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About the Philippines
Quick Facts
Population (projected 2010) 94.013 million
Land area: 300,000 square kilometers
Capital: Manila (population 1,660,714 as of 2007)
Helpful statistic links:
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics Department of Agriculture (www.bas.gov.ph)
National Statistics Coordination Board (www.nscb.gov.ph)
National Statistics Office (www.nso.gov.ph)
The Filipino people are basically of South Asian stock, although there has been extensive intermarriage with other populations from different countries - including China, India, the United States, Spain, among others - resulting in a great deal of stock blending.
About 79 indigenous ethnic groups make up the Filipino people. There are 120 distinct indigenous languages (with 500 variant languages or dialects) spoken by these ethnic groups. Thirteen languages are considered "dominant languages" because they are spoken by more than a million speakers: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, Bikol, Albay Bikol, Pangasinan, Maranao, Maguindanao, Kinaray-a, and Tausug. The lingua francas are Filipino (the national language) and English. A Filipino will speak a least two of these languages.
The historical experiences of the Philippines in the last 500 years have contributed to create a pluralistic blend of Asian and Western cultures. The colonial rule by Spain (1576-1898) and the United States (1903-1946) have resulted in the deep entrenchment of Christian values in the Filipino identity, yet the dynamic cultural interaction with China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia throughout the past centuries gives a distinct Asian texture to the heritage of Filipino culture.
Physical Geography
The Philippines, an archipelago of 7,100 islands at the fringe of the South China Sea, is in the region of Southeast Asia. The archipelago is divided into three island groups: the Luzon group (composed Luzon [land area of 105,000 square kilometers], Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, and Batanes), the Mindanao island group (composed of Mindanao [land area 95,000 square kilometers], Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, and Sulu; and the Visayas (a large cluster of islands whose six largest are Bohol, Cebu, Leyte, Negros, Panay and Samar).
The Philippine archipelago is volcanic in origin, and the large islands are mountainous is terrain.
Political Geography
The Philippines is administratively divided into 79 provinces, each governed by a Governor. Each province has a provincial capital, which is the seat of government and is usually the center of commerce and services.
These provinces are grouped into 17 regions based on geographical proximity and cultural history. There are three special administrative regions: the National Capital Region (which consists of the 16 cities and 1 municipality making up Metro Manila), the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (comprised of Marawi City and the five predominantly Muslim provinces of Mindanao), and the Cordillera Administrative Region (comprised of the six provinces that are the cradle of the Igorot people).
The diversity of indigenous ethnicities of the Philippines (79 ethno-linguistic groups) has produced a complex and heterogeneous mix of cultures. Each ethnic group has a distinct heritage of language (79 ethnic languages with about 240 variants or dialects), costumes, folk lore and oral traditions, cuisine, dance, art and music, which were shaped by the group's beliefs, value system, and relationship with the natural geography. In the period before the Spanish conquest of the Philippines, these groups developed in relative isolation with each other, owing to the archipelago's insular and mountainous geography. However, Spain's imposition of the Catholic religion, as well as a Euro-centric educational system and culture, influenced the indigenous cultures. The establishment of Spanish encomiendas and settlements, which evolved into towns and cities, caused migrations which forced indigenous groups to mix and homogenize.
Certain indigenous groups harmonized with the Spanish colonists and absorbed foreign influences. The peoples of the regions now known as Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog,Ilocandia, Bicolandia, and the Visayas were Hispanized, and their respective cultures developed nuances shaped by Catholicism, Spanish and Mexican traits.
Many indigenous groups which resisted Spanish influence and rule, or were left alone because of their geographic isolation, retained their way of life. The peoples of the island of Mindanao remained distinct because they were able to adhere to their Muslim faith and kept close cultural contact with kingdoms of Malaysia and Indonesia. The peoples of the Cordillera mountains fiercely retained their distinct mountain culture and beliefs, resisting evangelization by missionaries. Many aeta tribes remained nomadic, dwelling in mountain ranges.
Indigenous cultural identities remained intact despite western influences and Christianization.
Website references: National Commission on Culture and the Arts: www.ncca.gov.ph
The Philippine archipelago was gradually settled by peoples migrating from the Asian mainland. Archeological finds suggest that Paleolithic hominids lived in the archipelago around 24,000 BCE. Migrations to the Philippines during the Neolithic Age included waves of Austronesians, the first of whom were the ancestors of the aetas, followed by groups of Southeast Asian peoples from 5000 to 1500 BCE.
Throughout the first millennium of the Christian era, settlers from present-day China, Malaysia and Indonesia settled in the Philippine archipelago, bringing their culture and religion, as well as trade with their places of origin, enriching the ethnic and cultural development of the indigenous peoples.
Organized states began to form around the second century, which had trade links with China, Java, Borneo, Thailand, india, and Arabia. Some prosperous states evolved into small kingdoms between the 7th and 15th centuries, thriving in present-day Pampanga, Manila Bay, Cebu, Iloilo, Pangasinan, Aparri, Laguna, and Sulu. Oral traditions and archeological findings suggest that exiles from the wars of the Majapahit Empire of Java settled in the Central Luzon area. Missionaries from Arabia began to arrive in the 11th century and spread Islam throughout Mindanao and the southern regions of Luzon.
The first recorded European encounter of the Philippines was the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan at Homonhon, Leyte in March 1521. Magellan's involvement in a war between two rajahs resulted in his death in a battle in Mactan, Cebu in the following month. Spain undertook the military conquest of the Philippines in 1565 with the sending of Miguel López de Legazpi and an army, which landed in Cebu in February 1565. Legazpi formed an alliance with Datu Sikatuna of Bohol in March 1565, who provided support and supplies to the Spanish force, in return for the dispersal of the latter's enemies. Legazpi conquered the island of Cebu in the following month, established a colonial settlement he named "Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesús", from which he carried further military expeditions against neighboring islands. Subsequent additional forces from Mexico brought reinforcements and colonists which solidified Spanish control. Legazpi conducted further campaigns that conquered the area of Manila Bay, where he established a permanent settlement named Intramuros in June 1571, which became the seat of Spanish power and administration over the archipelago.
For the next centuries, Spain maintained the Philippines as a religious outpost and its base for trade with China. Missionaries spread Catholicism throughout the archipelago. From Intramuros, Spain launched military incursions against the Dutch in Indonesia, as well as religious missions to China, Japan, and other parts of Asia.
Spanish treatment of the Filipino people was harsh in many areas. Heavy taxation, the imposition of mandatory service in heavy labor, and abuses by the Spanish civil guard were hard on the people, especially the peasant class. Revolts sporadically broke out throughout the archipelago during Spain's three-century rule, however, these revolts were generally severely dealt with. In the 18th century, members of the growing native bourgeoisie going to Europe for education came in contact with the liberal thought flourishing in that continent, and from their ranks came a group of dissident intellectuals who clamored for reformed in the colonial governance of the Philippines and representation of the Filipino people in Cortes Generales of Spain. In the 1870s, the Filipino intellectual émigrés in Europe, orchestrated their actions into a Propaganda Movement which lobbied for the liberalization of Spain's colonial governance of the Philippines. The Propaganda Movement was led by Marcelo del Pilar, José Rizal, Graciano López Jaena, and Mariano Ponce. The Propaganda Movement failed, but their writings and thought were taken up by masses in the Philippines. José Rizal, who wrote the novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as numerous essays and commentaries criticizing the corruption of the Spanish officials in the Philippines, became a widely-read sociopolitical thinker highly respected by the Filipino masses.
The failure of the Propaganda Movement convinced many Filipinos that the Spanish colonial government will never agree to social reform. In 1892, Andrés Bonifacio formed a secret society called the Katipunan whose aim was to gain independence by revolution. The society grew and attracted the proletarian class. In August 1896, Spanish authorities began the arrest of members, which preempted Bonifacio to start the revolution. On 26 August 1896, Bonifacio and members of the Katipunan tore their cedúlas (identity papers) at the town of Balintawak, and began the Philippine Revolution.
The Revolution spread to eight provinces (Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Laguna, and Batangas). The first year of the revolution went badly against the Filipinos, who were poorly armed, untrained, and loosely organized. But victories were scored by Emilio Aguinaldo, who led the revolutionary forces in the province of Cavite and successfully drove out the Spanish forces there by October 1896. In May 1897, Aguinaldo gained the leadership of the Katipunan.
By 1898, most of the province of Cavite had driven out Spanish forces, and on 12 June 1898, the revolutionary forces in Cavite under Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippines and established the Philippine Repubilc. In November 1898, delegates from the liberated areas of the Philippines assembled in Malolos, Bulacan and formed the Congreso Revolucionario (later called the Malolos Congress), which framed a Constitution (which was ratified on 29 November 1898 and signed into law on 23 December 1898). The Congress elected Aguinaldo president on 1 January 1899. On 23 January, the Congress inaugurated the Philippine Republic with Aguinaldo as President.
Spanish control over the Philippines deteriorated as the revolution spread throughout the archipelago. The Spanish situation was exacerbated by its war against the United States, the conflict that is known as the Spanish-American War (21 April – 10 December 1898). In May 1898, the United States launched a surprise naval attack on the Spanish fleet in Manila, which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Pacific fleet. The United States sent thousands of land troops around Manila to follow up with a land campaign, and these forces, coordinating with Filipino revolutionaries, laid siege to Manila from June to August 1898. The war ended when Spain, suffering defeats in the Pacific and Caribbean, was forced to end hostilities and signed a peace treaty, ceding to the United States its colonies of the Philippines, Guam, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
On 21 December 1898, US President William McKinley made a declaration that the United States was annexing the Philippines. The United States maintained its troops in the Philippines after the surrender of Spain, tension developed between Filipino and American forces. Hostilities broke out when two American infantrymen shot and killed Filipinos on 4 February 1899, which were followed by American military incursions against Bulacan. The Philippine Congress made a formal declaration of war on 2 June 1899. American forces eventually defeated the Filipino military in the ensuing Philippine-American War, which ended when Aguinaldo was captured on 23 March 1901 and resulted in the fall of the Philippine Republic.
The United States instituted a civil government headed by an American Governor-General. The system of government, bureaucracy, school system, media, and other socio-economic institutions were patterned after American models. In 1916, the US Congress enacted the Jones Law, which officially declared that independence eventually will be granted to the Philippines, at a date which later will be set to 4 July 1946.
For more than 40 years, the Philippines was a territory of the United States, and was the latter's base for military, trade, and diplomatic activities in Asia. The US colonial administration instituted executive, judicial, and legislative systems, as well as civil bureaucracy patterned after American institutions.
The United States allowed the Philippines to prepare itself for independence. On 15 November 1935, ten years before the scheduled granting of independence, the Philippines became a commonwealth with the United States. The Philippine Commonwealth, whose first president was Manuel Quezon, had quasi-independent status and was intended as the transition from American administration to full independence.
In the Second World War, Japan attacked the Philippines, landing its invasion force on 8 December 1941 and overcoming defense by the joint US and Philippine forces by April 1942. The Japanese conquest of the archipelago was quick and the ensuing occupation of the Philippines was harsh and brutal; but many guerilla resistance groups harried Japanese forces and hampered their operations. The US military campaign to retake the Philippines started on 20 October 1944, with the landing of forces on Leyte Island. By February 1945, most of the Philippines was retaken, with some isolated pockets of Japanese forces holding out until Japan's surrender in August 1945.
Immediately after the Liberation, the Commonwealth Government was reconstituted, and the country undertook the task of reconstructing the war-damaged economy and infrastructure. On 4 July 1946, the granting of independence was enacted by the US.
Website references: National Commission on Culture and the Arts: www.ncca.gov.ph
Sectoral statistical about the Philippines is provided by the National Statistics Offices (NSO) at its website www.census.gov.ph and by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) at www.nscb.gov.ph
GDP (2009 nominal terms): PHP 7.678 trillion (USD 169.419 billion)
GNP (2009 nominal terms): PHP 8.809 trillion (USD 194.373 billion)
Per capita GDP (Q4 2009): PHP 23,742
Per capita GNP (Q4 2009): PHP 26,684
Personal consumption expenditure (Q4 2009): PHP 17,413
Total Trade (2009, FOB Value): USD 81.528 billion
Imports: USD 43.092 billion
Exports USD 38.436 billion
Inflow of OFW remittances (2009): USD 17.348 billion
Employment rate (April 2010): 92.0%
Underemployment rate (April 2010): 17.8%
The climate of the Philippines is tropical and maritime, characterized by relatively high temperature, high humidity and abundant rainfall.
The mean annual temperature is 26.6 degrees Celsius. The coolest months fall in January with a mean temperature of 25.5 degrees Celsius. May is the warmest month with a mean temperature of 28.3 degrees Celsius.
The average monthly relative humidity varies between 71 percent in March and 85 percent in September. The combination of warm temperature, high relative and absolute humidities contribute to high sensible temperature throughout the archipelago. Temperature and humidity are at their highest levels from March to May.
Rainfall distribution throughout the country varies from region to region, affected by the direction of the moisture-bearing winds and the location of the mountain systems. The mean annual rainfall of the Philippines varies from 965 to 4,064 millimeters annually. Baguio City, eastern Samar, and eastern Surigao receive the greatest amount of rainfall while the southern portion of Cotabato receives the least amount of rain. At General Santos City in Cotabato, the average annual rainfall is only 978 millimeters.
The climate has two major seasons: the rainy (or monsoon) season (from June to November) and the dry season (December to May). The dry season may be subdivided further into the cool dry season (December to February) and the hot dry season (March to May).
Typhoons occur during the monsoon season. These storm systems originate in the region of the Marianas and Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean which have the same latitudinal location as Mindanao. Their movements follow a northwesterly direction, generally traversing the latitudes of Luzon and the Visayas.
Benigno S. Aquino III is the fifteenth President of the Republic of the Philippines. He was elected in the 10 May 2010 national elections and was sworn into office on 30 June 2010. Information about the President may be accessed through the following websites:
The Office of the President www.president.gov.ph
Official Gazette of the Philippines www.gov.ph
Directory of the Philippine Government www.gov.ph/directory/
Philippine Government agencies - click here
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I Ray Jaso would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the voters who went to the polls to cast a vote for me. I truly appreciate the effort they made. I am in awe as to the turnout of voters. I didn't win the election but so be it.
I thank those who supported me from the beginning and the community for accepting me. I have enjoyed servicing the community and being Mayor of Refugio. All my Jaso family also thank you for all the support over the years.
Special thanks to my city hall family. I will never forget you and thanks to the city employees and to my campaign manager Lillie Jaso for all the help and support and putting up with me. Thanks.

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"Am Sasuke Uchiha and i will be an hokage"
There probably isn't any meaning in life. Perhaps you can find something interesting to do while you are alive. Like how you found that flower. Like how I found you.... [Orochimaru to Kimimaru]
Lucky! - Oboro
- "If you think I'm just a foolish kid ruled by his emotions, that's fine."
- "Destroy konoha, Muhhahahahhahahaha "
now lets get serious:
- "My only goal is in the darkness."
"Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace."-Nagato
Darkness is a Shroud that hides your shame. You are nothing but a cowards, Sasuke! ~ Guess who :p
This one always made me laugh
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan, and kill a certain someone." -Uchiha Sasuke
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"you are not even worth killing" - ITACHI UCHIHA
"even hell runs on money" - KAKUZU
"when a man learns to love he must bear the risk of hatred" - TOBI
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"Fine art is the beauty of that single fleeting moment of explosion." - Deidara
"If you do not believe in yourself, hard work is useless." - Gai
Sorry Rei, I dont know why there are 2 posts
Here is two by who is possibly the most under appreciated character in Naruto, in my opinion:
When a person dies, he disappears, along with his past, current lifestyle, and his future. Many people die in missions and wars. They die easily and in surprisingly simple ways. Hayate was one of them. Those who died had hopes and dreams, but everyone has something as important as those: parents, siblings, friends, lovers; people who are important to you, they trust and help each other. The bond between the people important to you ever since birth and the string that binds them becomes thicker and stronger as time goes by... It's beyond reason. Those bound to you by that string will do that because it is important.
It seems like the small leaves in the Village of Konoha have inherited that "will of fire" you spoke of, Third. The fire on the leaves will eventually burn greater and stronger.... It will flash its light and protect this village.
-Iruka Umino
kakashi:"The next generation always surpasses the previos one''
sasuke:"im an avenger !!!"
diedara:"art is a blast"
naruto:"how can i become hokage if i cant even save a friend"
itachi:"my foolish little brother"
"In order to exist you need a purpose, to exist for no reason is the same as being dead." ~ Sabaku no Gaara
"I am, Jiraiya, the epitome of manliness! I shall fall for no woman's wiles! When you're me, you only need to flash that sexiness to have women fall at your feet" - Jiraiya
1) To be Hokage, that is my dream! ~Naruto Uzumaki
2) We'll both die. ~Naruto to Sasuke
" My goal is the darkness " - Sasuke
" Tobi is a good boy " - Zetsu
Originally Posted by Faust
that is the most epic quote ever!!!
"Naruto... it's too late, nothing you can say will change me! I'm going to kill you and every last person in your beloved village! It's time to make your choice! Kill me and become a hero, or die at my hand and become another one of my victims!"
Naruto Uzumaki: I get it I get it!
Kakashi: No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it?
Itachi Uchiha: Go away. You don't interest me at the moment.
Sasuke Uchiha: WELL GET INTERESTED!
Itachi Uchiha: You are still too weak. You don't have enough hate. And you know something?
[leans in and whispers]
Itachi Uchiha: You never will.
" I Vow to Win ! " - Naruto Uzumaki
I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate...I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future...never really thought about it. As for my hobbies...I have lots of hobbies."_kakashi
(To Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura) "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum."_kakashi
"I won't allow my comrades to die. I'll protect you with my life. Trust me."_kakashi
"Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life."_kakashi
Thanks everyone, please keep them coming ^^
will add those soon
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#173251 - 02/06/08 10:22 PM nocturnal neologism
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having been asked recently to coin a word for a mutual friend with the questionable habit of falling asleep on the toilet, we settled on the term 'somnexudator', modelled on somnambulator, for one who defecates in their sleep
#173252 - 02/06/08 10:28 PM Re: nocturnal neologism [Re: castroscot]
Registered: 08/27/02
Posts: 2154
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
Somebody needs to get more sleep, preferably while laying down.
Has your friend ever fallen off?
#173253 - 02/06/08 10:46 PM Re: nocturnal neologism [Re: castroscot]
Carpal Tunnel
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linguistically, it's not the best -- the Latin root is sudare meaning to sweat...
edit: somnifecator?
Edited by tsuwm (02/06/08 10:53 PM)
#173254 - 02/07/08 03:33 AM Re: nocturnal neologism [Re: tsuwm]
Registered: 02/01/08
Posts: 29
Loc: New Mexico
'Nocturnal encopresis' is the psychiatric term for the involuntary passing of feces during sleep for no known physiological reason. Same term with 'enuresis' applies to bedwetting.
Your friend is actually falling asleep on the toilet, not passing out? Passing out while defecating is actually quite common, but sleeping...I can't say I've ever heard of that. Is your friend on sleep meds?
#173258 - 02/07/08 07:07 AM Re: fun with words [Re: Porcupine]
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Nocturnal encopresis
From Greek εν- en-) 'in, within' + κοπρος (kopros) 'extrement; filth' + ISV -sis suffix denoting 'state, condition'. For toilet, the closest Greek word I know of is αφεδρων (aphedrōn) 'privy' < απ(ο)- (ap-) 'from, away' + εδρα (hedra) 'place to sit', which is probably soldiers' slang and occurs once in Matthew 15:17 ("Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?"). 'To fall sleep' is κοιμαω (koima) and επικοιμαομαι (epikoimaomai) 'to fall sleep after or over (a thing)', so how about: epicoemaphedronesis?_________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#173259 - 02/07/08 07:12 AM Re: fun with words [Re: zmjezhd]
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Posts: 7210
Loc: Vermont
epicoemaphedronesis vs. somnifecator
formerly known as etaoin...
#173260 - 02/07/08 07:29 AM Re: fan with warts [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Posts: 3290
Loc: R'lyeh
Well, 'to shit' in Latin was caco (-are, -avi, -atus[/i]). Feces is from fæx, fæces, 'dregs, lees' and was a Medieval euphemism for stercus, stercoris, or merda, merdæ, 'shit'. I suppose if you want you could have somnicacator ..._________________________
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#173263 - 02/07/08 11:18 AM Re: fan with warts [Re: zmjezhd]
Registered: 07/10/05
Posts: 1773
Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA
Cast: I'm surprised that Jackie let you get away with this one. When I suggested that switching from prescriptivism to de- was something like lying down and spreading your cheeks she insisted I delete my post, whereupon I complied. But of course I was making reference to the facial orifice
Sorry Jackie, no offense--just kidding_________________________
#173271 - 02/07/08 02:42 PM Re: nocturnal neologism [Re: Porcupine]
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Posts: 2891
Originally Posted By: Porcupine'Nocturnal encopresis' is the psychiatric term for the involuntary passing of feces during sleep for no known physiological reason. Same term with 'enuresis' applies to bedwetting.
Your friend is actually falling asleep on the toilet, not passing out? Passing out while defecating is actually quite common, but sleeping...I can't say I've ever heard of that. Is your friend on sleep meds?
'Nocturnal encopresis' Wouldn't is simply be called fecal incontinence?
#173290 - 02/07/08 06:57 PM Re: nocturnal neologism [Re: belMarduk]
Registered: 02/01/08
Posts: 29
Loc: New Mexico
I think fecal incontinence would imply that there is a known physiological cause. Or perhaps they are synonymous, I don't know. Nocturnal would imply that it only happens at night, and if one could control bodily function during the day but not while sleeping for no valid physiological reason, they wouldn't truly be incontinent. Maybe. Maybe psychiatry just likes to assert itself by refusing to borrow terms from general medicine.
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We are back! The fan MLB Blogs have been updated!
Thank you to Mark and all the MLB helpers that worked on the transition. Working in IT, I know how migrations can take long,long hours.
Dodgers have been in a rut. They lost two out of three from the D'backs. Now they lost the first game against the Brewers. Is rare that we get two two-game series back to back. The first two with the Brewers and the second two game series with the Giants.
Talking about the Giants, I was happy to hear that Bryan Stow was able to be moved closer to home. I always keep him in my prayers that he will recover. it must have been so hard on his family living out of a hotel in order to be close to him. Get well Bryan.
Today was the Dodgers home game #22. I have been to all the home games so far. It was a cold night at the Ravine and the Dodgers bats have been even colder.
Rain is expected for tomorrow but hopefully the game gets underway. So far this season there has been more cancelled games due to the weather than all season last year.
Kuroda-san matches up against ex Dodger Randy Wolf Tuesday night. Go Dodgers!
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Oh no! Virginia! I hope it does
not rain for your PROM!
Thanks Peter! Woohoo! And I have not been posting much. Need to catch up. Work and Dodger games and life has me busy but I'll be back baby!
Catherine, yep! Here I am at game #26 listening to our organist right now
Please let me know where you will be sitting! I'd like to meet you in person if you don't mind. Game is at 1:10 at My Lady! No Vin that day, boo to that.


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NRL Total: 92,605 Average: 23,151.5
SL Total: 48,187 Average: 12,046.75
WEEK 2 (2 matches)
NRL 26,476 23,459 Total: 49,935 Average: 24,967.5
SL 11,133 8,050 Total: 19,183 Average: 9,591.5
I expect that next week the contrast will be even worse.
Is the difference because of the recesssion in England?
The Aussies don't have a recession. The Australian economy is booming.
But why did the English average decline in the second (knockout round) week when the NRL average went up?
How does this compare with last year or previous years? The best recent comparison year would be 2007 when both economies were booming.
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Carmen Electra Wears A Bustier & Fishnet Stockings To '90210' Celebration
Although she only appears in one episode of the series, Carmen Electra stole the show at the "90210" 100th episode celebration in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on Friday.
The actress wore a black and white striped bustier, fishnet stockings, glittering pink high heels and a sparkling headband at the event.
Electra, 40, appears in the 100th episode as Vesta, a "cross between Dita Von Teese and a Pussycat Doll." Now we get it - she attended the celebration in character! Vesta is in charge of a modern burlesque troup that Erin Silver (Jessica Lowndes) joins.
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- U.S. beef cow numbers expected to continue decline
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• Given the current lackluster level of profits and immense uncertainty in the U.S. general economy, cattlemen will likely continue to liquidate cattle numbers until profitability can be achieved.
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The U.S. beef cow herd is expected to continue to decrease in the coming months and year, primarily due to a lack of profitability, high production costs, competing meats, and alternative uses of land.
The lack of profitability by the majority of cow-calf producers can be attributed to weak demand caused by the severe recession, says Walt Prevatt, Auburn University Extension economist.
High production costs, says Prevatt, include those for feed, fertilizer, labor and land rents. "We've also seen pasture acreage moving into grain production and/or conservation programs and other non-farm uses such as recreation and rural non-farm development. Given the current lackluster level of profits and immense uncertainty in the U.S. general economy, cattle farmers will likely continue to liquidate cattle numbers until profitability can be achieved," he says.
On the brighter side, U.S. beef exports during 2010 are expected to increase to 2.3 billion pounds — up 21 percent over the previous year — due to a significant recovery by the majority of U.S. trading partners and a weak dollar.
"However, U.S. beef exports during 2011 are expected to decline slightly due to financial market weaknesses among several trading partners," says Prevatt. "Exports beyond 2011 are expected to be gradual as world economies recover from recessionary conditions. Any increase in the levels of U.S. exports of beef and/or competing meats such as pork or poultry will likely have a significant impact on U.S. beef prices during the next couple of years."
U.S. cattle farmers clearly are continuing to decrease their inventory of cattle and calves, he adds. In the mid-year July 1, 2010 Cattle Report, cattle producers told USDA they had about 500,000 fewer beef cows that had calved (-1.6 percent) than a year ago. Beef cow replacements were down 100,000 head (-2.2 percent) from a year ago at 4.4 million head. A decrease in beef cow replacements and beef cows that have calved during 2010, says Prevatt, suggests that herd liquidation will continue in 2011.


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text: How can u tell if u have a haunting? Stacey603 posted:12/25/2012 12:19:51 AM How can u tell if u have a haunting without equipment that u guys use. Someone had passed away several yrs before i moved into my apartment and sometimes u can feel someone sit on the edge of my bed and no one is there. u see shadows and u feel temp drops and get goose bumps and u feel like there is someone is there and u hear voices and weird noisesmalachi the prophet posted:12/25/2012 1:50:43 AM if he is evil -he cannot be in the presence of frankensence -the tree sap -noT incense by holy water/oil have a priest re-bless it. burn the smoke in every corner of the house then make a cross on every door post -even closets (also basements and crawlsbases) SLOWLY YOU WILL WORK HIM OUT . "" a holy ring of protection"" = a meraculous medal of mary a M with a cross on top rev 7 the holy seal (also helps people to rapture) the 144,000 keep on you 24/7 =and no evil can hurt you most ghosts are lost and do not know they are dead -if that is case good luck -lol someone has to re-open the light,the doorway (jacobs ladder/angel highway). THIS WILL PUSH HIM UP INTO ADDICT -IF NOT EVIL LET HIM STAY THERE ..... bobprin posted:12/25/2012 6:43:13 AM Sounds like you got a ghost for sure. Now you got to decide if you want the ghost around or not. If you like it talk nice to it when you know it's there, invite it to sit with you, ask it questions, just like a person you just met and would like to know. If you want to be rid of it find out it's name, tell it that it is dead and it's now time to get out. If that doesn't work move.breeld posted:12/25/2012 7:22:44 AM "If you want to be rid of it find out it's name, tell it that it is dead and it's now time to get out. If that doesn't work move." LOL "Just the facts, ma`am"Wereparadox posted:12/25/2012 12:42:02 PM Or if you laugh at everything it does and no matter what don't get scared. They useually get sick of it and go away. But be carefull of malachi's advice. I useally it works at first but then in most of the cases I've seen the thing comes back a lot more pissed off in a few months. But every case is differnt it depends if the spirit is evil, elemental or a memory replay or just someone who doesn't want to move on.spooky1 posted:12/25/2012 2:22:10 PM Definitely sounds like a ghost. I would sit down talk to him/her & explain to them that there dead & to go to the light.TheParanormalStates posted:2/8/2013 2:49:30 AM I am looking to collect the best stories from all across the United States. I want to take the best personal paranormal encounters and show off the unexplained side of America. I wish to take all of the best stories and put them into a book. So if you have a personal paranormal experience from aliens to black eyed kids or big foot. Literally anything paranormal I want to hear about it. Please send your experiences to [email protected] Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Home List of Titles Idea: a reference platform for systematic information security management tool support
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- Idea: a reference platform for systematic information security management tool support
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- The ISO 27001 standard specifies an information security management system (ISMS) as a means to implement security best practices for IT systems. Organisations that implement an ISMS typically experience various challenges such as enforcing a common vocabulary, limiting human errors and integrating existing management tools and security mechanisms. However, ISO 27001 does not provide guidance on these issues because tool support is beyond its scope, leaving organisations to start 'from scratch' with manual and usually paper document-driven approaches. We propose a novel reference platform for security management that provides the foundation for systematic and automated ISMS tool support. Our platform consists of a unified information model, an enterprise-level repository and an extensible application and integration platform that aid practitioners in tackling the aforementioned challenges. This paper motivates and outlines the key elements of our approach and presents a first proof-of-concept prototype implementation.
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- Lecture notes in computer science: proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2011), Madrid, Spain, 09-10 February 2011 / Ulfar Erlingsson, Roel Wieringa and Nicole Zannone (eds.), Vol. 6542, pp. 256-263
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- Information security management system; ISO 27001; ISMS; Security management; Standards; Tool support
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1957: The sitcom "Leave it to Beaver," starring Jerry Mathers as the title character, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver, premieres on television. The show, which also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally, would run for six seasons and eventually attain iconic status.


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A man who killed a Honolulu Police officer and injured another learned his fate Wednesday.
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James Dorsey will spend the next year in jail after driving drowsy and killing Eric Fontes on the side of the road.
"Your honor I am so sorry for what happened," said Dorsey in court. "No amount of apologies can explain how sorry I am for everything that's happened. It was an accident."
In just a few words, James Dorsey expressed remorse for causing the deadly crash in September 2011.
Reports show Dorsey was driving from his Makiki home to Maili when he dozed off along Farrington Highway. His truck hit two police officers and killed one -- Eric Fontes.
"I know that the defendant is trying to say it was an accident, but as it was noticed in trial, it was preventable," said Prosecuting Attorney Kristine Yoo. "He knew for about 2.5 miles he was tired and he was falling asleep."
Dorsey was found guilty of third degree negligent homicide for Fontes' death. The prosecution asked the judge for the maximum sentence of one year in jail while his defense attorney pleaded for a lighter sentence.
"I don't want this tragic accident to define him or the rest of his life," said Defense Attorney Carmel Kwock.
But the judge sided with the prosecution and the 22-year-old will serve one year.
"Given the state of the case, I think it was an appropriate sentence. He did take someone's life, an officer's life," said Yoo. "So given that situation, we are satisfied with what happened today."
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Milton Security Group's new Cloud Authentication Security uses OAuth, a protocol that lets developers make their services available through an API without forcing users to reveal their passwords or other credentials. When users log in via the Google Apps for Ed Authenticator, Milton's Edge7200i security appliance and ICEGuard series accept that login since it has been approved by Google. Once the login is accepted, the security appliance queries for the user's rights related to network access.
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Innovators – A Dying Breed in the US (more like being killed off)
And bam! Like I said, China and India will be two of the emerging world powers when it comes to technological innovation. I had read an earlier article many moons ago that discussed Professor Vivek Wadwha's findings with regards to his students' desires to return to their homelands. At the time, the push against illegal immigrants were already under way and, as mentioned, many companies found this appalling. It wasn't too hard to connect the dots and realize that we would be massively screwing ourselves in the global market. Sadly, there isn't much one (or a few) people can do to get Senators to care about the well being of the US over their desire to get votes for reelection. Now we see the affects of our Government's shortsightedness – China and India are indeed two of the fastest growing markets for tech and with a greater influx of bright minds from US universities, it won't be much longer before we see their reliance on US "innovation" fade away. Perhaps that will be the wakeup call that slaps some sense into US Government and gets them to listen to engineers instead of self-serving lobbyists.
Then there is the epic student debt problem that haunts our youth. So not only are we driving away the best and brightest foreigners, but we are also fucking over our own best and brightest newcomers. Good job America! President Obama is trying to find a way to alleviate the pains of the recession on new grads by pushing for a bill to help with student loan debt. Now the big question is: will this be enough to push new grads into starting their own businesses? I personally believe that this is too little, too late and, combined with the influence huge corporations have over the government, will be one of the contributing reasons we will lose our dominance as technological innovators. And do the numbers back me up?
Just looking at past census data (2008), we know that a gigantic chunk of employment is by small businesses. Using even 500 employees as a cutoff instead of actual dominance and ignoring the fact that huge companies tend to have a higher percentage of non-US based workers, we still end up with about 40% of the population being employed by small businesses. That is a shitfuckton of people and doesn't even account for unregistered entrepreneurs (i.e., the new grads coming out of college). Oh, and then there are the freelancers too. Can't forget them. Using this as our basis for small business importance, it becomes strikingly clear that pushing for small businesses and fostering startup growth is crucial to keeping our economy alive. Entrepreneurs, in particular, are some of our best innovators and provide quite the buffer setting us apart from other countries. As our buffer slowly dies, it becomes much easier for large companies in other countries to compete with the US as those companies will have the resources to match our own local R&D departments (i.e., they are on even grounds for hiring the best US workers for R&D and have the additional benefit of being much more attractive to the best and brightest foreigners – those that got educated in the US and left to go home). Once this happens, the US is going to be in deep economic shit.
So what can we do about this? For one, getting the government to realize that idiotic laws like E-PARASITE (formerly known as PROTECT IP) and the ridiculous software patent laws will only serve to hasten our decline. Perhaps getting the government to follow through on some of the We The People is a non-superfluous way would be a good start. For example, this is the response from the many marijuana petitions. The arguments and justifications put forth are idiotic (and rather than usurp my own post, I will refrain from going through them in detail) and just out of morbid curiosity (cause I don't even agree with the petition), I've signed this petition just to see what inane response they send out that won't contradict what they just wrote (or I can just sign this one). Remember Us Government, when you try and use illogical arguments against the entire US populous, you will get some sarcastic assholes who will tear your argument apart with a counterexample. Or perhaps the government can listen to the 99% and stop shacking up and fucking with corporations (Occupy Wall Street anyone?). There is a lot wrong with our government and the combination of media explosion (YouTube, Twitter, etc.) and the recession has made it much more transparent that we are declining as a nation of innovators.


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Farmers market vendors to open downtown storesBy Gordon Dritschilo
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The site of the soon-to-be Ray of Sunshine Bakery in Downtown Rutland is shown on Sunday.Two farmers market regulars are moving into downtown storefronts.
Ray of Sunshine Bakery and Vermont Truffle Company are both poised to join the ranks of Rutlands downtown merchants. The bakery will occupy the small vacant storefront adjacent to the Center Street entrance to the alley, while Vermont Truffle Company is in the process of buying the space occupied by the Something Sweet candy shop.
Ive been working for Price Chopper for about 15 years, said John Ray III of Center Rutland, owner of Ray of Sunshine. The last few years I was in grocery management and it wasnt making me happy. My passion lies in the kitchen. I followed my dream and here I am.
Rays background includes 11 years on the night shift at Price Choppers bakery, three years at Tastee Bakery and time as a cook at Royals Hearthside. More recently, hes been selling artisan breads at the farmers market.
I decided to do something totally off the wall and unique, he said.
Ray started from a 100-year-old recipe for Italian peasant bread and tweaked it with ingredients from cheese to vegetables to bacon. He also makes focaccia.
I became a master gardener back in 2010 and I grow a lot of the herbs myself, he said. Everything I do is local. ... That means a lot to me. I have kids and I worry about what they eat and whats out there.
Ray said he is shooting to open June 9 and will do bread, rolls, pies, cookies and pastries. He said he expects to be open from around 10 or 10:30 a.m. to around 6 p.m.
Im not going to be like a typical bakery open at 6 in the morning, he said. I want to be open at 5 oclock when people get out.
He said he will also continue to sell at area farmers markets.
Thats how I got noticed and I dont want to change that, he said. The storefront is only going to help me get my bread out to a wider market.
Stephen Montanez of Mendon, who owns Vermont Truffle Company with his wife, Anna, said he did not want to go into the same level of detail as Ray regarding his plans as they had not yet closed on the building as of Friday.
Our intention is to move our production facility from our residence to that facility and also have a retail location, he said. Were probably making around 40,000 to 50,000 truffles a year. Well certainly be doing other products in addition to truffles everythings still not 100 percent.
Montanez said they hope to close on the building by the end of June and that if everything goes according to plan, they will be open by foliage season.
A third property may also be in play as city records indicate the former Sabbys bar and restaurant was sold Monday. The transfer lists R.O.C. Associates of Killington as the new owner, though a search of the Vermont Secretary of States database did not turn up such a company. The sales price for the building and its contents was listed as $200,000.
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Volleyball part IIMay 19th, 2008 by Theonie
Saturday was a really rainy day which prevented us from practicing the day before our final. Sunday came and the team met for breakfast at 8am. We played our semi-final game against Whitley which was a good team. We won a set, then relaxed our game and lost a set. Our coach chided us and we promptly won another two sets to put us in the final against no other than Ormond college. The Ormond team was definitely not the same one we played against in our first game: they were much stronger, better, and possibly taller. Their serves and spikes were very powerful and hard to return. We were intimidated before we even started playing. We lost the first set by ten points.
They had a lot of fans who were going crazy and who hung a huge banner from the grand stands which read "Get Wet, Go Hard, Go Ormond." They also had a huge bee mascot. Our mascot was under renovations apparently and we did not have a banner but we did have many amazing fans who refused to sit in the grand stands in order to be closer to the players. They were on the sidelines, almost on the court it seemed. They kept up our moral and filled out ears with cheers. It was wonderful to look at them and just see smiles flashing back at us.
After the first set we regrouped and played three more sets. Every point was well played and was returned at least four times by each team. For one point we had the same six players (three from each team) touch the ball in the same order three times in row! It really felt like déjà vu. We ended up wining all three sets making us the volleyball champions! Our fans went crazy. It was great. They got to chant one last time what they chanted at the end of all our games this season "Three cheers for IH: Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray!"


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It is possible we may lose two A list singers to AIDS before the year is out
. I have told you about one in this space before, and now another one is fighting for his life despite his assurances that his recent illness was minor.
George and Elton?ReplyCancel
George Michael. 🙁ReplyCancel
I dont want this to be McCartney and his minor illness Enty.ReplyCancel
George Michael and Paul McCartneyReplyCancel
Not even gonna guess on this. I have an inkling but it's not really something I wanna throw out there.
If it's true I hope the poor soul has a peaceful time left. Death by AIDS is truly horrific.
Morrissey and his 'respiratory infection'.ReplyCancel
Paul is already dead.ReplyCancel
I'd rather it be Morrisey than McCartney because I still don't know who Morrisey isReplyCancel
Gotta be George Michael and Paul McCartneyReplyCancel
Lil WayneReplyCancel
McCartney is supposed to be back on stage in early July – he has only cancelled concerts in June – and he has a huge concert planned in August at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the last one to be held there before it is demolished. Candlestick Park was also the site of the Beatles' last official concert.
Morrissey has cancelled his entire U.S. tour.
George Michael has done very little promotion for his new album.ReplyCancel
Quite right. However, I don't see him as a coochy-crazed sex machine like others of his ilk.ReplyCancel
Every year(since 2 years) Enty wrote a blind about George Michael's death by AIDS ( very classy)
Who is the other "lucky" guy with George this year?
Honestly Morrissey would be no loss. The Smiths and everything he sang was always so dark and depressed (maybe not always but mostly), and he is such a peach as a person too.ReplyCancel
It's unlikely we'll get confirmation for our guesses. If these two people aren't open about their disease now then I doubt their people would release a statement with the true cause of death after they pass.ReplyCancel
Bieber and GagaReplyCancel
@Dingle Barry
You're mean…i like that 🙂
@MissKWyumyum Reminds me of Liberace's people blaming his 'watermelon diet' for his death. Rock Hudson's people were very open about it, and helped make AIDS a public cause instead of a dirty secret. What did Freddie Mercury's people do – does anyone know? Nureyev?
At any rate, there have been stories that young gay men are being much less careful about safe sex these days. A prominent AIDS death might change that.ReplyCancel
@Henriette, I agree about McCartney and Yoko Ono. The last one standing is the one who gets to shape the story for history. I don't know of McCartney being involved in any high-risk AIDS behaviors – I have read a couple biographies of him, and I don't think he ever had sex with men, had blood transfusions or used IV drugs. He did, however, sleep with Heather Mills.ReplyCancel
@Common Tater He was in the 1960s, but those were the pre-viral years.ReplyCancel
Nutty_Flavor,accding to Freddy Mercury's documentary,He did NOT want to acknowledge it & only did so,a few days before he died…same w/Nureyev.
@Sandybrook,man,u are tough re: MorriseyReplyCancel
Hasn't George Michael been "near death" for years now? I have to take this with a grain of salt.
While I find Morrissey to be douchetastic, he will certainly be a loss to those who care for him. Watching someone die from AIDS is horrific. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.ReplyCancel
Lol Nutty! That was a predator swooping in on a grieving widower. She tried to pull the abuse card when they were divorcing. Even tried to insinuate that he beat Linda up. She was rightly hounded out of town after that. Macca might have been a man ho in his Beatles days, but he wasn't an abuser.ReplyCancel
George Michael for #1
Morrissey is #2
See link below.
@Nancer, I meant 'open' after his death, in contrast to Liberace, who died around the same time and insisted that there be no mention of AIDS in his obituary – thus, the 'watermelon diet.' At any rate, I don't think we can judge Rock Hudson for not disclosing his sexuality in the 1950s, 1960s, or 1970s, when homosexuality was still classified as a mental disorder.ReplyCancel
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@Frenchgirl, merci. However, I'm only mean to selfish, self-absorbed celebrities, not to good people who try hard. We all make mistakes, learning from them is the key. Most people (like you) understand that 🙂ReplyCancel
What a lovely thing to say Sandybrook.ReplyCancel
I would imagine it is likely in any given year, that we might lose 2 celebs to AIDS…ReplyCancel
You are an asshole.ReplyCancel
Freddie's people didn't release the fact that he had AIDS until a day or two before he died. His death seemed abnormally sudden, though you could see in photos that he was declining.ReplyCancel
I couldn't begin to guess, and I don't think I want to. I'm still devastated over Rik Mayall.ReplyCancel
WTH sandy?!ReplyCancel
Hey, hey, no being offended by comments, y'all. It's a gossip site, after all! Or so I was told…ReplyCancel
One of these is definitely George Michael. Paul McCartney for the other, however I cant see how he could have contracted AIDS..ReplyCancel
There was that lady who contracted HIV from her dentistReplyCancel
McCartney pushed back his concert here 4 months so he could recover from a virus according to local news.ReplyCancel
Isn't Mccartney being sick a recent thing? George Michael and Morissey have been sick for a while, isn't that how HIV works? You see a downslide, not, all of a sudden an old guy (who did his share of partying) getting sick which seems normalish for his ageReplyCancel
If Paul McCartney is one of them, I'm confused as to when he became infected. Linda died in 1998, and there was never even a hint that either of them were ever unfaithful. They always claimed they only spent one night apart in their entire marriage, and that's when he was in jail in Japan. I also thought McCartney gave up hard drugs in the early 70's before HIV had made it's way to Europe or the U.S., so a dirty needle doesn't seem to be the cause. What piece of the puzzle am I missing?ReplyCancel
I'm surprised at the McCartney guesses as well, he doesn't do hard drugs and he doesn't screw around, so not sure why he is such a common guess?
Also I don't want to guess, feel very sad about whomever is suffering any may be facing the end of their lives.ReplyCancel
+1 Sandy. + F'ING 1.ReplyCancel
I don't see either George. or Morrissey close to death. hopefully this is not true.ReplyCancel
Paul McCartney is an A++ in any universe the human mind can imagine, and not just as a singer. Between himself and John Lennon, he pretty much invented modern popular music.
I've been known to look side-eyed at Enty's ratings, but even he wouldn't reduce Paul McCartney to an "A list singer."ReplyCancel
As with Freddie, if this is true, it will be seen soon enough.
And, BTW, Freddie kept trying to work/perform they his illness til the bitter end almost. I will always HEART my Freddie.ReplyCancel
I hate that there is such a stigma against aids. I've had some health issues and it's been really eye opening about auto immune diseases. Someone is just as likely to die from lupus as they are aids, but I guess there isn't any fun in guessing who has that. And yes I get that aids is a virus, but really, why the shaming?ReplyCancel
@Jonathan- Just think, enty didn't even call him 'Sir' on his huge rankings list.ReplyCancel
Please not my Georgios. 🙁
A few days ago I was weeding through my iTunes collection and I noticed I hadn't imported many of my GM/Wham! albums into it. The recent blinds that Entys had that seem to be about him went through my head, and I decided to import the CDs plus load all of them onto my iPods. I wanna listen to as much of George now when I can, because I know very well that if he passes it won't be the same. Don't ask me why, but a singers voice sounds completely different "after." I remember trying to listen to "Never Tear Us Apart" after I saw the news about Michael Hutchence on that night I'm November, and I couldn't stand it.
As for Macca–also, please no. My first reaction was "How would he have gotten it?" Then I remembered an article I saw some years ago about how seniors are actually naive about AIDS and other STDs, thinking it can't happen to their generation, so, could be. Seniors can be a bit like teens in that way, I guess.
No way it's Boy George. That man is on a raw vegan diet and is in better shape than I am, ha ha. Tweets constantly and is promoting a reunion thing with Culture Club.ReplyCancel
That said, all of the guesses make me sad. Morrissey might be a sour-tempered dick, but no one deserves an incurable, ravaging virus.ReplyCancel
George Michael, Britney Spears, Keith RichardsReplyCancel
Enty has already revealed this and it is definitely Morrissey, the son and heir of nothing in particular.
I really truly don't think this is Paul. He will always be A+++++ in this world. He's never given off the vibe of being a serial cheater. In fact, quite the opposite. He has always seemed devoted to whomever he is with including that horrible woman between Linda & his current wife.
That said. Anyone young or old can contract HIV if they have unprotected sex with someone who is infected. Like someone said above, there has been a huge outbreak of STDs among seniors especially those in senior homes. They figure they can't get pregnant so why bother with protection.
What this thread has really shown me is that most of us (myself included) need WAY more AIDS education.ReplyCancel
Krystie Rachelle,
To clarify.
AUTOIMMUNE: "an illness occurs when the body tissues are attacked by ITS OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM".
examples: lupus, fibromyalgia
HIV/AIDS: Human immunodeficiency virus. ACQUIRED immunodeficiency disorder. The virus is passed from ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER.
examples: hiv, aids
PIDD: primary immune deficiency. Primary-meaning "you are born with"
examples: leukemia, selective IgA
An important distinction.ReplyCancel
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Sandybrook, you're an ass. I'm not a fan of Morrissey now, but I loved the Smiths back in the 80s and will always do so. So does my daughter. "No loss" is a shitty thing to say. Period. Grow up.
LOL a "leave morrisey alone" kind of fan telling someone to grow up. I imagine this person crying in their room trying to type this with all of their anger.ReplyCancel
George Michael and Paul McCartney. Macca has had a "minor" respiratory illness that caused him to cancel concerts. And he looks like hell.ReplyCancel
Bret MichaelsReplyCancel
Barry Manilow.ReplyCancel
It's not McCartney. (And he has done hard drugs, but supposedly not for decades. They were his famous "lost" years.) I've been told he's actual battled pneumonia recently, he got run down by his schedule & that's so easy to get when you're older, which is why the cancellations but he's cleared to go on with shows July 5th. There's a show in my town July 7th, and I work in a field were I'm at our arena constantly, I was told by our booking VP if there was any remote chance at all he may not make the date they'd be pulling back promos & ads, & they aren't at all.
When I first read this, I thought about that one rapper who had health issues recently, I couldn't remember his name if I tried tho.
And I thought about that random talk of Dylan having AIDS a few years back.ReplyCancel
@Sandybrook The thing about Morrisey being no loss, that's the exact same way I felt about Cobain and his shotgun mouthwash. All Nirvana did was get rid of all but three chords and lyrics that made sense in songwriting. Created a bunch of depressed kids, many who imitated him and ended their lives because their god did and then still gets listed as the John Lennon of my generation. They even compare their deaths. I never got that part, John Lennon (while admittedly a junkie, although everything I've read about him he had quit by Dec. of 1980) was loving life, enjoying time with his son and wife, getting back into the life of his other son and enjoying making music again when a sociopath cowardly shot him in the back. Cobain was a junkie who married a chick he hated because he didn't want to be alone and perpetuate the Sid and Nancy stereotype, was depressed because he hated himself (he was basically a hipster before we used the term, if it was cool, he acted liek he hated it to be different so he hated himself for being fake. For example, dude was an Abba and KISS fan but would mock them in public), didn't want to give up the one thing he loved (heroin) so killed himself because he was a weak willed person who couldn't handle the life he created for himself. Their deaths were nothing alike and it makes me sick to this day seeing all those reports comparing the two back in 1994, especially Kurt Loder's fawning over him everyday on MTV News.
Sorry for the rant, just that Morrisey thing made me think of it.ReplyCancel
This is really sad to say but I do think it's George Michael and Paul McCartney.
I do believe George has been sick for years, although it has never been clear for Paul. A lot of people keep saying he hasn't done hard drugs for years, had blood transfusions nor been involved with other women while married to Linda. The thing is we really don't know.
Over the years, I've learned some of the top A list celebrities are the best at hiding various illnesses, infidelities and addictions. Yeah, maybe Morrisey is a dog, but one can't say he's on his deathbed because of it.ReplyCancel
There is a difference but it attacks the body all in the same way. It's not any of those diseases that kill you, it's the lack of an immune system that does you in. Who cares about the difference in how you contract it, because believe me, aids isn't just from having sex, it's just the shaming people get from having a virus. And the lack of value placed on their life. Someone has lung cancer after 30 years of smoking and no one plays down the illness, people will donate up the ass for cancer. Someone is in the hospital with HIV, they are labeled as a junky, whore, or gay and more judgement then money is passed their way. But when it comes down to it, they usually all go the same way. It's the infections that get you.ReplyCancel
Rowdy, it's called mental illness. Depression is no joke, there is no perpetuating anything. Cobain was tortured and did not want to be in the spotlight. His music was his self expression, most creatives are depressed and have an outlet. He was someone's son, someone's father, and he was loved. Whether you like him or his music, doesn't make it ok to judge him when he was at a low point in his life. Yes, he was an addict, but addiction is a coping mechanism. It silenced the voices in his head and one day he finally gave into them. It's a tragedy, and not because he was famous, but because he was lost, and I would never, ever wish someone that kind of misery.ReplyCancel
Thank you @Krystie. I can't stand when those who don't understand hate on Kurt Cobain. He was a gentle soul who shouldn't be disrespected that way (and I still say, Courtney, just sayin'). If nothing else, can they agree that Nirvana did start a musical revolution, and they were great, and that Seattle was just what we needed, AND, it gave us the awesome Foo Fighters? Jeez. Not everyone is gonna like the same things, and for some of us, KC, Nirvana, and Seattle was just what we were waiting for!
Whoever these 2 guys are, it's just sad, it shouldn't be a stigma anymore, but of course it is. I remember poor Freddie, we watched it happen before our eyes, and we all KNEW. One day before he died, he admitted it. Freddie will ALWAYS be loved. Nobody cares WHY, except that it was tragic. Rock Hudson, everyone saw it on Dynasty. What's sad, is that the people who succumb to AIDS, is that they think the majority of us will judge them and think LESS of them, and we DON'T (most of us). We love them, we mourn them, and their legacy isn't lost. It's sad that they feel so ASHAMED. It's sad that they don't get to feel the LOVE while they're still alive, and in their last days. None of us should ever feel that ashamed, or afraid. LOVE to whomever they are.ReplyCancel
@Krystie @KSierra You guys are missing what I was talking about. I was talking about how in 1994 up til today, people always said Cobain was my generations John Lennon and compared their deaths as if they were the same thing. They made a martyr out of Cobain when his death was 100% on him.
I admit my bias about when I talk about Kurt's suicide because I find suicide to be a cowardly and selfish act, so I apologize for being insensitive. But even you have to admit they went a bit too far in the way they (the music media) almost seemed to make a saint out of him for killing himself.ReplyCancel
George Michael, without a doubt. I wish he would publicly acknowledge his illness, but in doing so he'd also be admitting to careless sexual behavior while knowingly HIV+.
In a strange statement, Morrissey just publicly blamed his support act for making him sick. Maybe he thinks pinning the tale on a woman will divert attention from the truth. :/ReplyCancel


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Years ago, I flew my small airplane to visit my sister. She was shooting photos at a three-day equestrian event at a friend's private horse farm. When it came time for me to leave, she asked the host's son if he could drive me back to the airport. When he said, "What time's your flight?" I paused, smiled and replied, "Whenever I get there, I guess.
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The last decade's boom days for fractional shares and jet cards made traditional air charter seem almost old-fashioned–and unreliable, as the charter fleet was often busy meeting overflow demand from fractional and card programs. Then the economy tanked and the upfront and hourly costs of those programs rendered them less appealing than charter to many flyers. In the few years since, innovations such as one-way pricing and guaranteed access have made charter look even more attractive.
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Airbus began airline deliveries of its A320 twinjet in 1988. Today, more than 5,000 are in service and another 2,000-plus have been ordered. U.S. carriers flying the model include Delta, US Airways, United and JetBlue. Odds are, you've already been on one. Compared with the original Boeing 737, which was designed in the early 1960s, the A320 has a wider and taller cabin and a slicker wing. It also features digital fly-by-wire controls.
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