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Yesterday morning, Ili-gan City Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz told Umagang Kay Ganda, a morning television show over ABS-CBN, that he is planning for a mass burials of unclaimed bod-ies through “mass graves.”

However, DOH spokes-man Dr. Eric Tayag said the plan is not advisable.

Tayag stressed that “de-composing bodies have nil risk contrary to general opinion.”

Instead, he urged local government units––badly affected by storm Send-ong––to give families time to retrieve their dead.

“We will dig a mass grave and bury the unclaimed bodies as well as those in

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Two women hold their children killed during the passage of tropical storm Washi at a village in Iligan City, on the south-ern island of Mindanao on December 17, 2011. The death toll from the tropical storm rose to 143 on december 17 with more than 100 others missing after widespread flash floods in the southern Philippines. (AFP PHOTO/Cherryl Vergeire)

BUDGET Secretary Flor-encio Abad announced yesterday the government released P1.297 billion in calamity response funds to help the victims of the devastating floods caused by typhoon “Sendong.”

Abad said: “With the calamity fund, the govern-ment is generously equipped to mobilize and support disaster relief efforts in Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, and other Sendong-affected areas. We are ensuring the quick release of these funds so that victims will receive swift and proper assistance.”

He made the statement as Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino slammed

Govt releases P1.3b to help flood victimsPresident Benigno Aquino III for vetoing a P5-billion disaster preparedness fund in the 2011 budget.

In his veto message, Aquino cautioned against the inclusion of pre-disaster activities.

Palace spokesman Edwin Lacierda, reacting to Pala-tino, called on the activist lawmaker not to politicize the issue, adding that the government has enough funds to help those affected by Sendong.

Abad also said that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Department of

National Defense (DND), and the Department of Edu-cation (DepEd) “are also adequately supported by separate Quick Response Funds (QRFs), which will guarantee direct and imme-diate support to Sendong-stricken areas.”

“In addition to the Calamity Fund and the QRFs, we also have the Local Government Support Fund shares of all affected local government units, for whom President Benigno S. Aquino III will provide Special Allotment Release Orders (SAROs) and No-tices of Allocation (NCAs) tomorrow,” he said.

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BUTUAN City––Nanumpa isip bag-ong OIC City Di-rector si P/Supt. Pedro U. Ubaldo Jr. niadtong petsa-15 ning tuiga, 2011.

Siya mipuli kang S/Sr. Supt. Jose Carillo, kinsa ibalhin sa laing ‘assignment’ human sa 10 ka bulan ni-yang pagka-City Director sa Butuan.

Ang turn-over ceremony gisaksihan ni P/Chief Supt. Reynaldo S. Rafal, director sa Police Regional Office; Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr., City Councilor Ryan Anthony Culima ug ubang opisyales sa kapulisan.

Gipasalig ni P/Supt. Ub-aldo nga paningkamutan niya ang pagpalambo sa kahapsay ug kalinaw sa dakbayan bisan nga usa lamang ka bulan ang iyang pagpangatungdanan, isip city police director hang-tud nga makapili si Mayor Amante og makapuli kaniya.

Dungan sa turnover-of-command, gibuksan ang PNP Multi-Purpose Hall ug library likod Butuan City Police Offi ce (BCPO) nga usa sa mga proyekto sa ad-ministrasyon ni P/Sr. Supt. Carillo. Na-establisar usab ubos ni P/Sr. Supt. Carillo ang labing unang E-Blotter System sa tibuok Visayas ug Mindanao nga gi-inagurahan bag-ohay ni PNP Chief Nica-nor Bartolome.

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firmed that “if additional disaster-response funds are required, the Administra-tion has sufficient reserves to augment the Calamity Fund and QRFs to expe-dite relief operations to all affected areas and com-munities.”

Relatively, Abad said that for next year the calamity fund was increased by P2.5 billion to P7.5 billion rela-tive to this year’s budget.

Aside from the govern-ment, the city government of Makati has also allocated P4 million for the victims of storm Sendong in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, and Dumaguete. See related story on Page 3

THE Department of Health (DOH) yesterday thumbed down the plan of the city government of Iligan to dig a mass grave where the unclaimed bod-ies, including those in an advanced state of decomposition, be buried.

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an advanced state of de-composition,” Mayor Cruz was quoted by InterAksyon.com, the news portal of TV 5.

He explained that fu-neral homes are already jam-packed of unclaimed corpses.

For his part, Iligan City Health Officer Levy Villarin told a news wire agency that mass burial could happen during the day after the

authorities would have com-pleted the formal process of documenting the features of each body for possible future identification.

“That is possible, but we have to follow the proper procedure,” Villarin said.

Local authorities in vari-ous parts of the world often bury unidentified decom-posing bodies in mass graves believing they could spread disease. Survivors would then have little chance of finding their loved ones, unless authorities maintain

a system for identifying the buried later such as retain-ing DNA tissue or taking photographs of the faces of the dead.

The danger from rot-ting corpses is overstated,

according to Dr. Tayag of the DOH.

“Mass burial is not advis-able,” Tayag said. “Grieving families should mourn and bury their dead as prac-ticed.”

BUTUAN City – Komple-tuhon sa Department of Health (DOH-13) ang ka-himanan sa bag-ong PNP

PNP-Caraga Hospital sangkapan sa DOH

Regional Hospital nga nahi-mutang sa Camp Rodriguez ning dakbayan.

Matud ni DOH-13 Re-gional Director Leonida Gorgolon, ang P10 milyones nga primary level hospital gitakdang mosugod sa op-erasyon sa sunod bulan.

Sa pagkakaron, aduna na kini delivery room, wards alang sa mga pasyenting lalake ug babaye, private rooms, laboratory, x-ray laboratory ug uban pa.

Ang PRO-13 Regional Hosital gisubhan atol sa pagduaw ni PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome dinhi sa dakbayan karong bag-o.

Ang katukoran ning pinaka-unang PNP hospital sa rehiyon, gikalipay kaayo ni P/Chief Supt. Reynaldo Rafal, PRO-13 director, kay iyang gilantaw nga kini makatabang og dako sa kapulisan ug sa ilahang dependents.

Ang pagsubo gitambo-ngan sa ubang mga opisyal sa PNP, DOH ug sa LGU Butuan. (mmejr/asf)

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From left, Administrator Casimira Balandra and Chairman Atty. Antonio Soriano of the Philippine Red Cross Misamis Oriental Chapter and ORO CHAMBER President Antonio “Tony” Uy sign a Memorandum of Undertaking for disaster preparedness and the Million Volunteer Run while the other Chamber Officers look on.

PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III is scheduled to visit typhoon-ravaged areas in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, and Dumaguete today to personally oversee the ongoing relief efforts by the government and inspect the damages wrought by the disaster, Malacañang said.

Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda told report-ers at a news briefing on Monday in Malacanang that the President will be having briefings from lo-cal government officials in the said areas and will take

P-Noy to visit C. de Oro, Iligan, Dumaguete today

some time to discuss with them their concerns.

“He (President Aquino) will be briefed also by the DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment) there in Cagayan de Oro and he will fly to Iligan and then to Dumaguete to inspect the damages and also to provide relief efforts as well,” he added.

Lacierda said the Presi-dent would have wanted to visit as early as Sunday but the Presidential Security Group as well as the Depart-ment of National Defense

advised him to reschedule it for Tuesday citing bad weather conditions as the primary reason.

After he was informed of the extent of the damages inflicted by storm ‘Sendong’ on the government and the people of Northern Mind-anao, President Aquino has been in touch constantly with his Cabinet officials that were already on the ground.

Lacierda said the Presi-dent regularly gives instruc-tions and receives updates from Interior and Local

Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, and National Disas-ter Risk Reduction Manage-ment Council (NDRRMC) executive director Benito Ramos who were already on the ground. “The Presi-dent was very much aware of what was going on and he made sure that all relief efforts and all necessary efforts insofar as search and rescue are given to the people affected,” he said.

THE Makati City govern-ment will allocate P4 mil-lion for the distribution of relief goods to victims of storm “Sendong” in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, and Iligan.

Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay on Monday said that he had requested the city council to enact an appropriation ordinance to privide financial assitance to the victims.

The money wi l l be sourced from the Quick Response Fund under the Local Disaster Risk Re-duction and Management Fund of the 2011 Execu-tive Budget, according to Binay.

“We commiserate with the families of the hun-dreds who perished in the typhoon. The three hardest-hit cities need all the help they can get right now, and Makati is ready to come to their aid in any way possible,” the mayor said.

Binay has instructed Makati Social Welfare De-partment, headed by City Administrator Marjorie de Veyra, to handle the relief operations in the said localities.

De Veyra said around 20,000 bags containing

Makati City govtto allocate P4m for ‘Sendong’ victims

rice, bottled mineral water and, canned goods would be distributed to 10,000 families in Cagayan de Oro, 5 ,000 famil ies in Iligan, and 5,000 families in Dumaguete.

“In the wake of the horrendous tragedy that killed hundreds of people, the local and national governments should inten-sify efforts to consolidate their resources “toward making each locality less vulnerable to disasters and capable of achieving fast recovery and rehabilita-tion,” said Binay.

Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay

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PAL flights to Cagayan de Oro and Dipolog will carry free of charge disaster relief donations coming from reputable non-government organizations (NGOs), pri-vate companies and reli-gious groups addressed to their designated recipients in Cagayan de Oro and Dipolog.

PAL Foundation Ex-ecutive Director Carmen Sarmiento said: “As in past natural disasters, PAL is taking the initiative to bring donations as quick as pos-sible to affected areas. PAL will fly relief goods up to

A SURVIVOR of the deadly Tropical Storm “Sendong” that left a wide swath of destruction in large part of Mindanao related to GMA7 on how she and her family barely escaped out of harm’s way at the height of the storm’s fury in Cagayan de Oro Friday night.

Ms. Michaela de Guz-man, a resident of Cagayan de Oro which bore the brunt of “Sendong” in a phone patch interview told GMA7 anchor Arnold Clavio that she was already sleeping when she heard neighbors screaming upon seeing the rampaging f loodwaters rushing towards them.

Most of the victims were sleeping when rampaging floodwaters swept the city. For many, it was too late when they woke up. Many

Survivor relates how her family barely escapes out of harm’s way from typhoon Sendong’s fury

By BEN CAL, Philippine News Agency

drowned in their sleep or hit by rolling logs.

Rampant illegal logging and indiscriminate mining which abound in many ar-eas in southern Philippines were blamed as the culprit in the worst flood in living memory.

Another factor was the people were complacent despite the issuance of a storm warning apparently because Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities are not within the normal path of typhoons in the past.

It was only Tropical Storm “Sendong” that brought them havoc in lives and property.

Houses and other struc-tures made of light mate-rials were washed out to the ground as shown by television footages filmed

by a local resident.De Guzman said it was a

horrifying sight to see trucks and cars overturned some along the road and others turned turtle in bushes sev-eral meters away from the highway.

“It happened so fast,” de Guzman said in Tagalog.

She said there was no electricity in the city as thousands of residents were groping in darkness as heavy rains continued without let-up that resulted in the overflowing of the river nearby.

De Guzman said fear struck her when floodwa-ters rose steadily as she was worried about the safety of her parents but especially to her lolo and lola who are already old.

Her presence of mind saved them when she got blankets from the bedroom,

tied them together and told her father and mother, her grandparents and her broth-ers and sister to hold on.

This saved them from being carried by floodwa-ters which rose to as high as 10 feet.

In Iligan City, thousands of residents suffered the same horrible fate of being battered by floodwaters.

A resident identified as Richelle Ann Medina Adaza said the flood had reached the second floor of houses in the area.

City Councilor Rudy Marzo said more than 300 bodies were recovered by rescue workers from vari-ous parts of the city while more than 500 others remain missing.

Logs and upside down trucks littered all over the place as shown by GMA7.

As of 12 noon Monday,

there were 632 fatalities, 82 missing, 16 injured and 432 rescued, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

NDRRMC Undersec-retary Benito Ramos said retrieval operation is ongo-ing and expects the number of dead to rise.

He said rescuers have recovered floating bodies in various places in the area. The latest to be recovered was a child whose hand protruded from mud in Cagayan de Oro.

The most urgent need of the thousands of evacuees living in temporary shelters are food and water, clothing and other basic necessities.

“Sendong”, international code-named “Washi” was the worst typhoon to hit the country this year in terms of the number of fatalities.

PAL to ferry relief goods to C. de Oro, Dipolog freeJanuary next year until those affected by typhoon Send-ong in Cagayan de Oro and other parts of Mindanao are able to rebuild their lives.”

The Lucio Tan Group kicked off its relief opera-tions by sending bottled water from Asia Brewery, Inc. to CDO via PAL.

Its philantrophic arm, the Tan Yan Kee Founda-tion, is likewise ready to fly in relief goods to disaster areas.

Sarmiento said recipi-ents of donations from nearby cities should send their representatives to the

Cagayan de Oro and Di-polog airports to formally accept the goods.

PAL will carry the re-lief goods as cargo on any of the five daily flights to Cagayan de Oro and five weekly flights to Dipolog using the Airbus A320 and A319 aircraft.

Priority will be given to lightweight and non-bulky essential items such as medicines and foodstuff.

Interested parties may contact the PAL Founda-tion by sending an email to menchu_sarmiento@pal.com.ph.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage-ment Council head Benito Ramos said the number of fatalities reached 684 as of 3:30 p.m.

“Sa kabuuan 684 ang casualties na patay,” Ramos said in an interview on dzBB radio.

He did not say where the latest fatalities were located. The NDRRMC’s death toll as of Monday noon stood at 632.

With the figure, the NDRRMC count surpassed the figures of the Philippine Red Cross, which stood at 652 as of Sunday evening.

Office of Civil Defense Region 10 head Ana Ca-ñedan said most of the fatalities (632) were from Region 10.

“Dumarami ang nare-recover na bodies (The num-ber of bodies recovered is increasing),” Cañedan said in a separate interview.

NDRRMC: ‘Sendong’ death toll nears 700

PILA na ka adlaw nga walay tubig ang dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro busa ang katawhan bisan asa na lang mopa-ingon aron lang adunay mainom. Ingon niana ka inutil ug ka hanggaw ang Cagayan de Oro Water District (Cowd), kung serbisyo hinay, ayaw gani’g bayad, putol deretso imong linya sa tubig. Nganong dugay mabalik ang tubig? Hulagway kuha ni Rolando Sudaria

THE death toll from Tropical Storm Sendong (Washi) neared 700 Monday afternoon, even as authorities admitted losing track of the number of people still missing in the wake of the storm.

Many of the bodies found were already decomposing, she added.

Of the 632, she said 336 were from Cagayan de Oro City; 279 from Iligan City; and 17 from Bukidnon.

Ramos also said they have lost count of the num-ber of missing people.

Earlier, he said they are still reconciling reports on the number of missing people.

“We lost count of how many are missing,” he said.

Me anw hi le , R amos called for food, clothing and blankets.

He said this will be for people now staying in tem-porary shelters.

On one hand, Cagayan de Oro City remains water-less since Sendong struck the city at dawn on Satuday.

Local residents are still relying on bottled water and water rationing.

— RSJ, GMA News

AN elderly woman was killed while seven soldiers, including a young officer, were wounded in a landmine attack carried out by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Surigao del Sur Sunday, the Philippine Army said Monday.

Reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo said the KM 450 truck carrying the soldiers was cruising the national road towards a local market when a roadside bomb was detonated as their vehicle passed by the vicinity of Sitio Puerto, Maharlika vil-lage, Bislig City at around 12:10 p.m.

An elderly woman, who hitched a ride with the sol-diers, was killed due to shrapnel wounds. She was identified as Lilia Lalisan, 63, a resident of Dona Car-men of Tagbina town.

Seven soldiers sustained minor injuries including 2nd Lieutenant Michael Pascua, the platoon leader.

The other wounded per-sonnel include Pfc Gregorio Dacayanan, Pfc Efraim Joy Manalili, Pfc John Rey Del Rosario, Pfc Renan Bertillo, Pfc Alberto Caballo and Pfc Mon Claire Fernandez. They were brought to a lo-cal hospital.

Ednar Dayanghirang of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Peace Pro-cess condemned the NPA’s continuous employment of landmines.

“Those landmines have once again, put the lives of non-combatants to danger. The rebels are carrying out this attack in time during the calamitous flooding in Mindanao which claimed hundreds of lives,” said Dayanghirang.

philippine news agency

Womanslain inlandmineattack

ZAMBOANGA City––A Zamboangueño bested 16 others in the recently concluded 20th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) na-tional competition held at the Assembly Hall of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in Malate, Manila.

The 16 year old Efren Medallo, a first year college Electronics and Communi-cations Engineering student of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) bagged the championship title when he defeated 16 other regional representatives coming from the various regions all over the country.

Medallo’s scored 33 points in total for the three rounds of questions and an-swers on statistical concepts, theories and problems.

Jocelyn P. Alvarez

Zambo lad wins quiz tilt

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Developments

By SM R. FABULAR, Contributor

By JORIE C. VALCORZA, PIA-1O

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Regional Executive Director Lealyn A. Ramos of DA-10 and Engr. Roxana H. Hojas, DA-10 regional technical director, hand over the awards to the five regional outstanding “Gawad Saka” awardees.

This year’s awardees came from two outstanding organiza-tions category and three outstand-ing individual category.

Awarded under the individ-ual category were Emmanuel P. Patricio of Purok 4, Managok, Malaybalay City as “Outstanding Rice Farmer,” who has adopted an integrated farming system; and Siegfred L. Balaki of Intavas, Impasug-ong as “Outstanding

Five outstandiong ‘Gawad Saka’ awardee commendedCAGAYAN de Oro City––The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Northern Mindanao awarded five regional outstanding “Gawad Saka” awardees during an awarding rites held at Harbor Lights Hotel in Barangay Gusa recently.

High Value Commercial Crops Farmer” whose farm is an example of agricultural diversification; Ernesto D. Leonar of Maligaya, Malaybalay City as “Outstanding Small Animal Raiser,” who has applied systematic innovations in raising his livestock.

For the organization category, the Aloran Municipal Agricultural and Fishery Council represented by Gilbert Tejano as Outstand-ing Agricultural and Fishery Council-Municipal Level while the Iligan City Independent City Chapter Agriculture and Fishery Council as the Outstanding AFC of the year represented by its Chairman, Cornelio Dagaas Sr.

The “Gawad Saka” award is the most prestigious award given to individual or group of farmers, and fisherfolks who have done exemplary performance in the field of agriculture and fisher-ies––and have contributed in the attainment of the government’s goal of food security and suf-ficiency.

The individual awardees re-ceived P20,000 cash prize, a plaque of recognition, one-unit Knapsack Sprayer and assorted vegetable seeds while the organi-zation awardees received a cash prize of P30,000, a plaque of recognition , one unit Knapsack Sprayer and assorted vegetable seeds.

In her inspirational message, Ramos said: “Let not this award remain as an award but share it to your community, continue whatever you have practiced that made you an achiever in your respective field. This is our mis-sion; that is to give and to share.”

CAGAYAN de Oro City––Some 14 establishments in Northern Mindanao were penalized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for breaching the product standards law.

Atty. Fil Brillantes of DTI 10 Consumer Arbitration Unit said violations committed are

Trade department press charges vs 14 erring establishmentsmostly limited on products like the angle bars, ceramic tiles and Christmas lights not bearing the quality standard seal.

Erring establishments were penalized with minimum of P17,500 for those who submit for a plea bargain, lower than the set penalty amount of P25,000.

Brillantes said the amount will double on its second offense until third and then it will be recommended for closure.

DTI report bares Cagayan de Oro City with highest number of establishment penalized, post-ing some nine cases and with one pending, followed by five establishments in Malaybalay City, two of which are currently

pending on court and then one case in Gingoog and Valencia City.

Brillantes however noted that this year the number or charges filed is lower than last year, gain-ing significant compliance from the establishments.

Further, Brillantes explained that locally manufactured prod-ucts should bear the Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) stick-

ers and the Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) seal for the imported items.

“The ICC seal must have eight serial numbers and in time should bear the 2009-up to pres-ent marking as it is renewed and redesigned every three years, although not all products are covered by the mandatory certi-fication scheme,” he noted.

THE Philippines’ largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) is set to fly to all major coastal cities in China when it commences Manila-Xiamen-Manila flights on March 23, 2012. It will be a thrice weekly service, utilizing one of CEB’s brand-new Airbus jet aircraft.

CEB introduces its 18th international destination with an P888 (CNY 138) Manila-Xiamen or Xiamen-Manila seat sale until De-cember 23, 2011 or until seats last. This is for travel from March 23 to May 31, 2012. After the sale, lowest year-round fares from Manila to Xiamen start at P2,499 (CNY 388).

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EDITORIAL Think A MinuteThink A Minute

Jhan Tiafau HurstJhan Tiafau Hurst

THINK a minute.One night in June, 1997,

a 55-year-old mother named Karen Minahan was hit by a car driven by a drunk driver. The driver then backed up and ran over her two more times! Karen’s lungs were punctured and all of her ribs were broken. She even had to have her right leg cut off.

Over the next 4 years, Karen had 26 painful opera-tions. All of her suffering, including losing her leg and job, would have destroyed most people’s hope for suc-cess. But Karen believes she can find hope and happiness no matter what bad things happen to her.

In fact, she’s now on several executive boards that raise millions of dollars to help people who need new legs and arms. Karen says: “I’ve always known I’m lucky! Now I can help people worse-off than I am.”

Many people believe in luck and superstitions. They carry lucky charms like special jewelry or clothing. They do the same ritual before important events for good luck.

Many are afraid of bad luck so they stay away from things like the number 13, black cats and broken mir-rors. But that kind of luck isn’t real and only happens by coincidence.

People who believe in bad luck and superstitions live in almost constant fear of doing the wrong thing, even by accident, because

Lucky you‘Illegal logging’

they think it will jinx or curse them and their family.

But real luck brings op-portunities for success and satisfaction that really last. And the only way to be this lucky is to build your own good character and attitude every day. Today and tomorrow, we’re going to talk about the secrets of lucky people.

The first secret is you must believe that you’re lucky and God’s on your side. You must know that God created you for good things, and that they’re hap-pening to you not by chance, but for a purpose.

So even if bad things happen, God will help you use those experiences to become a much better, more successful person.

It’s when you know this that your whole attitude and way of living changes. People will like you more and want to help you.

So why not ask Jesus Christ to take control of your life?

He’ll show you what you need to change. Then, you’ll have total confidence every day that God’s on your side working with you in every-thing to make His plans for your life start to happen.

oOoAn Army General was

asked what kind of good luck charms he carries when he goes to war. The General answered: “I don’t carry a lucky charm on my body. I carry it in my heart.” We talked earlier about the secrets of lucky people, so we can develop our own opportunities for success and luck that lasts.

The second secret of lucky people is that they learn to control their nega-tive emotions, such as feel-ing too shy and afraid or too angry.

Controlling our nega-tive emotions will give us much more self-confidence, as well as make us more positive and peaceful with other people. So we have to change and master our bad moods and fears, or they’ll rob us of our success.

The third secret of lucky people is they know they can’t change their life by sitting at home.

You have to get out with people and start really living with enthusiasm, energy and kindness.

Always be ready and open to new people and opportunities. And be pre-pared to make mistakes. That’s the only way we can learn new skills and get

more out of life. Some of our greatest opportunities for success will come from our mistakes and be total surprises.

The fourth secret of lucky people is they don’t compare their life with the lives of others, especially since there will always be people who have something that you don’t. So stay fo-cused on your own life, goals and dreams. But learn from other people’s successes and mistakes.

The final secret of lucky people is they choose to see the good in their life and be thankful for it, even when bad things happen to them. Karen Minahan, the woman we talked about yesterday who was hit by a car and lost her leg and job, says she kept a diary.

Everyday she wrote 5 good things that happened to her. She explains that this habit reminded her how blessed she was. She says: “I decided to meet the driver whose car hit me and to forgive her. I had to let go of my past so I could move on to my success and happiness.”

We all have past wrongs for which we need to ask Jesus Christ to forgive us. Then, if you ask Him to take charge of your life so you can start living His way, you’ll have the confidence that God Himself is on your side, working with you everyday to make your life successful and satisfying.

Just Think a Minute.

DUL-AN 300 ka tawo ang namatay sa dakbayan sa Ili-gan ug daghan ang missing tungod sa bagyong Sendong.

Tungod sa kakusog sa tubig, daghan kaayong troso ang nagtapok karon sa Ili-gan City.

Illegal logging sa ka-bukirang bahin ang usa nga gibasol nganong daghan sa kabalayan ang naguba.

Tiaw mo nga tubig nga adunay mga troso ang mo-bangga sa imong balay, pw-erte gyud nga guba-a sa balay maong daghan sab ang nangamatay.

Dugay na nga problema ang illegal logging ug hang-tud karon problema lang gihapon.

Unsaon, ayha ra man gud kining illegal logging makit-an nga dakong prob-lema kung aduna nay mga katalagman nga mahitabo. Kung daghan na gani ang mangamatay og ma-apektu-han, ayha ra pud mahisgutan ang illegal logging.

Unsa kaha ang ginabuhat sa ahensiya sa gobyerno nga maoy gitahasan sa pagban-tay sa kinaiyahan.

Unsa kaha ang gibuhat

sa Department of Environ-ment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Epektibo ba ang ilang kampanya batok sa illegal logging?

Aduna ba silay gihimo batok sa illegal mining, illegal quarry ug kaingin?

Ang Department of Public Works and High-ways (DPWH) naglantaw ba nga malimpyohan ang mga dagkong dainage ug open canal.

Sa gihapon, ayha ra kin-ing maong mga ahensiya molihuk kon aduna nay mangamatay.

Kining mga kadagkoan sa atong mga ahensiya sa gobyerno ayha ra mangli-huk kung aduna nay mag-subo tungod kay nawad-an sa ilang mga minahal sa kinabuhi.

Angayan na tingali nga bag-ohon sa mga local of-ficials ang ilang naandan nga batasan.

Batasan nga dili na ma-ghulat pa sa mga reklamo sa katawhan.

Pildi angPildi angmaglagot!maglagot!

RUEL PELONE

Cowd, inutil bisan unsaonSA akong tan-aw maabtan pa gyud sunod tuig ayha makabalik ang tubig dinhi sa dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro. Tingali sa katapusan sa Pebrero 2012.

Pait palandungon nga ang mga biktima sa bagyong Sendong mag-antus og hi-labihan tungod lang sa ka inutil sa Cagayan de Oro Water District (Cowd).

Karong panahuna, lisod ang pagkaligo tungod kay mogasto ka og P25 matag balde sa tubig nga imong ikaligo.

Nan, kadtong nawad-an sa panimalay og mga mahal sa kinabuhi, aduna bay P25 nga sarang ikapalit sa tubig?

Ang mga evacuation cen-ters, nanimaho na tungod kay walay tubig mainom, ug ikaligo.

Napuno na sa “ta-e” ang ilang inidoro nga maayong isagpa nianang mga kadag-koan sa Cowd nga dagko og mga bonus nga madawatan.

Kanang inyong gipasi-garbo nga P30-milyones nga damyos, labing siguro ipasa na sab na ninyo sa inyong mga konsumidor.

Ambot kanus-a kaha matarong kanang pagpada-gan sa water district dinhi sa Cagayan de Oro?

Hangtud nga dili mail-isan kanang mayor nga pagarpar lang kanunay, dili ug dili gayud mabag-o

kanang pagpadagan diha sa Cowd.

Mao ra ang gilantaw ni-anang mga Cowd kung pila ilang madawat ug isulod sa bulsa––mga dagko ug bonus ug suweldo apan sa trabaho, inutil ang mga giatay.

Unsa, rasyon sa tubig. Maglinya pa lugar mi aron makaligo? Dili na lang lugar mi manarbaho kay mag-sige na lang ug linya aron makakuha ug tubig nga sarang magamit? Hanggaw man diay mo.

Kamong taga-Cowd, ayaw ninyo paabota nga maglagot ang katawhan nin-yo. Angayan nga magtarong mo sa inyong pagserbisyo nga gihatag aron aduna pay respeto nga mabilin ang katawhan ninyo.

Dili na nako hisgutan ng mga isyu nga inyong giatubang diha, ang ako, serbisyo mo sa tinarong

kay tinarong man sab ang bayad sa tubig nga gibayran sa katawhan.

Kung mangutana mo nganong inutil ang inyong serbisyo?

Una, usa pa gani ka bagyo ang milabay dinhi sa amihanang Mindanao apan ang inyong facilities naguba na dayon.

Siyaro, nanggungis na mo diha sa Cowd og pan-arbaho wala gyud ninyo nahuna-hunaan kung “ty-phon tested” ba kanang inyong tubo.

Imposible sab nga wala moy “mitigating measure” nga kung mahitabo ang ingon niini, dali ra ninyo mapabalik ang tubig.

Hay, unsaon ang naa sa inyong huna-huna kung unsaon makapa increase sa bayronon sa tubig.

Bisan og puno pa ng inyong bulsa tungod sa kadako sa bonus ug su-weldo, maghuna-huna pa gyud kung unsaon nga mas modako pa ang madawat nga suhulan ug bonus mao nga hala sige’g pangayo og usbaw sa bayronon sa tubig.

Angay ninyo hunahu-naon nga ang tubig gihatag sa Ginoo kanato nga libre. Ang among gibayran kanang inyong pagproseso sa tubig ug ang inyong gipanggamit.

Apan tungod sa kahakog sa salapi, nawala na ang

serbisyo.Tan-awa daw ninyo ng

inyong gipang “cluster.”Ambot kung gasudlon pa

ba sa inyong “meter reader” ang maong dapit nga halos dili na man makita kay aduna na may balay nga gitukod.

Wala gyud mo kabadlong noh? Ingon ana ang inyong ka pol-pol ug ka inutil. Maghulat pa nga adunay magreklamo.

Mao na ang klarong “DAWLIMS” Dawat Lim-pyo. Ambot kanus-a pa mo diha gaba-i sa inyon mga hinanggaw oi.

Kamong taga-Cowd kay gibayran man mo sa ensakto, serbisyo sab mo oi.

Tinarong nga serbisyo, kanang dili na maghulat nga kuhiton pa mo sa likod aron makit-an ang mga problema sa inyong mga konsumidor.

Sa ako ng giingon, ayaw na mo og hulat nga masuko ang katawhan ninyo.

Kana inyong hinanggaw nga serbisyo, mobalik ra kana kaninyo.

Pag-hire mo og daghang tawo aron madali ang pag-ayo nianang mga guba o naguba matud pa ninyo.

Ug kung dili ninyo kaya ang pagserbisyo og tarong ngadto sa inyong konsumi-dor, panghawa mo diha sa Cowd oi.

7December 20, 2011Editor: ALLAN MEDIANTEANG NEWSPAPER SA MASAANG NEWSPAPER SA MASA

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Comentaries

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO of bulatlat.com

POVERTY/p.9

Fr. Roy Cimagala

WORDS of our Lord, with a slight rephrasing, to high-light our relation with the world. We are in it, but we are not of it. We are in the world but we are not sup-posed to be worldly, since we are not of the world.

This may sound like pet-ty quibbling but it’s actually a crucial fine distinction we have to make. On it depend not only our temporal and earthly destiny but also our eternal one.

We have to remember that the way to our super-natural end passes through our natural world. How we conduct ourselves in our earthly affairs becomes the ticket either for eternal glory or eternal damnation.

Our human perfection, our redemption and salva-tion, while having its defini-tive state in heaven, is forged through the things of this

Conversing with the world“They are in the world…(but) they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.” (Jn 17)

world. The supernatural grace, which perfects us and brings us to God, never an-nuls our human and natural condition. Rather, it always works on it, purifying it and elevating it to the order of God.

In this regard, we have to know how to deal with the things of the world. This is done through a continuing conversation with the world in all its aspects. But in this, we have to strictly follow the example of Christ.

As the Son of God who became man, Christ is the image of God who assumed everything human, except sin. We can derive from that truth that Christ engaged the world in its totality while never forgetting the supernatural mission that he had.

His whole earthly life, his words and deeds, and

especially that culminating act of his passion, death and resurrection, indicate his complete immersion of our human and earthly condi-tion and yet transcending it to show us the way to our supernatural end.

This kind of situation involves a combination of active and passive in-volvement, patience and intolerance, leniency and strictness, openness and firmness, and other sets of apparent contrasting quali-ties that are unified if one

closely follows Christ.We have to know when

to speak and when to keep quiet, when to act and when to wait, when to move and when to stay put.

Since Christ is “the way, the truth and the life” to us, we have to realize that we need to follow or imitate him in his attitude and un-derstanding of the meaning and purpose of our life here on earth.

In our relation with the world, we need to learn how to infuse the Christian spirit in it, never allowing ourselves as much as pos-sible to be dominated by the worldly spirit of material-ism, secularism, relativism, and many other isms.

For this the Church has articulated the social doc-trine to guide us—clergy, religious and laity—on how to deal with the world in ways proper to each one. Everyone of us, according to his own state and possibili-

ties, should do all he can to engage the world in all its affairs in a Christian way.

Here are some relevant words about the Church’s social doctrine taken from the presentation page of the Church’s Compendium of Social Doctrine:

“To the people of our time, the Church offers her social doctrine. In fact, when the Church fulfills her mission of proclaiming the Gospel, she bears witness to man, in the name of Christ, to his dignity and his voca-tion to the communion of person. She teaches him the demands of justice and peace in conformity with divine wisdom.”

This prophetic mission of the Church has to be done in a more consistent way especially these when we are faced with all sorts of issues, controversies and challenges in the areas of business, politics, environ-ment, culture, etc.

The disturbing impres-sion is that in our temporal affairs, it seems the Church is silent or is mainly up-staged, sidelined and dis-placed by purely worldly ideologies and merely hu-man reactions.

There seems a discon-nect between the proclaimed Gospel and our concerns, both the small, daily and immediate kind as well as the big and long-running ones.

When Church leaders try to make some interven-tions, they are often seen as outsiders or clueless due to a host of factors like incom-petence, lecturing style, etc.

Of course, it has to be understood that much of the Church’s continuing conversation with the world is done by the laity who have to be aware of their responsibility to the world and have to be properly trained and motivated for this mission.

The battle between President Benigno Aquino III and Chief Justice Renato Corona has be-gun. It has started with the exchange of verbal fireworks. However, everything would come to a head in a few days time when the Senate convenes itself as an impeachment court. This would, perhaps, outstage the current telenovela craze as what happened during the impeachment trial of former president Joseph Estrada. By Flon Faurillo of bulatlat.com

MARIVIC Quioga, 29 is a beneficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps since 2010. However, the 4Ps program has failed to uplift Quioga and her family from poverty. Quioga said the P900 ($20) she usually gets from the said program did not improve her family’s living conditions.

“Nothing. We’re always short (on money),” Quioga said referring to the cash grant. Quioga is a B’laan from barangay Tuyan, Mala-patan, Sarangani Province. She has four children with ages 12, 10, eight and five. Her husband is a farmer earning an average of P1,500 ($34) per month, while she is a housewife. According to Quioga, she became part of the program when the De-partment of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted a survey in their place.

Babbylyn Hermosora, 31, a Sangrir (an ethnic group in General Santos) from Purok Maguindanao, Labangal, General Santos City, is also a beneficiary of the 4Ps. She has three children with ages, seven, four and an eleven-month-old baby. Her husband is a warehouseman in a grocery store who earns P4,000 ($93) a month. She is also a housewife.

The Conditional Cash Transfer program, which the government calls the Pantawid Pamilyang Pami-lya Program (4Ps), is the centerpiece poverty alle-

Poverty worsens despite conditional cash

transfer programviation program of Presi-dent Benigno S. Aquino III. Under the cash transfer program, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment, would distribute a maximum amount of $32.55 per month to poor families covered by the program.

The government believes that the lives of impov-erished Filipino families would be improved through this program. Aquino, him-self, calls the CCT pro-gram as “lifesaver” for poor families while World Bank president Robert Zoelick also backed the program saying that economic growth should benefit the poor. In a news article, Zoelick even described the government’s CCT program as a “prudent safety net for poor families, especially in these tough economic times.”

But for Quioga, noth-ing short of getting a land to till or a permanent job could help them rise up from poverty. Hermosora also said, “If the govern-ment would really want to help it should be enough and lwould benefit us in the ong term, like jobs for every Filipino.”

Conditions under 4PsTo meet the govern-

ment’s targets as contained in the United Nation’s Mil-lennium Development Goals (MDG), beneficiaries must fulfill the conditions that the program requires be-fore they can receive their cash grant. This includes

bringing their children to health centers for a monthly check up, sending them to school every day and for parents to attend seminars and meetings organized by the DSWD.

Despite this, a study conducted by the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) showed that, in July this year, 81 percent of beneficiary-respondents said they do not see long term solutions addressing poverty in the program. They added that they could not rely on the cash grant to sustain their daily living.

The CWR has, since the beginning of the 4Ps program, been monitor-ing its implementation and impact. Two cases provided to Bulatlat.com showed that the 4Ps did not make life easier for two bene-ficiary-respondents. The CWR conducted its survey through their networks in the regions.

According to Quioga they have to attend the semi-nar before the DSWD gives them their cash grants. Fail-ure to attend the seminars may lead to the delisting of a beneficiary. Hermosora added, “Every Monday we have to attend meetings organized by FRAME (lo-cal organization affiliated with the DSWD). Every Friday is 4Ps session and FRAME also. If we fail to attend FRAME meetings three times we might get delisted.”

Another condition is

to make sure that their children attend school at least 85 percent of classes. According to CWR, the beneficiaries are asked to get a certification from the school where their children go to. The said certification is also a requirement to get the cash grant.

Quioga’s children, for example, do not go to school regularly because their house is very far from the school, a three-hour-walk. Hermosora, on the other hand, did not receive her cash grant two months after she received P2,200 ($51). The DSWD told her it is be-cause of the late processing of the school certification.

The program also re-quires that the cash grant would only be spent on the children’s school needs which, according to the Department of Education amounts to P300 ($6.9) per child. But Hermosora

admitted that she sometimes uses the money to buy food. “We should only use the money for our children’s needs in school but we can’t avoid using it to buy food sometimes We are even told that we should show them the receipt,” she said.

Quioga and Hermosora both said that they could not get a regular check up. Quioga needs to walk three hours before she could reach the nearest health center in their place. Hermosora needs to shell out money for transportation. However, with the measly income of her husband, Hermosora chooses to spend the money for her children’s pocket money to school, which amounts to P20 ($.46) a day per one child.

According to Quioga and Hermosora, they also shell out money for transporta-tion and to buy food when they go to the Landbank of

the Philippines to withdraw the money because of the long queue.

“This flagship program of Aquino is just a palliative measure. People don’t need dole-outs. What they really need is a permanent job,” Gloria Arellano, president of Kadamay told Bulatlat.com in a brief interview.

Filipinos remain poorHermosora and Quioga

are just two of the ben-eficiaries of the program. One might say that other beneficiaries might have been uplifted from poverty. However, a survey of Social Weather Stations shows that more than half of the population consider them-selves poor despite Aquino’s Conditional Cash Transfer program.

According to urban poor group Kadamay, the situa-tion would worsen if the Aquino administration will

8 December 20, 2011

SONNY G. DAVID

“Ikaduhang Yugto”

MILUNGTAD pa kadto sa dugay’ng panahon nga tag-dugay kaayo ako makadaug. Kung kwentahon Kuya Son-davz tabla ra ang akong daug sa mga pildi. Nag-agwanta lang gi-hapon ko ug naningkamot pa nga kanunay mo-com-pute aron makuha gayud nako ang formula. Kay ako nagtuo nga ang pattern sa swertres dili susama sa sili nga mohalang dayon. Maabtan pa kini sa pipila ka mga ka-tuigan ayha moabot ang tukmang panahon nga mataymingan. Ang akong gibuhat niadto aron madugangan

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together the seasoning, mustard, oil and salt and pepper, to taste. Toss with the vegetables and spread in a layer on the bottom of a roasting pan.

• For the chicken: Season the chicken with the chicken seasoning. Place the chicken on the vegetables in the roasting pan. Roast until golden and an instant-read thermometer registers 150 degrees F when inserted in the thickest part of the thigh, 50 minutes to 1 hour.

• For the glaze: While the chicken is roast-ing, whisk together all the ingredients for the glaze in a pot over medium-high heat. Bring to a simmer and cook until thickened slightly. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

• When the chicken is nearly cooked through, completely coat the outside with the glaze using a pastry brush. Pour any remaining glaze over the vegetables. Roast until an instant-read thermometer registers 175 degrees F when inserted in the thickest part of the thigh, an ad-ditional 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the chicken from the oven and let rest for 10 minutes before serving.

IngredientsIngredientsVegetables:Vegetables:2 tablespoons honey mustard chicken glaze seasoning (recommended: McCormick)1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard2 tablespoons canola oilSalt and freshly ground black pepper1 pound baby carrots1 pound Brussels sprouts, halved1 pound red baby potatoes, halvedChicken:1 (3 1/2 to 4 1/2-pound) chicken, rinsed and patted dry1 tablespoon chicken seasoning (recommended: McCormick Perfect Pinch)Glaze:1/4 cup maple syrup1/4 cup orange juice1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard3 tablespoons butterSalt and freshly ground black pepper

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PovertyFrom page 7

continue with the dole out program instead of pro-viding long-term solutions.

“No matter how big the government’s allotment for the CCT is, if it would not create jobs and give the necessary increase to the measly wage of workers, the poor will remain poor,” Gloria Arellano, national secretary general of Ka-damay, said. Last fiscal year, the Conditional Cash Transfer program had a budget of $483 million. It was increased to $906 million in the 2012 budget.

Yet, despite the imple-mentation of the Condi-tional Cash Transfer, the SWS, in its recent survey, revealed that 52 percent of Filipinos, or about 10.4 million households, con-sider themselves as poor. It increased from only 49 percent or 9.8 million households in June this year.

Those who rated them-

selves poor in terms of food have also increased from 36 percent or 7.2 million households in June to 41 percent or 8.2 million in the recent survey. The self rated poverty rate in rural areas have increased by nine points or 62 percent while respondents in towns and cities stayed at 43 percent.

“The data qualifies the Philippines as one of the ‘food-poor’ or hungry na-tions in the world, despite the fact that we have an agricultural economy,” Arellano said.

Wasting public fundsPresidential spokesper-

son Abigail Valte said the result of the SWS survey could be attributed to the wrath of Typhoon Pedring, where millions worth of agricultural crops were destroyed.

“How to further insu-late the country from such shocks? Better planning, more realistic conditions, simpler methods of produc-tion,” Valte said.

But for Kadamay, with

or without typhoons, the conditions of the toiling masses have been getting worse. They attributed the increasing poverty and hun-ger to the fact that Aquino’s poverty alleviation program has not created jobs for the poor and “it would not create jobs even after its five-year time table because of the neoliberal policies that keep the country from implementing national in-dustrialization.”

Arellano said the Aquino administration is wasting public funds in its Condi-tional Cash Transfer pro-gram. “Of the $906 million fund for CCT in 2012, how many industries could be funded to operate and, con-sequently, create jobs for millions of Filipinos who are jobless?” she said.

“CCT will also bury the country into bigger debts to the World Bank, which the future generations will shoulder,” Arellano said, “The Aquino administra-tion should instead focus its resources to job creation

and increasing the wages of its workers.”

Decent jobs, agrarian reform

In times like this, the urban poor group warned that “no matter how high the popularity rating of the president is, it could not cover up the hungry stomachs of his people.”

Arellano said the presi-dent has not experienced “an incident of involuntary hunger in his lifetime to feel the situation of millions of poor Filipinos.” In the light of the recent commemora-tion of the Hacienda Luisita massacre, she added that Aquino have chosen to re-main silent on the Supreme Court’s ruling that would, in the end, take away the land tilled by farm workers in the disputed lands.

“If every farmer has

a decent parcel of land, with a harvest enough to feed his family, earn for a living and still have some savings for his family’s other needs, not a single family will go hungry and consider themselves as poor,” Arel-lano said, “The same goes to workers in the urban centers who should receive decent wages from their employers.”

Kadamay is demanding for a paradigm shift in the government’s poverty alle-viation program. The group said that no lip service, such as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms and the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, could calm the social unrest in the country because of the widespread poverty and hunger incidents.

“The crisis will worsen as the Aquino administra-tion remains puppet to the dictates of the US by pur-suing the failed neoliberal policies, which hinders the implementation of genu-ine agrarian reform and national industrialization programs,” Arellano said, “The government should offer real solutions so that the toiling masses could break free from the bond-age of poverty.”

For Hermosora and Quioga, Conditional Cash Transfer program did not improve their lives. The conditions set by the DSWD to its beneficiaries that demand a big chunk of their time is only an added responsibility on top of the many things they have to do for their families. (http://bulatlat.com)

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with highly developed banking services and open policy towards foreign in-vestment and trade.

Flights for this route are scheduled to depart Manila at 11:20pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, arriving in Xiamen at 01:35am.

Return flights will leave Xiamen at 2:25am every

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and arrive in Manila at 04:40am.

“CEB looks forward to expanding its network in China, especially with Xiamen and Fujian Prov-ince being the well-known hometown of about 85% Filipino-Chinese in the Philippines, including the Gokong weis . We hope CEB’s thrice weekly flights to Xiamen will boost trade tremendously between

China and the Philippines,” said CEB VP for Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog.

“We f lew 30% more passengers to mainland China in the 3rd quarter of 2011, compared to the same period last year. CEB will continue to grow its China market with its trademark low fares and destination offerings, such as the island paradise of Boracay, Coron and Cebu,” Iyog added.

The airline currently flies thrice weekly to Beijing and Guangzhou, and daily to Shanghai.

It earlier announced plans to increase flights to Beijing, after its 1st year of operations last September 5.

Manila-Beijing-Manila flights will be a four times weekly service starting January 7, 2012 to cope with demand.

CEB’s Greater China operations extend to daily

flights from Manila to Tai-pei, up to 6 daily flights to Hong Kong from Manila, Clark and Cebu, and 11 weekly flights to Macau from Manila and Clark.

For bookings and inqui-ries, guests can go to www.cebupacificair.com, or call the reservation hotlines (02) 7020-888 or (032) 230-8888.

The latest seat sales and promos can also be found on CEB’s official Twitter

and Facebook pages. CEB currently operates

10 Airbus A319, 19 Airbus A320 and 8 ATR-72 500 aircraft.

By the end of 2011, CEB will be operating a fleet of 37 aircraft – with an aver-age age of 3.6 years – one of the most modern aircraft fleets in the world. Between 2012 and 2021, Cebu Pacific will take an additional 23 Airbus A320 and 30 Airbus A321neo aircraft.

HERE is one tip for the country’s rice farmers: “Do not use one and the same rice variety over and over again. That is if you want to increase your yields.”

This advice was offered by a biotech expert of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice,) who emphasized that pests be-come immune when ex-posed to one and the same rice variety for a long time.

Thelma Padolina, chief of the PhilRice’s plant breed-ing and biotechnology divi-sion, said resistance of rice plants to pests decreases principally because of two

Use of same rice variety in PHL farmlands decreases yields: PhilRicereasons: one due to intensive cropping and two: the use of the same variety every season.

“If pests are continu-ously exposed to the same variety, these might evolve into more powerful types that would overcome the resistance of the varieties,” she said.

Padolina said not all out-standing traits are present in one rice variety such as high-yielding, resistant to pests, excellent grain and eating quality among others.

She said PhilRice breed-ers keep on improving va-rieties to help the farmers

keep pace with the evolving pests and diseases, changing climatic conditions resulting in various stresses such as low and high temperature, submergence, salinity that reduces yield, and chang-ing preferences of farmers, millers and consumers.

She said modern rice varieties yield higher than traditional ones as they are more efficient in absorbing nutrients and more effective in photosynthetic activities owing to plant physical traits such as short upright leaves and more tillers.

Many modern variet-ies, she said, are resistant

to “biotic” and “abiotic” stresses.

Biotic stress refers to occurrence of pests and diseases while abiotic stress includes drought, salinity, high and low temperatures, and other environmental conditions that cause harm to the plant and reduces its yield.

Padolina said while there are rice varieties that have evolved by natural and farmer selection, rice va-rietal development remains a priority in a country with a fast-growing population and with a rice self-sufficiency goal.

She said PhilRice is ac-tively pursuing breeding to provide the farmer more choices and allow him to cope with rapid changes in the biophysical and socio-economic environments as evolution by natural and farmer selection in rice is simply too slow for the needs of modern humans.

Padolina said traditional varieties, mostly planted in the highlands, are low-yielding and late-maturing.

Based on studies, the rice produced by highland farmers is only sufficient to meet their rice consump-tion for five months as rice

is grown between six to seven months and yield per hectare is very low.

Furthermore, she said an intensive cropping us-ing traditional variety is not possible in the terraces or in the highland farms because of the varieties’ long maturity.

Although traditional va-rieties mature within 150 to 180 days, they are good sources of resistance and grain quality traits which are being replicated in the development of new and modern rice varieties. A report from the Philippine News Agency

10 December 20, 2011

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Goodbye England’s roseMay you ever grow in our hearts

You were the grace that placed itselfWhere lives were torn apart

You called out to our countryAnd you whispered to those in pain

Now you belong to heavenAnd the stars spell out your name

chorusAnd it seems to me you lived your life

Like a candle in the windNever fading with the sunset

When the rain set inAnd your footsteps will always fall here

Along England’s greenest hillsYour candle’s burned out long before

Your legend ever willLoveliness we’ve lost

These empty days without your smileThis torch we’ll always carryFor our nation’s golden child

And even though we tryThe truth brings us to tears

All our words cannot expressThe joy you brought us through the years

[repeat chorus]

Goodbye England’s roseMay you ever grow in our hearts

You were the grace thatce that placed itselfWhere lives were torn apart

Goodbye England’s roseFrom a country lost without your soul

Who’ll miss the wings of your compassionMore than you’ll ever know

[repeat chorus]

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TRIVIATRIVIA

THE Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao province has been dubbed as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

The Ifugaos carved the terraces from the rocky mountain of Banaue, about 4,000 feet above the sea

Eighth Wonder of the World

Sampagita

Sampagita is the Philippine’s national flower. It has many herbal uses:USESEdibility· Flowers used to make jamine tea.OrnamentalA favorite floral offering and adornment for altars.Folkloric· Fever or cough: Take decoction of flowers or

leaves as needed.· Ulcers: Pound flowers or leaves and apply on affected areas.· Fever, abdominal distention, and di-arrhea: use 3 to 6 gm of dried flowers or leaves, combined with other drug materials, use in decoction form.· Reddening and swelling pain in the eye, use decoction of dried flowers as eyewash.· Sprains and fractures: use root material in combination with other drugs and apply as external poultice.· Flavor: Use flowers to flavor tea.· Lactifuge: Bruised leaves are applied to the breasts.• In India, traditionally used for skin disorders.• In ancient Baghdad, used with opium for gangrenous ulcers of the gums. source• In Jordan, infusion of flowers used for ulcerations, dermatoses and fever.Cosmetic· Infusion of flowers used as a face wash because of its fragrance, cleansing and soothing properties.· Flowers in ben oil or coconut oil for hair, facial or body use or as a perfume oil or perfume base.· Digestion with vegetable oil to make oil tinctures or liniments.

level, hundreds of years ago.The total outline of this

architectural wonder, other-wise known as the “stairways to the sky” is about 13,500 miles long, or about half the globe’s circumference and ten times the length of the Great Wall of China.

To preserve the natural beauty of the spot, the United Nations Educational, Scien-tific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared it as a world heritage site.

“For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountain. The fruit of knowledge passed on from one generation to the next, of sacred traditions and a delicate social balance, they helped form a landscape of great beauty that expresses conquered and conserved harmony between humankind and the environment,” the UNESCO said.

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HINDI inaasahan ni Sa-ranggani Rep Manny Pac-quiao ang pagdating sa bilyaran ng kanyang misis na si Jinkee na may bitbit na cake sa unang sandali ng pagsapit ng kanyang ika-33 taong kaarawan nitong Sabado.

Sa ulat ni GMA News reporter Saleema Refran, sinabing nasa bilyaran at nagrerelax si Pacquiao nang sumapit ang kaarawan ng Pinoy boxing champion.

Kaya naman tuwang-tu-wa si Pacquiao nang makita ang kanyang maybahay na dala ang cake. Kaagad na hinipan ng kongresista ang

Pacquiao, sinurpresa ni Jinkee sa kanyang kaarawan

kandila sa cake, at niyakap at hinalikan si Jinkee.

Sa panayam ng GMA News, sinabi ng mga anak ni Pacquiao na sila man ay mayroong surpresa sa kanilang ama na tiyak daw na magugustuhan ng mambabatas.

Sa Sabado ng gabi ga-ganapin ang enggrandeng selebrasyon ng kaarawan ni Pacquiao. Pero nitong Biyernes, namigay na siya ng mga regalo gaya ng mga pagkain at mga laruan sa kanyang mga kababayan. - FRJ, GMA News

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Kaming mga nawad-an og mga paryente tungod sa bagyong Sendong, wala pa nakamatikod sa giingon nga hinabang gikan sa gobyerno. Ang DSWD, DOH ug ubang ahensyang natungdan, angay mopakita ug motabang dili lamang sa evacuation centers kun dili usab sa funeral parlors diin ang dili ma-ihap nga mga lawas nagdasok ug nagkadugta, apan dili ug dili na gayod maatiman. Unsa ba diay kini nga gobyerno, alang lamang sa mga buhi nga ma-himo pa puhon nga botantes sa mga politiko? Tungod ba kay patay na, wala nay pulos kanila? Maki-angayon ba kini? (ANONYMOUS)

Ipa MDB, Bai!...

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