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and in all shapes and sizes...

- The Grin

The Scream
Artist: Edvard Munch
Year: 1893
Type: Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard
Dimensions: 91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in × 28.9 in)
Location: National Gallery, Oslo

Pwede pud paresan og cat candle holder nga sama aning Egyptian ang motif...

Samples of simple cat candles for Ms. Isle...

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 02:02:34 PM
question:  is the title of this thread the title of the article, or is it botoy's own turn of phrase?

Botoy is way too modest to even think of it... 

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 02:02:34 PM
he just hates the feel of clothes on his skin.  it makes me wonder why he does not hate the feel of the cover on his little member or the hat on his head. 

Possible answers:

He hates the feel of the cover on his little member but he's old enough to understand the importance of compromise.
He doesn't mind the hat on his head because he has a full crop of hair.

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 01:56:06 PM
someone's reading my thoughts...

As the tsunami crosses the deep ocean, its length from crest to crest may be a hundred miles or more, and its height from crest to trough will only be a few feet or less. They can not be felt aboard ships nor can they be seen from the air in the open ocean. In the deepest oceans, the waves will reach speeds exceeding 600 miles per hour (970 km/hr). When the tsunami enters the shoaling water of coastlines in its path, the velocity of its waves diminishes and the wave height increases. It is in these shallow waters that a large tsunami can crest to heights exceeding 100 feet (30 m) and strike with devastating force.

More at: http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/physics.htm

One bike enthusiast...

Are you a bike enthusiast? What do you love most about biking?

Worse things have happened to this planet and its inhabitants...

Hmm. Even if he sings his songs backwards?

I guess he's too proud of his organ to even consider a tattoo...

U.S. shows growing alarm over Japan nuclear crisis
By Jeff Mason and Tom Doggett Jeff Mason And Tom Doggett â€" 1 hr 6 mins ago



Official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the
evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in
Koriyama March 13, 2011. Photo: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon


WASHINGTON (Reuters) â€" The United States showed increasing alarm about Japan's nuclear crisis on Wednesday and urged its citizens to stay clear of an earthquake-crippled power plant, going further in its warnings than Japan itself.

The State Department said the United States has chartered aircraft to help Americans leave Japan and had authorized the voluntary departure of family members of diplomatic staff in Tokyo, Nagoya and Yokohama -- about 600 people.

"The State Department strongly urges U.S. citizens to defer travel to Japan at this time and those in Japan should consider departing," it said.

As operators of the Fukushima plant tried to douse overheating reactors, U.S. officials warned about the risks of getting anywhere near the area and relied on their own officials for details about the danger.

"The situation has deteriorated in the days since the tsunami and ... the situation has grown at times worse with potential greater damage and fallout from the reactor," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

U.S. officials took pains not to criticize the Japanese government, which has shown signs of being overwhelmed by the crisis that began after last Friday's devastating 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

But Washington's actions indicated a divide with the Japanese about the perilousness of the situation.

U.S. President Barack Obama told Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in a telephone call that the United States will do all it can to help Japan recover, the White House said.

"The president briefed Prime Minister Kan on the additional support being provided by the U.S., including specialized military assets with expertise in nuclear response and consequence management," it said in a statement.

The State Department recommended that U.S. citizens within 50 miles of the plant leave the area or stay indoors.

Japan's government has asked people living within 12 miles to evacuate and those between 12 miles and 18 miles to stay indoors.


More at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/sc_nm/us_nuclear_usa

Iron cat...

Here it is...

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 01:06:16 PM
what a great take on the book of books.  thanks for this, botoy. 

Thanks, too. Here's another nice point...

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 17, 2011, 11:52:00 AM
4. If you're reading the Bible in English, you're reading a translation. With the exception of a small minority of Aramaic texts, the books of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible were all written in Hebrew. The books of the New Testament were written in Greek. Every translation is by nature interpretation. If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know that it's impossible to convert exactly and for all time the literature or speech of any given language into another. A translator has to make choices. There are often several ways to render the original text, and changes in English affect the meaning we read as well.

In the mid-1990s, his daughter Celia passed away from a heart ailment. And so here in town, the Winers created a memorial garden in honor of the light of their life. Today, it thrives, and a painting of Celia hangs in the bookstore.

The town pitched in to help the pair grieve.

But the town also took issue with Winer's nakedness.

"They tried to pass an ordinance just because of me," Winer said, "but the ACLU got involved and stopped it. Then I think everyone started to realize I was good for business, so they sort of embraced me. Not literally. But you get what I mean."

Throughout any given day, travelers from all over the world stop in to shop for books and have their photo taken with Winer, who's more than happy to oblige.

Suddenly in January, the "Sweet Pie" act became aroused once more.

"Salisbury Beach brought me back for a festival," Winer explained. "I hadn't played for 20 years, so I practiced for about 200 hours and it paid off. More than 1,000 people turned out. They sang along, they knew the jokes. They remembered."

Sponsored LinksSomething else happened once he got home. Some customers got to talking with Winer and told him they were on their way to visit their friend -- Jay Leno. Winer gave them a note to deliver to his old pal and the next day, the phone rang.

"It was Jay," Winer said, smiling. "We reminisced for a while and then he told me that when I'm ready, since I'm playing again, that he wants to have me on 'The Tonight Show.' I don't have his number, but I want Jay to know right now -- I've been playing some local shows here in Quartzsite and I'm ready. I'm ready, Jay, so if you're reading this article, let's make a plan."

Back at the counter, ringing up some maps, travel books and DVDs a customer is buying, Winer smiles to himself. "Whatever happens next, you've just got to laugh at your a--."


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Back in the 1970s, he earned a bit of underground fame back East, performing as "Sweet Pie -- the Naked Boogie-Woogie Piano Player." Sharing the circuit with an up-and-coming comic named Jay Leno, Winer performed his music/comedy review for more than 1.5 million people over the years at clubs, saloons and underground parties.

Being a lifelong nudist, he just thought he'd incorporate his lifestyle into the act, and things took off. "For me, nudism isn't some thing that I do to meet people or treat like some fad. I genuinely don't like the feel of clothes against my body. Never did. So it was a natural way for me to perform."

As for the boogie-woogie piano playing, Winer was inspired early in life.

"I saw Fats Domino in Massachusetts when I was 11 years old," Winer told AOL News. "It changed my life. I got his autograph and decided that night I was going to become a piano thumper. Hey, Jerry Lee Lewis had already proved white people could do this, so I saw nothing in my way."

One place in particular hosted Sweet Pie more than any other. "Salisbury Beach on the New England coast," Winer sighed wistfully. "I played there 90 nights a summer for four years in a row -- back in the 1970s I was the icon act on the beach."

But after he and his wife had a little girl who wanted a more "normal" life, the Winers settled down in the speck of a town called Quartzsite. They opened a bookstore. And then tragedy struck.

by Chris Epting
Mar 16, 2011 â€" 6:25 PM





On a dusty stretch of I-10 in Arizona, near the California border, sits the tiny town of Quartzsite. It's a mecca for RV snowbirds along with gem and mineral rock hounders.

But there's another attraction along the main strip that's fascinated folks for more than 20 years: the Reader's Oasis bookstore. Why is it so popular? Well, it might be the thousands of rare, interesting, well-priced books and magazines crammed into every bit of spare space.

Then again, it might be the bookseller himself, a rail-thin, leather-tanned storyteller named Paul Winer.

Famed naked bookstore owner and boogie-woogie piano player Paul Winer gives a thumbs-up at his shop in Quartzsite, Ariz.If you happen to wander into the shop and meet Winer, don't be shocked -- and don't be shy. You see, save for a little, strategically placed pouch just below his midsection, Winer tends to his business in the altogether -- as buck naked as the day he was born 67 years ago.

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 17, 2011, 11:52:00 AM
2. Not everyone who believes in it has the same Bible. There are actually different bibles, though they all started with Jews (but before Judaism, per se). The Christian bible includes and depends upon the Jewish bible -- the Protestant Christian Old Testament is composed of the same books as the Jewish Hebrew Bible, arranged in a different order; and non-Protestant Christians include a few more books and parts of books (which also originated in Jewish circles) in their Old Testaments. The books of the Christian New Testament reflect the process of Jesus' followers gradually distinguishing themselves from his religion, Judaism.

A fine point...

Ini gid siguro ang piborit nga sini mo haw...

by Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.
Author, 'Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time'
Posted: March 15, 2011 11:00 PM



The Bible is a peculiar book, and it's hard to get straight information about it. If you're one of those people with a nagging feeling that you should know more about the Bible than you do -- or even if you can recite chapter and verse (but don't know that those chapters and verses come from a 13th century archbishop of Canterbury and a 16th century Parisian, respectively) -- then these five basic things will catapult you to a new level of biblical literacy. Though I might be handing you clunky corrective eyewear instead of sexy kitten glasses, I promise that they will change the way you look at the Good Book, clarifying and focusing your understanding.

1. Every Bible is actually a collection of books. The word itself means something like "little library." Many of the Bible's books developed over a long period of time and include the input of a lot of people (ancient Israelites, Babylonian Jews and Greek pastors, to name a few), reflecting particular places (urban Jerusalem, the northern Galilee, rural Judah and ancient Persia, for example) and times (spanning as much as 1,000 years for the Old Testament and a couple of centuries for the New Testament). Plus, the collection as a whole developed over centuries. This helps to explain the tremendous variety of theological perspectives, literary style, and sometimes perplexing preoccupations (which animal parts go to which parties in which categories of sacrifices, e.g.), as well as why some texts disagree with others.

2. Not everyone who believes in it has the same Bible. There are actually different bibles, though they all started with Jews (but before Judaism, per se). The Christian bible includes and depends upon the Jewish bible -- the Protestant Christian Old Testament is composed of the same books as the Jewish Hebrew Bible, arranged in a different order; and non-Protestant Christians include a few more books and parts of books (which also originated in Jewish circles) in their Old Testaments. The books of the Christian New Testament reflect the process of Jesus' followers gradually distinguishing themselves from his religion, Judaism.

3. The Bible came after the literature it comprises. In other words, the material that became biblical wasn't written in order to be part of a Bible. This helps to explain the existence of a book of erotic love poetry (Song of Songs), one that doesn't mention God (Esther), another of intimate personal correspondence (Paul's letter to Philemon) and maybe why none of it was written by Jesus. The biblical texts are not disinterested reporting of objective facts but come from people of faith informed by particular beliefs.

4. If you're reading the Bible in English, you're reading a translation. With the exception of a small minority of Aramaic texts, the books of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible were all written in Hebrew. The books of the New Testament were written in Greek. Every translation is by nature interpretation. If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know that it's impossible to convert exactly and for all time the literature or speech of any given language into another. A translator has to make choices. There are often several ways to render the original text, and changes in English affect the meaning we read as well.

5. Finally, this information about the Bible is compatible with belief in it. A person can simultaneously accept these truths about the Bible and the Bible as the Word of God. Doing so may require recalibrating assumptions, though, to allow for the possibility that God patiently works through people and time, enjoys a good debate and prefers inviting conversation over issuing absolutes. (Even the Ten Commandments, which would seem to be as absolute as anything, show up in two places in the Bible -- and with some differences.)

The Bible's endurance is astonishing. It continues to instruct and to inspire (in all sorts of interpretations and ways) the millions of people for whom it is their sacred and authoritative text. And it continues to ignite the imagination and enrich the speech, literature and art of people outside of the biblical faiths, too. Knowing the few bits of information provided here, as plain and pedantic as they may seem, makes it possible to make sense of the Bible -- its uses and abuses -- for yourself. It's like having the kind of friend who you know will keep you straight, surprise and delight you and encourage you to keep becoming exactly you. This information is more than a starting point. It's also a companion along the way, enabling new insights, providing correctives, and allowing space for the dynamism of your own ideas and learning.


Kristin Swenson is the author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time (Harper, 2010; Harper Perennial, 2011) now available in paperback! She is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Information distribution tools are both democratizing and potentially desensitizing a world where a majority of the human population now lives in cities, ever more young people have online access and even poor villagers in developing nations are as likely to have an image recording cell phone as a transistor radio.

The ability of diplomats and governments to respond to fast breaking images and first-person accounts of catastrophes that seem to be proliferating, in part because we can more easily see them, is both raising unrealistic expectations -- effective global disaster response in fewer than 72 hours for example-- while also putting pressure on major institutions and agencies to begin acting in ways that reflect the growing interdependence, vulnerabilities and shared moral universe of an increasingly crowded but also networked world.

Bill Clinton says the greatest regret of his presidency is not having intervened to stop the Rwanda genocide of 1994. One has to wonder if the world might have taken decisive action before 800,000 people were killed in just over three months had Rwandans had access to some of today's technologies including cellphone cameras and Twitter and Facebook accounts?

For Japanese victims awaiting rescue or Libyan rebels in a desperate struggle for freedom the answer to questions like that one may represent the difference between life and death.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Last weekend, some in the Hollywood press wondered if the real-time disaster and tragedy in Japan will make people more reluctant to see The Battle of Los Angeles, a gritty new sci-fi film about aliens destroying that city in ways that might be too reminiscent of what's just happened in Japan and too much a reminder of what could happen to Los Angeles given that it sits atop a major earthquake fault line that created real human havoc as recently as 1994.

As a former war correspondent and believer in bottom-up democracy I've found myself almost addicted to watching the popular social-media linked uprisings of the Arab masses along with Libya's rebellion turned to war. CNN's Anderson Cooper got it right when he suggested that the natural tragedy in Japan may be a godsend for oil despot Muammar Gaddafi who can expect reduced media and online scrutiny of the unnatural disaster he's created with his ongoing repression and civilian massacres.

Of course people working in aid and development programs have long been aware of what they call the 'CNN effect' (that could also now be labeled the 'Facebook effect'). The tragedies most covered are likely to get the most aid and response, separate from any actual needs assessments. Just compare the global response to what's happening today in Japan and Libya to last year's earthquake in rural Pakistan or the ongoing killings and famines that have taken over two million lives in eastern Congo, one of those regions largely outside the sphere of the still expanding global information network.

by David Helvarg
President, Blue Frontier Campaign
Posted: March 16, 2011 10:06 AM


It may be too soon to know if the expanding global access to electronic media both new and old, from video cell-phones and Facebook to Al-Jazera and CNN, is making the world more intimate or more alienated (remember "Compassion Fatigue"). What is clear is it's collapsing the lines between reality and science fiction, between mass movements and mass media.

At the beginning of the new century many people watching images of the World Trade towers exploding and then collapsing after hijacked jetliners crashed into them were reminded of the science fiction movie Independence Day.

The Godzilla films first produced in Japan in the 1950s and 60s, with a giant reptile product of radiation stomping on its cities and using death beams from its eyes, was seen by later critics as an anxiety response to the nuclear bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Cold War threat of an even greater nuclear conflagration. Nonetheless post-war Japan opted for an energy path that included use of "the peaceful atom," of commercial nuclear power. Now the whole world anxiously watches as an explosion rocks one of several Japanese nuclear plants that are in trouble as a result of that nation's massive earthquake and tsunami.

Quote from: islander on March 15, 2011, 11:15:40 PM
i miss the old face, to be honest.  it seems like a close confidante of mine has suddenly become a stranger.

The sentimentalist speaks...

He he... 

Duct Tape by Any Other Name (is just as sticky)
As a public service to Duct Tape Novices and Pros alike, here is a short list to acquaint you with some other names given to “The Ultimate Power Tool.”

Gaff Tape (also Gaffer’s Tape): This special grade of duct tape (often colored black) was developed by the entertainment industry to hold lighting equipment and cables in place and has a dull finish so that it won’t reflect lights. Gaff Tape also has a specially formulated, less tacky adhesive that won’t leave a residue when it is removed.
Spike Tape: The thin rolls (1/2 inch wide) of many colors used in theatres to stick on the stage so actors can find their mark or stagehands know where to set the scenery. It is usually the matte finish gaff tape type.
Rock and Roll Tape: Whether they can afford gaff tape or just good old black duct tape, underappreciated rock and roll roadies keep the music industry alive thanks to their love of the America’s favorite adhesive.
100 MPH Tape: A name recognizable, no doubt, to U.S. Army Veterans.
200 MPH TAPE: Pit crews across the nation’s auto-racing circuit know that duct tape holds even when you’re going over 200 M.P.H. The nickname was so common, “Duck” brand duct tape manufacturer Manco has even trademarked it!
1,000 M.P.H. tape: The U.S. Navy uses duct tape to repair radomes. A Radome is the dome that fits over a radar antenna. On an airplane, that's usually the nose cone. It has to be transparent to the radar waves. (Any repairs must be radar-transparent, too on fighter aircraft.) Since the planes fly so darn fast, they call it “thousand mile an hour” tape.
Missile Tape: The Aerospace industry, according to a Martin Marietta worker, used a green duct tape that they secured and routed wiring and cables on test missiles. They called this green duct tape "missile tape".
1,000 Mile tape: Norman Vaughn, arctic explorer for whom Antarctica’s Mount Vaughn was named, puts it on his dog sled runners to prevent ice build-up and says it lasts 1,000 miles. He is also the one who recommends sleeping with the tape to keep the adhesive pliable in cold climates.
Canoeists’ Companion: Very few canoeists would be caught without a roll of duct tape. Why? Hit a rock, rip open the hull, you’re done canoeing unless you have duct tape along!
Wisconsin Pewter on a Roll: Any Packer fan will tell you what’s really keeping that cheese on their heads: duct tape.
Minnesota (or, insert your own rust-inducing state here) Chrome: In the land of lakes, snow, road salt, and rusty cars, they use duct tape a lot more often than they visit the auto body shop.
Hikers’ Helper: Along with a good sleeping bag, a Swiss Army knife, and dry matches, duct tape makes sure outdoors enthusiasts are prepared for anything.
Jesus Tape: In Finland and Sweden, they refer to duct tape as “Jesus Tape.” They also refer to it as Gaffer's tape (or "roudarin teippi" in Finnish).
Plastic Surgeon on Roll: Pulls skin tight, lifts and separatesâ€"we all look better with a little bit of duct tape.
First Aid Kit on a Roll: A great emergency substitute for splints, bandages, tourniquets, sutures, etc.


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Today, Duck® brand Tape is manufactured by ShurTech. After thoroughly familiarizing ourselves with the hundreds of duct tapes on the market, we have found Duck® brand Tape to be the most consistent in quality. And, we are delighted with the large array of colors that they manufacture (including camo tape and new “X-Treme Tape” which comes in hot day-glo colors).

Jim and I do lots of appearances promoting Duck® brand Tape and do so without reservation. Therefore, we go by both The Duct Tape Guys, and The Duck Tape Guys. And, we use the words Duck and Duct interchangeably throughout our web site.

So, whether you call it Duct Tape or Duck Tape... you are still using the “Ultimate Power Tool” in our estimation.

A lot of you have been asking about this Duct vs. Duck thing we’ve got going... here is an explanation from Jim and Tim, the Duct/k Tape Guys:

Is it Duct or Duck? We don’t want you to be confused, so we will explain. The first name for Duct Tape was DUCK. During World War II the U.S. Military needed a waterproof tape to keep the moisture out of ammunition cases. So, they enlisted the Johnson and Johnson Permacel Division to manufacture the tape. Because it was waterproof, everyone referred to it as “duck” tape (like water off a duck’s back). Military personnel discovered that the tape was good for lots more than keeping out water. They used it for Jeep repair, fixing stuff on their guns, strapping equipment to their clothing... the list is endless.

After the War, the housing industry was booming and someone discovered that the tape was great for joining the heating and air conditioning duct work. So, the color was changed from army green to the silvery color we are familiar with today and people started to refer to it as “duct tape*.” Therefore, either name is appropriate.

Quote from: cujo on March 17, 2011, 09:19:41 AM
Neither am I good in both dialect Mr. Hubag.I don't even know when to used the ho or po in Tagalog {I do understand 95% if someone talk to me in Tagalog}.I just start learning Ilonggo thru BolBuhol that is IF he is using proper Ilonggo...

I too can get most of the sense of conversational Tagalog, you know, the casual exchange. As for my Ilonggo, it's neither Ilonggo Iloilo nor Ilonggo Bacolod. It's Ilonggo BolBuhol...

Kapila na tingali niya ni buhata, unya way dautang nahitabo sauna...

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 15, 2011, 04:03:04 PM
Nasayran nga nagmaneho ang biktima sa iyang motorsiklo ug pauli na niadtong tungora dihang pagliko sa dalan natabo ang usa ka motorela nga miresulta sa pagsungag.

Sa kakusog sa pagkabangga ug kakusog sa pagpadagan sa biktima nilagpot kini ug nabunal ngadto sa motorela. Nibanda pa ang biktima una nabunal pag-usab sa semento.

Kaluoy diay kay nabandabanda man...

Pulis pa jud...

Pwede pug sungsongan og buhi nga danggit ang tutonlan...

Dia pay lain, mas bug-at pa...

Aw, mao ba? Abi nakog ang tag-iya maoy peacock... 

People skip breakfast because they wake up late because they sleep late because they eat a heavy dinner because they work hard in the afternoon because they are unproductive in the morning because they skip breakfast.

Quote from: BolBuhol on March 16, 2011, 04:49:03 PM
waay pang bakal sang brikpas indi gid nalimtan

Hmm. ang pangbakal napildi sang hangtak?

It will perhaps take a few more millenia for a fundamental change to take place, if at all.

Hmm, basin nakakapyot sa bagon ang kabayo...

The cutest piglet in the world...

He he... 

Quote from: Vistabel on March 16, 2011, 03:31:45 PM
malagmit manjud na ba, kong adto sa Gf baskog ug formang-forma then pagkatapos maka home sa Gf run dayon  pa-uli sa orig na home nga parang pildero'ng sabongero naghoyhoy ang abaga hahaha 

Nahutdan na diay sa battery kon maohon...

Quote from: islander on March 16, 2011, 02:54:24 PM
sureness ko nga kadaghan ni siya maka-home run, flying segs.  human ug drama, run to the home dayon kay nagtulo ang sip-on ug ningkulo ang tiyan, hahaha!

Basta mitulo na, pwede na mopauli...

Quote from: chicogon on March 17, 2011, 04:42:47 AM
Suggestion: Talagsaong Diwalwal Lagoon & Resort 

Maayo untag ipa-contest ang logo sa resort kay moapil ko. Naa koy ideya...

Quote from: Vistabel on March 16, 2011, 11:52:02 PM
ang interior part maoy nindot niani, also that building furnished with European furnitures and appliances also the lighting & plumbing fixtures from Europe

Hmm. Naa ba kahay bidet ilang toilets...

Quote from: Deepwater on March 16, 2011, 11:39:30 PM


front view sa peacock garden, Baclayon

Nice. Asa kaha dapit ang peacock diri...

Hmm, ingon diay ani ang hitsura sa almo?

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 08:39:20 AM
puwede sad "manbo", in keeping with rambo.  unsa kaha no kun naay genetic mutation pod nga ingon ani ang tawo, unya ang pikas suwang ug ulo ray tuboan ug bungot ug buhok, machong ibang-iba gyod, wowee.  lupig pay alien ni manoy...

Ajaw pud palabii, Ms. Isle, it's bad enough as it is with humans now...

Tue Mar 15, 3:24 pm ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) â€" More than 10,000 pounds of Lean Cuisine frozen spaghetti and meatball dishes have been recalled because of the possible presence of foreign materials, the Department of Agriculture said late on Monday.

The health risk associated with this recall is low, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service explained. If the product is consumed, there is only a remote probability of adverse health consequences.

Nestle Prepared Foods received complaints from consumers in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, that consumers had found hard plastic in the frozen meals, the FSIS said.

The products were sold east of the Rocky Mountains in 9.5 ounce units entitled "Lean Cuisine Simple Favorites, Spaghetti with Meatballs" and have the establishment number "EST 7991."

They bear a November 2011 "best before" date on the side of the package.


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Either nasina kay nindot og tingog, or nabwisit sa kayabag...

Quote from: statesville on March 17, 2011, 01:16:22 AM
sayop ang title nga naghikog imbis naghuramentado kaha,
walay tinguha maghikog kay bukton man ang gitigbas ug dili iyang tiyan 

Sakto tuod. Sa iyang gibuhat, maingon nga dili gustong maghikog. Gustong mapungkol tingali...

Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on March 17, 2011, 08:14:07 AM
Calling Islander! Please, donate your homemade candles...

Bwahaha! Sa akong paminaw negosyohon ni ni Ms. Isle...

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 08:10:00 AM
it would be easier to make a candle in hubag's shape, in different positions, honest.  ang pabilo siyempre...

Bwahaha! Nice try. My shape is round, so I don't know what different positions you can come up with... 

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 12:26:49 AM
til de trot... imoha nang puwa sa kinatas-an no?  kanang bayolet kang bugsay.  ka-cute gyod ninyo uy, ummmm >> (kusi sa bugan).

Way specific tag-iya ning mga bakyaa. Common ownership ni...

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 12:22:57 AM
gibiling?  hambal ni singdirila imon ginailog human niya pukpuka imon ulo sang left syu niya nga bakya mo neneng luma at kupas na.

Ang delikado kon giilog kay gustong siyay mosul-ob...

Quote from: cujo on March 17, 2011, 05:25:27 AM
And...oxymorons in Tagalog ?

Would you know some, Ms. Cujo? My Tagalog is just as bad as my Ilonggo...

Bwahaha! 

The line that separates an object from its surroundings--THAT establishes the context without which the text loses its significance.

Quote from: islander on March 17, 2011, 12:18:55 AM
i'm gonna train them to become vegetarians... the carrots in a basket design will be a good start. 

Hmm. Maybe you can make candles in the shape of cats, in different positions.  Pwede ka magsugod og iring gatuwad unya siyempre ang pabilo naas lubot...

Ang tawag ani sa Binisaya, "pabnok"...

Pwede pud ni para abseiling...

Basin malversation diay ni...

Bitaw no? Sa ilang edad, malagmit naa na ni silay teenagers nga mga anak...

Pero kining "himabaw", kahibalo ka ani, Ms. States...

Quote from: Deepwater on March 17, 2011, 02:13:56 AM
alien (plural aliens)

--A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.... YES
--A foreigner residing in a country... YES  
--Any life form of extraterrestrial (extraterrestrial (plural extraterrestrials)---A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet)origin...DOUBTFUL                       

Alien...YES
Aliens...YES
Alien 3...YES
Alien Resurrection...YES

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 10, 2011, 02:16:54 PM
Do you beleive you can be with someone, say nothing and walk away feeling like you have had the best conversation in your life?

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together. â€"Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Ron Gagalac, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 03/17/2011 1:19 AM | Updated as of 03/17/2011 1:19 AM


MANILA, Philippines â€" A 46-man Filipino search-and-rescue team is all set to leave Friday for Japan to help in the rescue efforts along the devastated towns of Fukushima, Iwate, and Sendai.

They came from the most efficient rescue units in the country from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Bureau of Fire Protection, the Makati Rescuem and Subic Bay Rescue Squad.

In a briefing held Wednesday at the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) warned the contingent that they may be contaminated with radioactive material.

Kristine Romallosa of the PNRI Radiation Protection Services said, "there is a possibility pagpunta niyo doon ma-contaminate kayo, iyung kamay niyo magkakaroon ng radioactive material, pwede niyo ma-ingest iyun."

Some rescue members became apprehensive because of the threat.

"Hindi maalis yung takot eh lalo nat hindi naming alam kung ano ang talagang sitwasyon doon," said SBMA Rescue Squad member Eliseo Yco.

Another SBMA squad member, Arnel Tolero, thought of his family when asked about the possibility of him being contaminated with radioactive material.

"Simula naman na nag-rescue ako sinabi ko naman sa kanila na maging handa sila sa anumang mangyayari," he said.

Lt. Col. Randy Fajilagutan, meanwhile, felt it would be an honor to represent the country. "Pinag-usapan ito para sa bayan..nakasalalay dito ang bandila natin."

To protect the rescue unit members, a protective suit donated by Canada was introduced in the briefing.

The C4 Saratoga Hammer Suit, a Level B radiation suit, comes with a purifying respirator and a C4 canister that will filter the air containing radioactive material.

They will also be equipped with a dosage meter and a contamination meter that will alert them about the radiation level in their surroundings and their bodies.

Aside from radiation, food and water will also be a problem during their operations, especially since the cities they will be going into lacking resources after being devastated by the strong earthquake and tsunami.

NDRRMC chief Benito Ramos said the the team will bring along food and other basic necessities that will last for at least 20 days.

The team is expected to be in Japan for up to 2 weeks.

The remaining concern right now is the landing area for the C-130 aircraft that will transport the team.

As of Wednesday night, no clear flight path has been established yet by the Philippine Air Force since it has no formal information from the governments of either Japan or the Philippines on where it will be allowed to land.

The team is also concerned about the amount of fuel they would need since there is a high possibility that aviation fuel would not be available in the area.


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Quote from: chicogon on March 17, 2011, 05:05:48 AM


Adam at Eve 

In the pink of passion indeed...

Quote from: chicogon on March 17, 2011, 04:57:28 AM

Kanay aping ug ilong...

Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on March 17, 2011, 03:17:20 AM
Usahay, were not ourselves 

Ourselves means much more than myself and yourself and themselves put together.

â€" Wed Mar 16, 1:07 pm ET


BRUSSELS (AFP) â€" The European Union is urging member states to check Japanese food imports for radioactivity following the country's nuclear crisis, a European Commission spokesman said Wednesday.

"A recommendation was issued via the rapid alert system for food and animal feed," which is a food safety European information exchange system, said the European Commission spokesman for health issues, Frederic Vincent.

The advice, which was issued Tuesday, requires governments that conduct controls to inform the 27-nation EU if the level of radiation exceeds authorised levels.

The controls apply to a small quantity of products, Vincent said, noting that the EU imported 9,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetables from Japan in 2010. The EU also imports a small quantify of fish, he said.

Fears of a full-blown nuclear catastrophe have grown as Japan struggles to contain a crisis at the Fukushima No.1 power plant, which has been hit by a series of explosions after Friday's earthquake knocked out reactor cooling systems.

European energy commissioner Guenther Commission voiced concerns that the situation could worsen, warning it was "effectively out of control."

"We are very much concerned and deeply distressed at the pictures we are seeing from Japan, and we are not yet at the end of this sequence of tragic and far-reaching disastrous events," Oettinger said.

"In the coming hours there could be further catastrophic events which could pose a threat to the lives of people on the island," he told a European Parliament committee.

The situation, he added, "is in the hands of God".


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â€" 18 mins ago


NEW YORK â€" Financial markets were jolted for a third day Wednesday by fears that a partial meltdown may have occurred at a nuclear plant in Japan. Stocks fell heavily and erased nearly all of their gains for the year.

Stocks opened lower then dropped sharply in midmorning trading after the European Union's energy chief was quoted as saying that Japan's nuclear crisis could get worse. Japan's economy, the third-largest in the world after the U.S. and China, accounts for about 10 percent of U.S. exports.

Japan temporarily suspended work at a stricken nuclear plant after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain there. That came a day after Japan's prime minister said four crippled reactors at a nuclear power plant were leaking dangerous amounts of radiation.

Treasury prices jumped, sending yields to their lowest levels this year as investors piled into investments seen as being more stable. One measure of market volatility jumped 18 percent, a sign that investors expect more wild swings in stock prices.

"Right now, investors are moving away from anything that has an element of risk with it because they don't know what's happening in Japan," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management.

The losses in stocks were broad. Each of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average fell, with IBM Corp. and General Electric Co. losing the most. All 10 company groups in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the basis for most U.S. mutual funds, lost ground.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 242.12, or 2 percent, to 11,613.30. It was the worst drop since Aug. 11. The Dow has now lost 3.6 percent over the past three days, its worst three-day loss since last July.

The S&P index fell 24.99, or 1.9 percent, to 1,256.88. The S&P is now down 0.1 percent for the year, having been up as much as 6.8 percent in February. When dividends are included, however, the index has had a total return of 2.4 percent for the year, according to FactSet.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 50.51 or 1.9 percent, to 2,610. It is now down 1.4 percent for the year.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell as low as 3.15 percent, the lowest level this year. In late trading the yield edged up to 3.21 percent.

In the U.S., homebuilders tumbled after the Commerce Department reported that new home construction fell to the second-lowest level on record in February, reflecting weak demand. Homebuilders Lennar Corp. and D.R. Horton Inc. each fell more than 2 percent.

Wholesale prices rose last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the biggest increase in food prices in 36 years. Shares of companies affected by higher food costs fell.


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Ang gunner maoy maestro...

He he, iya na lang untang gi-preserve and shakoy isip reminder for her to be careful...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 10, 2011, 03:40:52 PM
Why do people more commonly skip breakfast than any other meal, considering that this is the time when the stomach is emptiest?

Ignorance?

I against.

Dr. Esteban being a Filipino Catholic--or a Catholic Filipino--with adequate academic credentials, it really should be more than close enough.

Chicken football...

Quote from: BolBuhol on March 16, 2011, 05:00:16 PM
pildi sang duwa, kag daog daog gid sila sang mongolya

Gingtuslok sila sang lapis nga Mongol ya...

Quote from: islander on March 15, 2011, 11:38:46 PM
kinsa kahay nanundog nila?

He he, ang mata ug baba kataw-anan pero ang liog maoy labawng makapahimuot...

Quote from: cujo on March 16, 2011, 05:42:05 AM
Used to when hubby walk by and see me in my computer he barely noticed I'm in TB,now it is a big bold letters and he would say aha TB again.  I like the new makeover...

Aha moments... Priceless...

Quote from: BolBuhol on March 16, 2011, 05:43:25 PM
tinoghong (tinohog na tahong) namit gid tamostamoson

Ang tuhog gid man ang mismong manugtamostamos ya...

WEGENER, ALFRED L.

Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930), the German geologist and meteorologist, proposed the theory of continental drift in his 1915 book, On the Origin of Continents and Oceans. This theory states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. The fossil record overwhelmingly supports and gives credence to the theory of continental drift (and that of plate tectonics). He proposed the existence of the supercontinent Pangaea, and named it (Pangaea means "all the land" in Greek). Wegener froze to death while heading an expedition crossing the Greenland ice cap in 1930.

volcano

A volcano is a place on the Earth's surface (or any other planet's or moon's surface) where molten rock, gases and pyroclastic debris erupt through the earth's crust. Volcanoes vary quite a bit in their structure - some are cracks in the earth's crust where lava erupts, and some are domes, shields, or mountain-like structures with a crater at the summit. Some types of volcanoes include: caldera, cinder cone, hornito, lava dome, maar, mud volcano, shield volcano, spatter cone, and stratovolcano. The word volcano is from Latin; it comes from the ancient Romans god of fire and metalworking, Vulcan.