PHNO-TL: ALL SAINTS DAY: 'TODOS LOS SANTOS', 'UNDAS', 'ARAW NG MGA PATAY'


 


ALL SAINTS DAY: 'TODOS LOS SANTOS', 'UNDAS', 'ARAW NG MGA PATAY'

CYBERSPACE, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (WIKIPINAS) Undas (also known as Todos los Santos, Araw ng mga Patay, or All Saints' Day) is a holiday honouring the dead, widely celebrated in the Philippines.

Filipino families traditionally visit cemeteries on November 1 or 2, to hold gatherings around the graves of their departed loved ones and lay out flowers and candles. Often the occasion is treated as a reunion or banquet, with families bringing food and drink and camping out all day or even overnight. It is an official, state-recognized holiday, so people get leave from school or work on these days.

Tradition

Some families visit the cemetery several days in advance to clean up the grave site and repaint the tombstones, so that the graves look more presentable on the day itself. They also offer masses in memory of the faithful departed.

Pangangaluluwa is a practice usually seen in the provinces, where a group of people stop by different houses on the night of All Saints' Day, singing and asking for alms and prayers. They are said to represent the souls stuck in purgatory, asking for prayers from the living to help them get to heaven.

Pag-aatang or Atang is an Ilocano belief and practice -- a food offering for the departed soul to show respect, affection and remembrance for the loved ones who passed away.

Other practices With everyone flocking to the cemetery at the same time, there is usually heavy traffic on the surrounding roads, particularly in Manila. Finding a parking space is extremely difficult. Cemetery visitors often find it easier to just walk to their family plot.

In Manila, city mayors often organize "Project Undas" in anticipation of the holiday. This includes driving out squatters who erect makeshift houses inside public burial sites, chasing down drug addicts who hide in empty tombs, and organizing traffic routes to ease the anticipated traffic jam.

Two or three days before All Saints' Day, sellers of flowers or candles sometimes jack up their prices by as much as 500 percent. People swarm to different flower markets such as the Dangwa Flower Market to buy made to order or ready-made flower arrangements to be offered for their departed loved ones.

The holiday is often linked with the spooky American-inspired celebration of Halloween on October 31st. TV programs such as news or expose shows often have special episodes themed around ghosts and hauntings.

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In the Philippines, it is called Araw ng mga Patay (Day of the Dead), Todos Los Santos or Undas (the latter two due to the fact that this holiday is celebrated on November 1, All Saints Day), designated by the Roman Catholic Church).

The Filipino citizens treat it as an almost festive event and has more of a "family reunion" atmosphere. It is said to be an "opportunity to be with" the departed and is done in a somewhat solemn way.

When November 1 hits the calendar, the "Araw ng mga Patay" for the Filipinos start, as a celebration of the solemn and collective remembrance of the Day of the Dead. The almost festive movements are not short, for in fact lasts till the next day, which is the All Souls Day.

Catholics in the Philippines have a tradition of setting aside their days to wind down and remember their dead loved ones. Since the Philippines have the most number of catholic citizens in the whole of Asia, a lot of people celebrate the fact that the whole of the state has a mandatory two day vacation for the whole country.

People who are asked to work on those days need to be receiving a special rate of wage. This is a luxury that is granted to the Filipinos to commemorate for all the passed away souls of those who died and the saints. Although it would seem queer to some people that the Filipinos celebrate the solemn All Saints Day and All Souls Day in a joyous way, what they do not understand is that the Filipinos are naturally happy people. They truly respect their passed away loved ones very much, but they want to remember the good times with their ancestors instead of the bad.

[PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE FROM GOOGLE IMAGES - 'UNDAS CANDLES']

A lot of Filipino people celebrate these holidays in different ways, such as creating unique singing or musical group that is named a "pangangaluluwa" and then go around the town, and sing on the night of the All Saints Day. The whole point and idea of a "pangangaluluwa" group is to represent the passed away people going from door to door asking for alms and prayers from the living. They are also the representative for the souls stuck in purgatory that ask for small gifts from the houses that they do visit.

There are thirteen holy Roman Catholic churches that are situated all over the Philippines. It is customary for the traditional Roman Catholics to go to all these churches and pray in them, in order to make your ancestors happy. Purgatory is not a happy place for souls, as said in traditional catholic lessons, and you should be able to help the souls of your ancestors when you complete praying in all of the thirteen churches.

Almost every one of the tombs of the passed away are decorated in the All Saints Day by their families. Most Filipino families who stick with traditional ways and customs often bury their dead loved ones together in the same tomb. It would seem weird to other people who are from another country that Filipinos would decorated such solemn tombs with balloons and bright decorations, but to the Filipinos it almost lifts some of the burden of losing a loved one.

FROM WIKIPEDIA

[PHOTO - NATIVOS FILIPINOS DAN MUERTE AL EXPLORADOR HERNANDO DE MAGALLANES.]

Philippine culture is related to Polynesian, Micronesian, Malaysian and Latin American cultures. The people today are mostly Polynesians, although there are people with Spanish, Micronesian, Mexican, Malaysian and Chinese blood. Geographically, the Philippines is considered part of Southeast Asia.

However, the Philippine culture has many differences with other Asian cultures, and has similarities with the cultures of the Pacific Islands and Latin America, such as in language, food, religion, traditions and ethnicity.

It is known to Filipinos that they are descendants of people who came from Malaysia, however that is not true. Most Filipinos are Malay, but Malay doesn't mean from Malaysia, it means the Polynesians. The indigenous culture is related to those of Melanesia and the later Polynesian culture has similarities to Pacific Island cultures. These similarities include the Filipino language and ethnicity; most common with that of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The Spanish colonization heavily influenced the culture.

The most significant influence is the religion - Catholicism, plus, Spanish is spoken in some parts of the Philippines, and there are even some descendants of the Colonizers today. As well as the Spanish culture, the Native Mexican culture was introduced as the Philippines was governed from Mexico. In Filipino, there are many borrowed words from Native Mexican languages. And Some people also have Native American origins.

Today, many people do not acknowledge the Philippine's relations with Latin America, Spain and the Pacific Islands. Instead, because of the country's location, it is common to notice the similarities with other Asian countries, although there are much less.

The indigenous population in the Philippines, known as the Negritos, has many similarities with the people of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea. Some of these people wear traditional clothes such as grass skirts, live in isolated villages in the mountains and rainforest and practice traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles.

After the Negritos, Groups of Polynesians came to the Philippines, coming from Taiwan (Filipinos are not descendants of the Han-Chinese Taiwanese people who inhabit Taiwan today, but the Taiwanese aborigines, who have a very small population.) and spreading as far as Madagascar, Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island. Today you can see similarities in language, ethnicity and traditions between the Philippines and Pacific Island cultures, as they have common origins.

Later, a small amount of people coming from Malaysia and Indonesia also settled the islands.

[PHOTO - 'TODOS LOS SANTOS' DAY IN THE PHILIPPINES]

Spanish colonization in the Philippines lasted from 1565 to 1898. Most of that time the islands were governed from Mexico and later directly from Spain. As a result, there is a significant amount of Spanish and Mexican influence in Philippine customs and traditions. Hispanic influences are visible in traditional Philippine folk music and dance, cuisine, festivities, religion, ethnicity and language. In Filipino, there are many Native American words that were introduced by the Mexicans in the Philippines.

The most visible example of Spanish are the Spanish names of Filipinos, which were given through a tax law, the thousands of Spanish loanwords in native languages such as Tagalog and Cebuano, the Spanish speaking parts of the Philippines, and the majority Catholic religion.

Later, the Philippines was a territory of the United States from 1898 until 1946. American influences are widely evident in the use of the English language, and in contemporary pop culture, such as music, film, fast-food, and basketball.

There are also strong similarities with the Pacific islands, Mexico, and Spain. There are some similarities with Islamic Malaysian and Indonesian cultures, and Chinese and Japanese.

This following article from Wikipedia is about the Latin American holiday. (MEXICO)

[PHOTO - Day of the Dead ofrenda.]

Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.

It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it attains the quality of a National Holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1st and 2nd, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day (November 1) and All Souls' Day (November 2).

Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to a goddess called Mictecacihuatl. In Brazil, Dia de Finados is a public holiday that many Brazilians celebrate by visiting cemeteries and churches. In Spain, there are festivals and parades, and, at the end of the day, people gather at cemeteries and pray for their dead loved ones. Similar observances occur elsewhere in Europe, and similarly themed celebrations appear in many Asian and African cultures.

Beliefs

Sculpture with skeletons made for Day of the Dead at the Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City.People go to cemeteries to be with the souls of the departed and build private altars containing the favorite foods and beverages as well as photos and memorabilia of the departed. The intent is to encourage visits by the souls, so that the souls will hear the prayers and the comments of the living directed to them. Celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.

Plans for the day are made throughout the year, including gathering the goods to be offered to the dead. During the three-day period, families usually clean and decorate graves; most visit the cemeteries where their loved ones are buried and decorate their graves with ofrendas ("offerings"), which often include orange mexican marigolds (Tagetes erecta) called cempasúchitl (originally named cempoalxochitl, Nahuatl for "twenty flowers").

In modern Mexico, this name is sometimes replaced with the term Flor de Muerto ("Flower of the Dead"). These flowers are thought to attract souls of the dead to the offerings.

[PHOTOS - Catrinas, one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.]

Toys are brought for dead children (los angelitos, or "the little angels"), and bottles of tequila, mezcal or pulque or jars of atole for adults. Families will also offer trinkets or the deceased's favorite candies on the grave. Ofrendas are also put in homes, usually with foods such as candied pumpkin, pan de muerto ("bread of the dead"), and sugar skulls and beverages such as atole.

The ofrendas are left out in the homes as a welcoming gesture for the deceased. Some people believe the spirits of the dead eat the "spiritual essence" of the ofrendas food, so even though the celebrators eat the food after the festivities, they believe it lacks nutritional value. Pillows and blankets are left out so that the deceased can rest after their long journey. In some parts of Mexico, such as the towns of Mixquic, Pátzcuaro and Janitzio, people spend all night beside the graves of their relatives. In many places, people have picnics at the grave site as well.

Some families build altars or small shrines in their homes; these usually have the Christian cross, statues or pictures of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pictures of deceased relatives and other persons, scores of candles and an ofrenda. Traditionally, families spend some time around the altar, praying and telling anecdotes about the deceased. In some locations, celebrants wear shells on their clothing, so that when they dance, the noise will wake up the dead; some will also dress up as the deceased.

Public schools at all levels build altars with ofrendas, usually omitting the religious symbols. Government offices usually have at least a small altar, as this holiday is seen as important to the Mexican heritage.

Those with a distinctive talent for writing sometimes create short poems, called calaveras ("skulls"), mocking epitaphs of friends, describing interesting habits and attitudes or funny anecdotes. This custom originated in the 18th or 19th century, after a newspaper published a poem narrating a dream of a cemetery in the future, "and all of us were dead", proceeding to "read" the tombstones. Newspapers dedicate calaveras to public figures, with cartoons of skeletons in the style of the famous calaveras of José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican illustrator. Theatrical presentations of Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla (1817–1893) are also traditional on this day.

A common symbol of the holiday is the skull (colloquially called calavera), which celebrants represent in masks, called calacas (colloquial term for "skeleton"), and foods such as sugar or chocolate skulls, which are inscribed with the name of the recipient on the forehead. Sugar skulls are gifts that can be given to both the living and the dead. Other holiday foods include pan de muerto, a sweet egg bread made in various shapes from plain rounds to skulls and rabbits, often decorated with white frosting to look like twisted bones.

José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure that he called La Calavera de la Catrina ("calavera of the female dandy") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female. Posada's striking image of a costumed female with a skeleton face has become associated with the Day of the Dead, and Catrina figures often are a prominent part of modern Day of the Dead observances.

[PHOTO - Gran calavera eléctrica ("Grand electric skull") by José Guadalupe Posada, 1900–1913.]

The traditions and activities that take place in celebration of the Day of the Dead are not universal and often vary from town to town. For example, in the town of Pátzcuaro on the Lago de Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, the tradition is very different if the deceased is a child rather than an adult.

On November 1 of the year after a child's death, the godparents set a table in the parents' home with sweets, fruits, pan de muerto, a cross, a rosary (used to ask the Virgin Mary to pray for them) and candles. This is meant to celebrate the child's life, in respect and appreciation for the parents. There is also dancing with colorful costumes, often with skull-shaped masks and devil masks in the plaza or garden of the town.

At midnight on November 2, the people light candles and ride winged boats called mariposas (Spanish for "butterflies") to Janitzio, an island in the middle of the lake where there is a cemetery, to honor and celebrate the lives of the dead there.

In some parts of the country (especially the cities, where in recent years there are displaced other customs), children in costumes roam the streets, knocking on people's doors for a calaverita, a small gift of candies or money; they also ask passersby for it. This custom is similar to that of Halloween's trick-or-treating and is relatively recent.

Some people believe that possessing Day of the Dead items can bring good luck. Many people get tattoos or have dolls of the dead to carry with them. They also clean their houses and prepare the favorite dishes of their deceased loved ones to place upon their altar or ofrenda.

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PHNO-OPINION: TRIBUNE: A TEST OF LEADERSHIP


 


TRIBUNE: A TEST OF LEADERSHIP

MANILA, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (TRIBUNE) Man at the Market, Jesse E.L. Bacon - If to the Church Christ is its head, in the Philippine body politic the President is its head, thus is expected to give the needed guidance and the right marching orders for at least the majority to follow.

In this country, effective governance yesterday, today and in the future was, is and will always be hinged on the quality of leadership the President is able to dish out. And the mettle of leadership is subjected to test in crisis situations such as last year's hostage taking by a dismissed police official of several Hong Kong tourists, the flooding of several towns in Central Luzon that brought about by two successive typhoons and the recent massacre of 30 government troops and six civilians in Basilan, Zamboanga Sibugay and Lanao del Norte by elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Economic prosperity and political stability are conjoined twins that one can never be had without the other. And the birth of these conjoined twins is in the hands of the President. This is how awesome the importance of the presidency is in our jurisdiction. The life or death of the country is actually the President's call.

Is President Aquino up to the task judging his over a year performance in office? Was he able to give the needed guidance and the right marching orders for the body politic to follow, at least from the moment he assumed office up to this point in his rule?

If there is so much confusion now as to what course of action should be taken with regard the perpetrators of the heinous crimes in Basilan, Zamboanga Sibugay and Lanao del Norte that cost the life of 30 soldiers, six civilians, and still counting, lay it at the doorsteps of the Aquino presidency. Immediately after the news of the incident broke out, Aquino admittedly failed to immediately give the right directive on what to do.

If his administration is now singing the all out justice tune, it is a belated response to the call that immediately snowballed for an all out war. Unfortunately, such call was purposely given a different meaning by the reluctant-to-act President by equating it with an all out war against the Bangsa Moro people.

Of course, no one in his right mind would endorse an all out war against the BangsaMoro people for the heinous crime committed by a handful of their armed rebels. Only those who are agents of America's war industry or the other developed countries' war industry who will stand to materially benefit from any war, small or large-scale, will endorse an all out war.

While it is true that the best route to economic prosperity and political stability is the path to peace, this does not mean apathy and nonchalance in the midst of challenges. The inability of Aquino to immediately process the course of action to take, in regard to the merciless killing of government troops by MILF rebels, the submerging of several towns in Central Luzon wreaking havoc on lives and properties, and the hostage-taking of tourists who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time is pitiable and alarming at the same time.

When Aquino perceived aggression on the part of the Chinese over the Spratlys group of islands, he countered this with aggressive posturing. But when the MILF went into a killing rampage of Filipino soldiers in Mindanao this week, he did not adopt the same posturing. Why? Could it be because in the case of the Spratlys dispute, America backed up Aquino's aggressive posturing?

But unfortunately for Aquino, America is pushing another tack which is for the government to enter into a negotiated peace with the MILF, hence, Aquino's extreme handling of the two situations. Undeniably, America is dipping its fingers into the two issues with extreme stances — aggression in Spratlys and cowardice if not submission to the MILF in Mindanao in the name of peace.

The question perhaps is why would Aquino blindly submit to any American posturing on matters he as President should be deciding on? Because Aquino is failing to lead and govern proved by his indecisiveness on matters of great importance, hence, the abundance of wrong signals from him. America admittedly has interest in the projected oil deposit in the Spratlys and in the Zamboanga-Basilan-Sulo seas and the other mineral deposits in the Leguasan marsh in Maguindanao-Cotabato areas hence its contrasting responses to the two situations that Aquino blindly follows. This is his brand of governance that I doubt would result ineconomic prosperity and political stability for our country.

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PHNO-OPINION: MALAYA: DESTAB RUMORS AS DIVERSION ARE A TURNOFF


 


MALAYA: DESTAB RUMORS AS DIVERSION ARE A TURNOFF

MANILA, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (MALAYA) Ellen Tordesillas (photo) - 'Aquino should realize that there are times that only people who sincerely care for him and his presidency will tell him if he bungled.'

NO doubt that Gloria Arroyo and her cohorts would encourage dissatisfaction with the Aquino government but floating a destabilization rumor to divert attention from the Malacañang's public management bungling of the Oct. 18 Al Barka tragedy is a big turnoff.

Probably anxious to contain the public's outrage over the seeming lack of anger by the President against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which killed 19 soldiers in an encounter last Oct, 18, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte confirmed rumors of destabilization plot against the Aquino government in the wake of talks of widespread demoralization in the military.

Immediately, she corrected her own statement saying, "we would like to correct initial reports that we had confirmed there are destabilization plots…It is not true."

She explained that she was "just jumping off the President's statements [on Monday] that there are some who are taking advantage of the recent incident in Basilan."

What can you say about such kind of presidential mouthpieces?

Aquino's propagandists should go slowly in using destab scenarios to gain sympathy for the President unless they want to end up like a boy who cried wolf.

One good thing going for Aquino is that he succeeded the very-much-disliked Gloria Arroyo. But more and more people, even those who supported him in the 2010 elections, are getting frustrated with his clumsy, immature, and weak leadership. But that doesn't mean that they regret seeing Arroyo out of power.

But Aquino should now go beyond Arroyo and be a competent leader. He can't forever cover-up his weaknesses by resurrecting the sins of the Arroyos.

The best way to counter attempts by Arroyo and her loyalists is for him to do good. And that would entail not being too onion-skinned with criticisms.

Aquino should realize that there are times that only people who sincerely care for him and his presidency will tell him if he bungled.

And it can't always be on a confidential basis. There are things that have to be said publicly.

It took quite a while before Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV commented on the latest Albarka tragedy but when he did so, he was a voice of moderation. Typical of Trillanes, he was honest. He said in an interview with ABS-CBN's Anthony Taberna that Malacañang can be faulted for being insensitive in its initial statements considering the circumstances.

Asked to elaborate, he replied:

"Public po 'yung command conference.

'Yung pagre-reprimand po kasi basic ho 'yan sa mga military leaders.

"You praise in public, you reprimand in private. And marami ho kasi doon na mga commanders na hindi naman directly involved doon sa operation parang hindi ho maganda 'yung mga ganyan."

Be that as it may, Trillanes said, "They have to deal with that and move forward. Hopefully this time pag-aaralan na nila 'yung mga statements nila bago nila ibitaw."

Trillanes also said there is no denying the demoralization among members of the military." Ang information ho natin on the ground is talagang low morale ho ang mga sundalo natin, mga junior officers, senior officers, mga enlisted personnel, lahat for that matter. It was brought about by several factors, primarily 'yung nangyayari na back and forth sa media."

Trillanes has filed a resolution calling for a Senate inquiry. He said basic, important questions have to be answered: "Unang-una bakit sila pinadala doon ill-equipped sila, wala silang basic load, ang magazine nila – isa, dalawa lang, 'yung iba apat at the most. Tapos 40 lang silang pinadala doon, sa isang lugar na 'yung 100 plus na Marines were pinned down a few years ago by the same person na kukuhanin nila. At bakit walang nag-reinforce after six to nine hours of firefight and finally scuba diving course ito, hindi pinapadala sa test mission 'yung mga ganito. Mayroon ding kapabayaan on the part of some ground commanders and isa pa diyan 'yung failure of intelligence bakit hindi naging maayos. "

He said the Senate inquiry will also cover policy like the parameters of the cease-fire agreement and more importantly, if the MILF is in full control of their commanders on the ground.

It is expected that by the time the inquiry commences, emotions would have cooled down and discussions would be rational. Maybe it's good for presidential spokespersons to keep their mouth shut for awhile.

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PHNO-OPINION: STANDARD: NPA, MILF COLLUDING?


 


STANDARD: NPA, MILF COLLUDING?

MANILA, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (STANDARD) By JOJO ROBLES - First, it was Surigao del Norte; then it was Basilan. Coincidence?

In the first week of this month, Communist New People's Army rebels attacked a mining camp in Claver, Surigao del Norte, destroying and torching billions of pesos worth of expensive equipment. Just last week, it was the turn of the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front to go on the offensive, killing 19 Army soldiers in Al-Barka, Basilan.

Some sources in the military intelligence community think the two incidents are not unrelated. In fact, the attacks may actually have been coordinated, they said.

These informants point to the existence of a liaison office within the communist movement that has been for many years coordinating with Mindanao-based Muslim secessionist movements since the time when Nur Misuari's Moro National Liberation Front was on the ascendant. The same agency under the so-called "CNN" umbrella of the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front-New People's Army has been working with the MILF, the MNLF's successor, to achieve the common goal of overthrowing the central government in Manila.

The agency is simply called the Moro Commission. And while it operates under the banner of the underground Communist movement, the commission also has as members leaders of the Bangsamoro secessionist organization.

Intelligence operatives of the Armed Forces of the Philippines are currently looking into reports that the NPA and the MILF coordinated their recent attacks in a bid to destabilize the administration of President Noynoy Aquino. So, yes, there could actually be a destabilization plot hatched against Malacañang—only it's the armed anti-government forces, instead of leaders of the political opposition, that is behind it.

The military sources said a former member of the Moro Commission is now currently being groomed by the administration for a top position in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao. And yes, the military is alarmed that a Moro leader who was once the NPA's liaison with the MILF may soon be appointed to the ARMM, thus virtually annexing the autonomous region to the areas controlled by the MILF and making it "friendly" territory for Communist rebels, as well.

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The informants wondered if Aquino is aware that the NPA and the MILF have long been coordinating their attacks. And that both groups now seem hell-bent on testing the ability of Aquino (who is widely perceived as a weak leader by both the military and the rebels) to go after armed threat groups.

To be sure, the military establishment has long been grumbling about the preponderance of left-leaning officials in the current Aquino administration— the same complaint they made during the time of Cory Aquino. The same left-leaning officials, they believe, have been strongly advising Aquino not to take any retaliatory measures against the MILF in Basilan and elsewhere, lending credence to the possibility of coordinated attacks by the rebels and ignorance on the part of Aquino of what is really going on.

And if the way Noynoy Aquino has been handling the situation in Basilan is any measure of this government's resolve to stamp out armed rebel groups, then the men in uniform can hardly be blamed if they believe that the current administration is "soft" on Muslim secessionists, as well. And the military's perception that Cory Aquino treated Misuari, Jose Ma. Sison and other rebel leaders with kid gloves, after all, made the armed forces a fertile recruiting ground for various adventurist leaders a quarter of a century ago.

Even if there is no real coordination between the NPA and the MILF, both groups are apparently trying to outdo each other in a contest of who can get the Manila government to cry "Uncle." And the way Aquino has been bungling the official response to the latest challenges of both groups, it should come as no surprise if they become emboldened and escalate their attacks in the near future.

In the meantime, the military continues to seethe, hamstrung by a civilian leadership that seems to value peace with the rebels more than the lives of its soldiers. Caught in the middle of it all are we, the civilians, who will at the very least suffer because of the climate of uncertainty and violence that is fast becoming the new hallmark of an administration once believed to be characterized merely by benign indolence.

All in all, it's a recipe for disaster in the days to come. Only time will tell if this administration will be up to what now appears to be its biggest challenge, that of reining in rebel groups opportunistically attacking a leadership that they feel cannot fight back—or even stare them down.

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The administration has shifted its strategy to force former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo out of the country, where it feels Noynoy Aquino's hated predecessor-in-office will no longer get into mischief. After Justice Secretary Leila de Lima announced that Arroyo will have to go through the usual process of seeking permission to go abroad for treatment, administration diehard Senator Franklin Drilon took the opposing view, saying that De Lima's move to put the former President on a watch-list was illegal.

De Lima in effect issued a hold departure order "in the guise of a watch-list order," something the senator said only courts can issue. De Lima invoked a department order governing the issuance of hold departure orders, watch-list orders, and allow-departure orders issued by her predecessor, Alberto Agra, last May 2010 in the case of Arroyo, her husband and other officials of the previous government.

But some believe that the good cop-bad-cop routine being performed by De Lima and Drilon is just a smokescreen for the true administration agenda, which is to "convince" Arroyo to leave the country. The Arroyo administration itself employed the same scheme when it wanted former President Joseph Estrada to go abroad after Arroyo's assumption, so that her predecessor may no longer foment dissent and hatch destabilization plots.

Whether or not Arroyo is actually engaged in efforts to bring down the Aquino administration is the subject of much conjecture. But some analysts believe that the charges of electoral sabotage that are being prepared against Arroyo are a good enough reason to allow her to leave the country because officials of the current government may not escape unscathed if what really happened in the 2004 and 2007 elections comes to light.

According to these people, many current top government officials, both in the Executive and in Congress, were actually involved in stealing both elections. If Arroyo decides to tell all she knows about the election fraud that took place, the fallout could hurt many of her former officials and allies who are now working for Aquino. And that would be politically catastrophic, to say the least.

Thus, it would be best if Arroyo left the country instead of actually facing the charges lodged against her. Assuming she agrees to leave, of course.

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PHNO-OPINION: PHILSTAR: 4.3 MILLION HUNGRY FAMILIES


 


PHILSTAR: 4.3 MILLION HUNGRY FAMILIES

MANILA, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (STAR) SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH By Ernesto M. Maceda (photo) SWS reports that the number of hungry Filipinos increased 6.5 percent from 15.1 percent in June to 21.5 percent in September resulting in a record high 4.3 million hungry families. It was highest in Metro Manila with 23 percent claiming experiencing hunger the last three months.

One therefore, has good reason to question the release of a huge P21.2 billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) fund which was supposed to provide P1,300 a month to 2.3 million beneficiaries nationwide to help them feed and house themselves. Earlier this year, President Aquino complained that the surveys have not been able to capture the effects of the CCT dole out. That's no longer true today.

It is a scandal that this administration has not formulated a plan to bring down food prices. The price of a can of sardines has gone up from P10 to P15. The price of rice went up from P18 to P27-P32 per kilo. Vegetable, chicken and pork prices are also very high. Oil companies are registering excessive profits.

A large portion of the disposable incomes of poor families goes to food and energy expenses. Both are among the highest in the world. With large portions of disposable income usurped by unjust food and energy costs, there should be little wonder that poverty continues to grow in absolute terms.

High food costs are due to poor logistics networks, which is part of our infrastructure deficiency. High power costs are due to the absence of a long term energy plan that will encourage our power sector to match global benchmarks for efficiency and lower cost. Power shortages are predicted to happen in 2012.

Little wonder that despite the fact that we have achieved middle income status as a national economy, our malnutrition rates remain intolerably high. If this administration does a food mapping of the country, we will discover that many areas are prone to famine in the event of major calamities.

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COCONUT GHOSTS. . . The Manila Bulletin ran a story on its front page last Thursday, Oct. 27, about a "little girl haunting Binay's palace." The story reported security personnel and guests including movie star Agot Isidro who was shooting a TV show seeing a little girl looking down from a 3rd floor window, sitting in the back seat of an Innova or her hand prints on the windows of a car. Voices of three or more kids are heard playing or crying.

We double checked with the staff and security personnel of the Vice President and they confirmed that there are ghosts at the Coconut Palace. Not only little girls playing or voices heard, but hands without a visible body opening doors or flushing toilets and a priest in full white robe walking at night and blessing the rooms. They told us Mrs. Elenita Binay is looking for a ghostbuster priest to bless the building and to drive the ghosts away. Interesting story.

By the way, there are also ghosts in Malacañang. I felt them when I was Executive Secretary.

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SELECTIVE WAR . . . After the President announced a no all-out war policy against the MILF, the government mounted an all-out war in Zamboanga Sibugay using tanks, choppers, OV-IOs and a battalion of soldiers and 100 policemen going after a camp of rogue MILF rebels headed by Waning Abdulsalam in the town of Payao.

The AFP claims they killed 20 rebels while suffering three casualties but more than 100 rebels including Abdulsalam escaped.

No operation has been mounted in Basilan as of today.

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DESPERATE. . . It looks like the Aquino Administration is having a big problem meeting its revenue collection targets.

DOF Secretary Cesar Purisima and BIR Commissioner Kim Henares are planning to resurrect Revenue Regulation No. 2-2011 by January 1st requiring the filing of annual information return (AIR) equivalent to a statement of assets and liabilities by taxpayers having a gross income of P500,000 or more. Also, individuals, estates and trusts with a final withholding tax exceeding P125,000 are required to file AIR. Final tax exemptions refer to bank deposits where interest payments are withheld and also stock exchange transactions.

The AIR requires the declaration of the taxpayer's income other than from main employment such as passive income from bank accounts, income from stocks, royalties, even transactions on real estate properties. If implemented, it is expected to depress the stock market and the real estate industry.

The House ways and means committee headed by Rep. Hermilando Mandanas will investigate the matter.

The BIR should continue to collect the proper amount of taxes from rich taxpayers. I know of at least five billionaires who are not paying the right taxes, but who have not been audited because they are close to the Administration. Smuggling income should also be taxed.

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PAY OFF . . . Malacañang confirmed that P5 million was given to the MILF negotiating panel by Government Chief Negotiator Marvic Leonen.

This confirms that money is the bottom line in these peace talks. The government is willing to pay and the MILF is demanding payment. The President should be transparent on this matter.

Sen. Chiz Escudero questioned the authority of Sec. Teresita Deles to release funds to the MILF. He is demanding an accounting of OPAPP funds.

But why the advance payment? The government should only release money and only for development after a peace agreement is signed.

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TIDBITS. . . Advance birthday greetings to the gracious wife of Titoy Pardo, Marilyn Velarde Pardo who is celebrating her natal day on Nov. 1st.

According to the UN, average lifespan is now 68 years. The world population is now seven billion.

Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn is due for knee surgery.

Have a good long weekend. If you're driving out, drive carefully. A blessed Undas to all.

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PHNO-SI: STEVE JOBS ONE-ON-ONE, THE '95 INTERVIEW


 


STEVE JOBS ONE-ON-ONE, THE '95 INTERVIEW

[PHOTO - Steve Jobs in a screenshot from the 1995 video interview.]

COMPUTERWORLD, OCTOBER 29, 2011 (PHNO) In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age -- 40 years old -- when he sat down for an extensive and revealing one-on-one interview by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation as part of an oral history project.

The Foundation also produced the Computerworld Honors Program, whose executive director, Daniel Morrow, conducted this interview.

Jobs talked about everything from his childhood in California -- the area that later came to be known as Silicon Valley "was really paradise" -- to his early days at Apple, the iconic 1984 Mac TV ad, his plans for NeXT and Pixar, and his fears for Apple's future.

Not surprisingly, Jobs offered some not-so-kind observations about John Sculley, the man who had forced him out at Apple. He also showed himself to be prescient with his predictions about the Internet and about how disruptive it would prove to be.

[PHOTO - BobZwick1 - October 6, 11:25 AM Erstwhile enemy Sculley: Jobs was 'greatest CEO'. John Sculley, who ousted Jobs from Apple, offered praise after his death. SOURCE: news.cnet.com]

And he had advice for would-be entrepreneurs that in many ways seemed to open a window into his own world and how he became so successful.

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance," he said. "It's pretty much an 18-hour-day job, seven days a week for a while. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through."

[Photo - BobZwick1 - October 6, 8:47 AM 2005: Steve Jobs talks about death On June 12, 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the commencement address at Stanford University. In this excerpt, Jobs discusses his cancer diagnosis a year earlier and shares his views about death. Source: www.wfaa.com]

Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at age 56 after a long battle with cancer, also weighed in on death: "Live each day as if it was your last," he said, "because one day you'll be right."

At that point in his life at 40, Jobs was already a tech superstar. He had founded Apple Computer, been forced out of his own company, started another computer venture, NeXT Inc., and launched Pixar -- which would soon release Toy Story.

In other words, Jobs' departure from Apple more than a decade earlier had done little to slow his entrepreneurial drive.

Steve Jobs in 1995 Part 1: (OF THE VIDEO)

[Photo - One of the things that Jobs touched upon was electronics. He did not have a deep understanding of electronics himself but he'd encountered electronics a lot in automobiles and other things he would fix. He showed me the rudiments of electronics and I got very interested in that. I grew up in Silicon Valley. My parents moved from San Francisco to Mountain View when I was five. My dad got transferred and that was right in the heart of Silicon Valley so there were engineers all around. PHOTO & TEXT COURTESY OF PCWORLD.COM]

"My father, Paul, was a pretty remarkable man. He never graduated from high school. He joined the Coast Guard in World War II and ferried troops around the world for General Patton; and I think he was always getting into trouble and getting busted down to private.

"He was a machinist by trade and worked very hard and was kind of a genius with his hands. He had a workbench out in his garage where, when I was about five or six, he sectioned off a little piece of it and said "Steve, this is your workbench now." And he gave me some of his smaller tools and showed me how to use a hammer and saw and how to build things. It really was very good for me. He spent a lot of time with me ... teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together."

Part 2: Early days of school, reaction to authority

"School was pretty hard for me at the beginning. My mother taught me how to read before I got to school, and so when I got there I really just wanted to do two things: I wanted to read books, because I loved reading books, and I wanted to go outside and chase butterflies. You know, do the things that five-year-olds like to do. I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

"By the time I was in third grade, I had a good buddy of mine, Rick Farentino, and the only way we had fun was to create mischief.... There was a big bike rack where everybody put their bikes, maybe a hundred bikes in this rack, and we traded everybody our lock combinations for theirs on an individual basis and then went out one day and put everybody's lock on everybody else's bike, and it took them until about 10 o'clock that night to get all the bikes sorted out. We set off explosives in teacher's desks. We got kicked out of school a lot."

Part 3: Thoughts on computers and education

"I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail. I'm 100% sure that if it hadn't been for Mrs. Hill in fourth grade and a few others, I would have absolutely have ended up in jail. I could see those tendencies in myself to have a certain energy to do something. It could have been directed at doing something interesting that other people thought was a good idea or doing something interesting that maybe other people didn't like so much.

"When you're young, a little bit of course-correction goes a long way. I think it takes pretty talented people to do that. I don't know that enough of them get attracted to go into public education. You can't even support a family on what you get paid. I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year."

Part 4: School vouchers; comparing schools to cars

"I used to think when I was in my twenties that technology was the solution to most of the world's problems, but unfortunately it just ain't so. I'll give you an analogy. A lot of times we think 'Why is the television programming so bad? Why are television shows so demeaning, so poor?'

"The first thought that occurs to you is 'Well, there is a conspiracy: The networks are feeding us this slop because its cheap to produce. It's the networks that are controlling this and they are feeding us this stuff.'

"But the truth of the matter, if you study it in any depth, is that networks absolutely want to give people what they want so they will watch the shows. If people wanted something different, they would get it. And the truth of the matter is that the shows that are on television, are on television because that's what people want. The majority of people in this country want to turn on a television and turn off their brain, and that's what they get. And that's far more depressing than a conspiracy."

Part 5: Books about Steve Jobs; 'Let's throw darts'

"I always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. That's what I consider one of the few things I actually can contribute individually -- to really try to instill in the organization the goal of only having 'A' players. Because ... like in a lot of fields, the difference between the worst taxicab driver and the best taxicab driver to get you [across] Manhattan might be two to one. The best one will get you there in fifteen minutes, the worst one will get you there in a half an hour. Or the best cook and the worst cook, maybe it's three to one. Pick something like that.

"In the field that I'm in, the difference between the best person and the worst person is about a hundred to one or more. The difference between a good software person and a great software person is fifty to one, twenty-five to fifty to one, huge dynamic range. Therefore, I have found -- not just in software, but in everything I've done -- it really pays to go after the best people in the world."

Part 6: Jobs' experience at Apple (the first time)

[Photo & Text courtesy of PCWORLD.COM- When I left Apple it was a two billion dollar company. We were Fortune 300 and something. We were 350. When the Mac was introduced we were a billion-dollar corporation; so Apple grew from nothing to two billion dollars while I was there. That's a pretty high growth rate. It grew five times since I left basically on the back of the Macintosh.]

"Apple was this incredible journey. I mean, we did some amazing things there. The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

"We were all pretty young. The average age in the company was mid to late twenties. Hardly anybody had families at the beginning, and we all worked like maniacs. And the greatest joy was that we felt we were fashioning collective works of art, much like twentieth-century physics. Something important that would last, that people contributed to and then could give to more people; the amplification factor was very large."

Part 7: Why artists were attracted to computing

"If you study these people a little bit more, what you'll find is that in this particular time -- in the '70s and the '80s -- the best people in computers would have normally been poets and writers and musicians. Almost all of them were musicians. A lot of them were poets on the side. They went into computers because it was so compelling. It was fresh and new. It was a new medium of expression for their creative talents. The feelings and the passion that people put into it were completely indistinguishable from a poet or a painter.

"Many of the people were introspective, inward people who expressed how they felt about other people or the rest of humanity in general into their work, work that other people would use. People put a lot of love into these products, and a lot of expression of their appreciation came to these things. It's hard to explain."

Part 8: The decline of Apple (circa 1995)

[Photo & Text from PCWORLD.COM- On the non-educational side, Apple was two things. One, it was the first "lifestyle" computer and, secondly, it's hard to remember how bad it was in the early 1980's. With IBM taking over the world with the PC, with DOS out there; it was far worse than the Apple II. They tried to copy the Apple II and they had done a pretty bad job.]

"When I left Apple, it was a $2 billion company. We were Fortune 300 and something. We were 350. When the Mac was introduced, we were a billion-dollar corporation; so Apple grew from nothing to $2 billion while I was there. That's a pretty high growth rate. It grew five times since I left, basically on the back of the Macintosh.

"I think what's happened since I left in terms of growth rate has been trivial compared with what it was like when I was there. What ruined Apple wasn't growth. What ruined Apple was values. John Sculley ruined Apple, and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place -- which was making great computers for people to use."

Part 9: Apple's early adventures in politics

"I saw my first desktop computer at Hewlett-Packard which was called the 9100A. It was the first desktop in the world. It ran BASIC and APL, I think. I fell in love with it.

"And I thought, looking at these statistics in 1979, I thought if there was just one computer in every school, some of the kids would find it. It will change their life.

"We saw the rate at which this was happening and the rate at which the school bureaucracies were deciding to buy a computer for the school, and it was real slow. We realized that a whole generation of kids was going to go through the school before they even got their first computer, so we thought: The kids can't wait. We wanted to donate a computer to every school in America."

Part 10: How Macs infiltrated business; the birth of NeXT Computer

"If I only knew [then] what I know now, we could have done a lot better. Our attempts to sell to corporate America were just bungled, and we ended up just selling to people who just [were] sort of buying a product for its merit, not because of the company it came from. I mean, everybody was very hooked on Big Blue back then and they bought IBM. There was that famous phrase 'You never get fired for buying IBM.' We fortunately were able to change a lot of that. And Apple, as you know, I believe, is a bigger supplier of personal computers than IBM."

Part 11: NeXTStep and object-oriented computing

"I'll tell you an interesting story: When I was at Apple, a few of my acquaintances said, 'You really need to go over to Xerox PARC' -- which was Palo Alto Research Center --'and see what they've got going over there.'

"They didn't usually let too many people in, but I was able to get in there and see what they were doing. I saw their early computer called the Alto, which was a phenomenal computer. And they actually showed me three things there that they had working in 1976. I saw them in 1979. Things that took really until a few years ago for us to fully re-create, for the industry to fully re-create in this case with NeXTStep.

"However, I didn't see all three of those things. I only saw the first one, which was so incredible to me that it saturated me. It blinded me to see the other two. It took me years to re-create them and rediscover them and incorporate them back into the model, but they were very far ahead in their thinking. They didn't have it totally right, but they had the germ of the idea of all three things. And the three things were graphical user interfaces, object-oriented computing and networking."

Part 12: Steve Jobs on the impact of the Internet

"The Internet and the World Wide Web are clearly the most exciting thing going on in computing today. They're exciting for three or four reasons.

"No. 1: Ultimately computers are turning into communications devices, and ultimately we're spending more and more of the cycles of the computer to not only make it easy to use but to make it easy to communicate. The Web is the missing piece of the puzzle which is really going to power that vision much farther forward. It's very exciting in that way.

"Secondly, it's very exciting because it is going to destroy vast layers of our economy and make available a presence in the marketplace for very small companies, one that is equal to very large companies....

"The third reason it's very exciting is that Microsoft doesn't own it and I don't think they can. It's the one thing in the industry that Microsoft can probably never own. I think one of the things that's essential is that the government continue to fund the Internet as a public trust, as a public facility and remove any of these ridiculous notions of privatizing it that have been brought up. I don't think they're going to fly, thankfully."

Part 13: Steve Jobs on Pixar

"If you look at the 10 most important revolutions in high-end graphics, in the last 10 years, eight of them have come out of Pixar. All of the software that was used to make Terminator, for example -- to actually construct the images that you saw on the screen -- or Jurassic Park with all the dinosaurs, was Pixar software. Industrial Light and Magic uses it as the base for all of their stuff.

"But Pixar had another vision. Pixar's vision was to tell stories. To make real films. Our vision was to make the world's first animated feature film -- completely computer synthetic, sets, characters, everything. After 10 years, we have done exactly that. We have developed tools, all proprietary, to do this, to manage the production of this thing as well as the drawing of this thing, computer synthetic drawing. We are finishing up making the world's first computer animated feature film. Pixar has written it, directed it, producing it. The Walt Disney corporation is distributing it, and it's coming out this year as Walt Disney's Christmas picture. It's coming out Nov. 11, I believe, and it's called Toy Story. You will hear a lot about it because I think it's going to be the most successful film of this year."

Part 14: Why life needs death (and startups)

"I've always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I'm sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn't work very well because it didn't make room for the young. It didn't know how the world was fifty years ago. It didn't know how the world was twenty years ago. It saw it as it is today, without any preconceptions, and dreamed how it could be based on that. We're not satisfied based on the accomplishment of the last thirty years. We're dissatisfied because the current state didn't live up to their ideals. Without death there would be very little progress.

"One of the things that happens in organizations as well as with people is that they settle into ways of looking at the world and become satisfied with things, and the world changes and keeps evolving and new potential arises but these people who are settled in don't see it. That's what gives startup companies their greatest advantage. The sedentary point of view is that of most large companies."

Part 15: Advice for entrepreneurs

"A lot of people come to me and say 'I want to be an entrepreneur.' And I go, 'Oh that's great, what's your idea?' And they say, 'I don't have one yet.' And I say, 'I think you should go get a job as a busboy or something until you find something you're really passionate about, because it's a lot of work.'

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. It's really tough, and it consumes your life. If you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, I can't imagine how one could do it. I'm sure it's been done, but it's rough. It's pretty much an 18-hour-day job, seven days a week for a while. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that's half the battle right there."

Part 16: Final thoughts; Impact of Silicon Valley

[Photo - STEVE JOBS - 1955-2011]

"Time frame's an interesting thing when you think about people looking back. I do think when people look back on this in a hundred years, they're going to see this as a remarkable time in history. And especially this area, believe it or not.

"When you think of the innovation that's come out of this area, Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco-Berkeley Bay Area, you've got the invention of the integrated circuit, the invention of the microprocessor, the invention of semiconductor memory, the invention of the modern hard disk drive, the invention of the modern floppy disk drive, the invention of the personal computer, invention of genetic engineering, the invention of object-oriented technology, the invention of graphical user interfaces at PARC, followed by Apple, the invention of networking. All that happened in this Bay Area. It's incredible." (Ken Gagne, Keith Shaw, Sharon Machlis and Ken Mingis contributed to this special package.)

[Photo - New APPLE CEO Tim Cook with Steve Jobs; THE MEMO: Here's the full text of the e-mail Apple CEO Tim Cook sent to his employees about the passing of Steve Jobs the day of Job"s passing.

Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

We are planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email rememberingsteve@apple.com.

No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much. Tim

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been competitors and friends for decades.

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