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The novel unfolds like a well-timed relay race, passing the narrative baton from one character to the next. But despite several unpredictable turns, it feels somewhat formulaic after a few chapters; we sense the chugging effort to keep it rolling. There are sendups of a Park Slope dinner party among overworked parents obsessed with their children, and a Brooklyn public school kindergarten class in which a sweet but inexperienced Teach for America novice finds herself in hot water after two boys veer into the off-limits subject of evolution after a show-and-tell about Mister Monkey. There's a first date from hell at a famous mob-connected red-sauce Italian restaurant, which spurs several witnesses â€" including a homely, lonely waiter â€" to make significant changes in their lives.

Through it all, Prose targets political correctness (a longtime favorite punching bag) and the obnoxiousness of cellphones. But the unifying thread is sadness stemming from disappointment â€" that insidious poacher in the jungle of life. Prose puts her sympathetic sad sacks through their paces with the methodic precision of a well-rehearsed circus act. The question is not whether they'll land on their feet, but how.


http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/497840051/mister-monkey-speaks-in-many-voices-all-of-them-grumpy

The novel begins on a high note with Margot, a Yale drama school graduate who dreams of Chekhov but finds herself, at 44, playing a monkey's defending attorney in a rainbow Harpo wig and an iridescent purple skirt that only add to her humiliation.

Twisting her narrative kaleidoscope, Prose rearranges the perspective as, chapter by chapter, she channels various members of the cast, audience, and more tangentially connected people â€" like the outspoken kindergartner who mortifyingly chooses an unfortunate moment of silence during a disastrous matinee performance to ask in a piping voice, "Grandpa, are you interested in this?" The boy's grandfather, heartbroken at his recent losses â€" of his wife and his job as an art museum curator â€" is keen on anything that brings him closer to his grandson. Privately, he thinks, "How could anyone not have been interested in that cast and their manic desperation?" It's a reaction clearly shared by Prose, who was stimulated to write this book after her granddaughter asked the same question at a similarly tattered children's production.

Pretty inane, right? What's remarkable is how much wit and pathos Prose manages to wring from this wildly unpromising jumping-off point. It brings to mind a graduate school writing teacher who challenged students to fabricate an interesting story about, say, an orthodontist. Prose's novel could be a lesson in point: Handled with imagination and élan, almost anything can be turned into compelling literature.

That said, I can't pretend that I was as taken with all the monkey business and washed up theater people in Prose's latest as with her virtuoso portrait of pre-Occupation Paris inChameleon Club. Or her scathing take on campus political correctness in Blue Angel.

But what Mister Monkey shares with Prose's previous novels is her considerable talent for ventriloquy: She is the Meryl Streep of literary fiction, convincingly shifting between multiple voices and points of view â€" not just from book to book, but within a single work.

Both the musical and the children's book are about a rambunctious chimpanzee whose parents are killed by evil poachers â€" as is the primate biologist who had come to the African jungle to study and protect them. The orphaned monkey is "rescued" and taken to live in New York City with the scientist's widower and children.

Like Curious George, another vaguely imperialist children's classic â€" which Prose refers to frequently â€" the simian hero of Mister Monkey gets into trouble in his new urban environment. The high-spirited chimp likes to pickpocket people's wallets as a party trick, though he always returns them. But he's hauled off to jail when his human father's nasty girlfriend accuses him of theft. The family hires a lawyer named Portia to defend Mister Monkey, and ... well, I'll let you find out.
What's remarkable is how much wit and pathos Prose manages to wring from this wildly unpromising jumping-off point.

'Mister Monkey' Channels Disappointment In Many Voices
October 18, 2016 7:00 AM ET
HELLER MCALPIN





Mister Monkey
by Francine Prose
Hardcover, 285 pages

   
Is Francine Prose just monkeying around? Is she taking a comic break after the much weightier exploration of creeping xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and right-wing proto-fascism in her last novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932?

Mister Monkey, her 22nd book of fiction, is a dark comedy about the mainly sad, disappointing lives of everyone involved in a woeful way-off-Broadway revival of a painfully bad musical based on a made-up classic children's book called Mister Monkey â€" itself an unlikely success â€" written by a Vietnam veteran.

I do not thereby mean that the Nobel Prize is a “bourgeois” prize, but such is the bourgeois interpretation which would inevitably be given by certain circles with which I am very familiar.

Lastly, I come to the question of the money: it is a very heavy burden that the Academy imposes upon the laureate by accompanying its homage with an enormous sum, and this problem has tortured me. Either one accepts the prize and with the prize money can support organizations or movements one considers importantâ€"my own thoughts went to the Apartheid committee in London. Or else one declines the prize on generous principles, and thereby deprives such a movement of badly needed support. But I believe this to be a false problem. I obviously renounce the 250,000 crowns because I do not wish to be institutionalized in either East or West. But one cannot be asked on the other hand to renounce, for 250,000 crowns, principles which are not only one’s own, but are shared by all one’s comrades.

That is what has made so painful for me both the awarding of the prize and the refusal of it I am obliged to make.

I wish to end this declaration with a message of fellow-feeling for the Swedish public.


http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/17/sartre-on-the-nobel-prize/

I know that the Nobel Prize in itself is not a literary prize of the Western bloc, but it is what is made of it, and events may occur which are outside the province of the members of the Swedish Academy. This is why, in the present situation, the Nobel Prize stands objectively as a distinction reserved for the writers of the West or the rebels of the East. It has not been awarded, for example, to Neruda, who is one of the greatest South American poets. There has never been serious question of giving it to Louis Aragon, though he certainly deserves it. It is regrettable that the prize was given to Pasternak and not to Sholokhov, and that the only Soviet work thus honored should be one published abroad and banned in its own country. A balance might have been established by a similar gesture in the other direction. During the war in Algeria, when we had signed the “declaration of the 121,” I should have gratefully accepted the prize, because it would have honored not only me, but also the freedom for which we were fighting. But matters did not turn out that way, and it is only after the battle is over that the prize has been awarded me.

In discussing the motives of the Swedish Academy, mention has been made of freedom, a word that suggests many interpretations. In the West, only a general freedom is meant: personally, I mean a more concrete freedom which consists of the right to have more than one pair of shoes and to eat one’s fill. It seems to me less dangerous to decline the prize than to accept it. If I accept it, I offer myself to what I shall call “an objective rehabilitation.” According to the Figaro littéraire article, “a controversial political past would not be held against me.” I know that this article does not express the opinion of the Academy, but it clearly shows how my acceptance would be interpreted by certain rightist circles. I consider this “controversial political past” as still valid, even if I am quite prepared to acknowledge to my comrades certain past errors.

My objective reasons are as follows: The only battle possible today on the cultural front is the battle for the peaceful coexistence of the two cultures, that of the East and that of the West. I do not mean that they must embrace each otherâ€"I know that the confrontation of these two cultures must necessarily take the form of a conflictâ€"but this confrontation must occur between men and between cultures, without the intervention of institutions.

I myself am deeply affected by the contradiction between the two cultures: I am made up of such contradictions. My sympathies undeniably go to socialism and to what is called the Eastern bloc, but I was born and brought up in a bourgeois family and a bourgeois culture. This permits me to collaborate with all those who seek to bring the two cultures closer together. I nonetheless hope, of course, that “the best man wins.” That is, socialism.

This is why I cannot accept an honor awarded by cultural authorities, those of the West any more than those of the East, even if I am sympathetic to their existence. Although all my sympathies are on the socialist side. I should thus be quite as unable to accept, for example, the Lenin Prize, if someone wanted to give it to me, which is not the case.

The personal reasons are these: my refusal is not an impulsive gesture, I have always declined official honors. In 1945, after the war, when I was offered the Legion of Honor, I refused it, although I was sympathetic to the government. Similarly, I have never sought to enter the Collège de France, as several of my friends suggested.

This attitude is based on my conception of the writer’s enterprise. A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his ownâ€"that is, the written word. All the honors he may receive expose his readers to a pressure I do not consider desirable. If I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre it is not the same thing as if I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner.

The writer who accepts an honor of this kind involves as well as himself the association or institution which has honored him. My sympathies for the Venezuelan revolutionists commit only myself, while if Jean-Paul Sartre the Nobel laureate champions the Venezuelan resistance, he also commits the entire Nobel Prize as an institution.

The writer must therefore refuse to let himself be transformed into an institution, even if this occurs under the most honorable circumstances, as in the present case.

This attitude is of course entirely my own, and contains no criticism of those who have already been awarded the prize. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for several of the laureates whom I have the honor to know.

Sartre on the Nobel Prize
Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Richard Howard
DECEMBER 17, 1964 ISSUE



Jean-Paul Sartre; drawing by David Levine


Jean-Paul Sartre explained his refusal to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in a statement made to the Swedish Press on October 22, which appeared in Le Monde in a French translation approved by Sartre. The following translation into English was made by Richard Howard.


I deeply regret the fact that the incident has become something of a scandal: a prize was awarded, and I refused it. It happened entirely because I was not informed soon enough of what was under way. When I read in the October 15 Figaro littéraire, in the Swedish correspondent’s column, that the choice of the Swedish Academy was tending toward me, but that it had not yet been determined, I supposed that by writing a letter to the Academy, which I sent off the following day, I could make matters clear and that there would be no further discussion.

I was not aware at the time that the Nobel Prize is awarded without consulting the opinion of the recipient, and I believed there was time to prevent this from happening. But I now understand that when the Swedish Academy has made a decision it cannot subsequently revoke it.

My reasons for refusing the prize concern neither the Swedish Academy nor the Nobel Prize in itself, as I explained in my letter to the Academy. In it, I alluded to two kinds of reasons: personal and objective.

In his exhaustive research, Friedman realized that Oseen lobbied the committee to recognize the photoelectric effect not as a "theory," but as a fundamental "law" of natureâ€"not because he cared about recognizing Einstein, but because he had another theoretical physicist in mind for that second available prize: Niels Bohr. Bohr had proposed a new quantum theory of the atom that Oseen felt was "the most beautiful of all the beautiful" ideas in recent theoretical physics. In his report to the committee, Oseen exaggerated the close bond between Einstein's proven law of nature and Bohr's new atom. "In one brilliant stroke," Friedman says, "he saw how to meet the objections against both Einstein and Bohr."

The committee was indeed won over. On November 10, 1922, they gave the 1922 prize to Bohr and the delayed 1921 prize to Einstein, "especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." Einstein, en route to Japan (and perhaps huffy after the committee's long delay) did not attend the official ceremony. According to Friedman, Einstein didn't care much about the medal, anyway, though he did care about the money. As the German mark decreased in value after the war, Einstein needed a hard foreign currency for alimony payments to his ex-wife. Moreover, under the terms of his 1919 divorce settlement, she was already entitled to all the money "from an eventual Nobel Prize." Bruce Hunt, an Einstein historian at the University of Texas at Austin, says that calling attention to these financial arrangements "brings out the fact that Einstein was a much more worldly and savvy man than his later public image would suggest."

Of course, Einstein isn't the only player who emerges as being not quite angelic. "The decisions of the Nobel Committees are often treated by the press and public as the voice of god," Hunt says. But Friedman's research brought to light "how political the deliberations of the Nobel Committees sometimes wereâ€"and presumably still are."


http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/einstein-nobel-prize/

But 1921 was not the year, thanks to one stubborn senior member of the prize committee, ophthalmologist Allvar Gullstrand. "Einstein must never receive a Nobel Prize, even if the whole world demands it," said Gullstrand, according to a Swedish mathematician's diary dug up by Friedman. Gullstrand's arguments, however biased, convinced the rest of the committee. In 1921, the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded no physics prize.

Two prizes were thus available in 1922. By this time, Einstein's popularity was so great that many members of the committee feared for their international reputations if they didn't recognize him in some way. As in the previous two years, Einstein received many nominations for his relativity theory. But this year there was one nominationâ€"from Carl Wilhelm Oseenâ€"not for relativity, but for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. In another of his 1905 papers, Einstein had proposed that light, which had been thought to act only as a wave, sometimes acted as a particleâ€"and laboratory experiments conducted in 1916 showed he was right.

The nominations for Einstein that poured into the laps of the Nobel Committee members as they were reviewing candidates for the 1920 prize were not exactly well received. The committee did not want a "political and intellectual radical, whoâ€"it was saidâ€"did not conduct experiments, crowned as the pinnacle of physics," says Friedman. So the 1920 prize was given to the Swiss Charles-Edouard Guillaume for his ho-hum discovery of an inert nickel-steel alloy. When the announcement was made, Friedman says the previously unknown Guillaume "was as surprised as the rest of the world."

By the next year, "Einstein-mania" was in full bloom. During his first trip to the United States he gave many public lectures on relativity, and received the prestigious Barnard Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. After one particularly crowded lecture at Princeton, legend has it that Einstein said wryly to the chairman, "I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis."

As his quirky personality and untamed tresses gained more popularity with the general public, his momentous theory gained more credibility in the scientific community. In 1921, swarms of both theoreticians and experimentalists again nominated Einstein for his work on relativity. Reporters kept asking him, to his great annoyance, if this would be the year that he received a Nobel Prize.

Today, general relativity is celebrated as Einstein's most impressive work. But as Friedman wrote in his 2001 book, The Politics of Excellence, in post-War Germany Einstein was despised as a pacifist Jew who renounced his German citizenship, went to meetings of radical groups, and publicly supported socialism. His theories were dismissed as "world-bluffing Jewish physics" by some prominent German physicists, who claimed to practice "true" German science based on observations of the natural world and hypotheses that could be tested in a laboratory.

Luckily for Einstein, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington believed therewas a way to test the general theory. If massive objects curved space itself, as Einstein proposed, then they should bend nearby rays of light, as well. During six minutes of a total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919, Eddington measured the positions of stars that appeared next to the blotted-out sun. Sure enough, they followed the predictions of Einstein's general theory.

Eddington revealed the results of his eclipse experiment on November 6, and Einstein became a household name throughout the world practically overnightâ€"literally overnight in some places; the next day, the London Times ran the headline, "Revolution in Science, New Theory of the Universe." Within a month, the news traveled through the American press; a New York Times headline declared, "Given the Speed, Time Is Naught."

Why the Nobel Committee repeatedly dissed this "world-bluffing Jewish physicist"
By Virginia Hughes|Thursday, September 28, 2006


When Albert Einstein listed the most important honors of his life, he began with the German Physical Society's Max Planck Medal, named for a physicist he revered. He went on from there to list the prizes and honorary doctorate degrees awarded him in many nations. Conspicuously absent was the plaudit with the highest profile and payout: the Nobel Prize. But in context this omission isn't so surprising. The Nobel nodâ€"17 years after Einstein published his special theory of relativityâ€"came long after recognition by the physics world and even the general public. Even more bizarre, the prize was awarded to Einstein not for his relativity revolution, but for the comparatively obscure discovery of the photoelectric effect. Why? After years of sifting through letters and diaries of the Scandinavian archives, science historian Robert Marc Friedman says it was an intentional snub fueled by the biases of the dayâ€"a prejudice against pacifists, Jews, and, most of all, theoretical physics.

In 1905, while working as a patent clerk in Switzerland, 26-year-old Albert Einstein published five seminal papers on the nature of space, light, and motion. One paper introduced the special theory of relativity, which dramatically broke with Newton's universally accepted description of how physics worked. Special relativity did away with the notion of absolute space and timeâ€"Einstein said they were instead "relative" to the observer's conditionsâ€"effectively flipping the Newtonian model on its apple-bruised head. In 1915, Einstein expanded the theory by incorporating gravity: it was not just a force of attraction between bodies, he said, but the result of distortions in space itself. This new, more robust version was called the theory of general relativity.

Hmm, OK. Pero di baya tingali siya malupig ni Henrik Pontoppidan, unya mas klaro man tingali ang iyang contribution to literature compared with that of Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

Hmm, pero morag hanas pa nga momugna og mga kilat ug dugdog...

Water meter thieves? Ah, there are specialists in any profession...

Ni STEPHANIE V. BERGANIO


DUNGAN og kamatay ang duha ka magsuon dihang nagpinatyanay niaging adlaw didto sa Barangay Eureka, dakbayan sa Gingoog, Misamis Oriental.

Giila ang magsuon nga sila si Mansueto ug Rey Pabular, pulos hingkod ang edad ug mga residente sa maong dapit.

Sa imbestigasyon sa Gingoog City Police Station sa pagpangulo ni Police Chief Inspector Esperidion Biado II, nasuta nga daan na nagbikil ang magsuon gumikan kay gikaulit ni Rey ang giingong pagsuway og luba ni Mansueto sa ilang amahan kaniadto.

Giingong taod-taod na kining gidumtan sa igsuon hinungdan dihang lango sila sa ilimnong makahubog niadtong tungora mikuha og improvised shotgun si Rey ug gipusil si Mansueto apan wala kini deretso mapuruhi ug nakakuha pa kini og kutsilyo ug giluba si Rey makapila ka higayon hinungdan sab sa kamatayon niini.

Ang patay’ng lawas sa magsuon gihaya sa puloy-anan sa mga biktima diin ang mga kabanay niini wala na mihatag og reaksyon.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cagayan de Oro Oktubre 21, 2016.

"Not now; unya na kong tiguwang na mi."

Ni Brenda D. Batuto (Banat) | Updated October 18, 2016 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Ang Provincial Health Office (PHO) gipangayoan og report ni Bokal Christopher Baricuatro, chairman sa Committee on Health sa hunta probinsiyal kabahin sa problema na usab sa langaw sa lungsod sa Asturias.

Sa Facebook account ni Princess France, iyang gi-post nga sa ilang lugar sa Brgy. Buswang Bago sa lungsod sa Asturias ug mga silingan nga barangay, nagkinahanglan og dinaliang atensiyon tungod sa kadaghan sa langaw sa ilang dapit. Ang poultry sa lugar maoy ilang gibasol nga hinungdan sa pagdagsa sa mga langaw.

Kagahapon nangayo siya og report sa PHO kabahin niini alang sa himoon nila nga aksyon. Posibleng ang mga opisyal sa lungsod ug ang mga poultry operator ipatawag sa hunta probinsiyal aron manubag sa mga reklamo sa mga residente.

Si Dr. Niño Ismael Pastor, hepe sa public health sa PHO niingon nga nagpadala na sila og tawo nga niimbestigar. Gibutyag niya nga ang poultry owners nanghatag og iti sa mga mag-uuma aron iabuno sa ilang mga tanom. Apan wala na maato ang gidaghanon sa iti ug nabasa sa uwan hinungdan nga gidugok og mga langaw. Giingong adunay grupo nga nipirma og waiver nga dili sila moduso og reklamo batok sa poultry kay nakabenepisyo sila niini. Matud ni Ismael nga nihimo na og mga intervention ang tag-iya sa poultry samtang ang lokal nga kagamhanan sa Asturias dili makahimo og lakang kay ang reklamo igo lang gi-post sa social media o walay  nipadangat og pormal nga reklamo. (BANAT NEWS)

‘They’re Lies’: Melania Trump Rejects Women’s Claims That Husband Groped Them
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and ASHLEY PARKEROCT. 17, 2016


Melania Trump, who has been all but invisible as her husband confronts a campaign crisis over allegations that he sexually assaulted women, emerged on Monday to forcefully defend him and question the honesty of the women making the accusations.

Ms. Trump, in an extensive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, said the women who had accused Donald J. Trump of groping and kissing them were lying, and likened her husband to a teenage boy who engages in macho boasting.

She echoed her husband’s complaint that he was the victim of a broad conspiracy between the news media and the Clinton campaign.

“I believe my husband, I believe my husband â€" it was all organized from the opposition,” Ms. Trump said. “They can never check the background of these women. They don’t have any facts.”

Her appearance comes as Mr. Trump and his aides grapple with the worst stretch of the campaign so far, after the airing 10 days ago of an “Access Hollywood” recording from 2005 that captured Mr. Trump bragging to the host Billy Bush that he kisses women without invitation and that he can grab women’s genitals because he is a “star.”

Ms. Trump, 46, called the exchange between Mr. Trump and Mr. Bush “boy talk,” and said Mr. Trump had been “egged on” by the host “to say dirty and bad stuff.”

But she stressed that she believed that Mr. Trump was simply being boastful and did not engage in the behavior he described.


More at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/politics/donald-melania-trump-women.html?_r=0

Mosul offensive: Territory recaptured from ISIS
By Nick Paton Walsh and Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 0707 GMT (1507 HKT) October 18, 2016


Near Mosul, Iraq (CNN)A suicide car bomb, sowing panic as it plows relentlessly toward Peshmerga positions. An ISIS fighter who ambushes Kurdish troops from a concealed tunnel before blowing himself up.

These were the visceral indications of how dedicated and single-minded Mosul's ISIS occupiers can be, and equally how bloody and grinding Iraq's battle to take back the city could be.

As dawn broke Tuesday, the second day of the offensive to liberate Iraq's second largest city from ISIS, a diverse coalition of Iraqi troops, Kurdish Peshmerga allies and thousands of Iraqi irregulars gritted their teeth and prepared to again meet militant forces in the dusty scrubland outside the city.

One Iraqi soldier was killed and another two injured while repelling car suicide bombs targeting troops around 30 miles south of the city, according to Maj. Amin Shekhani of the Iraqi army. He added that 10 ISIS fighters were killed in the operation.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Iraqi forces have "met their objectives" so far and are "ahead of schedule," but added that the offensive "will be a difficult campaign that could take some time."

Since attacking at first light Monday, Iraqi forces had made "substantial progress along several avenues of advance," in the "largest battle (Iraqi forces) have taken on to date," US Central Command spokesman Col. John Dorrian told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

"The noose is tightening on Mosul."

More than 75 square miles of territory and as many as nine villages had been taken from ISIS control.

Aw, kon way ukoy, ang bana jud ang primary suspect...

Northern Luzon on path of supertyphoon
Philippines News Agency - October 17, 2016
By Catherine J. Teves


COMMUNITIES in Northern Luzon risk experiencing the brunt of the typhoon with the international name Haima, which could intensify into a supertyphoon and make landfall there this week, the state weather bureau said.

“We are not discounting such possibility so communities there must already prepare accordingly,” weather forecaster Meno Mendoza of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said.

He noted that Haima, that will be named Typhoon Lawin when it enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), is heading toward the country, moving over Pacific waters where it continues to draw the energy needed to intensify.

Citing the latest available data, Mendoza said Haima will enter PAR on Monday afternoon, move Northwestward and make landfall on Thursday in Cagayan province.

Haima is forecast to move across the northern section of Northern Luzon and head toward the Ilocos area, he continued.

The onslaught of Haima will likely affect the Batanes group of islands, as well as the Babuyan Islands, he added.

“Aside from heavy rainfall, Haima will likely fan storm surges in Cagayan’s eastern coast,” Mendoza said.

Winds of 220 kilometers per hour or more are also possible if Haima intensifies into a supertyphoon.

Landslides are likely, as well, since soil in some Northern Luzon areas might be saturated already due to the heavy rainfall dumped by Typhoon Karen there last week.

Ekonomiya apektado

Kalit nga namingaw ang dagat nga matud sa mga molupyo wala nay naligo sukad niadtong adlaw’ng Huwebes, Oktubre 13, dihang nasayud sa nahitabo sa kahadlok nga adunay ukoy sa maong lugar.

Bisan ang mga mananagat nahadlok nga mopalawod apan wa silay mahimo gawas sa pagsugal sa ilang kinabuhi aron adunay ipakaon sa pamilya.

Sa kasamtangan, dakong tanghaga sa mga molupyo ang nahitabo sa magtiayon human wala sila masayud kon unsa gayud ang nigakos sa magtiayon nga miresulta sa pagkalumos sa asawa ug kinawrasan sa bana.

Wala pa miguwa ang resulta sa otopsiya sa tambalanan dihang gisubay ning tigsuwat niadtong Biyernes, Oktubre 14, sa buntag.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Oktubre 14, 2016.

Samtang sa gipahigayong imbestigasyon sa kapulisan, nasuta nga ang lawas sa bana adunay mga dili ordinaryong kinawrasan sa atubangang parte sa lawas nga lansang ang gigamit hinungdan una kining gikustodiya sa kapulisan, apan gibuhian ra usab human daghan ang nagpamatuod nga saksi sa nahitabo sa magtiayon didto sa dagat.

Sa pakighinabi sa SunStar SuperBalita sa laing mananagat nga si Renz Andre, usa sa mga misuway pagluwas sa asawa sa sundalo, naghulagway nga danlog kaayo sama sa lumot ang lawas niini ingon man ang lawas sa sundalo.

“Puwerte lagi kadangog, mora’g kanang karpa gani ana gayud,” niya pa.

Bisan ang molupyong si Nanay Edenieta Abat, 54, nga mikuyog paghatod sa ospital nakasaksi nga adunay di makayang baho sa bula nga miguwa sa ilong sa babayeng biktima.

Gilayog og ukoy

Ang mananagat nga si Ruben Zambo, 52, nagbutyag nga sukad 13-anyos nga siya nangisda sa lawod, niadtong higayona pa lamang siya nakakita og usa ka di matino nga isda o daw sama sa tawo nga miduol sa magtiayon.

“Misiyagit ang bana og tabang dungan sa pagdagan sa daplin sa baybayon kay silang duha gigakos daw og dako kaayo nga wa nila mailhing matang sa hayop o nilalang,” niya pa.

Dihang giiwagan sa flashlight sa mananagat ang tubig nga kusog kaayong mikanaas, iyang nakita ang kolor brown nga sama sa “dugong.”

“Di mailhan ang lawas unya naay ikog, unya mao daw to ang nilabtik sa asawa. Pag-adto namo, taud-taod naglutaw na ang iyang asawa pero amo dayong gitabang,” sulti niini.

Wala na matabang sa Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital ang biktima human gideklara sa nag-atimang si Doktora Myra Macarampat nga patay na.

Magtiayon gipatay sa ‘ukoy?’
Ni ORLANDO B. DINOY



DAVAO. Gisaysay sa mananagat nga si Ruben Zambo nga taga Barangay Aplaya, Digos City ngadto sa mga tigbalita nga di nila masuta kon shokoy o unsang matang sa isda ang migakos sa magtiayong taga North Cotabato ug gikamatay sa asawa niadtong Miyerkules, Oktubre 12, sa gabii. Ang sugilanon nakapaukay sa mga molupyo sa lugar. (Orlando B. Dinoy)


DIGOS CITY -- Gikagubtan sa mga molupyo sa Barangay Aplaya ning dakbayan ang kontrobersiyal nga kamatayon sa usa ka asawa og sundalo dihang giingong gipanggakos sila og ukoy samtang naligo sa dagat pasado alas 9 sa gabii niadtong Miyerkules, Oktubre 12.

Giingong namatay ang biktimang si Ailyn May Eli Española, 27, minyo kang Corporal Dio Cesar Jr., sakop sa Philippine Army ug mga molupyo sa Sitio Old Bulatucan, Barangay Makilala, North Cotabato.

Matud sa mga molupyo, miabot ang duha pasado alas 4 sa hapon ug labing pa kaayo kini nga nagsultihanay sa usa ka giabangang open cottage.

Dexterous serial rapist...

Ikog mo sa kilat ko
ni Ernesto D. Lariosa
San Fernando, Cebu





Salabtunon kaayo ang bakanteng langit
Ang dagway sinaw kon hapuhapon
Wa ganiy mga butlog moungot sa mga kamot
Huping pa sa hangin nga nasangit sa ilong ko
Sa akong panghupaw ikaw nakasabot niini:
Di ko motuo sa kahimtang nga kanunay
Magpasilong ta sa landong sa kahangturan.
Kay mangluod man sab ang limpiyong panganod
Ning atong pagsunod-sunod sa mga adlaw
Mokalit lag paghot ang mga dugdog
Ibabaw sa atong agtang diin kita mauknol sa lanog
Mowiriswiris dayon ang mga tudlo sa kilat
Apan di ka malisang kay ako na ning gigunitan
Imong gipaabot na lang ang pag-ulbo sa langit
Ang pagpanulong sa nanagong mga ulan
Kay mikitoy-kitoy kang mihiram sa akong kaisog.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Cebu Oktubre 15, 2016.

More than 1.6 billion people in the world are either overweight or obese, according to a recent study by the World Health Organization. Here’s a look at the countries with the highest percent of overweight adults (people age 15 and over). People are considered overweight if their body mass index (BMI) is 25 or higher and obese with a BMI or 30 or higher.


Rank    Country    % Overweight or obese

1.   Nauru   94.5
2.   Federated States of Micronesia   91.1
3.   Cook Islands   90.9
4.   Tonga   90.8
5.   Niue   81.7
6.   Samoa   80.4
7.   Palau   78.4
8.   Kuwait   74.2
9.   United States   74.1
10.   Kiribati   73.6
11.   Dominica   71.0
12.   Barbados   69.7
13.   Argentina   69.4
14.   Egypt   69.4
15.   Malta   68.7
16.   Greece   68.5
17.   New Zealand   68.4
18.   United Arab Emirates   68.3
19.   Mexico   68.1
20.   Trinidad and Tobago   67.9


Source: World Health Organization.

Argabyado dinhi si Bull Pitt...

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Pit bull in a duffle bag!


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Malipayon ra si doggie...

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Ni Romeo T. Limpangog (The Freeman) | Updated October 9, 2016 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Lalaking giingong anaa sa listahan sa mga drug personalities sa kapolisan sa Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) gisaka sa iyang panimalay ug gipusil hangtud namatay diha sa dalan P. Remedio, Brgy. Banilad, Dakbayan sa Mandaue. Duha ka mga lalaking giingong nagsuot og ski mask ang kalit nisud sa panimalay ni Teotimo Carmanes Jr, alyas Budlat, 44, ug diretso kining gipusil diha sa sud.

Si Police Officer 2  Rogie Cabra  sa Presinto 4 sa MCPO miingon nga naghigda sa sulod sa iyang panimalay ang biktima nga nagtan-aw og telebisyon dihang gisaka sa duha ka mga lalaki ug gipusil ang biktima sa makadaghang higayon.

Ang duha ka armadong mga lalaki nagdali pagsakay og balik sa gi-parking nga motorsiklo ug mipabulhot sa pagpadagan palayo sa maong dapit.

Si Cabra miingon nga sa crime scene maoy ilang napalgan ang upat ka mga kabhang sa bala sa kalibre .45 ug usa ka deformed slug niini. Si Cabra miingon nga nalakip sa ilang listahan sa mga drug personalities si Carmanes ug naapil usab kini sa ilang Oplan Tukhang sa miaging bulan apan wala  motahan sa ilang buhatan.

Gisubay pa karon sa kapolisan kun kinsa ang nipatay sa biktima ug kun aduna ba kini mga tawong nakaaway sa nangaging mga adlaw. (BANAT NEWS)

Ang convoy nakamugna og gamay nga kahuot sa trapiko ilabi na diha sa M.J. Cuenco Avenue sa may Ayala Access Road apan daghang mga polis ug traffic enforcers nga nakadestino nga dali kaayong nahapsay ang problema.

Ang Kapandesal Multi-Purpose Cooperative maoy mi-organisar sa tulo ka adlaw nga pagduaw sa Birhen sa Lindogon dinhi sa Sugbo lakip na ang pagpahigayon sa maong konsiyerto.  Nahimo kining malampuson tungod sa pag-abag sa Cebu Archdiocese, mga Marian Monks ug ingon man sa kapolisan.

“Successful siya in all angles. Although kuwangan gyud ang nahipos nga kwarta sa concert pero ang gipanghingusgan ni Archbishop Jose Palma is evangelization man gyud. He keeps telling KMPC not to worry about the money kay muabot ra na but be happy nga daghang mga tawo ang mapaduol kang Mama Mary through the three-day visit. Ug kalouy sa Ginoo walay untoward incidents.

So yes, it is very  successful,” matud pa ni Ryan Mark Borinaga, Banat Hugyaw Editor kinsa mao usab ang “It’s All About Her concert” Media Bureau in-charge.

Ang abot sa konsiyerto ug uban pang matigom sa maong mga kalihokan adto gamiton sa pagtukod og dugang mga lawak-saringan sa Our Lady of Lindogon Foundation Incorporated partikular na para sa Grades 11 ug 12. (BANAT NEWS)

Gikan sa Simala, Sibonga, ang imahen gidala dinhi sa dakbayan niadtong Biyernes sa udto ug diha sa IEC Pavilion gihimo ang veneration ug vigil.  Gibanabana sa kapolisan nga 12 mil ka mga Marian Devotees ang nitambong sa Santos nga Misa nga giselebrar ni Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma uban sa mga kaparian ug mga layko.

Pagkaalas-7 sa gabii, nagbanos-banos sa pag-awit sa “It’s All About Her Concert” ang mga inilang mga Sugboanong mag-aawit sama sa award winning Mandaue Children's Choir, si Ultimate Diva Raki Vega nga miawit sa Canticle of Mary, Singing Priest Fr. Jonas Mejares, Cebu’s Inspirational Diva Girlie Lapinid Las Pinas, Cebu’s Classical Diva Izarzuri Vidal, Cebu’s Only Male Quartet “Sakdap” ug On the Cover Band nga miduyog kanila.

Atol sa pagdala sa imahen gikan sa IEC Pavilion padung sa Basilica, gisugat kini og daklit nga pag-ulan, apan wala kini panumbalinga sa mga deboto nga miisip hinuon niini nga usa ka bendisyon.

Gihulagway ni Mejares ang Birhen Maria sa usa ka inahan nga tinubdan sa kalipay ug pagmahal dungan sa pag-awhag sa katawhan nga  himuong sumbanan ang Birhen Maria.

Apan nasubo si Mejares kay ang nahitabo sa nasud karon pipila na lamang ang naghatag og bili sa kinabuhi ug kadaghanan ang nalipay pa sa kamatayon sa uban, hakog ug kadaotan sa ilang isi’g ka ingon.

Si Mejares miingon dili imposible sa usa ka yanong tawo nga masusama sa Birhen Maria kun sila adunay dakong pagsalig ug pagtuo sa Ginoo. Iyang gidasig ang mga magtutuo nga manalangin nga ayuhon ang bisan unsang klase sa sakit sa matag usa ug sa katilingban. Sama sa gipaabot, mihalad si Mejares og usa ka awit nga nag-ulohan nga, "I'll be There."

Ni May Miasco (The Freeman) | Updated October 9, 2016 - 12:00am



Ang mga deboto gilangkoban sa mga kababayen-an, kabataan ug mga senior citizens  aron sa pagyukbo. Philstar.com/File


CEBU, Philippines - Misamot kadaghan ang mga deboto sa Birhen sa Lindogon nga niyukbo kagahapon atol sa pagdala sa imahen diha sa Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu gikan sa International Eucharistic Congress Pavilion sa Brgy. Mabolo ning Dakbayan.

Usa ka healing mass ang gihimo kagahapon sa hapon nga gipangulohan mismo sa Singing Priest nga si Fr. Jonas Mejares. Ang mga deboto gilangkoban sa mga kababayen-an, kabataan ug mga senior citizens  aron sa pagyukbo.

I guess PMNM's expansion should inspire the Republic of Kiribati to also enlarge its own Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA).

I mean, he’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. he’s a con, a bullsâ€"t artist, a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care, thinks he’s gaming society, doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an idiot.

Colin Powell said it best: He’s a national disaster. He’s an embarrassment to this country. It makes me so angry that this country had gotten to the point that this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has.

He talks [about] how he wants to punch people in the face? Well, I’d like to punch him in the face. This is somebody that we want for president? I don’t think so. What I care about is the direction of this country. And what I’m very, very worried about is that it might go in the wrong direction with someone like Donald Trump.

If you care about your future, vote for it.


More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/08/robert-de-niro-goes-off-on-donald-trump-id-like-to-punch-him-in-the-face/

In his not-quite-an-apology, Trump said that the incident happened more than 10 years ago. That would be a fair point if not for two things. First, he was nearly 60 years old, so it was hardly a youthful indiscretion; and all evidence â€" including his own words during this campaign â€" indicates that he still sees women as decorative sex objects. Second, and probably more important: Others out there have shown themselves to think like he does. Like a Greek parable, he has come to represent all the misogyny we as a country have stuck under our metaphorical rock.

In that way, perhaps, he has done us a favor, forcing us to confront all he has exposed. No, not all men talk or act like Donald Trump â€" in fact, the overwhelming number of men do not â€" nor do most men condone it. But some do â€" enough that we need to pay attention. The sexism (and racism and xenophobia) he and many of his supporters spout has been there all along, though we have desperately wanted to see it as something else. In his second non-apology last night, Trump called this “nothing more than a distraction” and asked that we all get back to the real issues at hand. It turns out that this is the real issue (or, certainly, one of many very real ones).

“Listen to us,” we once demanded.

Trump’s latest has meant we have to listen to him â€" really listen â€" and recognize all he represents and how entrenched is the sexism his comments have unearthed.

This raises the question of: Why now? Why is this the tipping point, rather than Trump’s offensive statements about Muslims, war heroes, the disabled? Why not his refusal to disavow blatant racists and anti-Semites? Why not his many other insulting remarks about women?

In part it’s because the conduct he is describing on an open mic is criminal â€" legally a sexual assault. That alone makes this different, but now add the fact that this latest comes after a particularly awful three weeks, what with his smearing of a beauty queen and the revelation of his tax forms. In part it’s because this is the culmination of 18 months, and something was bound to be the last straw. But mostly, I think, it’s because, for the first time, there simply is no excuse. Nearly all Trump’s previous controversies were ones for which he found an explanation, however tenuous his critics might have found it. The Khans attacked him first. There were actually a few crimes committed by immigrants. He was saving Machado’s job, and beauty queens are not supposed to gain weight.

Here there is no other hand. (No, “Bill Clinton did it too” is not another hand.) All the talk over the years of how sexism was subtle and nuanced and manageable served to mask the fact that sometimes it is also blatant and embedded and unapologetic. What Donald Trump was recorded saying in the back of a bus â€" while others around him egged him on and laughed â€" laid bare that lie.

Washington Post obtains bombshell tape of Donald Trump

The Washington Post obtained a video from 2005 that caught a lewd conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.” The vulgar conversation about women took place on a bus as they were arriving on the set of “Days of Our Lives” and was caught on a hot microphone.

And last night, after the Washington Post released video of Trump boasting of kissing and groping women without asking, 1 million women (yes, an actual count) joined a Twitter thread begun by Kelly Oxford, who asked, “Tweet me your first assaults … I’ll go first: Old man on city bus grabs my ‘p****’ and smiles at me, I’m 12.” (Her tweet did not contain any asterisks either.)

The backlash that followed Friday’s “Access Hollywood” outtake was fiercer than any of the many that have come before in this campaign. There were calls for Trump to step down, to replace himself with Pence, and some of those who had endorsed him (though, strikingly, hardly all) rescinded their support.

Then along came Donald Trump. Like Supreme Court hearings, presidential campaigns can turn over rocks, exposing a world of creepy crawlers beneath. We saw that in 2008 when the election of the first African-American president gave voice to racism that had been long present, if somewhat muted. Notably, though, Barack Obama was elected before the entrenchment of social media.

This time we have Twitter. And YouTube. And a place for ugly souls to express ugly things. Nearly every journalist has a story this election cycle of being bullied for a story. Mine is this: When I wrote here of how Donald Trump made a pass at me during an interview years ago, and how that fact was relevant today as a measure of how he hasn’t changed, I received email with subject lines like this: “You UGLY C*** â€"TRUMP NEVER “MADE A PASS” ON YOU. Kill yourself.” (The actual email did not contain any asterisks.)

The Internet is also providing a place for victims of the vitriol to fight back. #yesallwomen was a grassroots Twitter movement in which women shared stories of their assault and harassment in response to #notallmen, which aimed to show that most men were not guilty of being jerks. Most men were not harassers, the women agreed, but still we have a culture in which nearly every woman has a story of being harassed.

Since then, there has been mixed progress. Women have inched closer to men in wages, surpassed them as percentages of both the professional workplace and college degrees, and increased their presence in Congress (if you consider the current 19.4 percent to be progress). But they have barely budged as a percentage of workplace managers (37 percent in 1990, 39 percent today) or as leaders of Fortune 500 companies (none in 1990, 21 in 2016), and they still lose traction in many of the highest-paying professions. (While women are now nearly half of all law school graduates, they are just 20 percent of law firm partners.)

Measures of more private interactions are more difficult to find. There has been an increase in reports of sexual harassment in the workplace and sexual assault on campus in recent years, but it’s unclear if this is an increase in frequency or awareness or both.

What is clear is that much of the conversation about gender has been oddly sanitized. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, for instance, forcefully laid out statistical evidence of how women are perceived differently in the workplace than men, and her solution was that women adjust their behavior to challenge those perceptions. Sexual assault awareness on campus, in turn, focused on what women could do to drink less, walk home in groups, and recognize assault so they could report it when it happened. And analysis of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy was about how Clinton might overcome voters’ unconscious responses to the way she dressed, wore her hair, spoke and smiled.

In Greek myth, and much of modern literature beyond, the most epic battles are allegories, between deities who represent larger truths about our mortal selves. How fitting, then, that our current combatants are a woman who first came to power in part because of an unfaithful man and a man who reminds women of their worst boss, boyfriend or subway groper.

The last time we talked like this, with the stark raw honesty of the past news cycle, was during the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991. “Listen to us,” Anna Quindlen wrote in a New York Times column that would win her a Pulitzer Prize. “You will notice there is no please in that sentence . … The gender divide has opened and swallowed politeness like a great hungry whale.”

And for a moment that was true. Anita Hill brought sexual harassment to the center of the national conversation. Women testified to each other as she testified before Congress. But then Clarence Thomas was confirmed anyway, which sent a none-too-subtle message about the importance of all our stories, and we all went back to pretending to be polite.

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Lisa Belkin
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We kept telling each other â€" almost convincing ourselves â€" that it was subtle. Sure, there was bias against women, but it was “unconscious” bias, and awareness would make it go away. Yes, studies showed a glass ceiling, but that was because of the signals we were sending, and if we just dressed differently, or stood differently, or spoke differently at meetings, we could “lean” it all away.

Most of all, we told ourselves, it was a different world now â€" what with the first woman well on her way to being president.

What irony (predictable, perhaps, but ironic nonetheless) that the single greatest achievement of a woman in American history serves to show how far women haven’t come.

Hmm, manananggal?

Quote from: islander on October 05, 2016, 06:50:24 PM
2. This monkey has his own puppy!

Kini siya nga unggoyay kay wa may iyang kaugalingong itoy, nangawat na lang!

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


WALAY kabutangan sa kalagot sa usa ka 50-anyos nga ginang human gipasinglan nga "wakwak" ang iyang inahan ug banggiitang manghiloay ang iyang amahan.

Alas 10 sa buntag niadtong Martes nagpa-blotter sa Talomo Police Station ang usa ka Coring (bansagon gitago), 50, minyo, nagpuyo sa Lower Dampa, Barangay Magtuod, Talomo District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Gisaysay ni Coring sa police officer sa presinto tres nga duha sa iyang mga kaila nga sila Gemma, 45, ug Merna, 49, (mga bansagon gitago), taga Barangay 5-A Bankerohan, nagtabi sa ilang mga silingan sa Lower Dampa nga wakwak ang iyang inahan ug banggiitang manghiloay ang iyang amahan.

Una niini, giingong dihang nagabhian sila Gemma ug Merna nga gikan sa ilang higala sa Lower Dampa, nakakita sila og dako nga langgam gikan sa pantawan nila Coring.

Giingong nanagan sila Gemma ug Merna kay nanindog ang ilang balahibo dihang ilang nadunggan ang pagsiyagit sa dakong langgam kay nasangit sa kawayanan.

Dugang pagsaysay ni Coring nga nanabi pa sila Gemma ug Merna nga banggiitang manghiloay ang iyang amahan gumikan gipanakitan og tiyan ang ilang silingan nga nakigtagay og tuba.

Sa kasuko ni Coring sa bakak nga pasangil, nagpa-blotter nalang siya sa kapulisan aron sa barangay sila maghusay batok sa duha niya ka mga higala.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Oktubre 06, 2016.

"UNFRIENDLY ACTS"

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the decisions were taken in response to "unfriendly acts" by Washington. They came two days after Washington said it was suspending talks with Russia on trying to end the violence in Syria.

The agreement on co-operation in nuclear and energy-related scientific research, signed in 2013, provided the legal framework necessary to expand work between U.S. and Russian nuclear research laboratories and institutes in nuclear technology and nonproliferation, among others.

The uranium agreement, signed in 2010, provided for feasibility studies into the conversion of six Russian research reactors from dangerous highly enriched uranium to more secure low enriched uranium.

"We can no longer trust Washington in such a sensitive area as the modernization and security of Russian nuclear facilities," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

It said that should Russia decide on the feasibility of the conversion of any research reactors to low-enriched uranium, it will carry the work itself. But it warned the conversion may not be "an end in itself."

"In some cases, including in the production of medical isotopes, highly enriched uranium is the most effective and renouncing its would be technically and economically inexpedient," the ministry said.

The West imposed economic sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014, followed by a pro-Russian insurrection in the east of the country. The breakdown of a ceasefire in Syria, where Russia backs government forces and the West supports rebel groups, has added to tensions. â€" Reuters

Published October 6, 2016 2:02am
Updated October 6, 2016 4:24am
BY LIDIA KELLY, Reuters


MOSCOW - Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.

The Russian government said that as counter-measures to the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, it was putting aside a nuclear and energy-related research pact with the United States.

It also said it was terminating for the same reasons an agreement between its nuclear corporation Rosatom and the U.S. Department of Energy on feasibility studies into conversion of Russian research reactors to low-enriched uranium.

On Monday, President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons grade plutonium, signalling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.

"The regular renewal of sanctions against Russia, which include the suspension of Russian-American cooperation in the field of nuclear energy demands the adoption of countermeasures against the U.S. side," the Russian government said on its website.

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the United States had not received an official notification from Russia although he had seen media reports of the suspension of the research agreement.

"If they're accurate, we would regret the Russian decision to unilaterally suspend cooperation on what we believe is a very important issue that's in the interest of both of our countries," spokesman Mark Toner said at a daily news briefing.

Aprub si Botoy...


                                                         

The Nobels’ narrow focus creates a two-tiered scientific universe, wherein only select fields have access to a uniquely powerful publicity mechanism. Nobel laureates receive media exposure and increases in professional status and opportunities that are all but unequaled in science. They frequently meet with high-level policy makers, and their prizes are leveraged for prestige and resources by their institutions and countries.

That the world’s most important scientific honor society has largely ignored seismic shifts in science could harm not just Nobel-ineligible scientists, but science’s overall standing in broader society. Stagnating or declining funding and increasing political attacks on science suggest that in many countries, it already has.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t celebrate those who are honored by the Nobel committees. Great science, like a great symphony or painting, can inspire. Sometimes the research that is rewarded leads to discoveries that make our lives better.

But as wonderful as it is to advance physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, it’s at least as wonderful to tackle environmental problems, predict natural disasters, demystify how species interact, and educate a population to grapple with complex and important scientific topics. The Nobel organization should take a bold leap into the present and shine its bright light more widely â€" and unshackle itself from a 19th-century vision of what makes good science.

Discoveries in those fields are increasingly critical for addressing today’s most pressing problems, from conservation of endangered species to earthquake and hurricane prediction. And yet the Nobel Foundation has taken no meaningful steps to recognize them. Forests and oceans are essential to making the planet hospitable, yet there is no scientific Nobel that a forest or ocean researcher could remotely dream of winning. Nor is there a Nobel for science education or outreach.

An agronomist, Norman Borlaug, did win a Nobel in 1970 for wheat breeding research that arguably saved more lives than any physics, chemistry or biology prizewinning discovery ever. So did the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, along with Al Gore, in 2007. But they all won the Nobel Peace Prize, not any of the science prizes.

Some argue that the Nobel disciplines are still the “purest” sciences, and as such deserve extra recognition. But many scientists and even some Nobel laureates say that much of today’s most exciting and important science resides at the borders of traditional disciplines or in ones that don’t have a dedicated prize.

In 2009, 10 prominent scientists and engineers, including a Nobel laureate, wrote an open letter asking the foundation to recognize more areas of science. They pointed out that a similar evolution was recognized with the 1968 establishment of a Nobel-caliber prize in economics, defusing the counterargument that the foundation was constrained by Nobel’s will. The Nobel Foundation responded, in essence, by saying the committees that made the awards “have been reasonably successful up till now in tracing major developments of modern civilization.”

Science’s reach has relentlessly expanded to include ever more facets of our world, and it has become increasingly important to our lives. But the world’s most important scientific honor society has largely ignored that evolution. As a result, the Nobel Prizes, which will be announced this week, are reserved for an ever-shrinking fraction of the scientific community and are receding from the interests of society at large. It’s high time for an update.

The Nobel Prizes were the brainchild of Alfred B. Nobel, an idiosyncratic Swedish industrialist best known in his lifetime for inventing dynamite. Having no immediate heirs, he declared that the bulk of his fortune would be used to annually reward the persons “who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind” in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. When Nobel wrote his will in 1895, the three scientific fields he named were indeed generating the most spectacular discoveries, and Nobel Prizes soon recognized world-changing advances: X-rays, radioactivity, artificial fertilizer, vitamins, nuclear fission and many more.

But the world of science has broadened and matured spectacularly since the late 1800s. The British Ecological Society, the world’s oldest ecology organization, was founded in 1913. Geology received a huge boost in 1915, when Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift, which led to a unified explanation for phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain formation. The first computerized weather model was produced only in the 1950s, and climate science has grown exponentially since the danger of global warming was first recognized some 60 years ago.

By GABRIEL POPKIN
http://www.nytimes.com/
OCT. 3, 2016


In the mid-1960s, Robert Paine, a scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, discovered a hidden organizing principle in the coastal ecosystem he was studying. When a certain species of starfish was present, a panoply of algae, limpets, barnacles, anemones and mussels lived in delicate, dynamic balance. But when he removed the starfish and tossed them into the ocean, that balance collapsed and one kind of mussel took over.

Dr. Paine coined a term to describe the starfish’s outsize influence: keystone species. Keystone species have since been identified in forests, in grasslands, in the ocean and even in the human gut. The concept has become one of ecology’s guiding theoretical principles, and it has had a profound impact, inspiring, among other things, the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone, where they help control elk that can otherwise overgraze aspen and willow trees.

If Dr. Paine, who passed away in June, had been a physicist, chemist or cell biologist, such a fundamental, broadly applicable and hugely influential paradigm would probably have put him in contention for a Nobel Prize. But Paine was an ecologist, so he had no shot at the prestige, power and wealth that the Nobels bestow. The same can be said for the world’s top geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, climatologists, crop scientists, botanists, entomologists and practitioners of many other fields.

Bwahaha! Hala bira!

Nindotan ra baya ko sa akong mini library...

Duterte, former mayor of Davao City, said he did not realize how severe the drug problem is in the country until he was elected President.

He added that the war on drugs had exposed so many people involved in the business of illegal drugs, it was like pressing “worms out of a can.”

In a press conference on Monday, Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa said he believes the government is "winning" in the war on drugs.

Senator Pangilinan said the government should “rethink” its approach on the drug menace.

“Our people yearn for and deserve Oplans that work,” Pangilinan said.

At the resumption of the Senate probe on drug-related killings on Monday, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV pointed out that Davao City, from 2010 to 2015, had the most number of murder incidents.

Citing statistics from the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Statistics Authority, Trillanes added that Davao City was number two in terms of incidents of rape.

“Since naging mayor dun sa Duterte, eh bakit number one sa murder at number two sa rape so ibig sabihin hindi tama yung approach,” Trillanes said.

The PNP said a total of 1,375 drug suspects have been killed and 22,387 more have been arrested in the 23,474 operations conducted from July 1 to 6 a.m. of October 3.

It also reported that a total of 732,115 drug users and pushers have surrendered during the same period. â€"ALG, GMA News

Published October 4, 2016 11:40am
Updated October 4, 2016 12:58pm
By KATHRINA CHARMAINE ALVAREZ, GMA News


Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Tuesday expressed doubt that President Rodrigo Duterte will meet his deadline to solve the problem of illegal drugs in 12 months.

In a post on his social media account, Pangilinan cited a local newspaper report in July, which said that over 4,000 drug addicts and pushers surrendered in Davao City as a result of the government’s anti-drug program dubbed Oplan Tokhang.

“If the Davao City anti illegal drugs campaign did not succeed in stamping out and eliminating pushers and addicts in Davao City under President Duterte's 24 year stint as Mayor, what makes us think that the nationwide campaign against illegal drugs will succeed in 6 months (extended to another 6 months)?” Pangilinan said.

“If a mailed fist policy against illegal drugs did not succeed in eliminating the drug menace in a smaller area (one city) over a longer period of time (24 years), why will it succeed in a larger area (the entire country of over 100 cities and over 1000 municipalities) in a shorter period of time (3 to 6 to 12 months)?” the senator added.

Last month, Duterte said he needs an extension of another six months on his self-imposed deadline of three to six months to solve the crime and drugs problem in the Philippines.

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


NAGPATALA sa buhatan sa kapolisan ang tulo ka mga babaye nga trabahante sa usa ka balay kalingawan human sila nagdumog kay giingnan sila sa kustomer nga guwapa ug taas siya’g ilong itandi kanila.

Ang insidente nahitabo alas 3 sa kaadlawon niadtong Sabado, Oktubre 1, didto sa usa ka balay kalingawan sa Bonifacio Street, Barangay 4-A Poblacion, dakbayan sa Davao.

Base sa blotter nga natala ni Police Officer 2 Ronald Muaña, duty desk officer sa San Pedro Police Station, nasayran nga samtang nanirado na ang bar gumikan sa liquor ban sa dakbayan, kalit misulod ang usa ka Princess (bansagon gitago sa Superbalita), kay gusto pa niini magtagay, tungod giingong regular kustomer siya.

Gibalibaran siya sa tulo ka babaye nga sila, Herna, Wenny, ug Juliet (mga apilyedo gitago), kinsa giingong usa kanila online teacher samtang ang duha negosyante nga higala sa tag-iya sa bar.

Giingong gisultihan si Princess sa tulo nga di na sila mo-serve og ilimnon apan nasuko na hinuon si Princess ug namulong sa tulo nga, “Mas guwapa ko! Mas taas ko’g ilong sa imoha,” sulti sa suspek nga nagtudlo sa usa sa tulo ka mga babaye.

Napungot ang tulo human sila na-insulto hinungdan nga nagdinumogay sila kon diin ang hitabo nasaksihan sa lain pang tulo ka mga babaye nga kustomer nga wala pa kagawas sa maong bar.

Gihandos na lang ngadto sa barangay level ang maong kaso aron didto sila husayon.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Oktubre 03, 2016.

MAN WHO WAS FILMED DROWNING STEPDAUGHTER IN HOTEL SWIMMING POOL SENTENCED TO 100 YEARS
CCTV footage showed the man throwing the three-year-old into the water in Mexico.
BY LUCY CLARKE-BILLINGS ON 9/23/16 AT 12:15 PM



A man identified as Jose David N. throws his stepdaughter into a hotel swimming pool in Morelia, Mexico. He has been jailed for 100 years for drowning the 3-year-old.
CCTV


A man who was filmed repeatedly throwing his 3-year-old step-daughter into a swimming pool, causing her to drown, has been jailed for 100 years.

Surveillance footage showed the man, identified only as Jose David N., throwing the small child into the water at a hotel in the city of Morelia, in Michoacan, Mexico, in August 2015.

She is seen battling to keep herself afloat, while her step-father stands watching at the side of the pool doing nothing. At times, he holds her underwater and teases her by throwing a float into the water, just out of her reach.

The incident took place on August 12, 2015, while the little girl’s mother was sleeping in their hotel room. The mother claims she found her daughter lifeless in front of the television, and had no idea she had been murdered until she saw the CCTV footage.

Other swimmers can be seen on surveillance, but they do nothing to intervene or help.

Jose David N. stayed silent throughout his murder trial and did not testify. Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of up to 40 years but a judge made his punishment more severe after reviewing the footage.

6. Green Tea: Polyphenols in green tea are thought to be neuroprotective and are being studied as therapeutic agents with the potential to alter brain aging processes. Green tea contains caffeine, though only about a third of the amount in a cup of coffee, which can also provide a short term mental boost. My favorite way to increase my intake of green tea is by eating these natural mints that contain one cup of green tea in three mints.

5. Dark chocolate: The key here is choosing good quality chocolate that has 70% or more cacao content. The flavonols in dark chocolate improve blood vessel function, and thus increase brain blood flow. This can enhance memory, cognitive function and alertness. Dark chocolate also boasts brain stimulating caffeine and theobromine, which can help with short term cognitive functioning.

4. Sardines: People either love or hate these little fishes but it’s undeniable that they are a super food: full of essential fatty acids (EFAs), calcium and protein, sardines are one of the best foods you can possibly consume. The EFAs they contain are EPA and DHA, omega-3 fatty acids that act to bolster communication among brain cells and assist in modulating neurotransmitters responsible for mental focus as well as calming inflammation in the brain. EPA and DHA also increase brain levels of the ‘good mood’ chemical, serotonin. Bonus: the mercury content in sardines is one of the lowest in any fish.

3. Celery: Fibrous, crunchy celery is a great source of luteolin, a plant compound that might lower rates of age-related memory loss. Luteolin calms inflammation and prevents degeneration by inhibiting inflammatory cytokines in the brain. Celery is an easy food to snack on, and for an added brain boost, you can add almond butter and goji berries to it - like a grown up version of bugs on a log.

2. Almonds: Nutritional powerhouses, almonds are high in Vitamin E, heart-healthy mono-unsaturated fats, fiber and protein. Vitamin E has been shown to help reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and potentially even the decline caused by Alzheimer’s. An easy way to eat almonds is to pre-portion them out (one small handful is the ideal serving size) and keep them in your car, desk and bag for a healthy snack or to swap out peanut butter for almond butter.

Here are my top six brain boosting foods to keep you sharp, focused and on point.

1. Beets: These beautiful root vegetables have tremendous brain boosting potential because of the natural nitrates they contain. Some studies show that these nitrates increase blood flow to the brain, enhancing mental performance. My favorite way to eat beets is to roast (you lose much fewer nutrients this way than by boiling) and drizzle them with some extra virgin olive oil, Icelandic flake salt and fresh ground pepper.

09/23/2016 02:56 pm ET
Mascha Davis MPH, RDN
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Humanitarian, Founder of NomadistaNutrition.com


Summer is coming to a close, which means school and work are ramping up again - and you want your brain to be in tip top shape to tackle important tasks and projects. Did you know that there are specific foods you can incorporate into your diet to increase your cognitive abilities such as focus, memory, problem solving skills and learning?

Research has shown that certain nutrients can enhance brain function by increasing blood flow to the brain, calming inflammation and battling fatigue.