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It's worth stressing that Wilson's policies here were racist even for his time. Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had been much better about appointing black statesmen to public office, and other political figures, including whites, attacked Wilson's moves toward segregation. The influential proâ€"civil rights journalist Oswald Garrison Villard wrote that the Wilson administration "has allied itself with the forces of reaction, and put itself on the side of every torturer, of every oppressor, of every perpetrator of racial injustice in the South or the North." He further attacked it for its "political stupidity": The administration "has put into the hands of the Republican party an issue which, if they have the sense to use it, may be just the touchstone they are seeking."

Villard was taken seriously by the White House, which tried to court him on the issue and offered hints that it might be changing its tone. He met with Wilson and corresponded with him on racial issues numerous times. But the segregation policies were never reversed.

Some Republicans seized upon the issue, though it wasn't the political game changer that Villard hoped it would be. "Congressman John J. Rogers of Massachusetts introduced resolutions urging investigation of treatment of Negro employees in the Treasury and Post Office Departments," historian Nancy Weiss writes, "but both measures died on committee calendars without gaining so much as a hearing."

Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government


Wilson and his Treasury secretary, William McAdoo, who led the charge by resegregating his department.
Easily the worst part of Wilson's record as president was his overseeing of the resegregation of multiple agencies of the federal government, which had been surprisingly integrated as a result of Reconstruction decades earlier. At an April 11, 1913, Cabinet meeting, Postmaster General Albert Burleson argued for segregating the Railway Mail Service. He took exception to the fact that workers shared glasses, towels, and washrooms. Wilson offered no objection to Burleson's plan for segregation, saying that he "wished the matter adjusted in a way to make the least friction."

Both Burleson and Treasury Secretary William McAdoo took Wilson's comments as authorization to segregate. The Department of Treasury and Post Office Department both introduced screened-off workspaces, separate lunchrooms, and separate bathrooms. In a 1913 open letter to Wilson, W.E.B. DuBois â€" who had supported Wilson in the 1912 election before being disenchanted by his segregation policies â€" wrote of "one colored clerk who could not actually be segregated on account of the nature of his work [and who] consequently had a cage built around him to separate him from his white companions of many years." That's right: Black people who couldn't, logistically, be segregated were put in literal cages.

Outright dismissals were also common. Upon taking office, Wilson himself fired 15 out of 17 black supervisors in the federal service and replaced them with white people. After the Treasury and Post Office began segregating, many black workers were let go. The head of the Internal Revenue division in Georgia fired all his black employees, saying, "There are no government positions for Negroes in the South. A Negro's place in the corn field." To enable hiring discrimination going forward, in 1914 the federal government began requiring photographs on job applications.

In 1914, a group of black professionals led by newspaper editor and Harvard alumnus Monroe Trotter met with Wilson to protest the segregation. Wilson informed Trotter, "Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen." When Trotter insisted that "it is untenable, in view of the established facts, to maintain that the segregation is simply to avoid race friction, for the simple reason that for fifty years white and colored clerks have been working together in peace and harmony and friendliness," Wilson admonished him for his tone: "If this organization is ever to have another hearing before me it must have another spokesman. Your manner offends me … Your tone, with its background of passion."

Updated by Dylan Matthews on November 20, 2015, 8:10 a.m. ET @dylanmatt dylan@vox.com


This Wednesday, a group of Princeton students stormed the offices of president Christopher Eisgruber to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from all programs and buildings at the university. That's a big ask. Princeton has an entire school â€" the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs â€" named after Wilson, who served as university president from 1902 to 1910, before his time in the White House. It also has Wilson College, a residential college for undergrads.

So far, the university is standing firm, insisting that, in the Associated Press's words, "it is important to weigh Wilson's racism, and how bad it was, with the contributions he made to the nation."

Leaving aside the broader question of whether Wilson's name should be removed, let's be clear on one thing: Woodrow Wilson was, in fact, a racist pig. He was a racist by current standards, and he was a racist by the standards of the 1910s, a period widely acknowledged by historians as the "nadir" of postâ€"Civil War race relations in the United States.

Ascaris lumbricoides

By tweaking the immune system, Ascaris worms reduce inflammation and thus might promote conception and implantation of the embryo in the womb, the team speculates. Hookworms, in contrast, aren’t as good at inhibiting inflammation, and their blood sucking and nutrient stealing could overwhelm any reproductive benefits they provide, the researchers suggest. Blackwell and colleagues are now analyzing blood samples from the women to determine which cells and immune molecules the worms alter.

Other studies have revealed that bacteria living in our bodies are essential for pregnancy, notes reproductive immunologist Gil Mor of Yale School of Medicine. But the suggestion that “worms may be affecting reproduction, even improving reproduction, is quite surprising,” he says. The study highlights the fact that “the state of the immune system is of crucial importance to successful reproduction,” says Norbert Gleicher, a reproductive immunologist at The Rockefeller University in New York City.

Because the immune changes triggered by parasites can suppress allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases, several clinical trials have tested whether infecting people with worms soothes the symptoms of these conditions. Researchers doubt that Ascaris will ever become an infertility treatment, however. “I would never give my patients that parasite,” Mor says. But the results could still lead to new therapies, Gleicher says. “If this [finding] is true, we could develop an immunization that produces the same kind of immune response as does roundworm infection.”

Because of these similarities, human biologist Aaron Blackwell of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues wondered whether parasitic infections could pave the way for pregnancy. The researchers tried to answer the question by analyzing data on the Tsimane people who live in the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia.

The roughly 16,000 Tsimane survive mainly by hunting, fishing, and raising crops such as rice and plantains. Their homeland is prime parasite country. About 15% to 20% of them harbor Ascaris, and 56% of them carry hookworms. Infected women in the study usually were unaware they were playing host to the parasites, Blackwell says.

The only health effects the researchers could detect among nearly 1000 Tsimane women were in individuals carrying hookworms. They had a slightly smaller body mass index and lower levels of the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin in their blood. Hookworms were also detrimental to fertility. They increased the age at which Tsimane women first gave birth and stretched the amount of time between pregnancies. As a result, the team calculated, a woman with hookworms would bear three fewer children in her lifetime than would a woman lacking the parasites. For Tsimane women overall, however, fertility is not a problem, as they give birth to an average of nine kids.

In contrast, the giant roundworm Ascaris was a boon for reproduction. It shortened the time between pregnancies and reduced the age at which women first give birth. A woman infected with Ascaris would bear on average two more children in her lifetime than would a woman free of the parasites, the researchers report online today in Science. “It’s a little bit counterintuitive,” Blackwell says.

http://news.sciencemag.org/
By Mitch Leslie 19 November 2015 2:00 pm


Parasitic worms bore into our organs, steal our nutrients, and sup on our bloodâ€"but their effects aren’t all harmful. A new study of people living in the Amazon rainforest suggests that certain intestinal worms increase the number of babies women give birth to.

“This is a very original study,” says parasite immunologist Rick Maizels of the University of Edinburgh, who wasn’t connected to the research. “I think it’s going to spark a lot of other investigations” on the reproductive impact of the worms.

More than 1 billion people are infested with intestinal worms, mainly in tropical areas with poor sanitation. One of the most common is the giant roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, which can grow to 36 centimeters (14 inches) in length. Giant roundworms reside in the small intestine and swipe a portion of their host’s food. Other worms, such as the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, are tiny vampires. They puncture the lining of the intestine and drink their host’s blood.

For all their harmful and icky habits, parasites have a lot in common with a fetus in the womb. The immune system regards a parasite and a fetus as interlopers, so both need strategies to foster what researchers call immune tolerance. Parasites can trigger some of the same immune changes that occur during pregnancyâ€"for example, stimulating regulatory T cells, which quell immune attacks.

http://www.economist.com/
Nov 21st 2015 | DUBLIN


WHILE the euro zone limps along, growing in the third quarter by a disappointing 0.3% (an annualised rate of 1.2%), one small member of the 19-strong currency club is racing ahead. Less than two years since Ireland exited its humiliating bail-out, its economy is resurgent. Following growth of 5.2% in 2014, GDP rose by 7.0% in the first half of 2015 compared with the same period a year earlier.

Welcome as it may be, the vigour of the upswing highlights the troublesome volatility of the small and ultra-open Irish economy. It is bouncing back, after all, from a deep slump that followed an earlier spell of vaulting growth. The notion that the Irish economy might rebound so strongly would have been dismissed as fantasy only a couple of years ago. Irish banks went spectacularly bust during the financial crisis and required a bail-out of â,¬64 billion ($89 billion), close to two-fifths of GDP. Their woes meant that the Irish state had itself to be bailed out by the EU and the IMF in late 2010. Between its pre-crisis peak in late 2007 and its nadir at the end of 2009, the economy contracted by 11.2% (see chart). A recovery in the following two years petered out and the economy lost ground in 2012 and the first half of 2013

Kini kay naturally balancing rock...

IGO ang ulo ug natapsingan lakip ang kamot sa usa ka lalaki human gipusil sa nakamotorsiklo samtang gikan nga naghatod ug patay sa iyaan niini niadtong milabay nga adlaw sa San Antonio, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.

Nagpaalim pa ang biktima nga si Crispin Basadre, 52, minyo nga residente sa nahisgutang dapit.

Subay pa sa impormasiyon nga gikan ang biktima nga naghatod ug patay ug sa pagpauli na nakig-inom kini sa mga kaparyentehan diha sa nahisgutang dapit kalit lamang kini nga gilabyan sa nakamotorsiklo ug nakahelmet dayon pusil.

Nakaangkon kini og samad pinusilan sa ulo lakip na sa kamot human gipusil sa wala mailing suspetsado, wala matuki nga klase sa armas ang gigamit, ug wala usab matuki nga motibo sa pagpamusil.

Sa pagkakaron pabilin pa nga gawasnon ang wala mailing suspetsado samtang ang biktima ang nagpaalim pa sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center, Cagayan de Oro.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Nobiembre 20, 2015.

Ni Jojo C. Ugdol/EIM (Banat) | Updated November 20, 2015 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Natusak-tusak sa bala ang lawas sa usa ka 51 anyos nga lalaki human kini gipusil sa usa ka lalaking nag helmet samtang kini nagdula og baraha kauban ang iyang mga higala diha sa Bayani Apartment, Barangay Quiot ning dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Ang gipatay mao si Alfonso Bayani III, nagpuyo sa maong dapit. Matud pa ni Senior Police Officer 2 Rommel Bancog sa Homicide Section sa Cebu City Police Office nga nahinabi sa Banat News personal nga motibo ang ilang gisubay sa maong krimen.

Samtang nagbaraha ang biktima kauban ang iyang mga barkada kalit lang naabot ang usa ka lalaki ug nangutana “Kinsa si Jun ninyo?”

Human mitubag ang biktima nga “ako” kalit mibunot og armas ang gunman ug dayong pusil sa biktima hinungdan naglumbaanay og panagan ang iyang mga kaduwa.

Dali usab nga misibat ang gunman sakay sa usa ka motorsiklo nga gibilin unahan sa nahitaboan, gituohan kining gun for hire. Samtang gitino pa kun kinsa ang mga nakaaway sa biktima.

Si Bancog midugang gikatahong adunay tawong nagsige og pangutana kung naa ba ang biktima sa iyang balay. (BANAT NEWS)

Tungod kay armado ang grupo ni Candido  nanawag si Trongcoso  sa RPSC-7. Ang hepe sa RPSC-7 nga si Inspector Lowelyn Reyes mitawag dayon sa hepe sa kapolisan sa Bais City Police nga si Superintendent Jonathan Pineda aron pagsusi kun konektado ang grupo ni Candido sa city government nga maoy pagpaila ni Candido sa kaugalingon ug nipakita pa kini og ID sa CSO sa Bais City.

Matud pa nga miadto si Pineda ug mga sakop sa lugar human nasayran nga adunay warrant of arrest sa kasong frustrated murder ang usa sa mga kauban ni Candido.

Sumala pa nga sa pag-abot sa mga polis, gisita nila ang usa sa mga sibilyan sa grupo ni Candido nga nagbagal ang hawak apan kalit nga adunay namusil gikan sa grupo ni Candido ug nahitabo na ang pinusilay.

Si Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office director, Senior Superintendent Dionardo Carlos miklaro nga dili mis-encounter tali sa Bais City Police ug RPSC-7,  o ba kaha engkwentro  tali sa mga otoridad ug mga sakop sa CSG sa Bais City ang nahitabo.

Matud niya, kalit ang hitabo ug reaksyon kadto sa mga polis aron panalipdan ilang kaugalingon ug ang mga sibilyan nga kawani sa DENR dihang nagpadayon ang pagberipika sa kapolisan sa grupo ni Candido.

Giklaro usab ni Elmaco nga way otorisasyon sa siyudad ang pag-adto ni Candido ug mga kaubanan sa DENR ug wala sila makaila sa mga armadong sibilyan nga kauban sa grupo ug labaw na nga dili otorisado pagdala og armas ang mga CSO personnel sa siyudad.

Nakuha sa crime scene ang usa ka .45-caliber pistol, improvised shotgun , .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, usa ka US Carbine caliber-30, tulo ka granada ug mga  IDs.  (BANAT NEWS)

 (Banat) | Updated November 20, 2015 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Upat ka mga sakop sa Bais City Civil Security Office ang nakalas samtang tulo ka polis ang naangol sa nahitabong pinusilay sa sud sa compound sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources nga nahimutang sa Barangay Bulwang sa lungsod sa Mabinay niadtong Miyerkules sa hapon.

Ang mga nakalas mao sila si CSO Agent 1 Feliciano “Fely” Candido, Cedric Regino, Angel Torres ug Renato Torres, pulos job order employees sa Bais City LGU, sumala pa ni Bais City legal officer Lloyd Elmaco.

Samtang ang ikalima nga nakalas naila nga si Grasing Embalsado, kinsa matud pang Elmaco dili kawani sa Bais  City.

Naangol usab sila si PO1 Reyden Cadiz, sakop sa Regional Public Safety Company-7, ug Bais City SWAT members PO1s Rodeo Jaluag ug Jemrey Montessa.

Nadakpan usab sa kapolisan ang upat ka mga kauban ni Candido nga sila si Ricky Sohot, Junjun Gutib, Richard Royo ug Rolando Candido ug nakaikyas ang uban pa nilang mga kaubanan.

Matud pa sa report, ang pinusilay nahitabo dihang ang grupo ni Fely Candido gikatahong namusil sa mga sakop sa RPSC-7 nga nakabase sa Mabinay kinsa miresponde sa tawag ni DENR-Bulwang manager Dionesia Trongcoso.

Matud pa nga ang grupo ni Candido miadto sa DENR-Bulwang aron bawion ang chainsaw nga gipanag-iya ni Sohot, nga gikompiskar sa mga forest rangers human kini nasakpang ilegal nga namutol og kahoy sud sa Mabinay Reforestation Project site niadtong Nobiyembre 5.

Nagdumili paghatag si Trongcoso sa chainsaw kang Candido ug gipasabot kini nga aduna pay administrative hearing sa kaso ni Sohot ug ang DENR regional director lang maoy maka-release niini.

14 Mins Ago
Reuters


Brent crude oil futures traded near three-month lows on Friday as the pressure of a persistent supply glut quashed any optimism about a price recovery.

An early rally in Brent crude proved difficult to sustain, as focus returned to an overhang that has cut prices by more than 10 percent this month.

"The drivers that pushed prices lower are still there," said Hamza Khan, head of commodity strategy at ING, pointing to the strong dollar and increasingly efficient U.S. shale operations in addition to the overhang of physical oil. "Any rally today is going to have a difficult time finding traction."

The front-month Brent crude contract was 9 cents higher at $44.27 a barrel. The contract finished 4 cents higher on Thursday.

Hmm, at least di ma manghapak og pupils, with the husband as the whipping boy...

Flying over East Asia, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this night image of the Korean Peninsula. Unlike daylight images, city lights at night illustrate dramatically the relative economic importance of cities, as gauged by relative size. In this north-looking view, it is immediately obvious that greater Seoul is a major city and that the port of Gunsan is minor by comparison. There are 25.6 million people in the Seoul metropolitan areaâ€"more than half of South Korea’s citizensâ€"while Gunsan’s population is 280,000.

North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China. The darkened land appears as if it were a patch of water joining the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan. Its capital city, Pyongyang, appears like a small island, despite a population of 3.26 million (as of 2008). The light emission from Pyongyang is equivalent to the smaller towns in South Korea.

Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery, as shown by South Korea’s eastern shoreline. But the coast of North Korea is difficult to detect. These differences are illustrated in per capita power consumption in the two countries, with South Korea at 10,162 kilowatt hours and North Korea at 739 kilowatt hours.

February 24, 2014
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Ni ARNOLD BUSTAMANTE


DUHA ka mga pintor nangatagak sa gibana-bana 20 ka tiil nga gihabugon nga kisame sulod sa Capitol Parish sa may dalan Escario, Brgy. Kamputhaw, siyudad sa Sugbo kagahapon sa hapon.

Kini nahitabo human mabali ang scaffolding nga gihigtan sa ilang bakus samtang namintal.

Ang mga biktima mao silang Jungie Cañete, taga Negros Oriental, ug Mark Gil Gerodia, taga Aloguinsan, Sugbo.

Si Cañete nakaangkon og mga bun-og sa lawas samtang ang nagrabehan mao si Gerodia tungod sa kakusog sa pagkatagak ngadto sa flooring sa simbahan.

Matod ni Edgar Martinez, kaubang trabahante sa mga biktima, kalit ang hitabo.

Lagubo ang iyang nadunggan ug nagbuy-od na ang mga biktima sa sawog nga semento.

Sila namintal sa kisame sa giayo nga simbahan.

Dali nga niabot ang ambulansya sa Emergency Recscue Unit Foundation (ERUF) sa Cebu City Medical Center alang sa pag-atiman sa mga biktima.

Gisusi usab dayon sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE 7) ang lugar sa nahitaboan.

Ilang nasuta nga gubaon ang safety harness ug maoy hinungdan sa disgrasya.

Si Dole 7 inspector Rustico Levi Custurio, law compliance officer, nagkanayon nga ila una nga susihon kon nituman ba sa safety standard ang mga trabahante sanglit duna may gi comply nga safety compliance certificate ang Vineyard Construction nga maoy nag renovate sa simbahan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Nobiembre 20, 2015.

MARIA STAMY PHOTOGRAPHY

So here's what you need to know, to get these three special critters: The dogs are small, playful and easygoing. The pig is 120-pounds, is an indoor pet and -- clearly -- has a lot of character.

Their adoption fees are covered. If you're out of state and interested -- or even just want to talk about fostering before committing to a permanent adoption -- still, give the shelter a ring.

And here's the shelter's hope, for these guys: "Adopted by a loving family that appreciates how amazing they are. And they get to live out their lives together, having fun," McKillip said.

We, too, would love to see these three walking away from the shelter and into their great new lives. Pattie Pig on a harness, Pickles beside her and Paprika right where she belongs -- hitching a ride on Pattie's back, going on home.

The Ps live together in a kennel, and -- as you might expect, given their very high cute quotient -- they get lots of attention and love. Sometimes Pattie may be required to wear a darling little hat, as you can see in the above photo, but she doesn't seem to mind.

But McKillip and her coworkers want to see these guys where they really belong -- not in a shelter, but in a home.

Unfortunately, the inquiries that have come in far are for just one or two of the animals. Not all three.

"The staff, we cry about it when we think about separating them, and I'm getting emotional right now. I don't want to separate them, so please come help," McKillip said to WFMZ-TV.

One morning in September, employees of the Pennsylvania animal shelter came into work to find the pig and two dogs -- in addition to a turtle -- having been left behind overnight. (The turtle -- less bonded into the group than the others -- was quickly adopted.)

Because the animals were in mostly good shape -- even Pattie is housebroken, and walks on a harness -- McKillip speculates the trio had owners who loved them, but perhaps fell on hard times.

"It can happen to any of us," she says.

And they've had a good run at the shelter, for the last couple of months.

The hope now is that these three will soon find a home, where they can continue their adorably odd lovefest, as the stuck-like-glue trio they are so clearly meant to be.



ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY
Sometimes Pattie wears a hat, in addition to wearing a friend


Pattie, Paprika and Pickles' past is a puzzle.

Shelter Pig And Her Dog BFFs Are Inseparable, And Need A Home Together

"They're like a real family."


Arin Greenwood
Animal Welfare Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 11/19/2015 03:39 PM EST



ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY


Pattie Pig and her two best dog friends -- Pickles and Paprika -- don't ever like being apart.

"They sleep together. They do everything together, go for walks together. The littlest one rides the pig's back, and they're like a real family," Sarah McKillip, manager of the Animal Rescue League of Berks County, recently told WFMZ-TV.

The only thing they can't do together is eat, and that's because Pattie is too much of a -- well, you know.

"Pattie will eat their food. She's a pig," McKillip tells The Huffington Post.

Kiss muna...

Towser was famous for her record breaking mouse catching skills. In fact she was so incredible that she made it in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s best mouser with a solid count of 28,899 mice.

Towser was a long-haired tortoiseshell that was born on April 21, 1963. She lived 24 years of her life in Glenturret Distillery, Scotland. The area is well known for its whisky production. The barley stores in a distillery often attract mice like bees to a honeypot, thus for many decades, Glenturret has always appointed a feline guard to be the mouse control expert. -- http://lovemeow.com/

The real McCoy demon cat...

Hmm, serial hapaker galing ning bayhana. Sa akong tan-aw, kaminyoon maoy solusyon aning problemaha...

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


PATAY ang usa ka lalaki human gipusil sa ulo niadtong Martes sa gabii sa merkado sa Manticao, Misamis Oriental.

Ang biktima giilang si Sanito Montibon, 31, minyo, lumulupyo sa Purok 22, Manticao, Misamis Oriental, samtang ang suspetsado nailang lang sa ngalan nga Akie.

Sa impormasiyon gikan sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center sa Cagayan de Oro, nasayran nga miadto sa merkado ang biktima aron pangitaon ang iyang ama-ama.

Giingong nagkalalis ang duha sa wala mabutyag nga rason ug giingong unang gidunggab sa suspetsado ang biktima hinungdan nga mibalos sab sa pagtigbas ang biktima ngadto sa suspetsado.

Apan wala na makalingkawas ang biktima sa dihang gipusil kini.

Sa pagsulat niini nga balita ang patay nga lawas ang gidala na sa funeral homes sa nahisgutang dapit.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Nobiembre 19, 2015.

Hmm, how does PH fare when it comes to LGBTQIA?

Aylandil enjoying her purring kitty...

Nasuta usab ni Batobalonos nga usa lang ka substitute teacher ang maong dalaga nga maestra, nga lumad nga taga lungsod sa Sogod.

Dili lang usab daw kini ang unang higayon nga adunay gipasakitan nga estudyante ang maong maestra apan wala lang nangreklamo ang mga biktima.

“Initon gyud daw ni og ulo si maam kay dili lang daw ni ang unang higayon nga naa’y gipasakitan niya diha, pero sa record namo sa Argao Police, kini pa ang una nga record niya,” dugang pa ni Batobalonos.

Kung mausab ang huna-huna sa ginikanan sa 11-anyos gipasalig ni Batobalonos nga andam sila nga mutabang sa pamilya sa pagpasaka og kaso batok sa dalagang maestra.

Samtang ang hepe sa Department of Education (DepEd) sa probinsiya mipahibalo nga adunay himuong imbestigasyon batok sa maong maestra.

Si DepEd Superintendent provincial division, Rhea Mar Angtud nagkanayon dili sila motugot nga adunay magtutudlo nga dagmalan ug dili nila kini duphan kun mamatud-ang sad-an.

Si Angtud nagkanayon nga gidili sa DepEd ang corporal punishment o pagpanakit isip pamaagi pagdisiplina sa estudyante.

Sa laing bahin, si Bise Gobernador Agnes Magpale, vice chairman sa Provincial Council for the Welfare of Children (PCWC) nagkanayon nga andam silang mutabang kung ang ginikanan sa bata moduol ngadto kanila. â€" /EIM) (BANAT NEWS)

Ni Jojo Ugdol ug Brenda D. Batuto (Banat) | Updated November 18, 2015 - 12:00am
   

CEBU, Philippines â€" Maayong pagka black eye sa mata sa usa ka grade 4 pupil human kini gikatahong gihapak og jalousie blade nga kahoy sa iyang 25-anyos nga substitute teacher sa Langtad Elementary School diha sa lungsod sa Argao niadtong adlaw nga Lunes.

Ang hepe sa Argao Police nga si Senior Inspector Alejandro Batobalonos nga nahinabi sa Banat News miingon nga maayong pagkabun-og ug mipula ang tuong tabon-tabon sa mata sa 11-anyos nga batang lalaki human naigo sa jalousie blade.

Sumala pa ni Batobalonos nga sa iyang pagpangutana sa bata kini mitug-an nga nagtabi kini ug sa iyang classmate samtang nagklase. Matud pa nasuko ang ilang maestra (pangalan gipugngan una sa Banat News samtang wala pa makuhai og habig) ug gitawag siya niini apan sa paglingi niya kaniya gihapsan na siya niini sa kahoy nga jalousie blade.

Pasado alas 6 sa hapon sa adlaw nga Lunes mi-report sa kapulisan ang ginikanan sa bata ug gitambagan nga ipa-medical kini aron makapasaka og kaso batok sa maestra.

Apan kagahapon sa udto sa dihang mibalik sa buhatan sa kapulisan ang ginikanan sa bata kini miingon nga dili sila interesado nga mopasaka pa og kaso batok sa maestra kay matud pa nagkasinabot na sila sa buhatan sa prinsipal sa tunghaan.

Dako usab ang kahibulong ni Batobalonos nga mitug-an kaniya ang inahan sa bata nga lahi nga maestra ang nangayo og pasaylo sa ginikanan ug dili kadtong mihapak sa iyang anak.

Apan bisan pa man niini dili gihapon mopasaka og kaso ang inahan kay dili na daw kini gusto pa og gubot.

“Bisan giunsa namo og kombinsir di man gyud siya mo-file og kaso, natingala gani ko pag-ingon niya nga lahi nga maestra daw ang nangayo og pasaylo sa iyaha dili kadtong dalaga nga maestra (namunal),” matud pa ni Batobalonos.

USA ka 12-anyos nga batang lalaki ang napalgang nagbitay sud sa payag human naghikog gamit ang pisi kay gikasab-an sa amahan nga wala matugway ang ilang kabaw.

Alas 7:30 sa buntag niadtong Martes, suma sa report sa kapulisan, napalgan ang patay nga lawas ni Christian (bansagon gitago sa SuperBalita), 12, nagpuyo sa Purok Crossing, Barangay Tagakpan, Tugbok District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Sa inisyal nga imbestigasyon ni Police Office 3 Felix C. Pabroa sa Toril Police Station nasayran nga suma sa iyang amahan, nakasab-an niya ang iyang anak kay wala matugway ang kabaw.

Pipila ka oras, ang biktima napalgan nga nagbitay sa usa ka payag nga wala nay kinabuhi.

Ang patay nga lawas sa biktima anaa na gihaya sa ilang panimalay sa Tagakpan. (JPC)


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Nobiembre 19, 2015.

Finite resource

To quantify just how much water is stored in the top 2km of the Earth's surface, Dr Gleeson's team had to combine large data sets with an element of modelling.

They included information on the permeability of rocks and soil, on their porosity, and all that is known about water table gradients, which tell you about inputs from precipitation.

Key to determining the age of all this stored water is a collection of thousands of tritium measurements.

Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen that spiked in the atmosphere 50 years ago as a result of thermonuclear bomb tests.

It can therefore be used as a tracer for all the rain that has made its way underground ever since.



Image copyrightGLEESON et al/NATURE GEOSCIENCE


The map above shows the distribution of this modern groundwater around the globe.

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
1 hour ago


The total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, is estimated to be 23 million cubic km.

If this volume is hard to visualise, imagine the Earth's entire land surface covered in a layer some 180m deep.

The new calculation comes from a Canadian-led team and is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Significantly, little of this water - just 6% - is the kind of bankable resource that is most useful to people.

That small fraction is referred to as "modern" groundwater: it is extractable because it is near the surface, and can be used to supplement above-ground resources in rivers and lakes.

"It's the groundwater that is the most quickly renewed - on the scale of human lifetimes," explained study leader Tom Gleeson from the University of Victoria.

"And yet this modern groundwater is also the most sensitive to climate change and to human contamination. So, it's a vital resource that we need to manage better."

Hmm, imbis modemano, midesilya?

Si Juanita Bariquit, apohan sa bata, nihulagway sa pagtangtang kang Demano nga sobra ra.

Nisaad siya sayo pa nga di tangtangon ang doctor gikan sa MDH.

Si Juanita nidugang nga napasay­lo na ni Jessie si Demano bisan og wala pa kini mangayo og pasaylo nila.

Samtang atol sa pagpakigtagbo ni Davide sa mga chief of hospital, kauban si provincial health officer, Dr. Cynthia Genosolango, kagaha­pon, gipasabot sa gobernador ang ka­mahinungdanon sa pagbaton sa ma­tag doctor og courtesy  ingun man pasensiya sa ilang mga pasyente.

Gusto usab ni Davide nga makorihian ang iyang gihulagway nga kakuwang sa komunikasyon tali sa mga district ug provincial hospital ug sa Provincial Health Office, ilabi na sa pag-report sa death incidents.

Gimanduan sila sa gobernador sa pagduso og report ngadto sa iyang opisina labot sa death incidents nga natala sa ilang tambalanan gikan niadtong Enero hangtod niining buwana, diin ipalakip dinhi ang hinungdan sa kamatayon sa mga pasyente.

Kon dunay mga reklamo batok sa mga tambalanan nga gidumala sa Kapitolyo, mga doctor ug medical staff, giawhag ni Davide ang publiko pagduso ug pormal nga reklamo aron makorehean kini o maimbestigahan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Nobiembre 17, 2015.

Ni ASTRA ZINA D. LOGARTA


HINGPIT na nga gitangtang gikan sa Minglanilla District Hospital si Dr. Agnes Demano, kinsa gitumbok nga wa niatiman gilayon sa usa ka tuig nga babaye niadtong Nobiyembre 5 nga namatay tungod sa kalibanga.

Samtang gitigom ni Gobernador Hilario Davide III ang mga chief of hospital ug gimanduan sa pagduso kanunay og report sa mga matala nga death incidents sa ilang tambalanan.

Wa na gipaubos sa imbestigasyon sa Committee on Discipline and Investigation (CODI) sa Kapitolyo ang doctor kay job-order employee kini ug di regular nga kawani sa Provincial Government.

Gimando ni Davide ang pagpangita dayon og ikapuli sa pwesto ni Demano aron di mabalda ang operasyon sa MDH.

Dugang sa gobernador nga nagpadayon usab ang ilang hiring alang sa regular doctors sa mga district ug provincial hospital.

Si Demano giingong wa gilayon moatiman kang Mary Jane Bariquit kay ang mga ginikanan wa makapalit og dagom kay P200 ra ang kuwarta.

Ang bata namatay paglabay sa tulo ka mga oras sukad sa pagdala kaniya sa tambalanan.

Apan ang pamilyang Bariquit nakapasaylo na kang Demano.

Si Jessie Bariquit, inahan ni Mary Jane, niingon nga di na sila mo-file og kiha kang Demano ug gusto nilang magpuyo nga malinawon.

“Dili nami mo-file, mokiha. Dili na mabalik ang kinabuhi sa akong anak. Akong hangyo dili nila usbon sa laing pasyente ang nahitabo ni Inday,” pasabot ni Jessie.

I can only respond with a singsong of praise...

Twin twin de saraptwin, de kutsilyo de almatwin
Haw, haw de karabaw batutwin.

Mo lang. Pangitaa si Botoy diri...

The first apparition at Zeitoun was recorded on the evening of April 2, 1968 when a Muslim bus mechanic named Farouk Mohammed Atwa, who worked across the street from the church of Saint Mary in Zeitoun, thought he saw a woman attempting suicide by jumping from the structure. Two other men also noticed a white figure on the top of the church and the sighting was reported to the police. A crowd gathered on the site and the police attempted to disperse it. According to the police, the sighting was just a reflection of the light from the street lamps. However, the crowds reportedly viewed the sighting as a clear apparition of Saint Mary, and so, the attempts by the police to disperse the crowd were unsuccessful. The event itself ended after a few minutes.

One week later on April 9 the phenomenon reoccurred, again lasting for only a few minutes. After that time apparitions became more frequent, sometimes two-three times a week, for several years, ending in 1971. --Wiki

Target: ISIS stronghold Raqqa is based in northern Syria

Bombing target: Aerial view of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria

http://www.mirror.co.uk/
21:05, 15 NOV 2015 UPDATED 23:37, 15 NOV 2015
BY DAVID RAVEN


France retaliated to the Paris terror attack by launching deadly airstrikes on an Islamic State jihadi training camp in Syria tonight.

Yesterday president Francois Hollande vowed to crush the extremist group who massacred 129 people on Friday night.

Less than 24 hours later, some 10 fighter jets pummeled the ISIS-held city of Raqqa with at least 20 bombs, according to the French defence ministry.

The warplanes are seen launching from an airbase in the United Arab Emirates in the above video.

They struck an Islamic State command and control centre, a jihadi recruitment centre, a munitions depot and a training camp, France government sources claim.

Neither famous nor a monument, but in solidarity nonetheless...