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DAVAOVOL. 6 ISSUE 166 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2013

Pedal-pushing a city public transport projectROAD SHARING

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By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO

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LIkE a video foot-age set on time lapse, everything

moves in terabyte speeds in this fast-ris-ing concrete metro-politan jungle. You wonder where the old Davao City had gone.

Well, gone is the word. Gone because this is no more the Davao City of old—snail-paced and laid back. This is Davao City of the current times where things are moving in race-track speeds.

It could go far worse then we imagined. The traffic, the bottlenecks, flooded roads, and pol-luted air from fumes and smokes emitted by vehi-cles.

There is a glimmer of hope though and a bunch of men and women who roam the streets in two-wheeled non-motorized creatures called bicycles are pedaling on to that hope. A few tweaks of an existing ordinance and a place in the future Public Transport Plan will pave the way for freeing some space and cleaning some air in the process to make way for bicycles on the streets.

For Cycle of Life (CFL),

an advocacy group for clean air and healthy life-style, bicycle is the way to go as alternative means of public transport. Howev-er, to make that happen, it will take more than just pedal pushing.

In fact, it will take a lot of pencil pushing.

It starts with Cycle for Life doing collabora-tive efforts with a team from Asia Halcrow Inc. which has been commis-sioned by the Asian De-velopment Bank to do a comprehensive study on public transport in Davao City.

Last August 23, the AHI and stakeholders like CFL and the office of Coucilor Leo Avila who heads the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on transportation met to push forward the bikers’ advocacy.

Monica Ayala, conve-nor for CFL, hopes that the initial progress of the talks will eventually lead to the implementation of the public transport project that will consider cyclists sharing the road with motorists.

CYCLE FOR LIFEAyala said that the CFL

aims to popularize the use

of the bicycle (all kinds) as an earth-saving aid to healthy lifestyle change, as a mode of indepen-dent mobility for physical fitness, environmental health and wellness.

CFL aims to do linkages with Govern-

ment-Business-Private Sectors (individuals and groups) in developing re-alistic and lasting support systems (bike lanes and bike racks) and initiatives that will popularize en-courage use, protect and sustain cycling and other

activities and initiatives that engage people in sus-tainable healthy lifestyle habits, thus improving the quality of life.

BIkERS’ CONCERNSAmong the concerns

are: First, the project should look into the mind-set and attitude of public transport providers. Sec-ond, the buses that would be used in the main cor-ridors of the city should be able to accommodate mobility equipment like wheelchairs and fold-able bicycles. Third, fixed PUV stops will also en-able the establishment of bike lanes in the future. Fourth, it is important to have a mechanism like a Transportation Forum to sustain engagement among transport regula-tors, providers and users. Fifth, the local govern-ment needs to be involved more in franchising pro-cess instead of this being the main responsibility of national agencies. For in-stance, the LGU can han-dle the measurement of the RMC and determine the need to establish new routes or amend existing ones. And sixth, the local Government should make sure there will be consis-tency of enforcement of traffic laws by our imple-menters.

There is also a need to update the Bicycle Ordi-nance of Davao with em-phasis on the drafting of the Implementing Rules and Regulations.

As of present, the Committee on Transpor-tation under Councilor Leo Avila has appealed to the Committee on Rules for the Transport Com-mittee to take the lead in seeing through the draft-ing of the IRR. It is also awaiting for the Executive Order from the Executive

Committee headed by City Mayor Rodrigo Dute-rte.

kEEP THE AIR CLEANMaking the streets of

Davao accessible for bicy-cles also meant enforce-ment of the anti-smoke belching law as carbon emissions from vehicles gravely affect the health of city cyclists. This should be strictly enforced with the assistance of the LTO upon annual renewal of vehicle registration.

For its part, AHI ex-pressed interest in hav-ing future conversations with cyclists about pub-lic transport strategy in Davao in the near future and in sharing relevant information on Non-Mo-torized Transport (NMT). AHI likewise recommend for a Transportation Fo-rum to the Executive Committee-City Council.

It may yet be an uphill push for the bicycle com-munity to get their propo-sition on legitimate imple-menting zone but the pro-ponents of the project are beaming with hope that they will get their laudable advocacy in the end.

“Although there were just a few of us present, we decided to continue to meet and pursue discus-sion of the agenda that was earlier presented through the e-group,” said Ayala. “These are now being post-ed for purposes of discus-sion and considered as a continuing discussion due to the availability of such technologies, we are now able to conduct discussions through this method.”

The biking communi-ty hopes that despite time constraints as well as phys-ical limitations to meet face to face, they will be able to eventually come up with solutions to biker-related problems.

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ADVOCACY. Cycle for Life convenor Monica Ayala campaigns for bike lanes in Davao City. (CFL Facebook Photo)

BIKING IN THE CITY. A lady takes her bike to express her wish for bicycles to be given a share of the road with motorists. Top photo, Councilor Leo Avila with stakeholders during the recent meeting of the Davao Sustainable Transport Project. (CFL Photo)

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SECURITY MEASURE. A police operative checks a rider’s motorcycle compartment at the entrance of the Davao Memorial Park in Matina, Davao City during the All Souls’ Day celebration on Saturday. Lean Daval Jr.

WAITING FOR OCCUPANTS. People pass by the empty and open niches at the Roman Catholic Cemetery during the observance of All Souls’ Day on Saturday. Lean Daval Jr.

EDGEDAVAO

THE BIG NEWS

FRANCISCO “FRAN-CIS” GAISANO, a pillar of DG & Sons,

Inc., owners of Gaisano Malls (G-Malls) in Davao City and neighboring provinces, died of natural causes in Manila.

A relative confirmed Gaisano’s death and said

burial was scheduled No-vember 3, Sunday. He was in his late 60s.

Francis, considered an egghead by those who know him, was an out-standing graduate of the University of the Phil-ippines-Diliman, a top-notcher in the chemical

engineering board exam-ination, and holder of a doctorate degree.

Dr. Gaisano is listed as the CEO of the Dona Modesta S. Gaisano Foun-dation, named after the Gaisano matriarch. The only sister of the late Pres-ident Sergio Osmena, Dona

Modesta was famous for her contributions to so-cio-economic development of Cebu during her time.

Aside from managing Gaisano Malls with siblings Paul and James, Dr. Francis was also treasurer of Sun-Star Davao group of publi-cations.

CUSTOMERS in the southern part of Davao Light and

Power Co. franchise will experience two 15-min-ute switching power in-terruptions on Nov. 5 and 10, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. and from 6:00 a.m. to 6:15 a.m., respectively.

Communication Offi-cer Ross Luga said that the scheduled outages are necessary to facilitate the AboitizPower’s connec-tion of its Tudaya 2 Hydro power plant to the Na-tional Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ 69 kV line affecting Davao Light’s Davao line.

This will affect cus-

tomers situated from Fly-ing V Gas Station in Bago Aplaya and from Casas Store in Bago Gallera up to the entire Toril area.

Also affected are some Davao City Water Dis-trict’s pumping stations located in the above men-tioned areas.

Davao Light apologiz-es for the inconvenience of these scheduled power interruptions. But, it will exert all efforts to restore electric service as sched-uled or earlier. However, there may be instances where restoration may extend beyond the sched-ule due to unavoidable circumstances.

WHILE most Fil-ipinos trooped to the cemeter-

ies to remember their beloved departed on Fri-day, All Saints’ Day, some residents of this town who lost their families and relatives to rampag-ing flashfloods 11 months ago gathered at a marker standing at the center of Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Compostela Val-ley.

The marker bears the names of the 436 people who perished and at least 400 others who have remained missing after heavy rains brought by typhoon Pablo spawned flashfloods that almost wiped out the entire vil-lage.

While most of those who remembered their loved ones in Andap of-fered candles and flowers in the marker on Friday,

the Cantila family set up an orange tent where they would spend the night, weather permitting, to welcome All Souls’ Day today, November 2.

The family puts up the tent in the middle of rocks and rubbles where they believed their house used to stand.

Lilibeth Cantila-Aqui-no, who lives in Davao City, told MindaNews that seven family members, including her mother, re-mained missing until now.

Her father, Inocencio Cantila, 70, was spared from the disaster, saying he was confined in a hos-pital in Tagum City when Pablo hit the town. The couple has seven children and 20 grandchildren.

Vigil on the rocksAquino said they

brought cooking utensils, food, water, extra cloth-

Except in Mindan-ao, most parts of the country will

have mixture of sunny and rainy weather due to localized thunder-storms, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astro-nomical Services Admin-istration (PAGASA) on Saturday.

In its advisory, PAGA-SA said an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is affecting Mindanao while easterlies have an effect on the eastern sections of Luzon and Visayas.

The weather agen-cy said that easterlies or warm winds from the east, were thunder-storm clouds or the cu-mulonimbus clouds are easily formed, will affect

the rest of the country including Metro Manila which will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms mostly over the eastern sec-tions.

Because of the ITCZ, which is the breeding ground for low pressure areas (LPAs) or poten-tial cyclones, the Davao Region and Caraga will have cloudy skies with light to moderate rain showers and thunder-storms.

It added that mod-erate to strong winds blowing from the east to southeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. [PNA]

15-minute switching power interruptions on Nov. 5, 10

Kin pay respects at marker for typhoon Pablo victims

Francisco Gaisano,G-Malls pillar, dies

Mixture of sunny, rainy weatherFKIN PAY, 11

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MOTORING

AS they say, not even rains can spoil a good day. Not even

a good ride.Despite heavy after-

noon downpour and trick-les on Wednesday eve-ning, the official launch of KTM’s new naked bike 390 Duke pushed through at the Damosa parking lot with a heap of giveaways, good food, drinks, test rides, and entertainment to boot.

Davao’s bike com-munity trooped to the Damosa parking lot not minding getting wet and ending up drooling over KTM’s new sleek beast on display. The 390 Duke is a little roadster with a big performance. Some say it’s the meanest lit-tle beast you can buy for a reasonable price of P299,000 (SRP).

No less than the big-wigs of KTM in Davao—CEO-President Toti Alber-to and CEO Jondi Lacson--led the toasting for the brand’s new bike that’s expected to conquer Phil-ippine roads in the next few months.

According to Lacson, the 390 Duke will go on a Mindanao road tour from November 6-10 begin-ning and ending in Davao City. Bike enthusiasts are invited to join the Mind-anao-wide ride.

According to bike reviews, KTM’s engi-neers have shoehorned a 390cc, 44-horsepower Single into the compact but strong frame of the 125/200 Duke to produce a roadster with incredible potential for the price.

Don’t be fooled though. The “390-cc” tag could easily wear down some 400-cc brands down the road on any day—torque-wise and speed-wise.

With its claimed dry weight of just 307 pounds, the 390 Duke looks to have a power-to-weight ratio that should deliver terrific acceleration and throttle response. The dohc Single is highly over-square, with an 89.0mm bore and 60mm stroke. The compression ratio is a substantial 12.6:1, and the engine breathes

through a 46mm EFI throttle body. Both injec-tion and ignition are man-aged by a Bosch integrat-ed digital system. The 390 (which actually displaces 373cc) delivers those 44 peak horses at 9500 rpm, and its 26 foot-pounds of peak torque comes in at 7250.

Not only does the 390 share the same 53.8-in. wheelbase, 25-degree

steering rake and 100mm front-wheel trail with its smaller brothers, they all use the same 43mm WP fork and shock, as well as the braking system. A single 300mm rotor and four-piston Brembo cali-per do the work up front, with a 230mm rotor and a single-piston floating Brembo caliper at the rear.

Based on its speci-fications, the 390 Duke should deliver outstand-ing agility, terrific acceler-ation and easy handling.

Here’s the fast facts on the KTM 390 Duke

KTM 390 DUKE ABS 2013

Design: Single-cylinder, 4-stroke, spark-ignition en-gine, liquid-cooled

Displacement: 373.2 cm³

Performance: 32 kW (44 hp)

Weight without fuel ap-prox. 139 kg

The 390 Duke breathes life into values that have made motorcycling so amazing for decades. It combines maximum rid-ing pleasure with optimum user value and is superior everywhere where really nimble handling counts. Light as a feather, powerful and packed with state-of-the-art technology, it guar-antees undreamed of dy-namic fun, whether you’re in the urban jungle or a forest of bends. 390 Duke– nowhere will you find more motorcycle per euro.

TOAST. KTM Philippines CEO Jondi Lacson (center) proposes a toast to bike enthusiasts as CEO-President Toti Alberto (left) and wife Joy Alberto (second from left) and Jimmy Gomez join him on stage. Lean Daval Jr.

LITTLE BEAST. The KTM 390 Duke (top) during its formal launch in Davao last October 30. Lower photo, GMA Davao’s Tek Ocampo samples the Duke while another 390 Duke bike was on display for everyone to check out. Lean Daval Jr.

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TEAM Ground Image, as expected, ruled the first ever Sam-

buokan Festival Drag and Drift Racing in Mati City’s airport runway on October 26-27.

The vaunted GI racing team strapped local boy Edmund Ralph “Batoy” Pang to the driver’s seat in Class A and surprisingly got the win over veteran and multi-titled Elben Jay Pang in an all-GI Finale. Batoy laced his champion-ship under the color of the Pang-owned ER Supermall of Mati City.

Miguel Araneta of Team Auto Plus-K Racing-Premi-um BMW-Motoren wound up third in Class A.

In Class B, Jomel Man-ansala of Team K Racing took the top of the podium with teammate Vincent Cabo in second and Bong Ceballo of Team Ten C Tech in third. Jen Zamora of Team Mashado toped Class C besting Dong Magkidong of Team Ken Builders and teammate Miguel Abalon of Team Mashado.

The full quartermile drag racing, presented by Phoenix Petroleum and supported by the city gov-

ernment of Mati under Mayor Carlo P. Rabat, is the first ever staged in Mati City fanning prospects of

making the Davao Oriental capital as next racing hub in the region.

Spicing up the competi-

tion is the motorcycle drag racing where close to 100 racers took part.

THE RESULTS:CLASS C :CHAMPION: JEN ZAMO-

RA (TEAM MASHADO)1ST RUNNER UP :

DONG MAGKIDONG(TEAM KEN BUILDERS)

2ND RUNNER UP : MI-GUEL ABALON(TEAM MA-SHADO)

CLASS BCHAMPION: JOMEL

MANANASALA (TEAM K RACING)

1ST RUNNER UP : VIN-CENT CABO (TEAM K RAC-ING)

2ND RUNNER UP : BONG CEBALLO( TEAM TEN C TECH)

CLASS ACAMPION: EDMUND

RALPH PANG (TEAM E.R / GROUND IMAGE)

1ST RUNNER UP : EL-BEN JAY PANG (TEAM E.R / GROUND IMAGE)

2ND RUNNER UP : MI-GUEL ARANETA (TEAM AUTO PLUS/ K RACING/ PREMIUM BMW / MO-TOREN)

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RECORD HOLDER. The Team Ground Image car which recorded the fastest quartermile run of 10.8 seconds.

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Ground Image rules Mati drag racing

FIRST EVER. Mati City Mayor Carlo P. Rabat (top photo) speaks be-fore the start of the first ever Sambuokan Drag and Drift Racing in Mati. Below, Class A winner Batoy Pang of Team Ground Image with runners up Elben Pang and Miguel Araneta.


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EDItORIAL

DAYS before the onset of the long holidays, a man qui-etly passed into the night hardly noticed by many Dabawenyos, including close friends. He was Anto-

nio “Ding” Gamir Diaz, a community institution in his own right. He died of natural causes at the age of 82.

Those who have observed Ding up close, especially fellow Dabawenyos who fought many fights and espoused mean-ingful advocacies with the man -- in the Rotary, Ambassa-dors Club, Boys Town, Balay Pasilungan, the anti-Marcos Yellow Friday marches and Konsumo Dabaw, among many others, the life of Ding is a study in good citizenship.

He had well-formed opinions about governance or the lack of it. He had only contempt for lethargy and red tape, a very sharp tongue for the inept and the corrupt. He called stupid stupid. Ding did not hesitate to hail wrongdoers in government to court.

In the glory days of Konsumo Dabaw, he was the most passionate advocate, staking his own fortunes, literally spending millions and earning a multi-million libel suit in the great consumer battle against the community’s elec-tricity provider.

Unbeknownst to many who had misunderstood him for his sometimes maverick ways, Ding Diaz was a deeply reli-gious and very charitable man.

The best known of his charities, but also a vignette of

his unorthodoxy, was demonstrated when he took pity on a medical student who could not graduate from the local medical school due to a P100,000-back account.

As told by lawyer Ony Partoza, a family friend, when the medical school rejected Ding’s promissory note, he wrote a check for P100,000. When the school rejected it again, demanding for cash, Ding went to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to encash his check. He went back to the medical school with a wheelbarrow-full of coins worth P100,000.

It took the staff of the cashier’s office hours to count the loose change. When a staffer said that the money lacked some amount, he calmly suggested they go to Bangko Sen-tral and count the metal money again to prove that it did not reach P100,000. Horrified, the staff said, it was okay, they would cover the little difference.

To the end, Ding was still fighting some of his legal bat-tles, an act of faith in the country’s prevailing justice sys-tem.

Too, to the end, Ding was still dreaming of big dreams. One of them was to build a 16-story cross on tiny Odet Is-land just beside the elegant Malipano Island in the Island Garden City of Samal. Intended to be a shrine and tourist spot, the giant cross would serve as lighthouse that can be seen by incoming ships and airplanes miles away.

What a colorful life citizen Ding lived!

Citizen Ding


GLENN Greenwald, the journalist who revealed National Security Agency sur-veillance leaks from former intelligence

contractor Edward Snowden, dueled this week with former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller over objectivity in journalism. Keller argued that impartiality forces a journalist to test all assumptions. Greenwald, however, coun-tered that impartiality didn’t test assumptions as much as confer authority to each of them. He explained that his new reporting venture, a website funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, would treat official pronouncements with skepticism.

But while this argument has been taking up a lot of the journalistic oxygen, Paul Thorn-ton, head of the Los Angeles Times letters to the editor section, weighed in recently with a poten-tially more significant position. Thornton held brief for neither impartiality nor skepticism, but rather for a belief that facts matter — that they can lead to conclusions whether you happen to like those conclusions or not.

Thornton admitted that in his section, he does not run letters claiming there is no human source to global climate warming. Why don’t they run? Because, according to Thornton, “Say-ing ‘There’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy.”

It should have been the journalistic shot

heard ‘round the world, except not many peo-ple seem to have heard it. Get this: An editor at a major American newspaper had the temerity to say that on some issues there is such a thing as scientifically verifiable truth. In doing so, he challenged what may be the dominant force in American journalism over the past 30 years — not bias, but that standby of certain university English departments, deconstructionism, which insists there is no such thing as an immutable fact.

An editor championing truth over opinions shouldn’t be an earthquake. But it is. Journal-istic extremes have long disregarded fact for ideology. However the bulwarks of American journalism — our mainstream newspapers, websites, magazines, and network news broad-casts — have opted for another principle: Every opinion, no matter how uninformed, deserves equal weight — and journalists dare not come down on one side or the other. It makes balance the new objectivity.

This careful balancing act is now so com-

monplace that we hardly recognize it. Most any-one watching the evening network news during the government shutdown, for example, saw man-on-the-street interviews of first one per-son blaming the Republicans for the fiasco (for which they did bear the greatest responsibility), followed by another person blaming the Dem-ocrats, followed by a third blaming everyone in government. That has become standard journal-istic practice in mainstream media outlets.

A large reason for the “on-the-one-hand,” “on-the-other” reporting has been the success of conservatives in creating the shibboleth of a “liberal” media and then working the refs in that media to bend over backward to prove it isn’t true. No one, not least of all liberal editors, wants to be considered one-sided.

But the roots for this go back more than a century, when the journalistic extremists of the yellow press era, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, controlled Amer-ican newspapers. Progressives decided to fight back against these press lords’ sensa-tionalistic, propagandistic papers that traded in scandal and used their pages to promote pet causes — most famously, Hearst’s desire to provoke a Spanish-American war. The Pro-gressives called for a new, professionalized journalism, in which reporters wouldn’t be advocates who took sides so much as observ-ers who collected facts.

AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent

VANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO

Sinister plot

Part 1 of 2

By Neal GaBler

COMMENTARy

(Conclusion)

By MaNNy ValdehueSa

WORM’S-EyE VIEW

Ugly, grievous andunbecoming

The elections:

How about our venerable in-stitutions (schools, churches, businesses, corporate citi-

zens)? Could it be said in the course of these elections that they were civ-ic-minded, earnest about corporate social responsibility, and an influen-tial force for responsible citizenship? Far from it. Even churchmen are hard to imagine as truly engaged in ren-dering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. Pulpit admonitions or ad-vocacy can hardly qualify as engage-ment in the work and the ethos of the community.

Many families—so-called basic units of community and society—in-stead of serve as bastions of righ-teousness and moral conduct, became purveyors, perpetrators, and finan-ciers of ugly electoral practices field-ing cheats, deploying vote-buyers, harboring partisan campaigners in defiance of Section 38 of the Omnibus Election Code. Others that did not ac-tively participate or exploit the elec-toral system simply stood passive and apathetic, oblivious to the tide of cor-ruption that inundated many of their neighborhood compounds.

These collective failures caused the full play of atavism and amoral politics, letting what probably has been the most corrupt elections ever in the history of our grassroots de-mocracy.

Have we lost our sense of delica-deza or propriety? How could we ig-nore the distinction between right or wrong? How could unfettered vote-buying, vote-selling, and myriad other violations take place without challenge or question?

To contemplate all these and let matters be is to accept that Philippine society is amoral and without ethical standards to live up to. It is to be re-signed to the proposition our Repub-lic stands on dubious moorings, rot-ten and corrupt.

It is to deny that it takes responsi-ble citizens to establish a responsible government, that dishonesty in con-tending candidates can be a valid ba-sis for an honest community govern-ment. A community that tolerates dis-honest elections can only be one that subscribes to dishonest governance. Tolerating or suborning illegitimate voters can only establish illegitimate government.

Let’s face it: Wherever vote-buying triumphed, there will you find a gov-ernment born of corruption, tainted by illegitimacy. Of the 42,028 baran-gay governments of our republic, how many are legitimate, created by hon-est votes?

No matter how small a fraction they may represent of the total, the nation’s integrity is already compro-mised. It is a blot on our nation’s hon-or.

(MindaViews is the opinion sec-tion of MindaNews. Manny Valdehue-sa writes from Cagayan de Oro and is the president and national convenor of Gising Barangay Movement Inc. He can be reached at [email protected].)

STEALTH MOVES TO MUDDLE THE ISSUE – For the past months we have witnessed deep geopoliti-

cal shifts that threatened to change the country’s political landscape. In the present political enmeshment, the Aqui-no administration despite the fact that its high trust and performance ratings are slightly slowing down, still com-mand wide popular support. There are increasing pressures employed by some thick-faced politicians embroiled in the multi-billion Priority Development As-sistance Fund (PDAF) scam and their high-profile spin masters aimed at try-ing to divert public attention by raising the issue of the Disbursement Accelera-tion Program (DAP).

Early in the week, President Benigno Aquino III reaches out to the exploited people through primetime TV delivering a message of clarification and justifica-tion, his subtle but hawkish approach in dealing with the mounting criticism surrounding the DAP issue. But Presi-dent PNoy’s diplomatic overtures, which stand in stark contrast to the belligerent statements so commonly heard from his predecessors’ are proving to be quite a challenge to his harsh critics and politi-cal detractors.

I’m not sure if the President’s mes-sage to the nation is the best he can do at this time because immediately right after making rationalization on DAP, critics of all colors and stripes and pol-iticians of different inclinations scram-bled to denounce the unexpected speech on nationwide television. Faced with mounting criticism over corruption, the President has to parry all the blows com-ing from all directions, with anti-pork barrel and self-professed advocates of good governance calling the speech as “scornful and full of inconsistencies.”

The events brought into the open a deep-rooted culture of corruption in-volving some cash-starved members of Congress in the incomparable pork

barrel fund scandal. But this time, pub-lic anger was inflamed not only by the sheer excess-es enmeshing PDAF, but by another al-leged financial anomaly – the DAP. What the protesters failed to see is the real mo-tives behind the sprouting of the DAP issue. There’s actually a behind-the-scenes sinister moves designed primar-ily to muddle the highly controversial pork barrel fund scam issue. Yes fellas, the Aquino leadership has been bom-barded with a barrage of black propa-ganda in an effort to link the PDAF scam to the DAP, hoping to cover up for the tri-al by publicity. The sinister plot seemed to picture a scenario wherein the public will see President PNoy as totally differ-ent from his predecessors. They’re right, but the President at the same time failed miserably and hasn’t come up with a concrete proposal on how to ultimately resolve the brewing issue about ram-pant corruption.

If one is curious enough by trying to dig deeper into the issue, he would read-ily notice and feel there’s some groups that have been working behind the scenes – performing “demolition job” aimed at diverting public perception from PDAF to DAP. These highly-paid spin masters hired by unscrupulous peo-ple embroiled in corruption scandals are trying to make sure everyone is keenly aware that President PNoy’s charm pub-lic approach is just mere tactics, but it doesn’t mean there’s real change in the system of governance. As part of efforts to besmirch the image of the Aquino ad-ministration, the disparaging campaign includes big names in media and reputa-

ble opinion-makers.Even so, doubt remains over wheth-

er DAP is similar to PDAF, although some political experts have already made their opinion stating that the question on DAP is its constitutionality. The DAP, though a lump sum funds impounded from var-ious sources or government savings, is now rapidly played out as more illegal than PDAF, which in truth, the President as the accountable person for the funds, is not yet proven to have corrupted bil-lions of pesos. However, there are stealth maneuvers trying to implicate some of the President’s political allies and close associates to the DAP, but not President PNoy – directly or indirectly.

As it is, a noted political analyst says that what the President did was sort of a gamble – either won or lost. Public dis-satisfaction has risen with the percep-tion that the government has been un-able to tackle, in particular, widespread corruption. The criticism has even eaten into the personal popularity of the Pres-ident who during the previous months was overwhelmingly enjoying high trust and satisfaction ratings. Although it skidded down by few notches, President PNoy still enjoys wide popular public support. The string of financial scandals admittedly put pressures on the govern-ment to proceed quickly with its pro-posed reforms, part of which is to totally abolish the shameful PDAF. The contro-versial reforms to abolish the pork bar-rel funds are gaining ground, but in the time being, because the legal process-es on PDAF are long and cumbersome, the wary public had to abide with the decisions of the courts. Critics remain doubtful whether drastic reforms real-ly are on the way and uncertain there is guarantee of change. On the other hand, the government may have taken “low body blows” but may effectively be edg-ing a weakened “demolition forces” in the long run that eventually would make reforms even easier to achieve.

A journalistic revolution

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THE challenge to-ward achieving universal health

care coverage in the Philippines is how to extend health care cov-erage to the informal sector. Under the Nation-al Health Insurance Program, the formal sector is mandatorily enrolled in the social health insurance pro-gram, while those in the informal sector, mostly self-employed and the near poor, have to enroll voluntarily. Coverage of the infor-mal sector is still slow, according to a research of the UPecon Founda-tion – Health Equity and Financial Protec-tion in Asia Project (UPecon-HEFPA).

University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) As-sociate Professor Jo-seph Capuno said in-surance subsidies in the form of premium vouchers, information kits, and assistance to complete and submit enrollment forms can increase insurance up-take by the informal sector. Capuno stressed this in a symposium on “Towards Universal SHI Coverage in the Philippines: Setting the Subsidies Right for the Informal Sector”, held at the UPSE.

The forum was co-

sponsored by the Phil-ippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in observance of the 11th Develop-ment Policy Research Month.

Through the Phil-Health Prepaid Premi-um (3P) study of the UPecon-HEFPA team, it was found that pre-mium subsidies bun-dled with information drives (information kit and SMS messag-es) could help increase the enrollment in so-cial health insurance (SHI). However, finan-cial burdens placed on families by the enroll-ment process must be addressed.

The identified In-dividually Paying Pro-gram (IPP) members of the 3P study were given 3P certificates worth six hundred pe-sos each, which they can use to enroll in PhilHealth. They were all also given infor-mation packets about the IP program, its re-quirements and pro-cedures. Very few 3P certificate recipients enrolled, however, and it was found out that this was due to the lack of funds to cover the transaction costs of their enrollment (like transportation fares).

“Premium subsi-dies may be less ef-fective than measures

that reduce the burden placed on families by the enrollment pro-cess,” said Capuno.

Moreover, the Phil-Health benefit delivery rate (BDR) for inpa-tient care for the infor-mal sector in 2010 was only 10.51 percent, ac-cording to UPSE Asso-ciate Professor Stella Luz Quimbo. The BDR is a summary measure of social health in-surance performance that reflects the en-

rollment of the target population (coverage rate), its accessibility to beneficiaries (claim rate), and the magni-tude of social health insurance benefits relative to medical expenditures (reim-bursement rate).

“To improve the BDR of the informal sector, efforts should be directed toward ex-panding the coverage rate (50%) and the reimbursement rate

(currently at 37.34%),” Quimbo said.

Highlighting the importance of health insurance to the poor and vulnerable groups, in particular to the informal sector, UPSE Associate Pro-fessor Aleli Kraft said improving financial protection through health insurance will help poor households avoid cutting down their basic food and nonfood expenditures,

especially those for medical care and edu-cation.

PhilHealth cover-age as of 2011 is 82 percent of the pop-ulation or about 74 million. Nevertheless, huge challenges re-main on how to effec-tively and rationally utilize insurance ben-efits for beneficiaries and how to keep bene-ficiaries enrolled, par-ticularly those in the informal sector.

THE growth of the Philippine economy is

favorable to address the non-inclusivity of the economy in the aspect of health, said senior health consultant Oscar Picazo of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)

Economic growth makes it possible for the health budget to increase, especially the recent passage of

the Sin Tax Law on cigarettes and alcohol, which can provide an estimated incremental revenue of PHP 84.3 billion in 2013, rising to PHP139 billion in 2016. However, Picazo pointed out that the absorption of these additional resources will be a major challenge.

“The sin taxes have already been committed, and the question then is how could we absorb or

spend this money equitably so that the poor will benefit from health services,” Picazo said.

During the media briefing last September 4 to launch the 11th Development Policy Re-search Month (DPRM) at the PIDS in Makati City, Picazo disclosed that the government only al-lots 3 to 3.5 percent of its gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) for the health sector, much smaller than the World Health

Organization’s recom-mendation of 5 percent of GDP for health. PIDS Vice President Rafaelita Aldaba noted that oth-er emerging economies usually spend seven to eight percent of their GDP for education train-ing and health.

In the program, Pi-cazo also mentioned various challenges and opportunities for mak-ing health more inclu-sive in the Philippines, which emphasized the need for a higher GDP

allotment for the health sector.

“The Aquino ad-ministration’s Universal Health Care program or Kalusugan Pangka-lahatan is deliberately designed to focus on the poorest two quintiles of the population, but ex-pansion of benefits has not reduced the out-of-pocket spending on medical care that has remained very high,” Pi-cazo said.

Dr. Irma Asuncion, Director of the Nation-

al Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the Department of Health, revealed there are 1,819 hospitals in the country, which has a total bed capacity of 101,914. This is equiva-lent, she said, to a pop-ulation-to-bed ratio of 1 bed per 960 popula-tion. “Our population is growing at 1.8 million a year, but our hospitals clearly cannot accom-modate this burgeoning population,” Picazo not-ed.

Higher GDP allotment for health sector, says PIDS Health Economist

Setting the universal health care right for the informal sector

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ings and a folding bed for their plan to stay over-night amid the rocks for a vigil.

They brought with them a folding bed and laminated pictures of their missing family members, which were ed-ited from family pictures taken a month before the disaster.

“If it won’t rain, we’ll sleep here. But if it does, the house of my brother is just nearby,” Aquino said, pointing to the chapel.

The house of the Can-tila family used to stand in front of the Andap Ele-mentary School. The fam-ily donated a hectare for the school site.

The flashflood washed away the elemen-tary school buildings and left only one of the 15 classrooms standing.

The debris flow from the resort village of An-dap stretched some 10 kilometers downstream to Barangay Cogonon, ac-cording to the Mines and

Geosciences Bureau Re-gion 11.

It buried under rocks and boulders the village center of Andap, houses, farmlands and a portion of the cemetery.

Flowers, candles, food At the marker, which

was inaugurated 40 days after the typhoon hit the town, families and relatives of the vic-tims offered candles, food, flower and even soda.

Some relatives were

also seen erasing the names of some persons still alive but mistaken-ly listed as among those who perished in the flashflood.

Parish priest Fr. Ed-gar Tuling told MindaN-ews that only a few at-tended the mass on All Saints’ Day.

“Others maybe at-tending the mass on All Souls’ Day,” he added.

At the public cem-etery, which was not spared by the flash-

flood, some residents were seen repairing de-stroyed tombs.

Some other tombs have been totally swept away by raging floodwa-ter.

At least 324 bodies were buried in the mass grave in the public cem-etery. Only two of the dead were identified.

Fr. Tuling said that results of the DNA sam-plings conducted by forensic experts of the National Bureau of In-

vestigation have yet to be made available.

They have yet to come back to this town to report the result of their DNA samplings, he noted.

The DNA samplings were taken last January.

The mass grave is marked with the initials “PNB.”

Some relatives also offered candles and flowers at the cross near the mass grave. [Keith Bacongco/MindaNews]

Pirates off the coast of Somalia and the Horn of Africa have made between US$ 339 million and US$ 413 million in ransom profits, fueling a wide range of criminal activities on a global scale, a UN-backed report said Friday.

“Pirate Trails,” the re-port produced by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Bank and INTERPOL, uses data and evidence from inter-views with former pirates, government officials, bank-ers and others involved in countering piracy, to inves-tigate the flow of ransom money paid out to Somali pirates operating in the In-dian Ocean.

“The vast amounts of money collected by pirates, and the fact that they have faced virtually no con-straint in moving and using their assets has allowed them not only to thrive, but also to develop their ca-pacities on land,” said To-fik Murshudlu, chief of the Implementation Support Section in the Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch at UNODC.

“These criminal groups and their assets will con-tinue to pose a threat to the stability and security of the Horn of Africa unless long-term structural solutions are implemented to im-pede their current freedom of movement,” said the re-

port, which was released Friday.

Piracy costs the glob-al economy about US$ 18 billion a year in increased trade costs. As the out-break of piracy has re-duced maritime activity around the Horn of Africa, East African countries have suffered a significant de-cline in tourist arrivals and fishing yields since 2006.

“Unchallenged piracy is not only a menace to stabil-ity and security, but it also has the power to corrupt the regional and interna-tional economy,” said Stu-art Yikona, a World Bank senior financial sector specialist and the report’s co-author. [PNA/Xinhua]

UN report puts pirate ransomsat over $ 339M in seven years

The scorching heat seems to suck the energy out of this young vendor who fell asleep while selling straw hats to revelers during the observance of All Souls’ Day on Saturday at the Davao Memorial Park in Matina, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

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A boastful Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios warned boxing

trainer Freddie Roach to prepare his prized fight-er Manny Pacquiao for a world of hurt that’s coming his way.

The Mexican-American told the media during his open training at the Rob-ert Garcia Boxing Academy in Oxnard that he won’t be playing around when he squares off with the Filipi-no superstar on November 24.

“Let Freddie Roach know I am a man, I come for the win, the kill. Tell Freddie that -- I want him to know,” said Rios.

The Mexican brawler

is expected to use his size and strength to try and wear down the smaller Pacquiao.

The threat, however, seemed to be directed at Roach instead of his oppo-nent.

It’s no secret that Roach and Rios are not the best of friends.

Back in 2010, when Pacquiao was preparing for the Antonio Margari-to fight, Margarito and his friend Rios came up with a video making fun of Roach’s Parkinson’s dis-ease.

Rios later apologized for his behavior, saying that his actions were a product of immaturity.

“It was a video. It hap-pened back in the days. I was immature. I took full [responsibility] for that. It was my fault. I already apologized, so I don’t need to keep repeating myself every time I see him and [expletive] bow down and say, sorry, sorry, sorry,” he said in a separate inter-view with NY Daily News.

However, Rios seemed to underestimate Pacquiao because of his age.

The 27-year-old said that unlike him, the 8-divi-sion former world champi-on is already at the twilight of his professional career.

“I am in the prime of my career, not like Pacquiao,” said Rios.

Rios warns Pacquiao: I’m coming for the kill

THE Philippine national women’s basketball team took a blow to

their FIBA Asia Women’s Championship campaign when they fell to Indonesia, 60-54, in their last assign-ment in the preliminary round Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand.

Discovery Perlas Pili-pinas fought back from a 16-point deficit to get to as close as three points inside the final minute but Indone-sia proved steady from the

free throw line to stave off the comebacking Filipinas.

With the loss, Perlas dropped down to 3-2 and into a tie with Indonesia for third place in Level II.

Only the top two teams get a chance take on the bottom two of Level I for a chance for promotion to the top level.

Malaysia has already clinched a place in the qual-ification round with a 4-1 record while second place Thailand (3-1) can clinch

their spot with a victory against winless Hong Kong in their last game.

Perlas trailed by eight points, 41-33, at the halftime break and Indonesia opened the third with a huge 8-0 blast that made it 49-33 in the third.

But Perlas’ Melissa Ja-cob ended the drought with back-to-back baskets and the team fired back with eight unanswered points of their own to get back into the game.

PHL cagebelles bow to Indons

Manny Pacquiao takes part in a training session in General San-tos City. (Getty Images/Jeoffrey Maitem)

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Lechon bits make its way onto a delicious pasta.

RBG’s new executive chef, Jayme Natividad.

Going local at RBG

The rustic Ricotta Meat Balls using Malagos ricotta cheese.

RBG’s Lava Cake uses Malagos Dark Chocolate and is served with a scoop of salty sweet queso de bola ice cream.

My favorite dish was this delicious and well-balanced Tuna Ceviche.

Common sense dictates that what-ever is freshest tastes best and with fresh produce harvested mere hours away and with the sea literally at the city’s doorstep, it is no wonder why Davao City is fast becoming a foodie’s dream destination. Taking advantage of Durianburg’s bounty, Park Inn Davao’s new execu-tive chef, Jayme natividad came up with a new and more exciting menu for RBG, Park Inn’s signature all-day dining restaurant, to highlight local produce. “I’d like to think that ev-ery chef takes inspiration from the simple things around him.” says Jayme “From someone like me who grew up in manila and worked abroad, I find Davao the most dynamic in terms of local produce. This region has to much to offer --- from fresh ocean bounty, fruits, and vegetables. so, when I was given this task to modify the menu of RBG, I never

thought twice about creat-ing more dishes that are in-fused with local flavours.” And I do say that Chef Jayme did a beautiful job! From the delicious Tuna Ceviche that uses lo-cally sourced tuna, green mango and pomelo, to the Ricotta meat Balls that use olive Puentespina’s mala-gos ricotta cheese. each dish was well balanced and highlighted Davao’s rich flavours. I especially love his interpretation of the classic Chicken Adobo which can be ordered solo or to share. And what is a great meal without dessert? Using the world-re-nowned chocolate from Davao, Jayme created a decadent Lava Cake topped with sweet and salty queso de bola ice

cream. The richness of the chocolate cake is enhanced by the unique flavour of the cheese ice cream. It was so good I gobbled up the entire cake and I sug-gest dessert lovers to go and give it a try too. RBG at the Park Inn by Radisson Davao is open daily from 6:30 in the morn-ing to 10:30 in the evening. For reservations and inqui-ries, call +6382.2727608. Follow me on Twitter or on Instagram @kenneth-kingong for more foodie finds, travel tips and hap-penings in, around and be-yond Durianburg.

BRImmInG with her down-to-earth personality, Kapuso Primetime Queen marian Rivera greeted thousands of Bacoleños with a warm smile during a Kapuso Fans’ Day held on october 18 at the north Transport Hub of sm City Bacolod, as part of the an-nual celebration of the masskara Festival. “Hindi ko alam kung paano ako tatanggapin ng mga tao sa mall show ko,” was her sentiment hours before the program. But as she ascended the stage, she was astounded to see the happy faces of her sup-porters who were scream-ing and cheering, with some even bursting into tears at the sight of her—signs that she was more than welcome to be there and that her visit has long been waited for by the Ba-coleños. marian admitted she had second thoughts on whether she would push through with the mall show or not after a massive earthquake hit some parts of Visayas on october 15. “Pagkatapos kong mab-alitaan ‘yung naging ef-fect ng lindol, nag-text kaagad ako kay Kuya oli (oliver Amoroso, Asst. Vice President of GmA Regional TV) kung tutu-loy pa ba kami dahil baka kailangang maka-recover muna ng mga tao or may ayusin sa lugar nila, baka pwede naming i-delay or i-postpone. Ang sabi na-man nila, ‘hinihintay ka ng mga tao dun, kailangan ka nila, at least kahit papaano maging masaya naman sila,’” she shared. It was marian’s first time to witness and celebrate masskara. “masasabi ko na first time ko lahat dito sa Bacolod except I remem-ber nag-radio tour ako be-

fore for marimar pero that was super quick lang. Ito talaga ‘yung pinakamata-gal na nakilala at nakan-tahan ko sila on stage,” she said. Deeply overwhelmed, marian assured her sup-porters that she’ll come back saying, “nakakatuwa talaga dito sa Bacolod, ang sasaya ng mga tao. Parang ayaw ko na nga umalis, kung pwede dito na lang ako. Promise, babalik ako.” In the said Kapuso Fans’ Day, marian was joined by stand-up comedian Boobay, who amusingly added delight to the audi-ence.

next event was the Ka-puso electric Dansskara Finals and Charter Day Countdown held at the Bacolod City Government Center at 8pm of the same day featuring mark Herras, Rochelle Pangilinan, and Andrea Torres as celebrity guests. The following day, october 19, the Bacoleños had the chance to meet more Kapuso stars via the Charter Day Parade and a back-to-back Kapuso mall show. First group who en-deared the fans were the cast of Genesis—Rhian Ramos, TJ Trinidad, and Betong sumaya. At 1pm,

they participated in the parade that cruised along the main streets of the city down to the Bacolod Pub-lic Plaza, then at 4pm, they performed in a mall show held at the Robinson’s Ba-colod fountain area to-gether with one of the hottest love teams in show business, Alden Richards and Louise delos Reyes. It was followed by an-other exciting show held at the mall’s City Walk at 7pm that featured the cast of Pyra Babaeng Apoy—Thea Tolentino, Jeric Gon-zales, Polo Ravales, and Angelu de Leon—plus the country’s Pop Diva Kuh Ledesma. on october 20, GmA Bacolod’s news and Pub-lic Affairs offered a special live coverage of the mass-kara street Dancing that took place at the Bacolod Public Plaza. said live cov-erage aired via GmA TV Bacolod on the same day.Highlights of GmA net-work’s participation in the masskara Festival can be seen in Let’s Fiesta TV spe-cial airing on november 10 in all nine regional stations in Cebu, Davao, CDo, Il-oilo, Bacolod, Bicol, Ilocos, Dagupan, and Gensan.

In response to growing tourist arrivals from Russia, flag car-rier Philippine Airlines (PAL) said it is set to begin chartered flights between Manila and the Russian city of Vladivostok, starting October 27, 2013. The chartered flights will be carried out in partnership with Primorsky Agency of Aviation Companies TM Biletur, the biggest tour company in Far East Russia. According to the Tourism Department, 21,736 Russians visited the Philippines during the first 8 months of the cur-rent year. This number represents a 32.53% increase from the number of Russian tourist arrivals covering the same period last year (2012). PAL hopes to help the Department of Tourism (DOT) de-velop this growing market through the launch of chartered flights. “We recognize the growing demand from Russian tourists for a direct air link to the Philippines. Through this service, we hope to be able to serve this market and more importantly, help our government’s efforts to boost tourism,” said PAL President Ramon S. Ang. The first flight from Vladivostok departs the Russian City at 8AM local time, arriving Manila at 9:30AM October 27. Its return flight leaves Manila at 11PM on November 7, arriving Vladivostok 6:30AM. Chartered flights to and from the two cities will be scheduled throughout the year. From Manila, Russian visitors will be able to fly out to PAL’s domestic destinations including Caticlan (Boracay), Cebu, Tagbilaran (Bohol), Puerto Princesa, and Legaspi. They can also connect to the carrier’s regional and international hubs.

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Manila and RussiaBacoleños get teary-eyed over Marian Rivera’s visit

STUDENTS got the chance to meet and greet one of the liv-ing national treasures of the Philippine alternative cinema, Director Brillante Ma Mendoza, during the first ever Brillante Mendoza Film Festival held at SM City General Santos on Oc-tober 29-30, 2013. Director Brillante Mendoza is the first Asian to win the pres-tigious Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film “Kinatay” in 2009 and is regarded by the world’s film critics as an Ultra-neo-realist. Early this April, Direc-tor Brillante Mendoza was honored in the Czech Republic’s big-gest film festival, the Prague International Film Festival or FebioFest. More recently, Thy Womb won the Best Actress Award at the Sakahalin Film Festival, while his latest movie “Sapi”, which will be showing at SM Cinema on November 6, had its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival. His films depict social realities and the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. He uses these social realities as the backdrop of characters on issues that plague the country. The film festival started with a launching program on Oc-tober 29 at the Event Center of SM City General Santos. The event was attended by Deans and Faculty members of the different Universities and Colleges of General Santos City, SOX Bloggers, SalaMindanaw Film Society and film enthusi-asts. On October 30, Faculty members and students were also honored with the rare opportunity not only to see Director Mendoza’s critically acclaimed films, but to have his presence too. Four of Director Mendoza’s films – Lola, Manoro, Kaleldo, and Foster Child – were shown simultaneously and followed by a question and answer session with the Director himself. Brillante Mendoza Film Festival, indeed, brought inspira-tion to many film enthusiasts and future filmmakers. Teatro Ambahanon entertained the audience with their extraor-dinaire contemporary dance and the event was also spon-sored by SM Cinema and Sarangani Highlands. For more event updates, check out SM City General Santos (Official) on Facebook or call Marketing Department at (083) 878-0667.

SM City General Santos holds Brillante Mendoza

Film Festival

ABS-CBN’s newest prime-time drama series “Honesto” charmed millions of Filipi-nos with its story about the importance of honesty as its pilot episode won in the nationwide TV ratings last Monday (October 28). Based on the data from Kantar Media, “Honesto” garnered 30.5% national TV ratings compared to its rival program in GMA “Genesis” which only scored 10.5%. Because of its timely theme that revolves around the virtue of honesty and kindness, “Honesto” also conquered social network-ing sites such as Twitter where one of its cast mem-bers Paulo Avelino and the hashtag #Honesto-PromisePilot became na-tionwide trending topics. Netizens flooded the Twit-ter timeline with positive tweets such as “@LhieDeJe-sus: #HonestoPromisePilot It is nice to think that we now have a show like this to watch. It shows the im-portance of honesty;” “@mybunny88: Excellent sto-ryline, fast-paced and meri-torious acting performance. Definitely a hit! Congrats!!! :) #HonestoPromisePilot @mepauloavelino;” and “@JCMWalkersBC: The cast of Honesto is outstanding. It is like comedy filled with many lessons. #Honesto-PromisePilot It feels good to

tell the truth.” Meanwhile, primetime TV viewers will surely be glued to the small screens every night now that Felipe (Spanky Manikan) and Fina (Maricar Reyes) have already discovered the true colors of Diego (Paulo), Cleto (Nonie Buencamino), and Hugo (Joel Torre). Can Diego still make up for the mistakes that he has done to prove his love for Fina or will the greediness

of his family still prevail in breaking him and the only woman he has ever loved apart? Don’t miss the continu-ation of the inspiring and honest story of “Honesto,” weeknights after “TV Pa-trol” on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida. For exclusive updates, pictures, and videos, log on to “Honesto’s” official social media accounts Facebook.com/Honesto.TV and Twit-ter.com/Honesto_TV.

ABS-CBN’s noontime show “It’s Showtime” continued to soar high in national TV ratings with many Filipinos tuning in to its Magpasikat Week, the talent competi-tion among its hosts that marked its fourth anniver-sary. The week-long celebra-tion and talent battle consis-tently beat its rival program, GMA’s “Eat Bulaga” with a national TV rating of 14.3% vs 13.2% (Oct 21); 15.9% vs 13.2% (Oct 22); 16% vs 13% (Oct 23); 18.5% vs 12.8% (Oct 24); and 18.2% vs 13.3% (Oct 25). “It’s Showtime” even pulled away in the ratings game on Saturday (Oct 26) when the team of Karylle, Jugs Jugueta, and Teddy Corpuz was declared the Magpasikat champion. That day, “It’s Showtime” regis-tered a national TV rating of 19.6% against “Eat Bulaga,” which only got 12.1%. The trio won P200,000 for their chosen charity for their much talked-about and

impressive performance in which they sang the “It’s Showtime” theme song in reverse. Coming in second place was the team of Vice Ganda and Kuya Kim Atienza, who

bagged P150,000, and in third place the team of Billy Crawford, Vhong Navarro, and Coleen Garcia, who re-ceived P100,000 for their chosen charity. The Anne Curtis-Jhong Hilario and Ryan Bang-Erup-tion Tai tandems, mean-while, received consolation prizes. Join in the fun of “It’s Showtime,” 12:30PM from Mondays to Fridays, and 12NN on Saturdays on ABS-CBN. For updates on the program, follow @ItsShow-timena on Twitter and @itss-howtimeofficial_ig on Insta-gram or like www.facebook.com/itsShowtimena.

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FILIPINOS won’t have to leave their homes to shop for highly reliable, reasonably priced, and world-class household prod-ucts by tuning in to ABS-CBN’s newly launched television shopping programs that give them a rich and informative retail experience. Shopping Channel has started broadcasting 24/7 shop-ping programs via SkyCable and Global Destiny on Channel 11, as well as programs through ABS-CBN’s Channel 2 and Studio 23 last October 15. Viewers have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of products trusted by customers worldwide, from kitchenware to home, exercise, and beauty products at rea-sonable prices. “The nature of our products is designed for working wom-en and moms at home. We will have products for men, the household in general, and at some point, even products that cater to children. As we roll out more products, we will ca-ter to the entire family,” said Paolo Pineda, head of ABS-CBN Business Development. Shopping’s innovative and entertaining TV shopping pro-grams also empower consumers by providing comprehen-sive information about the products, which include a home power laundry rack, a stovetop oven, a double pan, a 3D roll-ing hair styler, a roller slide, a handblender, among others. Teleshoppers can pay cash on delivery or on mobile POS debit card and credit card (MasterCard and Visa). Pineda said that O Shopping will also eventually offer cosmetic products, and other merchandise that will be de-manded by its customers. “Eventually we will serve what the market will demand. We will find a way to get feedback and comments from peo-ple who buy our products, as long as there is interest and a sizeable market,” he said. Shopping will also serve as an additional distribution plat-form for the licensed products under ABS-CBN brands, he added. “We have a complete line of ‘Juan Dela Cruz’ merchandise available, Kris Aquino-branded products, and UAAP merchandise. This is just to complement the existing retail channels that are working with us today,” said Pineda. Shopping is a joint venture between ABS-CBN and CJ O Shopping Corporation, one of the largest home shopping companies in the world that also has presence in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou in China, as well as in India, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and Turkey. Shopping has signed CJ Korea Express, the CJ Group’s logistics arm, to deliver products in Metro Manila, and ship-ping and logistics company 2Go for deliveries outside Metro Manila. Hosted by Victor Anastacio, Charlotte Barredo, Cara Eriguel, Hiyasmin Neri, Lara Sayo, and Virginia Pozon, O Shopping’s programs air around the clock daily on SkyCable and Destiny Channel 11, and airs programs on Studio 23, at 1-2AM and 5-6AM from Mondays to Fridays and at 1-2AM on Saturdays and Sundays, and on ABS-CBN Channel 2 after “Banana Nite” from Mondays to Fridays, after “Sports Unlim-ited” on Saturdays, and after “Sunday’s Best” on Sundays. For information on the products, just visit oshopping.com.ph or like www.facebook.com/oshopping1004.

ABS-CBN launchesO Shopping Channel

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VOL. 6 ISSUE 166 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2013 15SPORTSEDGEDAVAO17th City Council1st Special SessionSeries of 2013

Republika ng PilipinasSANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD

Lungsod ng DabawPRESENT: Councilor Bernard E. Al-ag - Temporary Presiding OfficerCouncilor Nilo M. Abellera Jr. Councilor Al Ryan S. Alejandre Councilor Leonardo R. Avila III Councilor Joanne M. Bonguyan Councilor Louie John J. Bonguyan Councilor Danilo C. Dayanghirang Councilor Jimmy G. Dureza Councilor Edgar P. Ibuyan Jr. Councilor Edgar R. Ibuyan Sr. Councilor Leah A. Librado-Yap Councilor Rene Elias C. Lopez Councilor Diosdado Angelo A. Mahipus Sr. Councilor Berino L. Mambo-o Sr. Councilor Bonifacio E. Militar Councilor Tomas J. Monteverde IV Councilor Myrna G. L’Dalodo-Ortiz Councilor Antoinette G. Principe Councilor J. Melchor V. Quitain Councilor Marissa P. Salvador-Abella Councilor Mary Joselle D. VillafuerteON OFFICIAL BUSINESS:Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte Councilor Ma. Belen S. Acosta Councilor Victorio U. Advincula Jr.ABSENT:Councilor Karlo S. Bello Councilor April Marie C. Dayap - On Domestic Emergency LeaveCouncilor Jashera L. Gonzales Councilor Rachel P. Zozobrado

ORDINANCE NO. 004-13Series of 2013

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1627, SERIES OF 1994, “AN ORDINANCE REGULAT-ING THE OPERATION OF BUSINESS ESTABLISH-MENTS SELLING LIQUORS, COCONUT WINE AND OTHER NATURE WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN THE CITY OF DAVAO”

Be it Ordained by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Davao City in Session assembled that:

SECTION 1. All persons below legal age are here-by prohibited to order, drink or consume liquors, alcoholic beverages, coconut wine (tuba) and oth-er nature wine in hotels, beer houses, disco houses, fun houses, motels, family ktv bars, restaurants, food houses, stores, and the like, whether tourist accredit-ed establishments or not; Provided, that said minors in conflict with this section shall be subjected to in accordance with the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act;

SECTION 2. All persons selling or serving liquors, alcoholic beverages, coconut wine and other nature wines, and the like that cause intoxication are hereby prohibited to sell or serve the same beginning 1:00 o’clock in the morning (1:00 a.m.) until 8:00 o’clock

in the morning (8:00 a.m.).The drinking and consumption of liquors, alcohol-

ic beverages, coconut wine and other nature wines and the like that causes intoxication within the estab-lishments or in other public places such as, but not limited to, streets, plazas, parks, parking areas and other uninhabited places within the same period, that is beginning 1:00 o’clock in the morning (1:00 a.m.) to 8:00 o’clock in the morning (8:00 a.m.) are likewise prohibited.

All business establishments shall stop selling or serving liquors, alcoholic beverages, coconut wine and other nature wines within the same period;

SECTION 3. Any violation to the provisions of the preceding sections of this Ordinance shall be pun-ished as follows:

• 1st Offense - Administrative fine of Three Thou-sand Pesos (P3,000.00);

• 2nd Offense - Administrative fine of Five Thou-sand Pesos (P5,000.00) or Imprisonment of Three (3) Months or both upon the discretion of the Court; and

• 3rd Offense - Administrative fine of Five Thou-sand Pesos (P5,000.00) and Imprisonment of One (1) year including Revocation of Business Permit

If the violation is committed by a corporation, part-nership or association, the President and/or Manager thereof, shall also be personally liable.

If the violation is committed by a single propri-etorship, the owner and/or manager of the said entity shall also be liable therefor;

SECTION 4. Any provisions of any existing Ordi-nance inconsistent with any provisions of this Ordi-nance are hereby modified and/or amended accord-ingly;

SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall take effect upon approval and after due posting and publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for three (3) consecutive times;

ENACTED, July 24, 2013, by a majority vote of all the Members of the Sanggunian present.

CERTIFIED CORRECT:

CHARITO N. SANTOSSecretary to the Sangguniang Panlungsod(City Government Department Head II)

ATTESTED:

BERNARD E. AL-AGPresident Pro TemporeTemporary Presiding Officer

APPROVED: August 17, 2013

(Sgd) RODRIGO R. DUTERTECity Mayor

ATTESTED:

(Sgd) ATTY. JHOPEE S. AVANCEÑA-AGUSTINActing City Administrator

Minnesota Timberwolves’ Nikola Pekovic, right, blocks a shot attempt by Oklahoma City Thunders’ Nick Collison in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game on Friday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Kevin Love had 24 points and 12

rebounds and Ricky Rubio added 14 points, 10 assists and five steals to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 100-81 victory over the Oklahoma City Thun-der on Friday night.

Nikola Pekovic had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which played surprisingly good defense against Kevin Durant and the Thunder. Derrick Wil-liams had 10 points and seven rebounds for Min-nesota after not playing in the opener.

Durant scored 13 points on 4-for-11 shoot-ing and had trouble find-ing clean look against a Timberwolves team that was supposed to be po-rous on defense. But the Thunder shot 35 percent and turned the ball over 21 times to get run out of the building.

After scoring 42 in the season opener against Utah, Durant scored his fewest points since Dec. 31, 2011 when he had 12 against Phoenix. Jeremy Lamb was the only other Thunder player in double figures with 16, and it has become abundantly clear very early in the season how much they miss Rus-sell Westbrook.

Westbrook is out indef-initely with a knee injury, and the Thunder offense has lacked its usual zip and explosiveness with the fiery guard on the bench.

Westbrook or no West-brook, it was a bit of a statement for the Wolves, who enter this season with hopes of getting to the playoffs for the first time since 2004. They led by as many as 34 points in the game, allowing coach Rick Adelman to rest his starting five for the entire fourth quarter.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson scored

19 points each, and the Brooklyn Nets ended years of futility against the Miami Heat and sent the NBA champions to their first losing streak in 10 months with a 101-100 victory Friday night.

Pierce and Johnson both hit two free throws in the final seconds as the Heat were trying to pull off a comeback. Instead, they fell to 1-2 and have dropped consecutive games for the first time since Jan. 8 and 10.

The Heat got Dwya-ne Wade back after he missed Wednesday’s loss in Philadelphia, and he scored 21 points. LeBron James led Miami with 26.

The Nets ended a 13-game skid against the Heat with their first victory since March 20,

2009, before Miami’s Big Three got together and when the Nets were still playing in East Ruther-ford, N.J. - two homes ago.

Brooklyn, bigger and deeper, opened an 11-point lead after three quarters and kept the lead right around there until the final 2 min-utes. Then Miami ran off 10 straight, cutting it to 96-94 with 18 seconds left after consecutive 3-pointers by Wade and Mario Chalmers.

James later nailed a 3-pointer from the cor-ner to cut it to 99-98 with 4.7 seconds remain-ing before Johnson hit two free throws. Chris Bosh was fouled and af-ter making the first ap-peared to try and miss the second, but it went in and the Heat couldn’t commit another foul in time.

Wolves roll Thunder

Nets outlast Heat 101-100

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THE Jose Maria Col-lege Kings led the march to the Fi-

nal Four in the inaugural staging of the Phoenix Petroleum Davao Cham-pions League (DCL). The much-awaited semis bat-tle is set on Monday (No-vember 4) at the Davao

City Recreation Center.The JMC Kings dis-

posed Holy Cross Crusad-ers 76-58 in the quarter-finals to take the first slot in the semis. Also making it were the University of Mindanao Wildcats, Agro-Industrial Founda-tion College Sailors, and

the DMMA College of Southern Philippines Mar-iners.

The Sailors earned the berth by booting out Ate-neo de Davao University 63-46 in another quarter-finals match.

JMC thus topped the quarterfinals with four

wins against a loss, the Sailors and the Mariners are 3-1, the Wildcats are 3-2 while the Blue Knights and the Crusaders brought up the rear with winless slates in four outings.

The championship is set November 5 also at the DCRC. [NJB]

JMC heads Phoenix DCL Final Four cast

DAVAO Doctors Col-lege plays host to the Mindanao Leg of the

11th Season of the Shakey’s Girls Volleyball League on Nov. 12 to 15.

Leg organizer Ali Ber-nan said they are happy that DDC committed to be a partner of the prestigious tournament for secondary girls teams.

“It’s all systems go for the Mindanao leg. Davao City National High School

will have few veterans left to lead their title-retention bid in the qualifying event of the national finals,” Ber-nan said during the special Davao Sportswriters As-sociation (DSA) Forum at NCCC Mall B3 Center lanes yesterday.

He, however, said DCN-HS will face stiff competi-tion with the presence of current Batang Pinoy Min-danao champion Tagum City National High School,

Milo Little Olympics cham-pion Iligan City National High School and Batang Pinoy Mindanao runner-up Koronadal National Com-prehensive High School.

Also entered are the Ateneo de Davao Universi-ty and Maa National High School of Davao City, Cor-pus Cristy High School and St. Mary’s School of Cagay-an de Oro City, Cor Jesu Col-lege High School of Digos and Notre Dame of Kidap-

awan College High School.He also said each team may be reinforced by two guest players born 1996 and be-low.

The champion of the round-robin elimination format event will win an all-expense paid trip to the Tournament of Champions in Manila inclusive of air-fare, hotel accommodation and meals.

Admission is free to the public. (DSA)

A day after parting ways with coach-ing consultant Ra-

jko Toroman, Barako Bull made another curious move trading promising guard Emman Monfort to Barangay Ginebra San Mi-guel third-stringer Rob La-bagala.

The PBA approved the trade on Thursday.

Monfort, an incoming second-year guard, had a string of good games for Barako Bull in the Gover-nors’ Cup, including a ca-reer-high 25 points against Ginebra last August.

The smallest player in the league will join a team that is also expected to in-clude Greg Slaughter, his former teammate at Ateneo who will become the tallest player in the league after Sunday’s draft.

Monfort will be the second backup point guard acquired by Gine-bra from Barako Bull af-ter the Gin Kings traded for Josh Urbiztondo in the Commissioner’s Cup last season. The team features LA Tenorio, an-

other Ateneo alumnus and Monfort’s idol grow-ing up, as its starter at the spot.

On Wednesday, the PBA coaching carousel is back in full spin after the shocking exit coaching consultant Rajko Toro-man from Barako Bull.

Two names being bandied about in the ru-mor mill include Petron assistant coaches Leo Austria and Koy Banal.

But while Austria said he had been hear-ing whispers, no one has talked to him officially about the matter.

“Semis pa lang ng Governors’ Cup naririnig ko na yan,” Austria said in a telephone interview. “Pero ayaw kong mani-wala hanggat walang ku-makausap sa akin.”

Austria, who previ-ously coached Shell and Rain or Shine in the PBA, is a hot coaching com-modity after leading the San Miguel Beermen to the ASEAN Basketball League title earlier this year.

Agro-Industrial Foundation College of the Philippines (AIFCP) Sailors’ Kenneth Bendijo (center) shoots over Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) Blue Knights’ Jess Evangelio (right) and Miguel Competente (left) during the first half of the Davao Champions League at the Rizal Memorial Colleges (RMC) Gym on Thursday. Lean Daval Jr.

Monfort goes to Ginebra,Toroman gets Barako boot

DDC hosts Shakey’s Girls V-League

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