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Don’t trade the Mass for the sucker punch, tells Catholic clericsDon’t trade the Holy Mass for the sucker punch.

An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Phil-ippines (CBCP) appealed to the faithful not to skip Mass today, Palm Sunday, just to watch the rematch between Filipino box-ing champ Manny Pacquiao and American boxer Timothy Brad-ley Jr.

According to CBCP presi-dent and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, watching Pacquiao’s fight is not an excuse for not going to Mass, especially when the Holy Eucharist is a daylong celebration.

“There are many Mass schedules, anyway,” Villegas said in an interview. “And I think good Catholics will not prioritize watching a boxing match on TV over attending Mass, especially during the Holy Week.”

Fr. Cris Magbitang, who celebrates Mass at Sto. Niño de Taguig Parish, observed that during past boxing fights of Pacquiao, many churchgo-ers attended the early morn-ing Masses—the 6:15 a.m. and the 7:30 a.m. schedule.

“Some people still attend the Mass scheduled before lunch, maybe because most of them are not watching the pay-per-view anyway, so they just catch the delayed tel-ecast. Others go to Mass in the afternoon just after the fight,” Magbitang said.

“Even those who serve during the Mass, I have not encountered any of them changing their assigned schedule just because he or she wants to watch Pacqui-ao’s fight,” he said.

But there is no escaping the much-awaited match at MGM Grand in Las Vegas,

even for boxing fans who do not have TV sets or could not afford the pay-per-view broadcast.

Several Metro Manila and provincial governments will be hosting free live screen-ings in different venues.

In Manila, a big screen and satellite have been pre-pared at San Andres Com-plex, among other venues, where Mayor Joseph Estrada is expected to watch the re-match of the two boxers.

The government has also designated venues for public viewing in Taguig, Marikina, Mandaluyong and Malabon.

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Clarifications and notices• THE OLW Sun will not publish its daily

editions on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Black Saturday and Easter Sunday. Normal opera-

tions will resume on Monday, April 21st. We advise everyone to take a break, go to the countryside and have some reflection! :-)

Quarrel with China a model for sea disputesThe Philippines’ case against China in the United Nations arbitral tribunal would be the country’s contribution to international maritime jurisprudence, setting an ex-ample of legal remedies that smaller nations could seek instead of submitting to lop-sided negotiations with big-ger countries, according to the Philippine ambassador to the United States.

Speaking at a gathering of businessmen in Makati City on Friday, Ambassador Jose Cuisia Jr. asserted the Philip-pines’ right to seek interna-tional arbitration in the face of Chinese incursions into the West Philippine Sea, the part of the South China Sea within the country’s exclu-sive economic zone.

“This arbitration case would be a model or an exam-ple for other smaller states in a similar situation to con-sider the dispute settlement mechanism under the Unclos (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) as a way of resolving disputes in a peaceful manner,” Cuisia said.

“The arbitration case itself is the Philippines’ contribu-tion to further strengthening Unclos… As the Philippine arbitration case against Chi-na is the first of its kind, the proceedings and its subse-quent outcome would serve to enrich international legal

maritime jurisprudence, es-pecially over disputes con-cerning the interpretation and application of Unclos,” he said.

Invoking the convention, the Philippine government sought arbitration in January 2013 to nullify China’s claim over almost 90 percent of the South China Sea, and to halt Chinese incursions into the country’s economic exclusion zone.

The Philippines filed on March 30 its 4,000-page me-morial, a pleading that details the merits of its case against China, angering China, which issued strongly worded state-ments condemning the ac-tion. China has refused to take part in the proceedings.

Beijing has long been op-

posed to international liti-gation, insisting on bilateral negotiations that it again pressed on the Philippines last week, saying the arbitra-tion bid “seriously damaged” relations between the two sides.

Cuisia made an indirect response to this in his re-marks, saying: “It is my view that by taking the legal route, the Philippines is setting an international precedent whereby states have other viable options to resolving maritime cases other than in an asymmetrical negotiation, where the big and militarily strong nation would domi-nate the smaller nation at the negotiating table.”

He said the legal action was a win-win solution to the dispute, serving to set straight China’s maritime entitlements, clarify the Phil-ippines’ rights to fishing, resources and law enforce-ment in the West Philippine Sea, and, for the interna-tional community, “assure peace, security, stability and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.”

By Shirley SyCorrespondent

Rules forhike onhighestmount

The municipal govern-ment of Sta. Cruz town, Davao del Sur province, said it would limit the number of climbers to Mount Apo using the Sta. Cruz trail.

Julius Paner, Sta. Cruz tourism officer, said limiting the number of climbers to 250 persons using the trail in the town was mandated by an or-dinance that seeks to reduce the damage of human activ-ity to the mountain.

Trekkers that will ascend Mt. Apo through the Sta. Cruz trail will have to pay P500 each and fill out forms at the town’s tourism office, said Paner.

In Digos City, Edgardo El-era, city tourism officer, said a search and rescue team would be on standby during the summer climb.

Digos hosts the Kapata-gan trail, one of the gateways to Mt. Apo.

Elera said local climbers using the Kapatagan trail would be charged P720 each, foreigners, P1,080, and stu-dents, P432.

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Now, the effort’s by himself... and won!

Revenge was served, and it was cold. Manny Pacquiao won a 12-round unanimous decision over Timothy Brad-ley on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) to avenge his contro-versial 2012 loss to the previ-ously unbeaten American.

The Filipino ring icon and Fighter of the Decade improved to 56-5 with two drawn and 38 wins inside the distance as he regained the World Boxing Organiza-tion welterweight world title he lost to Bradley on June 9, 2012.

Although he couldn’t get his first knockout win since 2009, Pacquiao lived up to his pre-fight promise to come

out with more aggression, de-nying Bradley’s avowed aim of sending him into retire-ment with another defeat.

Bradley, who said he fought from the first round with a right calf injury, fell to 31-1, with 12 knockouts.

After a forgetful 2012, Pac-quiao has now picked up two impressive wins in just five months following a domi-nant victory over Mexican-American Brandon Rios last November at the Venetian in Macau.

With Bradley nursing a swell below his right eye in the latter rounds, Pacquiao took the fight to the ropes, unleashing furious combina-

tions to the fatigued Ameri-can.

Exhausted, Bradley con-tinuously moved to the clinch and depended on his jabs to maintain the distance and maintain his score card against the relentless Pac-quiao.

‘The arena was plunged into darkness following the national anthems for the showing of film of legendary fighters of the past. Including glimpses of those phenom-enal three rounds between Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns…… just by way of a warm up?

‘Then came the sound and light show, followed by Pac-quiao as the challenger for Bradley’s world welterweight coming fist to the ring.

‘There are 96,000 Filipi-nos living in Las Vegas and it sounded like they were all in here as their national hero – and potentially future presi-dent – appeared before them.

‘If the ring walk was like a coronation for Pacquiao, Bradley’s was a slow stroll through condemnation for

the heavily one-sided assem-bly.’

Right from the start of the fourth, Pacquiao was eager to start the slugfest with only referee Kenny Bayless stop-ping the aggressive Filipino to go at Bradley before the bell rang.

Despite sustaining a cut in the final 10 seconds of the fi-nal round, Pacquiao survived a late flurry from Bradley.

For the spirit of sports-manship, Dionesia Pacquiao was the first to console Brad-ley after the fight, giving the American a motherly hug and a playful jab to the chin.

Two judges scored it 116-112 for Pacquiao, while the third had it wider at 118-110. There were no knock-downs but Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 knockouts) turned the clock back with his vicious demeanor, pounding Brad-ley (31-1, 12 KOs) around the ring during the second half of the fight to pull away on the scorecards.

Pacquiao began the fire-works in round 2, stunning Bradley with a left cross. Bradley returned the favor in round 4, hurting Pacquiao with a right hand.

Pacquiao showed his in-

tensity by banging his gloves together, just like the old days, and firing back right away.

The two traded momen-tum until the seventh round, when Pacquiao stunned Bradley badly and sent him into the ropes, where the 35-year-old from General Santos City hammered him mercilessly.

Bradley, 30, survived but was never again a threat, spending most of the fight in full retreat, trying to make it to the final bell.

Bradley had slumped to his stool at the end of the 11th.

He looked weary coming out for the last but the aston-ishing 35-year-old PacMan was still sharp.

Bradley hurt by that left again. This is Pacquiao back close to his best. Only the knock out was missing but he was still going for that even though the revenge victory was in the bag.

A desperation head butt from Bradley cut Pacquiao’s left eye in the final minute but after a brief time out they slugged away to what we hope and presume is the in-evitable conclusion.

By Daniel Sta AnaChief Correspondent

Bangsamorolaw’s draft ready for thePresident

The transition body tasked with drawing up the proposed basic law for a new so-called Bangsam-oro autonomous region following the signing of a peace agreement with the secessionist Moro Islam-ic Liberation Front (MILF) is set to submit a draft of the document to President Benigno Aquino III on Monday, according to senior MILF leaders.

“Yes, we will submit it by Monday to President Aquino,” said Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the 15-man Bangsamoro Transi-tion Commission (BTC) and chief negotiator for the MILF rebels in the peace talks with the gov-ernment that culminated in the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement on March 27.

“It was a very difficult process. It went through a lot of stages,”

By Annabelle RosarioCorrespondent

Iqbal said of the drafting of the document.

Ghadzali Jaafar, MILF chief for political affairs, confirmed the transition commission will be submit-ting the draft basic law to Malacañang on Monday.

“The BTC actually set March 31 as the deadline but it had to put the finishing touches to it,” Jaafar said in a phone interview.

He said the commission was continuing to refine the draft but was expected to finish everything before Mon-day.

The commission met its self-imposed April deadline to complete its work. After its submission to Mr. Aquino, the document will go to Congress for approval as the Charter of the proposed Bangsamoro autonomous region.

The President has prom-ised to submit the draft basic law as an urgent bill when he transmits it to Congress.

The MILF has stressed the need to complete the en-tire peace process, including the exit agreement, within

the term of Mr. Aquino who will step down from office in June 2016.

Iqbal said that after submitting the draft law, he would be engaging the Office of the President, the Con-gress “indirectly,” and the public.

With Mr. Aquino as the main sponsor of the draft law, Iqbal said he could well imagine that the Presi-dent would pore over it and may even make suggestions on how to improve it.

It has been suggested that af-ter the tough peace negotiations, the next battleground for the peace

process will be Congress. District representatives, especially from the provinces that will be affected by the creation of a new Muslim-led autono-mous region will closely scrutinize the proposed law.

After Congress passes the basic law for the proposed Bangsamoro entity, it will be submitted for rati-fication in a plebiscite in those ar-eas proposed to be included in the Bangsamoro territory. Localities that ratify the charter will comprise the administrative jurisdiction of the new autonomous entity.

Is the messywarehouse DSWD’s?

Really messy . . .As messy as the department whoowns this den!

The messy warehouse shown in a video broadcast by a television network and pub-lished on its online news portal recently was not the relief hub of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Tacloban City, according to Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman.

Soliman made the clarification even as she requested the TV5 television network to provide more information on where the warehouse is located so an investigation can be conducted.

The video footage purported to show the hub of the Supertyphoon “Yolanda” relief work in Tacloban with shots of relief goods scattered about.

“Our hubs, especially the one in Tacloban City, are not in disarray. I know this because I was there on March 25 to accompany Aus-tralian Ambassador Bill Tweddell and Span-ish Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo,” Soliman said.

She said relief workers repacked the goods intended for distribution at the hub.

According to Soliman, the day after she went to Tacloban with Tweddell, representa-tives of the United Nations World Food Pro-gram (UN-WFP) also visited there.

“Hence, it is impossible that you will find our hub to be disorderly. We in fact have a cash-for-work program for locals in the area to keep the hubs clean,” she said.

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Russia’s quest toconquer the moon46 years later . . .

The West fears Russia is poised to invade Ukraine, but it seems the Kremlin has a big-ger conquest in its sights - the Moon.

Moscow today set out plans to conquer and colonise space, including a permanent manned moon base.

Deputy premier Dmitry Ro-gozin said: ‘We are coming to the moon forever.’

His comments came as Pres-ident Vladimir Putin toured the Cosmonautics Memorial Mu-seum in Moscow. On Saturday, Russia celebrates Cosmonaut Day marking Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight into space on April 12, 1961.

In an article in the govern-ment’s own newspaper head-lined ‘Russian Space’, he spoke of targeting Mars and other ‘space objects’ as future priori-ties.

‘Flights to Mars and aster-oids in our view do not contra-dict exploration of the moon, but in many senses imply this process.’

He wrote of ‘colonisation of the moon and near-moon space’.

In the next 50 years, manned flights are unlikely beyond ‘the space between Venus and Mars’.

But ‘it is quite possible to speak about exploration of Mars, flights to asteroids and flights to Mars’.

The essential first step as a base for research and experi-ments was the moon, said Ro-gozin, who is in overall charge of Russia’s space and defence industries, and was recently tar-geted for EU and US sanctions over the Ukrainian crisis.

‘The moon is not an interme-diate point in the race,’ he wrote in official daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, conjuring an impres-sion of a new space race with America.

‘It is a separate, even a self-contained goal.

‘It would hardly be rational to make some ten or 20 flights to the moon, and then wind it all up and fly to the Mars or some asteroids.

‘This process has the begin-ning, but has no end. We are coming to the moon forever.’

Currently, Russia has plans to launch three lunar spacecraft - two to the surface and one to orbit - by the end of the dec-ade.

The first mission, the long-delayed Luna-25, is slated for launch in 2016, to research the moon’s south pole.

The next two missions will include an orbiter to monitor the moon in 2018, and a year later a polar lander with a drill will search for water ice.

By 2040, Russia plans to create a lunar base for long-term missions to the Earth’s natural satellite.

Rogozin said that the moon is the only realistic source to obtain water, min-erals and other resources for future space missions.

A lunar laboratory com-

plex will also be used for test-ing new space technologies.

He promised the develop-ment of ‘a super-heavy rock-et for lunar missions and to the Mars in the future’.

Rogozin claimed sanc-tions including the termina-tion of space cooperation announced by the US ‘can

contribute’ to a stronger Russian space industry.

It will force Russia ‘to cre-ate a strategy of development of Russian manned space flights, independent from unreliable international part-ners’. He stressed: ‘We should not be afraid to dream, to raise the bar as high as pos-

sible for our future develop-ment.

‘Russia has everything needed for a new break-through in space research.

‘All we need is to learn how to combine idealism and pragmatism and how to properly organise our busi-ness.’

Pacquiao: I want a fair deal now with HenaresAll Manny Pacquiao wants is a fair deal from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the settlement of his tax problems back home. He won’t run and won’t cheat in the payment of his taxes.

Fact is, Pacquiao salutes BIR Commissioner Kim Henares for going after tax evaders.

“I agree and support her drive,” Pacquiao said in Fili-pino. “As long as everybody gets equal treatment.”

“I have nothing to hide,” added Pacquiao, who wrapped up his training for his grudge rematch with

Timothy Bradley. “I’m honest and fear God.”

Pacquiao was reacting to reports that Henares is wait-

ing for him to come home af-ter his showdown with Brad-ley at MGM Grand Arena here.

Henares reportedly wants to look after Pacquiao’s in-come statements and the status of his tax deficits with the Internal Revenue Service in the US.

According to Pacquiao, who’s guaranteed to receive

$20 million for the 12-round pay-per-view bout, he has nothing to worry.

“The tax here (in Las Ve-gas) is 35 percent and you can’t evade it. All I need is to provide proof of my tax pay-ments in America.”

For another, Pacquiao has met with President Aquino and explained the deficien-cies.

“He was helpful and I’m very thankful,” said Pacquiao, who entertained some politi-

cians at his palatial suite on the 61st floor of a Mandalay Bay hotel

Pacquiao’s advisers, for-mer Ilocos Sur Gov. Chavit Singson and Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza, arrived earlier than the others.

Other familiar presence in Pacquiao fights, Bacolod City Rep. Bing Leonardia and Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, came while Pacquiao was having dinner on Thursday.

By Harry SanchezCorrespondent

‘I am support-ing her drive’

By Shirley SyCorrespondent

The Duchess ofGreenery . . .

The Duke and Duch-ess of Cambridge were greeted by some of the biggest crowds of their tour to New Zealand today.

More than 15,000 people turned out to greet the royal couple in Cambridge - a town where the entire popu-lation is just 18,000.

And while all were dazzled by the Duch-ess, who was wearing a stunning green Er-dem coat, she admit-ted that her own hus-band wasn’t a fan.

She told local Evie Hayes, 68, who ad-mired her outfit: ‘I like it but William thinks it is a bit bright.’

Cambridge was named after George Wil-liam Frederick Charles, Queen Victoria’s first cousin and the second Duke of Cambridge.

For 39 years he was the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and a powerful figure in the British establishment.

Two British gener-als decided to lend his name to a settle-ment at the head of the Waikato region.

The couple arrived to defeating cheers as they entered the lo-cal town hall to meet dignitaries and laid two red roses on the nearby War Memorial.

After the formalities were over, the couple embarked on a walka-bout, shaking hands with dozens of members of the public, some of whom had slept out overnight.

The Duchess told Ali-son Pizzini, 75, a former midwife who comple-mented her on baby George: ‘He can be a bit of a handful sometimes.’

She was also taken aback by rather eye-catching replica or-nament of her hold-ing her son when they left hospital.

It belonged to Pam McCaroll, 74, from Kati Kati, who is a devoted royalist with more than 1,000 items of memora-bilia in her collection.

Mrs McCaroll who had driven an hour and a half and waited more than five hours to see the couple, showed Kate the $80-£40 - ornament.

‘Oh my goodness, she said, is that me?!’ Mrs McCarol said.

‘I think she thought I was offering it to her but I told her that it was the pride of my collection.

‘I love the royal family, the history and the continuity. When I was younger I used to pretend I was the Queen and stand on our veranda waving.’

Two elderly women camped out for two nights in wet weather just to see the couple.

‘It’s my own fault, I didn’t check the date,’ said Catherine Beazley. After walking round the town on the first night Ms Beazley, who had brought no more with her than a toothbrush and some soap, said she had to sleep under the town’s Rotunda after it started raining.

‘But I got cold and had to buy another jacket,’ said Ms Beazley, who lives in the nearby town of Kohukohu.

She said: ‘I’ve al-ways been brought up to believe that my family was related to the royals through my grandmother’s side.

A giant space shuttle on a humble farmer’s roof

He had always dreamed about building his own space shuttle ever since being a child.

But while most people would give up such an ambi-tion as impractical, this Chi-nese farmer could just not let the dream go.

Huang Yuzhan spent more than a year building the 7m high rocket and 3.8m high shuttle at his home in Xiapu village, in southern China’s Guangdong Province.

The rocket, complete with two boosters on either side, is now a prominent feature of the Xiapu skyline, rising high above the surrounding build-ings.

The impressive structure, which appears to be made of ceramic tile, sits proudly on the top of the farmer’s house.

Mr Jian, a former navy of-

ficer, built the vehicle after his six-year-old son asked for a tank for his birthday.

He said: ‘I had a look around at what was available

on the market but nothing really fitted what I wanted, which was when I decided to have a go at making one my-self. I wanted the gift to be something really cool.’

The 31-year-old said he had originally decided to make a smaller working mod-el but when he realised he could easily get hold of parts such as tractor tyres and a truck engine at an affordable price, he decided to go the

whole hog and make a life-size replica.

He said: ‘I used to work on maintaining military aircraft and later I retired and start-ed work as a truck driver.

‘I did quite well and decid-ed to take some time out so I sold the truck but was then at a loose end – I don’t like doing nothing. So the idea for this came along at exactly the right time.’

It was a hard job keeping the project under wraps but 31-year-old Mr Jian said all the work was worth it when he finally pulled off the covers of the vehicle and showed it to his son at their home in the village of Mianzhu in China’s Sichuan province.

The proud dad had even donned his old military uni-form to take the camouflage-painted tank for a spin.

“A dream really come true”

SAYS The U.S. National Security Agency has been using the Heartbleed bug for at least two years to gather intelli-gence, it has been

claimed.The agency is believed to

have used the bug, which af-fects web servers and allows hacker to obtain supposedly secure information, to gather ‘critical intelligence’.

However, the agency has denied the claims, saying it would have been ‘in the na-tional interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability’.

Bloomberg quotes ‘two people familiar with the mat-ter’ in its damning report.

It says the agency found the Heartbleed glitch shortly after its introduction, ac-cording to one of the people familiar with the matter, and it became a basic part of the agency’s toolkit for stealing account passwords and other common tasks.

However, the Agency has denied the report.

‘If the Federal govern-ment, including the intelli-gence community, had discov-ered this vulnerability prior to last week, it w o u l d have been d i s c l o s e d to the com-munity re-sponsible for O p e n S S L . ’ it said in a statement.

‘When Fed-eral agencies discover a new vulnerabi l i ty in commercial and open source software – a so-called ‘Zero day’ vulnerability be-cause the devel-opers of the vul-nerable software have had zero days to fix it – it is in the national interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability rather than to hold it for an investigative or intelligence purpose.’

John Perry Bar-low of the Electronic Frontier Foundation tweeted ‘National Se-curity!? The NSA knew about and exploited #Heartbleed for two years, thereby leaving America’s finances open to plunder.’

Vanee Vines, an NSA spokeswoman, declined to comment on the agency’s knowledge or use of the bug.

If criminals found the flaw before a fix was pub-lished this week, they could have used it to obtain of passwords for online bank accounts, e-commerce sites, and e-mail accounts across the world.

Initially it was even claimed the Heartbleed flaw was deliberately created by government agencies to spy on us - until a developer has now come forward and con-fessed to causing the prob-lem.

German programmer Dr Robin Seggelmann told the Sydney Morning Herald he wrote the code, which was then reviewed by other mem-bers and eventually added to the OpenSSL software.

He admitted the

mistake itself was ‘triv-ial’, but added that its effect is ‘clearly severe’.

The code was added on New Year’s Eve in 2011 and no-one spotted the mistake until earlier this month.

‘It was a simple program-

ming error in a new feature, which unfortunately oc-curred in a security relevant area,’ Dr Seggelmann said.

‘It was not intended at all, especially since I have previ-ously fixed OpenSSL bugs myself, and was trying to con-tribute to the project.’

They are bragging the numbers again

The World Bank says the Philip-pines is poised to remain the fast-est-growing economy in Southeast Asia this year, as President Aquino’s administration ramps up infrastruc-ture and reconstruction spending to beat the clock in the last two years of his term.

The US Federal Aviation Admin-istration has announced it has up-graded the Philippines’ aviation safety rating to Category 1—a move that would allow Philippine air car-riers to expand not only their opera-tions in the United States but also their participation in the booming Philippine tourism industry. And in another piece of good news, the European Union announced that Cebu Pacific Air has been granted approval to fly to Europe, becom-ing the second local air carrier af-ter Philippine Airlines to potentially benefit from the significant market of European tourists and continent-based overseas Filipino workers availing themselves of faster flights to and from the Philippines.

Malacanang is on the tout again to brag about the thing - essentially the numbers. But as inflation con-tinues to rise and poverty rates are not showing signs of relief, the only problem for the government now is to convert the numbers into edible results.

Fastfood chains arelosing the essence

We reported on page 10 that a woman vowed not to eat again on the Subway chain because one em-ployee called her a “big mama”.

From the start, the fastfood chains are a sign of a colonization. But this colonization shown is not a good thing to ponder about.

Fastfood employees should have a sense of respect to the customer. People would come to them for the food and service and not for a one-hell-of-a-beating.

It is just right that the woman signalled Subway’s loss of one loyal customer on its rank, unless they cool off the success’ proudness.

Is the NSA using the Heartbleed bug to spy the people?

Dr S e g g e l -

mann said the flaw was missed by him and a review-er, who appears to have been

Dr Stephen Henson, ac-cording to the logs.

OpenSSL is an open-source program which any-one can contribute to and improve.

Changes are submitted and reviewed before being added to the final release.

Websites are then sent this release to update their systems.

This meant the error

moved from development team to the released version and eventually the websites without being identified.

The Heartbleed bug lets hackers eavesdrop on sup-posedly secure communica-tions.

It was uncovered by a team of researchers from Google Security and Code-nomicon in the OpenSSL cryptographic software.

Affected sites, including Google and Facebook, have fixed the problem, but its us-ers have been complaining they’re being left in the dark

as to what it means for their personal data.

Meanwhile, there are still thousands of websites who are yet to fix the problem, or officially announce the fix - leaving their users in limbo.

Affected sites include a number of Google services, including Gmail and You-Tube, Facebook, Tumblr, Ya-hoo and Dropbox.

All of these sites have been patched and security experts are advising people to change their passwords on these accounts, even if the sites themselves aren’t issu-

ing the advice. Yahoo is the only major

site that has explicitly said its users should change their password.

Graham Cluely from se-curity software company Sophos told MailOnline that while it is difficult for web-sites to contact individual members directly - and they are not duty bound to do so - given the scale of the flaw, they could be doing more.

For example, Cluely sug-gests Google could post a link on its homepage for any-one who is concerned about the bug.

‘This could link to helpful details and Google’s official statement about its services. It would also be helpful for the whole internet commu-nity because the site is so-widely used,’ he said.

In response to this, Goog-le told MailOnline: ‘The secu-rity of our users’ information is a top priority. We fixed this bug early and Google users do not need to change their passwords.’

It did not comment on whether it would be issuing a statement directly to users, however.

Dropbox tweeted saying it has patched all of its us-er-facing services and will continue to work to ‘make sure your stuff is always safe’, but would not com-ment further.

There is also confu-sion between what the companies are suggest-ing in terms of changing passwords, and what the security experts are advising.

People have been urged to change their details in response to the internet-wide bug, but it has emerged that chang-ing login details may not boost security at all.

Some experts are advising users to change all their passwords across every site they have an account for, while others are being a little more selective.

But it has been revealed that the effi-cacy of chang-ing your p a s s w o r d depends on the sites you have ac-counts for - and in some

i n s t a n c e s changing your login

details may be do more harm than good.

Cluely continued: ‘It is confusing and I understand why people are befuddled, but a [password] reset for everything is both unneces-sary, and potentially expos-ing.

‘Changing your password on a vulnerable site makes little difference because the site is still open to attack.

‘This means your old pass-word would have been at risk, but you’re also giving hackers access to your new password - a double whammy.

‘If a site hasn’t fixed the security flaw, or hasn’t told its users it has, then people should assume that site is vulnerable.

‘It’s good to assume that

all sites are vulnerable and be cautious, until the sites state otherwise.

‘My advice is only change the passwords on services that tell you they’ve fixed the problem.’

The flaw was introduced in OpenSSL in December 2011, and was ‘in the wild’ until Monday, when a new version fixing the flaw was re-leased.

The worst case sce-nario is that some-one found the flaw three years ago and has spent all that time scraping sites for personal

details. This does mean that if

users have bought anything online from affected, suppos-edly secure, sites, signed up to accounts, or sent personal emails during that time, this data is potentially at risk.

Unfortunately, changing your address and credit card details aren’t as simple as changing a password.

The problem with high-lighting the flaw - despite the fact it has now been patched - is that people from around the world are running code to find affected sites.

Some of these people are curious security researchers and IT teams, but it could also suddenly be on the radar of would-be hackers and cy-bercriminals.

This makes the time be-tween the flaw being found, and when the sites patch the problem as key - and the de-tails may be more vulnerable now than they were before. ‘We don’t know if someone has been exploiting the flaw beforehand so I don’t think we should leap to any conclu-sions,’ continued Cluely.

‘However, in security its always best to assume the worst and restart from scratch where possible. It would be irresponsible to give blanket advice like changing all your passwords.’

This is because the fault is with the code used to build encryption software used by the sites as a whole, not just the user’s account.

As a result, the onus is on the sites to fix the problem, but as the flaw is thought to affect so many websites, this may take some time.

It all depends on wheth-er the site uses Open SSL without any other encryption.

The Heartbleed bug lets hackers eavesdrop on supposedly secure

communications.It was uncovered by a

team of researchers from Google Security and Code-nomicon in the OpenSSL cryptographic software.

The software offers en-cryption services, such as when people log into internet banking, or into a webmail service like Yahoo.

The fault lets a hacker craft an attack which, under the right conditions, will re-turn small chunks of informa-tion from the remote system or service. ‘The big sites fixed the problem very quickly be-cause they have the resourc-es to do so. In some cases the affected sites outsource IT teams, and there will be small and medium businesses.”

The woman who was insulted bySubway worker’s‘big mama’ jibe

A California woman struggling with her weight was outraged after she said a Subway employee scrawled the words 'Big Mama' on a box containing her order.

Allison Brown, of Murrieta, said she stopped by the Subway eatery on Hacienda Drive in Vis-ta two weeks ago to pick up lunch for herself and her husband.

The woman ordered a 6-inch tuna sub sand-wich and two flat-bread Flatizzas, paid for the food and went on her way.

It was not until she arrived home that she discovered the hurtful message written in a black marker across the lid of one of the Fla-tizza containers.

‘I was hurt. I was devastated. I was crying,’ Brown told 10News, explaining that she has al-

ways been sensitive about her weight.The woman said she has been regularly din-

ing at Subway after being inspired by the fran-chise’s spokesman, Jared Fogle, who report-edly shed 225lbs by eating off the fast-food eatery's menu.

When an outraged Mrs Brown reached out to the owner of the Vista Subway to complain about his worker’s behavior, the man apolo-gized and said that his young staffer just didn’t know any better.

Brown has retained an attorney, Dan Gille-on, who sent a letter to Subway’s corporate of-fice asking the fast food giant - which has near-ly 41,0000 locations in 105 counties - to hire a third party to conduct anti-discrimination sen-sitivity training for its staff.

Philippine negotiators are just about ready to submit proposed “key points” for an enhanced defense coopera-tion agreement that would give the United States wider access to Philippine mili-tary bases, raising specula-tion that the deal could be ready in time for US Presi-dent Barack Obama’s visit on April 28-29.

“This round brought us much closer to finding full consensus, and the draft provisions on key points of an enhanced defense cooperation will be submitted to the President for his review,” said Defense Under-secretary Pio Lorenzo Batino in a statement released by the defense department.

The Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose Cuisia Jr., expressed optimism that negotia-tions for the security deal will have already been concluded by the time Obama arrives.

The proposed “Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation” will allow the US wider access to Philippine military bases amid in-creasing Philippine tensions with China in the West Philippine Sea.

Batino said consensus was reached on “key provisions and mo-dalities that would reflect, among others, full respect for Philippine sovereignty, nonpermanence of US troops and no US military basing in the Philippines and a prohibition against weapons of mass destruc-tion.”

The draft agreement was de-scribed as “anchored on mutuality of benefits.”

It states that the US access to and use of “Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) facilities and areas will be at the invitation of the Philippines and with full respect for the Philippine Constitution and Philippine laws.”

The agreement would also state that the US would “not establish a permanent mili-tary presence or base in the territory of the Philippines.”

The Philippine Constitu-tion prohibits the establish-ment of foreign military bases on Philippine soil.

“Furthermore, the United States has agreed that any equipment and matériel that the US military may bring into the country ‘shall not in-clude nuclear weapons,’” the statement said.

The agreement will also include the protection of the environment, human health and safety.

The Philippines is seeking a stronger defense coopera-tion with the US as its terri-torial dispute with China in-tensifies.

The US plans to “rebal-ance” its forces in the Asia-Pacific region, and has similar arrangements with Australia and Singapore, as part of its strategy to contain China’s growing military power.

“After 15 years of the Vis-iting Forces Agreement and given current realities, chal-lenges and opportunities, the Philippines is ready for a heightened level of defense cooperation. This agree-ment, which should stand on mutual trust, is an idea whose time has come,” Batino said.

Batino chairs the Philip-pine negotiating panel whose members include Ambassa-dors J. Eduardo Malaya and Lourdes Yparraguirre, Jus-tice Undersecretary Francis-co Baraan, and Defense As-sistant Secretary Raymund Quilop.

The panel will submit the draft provisions to Mr. Aqui-no “soonest,” Malaya said in a text message.

“While the panels con-cluded the eighth round of negotiations, work continues in their respective capitals,” Malaya said. The talks began in August last year amid Chi-na’s increasing aggressive-ness in claiming territories in the South and East China Seas, engaging the Philip-pines and Japan in a bitter maritime row.

With the changing region-al security landscape, the Philippines and the US have no other option but to “make our alliance stronger if we are to maintain international and regional security,” Yparragu-irre said in the statement.

She said the proposed agreement is “a step toward realizing that objective.”

Yparraguirre described the agreement being negoti-ated as a “new model of se-curity engagement” for the Philippines and the United States.

“As we strive to further enhance our security coop-

eration, we are looking into new dimensions of significant strategic and operational val-ue,” she said.

Batino said the proposed agreement would provide the Philippines the “critical and timely support” its armed forces needs for its moderni-zation to achieve a minimum credible defense posture.

It also provides for a “more expeditious humani-tarian assistance and disas-ter relief and the provision of jobs and other economic op-portunities through the local goods and supplies procure-ment that will be made by the United States military.”

US to protect alliesThe US has categorically

said it will protect its allies, the Philippines and Japan, which are engaged in ter-ritorial disputes with China in the South and East China Seas.

The Philippines has filed a case with a United Nations tribunal to nullify China’s taking control of shoals and reefs within its 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone.

China, which claims vir-tually all of the South China Sea, claims that the areas are in the nine-dash-line marker of its official map.

Manila will be Obama’s last stop in a four-nation swing through Asia, which in-cludes visits to Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.

His wife, Michelle, is not expected to accompany him on the trip, a “working visit that has some characteristics of a state visit,” Cuisia said.

Details of the visit are still being worked out by the White House, said the envoy, but Obama is already con-firmed to be meeting with President Aquino and his Cabinet.

“[The details] are still be-ing worked out by the White House. We don’t have the de-tails. What we know is, he is going to have a meeting with President Aquino, and of course some Cabinet mem-bers. He’s probably going to visit the American Cemetery, but the other activities are still being worked out,” Cui-sia said.

“I think the important thing is to precisely reaffirm the strong military and secu-rity alliance, strong economic relations and people-to-peo-ple exhanges that we’ve had between the US and the Phil-ippines for so many years,” he told reporters following a speech before Philippine business leaders in Makati on Friday.

Obama, who began his first term as US President in 2009, and Mr. Aquino, who was elected president in 2010, have officially met at least three times: in New York in 2010 and 2011 and at the White House during Mr.

Aquino’s working visit to the US in 2012.

The last US presidential visit was that of Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, who made a nine-hour visit in October 2003.

Asked whether Obama will visit typhoon-hit Eastern Visayas, as earlier speculated, Cuisia said the US President had no room for that on his itinerary.

The envoy said he knew of earlier Philippine plans to request a long-range patrol aircraft and additional C-130s from the US.

Cuisia also confirmed that the US military provided some assistance to the Philip-pines in strategizing a recent resupply and troop rotation mission’s evasion of Chinese Coast Guard ships that tried to stop it from getting to the Ayungin Shoal.

Cuisia said US support to the mission was part of its regular activities under its commitment to Philippine defense under the Mutual Defense Treaty and the Visit-ing Forces Agreement.

The US has expressed its commitment to defend the Philippines in the face of ag-gression, most recently reit-erated by US Defense Sec-retary Chuck Hagel during a visit to China earlier this week.

Friends: Mr Obama vowed that America will protect the Philippines

Pact rushed before Obama goes here

The world’s camper

It is the ultimate recreational vehicle - and send to make one four year old extremely happy.

The KiraVan, a giant custom built off road truck, is capable of travelling almost anywhere in the world and was designed by 61 year old Cali-fornian inventor Bran Ferren.

The incredible interior boasts everything from a fully stocked office, kitchen and bedroom, to a popup tent on the roof for Kira, Ferren’s four year daughter the truck was designed for.

Bran Ferren, the 61 year old cofounder and chief creative officer of Applied Minds, a world-renowned tech and design firm whose on-the-record customer list includes General Motors, Intel, and the US Air Force, has spent four years traveling the world to talk to experts as he final-ised the truck’s design.

The huge six-wheeled vehicle can drive down mud-swamped roads, and even rock covered roads thanks to kevlar reinforced tyres.

It will be able to travel up to 2,000 miles with-out resupply and navigate slopes as steep as 45 degrees thanks to a special suspension system.

The cockpit also has a special vibration re-ducing chair, as well as control for drones that can fly ahead to check traffic.

However, while the truck itself is impressive, the trailer is even more so.

At 31 feet long and more than 10 feet high, it is better equipped than most homes.

It has an ecofriendly bathroom, a custom-designed kitchen where meals can be prepared, along with storage space for two weeks of trave-ling.

The world’s camper

Who told you to siesta? Risk of early death by ¾ in short nap...

It seems a pretty harmless occu-pation, but taking an afternoon nap can knock years off your life, say re-searchers.

British adults who sleep for an hour or more in the day increased the chances of premature death by almost a third, scientists found.

The biggest risks appear to be as-sociated with lung diseases, such as bronchitis, emphysema and pneu-monia.

Adults who nap every day are up to two-and-a-half times more like-ly to die from respiratory illnesses than those who don’t.

Researchers said that this could be because napping triggers in-flammation in the body.

However, the findings, published in the American Journal of Epide-miology, also suggested that dozing during the day could be a signal that the person already has lung disease.

Experts at Cambridge tracked more than 16,000 British men and

women over 13 years.They studied adults who, in the

late nineties, signed up to a major research project investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle on can-cer.

As part of the project, volunteers gave details of their sleeping habits – including whether they took a nap in the day.

Researchers then followed them up for 13 years and recorded the number of deaths – just over 3,000 – and what caused them.

When they matched mortal-ity rates with sleeping habits, they found the risk of death increased slightly by about 14 per cent in peo-ple who dozed less than an hour in the day. But if their naps lasted more than an hour, the risks increased by 32 per cent. When they looked at causes of death, they found the chances of dying from a respiratory illness more than doubled if naps lasted over an hour.

But the report added: ‘It remains plausible that napping might be an early sign of system disregulation and a marker of future health prob-lems.’

Professor Jim Horne, from the Sleep Research Centre at Loughbor-ough University, said short naps can still be a major help.

He said: ‘The findings actually show that the great majority – about 85 per cent – of those people who napped less than one hour were at no greater risk.’

He said it is possible that people in the study with serious and incur-able lung illnesses might even have benefited from snoozing in the day and that napping ‘may not have has-tened death but delayed it’.

Last year, a study in China – where taking a post-lunch snooze is very popular – found napping for more than 30 minutes at a time raised the chances of developing type two dia-betes.

Many Filipino veterans of World War II have died, leav-ing behind 14,093 others, many of them aged 90 and above, as of March, accord-ing to the Philippine Veter-ans Affairs Office (PVAO).

The oldest veteran, 106-year-old retired Capt. Fernando Perez Javier who resides in Baguio City, said the PVAO kept track of them by requiring them to send monthly photographs of themselves holding up the day’s newspaper, similar to the “proof of life” often associated with kidnap vic-tims.

Javier said it was an odd routine he had to follow to

keep his records up to date.The surviving freedom

fighters who fought the in-vading Japanese forces from 1941 to 1945 served with the United States Armed Forc-es in the Far East and the old Philippine Scouts, the PVAO said.

Some came from the ranks of guerillas; some of them were recognized be-fore and after the creation of the military service board.

Many veterans were among the 60,000 Filipino soldiers who were forced to join the Death March begin-

ning on April 9, 1942, after waging the last defense of Bataan for three months.

Like many veterans, Javier said he was not hap-py with the bureaucracy.

He claimed that his mo-nthly checks had stopped arriving recently. “It’s not much but it could help with the household expenses,” he said.

Javier lives at his Cam-das Village home with the family of his caregivers who have served him loyally for years. He said he financed the education of a caregiv-er’s daughter who is now a certified midwife.

The PVAO said the sur-

viving war veterans counted among the 178,133 people who were receiving pension benefits from the govern-ment.

Veterans who fought af-ter World War II were mem-bers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philip-pine Expeditionary Force to Korea and the Philippine Civic Action Group.

According to the PVAO, the 178,133 beneficiaries get old-age pension of P5,000 monthly, total administra-tive disability pension of P1,700 monthly and death pension of P1,000 month-ly or disability pension of P1,000 to P1,700 monthly.

These amount to around P11 billion yearly. Veterans of wars and military cam-paigns, surviving spouses and orphans get care, ben-efits and aid from the govern-ment as guaranteed by Sec-tion 7 of Article 16 of the 1987 Constitution.

The PVAO said the Aquino administration had reduced the P25 billion worth of ar-rears in the total administra-tive disability (TAD) pension for 17,817 living World War II veterans from 1994 up to 2009 when it paid them P2.877 bil-lion in 2013. This brought up the TAD payments to P6.93 billion.

Republic Act No. 7696, the amendments to RA 6968, which upgraded and standardized the benefits of military veterans and their dependents, entitles war veterans to a P1,700 month-ly TAD pension when they reach 70 years old. The gov-ernment, the PVAO said, paid P27.3 million for the hos-pitalization of 1,563 veterans and their dependents in 2013.

Numbers of World War Two soldiers are dwindling down

Pacquiao wants thepayback as he is theslight favorite to win

Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao wants payback for being on the wrong side of a controversial decision, while unbeaten American champ Timothy Bradley seeks re-demption in their rematch Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

Although Pacquiao, 35, remains a slight favorite over the younger and prime Brad-ley, the narrative of Pacqui-ao-Bradley II has changed since the first fight.

Bradley is coming off two impressive victories, his only fights after Pacquiao.

First, the 30-year-old Palm Springs, California, na-tive survived an uncharacter-istic slugfest with Pacquiao’s hard-hitting sparring partner and now light welterweight champ, Ruslan Provodnikov.

He then outboxed and outworked Pacquiao rival Juan Manuel Marquez, who knocked out Pacquiao cold in December 2012 in his fourth fight with the Mexican counterpuncher.

Pacquiao, who was try-ing to finish off the bloodied Marquez, was floored face-first by a perfect counter right hand to the jaw with barely a second left in the sixth round, one the biggest knockouts in boxing.

Pacquiao returned to the ring last November and dominated Mexican Ameri-can slugger Brandon Rios, a former world lightweight champ, in a trailblazing pro-motion in Macau, China by Top Rank Inc.

“It’s commendable that Manny has come back after, and I say this with the ut-most respect, such a trau-matic and devastating loss to Juan Manuel Marquez,” said boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard, one of the best wel-terweights of all time.

“It’s seldom that a fight-er will ever recover from a defeat like that. [Roberto] Duran came back after a similar knockout to Tommy [Hearns] but Duran was all about heart and his head was totally in the game,” Leonard was quoted in a RingTV.com exclusive by Tom Gray.

By Harry SanchezCorrespondent

Respected boxing com-mentator Larry Merchant thinks Pacquiao-Bradley II is “a virtual toss-up.”

Merchant said Pacquiao’s dominant victory over Rios showed that Filipino icon has recovered from the Marquez loss and even showed that he can box and “reinvent him-self like a pure boxer.”

This is much unlike the

“tsunami who attacked and swarmed his foes,” Merchant added, which has made Pac-man a global icon.

But Merchant said Pac-quiao can’t hope to beat the much-improved Bradley by trying to outbox him.

“[Pacquiao] has to assert himself. He has to box and bang at the same time,” said Merchant by phone Tuesday

night from his home in Santa Monica, California. “He has to seize control of the fight — be relentless but not care-less.”

Merchant, who is expect-ed to do the international coverage for the rematch, thinks Bradley deserves cred-it for his superb performanc-es against Provodnikov and Marquez.

“Bradley is still in his prime and is hungry. He has dramatically shown in his two previous fights that he is a fighter to be reckoned with,” Merchant said. “Bradley had two outstanding fights and proved himself a war-rior against a hard-punching brawler like Provodnikov. He later outwitted and outboxed a great counterpuncher.”

Collecting more money from them is unfair says hotel and eatery owners

Saying that it is “grossly un-fair” to free port tourism, traders have petitioned the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) to stop collecting the environ-mental and tourism administra-tive fee (ETAF) from business es-tablishments here.

At least 30 businessmen, rep-resenting several tourism-related establishments here, have signed the petition asking SBMA Chair Roberto Garcia to seek a “more logical solution” to address en-vironment protection instead of forcing their customers to foot the bill.

The SBMA began collecting the fee on March 4 from visitors entering the Subic free port.

Packaged like value-added tax, the fee is collected from Sub-ic enterprises each time a visitor consumes any commodity in Sub-ic or takes up lodging inside the free port.

“We are appealing to the chair to scrap this present system of collecting the ETAF and opt for the most logical and less compli-cated system, which is to simply collect the fee at the entrance,” the businessmen said in their pe-tition.

Those who signed the petition were owners, managers and rep-resentatives of several hotels and restaurants inside the free port.

“We are for the environment,” they said. “But we abhor the thought that we are the only ones

who are made a clear target here in the guise of imposing the ETAF on our clientele.”

The SBMA has required its locators to collect P20 for every person who enters Subic’s theme parks, beaches and other tourism

establishments where fixed entrance fees are charged.

The SBMA has also di-rected the collection of an extra P100 for every person who plays for a whole day at golf courses and an addition-al P100 for every room rented out per night at hotels and other accommodation facili-ties in the free port.

The agency was also poised to collect the equiva-lent of two percent from

gross purchases in restau-rants, wellness and massage centers, and other establish-ments, but the SBMA de-ferred this to provide owners more time to prepare their systems.

“Sad to say, it is very clear that you are penalizing our visitors and patrons by im-posing additional fees every time they avail of our ser-vices,” the businessmen told

Garcia in their petition.They said they would like

the SBMA to provide them with details of a comprehen-sive tourism development plan for the free port for which the ETAF is to be col-lected.

“All we got were vague pronouncements on how the ETAF will be used to benefit the tourism-related outlets,” they said.

The businessmen also proposed that the SBMA col-lect the ETAF “directly from tourists at all entry points” of the free port instead of col-lecting this through the Sub-ic establishments.

Garcia has yet to respond to the petition. But he had said the funds that would be generated from the ETAF would be used for programs to mitigate the carbon foot-

print of tourists and visitors.He had also said the

SBMA had consulted the business sector about the ETAF.

Garcia had rejected pro-posals to collect the fee at the entrances of the free port, arguing that it would be dif-ficult for the port employees to distinguish tourists from zone residents.

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“Penalizing the visitors by more fees to be paid”

Traders slam impunity in the PhilippinesInternational fair trade groups

have called on President Aquino and the Philippine government to solve the murder last month of fair trade center head Romeo Capalla.

In separate letters addressed to the President, the Italy-based Al-tromercato and iCOOP Korea also called on Philippine authorities to ar-rest Capalla’s killers and uncover the motive for the attack.

“We are against impunity on ex-trajudicial killings and we demand justice for Romeo Capalla,” Vittorio Rinaldi, Altromercato chair, said in an April 8 letter.

“We [call for a] stop [to] addition-al killings of human rights activists [and] economic, social and develop-mental workers,” his letter added.

Altromercato is the biggest fair trade organization in Italy and one of the largest worldwide.

At least two men gunned down Capalla in front of the public mar-ket in Oton town, Iloilo province, on March 15 as he was helping his 90-year-old mother-in-law board his sport utility vehicle. He died of bullet wounds in the head before reaching Western Visayas Medical Center in Il-oilo City.

An hour after Capalla’s killing, unidentified men also burned a truck and other pieces of equipment of a muscovado sugar mill operated by a partner of Capalla’s group, Panay Fair Trade Center (PFTC), in Janiuay town, Iloilo.

Capalla, 65, and the younger brother of Davao Archbishop Emeri-tus Fernando Capalla, chaired the board of directors of PFTC and was

its general manager for more than 12 years.

Police last month filed a murder complaint against one of the alleged gunmen—Julie Cabino—and four other unidentified persons, but no ar-rests have been made. Investigators have also not determined the motive for the killing.

In his letter, Rinaldi expressed dismay over the killing of Capalla and the attack against PFTC.

“PFTC is certainly one of the most important and trustworthy part-ners, as well as a leading member, of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Asia and WFTO Global,” he said.

Capalla, Rinaldi said in his letter, was “an extremely committed, hard-working and fair person who dedicat-ed his entire life to the improvement of the living conditions of poor people

by promoting fair trade activities.”“He had a true commitment to his

community and his country,” Rinaldi said.

The iCOOP Korea, the biggest consumer cooperative in South Ko-rea, said it was “deeply shocked and angered” by the killing of Capalla and the burning of the muscovado mill.

It also called on Philippine offi-cials and law enforcement agencies “to take strong and prompt actions” to arrest those responsible.

Fair trade is an organized social movement that aims to help produc-ers in developing countries to foster better trading conditions and pro-mote sustainability.

It advocates the payment of a higher price to exporters as well as higher social and environmental standards.

Mar Roxas’ � 4b bonanzaGiving away money for Capiz as part ofGPBP fund projectCHRISTMAS came during Lent for the survivors of Su-pertyphoon “Yolanda” in the Visayas.

Playing Santa Claus to his fellow Visayan, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said on Thursday the national government was making available almost P4 billion in financial assistance to the typhoon-ravaged communi-ties of Western and Eastern

Visayas. The P4 billion is apart from the almost P1.8 billion in rehabili-tation funds that the government has started distributing to typhoon-stricken cities and mu-nicipalities in three re-gions in the Visayas, Roxas said at an orien-tation seminar on the Recovery Assistance on Yolanda here.

“Advance Happy Easter. May you spend your money wisely to help your [constitu-ents],” Roxas told local officials of Capiz as he handed over more than P200 million in rehabili-tation aid for his home province.

The interior secretary, who flew here a day after distributing more than P800 million in rehabili-tation financial assis-tance to Leyte province, announced a new initia-tive in which P1.88 billion for Western Visayas and P1.82 billion for Eastern Visayas in financial aid had been allotted by the Aquino administration.

Some towns in these two regions, which bore the brunt of the killer ty-phoon when it wrought havoc on the Visayas five months ago, are known to be among the poorest in the country.

Roxas said the almost P4-billion financial aid was part of the P20-bil-lion Grassroots Partici-patory Budget Process (GPBP) project that is funded through the an-nual national budget.

The funds are meant to finance various pov-erty-alleviation projects identified and recom-mended by the local pov-erty reduction council composed of people’s organizations (POs) and nongovernment organi-zations (NGOs), he ex-plained.

“Under this system, the projects to be funded by the government will not come from politi-cians and elected offi-cials, but by the home-owners’ associations,

By Daniel Sta AnaChief Correspondent NGOs and POs themselves,”

he said.“But not all proposed pro-

jects will be approved. They have to have a give-and-take system and prioritize projects that they have unanimously decided to fund,” Roxas said.

Asked why the multibil-lion-peso fund was released to the two Visayan regions at almost the same time as the rehabilitation aid, he said: “The GPBP is part of the General Appropriations Act. The fund will be allocated with or without Yolanda.”

“The GPBP is a new initia-tive that encourages people’s participation not only in pro-ject identification, but also in monitoring project imple-mentation,” Roxas said in a statement.

“With the GPBP, no one will be left behind from the ‘straight path,’” he said, us-ing President Aquino’s anti-corruption slogan.

Roxas reminded the local officials that the rehabilita-tion fund should be used only for the repair and construc-tion of public markets, city or town halls and civic centers such as gymnasiums.

He warned “epal” politi-cians—or credit-grabbing, publicity-seeking govern-ment officials who plaster their images and names on government projects—from financing the construction of welcome arches and other beautification projects bear-ing their initials.

“You should spend these funds only for their intended purpose. You should not use these to build welcome arch-es or other borloloy (gim-micks),” he stressed.

Roxas also reminded the local officials to observe ut-most diligence and transpar-ency in spending taxpayer money, saying President Aquino himself would be closely monitoring the use of the funds.

Mercedita Francisco, mu-nicipal treasurer of Dao town in Capiz, thanked Roxas and the President for expediting the release of the rehabilita-tion assistance fund.

“We are really very happy because we needed money to repair our municipal hall and public market. This is a big morale boost for us,” Fran-cisco said.

A large chunk of the P1.8-billion rehabilitation budget went to 35 towns in Leyte province, which received more than P800 million.

Tacloban City, whose chief executive, Mayor Alfred Romualdez, engaged Roxas in a bitter dispute for alleg-edly politicking in leading the government’s relief dis-tribution, got the biggest al-location among local govern-ments, with P230.7 million.

The electorate have done a big mistake!

Why Iwas nothere . . .

Shady Aquino ratings up. . .INSTEAD of telling Al Vitangcol to shape up or ship out, Malacañang on Thursday defended the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) general man-ager against his critics.

Communications Secretary Her-minio Coloma rejected demands that President Aquino sack Vitangcol for worsening conditions at the MRT.

Coloma insisted that the conges-tion at MRT stations “comes from the natural increase in population and the propensity of commuters to use a par-ticular mode of public transportation over another.” “The increase in popu-lation, can you blame that on Mr. Vitangcol?” a visibly irked Coloma asked in Filipino in a press conference. “It seems a bit overreaching to blame everything on one official.”

Coloma did not like the idea of disgruntled commut-ers staging a rally and asking for Vitangcol’s head.

“There’s a process for that. What will happen to our country if one just needs to organize a mass action, de-mand the head [of one offi-cial] and it will be granted? I don’t think that’s the mark of a civilized society and a good democracy,” he said. Colo-

ma encouraged commuters to consider other modes of transportation until the gov-ernment acquires more train coaches to accommodate the huge volume of passengers.

BY the time I read this article, I was just as irked as Mr. Coloma. Does he mean that even

people who was born, um, let’s say 2014, are to blame for a problem made by people born ages away from them?

They have known from the start that the capacity of the trains are lower than the people who enter it.

If President Aquino even considered this thing since he was elected, maybe by last year the MRT problem may-be solved.

I’m also not happy at what Gloria Arroyo did dur-ing her administration but she did expand the LRT and reopened the PNR. At least, she did put a patch, that by this time, have worn out be-cause of mismanagement.

This just shows how inco-

petent the leader this elec-torate have produced. If only we have a leader better than this...

I I I I

THE heat is scorch-ing. I am writing this column in a bahay kubo out-side our humble

home somewhere in Cagay-an.

But there is something bad happening -- I suspect

President Aquino’s approval and trust ratings declined slightly nation-wide but these posted huge declines among the poor, and in Metro Manila and the Visayas, results of a Pulse Asia survey conducted last month showed.

Pulse Asia said Aquino registered an approval rating of 70 percent, down from 73 percent last December. His trust rating stood at 69 percent, a decline

from 74 percent.His trust rating dropped the most

among Class E, the poorest of the poor—to 69 percent from 80 percent. By area, the President posted the worst drop in approval and trust ratings in Metro Manila and the Visayas, large areas of which were devastated by Super Ty-phoon Yolanda last November.

there is a crisis in water. Just on Friday morning, when I took a bath, I noticed that the water coming out of our faucet was not the same vol-ume as before. It still emits a lot of water but 6 weeks ago, it had ejected more water than that.

FOR me, this is plain indication that there is a crisis. This is a complete opposite of what officials said be-

fore- there would be no crisis in water whatsoever.

This is a big mistake... No scare tactics to make us feel comfortable. But Shirley’s sure, they are now panicking outside the media to give the adequate water supply.

I I I I

HECK, not to be scaremongering but there is a lot of water coming. New reports show that

we are a receipient of water from melted ice poles. So . . .

Welcome back to me! I was not able to publish more of my previous col-umn because of some ap-pointments. Plus, I went in an outing with my family. And, I got busy with my grades as I fixed my clear-ance for promotion to Grade 9.

RetoolingAlso, my short-term

contract with OLW Sun have ended weeks ago, but they let me back be-cause of popular demand *whew* and people asking me to retool the format to a format of opinions, not just an extension of the news pages. Now, peo-ple who read me abroad

PICTURE OF THE DAYTRAFFIC Many people flock the MRT in the file photo, possibly thousands of them. This is my wallpaper for me now because it always make me laugh (see column there) as they are trying to escape the traffic (top left corner) in the EDSA.

The snoring battles... Every night, this couple would be trying ways to stop the noise

FOR nearly 20 years, my husband Jona-than and I have happily shared a marital bed — and with the late-night

partying and early parenting years behind us, we should be getting the best sleep of our lives.

But we’re not. There’s a new interloper between our crisp cotton sheets — the so-norous rumble and snort of heavy snoring. From both of us.

I’m 49 and Jon, a design

consultant, is 50. We’re not overweight, we’re healthy and fit, but the snorts and gasps have become ridiculous. It’s a race to hit the pillow every night, as whoever drops off to sleep first wins — leaving the other with no choice but to lie there and endure the ca-cophony.

OUR friends also complain about their partners’ sn-oring (although it’s usually the

women moaning about their men, not a mutual moana-thon like ours) and there’s a lot of talk about the slippery slope to separate rooms. In fact, two in five Britons say their partner’s snoring robs them of sleep, with one in five claiming it leaves them per-manently exhausted.

So Jon and I decide to try a different anti-snoring de-vice each night for a week. Will we find one that leaves us well-rested, or will we feel more sleep-deprived than

Iusually fall asleep re-ally quickly — Jon will half-jokingly count me down ‘ten, nine, eight…’ and I rarely hear him say five. But

my nights are ruined later, when I’m jolted awake by the sound of a JCB digger from his side of the bed. And it’s worse when he’s had a few drinks.

At times, I’ve banished him to a pull-out bed in one of the kids’ rooms, but that’s

now out of bounds as they complain his snoring keeps them awake. Our youngest has even resorted to wearing earplugs.

When I present Jon with our goody bag of snoring gadgets, he is thoroughly disdainful, muttering grump-ily about snake oil and ho-cus-pocus. But he eventu-ally selects his first weapon — SnoreBand Nasal Strips (£4.95 for a pack of 30), which you tape over the bridge of your nose.

These claim to stop your

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nostrils collapsing as you breathe at night — a common problem that can cause you to breathe (and there-fore snore) through your mouth. Jon says the strips do seem to keep his nostrils open — but sadly his snoring doesn’t improve.

The following night he tries NasiVent (£21.96 for four reusable tubes in different sizes). The idea is that you insert one of the hollow silicone tubes into each nostril to keep them open — maximiz-ing airflow and encour-aging you to breathe through your nose. But this device, too, has pre-cisely zero impact on Jon’s snoring.

It’s the same result on the third night with the Good Night Anti-Snoring Ring (£35, in sizes small, medium or large) which has to be worn on a lit-tle finger. The bumps on the inside of the ring put pressure on acupuncture points, which apparently stimulates the zones that free-up the nasal passages and adjust ‘natural bio-rhythms’.

Even less successful is the Snoring Solutions Jaw Strap (£17.50), which an extremely reluctant Jon lets me strap him into on the fourth night.

This piece of rub-ber, with adjusta-ble Velcro straps, is cunningly fash-ioned to keep

your mouth firmly shut and your jaw pulled forwards. This supposedly stops the soft palate at the back of your throat collapsing down to close off your airway (the most common source of ex-treme snore volume).

But Jon thinks he looks so ridiculous, he rips it off in disgust before falling asleep.

He is more keen to try the Orthopaedic Anti Snore Pillow (£16.99) on the fifth night. This supports your neck to encourage you to lie on your back — keeping your jaw from dropping into maxi-mum snore-volume mode.

Jon wakes in the morning and declares it a great suc-cess. But unbeknown to him, I’ve downloaded an ingen-ious app called SnoreLab on my mobile phone.

It records your snoring and produces a graph in the morning with peaks and troughs in-dicating your snore

volume and duration. And, at the touch of a button, you get to hear what you sound like in full nocturnal song.

Jon’s graph reveals a long series of extremely high snor-ing peaks (above ‘loud’ and bordering on ‘epic’ on the SnoreLab volume scale). That comfy pillow was clearly no match for a bottle of Cotes du Rhone and a good set of lungs.

The following night, Jon is surprisingly happy to give the Nytol Anti-Snoring Throat Spray a try, saying its deeply medicinal smell gives him

faith that it actually might work.

This product is a cross between shaving foam and spray cream, and you squirt it into the back of your mouth. It contains seaweed and rosehip extract that sup-posedly lubricate and soothe any tissue swelling — thus reducing the vibrations that cause snoring.

Jon certainly comes to bed with delightfully fresh breath and — to my aston-ishment — both of us enjoy the soundest, most snore-free sleep we’ve had for a very long time.

So the Nytol is a keeper. But Jon is determined to hang on to his beloved anti-snore pillow in the hope the combination of the two will give him the best chance of keeping his inner warthog at bay.

THE HUSBAND SAYS I don’t think my snoring is a prob-lem. It doesn’t bother me, ex-cept for when I very occasion-ally snort myself awake, or

when I (more com-monly) get woken by a swift kick to the shins from Louise. The real problem is having to lie there listening to her snoring. My wife’s repertoire ranges from an over-con-tent purring cat to a clapped-out Dat-sun that’s missing an exhaust. She also has the ability to rattle and splutter on the out-breath as well as the in.

And I’m wor-ried about her sleep apnoea — a condi-tion where the

throat muscles relax during sleep, causing the breathing to temporarily stop.

In Louise’s case, her breathing becomes more and more intermittent until she

goes into full-

blown apnoea ar-rest and stops breathing

for up to 25 seconds. At this stage I have CPR

drills running through my head and often think: ‘Is she dead?’ Then, just as I’m about to shake her, she’ll take

a huge gasp of air and get on with the proper job of snoring again. It can’t be healthy — for either of us. So Louise is the first to take a re-ally tough one for the team and try the ‘face-bra’, or Jaw Strap.

Even though it pushes her lips into a sexy ‘selfie’ pout, it’s a total passion killer. And in the morning I wake to find a stream of dribble trickling out of her forci-bly closed mouth — and

a good solid

snore reso-nating from her

throat. Neither of us had any idea she could snore so successfully with her mouth closed.

I’m not convinced that having either one of us trussed up like Hannibal Lecter is going to help things — and it certainly won’t add sparkle to our sex life.

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The world’s mo-st bling egg has been un-veiled in time for Easter - but

you’ll need to be a billion-aire to shell out for this extravagant one-off.

A cross between a Faberge egg and the Damien Hirst skull, the ‘Mirage’ is a unique gem that only the richest can afford.

The incredible or-nament has more than 1,000 diamonds on the outside ‘shell’ - worth £1.5million alone - 100 of which are a unique cut.

And the diamond-covered egg opens up to reveal an ornate globe, hand-crafted in 18-carat gold.

The globe’s top shell raises to reveal a delicate rock crys-tal dove, perched on a gold olive branch.

The dove and ol-ive branch were hand

carved in gold and were in-cluded as symbols of world peace.

Mirage has taken three years to make, with work car-ried out by the world’s elite craftsmen across three con-tinents.

Manfred Wild is the main man in charge of Mirage’s de-sign and assembly. And with millions spent in labour costs alone, that’s a heavy respon-sibility.

Vashi Dominguez, jeweller to the stars, has access to the private owner of this master-piece, a mystery collector.

It was not going to be sold, but Mr Dominguez claims he is working on persuading the anonymous owner to place it on the market.

The egg’s private owner had no intention of selling but Mr Dominguez believes if anyone did make an offer in the ‘multiple millions’ they might be able to strike a deal.

Diamond specialist Dominguez thinks Mirage is one of the most valuable jew-els ever created.

He said: ‘Mirage is, quite simply, one of the finest jew-els ever created.

‘The owner has said he has no intention of selling the wondrous piece, but if some-one really wants it I can see if we can come to an agree-ment.

‘The diamonds alone are worth more than £1.5 mil-lion while labour costs were around the same.’

At £5 million, Mirage would cost the same price as a very smart London home or 30 times the price of a Ferrari 458 Italia supercar.

However, Mr Dominguez believes the owner would end up wanting more.

The next night, things are even worse. Louise emerges from the bathroom smil-ing alluringly, then opens her mouth to reveal a monstrous plastic gum-shield clenched over her top and bottom teeth. This SnoreWizard pulls the bottom jaw forwards all night, keeping the airway past the soft palate clear.

Ap p a r -e n t l y, this is the bit where

the loudest snor-ing is produced and which, in Louise’s case, sometimes col-lapses, caus-ing her to stop breathing.

But she lies awake (so not snoring — bo-nus?), com-plaining that it has triggered a striking pain in her lower jaw and intolera-ble pressure on her top front teeth. She ditches it to get some shuteye.

Next on her list is Snore Gone a battery-powered unit the size of a large watch. You wear it on your wrist, and it

help-fully delivers a prickle of electrical current to your arm when it detects snoring. This supposedly wakes you, so you’ll turn over.

I t’s a barbaric instrument of torture, if you ask me, and superfluous. Why do either of

u s need electric shocks when the other is per-fectly happy to kick or prod (both effective wake-up de-vices)?

Besides, we can snore in

any position — on our back, on either side, even face-down — so chang-ing position is hardly go-ing to help. Unsurpris-ingly, that one didn’t last the night either.

The Anti-Snor-ing Ring is as ineffectual for Louise as it is for me, and the

Nasal Strips and NasiVent tubes don’t work either. Re-lief, when it finally comes, is in chemical form — the Helps Stop Snoring Throat Rinse and Throat Spray. Af-ter swilling and gargling with the rinse and blasting the back of her throat with the bitter-tasting spray, Louise had her best night’s sleep in ages — and so did I. The products contain essen-tial oils that ‘lubricate and tone’ the soft tissues at the back of the throat, stopping them from vibrating and col-lapsing. Louise also tried the Nytol spray but it made her retch. This has been an interesting week, involv-ing torture and humiliation, but hard evidence from the SnoreLab app reveals that both of us can sleep through deafening noises from the other — and there’s always the throat spray and mouth wash to freshen every snor-ing breath.

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ORNATE EGG FOREASTERCOSTS £5M

Yes, my dear... A marriage that started in the outbreak of WWII is still strong . . .

A husband cel-ebrating his 72nd wedding anniversary has revealed the se-cret to his long marriage - saying

‘yes, dear’.Inseparable Aquilla and

Catherine Brant - aged 99 and 95 - met in 1939 on the day World War Two broke out.

Aquilla, whose name is Latin for eagle, was in the St John Ambulance and was called to train others in life-saving skills.

The retired electrician was training a group of 12 men at a fever hospital in Dalton, West Yorks., where the future love of his life was working as a nurse.

When Aquilla needed some tea and sugar and was told to find Catherine to help him out they fell for each oth-er.

He said: ‘Yes, it was love at first sight. She was beautiful and still is.

‘We just love each other. Of course we’ve had our ups and downs like everybody else and someone once asked me how we’d stayed together so long.

‘I told them it was two lit-tle words: “Yes, dear”.’

He added that they rarely had a cross word and if they did they always sorted it out.

The aged lovebirds, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, now share an double room at Pilling House residential home in Skelmanthorpe.

Aquilla, who will turn 100 in December, said: ‘We try to argue things out and agree about it at the end. We’ve never come to any blows.

‘We have always lived har-moniously and Catherine is very understanding and loves everybody, even her enemies.’

Former nurse Catherine, who will be 96 next month, said: ‘You shouldn’t hate an-ybody. You should pray for your enemies, and it’s sur-prising how they will react when you do that.

‘I love people and Aquilla doesn’t love people as much. He’ll say: “Oh, is she coming again?”’

The romantics married on April 8, 1942 at Almondbury Church before spending a few days on honeymoon in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

They have been back to spa town since, trying to re-trace their steps, but were disappointed not to find where they stayed.

‘We saw lambs being born and Aquilla leaned back and

broke a chair but we never told anybody,’ smiled Cath-erine.

By the time of his wed-ding Aquilla had been called up into the Army while his wife continued working as a nurse.

When he was demobbed in 1946 he started work at a chemicals plant, he later moved to work for many years at a power station,

where he was a maintenance electrician.

Catherine worked as a nurse until she left to bring up her family. The couple went on to have three chil-dren Carl, Susan and Ha-zel, two grandchildren John and Amanda and four great-grandchildren Tom, Sam, Alexandra and William. Sur-rounded by his wooden carv-ings in their room Catherine

said Aquilla could mend any-thing. ‘There was nothing he couldn’t do. He must have saved us so much money over the years. ‘If a pan handle broke I would look forward to getting something new but he would get his soldering iron out and he would repair it. ‘He has even made his own false teeth but that’s another story. I’ll tell you that when he’s 100,’ said Catherine.

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he revelation took my breath away. Blinking at the computer screen, I re-read the words: ‘Your dad is mar-ried to my mum.

They have three sons - and I am one.’

I knew Dad had been mar-ried before, with children I’d never met. It was the use of the present tense that set my heart racing; Dad had told us he’d divorced long ago.

I’d found my half-brother on Facebook. Dad was es-tranged from his parents and siblings and, curious about my extended family, I’d been contacting people in the area with our surname.

Talk about opening a can of worms. We continued ex-changing messages and out it all came. How Dad had been living with his other family half the time: when he was away with ‘work’, he was ac-tually with them.

It was the real reason he’d never married Mum, too: eve-ry time any of us queried this he’d say: ‘We don’t need an expensive piece of paper to prove our love.’

If that’s not audacious enough, Dad had been lead-ing this double life for 28 years - since seven years be-fore I was born. So for my en-tire life, Dad had been lying to me, to my sister and to my mum.

I broke the news to Mum straight away and, dis-traught, she called him. She had thought he was away for work, as normal, but this time she told him not to come home from wherever he’d been. Apart from one or two cursory text messages, we have heard nothing from him since.

Six months on, perhaps not surprisingly, my mum, my sister Lauren, 25, and I are still struggling to come to terms with it all. Not only has Mum spent nearly three decades loving a man who was married to someone else, Lauren and I have had to deal with the fact our father is not the man we thought he was. While there are so many un-answered questions, there are also many answers.

I don’t think I’ll ever know why he did such a thing - per-haps it’s as simple as having his cake and eating it - but other things have clicked into place. I’d always wondered why I’d gone from being an upbeat, gregarious child to an introverted, distrusting teen on anti-depressants. Now I put it down to a con-tinuous gnawing doubt that all was not as it seemed.

I appreciate it sounds in-conceivable that Dad got away with it for so long, but his routine of staying with us for half the week and every other weekend was some-thing we grew up with.

We all believed that, for the rest of the time, his work as an accountant for a large

fruit and veg distributor kept him away. He blamed work for the fact he could never be with us on Christmas Day, and led us to believe it was why he was largely absent from our birthday celebra-tions. There was always talk of meetings up and down the country and overseeing early deliveries.

I have since discovered that in fact, in recent years, he has been working for an estate agent - so he even lied about his job.

When I was very young, Dad’s absences weren’t some-thing I questioned because it was how it had always been. In fact, I would still say we had a happy childhood grow-ing up in Blyth, Northumber-land.

My parents had met three years before Lauren was born: my mum, Moira, now 55, had been working in a lo-

cal pub and Dad used to pop in every lunch for a cheese and ham toastie. Of course she thought she’d met ‘the one’, while all along he was secretly married.

As I grew up, my parents seemed happy. They held hands, took us on holidays and weekends away.

As we were so close to my mum and my late grand-mother, I can’t say we missed Dad much when he was away. It was great when he was around but otherwise, we just got on with our lives.

But, through the prism of hindsight, I can see how his absence inspired a sense of worthlessness in me. It wasn’t until my early teens that doubts set in. I started to wonder if he had girlfriends. I confided in my grandmother, who tried to reassure me, telling me ‘not to be daft’ and that Dad was hard at work.

But any relief was only mo-mentary.

I was so concerned I broached the subject with my mum once or twice. She batted away my suggestions confidently: ‘Don’t be silly, he’s just working.’ It’s only lately that Mum has admit-ted she, too, had nagging doubts but pushed them to the back of her mind.

I think she clung to their talk of retirement plans. Both allotment-mad, they talked of buying somewhere rural and living the good life. Meanwhile my desire to im-press Dad became an obses-sion, meaning I took on far more studying than I could handle.

I was eventually diagnosed with depression aged 16 and given anti-depressants. Something Dad brushed off

with unhelpful comments: ‘Just smile, for God’s sake!’

When I went to university to study journalism, I saw him less and less. That’s not to say I wasn’t bitterly disap-pointed when he showed up late to my graduation last July on my 21st birthday and barely said a word.

In 2012, the family had been shaken by two terrible events in close succession. Mum started chemotherapy for cancer in the April. Four months later, my grandma died of the disease aged 85. Dad was absent throughout.

There were no stand-out moments when Mum’s sus-picions were raised. He was careful to keep his work life very private: we never met any of his colleagues, for example. Mum often com-plained when he missed birthdays and Christmases

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A SECRET ALL HIS LIFE

but his reply was always the same: he had no choice because he had to work hard to earn money for us all.

No one could have imagined Dad had been lying from the outset. He’d clearly been lying to his other family, too. When I got in contact with my half-brother on Facebook, he explained how he’d recently found a note from me in Dad’s office, but Dad brushed it off, making it sound like he didn’t have much to do with me.

When I told him Dad lived with us, he wrote: ‘And sleeps in the same bed as your mum?’

‘Of course,’ I replied.‘And does he come

home every other week-end? Does he say he’s working when he’s not there?’

From that I gathered he’d fed this other fam-ily, who live 20 miles away in Newcastle, the same lies. I wanted to find out more, but my half-brother clammed up, telling me he had to go because he want-ed to confront Dad.

I was at work in Bir-mingham so I phoned Mum straight away. Of course I’d rather have done it in person but she was too far away. ‘I think you need to sit down,’ I said. ‘Dad’s still with his ex-wife: in fact, he never divorced her.’

‘You’re joking?’ Mum gasped.

I could hear the quiver in her voice as I explained that, while the oldest of his sons, 34, knew about us, the young-er two - 32 and 27 - didn’t. As for whether the wife knew about us, my half-brother had said he wasn’t sure.

‘What are you going to do?’ I asked.

‘I’ll phone you back,’ said Mum.

In the meantime, she tried to call Dad. His phone was switched off, as usual, so she sent a text message: ‘I know your secret. Don’t come home.’ The response made my blood boil. ‘I’m sorry. I tried to do good by everyone, but just messed it up in all ways. I’m not a bad man. I just got it wrong in so many directions. I will have the consequences of losing everything and everyone but that’s my fault and it’s what I deserve.’

Self-pity and self-justifica-tion, that’s all he had to offer. I was disgusted - but desper-ate to know more of the story. I tried my half-brother again, but this time all I got were one-word answers. ‘Don’t you think we need to talk?’ I asked.

He wrote back, saying maybe one day but he didn’t think he could handle it now. I gathered he’d spoken to Dad but when I asked how his mum had reacted, he re-plied: ‘That’s none of your business.’

I managed to find pho-tos of his mum on his profile page: she had light blonde hair and seemed about the same age as Dad, who’s 61.

My half-brother has now deleted me as a friend on Fa-cebook. When I queried this, he said: ‘We don’t need to be in contact.’

This was a double blow, as not only did it mean I couldn’t

f i n d out any more informa-tion, but I would have liked to forge a relation-ship with my brothers. I still hope to do so one day.

It’s the reason I haven’t gone round there and made a scene: I didn’t want them to think badly of me. I don’t blame them because, like us, they were in kept in the dark. My sister, Lau-ren, was as shocked as Mum and me. She has chosen to maintain a relationship with Dad - albeit through text as he hasn’t dared to phone any of us - but there’s no disguising how much he has hurt her, too.

She sent him a text about her dis-appointment and he responded with the same pathetic excus-es and large dose of self-pity. They didn’t wash with me. I left him one voicemail saying, ‘Call me’ but he didn’t. I haven’t had a single word: no apol-ogy, no acknowledgement, nothing. That really hurts; it’s the final confirmation that I don’t matter to him.

Although Mum, Lauren and I are closer than ever, we have spent a lot of time cry-ing together. Everything we had believed in is a lie. Mum is inconsolable, torturing her-self that its her fault because she should have guessed. She feels so stupid that she hadn’t worked it out herself. Incredibly, our instinct was to blame ourselves. We just felt so foolish.

We also worried about what other people would think: we were the secret fam-ily, after all. Mum was - albeit unwittingly - the ‘other wom-

an’ . Would people judge us?

Thankfully the main re-action from friends has been disbelief: ‘Not Kevin!’ And then: ‘How on earth didn’t you know?’ That annoys me because it puts the onus on us, rather than Dad.

Two weeks after the rev-elation, Mum packed Dad’s belongings, drove to his other address - which I’d got from the electoral roll - and dumped them in the front garden. She hasn’t tried to contact Dad’s wife or any of his sons. Like us, they must be strug-gling to deal with the truth. Although Lauren wished Dad ‘Happy Christmas’ by text and told him about her engagement in January, she

o n l y had text responses with the ironic sign-off: ‘Send my love to your mum.’

I still haven’t heard a word. And that’s what hurts me most. I wish I didn’t care that he’s chosen to erase him-self from my life - but despite everything, he’s still my dad. I’m not saying I could for-give him, but surely it should be me rejecting him, not the other way round? Why am I the one bereft, nerves jan-gling with fear that it’s me who’s to blame?

Thankfully, I have Mum and her seven siblings to con-fide in when I feel down - not to mention my wonderful boyfriend Michael, 25, who

I ’ v e been with for two years.

Mum at least seems to be turning a corner. Last De-cember, she was given the all-clear from cancer and now feels she’s not going to waste a second more on a man who didn’t deserve her in the first place. It’s a little trickier for his children. Not a day passes when I don’t battle the urge to drive to his other home. Fear of making a scene in front of his other family stops me. But I really want Dad to face up to the impact of his actions. Perhaps seeing it in print will jolt him into some sort of contrition.

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They’re the words no wom-an ever wants to hear. In 30 years of relationship coun-selling I’ve worked with around 2,000 couples and I’ve learned the most com-mon reason a husband tells

his wife he doesn’t love her any more is because there’s ‘another woman’.

Discovering that your husband has fallen out of love with you or is ‘involved’ with someone else is sim-ply horrible.

Your heart races, it feels like a bag of cement is lodged in your stomach and your mind starts working over-time.

Why is he doing this, you ask? You’ve been a loyal and supportive wife, after all. He’s got a lovely home and children who adore him. What more could he want?

Of course you’re not perfect - who is? But you’re not the one sending in-appropriate texts to another woman. You’re just trying to hold the fam-ily together. If only he’d grow up and start acting his age.

Any woman who finds herself in this situation has my sympathy. Though there is always hope, the weeks and months ahead are going to be really tough. But while it might surprise you, the person whose be-haviour needs to change first is... you.

If your husband’s been behaving badly, understandably it’s tempting to label him as the problem, but this sidesteps your part in the unravelling of your marriage and what made him unhappy enough to look elsewhere.

Ultimately, the only person we can change is ourselves and that should be the first step to rescuing any mar-riage in crisis. Here, I show how, with a bit of honesty and several servings of humble pie, women can begin the process of reviving the most unsal-vageable marriage and win back the love of a cheating man.

The first step towards recovery needs you to commit to change. And while you’ve probably said you are sorry a million times before to keep the peace, have you made a full apol-ogy? This is one that acknowledges your unhelpful behaviour (eg taking him for granted), accepts your re-sponsibility (you’ve been so wrapped up in the children you’ve forgotten to be a wife as well as a mother), ex-presses sorrow and a determination to change, and is sincere.

In particular, do you need to apol-ogise for nagging, a habit that could be destroying your relationship?

Acknowledge that it must make him feel constantly criticised. Prom-ise not to nag again and that he

should say something if he catches you doing it. Though it is tempting to add an explanation for your nag-ging, it can sound as if you’re excus-ing yourself and therefore lessens the power of your apology.

Ultimately, if your husband thinks you spend the majority of your time complaining, nagging or getting an-gry, he will feel that all the joy has been sucked out of your relationship.

DON’T BAN CONTACT WITH THE OTH-ER WOMAN If your husband is still in touch with another woman, it’s tempting to lay down the law and say ‘no contact’. Understandably, you want her out of your life, but over and over again I’ve seen this backfire.

First, he’s been self-medicating his own unhappiness with attention from another woman, so if you cut off his ‘supply’, of course he’ll crave an-other hit.

Worse still, it’ll mean you start checking on his actions so he feels distrusted - not a good environment for working on your relationship. Plus it’s controlling behaviour, and who wants to be with a controlling part-ner?

DON’T COMPLAIN IF HE MOVES IN WITH HER While I’m not a fan of temporary separations - it makes it harder for you to communicate and there are fewer opportunities to work on your relationship - there’s an up-side to him moving in with the other woman.

His ‘true love’ will be tested for the first time. Slowly real life and day-to-day domesticity will intrude into their fantasy. He will have to deal with her surly teenage son. She will discover all his nasty habits. It is not exactly Romeo and Juliet.

As long as you don’t drive them together - by abusive phone calls, be-ing unreasonable about access to the children and so on - it is highly likely that their relationship will implode.

MEET HER YOURSELF A very personal decision that could make the situ-ation worse, but can also leave you with a better sense of proportion about their relationship and provide her with a more balanced picture of yours.

So she might find out, for example, you’re still having sex or have been reading her texts to your husband.

As one client told me after she confronted the female colleague her husband had been having an affair with: ‘This woman was a demon-like figure in my mind, making me ques-tion why I wasn’t good enough any

more for my husband.‘But she wasn’t any more attrac-

tive than me and, frankly, seemed very insecure and self-orientated.

‘I was reassured she had no deep feelings for my husband. The demons were exorcised the day I met her. I left feeling in control and relieved there was one less obstacle to rebuilding our marriage.’

A few words of warning. If you know where she lives, don’t go to her home on the spur of the moment - you will most likely be angry or frightened and this will not promote clear think-ing. Also, if you arrange a meeting by text, remember you are not two friends getting together for coffee, so put a time limit on it.

Remember that everything you say and do will most likely be relayed back to your husband, and don’t do anything - such as becoming aggres-sive - that could invite retaliation.

YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN FIRST I know this is controversial. Of course you put your children first! What’s the problem?

Well, the problem is that babies grow up, but some mothers still drop everything for their children.

One client set off on a three-hour round trip to her daughter’s college room to find her lost passport (be-cause her daughter was too busy to look); another had a copy of her daughter’s reading list so she could help with her coursework.

These are extraordinary exam-ples, but I have many of them.

If your husband believes he is just the father of your children, he will not feel loved by you and will begin to de-tach in order to protect himself from this depressing scenario.

Your sex life has lost its sparkThere have been some massive

strides since the sexual revolution of the Sixties. Everyone is more relaxed about talking about sex and women have been given more permission to enjoy sex, rather than simply doing it for men.

Though there is much to celebrate, relationship counsellors and society in general have been so busy stress-ing that no one should be forced to have sex they don’t want that

we’ve forgotten the other half of the equation: no one should have to do

without the sex they do want.

Some cou-ples I counsel are having sex as little as

three or four times a year. Men have very black-and-white attitudes to sex. They think if you don’t want sex with them, you don’t love them (and discount other reasons - such as be-ing tired, stressed or not feeling close enough).

If your husband feels that you don’t love him, he can start to feel en-titled to look elsewhere.

POOR COMMUNICATION On the sur-face, everything seems fine. Yes, there might be a few squabbles and sarcas-tic comments, but nothing to worry about.

And that’s the real danger. One partner - probably your hus-band - is feeling ignored, a second-class citizen in his own home.

Meanwhile, the oth-er partner - probably you - remains in bliss-ful ignorance. Or if you are aware of issues, you don’t think they are that serious.

With poor com-munication, what would have been a difficult but fixable p r o b l e m b e c o m e s i m p o s s i -ble to re-solve.

Want to win back a cheating husband? So eat humble pie

The serenade priest who sangon a wedding toeveryone’s joy

A priest stunned an Irish cou-ple by breaking out into song with a surprise rendition of Hal-lelujah at their wedding, leaving the bride crying with joy.

Father Ray Kelly surprised Chris and Leah O’Kane with the note-perfect performance during their marriage ceremony at Old-castle, Meath in Ireland.

The video of Father Kelly’s heartwarming performance was then uploaded to Youtube on Monday making the priest an internet hit after having 240,000 viewings in just two days.

During the marriage ceremo-ny, Father Kelly told the newly married couple and their family and friends gathered that he had a small surprise for them.

But nobody was prepared for his pitch perfect custom rendi-tion of the Leonard Cohen hit ‘Hallelujah’.

Father Kelly, who has been parish priest at Oldcastle, north-

By Girlie ManansalaFeatures Correspondent

west of Dublin since 2006, starts the song with the words: ‘We join together here today, to help two people on their way, as Leah and Chirs start their life together.’

He then tailors the rest of the song to the newlyweds who look stunned by the surprise performance before the bride Mrs O’Kane can be seen wiping away tears of joy.

Midway through the song Father Kelly then raises his eyebrows to the surprised couple, who both break out into laughter.

He then carries on with the song with one of the bridesmaids also wiping a tear from her eye and the other congregation members looking on surprised.

The priest, Ray Kelly then finishes the performance to rapturous applause and cheering.

300kph storms arenorm inthe PH

Storms carrying winds of at least 300 kph, like Su-pertyphoon “Yolanda,” are likely to be “the norm for the Philippines” as a result of climate change, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said, echoing findings made by a panel of climate experts submit-ted to the United Nations.

Salceda, who is also cochair for developing countries of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), said GCF is working on the details that would establish an initial $14 billion in funds for programs to deal with climate change worldwide.

GCF is a United Nations body which was formally established in 2011 with the goal of raising up to $100 bil-lion for international pro-grams to deal with climate change. Salceda was elected to the GCF Board that over-sees GCF in October 2013.

The Philippines could benefit from those funds. “Yolanda would no longer be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but could be the norm for the Philippines in the future,” said Salceda.

“We need to be pre-pared,” he added.

Yolanda (international na-me: Haiyan) left a wide swath of destruction in the central part of the Philip-pines and was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in recent history. At its height, Yolanda carried winds exceeding 300 kph, stronger than any other storm recorded in decades.

Outbreak affectingAsiantourists

A measles outbreak in the Philippines has infected 23 Singaporeans who had travelled there since Janu-ary, said an alert from the Ministry of Health (MOH).

They are among 80 people here having come down with measles so far this year. This is high, given that the annual numbers were 46 and 38 respectively for the past two years.

But the risk of an out-break here is low, said the MOH, as most people are vaccinated against this highly contagious disease.

It said that half the people who were infected here this year were young children who had missed their vaccination. Strait Times/Asian News Network

IS JESUS CHRIST MARRIED?Well, new evidence do show HE is...

Ancient revelation or extrabib-lical supposition? A contro-versial development points to what could be a missing text of the Holy Gospel, indicating that Jesus may have actually been married—and to some-

one believed to be named Mary.Whether it was Mary Magdalene

or some other woman who answers to the name of Mary, a common name in biblical times, no one is certain.

New scientific tests suggest that a fragment of papyrus in which Je-sus speaks of “my wife” is more likely an ancient document than a forgery, according to an article published on Thursday by Harvard Theological Review.

The text, which is written in Cop-tic and is roughly the size of a busi-ness card, specifically contains the phrase, “Jesus said to them, my wife.”

Karen King, a Harvard professor of divinity, said the papyrus probably dated back to eighth century Egypt, based on radiocarbon dating and tests on the ink’s chemical composi-tion.

“If it was written in the eighth or even the ninth century, it’s still an ancient document,” she said in a conference call on Thursday. “It’s not a modern forgery.”

But, she stressed, the fragment doesn’t prove that the histori-cal Jesus was actually mar-ried. Most reliable evidence from early Christianity is si-lent on Jesus’ marital status, King added.

If anything, she said, the papyrus provides insight into early Christian-ity’s debates over family life.

“Early Christians were extremely interested in whether or not they should marry or be celibate, or whether it was OK to have a family or

in 2012. Calling it the “Gos-pel of Jesus’ Wife,” her an-nouncement sparked debate among religious and ancient scholars. But the publication of her findings was delayed for the tests. King maintains the “gospel” moniker was ap-propriate.

While the papyrus is too small to discern anything de-finitive about who composed it, King argued on Thursday that the text belonged to a body of ancient texts that il-luminate facets of Jesus’ life.

“It contains a dialogue between Jesus and his disci-ples,” she said. “That would

normally put it in the catego-ry of gospel.”

King hopes the research puts to rest questions about the text’s authenticity.

But Brown University professor Leo Depuydt, in an analysis also published on Thursday by Harvard Theo-logical Review, was not con-vinced. He said the text con-tained grammatical errors that a native Coptic speaker would not make. King sug-gested in a phone interview that the text was written in an informal style that is found in other ancient Coptic texts.

Others have questioned

the mysterious provenance of the papyrus.

King said she obtained the text in 2011 from a donor who wants to remain anony-mous. That owner had pur-chased the text in 1999 from a collector who, in turn, had acquired it in East Germany around 1963.

Contacted by AFP, Vati-can spokesman Feder-ico Lombardi refused to call into question King’s competence as a historian but said that “we do not re-

ally know where this little scrap of parchment came from.”

“This does not change anything in the position of the Church which rests on an enor-mous tradi-tion, which is very clear and unani-m o u s ” that Je-sus Christ was not

whether one should remain virginal,” King said.

King said the papyrus, which contains about eight partial lines of text, appears to make the case that moth-ers and wives can be disciples. Jesus references his moth-er, wife and another female as his disciples apparently discuss whether a woman—identified as “Mary”—can join their ranks.

According to King’s trans-lation, the text then reads, “Jesus said to them, my wife…” that is followed in the next line by “… she is able to be my disciple …”

King originally revealed the existence of the papyrus

By Girlie ManansalaFeatures Correspondent

Intriguing: The Coptic manuscript says that Jesus (right) is married

IS JESUS CHRIST MARRIED?married, he said.

“This changes nothing in the portrayal of Christ and the gospels. This is not an event that has any influence on Catholic doctrine,” he said.

A professor at the Prot-estant Faculty of Theology in Paris, Jacques-Noel Pe-res, pointed out the text was from a relatively late period.

“I have never read texts from any preceding period which spoke about the verac-ity of Jesus being married,” Peres said.

The professor added that in the language of the time “wife does not necessarily mean spouse.”

He quoted the fa-mous phrase from the

Bible in which Jesus spoke to his mother at the marriage at Cana saying: “Woman, why turn to me?” underlining that the reference could come from this passage.

Some historians said the script could come from Gnos-ticism — a doctrine that was popular in the second centu-ry — which was very marginal and in disagreement with the Church and whose texts were exaggerated.

The editor of the Vati-can’s official daily Os-servatore Romano, Professor Giovanni Maria Vian, a special-ist in the history of the early Church, said he

doubted the authenticity of the fragment which could be a fake sold as a genuine arti-cle to get a higher price since “the theme raises popular in-terest.”

“There is a business in fakes in the Middle East,” Vian said, adding that in the United States there had been “an attempt to create a buzz around this case.”

Citing expert observa-tions, he said that the writing on the papyrus is “personal writing” whereas a Codex would have been written in a “very rigid” way resembling a printed text.

“Church tradition has no mention of a wife of Jesus. All the historical indications are that Jesus was unmarried. It is clearly said that Saint Peter was married. So why hide this for Jesus?” Vian said.

Vian said that if the text were in-deed from that period it could be a fragment from an apoc-ryphal gospel

inspired by gnosticism translated into the Coptic language.

The apocryphal gospels, which were presented as coming

from the entourage of Jesus Christ, flourished in the early centuries of Christianity.

Sex abuses by priests

Pope Francis on Friday personally asked for-giveness for thousands of child sex abuses car-ried out by priests and promised more action following accusations

of cover-ups and excessive le-niency by the Vatican.

“I feel compelled… to per-sonally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,” the pope said at a meeting with members of a children’s charity, Vatican Radio reported.

The apology was a first for Francis since he was elected last year and he was quoted as saying there were “quite a few” guilty priests, although “obviously not compared to the number of all the priests”.

“The Church is aware of this damage,” he said.

“It is personal, moral dam-age carried out by men of the Church and we will not take one step backward with re-gards to how we will deal with this problem and the sanc-tions that must be imposed.

“On the contrary, we must be even stronger,” he added.

Francis was meeting with members of Interna-tional Catholic Child Bureau (BICE), which works to pro-tect the rights and dignity of children worldwide.

Thousands of cases of abuse by priests have come to light over the past decade and the Catholic Church is regularly accused of trying to cover up the crimes.

Figures on the total num-ber of priests found guilty by religious authorities are hard to come by and activists criti-cise delays and opacity in the inquiries.

The Vatican says it is in-vestigating thousands of cas-es and in January revealed that some 400 priests were defrocked for sex crimes in a two-year period between 2011 and 2012 by Francis’s predecessor, Benedict XVI.

The Vatican has vowed a zero-tolerance approach and has begun implementing pre-vention and detection meas-ures to root out abuse includ-ing through a commission recently set up by Francis that includes an Irish victim.

But the approach to tack-ling abuse varies widely be-tween Catholic bishops’ con-ferences in different countries and there is concern that there are still many unreport-ed cases in Africa and Asia.

The Catholic Church in Italy came under fire last month for approving a set of guidelines that said there was no legal obligation but only a “moral duty”.

Stiffer penalty for new graft bill f iledThe Senate blue ribbon com-mittee has recommended the passage of a bill increasing the penalty for violations of the An-ti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act to imprisonment of not less than 12 years to not more than 20 years.

The present antigraft law only carries a penalty of impris-onment of six years and a month to 15 years.

The draft committee report on the P10-billion pork barrel fund scam also recommended in-creasing the prescription period of filing graft cases from the pre-sent 15 years to 200 years.

Both recommendations are embodied in Senate Bill No. 1086, authored by Senate blue ribbon committee chair Sen. Te-ofisto Guingona III and filed in July last year.

“The reason for the increase of penalty for said offenses is to ensure that the penalties im-posed by law are commensu-rate with the crime committed,” Guingona said in his explanatory note on SB 1086.

Guingona added that the bill sought to ensure that the right of the State to recover properties acquired through the commis-sion of the acts enumerated un-der Republic Act No. 3019 “shall not be barred by prescription, laches or estoppel.”

The draft committee report also suggested the passage of Senate Bill No. 76 that seeks to amend the Government Pro-

curement Reform Act.“Under this bill, recom-

mending, approving and/or awarding a contract to a bid-der that is not legally, techni-cally and/or financially capa-ble will now be punishable,” the report read.

It was found during the committee’s nine hearings on the pork barrel scam that lawmakers endorsed the du-bious nongovernment organ-izations (NGOs) of alleged scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles to receive millions

of pesos in their pork barrel allocations in exchange for kickbacks.

“A law should be passed immediately requiring all government agencies releas-ing funds to NGOs/civil soci-ety organizations/people’s or-ganizations, to validate these entities,” the report also rec-ommended. It also recom-mended that Congress pass a law mandating that the Commission on Audit audit

NGOs handling government funds. “Considering that gov-ernment funds transferred to NGOs maintain their charac-ter as public funds, a law is needed so that public funds entrusted to NGOs are al-ways subjected to COA rules and regulations,” the report said. The draft also suggest-ed that a law be passed man-dating that NGOs receiving government funds comply with the procurement act.

“Consistent with the poli-cy mentioned in the immedi-ately preceding recommen-dation, NGOs participating in the utilization of govern-ment funds should comply with the Government Pro-curement Reform Act and its IRR (implementing rules and regulations),” the report said.

The draft report also rec-ommended the immediate passage of the Freedom of In-formation Act.

Strong: Sen. Teofisto Guingona III is the head of the blue ribbon committee

MH370 hunt continues as Australia signals great confidence in new pings

hips and planes pursued Saturday the search for the missing Malay-sian airliner off Australia after Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was “very confident” that signals from the black box had been detected.

The Australian-led search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is racing to gather as many signals as possible to determine an exact resting place before a submersible is sent down to find wreckage. The Joint Agency coor-dination Center (JACC) said Saturday that the remote search area where the plane was believed to have gone

down some was still shrinking. “To-day, Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield continues more focused sweeps with the towed pinger locator to try and locate further signals related to the aircraft’s black boxes,” JACC said.

Ocean Shield has picked up four signals linked to aircraft black boxes, with the first two analyzed as be-ing consistent with those from air-craft flight recorders. The beacons on the plane’s flight data and cock-pit voice recorders have a nor-mal battery lifespan of around 30 days. MH370 vanished March 8.

AP-3C Orion surveillance air-

craft were also carrying out acoustic searches in conjunction with Ocean Shield, the statement said adding that the British oceanographic ship HMS Echo was also working in the area.

Saturday’s total search zone cov-ers 41,393 square kilometers (15,982 square miles) and the core of the search zone lies 2,330 kilometres (1,450 miles) northwest of Perth. “This work continues in an effort to narrow the underwater search area for when the Autonomous Underwater Vehi-cle is deployed,” JACC said adding that there have been no confirmed signal detections over the past 24 hours.

Rumors of lotteryfixing isfake–PCSO

Lotto fix? “Not true,” the Philippine Charity Sweep-stakes Office (PCSO) said in a statement on Friday, brushing off allegations of “ghost” or nonexist-ent winners for Monday’s Grand Lotto 6/55 game, which included a solo win for the nearly P250-million jackpot prize.

The controversy started when a Facebook post dat-ed April 9 on the Filipino’s Patriotism page displayed an image of alleged game results on what looked like an official PCSO stationery, with the agency’s logo, showing no winners for the P249,841,572 jackpot.

The results also listed only two (and not 25 as reported) bettors who won the P169,410 prize after getting five of the six-number combination right.

The post has been “shared” or circulated in the social networking site more than 6,000 times. It has garnered more than 700 “likes” and nearly 500 com-ments, mostly from netizens expressing their outrage at the apparent discrepancy.

But the PCSO appealed to the public to “not eas-ily be swayed” by such unconfirmed reports.

“In fact, the winner, a 59-year-old female private office worker of Muntinlupa City, came to the PCSO on Thursday, April 10, with her youngest child and present-ed the winning ticket,” read the statement from the of-fice of PCSO General Manag-er Jose Ferdinand Rojas II.

“After validation through the PCSO’s lotto machine that it was genu-ine and that her favorite bet numbers, 05-21-27-28-39-42, matched the 6/55 jackpot winning numbers, 39-21-42-28-05-27, her prize was processed and handed to her about an hour later in the form of a check represent-ing the lump sum amount of P249,841,572, the total jackpot prize for 6/55 on April 7,” the statement said.

The agency challenged the public to check with the lotto outlet from where the winning ticket was bought: Triple Lucky Stars on Washington corner Pio del Pilar Street, Makati City.

The agency explained that the circulating docu-ment was a “ticket facsim-ile result” from the Pacific Online System Corp. (POSC), one of two service provid-ers for the PCSO’s lotto op-erations. The other provider is the Philippine Gaming and Management Corp. (PGMC).

It was PGMC which sold the 6/55 winning ticket. POSC had no jackpot win-ner for the April 7 draw of 6/55, the agency said.

“The PCSO hopes that Filipinos will not be eas-ily swayed by allegations without first checking with the charity agency,” it said.

Outbound shipsby Philippines rise by 24.4%PHILIPPINE exports rose to a three-year peak in Feb-ruary due to the heavy vol-ume of electronics and other commodities shipped out, according to official data re-leased on Thursday.

The growth in exports for the month reflected higher demand for the country’s products overseas, fueled by improved economic condi-tions of major trading part-ners such as China, Japan and the United States.

“Compared to the manu-facture-driven growth in Jan-uary 2014, the export perfor-mance in February 2014 was more broad-based, as all ma-jor commodity groups regis-tered gains,” said Emmanuel Esguerra, deputy director general of the National Eco-nomic Development Author-ity (Neda).

Merchandise exports, measured by their dollar val-ue, expanded by 24.4 percent last February to $4.7 billion from $3.7 billion in the same month last year. The growth in February was also better than the 9.3-percent expan-sion recorded in January.

“Most of the selected economies in the East and Southeast Asian region post-ed positive export growth rates in February 2014, led by Vietnam and the Philip-pines,” Esguerra said.

Japan remains the top destination of Philippine

goods in February, with ship-ments totaling $1.2 billion. It accounted for about 25.4 percent of the country’s total revenues from merchandise exports.

The People’s Repub-lic of China followed with a 14.7-percent share after the country’s outbound ship-ments of electronic data processing (EDP) machines, semiconductors and chemi-cals grew by a hefty 79.3 per-cent in February.

Other top markets for Philippine exports were the United States (13.4% per-cent), Hong Kong (7 per-cent), Singapore (6.7 per-cent) and South Korea (4.5 percent). Export earnings from manufactures grew year on year by 22.4 percent that same month to $3.9 bil-lion from last year’s $3.2 bil-lion, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.

This was due to signifi-cant revenues from electron-ic products, wood manufac-tures, chemicals, electronic equipment and parts, pro-cessed food beverages, fur-niture and fixtures, non-me-tallic mineral manufactures, travel goods and handbags, baby carriage and toys, iron and steel, textile yarns and fabrics, and footwear.

By Rina ReyesFinance Reporter

EXPORTS PHThe significant players in the exports are:

Mineral products regis-tered export earnings worth $237.3 million last Febru-ary—139.9 percent up year on year due to higher revenues from copper concentrates, gold and chromium ore.

The two-month contrac-tion in exports of agricul-

ture-based products also ended, the PSA said. About $408 million worth of agricul-tural products were shipped during the month—up 18.7 percent year on year.

Electronic products, wood manufacturing, equipments and parts, food, non-metallic minerals, travel gears, iron and steel, textiles and footwear.

Top markets we ex-port goods are:Japan (25%), China (14.7%), the US (13.4%). Also, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.

Crude oil prices are falling further in Asia

Oil prices extended losses in Asian trade Friday as data showing a slowdown in China’s giant economy sparked con-cerns about weak demand.

Expectations that Libyan oil will return to the market after rebels lifted a blockade of crude terminals also helped push prices lower, analysts said.

New York’s main contract West Texas Intermediate for May delivery eased 16 cents to $103.24 a barrel in mid-morning trade while Brent North Sea crude tumbled 12 cents to $107.34 for its May contract.

“Global demand is waning due to the slowing growth in China,” said Desmond Chua, market analyst at CMC markets in Singapore.

Zooming sales of cars in the PhilippinesSales of vehicle assem-

blers in the month of March zoomed from 25.4 percent to 19,173 units—the highest monthly volume posted by the domestic auto industry to date, according to the Cham-ber of Automotive Manufac-turers of the Philippines Inc. (Campi).

In light of the robust sales so far this year, the industry “may adjust” upward its 2014 sales projection of 230,000 ve-hicles, Campi president Rom-mel T. Gutierrez said in a text message.

Campi’s joint report with the Truck Manufacturers Association released Friday showed that last month’s

sales not only exceeded the 15,292 units sold in March last year but also were 13.9-per-cent higher than the 16,828 sold last February.

“March is generally con-sidered as a strong sales month. The summer sea-son and pre-Holy Week rush drives customers to the showrooms. Despite this, the market is still more than our expectation, a positive sign

of strong automotive indus-try,” Gutierrez said in a state-ment.

“Strong sales of new and improved models, as well as aggressive marketing pro-motions by various brands” helped expand both the pas-senger car and commercial vehicle segments that month, Campi said.

Last March, 7,174 pas-senger cars were sold, up 40 percent year-on-year and 27.7 percent month-on-month.

As for the commercial ve-hicle segment, sales in March reached 11,999, up 18 percent year-on-year and 7.1 percent month-on-month.

At the end of the first

quarter, a total of 51,643 ve-hicles were sold, 22.9 percent more than the 42,034 units sold in the first three months of last year.

During the three-month period, sales of passenger cars rose 29.9 percent to 18,092, while the volume of commercial vehicles sold increased 19.4 percent to 33,551.

“We expect to sustain this stable level as we enter the second quarter,” Gutierrez said.

Among the 17 member-companies of Campi and TMA, Toyota Motor Philip-pines Corp. sold the most ve-hicles—22,828 units—at end-

March.During the first quarter,

Mitsubishi Motors Philip-pines Corp. sold 12,165 vehi-cles; Ford Motor Company Philippines Inc., 3692 units; Honda Cars Philippines Inc., 3318; and Isuzu Philippines Corp., 3,068.

Combined sales of Campi and TMA members comprise about 85 percent of the total number of vehicles sold in the country, with the balance contributed by car compa-nies belonging to the Asso-ciation of Vehicle Importers and Distributors Inc. as well as a number of luxury vehi-cle distributors that does not disclose their sales figures.

‘March is a strong car sales month

for many Filipino customers’

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APRIL 3, 2014SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 1 Results 8/2/4/5/3 Favorite 8 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 8 5.00 2nd 2 3rd 4 POOL FINISH PRICE P5 FORECAST 8/2 13.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 8/2/4 25.80 P2 QUARTET 8/2/4/5 124.20 P2 PENTAFECTA 8/2/4/5/3 301.80SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 2 Results 7/6/1/8/4 Scratched 3 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 7 10.00 2nd 6 3rd 1 Pool Fin-ish Price P5 FORECAST 7/6 19.50 P2 TRIFECTA 7/6/1 11.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 8/7 12.00 P2 QUARTET 7/6/1/8 34.40 P2 PENTAFECTA 7/6/1/8/4 55.80SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 3 Results 5/2/4/1 Favorite 4 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 5 16.00 2nd 2 3rd 4 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 5/2 87.00 P2 TRIFECTA 5/2/4 60.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 7/5 34.00 P2 DD+1 8/7/5 28.20 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 8/5 22.50SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 4 Results 6/4/1/2/5 Favorite 1 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 60.50 2nd 4 3rd 1 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/4 339.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 6/4/1 331.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 5/6 146.50 P2 QUARTET 6/4/1/2 1,350.60P2 DD+1 7/5/6 224.60 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 7/6 118.50 P2 PENTA-FECTA 6/4/1/2/5 1,644.40SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 5 Results 6/1/2/5 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 7.50 2nd 13rd 2 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/1 12.50 P2 TRIFECTA

6/1/2 19.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/6 120.00 P2 QUARTET 6/1/2/5 45.00 P2 DD+1 5/6/6 179.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 5/6 39.50SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 6 Results 4/1/7/3/5 Favorite 7 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 4 8.50 2nd 13rd 7 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 4/1 105.50 P2 TRIFEC-TA 4/1/7 49.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/4 23.00 P2 QUARTET 4/1/7/3 173.40 P2 DD+1 6/6/4 198.00 P2 PICK FIVE 7/5/6/6/4 1,835.00 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 6/4 315.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 4/1/7/3/5 281.00SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 7 Results 3/7/6/8/1 Favorite 8 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 150.50 2nd 7 3rd 6 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/7 1,551.50 P2 TRIFECTA 3/7/6 8,053.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 4/3 1,044.50 P2 QUARTET 3/7/6/8 28,172.00 P2 DD+1 6/4/3 474.80 P2 W. T. A. 8/7/5/6/6/4/3 163,415.60 P5 EX-TRA DOUBLE 6/3 613.50 P2 PEN-TAFECTA CARRY OVER 60,882.20SANTA ANA PARK 27 Race 8 Results 6/7/9/4/3/10 Favorite 6P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 5.50 2nd 7 3rd 9 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/7 19.50 P2 TRIFECTA 6/7/9 66.40 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 3/6 341.00 P2 PICK FOUR 6/4/3/6 1,028.60 P2 QUARTET 6/7/9/4 530.40 P2 PICK SIX 5/6/6/4/3/6 57,980.80 P2 DD+1 4/3/6 394.60P 2 P I C K F I V E 6 / 6 / 4 / 3 / 6 10,063.00 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 4/6 20.00 P2 SUPER 6 6/7/9/4/3/10 5,428.80

P(x )= Pool Italicized = Finish and Price

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APRIL 4, 2014SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 1 Results 5/3/7/4/6 Favorite 3 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 5 59.00 2nd 3 3rd 7 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 5/3 433.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 5/3/7 421.60 P2 QUARTET 5/3/7/4 436.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 5/3/7/4/6 5,142.80SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 2 Results 1/10/2/7/5 Favorite 4 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 1 10.50 2nd 10 3rd 2 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 1/10 71.00 P2 TRIFEC-TA 1/10/2 144.20 P5 DAILY DOU-BLE 5/1 1,059.00 P2 QUARTET 1/10/2/7 821.60 P2 PENTAFECTA 1/10/2/7/5 1,844.00SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 3 Results 8/2/1/3/6 Favorite 1 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 8 71.50 2nd 2 3rd 1 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 8/2 187.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 8/2/1 131.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 1/8 130.50 P2 QUARTET 8/2/1/3 776.80 P2 DD+1 5/1/8 2,683.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 9P2 PENTAFECTA 8/2/1/3/6 1,657.20SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 4 Results 12/11/2/8/9 Favorite 8 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 12 75.00 2nd 11 3rd 2 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 12/11 266.50 P2 TRIFECTA 12/11/2 424.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 8/12 674.00 P2 QUARTET 12/11/2/8 586.80 P2 DD+1 1/8/12 517.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 1/12 179.50 P2 PENTA-FECTA 12/11/2/8/9 3,685.20SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 5 Results 2/3/4/5 Favorite 2 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 2 13.00 2nd 3 3rd 4 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 2/3 11.50 P2 TRIFECTA 2/3/4 15.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 12/2 114.00 P2 QUARTET 2/3/4/5 16.00 P2 DD+1 8/12/2 330.00 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 8/2 93.00 SAN-

TA ANA PARK 28 Race 6 Re-sults 3/7/4/2/5 Favorite 3 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 8.00 2nd 7 3rd 4 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/7 63.50 P2 TRIFEC-TA 3/7/4 76.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 2/3 11.50 P2 QUARTET 3/7/4/2 138.60 P2 DD+1 12/2/3 92.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 12/3 163.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 3/7/4/2/5 543.60SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 7 Results 7/1/11/8/6 Favorite 7 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 7 7.00 2nd 13rd 11 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 7/1 26.00 P2 TRIFECTA 7/1/11 30.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 3/7 10.50 P2 QUARTET 7/1/11/8 243.00 P2 PICK SIX 1/8/12/2/3/7 3,812.00 P2 DD+1 2/3/7 7.00 P2 W. T. A. 5/1/8/12/2/3/7 194,106.20 P5 EXTRA DOU-BLE 2/7 11.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 7/1/11/8/6 1,101.00SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 8 Results 3/2/1/6/10 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 62.50 2nd 2 3rd 1 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/2 275.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 3/2/1 1,135.40 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 7/3 86.00 P2 QUARTET 3/2/1/6 2,989.40 P2 DD+1 3/7/3 95.20 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 3/3 67.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 3/2/1/6/10 24,812.20 SANTA ANA PARK 28 Race 9 Results 2/14/10/7/1/13 Favo-rite 2 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 2 5.00 2nd 14 3rd 10 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 2/14 14.50 P2 TRIFECTA 2/14/10 17.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 3/2 61.50 P2 PICK FOUR 3/7/3/2 109.20 P2 QUARTET 2/14/10/7 244.00 P2 DD+1 7/3/2 44.20 P2 PICK FIVE 2/3/7/3/2 266.60 P2 W. T. A. 8/12/2/3/7/3/2 21,058.20 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 7/2 8.00 P2 SU-PER 6 2/14/10/7/1/13 10,512.60

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APRIL 8, 2014SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 1 Results 3/2/5/6 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 23.50 2nd 2 3rd 5 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/2 170.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 3/2/5 245.80 P2 QUARTET 3/2/5/6 369.80SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 2 Results 10/6/7/4/1 Scratched 9 Favorite 1 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 10 26.50 2nd 6 3rd 7 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 10/6 80.50 P2 TRIFECTA 10/6/7 112.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 3/10 182.50 P2 QUARTET 10/6/7/4 518.40 P2 PENTAFECTA 10/6/7/4/1 1,327.40SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 3 Results 5/1/3/2 Favorite 5 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 5 6.50 2nd 13rd 3 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 5/1 7.50 P2 TRIFECTA 5/1/3 5.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 10/5 26.00 P2 QUARTET 5/1/3/2 19.20 P2 DD+1 3/10/5 69.00 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 3/5 40.00SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 4 Results 6/8/5/3/2 Favorite 3 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 25.00 2nd 8 3rd 5 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/8 131.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 6/8/5 772.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 5/6 42.00 P2 QUARTET 6/8/5/3 2,039.80 P2 DD+1 10/5/6 68.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 10/6 151.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 6/8/5/3/2 12,294.80SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 5 Results 3/1/8/5/7 Favorite 1 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 15.50 2nd 1 3rd 8 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/1 49.50 P2 TRIFECTA

3/1/8 31.00 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/3 162.00 P2 QUARTET 3/1/8/5 59.00 P2 DD+1 5/6/3 79.80 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 5/3 23.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 3/1/8/5/7 236.80SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 6 Results 5/8/6/10/1 Favorite 8 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 5 33.00 2nd 8 3rd 6 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 5/8 171.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 5/8/6 1,433.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 3/5 459.50 P2 QUARTET 5/8/6/10 4,010.20 P2 DD+1 6/3/5 377.00 P2 PICK FIVE 10/5/6/3/5 5,839.80 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 6/5 427.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 5/8/6/10/1 11,763.20SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 7 Results 3/1/10/11/6 Favorite 1 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 3 32.50 2nd 1 3rd 10 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 3/1 81.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 3/1/10 861.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 5/3 556.00 P2 QUARTET 3/1/10/11 2,351.60 P2 DD+1 3/5/3 537.40 P2 W. T. A. 3/10/5/6/3/5/3 218,390.40 P5 EXTRA DOU-BLE 3/3 126.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 3/1/10/11/6 9,191.40SANTA ANA PARK 29 Race 8 Results 2/11/6/10/5/3 Favorite 11 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 2 51.002nd 11 3rd 6 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 2/11 211.50 P2 TRIFEC-TA 2/11/6 430.20 P5 DAILY DOU-BLE 3/2 908.00 P2 PICK FOUR 3/5/3/2 15,919.40 P2 QUARTET 2/11/6/10 2,569.60 P2 PICK SIX 5/6/3/5/3/2 452,038.80 P2 DD+1 5/3/2 3,289.20 P2 PICK FIVE 6/3/5/3/2 164,747.60

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APRIL 9, 2014SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 1 Results 7/1/6/4/3 Favorite 7 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 7 5.50 2nd 13rd 6 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 7/1 21.50 P2 TRIFECTA 7/1/6 11.20 P2 QUARTET 7/1/6/4 21.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 7/1/6/4/3 86.40SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 2 Results 6/2/8/5/4 Favorite 8 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 17.00 2nd 2 3rd 8 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/2 44.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 6/2/8 34.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 7/6 24.00 P2 QUARTET 6/2/8/5 80.40 P2 PENTAFECTA 6/2/8/5/4 1,248.20SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 3 Results 1/3/5/2/6 Favorite 3 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 1 30.00 2nd 3 3rd 5 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 1/3 65.00 P2 TRIFECTA 1/3/5 67.40 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/1 165.00 P2 QUARTET 1/3/5/2 137.00 P2 DD+1 7/6/1 113.80 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 7/1 55.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 1/3/5/2/6 558.60SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 4 Results 6/4/7/1/10 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 16.00 2nd 4 3rd 7 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/4 96.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 6/4/7 1,690.40 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 1/6 114.00 P2 QUARTET 6/4/7/1 5,326.80 P2 DD+1 6/1/6 216.80 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 6/6 54.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 6/4/7/1/10 19,694.00SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 5 Results 9/10/7/12/5 Scratched 4 Favorite 9 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 9 8.00 2nd 10 3rd 7 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 9/10 36.50 P2 TRIFECTA 9/10/7 36.40 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/9 19.00 6/4 10.50 P2 QUARTET 9/10/7/12 67.80 P2 DD+1 1/6/4,9 87.60 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 1/9 75.00

1/4 31.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 9/10/7/12/5 361.40SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 6 Results 4/3/2/1/6 Favorite 4 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 4 7.50 2nd 3 3rd 2 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 4/3 34.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 4/3/2 142.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 9/4 13.00 P2 QUARTET 4/3/2/1 392.80 P2 DD+1 6/4,9/4 13.60 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 6/4 27.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 4/3/2/1/6 4,143.20SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 7 Results 10/8/1/4/7 Favorite 10P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 10 21.00 2nd 8 3rd 1 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 10/8 62.50 P2 TRI-FECTA 10/8/1 82.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 4/10 90.50 P2 QUAR-TET 10/8/1/4 775.80 P2 PICK SIX 6/1/6/4,9/4/10 48,338.40 P2 DD+1 4,9/4/10 152.80 P2 W. T. A. 7/6/1/6/4,9/4/10 44,846.40 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 9/10 192.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 10/8/1/4/7 2,173.40SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 8 Results 9/10/5/3/6 Favorite 10 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 9 17.50 2nd 10 3rd 5 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 9/10 20.00 P2 TRI-FECTA 9/10/5 70.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 10/9 39.50 P2 QUARTET 9/10/5/3 579.40 P2 DD+1 4/10/9 425.80 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 4/9 22.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 9/10/5/3/6 830.80SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 9 Results 4/9/3/7/5 Favorite 9 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 4 21.00 2nd 9 3rd 3 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 4/9 35.00 P2 TRIFECTA 4/9/3 123.60 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 9/4 63.50 P2 QUARTET 4/9/3/7 648.80 P2 DD+1 10/9/4 234.00 P2 PICK FIVE 4,9/4/10/9/4 18,581.80P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 10/4 90.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 4/9/3/7/5 2,544.80

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APRIL 9Cont.

SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 10 Results 6/8/2/7/14 Favorite 6 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 6 7.50 2nd 8 3rd 2 Pool Finish Price P5 FORECAST 6/8 23.50 P2 TRIFEC-TA 6/8/2 45.80 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 4/6 32.00 P2 QUARTET 6/8/2/7 107.80 P2 DD+1 9/4/6 64.60 P2 W. T. A. 6/4,9/4/10/9/4/6 111,656.60 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 9/6 30.50 P2 PENTAFECTA 6/8/2/7/14 946.40SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 11 Results 7/3/8/4/2 Scratched 5 Favorite 9 P5 WIN Fin-ish Price 1st 7 9.50 2nd 3 3rd 8 Pool Finish Price P5 FORE-CAST 7/3 353.50 P2 TRIFECTA 7/3/8 690.20 P5 DAILY DOUBLE 6/7 12.50 P2 QUARTET 7/3/8/4 3,216.20 P2 DD+1 4/6/7 61.60 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 4/7 98.00 P2 PENTAFECTA 7/3/8/4/2 9,395.60SANTA ANA PARK 30 Race 12 Results 5/1/8/3/10/6 Scratched 7 Favorite 3 P5 WIN Finish Price 1st 5 30.00 2nd 1 3rd 8 Pool Finish Price P5 FORE-CAST 5/1 962.00 P2 TRIFECTA 5/1/8 1,941.00 P5 DAILY DOU-BLE 7/5 136.00 7/7 14.00 P2 PICK FOUR 4/6/7/5 547.40 P2 QUARTET 5/1/8/3 18,429.00 P2 DD+1 6/7/5 53.80 P2 PICK FIVE 9/4/6/7/5 2,703.80 P2 W. T. A. 4/10/9/4/6/7/5 109,947.00 P5 EXTRA DOUBLE 6/5 39.00 6/7 5.50 P2 SUPER 6 5/1/8/3/10/6 262,217.80

APRIL 9RACING PROGRAM

Race No - 1 SPECIAL HR 1200 METERS 1 GLORIOUS VALENTINE 57 JB HERNANDEZSL 4/ 1/2014 7 1500 1.37.1 1 SP 57 JB HER-NANDEZ 57 JB HERNANDEZ SL 3/27/2014 1 1500 1.38.1 4 SP 50 JB HERNANDEZ57 JB HERNANDEZ MT 3/16/2014 11 1200 1.11.1 5 SP 54 PAT R DILEMA2 BENISSIMO 55 BOLIVAR, ROM C.SA 3/30/2014 7 1600 1.51 6 SP 54 BO-LIVAR, ROM C. 55 BOLIVAR, ROM C. SA 3/13/2014 3 1300 1.23.1 1 SP 49 BOLIVAR, ROM C. 55 BOLIVAR, ROM C. SA 2/25/2014 1 1300 1.24 2 SP 52 BOLIVAR, ROM C.3 AJ SPECIAL 52 PONCE, J.V. SA 2/ 4/2014 B1 1000 1.04.1 3 BT 54 ASUNCION, A.P. 52 PONCE, J.V. MT 10/27/201 9 1400 1.26.1 6 KDJ MA 54 PONCE, J.V. 52 PONCE, J.V.SA 10/13/201 3 1200 1.15.1 1 HANDIC 56 PONCE, J.V.4 SCARLET BELLE 51 GUCE, JA MT 4/ 5/2014 6 1400 1.24.1 4 SP 54 FM RAQUEL JR. 51 GUCE, JA MT 3/16/2014 11 1200 1.11.1 4 SP 54 FM RAQUEL JR. 51 GUCE, JA SA 3/ 9/2014 4 1300 1.24.1 4 SP 50 FM RAQUEL JR. 5 BALLET FLATS 50 DAR E DE OCAMPO MT 4/ 5/2014 6 1400 1.26 5 SP 53 DAR E DE OCAMPO 50 DAR E DE OCAMPO MT 3/31/2014 4 1200 1.11.1 7 SP 50 FLORES, J.D. 50 DAR E DE OCAMPO SL 3/23/2014 5 1500 1.40 7 SP 54 JUCO, J.D. 6 GOLDEN RULE 51 PAROGINOG, J.F. SA 4/ 3/2014 1 1200 1.16.1 1 SP 55 PAROGINOG, J.F. 51 PAROGINOG, J.F. SA 3/29/2014 1 1300 1.20.1 1 SP 54 PAROGINOG, J.F. 51 PAROGINOG, J.F. SA 3/18/2014 3 1100 1.08.1 1 SP 53 PAROGINOG, J.F.7 EURASIAN 51 RG FERNANDEZSA 3/ 9/2014 6 1300 1.24.1 6 SP 57 ALVA-REZ, M.A. 51 RG FERNANDEZ SL 2/ 8/2014 6 1400 1.31 1 SP 57 ALVAREZ, M.A. 51 RG FERNANDEZ SA 1/10/2014 6 1200 1.14.1 2 4YO SP 55 CV GARGANTA 7a HOT AND SPICY 57 ALVAREZ, M.A.SL 3/23/2014 4 1600 1.45.1 3 SP 54 ALVAREZ, M.A. 57 ALVAREZ, M.A. MT 2/23/2014 4 1600 1.36.1 6 SP 54.5 ALVAREZ, M.A.

Football

OUR AZKALS’ 3 POINT LEAD

OUR AZKALS’ 3 POINT LEADI

n coach Thomas Do-oley’s first victory with the Philippine National Men’s Football Team, newcomers stole the limelight as 3 Azkals scored their first inter-

national goals in a 3-nil beat-ing of Nepal, Friday, April 11, (Saturday morning in Ma-nila) at the Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar.

Mixing youngsters with veterans in the Azkals’ start-ing lineup, Dooley’s gamble paid off well as Curt Dizon, Martin Steuble, and Ruben Doctora netted in their re-spective debut goals for the Philippines, while also hold-ing Nepal scoreless in front of a huge Filipino crowd at the Qatari capital.

The Philippines domi-nated the game right from the get-go as the midfield of James Younghusband, Chris Greatwich, and Steuble proved to be too strong for the Nepalese side who strug-gled to keep possession in the first half.

It only took 14 minutes for the Azkals to score the opening goal as Daisuke Sato dished out a precise assist off a free kick to the sneaking Di-zon who evaded the keeper and punched in his first inter-national goal.

Filipino-Swiss Steuble then doubled the Philippines’ lead as he headed in Young-husband’s cross in the 32nd for 2-nil.

After thwarting Nepal’s plays with timely tackles and hard-nosed defending, Jason de Jong, however, was shown a yellow late in the first half but the Philippines held on to their lead and entered the break with a 2-nil advantage.

The Nepalese then pushed harder in the second half as they took care of the ball better and pulled off some attacks of their own but the Azkals’ debutant keeper Nick O’Donnell did well between the sticks and kept the clean sheet until the final whistle.

The Stallion forward Doc-tora then put the icing on the

cake in the dying moments as he danced through Nepal’s defense and put the ball into the back of the net for his first international goal for the Az-kals.

The Azkals could have run away as 4-nil winners but 52nd minute substitute Phil Younghusband overcooked a last gasp effort from the edge of the box in stoppage time.

The win comes as a wel-come progress for the Phil-ippines shortly after they dropped 13 places in the lat-est FIFA Rankings.

The Azkals will next face Qatari side Al Ahli SC on April 14, wrapping up their Middle East camp in prepa-ration for the upcoming AFC Challenge Cup in May.

After much speculation, the Philippine Football Fed-eration has announced that former United States captain Thomas Dooley will be the new head coach of the Philip-pine National Team.

Dooley was all smiles throughout, underlining his enthusiasm for the new posi-tion.

“I’m very honored, hum-bled and excited to take this task,” said the 52-year-old German-American. “The big-gest, shortest goal we have is to win the (AFC)Challenge Cup (in Maldives in May) because this is an important task. I’m very excited to take this task, it may not be very easy but it’ll be worth it.”

Dooley says that he has only seen the Azkals play twice on video and would im-mediately address getting to know the players individually.

Dooley said he will reach ut to Azkals players in Ma-nila and those competing in

pro leagues in Europe to dis-cuss his philosophies, which will center around the 4-2-3-1 formation. The situation isn’t ideal however, as Dooley will have to split time with the United Football League (UFL) for practices. Dooley says that he hopes to arrange two practices a week, even if it doesn’t involve running the field.

“Technically they are pret-ty good, 90% of the players,” said Dooley of the squad rat-ed no. 127th by FIFA. “Tacti-cally, I think we have to work a little bit. You don’t win championships with one sin-gle player, it always has to be a team effort. It doesn’t mat-ter if you have the best player, you have to form a team to make it happen. That’s my biggest task to accomplish, that we have a team where everybody plays for every-body.”

Added Araneta: “We are serious about our prepara-tion for the Challenge Cup because this is a big tourna-ment for the Philippine team. The winner will go to the Asian Cup in Sydney in 2015 and we hope to win the tour-nament. That’s why we have to bring in fresh ideas to the team. That is why we took the necessary steps to bring in a new coach to the team.

“With his credentials, we hope we will be up to the task. We are confident and know that everyone in the PFF will be supportive of the move. I just want to assure the new coach he will have the full support of the Federation.”

Dooley, who had been based in Los Angeles, Calif., arrived in the Philippines on Thursday night. Dooley be-came an American citizen in 1992 and joined the U.S. team that year, representing the country in the 1994 and 1998 in the FIFA World Cup.

Dooley became the U.S. team captain before the ‘98 World Cup. Dooley finished his playing career in 1999 with 81 caps (international starts) and 7 goals.

BY FRANCIS CRUZ

PH’S THREE-NIL RUN

PHILIPPINES 3NEPAL 0

Gareth Bale to the rescue as Real Madrid wins 4-nil gameThe sure way to make sure

you don’t miss an £86million player is to buy another one who can play in the same posi-tion if necessary, and Gareth Bale proved once again that the show goes on at Real Madrid without Cristiano Ronaldo.

He scored his 14th league goal of the season – seven of them have come in Ron-aldo’s absence – and his 19th in all competitions as Real won with an ominous swag-ger just four days before the Spanish Cup final.

The win saw them move above Barcelona in the ta-ble and without the injured Gerard Pique and Victor Valdes their big rivals go into Wednesday’s game at Mes-talla with some trepidation.

‘We were aware of Bar-celona’s defeat ahead of the game,’ said Angel Di Maria who was the star of the first half. He crashed a shot off the crossbar as early as the fourth minute as Real Madrid took control of the match. Bale then tested Esteban with a shot from distance.

He then tricked his way to the byline but Benzema made poor contact with the cross. The Frenchman was play-ing game number 227 in the league for Real Madrid match-ing Zinedine Zidane’s total and becoming the Frenchman

with most games for the club. Di Maria fired two more

warning shots before finally finding the back of Este-ban’s net on 28 minutes.

The only shock was that Almeria only conceded once in the first half. Bale’s clever flick almost put Benzema through af-ter he had received a pass from Assier Illaramendi. Benzema then repaid the favour setting Bale up but after he had surged through skipping over Martinez’ challenge Esteban closed the angle and made the save.

BALE’S REAL PLAY

REAL MADRID 4GRANADA 0

Basketball

QF GAMBLES

Alaska tries to improve its re-cord in the Top Four while Barangay Ginebra San Miguel seeks to formalize its entry into the quarter-finals as they square off in the PLDT Home TVolu-

tion PBA Commissioner’s Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum Sunday.

The Aces are on a three-game roll while the Kings are coming off a cru-cial win over the Meralco Bolts going into their key 5:15 p.m. match.

“It’s always hard against Gine-bra, but it can be done,” said Alaska coach Luigi Trillo, hopeful of stretch-ing their run.

Trillo and his charges are after a win that could give them a lock for a spot in the best-of-three quarterfi-

nals.Coach Ato Agustin and his troops

are also after a Top Six finish. But at the moment, their immediate goal is to formally claim a playoff seat.

In winning their last three games, the Aces are at fourth place at 4-3, still with an outside chance to land in the Top Two.

The Meralco Bolts are at fifth at 4-4 while the Kings currently share sixth place with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters and the Air21 Ex-press at 3-4.

Alaska pulled a first three-game run since sweeping Barangay Gine-bra in the last second conference fi-nale as the Aces outfought the Bara-

ko Bull Energy, 78-71, in a low-scoring game last April 2.

The Aces continued to thrive on a tough halfcourt game, making it three in a row following an 88-78 whipping of the Express and an 89-78 drubbing of the San Miguel Beermen.

Rob Dozier and his teammates played even tougher in their most re-cent game, holding the Energy way below their average of 97.8 points a game.

Ginebra, meanwhile, rose from a stupor the last time out, gaining the needed lift from new import Josh Powell.

Powell stuck to the role he’s sup-posed to play and, with more local involvement, the Kings topped the Bolts, 88-78.

“Nakasunod agad sa sistema at ibinigay ang hinahanap namin,” said Agustin.

The Ginebra coaching staff and the Ginebra locals expect Powell to play even better Sunday.

Trillo, meanwhile, is wary of the revved-up Ginebra crew.

“(Mark) Caguioa and (LA) Teno-rio are always a tough concern plus their second unit has been playing well, particularly (Josh) Urbiztondo, (Mac) Baracael and (Jayjay) Helter-brand,” said Trillo.

“Ginebra will be extra tougher with Powell completely changing the team. He can rebound and he keeps everybody involved. He gets away with a ton of solid screens,” Trillo added.

BY HERMES CORPUZ

Board’s afterthought on newly basketball teamsI am happy to report that

the PBA Board of Governors approved the membership application of the following companies: Metro Pacific In-vestments, Corp. , Columbi-an Autocar Corp. , and Ever Bilena Cosmetics, Inc.

This marks an important milestone in PBA history as the entry of these three com-

panies brings PBA member-ship to an all time high of 13.

I am elated and excited with this development for our fans, our current and fu-ture players, coaches and their staff, businesses related to PBA and basketball as a sport in our country.

I think it would be remiss of me not to take advantage

of this auspicious occasion to remind and reinforce to the new members and indeed to our entire PBA family what made this possible: our fans. We exist for our fans and for so long as we embrace the principle that fan and public interest is paramount, that playing in the PBA is both a privilege and a responsibil-

ity, our fans will reward us no end toward unimaginable heights.

The challenge before us in the Office of the Com-missioner and the Board of Governors is how to address the formation of the lineups of the different applicants. While initial concessions had been granted, the Board of

Governors has agreed to take a second look at these pre-liminary concessions for the purpose of giving the three expansion teams the oppor-tunity to have a competitive lineup.

This matter shall be dis-cussed on April 24 during the Board’s next regular meeting

Masters

As the young king is out, will Jordan Spieth be thenew Tiger Woods in golf?

At 6:22 p.m. Saturday, with the shadows stretching across these manicured Georgia hills, a red five was slipped into Bubba Wat-son’s column on the big, hand-run scoreboard that faces the 18th green at Augusta National,

signifying a recently recorded bogey.Jordan Spieth still had to putt out on

18, but at that moment, sitting five under himself, he was officially a co-leader of the Masters. He was, of course, a 20-year-old in his first appearance in the most pres-surized tournament in the game, the one that’s supposed to send kids far older and more experienced than him home in a humbled heap.

Instead Spieth was marching unflap-pably around the 18th green with his typical pace (fast) and typical purpose (focused) like this was still Brook Hollow back in Dallas with his boyhood friends or the University of Texas Club in Austin with college buddies.

Up in the crowded gallery, his brother Steven was repeating Happy Gilmore lines – “nice and easy … that was not nice and easy” – while his dad Shawn marveled at the entire thing, his boy just blasting through Augusta like he always promised he would, turning this tournament on its side.

“It’s one thing to hear his name called out in Texas or somewhere else,” Shawn said. “It sounds a little different here.”

Or at least it’s supposed to. Jordan would soon par out on 18 to card a third-round 70 and put himself in the final group Sunday with Watson, the 2012 champion. The Spieths pumped their fists and high-fived friends before Shawn noted, “I know it will be a big night of sleep on Sunday because we won’t get much tonight.”

WOODLAND ISTAKING MAS-TERS IN FIRE!

It's a place that produces moments like Gary Woodland's first 10 holes here Saturday, where he shot a blistering seven under, to occur in old-school, ro-mantic fashion. It allows thrilling, out-of-nowhere runs of greatness (even if eventually doomed) to electrify a

tournament that, well, was desperate for something.

Woodland teed off at 10:55 a.m. (ET), hours before the leaders, sitting at 3-over par. It was a Saturday here with no Ti-ger Woods, no Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy playing with an Augusta National member. Thus far, this isn't exactly the most exciting Masters of all time.

Gary birdied No. 1. Then he eagled No. 2, to go even for the event. The cheers grew beyond a murmur. By the time he birdied No. 6, people all over the course started talking.

Pacquiao v. Bradley

PLEADS HELPThere could be no con-

troversy this time. No doubt about the outcome. No out-raged cries for the judges to be sacked.

Manny Pacquiao is back where he belongs after gain-ing sensational revenge for the travesty of a decision gift-ed to Tim Bradley two years ago.

That is back up there chal-lenging Floyd Mayweather as the best pound for pound fighter in the world.

Although a couple of the judges were less generous to Pacquiao than they might have been, the margin of the win which restored him as welterweight champion of the world was too wide for argu-ment.

It was 116-112 on two of the officials cards, a more log-ical 118-110 on the third. I had it 119-109.

Sportingly, the American who had hoped to prove he was better than the PacMan accepted defeat and reality with good grace and generos-ity.

Bradley said: ‘Manny won the fight. He’s a great fighter. Maybe one of the greatest of

all time. I tried, I really tried for the knock out but I lost to a great fighter.’

He even apologised for the head butt in the last minute of the final round that left Pacquiao with a cut on his eye.

To his credit he had won

at least one round in the first half and made others close with the heavy right-hand counter punches with which he caught Pacquiao.

At that point, it promised to develop into the epic we had hoped for. Thereafter it became an occasion at which to wonder at the way the man who would be president of the Philippines one day has come

back from brutal, knock out adversity to reinstate himself as one of the ring’s greats.

He had called himself 35 years young and so he looked as finished stronger, faster, sharper and more deadly than the young man who had been allowed to intrude on his universe here in Las Vegas in 2012.

Those who had doubted whether this quiet, religious man could relight his fire were confounded by his blaz-ing fists. None more so than Bradley.

The overall pattern was set from the start, with Pac-quiao shaking Bradley with his trademark left hook and responding to any retaliation by throwing punches in daz-zling clusters.

The man called Desert Storm crouched lower and lower to try to weather this South East Asian typhoon but when Pacquiao nailed him with a sudden, unex-pected right uppercut the last vestige of Bradley’s game plan was done for.

The longer it went the more dominant Pacquiao be-came. He had told Bradley

that he would need a knock-out to win and that was the case with at least a third of the fight still to go.

Yet, manfully though a wearying, waning champion kept swinging away, it was Pacquiao who went for the stoppage in the last round.

There are 96,000 Filipinos resident in Las Vegas and it sounded as they were all in the MGM Grand Arena as they screamed and roared on their national hero.

In fact the gate was more than 15,000 inside the build-ing, plus thousands more at close circuit screenings around Las Vegas and mil-lions watching around the world.

They all got their money’s worth. At ringside, we were fortunate to witness the re-birth of a legend.

All that was missing was the knock-out but this was re-demption against a previous-ly unbeaten world champion who was being talked of as a pound-for-pound contender himself before this night.

Not only that but Bradley was wobbled, staggered and rocked repeatedly and was

fortunate twice not to have been subjected to a count when he was held up by the bottom rope.

After this, the elephant back in the room is May-weather and if he and Pacqui-ao will finally get it on.

Meanwhile Pacquiao de-clared himself open to a fifth fight with arch-rival Juan Manuel Marquez, who tem-porarily derailed public belief in him with that freak one-punch knock out.

‘No problem with that,’ he said. And really only one with Bradley: ‘Freddie (Roach the trainer) told me to make one adjustment. Bradley was throwing a lot of punches and I did not want to get careless.

But the most they were mostly wild swings on the outside so we decided to fight him on the inside.

‘He is better than the first time we fought so I had to do more this time . I’m so hap-py to be a world champion again.’

So are all his people.World boxing, also, when

he announced: ‘My journey in boxing will go on for at least another two years.’

BY HERMES CORPUZ

SCORES

PACMAN116, 116, 118BRADLEY112, 112, 110

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