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Mark Imhof

"My soul is renewed everyday when I do this," Imhof said. "I'm just overjoyed...."

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Mark Imhof

Imhof said he can notice a difference in the dogs' personalities after he gives them the full treatment.

Mark Imhof

"They don't have a variety of razors or clippers and things like that," he said. "Any dog, if it gets dirty or matted, becomes in a lot of pain. I get rid of the [tangles] and if I'm able to, I make them as cute as I can."

Mark Imhof

Imhof travels to the Animal Care Centers of NYC animal shelters in Brooklyn and Manhattan when he's called to give trims.

Mark Imhof

Imhof said he was inspired to launch "Mark The Dog Guy" after attending the American Academy of Pet Grooming school in Manhattan last April, where he met an alumni who owned his own dog grooming business.

Six months later, he said, he quit his job as a certified public accountant, started his business and began donating free 'dos to pups of the Big Apple on the side.

Man Gives Shelter Dogs Free Makeovers to Boost Chances for Adoption

By NICOLE PELLETIERE
04 March 2016
Good Morning America


Man Gives Shelter Dogs Free Makeovers to Boost Chances for Adoption (ABC News)

A New York City man is traveling to nearby animal shelters to primp pups that are in need of forever homes -- for free!

Mark Imhof, 45, who started his grooming business in October, estimates he's given on-the-house haircuts to about 50 dogs -- many of whom have found adoptive families.

"These are dogs," Imhof told ABC News today. "They want to love someone and I think when they have a crusty shell on them and things like that, it makes them unable to do so. When I can clean them up, you can see [their] eyes and it makes them easier to connect. It's trying to bring these dogs to comfort, so they can become more adoptable and that's the goal."

what great writing this is about a great writer.

Mensahe TV footage showed him speaking on a table strewn with red and white flowers before a packed and sweltering crowd.

Islamic State militants who control vast swathes of Iraq and Syria had called on "lone wolves" to attack Qarni and several other Saudi clerics whom they accused of apostasy in the latest issue of Dabiq, their monthly online magazine.

Saudi media outlets described Qarni as a senior Islamic scholar and he has more than 12 million followers on Twitter.

In his book "Awakening Islam," the French academic Stephane Lacroix included Qarni in his list of "the most famous" Saudi preachers.

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"As of now, we don't have any conclusions on their group affiliations," Galvez told AFP.

A special police unit investigating the case has asked for a month to determine the affiliation of the suspects, who live on the outskirts of Zamboanga, a southern Philippine port city that is frequently targeted by Islamic extremists.

Qarni was in Zamboanga for a speaking engagement at a state university organised by local Muslim leaders.

Qarni's police escorts shot the assassin dead. Identification cards found on his body indicated he was a 21-year-old student though police said they were not ruling out forgery.

Two other suspects were arrested at the scene of the shooting.

Investigators are looking at the possibility that the attack was influenced by IS, but there was no evidence to show that yet, said Chief Inspector Helen Galvez, Zamboanga police spokeswoman.

Qarni, who was on an Islamic State hit list, survived the attack with wounds to his right shoulder, left arm and chest, according to police.

A shocked crowd scampered for safety covering their heads as the shots were fired.

His companion in the car, Saudi Arabia's religious attache to the Philippines, Sheikh Turki Assaegh, was also wounded in the attack.

Saudi cleric's shooting in Philippines captured on TV

AFP
04 March 2016



Manila (AFP) - A failed attempt to assassinate a prominent Saudi cleric in the Philippines was caught on television, showing the hooded assailant firing at the preacher from close range.

The gunman walked toward Sheikh Aaidh al-Qarni's car on Tuesday night as he was leaving a packed auditorium in the southern port city of Zamboanga, where he had given a lecture.

The assailant hid behind a crowd seeking selfies with a smiling Qarni as his vehicle slowly rolled out of the venue, footage on local station Mensahe TV showed.

yes, there are no genuine atheists.  yes, atheists do not believe in god, but to parse words---that unbelief by itself is already an admission that there is a god; it's just that atheists don't believe in him. 

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Complications

ADHD has been linked to:

Poor school performance
Trouble with the law
Problems at work
Alcohol or drug abuse
Frequent car accidents or other accidents
Unstable relationships
Financial stress
Poor physical and mental health

Although ADHD doesn't cause other psychological or developmental conditions, a number of other disorders often occur along with ADHD. These include:

Mood disorders. Many adults with ADHD also have depression, bipolar disorder or another mood disorder. While mood problems aren't necessarily due directly to ADHD, a repeated pattern of failures and frustrations due to ADHD can worsen depression.

Anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders occur fairly often in adults with ADHD. Anxiety disorder may cause overwhelming worry, nervousness and other symptoms. Anxiety can be made worse by the challenges and setbacks caused by ADHD.

Personality disorders. Adults with ADHD are at increased risk of personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder.

Learning disabilities. Adults with ADHD may score lower on academic testing than would be expected for their age, intelligence and education.

more at http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/adult-adhd/basics/definition/con-20034552

Risk factors

You're potentially at increased risk of ADHD if:

You have blood relatives (such as a parent or sibling) with ADHD or another mental health disorder

Your mother smoked, drank alcohol or used drugs during pregnancy

Your mother was exposed to environmental poisons â€" such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) â€" during pregnancy

As a child, you were exposed to environmental toxins â€" such as lead, found mainly in paint and pipes in older buildings

You were born prematurely

Causes

While the exact cause of ADHD is not clear, research efforts continue.

Multiple factors have been implicated in the development of ADHD. It can run in families, and studies indicate that genes may play a role. Certain environmental factors also may increase risk, as can problems with the central nervous system at key moments in development.

When to see a doctor

If inattention, hyperactivity or impulsive behavior continually disrupts your life, talk to your doctor about whether you might have ADHD. Because signs of ADHD are similar to those of a number of other mental health conditions, you may not have ADHD â€" but you may have another condition that needs treatment.

What's normal and what's ADHD?

Almost everyone has some symptoms similar to ADHD at some point in their lives. If your difficulties are recent or occurred only occasionally in the past, you probably don't have ADHD. ADHD is diagnosed only when symptoms are severe enough to cause ongoing problems in more than one area of your life. These persistent and disruptive symptoms can be traced back to early childhood.

Diagnosis of ADHD in adults can be difficult because certain ADHD symptoms are similar to those caused by other conditions, such as anxiety or mood disorders. And many adults with ADHD also have at least one other mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety.

Many adults with ADHD aren't aware they have it â€" they just know that everyday tasks can be a challenge. Adults with ADHD may find it difficult to focus and prioritize, leading to missed deadlines and forgotten meetings or social plans. The inability to control impulses can range from impatience waiting in line or driving in traffic to mood swings and outbursts of anger.

All adults with ADHD had ADHD as children, even if it was never diagnosed. Some people with ADHD have fewer symptoms as they age, while others continue to have significant symptoms as adults.

Symptoms

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been called attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and hyperactivity. But ADHD is the preferred term because it includes the two main aspects of the condition: inattention and hyperactive-impulsive behavior.

Adult ADHD symptoms may include:

Trouble focusing or concentrating
Restlessness
Impulsivity
Difficulty completing tasks
Disorganization
Low frustration tolerance
Frequent mood swings
Hot temper
Trouble coping with stress
Unstable relationships

Diseases and Conditions
Adult ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)

By Mayo Clinic Staff

Definition

Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental health condition exhibited by difficulty maintaining attention, as well as hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Adult ADHD symptoms can lead to a number of problems, including unstable relationships, poor work or school performance, and low self-esteem.

ADHD always starts in early childhood, but in some cases it's not diagnosed until later in life. It was once thought that ADHD was limited to childhood. But symptoms frequently persist into adulthood. For some people, adult ADHD causes significant problems that improve with treatment.

Treatment for adult ADHD is similar to treatment for childhood ADHD, and includes stimulant drugs or other medications, psychological counseling (psychotherapy), and treatment for any mental health conditions that occur along with adult ADHD.

It may seem strange that stimulants are prescribed for a disorder that sometimes causes hyperactivity but they are effective in many cases. This is thought to be accomplished by coaxing the brain to manufacture more serotonin. Increased serotonin has been shown to have a calming effect. This not only treats the hyperactive symptoms but may allow an adult to focus on their tasks at hand and see them to completion.

As recognition of AADD grows, more studies may lead to new treatments and an increased awareness of the disorder.

Reference:
Dige, N., Maahr, E., Backenroth-Ohsako, G. (2008). Memory Tests in Subgroups of Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Reveals Simultaneous Capacity Deficit. International Journal of Neuroscience, 118(4), 569-591. DOI: 10.1080/00207450701239384

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As mentioned, treatment options vary depending on the severity of symptoms. For some AADD patients the symptoms are bad enough that medications along with social therapy are prescribed. Some of the more popular prescription medications are Ritalin, Adderall or Vyvanse. Ritalin is the most commonly known medication and is used in the treatment of ADD in children with some success. Adderall is a psychostimulant and Vyvanse (also used for children) is a stimulant as well.

AADD patients are often the types seen by others as not thinking before they speak or act. They are sometimes referred to as a Type A personality or an always on the go individual. While they may seem to be driven, it is noted that they are rarely focused on one task long enough to see it to completion. In a recent study, three different groups of AADD patients all scored much lower than non-AADD adults on a dual memory and simultaneous capacity test, demonstrating their inability to concentrate in such situations. While this may seems like a small step, this recognition helps prove AADD to be a real concern.

ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is similar to AADD but research has shown that one third of the adults affected with AADD do not show any hyperactive behavior. Thus, the medical community has taken to using the AADD term instead.

In the brain of patients with AADD, executive function is impaired. This is the function that governs a person’s ability to monitor their own behavior by organizing and planning. This disorder affects approximately 2 to 4% of adults.

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: A Real Concern

by Karen Vieira, MBA, PhD

Adult attention deficit disorder or AADD is characterized as a condition causing inattentiveness, organization problems, procrastination and difficulty completing work. It is believed that adults can see an onset of AADD later in life maybe as a carryover from childhood, but in order to receive a diagnosis you must have had symptoms as a child. The condition has differing levels of severity so treatment options vary all the way from coping skills to medication to control the symptoms. Medical intervention will come with some unwanted side effects so many patients opt for social counseling and other less invasive treatment options.

George Kennedy, beefy character actor, dead at 91

By Todd Leopold, CNN
March 1, 2016

Story highlights:
George Kennedy won an Oscar for "Cool Hand Luke"
The actor was also known for the "Airport" films, the "Naked Gun" series



(CNN)George Kennedy, the brawny, Oscar-winning character actor known for playing cops, soldiers and blue-collar authority figures in such films as "Cool Hand Luke," "Airport" and the "Naked Gun" films, has died. He was 91.

Kennedy died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, said his grandson, Cory Schenkel.

"He passed Sunday morning, due to old age and some health issues," Schenkel said.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain)

same old, same old.  sum-ol.

51. Turkey - 102
52. Bosnia Herzegovina, Moldova - 101
53. Albania - 98
54. South Africa - 97 
55. Belize - 94
56. Peru, Solomon Islands - 86
57. Guyana, Kuwait, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu - 82
58. Ecuador, Fiji, Ukraine - 81
59. Maldives, Nauru - 80
60. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Qatar - 79

61. Jamaica - 78
62. Papua New Guinea - 77
63. Micronesia - 75
64. Suriname - 74
65. Bahrain - 73
66. Bolivia, Botswana - 72
67. Oman, Thailand - 71
68. Namibia - 70
69. Lesotho, Saudi Arabia - 69
70. Kenya - 68

71. Belarus, Gambia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Swaziland - 67
72. Tanzania, Tunisia - 65
73. Ghana - 64
74. Zambia - 63
75. Azerbaijan - 62
76. Cape Verde, Philippines - 61
77. Uganda - 60
78. Benin, Cuba, Morocco, Zimbabwe - 59
79. Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan - 58
80. Armenia - 57

81. Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mongolia - 56
82. Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo - 55
83. Dominican Republic, Sao Tome, Principe - 54
84. Tajikistan - 53
85. India, Mali, Uzbekistan - 52
86. Bhutan, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sierra Leone - 51
87. Cambodia, China - 50
88. Chad, Egypt, Gabon, Turkmenistan - 49
89. Algeria, Central African Republic, Haiti, Madagascar, Rwanda - 48
90. Comoros, Jordan, Laos, Vietnam - 47

91. Guinea - 46
92. Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria - 45
93. Congo (Republic of), Djibouti - 44
94. Liberia - 43
95. Burundi, North Korea, Myanmar - 42
96. Bangladesh, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Lebanon, Sri Lanka - 39
97. Kosovo, South Sudan, Yemen - 38
98. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal, Palestinian Territory, Sudan - 37
99. Libya - 36
100. Syria - 32

101. Somalia - 31
102. Iraq - 30
103. Pakistan - 29
104. Afghanistan - 25

Source: Henley & Partners

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11. Slovakia - 165
12. Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Slovenia - 164
13. Latvia - 163
14. Estonia, Lithuania - 162
15. Poland - 161
16. Monaco - 160
17. Cyprus - 159
18. San Marino - 156
19. Chile - 155
20. Hong Kong - 154

21. Brazil, Bulgaria, Romania - 153
22. Andorra, Argentina - 152
23. Brunei Darussalam - 151
24. Croatia - 149
25. Israel - 147
26. Barbados - 141
27. Bahamas - 140
28. Mexico - 139
29. Taiwan, Uruguay - 137
30. Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City - 134

31. Seychelles - 133
32. St. Kitts and Nevis, Venezuela - 132
33. Costa Rica - 131
34. Trinidad and Tobago - 130
35. Mauritius - 128
36. Panama - 127
37. Paraguay, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines - 125
38. United Arab Emirates - 122
39. Grenada - 121
40. Macau - 120

41. Dominica, Honduras - 119
42. Guatemala - 116
43. El Salvador, Serbia - 115
44. Samoa - 112
45. Macedonia - 111
46. Nicaragua, Tonga, Vanuatu - 110
47. Montenegro - 107
48. Russia - 105
49. Palau - 104
50. Colombia - 10

(Country - Visa Restriction Index):

1. Germany - 177
2. Sweden - 176
3. Finland, France, Italy, Spain, UK - 175
4. Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, US - 174
5. Austria, Japan, Singapore - 173
6. Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland -
   172
7. Greece, New Zealand - 171
8. Australia - 169
9. Malta - 168
10. Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland - 167

Henley & Partners, which has produced an annual index in co-operation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) since 2006, said: ‘There continues to be a huge disparity in the levels of travel freedom between countries, despite the world becoming more mobile and interdependent.

‘Generally, visa requirements reflect strongly on each country’s relationships with others, and will take into account diplomatic relationships between the countries, reciprocal visa arrangements, security risks and the risks of visa and immigration rules violations.’

(more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3469065/The-world-s-powerful-passports-revealed-UK-slip-spot.html#ixzz41eK5VkAC)

ayaw kalimot nga daghan ang wa na mobalik dinhi tungod kay giluod sa imong mga posts ug quarrels kay pag-abli ani nga website ang imo dayong yangungo ang mag-una.

post lang ug imo.  ayaw pangita ug away.  naa pa man tingaliy nabilin sa imong utok aron masabtan ni nimo.

DO NOT LET TUBAGBOHOL GO THE WAY OF OTHER WEBSITES THAT YOU'VE JOINED, WHICH HAVE FIZZLED OUT BECAUSE THEY GOT LESS AND LESS INTERESTING BECAUSE OF YOU!

i realized too that you take umbrage if your post is not on top of the list of the latest topic. 

unsa man ni?  di na lang mi mo-post dinhi aron mauna ka kanunay sa lista?

goodness me, here you go again.  grow up and get old gracefully, balong.  i cannot in any way find any post here by hubag that's in any way about you.  i realized though that you think anything and everything here is all about you.  wake up!  you're too unimportant to be thought about, mind.

If you guessed that you were looking at the United States, pat yourself on the back. And if you guessed the Midwest, congratulations! This is a view from the International Space Station taken in September 2011. The Northern Lights hover over Canada, while the largest bright spot near the center of the photo is Chicago (You can see Lake Michigan as a big dark spot bordering the city). The spidery-looking city below and to the right of Chicago is St. Louis. Way to the left of St. Louis is a small clump of lights: That's Des Moines, with Minneapolis-St. Paul above and to the left of it. The large blur of lights in the lower left-hand corner of the photo is Omaha, Nebraska.

The astronaut who snapped this photo also captured a weather event. Look above St. Louis and the dark, winding spot that is the little-populated Appalachian Mountains. You'll see a bright, almost bluish dot. That dot is almost certainly lightning from a storm on the East Coast.

Credit: NASA
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High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as it passed over the Caribbean on Aug. 22, 2011. As of Thursday, Aug. 25, Irene was expected to hug the East Coast, possibly making landfall near New York City over the weekend. 

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In August 2006, a NASA satellite captured this image of three angry sisters in the western Pacific Ocean. This trio of storms formed within three days of each other. The youngest storm, Typhoon Bopha (top) is barely organized into a tropical storm, with no eye and only the most basic round shape. Tropical Storm Maria (bottom right) is a day older and has formed a central eye and a spiral shape. The most powerful of the triplets, Typhoon Saomai (bottom left) is fully formed and roaring with winds around 85 miles per hour (140 kilometers per hour).

Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA
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Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Volcano Complex sends a plume of ash streaming 497 miles (800 kilometers) east in this June 13 satellite photo. The volcano has been erupting since June 4, evidenced here by the pale coating of ash on the ground. These ash deposits could be a danger in the weeks and months to come, as winter rains can turn instable volcanic ash into deadly mudflows called lahars.

Credit: NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
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...on April 20, 2010, an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, marking the beginning of a three-month long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill turned the Mississippi delta into an oily canvas, as seen in this May 24, 2010 image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. Vegetation looks red, while the reflective oil appears silver. 

Credit: Jesse Allen/NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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"The survivability ... because of the missiles, when we did the lay down and the plan, the capabilities that our potential adversaries had didn't exist," he said. "So do we need to take a look at how we are going to harden ourselves, or where we are going to position ourselves?"

On Thursday, Harris said the recent developments on the man-made islands would not stop the Navy from deploying an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea.

"Short of war, I'm aware of the threat. I'll pay attention to the threat," he said. "But that is not going to prevent us from flying, sailing or operating wherever international law allows."

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China has completed three 10,000-foot runways and dispatched advanced attack aircraft and bomber aircraft to the islands. In recent weeks, it has also installed advanced surface-to-surface missiles and radar systems that could make US aircraft carriers more vulnerable.

"The DF-21 [anti-ship ballistic missile], which they have developed, and the DF-26 [intermediate range ballistic missile], which they're developing, could pose a threat to our carriers," Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week. "I think, though, that our carriers are resilient and we have the capability to do what has to be done if it comes to that."

Neller said China's movements have the Marines also rethinking its posture in the Pacific.

The weapons that China is placing on those islands could require the United States to reconsider its own presence in the region, Richardson and Neller said Friday at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution, public policy research group in Washington, D.C. The Navy already wants to have 60 percent of its planned fleet of 308 US warships committed to the Pacific by 2020.

For example, Richardson said China's advances might require the United States to reassess its attack submarine fleet. The Navy has said for years that 48 attack submarines is what it needs to carry out its mission. But Richardson said Friday that might not be enough.

"That number is really based on analysis from 2006," he said. With China's recent developments, "that's becoming a more urgent situation."

During his testimony this week on Capitol Hill, Harris, commander of the Pacific Command, cautioned China has swiftly moved jets, missiles, bombers and radars onto many of the man-made islands that it built during the last year. China developed the islands by building on top of submerged coral reefs and other underwater land features in the South China Sea.

"These are actions that are changing, in my opinion, the operational landscape in the South China Sea," Harris told lawmakers.

China's Military Buildup in Pacific Could Require US Response


The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) transits the South China Sea. (US Navy photo)

Stars and Stripes | Feb 27, 2016 | by Tara Copp

WASHINGTON -- Navy and Marine Corps leaders warned Friday that China's rapid military buildup in the Pacific Ocean could force the United States to move ships and forces in response.

Friday's comments from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller followed a week of warnings by Adm. Harry Harris to Congress that the pace of China's militarization on a string of man-made islands in the South China Sea is changing operations in the Pacific.

Another difference is that an egoist is more selfish than an egotist. Though boastful, an egotist may not be selfish at all. An egoist may be described as a selfish person and an egotist as a self-centered person.

Summary:

1. A egoist can be described as a selfish person and an egotist as a self-centered person.

2. An egotist is a person who is interested in ‘I’ and only talks about himself. An egoist believes that he is beter and more important than anyone. else.

3. An egoist is more cunning than an egotist.

4. Unlike an egoist, an egotist will try to get what he wants by devious means.

5. An egoist cannot be called as mere boaster like the egotist.

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When it comes to their characters, an egoist is more cunning than an egotist. Unlike an egoist, an egotist will try to get what he wants by any means possible. It is not the way, be it straightforward or devious, which matters to an egotist but the achievement of hsi goal. He will try to achieve what he has in mind in any way he can.

An egotist is a boaster, who goes around bragging about himself even if doing so causes him problems. An egoist, on the contrary, does not boast. An egoist may even talk less if he thinks doing so is going to adversely affect him. An egotist does not think of the consequences, while an egoist evaluates the pros and cons of all his actions.

for curiosity's sake...

egoism versus egotism

Difference Between Egoist and Egotist

Though the two words ‘” egoist and egotist’” look similar, they are different in meaning and also in many characteristics.

An egotist is a person who is interested in ‘I’ and only talks about himself. He always tries to see to it that all conversation revolves around him. On the other hand, an egoist believes that he is better and more important than anyone else.

While an egotist talks only about himself and may talk a lot, an egoist is a person who may not talk much about himself but who thinks he is far superior to everyone else.

now pa ko nga foreigner diay ka, bai hubs.

The controversial star did not forget the less fortunate on her Philippine trip, however, tweeting photos showing her visiting children at a Manila orphanage run by nuns.

The star, now touring in Singapore, has yet to comment publicly on the flag furore.

Officials of Music Management International, which produced Madonna's Manila concert, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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'Pinoys (Filipinos) and all God-loving people should avoid sin and occasions of sin,' Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said in a statement posted on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines' official website.

Arguelles said the concerts, Madonna's first in the Philippines, were among 'subtle attacks of the evil one'.

During her Manila shows Madonna gyrated around a stripper pole shaped like a crucifix, accompanied by dancers dressed as scantily clad nuns.

A 1998 law prescribes a one-year jail term, as well as a token fine, for wearing the Philippine flag 'in whole or in part as a costume or uniform'.

The flag flap was the second controversy provoked by Madonna's visit to the devoutly Catholic Asian nation.

A Catholic bishop last week called on the faithful to stay away from Madonna's sexually charged concerts, which often encompass religious themes, calling them the devil's work.

'This should he made clear to organisers and performers in concerts so that there will be no repetition of the incident.'

Coloma said in an earlier statement to AFP that the government was 'keen' on banning the Queen of Pop from performing in the Philippines because of the controversy.

However Coloma later said the government did not want to ban her, and that the initial statement that it did was based on a wrong interpretation of comments by another presidential aide.

Philippines hits out at Madonna over flag stunt

Sunday, 28 February 2016

The Philippines criticised Madonna on Sunday for disrespecting its flag during a concert in Manila, and said it would call on organisers of future events to avoid similar incidents.

Photos from one of her two concerts last week published in local media showed the 57-year-old American mega-star draped in the Philippine flag.

While press reports said the audience roared its approval at the music icon, who was in the country as part of her global 'Rebel Heart' tour, Filipino authorities were less amused.

'Our flag law is strict as we want to instill respect for the Philippine flag,' presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma said in a statement.

Oct 1963
Tour of Europe

Steinbeck embarks on a two-month tour of Western Europe with playwright Edward Albee as part of a cultural tour with the United States Information Agency.

Sep 14, 1964
Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a personal friend of John Steinbeck, presents the writer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Steinbeck had helped LBJ draft his acceptance speech for the Democratic National Convention a month earlier.

Oct 12, 1966
America and Americans

America and Americans is published. The book is a collection of photographs of American life, accompanied by essays written by Steinbeck. It is the last book published in his lifetime.



Dec 20, 1968
Death of John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck dies of a heart attack in New York City. His ashes are later interred in his hometown of Salinas.

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1960
Travels With Charley

From September to November, Steinbeck tours the United States in a camping van named Rocinante, accompanied only by his pet poodle, Charley. The road trip becomes the basis for his 1962 memoir, Travels With Charley.

Apr 1961
The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck's final novel, is published.

Oct 25, 1962
Nobel Prize

John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1948
Tragedy and Divorce

In a year of personal tragedy and professional accomplishment, Steinbeck's close friend Ed Ricketts is killed in a car accident. A few months later, Gwyndolyn Conger divorces Steinbeck. He publishes a non-fiction account of his tour of Russia entitled A Russian Journal and is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dec 28, 1950
Marriage to Elaine Anderson Scott

Steinbeck marries his third and last wife, Elaine Anderson Scott.

1952
East of Eden

East of Eden is published. Steinbeck considers it his finest work, saying that "Always before I held something back for later. Nothing is held back here. . . . I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."

Jan 2, 1945
Cannery Row

The novel Cannery Row is published.

Jun 12, 1946
Birth of Second Son

Steinbeck's second child, John Steinbeck IV, is born.

1947
Travels through Russia

Steinbeck travels through Soviet Russia as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, accompanied by the photojournalist Robert Capa. The trip helps fuel suspicions that Steinbeck is a socialist. He also publishes The Wayward Bus, a novel set in post-World War I California, , and The Pearl, a morality tale based on a legend Steinbeck heard in La Paz, Mexico.

Mar 29, 1943
Marriage to Gwyndolyn Conger

His divorce from Carol Henning final, Steinbeck marries Gwyndolyn Conger. He later travels to Europe and North Africa to cover World War II as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune newspaper.

Mar 15, 1944
Oscar Nomination for Lifeboat

Steinbeck is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for his work on the Alfred Hitchcock picture Lifeboat. The Oscar ultimately goes to another writer, however.

Aug 2, 1944
Birth of First Son

Steinbeck's first child, son Thomas Steinbeck, is born.

1940
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

John Ford directs the film version of The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Steinbeck receives both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the novel. He also produces a documentary about rural Mexico entitled The Forgotten Village, and spends six weeks on a marine expedition in the Gulf of Mexico with his longtime friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts.

1941
Separation from First Wife

Steinbeck separates from his first wife, Carol, and moves to New York with a woman named Gwyndolyn Conger. He also publishes Sea of Cortez, a travelogue co-written with Ed Ricketts.

1942
The Moon is Down

Steinbeck publishes The Moon is Down in March. The play version of the book opens in New York two months later.

1937
Of Mice and Men

On 6 February, Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men is published. The stage v version of the book, also authored by Steinbeck, opens in New York on 23 November, earning him a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In the same year, Steinbeck for the first time travels to Europeâ€"including a stop in Russiaâ€"as a journalist.

Sep 1938
The Long Valley

The Long Valley, a collection of short stories set in and around Salinas, is published. It includes the story "The Red Pony."

Apr 1939
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is published. It is Steinbeck's greatest critical success. The book is wildly popular with readers, but also attracts virulent critics who decry the book's "vulgar" language, brutal depiction of Dust Bowl life, and alleged socialist bent. Several libraries ban the book.

Apr 14, 1935
Dust Bowl

Prolonged drought in the first part of the 1930s has wreaked ecological havoc on the American Midwest. Crops have died, and with nothing to hold down the soil the region has become plagued by catastrophic dust storms. Steinbeck is moved by the plight of the thousands of farmers moving west to seek work and escape devastation at home. On 14 April, also known as Black Sunday, a dust storm of monumental proportions strikes the Midwest. The next day reporters coin the phrase "the Dust Bowl."

May 28, 1935
Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat, a novel about a group of young drifters in post-World War I Monterey County, is published. The book garners Steinbeck's first real critical and commercial success, earning him his first California Commonwealth Club medal for best novel by a Californian.

Oct 1936
In Dubious Battle

Steinbeck continues to probe his signature theme of the struggles of the common man. In October he publishes both In Dubious Battle, a novel about striking workers, and a San Francisco News series about migrant workers entitled "The Harvest Gypsies." Steinbeck is appalled by the living conditions of the workers he interviews, and later publishes the series as a book entitled Their Blood Is Strong.

1926
Return to California

Steinbeck returns to California and settles in Lake Tahoe. He works as a handyman at a local resort.

Aug 1929
Cup of Gold

Cup of Gold, Steinbeck's first novel, is published. The book focuses on seventeenth-century pirate Henry Morgan's adventures in Panama. Two months later, in October 1929, the U.S. stock market crashes, sparking the Great Depression.

Jan 14, 1930
Marriage to Carol Henning

Steinbeck marries his first wife, Carol Henning. They move into a small cottage in Pacific Grove, California owned by Steinbeck's father. Steinbeck will complete much of his life's work in this cottage.

JOHN STEINBECK TIMELINE

How It All Went Down

Feb 27, 1902
Birth of John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III is born in Salinas, California. He is the third of four children (and the only boy) born to John Steinbeck, Sr., the treasurer of Monterey County, and his wife Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a schoolteacher. As an older boy, Steinbeck will work summers on the nearby Spreckels Farm.

1919
Graduation from Salinas High School

John Steinbeck graduates from Salinas High School and enrolls at Stanford University. When not at school, he works odd jobs at ranches, shops, farms and factories.

1925
New York City

After six years as an on-again, off-again student, Steinbeck leaves Stanford for the last time. In November he travels to New York City to start his life as a writer. He never receives his degree.

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.

Born: 27 February 1902, Salinas, California, US
Died: 20 December 1968, New York City, US

Jemaah Islamiyah militants carried out the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's holiday island of Bali, which killed 202 people. The group has long had a presence in the southern Philippines.

MILF leaders have warned in recent weeks that the collapse of the peace deal could embolden hardline militants who want to resume a violent separatist uprising.

Security analysts have also warned some Islamic militants in the Philippines may want to follow the more extreme violent tactics of the Islamic State group.

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This week's fighting took place in a region bordering a stronghold of a powerful MILF commander.

But military officials said MILF did not take part in this week's clashes.

They said the group involved in the clashes was led by followers of Indonesian Ustadz Sanusi, a member of the Jemaah Islamiyah who was killed in the southern Philippines in 2012.

Decades of violence

A Muslim separatist insurgency has raged for more than four decades on Mindanao and other parts of the southern Philippines, leaving more than 120,000 people dead.

Efforts to secure a peace deal with the largest rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), recently collapsed after congress failed to pass a law that would have created an autonomous Muslim region in Mindanao.

The collapse of the previous peace process in 2008 led hardline MILF commanders to launch attacks on Christian villages in Mindanao, which killed more than 400 people and displaced 600,000.

The fighting took place in and around Butig, a small Muslim-populated town surrounded by heavily forested mountains. One two-storey house was in ruins and many others were riddled with bullets, according to the local reporter.

More than 20,000 people had fled their homes, taking refuge in a mosque, government evacuation centres and with relatives, according to civil defence officials.

However a local reporter on the scene said clashes continued throughout Friday.

Up to 61 militants were believed to have been killed, although only three bodies had been recovered, according to the military chief with responsibility for the area, Colonel Roseller Murillo.

Murillo and other military officials said they had no firm evidence to confirm the other 58 reported deaths, and would not say how they came up with the number other than that they relied on intelligence reports.

"There was attack and counter-attack, sniping and counter-sniping, and artillery fire," military spokesman Colonel Noel Detoyato told AFP, describing the fighting that began on Saturday with an attack on a military post.

The military said the group's base, a concrete building on the outskirts of a remote town in a mountainous region of violence-racked Mindanao island, had been overrun on Thursday night following helicopter gunship attacks.

Thousands flee deadly fighting in southern Philippines

AFP/ 15 hours ago (27 February 2016)



At least six people have been killed and more than 20,000 displaced during a week of fighting between Islamic militants and security forces in the southern Philippines, authorities said Friday.

Three soldiers and three militants were confirmed killed in the clashes, which involved followers of a slain Indonesian leader of a Southeast Asian militant group, the military said.

"There are -- there are many other components of national power that can be and probably will be brought to bear in this."
   
Harris noted that the U.S. maintains a continuous presence of naval ships in the South China Sea and flies regular surveillance patrols in the region as well. "So, we're there all the time, I would say."

"We must exercise our freedom of navigation, or we risk losing it."

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"But you're not stopping China from militarizing these islands," a reporter told Harris.

"Well, you'd have to ask China why they're not stopping," Harris responded. "I mean, the military component is just one tool in the -- in the tool chest that our national leadership has, so, you know, I think we're doing what we have to do in the military sense.


Admiral Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command

Harris said the U.S. will continue to "exercise our rights of freedom of navigation in international waters and airspace, and encourage others -- encourage that like-minded network of nations to do the same.

"And I think we must use diplomacy to influence China. And finally, we have to ensure that we continue to modernize that (U.S. military) force, in order to go back to the first element of maintaining a credible combat power."

"I am of the opinion that they are militarizing the South China Sea," Harris said. "And when they add their advanced fighters to Woody Island, and when -- up in the Paracels -- and when they put their advanced missile systems on the Paracels, and when they build three 10,000-foot runways in the Spratlys on the basis that they've reclaimed -- when they do all of that, they're changing the operational landscape in the South China Sea.

"So, that is what has changed. The United States and our patrols -- military patrols, air and maritime in the South China Sea haven't really changed. We have a consistent presence in the Western Pacific, and we have had that for decades. So, I would say it's China that has changed its behavior."

"And I think that, again, short of war with the United States, China will exercise de facto control of the South China Sea, if they are -- if they continue to outfit the bases that they've reclaimed there."

Harris said China, in the past few years, has reclaimed almost 3,000 acres of land from the South China Sea, turning many of the islands into military bases.

"And short of war with the United States, they can become -- they can rise to the level of having operational control, tactical control of the waterways and airways in the South China Sea, which today, involves about $5.3 trillion of trade, over a billion of which -- over a trillion of which is destined for the United States.

"There are enormous I.T. infrastructure in the...undersea cables in the South China Sea. It's a principle shipping lane, as we've discussed.

Pacific Commander: China Heading Toward Operational, Tactical Control of Major U.S. Trade Route

By Susan Jones | February 26, 2016


Map of the South China Sea showing location of Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands. (Map courtesy of CartoGIS, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University)

(CNSNews.com) - If China continues to arm all of the bases they've reclaimed in the South China Sea...they will change the operational landscape in the region," Admiral Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command, told a news conference on Thursday.

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mantinir lang mig tattoo.

after some clicks, i found out that that image of the 15 mysteries and the virgin of the rosary is a 16th century work of flemish painter goswijn van der weyden.

there are now 20 mysteries of the rosary.  the luminous mysteries (or light mysteries) have been added by pope john paul II in 2002. 

better go back to grade 4 geography and history, zach. btw, i'm sure that's not your face in your post. that face is human. with your attitude and values as shown by your post, you must be a monkey.

with apologies to monkeys for this insult of comparing you to them.

uh-huh.  can't blame him for not knowing any better.

for zach's sake, here's where they come from:

BINAY      Manila  (Luzon)
DUTERTE    Davao  (Mindanao)   
POE        Guimaras/Iloilo City  (Visayas) 
ROXAS      Capiz  (Visayas)
SANTIAGO   Iloilo City  (Visayas)

obviously, there are 3 bisaya of the 5 candidates. the lone royal tagalog that tagalog his highness zach adores is, needless to say, binay.  you do trust him, zach, right?

in philippine history, no bisaya president (osmena, garcia) was ever accused of kleptocracy.  two luzonian (or 'luzona' in keeping with 'bisaya'?) presidents though made it to the top 10 of world-class theft---marcos (no.2) and estrada (no.10). (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-07/top-corrupt-leaders-world)