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THE committee on health of Davao City Council is still waiting

for the certification of avail-ability of funds for the pro-curement of two ambulances that will be used to transport possible Ebola patients if the virus manages to enter the city.

In an interview during the strategic plan presenta-tion on Ebola Virus yester-day, councilor Mary Joselle D. Villafuerte said the City Bud-get Office is still working on the request so that it can be included in the Supplemen-tal Budget 2 for this year.

“(If) they can issue the

certificate of availability of funds, we can pass a resolu-tion under suspended rules,” Villafuerte told Edge Davao.

She said the city will need P400,000 for one of the ambulances, which will be used by City Health Office (CHO).

Another ambulance will

be released for the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) but

Villafuerte said she is still waiting for Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Of-fice (PCSO) head lawyer Joy Rama for assistance.

“We hope that she can

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HERO. Dabawenyo Ernie Gawilan shows the three bronze medals he won in the 2014 Asian Para Games swimming competition held in Incheon, South Korea before his courtesy call to Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte at the Davao City Recreation Center Tuesday evening. Lean Daval Jr.

STATE-OF-THE-ART. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte addresses the crowd using a state-of-the-art acoustic hailing device during the turnover ceremony of P150 million worth of new equipment to the Public Safety and Security Command Center’s Central 911 at Tionko Field in Davao City Tuesday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

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DAVAO-based ICT-BPO (Information and Communication Tech-

nology-Business Process Outsourcing) companies are being urged to join the 8th International ICT Awards Philippines 2014.

“One of the categories in next year’s awarding is the best ICT company located outside NCR (National Capi-tal Region),” Julian H. Payne, national president of Canadi-an Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (CanCham), said yesterday at their Davao

Chapter office located at the 11th Floor of Pryce Tower.

Payne said the organizer of the event wants to pro-mote diversification in ICT company nominees.

“We want more nomi-nees from places like Davao, Bacolod, Cebu and Duma-guete,” he said.

Lizabel Garcia-Holganza, president of National ICT Confederation of the Philip-pines (NCIP) and one of the last year’ board of judges, said of the 160 ICT-BPO com-

THE Department of Budget and Manage-ment (DBM) will con-

duct a two-day forum on Open Government Partner-ship (OGP) and the National Budget in Davao City.

The forum, titled “Good Governance Dialogues: A Regional Forum on Open Government and National Budgeting,” will start today at Pinnacle Hotel and Suites.

The forum will bring together national and local governments, civil society, business groups, academe, international development partners, and media to dis-cuss reforms on open gov-ernance and fiscal transpar-

ency.Around 150 participants

from the regions of Southern Mindanao particularly from the Regions 11 and 12, and Autonomous Region of Mus-lim Mindanao (ARMM) are expected to join.

The objective of the fo-rum is to raise awareness on OGP and good governance cluster including financial transparency on the national budget.

It also encourages sup-port for the OGP commit-ments and good governance cluster initiatives through dialogues with good gover-nance reform champions at

DAVAO City Mayor Rodri-go R. Duterte will not push the Department

of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to hurry the comple-tion of the Governor Genero-so 2 Bridge 2 in Bankerohan, which has already been de-layed for more than a month now.

“Ang akin lang diyan is make a bridge that can with-stand the wear and tear of the years. Huwag mong madaliin. Kung taga-gawa ka ng bridge diyan na medyo marupok, kung madaliin mo yan tapos bum-agsak yan, eh, naloko na (My take is to make a bridge that can withstand the wear and

tear of the years. Do not hurry it. If you are a contractor who builds a bridge haphazardly, if you hasten it then it will fall, and that would be an even problem),” Duterte said.

Asked by reporters last Tuesday afternoon at Davao City Recreation Center for his reaction to the delay in the completion of the bridge reha-bilitation, Duterte said: “Give them all the time but it should not be unreasonable.”

He said it is still acceptable for him for DPWH to complete the rehabilitation of the bridge even in the first week of De-cember since the traffic con-gestion is not that heavy.

Duterte said he cannot meddle with the matter since the project is from the DPWH national office.

“It behooves upon the na-tional DPWH to move it faster but it is not in my jurisdiction,” he said.

Last Tuesday, City Council majority floor leader council-or Bernard Al-ag said wants the contractor of the bridge to be penalized due to the de-lay in the completion of the bridge’s rehabilitation proj-ect.

In a privilege speech during the regular session, Al-ag said every government contract awarded to a con-

tractor has a contract period.“And if the contract period

is not complied with, penal-ties are imposed against the contractor,” he said.

The DPWH 11 awarded the contract to rehabilitate the bridge to Cebu-based Oscar Sarmiento Construction.

The bridge was supposed to be finished in October, but it was moved to the first week of November. This, however, was moved again to the middle of this month.

DPWH 11 regional di-rector Mariano Alquiza said the reopening date has been moved from November 6 to either November 16 or 17.ABF

DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte turned over P150 mil-

lion worth of state-of-the-art equipment to the Public Safety and Security Command Center (PSSCC) Central 911 which will be used for emergency re-sponse in the city.

Last Tuesday afternoon, Duterte gave the brand new Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) vehicles, ambulanc-es, fire trucks, motorcycles,

rescue, medical and firemen gadgets, protective suits, equipment and several other necessary gear which were all imported from the suppliers of 911 in the United States of America.

“Akong tambag ninyo, kamo may mo-gamit ani (My advice to you, since you are the one who will use it), take care of the equipment with pru-dence and with diligence. Kay dili nato ni mapalit basta-bas-

ta (We cannot easily procure these),” Duterte told the per-sonnel of Central 911.

“It took us several years to save money to buy these ma-chines and equipment,” Dute-rte added.

He said with the arrival of the new ambulances, he will create satellite branches of Central 911 to be deployed in the areas of Calinan, Toril, Sasa, and Bunawan to save on fuel expenses whenever they re-

spond to emergencies.“If there is a fire in a dis-

tant area and the fire truck will have to come from Central 911, it will cost more and it might be too late,” he said.

Duterte said the creation of satellite offices will make the response time of 911 faster and the waiting time of the res-idents shorter.

He said the satellite offices will be placed beside the police

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NO SCALPEL. A man undergoes a vasectomy yesterday at the Tomas Claudio Health Center in Davao City as part of the free no-scalpel vasectomy program of the Department of Health and the City Health Office in time for the World Vasectomy Day tomorrow (Friday). A total of eight patients out of the original 16 who signed up successfully underwent the procedure. Lean Daval

911 gets P150Mworth of equipmentBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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Duterte on bridge rehab: No hurry

DBM holds forum on Open Gov’t Partnership

Firms urged to joinCanCham’s ICT Awards

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By CHENEEN R. CAPON


POLICE Officer (PO1) Jeffer Villegas is fac-ing a case of physical

injury over the mauling of tricycle driver Manuel “Wil-ly” Corral VII after the fam-ily of the victim filed a legal complaint through the Toril Police Station.

The case is in addition to the administrative case filed at the Regional Internal Af-fairs Services (RIAS) 11.

In a phone interview, To-ril Police Station commander Chief Inspector (PCI) Hamlet Lerios said the family of Cor-ral filed the case against Vil-legas.

Corral was murdered on

September 13, 2014, three days after Villegas mauled him. The mauling was caught on closed circuit television (CCTV).

Villegas faces one count of grave misconduct arising from violation of article 266 also known as physical inju-ry of the revised Penal Code, filed by the wife of Corral at the RIAS 11.

On October 22, Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Corral sent a letter to Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas updat-ing him on the case of the

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THE second judge han-dling the murder case of former Davao del

Sur Governor Douglas Cagas and three others voluntarily inhibited herself yesterday morning.

Lawyer Caesar Europa, the legal counsel of slain newsman Nestor Bedolido, said Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 20 Judge Mag-nolia Velez inhibited herself because she is related to Cagas’ wife Mercedes by af-finity.

“Since there are only two judges in Digos, the case will be forwarded to the Supreme

Court probably through the court administrator (who) will decide where to pass the case,” Europa said.

The ex-governor’s case was reraffled to the sala of Velez last Monday after RTC Branch 19 Judge Carmelita Davin voluntarily inhibited herself for unknown rea-sons.

The hearing of Cagas’ case scheduled for Tuesday was also also postponed be-cause of the sudden inhibi-tion of Davin.

Cagas, Matanao Mayor Vicente Fernandez Ali Or-daneza, and Bado Sanchez

were tagged as the alleged mastermind in the killing of Bedolido on June 19, 2010.

The ex-governor previ-ously denied all the allega-tions and pointed to politics as the reason behind the re-opening of the case.

Cagas and the three oth-ers were pointed to as the mastermind by self-con-fessed gunman Voltaire Mirafuentes and his brother Henry.

Cagas denied any con-nections with the Mirafuen-tes brothers.

He surrendered to the authorities last October 20

hours after the court issued his warrant of arrest.

The case was initially dismissed by the city prose-cutor’s office due to lack of probable cause but this was reversed by Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila Delima after the family peti-tioned the DOJ for a review.

As of the moment, Orda-neza and Sanchez remain at large.

Earlier, the prime wit-ness of the killing of Bedo-lido was shot dead by un-known perpetrators at Shrine hills Matina, Davao City.

A fifth man is facing frustrated murder and direct assault cas-

es over the mauling of a po-lice officer before dawn last Friday t the Ateneo de Davao Matina Campus main gate.

The victim, Police Officer (PO)2 Ritchie Paul Calago Lozano of San Pedro Police Station, appeared before Talomo Police Station to file the complaints against Jhamel Cabuntalan Hadji Dros.

In his statement , Loza-no said while he was con-fined at the hospital for two days he was able to review the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of the maul-

ing and found that Dros also attacked him.

The four other suspects were identified as Abdul Moamar Manalao, Adzmin Bueno Kumayog, Harold Barambangan Tomawis, and Michael Garcia Reyes. The last is reportedly the son of former councilor Jackson Reyes.

Manalao had claimed that Lozano pointed a gun at him and his friends when he burped loudly while crossing at the pedestrian lane.

Manalao said he and his friends reacted by disarming the police officer.

Footage from theCCTV

TWENTY-EIGHT per-sons tested positive of Human Immunodefi-

ciency Virus in Caraga Region during the first eight months of this year, according to the regional office of the Depart-ment of Health (DOH).

Based on a report obtained Friday from DOH-Caraga’s Regional Epi-demiology and Surveillance Unit, all of the 28 individuals are males.

Eleven of them are from Agusan del Norte, six from Agusan del Sur, six from Su-rigao del Sur, four from Su-rigao del Norte, and one is from Dinagat province, the report said.

The number of people that tested positive of HIV last year reached 31.

Since 2010, the number of people infected by the disease in the region has reached at least 116.

Jessica L. Nepomuceno, program coordinator of the Sexually Transmitted Infec-tions /HIV/Acquired Im-mune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) program of the Su-rigao City Health Office said the 28 individuals underwent voluntary testing.

She said there could still be unreported HIV cases as testing is not mandatory, and people could be reluctant to undergo testing owing to the stigma associated with the disease.

Article III, Section 16 of Republic Act 8504 or the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998 pro-hibits compulsory HIV test-ing and “is deemed unlawful” if forced.

“This is actually one of the setbacks since we really can’t force anyone to under-take HIV testing,” Nepomuce-no said. (MindaNews)

NEW BIKES. Personnel of the Davao City Central 911 pose with their new motorbikes during the turnover ceremony of P150 million worth of new equipment from the city government of Davao at Tionko Field in Davao City Tuesday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

HOME. A tricycle carrying students passes by a row of identical houses at the city government relocation area in Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok, Davao City.The City Council approved on second reading the resolution of the City Development Council endorsing the P27-billion 2015 Annual Investment Program of the city government which includes acquiring lands for new relocation sites. Lean Daval Jr.

Second judge in murder case vs Cagas also inhibitsBy FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA

28 persons positive of HIV in Caraga

Cop in trike driver’s deathfaces physical injury case

Another man facesraps for mauling cop

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THE Department of Social Welfare and Development

(DSWD) recently con-ducted simultaneous mu-nicipal orientations in its 16 targeted municipali-ties in Compostela Valley Province implementing the KALAHI CIDSS-Na-tional Community Driven Development Program (KALAHI-CIDSS NCDDP).

The orientations were attended by pro-gram beneficiaries as well as municipal and ba-rangay officials.

Targeted municipal-ities are Maco, Monkayo, Nabunturan, Pantukan, New Bataan, Boston, Manay, Tarragona, Gover-nor Generoso, San Isidro, Caraga, Cateel, Kapalong, New Corella, Malita, and Compostela.

“We are happy to announce that KALA-HI-CIDSS NCDDP now covers new areas. More beneficiaries from vul-nerable sectors will be empowered upon real-izing their contributions in the improvement of

their community,” DSWD regional director Priscil-la N. Razon said during the municipal orienta-tion in San Isidro.

KALAHI-CIDSS NCD-DP community devel-opment specialist Nick Elvi Digol said the main objective of the activity is to introduce KALA-HI-CIDSS NCDDP to the beneficiary-communi-ties.

“In this activity, at-tendees are oriented about the program and its underlying require-ments for implementa-tion,” Digol said.

Also discussed at the orientation were condi-tions for local govern-ment unit (LGU) partici-pation and size of block grants to eligible LGUs.

Eligible are 4th to 6th class municipalities with poverty incidence higher than the nation-al average of 25 percent based on the 2009 small area estimates of NSCB (National Statistical Co-ordinating Board), 1st to 3rd class municipalities

The clouds part briefly to show the peak of Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon to passengers of a passing plane Wednesday morning . MindaNews photo by Bobby Timonera

KALAHI-CIDSS NCDDP to cover 16 towns in Comval

with poverty incidence of 40 percent higher, and Yolanda-affected munici-palities, Digol added.

Following the orien-tation was the Signing

of the Memorandum of Agreement by the Local Chief Executive and the DSWD Director.

Also administered was the Signing of the

“Panaad sa Pagsupor-ta” (Manifesto of Sup-port), a symbolic act to signify the commitment of LGU officials, DSWD officers, and benefi-

ciaries to work togeth-er in reducing poverty through KALAHI CIDSS- NCDDP. DSWD/Julie Ace Brandon F. Ramos/ccd

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MOA SIGNING. Ambassador Club Davao represented by its president Isaac Robillo (center) and Scott Nimmo (left) sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Habitat for Humanity represented by regional head law-yer AbdussaborSawadjaan Jr. (right) during the club’s

general membership meeting at The Marco Polo, Davao on Thursday night. The MOA is for the construction of a multi-purpose building project in Tacloban, Leyte which will be funded by the Ambassador Club Davao and will be built by Habitat for Humanity. Lean Daval Jr.

TO increase the compet-itiveness of Halal pro-ducers in the region, a

P30 million Halal laboratory will be established inside the compound of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) 11 next year.

DOST 11 regional di-rector Anthony Sales told reporters yesterday during the Club 888 media forum at The Marco Polo, Davao that the regional agency will start hiring Muslim chemists early next year who will be work-ing together with the existing chemists and microbiologists of the agency.

“The building is already constructed. The laboratory

will be located on the second floor of the newly construct-ed Technology Innovation on Packaging Development Cen-ter,” Sales said.

He said the public bid-ding of the almost P20 million worth of equipment including Liquid Chromatograph-Mass Spectrophotometry (LC-MS), Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrophotometry (GC-MS), Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and Enzyme Linked Analysis (ELISA) will be com-pleted on the first half of 2015.

The LC-MS and GC-MS will be used to the test chem-ical component of the Halal product while the PCR and ELISA will be for the molecu-

lar component.“It is important to have a

Halal laboratory because the region is one of the major Ha-lal products producers in Min-danao,” Sales said, adding that there are about 200 to 300 Halal producers in the region.

There is also a Halal Cen-ter in Cotabato City while another one is also being es-tablished in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Another two will be soon constructed in Luzon and Visayas.

The laboratory will be providing analysed data that can be used by Halal produc-ers as additional document in their Halal certification.

Sales clarified that the analysis that will be provided by the center is not a manda-tory requirement by any Halal certifying body.

“It all depends on the re-quirements of the certifying body,” he said. A single molec-ular testing would cost an es-timated of P5,000 to P10,000 depending on how many com-ponents of the product should be analysed.

He said it is important that Halal products should be test-ed and be cleared from any trace of pork or pork byprod-ucts because its big potential in the 600 million population of Asean, most of whom are Muslims.CRC

DOST to put upP30M Halal lab

SCIENCE NATION. Department of Science and Technology (DOST) 11 director Dr. Anthony Sales (right) discusses the upcoming 2014 MindaDOST Cluster S and T Fair dubbed “Philippines: A Science Nation Meeting Global Challenges” set on November 13 to 15 at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center.

Sales. With him as guest in yesterday’s Club 888 Forum at The Marco Polo, Davao is Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 11 chief adminis-trative officer Tony Faunillian. Lean Daval Jr.

ABOUT 50 to 100 ex-hibitors from different sectors are expected

to participate the three-day Mindanao Cluster Science and Technology Fair on No-vember 13 to 15 at SMX Con-vention Center, SM Lanang Premier, Davao City.

Dubbed “Philippines: A Science Nation Meeting Global Challenges,” the clus-ter fair will feature eight DOST (Department of Sci-ence and Technology) out-comes, including products and technologies.

“The eight outcomes are feasible ways to become a Science nation contribut-ing to the overall compet-itiveness of the country in the global arena,” DOST 11 regional director Anthony Sales said during yesterday’s Club 888 media forum at The Marco Polo, Davao.

Sales said that the eight DOST outcomes or new in-ventions from research and development are: Smart Ag-riculture, Smart SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), Information and Commu-nication Technology(ICT) Industry Development, Education, Health, Human Resource, and Disaster Pre-paredness.

Among the inventions that will be showcased in the three-day fair is the SMart

Agriculture in which DOST in partnership with Depart-ment of Agriculture (DA) developed a sensor that will detect the amount of fertiliz-er as well as the amount of water needed by the plant.

“This will help our farm-ers in increasing produc-tivity and enhance their products,” Sales said,adding that the device is ready for deployment since it was al-ready tested in University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).

Interested farmers can inquire from the regional office of DOST 11 located in Bajada, JP Laurel Avenue, Davao City.

Aside from exhibition, there will be also technology matching between technolo-gy generators and technolo-gy users.

Technology generators include research and devel-opment institutes of DOST and other agencies like aca-demic institutions, and DA, while research users include businessmen, researchers, students, SMEs and other enterprises.

“We are trying to match each requirement of the users with those available products and technologies at the research and develop-ment institutes,” Sales said. CRC

Science takes center stage

WITH all air naviga-tion and airfield ground lighting

systems at the Laguindingan Airport installed and tested, the Department of Transpor-tation and Communications (DOTC) and the Civil Avia-tion Authority of the Philip-pines (CAAP) are aiming to begin night landing opera-tions at the Northern Min-danao gateway within this month.

“We are happy to an-nounce that the Laguindin-gan Airport is now equipped for night landing operations. We hope to activate evening

flights by the end of No-vember in order to give the public more flight options as well as to decongest the airport during the day,” Sec-retary Jun Abaya said in a statement released yester-day.

In line with certain pol-icies and procedures of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and CAAP, officials from DOTC and CAAP are conducting a joint inspection from Novem-ber 4 to 6 for safety purposes in order to double-check any possible system defect before they are put to use. (PIA)

DOTC preps LaguindinganAirport for night landing

FROM December 12, 2014, SilkAir, the re-gional wing of Singa-

pore Airlines, will begin daily services to Denpas-ar.

Together with Singa-pore Airlines’ four daily flights to Bali’s capital, both airlines will offer a total of five round-trip services a day, subject to regulatory approval.

Singapore Airlines’ Senior Vice President, Marketing Planning Lee

Wen Fen said the increase in the number of flights reflects Singapore Air-lines Group commitment in expanding our service offerings and providing our customers with more choices and convenience.

“Through synergis-ing the networks of both airlines, we are able to enhance the connectivity options available to our customers through our combined network of 99 cities in 35 countries,” she

said.SilkAir’s Chief Execu-

tive, Leslie Thng said Bali is “a popular year-round travel destination re-nowned for its multifacet-ed attractions from tem-ples, to pristine beaches and paddy fields.”

“SilkAir is extremely pleased to have the op-portunity to connect trav-ellers around the world to this vibrant tourist des-tination from 12 Decem-ber,” he said.

SilkAir, Singapore Airlinesto offer flights to Denpasar


ORGANIC farming as a key to sustainable agriculture has cap-

tured the attention of many countries around the world. Interest in organic agricul-ture methods is growing es-pecially in countries where there is evident degradation of resources essential to ag-ricultural production, such as land, due to conventional farming system.

Consumers’ concern with food quality and safe-ty, as well as the protection of the environment, have also stimulated demand for organic products, and have become the driving force in the development of organic agriculture.

In the Philippines, or-ganic agriculture is being promoted thanks to Repub-lic Act 10068. More popu-larly known as the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010, the law is a state policy that promotes, propagates, and further develops the prac-tice of organic farming in the country.

During the 8th National Organic Agriculture Con-ference held at the Aquino Center of Hacienda Luisita, President Benigno Aquino III directed the Department of Agriculture to ensure that two percent of its annual budget be allocated for the implementation of its pro-grams and policies on organ-ic agriculture.

These days, many Filipi-no farmers are now adopt-ing the system. One of them is Benjamin R. Lao, who was recently named by the Department of Agriculture as an outstanding organic farmer.

Ben – as he is fond-ly called by his family and peers – was destined to be a farmer. Although he fin-ished college and had work as an immigration officer in Davao City, he still wanted to farm. While still a gov-ernment employee, he went home every weekend to su-pervise his farm. He loved farming so much that he retired early to concentrate on his farm in Eman, a ba-rangay of Bansalan, Davao del Sur.

“My parents wanted me to be a lawyer,” Ben says. “But I wanted to toil the land to produce food to feed my family and earn sustainable income.” In another inter-view, he admits, “My first love is farming.”

After all, his parents were both farmers and he grew up in a surrounding where people were planting rice, corn, and several other crops. When his father died 13 years ago, the 40-hectare land which the family owned was divided equally among the eight children.

“I am the fifth child but I was unanimously chosen to assign which portion of the

land should be given to each sibling,” he said. For some unknown reason, he selected the land that was so infertile that cogon grass would not even grow on it.

Aside from the five hect-ares he inherited from his parents, Ben also bought an-other five hectares, just adja-cent to his farm. The money he used for buying the land was from the salary he saved from working as a govern-ment employee.

To transform the bar-ren land into an agricultural haven, Ben started reading agricultural magazines and other publications. He also attended trainings conduct-ed by government agencies like Department of Agri-culture, Philippine Coconut Authority, and Department of Science and Technology. “I started to re-learn the ba-sics,” he said.

At one time, he visited the Mindanao Baptist Ru-ral Life Center (MBRLC), a non-government organiza-tion that promotes organ-ic farming and sustainable agriculture. MBRLC, locat-ed just six kilometers away from his farm, is known for its Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) and Food Always In The Home (FAITH) gardening.

Since MBRLC offers hands-on-experience to in-terested groups and individ-uals, he availed himself of the training. “I was impressed by the way they conserve the soil and the farming systems they have developed through the years,” Ben said.

After the training, he brought himself seeds of nitrogen-fixing species like Flemingia macrophylla, Desmodium rensonii, and In-digofera anil. Ben planted them in his farm to help re-store the fertility of the soil.

The nitrogen-fixers are also good forage for live-stock. As Ben wanted to practice the principle of or-ganic farming, he thought of adding goats. “The legumes contain as high as 16 percent crude protein and therefore provides good nourishment for my goats,” he bared.

In the beginning, Ben had only seven goats and the manure were used as organ-ic fertilizer. But he found out there was money in goats, so he opted to increase the number. Today, he has about 170 goats in his farm. “Buy-ers just come to my farm and select the goats they want to buy,” he said.

Goats are also good sources of milk. However, the milk he gets from the goats are used as an ingredi-ent for their homemade Don-na Belle durian ice cream. The extra milk is sold either as ice candy or as fresh milk at the market outlet in the town proper, about ten kilo-meters away from the farm.

When Ben inherited the 5-hectare farm, there were already coconut trees grow-ing. Every three months, he harvested only 400 to 600 nuts. But several months after he planted the nitro-gen-fixing legumes, the coco-nut yield markedly increased to 15,000 nuts per quarter.

Although the money from copra was good, he thought of making more money from his products. So he thought of producing coconut sugar from the co-conut sap or toddy. Unlike other sweeteners available in the market, which are loaded with preservatives, additives, artificial flavoring, and anti-fermenting agents, coconut sugar is all natural.

With its health benefits, coconut sugar is gaining pop-ularity not only in the Philip-pines but in other countries as well. It has a low glycemic index (GI) of 35, which is much lower than the 54 GI, which nutritionists consider as safe for people who have to watch their blood glucose level. “It has also glutamic acid, the same ingredient present in Viagra,” Ben says.

In the past, he used to get only three liters of toddy per tree. But today, he gets six liters of toddy per tree. His secret: “Right nutrition using organic fertilizer is the key.”

Aside from goat manure, he also uses vermicast from the earthworms he raises. Ben combines vermicast with a fungus-based biolog-ical fertilizer which he ap-plies every three months at the rate of one kilogram per tree. Every six months, he applies salt around the base of the tree at the rate of two kilograms per tree.

Aside from coconuts, the Lao Integrated Farms, Inc – as he calls it – is also teeming with various fruits like lanzones (more than a thousand trees), durian (700 trees), mangosteen, and rambutan.

In his farm, you won’t see his farm workers using chemical pesticides. “I had a tragic experience with chemical pesticides when I was still a teenager while cultivating rice in our farm located at the neighboring barangay,” he revealed.

Instead, he recommends using Eman, which stands for “epektibo, mura, at nat-ural” (effective, cheap, and natural). “This is a concoc-tion composed of fresh goats’ manure, kakawate, makabu-hay, and hot pepper,” he said. “These are soaked together for 48 hours and after that the concoction is ready for application.”

According to him, Eman is effective in repelling plant pests and diseases. In addi-tion, it is also a good course of foliar fertilizer. “We are committed to help preserve our environment. We want

to teach Filipino farmers the right way of farming through natural method and that is by not using commercial fer-tilizer or pesticides,” he said.

People who have been to his farm have described it as a haven. You don’t see only livestock and crops but ornamentals as well. “It’s nice to see beautiful flowers underneath the trees,” he explained. “Also, the flowers serve as breeding areas for beneficial insects like spi-ders and dragonflies.”

In his barangay, Ben is known for employing peo-ple. He has 35 regular em-ployees and six casual work-ers. In addition, there are 86 people gathering sap for his coconut products, which also include coconut syrup, coconut honey, and coconut vinegar. He also makes du-rian jam, candies, and durian ice cream with goat’s milk.

In 2005, Ben was cho-sen as the most outstanding farmer of Davao del Sur. The following year, he was rec-ognized by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, For-estry and Natural Resources Research and Development as a Magsasakang Siyentis-ta (scientific farmer). In 2008, the Department of Agriculture bestowed him the honor as one of the country’s outstanding farmers.

In 2009, he was chosen as the Micro-Entrepreneur of the Year. Then, in May of this year, the agriculture de-partment named him again as an outstanding farmer in organic farming category. “All these awards and rec-ognitions,” he said, “were far beyond my expectation.”

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AGRITRENDSWhen organic farming paysText and Photos By HENRYLITO D. TACIO

Coconut sugar and coconut syrup

Coconut sugar

Goat raising

Using nitrogen fixing species

Sign of his farm

Makabuhay as part of organic pesticide Raising mangosteen


Courage, menEDITORIAL

THE Philippines has always ranked high in terms of gen-der equality, and this is proven by our 9th place ranking in the 2014 Global Gender Gap Report published by

the World Economic Forum (WEF) released last month. That is no small feat considering that the WEF assessed 142 countries, and we have been placed in the same top 10 as Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Nicara-gua, Rwanda, Ireland, and Belgium. Despite our own view of ourselves as a patriarchal society, we are actually well ahead of many nations – including so-called first world ones – in how women are treated and how they are able to take on roles that benefit society in general.

Much, of course, still needs to be done, and we ought not to rest on our laurels. For one thing, it is plainly and even painfully obvious that the planning of families is of-ten given by default to women, with the men either not caring about the reproductive health of their partners or afraid that taking on the task themselves will be deemed unmanly. The government health agency has urged more men to be part of the process, and this includes under-going interventions that will enable couples to keep the number of their children to a manageable size. One such

intervention is the vasectomy, defined as “a surgical pro-cedure for male sterilization and/or permanent birth control.” To be technical about it, the procedure involves severing the male vasa deferentia and then tying or seal-ing it in a manner so as to prevent sperm from entering into the seminal stream and thereby prevent fertilization from occurring.

Most men reading that last sentence will squirm, but it is a relatively simple operation that takes only min-utes to perform. Recovery is also very fast, and there is no effect on one’s manhood. In contrast, a tubal ligation is more complicated and places a woman in considerable discomfort. By any measure, a vasectomy is the safer way to manage family size, and only the misconceptions sur-rounding it are preventing more men from undergoing the procedure. This is why there is even a need to mark tomorrow, November 7, as World Vasectomy Day. The hope is “to inform people about vasectomies, bring these services to those farthest afield, and to inspire men to en-gage in the conversation about family planning.” Let us hope that more men will find the courage not just to have vasectomies but, more importantly, to plan their families.

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BY MANNY VALDEHUESA

THE WORM’S EYEVIEW

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THINK ON THESE!

Why so unprepared and unable to cope?VANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO

Through Faith

THE barbaric Abu Sayyaf has long been vi-olating human rights, our national laws, and other universal laws. Yet it is only now

that our Commander-in-Chief barks an order to declare an all-out effort against them—with cat-astrophic results! Selective law enforcement.

There are the predatory New People’s Army and other dregs of yesterday, today, and, good-ness-knows-who-else tomorrow. Then there’s MILF front Umbra Kato and his so-called Bang-samoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). How about the crop of opportunists riding on the perverse idea of an Islamic Caliphate? Selective law enforcement?

Our government’s failure to confront and combat such defiant scum of society relent-lessly is reprehensible and a gross misreading of the bureaucracy’s mandate from us the cit-izenry.

Not only does the whole thing smack of selective enforcement, it reflects weak political will mixed with incompetence—and reduc-es the mission of law enforcers as a cat-and-mouse game using expensive hardware as they stage parades by dress-conscious brass. Lousy job!

*****There’s an attitude here that needs to be

corrected for being counter-productive in our quest for stability and political maturity: the cavalier way crime-fighting and law-enforcing

is done.It is reflected in the selective way the law

is treated, as if complying with it were a mat-ter of preference. It gives rise to ambivalence in the minds of many about the merits of being a law-abiding citizen—as if it’s debatable!

It makes the law seem negotiable or, worse, optional; as if it doesn’t apply to everyone. Very wrong! Dura lex, sed lex.The law is harsh but it’s the law.Therefore, obey it!

One wonders whether we would be better off using the proven models of the past. Is there any civic education or citizen training today?

*****The first article of civic discipline and

initiative in our citizens today should be the law-abiding sense, as must compulsory com-pliance with the law. For the uniformed ser-vices and the bureaucrats, enforcing the law must be uncompromising and the pursuit of the culprits unrelenting.

For governance in general, dapat daw matuwid na daan! Well, we’d better rebuild our social order and anchor it on political will. Cit-izens need to be decisive in the face of threats.

Had we such a citizenry during Typhoon

Sendong, the devastation in Cagayan de Oro would not have been so great; the missing would have been minimal instead of thousands. Untrained and inexperienced, the Cagayanos could not compensate for the incompetence and inattention of a mayor whose whereabouts then could not even be accounted and who, it turned out, had not even bothered to organize a disaster relief and rehabilitation team as re-quired by law!

After Typhoon Yolanda, the survivors in Tacloban were reduced to aimless wanderers for days on cadaver-littered streets after the storm surges. Had they been prepared, there would have been a modicum of order in their response to emergency.

*****Years ago, everyone knew the protocol un-

der disaster conditions. Filipinos were familiar with the adrenalin-raising sensation and expe-rience of mobilizing for whatever reason. They had self-confidence borne of preparedness, courage, and an indomitable spirit.

Thus when World War II erupted in 1941, even youngsters readily met the challenge of mobilizing and deploying for war. Guerilla re-sistance units sprouted, with minimal facilities or equipment.

“Bolos and spears versus guns and can-nons!”—Yoyoy Villame might have put it. Filipi-nos didn’t panic or back down.

Later on, the pre-war training and drills the students underwent conditioned them to re-spond to contingency or civic demand—from fire-fighting to evacuating earthquake or flood victims, poll watching on Election Day and even traffic management when called upon.

*****In other words, there was good order and

discipline—the result of civic and soldiering programs that were in place since the Com-monwealth Period when Pres. Manuel L. Que-zon commissioned Gen. Douglas MacArthur to organize and train the reserve officers’ training corps (ROTC).

That was in addition to the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts already in place, and lat-er, the pre-military training (PMT) program for junior high students. Thus everyone was more or less familiar with orderly mobilization and systematic deployment for whatever reason.

Today, how come we’re so ill prepared for crime-fighting and disaster response?

(Manny is former UNESCO regional director for Asia-Pacific; secretary-general, Southeast Asia Publishers Association; director, develop-ment academy of Philippines; member, Philip-pine Mission to the UN; vice chair, Local Govern-ment Academy; member, Cory Govt’s Peace Pan-el; awardee, PPI-UNICEF outstanding columnist. He is president/national convenor, Gising Ba-rangay Movement Inc. [email protected])

JUST what is faith? The Holy Bible, the book of all times, gives much importance on faith. “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed,

nothing shall be impossible unto you,” Saint Matthew wrote (17:20).

American minister Norman Vince Peale shares this impression on the above statement: “The implication is that while you may not have perfect faith, or considerable faith, or even faith as small as a tiny mustard seed, yet, if what you have is real faith, then life will be predicated, not on an impossibility concept, but rather upon the fact of great possibilities. Faith strongly held can move you out of the area of the impossible into a way of life that is full of exciting possibilities.”

Peale, a respected author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking), corrects the impression that if you practice faith you will get everything you desire. Nor does it mean avoid-ing difficulties, failures, pains, and disappoint-ments in life.

That’s not what he meant. “The real differ-ence between faith and no faith is shown by how creatively you handle the troubles of life,” he ex-plains. “Having even a mustard-seed category of faith, it will be quite impossible for the hard things, no matter how hard they may be, to de-feat you. Indeed, your spiritual perception and control will be such that you will see and devel-op the vast possibilities that are almost invari-ably inherent in difficulties.”

Allow men to share of a story which, they say, American novelist Robert Louis Stevenson told first:

It seems a storm caught a sea-faring vessel off a rocky coast. The wind and waves threat-ened to drive the ship to its destruction.

In the midst of the terror, one daring pas-senger, contrary to orders, made his way across

the ship. Grop-ing along a passageway, he found the pilot house. There he beheld an intriguing sight: the ship’s pilot was lashed to his post. Secure against the rag-ing elements, he held the wheel fast, turning the ship inch by inch once more out to the sea. The pilot saw the man and smiled.

The daring passenger found his way below deck where the other passengers huddled. En-couragingly he told them, “I have seen the face of the pilot, and he smiled. All is well.”

And that’s what faith is all about. “The whole course of things goes to teach us faith,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American es-sayist and poet. “We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.”

To get things done, an ounce of faith is worth a ton of experience. English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling recounted how a battle was won by the fool raw recruits, the boys who stormed the fort like lunatics, while the old wise soldiers knew better and held back.

“We live by faith or we do not live at all,”

pointed out Harold Walker. “Either we venture – or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith simply because we cannot know the end of any-thing at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we are stopped by molehills.”

Yes, people who do the possible things are aplenty. However, prizes are reserved only for those who perform the impossible task. “If a thing can be done, experience and skill can do it; if a thing cannot be done, only faith can do it,” reminded Dr. Frank Crane, who wrote a set of ten volumes of Four Minute Essays. “And it is the quality of faith that counts. It is not of so much importance what you believe as how you believe. For faith is the peculiar elixir of youth. Whoever has faith is young, no matter how old he is; whoever has lost faith is old, even at twen-ty-one.”

Again, just what is faith? Hebrews 11:1 states: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

At one time, a woman who was inwardly collapsed said to Mr. Jones, “Well, I have no faith of my own, but I do have in your faith.” “Good,” Mr. Jones replied, “take faith in my faith as a first step, and then you will go on to something infinitely better – faith in His faith.”

In most instances, people equate faith with religion – believing in Someone Up There, put-ting trust in God, and praying without ceasing. Religion also means doing well and serving others. There are people who rely on their faith in order for them to be healed. “Everyone has spirituality,” says Reghan Foley, an American student who was trying to find medical evi-dence about faith healing. “It’s basically what

gives your life meaning.”The connection between spirit and body

may be age-old, but as healing became a sci-ence, modern practitioners moved away from spirituality and religious faith. In recent years, however, hundreds of research studies have shown the link between faith and health.

Humans under psychological stress ex-perience raised blood pressure and heart and breathing rates, straining the body and lower-ing immunity, says Dr. Herbert Benson, author of The Relaxation Response. In many studies, Benson has found that an opposite response can be elicited by combining two steps: repeat-ing a prayer, word, sound, phrase or movement, and disregarding other thoughts. Meditation, prayer, tai chi, and yoga all provoke this health-ful state.

“I could not say I believe,” declared Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. “I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, some-thing that people call God.”

“I believe in a spiritual world, not as some-thing separate from this world, but as its inner-most truth,” admitted Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet from India. “With the breath we draw, we must feel this truth that we are living in God. Born in this great world, full of the mys-tery of infinite, we cannot accept our existence as a momentary outburst of chance, drifting on the current of matter toward an eternal no-where.”

If you are still at loss what faith is, here’s a word of reminder. “Faith is like a toothbrush,” said J.G. Stipe. “Every man should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn’t try to use someone else’s.”

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give the exact timetable when the ambulance will be released supposedly for SPMC,” Villafuerte said.

She said for the mean-time, Mayor Rodrigo R. Dute-rte requested Central 911 to provide an ambulance which will be used as stand-by transport vehicle at the Francisco Bangoy Interna-

tional Airport.Villafuerte said the Bu-

reau of Quarantine also has an ambulance coming but it does not have the timetable for when it will arrive.

“For the meantime, we do not want to wait for that ambulances to arrive, so we are hoping that (Central 911 OIC) Mr. Emmanuel Jaldon

will assign one unit from 911 at the airport that always on standby,” she said.

Meanwhile, Villafuerte said she will request for a drill to test the preparedness of the agencies involved in the strategic planning.

“Maybe, after the drill I can confidently say that we are really prepared. So far

no, we lack the drill,” she said.

Villafuerte said last Monday, they conducted a seminar for the Barangay Captains in the city to inform and educate them how to respond in case a barangay member contracts Ebola.

KICK-OFF. Health workers and other stakeholders attend the kick-off program of the World Vasectomy Day 2014 at Rizal Park in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

stations for the safety of the equipment.

The highlight of the brand new equipment procured by the city is the Acoustic Hailing Device (AHD) worth P2 million pesos, with funds generated

from the City Mayor’s Disaster and Calamity fund.

AHD is a highly-direction-al speaker designed to focus sound in a narrow beam. AHDs are ideal for maritime hailing, bird and wildlife control, mil-

itary operations, riots or huge unruly street demonstrations, and infrastructure protection.

The other equipment are five 4x2 ambulances, five 4x4ambulances, USAR Equip-ment Vehicle, USAR Troop Car-

rier, two firetrucks with 2,000 liter capacities each, 10 motor-cycles, communication equip-ment, call center equipment, emergency medical services equipment, and firefighting Equipment.

the national and local levels.The forum will also pro-

vide an avenue for action planning among local gov-ernment units (LGUs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on co-creating and co-developing the next OGP action plan and localizing its

commitments.In 2011, the Philippines

became one of the founding members of OGP with 64 participating countries to date.

The OGP is an interna-tional platform for domes-tic reformers committed

towards making their gov-ernments more open, ac-countable and responsive to citizens.

In the OGP member countries, government and CSOs are working together to develop and implement open government reforms.

The forum is in partner-ship with Union of Local Au-thorities of the Philippines (ULAP) and CSO members of OGP with support from Unit-ed States Agency for Inter-national Development – Fa-cilitating Public Investment (USAID-FPI). ABF

panies in Davao City, more than half are home-based.

Payne said among the criteria to be a nominee of the best ICT company lo-cated outside NCR are that headquarter of the company should be located here and 50 percent of the work force should be assigned here.

However, he clarified that final lists of categories and criteria as well as the venue will be announced on November 25.

“We are planning to sim-plify the criteria and add more categories,” he added.

Possible awarding will be on the second or last week of March next year while venue will be either at Makati Shangri-La or Re-sorts World Manila.

Last year,major award categories were Best Com-pany of the Year; Best Em-ployer of the Year; Best Fili-pino-owned Company of the Year; Best Global In-house

Center of the Year; Most In-novative Company the Year; Best Non-Voice Excellence Company of the Year; Best Voice Excellence Company of the Year; and Individual Contributor of the Year. Spe-cial award was Hall of Fame.

Payne said that aside from the cash prize and rec-ognition, the awarded com-panies will receive national and international exposure.

The International ICT Awards Philippines is an an-

nual event organized by the CanCham in association with Information Technology and Business Process Associa-tion of the Philippines (IB-PAP) to recognize the very best in dynamic and fast growing IT-BPM industry in the country.

More information about the ICT Award can be re-ceived from the ICT Awards Secretariat at +632 843 6471 or [email protected]. CRC

tricycle driver who was mur-dered in Toril on September 13, 2014.

This after Corral’s niece Charmaine Deogracias sent a letter to Roxas dated October 7 questioning the investiga-tion of the Task Group.

The SITG said it still con-tinues to conduct follow-up investigations for the resolu-tion of the case.

Earlier, acting DCPO chief Superintendent Pepino said they have not found any evidence that will establish the connection of the seven police officers to the death of Corral VII.

The seven intelligence

operatives were identified as PO3 Catalino Jalalon, PO3 Rico Adlawan, PO2 Eugenio Mendez, Senior Police Of-ficer (SPO)1 Jeremias Cu-nanan, PO2 Janwed Cagape, and PO2 Bernardo Flauta.

Authorities also said they are having a hard time looking for witnesses in the killing for Corral.

Corral was found dead with five gunshot wounds at around 3:30 a.m. on Sep-tember 13 in Juan dela Cruz Street in Toril, Davao City.

His body was found days after he was mauled before dawn on September 10 al-legedly by PO1 Villegas. FPG

camera of the Public Safe-ty and Security Command Center (PSSCC), however, showed Manalao’s assertion to be untrue.

The video showed Loza-no, who was with his girl-friend, trying to stop Mana-lao who was about to vomit at his back.

This, however, appar-ently angered Manalao, who along with his four friends proceeded to maul Lozano.

The group also tried to get his service firearms but he managed to keep it with him.

For his part, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that Lozano should have shot the suspects while they

were kicking him.“I am telling everybody

not only the police, when you are ganged up by four or more persons, even two or three, physically over-powered ka, you are in dan-ger of losing your life, when your life is in danger, I am lecturing to you, kung may baril ka, barilin mo na la-hat,” Duterte said.

Davao City Police Office (DCPO) director Senior Su-perintendent Vicente Dan-ao Jr. said that PO2 Lozano will receive a citation for his deeds.

Authorities have lost contact with Reyes after he escaped during the investi-gation of the Talomo PNP. FPG


Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION

FRANCHISING AND REGULA-TORY BOARD

Regional Office No. XIDavao city

Petition for Renewal of a Cer-tificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ Ordinary Regular Service

MIGUEL C. PECASION, Case No.2000-XI-01719 Petitioner

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NOTICE OF HEARING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of Public Con-venience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a PUJ Ordinary Regular service on the route: MAN-UEL GUIANGA with the use of ONE (1) unit, which Cer-tificate will expire on Octo-ber 31, 2015. In the petition filed on October 20, 2014, petitioner requests authority to extend the validity of said certificate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized.

NOTICE, is hereby giv-

en that this petition will be heard by this Board on NO-VEMBER 17, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, TEN (10) days prior to the above date peti-tioner shall publish this No-tice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circu-lation in Mindanao

Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the petitioner, and may if they so, desire ap-pear on said date and time.

This petition will be act-ed upon by this Board on the basis of its records and the documentary evidence sub-mitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional doc-umentary and/or oral evi-dence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Director, this 20th day of October 2014 at Davao City.

TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZChief Transportation Development Officer

1PHONE CAMPAIGN. Atty. Gigo Alampay, director-general of CANVAS which organizes the annual TEDxDiliman forum, shows sup-port for Globe Telecom’s 1Phone campaign.

GLOBE Telecom high-lighted its 1Phone Project at TEDxDili-

man 2014 as part of the tele-communication provider’s advocacy for innovation and development of new ideas.

The company’s biggest and most ambitious mobile recycling program, Project 1Phone is designed to cre-ate awareness on proper e-waste disposal and to pro-mote sustainability.

A venue for “sharing ideas worth spreading,” TEDxDiliman 2014 was held recently at the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics.

Organized by the Cen-ter for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Develop-ment (CANVAS), the forum featured speakers with big ideas on diverse topics.

Sharing their thoughts before a specially curated audience of thought lead-ers, bloggers, social entre-preneurs, artists, other ac-complished individuals and captains of the industries, the speakers included pri-ma ballerina Lisa Macuja, noted contemporary artist Leeroy New, social entrepre-neur James Deakin, young

congressman Sherwin Gatchalian, and rap artist Gloc 9.

Their talks focused on this theme of “What I’ve Learned.” More than 500 guests attended the forum, a conference licensed by the famous TED Conference.

“Globe values innovation and this is apparent in our Project 1Phone as it seeks to transform lives through proper disposal of old mo-bile devices,” Globe Senior Vice President for Corpo-rate Communications Yoly Crisanto said, adding the 1Phone campaign augurs well with the objective of the forum of sharing ideas worth spreading.

She explained that the campaign calls for donation of unused, non-working, or damaged phones and tab-lets, mobile phone batteries, and even personal comput-ers.

All devices and accesso-ries that Globe will gather through the campaign will be turned over to TES-AMM, a leading electronics waste recycler which will take re-sponsibility for at end-of-life products to ensure that they are managed responsibly.

TEDxDiliman highlights Project 1Phone

Proceeds from the re-cycling program will be uti-lized for the construction of school buildings in Aklan.

CANVAS is a non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting greater awareness and ap-preciation for Philippine

art, culture and the environ-ment.

It runs the Looking for Juan Program which explores the use of art to encourage reflection and debate on selected social issues, particularly free ex-pression, technology and

culture, and national identi-ty, as well as the One Million Books for One Million Filipi-no Children Campaign that donates CANVAS-published books to children in public schools, hospitals, and dis-advantaged communities nationwide.

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CONTECON Manzanil-lo, S.A. (CMSA), de-veloper and operator

of the second specialized container terminal (SCT-2) in the Port of Manzanillo in Colima, Mexico, celebrated its first anniversary with CMSA significantly sur-passing all expectations.

CMSA is a subsidiary of ICTSI, an international operator of common-user container terminals serv-ing the global container shipping industry. ICTSI is the largest port operator in the Philippines and has a portfolio of 29 container terminal operations in 21 countries across six conti-nents.

With the opening SCT-2, CMSA cemented Manza-nillo’s position as the lead-ing port in Mexico, further boosting the Port’s rank both regionally and global-ly. Today, the Port of Man-zanillo is the fifth largest port in Latin America and 66th largest in the world. Moreover, the new termi-nal has raised port capac-ity by 100, doubling exist-ing volumes.

Though the official in-

CMSA positions Port of Manzanilloamong Latin America’s leading ports

ICTSI’s Specialized Container Terminal-2 in the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico.

auguration took place on 1 November 2013 with His Excellency Mexican Pres-ident Enrique Peña Nieto inaugurating SCT-2, actu-al operations started in 5 August with the arrival of the terminal’s first vessel from Danish megaliner Maersk.

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hour or so, we returned to Vista Restaurant. Brenda introduced me to one of the resort staff, who would be one of the judges. “The other two are you and Jom,” she added. The program started with some fun games -- bring me sort of thing. Children and parents tried to work together since most of the stuffs be-ing asked were from the parents’ bags or wallets. The parents did their best to make their children win. But when the host asked: “Bring me your tal-ented mother or father,”

the parents didn’t want to their kids. After the game, a magi-cian was called to enter-tain the kids. But I found out that even the parents themselves were enjoy-ing the magical moments. When I asked one father if he knew what the magi-cian was doing, he replied: “I had no idea but I am en-joying it.” And then the parade of costumes came. There were those who wore su-per heroes and there were those who were either fairies or witches. “It was tough to decide,” Jom said. “They are all winners to me.” But in the end, we had to settle for 10 best cos-tumes. We had to select the most scary, the most colorful, most funny, and most creative. From the ten, we had to select the top four winners. The rest of the 10 chosen finalists were given consolation prices. But the most antici-pated part was decorating the dough nuts. Each kid

was given two dough nuts which they had to deco-rate with chocolate tidbits and other colorful stuff to be place on top of the dough nuts. It was fun looking the kids doing their thing. Some of them even ate some of the chocolates while others were tempted to eat the whole dough nut. It was good that parents were there to guide them. There were too many good outputs. But we had chosen the little cute boy who wore Peter Pan. He tried to decorate his dough nuts with a little help from his mother. After deco-rating the dough nut, his hands was dirty which chocolates but he was very happy with what he had accomplished. Parents had good time, too. In fact, there was a competition among them but only five of them joined. The game was: “Who can eat a dough nut in a short period of time.” A father did -- only in a few seconds! The program started past 2 o’clock in the after-noon and finished before 5 pm. Everyone was hav-ing fun. The children were given some goodies and a certificate of participation. The parents, who were very supportive of their children, had to accom-pany the kids where they went and whatever they had to accomplish. Yes, celebrating Hallow-een at Eden Nature Park and Resort was not scary; instead, it was more fun!

THE most wonderful time of the year kicks off at SM malls this weekend. Usher in the season of joy at SM City Davao on November 7, SM Lanang Premier on November 8 and SM City General Santos on Novem-ber 9.

Magical Candy Christmas at SM City DavaoSam and Mary goes on an exciting a d v e n t u r e in search of the Magical C h r i s t m a s Candy Land on Novem-ber 7. Joining them are the Davao Chil-dren’s Choir, LCB Performing Arts Center Foundation, Inc. and Bal-let Manila’s Tiffany Chiang & Romeo Peralta. Watch Santa Claus along with the sugar plum fairies, elves and the sugar prince come alive in a sweet afternoon of music, dance, colors and candies! SM City Davao Magical Candy Christmas Launch is set on Friday, 5 PM at the Annex Event Center. Also, enjoy the season’s treats and gift ideas at the Christmas Bazaar located the ground floor of the Annex.

A Wonderful, LEGO-filled Christmas at SM Lanang PremierDelight in the season of wonder as SM La-nang Pre-mier brings you an early holi-day fête on November 8. Witness the lighting of the 57-ft. Christmas tree and the unveiling of the whimsical LEGO Christmas Village at the Atrium on Saturday at 5pm. Marvel at the musical performances of Song-spell Kids Choir, Davao Girls’ Choir and celebrity Kiana Valenciano. Santa Claus and his helpers will also be handing over gifts to selected children beneficiaries. Bring the whole family and watch out for more won-derful surprises at SM Lanang Premier.

Christmas T o y l a n d at SM City G e n e r a l SantosOn the most await-ed season of the year, the children race with twinkles in their eyes and faces light up as they see the tree surrounded by beautifully wrapped presents guarded by toy soldiers. Laughter and excitement grow as they discover which pres-ents are theirs. To create this magical moment, fol-low your imagination on November 9, Sunday 5PM as SM City General Santos light their Giant Christmas Tree themed in Toyland. Be charmed by the marching Band that will parade along the mall and be indulged by a choir singing Christmas carols with Ballerinas dancing with them. Come and experience the world of joy this season, to be magically granted by SM City General Santos. Spread the joy of giving this season at your favor-ite malls with the SM Christmas Bears. With Php 200, a mall goer gets 2 Christmas bears—one for keeping and the other for donation. At the end of the cam-paign, all bears will be turned over to the each SM mall’s chosen charity.

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GMA Network received mul-tiple honors for its value-laden programs and special projects at the recently held 36th Catholic Mass Media Awards. The big winners in the televi-sion category were GMA-7’s week-end primetime newscast 24 Oras Weekend (Best News Program) for its Yolanda Coverage and fam-ily sitcom Pepito Manaloto: Ang Tunay na Kuwento (Best Comedy Program); GMA News TV’s original series on education Titser (Best Dra-ma Series/Program) and pioneering documentary program Reel Time (Best Public Service Program); and GMA News’ comprehensive cover-age of the first-ever joint papal can-onization St. John Paul II: We Love You (Best Special Event Coverage). Receiving special citations for television, meanwhile, were GMA-7’s multi-awarded documentary program I-Witness, the Philippines’ first and only nature and wildlife series Born To Be Wild (Best Adult

Educational/Cultural Program), and the youth-oriented programs Tro-pang Potchi and Binoy Henyo (Best Children and Youth Program). Also cited were GMA News TV’s highly-acclaimed flagship newscast State of the Nation with Jessica Soho (Best News Program) and weekly news magazine program Brigada (Best News Magazine); GMA News’ Bantay Kaban ng Bayan, which traced the anatomy of the pork bar-rel scam (Best TV Special); and GMA Cebu’s Visita Iglesia (Best Religious Program). As an affirmation of their com-mitment to Serbisyong Totoo, GMA’s flagship AM radio station Super Radyo DZBB also took home awards for the radio programs Im-bestigador sa DZBB (Best Public Service Program) and Bangon Na Bayan (Best News Commentary). Furthermore, GMA Marketing and Productions, Inc., the Network’s sales and marketing arm, bested entries from other creative agen-cies by gaining the top prize for

KFC’s “Munting Sakripisyo” (Best TV Ad – Branded) while So Lucky’s “Ka-hati ng Kahapon” received a special citation in the same category. Both winners were among GMA’s Christ-mas short films for 2013 and were created in partnership with KFC and Columbia International Food Products, Inc., respectively. Also recognized in the Music Category was “Pagbangon” (Best Secular Song) – an initiative of GMA News, produced by the Program Support Department, written by Joseph Saguid, composed by Ed-ward Mitra, and sung by Asia’s Pop Sweetheart Julie Anne San Jose. “Pagbangon” tells of the resilience of the Filipino people and reminds everyone to help his fellowmen in times of crisis. Since 1978, the prestigious Cath-olic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) has been giving out recognition to students, professionals, and organi-zations that made use of mass com-munication in promoting Christian values among Filipinos.

AS the Christmas sea-son begins, GMA Kapu-so Foundation (GMAKF) launches the Celebrity Ukay-Ukay on Novem-ber 14, with Kapuso onscreen couple Tom Rodriguez and Carla Abellana as its new ad-vocates. For the past four years, the Kapuso Foundation, in cooperation with CUT Unlimited, Inc., has been mounting this special Christ-mas project with celebrities donating pre-loved, or even brand-new, items to be sold at the bazaar. The pro-ceeds are then utilized for the Foundation’s relief op-erations and its various year-round socio-civic programs such as the Kapuso School Development, Unang Hak-bang sa Kinabukasan and Give A Gift Alay sa Batang Pinoy Christmas projects. “It is truly a blessing that the Network and its stars continuously support the Foundation’s endeavors and we are fortunate to have Tom and Carla as this year’s advocates for social change,” expresses GMAKF EVP and COO Mel C. Tiang-co. “Through our combined efforts, we can truly put smiles on the faces of our beneficiaries this Christmas season.” In true Kapuso fashion, GMA Network’s celebrities and talents have given their overwhelming support to

the Celebrity Ukay-Ukay, making the annual project a huge success. The past years have seen some of the biggest couples in show business leading their fellow celebrities in supporting the cause. Multi-talented singer-songwriter Ogie Alcasid and Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid were the pioneering advocates in

the project’s launch in 2010 while Kapuso royal couple Marian Rivera and Ding-dong Dantes spearheaded the charitable cause last year. This year, Tom and Carla, the Kapuso love team that has thrilled fans in the inter-nationally-acclaimed series My Husband’s Lover and the recently concluded roman-

tic-drama My Destiny, unite their generous spirits in sup-port of the Kapuso Founda-tion’s mission to uplift the lives of underprivileged Fili-pinos. “I am grateful for this opportunity to give back in a personal way,” shares Carla, who has already be-gun sorting through her closet for shoes, bags, and other trinkets to sell at the bazaar. “And, not only do these shoppers come home happy with their purchases, they can also feel good that they have contributed to helping those in need,” adds the Kapuso actress. Likewise, Tom has also started selecting some of his personal belongings to donate to the cause. ”With Christmas just around the corner, this is the perfect op-portunity for us and our fans to pay it forward,” relates the Kapuso leading man. “We not only get to make our fans happy, but we are also helping the Kapuso Foundation bring hope to our less fortunate brothers and sisters,” he says. Other Kapuso celebri-ties who have donated to Tom and Carla’s Celebrity Ukay-Ukay are Jaya, Heart Evangelista, Barbie Forteza, Jonalyn Viray, Ryza Cenon, Joyce Ching, Bettinna Car-los, Chariz Solomon, Chef Boy Logro, Betong Sumaya, Mona Louise Rey, Miggs Cuaderno, Teejay Marquez,

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Shop for a cause at Tom and Carla’s Celebrity Ukay-Ukay

Kapuso leading man Tom Rodriguez works on the digital painting he is putting up for auction at the Noel Bazaar; he has also set aside clothes to be sold at their Celebrity Ukay-Ukay.

Kapuso prime artist Carla Abellana has already donated some of her personal belongings in order to raise funds for the Kapuso Foundation.

Boobay, Lovely Rivero, Sheri-lyn Reyes, Lolit Solis, Ricky Lo, Butch Francisco, and Eugene Domingo. GMA’s News and Public Affairs personalities such as Jessica Soho, Arnold Clavio, Rhea Santos, Lyn Ching-Pascual, Suzy Abrera, and Luanne Dy have also given items to be sold at the bazaar. Join Tom, Carla, and other Kapuso artists as they share the love this Christmas at the opening of the Noel Ba-zaar at the World Trade Cen-ter on November 14. Get pre-loved items from

your favorite celebrities at Tom and Carla’s Celebrity Ukay-Ukay booth on the fol-lowing dates: November 14-16, November 21-23, November 28-30. Celebrity auctions will also be held each bazaar weekend. The Noel Bazaar at the World Trade Center will run from November 14 -30. Bazaar hours are from 11:00AM-9:00PM. For more information on GMA Kapuso Foundation’s various projects, visit the web-site, www.gmanetwork.com/kapusofoundation.

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Ciudades tree-planting shows commitment to environment

AROUND 100 participants joined in the first tree planting activity of Ciudades, Lapanday Properties Philippines, Inc.’s township devel-

opment project in Davao City, last October 25.

By Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

The different teams from Robinsons Land Corporation, North Banks Holdings Corporation, and Philippine Womens College participated in the tree planting.

Dubbed “Tree Planting with Partners,” the activity took place in Ciudades’ Eco-park in Barangay Mandug. The participants came from joint venture part-ners Robinson’s Homes, Sta. Lucia, Orchard Prop-erty Marketing Corporation (OPMC), Philippine Wom-en’s College (PWC), and Northbank Holdings. Ciudades marketing and sales manager Maria Lu-isa R. Abaya said the tree-planting was the start of the planned regular activities in their project. “This simple but worthy endeavor aims to show our commitment to preserv-

ing the environment that we have here in Ciudades,” Abaya said in her speech. “We look forward to giving our commitment through this simple act,” she added. Abaya said they are going to conduct the tree planting activity every six months to show their commitment to the environment. Abaya said the seedlings planted in the park will be monitored regularly to en-sure that all of them will grow. City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) community for-estry head Marvin Parilla

lauded the activity of Cui-dades and its partners, say-ing it will serve as protection for the area since the project is situated near Davao River.“This will really serve as an example to all commercial

industries to engage in this kind of activity,” Parilla said.Situated in a vast 200-hect-are landscape, Ciudades holds forth a meticulously envisioned masterplan that aims to engage everyone

to a lifetime fulfillment of dreams and reality. With its luscious and extensive land, Ciudades aspires to develop a self-contained community with endless possibilities.

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TIGHT GUARDING. John Poul Erram of Blackwater Elite puts the shackles on Japeth Aguilar of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel during the Ginebra-Blackwater match in the PBA Philippine Cup on Wednesday. Barangay Ginebra beat the expansion franchise. Nuki Sabio

ASSAULTED. In this Oct. 5, 2014, file photo, Laura Nicholls of Spain, left, and Brittney Griner of the United States fight for the ball during their Basketball Championship for Women’s final at Fenerbahce Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. The agent for Brittney Griner tells The Associated Press that the basketball star was cut by a man in a knife attack in China but didn’t need to go to the hospital. Agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 (Wednesday PHL Time), that Griner sustained a small cut when the man swiped at her elbow as her team was boarding a bus after practice. Colas said the 6-foot-8 Griner didn’t require stitches. Photo: File, AP

US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner was attacked by a knifeman

after an evening training ses-sion with her Chinese team, but downplayed the incident saying she received “a little scratch”.

The six foot eight inch (2.03 metre) player said on her Instagram account that the man attacked her and three teammates as they got on the team bus on Monday evening.

“First let me say I’m OK,” the Beijing Great Wall player said on the photo-sharing ser-vice Tuesday.

“Got a little scratch and my teammates walk away un-harmed,” Griner said, adding “I’m ready to get out of this city we are visiting”, without saying where the attack took place.

Griner, who weighs more than 90 kilograms and claims on her website to have a “wing span of seven feet four inches”,

returned to action Tuesday evening following the attack, scoring 19 points to help Bei-jing to a 51-42 victory over Lia-oning Hengye.

A report by Xinhua Wednesday described the at-tacker as “drunk” and said he was “immediately controlled by security staff”.

The two-time Women’s NBA All-Star plays for Phoenix Mercury in the United States and is openly gay.

GLOBAL close in on the UFL treble with hard-won 2-1 semifinal vic-

tory against Loyola on Tues-day night at the Rizal Memo-rial Football stadium. Global meets Ceres in the final.

Filipino-Mexican Edgar Briones opened the scoring late with a header in the 78th minute off a header pass from Izo Elhabbib off a Jerry Barba-so cross.

Minutes later Global made it 2-0 when substitute Paolo Bugas threaded a neat through ball to Mark Hart-mann, who offloaded to El-habbib for a scuffed but ulti-mately effective finish.

A stoppage-time penalty by Phil Younghusband was the Sparks’ only consolation.

It was a magnificent day for Mindanao football. Global played three of them from the island and they were ll terrif-ic. Bugas, from Nabunturan,

Compostela Valley, served up several useful through balls while Dipolognon Barbaso, apart from the cross on the opener, stopped James Youn-ghusband with a superb-ly-timed tackle in the box in the first half. Davaoeno Amani Aguinaldo was key in knock-ing Phil Younghusband off his rhythm.

Patrick Deyto stoned Phil Younghusband twice, not a bad effort considering he flew in from Qatar only a few hours earlier, and also had to endure a bus ride from Clark, his air-port of entry.

Mark Hartmann very nearly scored in the second half with a curling free kick that Loyola keeper Baba Sam-pana parried clear.

Both coaches blasted the scheduling that will require some players to play six games in less than three weeks for club and flag in three different

countries. Sparks coach Simon McMemeny called the sched-ule “ridiculous,” and lauded Ceres’ decision to withhold players from Azkals duty as “a professional decision.”

His opposite number, Global’s Leigh Manson, be-moaned the schedule as “a recipe for injury.”

In the second match Ceres defeated Pachanga 3-1. The Busmen roared back from a 1-0 deficit following a Park Yi Young free kick goal with three unanswered goals from Jason Sabio, Adrian Gallardo and Manny Ott. Ott came on as a second half sub. According to Ali Go, Ceres club director, the Azkal was on a yellow, hence they wanted to ensure he wouldn’t get disqualified for the final with a second caution.

Victorino Son and Jinho Kim shone for Ceres with their pace and skill.

FILIPINO coach Ariel Vanguardia of the West-ports Malaysia Dragons

has been named the Coach of the Year of the ASEAN Bas-ketball League after guiding his squad to a league-best 15-5 record and a finals trip.

Vanguardia once worked as an assistant for Talk ‘N Text and Barako Bull in the PBA as well as head coach of Jose Rizal University in the NCAA.

“This award is special be-cause I know my fellow ABL coaches were the ones who voted. This is for all of our coaching battles including those with the late coach Ja-son Rabedeaux. This is also for my very supportive family back home,” Vanguardia said in an ABL release.

Vanguardia took over the Dragons in 2011 and is just within reach of his first ABL

Pinoy coach wins ABL award

title as they begin their best-of-three finals series against Hi-Tech Bangkok City on Sat-urday.

Apart from coaching, Vanguardia also conducts basketball clinics to develop the skills of children in Ma-laysia.

“It’s been one incredible journey so far with this young team and I pray that the best is yet to come,” he said.

This marks the second straight year that a Filipi-no got the award after Leo Austria won it with his then San Miguel Beermen in 2013.

Global, Ceres, seal UFL League Cup final showdown

Griner downplays knife attack

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JAMES Harden had 25 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, Dwight

Howard added 26 points and 10 boards, and the Houston Rockets stayed unbeaten, beating the Miami Heat 108-91 on Tuesday night.

Trevor Ariza added 19 points for the Rockets, who used a 13-0 run late in the fourth quarter to pull away. Patrick Beverley scored 15 for Houston (5-0).

Chris Bosh scored 21 points for Miami (3-1). Dwy-ane Wade added 19 for the Heat, with Shawne Williams and Mario Chalmers each scoring 12 and Luol Deng finishing with 11.

The Rockets outscored Miami 25-14 in the final

quarter. Houston went 17 for 37 from 3-point range and now has 213 points from be-yond the arc this season — as opposed to 198 points on 2-point baskets.

A 17-8 run by the Rock-ets closed the half and gave Houston a 57-55 lead at in-termission. The run contin-ued in the third.

Houston scored 18 points in a 4½-minute stretch that was capped by three 3-pointers in 66 sec-onds — the last two by Bev-erley, helping the Rockets turn a tied game into a 77-64 lead.

Miami ripped off 10 straight points to get with-in 83-80 early in the fourth, and 3s from Justin Hamil-

ton and Shabazz Napier cut Houston’s lead to 90-86 with 7 minutes left.

But Ariza hit a 3, Hard-en laid in his own miss and then Ariza — over the out-stretched arm of the 7-foot Bosh — made a high-arcing 3 to put Houston up 12 and in control for good.

TIP-INSRockets: Beverley

missed Monday’s game in Philadelphia with hamstring pain but showed no ill ef-fects. ... F Donatas Motie-junas started because Ter-rence Jones (knee) was out. ... The Rockets were one of two teams with four road games in the first eight days, along with Oklahoma City. Houston plays eight of its

next 11 at home. ... Harden was 10 for 10 from the line in the first half, doing that for the second time in his last three games.

Heat: Miami was with-out Danny Granger (ham-string), Udonis Haslem (quad) and Chris Andersen (ribs). ... Heat President Pat Riley sat with his former point guard, Magic John-son. ... Miami doesn’t plan to significantly increase Josh McRoberts’ minutes until he gets more practices. McRoberts is coming off a toe injury. ... Hamilton, who had three 3-pointers in his career entering the night, made three, including two in a 19-second span of the first quarter.

ROCKET LAUNCHHouston goes 5-0 after beating Miami

UNSTOPPABLE. Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) dunks against the Miami Heat in the first half of an NBA basketball game, in Miami on Wednesday (PHL Time). (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

THE Oklahoma City Thunder, already reel-ing from injuries to

stars Kevin Durant and Rus-sell Westbrook, lost Perry Jones to a knee injury Tues-day in a 100-88 NBA loss at Toronto.

Jones collided with Pat-rick Patterson on a drive to the basket early in the third quarter and was helped back to the locker room to have his right knee examined.

Thunder head coach Scott Brooks described the injury as a knee contusion and said Jones would be re-examined on Wednesday.

Injury-hit Oklahoma City had just eight healthy play-ers at tip-off, and Jones, who had arthroscopic surgery on the same knee in July, was one of their few playmakers.

The third-year forward was forced to take on a big-ger role because of inju-ries to reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Durant and Westbrook, and was aver-aging 18.5 points per game over the first four contests of the season.

Patterson’s departure, coupled with Sebastian Tel-fair’s late ejection, forced the Thunder to play the last two minutes with just six healthy

players.“It was an effort that I’m

encouraged with,” Brooks said. “These guys are scrap-py. This is all new for all of us.”

DEPLETED BULLS BEAT MAGIC

The Chicago Bulls over-came their injury troubles, making do without Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah in a 98-90 victory over the Or-lando Magic on Tuesday.

Jimmy Butler scored 21 points and Spanish big man Pau Gasol added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Bulls.

Chicago were again with-out Rose, who missed his second game after spraining both ankles against Cleve-land on Friday.

France’s Noah was side-lined by illness.

Taj Gibson returned for the Bulls after missing a game with a sprained ankle and had 16 points, and Aar-on Brooks and Doug McDer-mott combined to score 25 off the bench for Chicago.

Nikola Vucevic contrib-uted 19 points and 13 re-bounds for Orlando, who fell to 0-4 for the first time since starting 0-6 in 1990-91, their second season in the NBA.

WORLD number two Adam Scott said Tuesday he had

been flooded by candidates offering to become his caddie after Steve Williams retired following September’s Tour Championship.

Williams, 50, who was on the bag as Tiger Woods won 13 of his 14 majors between 1999 and 2011, announced he was calling it a day earlier this year after more than 30 years on tour.

Australia’s Scott told re-porters in Shanghai Tuesday night that more than 100 caddies, and a few other peo-ple, had contacted him since about the job -- one of the most lucrative in golf -- but he would take his time before choosing a long-term partner.

“You cannot replace a Steve Williams,” the 2013 US Masters winner said on the sidelines of an event to pro-mote 10 years of the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.

“I was lucky to get Steve three years ago, but I always

knew I was on borrowed time.

“I cannot go out and look for the next Steve Williams. I don’t think that’s possible. I need to go out and find what is going to work for me at this stage in my career.

“I have some time on my hands and I won’t make a de-cision long-term till next year. I need to see a few personal-ities, see what gels best. It’s like any relationship.”

Scott admits he was flat-tered to receive so many calls from people offering to work with him.

“It’s good to know people would want to work with me. If the phone didn’t get a mes-sage, I’d be a little worried what they all think of me,” said Scott.

Most of the calls were from established caddies on tour, and Scott wouldn’t re-veal any names as some of them are employed by well-known players.

But there were one or two applications that sur-prised him more than a little.

SHOPPING AROUND. Steve Williams (left) has retired as caddie for world no. 2 Adam Scott and the latter is looking for a replacement.

More injury woe for Thunder

Scott flooded with caddie applicants

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STAN THE MAN. Reil Cervantes of Kia Sorento (dark) tries to block the path opf top PBA pick Stanley Pringle of Globalport Batang Pier (light) during the tewo teams’ clash in the PBA Philippine Cup on Wednesday night. Globalport won this one. Nuki Sabio

CITY Mayors Office and Bureau of Fire Protection success-

fully opened their cam-paign on a high note after besting their respective foes in the double-header opener of the Mayor Rody Duterte and Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte – 2014 AFP-PNP Basketball Tourna-ment on Tuesday night at the Davao City Recreation Center Almendras Gym.

CMO pulled off a gru-eling victory over the hard-fighting 10th Infan-try Agila Division, 83 – 80,

while the BFP notched a walk in the park win against the Philippine Air Force, 102 – 30.

Christopher “Bong” Go came through with team-best 19 points for the City Hall-based dribblers who were pushed to the limit by the pesky 10th ID side.

Rodel Bantilan and Weng Farochillen chipped in 16 baskets apiece for CMO.

10th ID was playing its usual run and gun type of play that enabled them to keep pace with CMO.

Both teams traded blows most of the game but CMO’s timely baskets down the stretch chucked out the 10th ID.

Eduardo Mahilum paced with 22 points for the 10th ID which was up 60 – 59 entering the final canto. Donnie Paragoso had 16 as Blazo made 10.

The Firemen came out strong early to dispose the Airmen easily and share the opening day limelight with the CMO.

John Lumogda led the charge with 15 points for

the BFP which was never threatened all throughout the contest.

Donald Concepcion and Earl Angsinco made 14 and 10 markers re-spectively for the Fire-men. Mayor Rody Duterte graced the opening rites highlighted with the pa-rade of teams along with their muses.

The tournament is sanctioned by the Samah-ang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) regional office XI under Regino “Boy” Cua. (Rico Biliran)

AND THEY’RE OFFCMO, BFP draw first blood in AFP-PNP hoops

GO-TO GUY. Bong Go looks for a teammate in CMO’s win over 10th ID during the opening of the 2014 AFP-PNP basketball tournament. Lean Daval Jr.

CEREMONIAL JUMP. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte presides over the ceremonial jump during the opening of the 2014 AFP-PNP basketball tournament last Wednesday at the DCRC. Lean Daval Jr.

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