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Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on July 02, 2012, 07:03:04 AM
They said it shames as it is distasteful and disgusting seeing on the Internet and live steaming of his paid radio program the city hall chief executive falling into sleep and snoring right fronting his microphone inside the announcer’s booth.

   Is this true?   

The three biogeographic regions of the genera (figure from Groves and Shekelle paper):




Colin Groves and Myron Shekelle (2010). The Genera and Species of Tarsiidae, International Journal of Primatology


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According to the authors, the three genera are found in distinct biogeographic regions : “Tarsius is found on Sulawesi and surrounding islands; Cephalopachus is found on a restricted subset of Sundaland, principally southern parts of Sumatra and the island of Borneo; Carlito is found on islands of the southern Philippines that were a single Ice Age landmass, sometimes called Greater Mindanao.”

Etymologically, the new genus, Carlito, is from Carlito, “diminutive man of the countryside.” The authors said that this comes from “the German Karl or Carl (country man), and the diminutive suffix from Spanish, -ito.” They propose this name because it is “an apt description of tarsiers as small primates of the countryside, but more particularly in recognition of Carlito Pizarras, the “Tarsier Man” of the Philippines, featured in nature films such as The Littlest Alien, a man of the Visayan countryside who dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge about and the conservation of the Philippine Tarsiers.”

The figure below (from the Groves and Shekelle paper) summarizes the most conspicuous features for the three genera:

New Tarsier Genus Named After ‘Tarsier Man’
http://bonvito.wordpress.com/
November 13, 2010


Because of his dedication to the conservation of the Philippine tarsiers, Carlito Pizarras, popularly known as Nong Lito, is now immortalized in the annals of scientific literature after a new Tarsier genus was named after him.

Groves and Shekelle, in a paper published in the International Journal of Primatology, said that molecular and morphological evidences warrant a revision of the tarsier taxonomy from one genus, Tarsius, to three genera, Tarsius, Cephalopachus, and Carlito.

All tarsiers used to be classified in the genus Tarsius, but the Philippine tarsier is now placed in the genus Carlito. The genus is named after Carlito Pizarras, who is associated with the Philippines Tarsier Foundation, in honor of his efforts to protect tarsiers and his successful breeding of the animals in captivity. He's often known by the name of Nong Lito and is sometimes called "The Tarsier Man" because of his conservation efforts. Conservation organizations and people committed to tarsier protection are badly needed in order to save the wild populations. -- http://aliciac.hubpages.com/

Hmm, morag medyo lahi rang nawong ang Philippine tarsier (genus Carlito--in honor of Carlito Pizarras) kon ikomparar sa ubang members sa tarsier family.

Quote from: islander on July 02, 2012, 10:10:35 AM
hehe, ija na mang gipapas ang ijang war cry sukad gihimong bitok ang ang ijang avatar...

Hmm, basin karon kuan na, "Pangarap kong hintayin ang pagkati ng tubig..."

Quote from: chicogon on July 02, 2012, 12:38:55 AM
Dugay2x gyod ning desisyona nakab-ot

Ang desisyon sa paghagkom?

Quote from: islander on July 02, 2012, 09:58:36 AM
otro pod ka, nyor hubag.  mga marukoy ay... i repeat, di na mohunas, ajaw na lang mo pagdamgo.

Ayawg kompyansa. Remember, ang marukoy na tinutukoy ay hindi nangangarap nga imposible...

Quote from: chicogon on July 02, 2012, 12:26:24 AM
Ang butones kung luag
Wala pa man unta koy uwag
Kini laging anak ta ni Hubag
Pisliton kusog kaayo moamag. 

Anak Hubag, pero puyra buyag
Niliwat ni siya sa gabunyag
Way lain kon dili ang gwatsihon
Ug gwapititong Padre Chicogon.

Quote from: islander on July 02, 2012, 09:51:44 AM
hoy, why man ka niungot dinhi?  di na mohunas, morpa.  ajaw na lang paabot, nyor bugsay.  gawas pa, wa ka kahibawo kun himbison ba na siya ug nanimahong hasang, hahaha!

Ajaw hadloka si Bay Bugs og fish smell, anad jamo sija niana...

Quote from: bugsay on July 02, 2012, 09:41:40 AM
kon bukton sa umang,...... aw di igsapayan sa bugaong nga taas ug pasensya

Kataw-an lang ta ani sa bungotong timbungan...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on July 02, 2012, 05:35:17 AM
maayo lang ug naa pa inig abot sa hunas. ana kung tua na nagpauraray sa laing mga bukton.

He he, maklaro nga isda ang lower half...

Quote from: chicogon on July 01, 2012, 10:27:47 PM
Pag kilaw2x mo didto 

Mas tagbaw kon kilawanay...

By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:35 am | Sunday, July 1st, 2012


Newly born tarsiers were found in a small patch of secondary forest on Mt. Matutum in South Cotabato giving conservationists hope that there are more of the endangered species in the area that is threatened by logging, farming and mining.

Conservation group Endangered Species International (ESI) said a B’laan found two male baby tarsiers in the Matutum forest in May.

One of the infant tarsiers was with its mother, while the other was alone in the forest, ESI President Pierre Fidenci said in an e-mail to the Inquirer in early June.

Largest outside Bohol

With the new discoveries, the number of tarsiers found on Mt. Matutum has reached 26, Fidenci said. He said there could be as many as 50 to 80 tarsiers in the area, making it the largest tarsier population in the country outside of Bohol, where the first tarsier shelter in the country has been established.

Tarsiers have been placed on the red list of threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which says the tarsiers’ forest habitats are being swallowed by logging, mining, agriculture and other economic activities.

ESI said the conservation center would be managed with the B’laan tribe. The group is surveying the proposed sanctuary area, which is about 600 hectares. The sanctuary, which will have nature trails, is expected to be ready later this year.

Fidenci said the tarsiers were being taken care of by the B’laan tribe, which is building a low-impact tarsier sanctuary on Mt. Matutum with the help of ESI.

Reforestation

“The interesting fact is that our research shows the tarsier survived in patches of secondary forest left, and sometimes tiny patches of 10 meters by 20 meters, so cutting down those remaining important ‘islands’ of suitable habitats could lead to rapid extirpation of the Philippine tarsier in Mindanao,” Fidenci said.

ESI is reforesting the degraded parts of Mt. Matutum with indigenous trees as part of its work to preserve the tarsier population in Mindanao.

ESI, which is based in San Francisco, California, has been collecting seedlings of rare and endemic trees from the primary forests of Mt. Matutum for use in the reforestation that will restore biodiversity in the degraded areas.

“Our goal is to continue to harvest seedlings from Mt. Matutum to make our reforestation efforts a real success,” Fidenci said.

Regreening the mountain

Regreening the mountain with local trees is important to the conservation of the tarsier, Fidenci said.
Increasing commercial activities in the mineral-rich and fertile lands of Mt. Matutum could wipe out the tarsier population in the area, said.

“Our data show an urgent need to protect the Philippine tarsier before it is too late,” Fidenci said. “Our reforestation efforts show good progress, with 80-percent survival rate and with some trees [doubling] their height in two months.”

The slopes of Matutum have been deforested and planted to pineapples, coconuts and bananas over the years. The mountain has a forest reserve of 14,000 hectares, but according to data from Birdlife International, only 3,000 hectares comprise primary old-growth forest.

Training

ESI has been training the B’laans to identify and protect tarsiers. They are being taught to detect the presence of tarsiers through the smell of the animals’ feces from a distance. They are also learning to search for individual tarsiers hiding under dense vegetation.
“Our B’laan teams are now becoming experts on surveying for tarsiers, Fidenci said.


Fidenci, who first visited the Philippines in 2001, said B’laans are also being trained to become naturalists.

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LONDON (AFP) - A British newspaper said that a Chinese cosmetics company was using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.

Agents for the firm, which could not be named for legal reasons, have told would-be customers that skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot is being used to develop collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments, the Guardian newspaper said following an undercover investigation.

"The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is 'traditional' and nothing to 'make such a big fuss about'," the daily alleged.

It said doctors and politicians were worried about the dangers associated with people wanting to look better in such ways, because European regulations to control cosmetic treatments such as collagen are not expected for several years.

"Apart from the ethical concerns, there is also the potential risk of infection," the newspaper said.

Collagen is the fibrous protein constituent of skin, cartilage, bone, and other connective tissue.

The Guardian said it was unclear whether the anonymous company's treatments were already available in Britain or over the Internet.

It was also unable to say whether collagen made from prisoners' skin was in the research stage or was in production.

"However, the Guardian has learned that the company has exported collagen products to the UK in the past. An agent told customers it had also exported to the US and European countries, and that it was trying to develop fillers using tissue from aborted foetuses."

The newspaper said that when formally approached the agent denied the company was using skin harvested from executed prisoners.

At the same time, it said the same person had already admitted this to an undercover researcher.

It quoted that agent as saying: "A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoner and aborted foetus." This material, he said, was being bought from "bio tech" companies based in the northern province of Heilongjiang, and was being developed elsewhere in China.

China executes more prisoners than the rest of the world combined, although the precise number put to death is not known.

One recent tally by a European anti-capital punishment group said that at least 5,000 of the near 5,500 known executions worldwide in 2004 took place in China.

Quote from: bugsay on July 01, 2012, 09:52:47 PM
magpa abot ko hangtod sa paghunas

He he, di na lang diay nimo gamiton ang imong pagka-okoy?

Bay Bugs, wa ba kay mahimo diha...

More pics...

By James Turnbull
http://thegrandnarrative.com/





At first, I thought these pictures were part of some form of satirical protest, and failing that, I thought that they were fake. But a quick search reveals that the habit of taking videos and photos of prisoners about to be executed is routine in China (albeit not their release on the internet), and I’ve yet to see any news reports questioning the authenticity of these ones…so it appears that the Chinese government did indeed recently allow 10 female prisoners to dress nicely and wear cosmetics and jewelry before they were executed (9 by firing squad, the one on the left above by electrocution), after which photos of their final moments were accidentally(?) released on the Chinese portal site Mop.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 01, 2012, 09:33:44 PM
If appointed by the President, De Lima would be the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in its 111 years of existence.

Hmm, first pud galing nga buwagaw ang buhok...

Hmm, the plot thickens...

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
10:54 am | Sunday, July 1st, 2012


MANILA, Philippinesâ€"Justice Secretary Leila De Lima accepted the nomination for the Chief Justice post saying she is “up to the challenge.”

“What the judiciary needs is an effective and trusted leader. That, to me, is the call of the times. And so, after a deeper reflection and further consultations with my family and close confidants, and amidst my initial hesitance and apprehensions, I now feel that I will be up to the challenge and will now take on the challenge,” De Lima said at a text message sent to reporters.

The justice secretary said she arrived at the decision after she spoke with President Benigno Aquino III last Friday.

“I’ll be honored to submit myself to the scrutiny of my peers at the [Judicial and Bar Council] and the general public, for eventual consideration of the President,” De Lima said.

“I sincerely believe that at the minimum, I have my character and resolve as a person, and my track record and passion as a public servant to offer for such a crucial and revered post,” she added.

De Lima is believed to be one of the strongest contenders to replace the ousted Renato Corona for the top judicial post.

She is one of the nominees who received the most number of nominations. Some of those who nominated her are the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption through its head Dante Jimenez, former Defense Secretary Avelino “Nonong” Cruz, Lawyers Rogelio Limare and Reynaldo Bagatsing.
To firm up her decision, De Lima said she went to the Our Lady of Manaoag Shrine to pray.

“I went to Our Lady of Manaoag (Shrine on Sunday) morning. (I) prayed hard and sought for further enlightenment and blessing,” she said, adding:

“I always do that whenever (I) need to make crucial decisions and confronted with major challenges. Mama Mary is my constant source of guiding light.”

If appointed by the President, De Lima would be the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in its 111 years of existence.

Following the controversies generated by Corona’s removal from office on May 29, De Lima said “what the judiciary needs is an effective and trusted leader.”

“That, to me, is the call of the times,” the justice secretary said.

“I sincerely believe that, at the minimum, I have my character and resolve as a person, and my track record and passion as a public servant, to offer for such a crucial and revered post,” she added. --With a report from Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Quote from: david on July 01, 2012, 05:12:34 AM
pag may katas pa...all of the above

Unya kon wa nay katas, wat hapins?

Quote from: enadespinosa on July 01, 2012, 04:02:55 AM
Ang lalaki ay haligi ng tahanan.Ang babae ang nagpapatigas ng haligi ng tahanan.

He he, unsa man pud ang mga anay nga siging kitkit sa haligi...

The pajamas are a problem...

Hmm, abangan ang susunod na kababata, este, kabanata...

What a vain to society...

A Growing Concern

China is re-examining its expectations about marriage. Modernisation has led to greater flexibility with traditional values, both for better and worse. While infidelity is hardly exclusive to China, it is, for the moment, a major source of self-reflection and worry for many Chinese people. -- http://www.echinacities.com/

Some blame the influence of popular culture â€" everything from K-Pop to K-Fed. Provocative entertainment may challenge traditional mores. Today’s Chinese are "richer, freer and more independent-minded," Victor Lee, a film producer, told CNN. "These social changes are reflected in recent movies and television series, which depict love triangles and other marital problems." Films can often glamorise adultery. Amanda Xie, a high school teacher from Kunming, said, "Films teach us how to act. Those kinds of movies glitter the betrayal."

Another possible influence on modern infidelity is China’s history of second wives.  In 1950, the Communist party outlawed concubinage. But before that time, concubines had been integrated into society, serving as companions to high-ranking persons. China’s emperors continued to take concubines up until the last emperor, Puyi, whose consort eventually divorced him in 1931. As a result, the historical connection to concubines is relatively recent in Chinese cultural memory.

Concubines have played important roles in China’s history. The Empress Wu, a former concubine to the Emperor, worked her way up to become the ruler of all China during the Tang Dynasty. The life of Yang Guifei, the favourite consort of Emperor Xuanzong, has been dramatised in plays, films, novels and even a television show. Often romanticised, concubines have lived on as figures of fantasy and imagination. While no longer a formal part of Chinese society, their historical influence remains.

Potential causes and influences

Many argue that China’s re-emergent mistress culture is more about power than lust. The Guardian quoted a report from Beijing Daily, which found that "14 of the 16 most senior officials found guilty of gambling, illegal property deals and money laundering also had mistresses." With excess money to spend and an inflated sense of entitlement, perhaps some of China’s nouveau riche see affairs as affordable luxuries. "Keeping a mistress is just like playing golf," a Shenzhen property developer told The New York Times in August. "Both are expensive hobbies." Ernai, or second wives, are often kept as status symbols, provided with apartments, salaries and expensive gifts. Shu Xin told China Daily, "Nowadays, many people think an extramarital affair is a symbol of success."

China’s rising affluence is a contributing factor. Dr. David Schmitt is the head of the International Sexuality Description Project (ISDP), a psychology research project designed to study human sexuality characteristics across cultures. Dr. Schmitt collaborated with colleagues around the world to administer surveys, including in culturally Chinese Taiwan and Hong Kong. He found that as living conditions in a nation improve, the level of sociosexuality (a person’s willingness to engage in more promiscuous behaviour) rises. China’s rising standard of living may be a key factor in its new abundance of short-term relationships, casual hook-ups and mistress-toting mayors.

Women’s role in society also alters sexual behaviour. Most of China’s media attention has been on male officials. However, a 2001 study by the All-China Women’s Federation, cited in the New York Times, noted that 30% of divorced women had been unfaithful. Dr. Schmitt hypothesizes that women’s economic independence changes their sexual behaviour. In more traditional societies, women tend to focus on long-term mating strategies: monogamous relationships and childbearing. However, "when women gain financial independence they are more able to follow their short-term mating desires," Dr. Schmitt wrote in an email. This may include short-term affairs and casual relationships.

China’s shift from rural to urban may also have an effect. Dr. Schmitt notes that urban settings increase risky sexual behaviour. "As more people move into cities, short-term mating is going to become more prevalent," he wrote. Urbanisation in China has increased drastically in the last few decades. "The annual influx of rural migrants to China's cities increased from 9 million in 1989, to nearly 30 million a decade later," writes Thomas Campanella, author of The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World. A rapidly increasingly urban population may contribute to changing sexual habits.

Infidelity’s Effect on Chinese Society

Growing concerns about infidelity have led to legal and social changes in China. Divorce rates have risen meteorically: 17% over the first three months of 2011, according to Forbes. Shu Xin, director of the China Marriage and Family Affairs Consulting and Research Center, estimated to China Daily that 70% of divorces stem from infidelity. His high estimate illustrates the magnitude of the problem in the Chinese psyche.

The upsurge in cheating has also led China to consider revisions to the legal system.  Changes have made it easier for couples to obtain a divorce, allowing for greater ease of separation if a spouse is unfaithful. The New York Times reports that the Supreme People’s Court has decided to clarify property rights in cases of love triangles â€" either where a wronged spouse wishes to reclaim money spent on an affair, or to prevent third parties from laying claim to marital property.

Infidelity can cause a culture of mistrust. The BBC writes that paternity testing in China increased dramatically in the early 2000s, a direct result of suspicions of cheating among couples. For a country where family stability is a core value, infidelity â€" and the resulting changes to family structure â€" is causing earthquakes.

Nov 29, 2011By Caitlin Dwyer, eChinacities.com 


"Plenty Xu," the former vice mayor of Hangzhou, reportedly had dozens of affairs. An official in Shaanxi found himself accused of corruption by his eleven mistresses.  Every few months, a new high-profile figure shocks China with revelations of an affair. This had led to self-reflection and analysis, as citizens struggle to explain their society’s rising trend of infidelity.

China is certainly not the only country dealing with infidelity scandals. Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi battled accusations of infidelity. Movie star and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently revealed that he had fathered a child out of wedlock. Given the cross-cultural correlation between power and infidelity, China’s revelations aren’t unusual. But their prevalence, and the volume of publicity they receive, indicates a growing fascination with cheating’s modern manifestations in Chinese society.

Animals That Became Extinct In Our Lifetime
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The wine is just as important...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on July 01, 2012, 02:49:11 PM
In his speech, Carpio spoke about reforms needed in the judiciary that, it is now understood, he would introduce if named Chief Justice.

Hmm, an old hat dream falling upon microcephalics...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on July 01, 2012, 02:49:11 PM
Carpio spoke about the need to decongest the dockets, integrity and independence of judges, transparency and accountability in the judiciary, infrastructure needs of the judiciary, compensation of judges, court administration, and training for judges.

Of those, clogged dockets should get priority attention because delays in trial and decision “impair social justice, hinder economic development and erode public confidence in the justice system and ultimately in the entire government,” Carpio said. - Inquirer, source

The road to hell, as we all know, is paved with good intentions. 

Quote from: islander on July 01, 2012, 06:50:14 PM
The Culprit: Scientology?

Differing religions are bound to get messy in a relationship, especially when one is as controversial as Tom Cruise’s Scientology. Holmes’s papers cite “irreconcilable differences,” and TMZ’s sources say the two couldn’t see eye to eye on Suri’s involvement in the church. Holmes was raised Catholic and converted to Scientology before marrying Cruise in 2006, but she’s reportedly worried about their daughter’s involvement in the religion. Suri, who’s 6, is now old enough to participate in what a Village Voice report describes as a Scientology practice called “sec checking,” which is a security interrogation by an ethics officer of the church. The report also implies that Holmes didn’t like what she saw of the religion over the past six years and has chosen the opportune moment to pull out.

Posibleng nakarason, posibleng naay kapasikaran ang rason, or both, or neither. Posible gani nga sinabotan ang paukyab...

Basta gani politika, baliay jud og bukog...

Hmm, unsa kaha ang sitwasyon sa Tsayna kabahin niini...

Yataps, maka-affair man gani diay kon kauban ang asawa, unsa pa kaha kon nag-inusara... :

When children come into the equation, dynamics change.

"When children are involved, usually a couple will try harder to keep a relationship. If parents separate, though, they are helped to do it with the least damage and to maximize the opportunity for continued meaningful parenting," he said.

But infidelity issues are not the only reason couples seek help.

"In fewer than 50 percent of the couples I see, infidelity is an issue," Janet estimates. "Many come because they want make a last effort before they call it quits. Others have already separated and need some advice to explore options how to do it in the best way, without causing additional damage, especially when children are involved."

Some couples need counselling because of their different communication styles and habits, which could become a threat in the future.

Kate, an Australian expatriate, and her husband Dave, wanted marriage counselling as a preventive measure.

"When you are together for many years, you know the tunes of your spouse. You've seen and heard it all. With a counsellor around, you suddenly discover new tunes, hidden messages, you have not read before. Counselling helps to make these messages clearer, you can nail them and work with them better in the future."

Thus, building and supporting a meaningful relationship, especially in an expatriate framework, seems to be the big challenge.

"People have to invest in the gym for example, and in time and effort with therapy. For couples and families, the expatriate lifestyle is one of the hardest on the planet," Beaumont says.

As Western expatriate men's status is higher than in their home countries, they are targeted by younger women. Too often an affair is the quick fix and heats up the vicious circle of guilt, pain, lack of communication and trust.

"These couples come to counselling. It's a typical, very sad problem," Beaumont says. "But there's help, and there's hope. If the couple was ever in love and that love is still somewhere kindling within, with careful understanding and proper guidance they can recover and really learn from their experience."

Still, he admits that the experience of infidelity can never be removed, as scars will always remain.

"But there can be useful lessons drawn for the moments of future difficulties from good and healing interpretations from these scars."

The standard approach in marriage counselling starts with developing an idea of what might happen in the process. This involves concepts like trust, confidentiality and nonjudgement.

"People won't change if they have no faith, or trust in the facilitator. The couple, or family, must take some ownership of the therapy," Beaumont explains.

He concedes that this task is not easy.

"You need assessment and then therapy. It's like going to a gym. You can't expect to change your entire physique in three months, when it has taken a lifetime to create."

Why are marriages particularly challenged in an environment like Indonesia?

Janet, another experienced psychotherapist specialized on couple therapy, who spoke on condition of anonymity, considers expatriation itself a massive stress factor.

"If the marriage is already shaky before you leave your home country, chances are that your relationship will not survive the expatriate lifestyle," she said.

This lifestyle translates into a standard of living much higher than in the respective home countries. Fancy houses, golf clubs, maids, a cook, drivers and gardeners are readily available for living in the golden expat bubble.

It comes at a price, though. The wife typically stays at home because she doesn't have a work permit. The husband, who normally is the main breadwinner, spends most of his time away from his family. He leaves early, comes back late, or is away for days, or weeks on business trips.

While he claims pressure is on him to perform for the family income, she feels isolated, left alone with child and household tasks. Added to this, she misses her own work life, which she gave up to follow her husband. Too often, anxiety and depression set in, turning eventually to alcohol and medication to soothe her pain in some cases.

"It is a recipe for disaster," says Beaumont. "He starts to resent her whining and complaining, he leaves on the weekends more often, or accompanies his co-workers to their favourite bar."

Soon after she discovered his affair, she asked her husband to leave their house. John, who has been living with his mistress for some weeks now, admits that he doesn't feel any guilt.

"Our marriage was not great even before we came to Jakarta. We were parents, but not a couple any more. I had the right to stray."

Diane and John's story is not a unique incident.

Michael Beaumont-Connop, psychotherapist and clinical director of ICAC Professional Services (www.icacservices.org) in Kemang, sees couples like John and Dian on a daily basis. He mainly provides counselling to English-speaking expatriates in Indonesia and has been working as a counsellor for almost 30 years all over the world.

"Infidelity happens in very, very many expatriate families and causes massive damage. Very often the family disintegrates, which is even more difficult in a foreign country and adds so much more suffering and misery to everyone involved."

Facing the big taboos in marriage
Brigitta Holtkamp, Contributor
http://www.thejakartapost.com/


"When I found him talking on the phone to a woman in the middle of the night, my whole word collapsed," an American expat remembers tearfully.

Diane (not her real name) has been living in Jakarta for five years together with John, her husband of 12 years, and their three children aged six, nine and 11 years.

"It turned out that she was his mistress for some months already and suddenly all the bits fell into place."

Diane recalls the many business trips her husband made during this time, suspicious stopovers in Bali where he stayed in beach villas, longer than normal office hours and a general lack of interest in her and her needs.

"He even managed to see his mistress, a flight attendant, on the day of my birthday and let me and the children wait for him at the cinema," she recalls bitterly.

"I never doubted him, I always trusted him. But he cheated, lied to me and broke his promises. He doesn't have values anymore. I'm done with him," Diane concludes.

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Works of art consisting of 450,000 post-it notes arranged to form images of cyclists are on display at the Les Galeries Saint Lambert shopping mall in Liege, Belgium, ahead of the start of the Tour de France, June 27.

Respecting the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Because you’re a unique human being with strengths and great qualities of your own, you need to respect your entire mind, body, and spirit.

Don’t look in a mirror and say, “I’m not attractive” or “I’m so stupid.” That’s not what matters. Don’t you think your loved ones love you unconditionally? Of course! They love you because of what’s inside of you. They respect you for who you really are and you need to respect yourself too.

    * You need to respect yourself because you have an inner being that demands your patience, love and respect.

If you find yourself to be unattractive, unintelligent or uninspired, throw that mentality out the window! Respect your body because it is the home of your mind and spirit, then harness that spirit and love it because it is who you are.

Loving your body, mind, and spirit is the key to gaining self-respect. It is then that you can extend yourself out to meet the needs of others. -- http://wholesomewisdom.com/

What happened?

Joan was trying to achieve self-respect and thought she could only gain self-respect by putting her friend’s needs before her own. She was trying to prove she deserved respect instead of looking into herself and finding the great things about herself that already deserved respect.

* Because she didn’t even respect herself, her friend didn’t respect her either.

If Joan respected herself and her own needs, she might have communicated her feelings to her friend and put her own schedule first sometimes. Joan would’ve felt the confidence to do the things she needed to do for herself in addition to doing things for her friend.

Fundamentally, Joan’s self-respect would have allowed her friend to respect her also. There’s a good chance that Joan and her friend would still be friends if she had only looked inside herself and realized that there was already a lot to respect.

* There’s nothing wrong with stepping up for others, but you must have a solid sense of self-respect for yourself first.

Putting Your Needs First

Too many people put the needs of others before their own. Although this is admirable, in order to respect and serve others, you need to meet your own physical and emotional needs first. Meeting your own needs first is an important part of respecting yourself.

Here’s a story of Joan, who realized too late the importance of respecting her own needs:

Joan had a friend that she did everything for. She would always put the needs of her friend before her own. Whenever her friend needed help with something, big or small, Joan would always be there even if she had to rearrange her own schedule.

It worked for a while, but then Joan began to feel that the constant help for her friend was becoming emotionally taxing. It was almost as if Joan became a servant to her friend. She wasn’t Joan; she was just her friend’s “friend.” Even her friend began to think of her that way.

Eventually Joan began to feel like her friend was taking advantage of her and these feelings escalated into resentment. Joan started to make excuses to get out of helping her friend. Now they are no longer friends.

Why is self-respect so important?

When you have self-respect, you actually fully love yourself. You love yourself for who you are on the inside and not just because of what you do, what you look like, or what you’re capable of. When you have self-respect, you take pride in who you are and you know that you’re valuable.

On the flipside, without self-respect, it’s difficult to have honesty, confidence, and integrity. Instead, a person without self-respect may feel the emotions of anger, guilt, blame, shame, or regret, and they sport secretive behavior because deep down they feel unworthy. Beyond that, if you can’t respect yourself, how can you respect others and how can others respect you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhNk-zRJcU#ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhNk-zRJcU#ws

He he, one for the road...

Pastilan, kadaghan sa lut-od sa panapton. Huboon ra diay pagkagabii...

Quote from: bugsay on June 23, 2012, 10:35:43 PM
"We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here."

Quote from: bugsay on June 24, 2012, 03:53:25 PM
"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity."

As for Bugsay, focus lang siya sa simpli: put a dent sa pipila ka tinabonan, este, tinagoang suok sa uniberso...

Quote from: bugsay on June 29, 2012, 12:20:01 AM
I'm actually as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done.[/b]"

Magamit kaayo ni nga pilosopiya sa dapit diin naghitak ang tentasyon...

Alas! Ang panty nga sulod sa bag gitagoan
Gusto unta kaayo ni Bugsay nga kuoton.
Apan, ay! Iya na lang intawong nahibaw-an
Nga kini gihatag na diay ngadtong Chicogon.

Mo lang. Cruel to Filipinos pud...

Quote from: bugsay on July 01, 2012, 08:40:36 AM
tinuod ba gud na'ng po'ng nga nayawaan, like kining nahitabo nila?

Hmm, lahi man tingali ang nayawaan ug ang gisudlan sa dautang espiritu. Ang nayawaan sagad bayolente; ang gisudlan sa dautang espiritu, aw, depende sa espiritu. Naay espiritu nga magtukmod sa gisuldan pagkamahadlokon (sama ani nilang duha), o kaha mausab ang personalidad: mahimong hilomon, mokalit lang og katawa, mabayot, imbis laog di na mokaon, ugbp., ugbp. Naa puy mahimong vain to society...

Saint Bernards become food dogs - Mainland China promotes import


Despite the Chinese government’s constant declaration of its extraordinary achievements in environmental and wildlife protection, some government agencies recently are promoting the import of Saint Bernards for food. Chinese experts recently found that for massive captive breeding and killing for meat, the best kind of dogs is the Saint Bernards, which are imported from Switzerland, also called "Big Dumb Dog" 

According to the China Central Television in Beijing, the experts pointed out that Saint Bernards are fast growing and disease resistant. The advantages of using them for food dogs are that they eat less than other dogs but breed fast. Because they rest immediately after meals, they grow faster too, on average gaining over one pound per day. Within a month, they could grow to be over 30 pounds. In three to four months, they will be ready for the market. 

Translation of an article published in the Chinese newspaper "Orient Express" on July 16, 1998
http://www.aapn.org/

St. Bernards, like all very large dogs, must be well socialized with people and other dogs in order to prevent fearfulness and any possible aggression or territoriality. The biggest threat to small children is being knocked over by this breed's larger size. Overall they are a loyal and affectionate breed, and if socialized are very friendly. Due to its large adult size, it is essential that proper training and socialization begin while the St. Bernard is still a puppy, so as to avoid the difficulties that normally accompany training large dogs. An unruly St. Bernard may present problems for even a strong adult, so control needs to be asserted from the beginning of the dog's training. While generally not as aggressive as dogs bred for protection, a St. Bernard may bark at strangers, and their size makes them good deterrents against possible intruders. --Wiki

The St. Bernard is a breed of very large working dog from the Italian and Swiss Alps, originally bred for rescue. The breed has become famous through tales of alpine rescues, as well as for its enormous size.

The St. Bernard is a giant dog. The average weight of the breed is between 140 and 264 lb (64â€"120 kg) or more and the approximate height at the withers is 27½ inches to 35½ inches (70 to 90 cm). The coat can be either smooth or rough, with the smooth coat close and flat. The rough coat is dense but flat, and more profuse around the neck and legs. The coat is typically a red color with white, or sometimes a mahogany brindle with white. Black shading is usually found on the face and ears. The tail is long and heavy, hanging low eyes should have naturally tight lids, with "haws only slightly visible". Sometimes the eyes, brown usually, can be icy blue, nearly white.

In many Third World countries, there may appear to be an overabundance of laziness. What one has to remember is that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect to lethargy. Certainly, people do not have the quality of sedentary lifestyle we can enjoy in the United States.  Our mattress, couch, and snack-food industries surpass every nation on earth. We do not have to worry (as much) about the government confiscating our furniture or food and increasing its NFL experience at our expense. So, members of those industries in the U.S. work harder to enhance our viewing pleasure, expecting that the rest of us will find a way to improve their free time.

This is not to say that all laziness and free time should be spent turning our muscles to fat and our brain cells to mush. Free time can be used to exercise, read the classics, learn a musical instrument, or do whatever you want.  The general term "laziness" as I have used it encompasses every activity that is not done in exchange for the fruits of another person’s work.

So let’s hear it for laziness. It may seem paradoxical that we work so hard all year so we can sleep on the beach for a week in the Cayman Islands, but there is a method to our madness. As we work harder, leisure time for others increases in both quality and quantity, and we can assume that everyone else is returning the favor. Everyone else, that is, except the government.

The next time you hear about how our children are becoming fat and lazy, look on the bright side. Thanks to the hard work of those who have gone before, future generations can goof off more and more to their hearts' content.

The reason we become upset with government-forced leisure programs is because someone always has to pick up the slack. Like Bastiat’s broken-window fallacy, there are a few who increase their profits (leisure), such as steel workers, but others have to give up their "TV remote time" to make up for it. Resources that could be used more productively to allow people to sleep in are instead used to increase the leisure of a few, while decreasing the sleep time of many others. The government creates the fallacy that it can decree increased laziness without first creating a product or method that would allow those people to complete their work in a shorter period of time. In order for the government decree to be fulfilled, leisure must be taken from someone so it can be given to someone else. When the private sector increases laziness, they may do it for a small group such as a company’s customers, but they do not take away playtime from others to make up for it.

Another reason government should stay away from our pursuit of leisure is that regulations and laws create additional unnecessary work. Not only do we have a huge bureaucracy administering the tax code, but we also have the entire private tax-preparation industry trying to find the best way to avoid provisions in the code. The government puts up artificial barriers that curtail time with your kids; you have to spend that time overcoming them. The hard work of public policy institutes could be diverted from defending freedom to enhancing our access to fun. It is one thing to overcome natural barriers, but what a pain to have some people create barriers only so others have to tear them down. That’s twice as many people being taken away from amusement parks and ball games and put to work unnecessarily. When I was in the Air Force, a high-ranking officer explained it to me as a race between those with the digging contracts and those with the filling contracts.

This is why the socialist ideal is such a fallacy. The idea that there eventually will be a world where everyone will be excited about going to work and where production will increase due to the high motivation of the workers, is laughable. People constantly make decisions about whether they want to work for postponed leisure or take time off now. As civilization progresses, it becomes easier for individuals to choose the free time over the work. In Power and Market, Murray Rothbard talks about how the market’s goal is to help people work less:

"In the free market, in short, individuals are always balancing their money income (or real income in exchangeable goods) against their real income in the form of leisure activities. Both are basic components of the standard of living.  The greater their exchangeable-goods income, in fact, the higher will be their marginal utility of a unit of leisure time (nonexchangeable goods), and the more proportionately will they "take" their income in the form of leisure. It is not surprising, therefore, that a coerced lower income may force individuals to work harder. Whichever the effect, the tax lowers the standard of living of the taxpayers, either depriving them of leisure or of exchangeable goods."

So if everyone wants to sit on a tropical beach with a cooler of beer every day, why do we become frustrated with government programs such as welfare, the minimum wage, or the mandatory forty-hour week?  Wouldn’t the recently enacted steel tariff help create more leisure for steel workers?

[Ludwig von] Mises described the state of affairs for men:

"The expenditure of labor is deemed painful. Not to work is considered a state of affairs more satisfactory than working. Leisure is, other things being equal, preferred to travail. People work only when they value the return of labor higher than the decrease in satisfaction brought about by the curtailment of leisure. To work involves disutility."

We all would like to reach a state where we could be that rich kid living off Daddy’s wealth for our entire lives. However, the whole reason we have economics is that civilization will probably never reach that state. Technology has a long way to go to maximize the incredible resources on earth or possibly out in space, thus our hard work must make up for this deficiency. Yet we are obsessed with moving in this direction. We all want to stop working.

Teams of brilliant scientists work very hard so people can stay out of the gym and eat chocolate instead of their vegetables. Indeed, their discoveries lead to longer retirements, and thus more sloth. From anodizing to zipper manufacturers, every business makes a profit by making life easier for some segment of the population. We just cannot admit to ourselves that we are working hard to become lazier, so we spin the language. We say that a new product will make processes more efficient or will create synergies.

If a company comes out with something that will "revolutionize" the way we do "X," it is really saying you can produce the same as you did before, but now we’ll throw in some time for your leisure as well. The constant advance of civilization is just the greater production of free time, or least a shift in the limited time everyone has from work to leisure.

In Defense of Laziness
by Hal Cranmer


From the Puritans to the present day, people have looked with disdain on people who try to avoid work. One of the arguments presented in favor of the inheritance tax is that it prevents the descendants of a wealthy, hard-working businessman from just lying around and not contributing to "society."

American politicians constantly strive to prevent domestic jobs (i.e., work) from going overseas, or at least to immigrants. Everyone believes that hard work builds character. No matter what year it is, the present generation always has it easier than previous generations, who had to work much harder.

For all these arguments against laziness, it is amazing we work so hard to achieve it. Even those hard-working Puritans were willing to break their backs every day in exchange for an eternity of lying around on a cloud and playing the harp. Every industry is trying to do its part to give its customers more leisure time. If a business is successful and profitable, then it has successfully removed an obstacle standing between a large number of people and a life free of cares or work. The health-care industry is a good example of this.

Ni Dennes R. Tabar
Saturday, June 30, 2012


CEBU CITY -- Dos anyos nga anak sa usa ka rookie nga pulis namatay human nalumos sa usa ka balde nga tubig sa lungsod sa Consolacion, Sugbo.

Nahitabo kini sa sitio Bagakay, Barangay Upper Tayud, Consolacion niadtong Biyernes sa buntag.

Nalumos sa usa ka baldeng tubig sulod sa ilang banyo ang dos anyos nga batang lalake nga si Lee Angelo Coritana, kinamanghurang anak nila ni Mayflor ug PO1 Joel Coritana.

Ang bata napalgan sa iyang apuhan nga si Lourdes Judaya nga nahumol na ang ulo sulod sa itom nga drum sa tubig.

Si PO1 Melanio Gabaya sa Consolacion police nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Cebu niingon nga ang biktima nakigduwa sa iyang maguwang nga lalake sa wa pa ang aksidente.

Ang duha gibilin sa ilang mga ginikanan ngadto sa ilang apohan nga babaye, kinsa nangutaw niadtong higayuna.

Si Diosdado Nonongan Jr., tanod nga maoy nitabang sa apuhan sa pagdala sa bata ngadto sa Eversley Child Sanitarium Hospital pinaagi sa ilang patrol car sa barangay, niingon nga gideklarar nga dead on arrival ang bata.

Matod ni Nonongan nga pasado alas 9 sa buntag niadtong Biyernes nadungog niya ang iyang mga silingan nga nangayo og tabang.

Dali siyang miadto sa balay sa iyang silingan ug mao na lang iyang nakita nga niburot na ang tiyan sa bata.

Nagdumili sa paghatag og pamahayag ang mga ginikanan sa bata kalabot sa hitabo.

Nasayran nga ang upat ka mga anak sa magtiayon giatiman sa ilang apuhan tungod kay ang ilang inahan anaa nagtrabaho sa MEPZ samtang ang ilahang amahan usa pa ka field training police (FTP) sa Regional Mobile Group sa lungsod sa Moalboal.

Matod ni Nonongan nga wa makabantay ang apuhan nga niadto sa banyo ang bata nga nagdala og tualya nga gihumol niini sa tubig.

“Nahulog ang labakara sud sa drum. Gikab-ot unta sa bata. Uya mas bug-at baya ang sa taas nga lawas kay sa ubos, wa ka balanse maong natuwad siguro, nya wa nabantayi,” nagkanayon si Nonongan.

“Daghan man gud na buhaton ang lola atong tayma. Nalinga siguro,” dugang niya.

Ang bata gikatakdang ilubong karong Martes, dugang taho sa Sun.Star Cebu. (Sun.Star SuperBalita Cebu)

Liwat jud hinuon ang anak...

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