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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion



The Protocol of the Elders of Zion is a text that purports to describe a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination.  It is one of the most well known and discussed examples of literary forgery.  Numerous independent investigations have concluded it to be either a plagiarism or a hoax.  The Protocols is widely considered to be the beginning of contemporary conspiracy theory literature, and takes the form of an instruction manual to a new member of the “elders,” describing how they will run the world through control of the media and finance, and replace the traditional social order with one based on mass manipulation.

Continued usage of the Protocols as an antisemitic propaganda tool substantially diminished with the defeat of the Nazis in World War II.  It is still frequently quoted and reprinted by some anti-Semitic circles, and is sometimes used as evidence of an alleged Jewish cabal, especially in the Middle East.  Elements of the text in the Protocols appears to be plagiarized from an 1864 pamphlet, Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, written by the French satirist Maurice Joly. Joly’s work attacks the political ambitions of Napoleon III using Machiavelli as a diabolical plotter in Hell as a stand-in for Napoleon’s views.

Interestingly, many of the protocols aims have been achieved.  For example: Universal suffrage, wide acceptance of pornography, the spread of Darwinism, Socialism, and Materialism.

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The Cardiff Giant



The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous hoaxes in American history, was a 10-foot-tall (3m) “petrified man” uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. “Stub” Newell in Cardiff, New York.  Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.  The Giant was the creation of a New York tobacconist named George Hull.  Hull, an atheist, decided to create the giant after an argument with a fundamentalist minister named Mr. Turk about a passage in Genesis that stated that there were giants who once lived on earth.

Hull hired men to carve out a 10-feet-long, 4.5 inches block of gypsum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, telling them it was intended for a monument of Abraham Lincoln in New York.  He shipped the block to Chicago, where he hired a German stonecutter to carve it into the likeness of a man and swore him to secrecy.  Various stains and acids were used to make the giant appear to be old and weather beaten, and the giant’s surface was beaten with steel knitting needles embedded in a board to simulate pores.  When the giant had been buried for a year, Newell hired two men, Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, ostensibly to dig a well.  When they found the Giant, one of them has been attributed to saying “I declare, some old Indian has been buried here!”.

The giant drew such crowds that showman P.T. Barnum offered $60,000 for a three-month lease of it (in his memoirs he said he wanted to buy it).  When the syndicate turned him down he hired a man to covertly model the giant’s shape in wax and create a plaster replica.  He put his giant on display in New York, claiming that his was the real giant and the Cardiff Giant was a fake.  On February 2, 1870 both giants were revealed as fakes in court.  The judge ruled that Barnum could not be sued for calling a fake giant a fake.

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Feejee Mermaid



The Feejee Mermaid was presented as a mummified body of something, supposedly a creature that was half mammal and half fish (like a grotesque version of normal mermaid stories).  The original exhibit was popularized by circus great P.T. Barnum, but has since been copied many times in other attractions, including the collection of famed showman Robert Ripley.  The original exhibit was shown around the United States, but was lost in the 1860s when Barnum’s museum caught fire.  The exhibit has since been acquired by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and is currently housed in the museum’s attic storage area.

The Fiji mermaid came into Barnum’s possession via his Boston counterpart Moses Kimball, who brought it down to Barnum in late spring of 1842.  On June 18, Barnum and Kimball entered into a written agreement to exploit this “curiosity supposed to be a mermaid.”  Kimball would remain the creature’s sole owner and Barnum would lease it for $12.50 a week.  Barnum christened his artefact “The Feejee Mermaid”.

In reality, the mermaid was a gaff, the work of an Indonesian craftsman using either papier-mâché and materials from exotic fish, or the tail of a fish and a torso of a baby orangutan, stitched together with the head of a monkey.

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Alien Autopsy



In 1995, Ray Santilli instigated a wide reaching “alien autopsy” controversy when he claimed to possess footage taken in a tent by a U.S. military shortly after the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.  Santilli first presented his film to an invited audience of media representatives, UFOlogists and other dignitaries at the Museum of London on 5 May 1995.  Although the broadcast version did not show the actual “autopsy”, video editions have the complete and unedited film, plus previously unreleased footage of wreckage presented as the remains of the alien craft reported to have crashed in Roswell.  The show features interviews with experts on the authenticity of the film.

On April 4, 2006, two days prior to the UK release of Alien Autopsy Ray Santilli and fellow producer Gary Shoefield announced that their film was only partially real (a “few frames,” in their words), while the rest was a reconstruction of twenty-two rolls of film, averaging four minutes in length, which Santilli had viewed in 1992 but which had subsequently degraded from humidity and heat.  According to Santilli, a set was constructed in the living room of an empty flat in Rochester Square, Camden Town, London.  John Humphreys, an artist and sculptor, was employed to construct two dummy alien bodies over a period of three weeks, using casts containing sheep brains set in jelly, chicken entrails and knuckle joints.

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The Surgeon's Photograph of the Loch Ness Monster



This famous picture, which shows what looks like the head of a prehistoric creature emerging from the waves of Scotland's Loch Ness, was allegedly snapped by gynecologist Robert Wilson in 1934. It soon became known as the "surgeon's photograph," because searching for "gynecologist's photograph" on Google Images will absolutely not result in finding this picture.

Before Dr. Vagina's famous photo, the Loch Ness Monster had been limited to a few legends and scattered local sightings, which presumably accompanied spottings of highland prostitutes and grain alcohol. After the surgeon's photo, however, the creature gained worldwide attention, despite the fact that Wilson himself denied the Loch Ness Monster even existed and insisted he had just taken a picture of some animal he didn't recognize.


"Ooh, an animal I don't recognize! Good thing I don't believe in monsters or I would be shitting all over myself right now."

Monster sightings and photographs continued unabated in the area for the next 60 years until 1994, when a man named Christian Spurling finally confessed to the hoax. Spurling explained that his father-in-law Marmaduke Wetherall had staged the picture using a fake monster head attached to an 18-inch long toy submarine.

The whole ridiculous plan was an attempt to get back at his employer, a newspaper called the Daily Mail that had ridiculed him in a recent issue. Wetherall had Dr. Wilson submit the picture to give it more "respectability."


The original uncropped image, which is clearly a prehistoric beast and not a duck or a bathtub toy.

And Yet...

So that's the end of the Loch Ness Monster, right?

Not even close. Die-hard cryptozoologists immediately dismissed Spurling's hoax confession, insisting the resources that he described being used to make the fake monster didn't exist in 1934 (fake monster heads would apparently not be invented until much later).

To this day, the Loch Ness Monster industry is thriving, and every few years there's a new, expensive expedition setting out to find it. There was a 2003 BBC special that employed satellites and 600 separate sonar beams to try to track down the beast once and for all.

So Why Do They Still Believe?

The fact that there are "cryptozoologists" in the world (that is, people who specialize in tracking legendary creatures to prove they're real) should tell you. There are people who have staked their reputations on the creature being real and depend on the income from books asserting such. It's not so easy for somebody in that position to give in to the "wooden head glued to a toy submarine" theory.


Latest photograph of the monster.

If there were only some way to walk away from the theory and save face at the same time... oh, wait. Some Loch Ness Monster experts say the creature has probably now died. Due to global warming.

We should also point out that Loch Ness is located in an area where the other main attractions involve grim industrial sprawl and a dish made of ground sheep's heart, so they're going to promote the hell out of any mythical creature they can get their hands on. Scotland would probably be claiming Highlander as a true story if they thought they could get away with it.

Read more: 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/

hoaxes, those tricks that make one "believe or accept as genuine something false and often preposterous", have been around, and not just for cebuanos.  some famous hoaxes in history have even tenaciously clung in the world's collective memory.  some samples:

Crop Circles

 
The phenomenon of those large circles of flattened crops mysteriously appearing in fields goes back to the 1970s, in Southern England. Soon it spread all over the world, with crop circles reported as far away as Australia, America and Japan. Various explanations were given, such as aliens, ball lightning and large-scale unregistered hootenannies.


Thousands of these crop circles were reported over the decades, gaining a massive following among UFO enthusiasts who worked tirelessly to try to decipher what was clearly messages from another world. After all, the perfect patterns could clearly not be replicated by, say, a couple of dumbasses in their spare time.


We're sure the ufology community's faces were red when, in 1991, pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley from Southampton, England confessed to creating the original circles. They even demonstrated to journalists how they produced the perfect shapes by flattening them in the crops using planks and ropes, and crude surveying techniques.

The confession was prompted when Bower's wife noticed unexplained high mileage on his car and began to suspect him of having an affair, though Cracked feels that after learning the truth--that Bower was actually going out at night with another man to flatten hectares of wheat--she may actually have wished that adultery was to blame.

And Yet...

Bower and Chorley found themselves widely ignored. After all, they didn't confess to doing all the crop circles, right? Maybe they just started the prank and then real aliens came and joined in.

Feverish study of the circles continued unabated, and M. Night Shyamalan even featured them in Signs, more than a decade later.

Read more: 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/

Quote from: statesville on February 07, 2012, 07:48:29 AM
Ang nagmugna ug estorya nga naay tsunami  nagligidligid kaha  ug katawa sa resulta..

morag paul revere's ride sa u.s. history, hehe.  sa pagkakaron, gipangita na sa authorities ning mga tawhana.  'mga' kay duha man kintahay sila, ang ga-drive ug ang gaangkas sa motorcycle.  on hindsight, morag kataw-anan na.  hinoon, di tingali ko mokatawa kun usa pa ko sa nakadagan.  malooy lang gyod ko sa mga schoolchildren who had to go through a second terror of a tsunami false alarm soon after going through the terror of a very real earthquake.

Quote from: taga tigbao on February 07, 2012, 05:12:30 PM
Sa likod sa tanang nahitabo sa Central Philippines, naay Pilipino nga nagpangan ug Ahcee Flores ang mibatbat, NGA MAG-AMPO KONO ANG TANAN NGA MALAHOS ANG TSUNAMI ARON DAGHAN KONONG MGA BADUY NGA MGA BISAYA ANG MAMATAY.

Surok jud ahong dugo ani ba. Grrrr!

tse na lang niya.  kana nga statement nagpasabot nga siya ang kinabaduyan thereabouts.  a classier and more educated person would shudder to even think that he's capable of such conclusions.  duda kong nabasted na siyag usa ka bisaya da.  usa ra gyod akong namatikdan sukad pa; ang tawong kusog manaway ug bisaya kay baduy kuno wa gani diay makaila kun unsa ning deodorant.  i wish i could meet this bastard.  i'll let my cats finish his face off. 

ambot kun tinuod ba kaha... nahimo na kunong leaning tower of pisa ang luym building.  di na kuno paagian ang dalan (gonzales st. man tingali na) beside it.  bawo ba uroy.  basig usa na pod ni sa rumors galore.  one thing is sure, it's already very old and it has been displaced long ago as the tallest building in cebu city.

they too, stand again, those who fall differently, but with some help...

“If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary.”  (Mark Twain)

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 03, 2009, 07:55:12 PM
Boto ko ana.  With apologies to raldampong, sa akong sabot wa man tingali magjagajaga si apothecary.  Famous na kung famous, ug kung kadaghanan natong mga gahi-gahi nag bukog nakaila ni Nestor Balili, ergo famous sija.  Kusog to sija mo-recite og poem.  Di man tingali kadaghanan nato ang maka-recite og poem nga gimugna diha-diha.  Maminaw jud ko nija kay makalingaw ijang mga poems ug gusto pod nakong ma-memorize.  Ug niadtong 1970s, sa bag-o pang migawas ang family size nga Coke, mi-order sija sa K of C og family size nga beer.  Paskang pangatawa sa tanan.  Karon, kinsay sakto?  Naunhan pa nija ang San Miguel Corp. Prescient sija, sano.   

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on June 05, 2011, 12:19:41 AM
Famous (or infamous) pud ang ubang Bol-anon nga mangopya og sinulat sa uban, ipang-upload sa ilang website or blog, then angkonon nga ilang sinulat. I say angkonon kay wala man isulat ang ilang source, kay gi editan man pud kintahay nila aron morag originally written by them. Nakabasa ko og ingon ani, both original ug ang plagiarized version. Luoy ang original writer kay gikawatan og intellectual property rights.

fan pod ko ni nestor balili.  usa sa iyang mga poems:

under the green of the golden watam
the lion, the mountain, the mouse and the bear
put into the dungeon of esmalakag king.*


*usa sa mga ilado nga abogado karon diha sa tagbilaran ang nagtudlo ani nako sa una, duly crediting nestor balili for the composition.  wa gyoy makaako ug plagiarize ani.  top that.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 30, 2012, 09:53:50 AM
...tiwasa hangtod sa lubi-lubi, Bay Chris...

apurado ra pod ka... pebrero pa gani ta, kalayo pa sa disyembre ug sa akong pinaskohan.

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 05:00:38 PM
Basin pwede mag nurse si Ms. Isles unya si Bay Bugs ug Hubs tig inject. Ikaw tig prescribe... akoy tig kolekta kay anad ko ana hehehe 

i dread the thought kun unsay gamiton aning duha pag-inject. 

former associate justice serafin cuevas
lead counsel of chief justice renato corona's impeachment trial,
aka the team leader of atty. karen jimeno
(get used to his hairstyle.  glad he doesn't wear a toupée.)

mahadlok man sad ta ani.  magpapurga na ko uy, kay wa baya ko kahibawo...

Are Men Exempt for All Household Works?

no.  luckily for me, my banana republic does not think it's beneath him to help around the house.  there are just some things i can't do, like opening tight bottle caps or waking up early to prepare breakfast or ironing more than 2 or 3 clothes at a time.  he hates dishwashing, i don't mind picking up his things from the floor. 

one tries to make up for the other as far as household chores are concerned.  we learned to live with that without any expressed agreements on how to do things.  it behooves on me though to try to do more as much as i can because he's the one who holds a day job.     

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on January 14, 2012, 02:00:06 AM
Middle-Aged Brains Are Already Past Their Prime

posible nga di na unsa kaabtik, pero bakwi kay in more ways than one daghan na man pod ang stored knowledge wrought by experience, which only the passing of time can provide.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on February 06, 2012, 10:09:54 PM
I'm watching ANC now. Philvocs reported that there were 240 aftershocks so far. I only felt 3 aftershocks between 6 and 7 p.m.

now that i'm alone and not talking to anyone, i felt 3 aftershocks; very light, but they still moved my chair.

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                                                (Credit: Jose Gochangco)

Tsunami scare hits Cebu City

ABS-CBNnews.com
Updated as of 02/06/2012 9:06 PM

MANILA, Philippines - False rumors of a tsunami coming to devastate earthquake-affected areas caused widespread panic in Visayas today, stopping traffic in Cebu City and panicking residents.

A video taken earlier today at around 3:30 p.m. by hotel worker Jose Gochangco using his iPhone showed people running on the streets, and drivers honking their horns as motor vehicles were stuck in traffic.

Gochangco was in the lobby on the 7th floor of the GV Hotel on Osmeña Boulevard corner Sanciangko Street in Cebu City when people who had come up from the street told hotel staff that seawater had reached downtown Cebu City.

A security guard went up to the hotel’s top floor to see if the people’s story was true, but found that the coast looked the same as usual, and nothing seemed to have changed.

“Pagtingin namin sa labas, may mga tao nang tumatakbo, may mga kotseng bumubusina. Puro flat land dito, pumupunta yata sila sa pedestrian bridge for safety, o gusto lang nilang makalayo sa tubig,” Gochangco said.

False reports had allegedly been spread by people on motorcycles, who said that a tsunami was coming to sweep Cebu City away.

According to Gochangco, “Karamihan ng tao daw, nakita nila ang ibang taong tumatakbo, sumali na rin sila.”

“May mga tumawag rin nga sa aking kaibigan ko, nagsasabi, binaha na raw ba kami, nasaan na ang tubig, sabi ko wala naman dito,” he said.

Foreign tourists had also come up to the hotel to seek refuge or even watch the water coming in.

About an hour after the panic, local officials reportedly went around the city in a fire truck to clarify that there was no tsunami.

“Nobody on our staff was hurt,” Gochangco said. “Sana hindi naman dumating ang panahon na magiging mahalagang mataas ang building ng hotel namin.”

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck between the islands of Cebu and Negros on Monday morning, killing at least seven people. Intensity V was felt in Cebu City.

Tsunami alert level 2 was raised by the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) in Negros and Cebu. The alert was lifted at 2:30 p.m. (With reports from Lean Lacap and Rhoel Fernandez, Regional Network Group)

duda ko nga ang gihisgotan dinhi ang ilang idol.

heaven help them.  that's a rather high mortality number.  my prayers. 

some parents who were already inside the campus when the gates were locked (some unfortunate others were locked out for a time) had the sense to help calm the situation.  after a community prayer led by a nun using a public address system, an act that calmed the kids greatly, an american couple was reported to have laughed and said, "it's okay for our kid to stay on here.  there's no tsunami because we don't have an ocean in cebu".  another mother did it best by using the microphone and announcing that she works at the dpwh, her office is located beside the sea, and the sea waters are still there.

elsewhere, radio commentators did their part to dispel the rumor.  because some side streets were jammed by jeepneys abandoned by drivers, they asked, "makadagan kaha mo padung ngadto sa cebu plaza kun naay tsunami?  nagtoo kaha mo nga di mo maabtan?  pamalik mo kay naa pa ang dagat sa carbon (market)".   

luckily, we were already safe at home with our little girl.  i was told that i was one of the first to fetch a child in the school; i thank the heavens for my insistence in going home straight knowing the terrible traffic that had to be negotiated.

the tsunami rumor spread fast and spilled over to that school in uptown cebu.  the sight of people running on the streets terrified the school authorities.  they thought it was a chase for a criminal so they had to hurriedly close the school gates.  and then it was as if the whole school was filled with the sound of wailing kids who were still waiting to be fetched.  they've just been through the terror of an earthquake, now they thought the tsunami was coming.     

it was bad in downtown cebu sometime in the mid-afternoon because of the rumored tsunami.  it is alleged that it took only some pranks of motorcycle-riding guys shouting "naa na ang tsunami!" and people spilled out of buildings and the streets were emptied of public transport. 

look at what rumor and a sick humor can do to a multitude.   

most welcome, bugs.  i look forward to more EBs with you in the future.  puslan man nga nagkakita na gyod atong mga kalimutaw...  we all like you, kaguran and all. 

hinoon, nag-atubangay ra man nag kalimutaw ang toledo city sa cebu ug tayasan sa negros oriental.

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2012, 03:34:24 PM
the epicenter was in toledo city in cebu.  it struck at 11:49 a.m.

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2012, 05:11:09 PM
The epicenter was closest to Tayasan, a coastal town of about 32,000 people flanked by mountains in Negros Oriental province.  A child there died when a concrete fence of a house collapsed, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.

Quote from: islander on February 06, 2012, 05:13:07 PM
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 44 miles (72 kilometers) north of Dumaguete city on Negros and hit at a depth of 29 miles (46 kilometers).  The area is about 400 miles (650 kilometers) southeast of the capital, Manila.

despite different initial reports, it's 2-to-1 for negros oriental as the epicenter, so it must be negros then.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 44 miles (72 kilometers) north of Dumaguete city on Negros and hit at a depth of 29 miles (46 kilometers).  The area is about 400 miles (650 kilometers) southeast of the capital, Manila.

President Benigno Aquino III’s spokesman said authorities did not force people to evacuate but implored those along the shore to be vigilant.  The coast guard grounded all vessels while the tsunami alert was in effect.

A mall in San Carlos city in neighboring Negros Occidental province was damaged when its windows were shattered by the shaking, said Ramos, the civil defense leader.  The quake was also felt in Cebu, where it lasted about 30 seconds.

The Philippines is located in the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common.  A 7.7-magnitude quake killed nearly 2,000 people in Luzon in 1990.

http://english.alarabiya.net/

Philippine seismologists briefly issued a tsunami alert for the central islands.  Five bamboo and wooden cottages were washed out from a beach resort in La Libertad by huge waves, but there were no reports of injuries, said police Superintendent Ernesto Tagle.  Elsewhere along the coast, people rushed out of schools, malls and offices.

The epicenter was closest to Tayasan, a coastal town of about 32,000 people flanked by mountains in Negros Oriental province.  A child there died when a concrete fence of a house collapsed, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.

“So far one dead, but we could not yet account for the damage to buildings,’ Tayasan police officer Alfred Vicente Silvosa told The AP by phone.  He said there were still aftershocks “so we are outside, at the town plaza.  We cannot inspect buildings yet because it’s dangerous.”

“I felt the building shaking, so I rushed out of the building.  Our computers, shelves, plates, the cupboards, water dispenser all fell,” he said.

A three-story office building also collapsed in La Libertad, but occupants managed to run out.

Negros Oriental police chief Edward Carranza said the temblor damaged many houses in Guihulngan and he ordered his men to help displaced residents find shelter.

Officials in some areas suspended work and canceled classes.  Power and telecommunications were knocked out in several places.

Carranza said police rushed out of his building when the quake struck.  “All my personnel ran out fearing our building would collapse,” he said.

“Now it’s shaking again,” he said as an aftershock hit.  “My keychain is dancing.”

6.8 quake in Philippines kills 5 and buries homes; scores missing

Monday, 06 February 2012


The Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said it warned residents along coastal areas to be on the watch
for unusual waves as it raised a tsunami alert at level 2. (File photo)

By The Associated Press
MANILA

A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least five people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents.  At least 29 people were missing.

The 6.8-magnitude quake, in a narrow strait just off Negros Island, caused a landslide in Guihulngan, a city of about 180,000 people in Negros Oriental province.  As many as 30 houses were buried and at least 29 people were missing, Mayor Ernesto Reyes said.

Reyes said that four people died there, including a student at a college and two others in an elementary school.  Another person died in the collapse of a town market.

The quake, which hit at 11:49 a.m. (3:49 a.m. GMT), triggered another landslide in the mountain village of Solongon in La Libertad town, also in Negros Oriental.  An unknown number of people were trapped, said La Libertad police chief inspector Eric Arrol Besario.

“We’re now getting shovels and chain saws to start a rescue because there were people trapped inside.  Some of them were yelling for help earlier,” Besario told The Associated Press by phone.  Three key bridges in the town suffered cracks and were no longer passable, he said.

5 dead, more missing

A child in Tayasan town was the first reported fatality a few hours after the quake.  The victim was pinned by a concrete wall that collapsed during the quake, reported the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

Mayor Ernesto Reyes of Guihulngan City, also in Negros Oriental, reported that as many as 30 houses were buried by a quake-triggered landslide.

Reyes said four people were killed in the landslide and 29 more were missing.

NDRRMC executive director Benito Ramos said that he received a report that the earthquake shattered several glass panels of a shopping mall in San Carlos City.

The Associated Press reported that people rushed out of school buildings and malls during the quake.  It reported that a three-story office building collapsed in La Libertad town ,but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

A police officer reported that five bamboo and wooden cottages were washed out from a La Libertad beach resort by huge waves, but there were no reports of injuries.

Negros Oriental police chief Edward Carranza said that the temblor damaged many houses in Guihulngan, a city of about 180,000 people, and he ordered his men to help displaced residents find shelter.  A public market collapsed and a bridge in the city was damaged.

Operations in government offices and classes in all school levels in Negros, Cebu and Iloilo provinces were suspended due to the strong earthquake.

http://www.philstar.com/

The Phivolcs raised tsunami alert level 2 after the earthquake. 

The tsunami warning was raised to put on alert the residents in coastal areas, particularly in the eastern portion of eastern Negros Oriental and the western portion of Cebu province.

“People are advised to stay away from the shoreline.  People should not go to the coast to watch the tsunami.  People whose houses are very near coastal areas in Negros and Cebu islands are strongly advised to be watchful,” the agency added.

The Philippine Coast Guard also prevented all sea vessels plying Cebu and Negros provinces from making trips as long as the tsunami alert level was in place.

The tsunami alert was lifted as of 2:30 p.m.

In the Phivolcs' Earthquake Intensity Scale (PEIS), Intensity 7 was described as "destructive."  It said that during an Intensity 7 quake, people in upper floors may find it difficult to stand and heavy objects and furniture may overturn or topple.

"Old or poorly built structures suffer considerable damage.  Some well-built structures are slightly damaged," the Phivolcs said in the PEIS.

The areas of Roxas City; Dao and Ivisan in Capiz; Iloilo City; Ayungon town in Negros Oriental; Kanlaon City; Lapu-lapu City; Guimaras; Cebu City; San Carlos City; Bacolod City; Sagay City; Tagbilaran City; Candoni and Binalbagan towns Negros Occidental felt the quake at Intensity 5.

The quake was also felt at Intensity 4 in San Jose de Buenavista, Pandan, Anini-y, Patnungon towns in Antique; Kalibo in Aklan province, Dipolog City, Sipalay in Negros Occidental and Ormoc City.

It was also felt at Intensity 3 in Butuan City in Agusan del Norte; Legaspi City, Albay; Carmen, Cagayan de Oro; Tacloban City; Catbalogan; Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte; Masbate, Masbate; Cagayan de Oro City; Intensity 2 in Cabid-an, Sorsogon; Borongan, Eastern Samar; Mambajao, Camiguin and Intensity 1 in Pagadian City.

Strong quake in Visayas kills 5; 29 missing

By Jun Pasaylo and Dennis Carcamo
The Philippine Star
February 06, 2012 12:35 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Five people have been reported killed after a strong quake struck parts of Visayas before noon today, which triggered landslides and destroyed houses and buildings.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs) measured the earthquake at magnitude-6.9.  It said the quake, which was tectonic in origin, occurred in waters off Tayasan town in Negros Oriental at 11:49 a.m. with a depth of 10 kilometers.

The agency reported that the strong quake was followed by two aftershocks.  The first aftershock measured at magnitude-4.8 and was recorded at 12:03 p.m.  It was followed by a 5.3 magnitude aftershock at 12:20 p.m.

The quake was felt strongest at Intensity 7 in Dumaguete City and Vallehermoso town in Negros Oriental.  It was also felt at Intensity 6 in La Carlota City and La Castellana towns in Negros Oriental and Argao town in Cebu province.

BREAKING NEWS ( Updated as of 03:09:00 PM )

Visayas hit by 6.9-magnitude earthquake

CEBU CITY -- An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook the Visayas islands at 11:49 a.m. today, causing a blackout in Iloilo City as well as suspension of classes in several schools and work in several government offices across the islands.

Coastal villages in Negros Oriental and the western part of Cebu have been placed on tsunami alert number 2 while the Coast Guard offices in Cebu and Iloilo have temporarily barred inter-island travel.

Four persons were rushed to Iloilo City hospitals for either having fainted or sustaining injuries during the quake.

The quake was felt strongest in Cebu, Iloilo and Negros.

PHIVOLCS director Renato U. Solidum, Jr. said on radio that the quake was tectonic in origin with a depth of 10 kilometers and with the epicenter located between Cebu and Negros islands. -- Marites Villamor-Ilano, Visayas Bureau chief

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Quote from: chicogon on February 06, 2012, 04:06:25 AM
Aw mao ba.... xenxia na kay di man god bionic eyes ni akoa... ako ra man ilong ang bionic. If you come to think of it, sakto ka Ms Isle kay morag nakamatikod sad ning akong bionic nose sa amoy sa IT (isdang tulingan) nga medyo napan-os na... 

morag mas kasaligan man tingali imong bionic nose kay sa akong bionic eyes nga kinahanglan ug antiyohos nga naay wiper parehag awto... at least, you have confirmed that it's hubag over there, human maniid sa eb namo ni bugs, "it happens" to him, hahaha!  

asa ni dapit sa ato?  hahaha!  mora man ug street theater.  how creative.

but what a nightmare this is...

Quote from: chriswise on February 06, 2012, 03:04:06 PM
maayo na maghimo kag own news paper ba,,,,,(Hubag News) tan aw ko daghan mo palit kay katingad an ang name,,h,hehe,he,

mas mopalit gyod kog 'matag tiki chronicle' ang ngan.

weird.  wa awayi sa buhi pa, karon na hinoong patay na.

my own take:  europe man ni, tingali ug may chance si grace ibuna kay recognized man didto ang certain "rights" sa partner bisag wa kasla.  problema lang, they're not british citizens, and our own laws just might prevail because of the involvement of the embassy.  di na lang unta dugangan ni grace ibuna ang iyang pabaga.  as a companion of 4 years, di man tingali na unsa kadugaya.  kun 20 years pa, basin makalulooy pa siya.

thanks, mol.  i'm sorry about that poor child in tayasan. 

the epicenter was in toledo city in cebu.  it struck at 11:49 a.m.

we were walking at the terraces at ayala center when those huge glass panels that line the restaurants started to shake terribly.  it took me time to realize what was happening.  one of my companions pulled me to the farthest part, that means toward the grills of the balconies, away from those glass panels.  i thought that was it; the glass shattering over me.  uh-huh.

i chose to bail out of ayala center soonest.  all the buildings have been evacuated. i mean, not thoroughly evacuated but there were unusually more people outside, and they looked like office workers.

all classes from elementary to college levels have been suspended.  i rushed to school to fetch our little girl.  i saw kids (the rule was they had to be fetched, otherwise they had to stay) crying on the shoulders of their parents.  mine declared that she cried, "but only on the inside".  (i wished she can expel the terror out by crying.  oh, well, to each his own process.)  i checked on other family members.  everybody's fine.       

we're now at home after extricating ourselves from a terrible traffic jam.  someone told me that our roof had rattled and all our cats tried to climb the highest possible loft that they could reach.

an unusual day, all right.  to think that i went to ayala center only to check with a bank because i've forgotten my atm pin number.   

na, hala.  paglabtikanay mo aron mosamot ka rainbow-colored ning tb...

maoy gidangat.  have pancakes, lose your willy.  ugh.

kuyawag submarino sa inyo uy, flying segs.

morag restroom man na, fr chic.  hubag must be inside, making do because "it happens" to him.

kalooy ni manoy.  in his loneliness, namunit na lang intawon ug lago nga libod-suroy nga may diperensya pa gyod sa utok. 

Quote from: chicogon on February 05, 2012, 01:02:53 PM


... with matching payong!!!

hehe, super meditator gyod diay ni si inday.  nakapa-levitate god siya sa mga bokya...

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 05, 2012, 10:31:08 AM
Hmm, I don't know him. Anyhow, pahibaw-on na ta lang ka nga actually, composite picture na sija sa pipila ka TB members: lain ang tag-iya sa agtang, lain pud sa mata, ilong, baba, bungot ug lawas. Guess whose. Also, please note the underwear print...

okay, okay, so he's not the legendary special agent 0-2-10.  curious lang ko kun kang kinsa ni nga tb member's body.  mind revealing?  as for his underwear, now pa ko kahibawo nga sayon diay manghuwam kang vladimir putin.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 04, 2012, 02:49:54 PM
Nakaila ka aning isdaa?

isda kaha ni o usa sa mga floats sa cebu sinulog?

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 04, 2012, 09:01:40 PM
Hmm, basya ayaw lang jud ko himoang sakayan kay kon "it happens", yataps si Botoy. Aw, bisan gani warning lang nga it's about to happen, wa na, castigo cruel e inusual jamo...

courage, botoy, courage.  maanad ra lagi ka, because when "it happens", it had to happen to you, sakayan ka man o di, EB or no.  thank your lucky stars.  

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 04:21:32 PM


EB ni Ms Isles ug Bugsay  Hain kaha si Botoy aning panahona...

nagsunod si hubag aning panahona... bungoton nga iho, mao nga gi-edit out sa hulagway.

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 04:20:08 PM
Mao ni siya Raq? Hehehehe...



Aw! 

wow, waffo waffito.  rasa.  hinashasan.  bugsay gyod!

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on February 04, 2012, 12:33:33 PM
Nakakita man ko sa picture ni Bugsay sa una so na imagine nako gwapo ug gwapa jud mo ug kaliwat Ms. Isle. Hope mag E.B pud ta puhon. Biboha dagway ug naa si Botoy,Bolbohol,Ms. Isle Bugsay,Padre ug mga great people sa tubagbohol magtapok puhon.

salamat, raqz, nga hugot imong pagtuo nga hitsura diay mig tawo ug kaliwat. 

i hope i shall have overcome my shyness by then, raqz, to have the strength, nay, the nerve, when the opportunity arises, when the moon is on the 7th house and peace will guide our planets, and i can join you great people for an EB.

sa mayo, pohon, gamitan lang nakog teleskopyo una si fr chic nga moadto sa tbtk.

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 04, 2012, 12:24:34 PM
Badibildir jud diay ning taga sa Balingsya kon maohon...

morag exception ko ani da.  lisod ning bayeng muskulado.  ako unyay suguon ug pangahoy ni banana republic, maoy gidangat.  si lorenz, badibildir tingali.  di lang siya magmantinir ug unlan.  he can lift an ambulance.

Quote from: Lorenzo on February 04, 2012, 07:37:45 AM
asa lagi ang ebidensya?

di lagi motapot sa camera among nawong kun dungan ming duha... mao nga there's no visual evidence except for our blood compact, which i cannot post here.  

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 06:45:46 AM
Wow... tinuod diay jong body builder. Unlan ra gani gegamit ana niya!!! 

Another great story to tell... I'm happy for the both of you. TB Rules!!! 

thanks, fr chic.  as for bugsay, imagine kun mattress pa iyang gigamit imbis unlan.  wala-wala si schwarzenegger.

di ba gihimo sad nimog inodoro imong laptop when "it happens" to you?

mora lagi siyag legendary special agent.

tekret.

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 04:10:34 PM
Mora manag nakuyapan nga gidakop ni Mona Pusa hehehehe. Dia ra siya sa nakawala na...




Pahiyom sa kalayaan 

nagkinahanglan pod ug reading glasses.

you are cruel, hubag, huhuhu. 

Quote from: chicogon on February 04, 2012, 04:13:30 PM
Hmmmm makapang-apply napod mga TB members ani...   

mag-una ba pod ani si hubag ug bugsay... magkinahanglan na pod recommendation from fr chic.  maayo untag pakumpisalon usa ning duha...

he ain't gonna leave me either, no he won't...

is that you, legendary special agent?  i mean that panda...

Quote from: Lorenzo on February 04, 2012, 12:04:32 AM
Isles, my good friends from Iloilo City once told me, "Bards, ka nami gid sang Lechon Cebuano, ayhan! Ka nami gid !"

They say the best Lechon in the world is from the Philippines. And best Philippine Lechon is Cebuano Lechon.

it's true about lechon de cebu.  the ones from carcar are tops, followed by those produced in talisay city.

guwapo akong paryente, say n'yo.  but of course naman, kaliwat god mi.

usa pa, badibildir gyod tuod siya.

the scene:

nakaplastar na mi sa mooon cafe, unya dihay nisulod.  siyagit dayon kog "bugsay!"  lingi dayon siya.  da, si bugsay na gyod diay.

some realizations:

bugsay's parents had the sense to name him after a god.

he and his wife are very, very educated.

he is somewhat shy.  (hinoon, ambot lang kun nagpagoryo-goryo lang ba to kay diha iyang ismi.)

fancy meeting bugsay through tubagbohol!  (thanks, tb.)

Quote from: lumine on February 03, 2012, 11:33:24 PM
unya,kumusta man inyo eb,ms isles? imo jud paryente si bugsay sa tuhod or sa siko?hehehe.

either of the two, hehe.  lipay lang ko nga dili sa ilok.

why man mi naka-EB?

well, for one, sa pm-pm namo we realized that we could be related.  we could be some kind of long-lost cousins.  it turns out that most probably pag-umangkon nako siya sa tuhod kundi sa siko.  our forebears during the pleistocene epoch were one and the same family.

28 JANUARY 2012, DATELINE AYALA CENTER, CEBU CITY - by some miracle, nag-EB mi ni bugsay.

wa lang miy ebidensiya nga hulagway kay pareha man ming camera-shy.  with us were our significant others.

text-text lang una mi; dayon sabot-sabot.  didto mi nagkita sa mooon cafe (ambot unsaon na pagbasa nga tulo man gyod ang letter 'o' (their foood is goood, anyway).

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 31, 2012, 11:26:43 AM
Bwahaha, basin tuod makatabang ang alcohol. Camera? Aw, di man bawal pero mag-andam lang kog maskara.   

pagkawo lang ug iring sama anang imong avatar.  bastante na...

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on January 30, 2012, 09:46:48 PM
Oo karong mayo puhon this year. Murag magstay mi ug dugay sa Bohol puhon  so hopely mameet na nako si Tigbao hehehhe ug ubang mga T.B members. Hubag Bohol jud akong ultimate dream nga i meet 

hehe, hubag must be a dreamboat.

Get Out Of Toxic Relationships By Seeking Help

It’s important to remember that no matter how much you love a person, toxic relationships are bad for all involved.  It’s highly unlikely you will know about your significant other’s dark side beforehand; however, once you know about them, you need to get out of the relationship right away.  This is when you need to speak with someone you trust such as a family member, church member, social worker, etc.; anyone you believe can help you escape the relationship.

Do whatever you can to get out of those toxic relationships and don’t ever think you can change a person after you left them because chances are they won’t change.  For that reason, you should never, ever, try to get your ex back.  However, if you and your partner are willing to make a change, then consider trying to work it out.  Just bear in mind that many times people change for a short while only to go back to the way they were before, which means you’re right back in the same position you once were.

http://www.yourmodernliving.com/

Sixth, your significant other puts down for how you look or act, all in the goal to make you feel unattractive and unintelligent.

Seventh, your significant other is overly jealous and always accuses you of cheating on him/her.

Eighth, your significant other has a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality; one minute he/she is very loving and sweet, the next minute they are overly mean and violent.

Ninth, your significant other has total control over your life and money, leaving you entirely dependent on him/her.

Tenth, your significant other will only go where he/she desires to go and doesn’t care to go where you would like to.

Eleventh, your significant other claims he/she loves you but doesn’t act like it.

Twelfth, your significant other always makes you feel afraid for your life.

Thirteenth, you can’t remember a time you felt happy when you were with your significant other.

First, your significant other puts you down either in public or private.

Second, your significant other doesn’t allow you to hang out with friends or family.

Third, your significant other is calling you non-stop to see what you are doing or who you are with; this happens even when you are working.

Fourth, your significant other doesn’t value any of your opinions even if the reasoning for them are important.

Fifth, you have changed who you are just to please your significant other.

The 13 Toxic Relationships Signs

By YML Staff
January 19, 2012

Signs To Watch Out For In A Toxic Relationship

Since toxic relationships are so bad, what can you do to ensure that you stay out of one?  What signs should you be looking for?  Are there any signs that will tell you a relationship is toxic?  While there is no easy way to identify the chances of a toxic relationship before you get into one, you do have at least 13 signs to know if you are in one currently.  What are they?

one rosebud is all i need.

IN SPACE - JANUARY 23: In this handout from the NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center, shows the coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting from the sun late January 23, 2012.  The flare is reportedly the largest since 2005 and is expected to affect GPS systems and other communications when it reaches the Earth's magnetic field in the morning of January 24. (Photo by NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center via Getty Images)

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This image provided by NASA shows a solar flare just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, 2010 the active region erupted, producing a solar flare and a fantastic prominence.  The eruption also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection into space.  The eruption was not directed toward any planets. (AP Photo/NASA)

This handout image provided by NASA shows the coronal mass ejection, viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7, 2011.  A medium-sized solar flare has erupted from the sun in an impressive display captured by NASA cameras.  Scientists say that the event won't have a significant impact on Earth.  NASA says the flare peaked Tuesday and created a large cloud that appeared to cover almost half the surface of the sun.  Images were recorded by the orbiting satellite called the Solar Dynamics Observatory. (AP Photo/NASA/SDO)

IN SPACE - JANUARY 23: In this handout from the NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center, shows a solar flare erupting from the sun late January 23, 2012.  The flare is reportedly the largest since 2005 and is expected to affect GPS systems and other communications when it reaches the Earth's magnetic field in the morning of January 24. (Photo by NOAA/National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center via Getty Images)

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an M8.7 class flare in a handout photo released by NASA January 23, 2012.  The flare is shown here in teal as that is the color typically used to show light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, a wavelength in which it is easy to view solar flares.  The flare began at 10:38 PM ET on January 22, 2012, peaked at 10:59 PM and ended at 11:34 PM. REUTERS/NASA/SDO/AIA/Handout

22 January 2012



This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere.  Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come.  The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later.  It will likely continue through Wednesday.  It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions.  It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 25, 2012, 08:58:14 PM
Ang nakaigit o ang giigitan?

klarong ang duha.

to be sure, there's less of what it really is not.

no sweat.  just give me time to wonder what my cause is.

real, real cute!

Stare at the red dot on this woman's nose for thirty seconds.  Then, look over at a blank white space (a piece of paper or an empty browser tab will do).  Did you see the "correct" version of the image?  Here's how it works: stare long enough at an object and the eye's photoreceptors (particularly the color-sensitive cone cells) lose sensitivity from overstimulation.  Divert the eyes to a blank space, and the surrounding cone cells send out a much stronger signal.  The brain interprets this discrepancy as looking at the precise opposite colors, in what is known as a 'negative afterimage.'  Nifty, no?

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Quote from: hubag bohol on February 03, 2012, 04:27:09 PM
He he, parehas man ni sa estorya bahin sa 3-meter wingspan...

estoryahe mi be, unsa man nang 3-meter wingspan, sige na be...

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 03, 2012, 04:23:27 PM
Sh!t happens, therefore she is...

Quote from: Lorenzo on February 03, 2012, 03:19:03 PM
Isles, consolidated intelligence support diay ka? Disseminated intelligence support si Hubag?

while he's not online yet... hehehe.  discharged intelligence system.

only as long as it's not a whole burned-to-a-crisp dead pig that i'm looking at. 

hahaha!  if i know... it's a filipino behind this "study".  we may as well top the world list of the race with the craziest humor.

as for carmen pedrosa, i won't be surprised if she'd become paranoid after years of exile during marcos's time.  watching her back must have become second nature.   

Quote from: chicogon on February 03, 2012, 12:58:46 PM
CIS tingale ni...

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 03, 2012, 01:15:06 PM
Hmm, Chinese Intelligence Service? O kaha, Codename Islander Speaking? 

consolidated intelligence support, hehe. 

- modest(!) islander

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 03, 2012, 11:46:04 AM
He he, kaniadto nga wa pa ma-smuggle si Islander gikan sa Tsayna paingon sa Pinas...

unsa?  si bugsay diay ang nag-smuggle nako gikan sa tsina? 

Quote from: hubag bohol on February 03, 2012, 11:44:03 AM
Hmm, she smells, therefore she speaks...

you poo, therefore you are.