyd was Te Ara, the son of a Whangaroa chief. Te Ara had been expected to work his passage as a seaman, but he ignored orders. He may have been ill, or, as the son of a chief, he may have believed that such work was beneath him. Whatever his reasons, he was flogged and denied food. When he arrived home and reported this mistreatment, his kin demanded utu.

Unaware of local feelings, Thompson and several crew members left the ship with a group of Māori to check out a stand of kauri further up the harbour. Once ashore they were killed and eaten. At dusk some Māori disguised themselves as the returning shore party while other warriors waited in canoes for the signal to attack. The assault was swift and decisive. Most of the Europeans were killed that evening, although a number escaped by climbing up into the ship’s rigging.

Why was the Boyd attacked?

Often referred to as the ‘Boyd Massacre’ or the ‘Burning of the Boyd’, the incident was dismissed as an act of Māori barbarism. From this perspective, there was little need to examine Māori motives. The event was etched into New Zealand folklore by European artists several generations after the actual attack. Their romanticised and often inaccurate portrayals embedded the incident in a frontier context resembling North America’s Wild West.

Under the command of Captain John Thompson, the Boyd left Port Jackson (Sydney) in October 1809 and arrived in Whangaroa Harbour in the far north to load a cargo of kauri spars. It was probably only the third European ship to visit Whangaroa. A year earlier, the crew of the Commerce had caused an outbreak of disease that killed a number of Māori. Ngāti Uru believed that a curse had been placed on them and viewed the next European visitors, those on the Boyd, with apprehension and suspicion. For his part, this was to be Captain Thompson’s first â€" and last â€" encounter with Māori.

The Boyd incident - a frontier of chaos?
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In December 1809 the sailing ship Boyd was anchored in Whangaroa Harbour, where it was to pick up a cargo of timber spars. It was attacked by a group of Māori who killed most of the crew and passengers in retaliation for the captain’s mistreatment of a young local chief, Te Ara, who had sailed from Sydney on the Boyd.

This was the most violent clash between Māori and Europeans since the attack on Marion du Fresne and his crew in 1772. The incident had far-reaching effects. It delayed the establishment of the first Christian mission in New Zealand, cemented a view of New Zealand as the ‘Cannibal Isles’ and challenged the notion that Māori were ‘noble savages’.

European whalers avenged the attack, killing many Māori and sparking intertribal warfare in the region. The incident also provoked vigorous debate among officials in New South Wales about how to maintain order in New Zealand.

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Mr Klinkel said he collected fragments from the droppings, and his daughter, who he was visiting in Denver, later found more when the snow melted.

Mr Klinkel, from the town of Helena, washed and bleached the remnants of the bills and sent them taped together to the Treasury Department in hopes of having them replaced.

That process could take up to two years, Mr Klinkel told  the Independent Record, the newspaper he works for.

"Sundance may have eaten my money, but what he took he gives back in unconditional love," he said.

Mr Klinkel also told the paper he was embarrassed by all the attention he had received.

"I got a call today from a guy I knew 20 years ago and he said he hasn’t stopped laughing about it," he said.

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A Colorado man whose dog dined on $500 (£325) says he will never leave his canine alone in a vehicle again.

Wayne Klinkel left Sundance in his car with five $100 notes and a $1 bill when he and his wife stopped for dinner in Denver at Christmas.

But while the Klinkels were enjoying their meal, Sundance was feasting on the cash.

The 12-year-old golden retriever ate all of the notes - except the $1 bill.

A determined Mr Klinkel said he donned rubber gloves and followed Sundance around the backyard as he went about his "business".

In a recent conversation with NDTV, the Dalai Lama explained his dietary habits and philosophy.

“In vinaya no prohibition in eating meat,” said the spiritual leader. “So monks in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, they take both veg and non veg food. One time I asked, discussed this subject with a monk from Sri Lanka about 40 years ago, he said Buddhist monks are neither veg nor non veg… he should accept whatever he gets, so that’s the principle. But vinaya clearly mentions that meat which was purposely killed for you was not to be eaten but in general was not prohibited, some books like langaavatarasutra prohibited any kind of meat, including fish etc but some other texts not prohibiting, so different case, I think practically in northern part of Tibet, no vegetables. Very difficult. So that’s practical reason.” -- http://www.ecorazzi.com/

The Dalai Lama used to be a strict vegetarian, but is not a strict vegetarian now. The Dalai Lama was very impressed with an Indian vegetarian in the 1960's, and became vegetarian for about two years. Unfortunately, he contracted hepatitis, and under doctor's suggestions began eating meat again. Tibetan Buddhists are not strict vegetarians, as it is difficult to grow vegetables and grains in the Himalayas. Three major monastaries have become fully vegetarian recently with the help of imported foods. The Dalai Lama wishes to be a full vegetarian, even though he cannot, as he applauds the compassion it shows. He chooses to only eat meat every other day, hoping that by cutting his consumption of meat in half, he will inspire his followers who can become full vegetarians to do so. The Buddha does not require his followers to be strict vegetarians, but he encourages it as a show of compassion for fellow creatures. The reason for allowing it to be a choice rather than a mandate is to allow those who do not have access to sufficient vegetarian nutrition to still be good practicing Buddhists. -- http://wiki.answers.com/

Quote from: islander on April 20, 2013, 03:23:30 PM
iring nga liwat sa buwanon nga tag-iya.

Buwanon og batasan o buwanon og nawong?

Quote from: islander on April 20, 2013, 03:28:28 PM
beautiful.  i made the right choice as an intergalactic alien.  i chose to stay on earth to be with humanity.

On behalf of humanity I salute you, Queen Jool...

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Schmidt sting pain index
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The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject, and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera.
His original paper in 1984 was an attempt to systematize and compare the hemolytic properties of insect venoms. The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a familiar pain such as a common bee or wasp sting and finished at 4 for the most painful stings. In the conclusion, some descriptions of the most painful examples were given, e.g.: "Paraponera clavata stings induced immediate, excruciating pain and numbness to pencil-point pressure, as well as trembling in the form of a totally uncontrollable urge to shake the affected part."

Incredible Ritual With Hundreds of Poisonous Bullet Ants

Initiation rites

The Satere-Mawe people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior. The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stinger facing inward. When the ants regain consciousness, a boy slips the glove onto his hand. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for a full ten minutes. When finished, the boy's hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several months or even years.

Photograph demonstrating the size of bullet ants, with a 2 cm scale bar

Sting

The pain caused by this insect's sting is purported to be greater than that of any other Hymenopteran, and is ranked as the most painful according to the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, given a "4+" rating, above the tarantula hawk wasp and, according to some victims, equal to being shot, hence the name of the insect. It is described as causing "waves of burning, throbbing, all-consuming pain that continues unabated for up to 24 hours". It is thought that the ant has evolved this way to ward off any predators who would normally unearth them. A paralyzing neurotoxic peptide isolated from the venom is poneratoxin. It affects voltage-dependent sodium ion channels and blocks the synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. It is being investigated for possible medical applications.

Paraponera
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Paraponera is a genus of ant consisting of a single species, commonly known as the lesser giant hunting ant, conga ant, or bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), named on account of its powerful and potent sting. It inhabits humid lowland rainforests from Nicaragua and the extreme east of Honduras south to Paraguay. The bullet ant is called "Hormiga Veinticuatro" or "24 (hour) ant" by the locals, referring to the 24 hours of pain that follow being stung. The species epithet clavata means "club shaped".

The owner of this Subway sandwich shop, who offers free food for the homeless once a week.

These concert-goers, who made crowd surfing an experience for everyone.

This kind soul, who set up this charging station in New York City during Hurricane Sandy.

Whoever left this box of food out for homeless people.

This woman, who shared her umbrella with this old man.

For my Diego

the silent life giver of worlds, what is most important is the nonillusion. morning breaks, the friendly reds, the big blues, hands full of leaves, noisy birds, fingers in the hair, pigeons’ nests a rare understanding of human struggle simplicity of the senseless song the folly of the wind in my heart = don’t let them rhyme girl = sweet xocolatl [chocolate] of ancient Mexico, storm in the blood that comes in through the mouth â€" convulsion, omen, laughter and sheer teeth needles of pearl, for some gift on a seventh of July, I ask for it, I get it, I sing, sang, I’ll sing from now on our magic â€" love.


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Auxochrome â€" Chromophore

It was the thirst of many years restrained in our body. Chained words which we could not say except on the lips of dreams. Everything was surrounded by the green miracle of the landscape of your body. Upon your form, the lashes of the flowers responded to my touch, the murmur of streams. There was all manner of fruits in the juice of your lips, the blood of the pomegranate, the horizon of the mammee and the purified pineapple. I pressed you against my breast and the prodigy of your form penetrated all my blood through the tips of my fingers. Smell of oak essence, memories of walnut, green breath of ash tree. Horizon and landscapes = I traced them with a kiss. Oblivion of words will form the exact language for understanding the glances of our closed eyes. = You are here, intangible and you are all the universe which I shape into the space of my room. Your absence springs trembling in the ticking of the clock, in the pulse of light; you breathe through the mirror. From you to my hands, I caress your entire body, and I am with you for a minute and I am with myself for a moment. And my blood is the miracle which runs in the vessels of the air from my heart to yours.

The green miracle of the landscape of my body becomes in your the whole of nature. I fly through it to caress the rounded hills with my fingertips, my hands sink into the shadowy valleys in an urge to possess and I’m enveloped in the embrace of gentle branches, green and cool. I penetrate the sex of the whole earth, her heat chars me and my entire body is rubbed by the freshness of the tender leaves. Their dew is the sweat of an ever-new lover.

It’s not love, or tenderness, or affection, it’s life itself, my life, that I found what I saw it in your hands, in your month and in your breasts. I have the taste of almonds from your lips in my mouth. Our worlds have never gone outside. Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Your presence floats for a moment or two as if wrapping my whole being in an anxious wait for the morning. I notice that I’m with you. At that instant still full of sensations, my hands are sunk in oranges, and my body feels surrounded by your arms.

My Diego:

Mirror of the night

Your eyes green swords inside my flesh. waves between our hands.

All of you in a space full of sounds â€" in the shade and in the light. You were called AUXOCHROME the one who captures color. I CHROMOPHORE â€" the one who gives color.

You are all the combinations of numbers. life. My wish is to understand lines form shades movement. You fulfill and I receive. Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.

Auxochrome â€" Chromophore. Diego.

She who wears the color.
He who sees the color.
Since the year 1922.

Until always and forever. Now in 1944. After all the hours lived through. The vectors continue in their original direction. Nothing stops them. With no more knowledge than live emotion. With no other wish than to go on until they meet. Slowly. With great unease, but with the certainty that all is guided by the “golden section.” There is cellular arrangement. There is movement. There is light. All centers are the same. Folly doesn’t exist. We are the same as we were and as we will be. Not counting on idiotic destiny.

Diego:

Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. you are the mirror of the night. the violent flash of lightning. the dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. my fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves which are yours.

Diego.
Truth is, so great, that I wouldn’t like to speak, or sleep, or listen, or love. To feel myself trapped, with no fear of blood, outside time and magic, within your own fear, and your great anguish, and within the very beating of your heart. All this madness, if I asked it of you, I know, in your silence, there would be only confusion. I ask you for violence, in the nonsense, and you, you give me grace, your light and your warmth. I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.

He he, kahinumdom man lang hinuon ko ani sa nabaniog nga balita in the recent past. Kinsa gani to nga politiko nga nagpakita sa iyang ulok sa stewardess inside the plane?

Oi, now pa ko nga "Ulok" diay ang angga ni Islander. Hmm, "Crispulo" diay tingali iyang tinuod nga pangalan...

Quote from: BolBuhol on April 18, 2013, 05:17:05 PM
dao rod haw

He he, sa hain nga siti nga sama ani hang rod haw?

Chechnya was the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.

Investigators in the Boston case have shed no light on the motive for the bombing and have said it is unclear whether it was the work of domestic or international terrorists or someone else entirely with an unknown agenda.

The endgame â€" at least for Suspect No. 1 â€" came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the marathon's finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them.

State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their getaway attempt overnight.

Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt for Suspect No. 2 went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home. The Red Sox and Bruins postponed their games.

From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets. Authorities also searched trains.

"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."

The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the specter of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. They had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said, and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage of the marathon in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His younger brother, who had been dubbed Suspect No. 2 and was seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing â€" escaped and was on the run.

Their uncle in Maryland, Ruslan Tsarni, pleaded on live television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been holed up in a boat in a Watertown neighborhood. The crowd gathered near the scene let out a cheer when spectators saw officers clapping.

"Everyone wants him alive," said Kathleen Paolillo, a 27-year-old teacher who lives in Watertown.

Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted "We got him," along with a photo of the police commissioner speaking to him. Watertown residents poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene.

During a long night of violence Thursday into Friday, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle, authorities said.

By JAY LINDSAY and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Associated Press â€" 2 hrs 32 mins ago


WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) â€" A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead.

Police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote, "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."

Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed Friday in a furious attempt to escape police.

This kind-hearted cop, who stopped traffic to help this wet and shivering pooch.

This guy, who believes in giving people choices.

This wonderful human being, who put up a rain cover for a stranger who left their car window open.

Whoever left these "free wishes" at the fountain in this mall.

Quote from: islander on April 14, 2013, 03:32:46 PM
but i wonder thus, and i'm in awe, so i get curious...

It's your vanity, my child...

Let Islander's sleeping dog lie. Haven't you heard of the Pantyhose Murders?

The person who left their umbrella out for a snoozing kitty cat.

And this kid, who handed out pillows and blankets to homeless people one cold night.

The kid who brought his crossing guard hot chocolate and a doughnut …

This soldier, who helped a woman cross a flooded street.

http://now.msn.com/
13 hrs ago


In the wake of this week's bombing at the Boston Marathon, you might think our faith in humankind would falter. Instead, we were reminded that there are good people out there who go out of their way to help others. Remember the brave acts of Boston's cowboy-hat-wearing hero, not to mention former Patriots player Joe Andruzzi? Well, those good guys aren't alone. After a week of tragic news and brave heroes, we've compiled a gallery of photographic evidence that kind souls are everywhere. Check it out, then pass it on to a friend who needs his or her faith in humanity reaffirmed.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 20, 2013, 08:41:00 AM
Matod ni Saberon nga si Gallardo maoy nitug-an nga si Nacar maoy nitulis sa babaye human sila mag-abot sa usa ka lugar diin ilang gihimo ang ilang tagsa-tagsa ka kremin.

“Ang biktima nakakita sa suspek nga maoy nanulis ug maoy mihatag og impormasyon namo mao na nga among nadakpan,” matod ni Saberon.

Ah, basin tuod maoy motibo...

Hmm, anadir anggol ob da nyos...


`Isnatser’ gipatay sa kauban nga napriso

 
Ni Jonathan F. Tumulak
SuperBalita Cebu
Saturday, April 20, 2013


ISNATSER nga bag-ong nakagawas sa bilanggoan gi­dunggab sa gidudahang tulisan nga kadungan niya paggawas pasado alas 5 sa hapon niadtong Huwebes sa dalan Juan Luna, Barangay Santo Niño, dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Ang biktima nga nakaangkon og duha ka mga samad dinunggaban sa buko-buko giilang mao si Cenon Gallardo, 23, taga San Roque, Barangay Ermita samtang ang suspek giilang mao si Randy Nacar 36, iya rang silingan.

Sa pasiuna nga imbestigasyon gihimo sa mga sakop sa Homicide Section sa Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) nagkanayon nga nakit-an nga nagdungan sa pagpanglakaw ang duruha.

Wa magdugay nibunot og kutsilyo ang suspetsado ug gidunggab ang biktima.

Sa dihang nalup-og na ang biktima, ang suspek daling nibiya sa dapit.

Matod ni PO1 John Paulo Saberon sa Waterfront Police nga gikan sa ilang station ang biktima ug ang suspek.

Si Gallardo nadakpan sa milabay nga adlaw human gidudahan nga nanglabni sa butang sa usa ka babaye samtang si Nacar gidakop usab sa samang adlaw human gidudahan nga nitulis sa usa ka babaye.

Apan ang tagsa-tagsa nila ka mga biktima wa mopasaka kanila og kaso hinungdan nga sila gipangbuhian.

Matod ni Saberon nga si Gallardo maoy nitug-an nga si Nacar maoy nitulis sa babaye human sila mag-abot sa usa ka lugar diin ilang gihimo ang ilang tagsa-tagsa ka kremin.

“Ang biktima nakakita sa suspek nga maoy nanulis ug maoy mihatag og impormasyon namo mao na nga among nadakpan,” matod ni Saberon.

Hmm, makaingon man pud ta nga wa na lang mopasaka og kaso, dalion na lang ang husay...

Ni Lesley Caminade-Vestil (Banat) | Updated April 20, 2013 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Namatay ang  usa  ka snatcher human  kini  dunggaba sa dalan Juan Luna , sa barangay  Sto. Niño, dakbayan sa Sugbo sa  miaging gabii.

Ang biktima nailhan nga si Cenon Gallardo, 23, taga sitio San Roque, barangay Ermita, usa  ka  inila  kaayong  snatcher, sumala  sa kapolisan.

Gidunggab nga nagtalikod diin ang kutsilyo milapos sa iyang  dughan nga maoy hinungdan sa hinanali niining kamatayon.

Matud pa ni Chief Insp. Wildemar Tui, hepe sa Waterfront Police Station nga ilang nasikop ang biktima human kini  manglabni og butang sa may pier area. Apan nianang pagkahapon ila kini nga gibuhi-an kay nagdumili man sa pagpasaka og kaso ang nabiktima ni Gallardo.

Nagpaingon na pauli sa ilang balay ang biktima dihang gisundan sa wala  hiilhing tawo ug sa walay igong hinungdan gihansakan ang likod niini og kutsilyo nga milapos sa iyang  dughan. Sa pagkakaron gisuta sa kapolisan ang usa ka ginganlan og Oman nga maoy  usa sa gidudahang nanunggab sa biktima. (WC) (BANAT BALITA)

Di ba?

Quote from: islander on April 17, 2013, 12:04:40 PM
first, senior tuod siya, being already in his early 70s, pero di na siya diplomat.  he is retired.  front page news intawon ni siya sa middle east sa una kay gikiha ug household helper who claimed she paid the baja couple $5k to get to the u.s. with them and find a job as a nurse, and was paid only $100 a month as their household help, the only one in their 4-storey manhattan residence (Marichu Baoanan vs. Lauro Baja, New York, 2008).

Bitin man ta ani nga info...

Hmm, isa gid ito sang Boston baming sospik?

Onsikantot, basin terrierist diay...

Naa man guy dala nga backpack...

Bay Joe, ayaw baya ari sa Bohol, ha?

Wa ba kaha tawon ni siya maapil og dakop...





Naa ra bay sidekick nga killer dog...