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Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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The shoe of New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz bears the words “R.I.P. Jack Pinto” in memory of one of the children killed in the shootings, shown during an NFL game against the Atlanta Falcons, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 16, 2012.


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Miami, Florida, USA

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Miami Dolphins and young football players hold hands during a moment of silence for the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings before an NFL game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dec. 16, 2012, in Miami.

New York City, New York, USA

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People hold a candlelight vigil in Times Square in New York City, Dec. 14, 2012.



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Members of the New York City Children’s Chorus perform “Silent Night” during the opening of Saturday Night Live as a tribute to the victims of those killed during the Sandy Hook shooting.

Washington, DC, USA

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Supporters of gun control legislation hold candles and placards during a rally in front of the White House on Friday in remembrance of the victims of the deadly shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Los Angeles, California, USA

David McNew / Reuters

Doreen Finsinger (left) and Raagir Quraishi pray during a candlelight vigil in Los Angeles on Dec.14, 2012 to remember the 27 killed in Newtown, Conn.

Toronto, Canada

Mike Cassese / Reuters

Members of the Toronto Raptors observe a moment of silence in remembrance of the shooting victims at Sandy Hook before their NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in Toronto, Dec. 14, 2012.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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A woman walks next to crosses planted in the sand and a banner reading ‘Day of Remembrance’ on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, Dec. 15 2012.

Seattle, Washington, USA

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Seven-year-old Scout Elizabeth Noble of Seattle holds a candle while attending a vigil for victims of the shooting at Green Lake Park, Seattle Dec.15, 2012.

Karachi, Pakistan

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In Karachi, Pakistani children light candles to pay tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting.

Mourning the Victims of the Sandy Hook Shooting Around the World

By Nick Carbone
Dec. 17, 2012
http://newsfeed.time.com/

Though Friday’s tragic murder of 20 schoolchildren and seven adults happened in a small town in Connecticut, people across the globe were saddened by the unthinkable violence. Vigils and tributes were set up in churches and schools, on beaches and in sports arenas around the world.

amen.

looks like an agnostic hesitates while an atheist is sure.  the problem with the latter is that one is sure only of one's denial (that there is no god).  blazes.  the fact that one denies the existence of someone could only start from the premise that there is someone that one should deny.  how credible, then, is that denial?  what a trap.

a cross-dresser's dream gown.

yes, not necessarily materially.

i went out feeling stupid, lighted a cigarette, and wondered what hit me.

i promised myself right there and then never to go back to that clinic.  in case they try to follow up my spiritual treatment (whew!) with a call, having given my personal details for their record, i promised too that that would be the time when i'll tell them to back off or i'll write to newspapers about their operating on government time and government money to recruit adherents to their religion whose name i missed.

that's why i never want to discuss religion with anyone of a different faith.  it is an endless and ultimately useless discussion, convincing no one, much less me.

not wanting to insult them with their good intentions but bad means (ugh, they weren't paid by the government to spread their new-found fundamentalist faith), i agreed.  prayer from any christian faith is as good as my catholic prayers anyway.  but i looked out the window and saw a chapel right beside that clinic.  i came to the wrong building then, i thought to myself.

they charged me a good amount (for the prayers?), i insisted on a receipt, and was told by the receptionist that if only i could stay longer because they knew that my soul needed to be saved urgently.

about 10 years ago, i went to a public health office because i was told that the doctors there were the only practitioners of acupuncture in that locality.  i told them what it was in me that i wanted to be treated with acupuncture (cigarette smoking).  served me right...

all at once, they (there were three of them) hovered around me with the admonition that i smoked because the devil was at work in the core of my being.  i needed praying over and not acupuncture, they said.

i don't bother.  a dyed-in-the-wool oneness pentecostal won't listen anyway.  one thing with religion-- and i believe these times are for living the faith instead of basic evangelization-- is that one uses one's doctrinal knowledge of one's faith to defend that faith, not to be convinced of what a believer of another faith is saying.  i might as well talk to my cat. 

sige pa kog basa about the connecticut tragedy.  i avoid philippine news because of the rh bill...

andam ug tagana for an upcoming trip.  nahadlok lang ko kay medyo nagkiang ko gamay, something's wrong with my left leg.  i hope to have a meaningful christmas anyway.

kini bang lady's fashion nga paabli-abli ug dako sa dughan, pa-thrilling sa cleavage sa girls, mag-unsa na lang kun manundog ang mga laki, in their own version nga paabli-abli ug pants zipper aron pa-thrilling sa cleavage sa itlog... yikes.  

arang mahala ra ba gyod sa round fruits sa run-up sa new year sa ato.

wa ipakita ang ubos sa lawas kay balhiboon na siya ug legs.

eeekkk!  when will they begin reproducing?  will they go for same-sex marriage?  will they also make use of the rh bill? 

bitaw, seriously, ang matagbaw baya kay ang kural.

ang sure kaayo nga way itsiburitsi nga hubog mao ang pagpakong sa imong ulo sa kural sa inyong silingan.  kanang pang-knock down gyod aron matagbaw.

so kabul is now what it is, thanks to russia that coveted afghanistan, the u.s. that made the country a staging area for its proxy war with russia, and the taliban.  so how are those two ladies in the picture now, forty years on?

who cares ba uy kun unsay iyang ihatag sa iyang asawa.  aswanga gyod uy...

if, or when, this becomes law, tan-awon kuno nato bi kun mo-improve ba gyod, materially, ang atong national life.  as it is, lupig ang lobby sa catholic church sa big pharmaceutical lobby.  kuyawa gyod uy.   

it's like mourning the loss of a nation's core values.

crying, but not for reasons similar to pia cayetano's.

corny.  what a self-engrossed discussion-- satisfying sex but not the right to be born-- from supposed statesmen who ought to know that their vote could change or not the identity and values of a nation.  maayo pa mag-ofw na lang tang tanan.  biyaan na lang nato na sila.  kubkob na lang tag ato somewhere where our labors are given worth in terms of pay.  di na lang kaha ta manghilabot because we get more conceit than sense from such elected officials.

this is a good one for my pakner in layp.  pabasahon gyod nako ani.

what's the matter?  why not speak in english?  arf, arf, arf!

i will never eat hamburger again... i will never eat hamburger again... i will never eat hamburger again...

maayo si florentino ariza kay gahuwat nga gatokar-tokar ug violin unya wa man maminyo.  kini siya kay biyudo man.

lahi man to kay sexiest man alive man siya.

bitaw.  more clues, bi.  o itug-an na lang kaha.

makapamusil tungod lag pikat?  pagkatoytoy.  motuo pa kog makapamusil kun giwilikan si inday ug sikma.  ewwwww!  si inday mismo ang mamusil sa maong higayon...

wow.  suwayi ni sa sidewalk of manila, di ba mahimo ning parking lot kay way sidewalk sa manila nga wa himoang parking area. unya pag-pop-up ani sa manila, mahimo nang car wash.  tawag lang ug bata nga nagdalag balde ug tubig ug pasabligi ang ilawom sa awto.

pagkadaghang naay "n", my goodness...

enrile, santiago, pimentel, pangilinan, cayetano, lacson, angara, drilon, honasan, guingona, trillanes.

how bad naman sa gihatag nga tip nga letter.  di man sad ta ani makadaog ug lotto.

sigurado ko nga di babaero si santiago.

nice.  makalingaw.  psy has bridged different cultures.  bilib ko.

pugsanay ba diay, naunsa... mora man si manoy ug gikapoy nag panguma mao nga gusto unta niyang makaasawa ug maoy nay mag-uma para niya.

lubkon ang iyaha, grrrr.

some observations (based only on this list):


a great majority of the mass shooters were white.


rank of country in terms of frequency in the last 50 years:

1.  USA   (16)
2.  Finland (2)
3.  Afghanistan (1) - the shooter was an American
    Australia (1)
    Azerbaijan (1)
    Canada (1)
    England (1)
    Germany (1)
    Norway (1)
    Scotland (1)


rank of country in terms of fatalities in the last 50 years (excluding the death by suicide of the perpetrator):

1.  USA (221)
2.  Norway (77) - includes downtown bombing victims
3.  Australia (35)
4.  Finland (18)
5.  Scotland (17)
6.  Afghanistan (16)
6.  England (16)
6.  Germany (16)
9.  Azerbaijan (12)
10. Canada (9)   

Quote from: Lollapalooza on December 17, 2012, 12:12:51 PM
no Virginia Tech and Columbine?

naa.  USA, April 16, 2007 and USA, April 20, 1999.

good for recycling.  after defecating, separate the valuable from the worthless, then sell it back to the restaurant.

and then, ang cat maoy ni-flush sa inodoro?

that's why i like dogs.  they know their place in the scheme of the universe.

this ad is dedicated to fat men who are non-tblanders, hahaha!  kay ngano?  bisan fat ang ubang macho ma-tblanders, niingon akong mga iring nga di man kuno sila ugly.

sure gyod ko di ni para nato, loll.  hahaha!  ugly?  tsura lang.  nevah.

USA, July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.



USA, Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.


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USA, July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.



USA, Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.

CANADA, Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.



ENGLAND, UK, Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.

USA, Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.



USA, June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.

i'll never understand the strength of the gun lobby in the u.s.

AUSTRALIA, April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.



SCOTLAND, UK, March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.

GERMANY, April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and a policeman, before committing suicide.



USA, April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school’s library.

FINLAND, Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.



USA, April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

USA, March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people â€" including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff’s deputy â€" across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.



FINLAND, Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.

AZERBAIJAN, April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.



USA, April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.

USA, Jan. 8, 2011: A gunman kills six people and wounds 13 others, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting spree outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Doctors say Jared Lee Loughner, who has been charged in the deaths, suffers from schizophrenia.



USA, Nov. 5, 2009: Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.

AFGHANISTAN, March 11, 2012: Sixteen Afghan villagers, including nine children, are killed during a predawn attack in which Army prosecutors have charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.



NORWAY, July 22, 2011: Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 in Norway in twin attacks: a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp outside the capital. The self-styled anti-Muslim militant admitted both attacks.

USA, Aug. 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page kills five men and one woman and wounds three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.



USA, July 20, 2012: Twelve people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged in the deaths.

sadly, most happened in the united states.

from AP/Time
(images from various online sources)


USA, December 14, 2012: A gunman goes on a shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 six and seven-year-olds, six adults, his mother, and himself.



USA, Dec. 11, 2012: Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, opens fire in a shopping mall in suburban Portland, Ore., shooting numerous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle, ultimately killing two people and seriously injuring another.

The United States’ lax gun laws indisputably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, lead to more gun deaths. The statistics comparing the U.S. to other Western nations with tighter gun laws are staggering: the number of Americans who die in gun accidents in a given year is routinely many times higher than the total gun deaths in the U.K. In Britain in 2008, there were 39 gun murders; in the U.S. in 2009, there were 9,146â€"that’s right, even adjusted for our larger population, the American rate is 47 times higher. Japan’s recent gun bans have virtually eliminated gun murder in their country. In our country, the states with the strictest gun laws have the lowest rates of gun crime. (from Why the South Loves Guns, by David Sessions Dec 16, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/)

some background:

There is no official definition of a "mass shooting," but FBI classifications describe the term as any incident in which a perpetrator kills four or more people, not including him or herself. Under that definition, 19 mass shootings have taken place since April 16, 2007, the date of the Virginia Tech massacre. That's a rate of more than one every four months -- only considering these most brutal examples. Other devastating shootings go largely unnoticed on the national stage. (from Mass Shootings: After 19 In Five Years, Many Thoughts And Prayers, No Real Answers, by Nick Wing and Katy Hall, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

Quote from: Lollapalooza on December 15, 2012, 02:20:55 PM
unta nagsuicide na lang pod ug apil ang Ampatuans after nila gipangmasaker tong mga tao... and Zaldy Ampatuan pleaded NOT GUILTY...

does this mean that alleged mass murderers (heaven forbid) in our midst are not crazed enough to take their own lives?  

amen.

Quote from: BolBuhol on December 14, 2012, 11:52:36 PM


mao gid hang gupit ko sang bata pa ako haw

gamay nga isla ra diay ang puy-anan sa imong kuto sa gamay ka pa, bolbs.

did all the reading i could about the connecticut school shooting and wondering why the u.s. is enamored with guns.  strangest of all, what has a household got to do with an assault rifle?

but why are you alone?

unsa man goy daotan kun mosul-ob na lang kag epok, your excellency?

Principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47


Teacher Victoria Soto, 27


School psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56


Teacher Lauren Rousseau, 30


Teacher's aide Anne Marie Murphy, 52

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

(Clockwise from top left)
Emilie Parker, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Jesse Lewis, 6

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

(Clockwise from top left)
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Ana Marquez-Green, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Olivia Engel, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

di man na hitsurag tawo in his 70s... hitsura nag gibitok tungod sa tuba nga kadaghan tuslobi ug nagkalain-laing tiil.

mahinumdom man hinoon ko ani sa kabuang nga jokes sa una...

mosugot ka, daghan kaayo kag kwarta, pero imong singot eget?

mosugot ka, daghan kaayo kag kwarta, pero imong nawong mao ra na?

my answer to the question is a qualified yes. 

having money makes some aspects of our lives easier.  it is what money allows us to do, not money per se, that should make us happy.  even this begs for qualification.  it is what money allows us to do, positively, that should make us happy.

meanwhile, quarrels over money matters between a couple are the easiest of problems.  infidelity and ailments that no money can cure are way worse.

(from the Newton Bee newspaper)

A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)


Federal agents are on the scene.

State Police are on scene following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)


Law enforcement canvass the area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

this is difficult to take.  i still have to understand that this is true.  lord have mercy, christ have mercy.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 14, 2012, 07:37:45 PM
Di man mga baye ang gaalirong. Mga laki na oi, TB members pa. Kanang ga-stockings, imo nag katagilungsod...

ang buot nimong ipasabot ani, si bugsay ra gyod na kun di si lorenz. ayder op di to wil do.

Quote from: balong on December 14, 2012, 06:41:51 PM
curious lang ko kinsa jud ni si hubag that is why i offered this prize. apparently he is not interested in money because he did not answer this post. seguro multi millionaire ni sija. not like me who is only a mini millionaire meaning to say not a gamay nga milyonaryo but a counterfeit millionaire.

sir balong, naa bayay mga pobre nga di mopunit kun naay kuwartang isabwag.  nagtoo sila, apil na ko, nga naay mga butang nga mas importante sa kwarta.  sama sa privacy. 

Quoteso sorry na lang mr. hubag. this offer has already expired. you said goodbye to $1000 because you prefer to remain anonymous. aho na lang i donate ang kwarta to one of the charitable organizations here in the states that i support

palihog apila ang pablo victims sa ato sa mindanao kay pagkaon gyod ang ilang gikinahanglan.  pilay pad tua diay didtong dapita si hubag kay nanguykoy sa mt. diwalwal.

Quote from: balong on December 14, 2012, 06:33:47 PM
unsa may problema ni wardiflex.

kung problema ang hisgotan, wa koy kalibotan.  wa man ko kaila ni wards personally.  pinaskohan lang god para siya malipay.  si maryhazel, naa ba diay problema nga imo mang gipadad-an?

Hildebrand says coffee is thought to contain other health-promoting substances besides caffeine.

“Two compounds for example have been studied for their anti-cancer properties and they have been found to possibly prevent cell replication and...prevent proliferation,” Hildebrand said.

Oral and pharyngeal cancer, although rare in the United States, are among the top 10 cancers worldwide.  Study leader Janet Hildebrand says it would be interesting to find out whether coffee consumption leads to a better outcome among people who have already been diagnosed with the diseases.

The study describing how coffee consumption can reduce the risk of oral / pharyngeal cancer is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

http://www.voanews.com/

In the study, there were 868 deaths among the participants, some of whom smoked.  So, according to study leader Janet Hildebrand, it appeared coffee did not have a protective effect.

Hildebrand, an epidemiologist and population expert with the American Cancer Society, says there was a proportionally higher risk of cancer among those who drank less of the hot beverage, compared to the cancer risk of those who consumed the most coffee each day. 

“So it went down a little bit with each cup.  And the lowest risk found was with four, five, six cups per day,” Hildebrand said.

Investigators found only a slight health benefit in drinking two decaffeinated cups of coffee, but no advantage was found among tea drinkers, although tea, particularly green tea, is known to have other health benefits.

Study: Coffee Consumption Reduces Risk of Oral Cancer

Jessica Berman
December 13, 2012

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages around the world.  Now comes word from a very large study of Americans that the stimulating drink might play a role in reducing the risk of oral/pharyngeal cancer, a particularly deadly form of the disease.

One of the many questions put to the 970,000 American men and women taking part in the 30-year-old Cancer Prevention Study involved their coffee-drinking habits.  The researchers -- population study experts with the American Cancer Society -- say the study has found that participants who drank about four cups of coffee per day reduced their risk of oral/pharyngeal cancer by 49 percent, compared to those who drank little or no coffee per day. 

Oral cancer and cancer of the pharynx, or upper part of the throat, are especially aggressive forms of the disease that are very hard to treat. 

Threatens to harm himself, you or others if you leave.

You see a fleeting wild-eyed, crazy look in your mate’s eyes for no reason. This may be a glimpse of his true nature.

Treats wait staff poorly.

Stalks you.

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Attempts to isolate you from your friends and family by convincing you that your loved ones take advantage of you, treat you badly or envy the relationship you two have. Abusive significant others may even accuse one of your loved ones of coming on to them to get you to part ways with friends and family.

Wants to marry you or have children with you immediately. Once you’re tied down in this way, it will be more difficult for you to escape your significant other’s outrageous behavior.

Constantly belittles you by berating your appearance, intelligence, etc. Over time, these insults erode your self-esteem.

Confesses to previous episodes of violence such as twisting a girlfriend’s arm, shoving or hitting her or brawling with others.

Punches holes in the walls, throws or kicks objects. One day these outbursts will be directed at you.

Routinely checks up on you. She wants to know where you are and whom you are with at all times.

Has a Jekyll and Hyde personality. Behaves one way with certain people and assumes a totally different persona with other groups. Her chameleon-like personality may be a clue that she’s trying to hide her true nature.

Usually seems mild-mannered and polite but little things cause him to explode in anger. These outbursts may indicate that your significant other is an angry person who hides behind a gentle mask in public but rages in private.

The list below highlights the major signs to look out for to avoid becoming a victim of domestic violence. The common theme to look for is emotional abuse, as that typically precedes physical abuse. Beware if your mate:

Tries to avoid places where you might receive attention from the opposite sex.

Constantly uses misogynistic terms for the women -- ex-girlfriends, ex-wives, female relatives -- in his life.

14 Signs Your Relationship Could Turn Violent

Nadra Nittle
13 December 2012

Jealousy, put-downs and possessiveness make this list.



Forget about the Lifetime movies you’ve seen. Contrary to popular belief, a man doesn’t typically change from Prince Charming into a violent brute overnight. There are usually red flags early on in a romantic relationship that indicate that a man (or a woman) has an abusive personality type.

baye tingali nang itika kay nganong laki may iyang gi-attack.  mga baye pod ang gaalirong, ready to help the duck, in case.