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Her husband, Francisco or Paqui to the alta sociedad, first had his illicit relationship with their household maid. The maid, who has served the Ortigas family household for twenty years, became Paqui's "sex slave", according to Mrs. Ortigas. Her husband would do several sexual acts with the maid inside their house and even, at a sleazy hotel in Malate, Manila.

The former ambassador also had relationships with several other maids, and tried to solicit sexual favors with the family's executive assistant.

In all these affairs, Mrs. Ortigas kept her mouth shut, and like a lady who lived in the Victorian age, decided to live peacefully inspite of her resentment to her husband.

When her son, Paco, died due to a jet skiing accident, things changed. Mrs. Ortigas blamed herself for not taking care of Paco. She, however, discovered later on, that the accident came shortly after her son discovered that his father, Paqui, was maintaining a relationship with a certain Janet, a mistress.

Mrs. Ortigas decided that it was time to end her life as a "silent and suffering wife" when her husband Paqui even entered into a relationship with her best friend, Marian. Worst, this relationship had even spilled over the public sphere and is now the subject of worst rumors at North Greenhills and even in Makati.

When Marian left the states shortly after the US government rejected her immigration appeal, she came to stay for several years at the house of her best friend, Susie. Marian, according to Susie, is married to a Chilean.

When Paqui got his ambassadorship to Mexico, Marian was asked to work there, she, being a fluent Spanish speaker. During Paqui's stint as ambassador, according to Susie, the relationship between her best friend and her husband began.

The last straw, says Susie, is when news about Paqui, her husband, and Marian, cohabiting together in one of the apartments owned by the Ortigas, came out in public. This, for Susie, is the worst humiliation her husband gave her since they married at the age of 21 in 1968.

Now, the wife wants nothing more than justice, plain and simple.

http://newphilrevolution.blogspot.com/

For Mrs. Susana Madrigal B@yot-Ortigas, wife of former Philippine ambassador to Mexico Francisco Ortigas III, her years as a faithful wife ended when she allegedly found out the scandalous affair of her husband and her best friend of many years, Maria Antonia "Marian" Legarda.


"Susie's best friend"

http://newphilrevolution.blogspot.com/

Most of us think that adultery and concubinage are things which only happen in middle class or lower middle class homes. Actually, in several occasions, these also animate the lives of the rich and famous. Fact is, many of the rich and famous are involved in scandalous and sordid affairs that eventually ruin their lives (not their stature). Yet, these are kept hidden away from the prying eyes of a judging public. In most cases, these are tolerated.

For Mrs. Susana Madrigal B@yot-Ortigas, however, there is this thing called justice. And these alleged affairs of her alleged philandering husband has got to stop.


"Susie needs justice"

http://newphilrevolution.blogspot.com/

COCKTALES: Madrigal heiress - My Ortigas husband is a serial 'atsay-killer'

08-Jan-12, 1:39 PM | Vic Agustin


Francisco "Paqui" Ortigas III

Former Ambassador Francisco "Paqui" Ortigas III apparently has a Dominique Strauss Kahn-complex in him. Put less elegantly, the Castilaloy heir to the vast Greenhills and Ortigas real estate fortunes is an "atsay-killer."

The explosive allegation, complete with racy details fit for tabloids, are contained in the sworn statements of five household staff in the concubinage complaint filed by Ortigas's estranged wife, Susana Madrigal B@yot, before the Office of the City Prosecutor in Pasig.

"Paqui made Wilma (one of the dozen maids in the Ortigas house in North Greenhills) his 'sex slave' and engaged in perverted and depraved acts right in our conjugal home, in our den, in the master's bedroom and, worst of all, in the marital bed." the Madrigal heiress said.

"In fact, Paqui was caught by one of our maids in the middle of making Wilma give him a 'b... j..' in our walk-in closet and this was apparently while I was in another part of the house!'

The wife, 63, then proceeded to detail other liaisons her 65-year-old husband had committed with one other maid, a staffer of the publicly-listed Concrete Aggregates Corp. (where Paqui was once president) and, worst of all, with her classmate in the exclusive Assumption College, Ma. Antonia Legarda, who was caught in the act with Paqui while serving as his personal assistant in the Philippine embassy in Mexico.

"Perhaps exhibiting his utter moral depravity, Paqui did not even make any effort to hide his used condoms from the other maids," said the Madrigal heiress.

The husband, who is listed as chairman of the AIG Global Fund (Philippines) and Philam Bond Fund as well as other four Philam funds, has yet to file his answer to the concubinage complaint against him and Legarda.

According to the grapevine, Ortigas, after the news of his affair with Legarda became public, made it a point to sleep at the Greenhills home, but not after dropping off and having dinner with Legarda at the Luntala townhouse in Valle Verde.

Two scandalized Ortigas relatives, meanwhile, resigned from Concrete Aggregates board  in late December, shortly after the Madrigal heiress filed the criminal complaint and named one of the Concrete Aggregates employees as one of her husband's lovers.

Paqui's cousin, Ignacio Ortigas, quit as chairman and gave up his directorship, with Paqui's nephew Rafael Ortigas following suit. Ignacio did not cite any reason for his abrupt departure, while Rafael cited the need "to focus on family matters."

http://www.interaksyon.com/

The maid

She also described how she discovered her husband’s first affair which he allegedly had with their helper of 20 years, Wilma Balingasa, whom she described as an “old maid.”

“Respondent Paqui made Wilma his ‘sex slave’ and engaged in perverted and depraved acts right in our conjugal home, in our den, in the master bedroom and worst of all, in the marital bed,” B@yot-Ortigas said.

“In fact, respondent Paqui was caught by one of our maids in the middle of making Wilma give him a ‘blow job’ in our walk-in closet, and this was apparently while I was in another part of the house,” she said.

B@yot-Ortigas is a member of the prominent Madrigal clan which owns large tracts of land to the south of Metro Manila, including the Madrigal Business Park in Muntinlupa City. The posh Ayala Alabang Village was, at one point, part of the Madrigal estate.

Ortigas, on the other hand, is a scion of the Ortigas clan which owns Ortigas & Co., developer and owner of the Greenhills Shopping Center, much of the Ortigas central business district, and large tracts of land to the east of Metro Manila.

The Inquirer tried to get the side of the respondents in the case, but they had yet to respond as of press time.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

Battered wife

In the affidavit, B@yot-Ortigas also described how the marriage started to unravel from its earliest days, describing her husband as being “obsessed with dominance and control” to the point of berating her frequentlyâ€"even in publicâ€"as tanga or bobo (dumb, stupid), and showing no qualms about telling her to “shut up” in the presence of other people.

“The years of demeaning treatment I suffered made me see myself as inferior and overly dependent on respondent Paqui,” she said. “On hindsight, the reason why I could not leave Paqui is because (though it may be hard to accept) I am a battered wife.”

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

The best friend

In the complaint, she narrated how she invited Legardaâ€"her best friend, prior to her discovery of the affairâ€"to live in their conjugal home in North Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, after the latter suffered some financial difficulties.

When Ortigas was appointed ambassador to Mexico in August 2008, B@yot-Ortigas even decided to bring Legarda along to act as her husband’s assistant because of her command of the Spanish language.

“Aside from speaking fluent Spanish, respondent Marian needed employment, and that is the reason why I thought she was perfect for the job,” B@yot-Ortigas said.

“More importantly, since she was my best friend and a recipient of my generosity, I thought I could trust her,” she said.

However, one of their household staffers in Mexico later testified in a sworn statement that she had caught Ortigas and Legarda having sexual intercourse in June 2009 when she entered the latter’s bedroom (Legarda also lived in the same house in Mexico) to clean it.

“According to Angie (Gamboa, the helper), my husband was lying on respondent Marian’s bed while Marian was straddling him,” B@yot-Ortigas said.

“Unknown to me, respondent Paqui’s unlawful affair with respondent Marian was already known to other people. I did not know that the members of my own household staff were already talking about [the] respondents and how shameless they were about their affair. [The] respondents would even hold hands and kiss each other while they were in the house,” she said.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

‘Abused’ wife sues husband; rocks Madrigal, Ortigas clans

By Daxim L. Lucas
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, January 8th, 2012


A scion of the landed Madrigal clan has sued her husbandâ€"himself heir to the vast Ortigas property development fortuneâ€"for concubinage after the latter allegedly took his wife’s best friend as his mistress and cohabited with her in a Pasig City townhouse jointly owned by the spouses.

More importantly, 63-year-old Susana Madrigal B@yot-Ortigas accused her husband, 65-year-old former ambassador to Mexico Francisco M. Ortigas III of having a string of affairs over their four-decade-long marriage, including having sex with one of their household helpers in their own marital bed.

“The painful truth is that I married an abuser, a scrooge, an incorrigible philanderer and worse, a pervert,” B@yot-Ortigas said in a 75-page complaint affidavit filed last month with the Pasig prosecutor’s office.

“Our marriage, contrary to how it is perceived in high society, has been marked by years of intimidation, harassment, repeated psychological and verbal abuse, all courtesy of my husband, respondent Paqui.”

The accusation of concubinage was leveled against Ortigas (nicknamed “Paqui”) and his “alleged mistress,” Ma. Antonia Legarda (or “Marian,” reportedly aged 64) for “cohabiting and having sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances during our marriage,” B@yot-Ortigas said.

She said that before she decided to file the complaint, she had been warned that doing so would ‘’only add to my embarrassment and humiliation.’’

‘’I have been discouraged to file this case because I was told that we live in a society which is forgiving of philandering husbands,’’ she said. ‘’I have no wish to air dirty laundry in public.’’

But the respondents’ alleged acts "were not only immoral and by law a violation of the marital vows that Paqui and I took. They are also unlawful, horrendous and demeaning, and for which there must be adequate recompense under the law,’’ B@yot-Ortigas stressed.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

either she's a long-lost daughter or the man has deep pockets.  (the 3 m's of philippine lore:  Matanda, Mayaman, Madaling mamatay.) 

paging, jorgeanna!

ang kalinaw sa vodka maanaa sa bolinaw.
maanaa usab kanimo.  amen.

ipakita ang atong panagdait.
amen.

ang bana baya ani mao untay angay lubaon.

2010 pa man ni nga news.  unsa kahay nahitabo human ani?

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on January 09, 2012, 12:20:09 AM
how's everybody doing?

fine, i hope.  some post-holiday blues for some, maybe.  great of you to show yourself in tb again.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 07, 2012, 07:51:42 AM
Hmm, wa ko ka-getz...

ang baki kun padak-on mahimong dinosaur.  naa poy baki nga mahimong prinsipe.  dili hinoon tanan baki mahimong dinosaur o prinsipe kay naa bayay baki nga mahimong prinsesa.  getz na?  kun di pa nimo ma-getz, na, hala, diay mas klaro...

лягушек на padak или сÑ,аÑ,ÑŒ динозаврами. naay лягушек, чÑ,обы сÑ,аÑ,ÑŒ князьями. лягушки, динозавров или князь лягушек, чÑ,обы сÑ,аÑ,ÑŒ князьями.   

Other visionaries point to Mars. Robert Zubrin, in his book "The Case for Mars," envisions the Red Planet as a second branch of human civilization.  Eventually human settlers would use terraforming techniques to turn Mars into an analogue of Earth, with breathable air, running water, and an active biosphere where humans could walk around without need of space suits.

The late Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill suggested, in a book "The High Frontier," a more radical approach to colonizing space.  Instead of going to another world, he envisioned humans-- in effect-- building their own worlds using extraterrestrial resources to build huge, rotating space colonies where people would live inside a rotating cylinder large enough to build small towns in.  Such a colony was depicted in the science fiction TV series "Babylon Five."

http://news.yahoo.com/

Are there efforts to colonize space ongoing?

Despite the fact that there is a lot of talk about exploring and eventually settling space beyond low Earth orbit, the answer is sadly no at this time.  The Constellation program, which was envisioned to eventually lead to lunar colonies, was cancelled by President Barack Obama.  That does not mean there are not ideas floating around to settle other worlds.

The moon is an obvious venue for the first human settlement.  A Howstuffworks article describes how a lunar settlement might be set up.  The moon has water, in the form of ice at the bottom of permanently shaded craters at the poles, oxygen chemically bonded with lunar soil, and a variety of other resources necessary for human survival.

http://news.yahoo.com/

How would space colonies ensure the survival of the human race?

The late Arthur C. Clarke often said, as recently as a 1999 interview in the New York Times, that it was dangerous for the human race to have all of its eggs in one basket, i.e. the Earth. The idea is that if human civilization were spread out to several worlds, starting with the moon and Mars, a calamity occurring at any one world would not result in the end of human civilization.

http://news.yahoo.com/


Hawking on a zero gravity flight.

What sort of events could destroy the human race if it stays on one planet?

Hawking mentioned the possibility of nuclear war or climate change as being the cause of human extinction.  A recent article in Discovery magazine also suggested that a global pandemic-- possibly as the result of a bio-engineered disease-- or an asteroid or comet strike could end the human race on Earth.  The New Scientist chimed in with the possibility of a gamma ray burst caused by the explosion of a nearby star zapping the Earth with lethal radiation.  Even events that do not wipe out the human species-- say a total economic collapse-- could end civilization and cause the deaths of billions as modern infrastructure breaks down.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Stephen Hawking: Colonize Space or End the Human Race

By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network â€" 17 hrs ago

Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous theoretical physicists in the world, just celebrated his 70th birthday, despite suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease that has rendered him wheelchair bound and dependent on computers to communicate.

In a radio interview marking his birthday, which covered a wide range of topics, Hawking repeated his oft stated assertion that humanity must colonize space in order to ensure its long term survival.

http://news.yahoo.com/

it's the doctor again today.  it's another doctor and the wait was longer... 9:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.  i was so hungry after a light breakfast and a delayed lunch. 

i got to talk with a very talkative nun.  she turned out to be a nurse accompanying a 90-year-old fellow nun.  their wait was longer, so who am i to complain?  to think that their congregation is the hospital's administrator.  they gave me rosary beads, glad to know that i'm a product of one of their schools. 

anyway, i have to go back to the hospital for more tests.  drat this sedentary lifestyle.

hahaha!  aaahhh, domingo.  viva la vida!  la vida loca!

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 08, 2012, 05:25:17 PM
Get over lagi, pero nagkagidlay pud...

unsa may naa kun nagkagidlay?  hadyukon...

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 05, 2012, 09:31:15 PM
Hmm, depends on who I ate and shot. Seguradong maligo kon tuwayon... 

koreksyon!  maong tuwayon kay di maligoh.  but opkors, you know that...

...kay type nimoh.

yati ra?  ayaw patonto ondo
sa imong balikog nga kaayo
kun bugahay ray hisgotan
burahi ang imong kaadman.

da, puyo lagig ahat ang bungbong...

unspoken hermit hereby decides to go back to his cave and may speak no more, until your next drink.

wa pa gyoy tuli!

wa pa gyoy epok.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 07, 2012, 10:02:47 AM
Wa pay bungot?

wa pa gyoy bra.

Quote from: bugsay on January 09, 2012, 01:04:39 PM
lisod lage tawon pod tudloan ang kasingkasing......kon wa na juy pagbati nga nahibilin.

nabuwag man god ang utok sa kasingkasing, mao nga di gyod diay matudloan.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 08, 2012, 05:32:13 PM
Sa laing bahin, pagkaway puangod pud bayhana. Naghuboghubog na gud ang tawo, sa ato pa tinuoray jud nga nahigugma...

ngeee!  kadaghan dinha naghuboghubog kay gustong ilisan ang ilang gihigugma.  di lang kahibawo unsaon kay mahadlok putlan, mao nga naghuboghubog na lang, hahaha!

sayon ba pagdagan padung sa tanom kun ugaling?  makaabot ba kaha?

bantog ra maayo pod kang mo-salsa.

a happy, happy birthday to you!  viel glück zum geburtstag!

(we are missing tHe PoWeR oF Scarabeous!)   

i'm done reading, at least for the day, anything i could about the impeachment of chief justice corona.  the whys and wherefores in the run-up to the impeachment are indeed disturbing.  so far, many characters are falling flat on their faces, from congressmen to palace bureaucrats.  and so far, only the senate has managed to remain august vis-a-vis the impeachment.  or so i guess.

goodnight, tb comrades!

truly maayong buntag; it's the wee hours of monday morning here.  time for me to hit the sack anytime now...

it's the feast day of the black nazarene (quiapo church).  manila expects terrible traffic (more terrible than usual) and the multitude of devotees is being warned against a possible terrorist threat.

ikaw, chriswise, asa na man ka?  mas dugay na man kang wa mopatim-aw dinhi sa tb.  happy new year diay...

my midnight snacks:




(happy new year, bnc!)

hadyukok numeyo...


...What does every doomsday prediction in recorded human history have in common?

Answer: Every single one was wrong, because ... well, just look around.

Yet, a failed doomsday prediction seldom deters a truly determined believer.  Even when doomsayers strike out, "they get a huge amount of publicity out of it ... and really no penalty for it," Lindsay said.

That's because studies have shown that "our beliefs are formed through a prism of emotions," Lindsay said.  "And, yes, we reason about things, but our reasons are heavily influenced by our emotional commitment.  If you are really emotionally committed to something, it becomes a critical part of your life.  You're not going to give up that belief, at least not easily."

It's one of the reasons conspiracy theories are so popular and so indestructible.

"Lots of times, people get angry when you give them the history or the science," Lindsay said.  "If your belief is central to your worldview, you'll cling to it and come up with some other explanation: 'Oh, they're not telling you this because they don't want people to know' because they might panic or something.' "

But most of the time, and for most people, savoring the potential End Of It All a mere 348 days from now represents nothing more dangerous than a reality-based thrill.

"You may be half-serious about it," Lindsay said, "but if you aren't true believers, you aren't going to sell the house or anything like that."

Besides, the really interesting thing about apocalypses is that they'll probably always arrive when you're not looking for them.  "I have this personal belief that people have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning," Steele said.

"I do think the world is changing, but I don't think it's ending."

Still, do us a favor: If Dec. 21 does turn out to be a really bad day, just pretend you never read this story, OK?

excerpts from "Is the end near? Opinions vary on Mayan calendar, doomsday"
http://www.lvrj.com/living/
by John Przybys at jprzybys@reviewjournal.com

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 08, 2012, 07:13:52 PM
Pero tam-isan ra baya ko, Bay Bugs...

suka na lay imna.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 31, 2011, 06:23:18 AM
Dia pay laing appetizer--headless fried chicken nga nalibang...

luoy ug porma kay morag nauwaw intawon.

maayo gani kay di na ko mokaon ug manok sukad nagbuhi kog manok.

gisamokan sa pangangin sa mga batan-on nga arang pa-charming sa ilang posing.

lola:  atot ning mga bataa.  gamiton pa ko aron lang mas mobata silang tan-awon sa picture.  kinataw-an pay imo, arang ka-artipisyal.  mga sinbergwensa, kaayo rang pangduklan.  hohum... si hubag ug bugsay na lang unta ang ilang gitawag.

makaputol kaha nig tudlo?

Quote from: bugsay on January 07, 2012, 10:11:39 AM
sa akong tan-aw mga but-an ang mga tawo diri...

basin sa uban nga forum..

but-an pero eggless?  mora diay ug iring nga gi-neuter.

i'm about to puke.  may the same abuse be done to him.

puwede kaayo uy.  isulod lang sa beberon.

lupig ko.

1. Because the Mayans never claimed it would.



The Mayans had many calendars they used, one of which was known as the “long count” calendar, which measures very long periods of time.  According to this calendar (which has been known to archeologists for decades, by the way) the Earth’s “fifth sun” would end at the Winter solstice, December 21, 2012, at which point a new, sixth 5,125-year cycle would begin.  What significance this had to the Mayans is a source of some debate, but it is the general consensus that they did not attribute to it any catastrophic events.  Most likely, they simply considered it a time for spiritual renewal or introspection, which doesn’t sound all that dangerous to me.  The teaching that the Mayan’s believed it was the end of time, then, appears to be a largely westernized misreading (or deliberate misrepresentation) of the significance of the Mayan calendar and Mayan beliefs associated with it.

http://www.toptenz.net/

By J. Allan Danelek

J. Allan Danelek is a Lakewood, Colorado author who writes and talks extensively on subjects having to do with the paranormal and alternative science. His most recent book from Llewellyn Worldwide, 2012: Extinction or Utopia, deals in some detail with the entire 2012 controversy and the issue of doomsday prophecy in general, and is a must read for anyone desiring to get some sort of objective balance on the entire subject. His book can be orderedâ€"and the author contactedâ€"through his website at www.ourcuriousworld.com.

2. Because Nostradamus never picked 2012 as the end date.



It has been popularly believed that Nostradamus, the famous sixteenth century French mystic, suggested the end would come in 2012, perfectly coinciding with the Mayan date, which, if true, would be very spooky indeed.  However, in reading through Nostradamus’ many quatrains, nowhere does he specifically mention the year 2012 or even suggest that the end would come around that time.  In fact, his predictions extend all the way to the year 3797, making it seem we have some time yet before the end is nigh.  Additionally, his writings are so obscure as to make any interpretation little better than a guess.  Most of them are likely referring to events that took place in his lifetime, with the rest being so vague that they can be made to fit any time frame the reader so desires.

http://www.toptenz.net/

3. Because doomsday prophecies have consistently been proven wrong.



Literally hundreds of dates have been picked by various religious leaders and self-proclaimed prophets over the last two thousand years as being the end of the world and not a one of them has ever even come close to being accurate.  So why do we believe these same people today when they tell us the end is coming in 2012 (or whenever they imagine it to be coming)?  Listen, you wouldn’t believe your doctor if it has been repeatedly demonstrated that he has never once correctly diagnosed a patient, so why give these guys the benefit of a doubt?

http://www.toptenz.net/

4. Because the Earth isn’t that easy to destroy.

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

Sure, there are things that could do the planet in, but Earth is a lot hardier a place than many give it credit for.  After all, it’s been here for four billion years now, had its clock repeated cleaned by asteroids and comets, endured climactic changes of biblical proportions, and even survived a collision with another planet that created our own moon, and yet it keeps on ticking.  And you think a few melting ice caps and puny nuclear weapons are going to do it in?  Please…

http://www.toptenz.net/

5. Because the Bible Code is a parlor trick.



Using a complex type of cryptographic code called Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS), journalist Michael Drosnin, author of The Bible Code, contends that one can find meaningful and related patterns of words and dates in close proximity to each other within the words of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament and the heart of the Jewish Torah) which would seem to go beyond mere chance.  One of these, he says, suggests the planet will be struck by a comet in 2012, with all the unfortunate consequences that would entail.  However, critics dismiss Drosnin’s methodology as little more than a parlor trick, demonstrating that meaningful words and phrases can be produced using his method on any similar sized manuscript.  For example, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay, an ardent critic of Drosnin’s process, demonstrated that a computer search of Herman Melville’s nineteenth century classic Moby Dick found a number of meaningful phrases in close proximity to each other (specifically having to do with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995), suggesting that just as the eyes can be tricked into seeing familiar faces in random patterns of light and shadow, so too can the mind be tricked into finding meaningful phrases in random collections of letters where none exists.  And if that’s not enough, Drosnin has been proven wrong about other “significant events” he claims were contained in the Bible, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

http://www.toptenz.net/

6. Because the people who suggest the end is coming don’t know what they’re talking about.



Unfortunately, human beings have a tendency to invest great authority in people who can convince them they are prophecy “experts” or have some sort of hidden knowledge others do not possess that allows them to read the future.  Many of these people are sincere individuals who simply misinterpret ancient bible texts, while others are deluded crazies who only want to include others in their fantasy world.  A few are even unscrupulous charlatans out to make a quick buck.  The bottom line is, however, that nobody really knows what the future holds regardless of who they are or what methodology they use.  There simply is no evidence that anyone has ever successfully prophesied some future event (beyond some short-term political or military events easily surmised by gauging current international trends) with anything approaching clarity or accuracy.

http://www.toptenz.net/

7. Because Earth climate change is a gradual process and one easily adapted to.



Some take a more hand-on approach to the end, claiming that humanity will perish as a result of human-caused weather changes, which, it is claimed, will melt the polar ice caps, raise the ocean sea levels, and change weather patterns over large portions of the planet.  Even if the science holds together, howeverâ€"which many claim it does notâ€"such a process would be felt over a period of years or even decades, giving human beings time to adapt to the changes (relocate, create shoreline reclamation technologies, etc.)  It is even possible that a warmer planet might ultimately be beneficial by, for example, increasing arable land in Siberia and North America as the permafrost layer retreats northward.  In any case, the year 2012 has no particular significance in regards to any Earth changes that may occur over the next few decades.

http://www.toptenz.net/

8. Because the poles cannot shift or the planet’s orbit be otherwise altered.



Some well-meaning but scientifically challenged individuals maintain that the planet’s physical poles are on the verge of reversing (that is, the planet is flipping over onto its top) or that gravitational forces from the other planets or from the galaxy itself could affect Earth’s orbit and, hence, dramatically alter its climate and environment.  Fortunately, however, the gravitational forces that effect our planet and its place in the solar system are mandated by Newton’s laws of planetary mechanics and cannot be changed without some extremely rare (think one chance in ten billion over the next three billion years) and dramatic event taking placeâ€"such as a collision with a small moon or a massive black hole making its way through the solar system, both of which would be noted well in advance or whose effect would be so gradual as to take centuries to have any great impact.  As far as we know, there are no such cosmic events known to be on the horizonâ€"at least for the foreseeable future (and well beyond 2012).

http://www.toptenz.net/

9. An increase in sunspot activity in 2012 will not have any particularly detrimental effect on the planet.



As every schoolchild knows, our sun is constantly shooting gaseous plumes of white hot plasma thousands of miles into space which our atmosphere generously shields us from.  Sometimes these plumes are much larger than normal, however, and are what we refer to as solar flares (more properly known as coronal mass ejections).  Fortunately, these enormous magnetic outbursts that bombard Earth with a torrent of high-speed subatomic particles are also largely negated by the planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field, so we seldom feel the effects of these plasmic bursts, beyond creating havoc for ham-radio users and increasing the luminosity of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.  They are of concern mainly to space explorers, who really would have a problem if they are caught in orbit without suitable shelter when one of these things go off.  The sun goes through a natural twenty-two year cycle when such storms increase significantly for a time before decreasing again.  Such a period is scheduled to occur in 2012, which has some folks all atwitter.  For those who are expecting the worst, it might be beneficial to realize that the sun reached similar period of solar activity in 1990, 1968, 1946, and it will again in 2034, 2056 and 2078.  While these periods can produce large solar flares that can effect satellite communications and, in a worst-case scenario, adversely affect the flow of electrical energy through the power grids, it is unlikely to do more than produce some especially spectacular light shows in the northern skies and make people onboard the International Space Station a little nervous.

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10. Because a reversal of the magnetic poles would not be catastrophic.



It seems that every few hundred thousand years or so, the Earth’s magnetic field dwindles to practically nothing and then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped.  Now this flipping of the magnetic polesâ€"which appears to have last happened about 780,000 years agoâ€"isn’t particularly dangerous, but this brief periodâ€"about a century or so in durationâ€"of decreased magnetic fields could threaten life on the planet, for without magnetic protection, particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic subatomic particles from deep space, would strike Earth’s atmosphere, eroding the already beleaguered ozone layer and causing all sorts of problems to both man and beast (especially among those creatures that navigate by magnetic reckoning).  Further, scientists estimate that we are overdue for such an event and have also noticed that the strength of our magnetic field has decreased about 5 percent in the past century, possibly signaling that such an event may be in our immediate futureâ€"within a few centuries if not sooner.  However, in being so gradual, should scientists in the future discover that such a shift is in the works, there should be plenty of time to take the necessary precautions to avoid the most destructive effects by moving underground or off planet, or perhaps strengthening the planet’s atmospheric defenses through the use of exotic, futuristic technologies.  In any case, it isn’t something we need to worry about in the short termâ€"though it could be a concern for those living a few hundred or even thousands of years from now.

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Top 10 Reasons The World Won’t End on December 21, 2012

No doubt about it, 2012 and doomsday prophecies are big nowadays.  According to the Mayan calendar, the world as we know it will end sometime around December 21st, 2012.  Of course, if it doesn’t, that won’t mean we’ll be out of the woods.  According to the Bible, Jesus Christ may return at any moment to destroy the armies of the Antichrist and reestablish his throne in Jerusalem, thereby ushering in a thousand years of peace.  And if that doesn’t occur, there’s always the chance that the Mahdi will arise to institute a kingdom of justice and, alongside the returned Isa Al-Maseeh (Jesus), will fight against the Dajjal, the Antichrist of Islam.  Then, of course, there’s always the chance thatâ€"at least according to the Hopi Indiansâ€"a blue star will suddenly appear in the sky to signal the start of a great atomic war which will destroy the white man and other ancient races.

Sounds like there’s quite a few ways we might catch it, but what are the chances that any of these things might actually happen?  Of course, there is no way to prove that something won’t happen, but below are the top ten reasons why one would be ill-advised to believe the end is coming in 2012 or any other time soon.

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Quote from: chicogon on January 08, 2012, 02:07:02 PM
Just try to avoid Kamikaze 10-n-1 kay bala sud ana, bwahahaha!!! 

mantinir na lang kog M-16 ug AK-47.

klarex mong duhang palaotot nga si lorenz inyong gihisgotan uy. 

lorenz, tagai ra god ning duha ug pinot noir next time mobisita ka sa balingsya.  pagkahuman, let them undergo surgery so you'll know what's inside their tummies.  better still, circumcise them first.      

goodness gracious!  i just beheld another math engendered product; 5-in-1 surf laundry soap.   

di hinoon ni kape, pero kun mo-dare tag templa ug inom ani, buwa-buwa gyod atong baba.

Quote from: chicogon on January 08, 2012, 02:54:26 AM
I love it (my Jimm's Coffee)... mostly for the taste and convenience, not for what it promises (other effects) 

hehehe, right on!

bought sachets of kopiko last night.  tastes good and different.  the magic is in the brown sugar.  today, kopiko.  tomorrow, jimm's 7-in-1.  kaayo ra sa tb nga mo-convince nako to try some products.  ('getting out of the box' or 'going beyond the comfort zone' from nescafe and folger's?)   

ang di lang gyod maka-convince nako kanang mga threads ug whatchamacallit technological products (di ko kasabot intawon kun mamaak ba na sila o kun english ba na) and the products that a certain pervert is introducing (in some other thread).     

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 08, 2012, 12:40:08 PM
No one knows when the end of the world will occur. Only God alone knows when the Lord Jesus Christ will back to judge the living and the dead.

i believe so, too.  i'm just wondering why 6 out of 10 predictions (in this particular list, anyway) are from the u.s.  make it 7 if we include the y2k bug.  add more if we include the dishonorable mention category.  the author (he writes well, this seeming debunker), of course, is also american.  do you happen to have a neighbor there who's into end-of-the-world blues, lorenz?  

Dishonorable Mentions: Jack Van Impe, whose Bible-based end-times program continues to clog the airway with its nonsense to this day; Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God whose suggestion that the “beginning of the end” would start in January of 1973 proved to be the beginning of the end for his church; retired NASA scientist Edgar Whisenaut, who self-published book “88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988” (a book which sold four million copies in a few short months), became the prime example why self-styled eschatologists should not be allowed to self-publish; and, of course, Nostradamus, whose vague quatrains have been interpreted to spell the end for so long that they have been long-since rendered almost meaningless.

Jeff Danelek is a Denver, Colorado author who writes on many subjects having to do with history, politics, the paranormal, spirituality and religion. To see more of his stuff, visit his website at www.ourcuriousworld.com.

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1. Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1874, 1914, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, & 1975



One group that has traditionally been very into end-times prophecy are the Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose propensity for picking failed years for Christ’s return are legendary.  A group founded in 1874 by a one-time Millerite and Congregationalist by the name of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), since its inception, no denomination has been more guilty of repeatedly setting dates than have the JWs, usually to their own detriment.  Though Russell originally proposed several dates for Christ’s return starting in 1874, his most famous doomsday date was October 1, 1914, a date which happened to dovetail nicely with the start of the First World War (which Russellâ€"an ardent pacifistâ€"and his followers believed to be the start of the Battle of Armageddon).  When Christ didn’t physically return on schedule, however, Russellâ€"taking a cue from some of Miller’s followersâ€"simply suggested that the Lord had returned “invisibly” instead, though without defining exactly what that meant.  In any case, it didn’t seem to impact the vigor of the church to any great degree, which continued to see extraordinary growth in the intervening decades after Russell’s death in 1916.

Undeterred by their 1914 “miss” (or, apparently, unaware of Christ’s aforementioned “invisible” return) church leaders, under the leadership of Russell’s energetic successor, “Judge” Rutherford, went on to name several other years as the date for the Savior’s return. 1918, 1920, 1925, and 1941 were all proposed at one time or another, but each passed uneventfully (with the exception of 1941, which saw some little ruckus being played out in Europe).  While these “misses” seemed to have little deleterious effect on the church or its continued growth for several decades, the church’s penchant for date setting almost did it in when it announced that 1975 was to be the year of Christ’s final, visible return.  (This sure-fire date was based on the belief that Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, thereby making 1975 the 6,000th anniversary of that miracle.)  Encouraging JWs to sell their homes, quit their jobs, and forego all planning for the future in deference to praying and doing door-to-door evangelizing until the end came, with the dawn of 1976 came considerable buyer’s remorse and, with it, a general exodus from which it was to take the church decades to recover. As a result, the organization has been considerably more careful about date setting since, though apocalyptic, ends-time beliefs continue to permeate their teachings to this day.

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2. The Millerites and The Great Disappointment, 1844



New York farmer turned Baptist minister William Miller (1782-1849) was by all accounts a good and decent man who had a remarkable power to persuade people to his ideas.  This turned out to be to his great detriment, however, when, after undertaking an exhaustive self-study of the Old Testamentâ€"especially the book of Danielâ€"he came to the conclusion that Jesus Christ would return to Earth in all His glory on October 22nd, 1844.  How he arrived at that precise date is the result of a fairly complex series of calculations, but suffice is to say that by 1840 his powers of persuasion were sufficient to induce upwards of 50,000 (with some estimates being as high as 500,000!) of his fellow New Englanders to buy off on his teachings.  When the day came and went without Christ’s return, however, the disappointment was, to put it mildly, more than a little palpable.  Almost overnight his burgeoning church folded, leaving him a man without a congregation (or, at least, a much smaller one.)  Undeterred, Miller recalculated and, finding a simple math error, decided he had been off by one year and named 1845 as “the year”.  After Christ stubbornly refused to return that time either, Miller largely gave up and lived out the final years of his life a virtual recluse, devastated by his great disappointment but never for a moment giving up on his belief that the Second Coming was “imminent”.  Not to worry, however, for a small remnant of his church survived him to become the foundation for the fairly substantial Seventh Adventist Church today which, while no longer setting dates, still maintains a strong end-times mentality.

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3. Heaven’s Gate, 1997



On the morning of March 26, 1997, San Diego police were called to a rented mansion in the upscale community of Rancho Santa Fe, California to investigate reports of a possible death.  When they got there, they where to make a most horrific discovery: there, each lying in their own bunk and dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants and wearing brand new black-and-white Nike tennis shoes, were thirty-nine rapidly decomposing bodies, the apparent victims of a mass suicide pact.

Who were these people and why did they all commit suicide within a few days of each other?  They were each members of a group of cultists known as Heaven’s Gateâ€"a tiny group of dedicated believers who had been convinced by a former music teacher turned New Age guru, Marshall Applewhite, that planet Earth was about to be recycled and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately in the spaceship that rode in the tail of the then recently discovered comet Hale-Bopp.  Unfortunately, the only way their souls could hitch a ride on this spaceship was by ingesting poison and releasing themselves of their Earthly shell so they might make their “transition”.  Apparently, his followers took him seriously enough that over three dozen of them joined him in taking their own lives as part of a ritualistic suicide act, demonstrating that doomsday beliefs are far from being simple, harmless fun.

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4. Hal Lindsey and the Late Great Planet Earth, 1970



Few people got the Christian community anticipating the Rapture (an event in which all the good Christians of the planet instantaneously vanish), the appearance of the Antichrist, the Battle of Armageddon, and the seven year Great Tribulation period than did the steamboat captain turned preacher Hal Lindsey, whose landmark 1970 paperback, The Late Great Planet Earth, became an overnight international bestseller.  (It even remains in print today, despite being thoroughly discredited by subsequent events).  Outlining a remarkable chain of events designed to culminate in the Christ’s triumphant return at the end of a seven year cycle of abject horror, literally millions of Christians looked to 1988 (the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 when the doomsday clock literally started, according to Lindsey) as “the date”.  While in all fairness Lindsey never came out and specifically named the year, it was apparent by his arguments that the 1980s was to see all the events described in the Book of Revelations come to pass which, to readers in the 1970s, was pretty scary stuff.  Remarkably, Lindsey suffered little from his prophetic faux pas and went on to write several more books on the end times (each with similarly unrealized fulfillments) and even acquired his own cable TV prophecy show today, demonstrating that nothing breeds success quite like failure.  Way to go, Hal!

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5. Y2K Bug, 2000



Probably no end-time, “this is it!” date has been as well advertised and yet produced the least splash than was the belief, promulgated by computer geeks everywhere, that with the turn of the millennium, creaking old twentieth century computers would get confused by all those zeros and do all sorts of nasty things or, at a minimum, simply shut down.  While millions of people waking up on January 1st, 2000 with the blue screen of death pasted on their monitors might not sound like that big a deal, it was supposed to really snarl up the day-to-day operations of the planet by doing things like shutting down air traffic control radarsâ€"resulting in numerous mid air collisions as pilots blindly crash into each otherâ€"and forgetting to send coolant into nuclear reactor cores, causing them to blow up like a hundred little Hiroshimas.  As a result, in the weeks and months leading up to the big non-event, there was a run on everything from bottled water to toilet paper as people prepared for Microsoft Armageddon, only to awake the next morning none-the-worse for wear (and with a huge stockpile of non-perishables to boot.)  Who could have known all that was needed to prevent doomsday were a few software patches and a bit of diligence.  (Of course, we’ve since learned not to take these things so seriously, haven’t we?)

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6. Edgar Cayce and the Battle of Armageddon, 1999



While the noted psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) made a number of dire Earth change predictions during the 1930s while in a trance state (hence his nickname, the Sleeping Prophet) that went either unrealized or their fulfillment is open to debate, it was his Bible-based doomsday predictions that are most disappointing (or fortuitous, considering that they didn’t occur as predicted).  Possibly foreseeing the various catastrophic Earth changes just mentioned as a harbinger of the end, he unwisely implied that the epic Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ would occur in 1999â€"which, despite being made almost half a century ago, still manages to sound very contemporary.  Obviously, when these events failed to materialize on cue, it also made him as wrong as many of his contemporaries as well, though in having been dead for fifty-five years at the time, it made him one of the few end-times prognosticators who didn’t have to suffer the consequences of his failed predictions.

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7. 1000 & 1033 CE



Considering the role the number 1,000 often plays in scripture, it would be hard to imagine that the turn of the millennium would not be considered extremely significant, especially among those who took the book of Revelation’s thousand year millennium reign of Christ literally.  Interestingly, many scholars tend to dismiss the notion that the change of the millennium created any great disturbance among the population of Europe, though others challenge this premise and insist that there is far more evidence for apocalyptism being rampant around the year 1000 than previously thought.  Some also note that over the last few decades many medievalist scholars have come to view the period around the turn of the millennium as a time of great social and cultural transformation, making it possible to speculate that doomsday expectations around this period may have been more influential than earlier historians were willing to concede.  Further evidence suggesting that doomsday fever continued right up to 1033CEâ€"the 1,000th anniversary of Christ’s death and resurrectionâ€"are contained within the writings of the Burgundian monk Radulfus Glaber (985-1047CE) as well as other chroniclers of the age.

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8. 1666 CE



Much like today, almost every year throughout history has been picked by someone as “the big finale”, but some dates garner more interestâ€"or fearâ€"than others.  One year that proved to be especially popular with end-times types was 1666, which was arrived at by combining the 1,000 years of the first millennium with the mark of the beast of Revelations (666).  Using such a complex mathematical formula must have seemed pretty impressive to our ancestors, which is what made 1666 such a sure bet among doomsday aficionados during the Renaissance.  Astonishingly, it proved to be entirely wrong; with the exception of the great fire that gutted London that year, killing hundreds and destroying 70,000 homes in the cityâ€"thereby making the year a sort of doomsday for Londonersâ€"for the rest of the planet the couldn’t-miss return failed to materialize, leaving many theologians and astrologers scratching their collective heads and returning to their charts and writings to come up with the next can’t miss date.

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9. Elizabeth Clare Prophet & the Church Universal & Triumphant, 1990



While all the attention lasted only a short time (with much of it being negative) for a time in the late 1980’s the founder and spiritual head of the Church Universal and Triumphant, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, (a.k.a. Guru Ma), had quite a few people convinced that a nuclear war would start on April 23, 1990, which convinced many of them to stockpile food and guns in her underground bomb shelter in Montana.  While the federal government is always encouraging preparedness in the face of potential disaster, the church proved to be a bit too prepared for their taste and they promptly seized her arsenal of firearms and convicted a handfull of her followersâ€"including her husbandâ€"on federal weapons charges.  Curiously, the lack of nuclear war did not immediately spell the end for her movement as they continued to hunker down in her Montana bunkers for some time afterwards, with some of them not venturing out until only recently.

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Top 10 Most Famous Doomsday Prophecies That Failed

Say the year 2012 to most people and chances are they will think of doomsday, which is remarkable considering that just ten years ago few people would have assigned any special significance to the date at all.  Today, however, all one has to do is type the year into a search engine and they will register a quarter of a billion hits.  Refine the search to just “2012 doomsday” and it will still produce almost 600,000 hits, while a quick check of Amazon.com lists a whopping 96,000 books with the year 2012 in their tag!  Clearly, 2012 has captured the public’s imagination like few things have been able to do.

But 2012 is nothing new.  Other years in recent history have been almost as popular with the public in terms of portending ominous events but up to now, every one of them has proven to be utterly and laughably mistaken.  In the interest of alleviating the fears of those who imagine the Mayans might be on to something (they’re not), it might be interesting to take a look at some of the most noteworthy examples of failed doomsday prophecies throughout history.  Enjoy it while there’s still time!

10. The Jupiter Effect, 1982



In 1982, two professional astrophysicists, John Gribben and Stephen Plagemann, floated the idea that a rare alignment of all nine planets in 1982 would create a combined gravitational pull that would place huge stresses on the planet’s tectonic plates, causing killer earthquakes and severe changes in the Earth’s climate.  The book they wrote together, The Jupiter Effect, caused quite a stir at the time, but after the alignment passed without incident (with even the combined gravitational pull of all eight planets having barely any measurable effect on Earth at all) their professional reputation took quite a beating.  They later claimed the theory was intended simply as an exercise in astrophysical speculation, but by then the damage had been done.  While The Jupiter Effect proved to be a bust, however, it was one of the first popular doomsday scenarios which held nature responsible for the end rather than God’s wrath, for which I’m sure the Almighty was mightily pleased.

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best of all, lansar ug barangay sk kun bata pa, lahos ug lansar ug barangay captain kun edad-edaran na.

Then again, for us here in the Third World, this third tip is barely an option. Doomsday shelters here are virtually non-existent, so in the case of a collision with Planet X, or any other earth-shattering catastrophe, well, to be perfectly frank, we’re good as gone, so let’s hope that the apocalypse comes in the form of something we know how to handle like EDSA traffic jams.

Sarcasm aside, for all we know, the preppers could be spot on in their beliefs, in which case, the apocalypse would be the biggest “I-told-you-so” in the post-history of mankind.

But until then, let’s focus on not letting paranoia get the better of us, and starting the New Year with optimism. â€" KG/ELR, GMA News

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All these promise to provide safe and secure accommodations underneath cement-thick foundations and climate-proof ceilings.

But those who want to rough out the rapture with a touch of style might want to check out Vivos, a luxury underground safehouse placed in secure locations in the American desert.

For a co-ownership fee of only $9,950 per person you will receive a sure supply of food, fuel, materials, and a space in the Vivos community for 6 months.

Sure, it may sound like a steep price to some, but the kind people at Vivos do have a financial aid plan that allows the poorlings to pay the full amount in installments over a number of years. Because of course, even in the post-apocalyptic world, currencies, the economy, credit cards, and checks will continue to work in the same way as they do now.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/

Tip #3: Purchase a luxury underground shelter

In most doomsday scenarios, this is really the only way you’ll survive. Food and water won’t matter when a collision with Planet X/Nibiru causes a torrent of fire to rain down from the heavens.

Lucky for us, there are a number of doomsday shelters already on the market. Those who want a no-nonsense roof over their heads can choose among some safehouses:

    http://www.alpinesurvival.com/earth-changes-survival-shelters.html;
    http://www.hardenedstructures.com/2012-shelter-systems.html; or
    http://survivalcondo.com/

All these promise to provide safe and secure accommodations underneath cement-thick foundations and climate-proof ceilings.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/

Tip #2: Stock up on canned goods, cup noodles, and MREs

Canned goods, cup noodles and MREs (meals-ready-to-eat, food eaten by American soldiers on the field) are the holy trinity of no-cook food.

They don’t taste half bad either. Remember not to overstock, though. Just about one cellar’s worth will be enough.

Do not forget to stock up on can openers and hot water keepers too, although when you’re on the move from looters or zombies, you might have to stick to your trusty Skyflakes, which, come to think of it, should also be on your prepper shopping list.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/

Tip #1: Create a self-sustaining food farm in your backyard pool

One admirable prepper featured on a National Geographic documentary came up with the ingenious idea of turning his pool into an aquaponic farm. The most brilliant feature by far is the farm’s design, which makes sure that his tilapia colony can feed on the chicken droppings that fall from the coopâ€"because we all love the taste of chicken-crap-fed-fish.

According to the prepper, he created this farm to lessen his dependence on electricity, which is crucial to survival in the case of a coronal mass ejection that will destroy the earth’s electric grid.

In that context, it really makes sense. But for those who don’t have backyard pools or cannot abide the taste of tilapia, another option would be to live with the Amish, or to experience a Filipino-style brownout. Either two are equally effective ways to learn how to live without power.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/

Your 2012 guide to surviving the end of the world

AMANDA T. LAGO
GMA News January 7, 2012

The year 2012 is finally upon us, and December 21 looms on the yearend horizon. At the moment, doomsday believers are already counting down the roughly 350 days left in the Mayan Calendar.

Most people find the 2012 prophecies laughable, but that’s only because the earth, tenacious planet that it is, has managed to survive many doomsdays in the past decade.

People may think of it as an unfulfilled prophecy, but it is actually an incredible feat of survival on the earth’s part. Why, just last year, we’ve survived the apocalypse twice when Harold Camping made his two magnificently mistaken rapture predictions.

Of course, the skepticism is understandable, but you’d do well to suspend your disbelief. This year will really be the year it all ends if you go by the Mayan calendar, an ancient relic made by a long-dead civilization may be a credible source to some.

If that’s not enough to convince you that the world will end this year, well, just look around. Temperatures are rising and dropping by extremes. Polar bears are disappearing. Justin Bieber is said to have fathered a child. The signs are everywhere.

You’d best take heed and take a page from the preppers, a group of people who’ve read the signs, seen the truth, and started preparing for the catastrophic event that will alter life as we know it.

We may not know how it’s going to happen yet. It could be a stock market crash, nuclear warfare, alien invasion, coronal mass ejection, zombie apocalypse, or the coming of Bieberspawn. Whatever it is, here are preparations you and your family can do for the apocalypse that’s sure to come eventually.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/

accommodating it all (way gipasaylo)...

manila taxi:  it's more nightmare in the philippines.

the biggest piss-off:  a hefty travel tax of over a thousand pesos collected by ungracious tourism employees at airports before one leaves the country.  it's not fun.

moral lesson:  ayaw pag-disco-disco kun wa kay 10 pesos.

na, hala.  inom pa.  gitinuod hinoon ang hagit ra unta.  karon, wa nay ginamos, wa pa gyoy moinom.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 06, 2012, 12:30:00 PM
Paborito ni Bugsay?

i just read up on this particular food... kasadista ba diay aning pagkaona.  ang ganahan ani, kun di toreador sa spain, matador sa cebu city carbon market, o ba kaha way salig sa kaugalingong eggs.

mo-sleep na ko uy.  labad na akong ulo ug binasa ug hinunahuna nga naa unyay di ingon nato nga moluto ug lansiao unya ang main ingredient ang sa tawo. 

goodnight, tb!

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 06, 2012, 12:02:26 PM
My favorite: Sinigang Isda  (with extra tamarind)

heaven.

Sound vs Noise

It is not that hard to discern noise from sound. It is actually just as simple as comparing a rotten tomato from an ordinary set of good-quality tomatoes. Noise is like a rotten tomato while sound is like a set of healthy tomatoes.

Sound is a result of the vibrating air in the surroundings. Vibration passes through the air. It creates different levels of air pressure (higher and lower) through air compression and decompression. These variations travel across the air in the form of sound waves which are responsible for the creation of sound. Although these can’t be seen, sounds are perceived by the sense of hearing. One of the most pleasant forms of sound is that which is generated by non-hardcore musical instruments.

Noise, on the contrary, is a kind of sound â€" a remarkably loud one, that is. In this regard, shouts are the perfect examples of noise. It is characterized by its unpleasantness and annoying nature that can even lead to some physical ill effects. Aside from hearing loss, noise can also induce severe cardiovascular symptoms of increased heart rate and can bring about psychological effects that manifest as anxiety, lack of concentration, and profound nervousness. It may also be coincidental that the term “noise” is actually taken from a Latin word that literally means “nausea.”

Moreover, noise is therefore deafening all the time compared to sound which can easily be handled or listened to by everyone. This is the reason why noise is a type of sound that is less or least desired. When there’s constant, loud chattering inside the classroom, or when there’s a powerful rock concert held in your neighborhood, one might easily get freaked out because of the terrible noises these situations create.

more at: http://www.differencebetween.net/language/words-language/

sound is measured in decibel.

The decibel (abbreviated dB) is the unit used to measure the intensity of a sound. The decibel scale is a little odd because the human ear is incredibly sensitive. Your ears can hear everything from your fingertip brushing lightly over your skin to a loud jet engine. (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)

Noise pollution is excessive, displeasing human, animal or machine-created environmental noise that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life. The word noise comes from the Latin word nauseas, meaning seasickness.

The source of most outdoor noise worldwide is mainly construction and transportation systems, including motor vehicle noise, aircraft noise and rail noise. Poor urban planning may give rise to noise pollution, since side-by-side industrial and residential buildings can result in noise pollution in the residential area.

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uso na pod sa pinas kanang mx3.  many swear by it.  ambot ngano.  i hope mx3 is not one more bandwagon effect product kay nisakay ra ba ko sa front seat; anything to take away my back pain, hehehe. 

unsa na pod kahang produktoha ang mosunod nga nagkinahanglan ug math.  3-in-1 coffee ahat nga nahimong 7-in-1 (nganong wa man moagi ug 4-in-1?), computer printer nga 3-in-1, mp3, mp4, 7-up, minus one before the karaoke and videoke, etc.  p.s. lami diay ning kopiko? 

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 06, 2012, 08:44:08 AM
OK diay ko, kay "Type C" man...

di diay "type o"?

Bill against noise pollution doesn’t go far enough

Philippine Daily Inquirer
01/06/2010

A national law to regulate noise pollution is long overdue. House Bill 7072 authored by Reps. Dato Arroyo, Ferdinand Martin Romualdez et al. could be a step in the right direction, but by limiting its scope to cover only noisy car engines and the blowing of horns in 'non-commercial districts,' its authors stopped short of crafting an encompassing and effective law.

Haven't these lawmakers noticed that, more than automobiles, most of which are equipped with regulation exhaust/muffler systems, the noisier vehicles that pass through non-commercial or residential areas are tricycles, motorcycles and jeepneys with straight exhaust pipes? And if the real intent of the law is to safeguard the general health and well-being of residents in non-commercial districts, then why have its authors left out other sources of noise pollution? Some of these are:

1. Backyard/home businesses producing more than normal noise like metal fabrication shops, etc.;

2. Fighting cocks and other noisy animals (including dogs);

3. Street parties and wakes where people create noise;

4. Karaoke singing and other forms of amplified sound (whether outside or within the bounds of one's property) above the ambient noise level or that disturbs or causes discomfort or annoyance to others beyond one's property line;*

5. Playing of loud music inside restaurants, stores and malls which make normal conversation impossible.

Finally, why limit the prohibition to the period from 8 p.m. till 8 a.m.? Noise pollution is still noise pollution between 8:01 a.m. and 7:59 p.m.

Noise pollution, like air pollution, causes slow death. It is like assault with a deadly weapon. It is a crime against life. Our lawmakers should get real.

JOEY K. MONTALVO
Nordson Green Earth Foundation
115 Paseo de Roxas, Bel Air IV, Makati City

*underscoring mine

wa pa man.  way ahead gyod diay ang tb kay mao ra may makit-an sa web search.  naa pod hinoon sa 2006 ug 2009 nga mga news items.  tawala, panglao gihapon.  unsa ba diay ning tawala...

mangita ko sa news item ani for the details.  naa na ba kaha?