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Page 10 GREETINGS. Vice Mayor Rody Duterte extends his greetings to all muslims in the city during the celebration of Ramadhan Kareem through a huge billboard infront of Sangguniang Panlungsod building yesterday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

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Davao’s poor record vs trafficking bared

By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro

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EGioNAl Prosecutor Antonio B. Arellano bared that Davao region has a poor record in the conviction of people accused of trafficking in persons (TiP),adding that from 2003 to 2010, only three individuals were convicted in violation of Republic Act 9208 or the anti-trafficking in persons act.

Arellano signed a Memorandum of Agreement with members of the Regional inter-Agency Council against

Trafficking-integrated Action Network—Davao international Airport (RiACTioN-DiA) last July 19 at the DiA. He said the Philippines in general, has a poor conviction record, with only 23 violators convicted from 2005 to 2009.

He added that the country did poorly as evaluated by the United States government under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The Philippines belongs to

category two among three categories in terms of performance in curbing TiP. listed under category two are countries that are trying to comply with the law but records would show that they are not very successful, according to Arellano.

He admitted that upon the discretion of the US government, the Philippines might be losing about 300 million dollars in financial assistance from the

US if the former does not improve its performance.

Because of the Philippines’ low rate of conviction by US measurement, he said the Department of Justice has enhanced its program.

“We are mandated by the Secretary of Justice to enhance efforts in anti-TiP campaigns in major regions classified as exit and entry centers, which include Region 11 because of

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sciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 11, said earlier in a television interview with TV5, he did not prioritize Davao City on the stand of Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte against mining.

Arreza also denied a report by a national newspaper quoting him as saying that Davao City has been removed from the list of mining areas.

He said he would like to correct the report that he removed Davao from mining, adding that right now it is not a priority

area.

However, he said MGB will still process should there be applications for mining operations in Marilog and Paquibato districts of Davao City.

He also bared that smallscale miners may encounter dif-

Mining

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MGB: Davao City not priority due to stand of the Dutertes

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government official said Thursday Davao City remains in the list of areas open for mining, but it is not a priority area because of the strong opposition of the city government.

Regional director Edilberto Arreza, of the Mines and Geo-

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Charity wards phase-out probed

By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro

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MiD reports that charity wards will be phased-out by 2013 as announced by officials of the Department of Health, Bayan Muna partylist representative Teddy Casiño authored recently House Resolution 2588 to investigate the matter.

Citing DoH announcement that “full coverage” PhilHealth benefits will be utilized to make up for charity wards, the resolution is directing the House Committee on Health to investigate the plan.

Casiño’s initiative is out of consideration for the poor state of health care in the country and the limited reach of PhilHealth.

He said even government sponsored PhilHealth members are forced to shell out money from their

own pockets due to limited packages and coverage of PhilHealth, notwithstanding the lack of supplies, medicines, and equipment in government hospitals.

Doctor Jean Suzanne A. lindo said phasing out charity wards means income generation for the ones who will take over this service, which will lead to privatization of public hospitals.

“We, private doctors, provide charity programs aside from wards, such as cataract missions and other community-based health programs that help develop skills of health workers and advocates,” she said.

She said that the government should all the more provide charity programs as it has an obli-

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DOST calls on college scholars

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HE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) 11 is calling all regular junior college students from Davao region to avail of its scholarship, Maria Victoria i. Dado, science research specialist DoST 11 said Friday.

She said this scholarship is intended for regular third year students, which is different from the scholarship DoST offers for first year college students.

Qualified applicants will be awarded tuition fees of not more than P6,000 per semester, book and uniform allowances, monthly stipend and insurance.

The DoST, will be giving out scholarships for students nationwide who are pursuing science and technology (S&T) fields of study in basic sciences, engineering, and other applied sciences and science teaching under two scholarship programs.

The two scholarship programs are the one under the S&T Scholarship Act of 1994 or Republic Act No. 7687, which awards scholarship to talented and deserving students coming from poor families and the DoST-SEi Merit Scholarship, which is granted to deserving students regardless of the family’s socio-economic status.

To qualify for the scholarship programs, a student must be a natu-

ral-born Filipino citizen currently enrolled in any State College and University on Higher Education Center of Excellence/ Development under any of the identified priority S&T fields of study.

He or she should be a regular third year college student during the Academic 2012-2013 and have a General Weighted Average (GWA) of 83% or higher and does not have a failing grade during the first year and second year.

Also, a student should not be a recipient of any other government or private scholarship except supplementary scholarship which is administered by the university; has no pending application as immigrant to any foreign country; and must be a resident of the municipality in the last four years.

Application forms can be downloaded online thru www.sei.dost.gov.ph and www.science-scholarships.ph or one may visit DoST regional office at corners Dumanlas-Friendship Roads, Bajada, Davao City and Provincial Science and Technology Centers in Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley Province, Davao oriental, and Davao del Norte.

Deadline for application is August 24, 2012 while the examination date is on September 22, 2012. [LORIE A. CASCARO]

NEWEST. Francisco Y. Torno III, HTC marketing communications manager, introduces the newest HTC smartphones and their features during the launching of HTC One S and HTC Desire on Friday at Gaisano Mall of Davao. [LEAN DAVAL, JR.]

International sports brand to tap the Davao market R

oxy, a globally distributed brand of outdoor sports apparel and accessories, mostly for board sports such as surfing and skimboarding, will tap the Davao market this year.

This, according to Dino Gilladoga, brand manager of Roxy, under the Primer Group of Companies, which is Roxy’s sole distributer among other imported brands in the Philippines.

“We see a lot of potential here in Davao,” Gilladoga said during his recent meeting with local media at SM City Davao.

Roxy has only two stores in the Philippines, one at Robinsons in Ermita, Manila; and the other in SM Davao (Annex).

Also with Chinky De Guzman, brand associate, Gilladoga said they expect better from their store in Davao as it is bigger with a

61-square meter area than the one in Manila which has only 46 square meters.

Roxy is a brand of Quiksilver, inc., the world’s leading outdoor sports lifestyle company, which designs, produces and distributes a diversified mix of branded apparel, winter sports equipment, footwear, accessories and related products.

The company’s apparel and footwear brands “represent a casual lifestyle for young-minded people that connect with its board riding culture and heritage.”

Gilladoga said having a number of beaches and other water sports activities such as surfing, skimboarding, wakeboarding and water rafting, the Davao region is a potential market for Roxy and Quiksilver.

The Primer Group of Companies will conduct various activities in Davao City

and in some provinces in the region where there are water sports available.

Maria Estrella H. Sanchez, Primer’s marketing and communications officer for Mindanao, said the company will hold a wakeboarding fest at the Deca Wakeboard Park, Mintal, Davao City in August.

Carrying the Roxy brand, the company is also planning to hold surfing lessons and competitions in Dahican, Mati City in Davao oriental, probably by october, according to Michelle Alcomendras-Deluao, Primer’s area sales manager.

Gilladoga mentioned that the first Roxy Siargao

international Women’s Surfing Cup was held in

Siargao, Surigao del Norte last May with a Filipina champion, Siargaonon

surfer Nilvie Blancada.

He said Roxy, a female

Karapatan: PNoy 1st honor in HRVs

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UMAN rights defender Karapatan Southern Mindanao said President Benigno Aquino iii is the country’s top perpetrator of human rights violations (HRV).

The group has awarded Aquino a symbolic ‘first honor’ medal, saying that since his term began, cases of extrajudicial killings and other HRVs continued to rise while victims have been denied justice. in Southern Mindanao alone, Karapatan said there were 60 HRV cases with

4,618 individual victims, 943 of whom were children from January to June this year.

From June 30, 2010 to June 30, 2012, Karapatan recorded 318 HRV cases with 22,727 individuals and 2,366 families in the region.

Among the forms of HRVs, threat/harassment or intimidation had the highest number of victims with 10,341 individuals and 996 families; followed by demolition of illegal setllers’ houses the past two years.

The group also cited alleged extrajudicial killings in Davao. ay 9, the group said.

Karapatan is demanding for the release of all political prisoners through General, Unconditional, and omnibus Amnesty and ex-

pedition of cases of all prisoners by adding courts in Compostela Valley; improvement of jail facilities and services; additional jail budget; and, abolition of oplan Bayanihan.[Lorie Ann A. Cascaro]

brand, was introduced in 1990 by Allan Green, the founder of Quiksilver in Australia, who created board shorts for girls (as Quiksilver is primarily designed for boys) and named the brand after his daughter, Roxy.

He added that Roxy’s logo is basically two Quiksilver logos formed into a heart shape.

Further, the Primer said it is now realizing its vision to become the leader in the global distribution and innovation of premium goods and services across the Asian region. its retail authority has grown to over 80 premium brands, 100 free-standing concept stores and over 600 consignment doors in the Asian region after 25 years of continuous and steady growth. [Lorie Ann A. Cascaro]

Experts tapped to hunt escaped crocodile

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xPERTS from the Davao City-based Philippine Crocodile Rescue and Breeding Center (PCRBC) have been tapped to help local rescue workers recapture an eight-feet long crocodile. it escaped last Saturday from Kidapawan City’s mini-zoo at landmark, one of the locality’s tourist destinations.

Psalmer Bernalte, of the Kidapawan City Emergency Response Unit, said

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PWD rights thru sticker power T

he passing jeepneys barely notice the man standing in the shade of a tree along Magallanes Street here, even if he uses his crutch to grab their attention.

But he is not trying to get a ride. he is merely offering jeepney drivers some stickers to remind them and other passengers of the rights of commuters who are persons with disability (PWDs).

Meet 23-year-old Vichard Aliño, a person with orthopedic impairment, who prowls the streets of Davao during the day on a mission to empower PWDs. Aliño, whose disability was the result of poliomyelitis, is a member of Davao City’s Association of Differently Abled Persons (ADAP), which is tasked to offer PWD rights stickers to jeepney drivers. The stickers remind drivers of the 20 percent fare

discount PWD passengers are entitled to under Republic Act 7442, otherwise known as the Magna Carta for Persons with Disability.

The stickers also aim to inform other passengers to vacate the front seat for PWD commuters as required by Batas Pambansa 344, also known as the Accessibility Law. Jeepneys’ sticker culture ADAP thought of using stickers for its advocacy, given how these have been part of the history of the public jeepneys in the country.

From sexist images and quotes, religious sayings and wittily crafted reminders, these colorful stickers adorn every possible section inside the jeepney.

But for ADAP, these stickers are not just decorative items but weapons of mass education as well as a source of funds.

Section 2 of BP 344 states that the “prominent display of posters or stickers shall be used to generate public awareness of the rights of PWDs and foster understanding of their special needs” in public conveyances and devices.

The law penalizes discrimination against PWDs “in the carriage or transportation of passengers.” The law’s implementing rules and regulations require jeepneys to designate at least two seats for PWDs, preferably in front.

Other commuters may use the front seats but have to yield them to incoming PWD passengers.

The fare discount also applies to public railways such as the Light Rail Transit, Metro Rail Transit, Philippine National Railways and other similar infrastructure that will be built, established and operated

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Malanyaon stops small-scale mining S

MAll-scale miners in Sitio Bangol in the town of Tarragona, Davao oriental will have to look for other sites to mine as Davao oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon issued a cease and desist order against all forms and methods of small-scale mining in the area shortly before the weekend.

Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer Dante Ganir said in a statement that the provincial government informed the more than one thousand miners in the area to stop their mining activities immediately.

Small-scale miners have been given until Thursday this week, July 26, 2012, to haul all their equipments and ore that have been harvested out of the area, lest the government force them out after the said date.

The order stemmed from the Executive order No. 12, which was issued

by Governor Malanyaon last July 17 after consultation with the police, the military

and the local officials.

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau 11 under Edilberto Arreza first issued a cease and desist order lasy June 19 on all small-scale mining operations in the tri-boundaries of Mati City, Manay and Tarragona in particular the area where the tenement of the oro East Mining Company, inc. is located.

The order came about after more than a thousand gold diggers reportedly started trooping in the area searching for the elusive gold.

Mati City Mayor Michelle Rabat also formed a task force to look into the matter after the village chief of Don Salvador lopez reported to her that almost ten thousand small-scale miners are now in the area.

Rabat’s Executive order No. 60-02-12 was issued on Thursday, July 5, and calls for the creation of a factfinding team composed of officials from the city environment office, city engineers, city health, city plan-

ning, and the city disaster risk reduction management.

The task force was tasked to go to the area within ten days and come up with an official report

and submit the same to the mayor not later than July 24.

MGB 11 director Edilberto Arreza said the goldrush area is located in Barangay Tubaon, Tarragona.

Kicker: Business Feature Coco coir and a miner’s family

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ETWEEN gold and coco coir, a housewife here testifies the latter makes them eat, and sends her child to school.

Michelle luguib, mother of 2 and a wife of a small-scale miner said her humble earning from weaving coco-twine has augmented the meager income of her husband from the mines.

Admittedly though, she said mining is still their main source of income but what supports most of their daily and basic needs and her child’s schooling is her own livelihood.

“With my own earning from our coco-twine production, my husband who stays in the mining site for two weeks or a month, does not have to worry anymore if we still have something to eat or we still support our daily needs,” luguib said.

Coco-twine is made from winding together coco fibers, which are considered waste from coco peat production. local traders here consolidate both coco peat and coco-twine for export market mostly in China.

While the Province of Davao oriental is considered as the coconut capital of Mindanao, the local government here sees the crop as the “tree of money.”

Michael Sibbaluca, technical adviser to the City mayor said “coconut has been dubbed as the tree of life since from its roots to the tips of its leaves can be used to sustain life, but more than that, here in our city and in Davao oriental we see it as an entire source of viable income that’s why we call it the “tree of money.” (ShERwIN B. MANuAL/ DAMRDP)

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THE ECONOMY

Stat Watch

1. Gross National Income Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

3.5% 4th Qtr 2011

2. Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

3.7% 4th Qtr 2011 USD 3,342 Million Nov 2011 USD 4,985 Million Nov 2011 USD -1,643 Million Nov 2011 USD -114 Million Dec 2011 P4,442,355 Million Nov 2011

3. Exports 1/ 4. Imports 1/ 5. Trade Balance 6. Balance of Payments 2/ 7. Broad Money Liabilities 8. Interest Rates 4/

4.71% Oct 2011 P128,745 Million Nov 2011 P 4,898 Billion Oct 2011

9. National Government Revenues 10. National government outstanding debt 11. Peso per US $ 5/

P 43.65 Dec 2011

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

3,999.7 Sept 2011

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

128.1 Jan 2012

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

3.9 Jan 2012

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

3.4 Dec 2011

16. Visitor Arrivals

284,040 Sept 2011

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

19.1% Oct 2011

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

6.4% Oct 2011

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BFAR wants to limit tuna catch A

S an initial step to arrest declining tuna catches, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has urged Filipino fishing companies to agree to a 165,000-metric ton (MT) annual catch ceiling and eventually the reduction of fish catching vessels across the country.

The figure represents the 2011 tuna landings throughout the country

by Filipino fishing vessels operating in Philippine waters and did not include imported frozen tunas from Papua New Guinea and indonesia.

At the General Santos City Fish Port Complex alone, data revealed that total fish landing in the city last year was at 112,890.82 MT, majority of them tuna or tunalike species. it included the combined 85.94 MT

of frozen tuna imported from abroad and those shipped from Manila for the city’s six canning factories.

This city has been acknowledged as the country’s “Tuna Capital,” which has been generating an average of at least US$250 million in revenues from the tuna industry over the last five years.

Benjamin Tabios, BFAR assistant director, backed a General Santos City tuna fishing magnate that majority of the 162 purse seine tuna catchers will have to be decommissioned to keep the industry afloat. “(The assessment) is fairly correct that there must be a reduction of fishing fleet but there should also be proportionate reduction in gross catch,” Tabios said in a forum organized by Green-

peace on Thursday here.

Tabios was referring to an earlier statement by former Socsksargen Federation of Fishing and Allied industries president Marfenio Tan, who believes reducing the purse seine tuna catching vessels from General Santos from 162 to 50 will help sustain the industry.

The tuna industry has been reeling from declining catch and increasing production costs over the last three years.

Tabios likewise said the tuna food chain must also be managed in order for the tuna stocks to replenish. He said they were encouraged by the three-month ban on sardine fishing early this year as tuna catches from municipal waters also improved during the period of the ban. (EDwIN G. ESPEJO/MINDANEwS CONtRIButOR)

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011) Month

2011

2010

2009

Average December November October September August July June May April March

43.31 43.64 43.27 43.45 43.02 42.42 42.81 43.37 43.13 43.24 43.52

45.11 43.95 43.49 43.44 44.31 45.18 46.32 46.30 45.60 44.63 45.74

47.637 46.421

February

43.70

46.31

January

44.17

46.03

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47.032 46.851 48.139

48.161 48.146 47.905 47.524 48.217

48.458 47.585 47.207

PHL eyes handline tuna fishing in Palau waters

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HiliPPiNE production of sashimi-grade tuna, which is caught using the traditional hook and line fishing method, would get a boost once Palau open its waters to Filipino handline fishermen. organizers of the annual national tuna congress here made this pronouncement ahead of the national tuna congress as local industry players appeared upbeat over the prospects of the industry.

Now on its 14th year, the congress will carry the theme “opening New Grounds and Strengthening Commitments: A Resilient Tuna industry” and will be held on September 6-7.

Rene M. Barrion, chairman of the congress’ program and resolutions committee, disclosed that talks are going on for the entry of handline operators in the Pacific island nation through a joint-venture agreement.

“The impending joint-venture agreement with Palau will allow the possible entry of 100 [Philippine] handline boats to fish in Palau waters,” he said.

John Heitz, export manager of Gensan Aqua Traders, welcomed the possible foray of Filipino handline fishermen in Palau.

“That’s good if it will happen,” he said, adding that this has been in the works for a long time already.

Heitz said that barriers in Palau such as customs and onshore investment requirement have been the problem in making it a reality.

The waters of Palau are about 24 hours by boat from this city, he said.

Handline fishing is considered a traditional method to catch large mature tuna marketed in fresh/chilled form mainly to Japan and the United States. it is one of the two major tuna fishing sectors in the local industry, the other one being the purse seine fishing that supplies the requirements of the canneries.

Six of the seven tuna canneries are based in this city, dubbed the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines.” local purse seine operators also appeared bullish since after the two-year ban on purse seine fishing that ended last December in parts of the Pacific ocean, the Philippines have been given limited access in the rich tuna fishing ground.

Barrion said the opening of high seas Pocket 1 in the Pacific ocean is a positive development in the Philippine tuna industry that gives the local industry players a reason to be upbeat.

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) allowed 36 Philippine vessels to fish in that area until February 2013.

The Philippines is among the 25 member countries of WCPFC, which regulates migratory fish stocks such as big-eye and yellow-fin tuna in the Pacific.

President Benigno C. Aquino iii is expected to be the keynote speaker of the annual tuna congress during the opening day.

Barrion said the issues that will be tackled during the two-day congress include the prospects of tuna in the global halal food industry and prospects for partnership with the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) countries.

The PNA countries are the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon islands, and Tuvalu. (BONG S. SARMIENtO/MINDANEwS)

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Kia to launch Optima in August

By Neil Bravo

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HoSE waiting for the coming of Kia’s newest sedan—the Kia optima-- should wait no longer.

EDGE Davao Motoring checked with Columbian Autocar’s Boying Soriano and he confirmed it himself—the Kia optima is coming to the Philippines on August.

Columbian Autocar is the authorized distributor of Kia Motors in the country.

Soriano said the Kia optima will be launched during the 4th Philippine international Motor Show in August easily making it the car to look forward to when the biggest motor show unfolds.

There will be only one

variant to be released initially: a 2.4-liter model with a six-speed, paddle-shift-equipped automatic gearbox that’ll come with 18-inch alloy wheels, leather seats, dual airbags, fully automatic air-conditioning system, keyless entry, engine start/stop button, and panoramic sunroof.

Now, to the next question: How much will the optima cost with all that kit? The answer: P1.48 million.

Are you now itching to see the car in the metal at the 2012 PIMS? The car will be in Kia Davao Showroom shortly after the PiMS.

Soriano says it will now be up to Kia Davao through AB&T Resources inc. to set the official launch of the

optima. Tobi Ang, AB&T VP for operations, should be making the announcement soon.

Chevrolet Care Clinic extended to Aug. 15

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o coincide with the grand opening of the Chevrolet Davao service center, Chevrolet Philippines and The Covenant Car Company inc., is extending the Chevy Car Clinic for Davao to August 15.

Chevrolet customers can have their vehicles serviced at Chevrolet Davao during this time and they will be treated to up to 50% discount on parts and accessories, up to 20% discount on service labor, a free 16 point vital systems checkup and vehicle diagnostics and servicing supervised by Chevrolet Philippines’ own technical expert Mr. Jose Miguel Bollozos.

The Chevy Care Clinic was originally set July 13 to 19 but Chevrolet Davao has decided to extend it until Aug. 15 to accommodate more customers.

Chevrolet continues to strengthen its market presence in Davao with the proud opening of the brand new Chevrolet Service Center along J.P. laurel Ave in lanang, Davao City.located within a few meters from the Chevrolet Davao showroom, the state of the art service center boasts of the latest diagnostic equipment, service tools and vehicle repair and maintenance facilities.

A new and modernly designed customer reception and lounge sporting the new global Chevy look further reinforces Chevrolet Davao’s commitment in providing an outstanding customer experience to every Chevrolet client.

Chevrolet Davao is owned and operated by AB&T Resources inc., the authorized Chevrolet ve-

hicle sales and aftersales dealer for the Davao Region. At the company’s helm are Mr. Edgar Ang, President; and Mr. Tobi Ang, Vice President for operations.

With the opening of this new service center, Chevrolet Davao intends to set the benchmark for automotive aftersales excellence in Davao. “We are firm in our commitment to reinvigorate the passion for Chevrolet in Davao, and the opening of our new service center aims to build our customers’ trust and confidence in our aftersales services with our modern facility and highly competent aftersales personnel” says Mr. Tobi Ang, VP for operations of AB&T Resources inc.

“Chevrolet Philippines congratulates Chevrolet Davao in the grand opening of its new service center. We are exhilarated with the developments that are taking place in Davao and we are confident that, as we continue working together with AB&T Resources inc, Chevrolet will continue to flourish in the Davao market” said Ms. Rose Dimalanta, SVP for National Aftersales, Chevrolet Philippines.

The recent grand opening of the Chevrolet Davao service center was attended by friends from the local media, valued Chevrolet clients and representatives from The Covenant Car Company inc. – Chevrolet Philippines namely Ms. Rose Dimalanta, Mr. litolandicho and Mr. Migs Bollozos from the National Aftersales Group; Mr. Glenn Balane and Mr. Chris lee yu from the Business Development Group.

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london’s Olympic fog AnAlysis

By John LLoyd

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EDITORIAL

Plunder and justice

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iliPiNoS who care about how justice is being dispensed in this country are happy that some high-profile cases, such as those filed against alleged big-time grafters, are at last moving. in the news last week was the raffling off to the First Division of the Sandiganbayan of the plunder case against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and several other ranking officials of her administration for the alleged misuse of P366 million in Philippine Charity Sweepstakes office (PCSo) funds. it was the first plunder case against the detained former President, who is also facing two counts of graft and one count of breach of ethics in the Sandiganbayan in connection with the overpriced $329-million National Broadband Network deal with the Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE Corp.

Co-accused in the plunder case are former PCSo chair Sergio Valencia, former general manager Rosario Uriarte and PCSo boardmembers Manuel Morato, Jose Taruc V, Raymundo Roquero and Ma. Fatima Valdes; former PCSo budget and accounts manager Benigno Aguas, former Commission on Audit chair Reynaldo Villar and former intelligence and confidential fund audit unit head Nilda Plaras.

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The ombudsman, who forwarded the case to the Sandiganbayan, said that from January 2008 to June 2010, the accused diverted funds from the PCSo’s operating budget to the confidential or intelligence fund, which could be withdrawn or accessed any time with few restrictions.

Also last week, the graft case against Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, who has started campaigning for senator under the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), and seven other Cebu officials over the purchase of P99 million worth of land that was mostly underwater was raffled off to fhe Sandiganbayan’s Second Division.

As we earlier said in this space, the filing of the cases is good for two reasons. one, it will be a chance for the accused to clear themselves. Two, it will return the trust and confidence of the people in our country’s justice system.

More importantly though, it will mete justice to the guilty in fairness to the people, and fourth, it will, hopefully, discourage people in government against stealing funds that rightly belong to the Filipino people.

Lastly, it will scare the wits out of government officials thinking of stealing the people’s money.

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HE scenes of wild British rejoicing in July 2005, when it was announced london would host the 2012 olympics, have faded and been replaced by visions of doom. once the games begin, the sheer beauty of the sports will take over, but for now, most media attention is given over to threats, to chaos, to failure.

The day london celebrated in 2005, four British islamist terrorists killed 52 people in four different bombs attacks, three on the metro system, one on a bus. Seven years later, the shadow still hangs heavy. The security arrangements include sharpshooters, missiles and, most recently, 3,500 soldiers called in because the security provider, G4S, was found last week to have failed to deliver the necessary number of trained guards.

Britain does grumbling as well as any country: it’s hard to find any londoner who does not use the word “chaos” to encapsulate what he or she thinks will happen to london’s traffic and public transport from late July through August. Residents have been encouraged in that view by signs everywhere on the metro warning that “this station will be very busy during the olympics.”

There is also a class-war dimension – which is never far from British debates.

Special traffic lanes are being created down which ViPs will be whisked to and from the stadiums, in limousines lent by BMW. “What about the rest of us?” is the response of choice to that piece of obliging the noblesse. in polls, most non-londoners think the olympics won’t benefit them, with the Scots and the Welsh especially sure of that (though they’re looking forward to the games themselves). in a survey done last week by Reuters, most economists agreed that the UK economy might get a temporary boost but no lasting benefits and would run the olympics at a loss, as Athens did in 2004. Even in london, there’s a dispute about how far the vast works undertaken in East london to build the stadiums and the olympic village will benefit the poor borough where they’ve been sited, one third of whose inhabitants are immigrants, many recent arrivals and many quite poor.

Nothing the olympics touches seems to be an unambiguous triumph. The clothing company Ralph lauren has been criticized left and right for having the olympic uniforms it made for the U.S. team produced in China. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader, opined over the weekend that they should all be burned and American-made garments put in their place. And the olympic curse doesn’t just apply to the current iteration. The Winter olympics in Salt lake City in 2002 were said to have been salvaged by Mitt Romney, who took charge of its organizing committee when it was mired in a bribery scandal. Now, the alliances he made in that project – and some of those associates are contributing heavily to his presidential campaign – are alleged to be of a doubtful ethical standard.

The olympics are drawn into every possible national controversy because they’ve become such a huge national event – socially, politically and economically. They’re now tied to national prestige and status, a means by which nations can prove themselves and show off their ability to compete on the world stage. As a result, they’ve become as much a possible terrorist target as was the World Trade Center. The WTC epitomized Western capitalism; the olympics epitomize Western pride and corporate boosterism.

The original olympic Games lasted well over a thousand years, from about 800 BC to the mid-third century AD (and perhaps longer). They were part of a four-year cycle of religious festivals in honor of the God of Gods, Zeus, which took place in Delphi, Nemea, and Corinth with the climax in olympia, on the Peloponnese peninsula in western Greece. “olympick” games – so spelled and socalled in homage to the classical games, descriptions of which had been preserved in Greek and Roman texts – were resurrected in England in the early 17th century, first of all in the Cotswolds, near oxford. These were crude affairs, with bear baiting, pole-tossing and shin-kicking as central events. There was even a competition as to which contestant could make the ugliest grimace. Still held, they were popular and lively, if not chaotic – often promoted by publicans to increase trade.

Two centuries later, they were enfolded into the 19th-century passion for self- and national improvement, and were seen as serving manly and martial virtues. The French Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the international olympic Committee in 1894. The olympics then bit by bit became part of both a nationalistic brand and a network of corporate interests.

They are now events prepared by armies of organizers (and, in london, protected by a real army) and paid for by billions in corporate and taxpayer’s funds. The olympics have become so central because they are fused with nationalism and global corporations, and have severed any connection to religion, or to popular participation. is london 2012 poised for disaster or for triumph? Whichever, it will be massive. The olympic Games, to be watched by billions, have now ascended to a very modern olympus, far above us.

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oNG oVERDUE – i wrote about the high incidence of illegal logging operations in Region xi most particularly in the province of Davao del Norte some three months ago. The illegal but highly lucrative business undertaking is cause of concern to environmental groups and residents living near forested areas. The unabated illegal logging activities in several places resulted to massive flooding and landslides affecting lives and properties. it is reflective of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional office’s ineffectiveness and neglect in performing its job to say the least. And the people’s expectation happened three weeks ago. law enforcers and environment officials in Manila intercepted about 50 container vans of illegally sawn lumber worth several millions of pesos and the operatives traced

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HAT is Senat o r Antonio Trillanes iV up to? i’m referring to the military mutiny leader turned senator’s statement that retired Major General Jovito Palparan was only following orders from his superiors and thus could not be held answerable for the charges filed against him.

Palparan, now a fugitive from law after his heyday as the law himself ended with the exit of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is facing charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention of two University of the Philippines students. With his reputation as “The Butcher,” one can only shudder at the thought of what he was capable of doing inside the muted cells of military camps during those times that he played God over the lives of several activists. it’s not only that Trillanes, supposedly an intelligent man with a bias for decency, has sort of departed from the ideals which he articulated from behind the posh walls of oakwood Hotel. it’s also that he has lost touch with reason, caused perhaps by the virus called opportunism that may have found a willing host in him.

What a waste if he could not win the vote of his former comrades in arms and their families; they could be pivotal in a close contest.

But back to his statement, it’s a pity that Trillanes played dumb when

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Inflaming public anger the point of origin – Region x and xi.

With the discovery, the Regional Executive Directors of Region x and xi together with 16 DENR technical personnel, according to reports were ordered relieved in their posts pending a thorough investigation.

Clearly, these officials did not exert maximum effort to totally stamp out illegal logging operations in their respective turfs. For some, the illegal logging practices would only thrive if some enterprising government people are in cahoots with unscrupulous traders. Despite boastfully rattling certain arrest, no illegal loggers had been convicted and put behind bars.

The Palace should now concentrate fully on running after erring government officials and crack the whip if need be. The crackdown against DENR personnel directly involved in illegal logging ventures was long overdue. Meted with severe penalties if proven guilty, the people will be more than happy to know that these “rotten eggs” should serve maximum jail terms.

‘Clearly, these officials did not exert maximum effort to totally stamp out illegal logging operations in their respective turfs. For some, the illegal logging practices would only thrive if some enterprising government people are in cahoots with unscrupulous traders. Despite boastfully rattling certain arrest, no illegal loggers had been convicted and put behind bars.’

Trillanes’ kapalparan he said that Palparan “only did his job.” if that’s the case, Himmler and the other Nazi war criminals should have been acquitted by the Nuremberg tribunal since they were just following Hitler’s order to prosecute the “Final Solution.” But no, the tribunal ruled that an immoral, illegal order need not be obeyed.

Trillanes played dumber when he asked: “if what he (Palparan) did was

‘Just following orders.

Himmler and his peers just followed Hitler’s orders, and six million Jews paid the ultimate price for their blind obedience (although I believe it was shared lunacy that led to the genocide). Palparan followed presumed orders, and the next thing we knew is that several deaths and “disappearances” were blamed on him.’

illegal, why wasn’t he reprimanded by his superiors?” What we have here

is a lawmaker who seems to suggest that kidnapping and serious illegal detention – and God knows what else – may be allowed if done in the name of national security. He was saying in effect that these acts are part of the military’s job functions.

Just doing his job. The least that can be said about this flimsy excuse is that some military officers must have sworn to a different code of conduct, one that leads to coldblooded predisposition and an amoral outlook.

Just following orders. Himmler and his peers just followed Hitler’s orders, and six million Jews paid the ultimate price for their blind obedience (although i believe it was shared lunacy that led to the genocide). Palparan followed presumed orders, and the next thing we knew is that several deaths and “disappearances” were blamed on him.

But i doubt if Palparan was just a submissive subordinate kowtowing to a higher authority. it looked like he was cold Teflon when it comes to dealing with activists and suspected “enemies of the state.” Such tack produced results, no matter how embarrassing before the international community that his superiors either patted him on the back (like Arroyo did) or pretended to know nothing.

Meanwhile, as the Aquino administration enters its third year the killings and “disappearances” have remained unsolved. [MindaNews/.

H. Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at hmcmordeno@gmail.com]

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small thin kid is no match to a muscle-bulging super bully.

That is the lot of the Philippines against China. A super military and economic power, China – starting with her poaching fishermen – has been provoking the Philippines at Spratly islands and Scarborough Shoal. When met with protest, China warned: “Don’t make trouble.” That is the way of bullies, what Filipinos see and believe.

Bullies respect no reason, no law.

They are the reason, the law. That is China concerning the South China Sea controversy. Not only the Philippines has claimed parts of Spratly islands – Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam do have. on what basis does China claim the entire South China Sea? By its ancient maps, history and laws, the whole expanse belongs to China.

That’s why the name is “China Sea.” on what basis do the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam base their claims? By some bits of history and principally by the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as provided in the United Nations Convention on the law of the Sea (UNCloS), the four ASEAN countries have valid claims. While these are overlapping, UNCloS has provided how states could delineate and settle their overlapping EEZs. EEZ extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the country’s coastal baseline. The Spratly islands and Scarborough Shoal are more than 400 nautical miles from the coastal baseline of China. From the map, it is easy to see the overlapping EEZ claims of Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines over the Spratly and outspreading islands in South China Sea. China, from the coast of Hainan island, is much farther away. only Vietnam and China have overlapping EEZ claims over the Paracale islands. in the Philippines’ case in particular, Scarborough Shoal is more than 400 nautical miles from the Chinese coast while only 150 nautical miles from Zambales; Hasa-Hasa Shoal where a Chinese frigate on patrol ran aground is only 60 nautical miles off Rizal town of Palawan. While China is urging “the Philippines to face facts squarely and not make trouble,” the call is a challenge laced with threat.

That’s how it sounds to Filipinos.

By the UNCloS, China and the four ASEAN countries have to settle their disputes peacefully. They all say so.

But China wants to talk bilaterally with each of the four that are proposing a multilateral talk. The latter proposal is more sensible. Since the four also have conflicting claims, the multilateral talk will resolve the conflict once and for all.

While there are no signs that they would talk soon, China supports with her military and economic powers her claims over the disputed islands based on legal and historical grounds.

She has built naval stations in some; she sends fishing fleets with naval escorts to the EEZs of the other claimants. Plainly, she provokes – the very way of a super bully. How else would her weak neighbors see it? [MINDANEwS]

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Student backpackers will surely have fun immersing in local festivals.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 11TH JUDICIAL REGION OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT-SHERIFF DAVAO CITY NATIONAl HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION, Mortgagee, -versus-

EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,448-12

ClARITA R. MIllADO Mortgagor/s. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation against CLARITA R. MILLADO with postal address at LOT 506-G-1-A-9-F-2,PSD-11-025556, CALINAN,DAVAO CITY, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of May 15,2012 amounted to FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED FORTY THREE PESOS & 46/100 ( P524,443.46), Philippine Currency, plus other legal expenses incident to foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of Regional Trial Court, Davao City; the undersigned will sell at public auction on AUGUST 2, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland ,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-148961 “A parcel of land (Lot 506-G-1-A-9-F-2,Psd-11-025556, being a portion of Lot 506-G1-A-9-F Psd-11-005451), situated in the Barrio of Calinan, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao xxx. Containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FOUR (204) SQUARE METERS, more or less,registered in the name of CLARITA R. MILLADO” All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

That in the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on SEPTEMBER 06, 2012, without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon , if any there be.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 11TH JUDICIAL REGION OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT-SHERIFF DAVAO CITY NATIONAl HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION(NHMFC) Mortgagee, -versus-

tt EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,459-12

VICTORIA E.TAN married to Manuel B. Tan, Sr. Mortgagor/s. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation against VICTORIA E. TAN married to Manuel E. Tan Sr. with postal address at NHA Kadayawan Homes Housing Proj. Lot 17 Blk. 13 Ph-2 Bangkal,DAVAO CITY Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of June 15,2012 amounted to Php964,671.81 Philippine Currency, plus other legal expenses incident to foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of Regional Trial Court, Davao City; the undersigned will sell at public auction on AUGUST 16, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland ,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-188802 “ A parcel of land xxx (Lot 17,Blk. 13, xxx), situated in the Barrio of Talomo, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao xxx. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT (128) SQUARE METERS, more or less.”

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

That in the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on SEPTEMBER 13, 2012, without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon , if any there be.

Noted by: (SGD) ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff (Edge 7/9,16,23)

Juan for Fun backpacker teams will spend 5 days together in up to 6 destinations, so get ready for some wild rides like white water rafting adventures.

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TTENTioN adventure-loving university students! Pack your bags and prepare for the ultimate travel adventure, courtesy of the country’s largest airline. Cebu Pacific invites college students who are passionate about traveling to join the Juan for Fun Backpacker Challenge, a five-day cross-country adventure competition from August 29 to September 2, 2012.

The Juan for Fun Backpacker Challenge brings five (5) teams of three (3) university students to six exciting and scenic destinations all over the Philippines.

Armed with P30,000 in cash, the teams get to test their resourceful-

ness and adventurous spirit in select Philippine destinations, with some challenges along the way.

The team that gets to do the most number of challenges in each destination and ends up with the most travel savings wins the challenge. To join, teams composed of three college students who are 18 years old and above must submit a video that showcases their love for travel and adventure.

Entries must answer the question: “How far will your team go for a fun adventure?” Deadline for submission is on August 16, 2012.

Winners of the Juan for Fun Backpacker Challenge get to enjoy more travel perks from Cebu Pacific. The top three teams get tickets to any of CEB’s international or domestic destinations. Extra prizes at stake include cameras, mobile phones and hotel tour packages.

“Students will surely have a blast making the audition video and racing across the country. We look forward to their brilliant ideas when it comes to having fun even while on a budget,” said Cebu Pacific VP for Marketing and Distribution Candice iyog.

Through the Juan for Fun Backpacker Challenge, Cebu Pacific continues to encourage the youth to travel around the Philippines and discover its cultural and natural wonders.

The challenge is supported by Citibank, Canon, Sun Cellular and the Philippine Department of Tourism. For more details, visit www.juanforfun.com or follow Cebu Pacific Air on its official Facebook and Twitter pages.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) JOSEPH I. CASTRO, JR. Sheriff IV Noted by: (SGD) ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff (Edge 7/16,23,30)

CEB is looking for students who are up for a fun backpacker challenge, including adrenaline-pumping activities such as sand boarding.

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Retailers expo to discuss why shopping is more ‘fun’ D

iSTiNCTiVE customer experience in the Philippines and its power to drive retail industry growth get the top bill when the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) highlights why shopping is more fun in the Philippines during its 21st National Retail Conference (NRCE) and Stores Asia Expo.

NRCE, the country’s biggest retail industry event, converges its energies with the government’s well-conceived it’s More Fun in the Philippines campaign, as it invites Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez to speak on the campaign’s synergy with retail industry growth and more fun shopping experience. Adding to the prestige of the event is Coca Cola’s President and CEo William Schultz who will be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the conference.

Coca Cola, which celebrates its centennial year this year is among the well-loved brands in the Philippines.

Coca Cola’s participation in this year’s NRCE is expected to further elevate the “fun” aspect of the conference as the brand celebrates “100 year of Happiness”.

The 21st NRCE is slated on August 9 to 10 at the SMx Convention Center in Pasay City. in the PRA tradition, the NRCE mounts its twin event, the Stores Asia Expo, the country’s premier exhibition of retail suppliers and service providers.

The 2-day conference

and exhibit is attended by over 800 retail owners, suppliers, CEos, and top level executives. Each year, NRCE invites experts from the retail industry and other related sectors to cover relevant aspects of retailing. Chief among the bevy of topics at this year’s NRCE are strategies for driving growth and customer engagement.

Amid the global buzz surrounding initial public offerings (iPo), this year’s plenary sessions will include the use of an iPo as a tool for retail business growth.

Successfully engaging new generation shoppers will be well-covered in this event as other topics as boosting customer experience using store design and licensing opportunities for retailers are presented by field experts.

Coming on the heels of two successful NRCEs which zeroed in on Asian brands, this year’s gathering moves forward with talks on personalized branding and transforming employees into brand ambassadors.

Participants will also gain more insights on the competitive edge of socially responsible businesses and the retailers’ role in advocating a sustainable lifestyle.

There will be two panel discussions each day at NRCE. on the conference s first day, the morning panel discussion will delve into digital marketing and online commerce. The afternoon panel discussion, on the oth-

er hand, is entitled Global Brands in local Shores: How local Brands Can Compete and Succeed vis-à-vis international Brands.”

The roundtable on the conference’s second day will feature luminaries from retail and property development. Entitled “Retail Entertainment: Creating a New level of Customer Experience,” the morning panel discussion explores how shopping and leisure are intertwined. The conference’s last panel discussion is set to put participants in a hopeful, forward-thinking mood.

Entitled “The New Turks of Retailing,” the last panel will feature the young entrepreneurs behind today’s hottest brands and franchises.

The 21st NRCE is proudly presented by PlDT Alpha Enterprise, SM Department Store, Hewlett Packard, Robinsons Malls, Araneta Center, Ayala Malls, Meralco, iBM Philippines, DHl Supply Chain Phils., inc., Festival Supermall, Wilcon Depot, Celine, The Philippine Star, BusinessWorld, ABS CBN, Schutzen, Mobext, inc., Crossover 105.1., Entrepreneur, Focalcast, Q Creatives, Cylix Technologies, Mediamagnet, Catalyst Media, infinite Grafix, Travel Club, APl logistics, Avolution, live Media, Starmall and Bayantel.

For more information about the 21st NRCE visit www.nrceph.com, call PRA at 687-4180/4181 or email info@philretailers.com or ebbs@philretailers.com.

pursue their projects.

NCCA is calling for art organizations with track records in producing art to submit concepts to them with themes based on local tradition and the NCCA’s theme; “Filipino culture as the wellspring of national and global well-being.” The selected organization will work with their local government units to find a public space with high visibility for them to develop their project.

Projects proposed must be able to portray culture as an instrumental of sustainable development. Grants will not only be in cash but may also come in the form of manpower, spaces and the like.

Rene S. Napeñas,

head of the NCCA Public Affairs and information office said that “no art is high or low” when asked about street art which is viewed to be made in conflict with laws against vandalism.

Napeñas further stressed that art is for all and that art is everywhere and NCCA hopes to empower the Filipino imagination as they recognize it as a potent agent for social change.

NCCA will also give out grants for projects in various other art disciplines. Project proposal forms and more details are available at www. ncca.gov.ph. Deadline for submissions is on August 30, 2012 and projects selected will be implemented in 2013.

NCCA to fund projects on art in public spaces

By Edward C. Lactaoen

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TREET art has begun to proliferate around the city.

Public officials in cities like Bristol in England have taken steps to declare these works as culturally significant and the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) seeks to fund projects for art in public spaces.

This is part of the NCCA’s call for project proposals which they shared to the media last July 20.

Renee C. Talavera, head of the Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts Section bared the organization’s function as a funding group, and noted that only two groups – one from luzon and one from Mindanao – will be given grants to

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oliCE have revised down to 12 from 14 the death toll in the shooting at movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

Aurora Police spokesman Frank Fania told NBC News that 10 of the victims died in the theater and two died in the hospital. A masked gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” early on Friday.

oUTHEAST Asian states have reached a “common position” on the disputed South China Sea, but will not resurrect a joint communiqué aborted after unprecedented discord over the issue at a summit last week, indonesia’s Foreign Minister said on Friday.

Marty Natalegawa sought to put a positive gloss on two days of shuttle diplomacy that failed to rally members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) behind a belated, face-saving communiqué.

They had failed to agree the customary end-of-summit joint statement last Friday for the first time in the bloc’s 45-year history. The divisions follow a rise in incidents of naval brinkmanship involving Chinese vessels in the oil-rich waters that has sparked fears of a military clash.

Natalegawa told Reuters the 10 members had agreed on the components

of an ASEAN “instrument” that would be issued by chair Cambodia later on Friday and would detail what was agreed upon during last week’s ASEAN Regional Forum in Phnom Penh, including the maritime dispute.

“We are trying so that other decisions made by the foreign ministers will be formulated in a different instrument for follow up,” Natalegawa told Reuters.

“The non-existence of a joint communiqué is behind us,” he said, adding that the customary communiqué was aborted last week because one of the four paragraphs relating to the South China Sea in the 132-paragraph draft could not be agreed on.

Disputes over how to address the increasingly assertive role of China - an ally of several ASEAN states - in the strategic waters of the South China Sea has placed the issue squarely as Southeast Asia’s biggest potential military flashpoint.

China has territorial claims over a huge area covering waters that Vietnam and the Philippines say they also have sovereignty over. All three countries are eager to tap possibly huge offshore oil reserves.

The failure to issue the communiqué and the bitter rows behind closed doors over what words to use and what to exclude have been a huge embarrassment for a 10-member bloc planning to form an EU-style economic community by 2015.

The row illustrated how Southeast Asian nations have been polarised

by China’s rapidly expanding influence in the region and the economic dependence on Beijing that some of ASEAN’s poorer states now have, among the Cambodia, this year’s chair.

Despite stark differences on some of the more contentious issues, such as how to deal with its once rogue member, Myanmar, ASEAN had always managed to at least appear to be unified by delivering a communiqué at the end of its summits.

Natalegawa suggested the bloc would release some kind of statement that would detail six “allweather” principles of ASEAN, without referring to specific incidents in the South China Sea. He did not elaborate on that, but said ASEAN had learned lessons from the discord in Phnom Penh. “you can only have an ASEAN that is central in the region if ASEAN itself is united and cohesive. last week we were tested, there have been some difficulties but we have grown the wiser from it,” he said. “indonesia took the initiative to recalibrate ASEAN through the 36-hour effort, shuttle diplomacy, visits and working the phones and we can now reach a common position again on the South China Sea.” [REutERS]

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Peruvian court has cut the sentences of former president Alberto Fujimori’s righthand man, Vladimiro Montesinos, and of members of a secret army hit squad, a judicial official said.

Montesinos, former armed forces chief Juan Hermoza Rios, army chief Julio Salazar Monroe and Major Santiago Martin Rivas were jailed for 25 years in 2010 for ordering the Colina Group to kill 24 people in massacres in 1991 and 1992.

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MPoVERiSHED North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country’s top general for opposing change, a source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing said.

The source added that the cabinet had created a special bureau to take control of the decaying economy from the military, one of the world’s largest, which under Kim’s father was given pride of place in running the country.

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EPUBliCAN presidential candidate Mitt Romney will soon do something Barack obama has yet to do as president - visit U.S. ally israel, where he will try to present himself to voters back home as a credible replacement to obama on the world stage. in the midst of a presidential campaign that is too close to call, Romney leaves on Wednesday for a week-long trip to attend the opening ceremonies of the olympics in london and visit israel and Poland.

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drill instructor accused of sexually assaulting and abusing 10 female trainees at lackland Air Force Base was found guilty on Friday of all 28 charges against him.

Staff Sergeant luis Walker displayed no emotion when the military jury of six men and one woman returned the verdict after about seven hours of deliberation.

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Davao City with its international airport,” he said. “it was in 2003 that RA 9208 was enacted as the Philippines’ response to a worldwide recognition to curb human trafficking, the modern form of slavery,” he said.

The law mandates to eliminate TiP; support trafficked persons; ensure their recovery; and rehabilitation and reintegration in the mainstream of society, he said.

Noting that this problem transcends domestic and international borders, he said many of the victims of TiP are the most vulnerable members of society, particularly women and children, and the poor.

First airport watch While trainings on antiTiP campaign had been conducted since 2010, Arellano said his office has also been assisting local government units in their anti-TiP programs or helping them to create one, such that Davao City has its city interagency council against trafficking.

Adding that setting up operating units is also part of RiACAT’s tasks, he said the operating unit at the DiA is the first tangible operating unit in the region.

RiACTioN-DiA is tasked to provide immediate assistance to victims of TiP; build linkages with government

and non-government organizations during probable trafficking incidents, and disseminate anti-TiP information.

Assistant Regional Prosecutor Barbara Mae P. Flores said the coalition will be involved in projects such as playing anti-TiP commercials in the DiA; posting of additional anti-TiP posters; and, production of calling cards containing nationwide anti-TiP hotlines to be given to identified vulnerable travelers.

The MoA signing, she said, is the beginning of a worldwide project, adding, “All of us here have one objective which is to fight human trafficking, but the coming together is not enough. We should owe that endeavor to maintain this kind of coordination among different government agencies in region 11 to fully fight human trafficking.”

Speaking at the launching, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the city government is one with the groups in denouncing human trafficking.

She also noted that she agreed with the suggestion of Arellano earlier to put up a desk not only in the DiA but also at the Davao City overland Transportation Terminal, saying that buses are another mode of transportation for people going outside the region.

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ficulty to operate in Davao City.

The provincial mining board and city mining regulatory board will identify mining sites, he said, however, because of the stand of the city government, they will place Davao City as a least priority area.

Meanwhile, in a separate interview, Vice Mayor Duterte denied the allegation that he will defy President Benigno Aquino iii s Executive order No. 79, referring to a report in a local newspaper that says he was asked by Malacañang to hold his temper on mining, and study the Eo first.

According to him, he never said he will defy the Eo because doing so will only get him in trouble and worse, he might go to jail.

He admitted that he opposes mining and his stand will remain as he has been against it even before, adding that his opposition against mining is not a question of temper but a question of where one stands.

Holding his temper, he said, is out of context. [LORIE A. CASCARO]

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THElMA T. DUJAlI married to Tomas D. Dujali Mortgagor/s. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation against Thelma T. Dujali married to Tomas D. Dujali with postal address at Green Meadows 3 Lot 37 Blk. 24 Sto. Niño, Mintal, Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of April 15,2012 amounted to Php676,255.50 Philippine Currency, plus other legal expenses incident to foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of Regional Trial Court, Davao City; the undersigned will sell at public auction on AUGUST 23, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland ,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-230237 “ A parcel of land xxx (Lot 37,Blk. 24, xxx), situated in the Barangay of Mintal, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao xxx. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY (160) SQUARE METERS, more or less.”

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

That in the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on SEPTEMBER 20, 2012, without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon , if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, July 11, 2012.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) ROBERT M. MEDIALDEA Sheriff IV Noted by: (SGD) ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff (Edge 7/23,30,8/06)

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by public or private entities.

These laws contribute to helping the PWD sector gain access to transportation, said Aliño.

“The fare discount, even though it is just 20 percent, is already significant for us, most especially during long distance travels,” he said.

Income-generating project Aliño said the PWD sector in Davao feels glad whenever passengers offer help and vacate the front seats for them.

“We have already experienced the changes in the attitude of the people toward PWDs. It is now relatively easier to take a ride in a public jeepney here in the city,” he said.

With BP 344 mandating public transportation drivers and operators to display posters and stickers promoting the rights of PWDs, ADAP has realized an opportunity by selling the stickers, which it produced through funding from the City Social Services and Development Office and donations from allies, for P30 each.

“It’s like hitting two birds with one stone. We get to educate the public about their role in empowering our sector and at the same time gain financial resources for the operation of our organization,” ADAP President Redondo Martinez said. his group needs to gen-

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gation to provide health services to the people, instead of phasing out charity wards.

Former Davao City councilor Danny Dayanghirang said deprivation of access to health services is much more difficult for the indigenous peoples who are mostly not members and cannot afford to pay contributions for PhilHealth.

He said, “Why now when the system, which includes non-members of PhilHealth to avail of charity wards, has worked for so long?”

“People pay taxes and they deserve to avail of social services from the government,” he said, adding that apparently, the government is now profit-oriented and performing based on entrepreneurial philosophy, and not on social program and public service.

He mentioned that government hospitals are in an alarming state with the proposed corporatization bills, House Bill 6069 and Senate Bill 3130 of Rep. Anthony Golez, Jr. and Senator Franklin Drilon.

“The government is gradually washing its hands off state responsibility to provide social services as almost all social services, including water, electric-

ity and education are being privatized,” he said.

Meanwhile, Councilor leah librado, chair of the Committee on Women, Children and Family Relations, filed a resolution in the Sangguniang Panglunsod (SP), opposing the passage of the hospital corporatization bills.

Noting that the resolution is up for first reading in the Council next Tuesday, librado said, “Majority of our people are already suffering from the rising cost of medication and hospitalization thus, the move to corporatize or even the phasing out of charity ward will make public hospitals more difficult to be reached by the poor.”

Casiño noted that the PhilHealth-sponsored program covers only 5.2 million families, which comprise barely half of the 11.1 million self-rated poor families based on Social Weather Station survey last May. He cited Republic Act 1939 that mandates government hospitals to allot 90% of beds to charity patients, saying government hospitals only have 80% or less for charity wards while private hospitals only allot 10%.

erate funds because of the meager financial support it is receiving from the local government and other donors, Martinez said For every P30 sticker, P20 goes to the organization’s coffers while the remaining P10 goes to the seller, Martinez said.

From Monday to Friday, Aliño is stationed on Magallanes Street at the back of the City Council Building to sell stickers. he usually sells more than five a day, but there are slow days.

“But I am really happy that many drivers are very interested to also make efforts to post stickers in the jeepneys considering that the P30 charge for the sticker is already substantial in /comparison to the meager earnings of the drivers,” said Aliño.

Violations and penalties however, despite the gradual changes in the attitude of the drivers and other commuters toward PWDs, there are still those who ignore PWDs’ accessibility rights, Aliño said.

“There are still some, most especially the passengers who are seated at the front seat, who are too arrogant to yield the seat to us,” he said. he said that before they were educated about their rights, PWDs would just choose to be submissive.

“But after the trainings, we can now tell them with con-

fidence that the seat is reserved for PWDs as declared by law,” Aliño said.

There are occasional cases where drivers refuse to give fare discounts, he added.

When that happens, the group takes note of the jeepney’s plate number and, if possible, the driver’s name, and reports him to the Land Transportation Office.

Persons caught violating BP 344 and RA 7442 face a fine of P50,000 to P100,000, imprisonment of up to two years, or both for a first offense.

Fines on subsequent violations may reach up to P200,000 and imprisonment for up to six years, or both.

A foreigner who violates the law faces deportation.

For Aliño, enduring the glaring heat and fumes on the streets is a small price to pay for the changes in society’s attitude toward PWDs and the improvement of the quality of life of the PWD sector.

As a new batch of public jeepneys plying Magallanes Street headed his way, he animatedly waved the stickers at the drivers.

A jampacked jeepney pulled up.”how much?” asked the driver.

It is, indeed, a campaign to change the world one sticker at a time. [Karlos ManlupigVERA Files]

the experts from the PCRBC would start hunting the crocodile Friday night, when the reptile is expected to settle down after staying long in the river.

A team of seven crocodile experts has been organized to conduct the search operations.

They have already secured ropes, high-powered flashlights, and other gadgets needed for the hunt.

The team, according to Bernalte, will need the help of soldiers and militiamen to secure them from lawless elements.

Bernalte said that when they recapture the crocodile, it will be housed at the crocodile rescue center at the Amas Complex here until the city government has completed fixing the minizoo.

The crocodile escaped by destroying the pen’s cyclone wire last Saturday.

The crocodile, according to PCRBC head Dr. Cayetano Pomares, belongs to the Crocodylus mindorensis species, considered a rare and an endangered species.

The crocodile originated from President Roxas town in North Cotabato.

Pomares has called on the city government to withdraw the reward money.

“The cash incentive could worsen the problem since many would be interested in getting the cash. This might endanger people,” Bernalte quoted Pomares as saying. on Monday, City Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco announced he would give cash to those who could help the lGU recapture the crocodile.

Pomares stressed that only experts should handle the hunt in order to protect the animal as well as the villagers from danger.

When in survival mode, crocodiles, even if raised in captivity, could fight back to protect themselves from harm. (MALu CADELINA MANAR/MINDANEwS)

The gorgeous HTC ladies show off the newest HTC smarphones during the launching of HTC One S and HTC Desire on Friday at Gaisano Mall of Davao. [LEAN DAVAL, JR.]

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By Carlo P. Mallo

Weddings in the Philippines are not as simple as the union of two hearts, more often than not, it is the union of two families, if not of two clans. Thus, it comes as no surprise that preparing a wedding is not a do-it-yourself thing in the country.

Wedding magazines will always be a compulsory accessory to the bride to be during the planning stage, alongside her entourage of wedding organizers, florists, banquet supervisors, designers, and the ever doting best friend who gives her sixpence worth of opinion when the bride asks. during a recent wedding expo at Abreeza Mall, dubbed as Kasalang Filipino. it was a perfect mix of suppliers that a bride-to-be would want to see under one roof. some of the top wedding planners were present, showcasing their latest themes and floral arrangements, wedding cake connoisseurs were also there with cakes so beautiful you wouldn’t want to eat it, and the top hotels in the city were all in full attendance.

While the event would have been better with more exhibitors, especially with the wedding gown designers, it was nonetheless a good mix of suppliers.

Lucky are those who are planning of having their wedding in the next six months or so as they have had the opportunity to scout Kasalang Filipino for their suppliers. Their weddings have just turned a notch closer to perfect.

As i wait for the perfect opportunity to get married, let me get back to the best part in planning a wedding – choosing the gifts i would want to receive!

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Of women, garters, and stockings

By Kezia Chretien Photos by Noel Orsal

FHM’s 100 sexiest Women in the World party is an occasion that is normally flocked by men to get a sight of babes and the sexiest women they admire and look up to. On the other hand, there are also women eagerly watching other women in their own reasons with their own appreciating eyes. not that they have tendencies to get attracted to the models the way men does, but women can normally appreciate other women with class and style, with beauty and poise, with charm and wit, and many more reasons.

FHM’s list of 100 sexiest is a list of women not just with a beautiful body, pretty face, and oozing sex appeal, hence it is a list that defines a woman in every possible way. it could be one of those lists some women wish to be part of.

Last July 12, 2012, the highly anticipated event for men took place in World Trade Center in Pasay City, the annual event presenting the FHM’s 100 sexiest Women in the World.

When i got to the venue, parking lots were almost full, lines were long, and everyone is waiting for the gates to open. People have their own ways of showing the excitement in them, trying to visualize what the party is yet to showcase this year.

When the gates opened lines started to deplete slowly, filling the whole World Trade Center with a good number of attendees in their dsLRs and point and shoot cameras aiming to get a good shot of the woman who will steal their attention for that night.

There were various booths of different sponsors inside the site too; each booth has their own activities for the audience, while waiting for the main even -- the performances and the walk of this year’s 100 sexiest Women of the World. Booze, good music, and sexy women were all present around the corners of the halls with a sweet smile painted on their faces. stimulating the crowd through in between performances from sponsors made the event more exciting. Add to that the men and women cheering out for their bets of vixens and ladies of distinct looks standing out among the rest.

Topping it again this year is sam Pinto, who surprised the crown in her stunt-like, entrance as she was carried by a sus-

pended swing bringing her all the way to the center of the stage. in her black glittery bikini, only she can pull-off, she got the crowd screaming, lusting for her. As she walked her way to the ramp she embodied beauty, sex appeal, glamour, and class effortlessly, reasons commendable enough to bring her to the top spot for the second time. getting a total of 1,249,189 votes made her retain her spot making a mark in FHM Philippines history, against Angel Locsin who got 1,131,505 votes.

With a face more likely to be a goddess, sam’s looks is undeniably one of her weapons to drive the attention of the voters to her in this year’s FHM poll. Completing the top 10 of the list are solenn Heussaff – who is now 3rd from last year’s number 5, Cristine Reyes staying at the 4th spot, Marian Rivera dropping from number 2 last year to number 5, ellen Adarna rising 4 notches from last year’s 10 to number 6, Jackie Rice landing to 7th from 9th last year, Bela Padilla who made a big leap from 77 to 8 this year, Jennylyn Mercado who went two spots down from being last year’s 7th , and Lovi Poe making it to top 10 from last year’s top 15.

From one of the top FHM’s sexiest last 2003 and one of the women who is consistently part of the list, diana Zubiri made an appearance showing that she still has the oomph in her. in her white, asymmetrical, goddess-like, long, figure hugging gown, she wowed the crowd in refinement and elegance.

Aubrey Miles is an epitome of what a hot momma is! showing her body without hesitation, no extra cloth to hide certain body parts, she walked in full confidence being an inspiration

for both men and women that being a mom does not stop one from having an overflowing sex appeal and an unquestionably beautiful face and body. i can just imagine how proud Troy Montero was while watching her strut her assets on that ramp. siblings ehra and Michelle Madrigal’s showcased double sexiness in their temperature rising performance making it seem that it’s summer once again.

Both have given justice to their individual appeals from their looks, their curves, complemented by their moves and their glare, they have managed to define what FHM 100 sexiest list is about, making men drive nuts about them.

Beauty, class, grace, poise, sex appeal, and more filled the atmosphere that night, but it taught me a lot, not so likely to learn being a spectator of such event, but it has made me realize a lot as a woman. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say, but that night, beauty is not limited to what your eyes can appreciate, it was defined in many ways one can imagine. As a woman, looking

at those women can make me feel jealous if i don’t know what my capabilities and strengths are, but on a more positive view, it can be a great inspiration. A way to remind me to take care of myself physically, while not forgetting the other nitty-gritties that will truly make a man head over heels, at the same way catch other women’s attention– wit, poise, self-respect, talent, intelligence.

Maybe having a girl crush is not bad after all, as that person can inspire me to discover more of me, what i have, what i can flaunt, and what i can still do. so to my fellow women, let these women be an inspiration for us as we strive to be better in our own ways, to be a good example to our colleagues and friends, to gain more confidence, and to feel a lot better about ourselves.

Let me also remind all the men out there that physical appearance does not define it all, appreciating women comes in all sorts of forms not just outside but mostly from the inside. There is more a woman has to offer beyond what the eyes can see.

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Dark Knight director grieves for shooting victims Lea Michele reacts to Emmy snub

THe dark Knight Rises director, Christopher nolan, is offering condolences to the victims and their families following the deadly theater rampage early Friday morning in a surburban denver mall.

“i would like to express our profound sorrow at the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community,” the British filmmaker said in a statement obtained by e! news. “i would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting but that they were there last night to watch a movie. i believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.” nolan concluded: “nothing any of us can say could ever adequately express our feelings for the innocent victims of this appalling crime, but our thoughts are with them and their families.”

“My prayers and deep-

est sympathies are with the victims and their families of this horrific act,” added star gary Oldman, gotham police officer turned commissioner John gordon in all three of nolan’s Batman films.

While screenings of The dark Knight Rises are currently proceeding as scheduled around the country, the national Association of Theaters said earlier today it was working with the department of Homeland security to better ensure a safe moviegoing experience for all theatergoers.

The AMC chain of theaters has also banned people from coming in costume to

watch the film.

Warner Bros., which described itself as “deeply saddened,” has canceled what was to have been the film’s star-studded red carpet premiere in Paris and upcoming promotional appearances by the cast have been canceled.

The studio also pulled the violent trailer for the shoot-’em-up period film gangster squad from all future dark Knight Rises screenings. networks including nBC, CBs and esPn have stopped airing commercials for the film—a move that Warner Bros. says it “fully supports.”

Why Charlie Sheen quit Twitter:

It was connected to his past

IN case you missed it, Charlie Sheen quit Twitter last week. why? Because his #winning tweets and 8 million followers reminded him of his past.

“I felt like it was connected to the whole past movement, the winning movement, the tiger blood movement and all that crap,” he told Extra. “I still like winning; it still applies. Now it makes sense ‘cause I’m finally winning.”

Sheen joined the social media site in March 2011, just weeks after being fired from Two and a Half Men. His first tweet featured one of his headlinemaking phrases, “#winning.” He then became Twitter’s most talked about actor for that year.

His catchphrase #tigerblood was listed as the second most talked about hashtag of the year.

“It’s nothing about the fans. I really appreciated all their support and still

do,” Sheen said. “It was more about it was never what I wanted to do. To have something that is a running update on what you’re doing all day is, first of all, a security breach, secondly, a privacy breach.”

Sheen, who amassed nearly 8 million followings since he joined Twitter, most recently used his account to promote and live-tweet his new FX comedy, Anger Management. However, he noted that others would try to get him to tweet

about their products in exchange for promotion.

“I know there’s great value in there to reach out to a lot of people to promote stuff,” he said. “It got to the point where I couldn’t go anywhere without them wanting to cut a deal.”

Even though Twitter had been around for years before Sheen joined the social media site, Sheen believes he single-handedly helped them to succeed. when asked if he would ever join Twitter again, Sheen said, “If the founders were ever to call me once and say, ‘Hey, thanks for really securing us on the map.’ Not a single phone call and I felt like ‘Really guys?’ ... I may come back @charlie$heen, with the ‘s’ as a ‘$,’ and all endorsements, just like Kardashianville... the hell with everyone.”

Are you happy Sheen quit Twitter, or do you miss him already?

How much do we love Lea Michele?

Glee may have only received three Emmy nominations this morning, but she refuses to let it get her down.

“I think there are so many incredible shows out right now,” Michele just told me while promoting the second Valspar Hands for Habitat charity campaign. “I am a huge fan of Girls and the fact that Lena [Dunham] got nominated and the show got nominated is amazing. There’s some really great stuff out there right now, so I feel like this is just the natural progression of things.”

Besides, she said, “I’m very proud of our last season. I think it was one of our best seasons ever.”

Coming up is season 4. Shooting begins on wednesday. She confirmed she’s going to be performing a song à la the Barbra Streisand

cover of the tune on the first episode, but politely declined to tell us which one. The second episode will be another Britney Spears tribute.

And then there’s guest star Kate Hudson. “what we get to do together on the show is so awesome,” Michele teased. we cannot wait!

Michele will be in New York City tomorrow to launch the second annual Valspar Hands for Habitat, an initiative that auc-

tions off self-made celebrity handprints to benefit Habitat for Humanity’s disaster relief programs in the U.S., Haiti and Chile. “when they asked me to do my handprint, I did it like a little activity in my backyard,” Michele said.

“They gave me a couple different paint samples and a couple of different canvas backgrounds. So I did like four different ones. I started to get a little carried away.

“I sent them in and then was like, ‘oK, you guys pick and tell me what you think,’” she continued. “All the colors were so bright and so pretty. I just think this is such a great [and] easy way to make money for such an incredible cause.” other celebs taking part include Susan Sarandon, Angela Bassett, Lauren Conrad, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Andy Cohen, Sandra Lee, Joan Rivers, Tory Burch and Nate Berkus.

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TRUST Home Depot launches Eco-bag design contest TRUST Home Depot advocates the Davao City’s ordinance 0361, the Davao City Ecological Solid waste Management ordinance, and is promoting the use of reusable bags in its store.

“As a supporter of creating a more sustainable environment, we are one with Davao City in its thrust to ban nonbiodegradable plastics,” said Stephanie Seng-ong, Trust Home Depot’s Marketing Manager.

TRUST Home Depot is now eco-friendly and encourages their clients to be as well. Thus, to further heighten the love-fornature campaign, TRUST Home Depot is launching an Eco-bag design tilt and inviting everyone to take part in this exciting awareness program. The winning design will become the official print on THD’s reusable shopping bags.

“The contest theme will evolve around the slogan, “Build your Home with TRUST.” It must be modern yet evoke a sense of coziness and family. The Trust Home Depot Logo which is available on our Facebook Page: Trust Home Depot, should be included in the design.

Entries must only have a maximum of five specified colors (please refer to flyers or THD Facebook page for guidelines),” stated Ms. ong.

It is open to all amateurs and professionals.

THD will accept contest entries from July 23, 2012 until August 24, 2012.

Entries will be judged in the following categories: Uniqueness/originality

(20%), Adherence to the Theme (40%), and, Creativity and Artistry (40%).

“The one design that the judges determine to be the best design will be the winner. The winner will be awarded PhP10,000 in cash from Trust Home Depot and will receive a free bag with his/her winning design. The remaining two top designs, whose designs will not be printed on the bags, will receive consolation prizes of Php2,500 cash and Php1,500 respectively from Trust Home Depot,” Ms. ong announced.

The winning design will be announced and launched on September 15, 2012 at the Trust Home Depot. From this date, THD will provide its customers an option to own and use the new durable and versatile eco-bag or the store’s biodegradable plastics.

“Long before this ordinance was put into effect, we were already considering providing our customers with a reusable bag for their purchases. we didn’t want it to be an ordinary bag, we wanted it to be durable and functional but visually pleasing as well - a bag our customers could tote in and out of our store. we also wanted to showcase the immense creativity of Davaoeños in the field of arts and graphic design,” said Ms. ong.

For inquiries on the contest guidelines, visit Trust Home Depot on Facebook, or TRUST Home Depot at Ecoland Drive, Quimpo Boulevard, Matina (formerly Task Force Davao) with telephone numbers 2987878 and 295-3588.

Shoppers enjoys beauty services, products at Health and Beauty Expo OvER a thousand health and beauty enthusiasts participated in the Health and Beauty Expo 2012 from July 13-15, 2012 at the Activity Center of NCCC Mall .

Celebrity guests like Silka endorser Iya villania, valerie Concepcion and Urian best actor, Paulo Avelino shared their health and beauty tips and secrets.

“The expo showcases beauty and hair products on display at P50,” says Tracy Reyes, assistant managerprocurement, procurement non-food.

Shoppers went to over 10 free health and beauty services during the event, haircut from Jessica Home Salon, facials offered by Oroderm Facial Spa, manicure and pedicure services, foot spa from Sabai Sabai Arom, massages from Efficascent Oil, hot oil services by Carlo Reyes Salon and free hair color application by Kolours.

Magdale optical clinic gave free eyecare consultations, skin consult from Lander and Ponds gave free moisturizing sessions, including a scalp test by Clear.

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VOL.5 ISSUE 100 • JULY 22 - 23, 2012

Within striking distance

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation and Communications LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD Regional Office No. XI Davao city Petition for Renewal of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ DUAL Ordinary Regular Service ElSA l. CARAANG, Petitioner Case No.2010-XI-00596 x- - - - - - - - -- - - --x NOTICE HEARING Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of Public Convenience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a PUJ DUAL Ordinary Regular Service on the route: ACACIA ROUTE and for cargoes as dual service from said route to any point in Region XI with the use of ONE (1) unit, which Certificate will expire on June 6,2012. In the petition filed on May 22, 2012, petitioner request authority to extend the validity of said certificate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized.

NOTICE, is hereby given that this petition will be heard by this Board on AUGUST 13, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, FIVE (5) days prior to the above date petitioner shall publish this Notice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the petitioner, and may if they so, desire appear on said date and time.

This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of its records and the documentary evidence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Director, this 22nd day of May 2012 at Davao City.

TERESITA DElA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZ Chief Transport Development Officer /hoc Copy furnished: Petitioner,Elsa L. Caraang, Prk. Alimokon, Mandug Proper, Davao City Counsel, Atty. Marvin G. Camino Rm 202, New Borgaily Bldg., San Pedro St., Davao City NOTE: Affidavit of Publication and newspaper where notice was published must be submitted three (3) days before the scheduled hearing.

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Tiger Woods’ growl is back reverberating in the British Open. Could another title be in the offing?

Tiger Woods is in the hunt for The Championship

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yTHAM ST. ANNES, England– Tiger Woods, sticking to a conservative game plan and delivering a dramatic finish, is bringing a whiff of excitement to an otherwise conservative British open.

Not far behind the overnight lead, Woods holed out from the bunker to set off a wild cheer from 6,000 spectators crammed into the bleachers.

Forget that a man named Brandt Snedeker plays fast and talks even faster, and he was on a roll Friday in the British open. Brandt Snedeker, who? Don’t mind if you can hardly sell or pronounce that name for now. At least there’s Tiger to look forward to.

Whatever, Snedeker raced up the leaderboard with five birdies in a seven-hole stretch, tied the 36-hole record for a major championship and looked like he was bent on running away from the field at Royal lytham & St. Annes.

Not so fast.

There’s Adam Scott, playing cautiously and picking his spots for three birdies on the back nine to pull within one shot. And then Tiger.

As the second round ended, this open was just getting started. on another benign day when the only concern was pools forming in the bottom of pot bunkers from overnight rain, Snedeker became the latest player to match the course record at Royal lytham with a 6-under 64 that gave him a one-shot lead.

He has yet to make a bogey over 36 holes, the first player to go bogey-free in the opening two rounds of a major since Woods won at St. Andrews in 2000. Snedeker’s 10-under 130 tied the 36-hole record set by Nick Faldo in 1992 when he won the open at Muirfield, and it broke by four shots the 36-hole record at lytham.

Even more amazing? Snedeker hasn’t hit into any of the 206 bunkers in two days. ‘’No bogeys around here

is getting some good breaks and playing some pretty good golf,’’ Snedeker said. ‘’My mantra all week has been to get the ball on the greens as fast as possible. once i’m on there, i have a pretty good hand for the speed of the greens. Just going to try and keep doing that over the weekend.’’

Snedeker has never made the cut in three previous trips to the British open, though this brand of golf is nothing new. As a rookie on the PGA Tour in 2007, he was 10 under

through 10 holes on the North Course at Torrey Pines before having to settle for a 61. He picked up his third win there this year by rallying from a seven-shot deficit on the last day. ‘’Brandt is a momentumtype guy, once he gets going and starting making putts and hitting shots,’’ said Mark Calcavecchia, another player who doesn’t waste time. ‘’He plays quick and he’s got the quick tempo and he putts quick.

And they go in quick. That’s awesome golf.’’

What does that get him? ‘’A whole lot of nothing,’’ Snedeker said. ‘’We’ve got 36 more holes to go. A lot can happen.’’

And that was before Scott, the 32-year-old Australian, began making his steady move up the leaderboard. He bogeyed the third hole for the second straight day, and then turned it around by smashing a 3-wood that bounced off a hillock to the right of the green on the par-5 seventh hole and set up a two-putt birdie. Scott opened the back nine with back-to-back birdies, and then hit two beautiful shots to 8 feet for another birdie on the 18th and a 67.

Scott, who had a 64 on Thursday, has never been in such good shape at a major going into the weekend. ‘’Why i’ve played good this week is kind of a culmination of everything i’ve done over the last couple of years,’’ Scott said. ‘’i feel like this is the path i’ve been going down, and just happens to have happened here that i’ve put myself in good position after two days at a major.’’

Much like Snedeker, though, he didn’t reach much more into it. ‘’i think you look at the names that are five and six shots back, and it means even less,’’ he said.

The biggest name was Woods.

Woods mapped out a strategy for navigating the bunkers of Royal lytham, and not even a change in the weather - only a breath of wind - will take him away from that. He has hit driver only three times this week. on the par-5 11th, where several players hit driver for a chance to go for the green in two, Woods laid back with an iron.

He pulled it into the rough, and it cost him. Woods had to get up-and-down from behind the green for a bogey.

That was his lone mistake, however. He holed an 18-foot birdie on the 16th hole, and then fooled by what little wind there was on the 18th, recovered by holing out from the greenside bunker with a shot that rolled into the cup for his second straight 67 and a 6-under 134. ‘’it wasn’t as hard as it may have looked,’’ Woods said. ‘’Because i was on the up slope, i could take out that steepness coming off the bunker and land the ball on the flat. So just threw it up there, and i played about a cup outside the left and it landed on my spot and rolled to the right.’’

Woods will find out if his record in the majors still means anything. This was the eighth time he has opened a major with two rounds in the

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Kia backs Futsal tourney

By Neil Bravo

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HE name that’s in the shirt of the Philippine Azkals and newlycrowned Copa do Brasil champion Paleirmo will be in the name of the biggest futsal event in Davao this year.

Kia, the automobile brand associated with football, will be supporting the 5:30 2D Cup inter-Club Futsal Tournament at The Annex of SM City Davao tentatively set to kick off on July 26, August 2 and 3, 2012.

The tournament will now be called Kia 5:30 Cup 2D inter-Club Futsal Tournament.

“We are honoured to extend our support to Philippine football in Davao with this futsal tournament. Kia is always synonymous to football and we are here to show that to the people of Davao,” said Boying Soriano of Columbian Autocar, the country’s authorized dealer of Kia. “Kia Davao is in consonance with our principle of being associated with sports especially football,” said Tobi Ang, VP for operations of Ab&T Resources inc., dealer of Kia cars in Davao.

TOBI ANG

The second division futsal tournament will be played starting 5:30 in the afternoon onwards during the mall’s peak hours at the activity area of The Annex. it will mark the first time that futsal (indoor football) will be played at SM City Davao.

Already confirmed to take part are Club Futbol di Garelli, Belisario FC, Crocs FC, DMMA, Alia orange FC and Phl Rabies.

“We are still open for those who wish to participate. We still have slots left for four teams,” said Rachelle “Ching” delos Reyes,

match commissioner.

The teams play double round robin eliminations with the top 4 squads advancing to the crossover semifinals. The semis winners will dispute the title in a winner-take-all match.

The tournament, organized by Bravetower, is also supported by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) through Commissioner Buddy Andrada and Executive Director Guillermo iroy, Jr., SM City Davao, Futsal de Davao, and the Davao Football Association headed by Edward “Chaya” lam.

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60s, and he went on to win on the seven previous occasions including all three of his open titles.

He will be in the penultimate group with Thorbjorn olesen, a 22-year-old Dane who won for the first time this year on the European Tour. He closed with two birdies, knowing that the last one would give him a 66 and a chance to meet Woods on a Saturday afternoon at golf’s oldest championship. ‘’That was amazing,’’ olesen said. ‘’He’s been my idol in so many years. So it’s fantastic to have a chance to play with him. And i’m certainly looking forward to it.’’

The rest of the field would love nothing more than for the wind to show up.

The forecast, which cannot be trusted in these parts, is for mostly sunny skies and perhaps enough wind to fly a kite on the shoreline of the irish Sea. The blustery conditions are to arrive Sunday, which would make all those bunkers and the high grass even tougher to avoid and possibly allow others to get into the mix.

Paul lawrie, who came from 10 shots behind on the final day at Carnoustie in 1999 to win the claret jug, overcame two double bogeys to salvage a 71 and was in the group at 4-under 136 that included Graeme McDowell (69), Matt Kuchar (67), Jason Dufner (66) and Thomas Aiken (68).