The cute Albert Einstein of Cebu - Meet Miko 4 year old Genius

Mastering his problem solving skills to ensure that he's off a good start in Mathematics. Here's Miko @ 4 years old Calculating for the Volume of a Cone and Cube.

Here are some videos of Miko solving the problems & reciting the Capital of 164 Countries.
Disclaimer: I do not own the video.
Source: Youtube - Philip John Secillano



Countries and Capitals were Miko's first favorite Geography subject. When he was 3 years old he was able to recite 141 Countries and their Capitals, now he is 4, he still remember all of them plus 23 Countries and Capitals more.


Miko's Father from Bicol and his Mother who hails from Cebu.

The Cebuano Crooner "Jem Cubil" - The Voice of the Philippines Blind Auditions 2

The Cebuano crooner Jose Emmanuel "Jem" Cubil is the first Cebuano who made it in The Voice of the Philippines Season 2 auditions, under the care of legendary Team Lea(which was also the team of Michael "Mitoy" Yonting, another proud Cebuano, the 1st ever The Voice of the Philippines Grand Champion).

Jem Cubil is from Cebu Institute of Technology-University. Congrats, Jem and VIVA, CEBU!
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Source: John Richard Amparo / Youtube

FHM Model avoided getting reprimanded for a traffic violation with the help of a police signed business card.

MANILA, Philippines–Her post on social media may be more controversial than any of the poses she made on the glossies. A men’s magazine model is in hot water after bragging on social media that she avoided getting reprimanded for a traffic violation with the help of a high-ranking policeman’s signed business card. A screenshot of FHM model Alyzza Agustin’s Facebook post showing off the business card of Philippine National Police Directorate for Plans chief Police Director Alexander Ignacio that let her off the hook for violating traffic rules made rounds in various social media.

Her post read: “Nahuli nanaman ako dahil coding but because of you Boss Alex wala ng huli huli. Thank you so much sa napaka useful mong card with matching dedication pa #happykid” 

(I was caught again because I had violated the number coding, but because of you, Boss Alex, I was not apprehended. Thank you so much for this useful business card with matching dedication.) The post was accompanied with photos of Ignacio’s business card with his signature and message written on the back saying, 

“PLS ASSIST MY EA, ALYZZA AGUSTIN.” 

Agustin, who was among ‎the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2013, however, did not make clear in her post what “EA” stood for. 
This further aroused speculation among netizens who claimed “EA” meant “Extrang Asawa”, suggesting that Agustin is the police official’s ‎mistress. ‎As of posting, the photo has been taken down as Agustin’s Facebook account was deactivated. When sought for comment, newly-appointed PNP spokesperson ‎Senior Superintendent Wilben Mayor said Ignacio is currently abroad and will air his side when he comes back. 

Read more: Inquirer

House of horrors: Daughter tells how she was forced to sleep with 1,800 men by the time she was 18 as part of Satanic sex cult run from suburban semi

The daughter of a woman involved in a Satanic sex cult has revealed how she will never

forgive her "evil" mother for forcing her to sleep with 1800 men by the time she was 18 years old.

Name Annabelle Forest, says she was made to watch her own mother perform a sex act on the cult's leader Colin Batley as part of her initiation into the sick cult at the age of seven.
At the age of 11 she was raped by Batley, an event she described has "the most painful and shocking thing that ever happened”, in an interview with Wales Online.
Ms Forest has detailed her decade of sickening abuse in a new book called The Devil on the Doorstep: My Escape from a Satanic Sex Cult.
"Afterwards Colin asked me if I enjoyed it and I knew what I had to say – I had to say yes. But inside I felt like dying," she wrote in the book.

 

However, the worst betrayal followed when she was subjected to sexual abuse by her own mother when she reached 14.

“To be abused like that by your own mum beggars belief”, said Ms Forest.

"Nothing can hurt me as much as mum and that man," Ms Forest told Wales Online.

"My mother was an evil woman and I'll never forgive her."

Colin Batley and Jacqueline Marling were jailed in 2011 for the systemic sexual abuse of the girl while she was a child.
Ms Forest was forced to sleep with close to 2000 men by the time she reached adulthood in order to raise funds for the church belonging to the cult.

The pair’s twisted ideology was based on the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley.
The couple made children think they were proving themselves to god by performing the sexual acts.
The book claims cult members wore hooded robes while engaging in group sex abuse sessions on Sunday evenings and that snakes were kept in the "altar" quiet cul-de-sac property.
When she was 18, and just three months after having Batley's child, Annabelle was forced to take up prostitution to fund the cult.

"I was a schoolgirl by day and a sex slave by night," she wrote in the book.

"It got so bad at one point I tried to take my own life."

House of horrors: The girl was forced to endure years of sexual abuse at the house in Wales where Batley taught her and other children that passing sexual 'tests' would please God

 

Batley and his bisexual wife Elaine invited neighbours from the cul-de-sac round to their home where Annabelle and other children were suffered horrendous sexual abuse

 

 

 

Yolanda survivor tops CPA board exams.

The results of the July 2014 CPA Licensure Exam Results are here!

A total of 1,107 out of 5,540 examinees the passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Out of Tacloban,survivor tops CPA Board Exam: Rommel Rhino Edusma

Board Exam administered in July 2014.

This translates to a passing rate of 19.98%.

Congratulations to all new CPAs!

Top 10 Examinees: July 2014 CPA Board Exam Philippines
 
1. Rommel Rhino Catudio Edusma, Asian Development Foundation College – 94.57%
2. Joanna Marie Lim Barrozo, San Beda College of Alabang, Inc. (St. Benedict College) – 93.43%

3. Ray Hamodi Balagbis Ngalot, University of San Carlos – 92.43%
4. Orvile Perdon Rabino, Adventist University of the Philippines – 92.00%
5. Joscel Barrio Delos Cielos, Xavier University – 91.57%
6. Jamaica Perez Englis, University of San Carlos – 91.43%
7. Ken Lester Tantiado Guillen, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Main, Sta. Mesa – 91.29%
   
    Dann Karlo Alfaro Manzano, San Beda College – 91.29%
 
8. Eros Dela Rosa Herrera, San Beda College of Alabang,Inc.(St. Benedict College) – 91.14%
    
    Thomas Zachary Pineda Sarigumba, University of San Carlos – 91.14%
 
9. Jo-Ann Herrera Mercado, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Sto. Tomas – 90.86%
10. Lyndon Giganto Asis, Southwestern University – 90.43%
     Adrian Caguete Enriquez, San Beda College – 90.43%

Download here a PDF copy of the complete list of CPA board passers.

TACLOBAN CITY—It was his harrowing experience during the onslaught of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” that strengthened his resolve to do well at the licensure exams for certified public accountants (CPA).

And Rommel Rhino Edusma, 25, did not only pass the exams, he aced it.
Edusma topped the 2014 CPA Licensure Exams with a rating of 94.57 percent, the first topnotcher produced by the widely unheard of 19-year-old Asian Development Foundation College (ADFC) here.
Edward Chua, ADFC president, said the honor that Edusma had brought to the school was cause for a celebration.

“Of course, we are very happy. We have never produced a top one although we have produced a 14th placer previously,” he said.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said 1,107 examinees passed out of the 5,540 who took the exams in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo and Legaspi in July.
Finishing at second place with a rating of 93.43 percent was Joanna Marie Lim Barrozo of San Beda College of Alabang (St. Benedict College). In third place was Ray Hamodi Balagbis Ngalot from the University of San Carlos with a grade of 92.43 percent. Four of the top 10 placers were graduates of San Beda College of Alabang and San Beda College.
There were no graduates from the University of the Philippines in the top 10 places.
Though none of its graduates landed in the top 10, De La Salle University Manila was the top performing school with 68 out of 75 graduates who took the exams passing, for a pass rate of 90.67 percent.

Family his top priority
 
Edusma, who has been living in Manila since May to find a job, was in his boarding house at about 8 p.m. on Friday when he received a call from a friend who told him the good news.
He immediately checked the information on the PRC website. When it was confirmed, he called his parents in Pinabacdao, Samar, where they are staying with his sister, Rose.
Rustico, a retired soldier, and his wife, Flores, who suffers from a heart ailment, were overjoyed.
Edusma, the sixth of 10 children, has promised to help pay for the education of his youngest sibling, Ruffa Jean, 18 and a sophomore student who lives with an older brother, Roel Al, a corporal with the Army’s 803rd Infantry Brigade based in Catarman, Northern Samar.
“She is now taking an environmental course with my brother mostly paying her school fees. But I promise to help my brother pay for her schooling,” Edusma said.
His six other siblings are staying in the family home in Cabucgayan, Biliran, their hometown.
When he was studying at the ADFC here, Edusma lived with an aunt, Maria Wilfreda Carolino, at  V&G Subdivision, the biggest subdivision in Tacloban City.
Yolanda inflicted much damage on the houses of Edusma’s aunt and his sister as well as their family home in Biliran. But although the roof of his aunt’s house was blown away, it was minor compared with the devastation wrought by Yolanda on the rest of Tacloban, Edusma said.

Quiet student

Yolanda did not dampen his spirit, however. Instead, it strengthened his resolve to do well in the licensure exams so he could help his family, he said.

“I did not allow our bad experience with Yolanda to disturb me but rather used it to do better in our examinations. I know this will serve as an instrument for me to help my family,” Edusma said.

He topped the preboard exams conducted by ADFC and went to Manila to review for the exams.
He ranked 6th in the mock board examinations conducted by the review center in Manila in a field of more than 1,000 examinees.

The results bouyed Edusma’s confidence that he would not only pass the licensure exams but would land in the top 10.
What he didn’t expect was that he would top the exams.
“I thanked the Lord for this achievement,” Edusma said.
An inspiration Margie Manibad, an ADFC teacher, described Edusma as a “quiet student” yet knowledgeable of the subject.
She said he would usually see Edusma in the school library. “He is really an intelligent student. But I have to admit that I never expected that he would top the board examinations,” Manibad said.
Manibad said the results would inspire the teachers at ADFC.
Already, ADFC students are saying that Edusma’s feat was an inspiration.
“When I learned about it, it made me happy. This will really serve as an inspiration and challenge to us to do better in our studies,” said Fritzie Corales, 18, a second year accountancy student.
If given a chance, Edusma said he would want to return to Tacloban and teach first at the ADFC before joining an accounting firm.
He said he wanted to share his knowledge with the students of his alma mater first as a way of paying forward.
But his top priority remains to help his family.

Read more: Inquirer

US Marines testing Ultra Heavy Lift Amphibious Connector UHAC at RIMPAC 2014

It's a new U.S. Marine Corps vehicle for getting stuff like troops, tanks and trucks from ships to shore and back.
 
The Corps showed off a prototype of its Ultra Heavy-lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) last

week during Rim of the Pacific exercises in Hawaii, running it from the Navy's amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore to the beaches of Marine Corps Training Area Bellows on Oahu.

"Showcasing the UHAC during RIMPAC is a big deal," Dave George of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, which developed the UHAC with funding from the Office of Naval Research, said in a press release. "This is a great way to let people know that this new technology is being developed."

Here's how the UHAC works: The tracks, which are made of what the Marines call "captured-air foam blocks," extend like flippers to propel the craft through the water. When it hits the beach, the foam flattens to become like the tracks on a tank or a bulldozer, only much softer, according to a report from Stars and Stripes.
Last week, the UHAC prototype, which is about half the size of envisioned production models, carried an assault vehicle from the Rushmore to the beach. The Marine Corps says a full-size UHAC would be able to carry much more.
 

"The full-scale model should be able to carry at least three tanks and a HMMVW (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle)," 

Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Perera, the Warfighting Lab's Infantry Weapons Project officer, said in a statement. That's about three times the load that the Corps' current craft assigned to the task, called a Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), can handle.

It also will be able to surmount bigger obstacles. While an LCAC can only get over a 4-foot-high sea wall, a full-size UHAC will be able to get over sea walls as high as 10, 12 or even 16 feet, according to the Corps.
 
The UHAC prototype type is not armored or armed, but Perera said production models would have armor plating and a .50-caliber machine guns for protection.
They also would be much faster. The prototype could only go 5 mph on the water, but a full-size UHAC should do 25 mph, Gen. Kevin Killea, commander of the Corps' Warfighting Lab, told Stars and Stripes.
 
The UHAC prototype used last week is the third in the program, built upon a concept originally proposed by the Hawaii-based shipbuilding and research firm Navatek, Ltd.

"There has been a one-fifth scale model, then a one-quarter scale model and this is a half-scale model, so we have been progressing,"

Frank Leban, program officer at the Office of Naval Research, said in a statement. "Every vehicle has incorporated more features and technology to help get us to the full scale."

There's no word yet on when the full-scale model may actually come, but officials were happy with last week's demonstration.

"This is a great way to show what it can do," said George. "Today went quite well."

Viral video of a Priest in Mandaue City Cebu

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West Valley Fault Earthquake Threatens Metro Manila

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Wednesday said the Marikina West Valley fault line, one of the active faults in the country, is ripe for movement because it has not moved for 200 years.
Phivolcs said the possibility of a Magnitude 7.2 earthquake is not far-fetched.
A Metro Manila Earthquake Impact Reduction Study earlier revealed that 7 out of 17 cities in Metro Manila will suffer the most damage and casualties if a massive earthquake occurs at the West Valley fault.
The 7 cities are Marikina, Quezon, Pasig, Makati, Pateros, Taguig and Muntinlupa.

PHIVOLCS: WEST VALLEY FAULT, IT WILL POSSIBLY MOVE AT ANYTIME.

 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Intl Trailer

Caesar and his ape army are back in the latest Planet Of The Apes installment, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. As the human race struggles to rebuild after a devastating viral outbreak a decade earlier, the growing tension between horse-riding apes and the remaining humans is palpable. Is war imminent? Can humans and apes find common ground, possibly through our shared love of horses? Why did we ever trust James Franco with important genetic research? The film opens nationwide July 11, but The A.V. Club has an opportunity for you to attend an early screening on July 8, here in Chicago. Simply follow the link here, and enter the RSVP code AVCLUBAEZ1. Thirty lucky participants will receive passes good for two. Remember, seating is first come, first serve; so arrive early! A synopsis and trailer for the film can be found below. “A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.”
Courtesy of 20th Centruy Fox
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

We're now only a few weeks away from the arrival of the most anticipated movie of the year for people who like indistinguishable metal CGI characters and slow-motion pans of people looking up to the sky, because Michael Bay's fourth "Transformers" movie, "Age Of Extinction," is nearly imminent. With Shia LaBoeuf off being a lunatic, the new film is essentially a reboot, retaining some of the Transformer characters but focusing on a new set of humans, led by Mark Wahlberg's mechanic, his daughter Nicola Peltz, and her racecar-driving boyfriend Jack Reynor. And because it's, uh, the humans that made the franchise into the billion-dollar behemoth it is today, that's the focus of the first clip from the movie, which just landed. The brief scene features Wahlberg (complete with hilarious David Caruso-style taking-off-my-glasses moment) squaring off against Frasier Crane, who plays an actor cashing a large paycheck. But don't worry, "Transformer"-fans, there's also two spots full of CG Bay-hem to convince you that the film won't just be two guys talking in a room. "Transformers: Age Of Extinction" hits theaters on June 27th, watch all the material below.