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BAUAN, Batangas – Muli na namang umatake sa Lalawigan ng Batangas, partikular sa bayang ito, ang sakit na Meningococcemia, isang nakamamatay na sakit.

Nitong nakalipas na linggo, tinawagan ni Batangas 2nd District Congressman Raneo E. Abu ang pansin ng Kagawaran ng Kalusugan (DoH) upang kaagad na aksyunan ang mga napaulat na muling pag-atake kamakailan ng Meningococcemia sa bayan ng Bauan.

Sa kaniyang liham sa DoH, sinabi ni Abu na iniulat ni Municipal Health Officer Victor Bejer na isang Grade 3 pupil mula sa Manghinao Elementary School, ang nakaranas ng mga sintomas ng meningococcemia noong Pebrero 28 at kaagad na isinugod sa Bauan Doctors Hospital.

Nang makitang walang gaanong pagbabago, inilipat na rin kaagad ang pasyente sa Research Institute for Tropical Medicine ng DoH sa Muntinlupa City ngunit doon na rin inabot ng kamatayan ang pasyente.

Ayon pa kay Bejer, isa namang 14-taong gulang na batang lalaki ang namatay rin sa sakit na meningococcemia noong Setyembre ng nakalipas na taon.

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Modernong electronic Sen. Recto files bill billboard, pinasinayaan decriminalizing libel LUNSOD BATANGAS – Inaasahang higit na magkakaroon ng kaayusan sa lunsod at higit na mabibigyang impormasyon ang publiko sa mga programa at polisiya ng lunsod sa paglalagay ng bago at modernong electronic billboard sa mga estratihikong lugar sa lunsod.

Nitong nakaraang Lunes, Marso 3, pinasinayaan ng pamahalaang lunsod ang una sa tatlong electronic billboards na makikita sa

Stealing most foul

kahabaan ng P. Burgos, sa tapat ng city hall sa pangunguna ni Mayor Eduardo Dimacuha at ng mga department head ng pamahalaang lunsod.

Ang bagong electronic billboard na may LED (lightemitting diode) screen ay kapalit ng dating electronic billboard na VMS (variable messaging system) kung saan

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SENATE President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto filed recently a bill decriminalizing libel, joining a growing list of senators wanting to delist it from the book of crimes.

In Senate Bill 2146, Recto traced the origins of libel as a tool against criticisms and to shield public officials from insults. He said the 84-year-old was a fusion of the Spanish Codigo Penal and the 1932 Revised Penal Code, “with archaic provisions which had been overtaken by jurisprudence expanding free speech.”

In the bill’s explanatory note, the senator echoed Justice Marvic Leonen’s dissent on the Cybercrime Law

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“Don’t vote for senators connected “Yaya” who murdered a boy p.

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Lunsod Batangas, kinilala ng Turkish Chamber of Commerce sa bansa GINAWARAN ng karangalan ng Turkish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (TCCP) ang Batangas City bilang isa sa mga partners nito sa pagpapalawak ng negosyo at iba pang areas of cooperation.

Ito ay kasunod ng isinagawang Business Matching: Turkish Business Exploring Investment Opportunities and Partnerships in Batangas City na ginanap sa Hotel Pontefino noong ika-21 ng Enero, 2014.

Ang paggagawad ng parangal ay isinagawa sa okasyon ng 12th International Festival of Language and Culture na ginanap New Performing Arts Theater sa Resorts World Manila, Pebrero 26. Ito ay isang song, dance at poetry competition ng mga estudyante ng Fountain Turkish International School sa Maynila at Tolerance Turkish

International School sa Zamboanga.

Ang Batangas City ay isa sa dalawang lunsod lamang sa bansa na pinagkalooban ng nasabing award.

Ang trophy ay ipinagkaloob ni TCCP President Irfan Karabulut kay City Administrator Phillip Baroja na syang kinatawan ni Mayor Eduardo B. Dimacuha.

Ayon kay Secretary to the City Mayor Atty.

Reginald Dimacuha, ang nabanggit na award ay patunay ng pagiging business-friendly ng lungsod at ng patuloy na pag-unlad ng ekonomiya dito. “Ito ang magsisilbing radar ng mga negosyante upang magbukas ng mga bagong negosyo na malaki ang maitutulong upang makapagbigay ng maraming trabaho at oportunidad sa mga Batangueño.| RONNA ENFAYA CONTRERAS

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Libreng pagsasanay sa catering service, inihatid ng OCVAS sa mga Batangueño MAY 20 participants mula sa iba’t ibang barangay ng Batangas City and lumahok sa pagsasanay tungkol sa Catering Business Operation ng Office of the City Veterinary and Agricultural Services noong March 6-7.

Itinuro at tinalakay ni Alvin Oriondo, resource speaker mula sa Roxas Foundation Training Center- Nasugbu ang table setting, equipment, menu planning and preparation at budgeting. Nagkaroon din sila ng hands-

on training sa skirting at napkin folding techniques.

Ito ang ikatlong taon ng pagkakaloob ng naturang seminar ng libre sa ilalim ng Inhouse Trainings at Seminars ng OCVAS na isang proyekto ni Mayor Eduardo B. Dimacuha.

Binigyang-diin ni Oriondo, malaki ang potensyal na lumago ang ganitong klaseng negosyo.

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“Ang catering ay isa sa mga negosyong in-demand sa kasalukuyan kaya’t ang kailangan lamang ng mga nagnanais pumasok dito ay magfocus at magkaroon ng continous learning kung paano ma-i-improve pa ang kanilang catering service”, ayon kay Oriondo.

Idinagdag pa niya na mahalaga na mayroon puhunan subalit mas mahalaga na magkaroon ng technical knowledge/training

hinggil sa papasuking negosyo.

Payo niya sa mga nagnanais magsimula ng catering business na gawing simple subalit elegante ang kanilang presentation. Kailangan din aniya ang husay sa marketing upang dumami ang kliyente dito.

Ang naturang pagsasanay ay sa ilalim ng pangangasiwa ng Home Extension Division ng OCVAS.|RONNA ENDAYA CONTRERAS

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Meningo virus, umatake ulit sa Bauan Bukod dito, isa namang 6-taong gulang na batang babae ang nabiktima rin ng naturang sakit, at sinuwerte naming nakaligtas ditto.

Samantala, bagaman at pawang sa bayan ng Bauan naitala ang mga naturang kaso ng Meningococcemia, nilinaw naman ni Bejer na hindi pa namanmaikokonsiderang may outbreak ng naturang sakit sa bayan ng Bauan.

Idinagdag din ni Bejer na nabigyan naman nila ng bakuna ang mga kaklase at mga guro ng nasawing mag-aaral ng Manghinao Elementary School, gayundin ang mga nakadikit niyang kapitbahayan.

Ngunit, ayon pa kay Bejer, mayroon pang halos 1,300 mag-

aaral sa Manghinao Elementary School na humihiling na mabakunahan din, hindi pa kabilang ditto ang kanilang mga magulang at mga guro.

“On the same day that I learned about it, i immediately brought the matter to Sec. Enrique Ona’s attention,” pahayag naman ni Congressman Abu. “In the absence of PDAF, I’m calling on the Department of Health to act on the situation swiftly before it reaches an unmanageable proportion,” saad pa ng mambabatas.

Hiniling din ni Abu sa DoH na magpadala sa Bauan ng mga kinakailangang hiringilya at bakuna para sa dalawang barangay man

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 85, LIPA CITY IN RE: PETITION FOR AMENDMENT AND/OR CORRECTION OF NAME OF REGISTERED OWNER IN TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 81182 PETITION NO. 01-2014-0017 GERARDO SIMPLICIO M. CASAÑAS, Petitioner. x————————————————————x ORDER

lamang na pinakamalapit.

Ang meningococcemia ay isang uri ng sakit na dulot ng Neisseria meningitidis bacteria na kalimitang umaatake sa upper respiratory tract ng isang tao na walang gaanong ipinakikitang sinyales ng pagkakasakit.

Ang bacteria ay maaaring makahawa o maisalin sa pamamagitan ng simpleng pagtalsik ng laway o sipon sa pagbahin o pag-ubo.

Ilan sa mga pangunahing sintomas ng pagkakaroon ng meningococcemia ay ang lagnat, pananakit ng ulo, di mapakali, pananakit ng kalamnan o kasukasuan, pagkahilo at paglitaw ng mapupula o mauubeng pasa o pantal sa katawan.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

morning at the Session Hall of this Court. All interested persons may appear on that date, time and place and show cause why the petition should not be granted.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioners once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Batangas including the Cities of Lipa, Tanauan and Batangas.

Likewise, let copies of this petition and Order be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General and the Office of the Register of Deeds of Lipa City.

SO ORDERED. Lipa City, February 18, 2014.

(Sgd.) WILFREDO P. CASTTLLO Presiding Judge

A verified petition was filed by Gerardo Simplicio M. Casañas. Among others, the petitioner prays that after due notice, publication and hearing an Order be issued directing the Register of Deeds of Lipa City to correct the name GERARDO M. CASAÑAS, one of the registered owners in Transfer Certificate of Title No. 81182, by inserting the name SIMPLICIO between the name GERARDO and the initial M so that the name GERARDO SIMPLICIO M. CASAÑAS shall appear in said title.

I hereby certify of this petition and Order have been sent to the office of the Solicitor General, Atty. Isabelita B. Manigbas, the Office of the Register of Deeds of Lipa City, petitioners and their counsel, this __ day of February 2014.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, notice is hereby given that the petition is set for hearing on April 23, 2014 at 8:30 o’clock in the

Pahayagang Balikas Batangas City March 10, 17 & 24, 2014

(Sgd.) ATTY. REGULUS R. ROCAFORT Brand Clerk of Court

Modernong electronic billboard, pinasinayaan limitado ang mga salita o characters na maaaring ilagay dito.

Sa pamamagitan ng bagong billboard, naipababatid sa publiko ang mga iba’t ibang proyekto at programa ng lokal na pamahalaan gayundin ang mga advisories ukol sa kalagayan ng trapiko at lagay ng panahon.

Sinabi ni Atty. Reginald Dimacuha, secretary to the Mayor na ang pagiging hi-tech ng lunsod ay tanda ng pagbibigay ng higit at ibayong serbisyo sa mga tao.

Dalawa pang electronic screen ang nakatakdang ilagay sa mga estratehikong lugar sa poblacion.

Para sa mga nagnanais magpalagay ng mga anunsiyo, may kaukulang halaga ang renta.

Ang mga naturang pasilidad ay pinangangasiwaan ng Transpor-

tation Developmnent and Regulatory Office (TDRO) sa pakikipagugnayan saPublic Information Office (PIO), mga dibisyong kapwa nasa ilalim ng Tanggapan ng Pununlunsod.

Samantala, ipinabatid din ni Dimacuha ang improvement na isinasagawa ng lokal na pamahalaan sa mga traffic lights. Ililipat aniya sa ibang kalye ang mga luma at irerepair naman ang mga sira samantalang papalitan ng mas maayos ang mga nasa mga pangunahing lansangan ng lunsod.

Isinasaayos na din ang ilang streetlights at mga closed circuit television (CCTV) upang matiyak ang kaayusan at katahimikan sa Batangas City.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS | RONNA E. CONTRERAS

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Recto files bill decriminalizing libel “that libel prosecution has evolved from protecting both private citizens and public figures to its modern notion of shielding only private parties from defamatory utterances.”

Even if libel will be decriminalized, Recto said there is another way that ”scurrilous and defamatory remarks damaging to one’s reputation” can be set right.

“The institution of civil action for damages can restore a sullied reputation,” he said.

Recto said “it is high time for Congress to revisit defamation laws, and recalibrate them in a manner that they can prevent and penalize malicious and unfounded attacks on a person’s reputation without stifling free speech and the open discussion of policies that affect the public.”

“Even if we take out libel, there should remain a shield which a private, ordinary citizen can use when he is assaulted by harsh tags,” he said.

“We need these safeguards because one of the best apps of a civilized society are laws which allow a private individual robbed of honor to seek restitution,” Recto said.

He said he filed the libel repeal bill because the best way to address the court-upheld cyberlibel provision in the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is to go to the source which is the Revised Penal Code.

Recto’s bill seeks to repeal Articles 353,354,355, 356, 357, 360, 361 and 362 of the Revised Penal Code and Section 4 (c) 4 of the Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Law.

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CTA sets Corona arraignment on tax evasion case on April 2 MANILA — The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has set on April 2, 2014 the arraignment of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona on the tax evasion case filed against him.

Konstruksiyon ng Puregold Supermarket, ipinatitigil ng SP Lunsod Lipa – HINAHABOL ngayon ng pamahalaang lunsod ng Lipa ang may-ari ng Puregold Supermarket dahil sa umanoy paglabag nito sa mga kondisyong ibinigay ng pamahalaan sa konstruksiyon ng gusali nito sa Barangay 10, dito.

Kaugnay nito, nagpasa ng resolusyon ang Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) nitong Lunes na humihiling kay Mayor Meynardo Sabili sa pamamagitan ng City Adminstrator at City Engineer na ipahinto ang pagpapagawa ng Puregold supermarket dahil sa umano’y paglabag sa kondisyones ng ipinagkaloob na special use permit (SUP).

Ayon kay Konsehal Joel Pua, chairman ng committee on housing and land utilization sa konseho at may akda ng resolusyon, nilabag umano ng nasabing business establishment ang kondisyong ibinigay sa special use permit dahil nabigo umano itong magpagawa ng road network sa likod ng supermarket na siyang daraanan ng mga sasakyan para di magsikip ang traffic sa lugar.

Ang special use permit ay isa sa mga kinakailangan para mabigyan ng business permit ang isang commercial establishment sa lungsod ng Lipa batay na rin sa Special Ordinance No.11-2004.

Isinasaad din sa nasabing SUP na kinakailangang maglagay ng pedestrian overpass sa harap ng Puregold na siyang magsisilbing tawiran ng mga papunta’t paalis ng market, pagkakaroon ng sakayan at babaan ng pasahero sa harap ng establisimiyento at paglalaan ng sapat na side parking area sa may panulukan ng P. Laygo street o di kaya’y basement parking.

Kasama ring kondisyon ang pagsunod sa itinatadhana ng ordinansa na 75% man lamang ng empleyado ay kwalipikadong lokal na residente ng lunsod; akreditasyon ng mga lokal na suplayer at prayoridad sa mga magpupwesto ay negosyanteng taga Lipa. nabatid na nagpatawag na ng pagdinig ang konseho ukol dito upang madinig ang panig ng Puregold ngunit walang kinatawan ang supermarket na dumalo sa pulong.

“Malinaw naman pong isang paglabag (sa ordinansa) o pambabastos sa atin ang kanilang ginagawa,” wika ni Pua. Nakahanap naman ng kakampi si Pua sa katauhan ni Konsehal Patmon Monfero na nagsabing nilabag nga ng Puregold ang ordinansa hinggil sa SUP kaya’t tingin niya ay dapat lang umanong ipatigil ito.

“Sa aking opinyon ay hindi na ho tayo dapat magpatawag uli ng committee hearing kasi may ordinansa na ho tayo eh.

Ang akin hong opinyon dito ay magkaroon na ho tayo ng closure order kung meron naman tayong basehan. dahil di naman sila sumusunod,” wika niya.

Sinikap kunin ng pahayagan ang panig ng Puregold pero tumangging magpaunlak sa panayam ang kinatawan nitong si Kelvin Quan.

Sa naunang liham na pinadala ng establishment nitong Enero 13 ay umapela ang Puregold Price Club, Inc. kay Konsehal Pua na i-reconsider ang mga kundisyones na nakapaloob sa SUP.

The tax case against Corona was filed before the CTA last Monday after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed his motion for reconsideration.

In the latest decision of the DOJ approved by Prosecutor General Claro A. Arellano, it found that no new arguments were presented in the motion for reconsideration that would warrant the reversal of its earlier decision.

In the complaint of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Corona allegedly failed to pay more than P120 million in taxes

and he also failed to file his income tax returns for taxable years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Meanwhile, Corona has posted bail for his tax evasion case which was finally filed by the DOJ before the CTA last Monday.

It was gathered that Corona personally went to the CTA last Tuesday to post a P120,000 bail bond for each of the six counts of tax evasion case even before the CTA can issue a warrant of arrest against him.| PNA

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200 pasyente, nakinabang sa 2nd Gift Giving Activity ng Batangas Press Club BATANGAS CITY –Umabot sa mahigit sa 200 pasyente ng Batangas Medical Center (BMC), dating Batangas Regional Hospital, ang tumanggap ng mga groserya sa ikalawang gift-giving activity ng Batangas Press Club (BPC) kamakailan lamang.

Iniisa-isang bisitahin at binigyan ng mga simpleng regalo ang mga pasyente

sa female surgical ward, male surgical ward, OB ward, medical station at pediatric ward na pawing nagpaabot naman ng mainit na pagtanggap at pasasalamat.

Todo pasasalamat din ang ipinaabot ng pamunuan ng BMC sa pangunguna ni Dr. Ramoncito Magnaye, Chief of Hospital.

Nakatuwang ng samahan sa proyektong ito ang pamahalang lungsod ng Batangas sa pangunguna ni Mayor Eduardo B. Dimacuha, San Miguel Corporation, Department of Public Works and Highways – 2nd Engineering District at iba pang mga sponsors na nagpahatid ng mga donasyon.| MELINDA R. LANDICHO

MULA SA INYO, PARA SA KANILA. Abalang inihahanda ng mga kasapi ng Batangas Press Club ang mga donasyong groserya na ipinamahagi sa mga pasyente ng Batangas Medical Center. Kasama si BMC Director Dr. Mon Magnaye, ipinamahagi sa 200 pasyente ang mga timbang naglalaman ng mga pagkain at mga gamit sa personal hygiene.|

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Senator Santiago told Batangueño students: “Don’t vote for pork barrel scam politicians in 2016” SENATOR Miriam Defensor Santiago appealed over the weekend to some 2,000 students of a a universirty in Batangas City, not to vote in 2016 for senators or congressmen involved in the pork barrel scam.

Santiago made the appeal during the awarding ceremony of the most outstanding students and student organizations of the university, where she served as guest speaker.

“We should not reelect any senators or congressmen running for reelection in 2016, if they are among those against whom the Ombudsman will file criminal charges for plunder or malversation of public funds in the Sandiganbayan,” the senator told the students.

“Of course, every person enjoys a presumption of innocence,” Santiago said. “But when the Ombudsman

conducts the preliminary investigation, she goes over voluminous papers and other documents, as well as affidavits executed by eyewitnesses. She has to do this, because under the law, the Ombudsman who is the prosecutor in this case, has to prove what the law calls a prima facie case. The term prima facie is a Latin phrase which means at first sight, or on first appearance, but subject to further evidence or information.

Hence, if the Ombudsman files a case against a reelectionist for plunder in the Sandiganbayan, this means that she has in her possession enough evidence to allow the trial court to rule in favor of the government.”

According to Santiago, the 2016 presidential elections will be a test of leadership during these dark days when government is investigating the P10

billion pork barrel scandal involving Janet Lim-Napoles, her dubious nongovernment organizations, and certain politicians.

“The Supreme Court has declared the pork barrel as unconstitutional. But during the time when pork barrel was still a legitimate exercise of the power to reduce poverty, it became a source of widespread corruption from our elected senators and representatives. This sordid case of plunder in our political history is evidence that corruption is caused by a top-down process,” Santiago said.

Santiago also called on the audience to reject politicians who are “consistently silent on the pork barrel scandal.”

According to the senator, while the pork barrel investigation is going on,

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Villar seeks protection of wetlands of int’l importance Unang KWF Awardee. Dahil sa namumukod tanging dedikasyon ni Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto sa larangan ng sining at pamamahala, itinanghal siyang kaunaunahang Kampeon ng Wikang Filipino sa buong bansa. Iginawad ang nasabing parangal ng Tagapangulo ng Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino at National Artist na si G. Virgilio Almario kasama si Full-time Commissioner Purificacion Delima. Binigyang pansin ng KWF ang naging malaking kontribusyon ni Gov. Vi pagdating sa pag-arte at pulitka kung saan nakatanggap din siya ng maraming pagkilala mula sa iba-ibang ahensya at tagapanuri.| KRISTINA JOY ANDAL

SENATOR Cynthia Villar on Monday bolstered her personal campaign to protect at least seven wetlands declared of international importance including the 175-hectare Las Pinas-Paranaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA).

After gracing the opening of a photo exhibit, Villar delivered a privilege speech where she stressed the environmental and agricultural benefits of wetlands, sounding anew the alarm against acts that threaten LLPCHEA existence.

Villar echoed the article on the Ramsar website, where it said LPPCHEA faces threats associated with being

located near densely populated areas, reclamation projects and mangrove cutting.

“Some of the common benefits from wetlands include providing water supply and irrigation, fisheries, livestock grazing, cultivation, grass, and wild plants for food, craft and medicinal use.

Those benefits are linked to the livelihood of the people as well,” she said.

Villar added wetlands have crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and in the ecosystem at large.

She also claimed that the importance of wetland agriculture is becoming widely recognized.

In fact, she said a study showed that more than 78 percent of all Ramsar sites supported agricultural activities particularly in Africa and Asia which cover more than 170 million hectares — 66 percent and 48 percent of them, respectively, are listed as used for agriculture.

Other six Philippines sites which have been designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" are the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in Palawan; the Tubbataha Reefs National Marine Park in Sulu; the Agusan Marsh Wildlife

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Master’s tools (Notes on cynicism, labor, finance capital, and the art industry)

By SARAH RAYMUNDO* WE never say “reduce sexism!” or reduce racism!” because we rightly demand their elimination. But it seems that the politics of political correctness, which largely defines pseudo-progressive politics nowadays, easily drops its own claims to the use of politically correct language in its full embrace of “poverty reduction.”

Class is not seen as a structuring principle that cuts across racial, ethnic, and gender oppression. Instead, liberal progressives flatten out the contradictions and concrete social antagonisms that inhere in the very same oppressive structures they want to eliminate by positing “intersectionality” as the only viable horizon of interpretation to understand and resolve oppression. One can tell that the class war is at its height when the state itself naturalizes poverty by avowing that it can only be reduced. The state does so to cover up for poverty’s basis: social inequality. To argue that poverty can only be reduced whether in the short or the long term is to assume that social inequality is a function of nature. A biologized version of social class makes it easy for governments worldwide to subject peoples to the most brutal conditions of existence. To talk about the “end of class struggle” and the “obsoleteness of class war” while refusing to eliminate poverty is a travesty.

En Route to the Cynical Path of Finance Capital As things stand today, the aftermath of the liberal triumph—which promised art its much-vaunted autonomy from social institutions that had tended to dwarf art by making it a mere function of its operations— has yet to redeem art from institutionalized artistic activity that has made the former a mere signifier of class privilege and luxury. Such autonomy only promoted a preference for “non-political art” or more accurately, a “generic politics [which replaces] ideology with management.”. But more is at stake in this intervention than pouncing on art’s culpability. There is a necessary connection to be made between institutionalized art practice and the financial blackhole.

Let us begin with a rudimentary definition of finance as a symbol.

Finance is the most abstract symbolization of the economy that has its roots in industrialization. Under capitalism, the accumulation of value or the process of valorization entails the application of human skills. In the age of industrialization, the production of value still necessitated the production of actual goods. Hence, the capitalist needed to produce useful things in order to produce abstract value. In the age of finance, however, the production of goods is no longer necessary to realize accumulation.

Instead, accumulation itself directly targets its monetary goal by wringing value from the circulation of money.

The acceleration of financial flows and the accumulation of value necessitate the destruction of concrete things and resources, and the body itself. The acceleration of profits from financial flows results in the “elimination of the real world.”. Finance capitalism is not only dependent

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>>>BLOOD RUSH..turn to P/5 * Sarah Raymundo is a full-time faculty at the University of the Philippines-Center for International Studies (UP-CIS Diliman) and a member of the National Executive Board of the All U.P. Academic Employees Union. She is the current National Treasurer of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and the External Vice Chair of the Philppine Anti-Impeiralist Studies (PAIS). She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Interface: A Journal for Social Movements.|

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Stealing most foul “MAN, O man, given brief authority, exercises it to high heavens that even angels weep.” Was it Shakespeare or somebody older than him who said this? Be that as it may, people need to be reminded that there is limit to what they can do. Any authority delegated to those who sit in the government is an indebtedness that they have to account for. It is not theirs to keep. They are merely entrusted with it for the meantime. They have to use it well lest their own indiscretion will spell their own demise.

A local theft incident acquired a national prominence after a video showing the culprit being paraded through the market and made to confess publicly of his crime was shown in the primetime news.

The local officials were reported to have justify the theatrics as a necessary means to stop the incorrigible thief from repeating his crime and to warn others that their crimes would not be tolerated. The public pulse is ambivalent—some people expressed disgust to the seeming display of arrogance while others found the shortcut tolerable.

Stealing cannot be justified regardless of the circumstances attending its commission. Extreme poverty may mitigate one’s liability for theft but it would not exempt him or her from responsibility. Society may extend some leniency to a perpetrator who was forced by extreme circumstances to commit the crime but it cannot condone the act and deems it permissible.

Morally speaking, the effects and the reason behind an act do not change its nature. It is either good or evil irrespective of the consequences that follow or the motive that inspires it. Indeed, no decent society can tolerate

stealing if it is to remain intact and survive.

However, this does not give the government authority to inflict unusual and cruel punishment to anyone suspected of committing theft. Nobody has the right to impose sanction on anyone without the latter being processed through the requirements of the law. Not just anyone can take the law unto his or her hand and impose sanctions to a suspect. Only the courts can administer the rightful punishment to a law offender. This is what the rule of law means. Nobody is above the law. Even the highest officials have to follow it. Circumstances do not give them extraordinary authority to disregard it.

Regardless of the intention or motive for doing so, an official shortcut is an abuse of authority. What people saw in the news is not punishment imposed on a criminal but a wanton display of arrogance. Justice is not served then. What they did is spineless. It is hypocritical. It is stealing and it’s most foul of all since it robbed a man of the chance to prove his accusers wrong. Only the shameless can endure such a heartless mockery of justice.

A correction should be made. Those who abuse with their powers should be dealt with under the law as much as the suspected thief should be punished when proven guilty before the court. There is no other way but this.

Those who are in power should know well that they are accountable for anything that they do with it. They are not born to it but a mere custodian thereof. As such, they must act accordingly at all times.

This is the necessary lesson that we have to learn— the law vindicates law, and it must vindicate law if it is to remain a law.|

Ang Mabuting Balita Ang Pagbabagong Anyo ni Jesus (Marcos 9: 2-13)(Lucas 9: 28-36)

PAGKARAAN ng anim na araw, isinama ni Jesus si Pedro at ang magkapatid na Santiago at Juan, at sila'y umakyat sa isang mataas na bundok. Habang sila'y naroroon, nakita nilang nagbago ang anyo ni Jesus, nagliwanag na parang araw ang kanyang mukha at nagningning sa kaputian ang kanyang damit. Nakita na lamang ng tatlong alagad sina Moises at Elias na nakikipag-usap kay Jesus. Sinabi ni Pedro kay Jesus, "Panginoon, mabuti't naririto kami.

Kung gusto ninyo, gagawa ako ng tatlong kubol, isa para sa inyo, isa para kay Moises at isa para kay Elias." Habang nagsasalita pa si Pedro, nililiman sila ng napakaliwanag na ulap. Mula rito'y may tinig na nagsabi, "Ito ang minamahal kong Anak na lubos kong kinalulugdan.

Pakinggan ninyo siya!" Nang marinig ng mga alagad ang tinig, labis silang natakot at nagpatirapa. Ngunit nilapitan sila ni Jesus at hinawakan. "Tumayo kayo, huwag kayong matakot!" sabi niya. Nang tumingin sila, si Jesus na lamang ang kanilang nakita.

Habang sila'y bumababa sa bundok, iniutos sa kanila ni Jesus, "Huwag ninyong sasabihin kaninuman ang inyong nasaksihan hangga't hindi muling nabubuhay ang Anak ng Tao."|

“HABANG sila'y naroroon, nakita nilang nagbago ang anyo ni Jesus, nagliwanag na parang araw ang kanyang mukha at nagningning sa kaputian ang kanyang damit.

Nakita na lamang ng tatlong alagad sina Moises at Elias na nakikipag-usap kay Jesus.” Mateo 17:2-3

March 10 - 16, 2014

OPINION

Balikas

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Agawan ng dalawang pamilya sa mana “Yaya”who murdered a boy ITO ay kuwento ni Marvin, isang empleado ng gobyerno na nagtrabaho sa Mindanao.

Noong nabubuhay pa siya ay nagkarelasyon siya sa dalawang babae at dalawang beses nag-asawa!

Ang unang kasal ay nangyari sa pagitan nila ni Jessebel. Ikinasal sila noong 1937 sa parokya sa bayan ni Marvin. Nagkaroon sila ng dalawang anak pero sa kasamaang-palad ay naunang namatay ang dalawang bata.

Dahil wala na siyang anak na nagbibigay-buhay sa kanilang tahanan, unti-unting lumayo ang loob ni Marvin kay Jessebel. Hinayaan lang ito ng babae at bagkus ay tiniis ang malamig niyang pakikitungo kay misis. Sa katunayan, nadiskubre pa ng pobreng babae na nanliligaw siya sa iba — kay Princess.

Napaniwala ni Marvin si Princess na binata pa siya.

Kaya matapos ang mahigit 20 taon nilang pagsasama ni Jessebel ay muling nagpakasal si Marvin. Si Princess ang kanyang pinakasalan at sa mismong simbahan pa kung saan dati silang nagpakasal ni Jessebel. Pikitmatang tinanggap na lang ni Jessebel ang kanyang kapalaran at pumayag na kahati niya ang ibang babae sa asawa. Hindi siya tumutol sa pagpapakasal muli ng kanyang asawa.

Mukhang sinuwerte si Marvin sa pangalawang pagpapakasal. Nagkaroon siya ng pitong anak kay Princess. Sa piling ng pangalawang pamilya at pagkatapos ng ilang dekadang pagtatrabaho sa gobyerno ay namatay si Marvin. Saka naman lumabas ang problema sa dalawang pamilya.

Dahil empleyado ng gobyerno at miyembro ng GSIS, dalawang klase ng insurance ang makukuha ni Marvin.

Ang life insurance at ang retirement insurance. Benepisyaryo ni Marvin sa kanyang life insurance ang pangalawang asawang si Princess at ang pitong anak dito pero sa retirement insurance ay hindi siya nakapagsulat kung sino ang kanyang benepisyaryo kaya

parehong naghabol ang kanyang dalawang misis.

Ayon kay Jessebel, siya lang dapat ang solong tagapagmana ni Marvin. Ayon naman kay Princess at sa kanyang pitong anak, sila ang mas may karapatan sa retirement insurance dahil sila na ang ginawang benepisyaryo ni Marvin sa life insurance. Sino nga ba sa kanila ang tama?

Nang mamatay si Marvin, sinabi ni Jessebel na, siya lang dapat ang solong tagapagmana nito. Ayon naman kay Princess, siya at kanyang pitong anak ang mas may karapatan sa retirement insurance dahil sila na ang ginawang beneficiaries ni Marvin sa life insurance. Sino sa kanila ang tama?

Ibinibigay ang life insurance kung sino man ang nakasulat na beneficiaries kahit pa hindi ito ang tagapagmana ng namatay at kahit legal man siyang tagapagmana o hindi. Nakasaad sa Insurance Act na hindi kailangan na isang tagapagmana ang makakuha sa insurance proceeds. Kung sakali at walang nakasulat na beneficiaries ay saka pa lang pupunta sa estate ng namatay ang nasabing insurance proceeds.

Tungkol naman sa retirement benefits, paghahatian ito ng dalawang misis. Ayon sa Korte Suprema, sa pagaaral nito sa karapatan ng dalawang pamilya ni Marvin, nananatili ang unang kasal ni Marvin kay Jessebel.

Kailanman ay hindi isinuko o binitawan ni Jessebel ang karapatan upang makihati sa ari-arian nilang magasawa o ang tinatawag na “conjugal partnership” kaya hindi nawala sa kanya ang karapatan na maghabol sa ari-arian ng asawa bilang ligal nitong tagapagmana.

Sa panig naman ng pangalawang asawang si Princess, tanggap natin na ang buong akala ng babae ay ligal siyang asawa at hindi kabit dahil pinakasalan siya ni Marvin. Sa ingles, tinatawag itong “good faith” dahil malinis ang hangarin niya nang pumasok sa kasal kaya ituturing na wala siyang kasalanan at kunwari ay totoo rin ang kasal nila ni Marvin.|

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Pakikisalumuha ng ambulant vendors LUNSOD NG LIPA, Batangas, Sumailalim kamakailan sa pagsasanay ukol sa tamang pakikisalamuha at pagharap sa mga kustomer ang mga ambulant vendors sa SM grand terminal sa lungsod na ito.

Ang pagsasanay ay isinagawa sa pagtutulungan ng SM City Lipa at Lipa City Cooperative Office ng pamahalaang lunsod ng Lipa.

Sinabi ni Liza Dimaculangan, mall manager ng SM Lipa, na layon ng pagsasanay na maituro sa mga manininda ang tamang pakikisalamuha at pagharap sa mga kustomer gayundin ang kalinisan ng mga pagkaing itinitinda.

“Nais namin na maisaayos ang mga magtitinda upang mas lalong mapabuti ang kanilang kabuhayan kung kaya’t nagsagawa ng ganitong uri ng pagsasanay,” wika ni Dimaculangan.

May 75 magtitinda ang sumailalim sa anim na sesyon ng pagsasanay kung saan tinalakay ang mga paksa na may kinalaman sa food safety, good grooming, personality development, customer service, tourism at

financial literacy o savings.

Sinabi naman ni Ramelo Mendoza, city cooperative officer na ang pamahalaang lokal ng Lipa ay nakahandang tulungan ang mga magtitinda upang mapaunlad ang kanilang kabuhayan.

“Kabilang ang pagsusulong ng programang pangkabuhayan sa seven-point agenda ng pamahalaang lungsod kaya ang aming tanggapan ay patuloy din ang pagbibigay ng tulong teknikal sa mga nagnanais mapatibay ang kanilang mga samahan o kooperatiba,” sabi ni Mendoza.

Alinsabay nito may mga micro finance program din ang lokal na pamahalaan para maisaayos ang pangangailangan ng mga samahan o kooperatiba kung saan nagpapahiram ito ng puhunan na walang interes upang magamit sa pagpapasimula ng negosyo.

Malaki naman ang pasasalamat ng mga manininda sa karagdagang kaalamang natutunan sa pagsasanay at umaasang malaki ang magiging kontribusyon nito upang mas lalong mapaayos ang kanilang hanapbuhay.

........................................................................................................................................................ <<<POLITICS..from P/3

“Don’t vote for pork barrel scam politicians in 2016” particularly on television when the Blue Ribbon Committee conducts hearings and examines alleged witnesses, certain politicians are conspicuous by their silence.

Santiago said silence means that the particular politician is willing to make friends with anybody, right or wrong, corrupt or honest, as long as the politician can gather votes.

“That candidate is an opportunist. He does not act out of conviction, but acts out of what is convenient for himself,” she said.

“Politicians who purposely refrain from

participating in the national debate on the pork barrel scandal are politicians who are cowards, because they refuse to take a position for fear of incurring the anger of the guilty ones. This kind of cowardice is anathema to leadership,” the feisty senator said.

“Leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by being friends with everybody – corrupt or not – is not a leader,” Santiago said. “This is the test I want the people to apply, as the 2016 elections approach. Apply the test of leadership among the candidates.”

ONE day, in the early 1970’s, a young couple in the Sta.Ana District of Davao City searched for their 2-year old only son who was missing with a “yaya” whom they hired a few days earlier. The police found and arrested the “yaya” later but the child was nowhere. She was asking for money for the return of the child whom she claimed was left somewhere. A few days later, the missing son was found dead in box in the attic of the couple’s house. The “yaya” stuffed him there and left him dead while she was weaving a bizarre story that took the police even as far Davao Oriental in a futile, wild chase to recover the boy. The couple got me as their lawyer tobe the private prosecutor of the murder case against Belinda Lora, (I can’t forget her name). To make the story short, the “yaya”was eventually convicted and was sentenced to death (death penalty was not outlawed at that time.)

During one of my usual visits to the Maa City Jail where I had other detained clients, Belinda who was detained there and waiting to be shipped to Muntinlupa, Manila as a convicted prisoner requested the jail guards if she could talk to me. I agreed. I went to her cell. Although she recognized me as the lawyer who worked for her conviction,she pleaded for my help. She said she was remorseful and would not do it again,if only she could be given another chance. I merely listened and did not promise her anything but patted her hand re-assuringly. Finally, after I stood up to go for the exit, and my back was already turned, she made a last ditch appeal and in an pleading voice called out: “Pagmatulungan mo ako, Attorney, at makalabas ako dito, habang buhay kitang pagsilbihan na “yaya” ng mga anak mo!” (If you help me, Attorney, and I will be outof here, I will forever serve you as “yaya” of your children!”) My God, I told myself. I stood there and froze for a few moments! I could not believe what I was hearing. Wow, yes unbelievable but true! I tell you,law practice is exciting and unforgettable.

This is actually a sequel to my previous article. When I wrote sometime the article “ I WILL KILL YOU” and wondered why people are fascinated and supportive of “quick justice” and opined that perhaps, our justice system is flawed and to blame, I got several feedbacks asking if I could also write about this some more.

Being a lawyer and in law practice for many years before joining public service, I am a bit hesitant to write about the present state of affairs of our justice system as there are many others who are still there, spending their whole lives in the practice of law and who are more updated on this.

Nonetheless,I’ll mention two factors why many of us do not usually go to court to seek justice.

First,going to court is expensive. Hence, those who have rights to protect or grievances to redress must first think twice simply because of the money cost. “Equal justice for all” is not always that true in reality. Justice of those who can afford is a world different from justice of the poor. The latter does not stand a good chance. One who can afford stays out of jail as he can post a bail bond for his temporary liberty? The poor, still presumed innocent, rots in jail in the meantime unable to put up bond while his case endlessly drags. Then, one needs a hired lawyer to handle his case. Yes, we have free legal aid law practitioners who selflessly give their time and talent (at times even their own personal money to poor clients). There’s also the government’s Citizens Legal Aid Office (CLAO) which gives free legal services to the poor. Courts can also appoint "de oficio counsel” to assist those who come to court without lawyers. But their service is just a drop in the bucket. And, poor litigants, even in their unenviable situation, expect-and insist -- that their rights (which are perhaps their only prized possessions in the world) be amply protected.

This reminds me of another unforgettable story.

I remember one day about 30 years or so ago, when the late Judge ALFREDO CUSI of the then Court of First Instance (now regional trialcourt) appointed me in open court as “de oficio counsel” (court-appointed lawyer, usually without pay) to assist a poor, detained prisoner accused of a high crime. Judge Cusi’s voice boomed in open court informing the still handcuffed accused: “I will appoint Atty. Dureza, one of the best practicing lawyers to handle the trial for you. Do you agree?”(The court interpreter went into action.) We waited for the man’s reply but there was silence. The poor guy at first sheepishly looked around as I stood up in spanking coat and tie ready to volunteer and do legal combat for him. But he rejected me outright by saying (in Tagalog): “Your Honor, murder po ang kaso ko.

Puede kaya hindi practisan yung kaso ko. Kasi sabi po ninyo Your Honor, “practicing” at “trial” lawyer lang po sya. Huwag lang sana sya. “Oooops, after hearing him, I slumped back on the bench feeling rejected. He was really dead serious. He was not even impressed when Judge Cusi told him that I was a bar topnotcher. Finally, he agreed to accept me only after the judge painstakingly explained to him that being a “practising lawyer” did not mean that I was just practising on his case and that “going to trial” had nothing to do with being in “trial and error”.

To this day, when I am asked, “law practice pa kayo, Attorney’” (Are you practising law, Attorney?”) I always remember that story and I always answer: “Tapos na ako practising. Tutuhanan na ako ngayon” (I’m done

>>>DUREZA....turn to P/7

BUSINESS

March 10 - 16, 2014

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P208M koleksiyon ng BOSS sa Batangas City Ni RONNA ENDAYA CONTRERAS

BATANGAS City — Umabot sa P208 milyon ang kabuuang halaga na business taxes at regulatory fees ang nakolekta ng pamahalaang lunsod mula sa mga bago at renewal ng business permits noong Enero 2014, mataas ng P8-milyon kumpara noong kaparehong panahon noong isang taon na umabot lamang sa P199 milyon.

Ang bilang naman ng mga establisimyento na nagpatala sa bagong Business One Stop Shop (BOSS) ay umabot sa 5,591 kung saan 159 ay mga

bagong negosyo at 5,432 naman ang renewal.

Sinabi ni City Treasurer Maria Teresa Geron na bagama’t mas marami ang nagpatalang mga negosyo noong 2013 (1,517), mas malaki naman ang naging koleksyon ngayong taon sa pamamagitan ng BOSS. Ang streamlining at computerization ng business registration na inilunsad noong Enero ng nakaraang taon ay bunga ng pagkakapili sa Batangas City bilang isa sa tatlong lunsod na benepisaryo ng Project Invest ng United States Agency for

AUCTION Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF BATANGAS FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION OFFICE OF THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF Lipa City SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE (EJF NO. 2014-0009) Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended by Act 4118 filed by RURAL BANK OF SAN LUIS (BATANGAS) INC., mortgagee/s, with postal address at Pres.

L. Katigbak Street, Lipa City, Batangas against ZENAIDA D. LANDICHO MARRIED TO RODOLFO LANDICHO mortgagor/s with postal address #2849 E. Zobel St. cor. JP Rizal St., Makati City to satisfy the morgagee indebtedness which as of May 31, 2013 amounts to SIX HUNDRED NINETEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO PESOS (Php619,562.00) including/ excluding, interest and other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in connection with this sale, secured by the mortgagee/s the undersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Lipa City, will sell at public on APRIL 14, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Maraouy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippines Currency, the described real property/ies and its improvements thereon, to wit: TRANSFER CERTIFICATE TITLE No. 101453 A parcel of land (Lot 2-E of the subdivision plan Psd-04-080584, being a portion of Lot 2, Blk4. Psd-04-027180, L.R.C. Record No. ), situated in the Brgy. Tambo, City of Lipa. Bounded on the NW., along line 1-2 by Lot 1 Blk- 4, Psd-04-027180; on the NE., along line 2-3 by Creek; on the SE., along line 3-4 by Lot 2-D of the subdivision plan; & on the SW., along line 4-1 by Road; Lot 1, Psd-04027180. x x x x containing an area of THIRTY THREE (33) SQUARE METERS. Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein above described and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

In the event that the Public Auction Sale should not take place on the said place on the said date, it shall be held on APRIL 21, 2014, without further notice and re-publication.

“All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on thr above stated time and place.”

International Development (USAID) na naglalayong gawing competitive ang mga local government units upang lumago ang ekonomiya.

Samantala, nagsagawa ng sarbey ang tanggapan ng Busines Permits and Licensing (BPLO) upang malaman kung naging epektibo ang naging serbisyo at pagpapatupad ng BOSS noong nakaraang Enero.

Base sa feedback form na sinagutan ng may 180 kliyente na pawang mga taxpayers, nabatid na malaki ang bahagdan na matindi ang sang-ayon na ang mga

karatula sa BOSS ay sapat sa pagbibigay ng mga tagubilin at direksiyon sa mga aplikante, gayundin, malinaw ang mga ito at madaling maunawaan.

Malaking porsyento rin ang sumagot na magalang ang mga tagabigay ng impormasyon at nagbigay ng wastong direksyon.

Hinggil sa serbisyo sa receiving counter, lumabas na ang makina sa pagbibigay ng numero ay madaling gamitin at ang sistema sa pagbibigay ng numero ay malinaw para sa mga aplikante.

AUCTION Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Fourth Judicial Region BRANCH 4 Paloocan West, Batangas City SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF NO. 14-1458

malinaw na mga tagubilin sa susunod na hakbang, binigyan ng pagkakataon na marebisa ang katumpakan ng kinuhang business permit ng mga aplikante at binigyan ng oportunidad na marebisa ang tamang kwenta ng “tax order of payment”.

At bilang pangkalahatang marka sa BOSS, ito ay nagbigay ng isang maginhawang kapaligiran para sa proseso ng pagrehistro ng kanilang mga negosyo at natapos ng maaga sa inasahang oras ang proseso ng kanilang permit.|

AUCTION REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES FOURTH JUDICAL REGION LIPA CITY OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF NO. 2014-0018

Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure under Act 3135 filled by WOMEN’S RURAL BANK, INC., with principal office and place of business at Carandang St., Poblacion, Rosario, BATANGAS against ALODIA S. MARASIGAN of legal age, Filipino, with postal address at Brgy. Banay-Banay 2, San Jose, Batangas to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which amount to TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE PESOS (Php 281,875.00) excluding penalties, charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned or his duly authorized deputy will sell at public auction on April 10, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter at the main entrance of Municipal Hall of San Jose, Batangas on the highest bidder, for cash or manager’s check and in the Philippines Currency, the following property/ies with all its improvements, to wit:

Upon extra-judical petion for sale under Act 3135, as amended

by Act 4118 feid by FERNANDO AIR BASE SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, INC., mortgage, with postal address at Fernando Air Base, Lipa City, against HELEN LORZANO, mortgagor, with postal address at Dizon Village, Tambo, Lipa City, as Attorney in Fact (AIF) of MACARIO LORZANO and RESTY LAYLO, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of February 2014, amounts to Php180,299.38 including/excluding, interest and other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in connection with this sale, secured by the undersigned Deputy Sheriff of the Regional Trial Court and Ex-Officio Sheriff, Lipa City, will sell at public on April 07, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Marauoy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the described real property at its improvements thereon, to wit:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE No. T-155564

TRANSFERM CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-174130

A parcel of land (Lot 973-C of the subdivision plan (LRA) Psd-408287, approved as nonsubdivision project, being a portion of Lot 973, Cadm-464-D San Jose Cadastre, LRC Record No. Free Patent), situated in the Barrio of Banay-Banay II, Municipality of San Jose, Province of Batangas, Island of Luzon. Bounded on the NE., points 2 to 3

by Lot 970, Cadm-464-D San Jose Cadastre; on the SE., points 3 to 4 by Lot 973-A; on the SW., points 1 by Lot 973-I (Road); and on the NW., points 1 to 2 by Lot 973-E all of the subd. plan.

Beginning at a point marked “1” on the plan being N. 8 deg. 23’E., 4460.80 m. from BLLM 1,Cadm464-D, San Jose Cadastre, THENCE XXXXX, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND THIRTY THREE (1033) SQUARE METERS, together with all the improvement thereon.

A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 5446-B-2-A-2-A 2 of the subdivision plan (LRA) Psd-403866 aprroved as non subdivision project, being a portion of Lot 5446-B-2-A-2, Psd-04-173639, LRC Cad. Rec. No. 1299 ), situated in barrio BanayBanay, Lipa City, island of Luzon. Bounded on the NE., points 5 to 6 by Lot 5453; & points 6 to 1 by Lot 54444, both of Cad-218,Lipa cad; on the SE., points 1 to 2 by Lot 5446-B-2-A-1, Psd- 041736396; on the SW., points 2 to 3 by Lot 5446-B2-B, Psd-4A-007625; and on the NW., points 3 to 5 by lot 5446-B-2-B of the subd. plan. X X X containing an area of FIVE HUNDERED (500) SQUARE METERS, more or less.

Prospective buyers or bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title of the above-described property/ies and the encumbrance thereon if any there be.

In the event of the Public Auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on April 17, 2014 without further notice.

“All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and place.”

Lipa City, February 13, 2014.

Nagkaisa din sa kasagutan ang mga kliyente sa pagsasabing ang lugar na hintayan ay kaaya-aya at maginhawa para sa mga aplikante (receiving counter and pay & claim).

Ang tagapagbigay ng serbisyo ay magalang, nagbigay ng malinaw na mga tagubilin sa susunod na hakbang at nagbigay ng tamang paliwanag sa dipagsunod sa proseso ng aplikante.

Sa pay & claim, ang mga tagapagbigay ng serbisyo ay magalang, nagbigay ng

Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title herein above describe and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

In the event that the Auction sale should not take place on said date it shall be held on April 14 ,2014, without further notice and re-publication.

“All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and place”.

Lipa City, March 07, 2014.

(SGD.) ARSENIOD LORZANO

(Sgd.) NOEL M. RAMOS Sheriff IV

Batangas City, February 27, 2014.

(Sgd.) JOVIC A. ATIENZA Sheriff IV

DULY RAFFLED: Note: Award of publication hereof in the “BALIKAS” drawn by raffle in accordance with law.

HON. NOEL M. LINDOG Executive Judge ROBERT RYAN H. ESMENDA Clerk of Court & Ex-officio Sheriff

WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove, deface or destroy this notice on or before the date of sale, UNDER PENALTY LAW. Pahayagang Balikas Batangas City February 24, March 3 & 10, 2014

Copy furnished: WOMEN’S RURAL BANK, INC. Alodia S. Marasigan Pahayagang Balikas Batangas City March 3 , 10, & 17, 2014

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES Company Registration Consulancy & Processing E-mail us: balikasonline@yahoo.com or call us: 0912.902.7373 or 0917.512.9477

DULY RAFFLED: Note: Award of publication hereof in the HON.NOEL M. LINDOG “BALIKAS” drawn by Executive Judge raffle in accordance with law.

ATTY. ROBERT RYAN H. ESMEDA Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio Sheriff COPY FURNISHED: All parties concerned WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove, deface or destroy this NOTICE on or before the date if sale, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW. Pahayagang Balikas Batangas City March 10, 17 & 24, 2014

Nicetas E. Escalona, Lifetimes Editor

LIFE TIMES Virgo (Ago 23-Set. 23) Kung may anak ka, alam mo ba kung sino ang mga kaibigan niya? Kung may partner ka, alam mo ba kung nasaan siya?

Hindi kailangang bantayan mo palagi, importanteng alam mo at nang walang gulatan Libra (Set. 24-Okt. 23) - Ang pag-ibig ay parang kidlat, magugulat ka na lang kapag nakita mo ang iyong hinahanap sa isang okasyon na muntik mo nang hindi puntahan.

Scorpio (Okt. 24-Nob. 22) - Importante ang honesty sa lahat ng relasyon. Ang nagsasabi ng tapat ay nagsasama ng maluwat, di ba? Lagi mong isaisip ang kasabihang iyon.

Sagittarius (Nob. 23-Dis. 21) - Kilala mo na ba kung sino ang karibal mo? Kung di pa, talasan mo ang iyong mata’t tenga dahil nandiyan lang siya sa harapan mo.

Capricorn (Dis. 22-Ene. 19) - Normal lang sa isang tao ang makaramdam ng panghihina ng loob. Dapat lang ay alam mo kung bakit. Lumabas ka, magsaya ka. Ibangon mo ang sarili.

Aquarius (Ene. 20 - Peb. 18) - Maayos ang kalusugan mo ngayon. Ipagpatuloy mo ang pagrerelax dahil ito ang nakakatulong sa iyo. Alam mo na kung paano labanan ang mga manggugulo sa buhay mo.|

<<<BLOOD RUSH.....from P/4

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Pisces (Peb. 19-Mar. 20) - Tandaan mong kung ano ang itinanim, iyon din ang aanihin. Ipagpatuloy mo ang paggawa ng mabuti dahil maganda ang magiging balik nito sa kabuhayan mo Aries (Mar. 21-Abril 19) - Lahat ng nangyayari ay may dahilan. Huwag manghihina ang iyong loob kung di mo nagugustuhan ang dumarating sa iyong buhay ngayon.

Taurus (Abril 20-Mayo 20) - Hindi mo siya dapat komprontahin sa mga nakikita mong mali sa kaniya.

Babalikan ka niya na wala kang pakialam sa buhay niya.

Tama siya, di ba? Huwag mong ipagpilitan ang gusto mo dahil mas lalayo ang kalooban niya sa iyo.

Gemini (Mayo 21-Hun. 21) - Kailangan mong maging mahinahon kapag may gusto kang ipilit sa iba. Hindi lahat ng kausap mo ay kilala ka. Maging sensitive ka sa mga maramdaming nakapaligid sa iyo Cancer (Hun. 22-Hul. 22) - Mas maligaya ka kung may kalayaan ka. Nakakatulong din ito sa kalusugan ng iyong isip at katawan. Wala kang problema kaya dapat ay samantalahin mo upang mas umasenso ka.

Leo (Hul. 23-Ago. 22) - Kung napatawad mo na ang nagkamali sa iyo, move on. Huwag mong pasanin ang sakit na dinanas mo noon dahil sa kaniya. Huwag ka na lang magpapa-ulit pa sa kaniya.

Notes on cynicism, labor, finance capital, and the art industry on the real economy’s exploitation of labor through production. The accumulation of profits through the acceleration of financial flows entails heightened forms of exploitation. This is why, under global capitalism, labor whether paid or wageless, must be contractualized, brutalized, and destroyed everywhere in the world. The few who profit from the virtualization of life and intelligence through accelerated financial flows cannot do so without destroying actual human

lives. Profit accumulation and the disposability of human lives are mutually dependent. Financial speculations on oil, weapons of mass destruction, and even speculations on insurances and debts incurred by people themselves are a few examples of the means to accelerate financial flows precisely through the promotion of war and human misery.

Meanwhile, an interesting twist is happening in Spain’s current art context that sheds light on the privatization of

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“Yaya” who murdered a boy with prac-tising. I'm into the real thing now!”). I always laugh quietly when I remember that.

Back go my point. Another factor why many no longer resort to the courts to seek justice is that there is, in reality no “speedy justice” to talk of. A case in the lower court can take years to litigate. For example, if a court hearing is held today, the next resetting date is two or three months later due to clogged court dockets. After more resetting, if you're lucky to present one witness, chances are you’re not done with him and resumption of his testimony is for the next available calendar. Not to mention postponements in between. If you are lucky,a simple case can be decided in 3 to 5 years. But that's not the end of it. The losing party goes on appeal to the next higher court. The length of time for an appeal takes as much time, if not more. Then going to the final arbiter, the Supreme Court takes almost forever. You’re lucky if you’re done in 10 years from the time the case is filed until final judgment. More often, it takes a lifetime. Sorry to say but the delay is embedded in the procedure and in the system.

There are other factors but I’m citing only two. These could be why many prefer to short circuit the justice system and go for swift and

quick justice. This could be why many applaud shortcuts. This could be why taking the law into one's hands to get justice is acceptable to many. No wonder killing outright the bad guys is popular nowadays.

But then, I remember the grieving and inconsolable Myrna, the mother of the 2year old murdered boy who would at times secretly mix with the crowd in the courthouse waiting for Belinda to pass by on her way to the trial of her case. Myrna would suddenly emerge from nowhere, grab her,and hit her, claw at her until pacified.

But Myrna and her husband agonized, suffered and patiently took the effort of bringing before the courts the “yaya”, Belinda Lora. They went through and withstood the ordeal of a long judicial procedure. Yes, they got justice in the end. Although Myrna’s words still ring loud in my ears and in my heart when she whispered to me after I told her of Belinda’s conviction: “Will it bring back my only son to me.?” Nonetheless, she felt vindicated that justice was done. And yes, she did not call out the Davao Death Squad to do it for her. Myrna did not wish some policeman pulled the trigger on Belinda. Instead, she trusted on the justice system, however flawed it might be.|

profits from finance and its impact on the consumption of “culture” and art production.

On September 1, 2012, the Spanish government imposed a 13% increase on cultural tax (from 8%-21%). Cultural producers and managers took the streets to protest what they believed was a sabotage on cultural production and consumption. It was only until a month ago that the Spanish government lowered the tax on culture to 10% , but only exclusive to the sale or purchase of art works.

No doubt, state intervention means to facilitate people’s consumption of culture through increased spending on art works.

But the command to buy and thus enjoy art this 2014 is addressed to a particular class. Spanish visual artist Paloma Polo, her own country’s representative to the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennial, makes a case for the connection between money laundering and art consumption. The super rich who grace international art fairs in Miami, Sau Paulo, Switzerland, London, and Mexico are given the opportunity to consume art works produced

by Spanish visual artists with lower tax rates this year. This means that money earned by the super rich through their engagement in finance capital can now be invested on art works (read: laundered) after all, the global market is by now too saturated for super profits from finance to be reinvested in production, much less, for workers benefits. The state, in this context, provides the proper, legal, and the finest investment for the loot of finance capitalists.

Super-profits from finance (a transformation of production into a symbol that entails not only the destruction of products but of bodies and lives) have to transform itself into something more culturally acceptable. The process necessitates the state to act as broker for abstracted crimes against humanity to be literally seen as concrete works of art. That

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the increase in spending on art products through lower taxes is encouraged and realized as actual transactions in the art industry proves that the rich are getting richer even in one of the most badly hit economies like Spain.

Finance capital, a species of capital that can only accelerate and accumulate without producing something new is an economic logic that is very well refracted in the dominant segment of the art field whose claim on art, as mentioned above, is no longer based on making of something new but in making do with what already exists.

Thus, cynicism in the art industry is not unique to itself. Rather, it is one that dovetails capitalist relations of production in our age.

The same can be said about the cynicism of socalled progressives who smoke out soft critiques against the current structural violence of capital which, at no other point in history has renders Karl Marx’s immiseration thesis ever so clearly, especially in view of the accumulation of super profits through finance capital: “But all methods of the production of surplus value are at the same time methods of accumulation, and every extension of accumulation becomes, conversely, a means for the development of these methods. It follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.” (5) One must add that the production of art/ knowledge has been, among others, a tool of the master to maintain its otherwise crumbling house.

Can the master’s tools be used to destroy the master’s house to overcome capital’s deadly inertia? The situation in which capital accumulates because workers’ wages must grow worse, is the same compelling reason that art, as a fatal weapon of class war, must always confront anew.|WWW.BULATLAT.COM

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A ROUND sticky rice ball cake with palm sugar syrup inside, rolled over grated coconut, is tasty and sweet. Made with mashed purple yam and glutinous rice, cooked in boiling water.

Flatten it with your palm and put a piece of palm sugar in the center.

Close the dough over the sugar and roll into a ball.

Bring water to boil and put in the dough balls.

When the balls float on the surface. Scoop up with a skimmer and drain.

Roll the hot and cooked glutinous rice balls into the grated coconut.

Ingredients: 1 Pack (400 grams) glutinous rice 1 Pack (454 grams) grated purple yam 1 Cup palm sugar 1/2 Cup water 1 Cup grated coconut 1/2 Teaspoon salt Baking liner

Cooking Tips : When mixing dough, add water if it is too dry.

Don’t refrigerate. They go hard.

If using frozen grated coconut, squeeze the juice before adding salt.

Frozen grated purple yam can be replaced by fresh purple sweet potato.|

Cooking Directions: In a mixing bowl, mix grated purple yam and glutinous rice.

Add water together to form a soft dough.

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<<<ENVIRONMENT....from P/3

Villar seeks protection of wetlands of international importance Sanctuary; the Naujan Lake National Park in Oriental Mindoro; and the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Cebu.

The Philippines has a number of wetlands, including the Candaba Swamp in Bulacan and

Pampanga, Laguna de Bay in Rizal and Laguna, Taal Lake in Batangas, Tayabas Bay in Quezon, Lake Buhi in Camarines Sur, Inabangan Coast in Bohol, Leyte Sab-A Basin in Leyte and Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte.

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>>> Meningo virus, umatake ulit; ikatlong biktima, patay!

>>Front Page Ronalina B. Lontoc, Special Project Editor

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UNSOD NG BATANGAS – Matagumpay na nasiagawa ang isang pagsasanay ukol sa advocacy reporting na nilahukan ng may 30 estudyanteng manunulat mula sa pampublikong paaralang pang-elementarya at high school sa lunsod.

Kabilang sa grupong ito ang mga estudyante mula sa elementarya at lima sa high school na mga miyembro ng Batangas Young Writers’ Club (BYWC) na pawang mag-aaral ay mula sa mga barangay ng Tabangao, Ambulong, Libjo, San Isidro at Malitam (TALIM).

Ang BYWC ay binuo ng Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. (PSPC) sa pamamagitan ng Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. (PSPI) sa pakikipagtulungan ng Batangas State University-College of Arts and Sciences (BSUCAS), Batangas Press Club (BPC) at ng Department of Education (DepEd) – Batangas City.

Sa taong ito, naging tema ng pagsasanay ang “Gearing up on Advocacy Reporting for Budding Journalists” (Wave 2) kung saan ang pagsasanay ay isinagawa sa Taclobo Club House, Brgy. San Isidro na pinangasiwaan ng mga guro ng BSU at mga miyembro ng BPC. Dumalo sa nabanggit na pagtitipon sina Gng Adela F. Aguila, officer-in-charge at asst. schools division superintendent ng DepEd Batangas City; Cesar Abaricia, Shell Companies communications manager; Olive

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ANG mga kasapi ng Batangas Young Writers Club na nagsanay muli sa advocacy reporting, kasama ang mga trainors mula sa Batangas State University, Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. at Batangas Press Club.| Mamisay, program manager ng Pilipinas Shell Foundation Inc. at Dean Cynthia Manalo ng BSU-CAS na kinatawan ni BSU president Dr. Nora Magnaye.

Sa panig ng Batangas Press Club, naging mga speaker-trainors sina Joenald Medina Rayos, publisher ng Pahayagang BALIKAS na tumalakas sa newspaper management; at Vicky Aclan Florendo ng Sunstar People’s Courier para sa ethics of the press.

Ilan pa sa tinalakas sa pagsasanay ang copyreading & headline writing, art of

interviewing, photography, editorial cartooning, feature writing at iba pa.

Hinikayat naman ni Abaricia ang mga kabataan na ipagpatuloy ang kanilang pangarap na maging mga manunulat at hangad nito na mabasa sa hinaharap ang mga artikulong likha ng mga batang manunulat.

Lubos ang pasasalamat ng mga mag-aaral at mga school paper advisers sa napakagandang proyektong ito ng PSFI at PSPC.| MELINDA R. LANDICHO, may ulat ni RONNA ENDAYA CONTRERAS

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Inter-Agency Summer Sports Festival, binuksan sa Batangas Prov’l Police Office

CAMP MIGUEL MALAVAR -- BINUKSAN kamakailan ang Inter Agency Summer Sports Festival ng mga kapulisan na ginanap sa Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO) nanilahukan ng iba’t ibang grupo ng kapulisan at iba pang peace officers mula sa iba’t ibang parte ng Batangas.

Kabilang sa mga lumahok ay mga delegado ng Provincial Head Quarters/ BPPO, 730th CG, SPOW, Philippine Air force, Bureau of Fire Protection, , 740th CG, SPOW, Philippine Air force, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Provincial Public Safety Company, Provincial Supports Unit, Batangas CPS, Lipa CPS, Tanauan CPS, 1st District, 2nd District, 3rd District at 4th District. Wala naman nakadalo mula sa Batangas Provincial Government at mula sa Regional Public Safety Batallion.

Ang unang bahagi ng nasabing programa ay nagsimula mga bandang anim at kalahati ng umaga kung saan ay nagkaroon ng parada kasama ang mga dumalong ahensya na mula sa Provincial Capitol hanggang sa BPPO. Ang ikalawang bahagi naman ng programa ay nagsimula sa pag-awit ng ating pambangsang awit. Ito ay sinundan ng panalanging pinamunuan ni Rev. Fr. Gerald Macalinao. Matapos ito ay sumunod naman ang pambungad na pananalita mula kay PSupt. Isagani Fetizanan, Deputy Provincial Director for Operation.

Pinamunuan naman ni Police Chief Inspector Marcelina Peralta ang pagpapakila sa mga ahensya na sinundan ng pagtataas ng mga banner kasama ang mga representative ng bawat ahensya.

Matapos iyon ay ipinakilala naman ang mga Muse ng mga ahensya.

Ipinakilala naman ni Police Senior Superintendent Omega Jireh Fidell, Provincial Director ang naging guest speaker sa nasabing aktibidad na si Jayvee Gayoso na dating PBA player sa kuponang Barangay Ginebra.

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sinundan ng isang intermission number mula sa mga piling myembro mula sa 730th CG, SPOW, Philippine Air Force. At sumunod na ang paggawad ng karangalan sa Best in Uniform at Muse of the Festival.

Ang guest speaker naman na si Jayvee Gayoso ang namuno sa Oath of Sportsmanship. Ito ay sinundan naman ng symbolic releasing of balloons at ang photo ops kasama ang guest speaker.

Sa ikatlong bahagi naman ng programa ay naganap ang “Palarong Pinoy”. Kabilang dito ang ang “sack race” kung saan ang nagwagi ay ang 730th CG, SPOW, Philippine Air Force. Sa larong kadang kadang, nanalo naman ang Provincial Public Safety Company; samantalang ang “water on bottle relay” ay pinagwagian ng Tanauan City Police Station at ang larong “tug of war” ay pinanalunan ng 730th CG, SPOW, Philippine Air Force at Tanauan CPS. Ang nasabing programa ay tumagal ng talong araw kung saan ang mga sumunod na araw ay inilaan sa mga ball games gaya ng volleyball at basketball.| PATRICIA KAMIL JAVIER AT JOAN HOLGADO

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Batangas PMSA holds annual operational planning

THROUGH Executive Order No. 2012-04 dated July 2012, the Provincial Multi-Sectoral Alliance (PMSA) headed by Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto was established to strengthen and sustain the tuberculosis (TB) program that aims to eradicate tuberculosis in the province.

PMSA is composed of government and non-government agencies including the academe and industries within Batangas province as the technical working group. One of its functions is developing policies for the provincial management and implementation of TB care according to international standards and national TB program for comprehensive, province-wide, multi-sectoral, interagency and community-based approach.

The annual operational planning held at Hotel Pontefino, Batangas City had Atty.

Vicky Antique, Executive Assistant to the Governor, as the convenor. This major activity reviewed the implementation of the identified TB programs being undertaken by the different government and private partners. Its main output were the measurable plans for 2014 that will ensure effective implementation of TB programs in the province.

The 2-day planning workshop focused on the review of the vision and mission of PMSA as well as the confirmation of the identified strategies to intensify the TB awareness program, case finding and case holding of TB patients. It was highlighted by the presentation of the accomplishment of each technical working group.

The academe group - LPU, GGC, UB and DepEd - in charge of capacity building and social mobilization gave emphasis on TB in the workplace and of students. The proposed activities include training of health personnel in the TB program for dissemination within the institution, as well as training of nursing students who will then implement the TB awareness program in the community. The committee on resource mobilization proposed fund raising activities to support the programs and activities of the alliance.

The efforts of PMSA were recently recognized by the Department of Health and was given plaque of recognition for its unwavering commitment and contribution to the implementation of the National Tuberculosis Program.|

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