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Quote from: Pikoy on October 15, 2012, 12:49:00 PM
si bay hubag akong patubagon ani inday maria ha..

Kaya ra tubagon ni Bay Tigs. O ni Bay Bugs ba hinuon...

Quote from: bugsay on October 15, 2012, 01:46:19 PM
di ba kaha na mauy imong edad adtong nakalabay nga 20 ka tuig?...

Hala! Idea for a contest! Bay Bugs, kombinseha si Islander nga magpa-contest siya og "Guess Islander's Age". Siya nay bahala unsay premyo sa makatag-an...

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 14, 2012, 10:43:59 PM
Ngano man ning arang mang tambuka intawon?? Wa ba magpasagad ang mga ginikanan ani?

Cute man gud kuno ang bata nga tambok, labi na kanang buaw mokaon, makalingaw kuno...

Oi, abi nakog kaon ray talent aning bataa...

Klarong disipulo kon maohon...

Easy boy? Pikoy?

Kang kinsa kaha ning iroa?

We will see the scattered kon apil ba ni sa mga abilidad ni Bay Piks,,,

Pulido kaayog trabaho, perfect and sukod...

Sowee. Reality checks really make one lose appetite...

The Philosopher-Dog

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 06:55:14 PM
na hala cge bay,, biyae nalang ko ninyo,, hehehe pero balika kay deli lang nako tabunan..:

I'm back! Como estas, Sr. BoritBuster?

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 06:18:59 PM
delikadog mag daghan pagkagasto gayud.

Gigutom hinuon kong gatan-aw. Unhan ta ka, Bay Piks, kay kaon sa kog lugaw...

He he, lisod kay perming slippery...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 06:17:24 PM
mau gyud delikades na....

Dollar pud and labod (dugay maalim kay infected og resistant strain nga borit)...

Here, let me give you a hug...

Wa jud kutasi ang kanahanito, kutob ra tingalis tunlan...

Kanay saktong engineer, apil sa inspection ang pagpangita sa crack...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 06:08:11 PM
dinako mo taransleyt  kay mabuthan ta sa elboritis kwetis..

Bitaw. Pakapinan ka pag latos og Judas belt (n.b.: dollar bills ang gigamit pagputos sa polbora)...

Hurot na!

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 14, 2012, 06:01:01 PM
Hahahahaha. Basin sunugunon ang usa Bay Hubs?

He he, kadtoy naay tight security...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:55:46 PM

kun sa bisaya pa  "way nada ang pinaskauhan pakontest nga kwarta" wahaha

Bwahaha! Como siritsirites los borites en vez de millones!

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 14, 2012, 05:45:12 PM
padayon sa inong Binoritay diha... mobiya sa ko ninyo Sir Hubs ug Engr. Pikoy.. magluto pa ko dinner...

OK, estoryahe unya mi unsay imong dinner, ug kon natental ba kag over-eat...

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 14, 2012, 05:49:58 PM
So makalantaw ta ug maajong panahon gutob sa last part sa October kung ang current weather patterns magpersist.

Hay, salamat, kay gaplano ra ba ko nga moduaw sa ahong mga hasyenda sa lainlaing dapit sa kapupod-an...

Sigi, step-by-step instruction kay gahuwat si Ms. Lolla...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:42:42 PM
drama nya ang taytol kay " Locos el Boritos"

Bwahaha! Unya kini nga episode, "Por Nada la Cuarta de Pascua"...

Kahibawo ka mopaburot og bubble gum nga ingon ani?





Bwahaha! 

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:39:53 PM

bawi kaayo tekret milyoner gid ini blah...

He he, lahi pud diay hang bulgar milyoner haw...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:34:55 PM
wahahahaha...wa gyud diay nmu ma gets Lolla?! si bai hubag ang pinaka espert ani butanga ni..

Bwahaha! Aw, pwede man akoy mo-explain sa inyong mga binuhatan...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:33:42 PM
delikadog maka buto ang 1000 rounds da..bitaw kay waman madayon gud maong mtawag nalang nato ug borit..hehe peace kuya bals.. tela mo tey locos pe tey..

Basin kalakbit ra diay sa drama, unya mokalit lag balik. Ta-dah! Dramatic reentry kumbaga. Loco mas el chico rico...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:31:25 PM
kinsa may akong tirahan ngari Lolla b?nga mag all by my self raman gani ta ani permi..wehehe.

Matawag ba gud og all by myself nga gapatabang man...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:28:54 PM
gamitan man nako ug KG nga 10000 rounds para mabuak..

Bwahaha! Basin di mabawi ang gipalit sa bala sa sulod sa piggy bank, mahimo kang "Pinaskohan Borit Part 2" anang kalakiha...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:25:25 PM
mau lagi naana unta to sa iyang mga matik2x.., haha nagpa niid raman ron si kuya balongski ba

Yataps ka, Bay Piks, ikaw ra bay gaimbento sa memorable phrase "Pinaskohan Borit"...

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 14, 2012, 05:24:28 PM
Karon pa ko nakasubay. Mao diay. Hahahahaha.

Moingon na lamang ta ani sama sa radyo dires Manila, HAYAHAY!

He he, naa pay related threads, Bay Tigs, for a better assessment...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:20:59 PM

haha ako nalay hatag nako ug pinaskuhan buk on nako ang akong alkan si ya gid blah..

Bwahaha! Aw, di man kaha kublan imong piggy bank...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 14, 2012, 05:14:41 PM
nagpahungaw sa iyang gibati...

Makahungaw ba kaha nga huot man ang shorts...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:15:28 PM

ug nahimong Pinaskohan Borit....

KSP man gud.

I mean, kita ang KSP--Kulang Sa Pinaskohan...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:07:31 PM
d man gyud kapa napu ba..:

Pwede mouliot ang tuko...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 05:09:00 PM
kay nakakita ug murag nawog nakuratan bai tigs?

Kay naimpas ang Pinaskohan contest...

Takulahaw ug tulukibon ang mga panghitabo, Bay Tigs. Pero masubay ra nimo sa mga lambo diri...

Hmm, atik botik tik tik... Agoi, di kaha way kalainan sa kang To Boltobs?

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 14, 2012, 03:13:30 PM

Hmm, di na kahadlokan ang ilang mga tuko ani kay nangapaig na man...

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: The crisis lasted just 13 days.

REALITY: This myth has been perpetuated in part by the title of Robert F. Kennedy's posthumous memoir, "Thirteen Days," as well as the 2000 movie of the same name starring Kevin Costner.

Indeed it was 13 days from Oct. 16, when Kennedy was first told about the missiles, to Oct. 28, when the Soviets announced their withdrawal.

But the "October Crisis," as it is known in Cuba, dragged on for another tense month or so in what Kornbluh dubs the "November Extension," as Washington and Moscow haggled over details of exactly what weapons would be removed.

The Soviet Union also had problems dealing with Fidel Castro, according to a Soviet document made public this month by Svetlana Savranskaya, a Russia analyst for the National Security Archive.

Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan traveled to Cuba that Nov. 2 and spent 20 days in tense talks with the Cuban leader, who was angry the Soviets had reached a deal without consulting him. Castro lobbied hard but unsuccessfully to keep the tactical nuclear weapons that the Americans had not learned about.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: It was an intelligence coup for the CIA.

REALITY: Along with being a day late on the turnaround by Soviet ships, the CIA missed several key developments that would have helped Kennedy and his advisers navigate the crisis.

The CIA learned late in the game about the ballistic missiles' presence in Cuba, and they were already operational by the time Kennedy was informed of their existence.

The agency was also unaware of other, tactical nuclear missiles in Cuba that could have been deployed against a U.S. attack. The Soviets had even positioned nuclear-tipped missiles on a ridge above the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for an invasion.

"They were going to obliterate the base," Kornbluh said.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: It was a high-seas showdown.

REALITY: It's true the missile crisis was full of tense moments. On Oct. 27, a U.S. warship dropped depth charges over a nuclear-armed Soviet sub and the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane over Cuba. It was "the darkest, most dangerous day of the crisis," Kornbluh said.

Yet after Kennedy on Oct. 22 announced a U.S. naval quarantine around the island to prevent more military equipment from arriving, Khrushchev recalled ships carrying nuclear equipment the following day, according to the 2008 book "One Minute to Midnight" by Michael Dobbs, which was based on newly examined Soviet documents.

That means that on Oct. 24, when Secretary of State Rusk made his famous "eyeball-to-eyeball" statement reacting to supposedly up-to-the-minute intelligence, the vessels were already hundreds of miles away, steaming home.

"This thing about eyeball-to-eyeball, it never was. That confrontation never took place," said Kornbluh, who is a Cuba analyst at the nongovernment National Security Archive, which has spent decades working to get missile crisis documents declassified.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: Washington won, and Moscow lost.

REALITY: The United States came out a winner, but so did the Soviet Union.

The Jupiter missiles are sometimes described as nearly obsolete, but they had come online just months earlier and were fully capable of striking into the Soviet Union. Their withdrawal, along with Kennedy's assurance he would not invade Cuba, gave Khrushchev enough to feel he had saved face and the following day he announced the imminent dismantling of offensive weapons in Cuba.

Soon after, a U.S.-Soviet presidential hotline was established and the two nations initiated discussions that led to the Limited Test Ban treaty and ultimately the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

"The major lesson is the necessity of compromise even when faced with a crisis like that," said Robert Pastor, an international relations professor at American University and former national security adviser for Latin America under President Jimmy Carter.

Pastor said he had many discussions about the missile crisis over the years with his late father-in-law, Robert McNamara, who was Kennedy's defense secretary. Pastor said domestic politics made it tough for both Kennedy and successive presidents to heed that lesson, as evidenced by Kennedy's intense efforts to keep the deal secret.

President Barack Obama, for example, faces considerable pressure to maintain a tough line on Cuba. Among the issues are the U.S. embargo, demands for political change, an American government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba as an alleged spy and five Cuban intelligence agents serving long sentences in the United States.

"Look at U.S.-Cuban relations right now," Pastor said. "I don't think Obama would consider a compromise, because the pressure on him that 'You gave in to the Cubans' is too great."

Among the common beliefs about the Cuban missile crisis that have been reevaluated:

___

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: The crisis was a triumph of U.S. brinkmanship.

REALITY: Historians say the resolution of the standoff was really a triumph of backdoor diplomacy.

Kennedy resisted pressure from aides advising that he cede nothing to Moscow and even consider a preemptive strike. He instead engaged in intense behind-the-scenes diplomacy with the Soviets, other countries and the U.N. secretary-general.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met secretly with the Soviet ambassador on Oct. 27 and conveyed an olive branch from his brother: Washington would publicly reject any invasion of Cuba, and Khrushchev would withdraw the missiles from the island. The real sweetener was that Kennedy would withdraw Jupiter nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey, near the Soviet border. It was a secret pledge known only to a handful of presidential advisers that did not emerge until years later.

"As the historical record has expanded, the image of the resolute president has given way to the resolution president," Cuba analyst Peter Kornbluh wrote in an article in the November issue of Cigar Aficionado, an advance copy of which was made available to The Associated Press.

Nevertheless, the brinkmanship myth persists, with President George W. Bush in 2002 citing the missile crisis as a historical lesson in fortitude that justified a preemptive invasion of Iraq.

"The storyline is a lot easier that Kennedy stood steely-resolved, faced Khrushchev down and that's it," said Allison, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and former senior defense adviser to several Democratic and Republican administrations. "If you hang tough enough the other guy will eventually yield â€" that is actually the lesson that became part of the popular mythology."

Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure after 50 years
By PETER ORSI | Associated Press â€" 9 hrs ago



Associated Press/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate - A soldier poses for a photograph on the outer casing of an old, empty Soviet missile on exhibit at the military complex Morro Cabana which is open to tourists in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, that both Washington and Moscow wound up winners and that the crisis lasted far longer than 13 days. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)


HAVANA (AP) â€" The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it.

An American U-2 spy plane flying high over Cuba had snapped aerial photographs of Soviet ballistic missile sites that could launch nuclear warheads with little warning at the United States, just 90 miles away. It was the height of the Cold War, and many people feared nuclear war would annihilate human civilization.

Soviet ships carrying nuclear equipment steamed toward Kennedy's "quarantine" zone around the island, but turned around before reaching the line. "We're eyeball-to-eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked," U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said, a quote that largely came to be seen as defining the crisis.

In the five decades since the nuclear standoff between Washington and Moscow, much of the long-held conventional wisdom about the missile crisis has been knocked down, including the common belief that Kennedy's bold brinksmanship ruled the day.

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, historians now say it was behind-the-scenes compromise rather than a high-stakes game of chicken that resolved the faceoff, that both Washington and Moscow wound up winners and that the crisis lasted far longer than 13 days.

Declassified documents, oral histories and accounts from decision-makers involved in the standoff have turned up new information that scholars say provides lessons for leaders embroiled in contemporary crises such as the one in Syria, where President Bashar Assad has ignored international pleas to stop attacks on civilians in an uprising that has killed more than 32,000 people.

Another modern standoff is over Iran, which the West accuses of pursuing a nuclear weapons program. In a recent U.N. speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line on a cartoon bomb to illustrate that a nuclear Tehran would not be tolerated.

"Take Iran, which I have called a Cuban Missile Crisis in slow motion," said Graham Allison, author of the groundbreaking study of governmental decision-making "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis."

"This same process is looming on the current trajectory, inexorably, toward a confrontation at which an American president is going to have to choose between attacking Iran to prevent it becoming a nuclear weapons state or acquiescing and then confronting a nuclear weapons state," Allison said.

"Kennedy's idea would be, 'Don't let this reach the point of confrontation,'" he added. "The risks of catastrophe are too great."

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 14, 2012, 03:10:22 PM

labaw ng dili lang pod hikapon Sir Hubs no? bwahahahha

Sa ato pa, pasagdahan lang kon asa mouliot?

The wings are sold separately from the bat, presumably as a nice light snack.

Bats at Tomohon Traditional Market, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
BY RAYMOND WALSH
http://manonthelam.com/


The market in Tomohon, Indonesia is one of those places that you can smell before you see. And it’s pretty much a grisly experience for both those senses. One of the most ghoulish looking creatures on offer is the lowly fruit bat. It’s usually sold already roasted, although there are live ones available as well if that better suits your culinary needs.

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 03:05:23 PM
oyy!! kadaku sa kabog! daghan nig vitaminas kay permi lang maka inum sa iyang ihi...

Aprodisyak ni...

Quote from: bugsay on October 03, 2012, 11:22:27 PM
blema kon ang pikoy mura'g tuko...

Aw, di lang gud tan-awon...

Hmm, mao man tingali ni ang source sa delicacy somewhere in Indonesia--litson kabog...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 02:36:37 PM
wahaha...tekret bay hubs...hehe

Bug-at2x pud tekreta, tiaw moy 5 kilos...

Agoi, wa ba kaha to sila himoang kusahos sa atong silingan...

Updated October 12, 2012 09:33 AM


MANILA, Philippines (AP) â€" The Philippine coast guard says nine fishermen are missing after venturing out to fish near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

Coast guard chief Vice Admiral Edmund Tan says the fishermen left northwestern Zambales province on Oct. 1 and headed toward waters south of the Scarborough Shoal but have not returned. He says the fishermen may have encountered stormy weather.

The area around the shoal is claimed by China and the Philippines.

Tan says the coast guard cannot search the seas due to huge waves but has asked passing ships to be on the lookout for the fishermen.

He says the coast guard is verifying a report that one of the fishermen managed to send a cellphone message to a relative to report their location. -- http://www.philstar.com/

Didto ma-assign si Miss Polazza sa kinabugoyan nga klase. Sa iyang unang adlaw, nagdrowing siyag talong sa blakbord.

“Class, unsa man ni?”

“Utin na, Mam!” Siyagit pa ni Pikol.

Nagkagot ang ngipon ni Miss Polazza tungod sa kasuko ug midagan nga naghilak padulong sa prinsipal aron magpalaban. Taudtaod, miabot ang prinsipal sa klasrum.

“Unsa na man say inyong gibuhat ron? Ikaw Pikol? Gahapon inyong gibuak ang suga, ug karon…” napahunong siya pagkakita niya sa drowing sa blakbord.

“Lechugas! Kinsa na man say nagdrowing og utin dinhi?”


Bwahaha! 

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 14, 2012, 02:22:51 PM
basin type niya mga bata mao ng dili sya ka ako ug lugos pod.. hehehe

Pilian diay tulisana. Daghan man gung balita nga naay mas edaran pa nga gidaginot...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 14, 2012, 02:03:07 PM
jes kilos mahimo na unyang 15 wahahaha..

Hmm, naa diay kay ipuno, Bay Piks?

Quote from: jorgeanna on October 14, 2012, 02:18:45 PM
sunday means time to meditate and think about what u did for the last 6 days .........

...mao nga daghan ang angay maghinulsol karong adlawa...

Maayo na lang wa kahunahunag lugos ang tulisan...

Lisod ang senior citizen maglakawlakaw mag-inusara...

Ni Darrel A. Carumba (Banat) Updated October 14, 2012 12:00 AM


CEBU, Philippines - Linibo ka pesos, dolyares ug mahalong cellphone ang nasakiyo sa nagbinugtong nga tulisan nga diha na sa sulod sa pinuy-anan sa usa ka kawani sa bangko sa Villa Amores Poblacion Ward-4 sa lungsod sa Minglanilla niadtong Biyernes sa alas 8:30 sa gabii.

Ang biktima mao si Maria Expedita Sabellon, 53, nagpuyo sa maong lugar samtang usa ka wala mailhing lalaki nga nakasulod sa balay niini nga armado og pusil ang mitulis kaniya.

Matod ni PO2 Vincent Alinabo sa Minglanilla Police Station dihang nahinabi sa Banat News nga mao pay pag-abot sa biktima gikan sa trabaho ug mipasiga sa suga sa kusina. Nakugang na lang kini nga may tawong mition kaniya og armas ug miingon: “ayaw og saba ambi na ang imong bag,” ug pagkahuman daling migawas agi sa pultahan sa kusina.

Nakuha sa suspek ang bag nga dunay sulod nga kwartang moabot og P17 mil, 100 ka dolyar, laing 1 dollar bill, duha ka cellphone ug personal niyang gamit. Ang kapolisan padayon pang nag-imbestigar sa hitabo (EIM) (BANAT)

Nagbanganga?

"Do not despise your inner world. That is the first and most general piece of advice I would offer… Our society is very outward-looking, very taken up with the latest new object, the latest piece of gossip, the latest opportunity for self-assertion and status. But we all begin our lives as helpless babies, dependent on others for comfort, food, and survival itself. And even though we develop a degree of mastery and independence, we always remain alarmingly weak and incomplete, dependent on others and on an uncertain world for whatever we are able to achieve. As we grow, we all develop a wide range of emotions responding to this predicament: fear that bad things will happen and that we will be powerless to ward them off; love for those who help and support us; grief when a loved one is lost; hope for good things in the future; anger when someone else damages something we care about. Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. But for that very reason we are often ashamed of our emotions, and of the relations of need and dependency bound up with them." --Martha Nussbaum

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Huwat lang nga motungha si Ms. Lolla Copacabana, Bay Piks...

Chapter one

1
    Ong Gou'er, 48-year-old special investigator, gets a lift with a "lady trucker" (that he is quite taken with) to the Mount Luo Coal Mine, Liquorland (a fictional Chinese province), where he has been sent to investigate claims of cannibalism: claims of baby boys prepared as gourmet dishes. He is greeted by the Mine Director and Party Secretary and immediately taken to a banquet in his honour.

2
    Introductory letter from Li Yidou ("one-pint Li") to Mo Yan. Li is a PhD candidate in liquor studies at Brewers College in Liquorland, and aspiring author. He includes a short story (Alcohol) that he wrote after watching Red Sorghum, the film adaption of Mo Yan's novel of the same name.

3
    Mo Yan's reply to Li Yidou. Mo informs Li that he has sent his story to the editors of Citizens' Literature.

4
    Li Yidou's short story, Alcohol.

Chapter two

1
    The Mine Director and Party Secretary treat Ding to an expansive feast, and goad him into drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Ding does not hold his alcohol well. Deputy Head Diamond Jin, a Party official with a notorious capacity for drink, also joins them.

2
    Second letter from Li to Mo, and Li's second story, Meat Boy, which he calls "grim realism". Li is now bolder, in his requests to Mo's assistance to become a published author, comparing himself to Lu Xun and saying, "If you have to host a meal [to get it published], go ahead. If a gift is required, you have my blessing."

3
    Mo's reply to Li, commenting on Meat Boy.

4
    Li's short story, Meat Boy. One day two parents prepare their baby boy for a special event. The father, Jin Yuanbao, takes the boy on a journey to the Special Purchasing Section of the Culinary Academy in a village across the river. He waits with other parents and sons, perturbed by the presence of a small red demon. His son is eventually assessed by the staff there and judged to be "top grade". Jin is paid 2140 yuan.

Chapter three

1
    The centrepiece of the banquet is revealed, "Stork Delivering a Son". It appears to be a whole human baby boy, sitting up in a dish, and smells delicious. Ding draws his gun and accuses his company of cannibalism. Diamond Jin insists the dish is a culinary masterpiece -- a fake child. Ding panics and fires his gun wildly, shooting the baby boy in the head and collapses, drunk. The serving girls bring him sobering-up soup and he recovers somewhat. Diamond Jin explains how the fake boy is created and convinces Ding to eat a lotus root arm.
    After further drinking, Ding has an out of body experience where he witnesses the serving girls taking his comatose body to an underground hotel room. While his body is there, a "scaly-skinned demon" enters the room and strips his body of useful implements.

2
    Third letter from Li to Mo.

3
    Short story Child Prodigy by Li, in the style of "demonic realism" (according to Li). It follows the children who were sold at the Special Purchasing Section, and the little demon's attempt to lead them away.

4
    Mo's reply to Li. --Wiki

The Republic of Wine: A Novel is a satirical novel by Mo Yan This novel explores the relationship between Chinese people and food and drink, and comments on government corruption and excesses. It was translated to English by Howard Goldblatt (as with all of Mo Yan's other novels).

The novel has two distinct narrative threads, one of a standard fiction form following a detective, and the other a series of letters between "Mo Yan" and an aspiring author who is a fan of his work. The book contains ten chapters; each chapter contains several parts. The "detective" thread follows a special investigator, Ding Gou'er, sent to rural China to investigate claims of cannibalism. The "letters" thread contains letters exchanged between Li Yidou, an aspiring author, and "Mo Yan", as well as short stories that Li Yidou sends to "Mo Yan". As the novel progresses, the focus shifts from the Ding Gou'er standard narrative thread to the Li Yidou/Mo Yan thread. Some characters appear in both threads. --Wiki

Mo Yan, according to Hockx, "knows how to write a good story", filling his tales of remote communities "with a magical atmosphere, without shying away from the harsh and sometimes violent realities that he has witnessed". His 1996 novel Fengru feitun, translated into English as Big Breasts and Wide Hips in 2004, starts with the story of Xuan'er, six months old in 1900 when she is abandoned in a vat of flour, and follows her family's life through the war with Japan and the cultural revolution. Wa (Frog), Mo Yan's most recent novel, tells of the consequences of the single-child policy implemented in China through the story of a rural gynaecologist.

"He expertly handles the use of local language and dialect, and as his career progressed he became increasingly experimental with his narration, to the extent that he once even made himself a character in one of his novels," said Hockx. "All his novels create unique individual realities, quite different from the political stories that were told about the countryside in the Maoist years, when Mo Yan grew up."

The eminent professor of Chinese literature Howard Goldblatt, who has translated many of Mo Yan's works into English, compared the author's writing to Dickens in a recent interview with China Daily, saying that both write "big, bold works with florid, imagistic, powerful writing and a strong moral core".

Goldblatt said that the author's satirical novel Jiuguo (The Republic of Wine) "may be the most technically innovative and sophisticated novel from China I've read", while his Shengsi pilao (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) is "a brilliant extended fable", and Tanxiangxing (Sandalwood Death) "is, as the author contends, musical in its beauty".

Nicky Harman, a Chinese translator and lecturer at Imperial College, London, hailed Mo Yan's win as "amazing" news. "He's a great writer and will now be better known. That's good news for all Chinese writers, because it will bring English readers a bit closer," she said. "I'm sure they will be deliriously happy in China. He's very well thought of there."

SOAS professor of Chinese Michel Hockx, who knows Mo Yan personally, said the author was probably the most translated living Chinese writer, "very well known, very respected [and] although he's had his spats with the literary censors ... generally speaking not regarded as politically sensitive".

Hockx dismissed criticism from China that the author is "too close to the establishment to merit the Nobel". "I don't like the idea that Chinese writers are only good if they challenge the government â€" a good writer is a good writer. It's not a good yard stick of anything; are the only good British writers the ones who speak out against the war?" he said. "Choosing a dissident is the safe choice [for the Nobel committee] â€" to choose an author with a strong literary reputation, because of the strength and power of his work, is a very brave choice."

Speaking to Granta earlier this year, Mo Yan â€" one of a group of Chinese writers to travel to the UK for the London Book Fair â€" said that avoiding censorship was a matter of subtlety. "Many approaches to literature have political bearings, for example in our real life there might be some sharp or sensitive issues that they do not wish to touch upon. At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation â€" making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world. So, actually I believe these limitations or censorship is great for literature creation," he said.

With the Nobel going to a European seven times in the last decade, all evidence was pointing to a winner from outside Europe, and Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami emerged as the frontrunner at betting firm Ladbrokes. Mo Yan, at 9/1, "definitely slipped under the radar", said the firm's spokesman Alex Donohue.

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan - a pseudonym for Guan Moye; the pen name means "don't speak" - grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in north-eastern China. The cultural revolution forced him to leave school at 12, and he went to work in the fields, completing his education in the army. He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong gaoliang jiazu (Red Sorghum), a novel that an internationally successful movie by director Zhang Yimou, set against the horrific events that unfolded as Japan invaded China in the 1930s.

"He writes about the peasantry, about life in the countryside, about people struggling to survive, struggling for their dignity, sometimes winning but most of the time losing," said permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund, announcing the win. "The basis for his books was laid when as a child he listened to folktales. The description magical realism has been used about him, but I think that is belittling him â€" this isn't something he's picked up from Gabriel García Márquez, but something which is very much his own. With the supernatural going in to the ordinary, he's an extremely original narrator."

Informing Mo Yan of his win today, Englund said the author, who was at the home in China where he lives with his 90-year-old father â€" was "overjoyed and scared".

Mo Yan wins Nobel prize in literature 2012
Novelist, the first ever Chinese literature Nobel laureate, praised for 'hallucinatory realism'
by Alison Flood   
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 October 2012 12.38 BST   


Chinese author Mo Yan, who left school for a life working the fields at the age of 12, has become the first Chinese citizen ever to win the Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for merging "folk tales, history and the contemporary" with "hallucinatory realism".

The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history: although Gao Xingjian won in 2000, and was born in China, he is now a French citizen; and although Pearl Buck took the prize in 1938, for "her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces", she is an American author.

The Nobel, worth eight million kronor, goes to the writer "who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction", with previous winners including Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing and, last year, the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. Over the past month the Chinese press has become increasingly vocal about the possibility of a Chinese writer taking the award, with commentors equating "bagging the prize to Chinese literature gaining the world's recognition".

Bob Velin, USA TODAY Sports





12:39AM EDT October 14. 2012 - Nonito Donaire dropped Toshiaki Nishioka with a straight right hand counterpunch in the ninth round Saturday night before Nishioki's corner stepped in and stopped it at 1:54 in a fight that Donaire dominated from the opening bell.

Donaire, as expected, retained his WBO super bantamweight title with the victory at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. He has vacated his IBF title earlier this week.

Earlier in the fight, before Donaire knocked Nishioka down for the first time in the sixth round, the fans booed often at Nishioka's unwillingness to engage with Donaire. They had just witnessed a brutal, all-action co-feature fight in which Brandon Rios knocked out Mike Alvarado, and were in no mood for a lack opf action.

"We knew we could end the fight with one punch, and we knew if he made a mistake, we could get hjim and that's what happened," said Donaire. "He made the mistake to reach in, and I got him with the uppercut. My hand was hurting a little bit, so I couldn't finish him off (with my left), so I had to go with my right."

Asked why other fighters don't engage with him, Donaire said, "When you do engage and you open up yourself, Nonito is a surgeon. I can pick him apart, and once that surgeon comes in, that demolition man, I can knock people out."

Donaire (30-1, 19 KOs), one of boxing's top knockout artists, was asked by HOB's Max Kellerman about fighting Guillermo Rigondeaux. He said the undefeated Cuban defector would bore him at this point in his career. "Have you seen my last few fights? This fight I was so aware, so focused because I know what (Nishioka) has, and I want to feel that going into the ring.

They have to prove themselves to me to go at it."

The loss was the first for 36-year-old Nishioka (39-5-3, 24 KOs) in more than eight years, and was the first time he had been stopped since his second professional fight in 1995.

Ni Darrel A. Carumba (Banat) Updated October 14, 2012 12:00 AM


CEBU, Philippines - Patay nang nakit-an sa mga batan-on nga nangita og kaka ang 67-anyos nga dalagang gulang nga gituohang natagak sa kanal ug napantok ang ulo diha sa barangay Pungtod sa lungsod sa Oslob niadtong Biyernes sa alas 9:00 sa gabii.

Ang namatay mao si Marcelina Maghanoy Rolion, 67, caretaker sa pinuy-anan sa usa ka pari nga nahimutang sa maong lugar. Matud ni SPO1 Job Sarveda sa Oslob Police Station dihang nahinabi sa Banat News ang upat ka mga bata nag-iwag og sulo nga nangita og kaka niadtong higayuna.

Apan pagsum-ok nila sa kabugangan ilang nakita sa ubos nga bahin ang maong ginang nga nagbuy-od ug patay na hinungdan nga ilaha dayun kining gipahibalo ngadto sa kapulisan. Atol sa pakisusi sa kapulisan nasuta nga dunay samad sa agtang ang maong ginang nga gituohang maoy hinungdan sa kamatayon niini ug gituohang natagak kini sa maong kanal ug napantok ang ulo maong namatay.

Dugang nahipos nga impormasyon sa kapulisan ang maong ginang paingon untang mosabat og rosaryo sa pikas nga lugar apan pag-abot sa maong lugar tungod sa kangitngit sa dapit gituohang wala kini makabantay nga misimang na siya sa kanal ug natagak.

Ang kapulisan nirekomendar nga ipaubos sa autopsy ang patay’ng lawas pagtino kun wala bay foul play sa kamatayon niini apan ang mga kabanay kombinsido nga aksidente ang maong hitabo. (EIM) (BANAT)

Quote from: bugsay on October 14, 2012, 10:55:26 AM
la na 'ya balong.
la na pa kontet
la na plemyo

hiyak na bugtay,
tyabaw na dayay.
basol ba botoy?
tan-a lang pikoy...

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 14, 2012, 11:29:10 AM
That's a good question, Hubs. The Antebellum period refers to the time period prior to the American Civil War, a time when slavery was still legal in certain parts of the United States, specifically in the southern states, which were against northern reforms to abolish slavery.

Post-Antebellum refers to the time period after the American Civil War.

After the American Civil War, and with the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation , which abolished slavery in the United States, the African slaves were freed from bondage. With the collapse of the Confederate States of America (the rebellious states), the Federal government implemented reforms to build the south.

However, the local governments in the south continued to repress the African-Americans with the passing of Jim Crowe Laws. Such laws limited the voting rights of African Americans , separated the mingling of blacks with whites. It was akin to Spanish laws during colonial Philippines that prevented Chinese integration into the country.

I hope that helps.

Ah, you mean postbellum, then. There is no such thing as "post-antebellum". Where's your Latin?

P.S. I majored in American History, and have published papers on the American Civil War.