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He said another relative walks with a limp after being beaten on his legs; a third, a Buddhist monk, was beaten so badly on the head that he bled from one ear and today cannot walk at all. Family members who work for the government lost their jobs.

The police statement merely said that 44 people had been subpoenaed.

Many Tibetans are too scared to speak out publicly against injustice, but the communities around Chalong appear to have gathered to write a remarkable open letter about the incident. The letter, first obtained by Golog Jigme, claims to have been written in the name of 700 residents across 13 communities in the area.

“These days the Chinese Communists are claiming and announcing how they are building a perfect Tibet and how free and happy Tibetans are in China, but now we have no option but to show the world an actual example of the real suffering endured by the people of the three regions of Tibet under Chinese oppression,” the letter begins.

Local officials, the letter continued, had “conspired to use force to bully the common people,” ending with an appeal to President Xi to “investigate and rectify.”

ICT said the incident reveals the extent of the impunity of officials and police in Tibet, and the fact that it took so long to reach the outside world shows how tightly information flows are restricted. Free Tibet said it “clearly exemplifies not just the brutality of life under the Chinese occupation but also how arbitrary and illogical it can be.”

Xu Yangjingjing contributed to this report.

Although police say an autopsy gave the cause of death as suicide, residents are deeply skeptical. Some reported seeing bruises on her body and said that a doctor’s report had noted a wound on her head as well as a broken neck. They also said her clothes looked as though they had been put on after her death. The lama, who had a reputation as a womanizer, has since disappeared.

In its statement, the Public Security Bureau said the two policemen were on duty at the time of her death and could not have been involved. But villagers insist that the two men were seen drinking with the lama that night and suspect a coverup. Instead of investigating, they say, the police just called in the army.

As they rounded up suspects, security forces raided and ransacked relatives’ homes, “smashing everything and stabbing knives into sacks of rice and butter,” one relative said. “We’ve only seen that kind of brutality before in TV dramas about Japanese invaders.”

The raiders confiscated photos of Tsering Tso â€" even checking mobile phones. A family member showed scars on his head from a beating that he said left his body drenched in blood. Released weeks later, he was warned by officials not to talk to anyone, but he refuses to be silenced.

In a May report, Human Rights Watch catalogued nearly 500 arrests across Tibetan parts of China between 2013 and 2015. It concluded that dissent had spread from urban to rural areas. Whereas the vast majority of arrests in the 1980s and 1990s had been of monks and nuns, most of those detained more recently were ordinary people.

Many “had merely exercised their rights to expression and assembly without advocating separatism” â€" criticizing local officials, for example, or opposing a mining development, the report said.

Yet even relatively mild protests about poor governance are increasingly seen through a political lens and labeled as “criminal acts,” rights groups say. Punishment can be severe.

The incident in Chalong “reflects the unrest and instability in Tibetan society,” said Golog Jigme, a filmmaker and former political prisoner who now lives in exile in Switzerland. “It’s not outsiders or the Dalai Lama stirring things up, it’s social issues.”

On the evening of Oct. 4, 2015, Tsering Tso had received a phone call from her boyfriend, a lama at the Gertse Dralak monastery in Chalong. He insisted that he was ill and wanted to see her.

Her father gave her a lift, only to find the lama drinking with two policemen. He left her there. The following morning, Tsering Tso’s body was found hanging from a small bridge in the town.

The family insisted that its demands were not political or ethnic in nature: The priest and policemen last seen with Tsering Tso were local Tibetans, and the family said it had no beef with the central government.

All the family wants, it said, is a proper investigation, justice for Tsering Tso and freedom for the five men in jail.

“My daughter was healthy and happy. She wouldn’t commit suicide,” her 49-year-old mother Adhey said, fighting back tears as she sat on the grass with her 83-year-old mother and two young sons.

“My beloved daughter was murdered without any justice being given by the government. Instead, they simply arrested more innocent people and sent them to jail.”

What happened on the grasslands near Chalong in Garze prefecture fits a disturbing pattern. More than six decades after Chinese troops first moved into Tibet, dissent continues to roil the plateau and, if anything, is being suppressed ever more savagely.

Control and surveillance have been dramatically tightened since riots and demonstrations broke out in Tibet in 2008, and then expanded further under Xi, with tens of thousands of party cadres sent to monitor villages and monasteries, according to a January report by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).

In a statement issued on its social-media account, the Ganzi county Public Security Bureau contested that version of events. It said some of the protesters had carried knives, iron pipes or stones and had caused nearly $10,000 worth of damage. The bureau ran photographs of several men climbing over a gate, but only two broken windows were shown.

The jailed men, the statement said, had either carried weapons or organized the protest and had been found guilty of “assembling a crowd to attack state organs.”

But relatives who spoke to The Washington Post outside the family’s tent on the remote grasslands said they were not convinced that any investigation had been carried out.

No one denied that a few stones had been thrown during the protest, hitting a police car and office building, but they said that as a result, their entire community had been accused of “splittism.” That is a serious crime implying support for the Dalai Lama, the exiled religious leader, or for Tibet’s independence from China.

Internet connections have been cut off in Chalong township since the incident, and relatives have been threatened with further punishment if they talk to outsiders. The village â€" a scattering of tents and yaks in a scenic, sweeping grasslands valley â€" has been told it will not get government subsidies for roads or houses for three years because of its “bad character.”

On Oct. 10, five days after Tsering Tso’s body was found, hundreds of armed soldiers arrived in the town and descended on her funeral ceremony in the remote hamlet known as Jiqie No. 2 Village in Chinese and Raghya in Tibetan, in China’s western Sichuan province.

Witnesses said more than 40 people were tied up, beaten with metal clubs, piled into a truck “like corpses” and placed in detention.

So much blood was shed, “stray dogs could not finish lapping it up,” according to a remarkable and rare open letter sent by the community to President Xi Jinping asking for justice.

Most of those detained were gradually released in the weeks and months that followed, although many went straight to the hospital.

But on May 20, five relatives and family friends were sentenced to 2  1/2 years in prison. Acquaintances say they were jailed for refusing to sign a statement absolving the police of blame for Tsering Tso’s death.

A woman’s gruesome hanging shocked Tibet â€" but police have silenced all questions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
By Simon Denyer
August 26 at 5:00 AM


JIQIE NO. 2 VILLAGE, China â€" She was 27, a kind, hard-working woman who supported her family by herding yaks and harvesting caterpillar fungus, a prized health cure, on the high grasslands of Tibet. Last October, Tsering Tso was found hanged from a bridge in a small town near her home.

Her family and local villagers gathered outside the police station in Chalong township to demand answers: She had last been seen in the company of a local Buddhist priest and two policemen.

The authorities insisted it was suicide. Family and friends suspected foul play and demanded an investigation. That night and the following morning, an angry crowd stormed the gates of the police station, smashing windows, according to local police.

The authorities’ response was brutal, revealing much about the crackdown taking place in Tibetan parts of China and showing how unrest and unhappiness is increasingly viewed as dangerously subversive.

Payter!

Ha ha ha. Mga way lingaw, mga buangona...

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Nangayo’g pasaylo sa pari

Nangayo og despensa si Jackielyn isip tingog sa kinatibuk-an sa iyang pamilya ngadto sa school director sa tunghaan nga gialagaran sa biktima human naduhig ang pangalan nga giingong maoy kabit sa igsuon.

“Nangayo lang sab mi og pasaylo sa pari nga na-drag ang iyang pangalan sa maong hitabo kay di man gayod ni mahimo sa akong igsuon,” dason ni Jackielyn.

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Emosyon sa kabanay

Way kabutangan sa emosyon sa kabanay human ilang nasayran nga nakapangayo pa og panabang ang biktima samtang gidunggab kini sa makadaghang higayon sulod sa kuwarto sa ilang balay.

Sulti ni Jackielyn nga, “Nangayo pa og tabang nga, ‘Pang, tama na, gusto pa ko nga mabuhi.’”

Giingon sab ni Jackielyn nga di patas ang paghatod sa balita sa pipila ka mga media networks gumikan migula nga kabit sa pari ang iyang igsuon.

Gihangyo sa kabanay nga respetuhon unta sila ug di pasobrahan ang pag-report sa balita sa pipila ka mga media networks.

Kagahapon sa udto, nagkatag sa Facebook ang sunod-sunod nga mga hulagway sa biktima diin makita ang resulta sa brutal nga pagpatay.

Una niini, sa pakighinabi sa mga tigbalita, buot ni Jackielyn nga makita ang hulagway kung giunsa pagpatay ang iyang igsuon.

Sa kasamtangan, ang upat ka mga anak sa biktima nga nagpangedaron ug 14-anyos, 11-anyos, 6-anyos ug 4-anyos anaa karon sa pamilya sa biktima.

Ang suspek gipriso karon sa selda sa Toril Police Station diin giandam na ang kasong parricide nga ipasaka sa korte.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 24, 2016.

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Di tawhanon

Giingon ni Jackielyn nga di tawhanon ang gihimo ni Armando butang nga walay kabutangan sa ilang kasuko ug kinahanglan nga masilutan siya sa bilanggoan.

“Suko gayod mi kaayo kang Armando. Hinuon, wala mi masuko sa iyang pamilya, pero unta magtinabangay aron matambagan si Armando kay mosumbong gayod among igsuon nga ginakulata gayud siya,” sulti niya.

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Di magluib

Dako ang pagtuo sa pamilya sa babaye nga dili gayud mahimo ni Jacky Lou ang pagluib kang Armando tungod bisan sa pagpangarte di na niini mahimo gumikan sa kahadlok sa bana.

“Hatagan nako'g make-up ug lipstick di gani gamiton kay mahadlok, kay kana lagi mangulata si Armando. Mao nga di gayud to mahimo sa akong igsuon nga magluib,” saysay pa.

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40 ka samad

Brutal ang giingong pagpatay kang Jacky Lou, suma ni Jackielyn nga kamaguwangan nga igsuon sa biktima sa pakighinabi sa mga tigbalita, niadtong Lunes sa buntag, Agosto 22.

“Basta niabot siya og forty stabbed wounds, so brutal gayod siya. Gikan sa tiyan padung sa ulo, gani, ang iyang panga mora'g nawala na,” sulti ni Jackielyn.

Gisaysay sab sa kabanay nga subay sa otopsiya sa lawas sa biktima migula nga namatay ang biktima sa grabeng bun-og sa kalawasan ug pagka-hemorrhage gumikan sa mga samad sa ulo nga milapos utok, dughan nga milapos sa atay, tina-i ug kasing-kasing.

Giingon nga gunting nga singko sentimetro ang gitas-on ang gigamit sa suspek.


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Nag-uyab gikan hayskul

Sama sa usa ka sugilanon sa nobela ang panag-uyab nila Armado ug Jacky Lou sanglit gikan pa sa pagtungha nila sa hayskul miturok ang ilang duha ka pagbati.

“Hayskul pa sila nag-uyab hangtod college, sweet kaayo na sila. Gikasal hangtud nga nagkaanak sila og upat,” ingon ni Jackielyn kinsa nakahilak nga nagsaysay sa mga tigbalita.

Gidugang niini nga dunay higayon nga mismong ang iyang asawa pa ang misulti niya nga naa silay relasyon sa pari.

“Naay usahay, kung maglalis mi, moangkon gayud siya nga naa silay relasyon sa pari. Kaduha na niya gisulti sa akoa. Usahay moinit akong ulo ug moluom nalang ko,” sulti niya.

Gisaysay sab sa suspek nga tungod kay wala na niya naantos ang sitwasyon, nakahukom siya nga patyon nalang ang asawa.

Dugang sa suspek nga andam niyang pamatud-an nga wala siya makagamit og ilegal nga droga ug wala sab siya nagapanigarilyo.

Giingon niya nga dunay higayon nga ilang maistoryahan sa iyang asawa nga mobalhin nalang sa laing eskwelahan, apan di mosugot iyang asawa.

“Nahisgutan namo nga mobalhin siya, pero di gayod siya mobalhin og eskuwelahan,” sulti sa suspek, kinsa midugang nga giuli hinuon sa iyang asawa ang ilang singsing sa kasal panahon mag-away sila.

“Nag-Surigao na sila,” sulti ni Armando labot sa lakaw sa iyang asawa uban ang pari nga giingon nilang outing sa eskwelahan.

Suma sa suspek nga misamot ang iyang kasuko human iyang nasayran nga Sabado palang 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.

Gipatay kay makigbulag
Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


GIINGON nga bunga sa naghinobrang kasuko ang hinungdan sa pagpatay sa bana sa iyang maestra nga asawa nga buot makigbulag kaniya alas kwatro sa hapon niadtong Dominggo, Agosto 21.

Ang insidente nahitabo sa ilang balay sa Barangay Toril Proper, Toril District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Ang spot report sa Toril Police Station nagbutyag nga human nahitabo ang pagpatay, girumbo sa 32-anyos nga si Armando (bansagon gitago sa SuperBalita aron panalipdan ang dungog sa iyang mga anak) ang school director sa pribadong tunghaan nga iyang gidudahan nga karelasyon sa asawa.

Ang director gitawag nga pari sa ilang kongregasyon nga dunay tunghaan sa Barangay Baliok, Talomo District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Sa pakighinabi sa SunStar SuperBalita Davao sa suspek, gibutyag niya nga tulo na ka tuig siyang nasayod nga dunay relasyon ang pari ug iyang asawa nga si Jacky Lou.

“Three years na gikan karon nahibal-an nako nga ang akong asawa naay relasyon sa pari,” suma ni Armando.

“Naa mi digicam diin nakita nako didto ang mga pictures sa pari. Ang series man gud sa picture solo-solo lang, tapos naay sweet kaayo sila nga nagtapad,” saysay sa suspek.

Nagmahay

Si Mary Grace, dihang gihinabi sud sa selda, nagsulti nga nagmahay siya nga wa niya gibadlong ang bana.
"Ako gyud dawaton ang silot kay wala man gyud nako siya gipugngan," pahayag sa inahan.

Dihang gipangutana kung tinuod nga gibasa sa suspek ang bata og tubig aron ingnon nga nalumos, si Mary Grace nagsulti nga di kini tinuod.

"Nabasa lang siya sa singot kay gisulod man sa sako," depensa sa inahan.

Ang kamagulangan nga anak nagsulti sa pulis nga di molaban kanila ang iyang inahan tungod kay dako ang gugma sa iyang bana.

Itunol sa CSSDO

Ang kamagwangan nga anak ni Mary Grace uban ang mga ig-agaw nga saksi sa hitabo gitakdang itunol sa City Social Services and Development Office (CSSDO).

"Ang CSSDO na ang mag-assess kung asa sila ibutang," sulti sa opisyal sa Women and Children Protection Desk.

Ang opisyal nagkanayon nga sayo sa buntag ila nang gikuha ang testimonya sa mga bata aron maapil sa pagpasaka og kaso sa korte niadtong Huybes, Agosto 25.

Corporal punishment

Ang nahitabo sa biktima maoy usa sa dautang epekto sa corporal punishment nga paagi sa pagdisiplina nga mopasakit sa bata, sukwahi sa positive discipline nga giduso karon sa mga child rights advocates.

Suma sa 2011 study nga gihimo sa Pulse Asia, 67 porsiyento sa mga ginikanan migamit sa pisikal nga pagsilot sa mga bata, 83 porsiyento sa mga ginikanan nakasinati og pagpasakit sa ginikanan sa gamay pa silang bata, 41 porsiyento ang mosuporta sa balaod nga nagdili sa pagpasakit sa bata, samtang 21 porsyento ang undecided.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 26, 2016.

Inahan giapil sa kaso

Usa ka opisyal sa Women and Children's Protection Desk sa Talamo Police Station kinsa naghangyo nga di lang isuwat ang pangalan nagsulti nga kasong murder ang ilang ipasaka kang Sonny Boy samtang parricide sab sa inahan nga si Mary Jane
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Iyang gipasabot nga tungod di amahan ang suspek sa bata mao nga murder ang kaso nga atubangon sa korte.

"Nangutana lagi ang inahan nganong giapil siya sa kaso mao to nga among giingnan nga apil ka tungod kay wala ka nakabadlong sa imong live-in partner," sulti sa opisyal.

Giingon nga gibunalan ang bata dayon gisulod sa sako, ug dihang nasulod na ang biktima gilingkuran pa sa suspek.

"Kadaghan na ni nahitabo," sulti sa opisyal.

Nasayran nga nasuko ang suspek tungod kay nagpabadlong ang bata sa ilang land lady.

Kabanay wa nagdahum

Si Sai (naghangyo nga itago ang pangalan sa SuperBalita) nagsulti nga wa siya nagdahum nga mahimo kadto sa suspek.

"Hilumon man kaayo na siya kung naa mi sa ila," sulti ni Sai, bayaw ni Mary Jane, dihang nahinabi kagahapon.
Si Sai nagsulti nga nakurat siya dihang gipahibalo nga nalumos ang bata mao nga iyang giadto ang balay sa iyang bayaw.

"Giingon nila nga nalumos daw ang bata sa sapa mao nga nituo ra pod ko," suma ni Sai kinsa uwahi nang nahibalo nga gikulata ug gisud diay og sako ang bata.

Ang biktima, suma niya, ikaduha sa tulo ka mga anak sa iyang bayaw.

"Ang kamagulangan niya 7 years old, kining victim 3 years old, ug 1 year old ang kamanghuran nga maoy anak gyud nila Sonny Boy," suma ni Sai.

Ni ALGER P. DURA


USA ka tres-anyos nga batang lalaki ang namatay human gikulata ug gisulod sa sako sa iyang ama-ama (stepfather) alas kwatro sa hapon niadtong Miyerkules, Agosto 24.

Ang insidente nahitabo sa balay sa suspek sa Kilometro 8.5, Barangay Matina Pangi, dakbayan sa Davao.

Ang biktima si Kean Gabriel (bansagon gipatago sa pulis) kinsa patay nang miabot sa Southern Philippines Medical Center diin gidala sa suspek nga si Sonny Boy (bansagon gipatago sab sa pulis), 22, tricycle driver.

Base sa report sa Talomo Police Station, ang insidente nasaksihan nila Krizzha, syete-anyos, igsuon sa biktima, Sharmine, otso-anyos, ug Shiera Mae, 16-anyos, kinsa nagsulti nga ilang nakita nga gisud sa suspek ang biktima sa sako sa bugas humay.

Mga saksi midugang nga human nasud sa sako ang bata, gipatong sa mga upat ka tiil nga gitas-on nga butanganan og sinina sa kwarto.

Gipasagdan lang nga mahulog ang bata sa salog nga kawayan pila ka higayon hangtud nga nawad-an og panimuot.

Nasayran nga gidala sa suspek ang bata uban sa inahan nga si Mary Grace, 27-anyos, sa Barangay Health Center diin nila gipahibalo ang mga midwife nga nalumos ang bata mao nga gitabangan sila madala sa ospital.

Sanglit patay na ang bata, mibalik sila sa barangay dayon nangayo og tabang kang kapitan Carmelo Arena apan gipahibalo ni Kagawad Sanico ang kapitan sa tinuod nga nahitabo mao nga ilang gipugngan sila dayon gi-endosar sa Talomo police.

Muslim women carrying their children dressed up as Lord Krishna and Radha for a program on the eve of Krishna Janmashtami festival in Chennai. (Source: PTI)

A man dressed as Vasudev carries a child dressed as Lord Krishna, as he enacts a scene from Krishna's life during Janmashtami festival in Agra. (Source: PTI)

Fast forward 2016...


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   #1   Henry Sy   $13.7 B   91   SM Investments Corporation
   #2   John Gokongwei, Jr.   $6.8 B   90   diversified
   #3   Aboitiz family   $5 B   -   Aboitiz & Company
   #4   Lucio Tan   $4.9 B   82   diversified
   #5   George Ty   $4.6 B   83   banking
   #6   Tony Tan Caktiong   $4.3 B   63   fast food
   #7   Jaime Zobel de Ayala   $4.1 B   82   Diversified
   #8   Enrique Razon, Jr.   $3.5 B   56   ports
   #9   David Consunji   $3.1 B   94   construction
   #10   Andrew Tan   $3 B   64   diversified

   #11   Lucio and Susan Co   $2 B   61   retail
   #12   Manuel Villar   $1.8 B   66   Real estate
   #13   Robert Coyiuto, Jr.   $1.7 B   63   power
   #14   Inigo & Mercedes Zobel   $1.5 B   60   Diversified
   #15   Gotianun family   $1.3 B   -   real estate
   #16   Ramon Ang   $1.21 B   62   Diversified
   #17   Edgar Sia   $1.2 B   39   Fast food
   #18   Roberto Ongpin   $1.19 B   79   Diversified
   #19   Dean Lao   $1.15 B   57   chemicals
   #20   Eduardo Cojuangco   $1.14 B   81   Food & drinks

   #21   Yap family   $1.1 B   90   Banking
   #22   Ricardo Po family   $950 M   85   canned food
   #23   Oscar Lopez   $940 M   86   Media
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Sad no more!

Children participate in a fancy dress competition at a school ahead of Janmashtami celebration in Patna. (Source: PTI)

Children dressed as Lord Krishna and Radha for a function during Janmashtami celebration at a school in Ajmer, Rajasthan. (Source: PTI)

Seva Mandal education society of Mumbai conducted a Chor Handi where over 150 girl students were dressed as Lord Krishna. (Express photo by Pradip Das)

Children enact a drama on the life of Lord Krishna as they celebrate Janmashtami Festival at DAV Public School in New Delhi. (Source: PTI)

http://indianexpress.com/



The birthday of Lord Krishna, better known as Janmashtami is celebrated with great gusto across the country. Every year people gather together to recite the tale of Krishna - the eight avatar of Vishnu, sing songs in his praise and celebrate Dahi handi. At Mathura and Vrindavan, there are dramatic enactments of Raas Leela that portrays the flirtatious side of this Hindu God. On the eve of Janmashtami, we take a look at how the country is gearing up for its celebration.

Anadir wan, kiynayn dis taym por yu, Aylandil da pit labil...

Hmm, cursing being in the ear of the hearer?

Quote from: islander on August 22, 2016, 07:40:31 PM
By interring the dictator’s remains in the national cemetery for heroes, the first casualty will be the truth, or, more precisely, the historical truth: Marcos betrayed our people on a grand scale, and in the most cynical ways possible.

Truth in a democracy is sacred; it is the basic operating principle of our system of government. This is why truth is a core value at home and in school, church, and workplace. This is why it is a convention in our political and judicial proceedings to “tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” We live and die by the truth.

They noted that there are many pressures unique to this life phase including establishing a career, finding a life partner and navigating financial issues.

“It could be that age is associated with a reduction in risk factors for mental health,” said Darrell Worthy, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Texas A&M, who was not involved in the work. “Older adults may not have to deal with these stressors as much.”

The authors noted that the study does have some limitations.

Participants were contacted via landline, meaning the experiences of people who have only cellphones were not included in the results.

In addition, people were excluded from taking part in the survey if they had dementia, lived in a nursing home or had a terminal illness. That means the elderly participants were, on the whole, fairly healthy, which might influence their sense of well-being.

Finally, everyone involved in the survey lived in sunny San Diego. It is possible that aging in Michigan could be very different than aging in Southern California.

Still, Carstensen said the study had major implications, especially considering that within just a few years, more people on the planet will be over 60 than under 15.

“Policy leaders are saying, ‘How are we going to cope with all these old people?’ ” she said. “But a population who are in good mental health, emotionally stable, more grateful, and more likely to forgive are a pretty great resource for a society with so much strife and war.” (deborah.netburn@latimes.com)

Another possible explanation for the emotional benefits of aging could stem from the physiology of the brain, the authors said.

Brain-imaging studies show that older people are less responsive to stressful images than younger people.

When scientists showed older and younger adults pictures of a smiling baby â€" an image designed to make everyone happy â€" both groups exhibited increased activation in the part of the brain associated with emotion. However, while a disturbing image of a car accident evoked a lot of activity in the emotional region of the brain of young people, older people had a much more subdued response.

Arthur Stone, a psychologist and head of the USC Dornsife Center for Self-Report Science who was not involved in the study, said that while the various explanations for the aging paradox are intriguing, there is still still no definitive finding that can explain the phenomenon.

“There’s lots of speculation about why older people are happier and having better moods even when their cognitive and physical health is in decline, but we still don’t have anything that fully explains what is going on,” he said. “It’s a big puzzle, and an important puzzle.”

Another important finding of the study is that despite our culture’s obsession with youth, it turns out that the 20s and 30s are generally a very stressful time for many young adults who are plagued by anxiety and depression.

“This ‘fountain of youth’ is associated with a far worse level of psychological well-being than during any other period of adulthood,” the authors said.

In her own work, she has found evidence that people’s goals and reasoning change as they come to appreciate their mortality and recognize that their time on Earth is finite.

“When people face endings they tend to shift from goals about exploration and expanding horizons to ones about savoring relationships and focusing on meaningful activities,” she said. “When you focus on emotionally meaningful goals, life gets better, you feel better, and the negative emotions become less frequent and more fleeting when they occur.”

The authors of the new work also suggest that improved mental health in old age could be due to the wisdom people acquire as they grow older.

Jeste defines wisdom as a mutli-component personality trait that includes empathy, compassion, self-knowledge, openness to new ideas, decisiveness, emotional regulation and doing things for others rather than for yourself.

“As we get older, we make better social decisions because we are more experienced, and that’s where wisdom comes into play,” he said.

There were no dips in well-being in midlife, and no tapering off of well-being at the end of life.

Instead scientists found a clear, linear relationship between age and mental health: The older people were, the happier they felt.

“The consistency was really striking,” said Dilip Jeste, director of the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging and senior author of the study. “People who were in older life were happier, more satisfied, less depressed, had less anxiety and less perceived stress than younger respondents.”

The results were published Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Experts on the psychology of aging say the new findings add to a growing body of research that suggests there are emotional benefits to getting older.

“In the literature it’s called the paradox of aging,” said Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, who was not involved in the work. “How can it be that given the many well-documented losses that occur with age, we also see this improvement in emotional well-being?”

As it happens, Carstensen does not think this is a paradox at all.

by Deborah Netburn
http://www.latimes.com/





Believe it or not, there are upsides to getting older.

Yes, your physical health is likely to decline as you age. And unfortunately, your cognitive abilities like learning new skills and remembering things is likely to suffer too.

But despite such downsides, research suggests that your overall mental health, including your mood, your sense of well-being and your ability to handle stress, just keeps improving right up until the very end of life.

Consider it something to look forward to.

In a recent survey of more than 1,500 San Diego residents aged 21 to 99, researchers report that people in their 20s were the most stressed out and depressed, while those in their 90s were the most content.

INQUIRER.net
09:36 AM August 21st, 2016
 

President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday fired all presidential appointees in government by declaring their posts vacant.

Citing continuing corruption in government “especially in the regulatory agencies,” Duterte told the appointees: “Consider your positions vacant as of this hour.” He spoke at about 2 a.m. during a press conference.

The President noted that corruption was giving “headaches to  fellow human beings.”

He stressed that his order included “all” presidential appointees. “It will number in the thousands” all over the country’s bureaucracy.

It was unclear if the order included positions of those he recently appointed and swore into office in Malacañang.

“Until now, in my provincial visits, I still hear corruption being committed,” the Chief Executive said.

He singled out the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Land Transportation Organization (LTO).

The President ordered the current head of the LTFRB, lawyer Martin Delgra, to report to him in Malacañang.

Duterte also pointed to the head of the LTO and all presidential appointees in the agency.

He clarified that career officials and employees were not included in the order. CBB/rga

Amanda Calvo
August 22, 2016


Germany is planning to urge its citizens to stockpile food, water and other supplies in the event of a catastrophe or armed attack.

According to a report by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, the move would be the first of its kind since the end of the Cold War.

The proposal is reportedly contained in a government civil-defense-strategy document, which says that people should stock 10 days worth of food and a sufficient supply of water, energy, money and medicine that would allow them to stay put long enough for the government to respond.

The mood in Germany has been unsettled recently following a number of horrific incidents. In the latest violence, on July 24, a Syrian suicide bomber injured 15 people at a music festival in the central German town of Ansbach. The same day, a Syrian refugee killed a woman and injured two others with a machete in Reutlingen. Just days previous, an ISIS-inspired attacker was shot dead after stabbing several people on a train in the south of the country.

The huge influx of refugees â€" Germany accepted more than a million last year â€" has sparked fears among many Germans that terrorists have entered the country under the guise of seeking asylum.

Further details about Germany’s civil-defense strategy will be released on Wednesday, DW says, adding that its release comes amid “a raft of new security measures in the country.” [DW]

Ni Jojo C. Ugdol (Banat) | Updated August 23, 2016 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Namatay ang usa ka 36 anyos nga lalaki nga gireklamong nanghinol og dughan ug misuway og bitad sa usa ka dalaga ngadto sa ngitngit dihang naunay kini sa iyang armas diha sa Sitio Taytayan, Brgy. Buhisan ning Dakbayan sa Sugbo pasado alas 7 sa nakalabay nga gabii.

Ang namatay giila nga si Benjamin Olipe, alyas Benjie, nagpuyo sa maong dapit kinsa nakaangkon og samad pinusilan sa iyang dughan nga gituohang naunay sa iyang armas.

Giimbestigar karon ang usa ka barangay tanod sa maong barangay nga si Norman Canencia, 54, nga giingong nakiglayog sa suspek atol unta sa pag-imbitar kaniya sa barangay hall.

Matud pa ni Police Officer 3 Winston Ybañez, imbestigador sa Homicide Section sa Cebu City Police Office nga nahinabi sa Banat News nga usa ka babaye ang nagpatabang sa barangay hall  ug mipasangil nga gihikap ang dughan ug gibunlot kini sa suspetsado paingon sa ngitngit.

Si Canencia giingong nag-duty niadtong orasa miresponde kuyog sa babaye ug giadto ang balay sa suspetsado.

Apan sumala pa ni Ybañez nga sa dihang gi-imbitar ang suspetsado nga pakuyogon ngadto sa barangay hall nasuko kini ug nanukmag.

Atol sa ilang komosyon giingong mibunot og armas ang suspetsado apan nakig-ilogay niini si Canencia ug tungatunga sa komosyon nibuto ang armas ug nahagba sa yuta ang suspetsado nga nakaangkon og samad sa dughan.

Human sa hitabo mitahan ang barangay tanod ngadto sa ilang barangay hall bitbit ang usa ka .357 revolver.

Si Ybañez miingon nga basi sa pamahayag sa inahan sa suspetsado miangkon kini nga tiggamitan og marijuana ang iyang anak.

Nasayran usab sa kapulisan nga ang suspetsado naapil sa listahan sa barangay sa mga nalambigit sa ilegal nga drugas.  (BANAT NEWS)

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


GIPATAY ang usa ka asawa nga maestra sa iyang kaugalingong bana human nasayran nga adunay giingong tago nga relasyon sa school director sa pribadong tunghaan nga iyang gitudloan.

Ang pagpatay nahitabo alas kwatro sa hapon niadtong Dominggo, Agosto 21, didto sa ilang balay sa Gentiles Compound, Barangay Toril Poblacion, dakbayan sa Davao.

Nailhan ang biktima nga si Jacky Lou (bansagon gitago tungod sa hangyo sa kabanay), magtutudlo sa usa ka tunghaan sa Barangay Baliok, Talomo District ning siyudad.

Si Jacky Lou adunay upat ka gagmay nga mga anak.

Sa inisyal nga imbestigasyon ni Senior Police Officer 2 Leo Romero, Arson and Homicide Section investigator sa Toril Police Station, nasayran nga misulong ang suspek nga si Armando, sa tunghaan nga gitudloan sa iyang asawa nga natunong nga dunay nagpadayon nga programa nga Family Day ang tunghaan.

Subay sa report sa kapulisan, kalit gikompronta sa suspek ang school director sa tunghaan gumikan sa pagtuong dunay tago nga relasyon sa iyang asawa.

Ang school director gitawag nga pari sa iyang kongregasyon.

Tungod sa maong hitabo, nakurat ang mga ginikanan nga mitambong sa Family Day.

Una niini, nadunggan sa mga silingan nga nangayo pa og panabang ang biktima human sa panaglalis ug taud-taod napalgan nalang sa mga silingan nga patay na ang biktima.

Nakuha sa nahitaboan ang kutsilyo nga nabulit og dugo nga maoy gigamit sa pagdunggab sa makadaghang higayon.

Hinuon daling nasikop ang suspek sa kapulisan ug Task Force Davao human misulong sa tunghaan ang suspek.

Ang suspek gibalhog karon sa selda sa kapulisan samtang ang biktima gihaya sa Angel Funeral Parlor sa Toril.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 23, 2016.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 21, 2016, 10:08:49 PM
President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations...

If the Philippines breaks off from the UN â€" which Duterte called "inutile" and "stupid" â€" he said he would invite other countries like China and African nations to form a new international body. The UN, he said, should return Manila's financial contributions.

Baya pood...

Confronted with projections of global power shifts, American triumphalists tend to put their hopes either in Chinese stagnation or collapse, or else in a miraculous rejuvenation of American wealth and power. But projections like the ones I have cited assume slower Chinese growth going forward.

Nor is there much the United States can do to boost its share of global GDP. The U.S. fertility rate is below replacement, and yet even admitting enough immigrants to maintain population stability may be difficult, given the public backlash against mass immigration. Because of low labor-force growth, American GDP growth will be slower than in the past and determined largely by the pace of productivity growth. American hawks who propose cuts in entitlements for the elderly to fund higher defense spending are living in a dream world. In a budgetary showdown between American retirees and the Pentagon, the Pentagon will lose.

The overall picture is clear, even though details may turn out to be wrong. By the middle of this century, most of the world’s industry and military potential are likely to be concentrated in four places: China, India, Europe and the United States. In the emerging polycentric world, no single superpower like the late-twentieth-century United States will exist to provide global security and to promote a single set of economic rules. A multipolar world is likely to be a more fragmented world of regional spheres of influence and shifting security alliances reinforced by strategic trade and investment deals. Even if new cold wars are averted, the peace among major countries is likely to be not warm friendship, but a wary cold peace.

The United States will continue to be one of the Big Three or Four economic powers, and one of the Big Two or Three military powers, as far as the eye can see. But it will have to adjust to the loss of its status as the world’s largest economy and the world’s only superpower. Robert Kagan has written that superpowers can’t retire. But they can be forced to share the stage.


Michael Lind is a fellow at New America, a contributing editor of the National Interest, and author of The American Way of Strategy.

The world’s second-largest economy, which the United States already is when measured by purchasing power parity and will soon be when measured by market exchange rates, simply cannot function as a market of first resort for export-oriented countries, in the way that an older United States enabled the development of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Most of the growth of the global middle class in the future will take place in China, India and other parts of the non-Western world.

At the moment, the United States is determined to remain the military hegemon in four regions: East Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. But as China grows in wealth and power, the U.S. attempt to thwart its regional hegemony in East Asia may prove to be as doomed as would have been a British attempt to contain the United States in North America after 1900. If China and India successfully assert their own spheres of influence, after the model of America’s Monroe Doctrine, the United States may have no choice but to retreat from globalism.

In theory, the United States could augment its strength by maintaining the transatlantic alliance. Europeans might welcome U.S. aid in protecting them from dangers from the Middle East and North Africa. But they would be unlikely to join the United States as allies in a Sino-American Cold War. A defensive, neutralist Europe, a sort of giant Switzerland, with a foreign policy toward the Chinese, Indian and American titans dominated by commercial considerations, is a possible, perhaps a likely, outcome.

The standard of living in the United States will probably be higher than those in China and India for the rest of the century, if not beyond. But this is cold comfort. Even if only a fraction of the population of China or India enjoys American living standards, that elite minority could number in the hundreds of millions. And claims that America’s exceptionally innovative culture will ensure a continued technological lead is at odds with the insistence of Silicon Valley that the United States cannot continue to innovate without a constant stream of students and skilled workers who are the products of primary education in China and India, among other nations. At any rate, innovation as an element of geopolitical power is overrated. In many areas the United States was less innovative than Germany during the world wars, but prevailed nonetheless thanks to sheer demographic and industrial mass.

What about primacy as hegemony? During the Cold War, the United States acted as the hegemon of the American-led “Free World” alliance. To its allies and clients it acted as a military protector, a market for exports and provided the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Following the Cold War, optimistic policymakers of both parties hoped that America’s alliance hegemony could be translated into enduring American global hegemony. In the emerging multipolar world dominated by continent-states like China, India and the United States, along with various medium-sized powers, no nation will be able to play the role of a military, financial or commercial hegemon.

It may take time for a new system to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency. But America’s two other hegemonic functions are already under severe strain.

For the first time since it surpassed the British Empire in the early 1900s, the United States faces a rival that, though poorer in per capita terms and still inferior in many ways, has an economy equal in scale to its own. This is a new development. America’s earlier challengers, Germany and the Soviet Union, were nowhere near the United States in their size and resources. Other nations, like Japan, were even less able to challenge U.S. economic and potential military primacy (which began with World War I), or U.S. international institutional hegemony (which began during and continued after World War II).

John Maynard Keynes observed: “The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen.” The increasing frustrations in U.S. foreign policy have less to do with the failures of American leaders than with deep, long-term trends that are diffusing both wealth and power away from both the United States and Europe.

In particular, the rise of China is the indirect cause, or enabling factor, of many of America’s setbacks. China’s backing helped Russia oppose the United States and its European allies during the crisis over Ukraine. China’s assertion of its power in East Asia has inspired the United States to tighten its links with allies like Japan, while proposing a Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that, by excluding China, looked very much like part of a frantic policy of anti-Chinese containment. To the distress of policymakers in Washington, Brazil, India, South Africa and other countries have joined China to lay the foundations for new international institutions that the United States would not be able to dominate. Adding insult to injury, America’s own allies, Britain, Germany and France, disobeyed Washington’s request and joined the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The “Brexit” vote in the UK, together with the growth of nationalism and populism in Europe, has doomed the elite project of creating a federal Europe that can act as a superpower in world politics. Europe will be a rich but fragmented trading bloc surrounded by colossal continental powers, the United States, China and perhaps India.

Tomorrow’s world will be multipolar, not simply bipolar or tripolar. The rise of China and India to great-power status will allow regional powers, from Turkey to Vietnam and Brazil, to play the continent-states against one another and pursue their own independent interests.

The period between 1914 and 2014 can accurately be described as “the American century.” At some point during World War I, the gross domestic product of the United States passed that of the British Empire as a whole. Around a century later in 2014, according to the IMF, the GDP of China passed that of the United States.

After a hundred years in which it typically enjoyed a huge advantage in wealth and power over the next nearest competitors, with China the United States may finally have met a true “peer competitor.” Although per capita income in China is still much lower than in the United States, China is not only the world’s largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), but also the world’s largest manufacturing nationâ€"producing 52 percent of color televisions, 75 percent of mobile phones and 87 percent of the world’s personal computers. The Chinese automobile industry is the world’s largest, twice the size of America’s. China leads the world in foreign exchange reserves. The United States is the main trading partner for seventy-six countries. China is the main trading partner for 124. With growing wealth comes growing power. China is now second only to the United States in its defense spending.

http://nationalinterest.org/
Michael Lind
August 21, 2016


The United States is in long-term relative decline. In absolute terms, the America of the future will be richer. But because other countries like China and India, and other regions like Africa, are growing more rapidly, America’s share of global wealth will decline. So will America’s share of global military power, which, in the industrial era, is loosely rather than perfectly correlated with relative economic weight.

Primacy, as a concept in international relations, can refer either to polarity (a country’s share of global economic and military resources) or to hegemony (a specialized function within an interdependent international community). Whether defined as polarity or hegemony, American global primacy is coming to an end.

Projections of national shares in GDP in 2050 by think tanks, investment banks and consulting firms tend to converge at the prediction that the world will have three economic poles or coresâ€"China, the United States and Europeâ€"or perhaps four, if India enjoys rapid and sustainable growth. “The World in 2050,” a report by PwC, assigns 20 percent of global GDP (in purchasing power parity) to China, 14 percent to the United States and India, and a mere 12 percent to Europe as a whole in 2050. A 2015 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit paints a similar picture, concluding: “By 2030 the top three economies of the world will be the US, China and India. Such will be the growth of the two latter countries, in particular, that by 2050 they will each be richer than the next five (Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and the UK) put together. This will represent a scale of wealth relative to the rest of the top ten that is unique in recorded history.” Indeed, to use PwC’s numbers, China, the United States, India and Europe together would account for around 60 percent of global GDP. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will explode in the next few generations, but its successful development, if it occurs, will take a long time.

Ni JOHN PAUL V. PEPITO


USA ka 50 anyos nga lalake ang gigulgulan sa iyang ulo-patay human makabikil niini ang iyang kaila sa Sitio Looc, Barangay Maribago, dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu ka­gahapon sa kaadlawon.

Ang biktima mao si Raymundo Garbo, 50, tighimulbol og patay nga manok sa sabungan, ug nanimuyo sa dapit sud pa sa tulo ka buwan.

Matod ni PO2 Joseph Cutanda, imbestigador sa Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LLCPO) nga si Garbo giputla’g ulo sa kaila niining mag-uyuan nga sila si Roldan Pangatungan, 36, pag-umangkon ni Leonilo Pangatuhan, 50.

Ang hitabo nakapalisang mismo sa mga residente sa dapit mga alas 6:30 sa buntag human nakit-an niini ang nagbuy-od nga lawas ni Garbo, kinsa naka-maong nga shorts apan wa nay t-shirt ug wa na sab iyang ulo.

Mga alas 10:40 sa bun­tag, usa pa nakit-an ang ulo sa biktima nga naa sa usa ka septic tank, mga 150 metros gikan sa iyang lawas.

Gihulagway sa mga taga Homicide Section nga may dinuslakan ang usa ka mata ni Garbo sa pagkarekober sa ulo niini.

Base sa pakisusi sa Superba­lita Cebu, ubos sa impluwensya sa ilimnong makahubog ang mga suspek.

Mismong si Roldan ang miangkon sa kapulisan nga siyay niunay og luglog sa liog sa biktima hangtod nga kini naputol samtang gihimakak ni Leonilo nga nitabang siya og gulgol.

Matod pa nga pag-uli sa mag-uyuan gikan sa diskuhan sa Sitio Jagna sa samang barangay, niagi sila sa balay ni Garbo.

Giingong kalit nga gidukol ni Raymundo si Roldan hinungdan sa ilang panaglalis nga niresulta sa komosyon diin miapil og kulata si Leonilo sa biktima.

Sumala pa ni Cutanda nga nisud si Roldan sa barongbarong ni Garbo ug nikuha og kutsilyo nga maoy gigamit niini sa krimen.

Nailhan sila si Roldan ug Leonilo nga may kalambigitan sa krimen tungod kay adunay sili­ngan si Leonilo nga nakakita niini nga nisud sa balay nianang pagkakaadlawon nga igo nalang nag-brip.

Nasuta usab sa Superbalita Cebu nga na-trace sa kapulisan ang nawala nga shorts ni Leonilo sa balay sa iyang si­lingan nga si Flora Paquibot, kinsa gikawatan sa maong suspek og tsinelas nga narekober ra sab sa balay ni Leonilo.

Nunot sa kabag-o pa sa lugar sa biktima, pabiling wa nahibawo ang mga silingan niini kon diin kini lumad nga lugar.

Adunay niingon nga gikan kini sa Davao, Mandaue ug Consolacion.

May mga tabitabi usab ang mga silingan sa biktima nga may napatay na kini niadto.

Ang mga suspek kasamtangang gibalhug sa prisuhan ug gikatakdang pasakaan og murder, dugang ni Cutanda.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cebu Agosto 22, 2016.

(Associated Press) | Updated August 21, 2016 - 6:03pm


DAVAO, Philippines â€" President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations and lashed out at US police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead.

Duterte pointed to the haunting image of a bloodied child being pulled from the rubble of a missile-struck building in the Syrian city of Aleppo to note the inability of the US and the UN to stop such deadly conflicts, complaining that he comes under fire for the killings of criminals.

The US State Department and two UN human rights experts have urged Duterte and Filipino authorities to stop extrajudicial killings in the fight against illegal drugs and ensure law enforcement compliance with international human rights obligations. The Philippine National Police (PNP) said more than 500 drug suspects have been killed in gunbattles with police since Duterte was sworn into office eight weeks ago.

Agnes Callamard, the new UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, suggested that Philippine officials could be held liable, saying in a recent statement that "claims to fight illicit drug trade do not absolve the government from its international legal obligations and do not shield state actors or others from responsibility for illegal killings."

Criticisms against his drug war, a problem that he says has become a pandemic, provoked an angry outburst from Duterte, who held a news conference after midnight Sunday that dragged on for more than two hours.

"Maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you're that rude, son of a bitch, we'll just leave you," Duterte told reporters in Davao, where he first built a reputation for his tough crime-busting style while serving as the city's longtime mayor.

Duterte also belittled UN work in the Philippines without providing facts, raising questions, for example, about the performance of the world body's agency that fights hunger.

If the Philippines breaks off from the UN â€" which Duterte called "inutile" and "stupid" â€" he said he would invite other countries like China and African nations to form a new international body. The UN, he said, should return Manila's financial contributions.

"Look at the iconic boy that was taken out from the rubble and he was made to sit in the ambulance and we saw it," Duterte said, referring to the photo of a 5-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, that has gone viral online.

"Why is it that United States is not doing anything? I do not read you," Duterte said. "Anybody in that stupid body complaining about the stench there of death?"

When asked about the possible repercussions of his remarks, Duterte replied: "I don't give a s*** about them. They are the ones interfering."

Duterte wondered whether UN officials were threatening to put him in prison and repeated that he was ready to sacrifice his life and presidency for his country.

Reacting to US criticisms, Duterte cited the string of shootings involving police and black men that have sparked protests in the US

"Why are you Americans killing the black people there, shooting them down when they are already on the ground?" he asked. "Answer that question, because even if it's just one or two or three, it is still human rights violations."

Duterte's drug crackdown has left more than 500 suspected dealers dead and more than 4,400 arrested since he took office on June 30. Nearly 600,000 people have surrendered to authorities, hoping to avoid getting killed. The arrests have further overwhelmed the country's overcrowded jails.

Ni ORLANDO B. DINOY


MALITA, Davao Occidental -- Usa ka 17-anyos ang gilugos sa duha ka mga suspek atubangan sa binuhing baka didto sa Barangay Bito sa maong lungod.

Ang biktima gitago sa pangalan nga Nene, kinsa gitabangan og lugos sa mga suspek nga sila Pedro, 47, ulitawo, ug Arman, 47.

Si Pedro nasikop niadtong Agosto 17, samtang ang Arman nasikop niadtong Sabado.

Gibutyag ni Police Superintendent Cesario Dukiling, hepe sa Malita Police Station, nga gisikop ang mga suspek pinaagi sa warrant of arrest gikan ni Regional Trial Court Presiding Judge Carfelita Cadiente-Flores niadtong Hulyo 27.

Ang duha maoy gitudlong naglugos sa biktima niadtong buwan sa Hulyo.

Sulti ni Dukiling nga silingan sa mga suspek ang biktima nga ilang giatangan samtang nanugway sa binuhing baka.

Human nakakita og higayon ang mga suspek, giguyod nila ang menor sa kasagbutan nga bahin sa lugar diin gipuli-pulihan og lugos atubangan sa baka.

Positibong giila sa biktima ang mga suspek, hinungdan nga gidemanda sila sa korte.

Walay girekomendang piyansa ang korte, hinungdan nga di sila makagawas sa prisohan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 22, 2016.

Kana kon moabot og kagol-its, kay kon magpermi hayan nga mabugha...

Germany Enters Europe's Burka Debate
LENA MASRI,ABC News
Fri, Aug 19 6:18 PM PDT


Germany’s interior minister is one of the latest European politicians to get involved in the debate about the burka, a garment worn by a tiny minority of Muslim women in Europe.

Thomas de Maiziere, Germany’s federal interior minister, has proposed a partial ban of the burka and niqab in the country. His proposal follows a series of recent terrorist attacks targeting the country, two of which have been claimed by the Islamic State.

"We're against people wearing the full veil in Germany - it has no place in our country and it doesn't comply with our understanding of the role of women," de Maiziere told journalists yesterday before discussing security issues in the wake of the recent attacks, according to Reuters.

Since 2012, Germany has also been the primary destination for asylum seekers in Europe, receiving 442,000 asylum applications in 2015 alone, according to a Pew Research Center report published earlier this month. Many of the country’s refugees are Muslim and come from Syria.

Today, interior ministers from Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats party and the Christian Social Union party agreed that women should be banned from wearing the face veil in schools and universities and while driving.

Germany’s Central Council of Muslims, known as the ZMD in Germany, said that the current debate over the burka is a distraction from the real problems that Germany is facing.

"For 10 years, the ZMD has called for a headscarf-culture with uncovered faces in schools and public institutions, but the current burka debate is a distraction from the real problems in our country and, moreover, incompatible with the constitution," the ZMD said in a statement.

The German proposal comes as Cannes and other coastal towns in France have banned the so-called “burkini” â€" a swimsuit that resembles the burka and is worn by a small number of Muslim women on French beaches. The ban was supported by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who said that the swimsuits are not compatible with French values and are based on the "enslavement of women."

Other French politicians disagreed. In a column for the Huffington Post, Nathalie Goulet, a member of the French Senate, wrote that part of French society is blaming “foreigners, or the Muslims, for all their problems.”

“Islam has become a tool to gain applause at meetings and likes on social media,” she wrote. “To have a rational discussion about Islam in today’s world seems impossible. People don’t want to hear it. The burkini debate is the latest piece of evidence; public debate is reduced to a rudimentary level, and shortcuts and generalizations work to spread confusion and stir hate.”

Hmm, Aylandil kaayo...

Maaldito ning mga Maoriha ni. Ila ning response ani ng pic:

- Assimilation v multiculturalism -

Sara Silvestri, who specialises in religion and politics at City University London, said France's approach to integration was one of assimilation, whereas Britain had encouraged multiculturalism.

Neither country could claim success, she said.

"Both models of integration are in crisis: they are no longer applied or understood in a clear-cut manner, and both countries are looking at each other to learn lessons and potentially modify the way in which they deal with minorities," she told AFP.

Patrick Simon, an international migration and minorities expert at the French Institute for Demographic Studies, said the burkini debate was driving the impression that minorities, rather than the structure of French society, were the problem.

"There is a difficulty in the French integration model in accepting cultural and religious practices in the public domain," he told AFP.

Recent terror attacks bolstered the notion that diversity could threaten national cohesion, he said.

"The state discourse has gone from one of tolerance to one of exclusion regarding one section of society."

In the United States, the ban was being seen as illogical -- imposing rules to stop women having to obey rules.

The ban is about more than religion or clothing, Amanda Taub wrote in The New York Times newspaper.

It is about "protecting France's non-Muslim majority from having to confront a changing world".

The burkini was invented about a decade ago by Australian designer Aheda Zanetti, who spotted a gap in the market for Islamic sportswear.

Zanetti told AFP she was frustrated that the word now had negative connotations.

French politicians "symbolise it as an Islamic term in a bad way when it's really just a word," she said.

Such views are widely contested in Britain, both on the grounds of tolerance and practicality.

Britain's best-known example of burkini-wearing was not by a Muslim but by TV chef Nigella Lawson, who hit the headlines in 2011 when she wore a black version of it on Bondi Beach in Sydney.

- 'Wetsuit demonisation' -

A BBC look at the issue found women in Britain speaking in favour of the burkini and saying it aided integration.

"The burkini allows me the freedom to swim and go on the beach, and I don't feel I am compromising my beliefs for that," Aysha Ziauddin told the broadcaster.

Maryam Ouiles said: "It's outrageous that you would effectively be asked to uncover some flesh or leave.

"People are always complaining that Muslims should integrate more, but when we join you for a swim that's not right either."

Commentator David Aaronovitch, writing in The Times newspaper, said only "warped minds" would impose a burkini ban.

"The idea that full-length clothing provokes attacks on the wearer, as the French suggest, displays a poisonous logic," he said.

No problems are solved by this "French absurdity", only new ones created, he wrote.

Remona Aly, the communications director for the Exploring Islam Foundation, produced a list of "five reasons to wear a burkini -- and not just to annoy the French".

"Nothing says 'losing the plot' to me more than demonising what is, let's face it, a wetsuit," she wrote in The Guardian newspaper.

"Is full-piece swimwear really more offensive than seeing a middle-aged bum crack?"

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London (AFP) - The ban on the Islamic burkini swimsuit on some French beaches has triggered disdain in English-speaking countries, where outlawing religion-oriented clothing is seen as hampering integration.

Newspaper commentators have condemned the ban as an absurdity, and one questioned how a burkini could be more offensive than "middle-aged bum crack" bursting out from traditional Western beachwear.

And experts said the debate raised questions about the French one-size-fits-all model of integration.

In Britain, the full-face veil is not an uncommon sight in towns and city districts with big Muslim populations, but ostensibly does not stir as strong a reaction as in France.

One of the world's most secular countries, France strongly separates religion and public life.

Defenders of the policy say a common arena without religious connotations helps avoid sectarian conflicts and encourages equality.

As a result, the burkini -- like the burqa before it -- has come under fire in France. Some deem it a garment that channels radical Islam and oppresses women.

"It is the expression of a political project, a counter-society, based notably on the enslavement of women," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said of the burkini Wednesday.

Si Madame Islander kay laysho man, kini maoy iyang snack item:

OK and cockroach milk alang sa nagkinahanglan og supplement. Kami ni Bay Bugsay, inom lang mig bahal unya kini ang sumsoan:

Cockroach Milk Could Be The Next Green Health Food Craze
ANDREW FOLLETT
Energy and Environmental Reporter
9:58 AM 08/08/2016
   

Cockroach milk could be next green health food craze after scientists developed a method to make it into a protein supplement.

Scientists found that female Pacific beetle cockroaches feed their young a liquid crystal milk, which is extremely nutritious. This particular species of cockroach is native to Hawaii.

“The crystals are like a complete food â€" they have proteins, fats and sugars,” Dr. Sanchari Banerjee, the leading author of the study, told The Sun Star Monday. “Cockroaches are infamous for their ability to thrive in any condition surviving without food for a month, therefore it makes sense that they could produce a formula as protein-rich as this.”

Cockroach milk could offer an environmentalist alternative to cow milk. Cows emit enormous quantities of greenhouse gases and have other environmental impacts. Up to 37 percent of the world’s methane emissions are directly related to cattle. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has stated that cattle have a greater environmental impact than cars and trucks.

The scientists determined that cockroach milk is one of the most nutritious substances in the world; it’s three times richer in calories than buffalo milk. A taste test of the milk revealed that it had essentially no flavor.

“I discovered that these little embryos at a certain development were able to drink,” Dr. Barbara Stay, a professor emerita at the University of Iowa who was involved in the research, told National Public Radio Saturday. “What they were drinking was a liquid substance.”

Stay and other researchers discovered a method to “milk the cockroach,” by “[substituting] a filter paper in the brood sac for the embryos and you leave it there…you take it out and you get the milk.”

Researchers have even found a way to replicate the milk formulas in the lab in order to create protein supplements with the same properties as cockroach milk. The scientists plan to reproduce the milky substance using yeast. -- http://dailycaller.com/

Agoi, di ba kaha ma-salvage ning tawhana...

Ni DOMILYN R. PICO


NAGTUBOD-TUBOD ang luha sa usa ka 26-anyos nga ginang dihang gisumbag, gisipa, giparok ug giguyod sa iyang mister alas 11 sa buntag Lunes, Agosto 08, sa Purok Mansanitas, Magugpo East, dakbayan sa Tagum.

"Wa lang ko mituman sa iyang sugo nga mopalit og kape, nasuko na siya," saysay ni Nena (tinuod nga ngalan gitago), inahan sa duha ka mga anak.

Gireklamo nini ang bana nga si Tonyo, hamtong, tindero.

Suma pa, mibalibad ang ginang nga motuman sa sugo sa bana tungod nagsakit iyang ulo.

Sa kasuko sa bana, gisipa siya sa tiil, gisumbag sa dughan, giguyod sa hagdanan, gibira ang buhok ug giparok sa bungbong sa ilang balay.

Nagkurog-kurog pa ang ginang nga miabot sa istasyon sa pulis nga nakamalong ug nagkugos sa anak nga babaye.

Desidido kini nga ipapriso ang bana nga giila niini nga isog apan nagpanuko siya dihang gidasig nga mopasaka og kaso batok sa bana ngadto sa korte sanglit wa nay mobuhi sa iyang pamilya.

Atol sa pagsulat ning balita, padung na ang kapolisan sa bana sa biktima aron temporaryo nga i-kustodiya sa mga pulis.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Agosto 09, 2016.

The Senate's work is done...

Hmm, sounds like a second marriage as per Dr. Johnson:

Ni Jojo C. Ugdol ug Romeo T. Limpangog (Banat) | Updated August 8, 2016 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Dead on the spot ang maglive-in partner nga gipamusil samtang nangatulog sa Brgy. San Isidro sa lungsod sa Asturias pasado alas 6 sa nakalabayng buntag.

Ang mga biktima giila nga silang Randy Banate ug Jonna Mariz Laguna.

Sa imbestigasyon sa Asturias Police nga gipangulohan ni SPO2 Floriano Olarte nasayran nga ang duha anaa na sa ilang drug watchlist.

Basi sa pamahayag sa manghod sa usa sa mga biktima nga samtang nangatulog iyang nabantayan nga adunay misulod sa ilang balay.

Gumikan sa kahadlok mitago kini sa iyang habol ug iya na lang nadungog ang sunod-sunod nga buto sa armas.Human mibiya ang mamumuno iya nang nakita nga nagkadugo ang duha ug wala nay kinabuhi. Wala na usab niya makit-i ang nawong sa kriminal.

Parehong nakaangkon og samad pinusilan sa ilang ulo ang mga biktima.

Hmm, hinaot unta nga wala ani nilay mahitumpawak sa bung-aw sa kaulag...

Ni Rowena D. Capistrano (Banat) | Updated August 8, 2016 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Subay sa ika-150 ka tuig nga anibersaryo sukad nahimong parokya ang simbahan ni Santo Tomas De Villanueva sa Barangay Pardo dakbayan sa Sugbo, usa ka deakono ang gi-ordinahan isip bag-ong pari niadtong Sabado. Samtang laing 12 ka mga deakono ang ordinahan usab pagkapari ugmang adlawa sa Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral.

Nakadawat sa iyang ordination niadtong Sabado si Fr. Arnel Autida nga gihimo sa Santo Tomas De Villanueva Parish, nahisubay kini sa usa ka tuig nga kalihukan sa simbahan, samtang nagsaulog sa ilang ika-150 ka tuig diin anaa gyud ang 7 ka sakramento nga naglakip sa sakramento sa pagkapari.

Matud ni Archbishop Jose Palma nga maoy nangulo sa Santos nga Misa ug inubanan sa gatosan ka mga pari ug layko nga usa ka dakong grasya ang pagkatukod sa simbahan nga giisip na nga cultural heritage. Bulahan usab ang maong parokya kay nahimo nga kura paruko si Bishop Teofilo Camomot.

Sumala pa ni Palma, ang ordination usa ka grasya kay bisan sa daghang hagit ug pagsuway, usa kini ka maayong gasa nga gihatag sa Ginoo.

Gani si Padre Autida mapasalamaton sa tanang tawo nga niuban kaniya sa iyang panaw hangtod nga nahimo siyang pari, diin bisan og sayo siya nga gibawian sa iyang mga ginikanan, aduna gihapoy mga tawo nga nisapnay kaniya hangtod sa iyang kalampusan.

Mapasalamaton ang arsobispo kay sa ubang diocese gamay lang ang mga pari, apan dinhi sa Archdiocese of Cebu gawas kang Autida, aduna na usab umaabot nga mga pari hinungdan nga kinahanglan silang iampo aron maabot kanila ang grasya gikan sa Ginoo.

Ugma sa alas nuybe sa buntag, 12 ka mga deakono ang ordinahan usab ni Palma. Sila mao si Rev. Teodo Baruc, Rev. Dave Christopher Cantillas, Rev. Renato Destacamento, Rev. Severino Escobido III, Rev. Erik Orio, Rev. Arnel Ponce, Rev. Giuseppe Pongase, Rev. Florido Rosales, Rev. Junrey Siman, Rev. Andrei Ventanilla, Rev. Kent Dahrel Galo ug Rev. Jonathan Rubin. (BANAT NEWS)

Hmm, bar na lay kuwang...

Hmm, nagpahimulos pa galing samtang drug lords pa ang giatubang sa presidente...

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 06, 2016, 04:10:26 PM
Ang usa sa mga suspetsado giingong tambukon ang panglawas ug pikuton ang mata kinsa maoy mipusil sa biktima samtang ang drayber nga nagsul-ob og helmet ang nagsilbing look-out.

Hmm, hitsura diayg lechon? 

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


GIPUSIL sa mga tulisan ang lechonero ug usab kahero sa lechonan human matunol ang kita sa patigayon niadtong Huwebes mga alas 9:20 sa gabii sa Valenzuela Street, Barangay Lapasan, dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Nagpaalim sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) ning dakbayan si Dulfo Asna, 29, minyo, taga Mambato, Lapasan, Agora ning dakbayan.

Sa nahipos nga report gikan sa buhatan sa kapolisan sa Police Station 3 (PS3) sa Agora sa pagpangulo ni Police Chief Inspector Ariel Philip Pontillas, nasuta nga kalit lamang nga niabot ang duha ka mga suspetsado sakay sa motorsiklo nga kolor pula, wizard type ug mihunong mismo sa atubangan sa maong patigayon.

Giingong gihatag na sa biktima ang halin sa establistamento nga mokabat sa P3,700 apan gipusil pa gihapon kini ginamit ang gitoohang .38 revolver.

Ang usa sa mga suspetsado giingong tambukon ang panglawas ug pikuton ang mata kinsa maoy mipusil sa biktima samtang ang drayber nga nagsul-ob og helmet ang nagsilbing look-out.

Nakaangkon og samad pinusilan sa ubos nga bahin sa ilok ang biktima hinungdan nga dali kining gidala sa NMMC.

Sa pagkakaron, padayon pa ang imbestigasiyon sa kapolisan ug hot pursuit operation sa operatiba sa PS3 sa mga suspetsado nga mitulis ug miluthang sa biktima.

Samtang nagpaalim pa sa NMMC si Asna.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Agosto 06, 2016.

History of the Universe: The Final Gravitational Collapse

The basic facts of the Great Leap Forward have long been known to scholars. Dikötter’s work is noteworthy for demonstrating that the number of victims may have been even greater than previously thought, and that the mass murder was more clearly intentional on Mao’s part, and included large numbers of victims who were executed or tortured, as opposed to “merely” starved to death. Even the previously standard estimates of 30 million or more, would still make this the greatest mass murder in history.

While the horrors of the Great Leap Forward are well known to experts on communism and Chinese history, they are rarely remembered by ordinary people outside China, and has had only a modest cultural impact. When Westerners think of the great evils of world history, they rarely think of this one. In contrast to the numerous books, movies, museums, and and remembrance days dedicated to the Holocaust, we make little effort to recall the Great Leap Forward, or to make sure that society has learned its lessons. When we vow “never again,” we don’t often recall that it should apply to this type of atrocity, as well as those motivated by racism or anti-semitism.

The fact that Mao’s atrocities resulted in many more deaths than those of Hitler does not necessarily mean he was the more evil of the two. The greater death toll is partly the result of the fact that Mao ruled over a much larger population for a much longer time. I lost several relatives in the Holocaust myself, and have no wish to diminish its significance. But the vast scale of Chinese communist atrocities puts them in the same general ballpark. At the very least, they deserve far more recognition than they currently receive. -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them. In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party’s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.

A catastrophe of gargantuan proportions ensued. Extrapolating from published population statistics, historians have speculated that tens of millions of people died of starvation. But the true dimensions of what happened are only now coming to light thanks to the meticulous reports the party itself compiled during the famine….

What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later. The case of Wang Ziyou was reported to the central leadership: one of his ears was chopped off, his legs were tied with iron wire, a ten kilogram stone was dropped on his back and then he was branded with a sizzling tool â€" punishment for digging up a potato.

By Ilya Somin August 3 at 11:05 AM


Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people â€" easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.

Historian Frank Dikötter, author of the important book Mao’s Great Famine recently published an article in History Today, summarizing what happened:

Aprub!

Just down the road from Stephanie's restaurant, the department store Galeries Lafayette welcomes hundreds of tour buses daily at a dedicated entrance for Chinese shoppers. Parisians tend to shun the tourist crowds, so this serves as both a way to get the tourists inside more quickly and to keep them in an area with dedicated Mandarin-speaking shop assistants.

It's chaotic inside the store, especially near closing time, when guides rush their charges in the door. Chinese shoppers can be seen pushing to get to the front of the queue for a Louis Vuitton handbag.

Stephanie is trying to do her bit to make things easier for herself and the Chinese tourists who wander out of the shops and into her restaurant. She presents them with small signs written in Mandarin, warning them about pickpockets and telling them, "If they sit, they have to drink!"

She is open about the fact that Chinese clients account for a growing percentage of her profits and is certain, amid the European financial slump, that Chinese are the future of the tourist industry.

"I told my son to study Mandarin at school," she says. "Do you know how to say 'thank you' in Chinese?"

"Xiè xie," I replied.

"Well, the first time my son tried to teach me to say 'thank you' in Chinese, I told him off, because it sounded like he was swearing in French!" she says, laughing. Stephanie was too polite to say the French version in front of the camera, but I took her word for it. It seems even with the best will in the world, simple communication can still create a clash of cultures in Paris today. --Al Jazeera

They don't make good commission by taking tourists to monuments or museums. On the big tours, those stops are scheduled for 40 minutes at most. And Paris isn't very accommodating to Chinese visitors. For instance, despite having more than 800,000 Chinese visitors last year, the Musee du Louvre does not have a Mandarin audio guide.

Fiercely competitive tour prices mean that guides are frantically trying to make their money by taking their clients on forced shopping marches around Paris. I even heard stories about guides paying tour companies to lead groups and recovering their losses through lucrative commissions offered by big department stores on duty-free purchases.

Making money out of Chinese tourists is where the Chinese tour companies speak the same language as the French.

Philip Guarino advises luxury brands about the Chinese market. "There are agreements that are made with tour operators in China," he explains. "A second agreement with the outgoing travel agency. A third with the inbound French travel agency. A fourth agreement with the local tour guide and a fifth even with the bus driver. We're talking hundreds of millions."

According to Philip, Chinese shoppers now account for up to half of luxury brand sales worldwide. Eighty-five percent of those purchases are made in Europe or the US. It's no wonder that the French government wants to double the number of Chinese tourists it receives to five million a year.

Anyone who's spent time in France will attest that perhaps the most important word is "Bonjour". It implies more than a greeting - it's also a marker of a civilised encounter.

"One woman came in here and spat on the floor," recounts Stephanie. "I just took a napkin, put it in her hand and said in French: "Take it!"

With hundreds of thousands of Chinese travellers now embarking on their first trips abroad, Stephanie's street is a microcosm of the clash of cultures occurring in many countries. But far from being against the masses of tourists who flock past her restaurant each day, Stephanie is sympathetic.

"It's not their fault, it's two different cultures," she says. "No one is telling them how we live, what our customs are."
When I went on tour with a Chinese group, I saw that in most cases, she was right. Tour operators had little interest in educating clients about French customs or culture. For them, the Chinese market is a numbers game: the number of people you can get on a bus, the number of places you can visit in as little time as possible.

Pardon your French: Chinese tourists and a clash of cultures in Paris
As Paris becomes a hot spot for Chinese tourism, cultural tensions arise between tourists and locals.
by Aela Callan


Paris, France - In the centre of Paris, on Rue de Provence, sits the bar and restaurant Stan & Co. It's a dimly lit, homely French bistro with wooden ceilings and stained glass panelling. Waiters are busy serving croques monsieurs and cups of café au lait to tables tucked in cosy bay windows.

Stephanie Verret has run the place for 25 years. But it's only in the past few that Rue de Provence has started to change. "All the people in the street sold their businesses to Chinese," she says. "Before it was like a little village with people taking coffee and croissants in the morning."

Now, lucrative Chinese restaurants and duty-free shops line the street. Crowds of Chinese tourists push down the narrow footpaths, following flag-wielding guides who hustle past each other in a race to get to the front.

Stephanie finds herself daily in a scene that looks more like downtown Beijing than Paris. "They don't say hello, they don't speak French, they don't speak English," she says, incredulous.

No big deal for me...

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