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Monte was so smart and gentle â€" except for the time his little puppy teeth slashed my dad's finger open, but that was an accident â€" and without a cat in the house, my parents decided to let him be an "indoor dog." But a year after we got him, when we moved down to South Florida and into a house with an in-ground pool, we found out he considered himself a water dog.



Monte and me (ages 1 and 15, respectively) during his first swim.

Latke, a fluffy white-and-black mutt, came into my life when we were both puppies. My parents gave her a huge fenced-in area in our backyard, where she hung out all day as long as the weather was reasonable; they wanted to keep her separate from our cat, Knish, but she also really loved running around out there and napping in her doghouse. At night, we'd lay out a fleecy blanket for her in the laundry room and set up a little gate in the doorway so she could see into the living room without harassing Knish. But as you can see in the right-hand photo above, I'd often get on the floor in the laundry room with her so she wouldn't feel lonely.

Right after my 12th birthday, Latke and Knish were put to sleep on the same day (both had painful health problems), shortly after my father was hospitalized for a heart attack. You know, fun sixth-grade stuff. It would be a couple of years before we got our next dog, Monte, from a local labrador retriever breeder. 

Today, Rufus and I live in Brooklyn with my boyfriend â€" they are madly in platonic human-dog love â€" but he's the first dog that was ever 100 percent mine. He wasn't my family's dog or a dog I adopted with a former significant other (like Max). And I think that makes him particularly special to me. We're truly each other's.

That's not to say the other dogs in my life have not been special to me. I adore practically every dog I meet, so I can barely put into words what the dogs I've lived with have meant to me.



Latke and me (I was 1 and 11). You may recognize these pictures from when we all talked about how our pets got their names. Good times.

Even though I hadn't planned on adopting another dog â€" I already had my beloved Max, who passed away almost exactly a year ago at the age of 15 and a half â€" I just couldn't resist that face, that softer-than-cashmere fur, and that people-loving demeanor. I had turned 30 a few months earlier and was feeling especially grown-up (i.e., capable of taking care of two dogs), so I put in an application. A few days later, Rufus came to live with Max and me.



They loved each other immediately.

To All the Dogs We've Loved Before â€" OK, Ew, That Sounded Romantic

Marci   September 23, 2016


It's National Dog Week, and we're getting all mushy about the dogs who've meant so much to us.

It's rather fitting that it's National Dog Week. Seven years ago this very week, I went with my friend Amy to an animal shelter in Boca Raton, Florida, to help her return the traps she'd borrowed to catch feral cats, get them spayed or neutered, and release them; while I was there, I couldn't resist the "dog room," which is where I met this guy:



Wee seven-month-old Rufus, then called Pauly, in his little shelter pen.

Soft infrastructure

Aside from the need for “hard infrastructure” like roads and utilities, the government must also consider the “soft infrastructure”, Palafox said.

This referred to the ease of doing business, fostered by putting an end to corruption, kickbacks, and red tape.

Palafox said he met a developer last year who paid a building permit fee of P4 million, but his/her official receipt only indicated the amount of P30,000.

Palafox also urged the government to review obsolete laws that no longer made sense or prevented the Philippines from becoming globally competitive. Old plans could be updated and revisited, too.

For example, he helped formulate the plan for a Paranaque spillway back in the 1970s, which would have prevented the flooding of Metro Manila during the rainy season. Today, 80,000 hectares of urban land gets flooded â€" an area bigger than Singapore, Palafox said.

But the architect had faith in what he jokingly referred to as President Rodrigo Duterte's “action first, explain later” style of governance.

Palafox was in favor of giving the government emergency powers to respond to the traffic problem, provided that the government write the scope of their work and deliverables with a timeline, so there is no room for abuse.

How not to do it

“Planning is balance. We have all these problems because of imbalance,” Palafox said.

Most of the central business districts were situated along the EDSA corridor, he pointed out. Quezon City, Cubao District, Ortigas Center, Fort Bonifacio Global City, Makati Central Business District, and Rockwell Center were all here.

Makati alone was challenged by having to transport a daytime population that was 11 times the nighttime population.

He also bemoaned the low-density gated communities, which were frowned upon in other urban centers around the globe.

“I think Metro Manila is the only place in the world where you have mansions in the middle of the city,” Palafox said.

He quoted the American Planning Association as declaring in 1998 that “if you have a big house in the middle of the city, you have a higher carbon footprint because you are allocating to yourself prime urban resources, you are preventing more families to live closer to their places of work, you're encouraging more urban sprawl to encroach into the forest and the farms.”

When in Manhattan, the likes of the Clintons, Kennedys, and Bloombergs would live in apartments, Palafox said.

In other parts of the world, he added, big houses were undergoing “renewal” into multi-family dwellings. He proposed to Makati villages to do the same and allow houses to be constructed six storeys-high.

However, he said, “In our part of the world, when I talk like this, instead of shaming them, they shame me. But elsewhere in the world, I get paid for those best practices.”

Another example of “how not to do it” was the location of the MRT stations along EDSA. Elsewhere in the world, a train station was in a high-density area, so more people were within walking distance. Here, the stations were surrounded by gated communities with residents that did not use the train.

“Our plans in our country are only short term and opportunistic; not long-term and visionary,” Palafox said.

He accused some developers of thinking only about “profit, profit, profit, never mind traffic”.

Walkways from Makati to Cubao

Palafox also proposed constructing pedestrian bridges across waterways, and elevated walkways across EDSA.

“Friday payday, and it's raining? It's faster to walk from Makati to Cubao,” he said, referring to recent traffic jams that have been so horrendous, they have been nicknamed 'Carmageddon'.

The recommended number of steps to walk per day is 10,000, but when he’s working in Makati, Palafox said, he could only walk 2,000 steps. He could walk 20,000 in Dubai and 25,000 in Manhattan due to their design.

He pointed out that he and his schoolmates in Harvard University found that there were more heart attacks and a greater prevalence of obesity in Los Angeles than in Boston, with the latter being more pedestrian-friendly than the former.

Meanwhile, pavements should be made tactile for the handicapped. The blind would know just by feeling the ground, for example, that they were already nearing the edge of the sidewalk.

“Those with less in wheels should have more in roads,” Palafox stressed. The road should be divided into three parts: one-third each for people, vehicles, and landscaping. Pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, and private cars should be prioritized, in that order.

The government should not measure its success in the number of vehicles per lane, per hour. Rather, it should look at the number of people per lane, per hour.

“We have a bias for the automobile, (but) only two percent of Filipinos own cars. 100 percent of us are pedestrians. But the policy of our infrastructure is still for the automobile,” Palafox lamented.

Palafox has 1,000 ideas to make PH living easier - including how to survive Carmageddon
By: Tricia Aquino, InterAksyon.com
September 24, 2016 12:41 AM


Renowned architect Felino Palafox, Jr. has “1,000 recommendations” to ease traffic and make Philippine cities more liveable, and is optimistic that the new administration will heed them, reversing what he believes was the previous administration's policy of NATO, or “No Action, Talk Only”.

Palafox was the speaker at the second “Brewing @ AIM: conversations with thought-leaders” forum at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City on Friday.

While foreigners often prided themselves in learning Filipino phrases such as “Mabuhay”, a diplomat Palafox had met had a different phrase in his arsenal: “Traffic, grabe!”.

Palafox also recalled meeting an ambassador, who, upon being asked how long s/he had been in the Philippines, replied, “Three months in Makati, two months in EDSA.”

Among the first steps the government should take â€" and is already taking, in Makati City, at least â€" is to open up the roads of military camps and villages to all vehicles during peak hours on weekdays.

“One thing good about this new government is that they listen... I spoke to the Secretary of National Defense if they can open up the roads of the military camps during peak hours. And I said, 'The government should be the exemplar â€" not the exempted',” Palafox said.

To assuage security concerns, CCTV cameras could be installed. A toll could even be charged, or stickers required.

The same could be done for the villages, and the Department of Public Works and Highways could then repave the roads being used as they wore down.

Bel-Air 2 and San Miguel villages in Makati had already opened their roads to the public, alleviating the congestion along Makati Ave. and Reposo St., Palafox reported.

If this was too radical for homeowners, they could start with “inter-village courtesy” for Metro Manila, he suggested.

If you have ever wished there were more hours in the day, just be patient. Every century, Earth’s rotation slows down by about 1.4 milliseconds. When the dinosaurs were around, a day lasted about 23 hours. NASA reports that Earth’s rotation was exactly 24 hours in 1820, but is now off by 2.5 milliseconds. -- http://thechive.com/

Another explanation:

He he...

GITABANGAN og kulata ang usa ka babaye nga naningil sa usa sa mga suspek niadtong milabay nga adlaw sa Camaman-an, dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Bun-og si Julie (dili tinuod nga ngalan), 27, adunay kaipon ug lumulupyo sa Creekside, Camaman-an ning dakbayan, human gikulataha nila ni Myta, Alden, ug Joan kinsa pulos ra usab residente sa nahisgutang dapit.

Gikabutyag sa report sa Police Station 2 nga nidangop ang biktima sa ilang buhatan human kini gitabangan og kulata.

Gidugang pa niini nga nagsumikad ang maong kagubot sa dihang gipaningil sa biktima si Myta sa iyang utang.

Posibleng gikasuko niini hinungdan nga misangpot sa kagubot ug nakulatahan ang biktima human usab gitabangan sa laing mga kauban niini.

Giingong gituok, gibira-bira ang buhok niini ug gisumbag pa ang iyang dagway ug ulo hinungdan sa bun-og niini nga naangkon.

Sa pagkakaron, giduso na sa Barangay Lupon sa nahisgutang barangay ang insidente aron nga mahusay ang maong kagubot. (KCS)


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Septembre 20, 2016.

Paet. Pila kaha intawoy Bol-anon ani nila...

Hmm, palit kaha tag daghang Uzi submachine guns from Israel... 

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on September 18, 2016, 07:51:24 AM
He also advised policemen not to break the momentum of the war on drugs since President Rodrigo Duterte is expecting the drug menace to be eliminated six months since he assumed office.(PNA)

Agoi, mahimuot jud ani ang anaa sa funeral service industry.

Some 30 percent of the 2,706 single men sampled and 26 percent of the 2,570 females claimed that they were not currently looking for a heterosexual relationship.

“They want to tie the knot eventually. But they tend to put it off as they have gaps between their ideals and the reality,” said Futoshi Ishii, head of the NIPSSR’s population dynamics research department. “That’s why people marry later or stay single for life, contributing to the nation’s low birthrate.”

The study, which was conducted in June 2015, questioned 8,754 single people and 6,598 married couples across the country. In addition to the growing number of virgins, the study also discovered a record-low rate of children per family. The number of children among couples who have been married between 15 and 19 years averaged only 1.94.

Boosting the birthrate in the country is one of the Shinzo Abe, the current Prime Minister of Japan, who aims to raise fertility from current 1.4 to 1.8 children per family by 2025.

The population now stands at 127.1 million, but has been declining by an average of 0.7 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to the latest census. Overall, the population has fallen by nearly 1 million in the past five years. Japan’s demographics are forecast to fall to about 83 million by 2100, with some 35 percent aged over 65, according to the United Nations.

Published time: 17 Sep, 2016 04:30
Edited time: 17 Sep, 2016 05:26
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters


Nearly half of Japanese adults do not start having sex until after they reach 34 years of age, as the majority of young adults remain single in the country, where the population has fallen by nearly 1 million in the past five years.

The study, conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, revealed that 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women aged 18 to 34 are still virgins in Japan.

The trend in society seems to have deteriorated since the last study came out in 2010. At the start of the decade, only 36.2 percent of men and 38.7 percent of women said they had never had sex.

Furthermore, as the new research revealed, the trend is unlikely to change in the near future as 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women have still yet to find a partner for a steady relationship.

Researchers noted that the demographics of the country faces challenges with the increase in singles in their late 20s, the age when women are most fertile.

Nearly 90 percent of the respondents declared that they are in no rush to get married and are planning to do it “sometime in the future.”

Karambit: The Basics


The karambit is a rather remarkable multi-use knife designed for user safety, precision and efficiency. It has a curved or hooked blade, an ergonomic handle and usually includes at least one safety ring. The forebearer of the modern karambit first surfaced in Indonesia during the 11th century as a farming tool and utility blade. Due to Indonesia's thriving trade industry, the karambit quickly spread throughout Southeast Asia and started developing strong roots in Malaysia and the Philippines. While the design of a karambit knife may vary slightly depending on its exact geographic origin, a karambit will always have an arcing blade and will offer its user functionality beyond that provided by a straight blade. Traditionally, the karambit's design is based on a tiger's claw. As such, the razor-sharp blade should be optimized for hooking, tearing, ripping, slicing and maximum efficiency with minimal effort.

Karambit knives are valued for their precise cuts, high degree of retention and suitability for nearly every challenge, job or task. In self defense application, a karambit's curve offers the ability to fluidly attack and counter in a single motion and to change movement direction with ease. It also allows simulataneous striking from multiple lines of attack and readily enables hooking, trapping, ripping, and slicing. An experienced karambit wielder can also use a karambit knife to control an opponent's limbs and direction of force. Even if you can’t see your intended target because it’s behind your opponent (like a kidney or hamstring), the karambit's curved blade can still reach because it can be "wrapped around" the body to strike with accurate, devestating results. Furthermore, unlike using a straight blade in similar situations, there's no stress to the wrist of the user. This creates a distinct combative advantage by ensuring the karambit fighter's form is structurally sound and not compromised by poor body mechanics.

Many karambits have multiple cutting surfaces or edges arranged in various configurations and each karambit variation provides distinct advantages and benefits for utility and/or tactical use. Both production karambits and custom karambits are readily available in fixed and folding options.


http://www.karambit.com/what-is-a-karambit/

Friday, September 16, 2016
By KEITH CALAYAG


CONVICTED drug lord Herbert Colangco, one of the high-profile inmates detained at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), will testify against Senator Leila de Lima in a congressional inquiry on drug proliferation at the national penitentiary next week.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre confirmed Friday, September 16, that Colangco is one of the 12 high-profile inmates that will prove De Lima had accepted millions of drug money during her stint as Department of Justice (DOJ) chief.

“There are 10 to 12 high-profile inmates that will testify, kasama si Colangco dun," Aguirre said.

In a phone interview Thursday, Aguirre said that the DOJ is already prepared for the congressional inquiry that will take place on September 20.

"Handa na kami, actually, we are ready with many witnesses who will say that De Lima is involved in the drug trade inside the Bilibid and elsewhere," Aguirre said.

Aside from Colangco, the Justice secretary added that there are other high-profile inmates who will testify against De Lima. Also included in their list are former NBI director and NBI agents.

Aguirre added that they will transfer the inmates outside the facility of the NBP once the investigation starts for security reasons. However, he did not disclose when these inmates will be back to the national penitentiary.

Aguirre said there is a a threat to the security of the inmates that is why the DOJ decided to transfer them in Camp Aguinaldo. -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/

Duterte showered NBI agent with bullets, claims witness
Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 15 2016 04:12 PM | Updated as of Sep 15 2016 08:55 PM


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Edgar Matobato and President Rodrigo Duterte. File/Composite


MANILA â€" President Rodrigo Duterte killed a National Bureau of Investigation Agent (NBI) when he was a mayor of Davao City, according to a man claiming to have worked as an assassin for the tough-talking leader.

Edgar Matobato, a former militia man claiming to be a member of the Davao Death Squad, told a Senate panel hearing that his group had an encounter with an NBI agent surnamed Jamisola in 1993 which ended in a fatal gun battle.

Matobato said a certain Major Pabo had a gun battle with Jamisola, but the latter’s firing skills initially saved himself from being killed.

“Kalaunan naubusan siya ng bala, nakorner namin,” he said.

(He eventually ran out of ammunition and we cornered him.)

“Dumating siya (Duterte) buhay pa si Jamisola. Siya rin ang tumapos. Dalawang magazine ng Uzi, inubos niya. Si Jamisola na-overkill. Siguro mga 200 bullets ang tumama sa katawan ni Jamisola.

(Jamisola was still alive when Duterte arrived. It was Duterte who finished him, spending two Uzi magazines. It was overkill. I think Jamisola was hit with about 200 bullets.)

Matobato said it was at this point when the relationship between the local police and NBI office turned sour.
He said Duterte appeased the local NBI leadership by giving them favors.

“Hindi nagkakaso ang mga pulis, dahil inayos niya. Sinuportahan niya ang NBI, binigyan niya ng sasakyan, binigyan niya ng tao. Kung ano ang kailangan,” he said.

(No case was filed because Duterte fixed it. He supported the NBI. He gave cars, he employed more people. He gave everything they need.)

UNFIT FOR HERO'S BURIAL
Marcos undeserving of Libingan ng mga Bayani â€" Carpio
Published August 31, 2016 1:37pm
By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News





The late strongman Ferdinand Marcos does not deserve a hero's burial because he was "dishonorably discharged" by the people in 1986, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Wednesday.

"Marcos cannot be buried [at the Libingan ng mga Bayani]," Carpio said while interpellating former Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares during the oral arguments on whether the late dictator deserves a place at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).

Carpio based his statement on the Armed Forces of the Philippines Regulation 161-375, which disqualifies those dishonorably discharged from service or convicted by final judgment of a crime involving moral turpitude.

He also warned President Rodrigo Duterte of the repercussion of changing the cited AFP rules.

"But if the incumbent President says that '[Marcos] can still be buried there upon my instruction,' Carpio insisted, that cannot be done because it is against the Constitution because you are using public funds and property for a private purpose."

Colmenares agreed with Carpio, saying the President's directive favoring the burial could not change the objective of Republic Act 289, which provides that only people worthy of public emulation should be given a space at the LNMB.

Marcos was not convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude until his death in 1989, but the petitioners said that [non-conviction] does not mean he was qualified for a hero's burial.

In responding to a question of Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe raised, lawyer Barry Gutierrez said there was no opportunity to make Marcos accountable for his crimes during his 20-year rule because he had immunity as president.

When Marcos was removed through a People Power uprising, Gutierrez said the former leader fled to Hawaii where he died while in exile.

"But the Supreme Court had said in several occasions that Marcos is guilty of plunder and human rights violations," Gutierrez added.

At the SC on Wednesday, the petitioners on Marcos' burial at the LNMB were first to present their arguments. After interpellations, government lawyers, headed by the Solicitor General, will present their side of the argument, followed by interpellations. â€" LBG, GMA News

Ni EDGAR FUERZAS


PRESIDENT ROXAS, North Cotabato -- Patay ang usa ka mag-uuma human gipusil sa iyang silingan, alas 2:30 sa hapon niadtong Lunes, Setyembre 12.

Giila ang biktima nga mao si Benito Gilwa, 48, minyo ug molupyo sa Purok A, Barangay Ilustre, President Roxas.

Si Superintendent Bernard Tayong, tigpamaba sa North Cotabato Provincial Police Office nagsulti nga nagkalalis ang biktima ug ang suspek nga si Gaspar Santeria gumikan sa bingkil sa ilang yuta nga giugmad.

Mikuha og 12 gauge shotgun ang suspek hinungdan nga midagan si Gilwa apan gisundan gihapon siya ug gipusil.

Nakahimo pa unta pagbalos ang biktima ug iya sab nga gitigbas ang iyang silingan gamit ang mahait nga sundang.

Ang duha pulos gidala sa President Roxas District Hospital apan gideklara nga dead on arrival si Gilwa gumikan sa grabeng samad sa nagkadaiyang bahin sa lawas gikan sa mga bolitas sa shotgun.

Samtang grabe sab ang kahimtang ni Santeria.

Gikanayon sa pamilya sa napatay nga sige lang og panghagit og away ang suspek ngadto sa ilang pamilya gumikan sa personal nga kasuko niini sa utlanan sa ilang uma.

Ang kapulisan sa President Roxas Municipal Police Station padayon nga nag-imbestiga sa hitabo.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Septembre 14, 2016.

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


USA ka misis nga nakasuot og pinakigol nga short pants ug naka-sleeveless ang nakuyapan human gihapak og bato sa iyang mister tumong sa dughan kay nasakpan nga nakig-table sa laing lalaki.

Ang insidente nahitabo alas 10 sa gabii niadtong Lunes, Setyembre 12, sa Barangay Catalunan Pequeño, Talomo District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Subay sa blotter nga natala sa Talomo Police Station, usa ka Maricel (bansagon gitago), 31, nagpuyo sa maong barangay, girespondehan sa kapulisan human gihapak og bato sa iyang bana nga si Pepeng, 35, usa ka driver.

Human naulian gikan sa pagkakuyap, nagpaka-martir lang gihapon ang misis, giapungan sa prisohan ang iyang napriso nga bana nga buot niyang pagawason.

Nagsugod ang istorya human nagtagay si misis og ilimnong makahubog uban sa usa ka lalaki sa balay sa iyang ig-agaw sa Catalunan Pequeño nga nagsuot og pakigol nga short pants ug sleeveless.

Nag-uros-uros ang kasuko ni Pepeng human iyang nakita nga naay kaistorya ug katagay iyang asawa hinungdan nga sa iyang kasuko, mikuha siya og bato ug gihapak sa dughan.

Miangkon si Maricel nga iyang nahimo ang pag-table og laing lalaki gumikan nakulangan siya sa perpormans sa iyang bana sa kama. Masabot sa maong pamahayag nga gitinguha ni Maricel nga mahaylo ang iyang kainom ug sa maong paagi matambalan ang iyang kauhaw ug makatilaw na usab siya og lawasnong palami nga dugay na niyang wala matagamtam.

Tungod sa hitabo, buot kuno unta ni Maricel nga maghikog gamit ang iyang bra sulod sa Talomo Police Station samtang nag-atubang sa iyang mister nga anaa sulod sa selda niadtong Martes sa kaadlawon, Setyembre 13.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Septembre 14, 2016.

Nakita hinuon sa heneral nga dunay mga pulis nga haniti na kaayo nga mopusil sa ilang armas.

Ang uban kanila nahimong mananaog sa mga kompitisyon gawas sa Central Visayas.

Apan mibahad si Taliño niadtong padayon nga butalo bisan unsaon pagbansay nga iya kining bawian sa ilang armas ug pahatagan niya og guna o bunal, o kaha tirador.

“Eh kung hindi marunong gumamit ng baril eh bolo nalang ang iisyu natin duon sa police o arnis kase mas delikado kung baril, di nya alam hawakan,” matod ni Taliño.

Si Dela Rosa nibahad na nga iyang pabawian ug armas ang mga pulis kon padayon nga mahagbong sa firearm proficiency training.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cebu Septembre 14, 2016.

Dunay nabantayan si Taliño nga dunay pipila ka mga pulis nga dii pa maayo mogunit sa ilang armas.

Kuyaw kini nga makadisgrasya hinungdan nga angay nga ipaubos ug balik sa training.

Mohimo ang PRO 7 og sunod-sunod nga mga pagbansay-bansay unya sa mga armas sa tanan niyang mga sakop aron makabatok dayon sa ilang kontra ilabi na sa nalambigit sa illegal nga drugas nga mosukol kanila.

Iyang patutukan kadtong mga di pa kaayo maayo mogamit sa ilang armas.

Dili lang usa ka armas ang kinahanglan nga ma-master sa usa ka pulis, kon di ang tanang mga klase sa armas angay nga makahibawo mogamit ang mga pulis.

Ni ARNOLD Y. BUSTAMANTE


MGA pulis nga bulay-og di mo­lambo ang abilidad sa paggamit ug pagpunting paimbarguhan sa Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 og armas.

Pahatagan na lang kini og guna o kaha garoti sa arnis aron ilang magamit.

Mao kini ang pahimangno ni PRO 7 Director Noli Taliño human nimando si PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa sa pagbansay sa mga pulis aron haniti mogamit og armas ang tanang sakop sa kapulisan.

Matod ni Dela Rosa nga ning ilang pagpakiggubat sa illegal nga drugas, kinahanglan nga ang pulis hingigo sa ilang target.

Tungod niini, nilusad si de la Rosa og mga shooting competition sa kaulohan ug mga nagkadaiyang police regional offices aron mabansay ang iyang mga ginsakpan.

Dinhi sa Central Visayas, nilusad usab og mga shooting competition ang PRO 7.

My postscript:

On June 2013, British Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed “sincere regret” for torture and abuse committed by British colonial officers against Kenyans in the 1950s. He also announced a compensation package worth £19.9 million (about $31 million), to be divided among 5,200 Kenyan victims. This marks the settlement of a landmark legal case initiated in 2009 by a group of Kenyans, who alleged that they suffered colonial-era torture at British hands.

Perhaps Duterte, who seems to be so passionate against American human rights abuses against Filipinos when they invaded us, should initiate similar proceedings to demand an apology from the US. The noisy “anti-imperialist” Left, a pack of whom are in the US living cosmopolitan lives, protesting Marcos’ burial at the official military camp should, instead, course their energies into demanding a similar apology from the US. Or are they afraid of losing their green cards, or US visas?

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I’m reminded of a comment by Alicia Garza, a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement ignited by police killings of black Americans. Speaking in Sydney last weekend at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, she related how, when civil rights protests get uncomfortably heated, she is often asked: “Why are they so angry?” She paused. Then softly giggled, giving the audience time for the ludicrousness of the question to sink in.

Why is the Philippines president so angry about the prospect of the US president confronting him about human rights abuses? History. As Duterte said himself on Monday, violent acts of the past don’t stay in the past. They get passed on from generation to generation, especially when the injustice goes unacknowledged and unaddressed.

It is difficult to stomach Duterte’s style. It certainly is difficult to look past the serious issues raised by his administration’s “war on drugs”. We should condemn his misuse of power.

But if we condemn the president for his recent remarks because we claim to be concerned about the rights of Filipinos while showing no interest in acknowledging the past crimes and injustices against the Philippines, we fall into our own sort of hypocrisy.

Let’s be honest, if Duterte didn’t curse and swear and offend our sensibilities, would we be paying so much attention to the Philippines? For once, I heard a Philippine president holding the US to account for all its doublespeak and hypocrisy in US-Philippine relations. And I couldn’t help but appreciate that.

End of Webb's article

After the Second World War, colonies of any sort, even the so-called “democratic” US one in the Philippines were on the nose. But this didn’t stop Washington officialdom from continuing to claim the right of access to the Philippines’ political and economic realms.

When the US finally granted the Philippines its (second) independence in 1946, it required the new republic to amend its Constitution so a bill could be passed that, as well as legislating preferential trade conditions for the US, would grant American citizens equal rights with Filipinos to Philippine natural resources. It was the beginning of a new phase: neocolonialism.

It was not just a matter of political interference and the power to make or break Philippine presidents with endorsement and strategic financial support. In a visceral sense, the nation was always being watched and judged by its democratic “teacher.”

Asked about being confronted with human rights concerns by Obama, Duterte said:

“You must be kidding. Who is he to confront me? America has one too many to answer for the misdeeds in this country … As a matter of fact, we inherited this problem from the United States. Why? Because they invaded this country and made us their subjugated people … Can I explain the extrajudicial killings? Can they explain the 600,000 Moros massacred on this island [Mindanao]? Do you want to see the pictures? Maybe you ask him. And make it public.”

I’m reminded of a comment by Alicia Garza, a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement ignited by police killings of black Americans. Speaking in Sydney last weekend at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, she related how, when civil rights protests get uncomfortably heated, she is often asked: “Why are they so angry?” She paused. Then softly giggled, giving the audience time for the ludicrousness of the question to sink in.

Why is the Philippines president so angry about the prospect of the US president confronting him about human rights abuses? History. As Duterte said himself on Monday, violent acts of the past don’t stay in the past. They get passed on from generation to generation, especially when the injustice goes unacknowledged and unaddressed.

It is difficult to stomach Duterte’s style. It certainly is difficult to look past the serious issues raised by his administration’s “war on drugs”. We should condemn his misuse of power.

But if we condemn the president for his recent remarks because we claim to be concerned about the rights of Filipinos while showing no interest in acknowledging the past crimes and injustices against the Philippines, we fall into our own sort of hypocrisy.

Let’s be honest, if Duterte didn’t curse and swear and offend our sensibilities, would we be paying so much attention to the Philippines? For once, I heard a Philippine president holding the US to account for all its doublespeak and hypocrisy in US-Philippine relations. And I couldn’t help but appreciate that.

Before his (now regretted) distasteful remark, Duterte had much to say in response to the question about being confronted over human rights in an upcoming meeting with Obama. He was responding to murmurs from critics that, if he wouldn’t listen to anyone else about the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, just wait until he meets the US president.

No one seems to have listened to or cared much about the other six minutes of Duterte’s reply. So let me tell you something about it.

It was a reclaiming of the historical narrative of Philippine-US relations, a holding up to the US of the hidden “looking glass” Mark Twain had written about 100 years earlier.

Calling out the hidden insinuations, as Duterte did, that the US continues to have authority over the politics of the Philippines, is bold and brazen, but reasonable. Consider his statement:

“I am a president of a sovereign state. And we have long ceased to be a colony. I do not have any master but the Filipino people.”

These words are less evidence of his demagoguery or an intention to personally disparage Obama than a reference to history, and are more accurately read as such.

So asked Duterte on Monday. It’s actually a very good question, and one long overdue from a Philippine president. The extent to which the violence of US relations with the Philippines has been made invisible by a history written predominantly by Americans themselves cannot be overstated.

It began with a three-year war (1899-1902) that most Americans have never heard of. The war overthrew a newly independent Philippine republic and cost between 250,000 and a million Filipino lives â€" only to be called “a great misunderstanding” by American colonial writers.

After all, the US had chosen the Philippines to be its great Asian “showcase of democracy.” The invasion was a benevolent act. Hence, the complete erasure of acts of American violence from the Philippine national story.
You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to smell something rotten. Since the 1950s, Philippine writers, academics, journalists and so on have been trying to reframe the historical narrative to point out this fact: to be invaded by a military power, told you don’t possess the character or capability for self-government, and then controlled by another nation for four decades, to the occupier’s lucrative commercial benefit, was not to be the recipient of a benevolent act.

Even at the time the war was taking place, one of America’s best-loved authors was writing just as much. Mark Twain was prolific in writing about the paradox of the “democratising mission” to the Philippines.

Penned in 1901, but still stunningly poignant, is this extract from his essay, To the Person Sitting in Darkness:
“The Person Sitting in Darkness is almost sure to say: ‘There is something curious about this â€" curious and unaccountable. There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.’”

In America, these remain Twain’s least-known works.”

Webb’s article:


Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has taken his “bad manners” â€" having gained global notoriety with his election campaign insults earlier this year â€" to a new level.

At a press conference at Davao International Airport on Monday, on his way to meet US President Barack Obama and other leaders attending the ASEAN summit, Duterte muttered a few short words in Tagalog at the end of a lengthy and irritated reply to a local journalist. With those words, he again made international headlines.

If that were all there was to it, we could rightly roll our eyes and move on. After all, Duterte’s language is vulgar; his slander of people and groups is liable to incite violence; and his determination to kill drug pushers (to fight “crime with crime”) an abuse of power. He should not be defended for any of this.

But as someone who has spent a long time studying US-Philippine relations, I think there’s something more for us to see here. And if we want to judge the Philippine president (and, by default, the nation for electing him) from high moral ground, I think we have a responsibility to pay attention to it.

“Who is he to question me about human rights and extrajudicial killings?”

Hypocrisy?  Rare photo of 600 Moro insurgents and civilians killed by US troops at Bud Dajo in Jolo, March 7, 1906, which President Duterte showed to Asean delegates last week in Laos to counter US criticisms of his regime’s human rights violations.

Academic: ‘Duterte held up a long-hidden looking glass to the US’
BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016


Following is an excellent article that was published on September 9 in the Australia-based website The Conversation, with an interesting slogan: “Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair.” It was written by Adele Webb, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Sydney’s Department of Government and International Relations. She is working on her thesis “that explores the colonial construction of Philippine democracy, and its legacy in Filipino imaginings of political freedom.” This column’s title is that of her article.

I hope our millennials read it: Few Filipinos really know about how ruthlessly the US subjugated us.
Although she seemed to believe foreign correspondents’ inaccurate report that President Duterte called President Obama “son of a whore’” (which he didn’t), still, what a difference it is for an analysis on Philippine current events by a well-informed scholar.

...samtang halayo kanilang duha
ang giilogang bana nagkatawa.

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


NILAGAPAK ngadto sa dagway sa kabit ang marriage contract human gisagpa sa asawa atol sa komprontasyon nga nahitabo niadtong Huwebes, Setyembre 8, alas 3:30 sa hapon sa Lapasan, dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Nagpatala ang duha sa Police Station 3 sa Agora si Rose (dili tinuod nga ngalan), legal nga asawa, 40, taga Agora ning siyudad, samtang ang gitumbok nga kabit nailang si Marie (dili tinuod nga ngalan), 30, dalaga ug lumulupyo sa Cogon ning siyudad.

Sa impormasiyon gikan sa kapulisan, nasayran nga nagpatala si Rose human sa grabe nga kapungot sa dihang gi-adto ang maong babaye sa iyang opisina aron nga makig-estorya ug komprontahon kalabot na sa binuhatan niini ug sa bana apan gipakaulawan kini sa dihang giingnan nga peke nga pagka-asawa hinungdan nga gipakitaan kini og marriage contract.

Samtang nagpatala usab si Marie sa kapolisan ug giingong gisulong ug gikompronta kini kalabot na sa maong personal nga isyu dayong hapak sa iyang dagway sa marriage contract.

Sa pagkakaron, nakatala na sa buhatan sa kapolisan ang maong insidente ug giingong aduna na’y gipirmahan ang duruha.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Septembre 10, 2016.

He he, mora man nig opisyo ni Bay Bugsay sa panahon sa iyang kabatan-on... 

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


NAGDAGAN-DAGAN paingon sa buhatan sa kapolisan ang usa ka tinun-an human kalit nga gibunlot samtang nagbaklay niadtong milabay nga gabii sa Pabayo-Pacana Streets, dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Naila ang biktima nga mao si Donna (dili tinuod nga ngalan), 20, dalaga, tinun-an sa usa sa dakong tunghaan ug residente sa Corrales Streets ning dakbayan.

Sa nahipos nga report gikan sa Police Station 1 sa Divisoria gikabutyag nga nagbaklay ang biktima sa maong dapit dihang kalit lamang kining gibunlot sa wala maila nga suspetsado.

Giingong gibira ang ulo niini ug gilips-to-lips hinungdan sa kapungot sa maong dalaga.

Naningkamot ang dalaga nga makalingkawas ug nakadagan paingon sa Divisoria nga bahin.

Sagol kahadlok ug kapungot ang gibati sa maong dalaga hinungdan nga gipatala kini sa kapolisan aron nga mahatagan sa tukmang disposasyon.

Sa pagkakaron, nakatala na sa buhatan sa kapolisan ang maong insidente.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Septembre 08, 2016.

Hmm, asa na kaha karon ang scientist?

Scientists have also named a fish (Etheostoma obama), a trapdoor spider (Aptostichus barackobamai), a lichen species (Caloplaca obamae) and an extinct insect-eating lizard (Obamadon gracilis) after the current commander in chief.

Platt explained why it’s so tempting to enshrine Obama’s name in the lexicon of living things. 

“It is a unique component of the diversity of life on this planet,” he said. “Anyone should consider it an honor.”

No word yet from the White House on how the human Barack Obama feels about the new honor. Platt said he intends to send his cousin a copy of the journal article.

Jackson Roberts, Raphael Orélis-Ribeiro and Stephen “Ash” Bullard of Auburn University’s Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory in Alabama were Platt’s coauthors of the new study.

The newly discovered species was found by Thomas R. Platt, who spent decades studying turtle viruses before retiring recently from St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind. Over the course of his career, he said, he has named about half a dozen parasites after his friends, his graduate school advisor at the University of Alberta in Canada (Molenius samueli) and even his father-in-law (Neopolystoma fentoni).

The idea of naming a parasite after the 44th president of the United States came to Platt after he learned that he was the fifth cousin, twice removed, of Barack Obama, the study explained. Platt said their common relative was a man named George Frederick Toot, who lived in Middletown, Pa., from 1759 to 1815. 

This isn’t the first parasite to be named in Obama’s honor. In 2012, a team of researchers from the University of New Mexico, Oklahoma State University and the University of Hamburg in Germany christened a hairworm species Paragordius obamai because it was discovered about 12 miles from where the president’s father was raised in Kenya. P. obamai infects crickets, not humans, and is the first hairworm of its type known to reproduce asexually, according to a report in the journal PLOS ONE.

Parasitologist bestows squirmy honor on his distant cousin, President Obama
Karen Kaplan


How does a scientist honor a president who happens to be a distant relative? By naming a turtle parasite after him.

Baracktrema obamai isn’t just any parasite. It’s so distinctive that it represents not just a new species but an entirely new genus, according to a new report in the Journal of Parasitology. That hasn’t happened with this type of turtle parasite in 21 years, experts say.

B. obamai is a flatworm that infects black marsh turtles and southeast Asian box turtles in Malaysia. Scientists study turtle parasites because they are believed to be the ancestors of the flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a disease that kills between 20,000 and 200,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization.

It might be hard for most people to warm up to an organism that can cause so much suffering, but parasitologists are different. These scientists admire the way that parasites are able to make a living in the most foreboding environments. B. obamai, for instance, is able to penetrate the circulatory system of a turtle host and deposit dozens of eggs in the small blood vessels inside turtle lungs, according to the study.

Ang paet, kon tudlo na lang ang mohubag...

unggoy - monkey
unggoy-unggoy - card game

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on August 23, 2009, 11:21:46 PM
puti - white
itlog - egg
puti'g itlog - talawan

puwa - red
lubot - ass
puwa'g lubot - lihokan, di mahimutang, aliwaros

Quote from: mistyeyed on August 27, 2009, 01:41:25 PM
pis-isda
kat-iring
piskat-sore eyes 

Bwahaha!

kuri - presidente nga babaye
kong - higanteng unggoy

kurikong - paryente sa kagid

Quote from: islander on September 07, 2016, 04:34:42 PM

the banging shoe that was heard around the world

Nikita was incensed by the following words of Sumulong (as they appear in the official records of the 15th Session of the UN General Assembly):


My delegation, the Philippine delegation, attaches great importance to this item entitled "Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples", the allocation of which is now under discussion.

We have been a colonized country. We have passed through all the trials and tribulations of a colonized people. It took us centuries and centuries to fight, to struggle, and to win our fight for the recognition of our independence, and, therefore, it would only be consistent with our history, our experience and our aspirations as a people that we vote in favour of having this item referred to the highest possible level of the General Assembly. While this is not the occasion to discuss the substance of the item, I would like to place on record my delegation's view on the import as well as on the scope, the extent, the metes and bounds of this item. We feel this to be necessary in view of the statements made at the start of our meeting by the Premier of the Soviet Union.

It is our view that the declaration proposed by the Soviet Union should cover the inalienable right to independence not only of the peoples and territories which yet remain under the rule of Western colonial Powers, but also of the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union.

Quote from: islander on September 07, 2016, 03:59:01 PM
___
KHRUSHCHEV BANGS HIS SHOE

Soviet prime minister Nikita Khrushchev, during a General Assembly debate on colonialism on Oct. 12, 1960, claimed the right to respond to the Philippines representative who was protesting Eastern European states' lack of freedom as Soviet satellites. Khrushchev got to his feet and started pounding the table angrily. He then picked up a shoe that was under the table and banged it several times in indignation. His granddaughter later wrote that he was wearing new shoes that were tight, so he took them off while sitting. She and his interpreter said that when Khrushchev stood up, he pounded the table so hard with his fists that his watch fell off, and when he went to retrieve it, he saw the shoe and switched to banging that instead.


FILE - In this Oct. 12, 1960 file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his desk at the United Nations with his fist during a General Assembly debate on colonialism at the UN. His wrist watch, on the desk in front of him, came off during his angry response, before he began using a shoe to pound the desk. As the meeting place for all the world¿s nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo, File)

It is interesting to note that Nikita's antics were in response to the speech of the head of the Philippine delegation, the great nationalist Lorenzo Sumulong.

He he, doctored image man ni...

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) from left, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, Laos President Bounnhang Vorachit, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte, Brunei Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo hold hands posing for group photo during the opening ceremony of the 28th and 29th Asean summits at National Convention Center in Vientiane, Laos, on Sept. 6. AP

Monday, September 05, 2016


MANILA -- A 45-year-old woman from Iloilo City has been tested positive for the dreaded Zika virus, the sixth case recorded in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday, September 5.

In a press conference, DOH Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo said the victim, whose identity has been withheld, has no record of travel to countries where the virus has been detected.

Bayugo, however, clarified that there is still no confirmation of local transmission of the virus in the Philippines.

“As far as what we (DOH) have now, wala pa kaming evidence na merong transmission locally of this case that has been surfacing [we have no evidence that Zika has been locally-transmitted],” Bayugo told reporters.

The woman’s spouse has yet to be tested if he too has acquired the infection since the virus can be transmitted through sexual contact, Bayugo said.

Being the sixth case confirmed, Bayugo gave a reassurance that the department has been monitoring sporadic cases of the infection in the country.

Five other cases have been detected since 2012.

“These [previous cases] did not convert into an outbreak. And we hope that this one sporadic case will not translate [into something bigger] similar to what is being experienced elsewhere,” said Bayugo.

He then expressed alarm that neighboring country Singapore has 26 cases of the virus, and added that all efforts are being done to monitor overseas Filipino workers and foreigners coming from Zika-identified countries.

The reported 24 out of the 26 in Singapore was identified as a locally-transmitted case, and likely evolved from the Southeast Asian region. (PNA)

Agoi, di ba kaha nila ni iyabo na lang sa tunga-tunga sa Pasipiko...

Tuesday, September 06, 2016


THE Philippines will ship back to Canada the wastes that arrived in the country in early 2013, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Tuesday.

In a statement, the BOC said an inter-agency committee has agreed to push through with a court's order on the repatriation of the 2,500 tons of trash that came from Vancouver.

The inter-agency committee includes the BOC, Departments of Foreign Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources, and Justice.

In a meeting Monday, Customs said the committee expressed favor on the June 30 decision of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 1 Judge Tita Bughao-Alisuag, ordering the shipping back of the wastes to Canada at the expense of the importer.

The June 30 court order covers fifty forty-footer (50x40) containers found to have assorted heterogeneous plastic materials, all consigned to Chronic Plastics Inc.

The containers, parked at the Subic and Manila International Container Yards, are said to be causing port congestion, posing hazards to public health, and incurring expenses on the part of BOC.

The Manila RTC will conduct another hearing on the case on September 30, with the DOJ set to file a motion for the execution of the order. (SDR/Sunnex)

Bwahaha! Kaaleegre ani nga old thread. Layo kaayo ang gilupad sa tungaw...

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 26, 2016, 09:33:48 AM
Suma sa suspek nga misamot ang iyang kasuko human iyang nasayran nga Sabado pa lang sa gabii, Agosto 20, naghinay-hinay na og impake sa mga gamit ang iyang asawa kay makigbulag na kaniya.

“Naghubog ko, mao tong Dominggo sa hapon wa na ko nakaagwanta, nabuhat gayud nako,” panapos sa suspek.

Pastilan, gitugotan lang gud unta nga mobiya...

Hmm, gipatambalan pud unta nila apil ang nanunggab...

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


GIDUNGGAB sa ika-tulong higayon ang usa ka babaye sa kaugalingong ig-agaw kinsa giingong adunay deperensya sa pangisip samtang natulog diha sa ilang panimalay niadtong Biyernes, Setyembre 2, alas 11:00 sa gabii diha sa Balacanas, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental.

Naila ang biktima nga si Rochel Fabela, 28, minyo ug residente sa nahisgutang dapit samtang ang ig-agaw kinsa adunay deperensya sa pangisip nga miluba kaniya nailang si Jhon.

Sa impormasyon gikan sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) sa Cagayan de Oro, diin daling gidala ang biktima nasayran nga samtang natulog si Fabela kalit lamang kini nga gisulod sa ig-agaw nga nagdala og kutsilyo.

Giingong sa walay igo nga rason kalit lamang kini nga gidunggab sa ika-tulong higayon hinungdan nga nakaangkon kini og samad sa iyang tuo nga liog, aping ug bukton hinungdan nga dali kining gidala sa nahisgutang balay tambalanan.

Sa pagkakaron, padayon pa ang mga mananambal sa pag-atiman sa biktima samtang ang suspek ang anaa na sa kapolisan sa maong dapit.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Septembre 05, 2016.

17 hours ago





Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”

Applause erupted in St. Peter’s Square even before Francis finished pronouncing the rite of canonization, evidence of the admiration Mother Teresa enjoyed from Christians and non-Christians alike during her life and after her 1997 death. (AP)

Ah yes, the good old days...

Ah, lefties rule and yet hope springs eternal!

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 31, 2016, 09:18:53 PM
Morag permi lang kalibangon.

He he, di ba?

Daghan ra jamo og hangups ning mga singkita. Morag permi lang kalibangon...

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


PATAY ang usa ka Grade 7 nga estudyante human gitabangan pagpuspos og kahoy sa tulo ka mga lalaki alas 12:30 sa tungang gabii niadtong Lunes, Agosto 29.

Nahitabo ang insidente sa Sitio Nangalid, Barangay Datu Salumay, Marilog District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Ang biktima si Kneelad Dagcuan Masacud, 20, Grade 7 student, samtang ang suspek mao sila Marvin Baja Tabalba, Roel Salumay Bento, ug Ronel Salumay Bento, pulos nagpuyo sa Puro 1, Barangay Salumay.

Base sa journal sa kapulisan, mga suspek miadto sa balay sa biktima diin nangita sa usa ka Richard Dagcuan, apan ang biktima ang nakaatubang kanila.

Nasayran nga naay daang dumot ang biktima ug mga suspek hinungdan nga nahitabo ang karambola.

Suma sa report, wala na kasagang ang biktima kay gitabangan siya'g puspos og kahoy sa tulo ka suspek.

Daling gidala sa German Community Hospital ang biktima apan gideklara siyang dead on arrival.

Hinuon, gilayon nasikop ang mga suspek nga mag-atubang og kasong murder sa korte.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 31, 2016.

While this was only the dogs’ “word-meaning representation”, it still shows they had an idea of what message the specific sound of an individual human word was designed to convey.

Lead researcher Dr Attila Andics, of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, said: “During speech processing, there is a well-known distribution of labour in the human brain.

“It is mainly the left hemisphere’s job to process word meaning, and the right hemisphere’s job to process intonation. The human brain not only separately analyses what we say and how we say it, but also integrates the two types of information, to arrive at a unified meaning.

“Our findings suggest that dogs can also do all that, and they use very similar brain mechanisms.”

During the brain scans, the researchers spoke words like “good boy” and “well done” spoken with a praising intonation, the same words in a neutral voice and also words that were meaningless to them, like “however”, in both intonations.

The scans showed the dogs left brain tended to be activated when they heard words that were meaningful to them. This did not happen when they heard words they did not understand. The right hemisphere activated when they heard a praising intonation.

But the reward centre of their brains â€" which responds to pleasurable sensations like being petted, having sex and eating nice food â€" was only activated when they heard praising words spoken in a praising intonation.

“It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match,” Dr Andics said.

“So dogs not only tell apart what we say and how we say it, but they can also combine the two, for a correct interpretation of what those words really meant.

“This is very similar to what human brains do.”

Brain scans discover evidence that dogs process language in a similar way to humans and are only truly happy if a praising tone of voice is matched by the actual words spoken

Ian Johnston
Science Correspondent
6 hours  ago
   
      

Dogs, seen here around an MRI scanner, appear to having an understanding of some human words
Eniko Kubinyi


Dogs understand what some human words mean, according to a study published in the prestigious journal Science.

In a world-first experiment, academics in Hungary trained 13 dogs to voluntarily lie in an MRI scanner to monitor what happened in their brain when the researchers spoke to them.

They discovered that dogs’ brains process language in a similar way to humans, with the right side dealing with emotion and the left processing meaning.

It was only when both sides of the brain agreed they were hearing praise that the dog was truly happy.