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Bwahaha!

The New Hope... 

He he, and delikado kon hasta ang itlog sa drayber luto na pud...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 31, 2011, 06:05:56 PM
   The write-ups of Amora allegedly pictured her (Piezas) as “gullible” and a “moron” with the object of destroying her reputation and discrediting the mayor before her peers.

   Amora said he had no a malice in writing about the mayor’s official acts. In his answer, he cited a Supreme Court time-held ruling that says:

   â€œA public officer must not be too onion-skinned with reference to comment upon his official acts. Only thus can the intelligence and dignity of the individual be exalted. Of course, criticism does not authorize defamation. Nevertheless, as the individual is less than the State, so must expected criticism be born for the common good? Rising superior to any official, or set of officials, to the Chief Executive, to the Legislature, to the Judiciary - to any or all the agencies of Government - public opinion should be the constant source of liberty and democracy.”

Bwahaha! It would appear that Mr. Amora's attempts are supererogatory...

Words are superfluous...

Thanks for the tips. Ms. Hof. I personally have no problem there. As much as I could I always try to appear unapproachable when traveling, to fellow travelers and officials alike. Besides, I'm a loner even when I'm at rest; I'm even more so when I'm in motion.

Kini pud siya. Mas kalma lang... 

The Hair Perm





German hairdresser Charles Nessler invented a very early version of the perm. He used a mixture of cow urine and water to achieve those bouncy, poodle like waves. Smells good ladies. Before coming up with just the right mix of harsh and damaging chemicals, he ran test trials on his wife. Two of which burnt off most of her hair and resulted in scalp burns. I think that might be grounds for divorce. Thanks for giving me a dog’s hairstyle in the 4th grade, Germany!

Light Bulb





Poor Heinrich Göbel. He is credited with developing the incandescent light bulb over 25 years before Thomas Edison had his bright idea. There was just one little thing Göbel forgot to do….apply for a patent. (Although, I will have to admit, that he was born and grew up in Germany but was in the US by the time he developed his idea). At least Tesla wasn’t the only one cheated by Edison.

American Picnic Items





Just about all the ingredients to make a perfect ‘All-American’ picnic come from German origins. There is the hot dog, or a Frankfurter: a pork sausage that finds its origins in 13th century Germany. Then, you can’t forget the condiments. Ketchup, which was developed by Heinz, and Mayonnaise, developed by Hellman, both German immigrants. Of course some of those items are based off earlier recipes (Ancient Rome: ketchup; France: mayonnaise) but the favorites eaten today are definitely German. Then, of course, there is the Potato Salad. Although there are many different versions to this dish, one of the most popular variations is the tradition German potato salad.

Everything Disney Does





From cashing in on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White to name a few, to building a close replica of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Disney movies and theme parks have relied heavily on German influence. Entertainment would be pretty dull if it wasn’t for Disney stealing from the Germans and Hollywood stealing from the Japanese (think J-Horror)!

Here Comes the Bride


Bridal Chorus - Wagner - Here Comes the Bride - Lohengrin


First known as the “Treulich geführt”, the song that is forever linked to women in white gowns, was composed in 1850 by Richard Wagner for his opera, Lohengrin. Although the song is now traditionally played as the bride makes her way down the aisle, it was sung (yes, it even has original words to go along) in the Opera after the ceremony by the members of the bridal party. The video clip above is a good version of this song from the opera. Oh â€" and by the way, the OTHER wedding song (the recessional) is also by a German: Felix Mendelssohn â€" it is called the Wedding March and it is from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Prefabricated Houses





Ha, take that one, you “American white trash” stereotypers! The pre fab home â€" oh come on, let’s just call them like they are â€" the trailer home was invented by Warner Sell of Berlin. After WWII, there was a need for places to house the U.S. forces occupying the area. Sell’s company manufactured over 5000 prefabricated houses, and the soldier boys lived it up in high style!

Gummi Bears





I (and probably most American readers) always thought of Gummi Bears as an American product. The sweet treats were invented in the 1920′s by Hans Riegel Sr when he started the Haribo company. Not only do they produce Gummi Bears, and all other chewy candy under the Haribo name, but the company also makes all Trolli brands of gummy candy, like the popular gummi worms.

Easter Eggs Hunts





While evidence on this isn’t as firm as some of the others, it is believed that the tradition of hiding Easter eggs was first started in Southern Germany. While the legend of the Easter bunny laying eggs in the grass had been around for sometime, the Germans decided to go all out and actually have children hunt for the eggs in hard to reach and see places. Leave it to the Germans to step it up a notch or two!

Easter Bunny





The Easter Bunny, at least as we know it today, first appeared in 16th century writings in Germany. In the 1700s, Pennsylvania Dutch settlers brought the tradition of the Easter Bunny with them to the new world. Their children believed that if they were good, the Easter bunny would come and lay eggs and treats into nests the children made out of upturned hats and bonnets.

Christmas Tree





The tradition of decorating the Tannenbaum (hello, German word) dates back to the 16th century. Although it is documented that trees were erected in present day Estonia and Latvia in the 15th century, it was the Germans who really started the whole decorating tradition. They spruced up the tree with wax candles, fruits and trinkets and the tradition remained confined to the upper Rheinland region of Germany for some time. The idea eventually began to spread throughout the Christian world, when royal families from neighboring countries got wind of it. Hallmark, you can thank Germany for the bazillions of ornaments you sell every year.

Advent Calendars





The origins of this Christmas tradition come from the German Lutherans, as early as the beginning of the 19th century. The calendar started off simple, a written way to count down the days until Christmas. Eventually, lighting 24 candles became popular. And, very early in the 20th century, Gerhard Lang was credited with printing the first Advent calendar. Several years later, he decided to add little doors that would open to reveal the date or a scripture. It wasn’t until after WWII that the calendars began to be filled with candies and treats for the days before Christmas.

Gingerbread Houses





The Gingerbread house was first noted in the Grimm’s Fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel, and followed in a little known German opera by the same title. After the show was first produced only days before Christmas, it became a holiday tradition in German Opera houses to build miniature replicas of the gingerbread house from the story. The tradition then spread to bakeries and, eventually, to homes.

Nutcracker
Story and Figuring





The carving of nutcrackers began as a small, cottage industry in the wooded regions of rural Germany. They were, and are, known for their intricate detail and decoration. Also, before the word nutcracker became synonymous with the Russian ballet by Tchaikovsky (and also synonymous with the ever hilarious short videos on America’s Funniest Videos), the Nutcracker was the hero of an early 19th century story by Berlin’s E.T.A. Hoffman. The story was later adapted for the famous ballet.

Ring Binder





The famous ring binder that we all come into contact with at least once a week (or daily if in school) is a German invention â€" and a relatively recent one, at that. Friedrich Soennecken invented it in Bonn, Germany, in 1886. The same year he also patented the hole punch (he must have seen Thomas Edison snooping around). The great innovation of adding a hole to the cover was also introduced by a German: Louis Leitz. Interestingly, there is an ISO standard for the distance between the two rings on a double-ring binder, but no official standard for three ring binders.

Chicken Fried Steak





Although the origins about this delicious, plate swamping treat vary (I mean, we can’t even agree about who or where it was first served in the Lone Star State) most sources say that it is attributed to German and Austrian immigrants in Texas, who brought over the recipe for Wiener Schnitzel. Of course, Americans took it up a notch and really fried the heck out of that sucker and smothered it in gravy. It is believed that it started being referred to as Chicken Fried Steak, and not Wiener Schnitzel, during the war with Germany.

by Lindsey Leavitt

While doing research for an article recently, I came across so many things that I had no idea were German, or that I never knew had their roots in German traditions. It isn’t hard to imagine that America and Germany shares a lot of similar customs and inventions. After all, roughly 17% of Americans are of German descent. The side effect of my research diversion is this list!

Bwahaha!

Hmm. Reminds me I used to draw--dili hinuon to lapis...

Quote from: Dot (.) on April 07, 2011, 01:54:27 AM
I've never seen a person who is so arrogant and full of himself than Panfilo Lacson. When told by Justice Secretary De Lima that he should explain how he got out of the country and eluded arrest, he retorted the Justice Secretary should ask the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to explain why they were not able to find him.

If hubris comes, can nemesis be far behind?

Hmm, I suppose one can score with a cat lover chick with this kind of bike...

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. 

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2011, 11:44:47 PM
i would tend to believe this more.  usahay man god kining migrante international gets obsessed with complaining about anything of the government.  morag di sila mabuhi kun di mokastigo sa gobyerno. 

Aw, mao man nay ilang bread and butter.

Hmm, naa ba kahay mogamit ani nila isip human shield... 

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding   
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing   
Memory and desire, stirring   
Dull roots with spring rain.   
Winter kept us warm, covering         
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding   
A little life with dried tubers.   
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee   
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,   
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,   
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.   
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.   
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,   
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,   
And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.   
In the mountains, there you feel free.   
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 01:14:04 PM
moingon lang gud nga "ambot"....

Basta wa tay dag-anan, di jud ta mo-enter...

Di ba kaha tawon ni sila mangatumba kon masaghiran...

Cachupoy

A Larson classic. 

AP â€" Broken windows are seen following Thursday's earthquake in Sendai, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011.

Strongest aftershock since Japan tsunami kills 2
By JAY ALABASTER and TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press  â€" 21 mins ago


SENDAI, Japan â€" A strong aftershock ripped through northeastern Japan, killing two people, knocking out power to vast areas Friday and piling misery on a region still buried under the rubble of last month's devastating tsunami.

The 7.1-magnitude tremor late Thursday was the strongest since northeastern Japan's jumbo 9.0-magnitude quake March 11. The latest shattered windows, kicked items from shelves and collapsed some roofs that weren't already demolished, but generated no tsunami and largely spared the region's nuclear plants. Some slightly radioactive water spilled at one plant, but the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi complex reported no new problems.

Matsuko Ito, who has been living in a shelter in the small northeastern city of Natori since the tsunami, said there's no getting used to the terror of being awoken by shaking. She said she started screaming when the quake struck around 11:30 p.m.

"It's enough," the 64-year-old while smoking a cigarette outside. "Something has changed. The world feels strange now. Even the way the clouds move isn't right."

Many people have lived without water and electricity for nearly a month, and the latest tremor sunk more homes into blackness: About 2.6 million households â€" about 40 percent of those supplied in the area â€" were dark Friday, said Souta Nozu, a spokesman for Tohoku Electric Power Co., which serves northern Japan.

Six conventional plants in the area were knocked out, though three have since come back online and the others should be up again within hours, Nozu said. But with power lines throughout the area damaged, it was not clear whether normal operations would be restored, he said.

Several nuclear power plants briefly switched to diesel generators but were reconnected to the grid by Friday afternoon. One plant north of Sendai â€" which has been closed since the tsunami â€" briefly lost the ability to cool its spent fuel pools, but quickly got it back.

At a plant in Onagawa, some radioactive water splashed out of the pools but did not leave a containment building, Tohoku Electric said. Such splash-out is "not unusual, although it is preferable that it doesn't happen," according to Japanese nuclear safety agency official Tomoho Yamada.

"Closer inspection could find more problems," said agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama, but no radiation was released into the environment at Onagawa.

Thursday's quake initiated a tsunami warning of its own, but it was later canceled. Two people were killed, national fire and disaster agency spokesman Junichi Sawada reported Friday. A 79-year-old man died of shock and a woman in her 60s was killed when power was cut to her oxygen tank. More than 130 people were injured, according to the national police agency.

That pales in comparison to the original quake and tsunami, in which more than 25,000 people are believed to have died.

Many of those bodies have still not been found: A significant portion were likely washed out to sea and never will be, but some are buried in areas that have been largely off-limits to search teams.

As radiation spilling from the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has fallen in recent days, however, police have fanned out inside a no-go zone near the complex to dig for the dead.

On Friday, hundreds of police, many mobilized from Tokyo, used their hands or small shovels, pulling four bodies in an hour from one small area in the city of Minami Soma. The had found only five bodies the previous day.

The searchers, wearing white radiation gear and blue gloves, struggled to bring the remains across the rubble to vans and minibuses that would take them to the nearest morgue. Each body was carefully hosed off to rid it of radiation before being placed in the vehicles.

"The area is literally a mountain of debris. It is an extremely difficult task," said an official with police in Fukushima prefecture who declined to be named because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

The epicenter of Thursday's temblor was in about the same location as the original 9.0-magnitude tremor, off the eastern coast and about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Sendai, an industrial city on the eastern coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was strong enough to shake buildings for about a minute as far away as Tokyo, about 200 miles (330 kilometers) away.

At a Toyota dealership in Sendai, most of a two-story show window was shattered, and thick shards of glass were heaped in front of the building. Items fell off store shelves and a large automated teller machine crept across the floor at a FamilyMart convenience store.

Police directed cars through intersections throughout the city on Friday because traffic lights were out. Small electrical fires were reported.

While the city is far enough inland that it largely escaped tsunami damage, people there lived without regular services for weeks. Within an hour of Thursday's quake, they rushed convenience stores and cleared shelves of ice, water and instant noodles â€" items that were in short supply after the bigger quake.

The operator of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi plant said there was no sign the aftershock had caused new problems there. Workers briefly retreated to a quake-resistant shelter in the complex and suffered no injuries.

After the March 11 quake knocked out power in the region, the wave flooded the plant's diesel generators, leaving the complex without any electricity. Workers have been struggling to stem a tide of radiation since, using makeshift methods to pump cooling water into the reactors. That work continued uninterrupted after the latest quake, according to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.


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THE CAMEL AND THE PIG


A CAMEL said, "Nothing like being tall! look, how tall I am!"

A pig, who heard these words, said, "Nothing like being short; look, how short I am!"

The camel said, "Well, if I fail to prove the truth of what I said, I shall give up my hump."

The pig said, "If I fail to prove the truth of what I have said, I shall give up my snout."

"Agreed!" said the camel.

"Just so!" said the pig.

They came to a garden, enclosed by a low wall without any opening. The camel stood on this side the wall, and reaching the plants within by means of his long neck, made a breakfast on them. Then he turned jeeringly to the pig, who had been standing at the bottom of the wall, without even having a look at the good things in the garden, and said, "Now, would you be tall, or short?"

Next they came to a garden, enclosed by a high wall, with a wicket gate at one end. The pig entered by the gate, and, after having eaten his fill of the vegetables within, came out, laughing at the poor camel, who had had to stay outside, because he was too tall to enter the garden by the gate, and said, "Now, would you be tall, or short?"

Then they thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion, that the camel should keep his hump and the pig his snout, observing, "Tall is good, where tall would do; of short, again, 'tis also true!"

Quote from: glacier_71 on April 08, 2011, 09:35:14 AM
lig-on pa jud, labi na ang mga katomoyan...

He he, ang tumoy sa unod nga mahimong ugat nga mahimong bukog...

Quote from: ms da binsi on April 08, 2011, 01:52:50 PM
unsay gidak on Hubs?? ang bangag? aw ehe shalan ba oi...

Bwahaha! Ayaw klaroha basin maeskandalo si Bay Glacier!

Quote from: Mulligan on April 06, 2011, 10:40:21 PM
Re: Is it OK to make friends with your ex(es)?

Tubag:  Pagnaka utang ka sa imong ex, dapat amigohon kay ayo ug paninglan ka.      

Pwede pud pasukosuko aron di paninglan...

Hmm. Could it be that there is an aspect of "Jewishness" or the Jewish experience that makes Jews good at making (and keeping) money, and that this aspect has, in form and function, little to do with Yahweh?

That "English proficiency is directly proportional to the wealth of a nation" is, according to Henry, a conclusion of Education First, the outfit that made the survey. 

Hasler sa palami?

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 01:32:27 PM
kon mosunod ka's to-o to-o, mauy ika hagba sa imong pagtuo.

Nan karon, unsa may angay tang buhaton, higala?

Really infectious smile...

Wayok kon ang 2011 unlucky year diay. Kon maohon, bantayanan ang November 11 rong tuiga (11/11/11)...

Quote from: statesville on April 08, 2011, 10:33:13 AM
ka modest nila, nagkipi pa gyud...

Wellborn ning mga iringa...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:18:36 PM
maayo na kay di na kabawos...

Aw, samtang makabawos pa, palingoglingog lang una ta...

Lahi bitaw ning kasayoran nga gikan sa kasaligan nga tinubdan...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:11:44 PM
hahahaha.....hot diay?

He he, inilog jud hinuon...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:14:36 PM
salamat, Sir FD...hehehe

Naa baya pud diay tay makat-onan dinhi, Bay Bugs...

O kaha naay orasyon pakubol...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:08:50 PM
bisan pa'g magdagan...

Angay jud diay sa bihagay...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:07:25 PM
ajaw pod....binli'g gamay'ng bukog kay atong sikaran....

Sakto, kita na lay mopulpog...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:05:06 PM
blema bai Hunbs, kay ang ulo dili na gyud tugkan...

He he, mao nga ako na lang bawion kay sama karon nga clean-cut ko, mora kog nawong og siopao...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:03:01 PM
ganahan ug lupad...nya mopakurog inig tugdon...

Hmm, nakapataop diay samtang tuas layog...

Quote from: bugsay on April 08, 2011, 12:01:52 PM
wa ma'y tari....hehehe

Aw, maayo mag dili hait og mga kuyamoy, pinahitan pay imo...

Mao tingali bitaw nganong karon naa koy fear of heights...

Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on April 08, 2011, 02:14:53 AM
Makilatan unta mong tanan mga KIL-KILAN ug cuarta sa kaban nang bayan!

Kanang antimano jud unya maagiw!

Quote from: bugsay on April 07, 2011, 01:02:34 PM
duha na, dai Misty?

Quote from: taga tigbao on April 08, 2011, 10:08:46 AM
Duha na ang unsa?

Imbis klaro unta sa akong hunahuna unsay duha na nga gipasabot ni Bay Bugs, nagduda na hinuon ko tungod sa pangutana ni Bay Tigs... 

Quote from: glacier_71 on April 08, 2011, 09:37:25 AM
nagpasabot-sabot nga mobalik hinay-hinay sa TB...LOL

Pwede pud paspasan ang pagbalik...

Quote from: taga tigbao on April 08, 2011, 10:12:59 AM
Sa sunod unja Bay Hubs. HAhahahaha. Magkitaay ra unja ta.

He he, maayo ning maplano samtang layo pa aron naa koy taas nga panahon pagpatubo og bungot...

Makapahinuklog hunahunaon ning mortuary fund pero it's a practical part of the package...

Malagmit bitaw naa puy skeletons in the closet, er, underground nga naratsada sa rehimen ni Macoy...

Quote from: kan-ogong on April 07, 2011, 11:43:27 PM
Concerned government agencies are working double time to rescue 2.4 million children from hard labor and instead send them to school, Malacañang announced Wedesday.

Kaluoy gud diay. Maayo gani kay way child soldiers sa Pinas sama aning bataa...

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2011, 10:46:56 PM
why man sige ra man pangutana ug komentaryo si hubs, wa man siyay iyahang gisugid nga memory?  nangbitik ra ba kaha ni o wa ba kaha gyod siyay memory laktod?

Morag na-amnesia man tingali ko. Ang akong first memory mao ra man tong nahulog ko sa atabay unya dihay di-maihap nga mga kwaknit nga naglupadlupad...

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on April 07, 2011, 11:53:03 AM
Karemember man gani ko kara classmates nako in alphabetical order. Makaingon ko nako nga sharp ko ug memory .

Cool. Ako maayo na lag maihap sa tudlo sa usa ka kamot ang akong mahinumdoman nga classmates sa elementary...

Quote from: ms da binsi on April 07, 2011, 08:54:55 PM
SHAKOY!!!!

Pwede na way kamay!

He he, malagmit depende sa gidak-on...

Quote from: cujo on April 08, 2011, 02:36:34 AM
For a second there,I thought you said Agtagirl... 

Ah, so your Cebuano vocabulary is still intact then, he he...

Quote from: taga tigbao on April 08, 2011, 10:20:53 AM
Wa jamo ko kaanha Bay Hubs. Nalingaw naman mi didto ra sa Fuente dapit.......  . Hahahahahaha.

Hmm. Naa na diay hubo-hubo diha sa Fuente dapit ron?

Quote from: ms da binsi on April 07, 2011, 08:47:53 PM

asa man ka mang labok Bugs??? tawon ajaw pataka ug labok kay uso raba execution diha!!!

Bitaw, Bay Bugs, pilia nang molabok og bawos para way kaso nga mapasaka...

Quote from: statesville on April 07, 2011, 10:52:39 PM
si brownie pareha ug buhok sa ilang  buhi nga ginoo  sa indya (tua sa laing thread)..

Hmm, tuod no? Di ba kaha one is the reincarnation of the other... 

He he, tungod kay di pa digital, napalit ra nako ni sa rematado sale for a song!

Hala! Naa diay? 

Gangway!

He he, basin napawong ang panan-aw tungod sa kagutom...

He he, naa daay taoranan para atop!

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2011, 09:58:36 PM
wrong mistake, botoy.  wa pa tawon ko moingon nga mora kag nawong ug almoranas.

Wrong mistake, Ms. Ayayay. Wrong spelling, I mean.  Di kaha ang imong buot ipasabot, "wa pa tawon ko moingon nga mora kog nawong ug almoranas"...

o = ang gihisgotang almoranas

Damaged pier is pictured before oil tanks

A damaged pier is pictured before oil tanks at the port in Kashima in Ibaraki Prefecture. A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late on Thursday hit the same area of Japan that was ravaged by disaster a month ago, seismologists said, prompting a local tsunami alert that was later cancelled.

"That was really the blow that the plant didn't recover from," Lochbaum said.

Officials said the aftershock hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The USGS later downgraded it to 7.1.

Buildings as far away as Tokyo, which was about 205 miles (330 kilometers) from the epicenter, shook for about a minute.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan met with staff members in his office shortly afterward, according to deputy Cabinet spokesman Noriyuki Shikata.

A separate government emergency response team met shortly after midnight to monitor any reports of damage and urged firefighters, police and other emergency personnel to aid those in need.

USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said the aftershock struck at about the same location and depth as last month's quake.

The USGS said the aftershock struck off the eastern coast 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Sendai and 70 miles (115 kilometers) from Fukushima.


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An hotel employee lights candles after the hotel electric supply failed Friday, April 8, 2011 in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck offshore, late Thursday.

Manager Takehiko Akagi said 100 people had showed up within an hour of Thursday's aftershock and cleared the shelves of ice, water and instant noodles â€" items that were in short supply after the bigger quake.

"Usually at this time of night, there is almost no one," said Akagi, whose store had power even though people in nearby neighborhoods did not. A handful of buildings had broken windows and tiles, and some small electrical fires were reported.

In Ichinoseki, which is also inland, buildings shook violently, knocking items from shelves and toppling furniture, but there also appear to be no major damage there. Hotel workers lit candles so guests could find their way around.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said power plants along the northeastern coast were under control after backup generators kicked in at two â€" Rokkasho and Higashidori â€" that lost power.

The aftershock knocked out two of three power lines at the Onagawa nuclear power plant north of Sendai, which has been shut down since the tsunami. One remaining line was supplying power to the plant and radiation monitoring devices detected no abnormalities. The plant's spent fuel pools briefly lost cooling capacity, but it resumed because a power line was available for electricity.

"It's the way it's supposed to work if power is lost for any reason," said David Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project for the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists. Since the tsunami warning was canceled 90 minutes after it was issued, there was no reason to believe the facilities' diesel generators would fail like the ones at the stricken Fukushima plant. The massive wave knocked out cooling systems and triggered a series of mishaps that have left workers struggling to stop radioactivity from spewing nearly a month later.

By JAY ALABASTER and TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press â€" 26 mins ago



Japan's Fukushima police officers carry a victim to a vehicle in Minami Soma.


SENDAI, Japan â€" A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled.

The quake was initially measured at magnitude-7.4, though the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., later downgraded it to 7.1. Either way, it was the strongest aftershock since several were recorded on March 11 â€" the day of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that killed as many as 25,000 people and touched off a nuclear crisis last month.

There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage, and the operator of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there was no sign the aftershock had caused new problems there. Workers retreated to a quake-resistant shelter in the complex, with no injuries.

The aftershock around 11:30 p.m. was strong enough to knock items off store shelves and move a large automated teller machine at a FamilyMart convenience store in the major northern industrial center of Sendai. The city is far enough inland that it avoided major tsunami damage, but people there were without gas and electricity for weeks.

Quote from: dondon on April 07, 2011, 01:55:36 AM
di kalimot hangtod karun lage bai.........kahinomdom pako gani sa ngalan sa nag sug sug nako...si melecio....

Hmm. Mahinumdoman jud tuod kay pila na lang kahay mohingalan og Melecio sa ilang mga anak karon...

Hmm. Maybe it's Tatooine?

Hmm... The Crying Game. Which, in turn, reminds us of The Frog and the Scorpion...

He he, naa pud diay cat photobomb...

Kining Uray man tingali ang dili na kaayo common...

Quote from: Vistabel on April 07, 2011, 07:01:58 PM
programa na sya bai sa usa radio station sa Cebu sulod sa dugay mga tuig, daghan kaayo ang taga paminaw niining programaha kaso sa bandang North sa Bohol lang ni madungog kay walay signal ang Cebu radio stations sa bandang south sa Bohol. Kaya possibling wa ka kadungog niini. Si ma'am Isle's ang suhito niini, ang host niining programaha si dra. ug abogada Libres Rosaroso

Hmm... Mao ba? Salamat kaayo ani nga info, Bay Vist, pilay palad basin maila-ila nako ni nga abogadaha...

Kwarta jud lagi gihapon. Parehas nako, matod pas ahong mga paryente unsaon man kuno nga maajo kong mo-Iningles unja wa may nahot...