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aaahhh, ip dats de kes, doggie's eyes may no longer have been there to express sympathy.  kitty would have seen to that.

that's him.  he certainly looks like your typical CEO.

Most importantly, let’s learn to stop saying there’s no hope for this Philippines and start seeing what’s right in front of all of us: our people â€" the genuine hope for this country’s progress.

I’ve seen that hope countless times, Mr President, and it has the power to change things and move more people. It’s the same hope I see in faces on the streets and faces in profile pictures. It’s the same hope that tells me that our progress as a country isn’t a delusion, but rather a result of definitive action from all of us.

So long as that hope exists in our people, I will always be more than willing to carry bottles of water under the rain for it â€" because that’s exactly what this country needs: people to hope, and people to act on it.

Thank you very much, President Noy.


Serge Gabriel is a psychology graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University. He recently qualified for a scholarship to take his Master’s in Philosophy at Gonzaga University in Washington. He is currently a part-time lecturer at the Ateneo, a poet and spoken word artist under Words Anonymous, and is training to finish his first sprint triathlon by the end of the year.

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Yes, we take selfies, but we also give our take on who should and shouldn’t run for the presidency in 2016. Yes, we share posts from 9-Gag and BuzzFeed, but we share our frustrations and joys also with the links of local and international news articles. Yes, we sometimes post about our sadness and anger every so often, but we always express our disgust and intolerance for anything closely related to corruption, and discrimination involving gender, sexuality, and religion.

We have the means to make more informed choices now, and our generations have so much to learn from each other if we can all be humble enough to do so.

Let’s learn how to communicate without the use of hate. Let’s learn from the visit of Pope Francis, his mercy and compassion, and not leave that responsibility solely to the CBCP. Let’s learn together and finally put an end to this tolerance for corruption and irresponsibility with the environment.

A Millennial’s promise

As a part of the next generation that has on its shoulders the name of the Philippines in the years to come, I want to let you know that one thing we’re already very good at is speaking out. We’re a very vocal generation.

Some may take this to mean we’re a very vain generation, given our social media pages filled with photos and statuses. Maybe that’s true for some cases â€" but if you turn toward the bigger picture, we show you a generation of people no longer scared to express an opinion, no matter how small.

We now we have voices, and we now know we have the means to make them louder. We now have the means to be heard.

He explained how his near-papacy experience made him popular with the media and, in turn, raised the status of Filipinos all over the world. He explained how he didn’t enjoy the attention but that his coverage managed to uplift other Filipinos from their own experiences of suffering. In his own words: “Hindi pala yun para sa akin.” (It wasn't for me.)

At a time when people think there is no hope for our country, I am reminded not to believe that, because I’ve seen that hope first-hand; and it’s rooted in its people, the Filipino people.

In your speech, you thanked my generation for helping contribute to the progress of this country. I hope I can speak for the most of the millennial generation when I say we are honored to share the responsibility of building this country with you, President Noy.

Growing up in this day and age, I experience first-hand the rampancy of hearing that “there’s no hope for this country.” Yet, there I was on a random Monday night, working on a presentation, minding my own business, and receiving a flurry of messages from several of my friends â€" all during the actual airing time of the SONA.

When I got home that night, I even went through the posts and noticed timestamps from all the notifications. I realized they were also all during the time you were speaking.

In the midst of a widespread culture of hate in this country, I am reminded that my generation â€" the millennial generation, does care about the welfare of the Philippines. In the midst of all the attention a single photo has garnered, I am reminded of the moving words Cardinal Tagle shared back in 2013 during my graduation.

“X people posted on your wall,” “X people like a photo on your wall,” “X people mentioned you…” was all over my feed. Friend requests from people I’ve never met were coming in, and several posts and photos I still haven’t managed to reply to up to this day remain unanswered. I had never received this much attention, and it remains the craziest experience I’ve ever had with social media in my life.

This is what one photo can now do in this generation, Mr President. And after an experience this daunting, only one thing comes to mind for me to say to you: I owe you a very big thank you â€" but not for the 15 seconds of fame.

I’ll be honest when I say I was very touched by the short time under the spotlight. There’s no denying that. But, as I wrote on my own Facebook wall, what continues to fill my heart with great joy is knowing that so many people in my generation were actually watching the SONA that day.

While that commotion was happening, another friend was calling me up. Along with those two calls, my phone kept on vibrating from an influx of text messages and notifications that were coming in so fast I had to put the phone down.

About just 2 minutes after that call, I had over 20-something text messages and I kept receiving even more notifications from Facebook, Viber, and Twitter. There was so much coming in that I had to turn my phone off for a while just to save the battery because I still had a dinner to attend.

When I finally made it home, I was ready to check that photo of me you used in your presentation and see the fuss that came with it. Once I got my laptop running, and in the span of a few hours of dinner, I had never seen so many notifications in my life.

Dear PNoy, from the boy in your SONA photo

'At a time when people think there is no hope for our country, I am reminded not to believe that, because I’ve seen that hope first-hand; and it’s rooted in its people'

Sergio Gabriel
July 31, 2015



Dear President Noy,

You spent over a good 2 hours last Monday telling the story of the Philippines’ progress over the past 5 years. I thank you very much for your hard work, and I hope you’ll allow me to return the favor by telling you a story this time.

This particular one takes place on the 27th of July 2015. You were obviously delivering your final State of the Nation Address (SONA) near Batasang Pambansa with the entire nation’s eyes and ears on youâ€" while I, on the other hand, was at a quiet restaurant, table-for-one, working on a presentation.

I was just getting ready to head out when, all of a sudden, at 5:59 pm, my friend Albert started calling me on the phone. I immediately picked it up and on the other end he just kept shouting over and over again, “Nasa SONA ka! Nasa SONA ka!” (You're at the SONA!)

03.08.2015 - Typhoon Soudelor's aftermath in Saipan

354-kph Supertyphoon ‘Hanna’ to hit PH

By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
01:44 AM August 5th, 2015



What has developed into the world’s strongest typhoon so far this year will enter the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) on Wednesday morning but will spare the country from landfall.

The weather bureau placed the maximum sustained winds of Supertyphoon “Hanna” (international name: Soudelor) at least 220 kilometers per hour, but the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Honolulu said the storm was packing gusts up to 354 kph.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Hanna, the eighth cyclone to visit the country this year, would trigger heavy monsoon rains over most of Luzon and the Visayas over the weekend.

As of Tuesday, the cyclone already bore maximum sustained winds of 215 kph and gusts up to 250 kph and will likely intensify further as it barrels across the Pacific Ocean.

“It will possibly be a supertyphoon when it enters the Philippine area of responsibility on Wednesday morning. This is the strongest [typhoon] this year,” said state meteorologist Buddy Javier.

Pagasa categorizes as supertyphoons those that reach maximum sustained winds of at least 220 kph.

The storm was roaring across the western Pacific Ocean packing wind gusts up to 354 kph, according to the JTWC, which rated it a maximum Category 5.

Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/710529/354-kph-supertyphoon-hanna-to-hit-ph#ixzz3hurRNVEj

Reuters / Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Migrants run after crossing a fence as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel in Frethun, near Calais, France, August 4, 2015. REUTERS/Juan Medina

The Post notes that the resolved dispute will is a major source of fear and anger to others. For most citizens, the land swap means abandoning the land that has been their homes for generations or changing their nationality.

Most will stay in their homes, but about 1,000 Indians have decided to keep their nationality, meaning they will have to move out by November.

In Dahala-Khagrabari many Indian Muslims decided to become Bangladeshi and celebrated their new nationality. Hindus on the other hand were fearful of the change as some of their homes were recently torched. Among those leaving, most of them do so because of economic or religious reasons.

The swap is also tearing families apart as some people are not agreeing on where to live, while others having married a person from one or the other nationality are not eligible to relocate. Others, having been left out of a 2011 census, are also ineligible for relocation, and some might even lose their lands as a result of the swap.

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In any case, after India left the British Empire in 1947, problems began for the enclave’s citizens.

For example, citizens of a Bangladeshi enclave would technically need a visa to enter the country surrounding the enclave (India) â€" but to get the visa they would have to go to a major city in Bangladesh, which they could not do without illegally transiting through India. Before Saturday, even going to the market could be problematic.

One of the enclaves, Dahala Khagrabari, was the only third-order enclave in the world, meaning it was an Indian enclaves, surrounded by a Bangladeshi enclave, surrounded by an Indian enclave in Bangladesh.


Dahala Khagrabari

No one is sure as to exactly how this odd border dispute came to be: Some say it was the result of a chess game, others says it was because of an ink spill on a map by a drunk British colonial. Both stories are probably more akin to legend than history.

Here’s a look at the region:



And here’s a look closer look at the clusters of enclaves:

One of the world's strangest border disputes is officially over

04 August 2015

BARBARA TASCH 


India’s PM Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina clap during signing ceremony of agreements between India and Bangladesh in Dhaka

The border dispute surrounding 162 Indian and Bangladeshi enclaves ended on Saturday at one minute past midnight, Adam Taylor of The Washington Post reports.

The two countries switched sovereignty over 111 enclaves in Bangladesh and 51 in India following a border agreement struck in June, the AFP reports, ending a 68-year-old dispute affecting the lives of over 50.000 people.

The June agreement had originally been reached in 2011, but it’s taken four years for both countries to sign it.

cute.  great. 

The odd couple: North Korea and Indonesia

By webadmin on 12:01 pm Jul 23, 2012
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Jamil Maidan Flores

“Misery,” wrote William Shakespeare, “acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Most pundits today would say it’s not misery but politics ― especially geopolitics ― that makes strange bedfellows. Almost invariably they would cite the strange case of North Korea and Indonesia.

There is indeed a huge difference between North Korea and Indonesia. One is l’enfant terrible of international affairs. The other is a global activist for democracy, an emerging economic power that would reform the world financial architecture. But there is undeniably a friendship between the two countries.

Thus the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Council of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Yong-nam, paid an official visit to Jakarta recently. He came representing not only the living but also the dead: the Eternal President of North Korea is still officially its founder, Kim Il-sung, a great and close friend of Indonesia’s founding president, Sukarno. Popular legend has it that he is not dead. He merely hiked off to the hills to get some sleep.

more at http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/archive/the-odd-couple-north-korea-and-indonesia/

Piggy later bragged, “Dating moi is like flying close to the sun. It was inevitable that Kermit would drop down to the ground while I stayed in the heavens.”

Outside of all the romantic entanglements talk… Prady offered the new show’s backstory, saying, “We tried a version of this about eight years ago but it wasn’t timed right.” When he and EP Bob Kushell circled back with ABC this spring, “There was immediate enthusiasm for the project” â€" so much so that the network lobbied hard for a fast-tracked pilot (ultimately a 10-minute “presentation”) to be considered for the 2015-16 TV season.

Prady says The Muppets will offer “unfettered access” to the puppets’ personal lives. To which Kermit shrugged, “I tried to fetter it â€" but it didn’t work out.”

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“It can be tough to work with your ex,” he explained. “There will be an official statement released in the press (see below). I don’t want to betray anything.”

Egged on by Muppets EP/co-showrunner Bill Prady, Kermit confirmed that he is now dating another pig, named Denise and who “works in marketing” at ABC.

Piggy herself then showed up at the panel, fashionably late and most curious to hear which version of the breakup story Kermit had told the TCA members. Asked how the split might affect the series â€" which will take us behind the scenes of a new talk show called Up Late With Miss Piggy â€" she argued, “Any kind of attention is good publicity.”

Muppets Star Kermit the Frog Confirms Break-Up With Miss Piggy

TVLine.com
Matt Webb Mitovich
August 5, 2015


Kermit-Piggy break-up

You can put a pork fork in one of Hollywood’s great romances.

Kermit the Frog, who headlines ABC’s The Muppets mockumentary comedy (premiering Tuesday, Sept. 22), revealed on Tuesday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour that he and longtime love Miss Piggy are on the outs.

“It’s a day-by-day, moment-by-moment process,” Kermit shared, the pain of the split still evident in his sewn-on eyes. “Piggy and I have gone our separate ways romantically.

A dog swims in floodwaters in Kalay, upper Myanmar's Sagaing region, on August 2, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ye Aung Thu)

Unusually heavy moonsoon rain poured into Myanmar starting from 16 July and making rivers and creeks overflow with rainwater. It flooded river basins as well as areas around the creeks. It was the worst flood to happen in Myanmar in recent decades. Some people accused heavy rain, mismanagement of irrigation projects and deforestration caused by mindless logging in recent decades. Cyclone Komen at Indian Ocean made the situation worse. (wikipedia)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in comments likely to provoke regional neighbours and Washington, said the United States and the Philippines should "count how many runways there are in the South China Sea and who built them first."

In a front page commentary on the overseas edition of the Communist Party's official People's Daily, a senior academic said that the U.S. was teaming up with Japan to "disrupt" the South China Sea.

"Japan has been cooperating with the United States to hype up the 'China threat', making noise for their alliance to interfere in the South China Sea," Su Xiaohui, a senior researcher at the Foreign Ministry-backed China Institute of International Studies, wrote.

"This is not beneficial to regional peace and stability."

(Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in BEIJING, Manual Mogato in MANILA, David Brunnstrom in SINGAPORE and Angie Teo in KUALA LUMPUR; Editing by Mike Collett-White)

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China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.

China has shown no sign of halting its construction of artificial islands in disputed waters.

It has also accused the United States of militarizing the South China Sea by staging patrols and joint military drills, while the United States has called for a halt in China's artificial island building in the area.

In a speech at a Singapore university on Tuesday, Kerry addressed tensions in Asia and said that the United States wanted a region where "countries cooperate to prevent small disputes from growing into large ones."

Malaysia, the current chair of ASEAN, has said the topic was not off-limits and would be raised.

In opening remarks on Tuesday, Malaysia Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said that ASEAN should play a major role in reaching an "amicable" solution in the disputed waters.

"BEYOND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSIONS"

Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that the South China Sea could not be ignored, adding that Singapore was not happy with an informal code of conduct signed by ASEAN and China in 2002.

"South China Sea is an issue. We cannot pretend that it's not an issue," he said.

"We have got to move beyond philosophical discussions to actually say what is in the substance of the agreement."

"We will agree to be bound only if China and other claimant states agree to the same."

Though not on the official agenda, the South China Sea is among key topics likely to be discussed at the meeting, amid a backdrop of increasing tensions in the potentially energy-rich sea.

His comments come a day after China said it did not want the contentious theme discussed at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathering.

Neither China nor the United States are members of the regional body, but both will be represented during several days of talks in the Malaysian capital. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will be in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday and Thursday.

"The Philippines fully supports and will pro-actively promote the call of the United States on the '3 halts': halt in reclamation, halt in construction, and halt in aggressive actions that could further heighten tensions," Del Rosario said in a statement.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Philippines will back a U.S. call to halt land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea, the country's foreign minister said on Tuesday, despite China's insistence that the issue should not be raised at an upcoming meeting.

Foreign Minister Albert Del Rosario said the Philippines was ready to help de-escalate tensions in the disputed region, if China and other claimant states agreed to be bound by the same conditions.

Del Rosario added that the Philippines planned to discuss the topic at the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, which kicked off in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

Philippines to raise South China Sea issue despite Beijing's reluctance

Reuters
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Trinna Leong


Attendees pose for a photograph at the 48th ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur
(L-R) Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, Philippine's Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, Singapore's Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Chee Wee Kiong, Brunei's Foreign Minister Mohamed Bolkiah, Laos' Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Thailand's Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary General Le Luong Minh pose for a photograph at the 48th ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 4, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

Cumulonimbus calvus

cloud follows the tree's form, or is it the other way around?


additional cloud formations in this forum, at http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/image/rare-cloud-formations/

Cumulus mediocris arcus

Fallstreak hole -altocumulus stratiformis translucidus lacunosus

Cumulonimbus incus

Rex Features/ Marko Korosec

Credit & © J D Rufo, J Koermer, Plymouth State College
A lenticular cloud over New Hampshire

Why does this cloud look so strange?  Actually, pictured above are several clouds all stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud.  Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically.  Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes.  The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture.  The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance.  The above picture was taken in 1999 over Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA.

Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov and http://flatrock.org.nz/

Lenticular clouds hover over Mount Erebus volcano in McMurdo Sound
where massive icebergs from the Ross Ice Shelf are clogging the sea in Antarctica.  (US Coast Guard photo)

A Morning Glory cloud formation between Burketown and Normanton, Australia.

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud, occasionally observed in different locations around the world. The wave often occurs as an amplitude-ordered series of waves forming bands of roll clouds.

The southern part of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia is the only known location where it can be predicted and observed on a more or less regular basis due to the configuration of land and sea in the area. (wikipedia)

Undulatus asperatus

Undulatus asperatus (or alternately, asperitas) is a cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. If successful it will be the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization.

The name translates approximately as "roughened or agitated waves".

The ominous-looking clouds have been particularly common in the Plains states of the United States, often during the morning or midday hours following convective thunderstorm activity. (wikipedia)

One of the rarest weather phenomena, Mammatus Clouds. Photo taken by John C. Olsen in Hastings, NE


What Are Mammatus Clouds?

Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures. They're also a rare example of clouds in sinking air-- most clouds form in rising air. Although mammatus most frequently form on the underside of a cumulonimbus, they can develop underneath cirrocumulus, altostratus, altocumulus and stratocumulus.

For a mammatus to form, the sinking air must be cooler than the air around it and have high liquid water or ice content. They derive their name from their appearance, like the bag-like sacs that hang beneath the cloud resemble cow's udders.

Mammatus are long-lived if the sinking air contains large drops and snow crystals since larger particles require greater amounts of energy for evaporation to occur. Over time, the cloud droplets do eventually evaporate and the mammatus dissolve.

Despite popular misconception, mammatus clouds are not a sign that a tornado is about to form. While associated with thunderstorms, mammatus clouds are not necessarily an indicator of severe weather. Mammatus result from the sinking of moist air into dry air. They are in essence upside-down clouds. The sharp boundary of mammatus is much like the sharp boundary of a rising cumulonimbus cloud before an anvil has formed.

Source: NOAA
http://www.accuweather.com/

meanwhile, here's the initial payment for china's "help"...



Submarine Changzheng-2 and warship Chang Xing Dao arrived at the port on Friday, seven weeks after another Chinese submarine, a long-range deployment patrol, had called at the same port ahead of a visit to South Asia by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

more at http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Chinese-Submarine-in-Sri-Lanka-India-Concerned-2014-11-02

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 04, 2015, 03:44:25 PMAccording to Fenton, following a run-in with a benign tumor years ago, a doctor told her, “Agnes, you must drink three Miller High Lifes a day.” Agnes followed that advice, and then some, adding a shot of scotch to her daily drinking regimen. In case you’re wondering, her go-to brand is Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

syalan ba.  nangita man sad ug mahal.

immortal tingali ang gawas kun ang pilion johnnie walker purple label.

methinks you are hubag trying to be hamlet.

once in a blue moon - very rarely

synonyms: hardly ever, almost never, scarcely ever, rarely, very seldom

formula (whatever this means):

once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz

"The most recent blue moon that was truly blue in hue was in Edinburgh, Scotland, in September 1950. Astronomer Robert Wilson of the Royal Observatory observed the event and concluded that the moon was blue in color because the satellite’s light was traveling through a patch of clouds that had particles of smoke and ash from forest fires burning in Alberta, Canada. Those particles crossed the Atlantic Ocean and hovered over Scotland during the lunar event, creating a rare spectacle, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”

Read More: Grab the Orange Slice, it’s a Rare Blue Moon Tonight | http://1049thehawk.com/grab-the-orange-slice-its-a-rare-blue-moon-tonight/?trackback=tsmclip

Coatesville, PA July 2015 Cassie Gail Studio

it wasn't really blue over pennsylvania last 31 july 2015

Blue Moon Dates

These dates are based on the more well-known definition of a Blue Moon (the second full moon in a calendar month).

1999 January & March
2001 October & November
2004 July
2007 May
2009 December
2012 August
2015 July
2018 January & March
2020 October

http://www.moonconnection.com/blue_moon.phtml

Origin of the term

The suggestion has been made that the term "blue moon" for "intercalary month" arose by folk etymology, the "blue" replacing the no-longer-understood belewe, 'to betray'.

The original meaning would then have been "betrayer moon", referring to a full moon that would "normally" (in years without an intercalary month) be the full moon of spring, while in an intercalary year, it was "traitorous" in the sense that people would have had to continue fasting for another month in accordance with the season of Lent. (wikipedia)


Blue moon of August 31, 2012, viewed from Slobozia, Romania.

A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month of the common calendar. (wikipedia)


Blue moon of the December 2009 lunar eclipse

The phrase has nothing to do with the actual color of the moon, although a literal "blue moon" (the moon appearing with a tinge of blue) may occur in certain atmospheric conditions: e.g., when there are volcanic eruptions or when exceptionally large fires leave particles in the atmosphere.

obviously you are an espiritista.

The silver medals were won by Lance Adrian Ko from St. Stephen’s High School; Jeremy Brian Branzuela, St. Jude Catholic School; William Joshua King, Bethany Christian School; Jonas Rehein Esguerra, Philippine Pasay Chung Hua Academy; Blue Andrei  James Elman, Makati Science High School; and Cris Magdalene de la Cruz, Bolinao Integrated School, among others.

The bronze medalists included Jasper Jay Prestoza, Rizal Elementary School; Seth Gabriel Ricafort, Philippine Science High School; Rodolfo Misa Jr., Cebu Eastern School; Myles Denzel de la Torre, Bethany Christian School, Francesca Stephanie Tumaneng, St. Theresa’s College; Mikaela Jaymee Balatbat and Cyrus Larisma, St. Mary’s College; and Sean Marcus So, Grace Christian College, among others.

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Mariana Ysabella Montanez, Karl Raymond Roque, Arthur Reiner de Belen, Dominic Yap, Elijamin Wolfgang Cabrera, all from Philippine Science High School; Andrei Philip David, Tanauan National High School; Giwon Kim, Caritas Don Bosco School; Jethro Asahel Roxas, Ann Arbor Montessori; Marianne Casugbo, Hua Siong College of Iloilo; Daryll Carlsten Ko, St. Stephen’s High School; Vince Edward Lacson, Gen. Pio del Pilar Elementary School; Oniluv Troy Tabujara, Falcon School; Andres Rico Gonzales III, Colegio de San Juan de Letran; Dan Alden Baterisna, Colegio San Agustin-Makati; Fedrick Lance Lim, Zamboanga Chong Hua High School; Jonathan Conrad Yu, Philippine Christian Gospel School; and Carlos Benedict Echevarria, De La Salle Santiago Zobel School.

The Filipino team’s gold medals came courtesy of the following students: John Florence Dizon, Calamba Elementary School; Stefan Marcus Ong, Alvan Walter Dy and Hans Leighton Liu, all from St. Jude Catholic School; Christopher James Yap, St. John’s Institute; Rovi Gabriel de la Cruz, Pasig Catholic School; Jeffrey John Jabanes, Pangasinan Universal Institute; Jeremie Keon Torralba, Ateneo de Manila Grade School; James Martin Young, SPED; Matthew Eugene Chua, British School-Manila; Raphael Dylan Dalida, St. Mary’s Academy; Rickson Caleb Tan and Eion Nikolas Chua, both from MGC New Life Christian Academy; Sean Matthew Tan, Jubilee Christian Academy;

China bagged 27 gold medals while Taiwan took home 19 golds to place second and third, respectively. Thailand was next with 12 golds, followed by Malaysia and Myanmar with seven golds apiece; host Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Iran with six golds each; and South Korea and Indonesia with four golds apiece.

The young Filipino numbers aces from public and private elementary and secondary schools nationwide bagged a total of 216 medals: 31 golds, 60 silvers and 125 bronze medals, to top the 12-nation contest.

All wards of the nongovernment Mathematics Trainers’ Guild-Philippines which promotes excellence in math education, the Filipino students also received 83 merit certificates.

Filipino team bags 216 medals to top math contest

By: Jerry E. Esplanada
@inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 4th, 2015

The Filipino teamâ€"composed mostly of students from Metro Manila schoolsâ€"beat Asian mathematics powerhouses China and Taiwan to emerge as overall champion in the 2015 Singapore International Math Competition (SIMC) held last week in the Lion City.

9. Because even the handrails are dangerous. One Weibo user says, “Actually, the handrails run into problems sometimes too… There’s one in a shopping mall near my place that moves backwards every dozen seconds; kids with weak balance will fall down.”



So remember: Always treat the escalator with the respect that it deserves.

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8. This is a bad idea. Do not attempt this idea.

7. Same idea, but be careful, OK? Read the blue board on your left that clearly says “Watch Out for Head” in Chinese.

6. But then things, as they tend to do when the internet is involved, got weird. Here’s one girl attempting to answer the question: “Does it mean I’m safe as long as I don’t touch the ground?!”

5. And some users, like “Pear Puree” here, are resigned to the chance of death. “Such an era of ‘coming into the world by planning and die at random’!” they wrote, referring to China’s family planning policies.

4. This ultimate guide for riding an escalator has begun circulating on Weibo. A commenter says, “Trained to do standing long jump for so many years and it’s finally in use, now I understand the school gym teacher’s deep love.”

3. The “bring a tool/stick/umbrella with you” plan of action:

2. “Every single step is a life-threatening pitfall,” this man is teaching his children:

1. The “I’m afraid of you, but I can go around you” strategy:

Just Tuesday, another teenager burst into an empty hotel elevator shaft, fell, and died, according to news portal Sina News.

Businesses’ overall lack of any sort of safety mentality, appropriate training for staffers, and failure to comply with regulations are making people distrustful of public security.

People figured out that they had to be more self-reliant to guarantee their safety. These are some of the results of a national brainstorming strategy, fitting the Chinese pattern of reacting to tragedies with laughter instead of tears:

This Is How People In China Are Riding Escalators After A Horrific Accident

People who have to ride escalators are rightly freaking out in the wake of the recent fatality.

Jul. 30, 2015


Beimeng Fu
BuzzFeed News Reporter

A short video of a mother’s fatal fall into a hole atop an escalator â€" moments after she saved her son â€" has been pulling at viewers’ heartstrings since it was released last Sunday.

A short video of a mother's fatal fall into a hole atop an escalator â€" moments after she saved her son â€" has been pulling at viewers' heartstrings since it was released last Sunday.

But as horrifying as it was, the tragedy captured on security cameras was only the first of three high-profile incidents that happened on Chinese escalators and elevators over the last week.

The central government has ordered all its provincial authorities to ensure that escalators in every mall are functioning properly by Aug. 10. Chinese citizens are meanwhile taking no chances. Images and videos of their ways of dealing with escalator-phobia, being shared on Chinese social media (and excerpted here by BuzzFeed), range from practical to hilarious to risky.

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According to the website china.org.cn â€" a government portal run by the State Council Information Office â€" figures from the China Elevator Association show that more than half of all accidents involving elevators and escalators are connected to maintenance and repair neglect.

Zhang Huaiji, an engineer with the Shenzhen Institute of Special Equipment Inspection and Testing, told the site that there were not enough inspectors for China’s many escalators and elevators, and added that low wages and long hours were leading many maintenance workers to leave the field.

These three accidents have led to heightened concerns and scrutiny of the country’s aging escalators and elevators, many of which are not up to acceptable safety standards. A report by the country’s Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), cited by the state Xinhua news agency, found that more than 110,000 escalators have potential safety issues of which over 26,000 have not yet been repaired.

The AQSIQ said there were 49 escalator accidents in 2014 that claimed 37 lives, the Global Times said, citing Xinhua. The accidents were generally caused by poor design, the use of substandard materials, installation and maintenance, China Elevator Association official Zhang Lexiang told the Global Times.

After Three Grim Accidents in a Week, Is It Even Safe to Ride on a Chinese Escalator?

Rishi Iyengar   


© Aly Song / Reuters
A woman walks next to escalators at a department store in Shanghai


Experts warn of poorly maintained, aging equipment and not enough inspectors

Exactly a week earlier, video of 30-year-old mother Xian Liujuan went around the world after the escalator she was traveling on, in a department store in the central province of Hubei, suddenly gave way. She was able to push her young son before being sucked into the machinery and killed. On Friday, a toddler’s arm got caught in an escalator, this time at a mall in the southern Guangxi region, when he tripped after wandering away from his parents. His mangled arm was pulled out 30 minutes later.

NEWS 1:

Chinese mother saves son seconds before falling to death inside escalator

By Steven Jiang, CNN
Tue, July 28, 2015



Beijing (CNN) â€" Security camera footage has emerged of a mother saving her young son's life seconds before losing her own on an escalator in China.

The 30-second video begins innocently enough: As the escalator in a shopping mall almost reaches the top, a woman in a white shirt and black skirt lifts up her young son to get ready to step off.

But as she does, a metal panel suddenly collapses under her feet and she falls into the gap.

Struggling with only her upper body above the structure, the mother is seen pushing her son forward. The boy is quickly pulled to safety by a mall employee standing near the top of the escalator.

Two other mall employees try to drag the trapped woman out -- but within a few seconds she disappears through the hole, into the escalator shaft.

Despite a four-hour rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters declared the woman dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon (July 27 PHT), state media reported.

more at http://cnnphilippines.com/world/2015/07/28/chinese-mother-dies-saves-son-escalator.html

NEWS 2:

Toddler's arm stuck for 30 minutes in escalator in China

A toddler's arm got stuck in an escalator in a  Chinese mall, a day after a woman plunged to her death after riding an escalator.

JUL 28, 2015, 9:30 PM SGT
Jalelah Abu Baker


A toddler's arm got stuck in an escalator in a Chinese mall, a day after a woman plunged to her death after riding an escalator.PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO

GUANGXI- A one-year-old's left arm was caught in the stairs of an escalator in a shopping mall in China's Guangxi region, just a day after a woman plunged to her death after riding an escalator in a mall in Hubei.

Rescuers managed to pull the child's arm out half an hour later, People's Daily reported. His hand was mangled in the incident.

Some reports said the boy had ventured to the escalator in the shopping mall in Wuzhou city when his parents were resting. He tripped when he was trying to get onto the escalator.

more at http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/toddlers-arm-stuck-for-30-minutes-in-escalator-in-china

NEWS 3:

Shanghai man's lower leg amputated after getting trapped in escalator

By Tiffany Ap and Steven Jiang, CNN
Mon, August 3, 2015



HONG KONG (CNN) â€" A Shanghai man has had his lower leg amputated after becoming trapped in a mall escalator, the third serious escalator-related accident in China in a week.

The 35-year-old man, surnamed Zhang, was a cleaner at the Cloud Nine shopping mall in Shanghai's Zhongshan Park, state media said.

Video surveillance footage shows him cleaning with a mop on Sunday evening before one of the escalator's metal floor panels give way, trapping his left lower leg.

more at http://cnnphilippines.com/world/2015/08/03/Shanghai-mans-lower-leg-amputated-after-getting-trapped-in-escalator.html

unsolicited advice: work from home, bai hubs.  or work in the home---laundry, cooking, cleaning.  those are decent jobs even if there's no pay.

bisag moingon ka pag quadruple agent ko, it would not negate the fact nga mamintaha gyod ning intsik.  remember the west philippine sea.

sige mo.  pagkahuman nga ma-healthy na inyong kidneys, the wakangs will start harvesting them.  di mahimo ang intsik nga mag-do-gooder without getting anything in return, as their purported financing of megaprojects in other countries show.  dako kaayo ang interest sa loans, mind.

hahay, kuyanap gyod diay ang mga cheats natong politicians.  when could our country ever stop bearing this pestilence?  can we ever trust philippine politicians?

maghusa man sad ko ani...  sadista gyod ka, hubag.

commanding lover boy chief.

chief boy commanding lover.

boy commanding chief lover.

and he wants to be president?

greatly missing this snack.  sigh.

A Palestinian man inspects a house that was badly damaged in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists on two houses at Duma village near the West Bank city of Nablus. The fire in the Palestinian home killed an 18-month-old baby and seriously injured several other family members, an act that Israel's prime minister described as terrorism. (http://www.voanews.com/)

10 A boy plays near a fountain depicting a water tap in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, July 27, 2015. (http://www.voanews.com/)

Giant panda Jia Jia eats bamboo next to her birthday cake made with ice and vegetables at Ocean Park in Hong Kong as she celebrates her 37th birthday. Jia Jia broke the Guinness World Records title for “Oldest Panda Living in Captivity." (http://www.voanews.com/)

People hold placards denouncing Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security-related legislation during an anti-government rally in Tokyo.  Abe pushed legislation through parliament's lower house that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War II. (http://www.voanews.com/)

Alpenhorn players prepare to perform along the Lac de Tracouet, situated 2,200 meters (7,220 feet) above sea level in Haute-Nendaz, canton of Valais, Switzerland. (http://www.voanews.com/)

Left-wing militants protect themselves as Turkish anti-riot police fires water cannon to disperse a demonstration in Istanbul's Gazi district. Tensions across the country are high, with police routinely using water cannon to disperse nightly protests in Istanbul and other cities denouncing IS and the government's policies on Syria. (http://www.voanews.com/)

An airplane of firefighters flies over smoke billowing over Athens as firemen were battling a brushfire in northeastern Athens and another wildfire in the southern Pelopponese peninsula that prompted the evacuation of five villages. (http://www.voanews.com/)

Exiled Tibetan protesters shout slogans against China during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India. They were protesting over the untimely death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan spiritual teacher in a Chinese prison this week. (http://www.voanews.com/)

This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft, which collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye. This image shows the sun in wavelengths of 171 angstroms, typically colorized in blue. Image released, July 17, 2015. (http://www.voanews.com/)

this too is chaste.

dia ra ko uy...

why man hadlok man na sila ug mga katoliko?  what's the insecurity all about?

Quote from: islander on August 01, 2015, 01:52:13 PM
unsolicited advice to presidential contender mar roxas:  hide your wife, please.  she is your political albatross.

The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse.

It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).

In the poem, an albatross starts to follow a ship â€" being followed by an albatross was generally considered an omen of good luck. However, the titular mariner shoots the albatross with a crossbow, which is regarded as an act that will curse the ship (which indeed suffers terrible mishaps).

Even when they are too thirsty to speak, the ship's crew let the mariner know through their glances that they blame his action for the curse. He feels as though the albatross is metaphorically hung around his neck - that is, when people look at him, they see him as the albatross killer and that weighs on him. Thus the albatross can be both an omen of good or bad luck, as well as a metaphor for a burden to be carried as penance. (wikipedia)