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VOLUME 3NUMBER 115FRIDAYOCTOBER 2, 2009
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BY JOEY PAVIA
ANGELES CITY – At least 50 Aetas have filed before the NationalCommission on Indigenous People (NCIP) a petition asking forthe annulment and cancellation of the Joint Management
Agreement (JMA) entered into by the Clark Development Corp. (CDC)and the Bamban Aeta Tribal Association (BATA) in December 2007.
Aetas want pactwith CDC revoked
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‘Joint Management Agreement disadvantageous’
BY ANSELMO ROQUE
CABANATUAN CITY - Pantaban-gan Dam has been releasing wa-ter since Tuesday morning.
But nothing to worry about,according to Antonio Nangel, op-erations manager of the UpperPampanga River Integrated Irriga- PAGE 7 PLEASE
Pantabangan Dam releasing waterto prevent reaching spilling level
tion Systems (UPRIIS) which man-ages the dam.
“It is meant to ease the waterbuild-up at the dam’s reservoir sothat it will not reach the spilling lev-el,” Nangel said.
Nangel said the dam’s spillinglevel is at 221 meters.
On Tuesday, the water release
was from 50 to 100 cubic metersper second. The dam’s level at thattime was 219.5 meters.
On Wednesday, however, thewater release was at 180 cubicmeters per second.
“The inflow had increased sowe had to increase the volume to
NI JOEY AGUILAR
LUNGSOD NG ANGELES – Ikinagalak ng ilang mgaoverseas Filipino workers sa Middle East at magingang mga nagtatrabaho sa America ang panawaganng Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement (PGKM) sa guby-erno na bilisang gawing pangunahing paliparan (in-ternational gateway) ng Pilipinas ang DiosdadoMacapagal International Airport (DMIA).
Ani Jennylyn Pabustan-Vander Laan na nakatirasa South Dakota sa America, dapat ay suportahanng ibat ibang sektor ang panawagan ng PGKM.
OFWs sa MiddleEast, Fil-Ams
umayon sa PGKM‘DMIA dapat nang magingpremier airport ng Pilipinas’
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NI DINO BALABO
MALOLOS CITY—Handana ang Central Luzon sapagdating ng bagyongPepeng sa bansa ngay-ong Biyernes, mataposmagbabala ang PhilippineAtmospheric GeophysicalAstronomical ServicesAdministration (Pagasa)noong Miyerkoles ng gabi.
Kapwa nagbawas ngtubig ang Angat Dam saBulacan at PantabanganDam sa Nueva Ecija noongMartes at Miyerkoles up-ang maiwasan ang pag-apaw, at bilang paghahan-da sa ulan na ihahatid ng PAGE 7 PLEASE
CL handakay Pepeng
bagyo.Nagpahayag naman
ang Pampanga River FloodForecasting and WarningCenter (PRFFWC) na da-pat ay lumikas sa masmataas na lugar ang mgataong nakatira sa mgagilid ng ilog na inaasahangmaapektuhan ng pagtaasng tubig.
Batay sa panayam saisang weather forecasterng Pagasa na nakabasesa Clark Freeport noongMiyerkoles ng gabi, angbagyong Pepeng ay in-aasahang tatama sa silan-gang Hilagang Luzon sa
ANGELES CITY— A na-tive of this city wants hisUS-based cargo firm tobe the “bridge across thePacific Ocean” for Filipi-nos in the USA wantingto send help to their be-loved country.
This was announcedby Dan M. Concepcion,president and CEO of Al-pha Cargo based in theSan Francisco Bay Areain California, in a recenttelethon here whichraised some P1.5 millionin cash and pledges and
US-based Alpha Cargo:“Bridge for donations
across the Pacific”
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BY DING CERVANTES
CITY OF SAN FERNAN-DO - An official of the Com-mission on Elections(Comelec) said yesterdaythat the revision of votescast in 2007 for Pampan-ga governor continues tobe pursued despite thelack of signatures of so-called revisors who have
Appreciation of votes to go on Despite lack of signatures of revisors, says Comelec
reportedly been affectedby floods triggered bystorm Ondoy.
“The Comelec has thepower to subpoena andhold them in contempt,but then, the supervisorsof the 21 committeeswhich did the revision ofthe ballots can sign thereports so that theComelec’s second division
can proceed with its work,”Edgardo Cervando of theComelec’s Electoral Con-test and Adjudication De-partment (ECAD) told Pun-to.
The results of the revi-sion process could lead toeither the confirmation ofGov. Eddie Panlilio as gov-ernor of this province, or theinstallation of former pro-
vincial board member LiliaPineda as the governor. Itwas Pineda’s electoralprotest that led to the re-count and revision of votescast for governor in thisprovince in the 2007 polls.Panlilio won over her onlyby 1,147 votes.
Last Sept. 16, 21 revi-sion committees finished
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NEW HOME. Residents of Brgy. Turo in Bocaue, Bulacan pick up pieces of theirproperties as they rebuild their homes and lives days after the onslaught of typhoonOndoy. PHOTO BY DINO BALABO
BY ERNIE B. ESCONDE
PILAR, Bataan- A completedreport on Wednesday on thedamage wrought by typhoon“Ondoy” showed an estimat-ed production loss in ricecultivation in Bataan by morethan P10 million. Heavy rainsand medium-strength windsaffected the rice crops invarious stages of growth.
Provincial agriculturistImelda Inieto said the rainsand the winds affected ricecrops in the towns of Hermo-sa, Orani, Samal, Abucay,Pilar, Bagac, Dinalupihan andLimay with total area of about4,000 hectares.
Hardest hit were morethan 216 hectares of land inPilar, considered the ricegranary of the province.
Agriculture field techni-cians Godofredo Bautista andBeverly Bantiles showed theextent of damage broughtabout by the rains and thewinds triggered by “Ondoy” torice crops in their maturity,reproductive and vegetativestages and even to thosenewly-transplanted ones.
Hectares and hectares of
P10-M in riceproduction
lost to Ondoymaturing palay were seenlodged in mud. “Dumapa angmalapit nang aanihing palayna dahil sa lakas ng hanginay napagpag at nalugas angmaraming butil,” the techni-cians said.
On palay that are stillgreen and merely on thereproductive stage, the windsforced the plants to untimelybear grains. “Parang babaingbuntis na hindi pa panahonng panganganak pero na-strees kaya napanganak na,:Bautista explained of theplants that bore grains byforce of the strong winds.
Some newly-transplantedrice seedlings were on stagesof decay and have to beplanted again. In all thestages of growth of thericeplants that were damagedby the typhoon meant addi-tional expenses for the poorfarmers, the agriculturistsaid.
Also destroyed by thestrong water current broughtby heavy rains was a portionof the irrigation dike in Pilarthat created a deep canaland breached a segment ofthe ricefields.
NI ROMMEL RAMOS
HAGONOY, Bulacan—Isa pangbangkay ng hindi pa nakikilalangbabae ang nakitang lulutang-lut-ang sa karagatan na sakop ngbayang ito noong Miyerkoles.
Hinala ng pulisya, angbangkay ay nabiktima rin ngpagkalunod bunga ng bagyongOndoy.
Ayon kay Supt. MyrnaReyes, hepe ng Hagonoy PNP,nagsagawa sila ng relief opera-tions kahapon sa BarangayPugad sa bayan ng Hagonoykung saan nila napag-alaman naisang bangkay ang nakitang lu-lutang-lutang sa dagat malapit
Bangkay ng babae, lumutangsa karagatan ng Bulacan
sa Manila Bay.Isa umanong mangingisda
ang nakakita dito at itinali nalamang ang bangkay sa isangpuno ng bakawan upang hindina anurin pa.
Ayon pa kay Reyes, may isapang bangkay ng bata ang nak-ita ring lulutang-lutang sakaragatan ngunit hindi na naitalipa ng mangingisda dahil sa la-kas ng alon at tuluyan nang na-padpad pa sa kalawakan ngkaragatan.
Sa kasalukuyan ay wala paring pagkakakilanlan ang natur-ang bangkay maliban lamang sasuot nitong damit na kulay asulna may nakatatak na “LETRAN”
at maong pants.Ayon kay Reyes, tinatayang
nasa mahigit 30 taong gulang naang biktima at posibleng nasaika-apat na araw na itong patay.
Wala na ring buhok ang bik-tima bunga ng matagal napagkakababad sa tubig.
Sa kasalukuyan angbangkay ay dinala sa BlueCross Funeral Parlor sa bayanng Hagonoy at nananawagan dinang pulisya sa mga posiblengkaanak ng biktima.
Ayon kay Reyes, posiblengsa lalawigan din ng Bulacannalunod ang biktima noongkasagsagan ng bagyong On-doy.
MARIVELES, Bataan- A boat captain and his quartermasterreportedly drowned when their fishing boat capsized andsank off the coast of Ipag in Mariveles at the height ofTyphoon “Ondoy” Sunday evening but their bodies wererecovered only in the morning of Tuesday.
Three other crews of the fishing vessel Prince of Peaceswam to safety and survived. The fishing boat was regis-tered in the name of Maria Fe Fishing Corporation withpostal address at Navotas, Metro Manila.
The Green Hills Funeral Services in Mt. View, Marivelessaid the bodies of the victims showed signs of decomposi-tion and emitted foul smell when they attended to theirremains.
“Nangingitim na ang mukha dala ng matagal na pagka-babad sa tubig at medyo nangangamoy na at namamagana,” the owner of the funeral parlor said.
Senior Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, Bataan police director,identified the fatalities as boat captain Carlos Repollo, 44,of Ambil, Mindoro and quartermaster Noli Vigecilia, 40, ofArceli, Palawan.
The survivors are Chief Engr. Avelino Alvarado, 53, ofDaram, Samar; 2nd Chief Engr. Noli Francisco, 31, of SanJose del Monte, Bulacan; and quartermaster John RayRoda, 24, of Dalahican, Lucena City.
Supt. Romell Velasco, Mariveles police chief, said thefishing vessel sank at about 11:45 in the evening of Sun-day at the coast of Sitio Pitas in Ipag due to strong wavescaused by Typhoon “Ondoy”
He said the incident was reported to the police only at10:00 in the morning of Tuesday.
Reports showed that the captain and the quartermasterdrowned when they were pushed down under the turbulentsea after their boat capsized.
Their remains were transferred to Metro Manila Wednes-day afternoon.–Ernie B. Esconde
Ship sinks, captain,quartermaster drown
assorted food products and sev-eral used clothes for victims oftyphoon Ondoy in Metro Manilaand Arayat town, Pampanga. Hiscompany donated P50,000 incash and boxes of clothes in theproject initiated by Office of Ex-ternal Affairs Sec. Edgardo Pa-mintuan and the Angeles CityCuliat Jaycees Inc. (ACCJI).
Concepcion said he wouldship for free donations from US-based Filipinos as part of hisfirm’s commitment to help peo-ple in his native country.
“We will pick up your dona-tions in areas where we haveoffices in the US. You can alsosend your donations to Filipino
consulate offices in placeswhere we don’t have branches,”said Concepcion, who maintainsa home inside the Holy MaryMemorial Park in Barangay Cut-cut here.
“As long as you will send itto accredited groups in the Phil-ippines, there will be no problemwith us. We just don’t want itabused for private purposes,”added Concepcion.
Concepcion said US-basedFilipinos could send goods fordonation in the Philippines “notjust during times of calamitiesbut on a consistent basis.”
He added that groups in theUSA and the country should helpunderprivileged people “fulfilltheir dreams.”
“Let’s us not wait for disas-ter to strike before we help. Weshould be pro-active,’ said Con-cepcion. He disclosed that ClarkDevelopment Corp. (CDC) Pres-ident and CEO Benigno “Benny”Ricafort had also brought up thesame idea when he spoke at thetelethon aired love over ACCTNCable Channel 3 last Monday.
Concepcion said his officesin Metro Manila would providecontainers and storage facilitiesfor products intended for distri-bution in the country.
“We have given free shipmentfor over ten years and we are justannouncing it now to allow sev-eral others to help their fellowFilipinos,” said Concepcion.
–Joey Pavia
US-based Alpha Cargo...FROM PAGE 1
PRESIDENTIAL SON and Pam-panga 2nd District Rep. JuanMiguel “Mikey” Arroyo has calledfor a tighter regulation over thecontent of the social networkingsite Facebook.
Arroyo told The Daily Tribunethat Facebook and other similarsites should be regulated toavoid “abuse by scrupulous (sic)people.”
“Facebook is easily suscep-tible to abuse as people caneasily hide their identities.Masahol pa sila sa kuwentongbarbero (They’re worse thanhearsay),” Arroyo was quoted inthe 30 September report.
Arroyo was reacting to a Fa-cebook user’s post last Sunday,September 27: a photo alleged-ly showing Arroyo looking at anarray of liquor in a supermarketin Quezon City a day after dev-astating floods brought by a trop-ical storm had hit Metro Manila.
The Facebook account hold-er, as quoted by the PhilippineDaily Inquirer in its 30 Septem-ber report, said in the post: “Wasbuying food for keeps…then wesaw Mikey Arroyo in Rustan’s(a supermarket) liquor sectionasking the salesman for a brand
Mikey wants Facebook regulated
THE MUCH-AWAITED SMCity Clark’s AWESOME 3day sale is here, whereloyal shoppers enjoy agreat shopping spree!
Get a kick out of greatdiscounts, fabulousfreebies and specialpromos from SM Depart-ment store,SM Foodcourt, SMHypermarket and from thehundreds stores insidethe finest leisure mall inPampanga.
SM City Clark’sAwesome 3 day sale willbe on October 2, 3 & 4,great deal of surprises arein-store for the loyalpatrons!
SM Department storewill have a 2-hour specialon October 2 from 10 AM to 12 NN where SMAdvantage card holdersmay enjoy 10% discounton top of the regularprice. Aside from that,shoppers may enjoy up to70% discount on selecteditems.
For the 3-Day Salepromo, all you need is topurchase a minimumof P500 plus 1 green bagfrom SM DepartmentStore, SM Hypermarketand other mall stores, ora minimum of P150 foodpurchase plus 1 greenbag from SM Foodcourt,or 4 tickets plus 1 greenbag from SM Cinema orP150 worth of tokens plus1 greeen bag from Amuse-ment Centers to get 2raffle coupons.
Prizes at stake are 3Yamaha Mio Scooter and3 DeVant 22-inch TV.Promo period will startfrom October 2 to October4, 2009 while the deadlineof submission of entries ison October 4 at 9:30PM.Raffle draw will be onOctober 4, 10PM at SMCity Clark’s the MeetingPlace.
There’s more for youthis fascinating month ofOctober! Enjoy a big bangof entertainment as SMCity Clark brings youLISA MACUJA’s pressconon October 6 for DonQuijote, 6PM at theCinema Lobby. Be freeand experience Macau atthe Event Centre onOctober 9 to 11. Whilethe voices of the DivineDiva Ms. Zsa Zsa Padilla& Karylle continueto captivate our hearts asthey perform theirgreatest hits on October17 & 18 at the EventCentre.
Now bring your family& friends to SM CityClark and taste an over-load of surprises, greatdiscounts & maximumentertainment!
SM CityClark’s
Awesome3-Day Sale
of hard alcoholic drink. Effin’ cra-zy! Just a few kilometers awayfrom Katipunan, people (needed)help for search and rescue, andthere he was buying bottles ofalcohol. See for yourself and tellme what you think.”
Arroyo claimed the photo andcomment was a “malicious at-tack” against him.
He said it would have beenimpossible for him to go to thesupermarket as the road whereRuistan’s is located, KatipunanAvenue, Quezon City, was “im-passable” at the height of the
storm. Several bloggers and ne-tizens had re-posted the photo,saying that Arroyo had beenseen at the “height” of typhoonOndoy (International code nameKetsana). But the photo, theoriginal post said, was taken on27 September (Sunday), a dayafter Ondoy hit the Philippinecapital.
Tropical Storm “Ondoy” leftapproximately 246 dead andthousands homeless in MetroManila and nearby provinces,including Pampanga, the Ar-royos’ home province.
Arroyo also said he was inMalacañang on 26 September(Saturday) helping in the rescueand relief operations.
“Basta ako, I still have somany things to do help our poorcountrymen who were severelyaffected by Typhoon Ondoy. Thisis not the time to deal with peo-ple who are peddling half-truthsand half-lies para lang sumikat,(to be famous)” he told the Phil-ippine press. The Facebook userhas removed the photo from his/her account.
–CMFR/Philippines
POURING FROM ADISTANCE. Elementsof the Nueva EcijaPolice Provincial Office,under Sr. Supt. RicardoMarquez, prepare therelief goods for thevictims of typhoonOndoy as Knights ofColumbus PadreCrisostomo Council6000 Grand KnightsArmand M. Galang (instriped t-shirt) deliversthe the organization’sshare.
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SubstanceNO SIMPLE relief and rehabilitation but total renewalis the initiative of Pampanga 3rd District Rep. Aurelio“Dong” Gonzales Jr. to build a model community forsome 200 families affected by the landslide that killed12 of their members in Barangay San Juan Baño,Arayat town last September 26 at the onslaught oftropical storm Ondoy.
Cong Dong has allotted P1 million from his PriorityDevelopment Assistance Fund (PDAF) for thepurchase of a 2.5-hectare land located in the samebarangay but on the far safer side.
“As we don’t want to uproot the residents from theplace they have always called home, so the relocationsite will still be in San Juan Baño, in a safe area thoughnear the Pampanga Delta,” the congressman said.
A known builder, Cong Dong vowed the relocationsite would be a model community complete withfacilities for sports and education, and basic utilitiesincluding proper waste disposal systems. For thatpurpose, Cong Dong will earmark an initial P6 millionfrom his congressional allotment.
In true bayanihan fashion, Cong Dong has tappedthe National Housing Authority for help in developingthe model community, and the Department of SocialWelfare and Development (DSWD) that assured himof P70,000 cash assistance to each of the affectedfamilies to help rebuild their homes.
All substance, Cong Dong most definitely is inhelping his constituencies rebuild their lives.
FormSENATOR LITO Lapid and son Philippine TourismAuthority General Manager Mark Lapid distributedsome 3,000 packs of relief goods to flood victims inat least eight towns in Pampanga on Wednesday.
‘”This is not campaigning yet. It’s my duty as senatorto visit and help people all over the country.” So saidthe elder Lapid who has announced his intention torun for governor next year.
The goods the Lapids distributed, based on thedisclosure of the senator himself, came from theDepartment of Social Welfare and Development inManila. What, nothing from his immense PDAF?
“We will help as much as we can in our own littleway,” so said the senator. Lapid.
Yeah, right, in his own little way. Like being mereconduit for some other agency’s goods and gettingthe credit for it.
All form and little substance, these Lapids are inrelief-giving. Heck, it gets votes.
NO RESTRICTIONS have been imposed as yet on the movementof US military personnel here for the Balikatan war games embodiedin the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
That, despite the killing of two American soldiers, along with aFilipino Marine, in Tuesday’s road explosion in Sulu blamed on theAbu Sayyaf.
No restriction absolutely, at least from my vantage point at theGo Nuts Do Nuts store in SM City Clark seeing all those clean-cutGI Joes, many with ladies more undressed than dressed – usuallyin abbreviated mini-skirts or cut-offs that reach up to there, pairedwith mid-riff blouses that reach down there – in tow.
Yeah, maybe, the only danger to American soldiers here isexhaustion from sexual overdrive. Especially with the celebratedNicole rape case unceremoniously dumped to oblivion.
This – GIs-never-in-peril-in-Angeles – though has not alwaysbeen the case.
There were American soldiers that got killed in the city. Here’sa dispatch I sent to the People’ Tonight and Associated Pressmany years back:
Killing GI Joe
NPA sparrows kill 3 GIs, traderANGELES CITY (October 28, 1987) – Three
American servicemen and one Filipinobusinessman of American descent were gunneddown yesterday in simultaneous attacks bypartisans of the New People’s Army (NPA) nearClark Air Base here and in nearby Dau inMabalacat town.
The 13th US Air Force Command identified thefatalities as Staff Sergeant Randy Davis, MasterSergeant Henry Mangente and Airman First ClassStephen Faust.
The Filipino businessman was identified byAngeles Metropolitan District Command chief Lt.Col. Amado T. Espino as Joseph Porter, a furnituremanufacturer-exporter.
Police reports disclosed that Faust was onhis way to Clark when he was waylaid at around7:30 in the morning just outside the gate ofCarmenville Subdivision in Barangay Cutcut here.
Porter was following Faust’s car when shot.He could have been mistaken for an American,police said.
Mangente was ambushed near the VillaModesto hotel at Hensonville Subdivision,Barangay Malabanias, at around 7:30 in themorning also, witnesses told police.
Davis had just crossed MacArthur Highwayafter an early breakfast at McDonald’s restaurantin Dau when he was shot dead.
Each of the fatalities bore a single shot in thehead from .45 pistols, the signature kill of an NPAsparrow…
Within a week after the killings, the 13th AirForce Command declared Angeles City and itsenvirons “off-limits” to all American military andcivilian personnel and their dependents.
All Americans living in off-base housing facilitieswere moved to the then new housing units insideClark, their movement restricted to the base.
For over a month, the off-limits order stayed.And the economy of Angeles City took a nosedive.
Media contacts in the NPA later admitted thatthe American killings were a “strategic mistake.”By killing the GIs, the partisans practically killedtheir goose that laid the golden eggs. Withbusiness down in the city, the revolutionary taxeswent down along with it. It did not pay to kill GIJoe, so a number of local mediamen thenproclaimed.
Myriad speculations have risen out of therecent death of American soldiers, mostlyrevolving around the VFA, its total abrogation, notthe least of them. There are even fears raised ofthe US getting directly involved in the pocket warin Mindanao, the spectre of Vietnam and therealities of Iraq and Afghanistan making theirpresence there.
Whatever, may our leaders be guided by thenational interest. And nothing else.
Napag-uusapanlangNi Felix M. Garcia
Kelan epektibungplanu ing
sangkan siguruMAKALUNUS-LUNUS at makapangabladKapanamdaman ing digpang kalamidadKaring pilan lalawigan ampon siyudadNing alus katlung dake ning mal tang’ labuad.
Partikular karagulan ning Menila,Quezon City, Pasig, Marikina, Cainta;Nung nu’ matindi ing likuan nang pinsalaNing danum albug a menialasang bigla.
Pasari ning alus alang patna sikanA tiup na ning angin at patak ning uran;Iniasa’t ing danum asna kalalaguangMeragul at meging mitsa ning kasiran;
E mu king kabiayan, gamit a pibandianNune pati na pa ing bie rang ingatanDing kapus-palad a alang pilisunan,King bilis ning agus meniud nang makanian.
King miliaring iti, malino metangalKalulu’t mabandi metung la kerasan;Pablasang tatalan ka mang perang dakal,King penandit a aita, map ya pa’ing pitimban.
Uling akapitan me’t gawan tambulinBan e ka malumud, malaus maliping,Sakali’t ala kang kalawatan karinA nu’ na ka pidpad ning sikan ning angin.
Meyakit mu naman, king ing kualta palaE me apangara ban apakan na ka,Ulining metung mang magtinda ala naKing kasagsagan ning kalamidad a ita!
Sara-sarili nang kawe ing maliariPotang king bie na ning tau maliari iti;(At mekad kanita, ria ayaus detiIng Dios, ding aliwang sadiang alang paki!)
A’yalang keliwan karing keraklan kenA magkukunwaing malugud king balen,Dapot ing mas lalung mangibabo karenPangsarili at e serbisyong pambalen.
Kalupa namo pin ning miliaring itiA nu’ ing pinsala e sa’ meging grabi,Nung ding sinakorung magligtas karetiAtin lang sapat a kasangkapan deti.
Atin pin sang’ “search & rescue team” a din’tangBan maniagip karing lalbug na bubungan,Dapot ala lang “rubber boat” a gamitanPara king antiting bie at kaligtasan,
Ding disan ning danum, itang makatayaKabang manaya la ban sakoruan mu sa’Angga na king limbug la’t inakmul biglaNitang danum albug… papunta king lawa.
Pero waman iti ali ta’ alisianPablasang pasari na ning kalikasan,Marahil e ta’ man lubus asagka yan,Atin tang’ agawa ban apanginlagan
O mabawas mu man ita ning peligruA posibling miuman datang pasibayu,Kapamilatan ning masanting a planuA maliaring ibalangkas ning gubyernu.
(Atin yang kasuglung)
Regarding HenryBY HENRYLITO D. TACIO
SOME 107 kilometers awayfrom General Santos City go-ing to the west is the quainttown of Maitum, Sarangani. Itsdense forests are home to sev-eral wildlife species like tarsi-er, kalaw (writhed-billed horn-bill), punay (yellow-breastedfruit dove), kulasi (Philippinehanging parakeet), kulyawan(black-naped oriole), Philippineeagle, and wild pigs.
In its coastal villages, en-dangered marine turtles are giv-en the chance to multiply. Vis-itors at barangay Old Pobla-cion may not find the nestingand study site attractive at all.The sand parcel under the co-conut trees are enclosed by arectangular black fine-meshednet dotted by rounded greenplastic sheet. “Below the sandenclosed by the net sometimesare hundreds of turtle eggs forhatching,” informs Danny C.Dequiña, the hatchery caretak-er.
Dequiña pointed out that thehatching percentage of the ma-rine turtle facility, based on theirexperience, stood only at 60percent due to the shadow ofthe coconut trees. He said that
Saving marine turtles from extinctionthey have freed over 21 adultmarine turtles and more than3,000 hatchlings have been re-leased to the ocean since 2003.
Hawksbill (known scientifical-ly as Eretmocheyls imbricata),Olive Ridley (Lepidocheyls oliva-cea), Loggerhead (Caretta caret-ta), and Green Sea Turtle (Che-lonia mydas) are the species thathave made the Sarangani shore-lines as their egg-laying sanctu-ary. “They have been coming atthis coastal village to lay eggsas far as I could remember,” saidJerry Bascuña, the municipalenvironment and natural resourc-es officer. “It is maybe becausetheir mothers also lay them here.”
Actually, there are five spe-cies of marine turtles (of the eightspecies known around the world)that inhabit the Philippine waters.The only species not found inSarangani is Leatherback Turtle(Dermochelys coriacea). Thethree other species, which arenot found in the country, areKemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelyskempi), Flatback Turtle (Chelo-nia depressa), and Black SeaTurtle (Chelonia agassizi).
Marine turtles belong to theorder Chelonia, an order of rep-
tiles that has existed and flour-ished since prehistory with verylittle change in their basic struc-ture. They are characterized bya shell or carapace that housesthe vital organs of the body.
Locally known as pawikan,they are differentiated from theirterrestrial and freshwater rela-tives by their flattened forelimbs.While freshwater turtles have fiveclaws one ach forelimb with eas-ily distinguishable individual dig-its, marine turtles have flattenedforeflippers with obscured indi-vidual digits.
The Philippines is also hometo three freshwater turtles, name-ly: the Malayan pond turtle, theSerrated-shelled pond turtle, andthe Leyte turtle.
All eight species of marine tur-tles are listed under the AppendixI of the Convention on Internation-al Trade of Endangered Speciesof Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES),which means the trade of thesespecies and subspecies is strict-ly “prohibited except for educa-tional, scientific or research andstudy purposes.”
The Conservation of Natureand Natural Resources (IUCN)has also classified the eight spe-
cies as endangered. This is so be-cause “their populations are in dan-ger of extinction and whose survivalis unlikely if the causal factors con-tinue to operate.”
Despite sincere efforts by thegovernment and environmentalists toprevent the further decimation of themarine turtle population, the gather-ing of turtle eggs and trading ofstuffed turtles in souvenir shops re-main unabated.
As long as there is demand formarine turtle products, they will con-tinue to be hunted, according to Hari-bon Foundation for the Conservationof Natural Resources, one of thecountry’s well-known environmental-ist groups. Among the most commonproducts made from pawikan are turtlewall décor, jewelry pieces, shell-backed guitars, bags, and shoes.
“If you have bought a stuffed tur-tle in one of those souvenir shops,you have unwittingly contributed tothe extermination of an endangeredPhilippine wildlife species,” observeda Filipino environmentalist.
Marine turtles spend most of theirlife in the sea and get all the thingsthey need there. They even mate inthe sea. But when the time comesto lay their eggs, the females returnto shore, usually in the same placewhere they were hatched.
Experts estimate that only oneout of every 100 hatchlings surviveto become an adult. The odds arecertainly against any individual ma-rine turtle. They are preyed upon bynumerous natural predators includ-ing crabs, birds, dogs, fish and ma-rine mammals.
Yet, the species amazingly sur-vived. They have surmounted themoving and shaping of the continents
and the great climatic changes thathappened during the past 900,000 cen-turies. In March 2006, a giant tortoisesaid to be as old as 250 years died ina Calcutta zoo, having been taken toIndia by British sailors, records sug-gest, during the reign of King GeorgeII. Three months later, newspapersaround the world noted the passing ofHarriet, a Galapagos tortoise that diedin the Australia Zoo at age 176 - 171years after Charles Darwin “pluckedher from her equatorial home.”
Since the dawn of history, pawikanmeat has supplemented the diet of manand its shell has gratified its sense ofbeauty in more ways than one. Sev-enteenth century seafaring men usedmarine turtles as ships’ provisions –their ability to stay alive for monthswithout food and water ensured asteady supply of fresh meat withoutstorage problems.
“Today, man’s growing need forsurvival has endangered the very ex-istence of these sea-dwelling crea-tures,” wrote Jonas H. Liwag in an ar-ticle which appeared in Mabuhay, thein-flight magazine of Philippine Air-lines. “All over the world, these rep-tiles are threatened with extinction byindifferent and relentless commercialexploitation.”
The main primary reason for thedecline of marine turtle population iscatching the reptiles alive. They arevalued for their precious shells. “It wasbeauty that all but killed the Hawksbillturtle,” wrote one journalist. “Polishedand carved, the black-and-yellowplates on its back were long soughtfor tortoise-shell jewelry and combs.”
Japan is one of the importing coun-tries of marine turtle products. Thereis a centuries-old Japanese traditionof carving tortoise-shell in to ceremo-
nial bridal combs. The carapace ofpawikan is also made into brush han-dles, eyeglass frames, and buttons.
The gathering of pawikan eggs,which are considered by Chinese asaphrodisiac, has contributed to therapid disappearance of marine tur-tles. The eggs, which look like ping-pong balls, are also prize as ener-gizing protein. But marine scientistsdispel the myth. They said pawikaneggs are just like chicken eggs andnothing more.
Pollution has been cited as an-other prime factor why pawikan areon the verge of extinction. Includedin the millions of tons of garbagedumped annually into the sea areplastic materials which marine tur-tles mistake for jellyfish, squid, orsome other food. Once digested,plastic wastes can block the turtle’sdigestive tracts, causing starvationand ultimately death.
The rapid development of beachresorts for the tourism industry hasdestroyed the nesting beaches ofmarine turtles. Sadly, they often trav-el huge distances only to find hu-man development on or near theirnesting sites.
Dynamite fishing likewise con-tributes to the obliteration of the paw-ikan’s habitat. So is the use of trawlnets in areas where turtles abound.Since these scoop up everything intheir paths, the turtles, which arenot the active targets, also getcaught. The poor animal are usual-ly drown to death.
“Unless we, Filipinos, seriouslytake on the task of protecting themuch endangered marine turtles,these ancient creatures will soon begone (from our waters),” Haribonwarns in a statement.
A FEW DAYS ago my eldest daughter asked me something thatreally got me worried. For me, it meant the end of her being smart.
“Dad,” Mika called out. I knew from the tone of the “Dad” thatshe was about to ask for a big favor.
“Umm?” came my nasal answer.“Dad, can I like, ah, um… change the, ah… the SIM card of my
cellphone?”That wasn’t so big a favor after all. I would have raised a timely,
“Objection, Your Honor,” if it was her cellphone that she wanted tochange. But a 30-Peso SIM card? No problem. But wait. Whydid she suddenly think of changing her SIM?
Before I could ask the next logical question, Mika continued:“Dad, I have money to buy a new SIM card. I won’t ask moneyfrom you. Promise.”
It sounded like she had a hidden agenda somewhere. So Iprobed.
“But there’s nothing wrong with your Smart SIM card now. Sowhy are you getting a new one?”
“Kasi po,” she started reasoning out like a whining puppy, “allmy friends have Globe. Ako lang po yung Smart. Mas malaki poyung charge ‘pag Smart to Globe ang texting.”
Her explanation was persuasive, but not enough to convinceme. The text charges were the least of my concerns. Liza and Iand all our children are Smart. (Pun intended.)
TheBlue-SkyScenario
Atty. Bong Roque
Are you smart?
“Mika, you might be forgetting that Mommyand I are using Smart. Your siblings, too. If youchange to Globe, you’ll be spending more whenyou text or call us. That’s the catch when we areno longer on the same network.”
I suppose my explanation was as persuasiveas Mika’s. However, the text charges seemed tobe the least of Mika’s concerns. All her friendsare not Smart — er, I mean they are on Globe.
“I know, Dad. That’s okay with me,” Mikaassured me. “So can I buy a new SIM card now?”
Just as I felt beaten to the draw, it suddenlydawned on me that my eldest daughter is now ayoung lady. 13 years old, to be exact. The issue,therefore, was not really about my daughterchanging her SIM, but her changing into a TEEN.
I could not deny it any longer. My eldest babyis now a certified teenager. She’s starting to makechoices different from mine and Liza’s, as well.Pretty soon, too, I am sure she’ll be hanging outmore often with her peers. There’ll be more group
assignments outside of the home, and definitelymore teen stuff (and cute boys?) to get giddyabout.
Probably, before I know it, she’ll be textingher Globe contacts in a hip lingo that will be Greekto me. Even so, I will still text her every now andthen. I’m sure she won’t mind a little aide-memoiré composed of one number and two letters:7Bs. Or the longer form of it which is made up ofseven letters, BBBBBBB: “Books Before BoysBecause Boys Bring Babies.”
Mika will understand that. Because even ifshe’s already switched to another network, I wouldwant to believe that, in her core being, she’sSMART.
Quote for the week:
“Good parents give their children roots andwings. Roots to know where home is, wings to
fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.”- Jonas Salk
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TheGossip-millerby Cesar Pambid
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATIONNotice is hereby served to the public that KARNAIL SINGH,
married, of legal age, Indian National, with residence and postal addressat No. 3 Marcel Bldg., Jesus St., Angeles City executed an Affidavit ofChange of Name of his wife from HARJINDER KAUR to RAJINDERKAUR in his passport issued by the Republic of India thru Indian Embassyat Manila City, issued on November 25, 1999 and to expire on November24, 2009 with Passport No. A-1243502.
Punto! Central Luzon: October 2, 2009
In a petition coursedthrough their legal counselAtty. Victoriano Yabut Jr.,the members of the indig-enous people at the Saco-bia area in Tarlac and Pam-panga asked the NCIP re-gional office to revoke theagreement which theysaid was “obviously favor-able to the respondentCDC and too disadvanta-geous or detrimental to thepetitioners.”
“Sadly, the respondentCDC, acting in the conceptof an owner or as if havingall the legal rights and au-thorities over the SacobiaArea, had entered intoJoint Management Con-tract with the BambanAeta Tribal Associationwho allegedly encompass-
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Aetas want pact with CDC revokedes all members of tribalassociations within Saco-bia Area without direct par-ticipation from the majori-ty of petitioners, beingmembers also of the indig-enous peoples in the area,withdrawing or modifyingany stipulations enteredinto during the existenceof the contract,” said thepetition filed on September18, 2009 and obtained byPunto on Tuesday. It islodged as NCIP Case No.02-09-09.
“Meanwhile, the re-spondent CDC was creat-ed by virtue of Proclama-tion Orders issued by thePresident of the Philip-pines in order to acceler-ate the sound and bal-anced conversion into al-ternative productive usesof the Clark military reser-
vations and their exten-sions as per Republic ActNo. 7227… Nowhere fromthe said law that the Sa-cobia Area was ever in-cluded thereon,” it added.
The Aetas disclosedthat the size of the ances-tral domain at the portionsof the two provinces was10,684.2295 hectares asshown by the master planissued by the NCIP enbanc Resolution No. 019(series of 2005).
“Ridiculously, when thesaid title was finally ap-proved by the Registry ofDeeds of Tarlac with theissuance of the OriginalCertificate of Title No.A-01the total land area wasastonishingly reduced to amere 10,323.3082 hect-ares. There was here ahuge disparity of more or
less 361 hectares. If we areto carefully scrutinize thelatter area, it is from thisplace where the respon-dent CDC had stealthilyand surreptitiously enteredinto leased contracts withvarious persons and busi-ness entities/corporations,all without the free in-formed consent of petition-ers, being members of theIndigenous Peoples ofSacobia Area,” said thepetition.
“By their malevolentand wicked actuations invirtually confiscating andoccupying enormous partson the Sacobia Area, es-pecially the missing 361hectares, more or less,circumventing its originalcondition, depriving themof their rightful shares inthe supposed profits andrevenues to be realized inthe said agreement, theabsence/presence of vari-ous provisions surely ad-vantageous/ disadvanta-geous to the rights andinterests of IndigenousPeoples and sealing in thevalidity of the said agree-ment to a period prohibit-ed by the IPRA Law, allwithout any justifiable andlegal reasons at all,” theAetas said in the petition.
It asked “the missing361 hectares, more orless, not included in theOriginal Certificate of TitleNo. A-01 should be con-verted back by annulling orvoiding the said title andthe issuance of a newOriginal Certificate of Titlecontaining the original areawhich is 10,684.2295 hect-ares.”
“There was no provi-sion to which particularplace in the said areawhere the Indigenous Peo-ples can freely build anddevelop their respectiveplace of abode and meansof sustenance, aside ofcourse from their presentresidence and fields foragricultural purposes,”said the petition.
The Aetas also citedthe following reasons forfiling the petition before theNCIP: “The net incomeand other considerationspertaining to the computa-tion of revenue were notclearly stipulated since thedefinition of net incomethereon will allow the re-spondent CDC to chargevirtually anything as al-leged maintenance costs;Aside from the entitlementof the Indigenous Peoplesto a mere twenty (20%)
percent share of the netincome, they will havealso no direct control overdisbursement of theirshare since it is the JointDevelopment Committeewho has control over it;The guaranteed income ofP1 Million per year for the10,684 hectares or P93.60per hectare a year or lessthan 1 centavo persquare meter is just tooiniquitous on the part ofthe Indigenous Peoples; Itshould be the IndigenousPeoples who should pro-tect and take care of thearea as well as its facili-ties without any compen-sation at all; The affectedlocal government unitsshould have been joinedeither as principal partiesor instrumental witnessesand their reaction or com-ment should have beenalso procured.”
The Aetas asked theNCIP to issue “a writ ofpreliminary injunction andthe same be made perma-nent.”
They asked for P1 mil-lion as moral damagesand P1 million for exem-plary damages.
Punto tried but failed toget the statements of theCDC.
be released,” Carlito Ga-pasin, chief of the engi-neering and operations di-vision of UPRIIS, said.
The water level in thereservoir reached 219.8meters Wednesday after-noon.
Nangel and Gapasinsaid that no residential ar-eas nor rice fields in Nue-va Ecija and Bulacanwould be affected by thewater release.
“It is just a precautionin case the brewing ty-phoon will dump morerains, “ Nangel said.
Nangel said the inflowof water to the dam dueto the intermittent rainsbrought by Typhoon On-doy in the northern part
of Nueva Ecija and NuevaVizcaya was at 350 to400 cubic meters per sec-ond.
He explained that a riv-er in Nueva Vizcaya iscontributing to the dam’ssupply thru a 26 kilometertunnel put up by theCasecnan project.
Nangel’s assurancethat no residential areasand rice fields would beaffected by the water re-lease allayed the fears ofNovo Ecijanos who havebeen alarmed by reportsthat big volume of waterwould be released fromthe dam. They feared thatthey their areas would beflooded and thus wouldendanger their lives andproperties.
Worrying much now
are the rice farmers whoserice crops are either in re-productive stage or aboutto be harvested. Addition-al water in their rice fieldswould cause reduction inexpected high harvest.
The rice lands thiscropping season in Nue-va Ecija totaled to 187,000hectares, it was learned.
The UPRIIS officialssaid the water releasesfrom Pantabangan Damare emptying into the twodiversion canals and thePampanga River and theninto the Manila Bay.
Meanwhile, the actioncenter of the Departmentof Agriculture said thatbecause of the previous ty-phoons, Zambales suf-fered reduction in expect-ed rice harvest at 4.52 per-cent.
The DA report said thatPampanga suffered reduc-tion of rice harvest at 1.77%; Bataan, 1.03%; Tar-lac, 1.03 percent; and Au-rora, 1.48%. Nueva Ecija’sreduction in expected har-vest was placed at lessthan one per cent.
Pantabangan Dam...FROM PAGE 1
Biyernes at maapektuhannito ang Central Luzon.
Ito ay higit na masmalakas kumpara sabagyong Ondoy na hum-agupit sa Central Luzon atkalakhang Maynila noongSeytembre 26 na nagingsanhin ng pagkasawi ngmahigit 250 katao atpagkasalanta ng mgapanananim at ari-arian naumaabot sa mahigit P4.5-Bilyon.
CL handa kay PepengFROM PAGE 1 Ayon sa Pagasa, ang
bagyong Pepeng ay maybilis na 120-kilometro ba-wat oras at may bugso nghangin na aabot sa 130hangggang 150 kilometrobawat oras.
Ito ay higit na malakaskumpara sa bagyong On-doy na may bilis lamangna halos 100 kilometrobawat oras, ngunit hindi pamatiyak kung ito aymaghahatid ng kasingdaming ulan na ibinuhos niOndoy.
Bilang paghahandanaman, sinimulan ng An-gat Dam na magbawas ngtubig noong Martes kungkailan ay naitala ang214.63 meters na water el-evation.
Ayon kay EngineerRussel Rigor ng NationalPower Corporation nanamamahala sa AngatDam, pipilitin nila na ma-pababa sa 210 meters angwater elevation sa AngatDam bago dumating angbagyong Pepeng.
“Noon pa dapat ginawang pamahalaan na gawingpangunahing paliparan ngbansa ang DMIA dahil hin-di lang OFWs ang mak-ikinabang dito kung hindipati narin ang mga karatigbayan at lungsod,” aniVander Laan na nakataposng Bachelor of Arts inMass Communications saAngeles University Foun-dation.
Lalago umano angiba’t ibang negosyo, mag-ing ang turismo ay lalakas“subalit nakaka-lungkotlang na mukhang hindiseryoso ang pamaha-laan.”
Maging ang kanyangmga kakilalang mga Fil-Ams ay umaasa dinumano na sa DMIA silalalapag dahil sa mas mabi-lis ang kanilang paglalak-bay mula sa Clark patun-go sa kanilang mgatinubuang bayan.
Sinabi din niya na na-kakalungkot lang na hindihanda ang ibang mgalungsod katulad ng Ange-les dahil sa “grabe ang traf-
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OFWs sa Middle East...fic” at ang mga nababali-taan niyang krimen sa na-karaang mga buwan.
“Imbes na makakabutiay nakakasira ito lalo nasa mga turista na nakak-abasa ng mga balitang ito.Ang mga turista kase aysiguradong ipapamalita itosa iba,” aniya.
Wala din umanongduda na mas magandaang kinalalagyan ng DMIAkesa sa Ninoy Aquino In-ternational Airport dahilmalayo umanong bumahasa Clark.
“Clark is not near bayarea, not surrounded bysea water, in fact we’resurrounded by mountainswhich is better,” dagdag paniya.
Kamakailan ay nan-awagan si PGKM Chair-man Ruperto Cruz sa pam-ahalaan na bilisan angpagsasaayos ng DMIA.
“What happened atNAIA with the onslaught ofOndoy should be a wakeup call to the governmentto start vigorously pursu-ing the DMIA as premierairport,” aniya.
“There was also the in-
cident of failure of the NAIAradar system last Sept.12, also pointing to the in-adequacy of that airport tofully serve as the maingateway. These ‘NAIA in-cidents’ would not happenat the DMIA with its ‘all-weather’ facilities,” dagdagpa niya.
Ang mga nagtatrabahonaman sa Doha Qatar nakagaya ni Renee Layug ayagad na sumang-ayon sapanawagan ng PGKM.
Aniya sa Facebook:“pakibilisan ng todo ngmagamit na ang Clark..can’t wait too long forDOH-CLK (Doha-Clarkflight).”
Ani Layug, 30-40 min-utes lang ang biyahe mulasa DMIA papunta sa ka-nilang bahay sa Subic atwala pa umanong ka-traf-fic-traffic.
Kagaya din ni Layug,ang ilang mga kakilalangOFWs na nagtatrabaho saSingapore, Hongkong atMalaysia ay nagsabing:“Naiisip mo pa lang angNAIA napapagod kana da-hil sa traffic na iyongdadaanan.”
with their task of recount-ing ballots from a total4,683 ballot boxes from allprecincts which cast votesfor governor in this provincein 2007. The committeeswere given 10 days or upto last Tuesday withinwhich to finish and pooltheir reports for the appre-ciation of the Comelec’ssecond division headed byCommissioner NicodemoFerrer.
Cervando explainedthat each committee iscomposed of five, includ-ing two representativeseach from the camps ofPanlilio and Pineda, witha lawyer designated by theComelec acting as super-visors for each committee.
He admitted that somesupervisors have so farfailed to sign their commit-tee’s report which was fin-ished way back last Sept.16. This has delayed thepooling of their reports fora common document sup-posed to be submitted tothe second division.
Nina Taberna, also of
the Comelec’s ECAD, saidthat some of the revisorswere apparently also se-verely affected by thefloods wrought by stormOndoy.
“With or without theirsignatures, we can collateand bundle their reports soas not to derail the revisionprocess,” Cervando said,as he stressed that therecount itself has re-mained unknown as thereports of the 21 commit-tees have not been pooledtogether yet.
Taberna said that lastMonday, the second divi-sion had already asked forthe pooled report of the 21committees but failed toget this arising from thelack of signatures.
“The entire report iscomposed of four volumescomprising of the report ofeach of the 21 committeeswhich, on the average,made 10 pages of reportper precinct. Each commit-tee handled about 223 pre-cincts each,” she noted.
Taberna said that thefirst and second volumesof the report were already
submitted to theComelec’s second divi-sion.
The Pampanga ParishPastoral Council for Re-sponsible Voting(PPCRV), which was des-ignated by the Comelec tohelp in the informationcampaign to make Pam-panga folk more aware ofthe process involved in therecount, noted in its webblog that the pooled reportof the committees wouldbe the bases of the sec-ond division in deciding onthe electoral protest.
The division, however,would first have to hold ahearing which will enableboth the camps of Panlilioand Pineda to raise anypoint in regard to the revi-sion process done by the21 committees.
A resolution and writ ofexecution to be issued lat-er by the second division,however, can be appealedby either party before theComelec en banc. The enbanc verdict, in turn, canbe elevated to the Su-preme Court by the losingparty, the PPCRV said.
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kanya sa isang soap opera sa Dos na Dahil May Isang Ikawkasama nga sina Jericho Rosales, Gabby Concepcion, LornaTolentino at iba pang artistang kilala sa pagiging mahusay saakting. “Nasindak ako, ang gagaling nila. Mabuti na lang si-nusuportahan nila ako,”sabi pa niya.
But did you know na hindi naman talaga nasindak si Siddahil nga, ayan at matagal nang tumatakbo ang soap opera,kitang-kita na sumasabay si Sid kina Jericho Rosales at ibapa. He plays his character too well na talaga namang maaa-wa ka sa kanya bilang jilted lover na karibal ang kapatid sababaing kanyang iniibig na buong husay anmang ginagam-panan ni Kristine Hermosa. Hopefully, this role will elevate Sid into a mainstream star. Gaya sana ni Coco Martinna tinanggap dahil sa kanyang husay sa Tayong Dalawa ay mabigyan din pa ng mas malaking break si SidLucero. For after all, isa siyang tunay na aktor sa tunay na kahulugan nito, base sa maraming papuri sa kanyasa maraming movies na nagawa na niya.
Iza Calzado hanga rin sa husay ni Allen DizonOPEN NA OPEN si Allen Dizon sa ibinibigay na paghangakay Iza Calzado na kasama niya sa pelikulang Dukot nasiya rin ang producer.
Bukod kay Iza, hanga rin si Allen kay Joel La-mangan who according to him gave him the chanceto be in the league of true actors na na-handle na niDirek Joel. “Hindi lahat nabibiyayaan na mahawa-kan ng isang magaling na direktor,”sabi pa ni Allen.
Samantala, buong ningning ding nagsalita siIza Calzado na nagulat siya dahil mahusay na-man pala si Allen Dizon. Noon kasi, hindi namandaw niya kilala si Allen pero nang magkasamanga sila sa Dukot lalo na nga’t marami silangeksena together, napahanga daw siya ng ak-tor. “Hindi ko akalaing ganoon siya kagaling.Nabalitaan ko na nanalo na siya ng actingaward pero ngayon ko lang talaga napatunay-ang ang husay pala niya,” sabi pa ni Iza.
Samantala, bukod kay Iza, humanga rinang mga unang nakapanood ng Dukot atgaya ni Iza, hindi rin nila maitago ang mat-inding paghanga kina Iza, Allen at sa laahtng cast ng pelikula particularly Gina Ala-jar, Snooky Serna at ilang charac-ter actors who brilliantly did theirroles in the movie.
Sa December 2 pa raw angregular showing ng pelikula dahilito ay buwan ng human rights.
Tatlong sexyactresses tinuhognang sabay-sabay
ng isanggovernment officialHINDI PO KAMI magbibigay ng cluesa identity ng isang governmet offi-cial na isang gabi ay nagpatawagsa isang bugaw ng tatlong sexystars. Nung una, inakala ng bugawna dahil tatlo ang dala nitong ala-ga, ay mamimili lang si chairmanng isa o kaya naman ay may mgakasama pa siya sa entourage.Nabigla si bugalo nang sabihin ngassistant ni chairman kay buga-lo na tatlo ang gusto niyangmakaulayaw nang sabay.
Medyo napangiwi si bugalodahil ‘di siya sanay sa ganoongsitwasyon. Karaniwan na ‘yungisa lang ang kinukuha sa mgaalaga niya. Kahit ang tatlongsexy stars ay nagulat dinpero dahil malaki ang angtalent fee, pumayag din sila.
On their way home,nag-compare notes angtatlong sexy stars att idi-naan na lang sa hala-khak ang kanilang naka-susulasok na karana-san.
Angelina & Yaya flopped dahil kay OndoyBAKIT NAMAN kasi dapat paniwalaan na super hit ang Angelina & Yaya gaya ng pamaral ing GMA 7 buong araw ng kanilangprogramming. The truth is nakailang araw palang ito sa mga sinehan nang dumating si Ondoy, antimano, malakas na ang bagyo kayatalagang ‘di lumabas ang mga tao para panooron ito.
Nitong weekend, halos zero nga ang viewership dahil sa sakunang dulot ni Ondoy. Now, saan manggagaling ang sinasabi nilangmilyong-milyong revenue nito. Magsitigil kayo, tanggapin na kasi ninyong flopped ang pelikula ninyo dahil nga sa bagyo.
Ang sabihin ninyo, mahaba pa’ng panahon para nga makabawi dahil puwede naman sa mga susunod na weekend, umariba pa angpelikula. Kayo na rin ang nagsasabing maganda’ng pelikula kay hindi imposible ‘yun.
But to make us believe na limapak-limpak na’ng kinita ninyo, utot ninyo, walang maniniwala sa inyo.
Sid Lucero ‘di nagpasindak sa akting ni Jericho RosalesMAAGANG nagpakita ng galing ang indie actor na si Sid Lucero. Ii his various indiefilms, particularly Selda and Tambolista, Sid showed without even trying, his thespianabilities. Pinatunayan ni Sid ang dugong nananalaytay sa kanyang mga ugat ay dugong tunay na artista. Sid, as we all know, is the son of Mark Gil to Bing Pimentel naisang beauty queen/part time actress noong kanyang kapanahunan. Bing is nowdoing fulltime acting job at kitang-kita kung kanino nagmana si Sid. By the way, thescreen name Sid Lucero is the main character portrayed by Marl Gil in an award-winning movie Batch 81.
Balik kay Sid, nagsalita siya noon na nao-overwhelm siya sa ibinigay na break sa
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BY JOEY PAVIA
MABALACAT – “A reliable and compe-tent leader worthy to become the nextpresident.”
Thus said yesterday Marino “Boking”Morales in describing presidentiable andDefense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr.. Theformer Tarlac congressman was chosenas the standard-bearer of the ruling La-kas-NUCD party headed by PresidentGloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Morales stressed that he and his po-litical allies in the thickly populated townwill “go all-out for the standard-bearer ofLakas in the 2010 presidential elections.”
Morales hailed Teodoro for his “deter-mined effort and professionalism” in deal-ing with the recent destructive floodswrought by typhoon Ondoy in Metro Ma-nila and other areas in Rizal province andCentral Luzon, including Pampangawhere 12 persons died due to a landslidein Arayat town.
“You separate the men from the boyswhen there is a huge obstacle. Secre-tary Teodoro is one of the best crisismanagers ever,” said Morales.
The mayor said “it’s great advantageif the leader of the country is equipped
Boking bats for Gibowith overwhelming education and experi-ence in public office.” Teodoro is a prod-uct of the UP Diliman law school and wasa bar topnotcher in 1989. He earned hisMaster of Laws degree at the Harvard LawSchool in Massachusetts, USA.
But more importantly, he added, “Te-odoro’s public life is unblemished.”
“Teodoro combines brains with a bigheart and good reputation,” said Morales.
Morales said the Filipinos should sup-port the presidential ambitions of Teodoro“to ensure the continuous developmentand improvement of the projects of Ar-royo, especially in Pampanga, Clark andnearby areas.”
“All the laudable projects of GMAwould be derailed if anyone other thanTeodoro will replace the president,” saidMorales.
A nephew of San Miguel Corporation(SMC) Chairman Eduardo “Danding” Co-juangco, Teodoro is a licensed commer-cial pilot and husband of former modeland Tarlac Rep. Monica Prieto-Teodoro.He is the only son of former Social Se-curity System (SSS) administrator Gil-berto Teodoro Sr. and former BatasangPambansa member Mercedes Cojuang-co.
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