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Cebuano writer is National Artist for Literature
By Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo|October 23,2018 - 12:09 PM


Resil Mojares, a multi-awarded writer and University of San Carlos (USC) professor emeritus, was named as National Artist for Literature. He will be conferred one of the country's highest honors in a ceremony tomorrow.

Mojares was the founding director of the Cebuano Studies Center and Professor of Literature at USC. He authored several books and numerous articles in academic journals. He was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Southeast Asian Studies Program fellowship and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar fellowship to the United States. He served as a member of the executive committee of the Southeast Asian Studies Program of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.


Read more: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/200315/cebuano-writer-is-national-artist-for-literature#ixzz5XUhm3Wlp

The only entry for the late Philippine leader shows he has the record for the "Greatest robbery of a Government."

AFP has an account for the site and can access the whole list of its records.

Below is a snapshot of the search result:

The text in the post, when translated to English, says: "They cannot even match Apo's achievements... that's why they assail him continuously as well as distort the truth".

"Apo" is a term of respect used by some in the Philippines.

No accolade for "World's Most Brilliant President" exists for Marcos on the Guinness World Records site.

The post claims that Marcos, who led the Philippines for two decades until he was toppled in a 1986 "People Power" revolution, holds the Guinness World Record for being the "Most Brilliant President in History".

Below is a screenshot of the post:

FACT CHECK: No, Ferdinand Marcos does not hold Guinness World Record for being the "World's Most Brilliant President in History"

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 20 2018 11:33 PM


A Facebook post claims late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos holds a Guinness World Record for being the 'Most Brilliant President in History'.

Guinness World Records has given him no such accolade, although it does list him for committing the 'Greatest robbery of a Government'.

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Kini kay way kurat...

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ESO released a video which shows a beautiful visualization of zooming into the black hole and seeing the swirling pattern of the flares that surround it:

https://youtu.be/DRCD-zx5QFA

This is the first time that material has been observed so close to the event horizon of a black hole. The event horizon is a region around a black hole from which nothing can escape — not matter or even light. Because black holes are so dense, they have very strong gravity which pulls anything within the event horizon back towards the black hole and prevents it from escaping. Just outside of the event horizon is a point called the innermost stable orbit, which is the closest that matter can come to the black hole without being dragged into it, and this is where the flares observed by the ESO originated. The innermost stable orbit is part of the accretion disk, which is the disk of gasses and other matter that forms around a black hole but which is far enough away not to be pulled inside the event horizon. The forces of friction and gravity combine to compress these gases and raise their temperature, which is how the flares form.

As a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* is even stronger than most black holes due to its enormous size. We now have confirmation that this cosmological giant is the center around which the entire Milky Way galaxy rotates.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/sagittariusa-supermassive-black-hole/

It has been suspected for some time that there is a supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy, named Sagittarius A*. Now scientists have uncovered more evidence about the black hole which they shared in an announcement on October 31.

Cosmologists have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe flares of infrared radiation from the disk of debris surrounding Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-Star), which is strong evidence that it is a supermassive black hole. A consortium of scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) used the GRAVITY telescope interferometer to observe three bright flares orbiting around Sagittarius A* at a tremendous speed of 30 percent of the speed of light. The flares are believed to be caused by the heated gases that orbit Sagittarius A* which interact with the magnetic fields surrounding them, and are in line with what scientists predicted would be seen around a black hole.

Nanimbawot og taman ang akong balhibo,og ako ning giingon sa akong bana.
Gusto nako komprontahon ang akong kumare pero nagdecide una mi nga masayran ang tinuod una namo siya istoryahon mag-asawa.
Isa ka adlaw 911 giingnan nako ang akong anak nga mubisita ko sa iyang boarding house, akong purpose para maniid.
Dihang naabot ko wala man koy nakita nga kaduda-duda sa palibot og wala man pud ang akong kumare.Niana ko sa akong anak nga og naa siyay lakaw mulakaw una siya og magpabilin ko sa iyang giabangan nga kwarto.
Paglakaw sa kong anak 911, nanghalungkat ko sa iyang saninaan og didto nako nakita nga naay mga sanina sa babae, nakita pud nako ang usa ka bag nga naay sulod mga make up, uban pang abobot apil ang usa ka gamay nga notebook nga gihimong diary.

Wala koy malisya nga gihuna-huna 911 kay ang akong kumare kaedad ra nako na og nakasubaybay pud siya sa pagdako sa akong anak maong huna-huna nako anak pud ang iyang pagtan-aw kay jaylord.
Nagkadugay naanad nalang ko nga og ting-uli sa akong anak sa balay kung wala siyay training og wala nay klase maabot pud ang akong kumare.Usahay makit-an nako nga mura bag kung makaatiman siya kay Jaylord lupig pud og iyang anak kay kulang nalang iyang hungitan.
Naa pay usahay madunggan nako nga mupasalig siya sa akong anak nga og naay dula iyang adtuon kay mutan-aw jud siya .
Nadugay makadungog nako og chismis sa mga silingan namo nga ang akong kumare 911 makit-an daw nga nagaadtuan sa boarding house sa akong anak.
Unya ang nagakatag nga istorya kay uyab daw sa akong anak ang akong kumare.

Buotan kaayo ang akong anak 911 og wala jud koy problema sa iyang batasan dihang nagtubo siya.
Dihang nagcollege na siya, nihangyo siya sa amoa nga kung pwede magboard nalang siya sa downtown dool sa iyang eskwelahan kay hasulan na siya mag-uli2x samut na nga pirmi ang ilang training sa pagdula og basketball.
Kami pud sa iyang amahan nisuporta mi sa iyang gusto pero among sabot nga kada walay klase mag ulian siya sa among balay.
Kadauli ni Jaylord sa balay 911, dili jud nako na malimtan ang iyang paglambing sa akoa, moingon nga gimingaw daw siya nako. Mobless dayon mohug sa akoa.
Kadauli sab sa akong anak, mabantayan nako ang akong kumare nga motiming pud og laag sa among balay.
Magdala og pagkaon unya makita nako nga iyang ginalambing-lambing ang akong anak.

September 6, 2017

BUGTONG ANAK NGA LALAKI GIHIMONG KABIT, GITABAN PA NI KUMARE

Dear Dj 911

Itago lang ko sa pangalan nga Lorna, 53 years old.
Ang akong ishare nga istorya kabahin kini sa kinabuhi sa akong anak nga nitaliwan nalang sa laing kinabuhi pero wala nahatagan og tsansa nga makauban mi nga iyang mga ginikanan sa taas nga panahon tungod sa babae nga iyang gikaipon.
911 nag-iisang anak nga lalaki namo si Jaylord og naa siyay 3 ka mga igsoong babae.
Kay bugtong lagi palangga kaayo namo siya og suportado kaayo mi as parents sa iyang mga hilig ilabi na ang iyang pagkavarsity sa basketball sa iyang tunghaan.

He he, wa na paapila ang duha ka kanahan. Wa pa gani makatunga sa galon maoy na...

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 02, 2018, 01:40:45 AM

http://thechive.com/
(Via @GotToddlered)

The new-found step-brother of the long-lost brother of high-five:

Companies on such parallel trajectories as Apple and Microsoft are rare, but the same dynamic plays out throughout the economy. Chick-fil-A is a perfectly fine chain when it's not stumbling into political hot water, but nobody would mistake it for the dominant fast-food brand in the United States. Yet its founder, S. Truett Cathy, has a $4.2 billion fortune that far outpaces anyone else in the food game. Howard Schultz—the other solo restaurant founder on the Forbes 400 list—brought us the ubiquitous and socially transformative Starbucks and is getting by on a measly $1.5 billion. H&M has similar profits and more revenue than Inditex (the parent company of Zara and related brands), but Amancio Ortega is about twice as rich as Stefan Persson. Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire whose fortune rivals Gates', didn't invent or create anything particularly noteworthy. Oracle and Amazon are worth similar amounts, but Oracle's founder is worth about $20 billion more than Amazon's. The results, again, are driven by the nitty-gritty of financial dealmaking, not the success of the businesses as enterprises.

The disjoint between the two is a reminder that, despite 30 years of supply-side myths, it's difficult to understand action at the top as driven by financial incentives. Jobs didn't come back to Apple for the money—he was already rich and agreed to try to save the company without insisting on a huge share of the upside. And Ballmer, who's even richer, doesn't keep plugging away at Microsoft in search of an extra billion or two. Money counts for something, of course. But the real rivalries are about more than a desire to be the boy with the most cake—it's a competition for fame, prestige, and the ability to shape the future of technology. --http://www.slate.com/

Microsoft's founders did a great job of retaining a huge amount of the company's stock after its initial public offering, and that's allowed them to turn its success into a vast fortune. Jobs, by contrast, blundered and got rid of most of his Apple shares in a fit of pique after he was forced out of the company. He then made a whole new fortune for himself by obtaining a majority stake in Pixar in 1986. He came back to Apple relatively cheaply by selling Next Software in a $400 million acquisition that left Jobs owning a far smaller slice of Apple than is typical for a high-tech founder. A few years after his return to Apple, the company tried to reward him by illegally backdating stock options but got caught in the process. After that, he worked for $1 a year.

As of his death, the Jobs fortune was mostly Disney stock obtained when the studio bought Pixar—unrelated to his role in founding and managing the world's most successful technology company. Even Michael Dell, the founder and longtime CEO of a distinctly less successful computer manufacturer, had a higher net worth.

Not even the biggest Pixar fan would think animated feature films are Jobs' most important legacy. But merit is one thing and financial savvy another, even in the world of business.

Microsoft is a vastly profitable company. Its $5 billion in net income last quarter is a ton of money, and its $260 billion stock market capitalization is impressive. But Apple dwarfs those numbers with $8.8 billion in profit and a $400 billion market capitalization. Comfortable with its lead in PCs, Microsoft has never been able to follow Apple into the world of mobile devices like phones and tablets.

So why are Microsoft founders so rich even as their company's lost pole position? Because meritocracy is a myth, even at the highest levels of the American economy. Good fortune and random chance are huge influences everywhere. And market rewards, tautologically, accrue to those who are good at making money rather than those who are good at doing things.

Steve Jobs creamed his business competition. So why did so many of his rivals end up with bigger fortunes?
By Matthew Yglesias


This is the first in a special series about great rivalries: between tech titans, sports franchises, and even dinosaur hunters. Read about the series here.

One is dead, and the other has long since departed the corporate world for charitable pursuits. The rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that dominated the computer industry for decades is over. And it's clear that Gates won. With his net worth of $66 billion, Gates still sits atop the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, as he has since 1995. Founding the most successful technology company in the world has its rewards. In fact, Microsoft's victory over Apple was so decisive that current CEO Steve Ballmer and third co-founder Paul Allen, sitting on $16 billion and $15 billion, respectively, are substantially wealthier than Jobs' widow, who must subsist on a mere $11 billion.

Except of course, Microsoft isn't a more successful company than Apple. Not even close.

Hmm, Aylandil sa gamay pa...

He he...

Quote from: islander on July 23, 2018, 05:46:54 PM

salamat, bai hubag. kung transformer kana, abot langit akong kalipay.

Paraiso ibabaw sa bato...

He said China also is pursuing advances in cyber, artificial intelligence, engineering and technology, counter-space, anti-satellite capabilities and hypersonic glide weapons. Army Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told a congressional committee earlier this year that China is developing long-range cruise missiles — some capable of reaching supersonic speeds.

"The Pentagon has noted that the Chinese have already pursued a test program that has had 20 times more tests than the U.S. has," Lettre said.

Franklin Miller, former senior director for defense policy and arms control at the National Security Council, said China's weapons developments are emphasizing the need to have a dialogue with Beijing.

"We need to try to engage," Miller said. "My expectations for successful engagement are medium-low, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try."  © 2018 The Canadian Press

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats also warned of rising Chinese aggression. In particular, he said, the U.S. must stand strong against China's effort to steal business secrets and academic research.

Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said increasing the public's awareness about the activities of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students or groups at U.S. universities could be one way to help mitigate potential damage.

"China is not just a footnote to what we're dealing with with Russia," Thornton said.

Marcel Lettre, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said China has the second-largest defense budget in the world, the largest standing army of ground forces, the third-largest air force and a navy of 300 ships and more than 60 submarines.

"All of this is in the process of being modernized and upgraded," said Lettre, who sat on a panel with Collins and Thornton.

There is concern over China's pervasive efforts to steal business secrets and details about high-tech research being conducted in the U.S. The Chinese military is expanding and being modernized and the U.S., as well as other nations, have complained about China's construction of military outposts on islands in the South China Sea.

"I would argue that it's the Crimea of the East," Collins said, referring to Russia's brash annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which was condemned throughout the West.

Collins' comments track warnings about China's rising influence issued by others who spoke earlier this week at the security conference. The alarm bells come at a time when Washington needs China's help in ending its nuclear standoff with North Korea.

On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China, from a counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest and most significant threat America faces. He said the FBI has economic espionage investigations in all 50 states that can be traced back to China.

"The volume of it. The pervasiveness of it. The significance of it is something that I think this country cannot underestimate," Wray said.

The Associated Press
July 21, 2018 6:04 pm
By Deb Riechmann   


China is waging a "quiet kind of cold war" against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia said Friday.

Beijing doesn't want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the U.S. in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia.

"I would argue ... that what they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war — a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the U.S. and the Soviet Union) but a cold war by definition," Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA's East Asia mission center, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

Rising U.S.-China tension goes beyond the trade dispute playing out in a tariff tit-for-tat between the two nations.

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Kyut man jud...

Awto nga gasa ni Botoy kang Inday Aylandil...

Then, Aylandil strikes again! (No caption needed...)

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Ingon ani galing...





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