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Quote from: Lorenzo on August 03, 2011, 01:07:10 AM
Isles, is it possible to claim colloquial diction ?     

my understanding is that for everyday, common, unconstrained conversations, we may even pick up colloquialisms without knowing it.  it is our right to understand and to be understood in our daily interactions with people, and i believe colloquialisms serve as common ground, some kind of equalizer.  they're just not supposed to be used during formal speech or writing. 

“what’s up?” is a colloquial, and no one is complaining, hehe.  i won't use it in a business letter though. 

the last word, the last look of a yogicat...

simon says i can't do it?  hah!

and who says she can't do it?

But then doga isn't about dogs doing yoga, but about owners interacting with their dogs.

"It really highlights the human-animal bond," she said. "For me, being in animal rescue, and seeing so many homeless pets, and people who very easily discard animals, I like these activities on the other side of the spectrum."

But she is doubtful about the spiritual side.

"It's hard to think of a centering practice like yoga being centering to an animal, because it's hard to know what centers them," she said.

Teitelman believes doga can embrace other domesticated creatures.

"It definitely works with cats," she said, "and when I do downward dog my bird comes over."

But Brennen has her doubts.

"Cats? Obviously you'd have to change the format. They want their feet on the ground. Then there's the scratching and clawing factor." (Reuters)

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/228153/odds-and-ends/

Traditional poses such as warriors, triangles and backbends follow, possibly enhanced by a little dog balanced at the belly or waist.

"The person takes dog deeper into a stretch, and the dog takes the person deeper," she said. "If you have a dog on your arm in a standing posture it helps balance and strength."

Teitelman believes the rewards of yoga accrue to human and animal alike.

"You're moving their body. They're getting touched, they're getting love," she explained, "and everybody needs to be hanging upside down."

Dr. Robin Brennen, a New York City veterinarian, was skeptical of the hugely popular doga classes at the Bideawee animal shelter and learning center where she works. Then she attended one.

"I witnessed the demeanor of the animals changing during the class," she said. "They'll come in barking, seven, eight, nine dogs in room, but by the end of the session, they're sleeping. They're in savasana (the final resting pose)."

Brennen said unlike running or jogging, doga is not physically strenuous for the dog.

"It's a level one yoga class and with this big dog in front of you it's hard to do poses," she said. "It's basically stopping and starting."

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/228153/odds-and-ends/

Who let the dogs in the yoga class?


NEW YORK - When yoga goes to the dogs, they call it doga.

And while doga may not measure up, fitness-wise, to a game of fetch or a run on the beach, experts say practicing yoga with your pet can soothe the not-so-savage breasts of both person and pooch.

"I consider it partner yoga," said Suzi Teitelman, a Florida-based instructor who has been teaching doga to man, woman and beast since 2002. "It's my lifelong passion."

Teitelman stumbled upon doga because her dog liked to lie under her while she practiced.

"When you feel good, they feel good," she said. "They want to be around your goodness."

Classes, DVDs and a training manual followed. Teitelman said she's trained more than 100 people around the world in doga, some from as far away as China and Japan.

Disco yoga, kid yoga, beach yoga, spin yoga and yogalites are but a few of the trendy hybrids saluting the sun at fitness centers these days, all takeoffs on the 5,0000-year-old practice that coordinates movement and breath.

But Teitelman insists she teaches a traditional yoga class, even if the downward facing dog is flesh and blood.

"We chant together to feel the vibrations, then we start moving into twists and turns," she said.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/228153/odds-and-ends/

quick, what's this yogi doing?

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 03, 2011, 01:45:00 PM
Bwahaha! Beware of treason committed by the member of the wedding who finds no reason for reflections in a golden eye in the season of clock without hands...

wary am i, indeed, of treason by any of those in weddings whose couples plan to put their unions asunder, wherefore one can reflect the mote in the golden eye of a steeplechase clock.  (is my hair turning to the color of oranges?)

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 03, 2011, 12:13:20 PM
Hmm, it is as clear as day that your heart, that lonely hunter, has its reasons of which reason itself has no knowledge...

aaahh, for your kind of pursuit for much pleasure to be gained from knowledge borne out of unreasonableness... it renders this heart of a lonely hunter dulled by the seasons, the mind bereft of reasons, and the spirit weakened by treasons.

The Martyrdom of St. Stephen
Pieter Pauwel RUBENS, 1577-1640
(as started by Lorenzo, August 03, 2011, 03:15:30 AM, this thread)


The Stoning of St. Stephen
Pietro da CORTONA, 1660
(as presented by Lorenzo, Reply #1 on: August 03, 2011, 03:16:00 AM, this thread)


in the eyes of other classical artists:


Martyrdom of St Stephen
Bernardo CAVALLINO, ca. 1616


Martyrdom of St. Stephen, ca. 1660
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon Rijn


Martyrdom of St Stephen, ca. 1560
Giorgio VASARI

st. stephen, tortured and stoned to death around 34-35 AD; venerated in roman catholic, eastern catholic, eastern orthodox, oriental orthodox, lutheran, and anglican churches; named as the "protomartyr" (the first martyr, the first to suffer, the first to be sacrificed; the term is most especially assigned to st. stephen who is the first christian martyr). 

st. stephen is the patron of casket makers, deacons, altar servers, headaches, horses, masons, and serbia


sources: wiki and thinkexist.com

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 03, 2011, 11:37:44 AM
Hmm, I bet other temptations are not as random, but are decidedly intentionally pursued...

i claim knowledge of none but the lonely hunter, my pet, thus please refrain from any attempt to lead the way.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 03, 2011, 10:16:25 AM
Hmm, apparently this is your personal motto...

in a random theory sense.  as you can see, i found my way to tb.

ikaw bay guwapo, lalim ba...

hangak ra pod.  first, there's the contentious rh bill.  then there's the divorce bill.  is same-sex marriage not far behind?   

The chicken came first--God would look silly sitting on an egg.  (Author Unknown)

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.  (Rita Mae Brown)

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. (Ronald Reagan)

Quote from: bugsay on August 02, 2011, 08:42:03 PM
unsa'y bakion...aw este bakwion...di na pwede bay Hubs.....
nanguros nalang ko samtang nag pindot sa "Post" tab..

mahimo kang baki!  hehehe.  bitaw, adto sa thread ni imong papardz hubag nga "let's hit the beach"... di gyod ka magmahay nako.

sala gyod ni ni hubag...

kanang bull's eye sa taliwa... sky blue ang bathing trunk unya tinina ug blond ang buhok, nagpabilib pa gyod sa iyang abs... ang nakaparat, ang gipabiliban, ang kanang nag-bathing trunk ug itom. 

Cat Island’s best bet for survival was tourism.  Before the tsunami, the modern people of the island hoped that tourists would keep arriving and photograph their cats, feed their cats, pet their cats, etc.  Two ferries a day crossed back and forth to the island from Sendai.  Now that Sendai has been obliterated, Cat Island is even more isolated and further removed from tourists and their dollars.  Damage done to Cat Island is said to be devastating.  Tourists and volunteers are urgently required from the mainland just to get this tiny island in the position to restart it’s economy.




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On Wednesday, 23 March, the following English translation of an article written by JEARS, appeared in the Mainchi News, Japan:
"In the morning of March 22nd, ASDF helicopters landed on a remote island, Tashirojima…out of 50 remaining people, 80% of them are older than 65 years.  After about one week after the quake, emergency supplies started to arrive in the island.  On 22nd, 800 kilo-litres of gasoline and kerosene, food for 100 meals were delivered along with satellite phones that will enable the residents to communicate with hospitals to ask help for acute sickness/injuries.  On Tashirojima island, the younger residents of the island, already in their early 50s, carried and distributed the aid supplies…”  Diligent as always, JEARS will continue to monitor the situation on Cat Island, focusing on getting cat food transported there as soon as possible.  





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“Cat Island” Survives Japan’s Tsunami

13 April 2011

written by PepiSmartDog in the Special World News section of The Anipal Times

A sense of dread filled all pals when we read the news that Japan’s “Cat Island” had been completely submerged during the tsunami.  It seemed unbelievable that anyone could survive a 20-foot wall of water, moving at jet-engine speed, let alone kittens.  However, “Cat Island has survived with only minimal loss of life,” Yutaka Hama of the Hama House Inn on the island, told Live Science.

Before the tsunami, “Cat Island” or Tashirojima, as the island is officially called, was covered in cats.  A reader of The Conscious Cat blog checked with a Japanese website devoted to Tashirojima and reported, ”A girl whose friend returned from the island yesterday confirmed that while a few cats died (near the gatehouse) the others are okay.  There are about 50 people left on the island, and they are said to have received food (both for the humans and the cats.)  It seems that when power and water will be restored, things will be fairly okay, all things considered.”

Live Science also reported that it’s difficult to keep the island supplied with food.  Although relief teams have delivered human supplies by helicopter, animal relief workers aren’t sure how much food the cats are receiving.  “The people on the island are very protective of the cats, so taking them off the island isn’t a choice,” Isabella Gallaon-Aoki of Animal Friends Niigata, a member of the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support coalition, told Live Science.  “We will offer support to give them supplies and help with the injured animals, but a mass evacuation isn’t in the cards.”  JEARS (Japanese Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support) plans to take cat food and other cat supplies to the island by boat. 



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kadagko ana... invisible?  maayog morag tungaw kadak-a nang upat ka björn dinha...

Quote from: bugsay on August 02, 2011, 04:16:22 PM
unsa diay tuod ang buot ipasabot sa "ikaduhang Bathala"?.....

hehe, arang goryoha gyod uy.  imo bitaw ning tigkanta ug videoke... nasipjat lang ka kausa kay nakasiyagit kag "ikalima ko ikaw/ nga bathalaaa..."

i repeat, kinsa may IKADUHANG BATHALA ni hubag ug ni bugsay?

Quote from: bugsay on August 02, 2011, 03:22:05 PM
lagpas na's kintolimbo ang naabtan ani nga thread.....hehehe

bisan tuod ug unsa kalagpas sa kintolimbo, naa gyoy mga nagpagoryo-goryo kay wa pa motubag ani nga pangutana, and i quote myself thus:

Quote from: islander on August 02, 2011, 02:17:42 PM
having read and shared enough (with the hope that i have understood everything i read and shared) of what the term third world is and why it misleads, my next question is:

kinsa may IKADUHANG BATHALA ni hubag ug ni bugsay?

Clearly, American slang has struck a nerve among concerned British citizens, many of whom are driven mental by it. Our Yankee way of speaking even manages to evoke visceral responses â€" “disgusting,” “grotesque,” “hideous” â€" much as Americans react in the presence of blood sausage or kidney pie. Well, allow me to retort. Or rather, allow me to allow another BBC viewer to retort, with an eloquent defense of the impermanence of English language: “English itself is a rather complicated, interesting blend of Germanic, French and Latin (among other things). It has arrived at this point through the long and torturous process of assimilation and modification. The story of the English language is the story of an unstoppable train of consecutive changes â€" and for someone to put their hand up and say ‘Wait â€" the train stops here and should go no further’ is not only futile, but ludicrously arbitrary.”

I guess if the Brits take offense at how Americans use English, they might want to consider censoring Charles Dickens’ use of cockney next, or Irvine Welsh’s rendering of Scottish dialect, or Martin Amis â€" or hell, even Shakespeare.

In the same way that Filipinos can chuckle and allow local phrases like “major major” to enter the lingua franca (though for how long is another matter), we must make room for English that is descriptive as well as prescriptive. The train’s not stopping. You can get off anytime you like, though. And we do apologize for giving you Jersey Shore.

Sorry for leading you astray.


THE X-PAT FILES By Scott R. Garceau
The Philippine Star, July 31, 2011

26. “Burglarize”  (Me: As opposed to “burgle”?)

27. “Oftentimes”  (“Just makes me shiver with annoyance.”)

28. “Eaterie.”  (“To use a prevalent phrase, ‘Oh my gaad!’”)

29. “Bi-weekly.”  (“Fortnightly would suffice just fine.”) (Me: Sorry, no one in the history of America has ever said “fortnightly.” It’s like the metric system: not gonna happen.)

30. “Alternate”  (instead of “alternative.”)

31. “Price hike.” (“Does that mean people who do that are hikers? No, hikers are ramblers!”) (Me: Ah! That explains the hidden meaning of Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On.)

32. “Going forward.”  (“If I do I shall collide with my keyboard.”)

33. “Deliverable.”  (“Used by management consultants for something they will ‘deliver’ instead of a report. Ugh!”)

34. “A million and a half.”  (“Clearly, it’s ‘one and a half million‘!” )

35. “Reach out to”  (instead of “ask”) (“As in ‘I will reach out to Kevin and let you know if that timing is convenient.’ Is Kevin stuck in quicksand? Is he teetering on the edge of a cliff? Can’t we just ask him?”)

36. “You do the math.” (“Math? It’s maths! Maths!”)

37. “Regular”  (in coffee shops) (“What ever happened to a medium-sized coffee?”)

38. “Expiration date.”  (“Whatever happened to ‘expiry’?”)

39. “Scotch-Irish.” (“Americans claim their ancestors as such. Even if it were possible, it would be ‘Scots’ not ‘Scotch,’ which is a drink.”)

40. “That’ll learn you.”  (“The English â€" and more correct â€" version was always ‘that’ll teach you.’ What a ridiculous phrase!”)

41. “Where’s it at?” (“It just sounds grotesque and is immensely irritating.”)

42. “Period” (instead of “full stop”)

43. “Winningest”  (“As in ‘Michael Schumacher is the winningest driver of all time.’ I can feel the rage rising even using it here.”)

44. “Season”  (instead of TV series) (“Hideous.”)

45. “Issue”  (instead of “problem”)

46. “The letter zee”  (instead of the proper British “zed”) (“Not happy about it!”) (Me: And I’m not happy about people using the phrase “Not happy about it!”)

47. “Medal”  (as a verb instead of ‘win a medal’) (“Sets my teeth on edge with a vengeance.”)

48. “I got it for free.”  (“A pet hate. You got it ‘free,’ not ‘for free.’ You don’t get something cheap and say you got it ‘for cheap,’ do you?”)

49. “Turn that off already.”  (“Oh, dear.”)

50. “I could care less”  (instead of “I couldn’t care less”) (“Has to be the worst. Opposite meaning of what they’re trying to say.”)

Here are the 50 Americanisms that drive Brits up the wall, with some of their actual e-mailed comments.

1. “Can I get a...”  (“It infuriates me.  It’s not New York.  It’s not the ‘90s.  You’re not in Central Perk with the rest of the Friends.  Really.”)

2. “Least worst option.” (“Their most best option is learning grammar.”)

3. “Two-time” and “three-time.”  (“Have the words ‘double,’ ‘triple,’ etc. been totally lost?”)

4. “24/7”  (rather than “24 hours, 7 days a week”)

5. “Deplane”  (instead of “disembark”) (Me: Unless of course it’s Herve Villechaize announcing guest arrivals on Fantasy Island.)

6. “Wait on”  (instead of “wait for”)

7. “It is what it is.”  (“Pity us!”)

8. “Fanny pack.”  (Me: What do they call it in the UK? “Booty pack”?)

9. “Touch base.” (“It makes me cringe no end.”)

10. “Physicality”  (“Is it a real word?”)

11. “Transportation.”  (“What’s wrong with ‘transport’?”)

12. “Leverage.”  (“It seems to pop up in all aspects of work. And its meaning seems to have changed to ‘value added.”)

13. “Turn”  (“Does nobody ‘celebrate’ a birthday anymore, must we all ‘turn’ 12 or 21 or 40?”)

14. “Shopping cart.”  (“I caught myself saying this instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself.”) (Me: Yet on Amazon.co.uk, they put their purchases in a “shopping basket.” So WTF?)

15. “Gotten.”  (“What kind of word is that? It makes me shudder.”)

16. “I’m good”  (for “I’m well”)

17. “Bangs”  (for a fringe of the hair)

18. “Take-out”  (rather than takeaway)

19. “Ridiculosity.”  (“Perhaps it’s tongue in cheek?”)

20. “A half hour”  (instead of “half an hour”)

21. “Heads up.”  (“I still don’t know what it means!”)

22. “Train station.”  (“My teeth are on edge every time I hear it. Who started it? Have they been punished?”) (Me: Presumably they say “railway station” in more civilized climes.)

23. “Alphabetize it.”  (“Horrid!”)

24. “My bad.”  (“People say it after making a mistake. I don’t know how anything could be as annoying or lazy as that.”)

25. “Normalcy”  (instead of “normality”)

Sorry for the lousy English. (Our bad.)

THE X-PAT FILES
By Scott R. Garceau
The Philippine Star
July 31, 2011



Listen up, Filipinos, because this concerns you. You have adopted bad English habits from us Americans for far too long. Yes, we Yanks are responsible. Our culture pushed our slangy ways upon you; we take full blame.  Our version of the King’s English is sloppy, unkempt.  It’s also very malleable and attracts more new words per year than Kim Kardashian does Twitter followers.  But henceforth, you really should take your lead from the folks who invented the language itself: the English.

According to a BBC News Magazine web page, “Americanisms: 50 of Your Most Noted Examples,” these examples of language abuse have even learned to swim across the pond and infiltrate the speech of native Brits like free-range spirogyra! These weapons of mass destruction come in the form of slangy American phrases such as “You betcha” and “I’m good” and “24/7.” Sound innocent enough, but these are the kind of phrases that apparently drive the British up the wall. (Do they call them “walls” over there? Isn’t it something else, like “lorry” or “lift”?)

The British are not happy about this.  No, not at all. It’s the kind of thing that inspired UK grammarian Lynne Truss to write the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a grammar guide that few Americans can even get through, because we don’t spell “color” as “colour” or put our quotation marks inside our periods.  Plus we drive on the opposite side of the road.  Most of the time.

Blame it on American TV, business self-help books or slangy politicians, but something about American English has always rubbed certain hides the wrong way.  Back in 1921, noted journalist and curmudgeon H.L. Mencken defended our tendency toward slang (in the book The American Language), saying it expressed something vibrant and adaptable about our new nation.  But really, no one should have to talk like the people on Jersey Shore.  Nobody.  So don’t.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 02:38:44 PM
Hmm, the more human senses there are, the more sensible (he he) should the notion of there being more than 4 dimensions be...

you're saying, of course, that dimensions having something to do with human senses, thus, if theoretical physics does not recognize or at least consider in research, say, the sense of hunger, would it be safe to say then that we are one dimension less?

wa gihapoy round na siya ani nga street gang...

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 02, 2011, 02:27:09 PM
17 Your heart became proud
  on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
  because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
  I made a spectacle of you before kings.

as always, then as now and forevermore, pride comes before a fall. 

Quote from: bugsay on August 02, 2011, 12:56:22 PM
nagtakuban ba kaha ni, or nagsulti's tinuod?... ;D

abi na lang kay siya nang iring nga nag-una nga nagbanganga...

uy, nyor, bag-o nang akong apron, no?

having read and shared enough (with the hope that i have understood everything i read and shared) of what the term third world is and why it misleads, my next question is:

kinsa may IKADUHANG BATHALA ni hubag ug ni bugsay?

Putting it to Rest

It’s long overdue to put the term “third world” to rest.  I have long advocated to use the term “developing country” for many reasons.  One, the “third world” term is archaic, historically inaccurate, and without measurable characteristics as described by the late Peter Bauer and others.  Two, although it is hard to truly define economies that are developing, developing countries comes closest to define what is happening in the world today in a more practical way.

Today’s developing countries are growing by leaps and bounds, largely due to the exponential pace of technology.  It would probably not be an exaggeration to say more growth has happened in the past 10 years than the past 50 due to technology in its many forms.  While the etymological arguments against the third world term are plenty to validate its expulsion from our vocabulary, many still use it today. I believe the public perception between the two terms of “third world” and “developing country” could be measured in a way to show one is looked upon more positively than the other.  And with more people today than ever before involved in anti-poverty efforts, it is time we define these countries by the proper terms and make a conscience effort to change public perception of these nations.  This change starts with knowledge and much of the burden rests upon the shoulders of the media and academia.

Much more can be said about this topic, but hopefully I have provided an impetus for discussion.


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Today’s Alternatives

Today, more and more NGO’s (non-governmental organizations), government agencies, aid groups, and journalists are using new, modern terminology to describe countries that once fell under the third world.  The term most commonly used today is developing country, although there is no strict definition or standard for even measuring what this is.  While some agencies have their own metric of measurement and classification, the complications of development and economics prevent any sort of system from being adopted across the board.  Over the next 20 years, the definition of a developing country is likely to go through an evolution of its own and we will likely see several more alternatives pop up with even more standards being created.

Another alternative that stems more closely from academia, and is definitely worth noting, is the "Global South", although there are dilemma’s in geography.  I, personally, find this study to be very fascinating and worth a read if you are interested and have a knack for sociology and development like myself.


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The Case Against “Third World”

Before I became involved in development, I was as guilty as anyone else in using the term.  I tossed the language around without even considering what it actually meant.  But being informed of origins and histories when working in development can be your most valuable asset.  One day I asked myself, “Why in the world are we still using this archaic term?  The Soviet Union doesn’t even exist anymore.”  Thus my research began.

An excellent point to make against the use of the term, was the case made by developmental economist Peter Bauer:

    “In the 1980s, economist Peter Bauer offered a competing definition for the term Third World.  He claimed that the attachment of Third World status to a particular country was not based on any stable economic or political criteria, and was a mostly arbitrary process.  The large diversity of countries that were considered to be part of the Third World, from Indonesia to Afghanistan, ranged widely from economically primitive to economically advanced and from politically non-aligned to Soviet- or Western-leaning.  The only characteristic that Bauer found common in all Third World countries was that their governments “demand and receive Western aid” (the giving of which he strongly opposed).  Thus, the aggregate term “Third World” was challenged as misleading even during the Cold War period.”

Mr. Bauer took the case against the term another step by stating that it was never even correct to begin with.  The term “third world” was loosely thrown around by politicians and journalists and based entirely on non-measurable characteristics of a nation.  The Cold war was a time of political alliances and the three-world system made it easy to characterize who was who in the war effort for the media, politicians and academia.


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Associations

Now, you’re probably wondering what connection this term has to do with today’s associations, broadly spoken of as the world’s poor, developing countries, the developing world, the Global South, etc, etc.

In the Cold War, those nations non-aligned or neutral were, for the most part, nations who were just coming out of imperialism of the previous two centuries and in the process of building their economies from the ground up.  The Cold War was a war of immense world powers coming together and those caught in the sidelines, i.e. developing countries without military capacities and strong economies, were instantly marginalized as being a part of the “third world”.  They either were unable to involve themselves in the war effort, or were simply uninterested and wanted to stay out of the war altogether because of their own internal challenges they were facing.


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Definitions & Beginnings

The term “third world” originated in the Cold War in order to define countries who were either non-aligned or neutral to the two battling forces of the time: NATO (representing capitalism) and the Soviet Union (representing communism).

Generally speaking, those countries aligned with NATO and in support of capitalism were considered “First World”, while those aligned with the Soviet Union and in support of communism were considered “Second World”.  All others were lumped into the “Third World” category.

As stated well on Wikipedia:

    “This definition provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on social, political, and economic divisions.”

While most would be quick to assume that the “third world” was an American creation, it is actually a European creation with French origins.  I’m not going to go into detail, but I encourage you to read up on the etymology of the third world here (that is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world#Etymology).


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and now, back to the term THIRD WORLD.  here's a very good argument against using the term:

Putting the term “third world” to sleep

Josef Scarantino
August 7, 2009

I’ve been ranting about this for several years now: the continued use of the term “third world” to describe countries currently in development, also known as “developing countries”.  While I don’t get into heated discussions about it’s use, as most people are simply uninformed of how improper it is, I do think it’s worth exploring where this term came from and why it’s no longer a proper term to use.

I also think it’s worth arguing how I believe the term “third world” is actually doing more harm than good among those working in development.  And although this blog post is likely to ruffle the feathers of many organizations even using the term in their names, I stand by my argument.  Books could be written about the topic and I’m sure dissertations have been written about it as well.  But, as blog posts go, I’m keeping this short and to-the-point.


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more on cloud nine:

It seems that it is the clouds themselves, rather than the number of them, that were in the thoughts of those who coined this phrase.  The imagery was originally of a 'cloud cuckoo land' or 'head in the clouds' dreaminess, induced by either intoxication or inspiration, rather than the 'idyllic happiness' that we now associate with the phrase.  The early references all come from mid 20th century USA and the earliest that I've found is in Albin Pollock's directory of slang, The Underworld Speaks, 1935:

     "Cloud eight, befuddled on account of drinking too much liquor."

'Cloud nine' comes a little later, for example, in The Oxnard Press-Courier, August 1946:

     "I think he has thought of everything, unless the authorities pull something new on him out of cloud nine."

Around the same period we find clouds seven and thirty-nine, in The San Mateo Times, April 1952 and Ross’s Hustlers, 1956, respectively:

     "Mantovani's skilled use of reeds and strings puts this disc way up on Cloud Seven."

     "That stuff is way up on Cloud Thirty-nine."

The early favourite was 'cloud seven' and many of the oldest citations use that form, as in this piece from The Dictionary of American Slang, 1960, which was the first printed definition of the term

     "Cloud seven - completely happy, perfectly satisfied; in a euphoric state."

This early preference for seven as the significant number may have been influenced by the existing phrase 'seventh heaven'.

Since the 1980s or so, 'cloud nine' has become predominant.  That has probably been influenced by the use of 'cloud nine' in popular music - George Harrison adopted the term as the title of his 1987 album and, more notably, The Temptations' 'psychedelic soul' album of the same name, in 1969.

Linguistic hype being what it is, we now hear people expressing their happiness with the inflationary 'cloud ten', which brings us back to the cumulonimbus/Buddhist theories.  Eighth heaven anyone?



http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 01:31:13 PM
Interestingly, in Dante's cosmology, there are nine celestial spheres, with God residing beyond them all, in the Empyrean.



(Hell, not surprisingly, has nine circles, too.)

i wonder, then, if whoever it was who started the expression of "cloud nine" had dante's nine celestial spheres (or heavens) in mind.  clouds for heavens, who can say?

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 01:08:36 PM
There are between nine and twenty-one human senses, depending on who you ask, and how they define a sense. It is generally agreed that nine is the minimum. These are touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, thermoception, nociception, equilibrioception, and proprioception. Hunger and thirst are also sometimes included. Generally, for something to qualify as a sense requires a free-standing sense organ associated with it. A sensory apparatus' primary source of information should be force data originating from outside the brain.

very, very interesting.  i wonder when theoretical physics would pick this up from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy of perception.  that would be real cross-referencing.

QuoteThought or intuition is sometimes included as a sense, but this is incorrect. Human thoughts do not take data directly from reality, but rather from the confluence of sensory organs with which they are connected. Sometimes senses are perceived concurrently with each other, for example sounds that have colors associated with them. This phenomenon is called synesthesia, and is relatively rare, though often reported under the influence of hallucinogens or psychedelics.

does this mean that there is no room for the 5th dimension as far as human senses go?  as for synesthesia vis-a-vis hallucinogens or psychedelics, i wonder what the name is for the convergence of senses brought about by the spirits (pinot noir, for one).  so far, i will opt for "spirithesia".

Quote from: taga tigbao on July 29, 2011, 12:00:16 PM
Mas samot siguro ang tua magpirme sa Cloud 9.

the best that i could find on cloud nine, aside from this


On cloud nine means in a state of blissful happiness

Origin

Whenever a phrase includes a number, like the whole nine yards, at sixes and sevens etc., then attempts to find its derivation usually focus on the number.  'On cloud nine' is no exception. 

A commonly heard explanation is that the expression originated as one of the classifications of cloud which were defined by the US Weather Bureau in the 1950s, in which 'Cloud Nine' denotes the fluffy cumulonimbus type that are considered so attractive.

Another explanation is that the phrase derives from Buddhism and that Cloud Nine is one of the stages of the progress to enlightenment of a Bodhisattva (one destined to become a Buddha).

Neither of these explanations holds water.  To begin with, both the cloud classifications and the Buddhist stages to enlightenment have ten levels.  To single out the last but one stage of either is rather like attributing the source of the 'whole nine yards' to American Football, where it is ten yards rather than nine that is a significant measure.  Also, the fact that nine is far from the only number that has been linked with clouds, argues against those origins.  Early examples of 'cloud' expressions include clouds seven, eight, nine and even thirty-nine.*

whew!  syalan ba diay, kadaghan ba diay ug cloud ranking.


*http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/

Hinduism also has the concept of seven heavens.  According to the Puranas and the Atharvaveda, there are fourteen worlds. There are the seven higher ones (the heavens), called the Vyahritis.   

1.   Bhoor-Loka (i.e. the Earth)
2.   Bhuvar-Loka
3.   Svar-Loka
4.   Mahar-Loka
5.   Jana-Loka
6.   Tapa-Loka
7.   Satya-loka

The god Brahma lives in the seventh heaven, Satya Loka.


http://en.wikipedia.org/

christian, specifically catholic belief, in my understanding does not include seven heavens; it settles for a heaven in its entirety.  thus, it is the only one of three abrahamic religions that does not consider levels of heaven.  (paging, fr chic, for theological imprimatur and nihil obstat. )

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 02, 2011, 12:33:04 PM
Isles, so the Shi'i believe this, but what about the Sunni?
Do they concur with their Shi'i brothers in Islam?

give me time to look for that (if you have no time to help me, hehe.)  aahhh, found it in time, slow internet connection and all (i must be in the first heaven)...

Sunni sources record Muhammad visited each of the seven heavens on his Mi'raj.  There he met Adam, Jesus Christ and John the Baptist, Joseph, Idris (considered by most scholars to be Enoch), Aaron, Moses and Abraham in the first to the seventh heaven in the mentioned order.  He made the travels to ultimately meet God and The Divine Throne above the heavens.*

n.b. it looks like the divine throne is beyond the seven heavens for the sunni.


*http://en.wikipedia.org/

Quote from: chicogon on August 02, 2011, 12:26:56 PM
Salamat Ms Isle ngakalingaw kag research2x diha duna mi kalingawag basa-basa...  

way sapajan, fr chic.  trying hard kog simplify aron ko makasabot; makabuang pod baya ang manenglis aning ubang contributors sa wiki, that's why i check and countercheck with other sources.  (nagka-improve gyod hinoon ning wiki, much to my joy.  it saves me the neck pains of lugging encyclopedias nga may puruhan pang kuskuson ang pages sa akong mga iring kun makalimtan nakog hipos from the table. )

so does islam have names for the seven heavens.

According to Shi'ite sources, a hadith from Imam Ali mentions the name of the seven heavens as mentioned below:

1.   Rafi' (the lowest heaven)
2.   Qaydum
3.   Marum
4.   Arfalun
5.   Hay'oun
6.    Arous
7.   Ajma'


from http://en.wikipedia.org/

in judaism, the seven heavens have names.

According to Jewish teachings in the Talmud, the universe is made of seven heavens (Shamayim) as below:

1.   Vilon (Isa 40:22); also called "arafel"
2.   Raki'a (Gen 1:17)
3.   Shehaqim (Ps 78:23, Midr. Teh. to Ps. xix. 7)
4.   Zebul (Isa 63:15, I Kings 8:13)
5.   Ma'on (Deut 26:15, Ps 42:9)
6.   Machon (1 Kings 7:30, Deut 28:12)
7.   Araboth, the Seventh Heaven where ofanim, the seraphim, and the hayyoth and the throne of the Lord are located.


from http://en.wikipedia.org/

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 29, 2011, 11:41:15 AM
He he, way paki ani ang tua na manimuyo sa seventh heaven...

Seven Heavens is a part of cosmology found in many major religions such as Judaism, Islam and Hinduism and in some minor religions such as Hermeticism and Gnosticism.  The Divine Throne is said to be in or above the seventh heaven in most Abrahamic religions.

The number 7 in Biblical references symbolically represented perfect completion, as in the seven-day week, the seven eyes and horns seen on the Lamb of God in The Book of Revelation, and the seventh in the generations of Adam: Lamech who was completely wicked, and Enoch who walked with God.  The number also has a significance in Quranic numerology.


http://en.wikipedia.org/

Quote from: chicogon on July 29, 2011, 11:10:12 AM
Thanks for the info, Miss Isle. Next assignment: how the term FIFTH DIMENSION came about. Ajaw na tong 6TH SENSE kay bag-o pato gigam-ag sine ajejejeje 

more on the sixth sense:

Extrasensory perception (ESP) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. 

The term was coined by Richard Francis Burton and adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition. 

ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct or hunch, which are historical English idioms. The term implies acquisition of information by means external to the basic limiting assumptions of science, such as that organisms can only receive information from the past to the present.

Parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including ESP.  Parapsychologists generally regard such tests as the Ganzfeld Experiment as providing compelling evidence for the existence of ESP. 

The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain ESP, and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception 

Quote from: lumine on August 02, 2011, 01:25:45 AM
thanks for the info about "how the term 3rd world came about", ms isles. naa nakoy ipangdebate sa ako bana,hehehe.

most welcome, lums.  if you may, ingna imong lalab nga di na uso ang third world term kay pang-cold war era pa na, cold peace na god ta karon, hehehe.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 11:38:08 AM
Tashirojima cats waiting to be fed...



Hmm, ang nanay tingali ning Islander... 

ako na uy, nga nagtakoban.

for lorenz and statesville:

i take aspilet (80 mg) when i go on long-haul airplane trips.  is this safe to take when one stays too long in front of the computer screen?

hadlok ra ni... sukad karon, magtindog-tindog na ko kay kusog ra ba ko mobasa ug news items and other trivia sa internet, wa pay labot ang akong pagbisita ug pag-apil sa tb, usahay makalimot na ko sa oras.   

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 10:27:54 AM
Onsikantot, nagduhaduha mi kay basin imbis adto mi nimo papuy-on sa cathouse, adto diay sa outhouse...

aw, basta di lang ninyo panamastamasan akong mga iring (kuhaon unya ninyo nga starlets ug crush video, putlan gyod ta moh!), the outhouse is out of the question.  but if you didn't behave, i'll flush you down the outhouse, okay?

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 10:10:11 AM
Bwahaha! Hmm, unya, makaseguro kaha ka nga makabaton mig bugnaw nga kaugmaon?

only when the temperature reaches 40 degrees centigrade kay anha ra nako paandaron ang aircon.  magdaginot ta ginagmay sa koryente no?

hahaha!  this is enjoyable, hubag.  thanks!

still these are expensive dogs.  i much prefer our homeless beagles.  



potential names:  chewie, pongo, rosebud (names already chosen by our 9-year-old, huhuhu), hubag, bugsay, fr chic, buwadsanga, bolbuhol, etc., lorenzo would have been great but this name is already taken by a very popular cat and a talkative parrot).

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 02, 2011, 09:35:54 AM
Hmm, I won't be surprised kon magpatukod si Ms. Isle og ingon ani nga cathouse...

hinaot unta.  i'd be glad to have one cat-inspired cat house.  you would of course be most welcome to step in for some temporary lodging by then; vaccinations required, apil na nga buotan ka, di tabian, di k@watan, maayo moluto, naay police and barangay clearance, ug nagtangag ug recommendation from fr chic... kamong duha ni bugsay, opkors naman.  

Massive earthquakes and nightmarish tsunamis are no strangers to Japan’s northeastern coast â€" they have happened before and will happen again, if history is any guide. The cats of Tashirojima are survivors, however, and it’s good to know that once again they have landed on their feet.


image via: Discovery

an islander in the island of cats 



http://webecoist.com/

It was not until the morning of March 22nd that Japanese ASDF helicopters were able to land on Tashirojima, bringing much-need emergency supplies; 800 kilo-liters of gasoline and kerosene, food for 100 meals, and satellite phones were delivered but the situation on the island still remains precarious.  JEARS has set up a Facebook page to keep concerned netizens advised on the situation on Tashirojima.  (note:  this was posted in april, 2011, by the author named 'steve'.)


images via: Mainichi Daily News, Catster and Buzzfeed


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cat island location, tashirojima, japan.  (the yellow arrow is the ferry route from the port city of ishinomaki.)


images via: NGiley

the tsunami epicenter:


images via: The Daily Tail and Love Meow

The magnitude-9 earthquake which struck northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011, shifted the entire Oshika Peninsula and its associated islands 5.3m (17 ft) towards the epicenter and lowered it by 1.2m (3.9 ft).  The tsunami which followed was as high as 10m â€" the image above shows the waves about to inundate Ajishima (網地島).  Tashirojima is a rugged island, however, whose highest peak rises to 96.2 meters (315 feet) above sea level.  The two main villages on the island are Oodomari and Nitoda (home to most of the cats), with the latter situated on high ground.

The NASA satellite image above left, taken shortly after the tsunami hit, shows Tashirojima above water and reports from the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support (JEARS) indicate all of the islands residents (cats AND humans) survived the disaster.


http://webecoist.com/

what happened to the cats in the island of cats of tashirojima, japan, in the aftermath of the 11 march 2011 tsunami?  they were:

Saved by a whisker


images via: A Hosoda and Inedit


http://webecoist.com/

“You may think this place is so peaceful,” says Yutaka Hama, “but if there’s a fire, there is nobody who can help put it out.”  The 49-year-old Hama heads a group seeking to promote travel and tourism to Tashirojima â€" and maybe more.

“I want young people to come,” explains Hama, “there are folks here who would teach them fishing.”  Hama, who moved to Tashirojima a few years ago and now operates an inn on the island, may hold out prospects of employment as a lure to visitors but it’s the island’s cats who seem to be a far bigger draw.


images via: Eigapedia and Rahen Z

Tashirojima’s cats made a sudden leap to pop-culture prominence several years ago when a TV documentary on the cats of Tashirojima focused on one particular cat: Jack the Lop Ear, a black & white tom with a drooping left ear.  There’s also Nyanko The Movie and its sequels, which feature the cats of Tashirojima.  To paraphrase Field Of Dreams, “If you film it, they will come.”


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"Puss n' Boats" with a strong dash of animal magnetism to boot




http://webecoist.com/

This is the country that gave the world Hello Kitty after all… you’d better believe there are people ready, willing and able to make the long and complicated trip to Tashirojima just to spend a night in a building shaped like a cat.  Just don’t bring Fido along, for obvious reasons.


image via: Tofugu


http://webecoist.com/

Japan’s many small and isolated communities often try to raise their profile by actively promoting anything that might distinguish them as being something special â€" and worthy of a visit.  Tashirojima is no different, and the island is studded with inns and outbuildings boasting a cacophony of cat-like detailing.


images via: Tofugu and Travelpod


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An apocryphal story concerns the cats of Tashirojima:

“One day, when the fishermen were collecting rocks to use with the fixed-nets, a stray rock fell and killed one of the cats. The fishermen, feeling sorry for the loss of the cat, buried it and enshrined it at this location on the island.”

A small building was constructed on the site and people would leave small cat-related talismans there in order to encourage the benevolence of both the living cats and the spirits of their ancestors.




images via: Amusing Planet and Tofugu

“The cats here have always been something like a lucky charm for us who bring good catch,” said local fisherman Tsuneo Endo.  â€œWe enshrine them because they are important to us.”


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Tashirojima’s rich offshore fishing grounds attracted fisherman from other locations. Often these off-island fisherman would stay at inns on Tashirojima and the local cats would come around, begging for scraps. A form of folk wisdom soon established itself concerning the cats: it was believed that studying the behavior of the cats would help determine upcoming weather and fishing conditions.


images via: Tofugu


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Times change, and by the late 19th century improvements in fishing nets allowed Tashirojima’s residents to pursue more lucrative activities offshore.  Though the silk industry declined, the island’s cat population did not â€" people had gotten used to having cats around and the latter continued their mousing activities in and around the island’s docks, boathouses and storage sheds.


images via: Tashiro-Hamaya, Med-India and Tra News


http://webecoist.com/

Tashirojima has long been known as “The Island of Cats”.  Domestic kitties were first brought to the island many centuries ago when Tashirojima’s main agricultural activity was silkworm farming.  Since mice would prey on both the silkworms and their precious cocoons, the farmers imported cats to act as a natural form of pest control and encouraged the cats to, well, feel right at home.


images via: Pets Adviser, The Age, Sparkle and Amusing Planet


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There is no airfield on the island so visitors arrive via a ferry out of Ishinomaki â€" the trip takes roughly 40 minutes.

Don’t expect a large welcoming committee when you get there, however… at least, not of the human persuasion.  There are only 73 people living on Tashirojima, almost all of them over the age of 65.  The island’s population has dropped by 90% over the past 50 years.  The cats though, they’re doing just fine thank you.


images via: Tashiro-Hamaya and Tofugu

the ferry and the welcome committee


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(images via: NGiley)

Tashirojima (ç"°ä»£å³¶) is a 3.14 sq km (7.9 sq mi) island in northeastern Japan located 20 km (12.4 miles) east of the port city of Ishinomaki.  The island sits just west of the Oshika Peninsula and travelers from afar wishing to visit usually fly into Sendai, the largest city in Miyage prefecture.  If you’re starting in Tokyo expect the journey to take about 4 hours.


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Quote from: chicogon on July 29, 2011, 11:10:12 AM
Thanks for the info, Miss Isle. Next assignment: how the term FIFTH DIMENSION came about. Ajaw na tong 6TH SENSE kay bag-o pato gigam-ag sine ajejejeje 

sadsad gihapon ko sa sixth sense kay ulitawo na man tingali si cole sear (aka haley joel osment)...

sixth sense is extrasensory perception (esp), that which is beyond the perception of the five senses.  it could be a hunch or an intuition that may foretell the future, though not everyone believes in this.  an example:

Alex, a university colleague, was cleaning his double-action, six-shot revolver in preparation for a hunting trip later in the month. In this pistol, when the trigger is pulled the hammer is cocked, the cylinder revolves, and the hammer falls on the next chamber, all in one smooth motion.  For safety's sake, Alex normally kept five bullets in the revolver, with the hammer resting on the sixth, empty chamber.

Before cleaning the gun, he removed the five bullets and set them aside.  When finished cleaning, he began to put the bullets back in the cylinder. When he arrived at the fifth and final bullet, he suddenly got a distinct sense of dread.  It had something to do with that bullet.

Alex was bothered about the odd feeling because nothing like it had ever happened to him before.  He decided to trust his gut, so he put the bullet aside and positioned the pistol's hammer as usual over the sixth chamber.  The chamber next to it, which normally held the fifth bullet, was now also empty.

Two weeks later, Alex was at a hunting lodge with his fiancee and her parents.  That evening, unexpectedly, a violent argument broke out between the parents.  Alex tried to calm them down, but the father, in an insane rage, grabbed Alex's gun, which had been in a drawer, and pointed it at his wife.

Alex tried to intervene by jumping between the gun and the woman, but he was too lateâ€"the trigger was already being pulled. For a horrifying split second, Alex knew that he was about to get shot at point-blank range.  But instead of a sudden, gruesome death, the pistol went "click."  The cylinder had revolved to an empty chamberâ€"the very chamber that would have contained the fifth bullet if Alex had not set it aside two weeks earlier.


excerpts from Is There A Sixth Sense?, http://www.psychologytoday.com/

bahala ba uroy...

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 01, 2011, 08:01:52 PM
Hmm, sa ato pa, si Bugsay maoy sad-an sa tanan? 

hehe, not that sweeping.  a rose by any other name could be an antuwanga...

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 28, 2011, 04:08:26 AM

Translation:


To the believers and non believers, let us give to faith what belongs to faith.

In all things, Go In Peace In The Name of Jesus Christ Who Is Lord.

translated further:

sa mga motoo ug di motoo, atong itugyan sa pagtoo ang unsay gipanag-iya sa pagtoo.

sa tanang butang, pahuway sa kalinaw sa ngalan ni hesu kristo nga atong ginoo.

OT:  mora man mig nasaag ni bai lorenz dinhi sa thread nga 'iro nga liwat sa tag-iya.'  naa ba kaha intawoy moangkon namo nga tag-iya aning kalakiha? 

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 01, 2011, 07:07:28 PM
Hmm, tblander, or islander?

TBlander, nyor.  layo ra kaayo ang ISlander.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 01, 2011, 06:27:36 PM
He he, wa dayon ko mosulod ani nga thread bisan nakabasa na ko sa title. Di man gud ko tigbantay og scam kay wa may magpabuangbuang og pangilad sa master mangingilad, bwahaha!

daan pa lagi kong tblander.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 01, 2011, 10:13:53 AM
He he, ikaw baya ang unang mihatag sa imong panahom kabahin sa isyu sa kabugnaw...

sa totoo lang, para kasing pinagsamantalahan ang utak ko dahil sa lamig na iyon.  unsa man god tuoy daotan kun dawaton nga naay creature nga bugnaw ug simod, sama nako?  gitiwasan man ni bugsay ug airconditioned future, na, hala, the die is cast...  

di ba kaha tblander ang scammer?

Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute
Balance
Riding a bicycle in Santa Barbara, California, 1933.


albert einstein, the cat of paul krugman (nobel prizewinner for economics, 2008; cited for trade theory, location theory, and economic geography; could have been cited for his work on currency crises as well.)

New York Daily News / Getty Images
Show Time
With Charlie Chaplin (center) at the premiere of actor's film City Lights, Los Angeles, 1931.  Elsa is at the right.

AP
Out West
Einstein and Elsa pose with members of a Hopi tribe, March 1931.

Bettmann / Corbis
Farewell
The Einsteins are given a send-off at Pasadena Station before leaving for New York, March 1931.


http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/

Granger Collection
Coming to America
Einstein and his second wife, his cousin Elsa, leave on their first trip to the U.S., 1921.

Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute
Honored Guest
A year after winning the Nobel Prize for physics, Einstein and Elsa visited Japan, 1922.
This photo has not been published before.

AP
Connection
Einstein attends a concert at the Great Synagogue in Berlin, 1930.


http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/

siawa.  nagsalig kay di masangit iyang bungot.  dia ra siya ay:

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 â€" 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.  For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history.  He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".  The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. (wiki)


Albert Einstein in 1921 (wiki)



Ullstein Bild / Granger Collection
Einstein as Teenager
This photo was taken in a Munich photo studio c. 1893, shortly before Einstein left high school
to join his family in Italy.

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Forward Looking
Einstein in 1898, after he entered Zurich Polytechnic.

Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute
Summer Sailing
This never before published image is from an album named "Sailing Trip with Professor Einstein"
taken at the physicist's summer home near Berlin in 1919.


http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/

The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group whose repertoire includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz.

The band was best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as the eponymous 5th Dimension and The Magic Garden LP recordings. (wiki)

Album: Fifth Dimension
Artist (Band): The Byrds
Date: 07/18/1966

paskang dugaja na.  wa pa matawo si fr chic, hubag ug bugsay...

OT:  unfortunately (for me), the only two songs of the byrds that i have (because i couldn't care about their other songs), are "hey, mr. tambourine man" and "turn, turn, turn", and both are not in this album.  the byrds' "hey, mr. tambourine man" is much, much better than that of the original and composer (bob dylan, with due respect to his royal rasps).  "turn, turn, turn" is but the ecclesiastes.  great song, this one.  i like both the byrds' and the lettermen's versions.

more "fifth dimension", this time in popular culture:

In popular usage, the "fifth dimension" is often used to refer to unexplored or unknown aspects of the universe, and not necessarily to the mathematical concept of a 5-dimensional space.  For example, in the fictitious universe of DC Comics, the "fifth dimension" is said to be the place from which Mister Mxyzptlk comes.

In 1966, The Byrds released an album titled Fifth Dimension, using the fifth dimension as a metaphor for unexplored and unknown aspects of the universe and oneself.

The 5th Dimension is the name of an American vocal music group popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In Hindu philosophy, the fifth dimension of love of the Divine is termed by the Gaudiya Vaisnavas as turyatita, the dimension of the soul's Soul.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional_space

so there, we have the first four dimensions.  now comes the fifth dimension.  (unfortunately, the theories on dimensions number up to 11, and i could not even find all their names!)

these days, the fifth dimension is still a theory (and so are the sixth to eleventh).  thus:

The problem with detecting the fifth dimension (or the sixth, seventh, and so on) is that our bodies are built to measure only the three old-fashioned spatial dimensions, plus time as a fourth dimension.

Scientists have been hoping that at least one of the extra dimensions might be rolled up in such a way that its influence could be seen by measuring gravity's pull on a scale of, say, a millimeter or less.  So far, no anomalies have been officially reported, although there have been occasional blips that are likely due to tiny experimental errors rather than the fifth dimension.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13070896/

Quote from: islander on August 01, 2011, 11:03:04 AM
"In physics, the fifth dimension is a hypothetical extra dimension beyond the usual three spatial dimensions and one time dimension of Relativity."  (wiki)

i understand this as: the world as we know it is three-dimensional (the 3 space dimensions, that's why we're not flat or two-dimensional like a movie); the fourth dimension is time.    hehe.

from a current popular lady physicist:

We believe there should be a single theory that works over all regimes.  String theory does that, but only in a universe that has more than three dimensions of space.  More generally, there’s stuff we don’t understand if there are only three dimensions of space, and some of those questions seem to have answers if there are extra dimensions.  Also, no fundamental physical theory singles out three dimensions of space.  The theory of gravity allows any number.  So it’s logical to think what the world would look like if extra dimensions are there.

http://randall.physics.harvard.edu/RandallCV/Discover_July06.pdf

Quote from: Lorenzo on August 01, 2011, 12:15:27 PM
Hahaha, when you discover the secret to reverse aging, pass it forward to me ha?

you may not like reverse aging... here are some hints:

stop learning.
act like a brat if you didn't get what you want.
almost get divorced.
build an empire.