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Lazy Sunday ta kay gikapoy nag dokdok si Botoy...

Hmm, di ba kaha ni si Bay Bugsay...

Data collated by Save the Children showed Filipino men were 1.6m tall, one of the shortest in Southeast Asia, he said.

Men in Southeast Asia are on average 1.63m tall , with Singaporean and Thai males the tallest at about 1.71m, Parawan said.

The global average for men is 1.67m, he said.

International studies have showed the Philippines has the ninth largest proportion of stunted children, the group said.

India is the world’s worst affected nation.

Manila’s own surveys in 2014 showed one in 10 Filipino families lived in extreme poverty â€" defined as earning 41 pesos (RM3.7) or less a day -- said the charity.

One in four Filipino children sometimes skipped meals, and as many as 1.5 million sometimes went a whole day without a single meal, the group said.

“These figures are sub-Saharan Africa levels of malnutrition,” said Ned Olney, Save the Children’s country director, adding that little improvement has been seen in recent years.

He urged the government to implement measures to ensure children are well-fed, especially in the first 1,000 days after birth.

Failure to address malnutrition will lead to many physically and mentally impaired people, hurting economic growth, Olney warned. â€" AFP

Growing concern: Studies show that the Philippines has the ninth largest proportion of stunted children globally. - AFP

 
The assumption that people from the Philippines are genetically short is no longer true as new evidence shows that they are malnourished.


CHILDREN in the Philippines suffer from “sub-Saharan levels” of malnutrition that stunts growth in a people who have traditionally been considered short because of genetics, a campaign group said last week.

Although economic growth has surged in recent years, chronic malnutrition means the country has more stunted children than Ethiopia or the Republic of Congo, the Save the Children Fund said in its recent report.

“The assumption has always been that Filipinos are just genetically short but what we actually see now are generations of stunted and malnourished children,” said Amado Parawan, the group’s health and nutrition adviser.

About one in three children under five years of age are also stunted, said the charity.

“Sometimes, the families may hide such children out of shame because they cannot feed them,” added Parawan.

“Because “shortness” is considered a racial trait, it is not seen as a serious concern, but stunting is more than just being short, it impacts children’s future because it hinders physical and mental growth,” he said.

The end on the other side...

Aristocrat philosophicat...

Kaluoy tawon ni higalang pintor. Kanta na lang ta...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UcHWPMSoE8

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


MITUSKIG na nga nagbitay ug wa nay kinabuhi ang usa ka pintor human maghikog kay miuban ang iyang asawa sa laing lalaki.

Alas 3:45 sa hapon niadtong Biyernes nakit-ang nagbitay na lang ang biktima nga si Joman Michael Sayman Ramos, 24, didto sa ilang balay sa Zulfur Street, Morning Side Heights, Ramos Compound, Buhangin District.

Base sa inisyal nga imbestigasyon ni Senior Police Officer 4 Aaron Robles sa Buhangin Police Station, nasayran nga usa ka Reynaldo dela Fuentes Ramos ang miadto sa balay sa biktima ug iyang nakita nga nabitay na ug wa nay kinabuhi ang pintor.

Dunay samad inagian sa hinigtan sa nylon rope ang liog sa biktima nga iyang gikutay sa kahoy ug nagpabitay kini.

Ang kapulisan nakarekober og usa ka suicide note diin nakasulat ang iyang kasuko ug kahiubos sa iyang kapuyo nga gibiyaan siya kinsa miuban og laing lalaki padung sa Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) sa Davao del Norte.

Ang amahan sa biktima nga si Manuelito Plasabas Ramos nagkumpirma nga iyang namatikdan ang iyang anak nga nagsubo gumikan sa maong hitabo.

Gipailawom sa autopsy ang patay nga lawas sa biktima nga anaa sa morgue sa Angel Funeral Homes sa dalang F. Torres ning dakbayan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Septembre 06, 2015.

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 05, 2015, 02:41:07 AM
Si Ybañez sa iyang bahin, nipasabot nga wa siya makadapat kang Te­resita Sambrana, ang tindera nga nireklamo.

“Ako gyud siyang nahapakan apan wala maigo,” matod ni Ybañez.

Ah, sa ato pa, intensyon lang diay nga mangulata...

Pait pagkatugpaha. Tan-awa, nagping-it nga natulog kay malagmit dihay parte sa lawas nga napisat...

Litil buaw Aylandil...

Ugmang adlawa, gikatakda nga ipahigayon sa barangay ang special session kabahin sa ilang plano nga mopasar og re­solusyon ug ipadala kini kang Cardinal Vidal ug Archbishop Jose Palma sa Artsidyosesis sa Sugbo diin nagkondinar sa maong pari ug sa batasan niini nga gipakita sa katawhan.

Si Ybañez sa iyang bahin, nipasabot nga wa siya makadapat kang Te­resita Sambrana, ang tindera nga nireklamo.

“Ako gyud siyang nahapakan apan wala maigo,” matod ni Ybañez.

Nihulagway pa kini nga nakaminus ang tindera kaniya sa gibuhat niini nga pagguba sa kandado sa gate ug matod pa niya nga gituyo nila kay pari ang ilang kontra ug dali ma-isyu.

Nasuta sa Sun.Star Superbalita nga mi-resign ang project engineer sa kasamtangan nga gitukod nga simbahan nga si Bonifacio Atienza ug kanhi sekretarya sa simbahan nga si Juan Mandahuyan tungod sa batasan ni Ybañez.

Apan ang residente sa maong barangay nga si Trinidad Diaz, 47, kinsa magsimbahan sa maong parokya nihulagway nga buotan ang maong pari ug wa siya makadungog og bati niini sa mga wali sulod sa kapin duha ka tuig na sa ilang lugar.

Usa ka komento sa Sun.Star Superbalita Facebook page usab ang nanalipod kang Ybañez.

“Maayo man na si Father Ybañez. Gikan man na sa among parokya before na siya na assign sa Dumanjug. Momisa man gani na libre, labina tan-awon niya pobre intawon to tagtungod. Di pod na siya nawong og kwarta. Basin giabusaran nila.”


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Septembre 05, 2015.

Apan tungod sa hitabo niadtong miaging adlaw, dali kining gibalhin sa gawas sa compound sa parokya.

Dugang niya nga dihang nakig-estorya siya kang Ybañez, iya kini gipahibawo nga ila ang luna mao nga didto sa barangay ang abang sa unom ka mga tindahan.

Apan ang pari nagmagahi ug di pa kuno kini motuo.

Pipila ka adlaw milabay nibalik kaniya ang mga tindera tungod kay giingon nga gi-harass na sila sa maong pari.

Dihang nahitabo ang kini niadtong Miyer­ku­les, nitambag si Garcia nga di nalang siya mohusay kay siya mismo wa makasabot sa batasan sa maong pari.

“Di nalang ko mohusay ninyo kay kami gani nag-away naman mi ana. Mahu’g ko og biased ana. I-direkta na lang na og report sa pulis unya patabang sa inyong manager. Unya ikiha nalang na ninyo didto sa Archdioce­san Parish Council,” si Garcia nagkanayon.

Gibutyag pa niini nga nangolekta usab kini og P20 nga parking fee sa mga motor sa mga tinun-an atbang sa maong simbahan.

Gikalalis usab sa maong pari ang kanhi gobernador sa Sugbo nga si Pablo Garcia tungod sa gi­himo niini nga pagpagu­ba sa kapin 50 na ka tuig nga simbahan sa St. Vincent Parish diin giingon nga usa ka heritage site.

Ni HERTY B. LOPEZ


PETISYON nga palagputon sa ilang barangay ingon man sa simbahan si Fr. William Ybañez human sa iyang gihimo nga pagpanapat sa usa ka tindera sa diha sa barangay Bitoon lungsod sa Dumanjug habagatang ba­hin sa Sugbo.

Kini mao ang gibutyag sa kapitan sa Barangay Bitoon ug ABC president sa lungsod sa Dumanjug nga si Antonio “Tony” Garcia ning nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita kagahapon.

Apan si Ybañez kinsa nahinabi sa Aksyon Bisaya sa TV5 nanghimakak nga nadapatan niya ang maong tindera.

Matod ni Garcia nga di kini unang higayon nga nakadawat siya og reklamo batok sa maong pari tungod kay pipila ka buwan ang nilabay dihang sila mismo duha ang nakakomprontase.

Nipasabot siya nga nipadayag ang mga tindera kaniya nga papahawaon sila sa pari sa tugkaran niini o kon dili adto sila mobayad sa renta kaniya.

Apan si Garcia nitataw nga iya sa barangay ang luna tungod kay napalit kini nila gikan sa simbahan.

“The property belongs to the barangay. In fact I have in my possession the deed of sale executed by his eminence Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, when the barangay bought the 1,200 square meter lot from the church.”

Ang burger stand naa sa sulod sa compound sa simbahan.

Ang Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco), sa pagpanguna ni Police Senior Inspector Nolan Genova, nakarekober og mga personal nga gamit sa biktima sama sa mga antipara ug usa ka suicide note.

Sa suicide note, nakasaysay nga pasayluon siya sa iyang nahimo, di na sab subayon ang iyang pamilya, idonar ang iyang mga organ, ug di siya angay kahadlokan.

Dugang sa suicide note nga human makuha ang iyang patay nga lawas sa maong lawak, mawala ra ang kahadlok ug mabalik ra gihapon ang operasyon sa negusyo sa motel.

Usa ka lalaki (wa nagpaila) didto gawas sa motel nga naistorya sa SuperBalita nagsulti nga una nisulod ang tiguwang, nakig-istorya kini nga iyang idonar ang iyang kinatawo, kidney ug uban pang parte sa lawas aron mapuslan.

Sa kasamtangan, ang patay nga lawas sa biktima anaa gidala sa morgue sa Angel Funeral Parlor sa dalang Torres ning siyudad.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Septembre 03, 2015.

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


USA ka tiguwang ang nakit-ang nagbitay nga wala nay kinabuhi sud sa kasilyas sa usa ka motel sa dalang San Pedro, dakbayan sa Davao, kinsa nagbilin og suicide note nga di kahadlokan ang iyang patay nga lawas.

Alas 4:20 kagahapon sa kaadlawon, ang attendant sa motel maoy misubay sa kuwarto nga giabangan sa biktima nga si Joe Mercado, 79, nagpuyo sa # 44 Magsaysay Avenue, General Santos City.

Sa impormasyon gikan sa journal sa kapulisan, nasayran nga alas 4:12 sa hapon niadtong Martes, mi-check in ang biktima sa room 125 sa third floor sa motel.

Gisubay na kini sa mga attendant gumikan wa na kini mitubag sa tawag sa telepono gumikan milapas na ang iyang pagtinir sa maong kuwarto.

Sa pag-abli sa attendant, iyang nakita ang biktima sud sa kasilyas nga wa nay kinabuhi. Nagbitay kini gamit ang nylon rope nga gihigot sa liog dayon gipabitay.

Hmm, morag paingon motiurok kini sila nga great pretenders...

Matod ni Villarin nga nangutana si Ybañez kon unsang kasong iyang ipasaka.

Wa motubag si Sembrana kay nahadlok sa pari. Ang pulis maoy mitubag nga physical injury.

“Maayo gani wala ka ma-intimano, sulti sa pari nga miatubang sa biktima,” kutlo ni Villarin kang Ybañez.

Ang mga testigos ni Sambrana nipadayag sa ilang kasagmuyo sa gipakitang taras sa kura paroko.

Matod ni Villarin nga ang mga saksi andam moabag ni Sambrana kon moduso og reklamo batok sa pari.

“Nagkurog na man to siya, Sir! Wala makatarong sa pagsuwat. Ako giingnan nga ayaw na kahadlok.

Dili na ka unsaon anang Father. Naa ka diri sa police station,” dugang ni Villarin.

Samtang, gikondenar sa Artsidyosesis sa Sugbo ang giingong pagkulata.

Si Msgr. Joseph Tan, tigpamaba sa artsidyosesis, nagkanayon nga dili haom sa usa ka pari ang gii­ngong gibuhat ni Ybañez kon tinuod man ang pa­sangil batok niini.

Hatagan nila og higayon si Ybañez nga makapa­nalipod sa iyang kaugalingon.

Si Tan niawhag ni Sambrana nga moduso og re­klamo batok ni Ybañez ngadto kang Cebu Archbi­shop Jose Palma.

Kon tinuod ang pasangil batok ni Ybañez, ang artsidyosesis ang mangayo og pasaylo sa inhustisya nga gibuhat ni Ybañez, matod ni Tan. (Dugang taho sa Sun.Star Cebu)


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Septembre 04, 2015.

Si Sr. Insp. Jose Rovic Villarin, hepe sa Dumanjug Police Station nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita, niasoy nga si Sambrana nagpa-blotter mga alas 11 sa buntag niadtong Miyerkules uban sa mga kauban ug testigos tungod sa mga kabun-og.

Si Sambrana nialigar nga sayo siyang magkuha unta og stock sa baligyang burger nga naa sa tindahan sulod sa compound sa simbahan.

Apan sirado ang main gate niadtong higayuna.

Si Sambrana giingong nipugos sa pagsulod, giguba ang padlock sa gate nga nakit-an ni Ybañez nga giingong nasuko og maayo.

Matod ni Villarin nga ang mga nakasaksi nga ning-uban kang Sambrana sa police station nibutyag nga nagtuo lang sila nga magtiayon ang nag-away.

Wa sila makahibawo nga pari diay ang nanapat sa tindera hinungdan nga gikuyogan nila sa buhatan sa kapulisan.

Si Sambrana nipadayag nga nasuko si Ybañez nga iyang gitubag-tubag dihang siya gikasab-an.

Gawas nga siya gidukol, gilabnutan siya sa buhok ug gisukmag.

Iyang gireklamo ang pari sa police station ug nagpa-blotter sa hitabo samtang gitambagan siya sa ka­pulisan nga magpakurasyon.

Wa sab magdugay, niabot si Ybañez sa Dumanjug police station ug gipa-blotter sab ang gihimo ni Sambrana nga pagguba sa kandado.

Samtang didto sa police station, nag-abot ang tindera ug pari.

Ni GUAM P. LOGROÃ'O ug SHEILA C. GRAVINEZ





TINDERA nipasangil sa usa ka pari nga nidukol sa ulo, nilabnot sa buhok ug nisukmag kaniya dihang iyang gitubag-tubag sa pagpangasaba kaniya.

Ang 37-anyos nga ginang niangkon nga iyang giguba ang kandado sa main gate sa simbahan kay magkuha unta siyag supply sa burger sa ilang tindahan nga nahimutang sa compound sa simbahan niadtong Miyerkules sa alas 6:45 sa buntag sa Barangay Bitoon, Dumanjug, Sugbo.

Si Teresita Timtim Sambrana, 37, dalaga, taga Barangay Lawa-an, Alcantara, tindera sa Bigmak Burger nipasangil kang Fr. William Ybañez, 51, kura paroko sa Saint Vincent Parish Church sa Bitoon, nga nanapat kaniya.

Mga tawo nagtuo sa sinugdan nga magtiayon ang nag-away tungod sa kadagko sa mga tingog.

Ang labaw ni Juaton nga si Supt. Renato Dugan nitawag kang Juaton pinaagi sa cellphone niini aron ipahibawo sa reklamo nga gipaabot sa PRO 7 batok kaniya.

Si Juaton nisaysay kang Dugan pinaagi sa cell phone nga nasayod na siya sa maong reklamo sanglit gipa-blotter kini sa Marigondon Police station sa dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu.

Siya nisulti kang Dugan nga natingala siya unsay motibo sa maong pamilya sanglit iyang gihulagway nga suod siya sa amahan ug inahan sa dalaga.

“Natingala bitaw ko, Sir, nganong ila kong gipasanginlan ana nga wa man unta mi mag-away,” matod ni Juaton sa dihang gihinabi ni Dugan.

Si Dugan, sa iyang bahin, nagkanayon nga paabuton lang una niya ang resulta sa imbestigasyon sa kasong administratiba una siya mohukom kon iya ba kining parelibohan sa katungdanan.

Kasamtangang nagserbisyo isip VIP security si Juaton sa Asia Pacific Economic Conference (Apec) meeting dinhi sa Sugbo.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Septembre 03, 2015.

Natingala si Maria nga niadtong milabayng mga buwan atol sa pagbisita ni Juaton kanila, si Joy nag­likay na sa pulis.

Dinhi, nagduda si Maria ug tuod man niadtong Hulyo 24, nitug-an kaniya ang iyang anak nga gihilabtan ang pagkababaye sa makalima ka higayon.

“Taud-taud gyud ni siya nakatug-an, Sir, kay nahadlok intawon sa bahad aning polisa,” naghilak nga misaysay si Maria sa Sun.Star Superbalita.

Wa magdahom ang amahan sa biktima nga buhaton kadto ni Juaton sa iyang anak sanglit giisip niya kining igsuon.

Hustisya ang gusto nilang makab-ot ug di pa igo ang kaso nga atubangon niini sa korte.

Gusto niyang matangtang kini sa trabaho pagka pulis.

“Ako na siya giisip nga igsuon, apan bitin man diay siyag huna-huna. Kon moadto siya sa amoa, maora siyag senyorito. Maligo pa siya sa sinag-ob nakong tubig nya ingon niini iyang buhaton sa akong anak babaye?,” matod ni Mario, amahan sa biktima.

Ang mga petsa nga iyang nahinumdoman niadto rang Enero 5 ning tuiga, Pebrero 26, Marso 17 ug ang katapusan niadtong Abril 6.

“Baga kaayo og nawong, iya lang ko kalit nga gibira sa sulod. Nangurog na ko, wa ko kasabot sa akong gibati. Iya kong giingnan nga higda, gitionan dayon ko sa armas nya niingon siya nga ayaw og langas,” naghilak nga nisaysay si Joy sa Sun.Star Superbalita ug dyHP.

Wa siya motug-an sa iyang ginakanan tungod sa kahadlok sa bahad ni Juaton nga patyon siya lakip ang iyang mga ginikanan.

Si Joy nagtungha sa usa ka unibersidad sa dakbayan sa Mandaue.

Matod sa inahan ni Joy nga si Maria (di tinuod nga ngan) nga suod sila nga managhigala sa suspek.
Gani matag pista sa ilang lungsod sa amihanang bahin sa Sugbo, ila kining imbitahon ug giisip nga importanting tawo.

Si Joy nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita ug dyHP niingon nga niadtong Disyembre 12 sa miaging tuig, niabot si Juaton ug pugos nga nisulod sa balay nga iyang gipuy-an.

Kini nisulti kaniya sa mao nga balay siya matulog uban sa dalaga.

Gipakita pa siya sa dala niini nga armas ug pugos nga gipahigda sa ilang katre.

Gisugdan sa pagpanghikap ang pribadong mga parte sa iyang kalawasan.

Tungod sa kahadlok nga siya pusilon, way nahimo ang dalaga gawas sa pagtuman sa gibuhat sa suspek kaniya.

Siya niingon nga nasubli pa ang pagpanglugos.

Ni ARNOLD BUSTAMANTE


USA ka 17 anyos nga dalaga nipasangil sa usa ka pulis nga ninglugos kaniya makadaghan sukad sa miaging tuig hangtod ning tuiga.

Giingong hulga sa pulis maoy nakapahadlok kaniya sa pagsumbong sa iyang mapait nga kasinatian.
Pulis mihimakak sa pasangil batok kaniya nga unta suod man niya ang pamilya.

Ang dalaga nga nidangop sa sibyaanang dyHP-RMN Cebu nireklamo batok kang PO3 Alexander Juaton, kinsa nadestino sa Personnel Division sa Police Regional Office (PRO) 7.

Si Juaton nagpuyo sa usa ka subdivision sa Sudtonggan, dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu, isip caretaker sa usa sa mga ba­lay sa iyaan sa biktima nga si Joy (di tinuod niyang ngan).

Ang mga ginikanan ni Jel caretaker usab sa usa sa mga balay sa iyaan, apan ang biktima lang ang nagpuyo kay ang mga ginikanan toa sa amihanang Sugbo nanimuyo.

Si Juaton gihulagway sa pamilya nga ilang suod.

Quote from: islander on September 03, 2015, 04:44:06 PM
one fool deserves another.

Hmm, naa kay gipadungog-dungog, Miss Ayl? 

Nangangkon ang INC nga moabot og 1.37 milyones ang botante nilang mga sakop, o 2.6 porsiyento sa kinatibuk-ang 52 milyones ka rehistradong mga botante. Bisan kun tinuod ang ilang katakos sa bloc voting, mas daghan gihapon (kapin sa 50 milyones) ang di INC. Nganong mag-ilogay mang mga politiko pagsikit nila?

Kini tungod sa ilang kagamay ug kaaktibo. Nagkalainlaing mga pagtuon nagpakita nga ang minoriya nga mga grupo sama sa INC may duha ka alas: Una, mas agresibong moduso sa ilang kawsa; ug ikaduha, mas sayon alang sa gobiyerno ang paghatag sa ilang demanda.

Ang INC maoy gipasidunggan ni kanhi presidente Joseph Estrada nga responsable sa iyang pagdaog sa piniliay’ng presidensiyal niadtong 1998. Sila sab ang gituohan nga nakapadaog sa kasagaran sa mga senador ug mga kongresista sa nangaging mga piniliay.

Apan nauwawan ang INC sa ilang kapakyas pagdupa sa ilang sakop nga si kanhi Chief Justice Renato Corona kinsa gi-impeach sa House of Representatives ug gikonbikto ug gipalagpot sa katungdanan sa Senado. Gidudahan sang ilang katakos pagpadaog og lokal nga mga politiko. Pananglitan sa piniliay pagka mayor sa Dakbayan sa Sugbo niadtong 2001, si kanhi mayor Alvin Garcia ang gipaluyohan sa INC apan si kanhi mayor Tommy Osmeña maoy nidaog.

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ARANGKADA Ni Leo Lastimosa (Banat) | Updated September 3, 2015 - 12:00am


Way nagpaabot nga mangiyugpos lang ang kadagkoan sa Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) sa ilang kapakyas pagpalagpot ni Justice Secretary Leila de Lima ug sa pagpabasura sa kasong kriminal nga gipasaka batok sa labing dagko nilang opisyal. Kay naanad nang INC nga pagkuha sa hapit tanan nilang gipangayo gikan sa nasudnong gobiyerno ug bisan sa local government units (LGUs).

Gikan sa pagtangtang sa kanhi pangu sa Bureau of Customs (BOC) ngadto sa pagpahimutang sa mga tagduma sa uban pang mga buhatan sa gobiyerno, gitumbok ang INC nga malampusong nigamit sa ilang bloc voting pagpahimutang sa labing pinangga nga mga sakop sa kahugpongan sa labing gamhanan nga mga katungdanan sa gobiyerno.

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And finding proof will be difficult, Perkins warned. It's difficult to measure creativity in the lab. Most tests involve giving participants an ordinary object and asking them to come up with as many uses for that object as they can. That's not really the same thing as laying out the theory of evolution or inventing the jet engine, Perkins said. (Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, also suffered several nervous breakdowns during his life.)

"Really creative people are rare," Perkins said. "It just seems that a lot of them are neurotic."

One concrete step toward proving the link could be to study medial prefrontal cortex activity in people with high levels of neuroticism, Perkins said. However, it might take a neurotic genius to come up with other ways forward.

"We just hope this will give some impetus to people who are cleverer than us to come up with some good tests," Perkins said.

Anxiety and genius

According to Perkins and his colleagues' hypothesis, the brains of neurotic people might have a particularly persistent "default mode network," which is the circuit in the brain that becomes activated when people are doing nothing in particular. The medial prefrontal cortex is part of that system. If neurotic people have trouble turning off this thought-generating network, it might make them more prone to overthinking, dwelling and otherwise mulling over problems â€" real and imagined.

This can be a problem because neurotic people also have oversensitive amygdalae. The tendency to become panicked over imagined problems can make neurotic people quite miserable, Perkins said.

On the other hand, neuroticism could have benefits, he said. "If you dwell on problems for a long time, when those problems are not in front of you … it seems quite obvious that you'll be more likely to come across a solution than one of those happy-go-lucky people who live their life in the moment," Perkins noted.

It's a tantalizing notion, but no one has yet done the experimental work that would prove that the same processes cause neurotic worrying and creative genius.

Self-generated thoughts

These "self-generated thoughts" can obviously make people miserable, Perkins said. In essence, people are imagining problems that don't exist. Studies show that neurotic people have sensitive amygdalae, the almond-shaped brain structures involved in processing fear and anxiety. So, neurotic people not only invent problems, but tend to become very stressed by them.

But self-generated thoughts are also linked to planning skills and the ability to delay gratification. Perkins realized that the brain's internal threat generator might have pros as well.

"Neurotic people feel sort of miserable spontaneously, and they also tend to be better at coming up with creative solutions for things," he said. Isaac Newton, for example, once wrote that he solved problems by chewing over them incessantly. "I keep the subject constantly before me," he said, "and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light." 

Thus, the neurotic tendency to dwell on things might be the very root of creativity and problem solving, Perkins said.

Overthinking it

Neuroticism is a personality trait that lends itself to worry, anxiety and isolation. Highly neurotic people are more susceptible to mental illness than happy-go-lucky types; they're also worse at high-risk professions like military aviation or bomb disposal, which require coolness under pressure. On the other hand, neuroticism seems linked to creative pursuits. Studies have found, for example, that artists and other creative people score higher on tests of neuroticism than people who aren't in creative fields.

"This is something that bothered me for a long time," said Adam Perkins, a lecturer in the neurobiology of personality at King's College London. Perkins is the co-author of a new opinion piece published Aug. 27 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences that lays out the possible links between neuroticism and creativity in the brain.

Perkins was listening to a lecture by Jonathan Smallwood, a psychologist and expert on daydreaming at the University of York in England, when Smallwood mentioned that people who report high levels of negative thoughts show lots of activation in a brain region called the medial prefrontal cortex, even when they're just resting in a brain scanner. This area, which sits behind the forehead, is involved in the appraisal of threat.

"It's quite a simple leap to think they've got a sort of internal threat generator in their heads," Perkins told Live Science. "They can be lying down in bed or sitting in an armchair in a perfectly neutral environment, and yet they're feeling as if they're under threat."

By Stephanie Pappas
21 hours ago


Sir Isaac Newton formulated the laws of gravity, built telescopes and delved into mathematical theories. He was also prone to bouts of depression and once suffered a mental breakdown.

In this sense, Newton was like many other creative, driven individuals. Charles Darwin, for example, struggled with nausea and gastrointestinal distress in response to stress, so much so that modern psychologists have suggested that he may have had a panic disorder. Winston Churchill referred to his dark moods as his "black dog," leading to speculation that he might have had episodes of depression.

Whatever the truth behind these prominent men's mental health, multiple studies have found a link between creativity and neuroticism â€" a tendency toward rumination and negative thinking. Now, British researchers have proposed a possible reason for the connection: Creativity and neuroticism could be two sides of the same coin.

SAMAD sa aping ug bun-og sa lawas ang naangkon sa usa ka inahan human gikulata sa kaugalingong anak niadtong Lunes sa Zone-3, Agusan ning dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Gidala sa balay tambalanan si Dulcisima (bansagon gipugngan), 64, lumulupyo sa Stakahan, Agusan ning dakbayan.

Sa impormasiyon gikan sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center, diin gidala ang biktima, nasayran nga kalit lamang kini nga gitawag sa iyang anak nga si Jermildo ug gisumbag sa aping ug sa likod samtang anaa sa umahan.

Gidugang pa nga nasuko ang suspetsado nga gitago matud pa sa biktima nga nagbisyo ang iyang asawa. (KCS)


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Septembre 03, 2015.

Quote from: islander on September 03, 2015, 01:57:29 AM
ngano wa pa man masuta nga nahibaw-an na man nga potot? pila ba diay ang potot anang dapita?

Kuan man gud, ang kriminal kay le petit étranger...

Pwede baya pud for stray yogis...

Aw, pwede tuod sukaan kay nanimaho mang ginamos...

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Quote from: islander on September 02, 2015, 06:00:37 PM
what balls are you talkin' 'bout? he ain't got any.

Hmm, you mean he's been trapped, neutered and released?

Ni Romeo T. Limpangog (Banat) | Updated September 2, 2015 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines â€" Tag-iya’g tindahan sa dakbayan sa Danao gipatay sa usa ka potot apan armado nga lalaki kaniadtong Lunes sa gabii.

Si SPO3 Ildefonso Prosia sa Danao City Police Station miingon nga si Romeo Seno, 48 anyos, minyo, nahagba atubangan sa iyang tindahan didto sa Barangay Sabang.

Naglingkod ra ang biktima atubangan sa iyang tindahan human sa panihapon diha nga miabot ang lalaki nga gamayon ug gipusil si Seno sa luyong bahin sa iyang ulo.

Ang bala milapos sa suwang nga maoy hinungdan sa diha-diha nga kamatayon sa biktima.

Sa pagdali-dali og biya sa kriminal, nahabilin pa ang usa niini ka sinelas. Wala pa g’yud masuta kun ngano nga gipatay ang biktima ug kun kinsa ang mamumuno. â€" /RUB) (BANAT NEWS)

Hmm, basin tua magyampungad sa Pisbok...

Kabahin ani nga kamatajon ibabaw sa kamay, ang nakaparat lang kon minjo ang pulis unja ang baje dili nija asawa...

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


DEAD on arrival sa Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) ang usa ka pulis kinsa giingong gi-atake sa kasingkasing human nakig-sex sa babaye sud sa iladong hotel sa Barangay Matina Aplaya alas 8:00 sa gabii niadtong Lunes.

Ang pulis mao si alyas Rico (bansagon gipatago), kinsa Senior Police Officer (SPO) 4 na ang ranggo, gihaya sa Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes sa dalang Camus, Barangay 9-A Poblacion.

Base sa impormasyon nga nakalap sa Sun.Star Davao SuperBalita gikan sa kasaligan nga tinubdan, giingong alas 5:15 sa hapon mi-check in ang maong pulis, kinsa gi-atake sa sakit sa kasing-kasing alas 8:00 sa gabii.

Sa eksklusibong pakighinabi sa SuperBalita sa impormante nga usa sab ka pulis, gituohang miinom og “male enhancement pills” ang biktima una siya nakigbugno ibabaw sa kama kauban ang babaye.

Kagahapon sa buntag, gisubay sa SuperBalita ang Talomo Police Station, apan wala kini gipatala subay sa hangyo sa kabanay.

Gisubay sab sa SuperBalita ang log book sa Trauma Center sa SPMC apan wala na sab gitala sa guwardiya nga duty niadtong mga orasa.

Nasayran nga usa ka chief clerk ang nasampit nga SPO4 sa usa ka sangang ahensya sa kapulisan sa Davao City.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Septembre 02, 2015.

TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA TURN TO SILICON VALLEY

In Taiwan and South Korea, strong economic connections outside China will also help their major electronic firms, economists say. Taiwan’s high-tech hardware developers get many of their orders from Silicon Valley and sell the gear to western consumers.

If there is any economic sloth in Taiwan or South Korea, it will likely be viewed as a reflection of tech industry trends, such as flat computer sales and a waning appetite for tablets, rather than a giant knock-on effect.

Not that a China slowdown will help.

“They have built themselves up as strong tech hardware producers, so the slowdown in that sector has hurt their economies with the China slowdown only adding to the problems,” says Nitin Dialdas, chief investment officer with Mandarin Capital in Hong Kong.

The large Chinese domestic market this year is showing a preference for cheap, local-brand smartphones that cost about half the cost of an iPhone.

According to World Bank forecasts, China's GDP will grow 7.1 percent this year, down from 7.4 percent last year, the slowest pace in more than two decades. China says its trade with the rest of East Asia totaled about $1.4 trillion last year.

China’s slowing economy could also add more problems for the rest of Asia if weaker factory demand means orders are cut for things like Indonesia’s raw materials, or if cautious consumer spending means cuts on fruit from the Philippines or cars assembled in Thailand.

In that scenario, China-based exporters could feverishly push goods over the border â€" including to countries such as Vietnam that lack a strong private sector â€" to escape flagging demand at home. China’s weaker currency would also increase Chinese returns.

Businesses in Vietnam are bracing for Chinese materials and parts to flood their country. Local factories need the goods and exporters can save money by shipping across a border rather than across oceans.

“The softness in Chinese demand will negatively affect Asian economies via the trade channel, especially those highly relying on the Chinese market for goods and services exports, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea,” says Ma Tieying, an Asia economist with DBS in Singapore.

Yet eventually China will start to buoy East Asia again, says Zhuang Juzhong, deputy chief economist with the Asian Development Bank. China performance had driven much of Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea until its economic growth topped out around 2011.

“[China's] rising wages will induce its firms to upgrade industries and gradually move up the value chains,” Mr. Zhuang says. “[It's] shift toward consumption and its growing middle class will also create greater demand for consumption goods.”

SOUTHEAST ASIA MAINTAINS ROBUST GROWTH

In the Philippines, investors sold shares briskly on the Manila exchange early last week after Chinese markets lost 11 percent over two days. Foreign investment banks often treat all Asian shares as risky assets that are ripe for selling when a big player like China posts losses.

But last week, those same investors noticed that the Southeast Asian economy â€" fed by call center jobs and a passion for consumer shopping â€" had reported 5.6 percent economic growth from April through June, says Jonathan Ravelas, chief market strategist with Banco de Oro UniBank in metro Manila.

“The local financial markets were slightly shaken but not stirred,” Mr. Ravelas says. “The recent release of the Philippine second quarter GDP data suggests that the Philippines is still one of the region’s sunniest economies.”

Vietnam's major stock exchange had rebounded by midweek as some investors were hoping for final approval of new rules that allow foreign financial institutions from Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, and Europe to own majority shares in locally listed companies.

“There will be more Vietnamese shares available in the stock universe, so more room to expand,” says Pham Luu Hung, associate investment advisory director with SSI Research in Hanoi.

Chinese share prices fell last week after a 30 percent selloff in June and July, leading to worldwide worry about a crisis.

After China devalued its currency for the first time in two decades last month, Hanoi responded on Aug. 19 with its own one percent devaluation.

Vietnam’s response is seen as putting more money in the pockets of exporters, who exchange US dollars earned overseas for cash at home. China had let its currency weaken 3.5 percent.

Officials in Hanoi, mindful of up-and-coming export-dependent rivals such as Cambodia and Myanmar, have already devalued the country's currency twice this year. The strategy of sequenced devaluation may get picked up and imitated around the Pacific rim, as Asian nations fight back against the weaker Chinese yuan renminbi.

Japan has already let its currency lose value this year with the same effect. The country's large electronic companies found they can make more money from exports to western countries by doing so. In April through June, corporate profits rose 30 percent.

Even if economic growth in the Middle Kingdom is slowing, Pacific nations are unworried. At least so far. Many have diversified their growth models and aren't wholly dependent on China.



By Ralph Jennings
12 hours ago


As the world worries that China’s economic troubles will cause a wide-reaching meltdown, China closest Asian neighbors are not yet panicking.

Pacific-rim countries will surely be impacted by China’s four-year economic slowdown, which came into sharper focus in late August with a sudden stock market selloff. It has been axiomatic for years that problems in China would ripple and harm the neighborhood. But nations from Japan to Vietnam expect to weather problems in the region’s flagship economy, as each now relies on much more than China for prosperity.

Their diversified growth means none of them are panicking, at least not now, and some even see benefits. Some of these nations trade robustly with the West. Moreover, their stock exchanges and foreign exchange rates, two measures of vitality, also move independently of China.

Bantog ra...

Quote from: islander on September 01, 2015, 12:53:00 PM
and now,for the rights of the palestinians, regardless of what their religion is...

Hmm, let's ask our Jewish free thinker friends...

Quote from: islander on September 01, 2015, 12:54:47 PM
he can roll like a ball anytime.

Roll like a ball? And risk crushing his balls in the process? 

Pwede pud kan-on...

Our Gospel for today is really a continuation of the same Easter story we heard last Sunday.  It also teaches us something about Divine Mercy. Jesus appears before His disciples in the evening of that first Easter Sunday.  Jesus breaths on them, giving them the Holy Spirit and then commissions them to forgive sins.  The Church looks at this passage as being the point when Jesus established the Sacrament of Reconciliation.  This Sacrament is really a major part of understanding Divine Mercy.  It's really only through God's mercy that we are able to receive forgiveness through this Sacrament.  As I said before, we don't deserve forgiveness.  Even when we confess our sins, we are not always sorry for the right reasons.  For instance, we're sorry because we know what we did was wrong, but we are not necessarily sorry because we have hurt our relationship with God. And even if we are truly sorry for what we did, how can we possibly make up for what we did against God and what Jesus did for us by dying on the Cross?  Yet, Christ forgives us every time we come to the Sacrament.

The Gospel also tells us about St. Thomas.  He wasn't there on the first Sunday and he refuses to believe the others.  A week later he is there and Jesus comes again.  Now he is able to see and touch Jesus for himself.  Now he believes.  It is easy for any of us to fall into doubt like St. Thomas.  We question whether God can still love us after what we did.  We question whether He can forgive us for what we did.  Do not give in to that doubt, but trust in His mercy.  Divine Mercy is for all of us.  Let us give thanks for it.

Mercy is different.  We give mercy whether the person deserves it or not; whether the person has made amends in some way or not.  That is especially true when we look at Divine Mercy.  When God gives us mercy, I dare say we definitely do not deserve it.  Yet Jesus Christ, the Son of God, continues to offer it to us.

In the 1930's, a Polish nun named Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska began having visions of Our Lord.  He told her about Divine Mercy and asked her to be the apostle and secretary who would tell the world about this wonderful message of Divine Mercy.  Jesus asked her to have a painting done of how He was appearing before her.  That image is now known as the Divine Mercy image.  This famous image shows Jesus dressed in a white rob with his right hand raised in a blessing. From His heart are two rays of light; one red and the other pale.

At the bottom are inscribed the words, “Jesus I trust in you”.  The colors of the rays symbolize the blood and water that flowed from Christ's side at the Crucifixion.  It is at the Crucifixion that we see the greatest example of Divine Mercy.  Mercy flows from Christ's Sacred Heart, as it does in the image.  Our Lord also asked St. Faustina to spread the devotion of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and to work towards having the Second Sunday of Easter be named Divine Mercy Sunday.  She wasn't the first to talk about Divine Mercy; Catholics have been honoring the mercy that God has shown us for centuries before St. Faustina was even born.  The message that she spread, however, has helped Catholics around the world to be able to reflect better on what mercy really means.

My friend offered one such explanation that I thought was very good. She said she remembered a story about Napoleon Bonaparte.  The story goes that after one of his many successful battles, he had a young soldier in his army arrested for a crime and was going to put him to death for that crime.  The soldier’s mother came to the emperor and pleaded with him to spare her son’s life.  He replied that the young man had committed the crime twice and justice demanded that he be put to death.  The mother said, “But I’m not asking for justice.  I’m pleading for mercy.”  “He doesn’t deserve mercy” was Napoleon’s reply.  “Sir”, the mother cried, “it wouldn’t be mercy if he did deserve it.  Mercy is all I ask”.  With that, he agreed to spare the life of the son.  My friend explained that it’s called mercy when we don’t deserve it.  We show mercy to others even when whatever they did to us does not deserve mercy or forgiveness.

I’ve reflected on this quite a bit since then.  It is so easy to hold back our forgiveness to others when we are still in pain from whatever happened, or when they never offer an apology for what they did.  We can come up with all sorts of excuses for why the person who has sinned against us doesn’t deserve to be forgiven.  I think many of us were trained from a young age to expect an apology from the others before we forgive them.  Not only that, but we expect them to “mean it” when they say “I’m sorry”.  When I was growing up I remember it wasn’t always enough to say “I’m sorry”.  If there was any indication of insincerity from the penitent, there usually came the reply of “Yeah, but you don’t mean it!”  Now, I’m not saying that this is the way forgiveness is supposed to be. We shouldn’t be so stingy with our forgiveness, but we do tend to expect something from the other before we are willing to forgive them. We look at whether the person deserves our forgiveness.

Sunday of Divine Mercy
Fr. Joe's Blog
Apr 13, 2015

http://www.straphaelsduluth.org/
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/041215.cfm


Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, and so it seems most appropriate that we take some time to talk about what mercy means.  I was recently talking to a doctor-friend of mine and we were talking a little bit about Pope Francis’ recent announcement that the year 2016 will be declared the Year of Mercy.  In other words, our Holy Father wants us to use that year to reflect on things like what mercy is and what God’s mercy has done for us and to practice showing mercy to others.  My friend and I were talking about how this was such a wonderful thing, that we would have this Year of Mercy coming up.  In our conversation, she told me that her son had asked her a question: “What is the difference between mercy and forgiveness?”  It’s a very good question isn’t it?  We often use the words “mercy” and “forgiveness” as synonyms.  I know I interchange the two words quite a bit in my homilies.  Despite their similarity, there is a distinction that can be made between the two.

Our best hope of dealing with extremism is to challenge the doctrines manufactured by religious scholars, from the past and present. The distinguished history of critical thought in Islam must be brought back from the periphery to the centre. And if its spread is hindered in the Muslim heartlands, then it must be exported back from the West.

In Britain, for example, it should be an essential part of the curriculum whenever and wherever Islam is taught â€" including faith schools and seminaries such as the Darul Ulum in Birmingham â€" as well as in any comparative religion classes. There should be a proper system of certifying imams, who clearly need much more than a traditional education that simply perpetuates uncritical acceptance.

What's more, British Muslims need to create and defend the freedom to question and, if necessary, reject religious authorities of the past and present. And why can't we see this theme explored on television, instead of the usual programmes about terrorism and the hajj? If nothing else, a TV series on free thought in Islam would supply some material to Westerners, so that they could engage with Muslims in a discourse based on mutual respect.

Finally, let us be heard. No doubt many Muslims want to protest against jihad. But, at the very least, we should also be rallying against the Saudi hijacking of Islam. You may "be" Charlie, and much good may it do you. But we'll know progress has been made when â€" outside the mosque â€" instead of "Je suis un couteau", we see signs saying: "Je suis Raif."


Ziauddin Sardar is editor of the quarterly journal 'Critical Muslim'. His book, 'Mecca: The Sacred City', is published by Bloomsbury

Luckily, though, not all. There are still some contemporary thinkers following in the footsteps of the classical intellectuals. The late Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, an Egyptian who died in July 2010, declared that sharia was "man-made" and that the Koran was deliberately manipulated by religious scholars to justify their unquestionable authority. For wanting a more humanistic and contemporary interpretation of the Koran, he was labelled an apostate, required to divorce his wife and hounded out of his country. Similarly, the 69-year-old Abdolkarim Soroush â€" who has argued that Islam cannot rely on the dogmatic certainties of the past and urgently requires rethinking â€" has been forced into exile from Iran.

Again, the great Syrian poet Adonis, 85, has been declared a heretic and imprisoned for his beliefs, simply because he wants to re-frame the whole notion of God in Islam. The orthodox, God, he says, is represented as the vengeful patriarch of an Arab tribe. He questions this characterisation of Allah as remote, perpetually angry and without mercy, ever ready to punish even the tiniest deviation from "correct belief" and unable to be depicted lest the gullible masses mistake the portrayal for the real thing. And in his works he seeks a human connection with a God who is always near and merciful.

Today, as in history, all attempts to rethink our understanding and relationship with God, to interrogate orthodox belief, to bring reason back to Islam, are shunned â€" not just by the fanatics but by the vast majority of Muslims. The manufactured articles of faith seem to have an unassailable hold on Muslim minds. And so the moderate free thinkers' legacy, so vital at this time of sectarian warfare within Islam, is swept collectively under the carpet of accepted, if artificial, doctrine.

This phenomenon is the central problem in all varieties of Islam. In the absence of reason and criticism, the heritage has become toxic. At best, it promotes intolerance and bigotry; at worse, it manifests itself as fanaticism and violent jihadism. And until more Muslims question it, they cannot claim that its manifestations have "nothing to do with Islam".

The accomplished theologian Ibn al-Rawandi mocked religious scholars and the nonsense they peddled about a Paradise full of virgins. (Could it be pleasing to anyone but a rustic, he wondered.) His contemporary, the polymath and natural scientist Abu Bakr al-Razi, insisted that Islam without reason had no value. The renowned blind poet Abul "Ala" al-Ma'arri sought to correct "what established religion took for God's criteria".

Their contemporary, the scientist Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni, who is regarded by some as a free thinker not only of his age but across all ages, insisted that it was essential to question everything â€" from religion to philosophy â€" and to respect criticism, including of one's religion, in order to benefit from its arguments. And the 12th-century philosopher Ibn Rushd, who later had huge influence on European thought, argued that matters of belief should be decided only on the basis of reason and evidence â€" a position deemed so dangerous that his numerous books were banned, and Ibn Rushd himself was briefly banished.

From their different perspectives, these and numerous other free thinkers of Islamic history arrived at a common conclusion: state-sponsored Islam is full of edicts and rituals that are absurd and insulting to reason. Free thought was the only way to cut through this nonsense and take us closer to God.

So why don't we hear more about these great thinkers and questioners today? Because concentrated attempts have been made, and continue to be made, to stifle free thinking and wipe its record from Islam's history. The traditional curriculum, unchanged for centuries, in most madrassas, seminaries and "Islamic universities" is devoted solely to the works of "approved" imams and scholars, and even the minutest critical thought is ruthlessly expunged. (In Saudi Arabia and most Gulf states, for example, it is forbidden to teach the ideas and works of Ibn al-Rawandi, Ibn Rushd, and al-Biruni.) In recent years, Saudi Arabia's rulers have spent £70bn in attempts to suppress critical thought â€" funding mosques, madrassas, universities and tele-evangelicals â€" with the result that generations of Muslims around the world, including Britain, now imbibe the Wahhabi ideology.

Four hundred years later, when power had shifted from Abbasid Baghdad to Mamaluk Cairo, religious scholars banned independent reasoning on issues of faith â€" or as the formula has it, "closed the gates of ijtihad". In doing so, they laid claim to have solved all the problems of humanity. In fact, they shut the door on the Enlightenment, which already-established Arab scholarship would do so much to kick-start.

And still it goes on, with recent attempts to suppress critical thought verging on the absurd. In September 2011, a Saudi cleric called for astronomy to be banned, and astronomers punished, because it encouraged scepticism about sharia. (This despite the fact that astronomy, regarded as an "original Muslim science", has a distinguished history in Islamic civilisation.) This month, a Saudi cleric issued a fatwa forbidding the building of snowmen because they represented human beings and are therefore forbidden by sharia law.

The essential message of these historic and contemporary decrees is clear: the self-appointed guardians of Islam must be revered not cross-examined. The rules handed down and conjured up today must be accepted, not interrogated. The pronouncements of imams and sheikhs, mullahs and ayatollahs â€" whether educated or semi-literate â€" are both the word and will of God.

But despite what these religious despots would have their followers think, in fact Islamic history is full of free thinkers who have stood up to such authoritarianism. During the 8th century CE, when sharia law was being shaped, the Persian writer and thinker Ibn al-Muqaffa declared that it had the potential of becoming a political tool in the hands of kings and clerics manipulating the rough and credulous. And during the 9th and 10th centuries, a host of writers, satirist and free thinkers joined him in denouncing dogmatism.

So where do these beliefs come from? From today's extremist leaders, of course. But also, historically, from caliphs and clerics who realised that religion could perform a very useful function: it could keep the masses in their place and ensure that power remained in the hands of a select few.

The prime example of this thought-control is the notion is that sharia law is divinely ordained and must be accepted in its totality without question. In fact, its ordinances were invented in the 9th century CE â€" about two centuries after the Prophet Mohamed's deathâ€" during the Abbasid rule of the Muslim Empire. The law of apostasy, for example, was formulated to discourage revolt against the imperial state.

As for state-sanctioned blasphemy laws â€" now regarded as sacrosanct in Pakistan, Egypt and other Muslim counties â€" they were actually first introduced by the colonial powers in the 19th century, to keep the peace between the different religious communities that they ruled. In Pakistan, for example, blasphemy became a crime in 1860, when the territory was still part of a greater India. Inherited after partition in 1947, in 1982 the statutes were expanded and their penalties made harsher by the military dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq to bolster support from ultra-conservative religious parties. Now they are seen as divine revelation!

But tightening the screws has long been the way in the Muslim heartlands. For example, in a highly influential decree from the 10th century CE, the Abbasid caliph Abdul Qadir, denounced critical thought as "counter to Islam" and ordered his subjects to dissociate from philosophers and freethinkers, who were required "to repent", despite the fact that numerous verses in the Koran exhort believers to think, reflect and raise questions.

Islamic history is full of free thinkers - but recent attempts to suppress critical thought are verging on the absurd
ZIAUDDIN SARDAR
Wednesday 21 January 2015


The West's best hope of dealing with the rise of Islamic extremism is to challenge the doctrines manufactured by religious scholars past and present, argues Ziauddin Sardar

   
"This has nothing to do with Islam," say the imams. "These callous and fanatic murders have nothing to do with us," say the mullahs. "Islam means peace," say the worshippers. These disclaimers, and variations on them, have been repeated countless times by Muslim commentators since the Charlie Hebdo killings. They are designed to distance people from guilt by association with those who kill and maim in the name of Islam.

But what about the sentence recently handed down to the (mildly) liberal blogger Raif Badawi in the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia? Ten years in jail, a massive fine, 1,000 lashes over 20 weeks (currently suspended because the first 50 lashes have rendered him "medically unfit")? Does this have "nothing to do with Islam"? Does the hashtag "Je suis un couteau" â€" referring to this week's stabbing of 11 Israelis on a bus â€" have "nothing to do with Islam"? Not to mention the 10 Christians killed during Charlie protests in Niger last week, or the ongoing depredations of al-Qaeda, Isis, Boko Haram, the Taliban and the Laskar Jihad of Indonesia?

The psychotic followers of these organisations all think that they are Muslims, and their Islam is based on beliefs that millions who subscribe to Wahhabism, the Saudi version of the religion â€" and its kin, Salafism â€" accept as essential ingredients of their faith. For example, that sharia, or Islamic law, is divinely ordained and immutable; that apostates and blasphemers should be killed; that women should be shrouded and confined to four walls and that men are their guardians.

This is a widespread version of Islam, made more so by modern communications; increasingly gaining followers in Europe, it can be, and is, used to justify all manner of atrocities. Yet this is an Islam of manufactured dogma which relies on neither the Koran nor the example of the Prophet Mohamed.

Kini maoy klarong seeing double...

Quote from: islander on September 01, 2015, 02:30:28 AM
the text is double, all right. but the image of the girl is quadruple.

Hmm, as in doubly double?

Si Girlie Veloso, konsehal sa Barangay Perrelos ug opisyal sa marketing department sa Sun.Star ug usa sab sa mga nakahatag og limos, maoy gisultian sa magtiayon nga nasayop sila sa pagpalubong sa patay dihang nibisita sila sa buhatan sa Sun.Star sa Carcar kagahapon.

Ila dayon gipahibawo ang kapulisan sa siyudad nga dakong buhi ang ilang anak ug giulian usab sila sa P2,000 nga unang nabayad nila sa punerarya.

Si Lito niasoy nga misakay siya og mini bus paingon sa Sibonga ug niplete og P30.

Siya wa maproblema sa iyang pagkaon sanglit gisuhulan man siya sa mga tindera og isda sa pag-alsa sa ilang mga tinda ug gihatagan usab siya og pagkaon ug ukay-ukay nga sinina.

Si Fernando nidugang nga katulo o kaupat na ka higa­yon nga mobiya lang sa balay si Lito nga dili mananghid nila.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Septembre 01, 2015.

Kagahapon, sa alas 10 sa buntag, gipalubong nila ang lawas sa publikong sam-ang sa Barangay Bolinawan.

Sa wala pa malubong, duna sila’y mga kaila nitambag nga dili idayon ang paglubong tungod kay dili kini ang ilang anak.

Dunay nag-ingon nila nga dakong buhi si Lito ug nakit-an kini sa merkado publiko sa Barangay Poblacion, silingang lungsod sa Sibonga.

Human malubong ug nanguli na ang mga tawo nga nanghatod, ang magtiayon nilahos sa Sibonga pagka-udto ug didto nakompirmar nila nga buhi diay ang ilang anak.

Ilang nakit-an si Lito nga naglingkod sa tindahan sa isdaan sa merkado ug gisangpit dayon ni Fernando og “Sos, Dong nia ra man diay ka. Nagtuo man mi og patay na ka, naglubong pa mi nimo ganina.”

“Mura jud kog galutaw sa hangin human ko kakita niya. Naa ra diay siya. Nakaingon ko salamat Ginuo, buhi diay siya,” sugilon ni Alona sa pagkakita sa anak.

Matod ni Fernando ang taga punerarya nipasabot niya nga momubo ang usa ka tawo kon moagi na og storage sa morgue.

Gipakita usab sila sa kaki nga short nga gisul-ob sa namatay nga susama og hitsura sa purol nga gisul-ob sa ilang anak dihang nibiya sa ilaha.

“Mao tong nakaingon ko siya gyud ang akong anak,” dason sa amahan.

Matod niya dili na maklaro ang dagway sa namatay tungod kay nagkadugta na ang lawas niini nga giputos og plastik.

Ila unta ipa-autopsy ang lawas pagtino kon unsay namatyan niini, apan wa sila’y ikabayad sa punerarya, hinungdan nga wa madayon.

Ni-down sila og P2,000 alang sa serbisyo sa punerarya diin gihaya og usa ka gabii ang lawas.

Niadtong Biyernes, ang bana sa igsuon ni Alona nipahibawo sa inahan ni Lito nga dunay nakaplagan nga lawas sa usa ka lalake nga patay na nga gituohang gi-salvage ug gihug sa bung-aw sa Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Can-asujan, sa samang siyudad.

Si Fernando gitawgan dayon sa iyang asawa ug gipahibawo nga dunay nakit-an nga lawas ug ilang kining susihon.

Pagka Sabado, niadto sila sa St. Francis sa Carcar diin gidala ang lawas.

“Gikutoban ko nga ako gyud to siyang anak kay pare-pareho man og pamarog niya (Lito),” asoy sa inahan sa Sun.Star Superbalita kagahapon.

Apan ang iyang bana nga si Fernando nagduda nga dili kini ang ilang anak tungod kay base sa iyang nakit-an, mas mubo kini kon itandi sa gitas-on ni Lito.

Nagsul-ob usab kini og mga punseras sa duha ka mga tiil.

Ni SHEILA C. GRAVINEZ


LAWAS sa usa ka lalake nga gituohang iya sa anak nga na-missing ang nasaypan pagpalubong sa mga ginikanan, apan dakong buhi diay ang menor-de-edad nga anak.

Ang mga limos nga nadawat sa pamilya gipang-uli ngadto sa mga naghatag niini.

Apil na niini, ang P5,000 nga limos ni Padre Ver Pedrano, ang kura paroko sa parokya ni San Roque sa Carcar.

Way kabutangan sa kalipay sa mga ginikanan nga sila si Fernando ug Alona Librea dihang nakit-an nga buhi pa ang ilang anak nga si Angelito nga una nilang gituohan nga gipatay ug gihulog sa usa ka bung-aw sa dakbayan sa Carcar.

Si Angelito alyas Lito, halos duha ka buwan na nga gipangita sa iyang mga ginikanan human kini nibiya sa ilang balay sa Riverside Barangay Perrelos, Carcar niadtong Hulyo 12 nga wala mananghid.

Siya usa ka “special child.”

An Indian sadhu or holy man looks on as he sits near the banks of the Godavari River during the Kumbh Mela festival in Nasik, India, August 30, 2015. Kumbh Mela, or the Kumbh Festival, is one of the biggest festivals in India, celebrated after twelve years in Nasik, during which Sadhus perform several rituals. (EPA/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI)

Amilbangsa later traveled across Asia to study dance forms similar to Pangalay and then published a book in 1983 containing the first written dance instructions.

Joy Wadi, an ethnic Tausug civil engineer who has been studying Pangalay with her daughter at Amilbangsa's home studio, said she is happy that the dance is helping her home province of Sulu become known for something other than bloody conflict.

Predominantly Muslim Sulu is a base of al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf bandits notorious for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.

"When people see a Muslim or a Tausug, only terrorism and conflict come to mind," Wadi said in an interview. "But no, we're a good people with a very rich cultural heritage." (AP)

She was fascinated that the dance style is believed to have spread from India to the southern Philippines ahead of the arrival of Islam and Christianity centuries ago. She said classic dance forms similar to Pangalay are still found in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Pangalay, originally a Sanskrit word meaning "temple dancing," means "gift offering" among Sulu villagers in the Philippines. It involves the peaceful swaying of the arms, hands and fingers in gestures resembling the movement of waves or animals. One version mimics a bird gliding as it swoops down to catch a fish at sea.

After being passed from one generation to another in Sulu and in nearby Tawi-Tawi province without any written guides, many of the original gestures started to be forgotten. Rural folk lost interest with the influx of modern entertainment.

In 1969, Amilbangsa began researching Pangalay, interviewing elderly villagers to codify the gestures, often by watching her own shadow on a wall as she danced in a candlelit room, according to Nanette Matilac, a Pangalay dancer and researcher.

Her years of research coincided with the flaring of a Muslim separatist rebellion in the south and the declaration of martial rule in the country by strongman Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s. Public assemblies were banned at a time when she had to meet and transport groups of villagers to promote the dance.

Amilbangsa, 71, was one of the winners Monday, August 31, of the Ramon Magsaysay award, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, for "her single-minded crusade in preserving the endangered artistic heritage of the southern Philippines."

The other winners were Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who exposed government corruption in India; Anshu Gupta, whose Indian volunteer group provides clothing to the poor and makes inexpensive sanitary pads for women; Kommaly Chanthavong, who helped revive Laos' ancient art of silk weaving and created livelihoods for poor villagers; and Kyaw Thu, a popular Myanmar actor whose group provides free funeral services for the poor.

The awardees each received a gold medallion and a $30,000 prize.

Amilbangsa, the daughter of a Catholic political family in Marikina City, married a Muslim schoolmate from a prominent clan and moved to southern Sulu province, where she first saw and became smitten by Pangalay at a wedding in 1969 on Jolo island.

A sister-in-law wondered why she was interested in an ethnic dance associated with rural folk but Amilbangsa, who loved culture and the arts, had made up her mind.

"I thought that this was so beautiful, it's so different," she said.

Monday, August 31, 2015



MANILA. President Benigno Aquino III (left) presents the Ramon Magsaysay award to Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa of the Philippines in a ceremony Monday, August 31, 2015, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. (AP)


MANILA -- Amid the chimes of gongs, Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa teaches a group of women and children the mystical moves of a centuries-old dance form she has struggled to save from oblivion in the Philippines' restive south.

Her dream is that the ethnic dance called Pangalay will continue as a living tradition, hopefully helping heal divisions in the poor Southeast Asian nation, instead of ending up like a decorative museum piece.

"We have to think of a national symbol that can unite all of us," Amilbangsa said in a recent interview.