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Quote from: hubag bohol on July 05, 2012, 12:54:22 PM
Hmm, basin ang kitty maoy barbero sa doggy, gisuhid ang hitsura kon angay ba pagkatupi...

hindi po.  spa and yoga instructor si kitty, dili hair scientist.

Quote from: bugsay on July 05, 2012, 12:12:44 PM
kitty: kahait sa imong bungot uy!

doggie: ka-ergat ba nimo, lajo pa gani ko jamo.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 05, 2012, 10:26:28 AM
Hmm, is dat so? Din way is kiti's badi lining bak?

kiti is nat yust to istanding on his behaynd; he nids a balanseng akt, oki? 

gwapoha sa pagpahiluna sa tiles uy.  labor of love man gyod ni uy.

makaseguro ka nga di kompleto ang tbland kun wa ka.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 05, 2012, 10:42:15 AM
Di ba kaha sobra na? 

di baya sobra ang imong posts; let 'em keep on comin' and let hell break loose. 

ahat ba.  maka-inspire ba god ning palandungon kun ato ba uroy ning anak.  omigod!

tahakunon gyod hinoon, mao nga di gyod ni sila angay abusohan.  pero sa lista, upat ra baya ang di kinahanglanon kun sa pinas ra ka magtrabaho, i.e., agency, dfa passport, poea, ug owwa. 

goodness me.  in what country is this?  philippines?

wa ba ni nga post masaag?  unsa may inspirational ani?  nga ma-inspired ta, nga mawala ang atong kaguol, kay naay ingon ana?   

naa bay gi-propose nga puli sa word, like "bugaw, bugaw oh"?  

unsaon na man lang kun mo-order tag salad sa restaurant?

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 05, 2012, 10:33:24 AM
Hmm, posible pud nga naa ra nilang tulo...

maghuwat tang lorenz nga makauli na gikan sa iyang land trip.  nihilom man god si bugsay ug si webmaster...

daoy, wa may pasaylo.  but why were these products put out on the market in the first place? 

now i'm sad. 

the missing link?  kinsa kaha nato diay ang makakompleto?

i am truly, truly thankful that this is not one of us, like someone named chicogon.  but could this be you, hubag?  i doubt if bugsay will claim this as his best picture ever.  i don't know about lorenzo and the webmaster.

hahahahaha!  go, go, go, cat!  go to the american idol!

note: the kitty's ears are not directed backwards, so he's okay.

gladly.   answer: friendly.  the dog is friendly, like most male tblanders.  the kitten is simply wary, but not hostile.

kitty: what in h_ll is this dogforsaken animal is?  he doesn't even have a decent haircut!

doggie: hellow, kitty!  let's play chinese garter...

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 05, 2012, 12:00:03 AM
Hmm, how dare you what? Klaroha bi...

how dare me nga wa dayon makailag paryente.

Quote from: chicogon on July 03, 2012, 11:58:32 PM
Aspiring for blessedness kaha... mahimong piso pag-usab hahahaha 

whew!  salamat kay piso diay, di kini--

motuo kog lahing aswang kay naa miy silingan.  mo-qualify kog tokwa queen bisag si zsa zsa padilla ang champion kay si dolphy man ang tokwa king.  kahibawo pod kog unsa nang honest sweat kay tindog-lingkod, tingdog-lingkod man ko sa tb, kinsa may di panington ana, honest pa.  pero por langit klarohi kuno kog libat ba nang 21/21 vision...

ignorant under pressure.

wow!  some sense of humor we've got here.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 10:31:14 AM
He he, liwat jud diay sa tag-iya...

meow!  here comes your own missing cat...

tag-iyag iro nga liwat sa koala

How did the Higgs boson get the nickname "the God particle"?

A Nobel laureate physicist from Fermilab called Leon Lederman wrote a book in the early 1990s about the search for the Higgs boson. His publishers coined the name as a marketable title for the book, but it's disliked by many scientists.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

How is the Higgs boson related to the Big Bang?

About 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave birth to the universe and caused an outburst of massless particles and radiation energy. Scientists think that fractions of a second later, part of the radiation energy congealed into the Higgs field.

When the universe began to cool, particles acquired mass from the Higgs field, slowed down and began to bunch up to form composite particles and, eventually, atoms.

Conditions present a billionth of a second after the Big Bang are recreated in the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator near Geneva.

Like other heavy particles, the Higgs decays into lighter particles, which then decay into even lighter ones. The process can follow a certain number of paths, which depend on the particle's mass.

Physicists compare the decay paths they observe after a particle collision to predicted decay paths simulated with computers. When a match is found, it suggests that the observed particle is the one being searched for.

How do you find a Higgs boson?

To find the particle and characterise it, scientists must first try to create it by smashing beams of protons together inside the Large Hadron Collider at close to the speed of light and analysing the debris.

By doing so they will essentially be recreating a very small model of the state of the Universe as it was in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Some of the fragments released by the collision should in theory be Higgs Bosons, although they will instantly deteriorate into even smaller, more stable subatomic particles.

How long has the search gone on?

Scientists have been looking for the Higgs since the 1960s, but the search began in earnest more than 20 years ago with early experiments at Cern in Europe and Fermilab in the US.

Does finding the Higgs boson mark the end of the search?

It's just the end of the beginning. Confirming the existence of the Higgs would only be the start of a new era of particle physics as scientists focus on understanding how it works and look for unexpected phenomena.

What would the world be like without the Higgs boson?

According to the Standard Model theory, it would not be recognisable. Without something to give mass to the basic building blocks of matter, everything would behave as light does, floating freely and not combining with other particles. Ordinary matter, as we know it, would not exist. 

CMS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY

Higgs boson: Q&A

More than 50 years ago Peter Higgs and five other theoretical physicists proposed that an invisible field lying across the Universe gives particles their mass, allowing them to clump together to form stars and planets.

By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
The Telegraph, UK
04 Jul 2012

What is the Higgs boson and the Higgs field?

The Higgs field has been described as a kind of cosmic "treacle" spread through the universe.

According to Prof Higgs's 1964 theory, the field interacts with the tiny particles that make up atoms, and weighs them down so that they do not simply whizz around space at the speed of light.

But in the half-century following the theory, produced independently by the six scientists within a few months of each other, nobody has been able to prove that the Higgs Field really exists.

Prof Higgs predicted that the field would have a signature particle, a massive boson. Finding it would point towards the existence of the field.

treacle - British molasses; a medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison

"The hardest part of the mural was painting the whole image with a slight perspective shift," Kristofoletti told Discovery News via email. "The detector appears closer on the left and farther on the right side of the mural.

"The actual signature of the Higgs event was the most exciting thing to paint since it is actually depicting something that is invisible."

But what inspired him to create such a mural in the first place?

"It is a more complicated project than the moon landing. So, I am in awe of finding something that is so fundamental to understanding where we came from," he added.

As we are fast approaching a major announcement from CERN about the quest to track down the elusive Higgs boson, it seems like an appropriate time to showcase Kristofoletti's 2010 work of art through a time-lapse video he recently uploaded.

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi7RTvN30s#ws

http://news.discovery.com/

Higgs Boson Quest Inspires Epic LHC Art

Analysis by Ian O'Neill
Wed Jul 4, 2012



In 2010, Discovery News' Jennifer Ouelette reported on a cool project that artist Josef Kristofoletti had embarked upon. Inspired by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and one of its huge detectors, he began work on a mural of the ATLAS detector... on the side of the ATLAS control room (commissioned by CERN, of course). The 25-meter high ATLAS is one of the two LHC detectors that are hunting for the Higgs, and we'll hear results from ATLAS physicists via a special webcast on Wednesday at 9 a.m. CEST -- that's at 3 a.m. EST or midnight PST.

Quote from: vrglguapo on July 03, 2012, 03:10:39 AM
The Cliff of Antrim ,Northern Ireland..

pagka-ireland gajud, bisag unsaon.  thanks for the beautiful pics, guaps.

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sharpshooter ang sniper ani. 

Nutella Moment


Nutella Forever

kun akoy opaw, bahala ba uroy.  labi nag iti nga naa sa hulagway nga morag laing duhay tiil man ang tag-iya ani...

Quote from: chicogon on July 04, 2012, 12:51:54 PM
Hala makahilo diay pod ning klaseha.... daghan mani sa merkado

nahibung bitaw ko... wa man hinoon sa lista sa poisonous fish in the world ang batfish, mao nga makatuo ko sa theory sa recent batfish poisoning sa cebu (as pointed out in the news item) nga tingali ang fish mismo ang nakakaon ug poison unya napasa sa nikaon sa fish, especially the person who ate the entrails nga maoy naantimano. 

kun mao, na, mora ra diay ta anig nag-russian roulette kun mokaon tag isda kay wa man ta kahibawo asa nilay nakalamoy ug hilo. 

kamaayo ra nimong pasiritan ug bendita, nyor hubag...

kun magkalisod, aw, ulitawong inanag.

Quote from: bugsay on July 04, 2012, 12:07:49 PM
unsa kaha po'y tawag sa mga lalake nga ingon ani?

abaw gid, ulitawong ina gid.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:28:21 PM

Quote from: chicogon on July 04, 2012, 12:46:13 PM
Baile?

tango variants sa bailehan sa pista sa ato.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 12:37:52 PM
Correction! Di ba usa ni ka Balingsya tradition?

you better ask bugsay and lorenz about this.  i am innocent until proven guilty, mr dimiaow.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 12:35:37 PM
Gorya. Di ba lecturer man ka on itlog classification...

opkors naman, but never on the eggs of badibildirs nga way diperensya sa botbot.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 11:40:33 AM
Hmm, nataligam-an diay nimo nga siya wan ob da abab?

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 11:16:58 AM

aw, how dare me...

puwede na mong mamauli
ayaw kalimot pagpatuli.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2012, 10:58:36 AM
Depende ra na, oi. Unsaon man diay kon aping sa lubot ang gustong beso-besohon...

aw, diay?  ang iring ra nga nakakita nimo ang mag-ingon ana, en ader words.  taking after their idol...

mo-siren ni silag dugay, pareha sa siren sa coca-cola plant sa tagbilaran.

itlog diay na?  abi nakog botbot.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on July 04, 2012, 10:16:08 AM
but the first impression won't be good for vatican and monaco. ordinary filipinos may not be able to understand the technicalities of poea's standards.

yes, but unfortunately only in so far as pinoys and potential ofws are concerned.  i doubt if it matters to the vatican and monaco.  sa tinuoray, pwera sa maayo ug tarong as usual, badlungon sad intawon ang uban natong manrabaho sa gawas. 

somewhere in the web, from newspapers, are declarations from a vatican cardinal that filipinos ought to emulate pedro calungsod.  i reacted a bit here (on the defensive, kintahay).  why man was this necessary to be said so?  wa man ko kadungog nga naay vatican cardinal nga niingon nga albanians should emulate mother teresa... 

with apologies (this is not a sweeping statement, please) ang ubang pinoy didto sa italy ug vatican gakiat ang agi, maayong igaid ug taoran ug chastity belts nga gitay-an.

kamong mga tarong, kini nga post di para ninyo. 

si bugsay?  ipakita pod bi.

akong mingming, oh, my mingming!

so yes, it's not really that the vatican and monaco are unsafe for pinoy workers.  it's just putting it down on paper that the two are safe.  in other words, bureaucracy and paper work.

curiosity satisfied, partially at least...

Vatican, Monaco still on list of unsafe places for OFWs

Philippine Daily Inquirer
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Is even the center of Catholicism now unsafe for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)?

Not really, it simply appears to be a case of the bureaucracy at workâ€"or not.

The Vatican is among 19 countriesâ€"including Monaco, North Korea, Zimbabwe and Afghanistanâ€"that have yet to be certified as safe for OFW deployment by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Department of Labor and Employment said Monday.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) governing board had approved 32 countriesâ€"including Kuwait and Saudi Arabiaâ€"for inclusion in the list of countries compliant with the safety requirements of the amended Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act.

This has left 19 countries that have yet to be certified as being safe for OFWs. Of the 19, the POEA has yet to receive the certifications for the Vatican and Monaco, Baldoz said.

She said the 32 countries were certified as safe for OFWs after the Congressional Committee on Overseas Welfare Affairs asked the DFA to consider “partially compliant” countries as being “compliant without prejudice to negotiations for the protection of household service workers.”

The 19 countries that have yet to pass the POEA board review, aside from the Vatican and Monaco, were Afghanistan, Chad, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Palestine, Somalia, Uzbekistan and  Zimbabwe.

Under the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act, the DFA has to certify countries as having adequate protections for OFWs, with the certification approved by the POEA board, before deployment can take place. Philip C. Tubeza

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on July 04, 2012, 09:35:20 AM
He said POEA is also awaiting the assessment and recommendation of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on the Vatican and Monaco.

why kaha?

nisamot kog way tulog tungod sa karaw sa mahjong nga overnight.  the only courtesy i got was for them to transfer away from the window of the bedroom.

tungod sa kaguol ug kakuwang ug pahuway nga nasagolan ug kalagot, nag-hyperthyroidism hinoon ko atong panahona.  even on hindsight, mobukal gihapon akong dugo.  wa na lang mauwaw sa ilang kabulingon tong mga aliporesa to. 

oh, well... does this mean to say that those gamblers do the funeral circuit so they'll have a venue, free electricity, snacks and drinks?  haraw abtan silag motindog ang gihaya aron gukdon sila. 

salamat, mol.  niadto na ko sa link ug ako nang nabasa.  maayo ka pa kay nakabadlong pa.  purya sad tong ig-agaw kunohay nga imbis molaban nako didto man hinoon molaban sa manunugal kay iya man diayng mga alipores, siya ang one-eyed king in the land of the blind.  wa na ko mopakita aning buysita kay nakalimot siya niadto nga ang gihaya akong amahan, dili iyaha.   

ang ako gyong gikahiubsan atong sa among amahan kay bisan sa burial day, wa gyod mabugto ang sugal.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 03:18:36 PM
Lainlain ang design aning isdaa. Naay ingon ani, sobra katunokon...

ang dried ani mahimo koloran ug himoong christmas balls.

an italian chocolate hazelnut spread.  common sa europe, niabot na sa ato.

martin luther ought to know.  he left the priesthood and later married a nun.

hahaha, ka-cute.  maayo gani kay wa siya makigsawo ug iro.

Poisonous fish trivia

Most venomous fish come from the Indo-Pacific, off eastern and southern Africa, Australia, Polynesia, the Philippines, Indonesia and southern Japan. About 50,000 people a year suffer from stings, or envenomations, with an array of symptoms like pain, fainting, blisters, fever, convulsions, breathing trouble and sometimes even death.

more at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/science/22fish.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Quote from: simplylee on July 03, 2012, 10:15:12 PM
salamat diay kaayo sa imong pagpost sa pictures

way sapayan.  rule na lang gyod diay tingali nato nga di na lang mokaon ug entrails ug isda kutob sa mahimo.  morag maoy nakadale ni epitacio intawon ang entrails sa dalagupan nga matod sa news posibleng nakakaon ug poison.

goodness me.  naa pod diay klase sa dalagupan nga mog-uton nga nang-lipstick.


The Cocos Batfish is an endemic species to Cocos island. (seait.com)

dia pay laing klase.  morag mas familiar ko ani.  pero kay wa pa man ko kahibawo sa ngan, ginganlan lang ni nakog sapsap.  now pa ko nga dalagupan diay.

daghang klase diay ang dalapugan (batfish), and not all are poisonous.  problema lang nato kay way mo-inspect sa merkado kun poisonous ba nang gibaligya o di.

here's something related, lil.

Farmer dies, four neighbors fall ill after eating ‘dalapugan’ fish

Cebu Daily News
Friday, June 29th, 2012

A FARMER in Oslob town, southern Cebu died while four others fell ill after they ate fish locally known as dalapugan.

Police identified the fatality as Epitacio Ferrolino, 37, a resident of barangay Cansaloay.

The fish itself is not a poisonous variety and it’s possible that the fish was spoiled or had eaten something poisonous, said PO3 Nelson Saquibal of the Oslob police in Cebuano.

Epitacio ate the internal organs of the fish which was cooked in vinegar as inun-onan.

His neighbor Max Filosopo, 35, bought it from the Oslob public market around 10 a.m. last Tuesday.

He invited Epitacio and his 22-year-old pregnant wife Angelita, Epitacio’s 65-year-old mother Consuelo, and Juanita Estinor, 62, to his house for lunch.

About an hour after the lunch, Filosopo and his neighbors started vomiting.

As a remedy, they drank native medicinal oil locally known as “lana.”

Their condition improved after they drank lots of water.

Epitacio continued vomiting until 3 p.m when he could no longer talk and his hands went numb, said police.

He was brought by his neighbors to the Oslob District Hospital around 9 p.m. where he was pronounced dead by Dr. Gina Javier.

Police said they are still waiting for the result of the medical examination to determine the cause of death.

Police recovered a small portion of the inun-onan meal which was submitted to the Bureau of Food and Drugs for examination. /REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

kalingaw ug post diha, ayaw lang paglili-lili ug hingok.  nagdamgo ra ba ko nga ang ato kunong number of posts mahimong euro.  si hubag ray madato nato kun mao.  kanang below 10k posts, mahimong yen, hahaha!  kun mobalik si balong, mahimo hinoong stocks.

Quote from: bugsay on July 03, 2012, 05:15:18 PM
modaog unta ka simbako....

simbako wa pa hinoon.  pero pilay pad sa unggoy kun mahimo kong unggoy... mahinumdom bitaw kog lotto kun i-post ni tb.com ang winning numbers.  mag-unsa na lang kun akong numero diay pero wa ko kapalit, hehe. 

ang kapuyan lang nakog lotto kay naay mamalitay nga di maghuwat sa ilang torno, morag modagan ang booth.  mga no manners.  abi na lang kay gustong madato tungod sa lotto.  lalim ka, gahuwat pa ko sa akong sinselyo, naa nay kamot niagi sa akong nawong.  p.s. nagpatudlo ko ganina ug unsaon pagduwa nang scratch-scratch nga pito-pito ang ngan, parehag tsa.

OT: exit usa ko, nyor hubag.  naa pa koy adtoon, importante.  iring nga gamay akong bisitahon sa usa ka tindahan.  molahos tingali kog palit ug lotto sa unahan, an act that's very horrific for my sister kay shocking para niya nga molinya kog apil.  wa baya nay diperensya kun modawat kog labada.  mao rang estoryaha.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:49:04 PM
Hmm, so unsa man diay ang gibalansehan sigon sa imong post sa unahan?

ang mga horrors and horrific, graphic pictures ug posts, apil na ang gipang-ban. layo ra kaayo sa kamatuoran nga i-ban ang mga novena ug stories of saints dinhi. 

on sekand tots, aw, ikaw god, kun gusto ka sa trono nga counterpoint aning mga prayers and stories of saints, suit yourself.  adto na lang ka manubag ni pope benedict.      

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:47:35 PM
Unsa man diay? Magbesobeso nga gatuwad?

ngano god tawong parehason man nimo ang mga iring.  kaluoy sa iring.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:46:06 PM
he he, mao ni ang nawong ni Tigbao sa dihang gibuwagan sa uyab...

hehe, di na na akong sala kun moingon kag mas na-cute diay siya nga gibuwagan ha, bisag morag nakaihi.

anus-a god tawon ka nakakitag mga iring nga nagbesobeso nga gatindog?  if you have, tell me where and when, and i will tell you where and when ka nakakita ug mga kapri nga kaslonon.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:38:39 PM



Kini maoy super-liwat... 

suwayig hapay ang luyo sa buhok anang gadala ni pretty dog, di ba naa pod nay mata ug ilong...

Quote from: chicogon on June 30, 2012, 01:50:05 PM

mora lagi ni ug si bai tigs ka-cute!

hostile.  i know my cats.  they don't stand (on their hind legs) if they're friendly.  they simply smell and clean each other.  this one's getting ready for a catfight, on the defensive, keeping each other at paw's length.  and their ears!  when cat ears tilt backward, prepare.  those ears speak of wars to come.  but there's a balance of power here, unlike the philippines and a rampaging 800-lb gorilla of a neighboring country wanting to make a bathtub out of the west philippine sea.   

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:21:21 PM

these two can get involved in exchanging farts.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 04:23:38 PM
Balanse sa posts ni, pananglit, Bugsay?

lahi nga category si bugsay, chicogon ug hubag. they skim through the horrors and make life fun.  aherm.

i will be fulfilled enough with a little comfort.

in this regard, i am thankful for the posts of hofelina and lorenz about worship and prayers.  they provide the balance, so to speak.

thanks for the warning.  di bitaw ko moabli sa mga threads dinhi nga medyo lisod ang title ug sa akong banabana di nako makaya, pareha atong sinugba nga iro o unsa ba uroy to. 

i hope for more appropriate thoughtful warnings here because of our differences in capacity to take in horrific realities.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2012, 03:40:23 PM
Pero di tingali matago ang uyog-uyog...

sayon pasumanginlan ang hangin ani.

hehe, daghang ironies ning leksyona.  hinoon, kuyaw man god kun mahiloan ang mga animals kay ang tawo di kahibawog unsay ipakaon.  ang tawo di mahilo bisag pila pa ka food stamps ang iyang lamuyon.

a genius at problem solving.

daoy, ing-ana diay ka-monstrous?  wa man lagiy tunok tong butete nga inon-onan nga akong nakit-an sa una sa usa ka carinderia? 

fugu (butete) in japanese poetry (haiku)

I cannot see her tonight
I have to give her up
So I will eat fugu
                         -Tosa Buson

Having eaten fugu soup
Even though there also was sea bream
How irrational he was
                         -Matsuo Bashō

The Japanese Emperor is forbidden from even touching fugu. In the Edo period (1603-1867) samurai were ordered to extinguish their family lines if they became poisoned.

http://factsanddetails.com/

Shimonoseki on the southern tip of Honshu is particularly famous for fugu. About 500 fugu chef's live here. There is a bronze monument of a fugu in front of the fish market. There are even fugu pictured on the city's manhole covers.

Every February people pray for a good puffer catch before a special shrine and fishermen send the Emperor a fugu as a gift. A local tourist brochure reads: "In the past, eating fugu was an adventure risking one's life."

fugu (butete) trivia in japan

Fugu bones have been found in burial mounds from the Jomon period (10,000 B.C. to 300 B.C.). Fugu was mentioned in Japan's first historical records, written in 720.

In the late 1500s, fugu was banned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after a mass poisoning of troops took place before an invasion of Korea. The ban remained in place for 200 years until, one story goes, Japan's first prime minister Hirobumu Ito ate some and survived and enjoyed it so much he demanded that the ban be lifted.

Quote from: chicogon on July 03, 2012, 01:07:41 PM
Kada adlaw ni sila mo opera ug bolinaw...

unsa kaha diay tawon ang yamyam ani nila para di mosipyat...