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sayon ba kuramboson ang noodles?  ihap diay ta ani ug strands kun mao, unya takson dayon ang sabaw ug tansan.

it looks like he doesn't care about his pay either.

taym sa ra god, where is fr chic na man?  lorenz, how is he?

unaha ug panaygon kang fr chic didto sa new orleans.  kusog ni siya manghatag ug pagkaon.

ayaw lang gyod ug kuyog ug panaygon nila ni hubag, bugsay ug vhinz.  2 christmases ago, nikuyog ko ani nila.  gipa-kick-out pa ko ni bugsay, unya ila pa gyong gidagan ang among halin.  wa koy diyot.  napagaw lang kog hinilak kay soloist pa ra ba unta ko.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:33:21 AM
Sagad gud kay tua man sa lubot ang extra 22y...

kini kamagayan na si cebu ang giadto ani, di na perya.

Quote from: roots on December 05, 2012, 11:32:11 AM
wa gyud ko kita anang tulo ka 22y ba, pila na jud  ka peryahan akong naadto-an...

ayaw adtog perya.  mga peke man na.  adto ni bugsay.  he will show the way.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:31:18 AM
Hmm, what if makakita kag babaye nga 2 ang bee song?

tubag, votives, tubag!

Quote from: Lorenzo on December 05, 2012, 11:30:33 AM
It's agreeable that this lady loves to Suck for a living. ha, ha, ha, ha.

maayo gani kay wa pay tblander nga nakaduol.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:24:46 AM




Agoroy tor! Danlak delight!

whaaattt?  our kaberks bugsay is named dan luck?

Quote from: Votives on December 05, 2012, 11:10:29 AM
mo undang na jud kog pang chicks if makakita ko babaye na 3 ang totoy....

Quote from: Lorenzo on December 05, 2012, 11:24:36 AM
Simbako, Bai Vots. Ayaw kay ma vonka ka day kon maohon.       

just a friendly word of advice to young men like you, it's fine to be scared of three, but one is okay.  who's afraid of cyclops, anyway?

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:19:04 AM
Hmm, 3 big round hams plus one tiki egg? Hain ang squid pro quo diha? Basin octopus pro quo...

as for squid and octopus, don't bother...

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:19:04 AM
Hmm, 3 big round hams plus one tiki egg? Hain ang squid pro quo diha? Basin octopus pro quo...

sure.  hawaiian ham, please.  meanwhile, he can have his own optical illusion with an ostrich egg.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 11:03:42 AM
Bwahaha! Ang buot nimong ipasabot, bawi2x lang, tulo kabuok ang 22y kay usa ray egg?

mao nay gitawag nga quid pro quo, kun pina-lorenz pa.  yin ang yang, kun pina-jorgeanna pa.  big and small, kun pina-pikoy pa.  soprano and alto, kun pina-chongki pa.  sunshine and storm, kun pina-tigbao pa.  kay bugsay man, ham ang egg.  sabe?  

Quote from: roots on December 05, 2012, 11:00:06 AM
sa akong pagtutok, mara mag tumor nang diha sa tunga...

you got it right.  ang tinuod ngan ni bugsay kay tumoro.

the big one in the middle made a forced landing, head first

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 05, 2012, 10:50:40 AM
Islander's imagination strikes again! Way flying Christmas trees diha?

unsay wa... here's an artist's diagram:

but i did not invent the christmas tree nor discover flying!

sad.  no matter what forced evacuation is done, there will always be accidents.

 mind over matter ni.  ang illusion naa sa pagtan-aw sa mga nawong.  dugaya ug tan-aw ang reply #5.  para kang chongki, yes, pero ug tutokan nimo pag-ayo ang nawong, mao nay beauty ni bugsay uy.

- islander is serious about this tip

i prefer mobility to size and height.  mine are walking christmas trees.

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Photos reveal Typhoon Pablo's wrath

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photos from various social networking sites

On Tuesday, Visayas and Mindanao felt the wrath of the strongest typhoon to hit the latter in 40 years. Photos posted on various social networking sites revealed the sheer intensity of Pablo as it hit the country, leaving destruction in its wake.


Mawab, Compostela Valley


Mawab, Compostela Valley


Mawab, Compostela Valley


Barangay Linda, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley


Barangay Linda, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley

but it looks like ang news wa suwata para sa "ilang dapit".

heaven help them.  lord have mercy.

not the usual advent wreath versions, but they're advent wreaths anyhow:

standard advent wreaths:

the advent wreath is one of my favorite christmas season decors.  i remember as a high schooler studying in a school run by nuns when lighting a candle and praying were the first order of monday mornings during advent.  the song we sang was "o come, o come emmanuel/ and ransom captive israel..."

naturally, we never got to light the red candle, the fourth one, because by then classes were already off for the holidays.

wow, vhinz.  this is great.  thanks.

purya nga news item.  maguwang lang gamay sa trash reporting ning banat diay.  way klarong editorial standards.  ngano man intawong i-describe pa man as "bayut" ang biktima?  how politically incorrect and gender insensitive.  way kalainan sa "muslim terrorist" ug "black rapist".  aber, nganong di man ta makabasa ug "catholic thief" o "white scammer" kuno bi... 

igo man diay ang bohol sa?  sa siquijor kuno, nanglupad na ang mga atup.  sa cebu city, since 1pm pa kuno ang blackout ug classes at all levels have been suspended today and tomorrow.  kumusta man mo dinha sa davao, loll ug sir fdaray?  here's hoping all's fine with you.

di gyod diay matabang bisan unsaon ug warning.  may they rest in peace.

naistiran ta mong duha, mga tsong?

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 04, 2012, 04:52:41 PM
Mas maayo kon maghubo na lang daan...

...aron naay kataw-an si inday.

wa gyoy koneksyon ang maayog imadyinasyon ug tsismosa, tsura.

how do i get to vote in this online thing?  i'll vote for psy, hands down.  anybody here can teach me, please?

Lara Flynn Boyle


Kirstie Alley


Courtney Love

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Keith Richards


Kelly LeBrock


Sinead O'Connor

Nick Nolte


Val Kilmer


Steven Seagal

Honorable mentions:


Melanie Griffith


Meg Ryan


Axl Rose

Kathleen Turner

Our Lady of the Husky Voice, Kathleen Turner, was the quintessential femme fatale of 1980s cinema, thanks in part to sultry turns in films of both the steamy noir melodrama and silly noir cartoon caper variety. Whether playing a freelance killer-for-hire or a kinky part-time prostitute, this hardworking actress was a full-time sex symbol during her leading lady heyday.

Yet Turner, a former gymnast who performed many of her own stunts, slipped off the Hollywood A-list in the 1990s after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. (One highlight during this era being her turn as deranged, recycling-conscious suburban Baltimore housewife Beverly Sutphin in John Waters' 1994 black comedy, "Serial Mom.") Turner turned to booze as a form of self-medication during her battle with the crippling disease. Eventually, Turner's arthritis went into remission and she cleaned up after a stint in rehab.

Turner, now 57, rarely acts in films these days, but has picked up occasional TV work ("Californication," Nip/Tuck," the obligatory episode of "Law & Order") and appeared on stage as both Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and opposite Jason Biggs as Mrs. Robinson in the Broadway production of "The Graduate." An active supporter of Planned Parenthood and Amnesty International, the fiercely intelligent and outspoken Turner wrote candidly about her struggles with rheumatoid arthritis, alcoholism and aging-not-so-gracefully in youth-obsessed Hollywood in the 2008 memoir, "Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts On My Life, Love and Leading Roles." As pointed out in a profile of Turner published by The Guardian after the release of the book, the actress hasn't undergone any cosmetic surgeries and can "eat a hefty BLT without even so much as a hint of mayo-induced panic." We like your style, Kathleen.

Sally Struthers

Sally Struthers, the frequently ridiculed "All in the Family" actress-turned-teary-eyed infomercial humanitarian, has long struggled with weight issues, although it's been reported that she recently slimmed down in a somewhat dramatic fashion.

An unnamed source relayed the news to the New York Post prior to Struthers' appearance as master of ceremonies at an event in New York City: "Sally has lost a lot of weight, and this is the first time she's been back to New York since. She's as tiny as when she appeared as the apple of Archie Bunker's eye on 'All in the Family.' She looks fabulous." It's unclear how exactly the actress managed to shed those excess pounds â€" dieting, fitness walking or an online correspondence course, perhaps â€" but we're happy to hear that Struthers, 63, has taken steps towards a healthier lifestyle considering she's devoted so much time and energy helping to improve the lives of those less fortunate.

Struthers, whose recent TV credits include re-occurring roles on "Gilmore Girls" and "Still Standing," last appeared as the titular character in a production of "Hello, Dolly!" at the iconic Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville, Fla. Her hopefully not-too-tempting co-stars? Fried cheesecake and a BBQ pork shank served with warm potato salad.

Mickey Rourke

While most of the celebs on this list have eschewed going under the surgeon's knife and opted to age naturally, that isn't the case with actor and noted Chihuahua fancier Mickey Rourke.

After reigning supreme as the bad boy dreamboat of 1980s cinema â€" in addition to working with acclaimed directors such as Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Nicolas Roeg and Francis Ford Coppola, Rourke specialized in steamy fare such as "9½ Weeks," "Angel Heart" and "Wild Orchid" â€" the actor's penchant for facial touch-ups drastically altered his appearance from rough 'n' hunky to rough 'n' scary. And his erratic, self-destructive behavior both on and off the set? That officially sunk his career. To be clear, most of Rourke's surgeries weren't performed to trick Father Time, but to correct injuries suffered during his stint as a professional boxer in the early 1990s. "Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together," Rourke, 59, told the Daily Mail in 2009.

Interestingly enough, Rourke, who experienced a legitimate career renaissance after appearing in Darren Aronofsky's heart-wrenching 2008 drama, "The Wrestler," has reportedly undergone further cosmetic surgery and lost a significant amount of weight to play openly gay Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, 37, in an upcoming biopic.

Linda Ronstadt

Although some famous folks like Jane Fonda have discovered the fountain of youth in the form of political activism, that isn't quite the case with Grammy-winning, genre-hopping songstress Linda Ronstadt, 65, who ruled the airwaves and the arenas in the 1970s with hits like "You're No Good," and "When Will I Be Loved." Always one to speak her mind (more on that in a minute), Ronstadt eschewed the glamorous trappings that came along with being the lusted-after First Lady of Rock â€" her emphasis was always on the music â€" and her refusal to be pigeonholed made her even more sexy to her legions of admirers â€" who most famously included love interests George Lucas and former California Gov. Jerry Brown.

In recent years, Ronstadt has become hardly recognizable due to significant weight gain brought on in part by thyroid disease and her shift away from music-making to child-raising, which has kept her largely out of the public eye.

Ronstadt was the subject of both criticism and praise when she gave props and dedicated a song to polarizing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore during a 2004 performance at the Aladdin Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas. Her pro-Moore comments didn't sit too well with some audience members who booed the singer, tore down posters and walked out of the concert demanding refunds. The whole debacle, described by Aladdin President William Timmins as a "very ugly scene," resulted in Ronstadt being ejected from the hotel premises. Ronstadt is currently penning a memoir, due to be published in 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

Elvis Presley

We needn't say much about the King and his descent from suave, hip-gyrating international sex symbol to bloated and bedazzled Vegas curiosity (a bloated and bedazzled curiosity that still managed to sell out shows, nevertheless) other than this: if you're trying to maintain your looks and health, prescription painkillers and peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches don't make a good combo.

Jack Nicholson

Yes, at 75 years old, actor Jack Nicholson isn’t in the greatest of shape, but we can still see bits of that handsome devil (it's that mischievous grin) underneath the blubbery physique and the constant haze of cigarette smoke. Nicholson has certainly lived life to its fullest (and by fullest we mean filled with sex, drugs and a near record number of Academy Award nominations) and refuses to conceal his hedonistic past via Joker-esque cosmetic enhancements.

He told the Daily Mail in 2011: "I haven't had surgery. I don't want to be judgmental, but some of the things you see these days in Hollywood are a bit horrifying. I mean, I don't know what's going on here, but I don't want to scare people." He continues: "I mean, if someone can fool me with a new chest or lips, then I'm happy to be fooled. But I have to admit I have a prejudice against it. I'm not worried about wrinkles, in myself or in women. I find them interesting. I can't see so well, so sometimes I look in the mirror and I see how I was as a young man. But a few years back I noticed I don't have any hair below my sock line, and I thought to myself, 'Jackie, that’s an old man.'"

Aretha Franklin

For a while there, the only thing instantly recognizable about Aretha Franklin, 70, was her emotive, smooth-as-butter singing voice â€" the Queen of Soul got big, real big, reaching such elephantine proportions that all the fanciful headwear in the world couldn’t distract from it.

But before we write Franklin completely off as a poorly aged, massively overweight celebrity, some fabulous news: Last year, the legendary performer and godmother to the late Whitney Houston appeared on "The Wendy Williams Show" after losing a staggering 85 pounds in the wake of a surgery to fix an undisclosed ailment (there were rumors of pancreatic cancer, which the singer denied).

Said Franklin of her slimmed-down physique: "I've been looking at a lot of pictures, and I was saying [to myself], 'You were entirely too fat for words.' ... I couldn't be feeling any better than I'm feeling right now." So how'd Franklin do it? Although many speculate that she underwent a gastric bypass procedure, the 18-time Grammy winner claims it was a combination of good, old-fashioned exercise and swearing off some of her favorite porcine delicacies: Chitterlings, ham hocks and pigs feet. "They're off my diet. They just really don't fit with Whole Foods. I had it for enough years that I don't miss it. You can't continue to eat things that are not good for you." And with that announcement, pigs everywhere came out of hiding to breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Marlon Brando

For a while there (the 1950s, to be exact), method actor and civil rights activist extraordinaire Marlon Brando was the hottest thing to walk the Earth. Fast-forward 30-plus years and, well, it’s a whole different story. During his lifetime, the mumbling thesp lived hard and ate hard, ballooning up to 300 pounds at one point in the mid-1990s.

A diabetic and a long-time crash dieter/binge eater, Brando's relationship with food, particularly ice cream, is the stuff of legends. Seriously, the trivia section of Brando's IMDb page dedicated to his eating habits is not for the weak of heart: Homemade Mounds Bars, 3 a.m. hot-dog runs, contraband Whoopers, pint after pint of ice cream, mountains of pancakes and loaves of bread stuffed with bacon.

Wrote the actor in his 1994 memoir "Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me": "Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox. Most of my life, I weighed about 170 pounds, though when I had my nervous breakdown in New York, I dropped to 157. After forty, my metabolism shifted gears, but I kept on eating as much as ever while spending more and more time in a sedentary relationship with a good book."

Despite his love affair with high-calorie snacks, Brando, who died in 2004 at the age of 80 from pulmonary fibrosis, had time for a super-active romantic life with men, women and housekeepers alike, leaving behind 11 children and more than 30 grandchildren, Courtney Love being one of them apparently. Color us not entirely surprised.

Brigitte Bardot

Unlike many well-preserved European sex symbols of yesteryear (see: Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneuve, etc.), Brigitte Bardot â€" the original European sex kitten â€" has, well, let herself go ... for a cause. After raising pulses across the globe during the 1950s and '60s in films such as "And God Created Woman" and "Contempt," Paris-born Bardot retired from acting in 1973 at the age of 38 to pursue her true calling: animal rights.

Over the past several decades, the woman who popularized the bikini has taken on numerous animal welfare-related causes and often provoked controversy in the process. Having sold many of her possessions at auction to fund the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals in 1986, the erstwhile actress has crusaded to stop the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands, the termination of wolves in Sweden, the massacre of baby seals in Canada, the slaughter of horses in France and the hunting of bears in ... New Jersey. In a more recent campaign, Bardot demanded that Russian authorities slap criminal charges on a man who forced a donkey to parasail over a beach.

Now 77 and living a semi-reclusive existence on a secluded, critter-filled villa in St. Tropez, Bardot's appearance â€" her "sun-weathered and unlifted features" â€" is shocking to those who have images of the actress circa 1965 emblazoned in their memories. In a rare interview with Vanity Fair in 2012, Bardot says: "I don't feel old or used up. And I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause. Today, there are more regulations on cars than for animals."

9 celebrities who haven't aged well

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Time? Hello? Where'd you go? And I thought you were by my side!

We've taken a gander at a host of famous folks who have faced Father Time in a remarkably graceful manner, so now it's time to spotlight a few celebs, both living and dead, who haven't.

The factors that have elevated these personalities â€" several of them, once upon a time, were legitimate sex symbols â€" to "dear lord, that's what he/she looks like now?" status are various: years of hard drinking, heavy smoking and pill popping; obesity brought on by poor diet and stress-related overeating; disease including alcoholism and mental health woes; and entirely too much plastic surgery. And in a couple of instances, they've managed to make positive late-in-life improvements, proving that it's never too late for a drastic transformation. (You show 'em, Sally Struthers!)

We've also included a list of top contenders following our main list.

molupad ba na siya?

in my planet, clouds are gathering.  but i'm not alarmed.  yet.  it was worse some months back when the rains had no let-up in flood-prone manila.

escabeche.  i overate, mao nga gaduka na ko.

background: "gipugos" ni sila nakog adopt ug rescued nga iring.  turns out that her husband got so attached to the kitten, he spent a sleepless night looking for it when it got lost once.  in other words, iyang giangkon ang iring nga ginganlan nilag jessica.  maayo nang pagkalingaw sa bana.  per last check up by the doctor, saka na kaayo kuno ang iyang sperm count.  my friend can only credit the fact that they have a pet cat.

moral lesson: pets stabilize humans at whatever age.

without my good number of pets, tingali na-arsonista na ko simbako lang.

this is great.  and i'm sure this isn't only for students nor only about dogs.

just a few days ago, a friend told me that it looks like her problem with her husband, which is the inability to conceive, has been solved.

mas nalingaw ko sa mga pulis nga nagpugong-pugong ug katawa.

historia de un amor

girl at leftmost, white blouse:  ayaw ipaklaro paglingi nimo ha... kanang naa sa imong luyo, di ba na si mick jagger?

girl in black blouse:  ako bitaw nang maguwang, lusion ta ka ron... ako god nang blouse nga iyang gigamit.

sitting guy on the left (whispering):  atot ba ani, 'pre.  maistiran man atong kagwapo ani...

guy on the right:  sureness ko ikaw ang tuyo ana karon.  arya na lang daan kay lisod nag mahinayak ug sipa.  tanaaaa...

gwapo bodybuilder, thinking:  hohum.  imbis magpa-attract unta kog attention, unsha ba ning nanglingiw man hinoon tanan.  magpakuyap-kuyap na lang kaha ko? 

nagpabadlong man si manash.   nasaag gyod nang kandiisa.

ka-cute.  but what did you mean when you posted this pic?  which one is roots? (wink-wink, roots.)

Byproducts of incineration include ash and flue gases, which both contain harmful substances like dioxin. These are now largely cleaned out, however. Dust is passed through an electrostatic precipitator to give the particles a negative electric charge. These are then attracted to positively charged metal plates, shaken off, collected and taken to an ash silo. The gases are washed out with water that contains lime -- this reacts with the gases and removes them. This is done several times to remove different things -- first heavy metals, then acids, sulphur dioxide and the remainder. Finally, a catalytic convertor removes nitrous oxides by passing the remaining flue gases through a porous material and converting them to nitrogen. The idea is that mainly carbon dioxide and water are released and, under the terms with Norway, anything else will be deposited in landfills.

more at http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/29/sweden-imports-garbage-for-energy

more about waste management in sweden...

Incineration has also become far greener since the 80s in Sweden, when limits on emissions were tightened. According to a report released by the country's waste management association, Avfall Sverige, since that time incineration emission levels have dropped by between 90 and 99 percent because of better waste sorting technologies.

more at http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/29/sweden-imports-garbage-for-energy

interesting...

Sweden is ahead of the curve when it comes to meeting the EU's 2020 sustainability directives, and well ahead of other nations when it comes to its waste-to-energy plan. According to a Eurostat report, municipal waste in Sweden was landfilled at a rate of seven kilograms per inhabitant in 2009 -- compare this to figures for the UK, a hefty 260kg per inhabitant. Conversely, Sweden incinerates 235kg of municipal waste per person, and the UK, just nine kilograms. Countries like Estonia, Greece, Romania and Turkey still do not operate any waste-to-energy plants, and could present future partnerships for Sweden.

more at http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/29/sweden-imports-garbage-for-energy

as a matter of fact, it's norway that pays sweden for a pittance.  as yet i have my doubts (i heard trash from germany is also imported, though i know not where, and these importing countries supposedly pay the germans).

Sweden’s program of generating energy from garbage has been applied successfully for decades. The country creates energy for around 250,000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system by recyling the waste, but recently its success has been halted due to the shortage of trash.

To meet the demand of waste, Sweden has recently begun importing thousands tons of trash annually from other countries.

As recycling cost in Norway is expensive than sending waste to Sweden, Norway has opted to pay Sweden to take its 800 thousand tons garbage.

http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3372-norway-will-supply-sweden-800-000-tonnes-of-waste

it's not a pittance, your excellency.  not when we think of tonnage, eh?

ooops, you naive oaf.  haven't you heard of a frog vampire?  naa ganiy frog prince, naa gyod poy frog vampire. 

Quote from: Votives on December 04, 2012, 09:53:36 AM
ay kabahong diay nga lami tilatilaan..

eeekkk!  hinaot di mamilit ang daghang kabahong nimoh, bless you, votives.  padaplin na ko dinhi.  nahimong kinhason ang sugilanon.  i will not come back to this thread hangtod naay magpadala nakog krismas gips through western union addressed to the moon of saturn.

ang tinuod estorya ana, the truth behind the myth... kana si doggy tawo na siya sa una.  sa iyang kalagot nga gisalikway siya ni jim, balhin na lang siya ni jack. 

aguy, ang bonus diay sa pagbawos niya sa pagsalikway kay nahimo man hinoon siyang hitsurag iro.  suwayi god ug balbas  ug opaw na si doggy, di ba hitsura na siyag tblander nga champion sa posts.  naa tuod sa ilawom sa lamesa, out of camera range, usa ka bol nga tuba ug usa ka botelya nga dom perignon.   

now pa ko nga samad simhoton.  kanyahay ra nangoyab na lang ni jack daniels.

kapipest, uso sa amon.

indikokahibalopotosyap.  sa amon, ginaimadyin lang, mao na na.  tuthoan, printout na.  no nid por kompyuter unlike you, earthlings.

Quote from: roots on December 04, 2012, 09:04:58 AM
hadlok lagi ani ug magbaha.

fear not, roots.  pagbakos lang gyod ug salbabida.  ajaw kalimti imong mga pets ha, please?

A NASA Expedition 34 crew member aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Typhoon Pablo on December 2, 2012. NASA Johnson Space Center photo

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the view from my spaceship.

A NASA Expedition 34 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this photo of Typhoon Pablo on December 2, 2012. Parts of the ISS orbital outpost are seen in the picture. NASA Johnson Space Center photo

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unya, ang akong lubot naa man sa akong agtang.

the news item, or the writer/s of the news item, though, took the chance to tilt the story at the end in favor of the rh bill.

went to the link.  egad, kuyawa diay sa ato sa central visayas uy.

goodness me.  my spaceship is riding in the eye of the storm.  have to catch some 40 winks myself.  i'm watching, watching with my third eye.

niiway tungod sa sumpa ni raquel.

our own smoky mountain and payatas must be pieces of real estate of worth for the swedes.

Ostlund suggests that Norway might not be the perfect partner for a trash import-export scheme, however. “I hope that we instead will get the waste from Italy or from Romania or Bulgaria or the Baltic countries because they landfill a lot in these countries," she tells PRI. "They don’t have any incineration plants or recycling plants, so they need to find a solution for their waste."

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 Public Radio International has the whole story (hat tip to Ariel Schwartz at Co.Exist), a story that may seem implausible in a country like garbage-bloated America where overflowing landfills are anything but scarce.

As mentioned, the solution â€" a short-term one, according to Ostlund â€" has been to import (well, kind of import) waste from Norway. It’s kind of a great deal for the Swedes: Norway pays Sweden to take its excess waste, Sweden burns it for heat and electricity, and the ashes remaining from the incineration process, filled with highly polluting dioxins, are returned back to Norway and landfilled.

 You see, Swedes are big on recycling. So big in fact that only 4 percent of all waste generated in the country is landfilled.

Good for them! However, the population's remarkably pertinacious recycling habits are also a bit of a problem given that the country relies on waste to heat and to provide electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes through a longstanding waste-to-energy incineration program. So with citizens simply not generating enough burnable waste to power the incinerators, the country has been forced to look elsewhere for fuel. Says Catarina Ostlund, a senior advisor for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: “We have more capacity than the production of waste in Sweden and that is usable for incineration.”

Sweden runs out of garbage, forced to import from Norway

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where a quarter of a million homes are powered by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: The nation has run out of much-needed fuel.

Matt Hickman
Thu, Oct 25 2012


Photo: Smath/Flickr
a recycling center in trash-strapped Sweden

Sweden, birthplace of the SmörgÃ¥sbord, Eric Northman, and the world’s preferred solar-powered purveyor of flat-pack home furnishings, is in a bit of a pickle: the squeaky clean Scandinavian nation of more than 9.5 million has run out of garbage. The landfills have been tapped dry; the rubbish reserves depleted. And although this may seem like a positive â€" even enviable â€" predicament for a country to be facing, Sweden has been forced to import trash from neighboring countries, namely Norway. Yep, Sweden is so trash-strapped that officials are shipping it in â€" 80,000 tons of refuse annually, to be exact â€" from elsewhere.

magalurat ang mga mata, ang kalimutaw puwa sang kolor, nagpangita sang liog pang-itonon, liog na nga morag tilaob.

panghapakon ta mo rong tanan, maoy inyo.

In fact, the supposed vampire mill became a bit of a tourist spot for the town. That is, until the wood rotted and the mill collapsed.

"People are very worried," says local municipal assembly member Miodrag Vujetic. "Everybody knows the legend of this vampire, and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people. We are all frightened."

Serbia is no stranger to vampire lore. In fact, in 1732 it was home to the most thoroughly documented and widely circulated vampire account in the world. Seems a regiment medical officer, Dr. Johannes Flückinger, was dispatched by the Honorable Supreme Command to Serbia, where exhumed the bodies of 13 supposed vampires. And in case you think they weren't serious about the endeavor, after examinations were done the local gypsies decapitated the bodies and burned them.

Now Serbia is in terror again. Whether Sava Savanovic is real or not, there can be no question that his shadow will be darkening the doorsteps of all the homes in Zorazje tonight.

(via The Huffington Post)
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Official warning from Serbian gov't: There's a vampire on the loose!

Twilight may have made vampires into a supernatural laughingstock, but there's a tiny Serbian village where they are anything but. Get your stakes and crosses ready, because there just might be a real vamp on the prowl.



There's a legendary vampire, Sava Savanovic, who's made his home among the villagers of Zorazje. According to legend he lives in an old wooden mill on the Rogačica river. He'd occasionally suck on the blood of a miller, but, so long as you steered clear of the place at night, you had little to fear.

wa man lagiy mga turista sa atong dapit nga dungog nga wakwakon.

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on December 03, 2012, 04:24:23 AM
bring it on dapat ta maexcited aron mabaraw ni. mao ni sumpa mag atang ni pablo hinaot motipas sa bohol

Quote from: taga tigbao on December 03, 2012, 01:41:19 PM
Tungon ani, mius-us pa gamay ang track ni Pablo ug karon may chance na nga dili na magdirect hit sa Bohol.

jawohl!

LIFE: The photo that changed the face of AIDS

In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby â€" his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world â€" surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby on his death bed, taken by a journalism student named Therese Frare, quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic that, by then, had seen millions of people infected (many of them unknowingly) around the globe. More than two decades later, on World AIDS Day, LIFE.com shares the deeply moving story behind that picture, along with Frare’s own memories of those harrowing, transformative years.

World AIDS Day, held each year to commemorate the millions of lives affected by the AIDS epidemic, has a new mission: “Getting to Zero” by 2015.

For a disease that has taken 25 million lives in the past three decades, this year’s campaign is pushing for an end to AIDS-related deaths, new infections and discrimination, according to the campaign’s official statement.

more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/01/world-aids-day_n_2220008.html