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Attaboy, bad boy!

Hmm...

Boy, oh boy! This is great!

Para man ni sa hilanat...

Quote from: islander on July 14, 2015, 11:47:34 AM
looks like you can't tell the difference between an alimango and an unggoy.

He he, unggimango na lang kaha, or better, alimunggoy...

Quote from: islander on July 14, 2015, 12:08:21 PM
why ka man pa-french-french dinhi?  klingon unta!

Hoch DIl [loD/be']vam.

Butangi, suya na pood! Bonvolu lasi min libera...

Quote from: islander on July 14, 2015, 12:02:46 PM
soli po.  gilisodlisod man hinoon ug samot sa taas nga eksplanisyon.

hopefully, i hope that my hopes have some basis for my being hopeful, otherwise i would be rendered hopeless.

Hmm, I hopefully hope you wish to express a definite desire and not a general idea, otherwise I would have to say that you're hopelessly hopeless. Or so I hope.

Hmm, all this leads us to an earlier post:

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on September 19, 2009, 09:16:10 PM
Bitaw, no? Think about intermarriages . . . like

Oppus - Tabaco
Olan - Talisic
Cabahug - Lawas
Cabahug - Cubeta
Mag-uyon - Maisug
Mandin - Manding
Bajao - Bandeja
Ampo - Araoarao

http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/whoswho/bol-anon-family-names-and-its-town-of-origin/msg281563/#msg281563

Quote from: islander on July 13, 2015, 10:49:34 PM
sajorn.  para dat.  mas bilib ko sa akong ig-agaw nga kusog mangusi nga tudlo sa tiil gamiton.  lupig pay alimango.

Agoi, suya na pood si Aylandil. Peace, little singkit girl. Mangusi using toes? Unbelieve-baboy. Unsa man, unggoy?

Cool, he he. Pero mas simpol ning amoa...

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 13, 2015, 08:14:47 PM

“I’m a believer in capitalism but it comes in as many flavors as pie, and we have a choice about the kind of capitalist system that we have,” said Mr. Hanauer, now an outspoken proponent of redistributive government policies like a higher minimum wage.

Yet what remains unclear is whether Francis has a clear vision for a systemic alternative to the status quo that he and others criticize. “All these critiques point toward the incoherence of the simple idea of free market economics, but they don’t prescribe a remedy,” said Mr. Johnson, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Francis acknowledged as much, conceding on Wednesday that he had no new “recipe” to quickly change the world. Instead, he spoke about a “process of change” undertaken at the grass-roots level.

“What can be done by those students, those young people, those activists, those missionaries who come to my neighborhood with the hearts full of hopes and dreams but without any real solution for my problems?” he asked. “A lot! They can do a lot.

“You, the lowly, the exploited, the poor and underprivileged, can do, and are doing, a lot. I would even say that the future of humanity is in great measure in your own hands.”

The French economist Thomas Piketty argued last year in a surprising best-seller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” that rising wealth inequality is a natural result of free-market policies, a direct challenge to the conventional view that economic inequalities shrink over time. The controversial implication drawn by Mr. Piketty is that governments should raise taxes on the wealthy.

Mr. Piketty roiled the debate among mainstream economists, yet Francis’ critique is more unnerving to some because he is not reframing inequality and poverty around a new economic theory but instead defining it in moral terms. “Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy,” he said on Wednesday. “It is a moral obligation. For Christians, the responsibility is even greater: It is a commandment.”

Nick Hanauer, a Seattle venture capitalist, said he believed Francis was making a nuanced point about capitalism, embodied by his coinage of a “social mortgage” on accumulated wealth â€" a debt to the society that made its accumulation possible. Mr. Hanauer said that economic elites should embrace the need for change both for moral and pragmatic reasons.

“I wish Francis would focus on positives, on how a free-market economy guided by an ethical framework, and the rule of law, can be a part of the solution for the poor â€" rather than just jumping from the reality of people’s misery to the analysis that a market economy is the problem,” said the Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, which advocates free-market economics.

Francis’ sharpest critics have accused him of being a Marxist or a Latin American communist, even as he opposed communism during his time in Argentina. His tour last week of Latin America began in Ecuador and Bolivia, two countries with far-left governments. President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who wore a Che Guevara patch on his jacket during Francis’ speech, claimed the pope as a kindred spirit â€" even as Francis seemed startled when Mr. Morales gave him a wooden crucifix shaped like a hammer and sickle as a gift.

Francis’ primary agenda last week was to begin renewing Catholicism in Latin America and repositioning it as the church of the poor. His apology for the church’s complicity in the colonialist era received an immediate roar from the crowd. In various parts of Latin America, the association between the church and economic power elites remains intact. In Chile, a socially conservative country, some members of the country’s corporate elite are also members of Opus Dei, the traditionalist Catholic organization founded in Spain in 1928.

Inevitably, Francis’ critique can be read as a broadside against Pax Americana, the period of capitalism regulated by global institutions created largely by the United States. But even pillars of that system are shifting. The World Bank, which long promoted economic growth as an end in itself, is now increasingly focused on the distribution of gains, after the Arab Spring revolts in some countries that the bank had held up as models. The latest generation of international trade agreements includes efforts to increase protections for workers and the environment.

Francis has such a strong sense of urgency “because he has been on the front lines with real people, not just numbers and abstract ideas,” Mr. Schneck said. “That real-life experience of working with the most marginalized in Argentina has been the source of his inspiration as pontiff.”

Francis made his speech on Wednesday night, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, before nearly 2,000 social activists, farmers, trash workers and neighborhood activists. Even as he meets regularly with heads of state, Francis has often said that change must come from the grass roots, whether from poor people or the community organizers who work with them. To Francis, the poor have earned knowledge that is useful and redeeming, even as a “throwaway culture” tosses them aside. He sees them as being at the front edge of economic and environmental crises around the world.

In Bolivia, Francis praised cooperatives and other localized organizations that he said provide productive economies for the poor. “How different this is than the situation that results when those left behind by the formal market are exploited like slaves!” he said on Wednesday night.

It is this Old Testament-like rhetoric that some finding jarring, perhaps especially so in the United States, where Francis will visit in September. His environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” released last month, drew loud criticism from some American conservatives and from others who found his language deeply pessimistic. His right-leaning critics also argued that he was overreaching and straying dangerously beyond religion â€" while condemning capitalism with too broad a brush.

Left-wing populism is surging in countries immersed in economic turmoil, such as Spain, and, most notably, Greece. But even in the United States, where the economy has rebounded, widespread concern about inequality and corporate power are propelling the rise of liberals like Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who, in turn, have pushed the Democratic Party presidential front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to the left.

Even some free-market champions are now reassessing the shortcomings of unfettered capitalism. George Soros, who made billions in the markets, and then spent a good part of it promoting the spread of free markets in Eastern Europe, now argues that the pendulum has swung too far the other way.

“I think the pope is singing to the music that’s already in the air,” said Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which was financed with $50 million from Mr. Soros. “And that’s a good thing. That’s what artists do, and I think the pope is sensitive to the lack of legitimacy of the system.”

Many Catholic scholars would argue that Francis is merely continuing a line of Catholic social teaching that has existed for more than a century and was embraced even by his two conservative predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Pope Leo XIII first called for economic justice on behalf of workers in 1891, with his encyclical “Rerum Novarum” â€" or, “On Condition of Labor.”

Mr. Schneck, of Catholic University, said it was as if Francis were saying, “We’ve been talking about these things for more than one hundred years, and nobody is listening.”

“This is not theology as usual; this is him shouting from the mountaintop,” said Stephen F. Schneck, the director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic studies at Catholic University of America in Washington.

The last pope who so boldly placed himself at the center of the global moment was John Paul II, who during the 1980s pushed the church to confront what many saw as the challenge of that era, communism. John Paul II’s anti-Communist messaging dovetailed with the agenda of political conservatives eager for a tougher line against the Soviets and, in turn, aligned part of the church hierarchy with the political right.

Francis has defined the economic challenge of this era as the failure of global capitalism to create fairness, equity and dignified livelihoods for the poor â€" a social and religious agenda that coincides with a resurgence of the leftist thinking marginalized in the days of John Paul II. Francis’ increasingly sharp critique comes as much of humanity has never been so wealthy or well fed â€" yet rising inequality and repeated financial crises have unsettled voters, policy makers and economists.

http://www.nytimes.com/
By JIM YARDLEY and BINYAMIN APPELBAUMJULY 11, 2015



Pope Francis with children on Friday in Luque, Paraguay, the final leg of his Latin America trip. Credit Andres Stapff/Reuters


ASUNCIÃ"N, Paraguay â€" His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.” He does not simply argue that systemic “greed for money” is a bad thing. He calls it a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”

Having returned to his native Latin America, Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice, and a prime cause of climate change. Francis escalated that line last week when he made a historic apology for the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church during the period of Spanish colonialism â€" even as he called for a global movement against a “new colonialism” rooted in an inequitable economic order.

The Argentine pope seemed to be asking for a social revolution.

Maajong pag-abot, Newbie!

So far, Sirisena has managed to pass a constitutional amendment limiting the powers of his own office, ended the de facto press censorship that had silenced Rajapaksa’s critics while initiating (popular, you can imagine) investigations into Rajapaksa family members and cronies. This is rare, says Ahilan Kadirgamar, a political economist and researcher based in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. But, he adds, there’s much still to be done to prosecute the last regime. Sirisena also promised to dissolve the nation’s Parliament and hold new elections, which were recently scheduled for Aug. 17. His delay, though, has led many to decry his indecisiveness, and further reforms and foreign investment have been largely paralyzed as the country waits to vote â€" and while Sirisena’s own coalition erodes.

At the same time, the right-leaning United National Party, which supported Sirisena’s election, has a parliamentary majority, and looks to gain further seats in the upcoming election. Which puts Sirisena in a tight spot: balancing his pro-democracy reputation against trying to help his own party win power. “Sirisena doesn’t want to be the man,” says Keenan, “who ran against the party’s head, beat him … and then locked his party out of power for many years.” 

Still more choppy waters lie ahead: Some are agitating for the return of Rajapaksa, who recently announced he’d lead an opposition party in the elections. And a forthcoming report from the U.N. on human rights abuses during the country’s civil war is expected to implicate many in government. In most of what he does, Sirisena will have to weigh his nation’s relationship with India, and consider how his response will play in Beijing and Washington, D.C., especially as several China-backed projects, beneficial to the island’s fragile economy, remain in limbo.

The clock is ticking. And the cost of Sri Lanka’s prolonged wait “is not just lost time, but growing popular disenchantment,” says Keenan. “And the longer the current political disarray remains, the deeper that disenchantment will grow.” -- http://news.yahoo.com/

Rajapaksa assumed power in 2005, when the former British colony remained embroiled in a decadeslong civil war between the Buddhist Sinhalese majority and the mainly Hindu Tamil minority in the north. That bloody struggle came to an end in 2009, but the growth of Sinhala nationalism allowed the Rajapaksa family and their left-leaning Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to consolidate power â€" specifically, to “create a dynasty and entrench his family’s rule,” says Alan Keenan, a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. So Sri Lankans probably weren’t surprised when the nation’s constitution was changed to allow their president to run for a third term in a hastily called January election. Obviously, the move backfired, as a broad spectrum of political interests from different ethnic communities and parties mobilized quickly, handing Sirisena a narrow victory. The identity of the victor, a low-profile minister who’d never been seen as particularly ambitious, seemed almost secondary.

Raised in a conservative Sinhalese Buddhist family, Sirisena, the son of a World War II veteran and teacher, grew up in the rural North Central Province. After a rebellious youth, in which he was jailed for over a year for participating in a Marxist insurrection against the country’s government in 1971, he settled down to farm and earn degrees in agriculture and political science before entering the Sri Lankan Parliament in 1989 for the SLFP. There, he earned the reputation as a mild-mannered, competent government official; a teetotaler who, as health minister, introduced stronger warnings on cigarette packages. But Sirisena’s campaign was hardly mild. “The entire economy and every aspect of society is controlled by one family,” he said, according to Al Jazeera, when he announced his candidacy, promising to enact a bold slate of reforms in the first 100 days to root out corruption and strengthen the rule of law.

Ozy News
By Sean Braswell
4 hours ago


For much of the past decade, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka was more or less a family business â€" one that happened to be run on an island just 22 miles off the coast of the second-largest country in the world and astride a key shipping lane to the largest. By one estimate, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his two high-ranking brothers controlled up to 70 percent of the nation’s budget, while 29 members of their extended family held senior positions in the government, civil service or industry.

Desperate to end Rajapaksa’s clan rule and break from Sri Lanka’s troubled past, including a devastating civil war, opposition forces in the island nation of over 20 million united behind an unlikely challenger in this year’s presidential election. Maithripala Sirisena, a former farmer, career bureaucrat and health minister under Rajapaksa, announced he would challenge his boss last November. Days before, Sirisena shared a dinner of rice pancakes with Rajapaksa, who happily informed him that he expected no serious opponents in the upcoming election. “When he said that nobody was going to challenge him,” the bespectacled Sirisena, dressed in his usual white sarong and tunic, later told his campaign, “I was next to him and felt sorry for him,” according to a report in The Independent.

Six weeks and a slew of reform promises later, the victorious Sirisena, whose office did not respond to interview requests, found himself atop a hopeful nation in profound upheaval. Now, with the honeymoon over, millions of Sri Lankans wait eagerly to see if their unexpected president can deliver.

Oops, niay nakalimtan...

Quote from: islander on July 13, 2015, 11:08:12 AM
labad.  bisan sa grammar na lang, wa mapakgang.

Well, so mote it be!

Gitambalan ra ang piskat ni Goyaks...

Australian Barber gives free haircuts and a second chance to the homeless
http://thechive.com/





A barber in Melbourne, Australia is giving hope to the homeless through haircuts. Nasir Sobhani, who refers to himself as ‘the street barber,’ has dealt with drug addiction and homelessness himself and knows the struggle of every day life that these individuals face. This is why he started the ‘Clean Cut, Clean Start project,’ to help give homeless people a second chance. “A homeless person doesn’t get the respect and attention needed, so letting them know that they are worthy of human interaction is actually the main purpose here.” Nasir said. Although many of his clients struggle with heavy drug abuse and have fallen on some really difficult times, Nasir’s haircuts provide the chance for these individuals to try and get back on their feet.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on December 14, 2012, 11:53:22 PM

Naghandom ni Bugsay, Pikoy, Chongki, Tigbao

Hain na tawon mo, kaberks...

Ah, so you would prefer euthanasia?

Quote from: islander on July 12, 2015, 09:35:18 PM

Hmm, reminds me of a toothless monkey...

Quote from: islander on July 12, 2015, 09:37:15 PM

He he, as Lao Tzu would have it, tongue is stronger than teeth. Quite some comfort para sa mga pangag...

His wife, Professor Mary Collins, one of Britain’s most senior immunologists, is similarly indignant. She believes that University College London â€" where both scientists had posts â€" has acted in “an utterly unacceptable” way in pressuring both researchers and in failing to support their causes.

Certainly the speed of the dispatch of Hunt â€" who won the 2001 Nobel prize in physiology for his work on cell division â€" from his various academic posts is startling. In many cases this was done without him even being asked for his version of events, he says. The story shows, if nothing else, that the world of science can be every bit as brutal as that of politics.

His treatment also demonstrates the innate cruelty of social media, and in particular the savage power of Twitter, which first revealed the scientist’s transgression. The tale also demonstrates how PR departments, in trying to protect the reputation of institutions, often do so at the expense of the individuals who work for or make up those bodies.


More at: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hung-out-to-dry-interview-mary-collins

Tim Hunt: ‘I’ve been hung out to dry. They haven’t even bothered to ask for my side of affairs’


In an exclusive interview Tim Hunt and his wife Professor Mary Collins tell how their lives fell apart after his quip about women in science went viral on Twitter


As jokes go, Sir Tim Hunt’s brief standup routine about women in science last week must rank as one of the worst acts of academic self-harm in history. As he reveals to the Observer, reaction to his remarks about the alleged lachrymose tendencies of female researchers has virtually finished off the 72-year-old Nobel laureate’s career as a senior scientific adviser.

What he said was wrong, he acknowledges, but the price he and his wife have had to pay for his mistakes has been extreme and unfair. “I have been hung out to dry,” says Hunt.

Tim Hunt with his wife Mary Collins at their home in Hertfordshire. Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Observer

Hmm, nag-LBM?

Quote from: islander on July 12, 2015, 02:05:30 PM
hehehe, sa ing-ana pa kog edad, maybe.  karon, sorry, wa koy dugo ni kris aquino.

Really? I don't think so. I think this is what you'd do:

The Maunder minimum in a 400-year history of sunspot numbers

The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.

The term was introduced after John A. Eddy published a landmark 1976 paper in Science.Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomers Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and E. Walter Maunder (1851â€"1928) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.[2] The period the husband and wife team examined included the second half of the 17th century. Two papers were published in Edward Maunder's name in 1890 and 1894, and he cited earlier papers written by Gustav Spörer. Due to the social climate of the time, Annie's contribution was not publicly recognized. --Wiki

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...mao nga bungot na lang ang nahibilin...

Hmm, are you sure di ka ingon ani?

Another pet is a kumagat par excellence, a genetically-enhanced raptor...

Kini laging selos nga wa sa lugar, ba. Basin di lang pizot, gamitoy pa jud. Mao tingali nga insecure si Ondoy Zhang.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 12, 2015, 01:31:42 PM
Silang duha magpakasal unta karong Enero 11, 2016, subay sa ilang second anniversary samtang si Hazel Rose nitug-an nga nagsabak siya sud sa upat ka buwan.

Hmm, ngano gud tawon nga UNTA man. Hala bira!

Nahibaw-an nila nga ang mga amo sa manag live-in nakasibat sakay sa laing awto.

Si Getalla niingon nga gisubay pa nila ang tinuoray nga pagkatawo nila ni ug Alfiel, ingon man ang ilang operasyon dinhi sa Sugbo.

Wa pa nila masuta kon asa gikan ang shabu nga ilang nasakmit.

Sila si Dabatos ug Abenoja nitug-an nga usa ka tuig silang nagsilbing drug courier.

Hatagan silag instruction ni Buds, apan wa nila gitug-an kon pila ang ilang suhol sa paghatod sa ginadiling drugas.

Silang duha magpakasal unta karong Enero 11, 2016, subay sa ilang second anniversary samtang si Hazel Rose nitug-an nga nagsabak siya sud sa upat ka buwan.

Naglaom pa gihapon sila nga tabangan sa ilang mga amo kabahin sa ilang gi-atubang karon nga kaso.

Si Leemuel nibutyag nga naaghat siya sa pagdawat sa tanyag sa iyang kapuyo nga si Hazel Rose kabahin niini hinungdan nga mi-apil siya human silang duha ning-undang sa ilang pagtungha sa mi-aging semester sa second year sa kursong HRM sa usa ka unibersidad sa dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Mao kini ang labing dako nga nasakmit sa PDEA 7 karong tuiga.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Hulyo 12, 2015.

Si Wardley Getalla, deputy regional director sa PDEA-7 nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Cebu nagkanayon nga usa ka semana nilang gimonitor ang mga suspek.

Ilang gika-transact mao sila si Buds ug Alfiel.

Nipalit sila og shabu nga mokantidad og P1.2 mil­yon gamit nila ang boodle money.

Sa unang transaction, mag-abot unta sila sa dalan Colon, apan nausab.

Adto unta sila sa may dalan A. Lopez, dakbayan sa Sugbo, hangtod nga sa ikatulong hugna diha sa may dalan Leon Kilat, gawas sa Gaisano Capital South.

Gipasakay sab nila sa ilang transaction ang mga suspek.

Nakuyawan sila kay basin unya di mahatag ang butang ug idagan ang kwarta.

Hangtod nga naabot sila sa nahisgutang dapit, apan wa nila mabantaye ang mga amo sa dinakpan nga didto sa dapit sanglit layo ang pagparking sa sakyanan.

Niabot ang awto nga gisakyan sa manag live-in ug gitunol ang usa ka putos nga cellophane diiin didto ang usa ka kilong shabu.

Gibabagan gilayon sa mga operatiba sila si Dabatos ug Abenoja.

Ni GUAM P. LOGROÃ'O



Nadakpan sa usa ka entrapment ope­ration ang live in partners nga kan­hi mga tinun-an sa Hotel and Res­tau­rant Management (HRM) nga sila si Leemuel Ivan Abenoja ug Hazel Rose Dabatos niadtong Biyernes sa hapon. (Alan Tangcawan)


MABDOS uban sa kapuyo nakuhaag P12 milyones nga shabu sa joint operations sa Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) ug City Intelligence Branch (CIB) sa Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) niadtong Biyernes sa alas 5:00 sa hapon sa Leon Kilat street, dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Di na madayon ang kasal nila ni Hazel Rose Dabatos, 20, ug iyang kapuyo nga si Leemuel Abenoja, 21, pulos kanhi mga tinun-an sa Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM), taga Barangay Bulacao, dakbayan sa Sugbo human nasikop kay nakuhaan og usa ka kilong shabu.

Ang duha niingon nga gisugo lang sila nila ni Buds ug usa ka Alfiel Hui, nga sakay sa laing sakyanan atol sa pagdakop.

Ang duha maoy gika-transact sa mga operatiba sa PDEA 7 ug CIB.

Patintihan scholar, that is. Sunod-sunod lang gud ni Bay Bugsay...

Not too classy, but mannered enough...

Hmm, wa lagi si Prince Charles...

Aylandil nga nakadawat of sukli nga kuwang og singko sentabos...

...pero yummy kon deep-fried na.

Quote from: ms da binsi on January 11, 2008, 11:05:41 AM
Bajot dear, welcome sa balay'ng gamay...

lahus lang sa kusina kay tua'y binubod ug sekwati didto...

ajaw ka ulaw ha?

Quote from: lindy on January 11, 2008, 01:17:06 PM
unya inig human panghugas ug panilhig... bitaw maayong pag abot Bajot.

Quote from: grazie7y on January 11, 2008, 02:53:26 PM
Oi, ug nganong nahimo naman nang Bajot ang Banjot!

Quote from: lindy on January 11, 2008, 03:45:38 PM
ay Banjot diay na! abi ba nakog bajot kay bajot man tong ka ms. da bins

Bwahaha! Duda ko nga Frenchman ni sija, so silent 't', as in Banjo...

Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announced on Wednesday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would replace the portrait of Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill in favor of one featuring both Hamilton and a woman to be named later.

"I'm proud to announce today that the new $10 bill will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman," Lew said in a statement on YouTube. "This historic endeavour has been years in the making."

Lew will decide by the end of the year which woman will share the bill with Hamilton. The new version of the bill will appear in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which awarded women the right to vote.


More at: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-reportedly-going-to-change-the-face-of-the-10-bill-2015-6#ixzz3fZKy1M7A

Quote from: islander on July 11, 2015, 01:40:42 PM
catowl?

He he, sa Binisaya pa, ngiwngiyaw...

Her pet...

China Evacuates Tens Of Thousands Ahead Of Super-Typhoon Chan-hom
AP
Posted: 07/10/2015


BEIJING (AP) â€" Chinese authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of people, canceled scores of trains and flights and shuttered seaside resorts as a super-typhoon with wind gusts up to 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph) heads toward the southeastern coast.

China's national weather service said super Typhoon Chan-hom is expected to make landfall by early Saturday at Fujian or Zhejiang province, and has issued its highest-level alert.

Zhejiang's Civil Affairs Bureau said nearly 60,000 people were evacuated from coastal areas. The country's railway service said more than 100 trains between the region's cities are canceled through Sunday.

In the seaside city of Zhoushan, all flights in and out of its airport have been canceled. The city has halted bus services and speedboat ferry services. Several tourist spots also were closed. In the nearby port city of Ningbo, 23 flights were canceled, the airport said.

Several area cities also have announced suspension of inter-city bus services.

The storm earlier dumped rain on northern Philippines and was expected to pass by Taiwan, where several flights were suspended. The stock market and public offices were closed Friday in Taipei, the island's capital, authorities announced.

Southern China already was struck by another typhoon earlier this week. Typhoon Linfa displaced 56,000 people in southern Guangdong province.

Quote from: islander on July 11, 2015, 02:19:41 PM
now i know nga naka-graduate diay ka, bai hubs.

He he, wa ko ka-graduate, oi. Ingon ko ani sa gamay pa, kugihan mo-compute og tip sa masyaw...

Yahoo News â€" Thu, Jul 9, 2015






A man has written to a local newspaper to apologise for beating up his wife in a drunken rage and forcing her to parade half-naked in the streets after deciding that she’d been unfaithful.

Zhang Ni ordered his wife, Wang, to strip down to her underwear and marched her out into the streets of Yushan County, China, wearing a sign that read: “I want to sell my body.”

He was apparently following her in his car to make sure she didn’t try and avoid her ‘walk of shame’.

Just moments before she was stripped Wang was allegedly beaten by her husband, who had been out drinking with his friends.

They had convinced him that his wife had been cheating on him and he came home to confront her.
The couple, who have two daughters, do not see each other much because his work at a property development centre keeps him away for long periods.

According to friends of the couple, he blamed his wife for the fact that despite 10 years of marriage she had given him two daughters and no sons - causing frequent rows that had split the family and meant that he often abused his wife on the few occasions when he did return home.

Police called Zhang in for questioning after seeing Wang on the streets and taking her back to the station.

The result of the questioning was proof that the young woman had NOT been unfaithful and that her husband simply listened to unfounded rumours.

Zhang later apologised to Wang and penned a formal apology in his local newspaper.

It is not clear whether his wife has accepted his apology.

Hmm, kini kaha...

Bwahakhak!

Di, oi. Tan-awa ni di ba kyut...

He he, suya man diay...

Eye-opener

The BOC earlier sued Valenzuela City-based Chronic Plastics, the counterpart of the exporter Chronic Inc. based in Ontario, Canada, for alleged violations of Republic Act No. 6969 (Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990) and RA 1937 (Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines).

Undersecretary Jonas Leones, chief of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), said a waste analysis and characterization study showed the shipment contained nonhazardous municipal solid waste.

“It is not that dangerous to the community. No treatment was conducted anymore,” Leones said. “The sanitary landfill can accommodate it all, we are also monitoring the progress of the disposal along with the local government unit.”

From now on, he said, the agency will strictly implement a 30-day notice for importers to first secure an importation clearance from the EMB before the arrival of the shipment.

Leones said in the case of the Canada shipment, the importer applied for a clearance only when the shipment arrived.

“This was an eye-opener for us. We are collaborating with the BOC, we will no longer issue importation clearances if the shipment has already arrived. This means the BOC can ship it back or dispose of it. No importation clearance, no loading,” said the EMB chief.â€"With reports from Jerry E. Esplanada and Julie M. Aurelio

Tarlac probe

Diana Figueroa, president of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens of Bamban, said the disposal was “kept a secret.” But Colayco said he relayed a message to Tarlac Vice Gov. Enrique Cojuangco Jr. to send representatives from communities to observe and verify the disposal.

Figueroa said Cojuangco and the provincial board on Thursday promised to investigate.

She said the dumping violated a provincial resolution that allowed the landfill to take only waste from Tarlac and not from cities and towns outside the province, including Metro Manila.

Colayco said several landfill personnel were alarmed on Tuesday because when a bundle of trash was opened, they found an empty and misshapen plastic container marked “chemical.” However, it turned out to be a softening agent for water in swimming pools.

“We are basically very cautious. We examine every container and do not make any assumption. We maintain our alertness,” Colayco said.

Regular pit

Colayco said the contents went into a regular pit for common residuals in the 100-hectare landfill in Sub-zone D of the Clark Special Economic Zone.

He said the owner of the containers, identified as Zim and locally represented by Le Soleil, had paid a tipping fee of P900 per ton. A 12-m container carries 25 tons.

“It seems they have done so if only to recover the use of the containers, which have been tied up for about two years,” he said.

Colayco said the fee was higher than the regular P800 tipping fee to cover extra expenses for the “special inspection and handling to ensure that the garbage was truly nontoxic residual waste, as declared to us.”

Colayco said Metro Clark had demanded that the containers be opened and examined at the Subic Bay Freeport, where these were taken to ease the congestion at the Port of Manila last year.
“The DENR recommended to do these in Kalangitan so we reserved the right to record the opening and emptying of each [container],” he said.

The disposal, which began last week, was monitored by the DENR, he said.

The BOC, Colayco said, showed a certification from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that the 12-meter freight boxes contained “residual waste, not hazardous waste.”
Citing diplomatic relations, the DENR decided to drop its demand on the Canadian government to take back the trash. That decision happened a month before President Aquino visited Canada on May 6-10.
On the eve of Aquino’s departure, on May 5, Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina issued a memo to retired Maj. Gen. Elmir de la Cruz, BOC district collector at the Manila International Container Port (MICP), saying he had “no objections” to the MICP recommendation to dump the trash in a sanitary landfill at the “earliest time possible.”

The disposal of the shipment was “pursuant to Section 2608 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines,” Lina said.

“The mode of disposal will be by way of disinfection/dumping, which shall be undertaken by a BOC-MICP accredited private disposal contractor and that the actual disposal shall be done in the presence of representatives” of agencies like the departments of environment and natural resources, health, foreign affairs and justice as well as the Canadian Embassy and the Manila Regional Trial Court, Lina said. The court earlier directed the BOC to get rid of the trash.
Environmental advocates said the dumping violated the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste.

DENR Director Lormelyn Claudio said a waste analysis and characterization study done on Nov. 10, 2014, found that the shipment contained “municipal solid waste.”

By: Tonette Orejas
@inquirerdotnet
Inquirer Central Luzon
04:59 AM July 10th, 2015



This photo posted on the online petition on Change.org shows a container van full of hazardous waste that is being held by the Bureau of Custom in the Port of Manila. PHOTO/ CHANGE.ORG PETITION


CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampangaâ€"Despite opposition from environmental groups, 29 of 50 containers filled with illegally shipped trash from Canada that had been left rotting at the Port of Manila since June 2013, have dumped the shipment at a sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac province, according to an official of the company managing the facility.
Rufo Colayco, president and chief executive officer of the Metro Clark Waste Management Corp. (MCWMC), confirmed to the Inquirer that the company’s facility at Barangay (village) Kalangitan accepted the trash at the request of the Bureau of Customs (BOC), which seized the shipment.

The trash was passed off as scrap materials for recycling, but customs inspectors found household wastes, allegedly including used adult diapers, in the containers.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/
Friday, July 10, 2015


OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio Morales has found probable cause to file graft charges against current and former local officials in different municipalities of Visayas in relation to the fertilizer fund scam.

Morales issued three separate resolutions on the criminal indictments of the local officials for violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices.

Those to be charged before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court include former mayor Rose Marie Suezo of Tuburan, Cebu; Virgilia Undag, municipal accountant; Victoria Verano, municipal agricultural officer; Nicodemus Montecillo Jr., Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) chairman; Chito Armecin and Elsa Yosalina, both BAC members; and Marc Gulle, representative of Sikap-Yaman Foundation.

Also facing criminal indictments were Mayor Mariano Malones, mayor of Maasin, Iloilo; Cecilio Montefrio, municipal accountant; Jimmy Borra, officer-in-charge-accountant; and Jose Barredo Jr., representative of Feshan Philippines, Inc.

Others to be charged were Jeremias Ban, former barangay captain in Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental; his councillors, namely, Danilo Lamason, Raymund Vincent Besa, Manuel Tancinco, Nile Nelson Arroz, Adelino Plansa, and Jonalyn Lauron; Efren dela Rose, City accountant; and Jose Barredo Jr., representative of Feshan Phils., Inc.

Morales also ordered the dismissal from the service of Undag, Verano, Montecillo Jr., Armecin, Yosalina, Lauron and Dela Rosa after finding them guilty of serious dishonesty, grave misconduct, and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.

The case stemmed from the unlawful disbursements of funds amounting to P291.2 million, which formed part of the P728 million fertilizer fund allocated for the implementation of the Farm Inputs and Farm Implements Program of the Department of Agriculture.

The subject fund was released to the DA by the Department of Budget and Management on February 3, 2004 under Notice of Cash Allocation No. 2222447-I. (SDR/Sunnex)

Ma'a as-salāmah, Michel Demitri Chalhoub...

Hmm, mas gusto kag monkey-faced kitty instead? Here goes...

Quote from: islander on July 10, 2015, 04:37:29 PM
naa ba ka dinhay eskinadog mga nawong?

Op kors. Ta-dah!

Quote from: islander on July 10, 2015, 04:35:24 PM
the most interesting of course, and the real royal treat, is only prince philip. his gaffes are a real treat.  the other royal personalities in the picture are boring.

His gaffes, yes. Hmm, real treat pud ang iyang utot?

Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The crucifix is a replica, originally designed by Jesuit activist Luís Espinal, who was assassinated in 1980 by suspected paramilitaries during the months that preceded a military coup. Even though the Vatican was not expecting the unusual gift, it is seeking to explain the "Communist crucifix" given to Francis, saying it's a symbol of dialogue and not an offensive melding of faith and ideology. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)