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NO NEED80% of Dabawenyos agree with speed limit ordinance

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NO NEED FOR SPEEDNearly 8 in 10

Davaoeños agree with the overall in-

tent of the driving speed limit ordinance although the approval varies depend-ing on the imposed limits, a study by the University of Mindanao’s Institute of Pop-ular Opinion (IPO) revealed.

The study surveyed 1,200 respondents across the city’s three congressio-nal districts from May 16-24 this year, with 936 people agreeing and 170 others not agreeing with the ordinance.

The respondents’ rea-sons for agreeing with the executive order range from safety to discipline.

However, the IPO added that the respondents noted the law was “interestingly ir-regular” and “different from national law.”

The city imposed speed limits of 30, 40 and 60 kilo-meters per hour depending on the location and nature of the city’s streets late last year through an executive order signed by Mayor ro-drigo r. Duterte.

The survey said that majority of Davaoeños ex-pressed the limits imposed by the ordinance to be with-in “the right speed,” with 80% of them saying the 40-kph speed limit in some of the city’s longer roads were the “justified maximum ac-celeration.”

The figure, however, dropped when it comes to the 30 kph speed limit with only 75% of those surveyed agreeing with it while 19% wanted it increased. On the 60 kph limit, 77% of the respondents gave their ap-

proval and 17% wanted it increased.

regarding the city’s highest speed limit, 60 kph, only four percent wanted the limit reduced.

as to the penalties, 583 or 62% of the respondents said the fines are commen-surate to the violation. Only 82 of the respondents, or 9%, said the penalty has to be reduced.

“executive Order No. 39 … has drawn diverse reac-tions from the riding public since it was implemented six months ago,” the IPO said in a statement.

The survey also noted several perceived draw-backs of the eO.

Of the 170 respon-dents who disagreed with the ordinance, 36% or 61 respondents said the eO

lengthened their travel time to their workplace. Others claimed that it caused traf-fic gridlock and affected the economy.

Overall, 74% of the re-spondents believed that the speed limits were satisfac-tory. Only one percent of the respondents, or 12 people, said they were not satisfied with the limits.

Duterte has been ada-mant in keeping the current speed limits after hearing reports of children facing speeding public utility jeeps daily even when they are crossing pedestrian lanes.

earlier this year, Dute-rte even said vehicles used for emergencies such as ambulances and those used by police are not exempted from the executive order. [MindaNews]

NO SPEED CITY. Residents of Davao City, with traffic woes mounting, agree with the speed limit law, issued through Executive Order 39 of Mayor Rody Duterte, according to an opinion survey. Lean Daval Jr.

UP TO THE TASK. The Land Transportation Office 11 has deployed more personnel to monitor the implementation of the speed limit law. This motorist got flagged down by an LTO personnel for overspeeding along Quirino Avenue. Lean Daval Jr.

80% of Dabawenyos agree with speed limit ordinance

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THE BIG NEWS

WITH the rainy sea-son approaching, Senator Miriam

Defensor Santiago has filed three bills in the Senate call-ing for flood prevention re-forms and the creation of a flood recovery fund.

Previously, Santiago lam-basted officials of the road Board, following the on-slaught brought by Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) in 2009, for the alleged corruption and misuse of some Php60.5 billion in road user’s tax. The road tax or the Motor Vehicle Users’ Charge Tax (MVUCT) is collected primarily for road and drainage repair.

“as a tropical country, the Philippines has always been subjected to dozens of typhoons per year. Countless lives have been lost and dam-

ages to properties have accu-mulated to billions of pesos as a result of these catastro-phes,” the senator said.

Santiago’s Senate Bill No. 394, or the Flood recovery Fund Bill, provides no-inter-est loans to Filipinos adverse-ly affected by flooding.

“In order to recover from the debilitating effects of this catastrophe, many of the vic-tims need additional resourc-es outside from their usual income. Not everyone, how-ever, has access to calamity assistance funding,” Santiago explained.

according to the senator, the fund will help victims immediately recover from serious damage to property caused by intense flooding.

The senator also filed

CaTHOlIC prelates laud-ed the plan of the Unit-ed States to invest in the

Philippines particularly in Min-danao.

The government has an-nounced that United States is seriously considering investing in Mindanao.

according to Presidential Spokesperson edwin lacierda, US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and President Benig-no S. aquino III discussed the reforms and trade between the two countries during their meeting on Wednesday.

Pritzker, who is in Ma-nila as head of a delegation of american CeOs and the US-aSeaN Business Council, said american businessmen are interested in making in-vestments in information technology, infrastructure, clean energy, telecommuni-cations, financial services,

healthcare and education, among others.

Mindanao bishops, Martin Jumoad (Basilan) and Dinu-aldo Gutierrez (Marbel) wel-comed the news and thanked the US plan to invest in the region.

“That’s good news and a welcome development for Mindanao,” the Basilan prel-ate said, adding that peace and order must be sustained to attract businesses.

Gutierrez and Sorsogon Bishop arturo Bastes said they welcome investments except those that destroy the environment like mining and coal-fired power plants.

Jaro, Iloilo archbishop an-gel lagdameo is hoping that the people in the region will benefit from it.

“let us hope it will bring something for the benefit of the people,” he said. [PNA]

GOVerNMeNT represen-tatives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

and Vietnam committed to improve intergovernmental cooperation to curb the illegal trade of marine turtles in the Coral Triangle.

The commitment was made at a marine turtle trade workshop hosted by the Gov-ernment of the Philippines from 3 to 4 June 2014.

“With the ongoing issue of poaching of marine turtles, the country recognized the need for an integrated approach in addressing this challenge,” said Mundita lim, Philippine Biodi-versity Management Bureau Director.

“The alarming trend over the decade justifies the need

for neighboring countries to make transboundary arrange-ments and improve the protec-tion between national govern-ments,” added lim.

“entire populations of ma-rine turtles are being wiped out by persistent poaching, both targeted and as bycatch,” said Joel Palma, WWF-Philip-pines Vice President for Con-servation.

“as foreign fishing fleets are often involved, such in-ter-governmental collabora-tion is essential to strengthen local and trans-boundary law enforcement efforts to pre-vent marine turtles from being poached and traded for use as food and luxury items,” added Palma.

Catholic prelates laud plan of US to invest in Mindanao

PHL, neighboring countries join forces to crack down turtle trade

Reforms eyed in flood prevention programs

FPSALM, 10 FPHL, 10

FREFORMS, 10

EAGLE. An employee of the Philippine Eagle Foundation, Inc. takes a closer look at the preserved body of Tsai, a male Philippine Eagle, which is the center-piece of the foundation’s exhibit at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

CONSULS AT EXHIBIT. Consul General Koichi Ibara (right) of Japan and Consul General Abdullah Zawawi Tahir of Malaysia check out the collection of contem-porary and classic barongs during the opening of T’nalak Barong Exhibit at the atrium of SM Lanang Premier Friday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

a PrOMINeNT Davao City businessman was found dead in Sitio Baluyan,

Baranggay Bolton, Malalag, Davao del Sur yesterday.

Police reports said that ramon Teodoro Garcia, 67 years old and owner of Nanay Bebeng food chain, died from multiple stab wounds. His mouth was found sealed with masking tape.

The Toyota Innova vehicle

used by the victim was found burned at Sitio Dalangdang, Saranggani province.

Garcia is the only son of the late Isabel yuvienco Gar-cia, the founder of the well-known restaurant in Davao City.

Police authorities have arrested a couple they consid-er as suspects who are now in the custody of Davao City Police Office director Vicente

Danao.For a time, Garcia wrote

political column for Sun.Star and Mindanao Times and ran under a partylist as second nominee to fugitive ret. Gen. Jovito Palparan. He once also worked at the air Transporta-tion Office (aTO) now the Civil aviation authority of the Phil-ippines (CaaP).

reports aired over the local radio stations said the

victim was last seen with an “umbrella girl” of a prominent golf course after drinking at apo View Hotel last Thursday.

However Danao did not confirm the information.

He said that investigation is not yet complete and ev-idences are still being gath-ered for evaluation. The case is being jointly investigated by DCPO and the Malalag Munici-pal Police Station.

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By Cheneen R. Capon

THe provinces of Davao del Norte and Compos-tela Valley face the grim

prospect of having no electri-cal supply if they are unable to convince Power Sector assets and liabilities Management Corp. (Psalm) to stay its order to disconnect the Davao del Norte electric Cooperative, Inc. (Daneco) from the Mind-anao grid for failure to settle the elective cooperative’s out-

standing debt of more than half a billion pesos.

admitting that the discon-nection would be disastrous, officials of the two provinces have appealed for help from the Department of energy (DOe) to intervene and stop the disconnection notice from being enforced.

The DOe itself reported-ly approved Psalm’s discon-nection order after Daneco,

whose board of directors are split in two in a bitter power struggle, failed to settle ar-rears amount to P576.45 mil-lion.

a worried Gov. arturo T. Uy of Compostela Valley said the disconnection will have a “very negative impact on the stability of the province.”

The other province, Davao del Norte, has also started dis-cussing other steps to take to

prevent the disconnection, said its assistant provincial administrator, romulo D. Tagalo.

aside from its huge pay-able to Psalm, Daneco is also unable to pay its monthly bill of P50 million to Therma Ma-rine, Inc. (TMI), owner of the power barge supplying 18MW of power to the cooperative.

Daneco’s woes and in-

Psalm orders disconnection of Comval, Davao from gird

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BIGGER PICTURE

NUTrITION therapy has saved the lives of mil-lions of malnourished

infants, but may not restore an imbalance in gut bacteria that is key to long-term health and vitality, researchers said over the weekend.

In a paper in the journal Nature, the team identified a hitherto invisible and possibly long-lasting complication of severe hunger.

and they said it may help explain why children in poor or war-struck countries often fail to grow fully and remain sickly after being nursed back to health with special, high-cal-orie survival foods.

“Therapeutic food inter-ventions have reduced mor-tality in children with severe acute malnutrition, but incom-plete restoration of healthy growth remains a major prob-lem,” wrote the study authors from the United States and Bangladesh.

The team studied the gut microbes of healthy children in the Mirpur slum of Dhaka in Bangladesh, and compared them with a group who had been treated for severe acute malnutrition (SaM).

These children had been nursed back to health on ei-ther a peanut-based paste or a local, rice-and-lentil-based therapeutic food.

Their gut microbes, mainly bacteria that help digest food and produce certain vitamins, was tested before, during and after treatment.

“Children who where un-dernourished had a microbial community that was imma-ture, it... was not appropriate for their chronological age,” said study co-author Jeffrey Gordon of the Centre for Ge-nome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington Univer-sity in St louis.

“So these children are walking around with a de-

velopmental defect involving microbial cells that form an or-gan, a microbial organ.”

The scientists found a short-lived boost in gut bac-teria with nutrition therapy, which reversed four months after treatment was stopped.

“We now have a hypoth-esis to pursue, which is that healthy growth of children is not fully achievable unless

there is proper maturation of this microbial community, and the current treatments are not sufficient to produce an endur-ing repair,” said Gordon.

Co-author Tahmeed ahmed of the Centre for Nu-trition and Food Security in Dhaka said the finding might also point to novel treatments – perhaps a longer period of nutritional therapy for the

600,000 children under five he said were suffering from SaM in Bangladesh and were “at ex-treme risk of dying.”

The team also pointed to potential for treatment with probiotics, which are benefi-cial microorganisms ingested by humans.

“For example, we can use a medicine in which there will be bacteria, there’s bacteria in

yoghurt, we can use similar bacteria that can modulate the microbiota of children with severe acute malnutri-tion in a better way,” ahmed said in a podcast recorded by Nature.

The long-term effects of malnutrition include diar-rhoeal disease, stunting, im-paired vaccine response and cognitive abnormalities. [AFP]

Severe hunger can have lasting effects Hunger and growth

1. 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 17 percent since 1990. 2. The vast majority of hungry people (827 million) live in developing countries, where 14.3 percent of the population is undernourished. 3. asia has the largest number of hungry people (over 500 million) but Sub-Saharan africa has the highest prevalence (24.8 percent of population). 4. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million. 5. Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year. 6. One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight. 7. One in four of the world’s children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three. 8. 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 20 countries. 9. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in africa alone. 10. WFP calculates that US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children. Sources: United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

TEN STARTLING FACTS ABOUT HUNGER

That hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria & tuberculosis combined.

HUNGER

AIDS,MALARIA

AND TB

Source: United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP)

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THe Davao City Coun-cil will push for a res-olution supporting

the petition to increase the salaries and other benefits of teachers.

In a statement, council-or leah librado-yap said the council would “do its best” to address the need for salary increase and chalk allowance of teachers, as well as reports of delayed honoraria payment.

librado-yap was the chair of the committee on education in the previous city council and now heads the committee on women and children.

Teachers have demand-ed a salary increase of P25,000 from the current P18,000 for entry-level teaching staff.

In an earlier interview, elenito escalante of the al-liance of Concerned Teach-ers (aCT) said non-teaching personnel are also asking for salary increases from P9,000 to P15,000.

earlier this week, Pres-idential Communications Secretary Herminio Colo-ma Jr. said the government could not immediately ad-dress wage increases for teachers saying the 2014 budget is already approved.

escalante said if the gov-ernment was really sincere in wanting to help teachers, Congress could easily pass a supplemental budget.

In a statement, aCT said the PDaF funds were “more than enough” to cover the

increase.The regional office of

the Department of educa-tion said it was “supportive” of the demand for higher wages.

In an interview Monday, Deped regional spokesper-son Jenielito atillo said this was not just the teachers’ campaign but that it in-cludes other government employees.

“Militant teachers should be given a salute for this effort,” he said.

atillo, however, ap-pealed to the members of the organization not to disrupt classes in their con-duct of their protests.

“let us try to do things appropriately,” he said.

Davao City has 285 pub-lic elementary schools, with 197,571 students enrolled in the previous school year. There are 70 public high schools in Davao City, with 73,403 enrollees.

Magallanes elementary School had the highest en-rollment for 2013-2014, ac-cording to Deped, at 6,012 students. Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr. Central ele-mentary School had 4,290 students, and Sta. ana National High School had 6,879 students.

The other schools with big populations were Daniel r. aguinaldo High School, 6,403; F. Bangoy Na-tional High School, 4,500; and Dona Carmen Denia National High School, 4,090.

“according to Dep ed,

in Davao City the need for additional classrooms reaches as high as 1,011 for elementary schools and 550 for secondary schools; apparently there is a short-age and if we are also to ad-dress the dilemma of esca-lating tuition rates, we have to include in our agenda concrete steps to help those who want to go to school but cannot afford such,” li-brado said.

Nationwide, there is

still a shortage of 50,921 for classrooms, 60-mil-lion shortage in textbooks, 2.5-million shortage in chairs and 80, 937 shortag-es in water and sanitation facilities, she said.

“education is supposed-ly a constitutionally guar-anteed right, and the state must ensure that its pupils and students are given the basics,” said librado.

Teachers in the city have complained of overcrowd-

ed classrooms and over-loading with some schools managing three shifts of classes per day.

as of last school year, Deped continued to rely on 35,449 volunteer Kin-dergarten teachers, 4,828 mobile teachers and al-ternative learning System coordinators, and 49,530 teachers funded by local governments. Majority of them are paid less than their Deped-funded coun-

terparts and have no bene-fits or job security.

However, atillo said during Monday’s Kapehan sa SM that the local school board teachers were al-ready enjoying a salary of P25,000.

He said the city’s as-sistance to the Deped has always been appreciated and that their salaries have been made equivalent to Deped teachers at the na-tional level. [MindaNews]

6 EDGEDAVAO

THE ECONOMY

FOR SALE. A vendor sells miniature Philippine flags for P20 each near Agdao district, Davao City on Thursday, 5 June 2014 as commemoration of Inde-pendence Day approaches. [Mindanews Photo by Keith Bacongco]

Davao City council to support teachers’ clamor for salary hike

New Zealand Minister for Trade Tim Gros-er has seen economic

relation between the Philip-pines and New Zealand to be enhanced as the two coun-tries are now experiencing economic growth.

Groser said in a business luncheon with Filipino and New Zealand businessmen in Makati City Friday that the economic growth in the Phil-ippines will bring more busi-ness opportunities for the two countries.

“I am well aware that the Philippine economy has been enjoying impressing growth in recent times. We see more opportunities for collabo-ration. We want to put New Zealand on the radar of more Philippine businesses,” Groser mentioned.

“a market of nearly 100 million people, with a young,

educated, english-speaking and technology-savvy work-force offers New Zealand companies an opportunity to expand their reach,” he added.

The New Zealand trade minister cited some business partnerships between the two countries.

“Our companies, such as GNS here today, continue to maintain strong connections with the Philippine geother-mal sector. and the expertise behind the New Zealand hy-dro-electricity sector is also at work here in the Philippines to help restore hydro-electric dams to full capacity,” said Groser.

He also said New Zealand can further help the Philip-pines to develop its own dairy sector.

“New Zealand is also look-ing to apply its expertise in dairy farming to help devel-

op the Philippines’ own dairy sector. although the Philip-pine dairy industry is very small by comparison with New Zealand’s, there is ample opportunity to increase sup-ply of fresh milk,” he said.

Groser likewise cited that aviation sector is a growth po-tential for both sides.

“With visitor numbers between our countries grow-ing fast -- 12 percent last year; it can only be a matter of time before one of our air-lines seizes the commercial opportunity to offer a direct service between auckland and Manila that that would cut travel time from around 15 hours to less than 10,” he explained.

“This will boost the ex-change of people between our countries that will take our trade and tourism rela-tionship to the next level,” he

pointed out.Further, Groser also in-

vites Filipino businessmen to look into opportunities in New Zealand.

“The New Zealand econo-my has come out of the reces-sion and the global financial crisis in good shape, especial-ly when you compare it with our peers around the world. Forbes ranks us number one on their list of “best countries for business,” and one com-mentator (of HSBC Bank) recently referred to New Zea-land as the “rock star” econ-omy of the developed world for 2014,” the trade chief mentioned.

likewise, Groser seen growth in trade transaction between the Philippines and New Zealand as the two countries are part of aSe-aN-australia-New Zealand Free Trade agreement. [PNA]

PHL, New Zealand to enhance economic ties -- trade ministerSun life Financial

Philippines posted P42 Billion in pre-

mium income in 2013, up by 61% from a year ago.

In the Insurance Com-mission (IC) annual re-port, Sun life of Canada Philippines, Inc. (SlOCPI) ranked first among life in-surance companies, end-ing 2013 with total pre-miums of P29.7 Billion or 48% higher than the pre-vious year’s level, while its joint venture with the yuchengco group, Sun life Grepa Financial, Inc. (SlGFI) posted a 106% growth with P12 Billion in 2013.

This is the 3rd con-secutive year that SlOC-PI topped the industry in terms of premium in-come, starting in 2011 with P14 Billion, then in

2012 with P20.2 Billion. New Business of Php

4.5 Billion in weight-ed first year premium (WFyP) income for SlOC-PI makes it the number 1 company in new business for the 5th year in a row, while combined WFyP of Php 5.96 Billion for SlOC-PI and SlGFI also make the SlF Philippines group No. 1 in new business, a position it has held since it acquired SlGFI.

In a statement, Sun life Philippines Presi-dent & CeO rizaMan-taring attributed the ro-bust growth in premium income to the group’s expansion programs, aggressive recruitment campaign, industry-lead-ing agency and its suc-cessful bancassurance partnership with rCBC.

Sun Life generates P42B in premium income in 2013

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MINDaNaO’S to-tal trade last year clinched US$7.6

billion freight-on-board (FOB) receipts which regis-tered a remarkable 15 per-cent increase despite the natural calamities that hit the island-region’s agricul-tural lands and production areas in the past two years.

“We are happy to an-nounce that Mindanao’s trade performance remains bullish amid the natural calamities that beset the island-region from 2012 onwards,” said luwalhati antonino, chair of the Min-danao Development au-thority (MinDa).

Based on the data gathered and processed by MinDa, the island-region secured US$6.612 FOB re-ceipts in 2012.

antonino added that Mindanao suffered heavy losses from Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) which hit hardest several provinces of Caraga and Southern Mindanao in December of 2012.

“We anticipated a downtrend in some of the region’s agricultural pro-duce particularly banana and coconut because of the typhoon, but on the contrary, banana remained as our top dollar earner in 2013,” she said.

FOB receipts for banana products reached US$0.911 billion last year, 45 percent higher than the US$0.6255 billion registered in 2012.

antonino however not-ed that there is a minor de-cline in coconut and palm kernel exports last year.

From US$890.1 million in 2012, Mindanao’s coco-nut exports only registered US$773.8 million in 2013.

The 13 percent shortfall is attributed to the number of coconut trees that were damaged by Typhoon Pablo especially in the province of Davao Oriental. The coco-nut industry accounted for 14.9 percent of Mindanao exports in 2013.

“But our exports of nick-el ores and concentrates significantly increased,” said antonino, pointing out that in 2013, it recorded an increase of 72.86 per-cent, which amounted to US$639.5 million from only US$370 million in 2012.

Moreover, other Mind-anao major exports include fish (either prepared or preserved) and caviar that generated US$614.1 million or an increase of 92.33 per-cent from only US$319.3 million in 2012 as well as fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants that account-ed for US$284.3 million.

antonino also report-ed that Mindanao’s total imports in 2013 reached US$1.2 billion. These im-ports were comprised mainly of petroleum oils, US$449.2 million; wheat and meslin, US$155.5 million; milk and cream, US$120.2 million; fish (fro-zen), $82.4 million; and mineral or chemical fertiliz-ers, US$78.8 million, among others.

Mindanao’s major trad-ing partners last year were the United States of ameri-ca, China, Japan, South Ko-rea, and Taiwan.

antonino said that as part of the efforts to help sustain the gains of the re-gion’s trade sector, MinDa is advocating for the Mindan-ao Development Corridors, a development strategy that

aims to achieve internal connectivity and strength-en the region’s local supply chains to effectively link production centers to the export gateways.

“With this strategy, we expect to create massive employment and generate more income particularly in our agribusiness sectors, as we accelerate trading with our economic partners,” she added.

antonino also empha-sized that in Mindanao, efforts to safeguard the economy from the chang-ing climatic conditions are a priority agenda under the Mindanao 2020 Peace and Development Framework Plan, the island-region’s roadmap to long-term peace and development.

“Climate change adap-

tation is a must since the is-land-region is the country’s front-runner in terms of agriculture-based exports,” she said.

antonino explained that to secure the future of Mindanao’s agri-industry, MinDa is also pursuing en-vironment programs such as the MindaNOW! Nurtur-ing Our Waters Program to rehabilitate the island-re-gion’s denuded forest areas and lessen the impact of cli-mate change to the island’s agriculture sector.

In a related develop-ment, antonino announced that her office is closely working with the Cacao Industry Development as-sociation of Mindanao, con-cerned government agen-cies, and local government units in efforts to identify

areas suitable for cacao production in the island-re-gion.

“Chocolate is a multi-bil-lion dollar business, and we want Mindanao take a size-able bite in this growing in-dustry,” she said.

antonino also added that Mindanao’s organ-ic products that include black, red, and brown rice of North Cotabato as well as the coco sugar of Davao del Sur and Misamis Oriental are currently penetrating markets abroad.

“In the long-term, we’d like to see our organic prod-ucts in the shelves of major grocery stores in the US and europe. We are close-ly working with our trade attaches to firm up part-nerships between our local investors and their counter-

parts overseas,” said added. Mindanao will be

hosting this year’s largest sub-regional trade fair and business leaders’ confer-ence that will gather more than 200 top buyers from the aSeaN, and about 700 key business representa-tives from the country as well as from Brunei Darus-salam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Dubbed as the 2nd BIMP-eaGa & IMT-GT Trade Fair and Business leaders’ Conference, the event will be held from Oc-tober 23 to 26 at SM lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center in Davao City.

“Mindanao is beefing up its efforts to do busi-ness with our counterparts across asia, if not the entire world,” she said.

Mindanao trade up 15%despite natural calamities

FaMIlIeS of coconut farmers in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, here

had been mobilized and trained by the Federation of Coconut Farmers to twist coco fibers into coco twines--mostly in their spare time but earning a steady income.

Coco twines are twisted fibers that are used to make “geonets” which have a big ex-port demand in China, United States and europe to prevent soil erosion in various con-struction projects. The twines are also used in making tufted rugs which have a huge global demand.

Geonets are a require-ment by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for construction road engineers to prevent soil ero-

sion along national highways and bridges in the Philippines.

“We taught mothers and their children how to twist coconut fibers efficiently and fast. after we trained them how to do it, they’re turn-ing out twisted fibers better and faster than before,” says Narcely Domingo, FCF presi-dent.

reynaldo Go, chief exec-utive officer of regwill Indus-tries, a big exporter of geonets and coco fibers, buys all the coco twines from this federa-tion, urging them to produce more to meet the big market demand for geonets from his foreign buyers.

“We like to see all coconut farmers turning all their coco husks into coco fibers and turning all these fibers into

coco twines. We’re buying all these twines,” says Go, who also chairs the coconut indus-try cluster team.

a typical coconut farm-er’s family in India, according to Go, can produce 200 to 400 coco twines per person which is the “Indian standard” since Indian farmers had been twisting fibers for more than a century.

“If our local farmers here can make 60 to 100 coco twines a day per person, that would earn them more and lower our costs,” Go said.

For most of the farmers’ families who joined in the fed-eration’s coco twine making project, doing it in their spare time has improved their out-put, turning out more twines than ever before.

“Many children are help-ing their mothers twist the coco fibers after we trained them. Brothers, sisters, cous-ins--- all the kids in the villag-es go to the gym to twist coco fibers and doing it better and faster,” Domingo said.

The federation has boost-ed its output five times after the coco twine training work-shop involved the farmers’ families in converting their coconut husks into coco fibers and coco twines, according to Domingo.

“What’s so nice about this, is that all these kids helping their mothers are actually en-joying what they’re doing, at-tracting other kids to join and earning income from the sales of the coco twines,” Domingo said. [PNA]

Mothers, kids twist coco fiber for export

US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker expressed

eagerness to explore the innovation and entrepre-neurship environment in the Philippines as she sat down with select founders of local startups during a roundtable discussion hosted by incubation and investment firm Kickstart Ventures, Inc.

“The strategy for the Department of Commerce is to support innovation and entrepreneurship around the world, to pro-vide an environment that supports people taking

risks. The support for en-trepreneurship is very im-portant because a signifi-cant part of the economic world comes from new business,” she said.

Pritzker was particu-larly interested on how to spread opportunities to other entrepreneurs and to use entrepreneurship to help re-distribute wealth more broadly instead of having the business con-trolled by only a handful of influential families. She also probed on the imped-iments which prevent en-trepreneurs from building large, scalable businesses.

USA explores local startup environment

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DaVaO Del NOrTe and Compostela Valley have a real king-size headache. The two provinces face the grim prospect of suffering blackouts, 24/7, if their inutile

electric cooperative will not be able to pay its huge indebted-ness to suppliers of power which they distribute to thousands of consumers.

The huge payables, estimated to have reached P1billion or more, have already prompted the Power Sector assets and li-abilities Management Corp. (PSalM), a state-owned and oper-ated company, to issue a disconnection notice to the Davao del Norte electric Cooperative, Inc. (Daneco) for failure to pay ar-rearages amounting to P576.45 million. The local governments of the two provinces are appealing to the Department of energy (DOe) to stop the disconnection order. Ironically, the DOe was the one which approved the PSalM disconnection notice.

Of course, PSalM is not the only problem of Daneco. It is also heavily indebted to the aboitiz-owned Therma Marine, Inc., op-erator of the power barges which supplies the other bulk of the electric power that Daneco retails to tens of thousands of its consumers in the two provinces. as expected, TMI will soon is-sue its own disconnection notice.

every Daneco consumer and his uncle know how the inutil-ity of their cooperative to settle its payable started and subse-quently who are to blame for the hellhole they are in.

Daneco officers are split into two factions which have been

involved in an internecine war in and out of the boardroom. One faction –a complete set of board of directors—wants Dan-eco to be managed now by the Cooperative Development au-thority (CDa), while another set of board of directors is fighting tooth and nail to remain under the National electrification ad-ministration.

In the course of the in-fighting, collection efficiency was one of those sacrificed. The conflict has prompted a large number of light consumers not to pay, claiming they are confused where to remit their money, to the Daneco-CDa or to the Daneco-Nea.

The urgent situation occasioned by the disconnection notice now requires an insanely creative solution –to paraphrase the late Steve Jobs, the apple genius.

The urgent task of finding a solution or solutions to this im-minent problem is heavily lodged upon the political leaders –particularly Davao del Norte Gov. rodolfo del rosario and Com-val Gov. arthur T. Uy with their respective provincial official-doms and members of the House of representatives.

as to the feuding Daneco officials, they ought to have a modicum of decency and intelligence to know that it is time to scram and fly a kite.

We wonder if the Ombudsman has the power to order the arrest and incanceration of people whose stupid public acts prejudice the great masses of people like electric power con-sumers.

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SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS

Wait-and-see-mode

Missing the King

(Conclusion)

By Patricio P. diaz

MIND DA NEWS

BBL Draft Still Being Fine-Tuned

[3] THIS appears enigmatic. “For the MIlF, there will be no open engagement vis-à-vis BBl, ex-

cept perhaps by those connected with the peace negotiation. But surely, it will mon-itor the movement of the document very closely. any slip in the handling can spell a great difference. This can only be averted through strong partnership with govern-ment.” (emphasis supplied)

In its May 10, 2014 editorial (Popular ratifi-cation of Bangsamoro Basic law), luwaran said:

First, that 200,000 Moro people in eleven assemblies “endorsed the BBl for adoption by the Office of the President (OP) without any diminution as crafted by the Bangsamoro Tran-sition Commission”; they appealed to “Congress … not to water down the proposed BBl as orig-inally forwarded to the OP” and to the President “to personally look at the proposed BBl and as much as possible to guard the pristine form as originally submitted by the BTC”.

[To this (See: June 3 Star report above), presidential spokesman edwin lacierda has given the assurance that the Bangsam-oro measure is not being watered down or purposely being delayed. The OP legal team is being careful. “They have to go through each and every provision just to be sure that it is in sync with all the agreements made.”]

Second, that “the BTC will propose in a separate document proposals to amend the Philippine Constitution to finally put to rest the Bangsamoro Question”. It is unclear if these proposals are the attachments to the 97-page draft submitted to the OP. If they are, they must have been taking more of the time of the OP legal team.

Is MIlF getting impatient? These three paragraphs of the June 2, 2014

editorial of luwaran: “MIlF is easy to deal with” may read like a riddle. But the answer to the rid-dle answers the question.

“The MIlF is not a radical movement; it simply is very consistent to what it has committed and is being committed to it. What is settled is settled. all its previous counterparts from government in the span of 17 years of hard and protracted peace negotiations can perhaps attest to this char-acterization.

“This consistency is enshrined in the MIlF’s Islamic ideology that abhors Muslim to breach a contract, be it made with a Mus-lim or a non-Muslim. There is no difference in the gravity of the accountability or sin wheth-er the aggrieved party is a Muslim or not. a commitment is a commitment, period. More-over, inconsistency or using a more fitting term, backtracking, creates chaos and enmity. “The MIlF is naturally easy to deal with provid-ed that the other party also abides and complies with their obligations. and therefore, without saying, the MIlF is hard to deal with if the other party dishonors or violates commitments made in signed documents.”

are there grounds for impatience?The possibilities that the BBl draft would be

mired in constitutionality much longer than it has been expected are growing more and more. Three months with the OP! How long will it be at the public hearings and in the plenary debates? Can BBl be ratified in March 2015?

Will the measure be taken up simultaneous-ly in the House and the Senate? In the case of ra 9054, the Senate bill was tackled after the pas-sage of the House bill.

Is there any assurance that the BBl after its passage will not be questioned at the Supreme Court?

For the lack of time for the proper transition the Bangsamoro, will MIlF settle by June 30, 2016 for arMM named Bangsamoro?

[Author’s Note: Mind da News, the alternate of COMMENT, is a comment on current news. The author may be contacted at [email protected].]

CaNDID POTSHOTS – Some things have changed a lot in our country – politically. In most parts, young,

upcoming and aspiring political figures mainly from the profession, academe, police and the military, and the working class are challenging the stronghold of en-trenched traditional political clans.

Our electoral processes now are sig-nificant in part because a law prohibits elective officials from seeking reelection after their third and final term, and thus provides an opportunity for new aspi-rants to join the political scrimmage.

The problem is that in many areas, the concentration of political and economic power that political families represent makes it harder for newcomers to enter the playing fields of both business and politics. Political parties come and go, but the families that make them endure.

CeNTer OF aTTraCTION – With the May 2016 presidential elections barely two years away, the political situation in Davao del Norte has turned incredibly into a wait-and-see mode. Nobody, not even the aspiring political pretenders, leaders and wards in the province had the slightest hint of what’s going to happen in the next weeks or months. re-alignment, merger or whatever, it’s anybody’s guess.

One thing sure at this stage is that the tall and handsome twosome of former 2nd district Congressman TonyBoy Floirendo, Jr. and incumbent and last termer repre-sentative anton F. lagdameo, Jr., clearly were the center of attraction. But the si-lence of the two about their group’s polit-ical plans has somehow baffled political-ly-fascinated political pretenders and the electorate of the entire province. although staffers at this stage denied conjectures

that TonyBoy is staging a c o m e b a c k while anton is eyeing the p r o v i n c e s ’ highest post, our little bird-ie twitters say their body lan-guage proved otherwise.

although he no longer holds a gov-ernment post, TonyBoy still commands a huge following not only in the 2nd congres-sional district but throughout the prov-ince as well. In tandem with his nephew anton lagdameo, TonyBoy probably wields equal if not more power and influ-ence than any top ranking and incumbent provincial officials. He somehow reminds us of the role of the late “Grand Old Man,” his dad Don antonio Floirendo, Sr. used to play during election seasons – political kingmaker.

With the political season started to churn stealthily, there is a widespread belief that TonyBoy will play a leading role in the decision-making during the 2016 presidential polls. The silence and low-profile projection of TonyBoy is in-dicative of his authority and aptitude dating back to his days in Congress. It is reflective of his efficiency in government job to say the least. Probably it is safe to say that the constituents in his district want him to be back to where he once belongs.

Meanwhile for those political con-tenders in Davao del Norte seeking var-ious posts and wish to avail of the “bless-ings” from the political dealmakers, it is

quite a tall order at this early stage. as a matter of procedure, political strategists and planners have to hold a general cau-cus, scrutinize and then meticulously re-view the political terrain before striking a deal with worthy and formidable can-didates.

What is expected, though, is that there will be massive realignment of forces, re-cruitment of remarkable entrants and mergers. Moreover, a strengthening of political fortress under the umbrella of a party chosen by TonyBoy is more likely to take place. Given the situation, there will be a new configuration of the power base of a Floirendo-led political organi-zation with TonyBoy at the helm and an-ton providing the much-needed support.

Considered as the new political king-pin, TonyBoy has cemented his preem-inent position as the most persuasive figure in Davao del Norte. local political pundits predict that on the early months of next year, a surprising announcement will be made about TonyBoy’s political plans for the 2016 national elections. likewise this will become more and more important especially if he decides to concentrate on being the campaign manager and political kingmaker, and at the same time a congressional aspirant.

With the present political tempera-ment, as if Davao del Norte remains in a state of suspended animation. But what makes the assumption even more cred-ible is the fact that TonyBoy’s highly ex-pected congressional comeback bid and 2nd District Congressman anton lagdam-eo’s plan to contest the gubernatorial post were already gathering momentum. Indeed, it is an interesting political devel-opment worth waiting.

Game 1 of the NBa Finals, a re-match between the San antonio Spurs and Miami Heat, promised

to go down to the wire as both teams took turns getting the lead and with no one appearing to be in total control. alas, leBron James had to be taken out in the fourth quarter for good after get-ting cramps allowing San antonio to dominate both ends of the court for the remainder of the period.

San antonio only had a two-point lead (94-92) when a visibly hurt James was forced to sit down with 3:59 remain-ing. That weakened Miami’s defense, which focused on closing out the Spurs’ pick-and-rolls, forcing San antonio to commit many passing errors. Danny Green made eight unanswered points, six coming from two triples and two from a fast break, and the Spurs never looked back from there for a 110-95 victory.

Ironically, the heat inside San anto-nio’s aT&T Center, whose aircondition-ing malfunctioned, may have taken its toll on James – and probably many of the others players too, as they have been used to playing in airconditioned venues.

a camera caught a sitting James with an ice pack on his nape. Heat coach erik Spoelstra, however, did not make it an excuse, saying it was poor defense and 16 turnovers that cost them the game.

Maybe, but San antonio also had more turnovers, a total of 22. I believe it was really James’ absence in the final quarter that made the difference. It loos-ened up the defense on Green, who made three triples that highlighted the Spurs’ 16-3 run after James left the court.

Besides, James, along with Dwyane Wade, was burdened with the scoring chores. Miami’s bench did not deliver. In fact, James and Wade combined for 25 of their team’s 49-point output in the first half. Chris Bosh and ray allen made 10 points apiece for the same period. Their role players like Shane Battier and Chris anderson failed to complement the ef-forts of their starters. Worse, allen shot

poorly, missing five open three-pointers. On hindsight, the Spurs must be har-

boring mixed feelings about that win. In chess, it’s like playing against somebody who has lost his queen while you still have yours. any self-respecting athlete would want to win with his opponent in best form. The win would have been sweeter had James lasted the whole game instead of carried to the bench and declared unfit to play further.

The Spurs know that with or without James on the court they are capable of defeating the Heat as shown in last year’s finals that reached Game 7. Truth is, they readily shifted to a fast-paced passing game after realizing the inefficacy of their pick-and-rolls. Unlike the Indiana Pacers who lost in the Western Confer-ence Finals to Miami mainly because of their inability to adjust to on-court situa-tions, the Spurs play fluid basketball.

Nonetheless, a win is a win. and like in their first showdown, this promises to be another classic matchup. [MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. H. Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at [email protected]]

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S.B. No. 1576, or the National Flood research and educa-tion Bill, in order to address the varying degrees of suc-cess in disaster preparedness by the local government.

“a major effort must be done to collate our flood re-lated knowledge as a coun-try and disseminate such information to all stakehold-ers to minimize the damage brought about by floods. This bill will allow us to establish a centralized effort to study the effect of flooding and how best to prepare and respond to each catastrophe,” Santia-go said.

Santiago’s filed S.B. No. 1724, also known as the Cul-vert Safety Bill, to prevent accidents involving people who sustain injuries or even die by falling into culverts and other similar forms of drainage.

“This bill will especially

protect children who wan-der into culverts or drainage systems particularly when an area is flooded and the drainage system can hard-ly be seen. It also seeks to have a uniform standard of safeguards on culvert and drainage maintenance for all government entities,” the senator explained.

If passed into law, the Culvert Safety Bill will man-date all concerned govern-ment agencies to ensure that each culvert or enclosed drainage system is appropri-ately covered, that a warning sign is clearly posted at the intake to ach culvert, and that each culvert maintains hinged opening and closing mechanism to permit emer-gency services personnel to access the system.

all three bills have yet to reach the second reading in the Senate. [PNA]

enough is enough The workshop comes on

the heels of a recent incident when Philippine authorities arrested nine Chinese fish-ermen off the coast of Pala-wan just a month ago for car-rying about 500 live and dead turtles on their boat. Involve-ment of local Filipino fisher-men in the incident suggests a higher degree of organised supply and trafficking that requires a trans-national re-sponse.

This is just one of the nu-merous poaching and traf-ficking incidents that have happened not only in the Phil-ippines but also in important marine turtle range countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Viet Nam, and across the wider Coral Triangle region.

“We need to halt the illegal turtle trade once and for all,

otherwise, the work of pro-tecting nesting beaches and feeding grounds will be futile if thousands of turtles are being wiped out at sea,” said Palma.

Heavy demand Turtles are used mainly for

food, souvenirs, jewellery and ornamentation, and in some traditional medicinal systems. The shells of Hawksbill Turtles (known as bekko) have been carved into ornaments and jewellery for many centuries, particularly associated with Japanese traditional crafts.

“aside from local con-sumption of meat and eggs, the demand for marine tur-tle shell and other derivative parts from market destina-tions including mainland Chi-na and Taiwan, Japan and Viet Nam is driving this trade,” said James Compton, TraFFIC Se-nior Programme Director, asia

Pacific. research by TraFFIC has

identified the island province of Hainan as a major hub for the illegal trade in marine turtle products in China, and work over the past four years with Chinese government au-thorities and other local stake-holders has greatly increased the attention to market regula-tion and control.

“The need for inter-agen-cy collaboration on this illegal trade is essential, including the navy and coast guards in a national task force approach, is essential to protect marine turtles in source countries,” added Compton. “Greater law enforcement effectiveness, including investigations and prosecution are important to increase deterrents against participating in wildlife crime.”

all international commer-cial trade in marine turtles is illegal under the Convention on International Trade in en-dangered Species (CITeS).

We’re watching“This timely workshop

shows that these source coun-tries are paying attention to what’s happening to marine turtles around the region and that they all share the same challenges,” said Joel Palma.

“Since turtles are trans-boundary in nature, protect-ing them requires a more cohesive and integrated ap-proach. This workshop is a major step towards that di-rection,” added Palma.

The Coral Triangle is home to six of the seven known species of marine tur-tles including Green, Hawks-bill, loggerhead, Flatback, Olive ridley, and leatherback.

JAY WALKING. A “Bawal tumawid dito” signage mounted by the Traffic Management Center (TMC) near the Bankerohan overpass is ignored by some pedes-trians in the area. Lean Daval Jr.

WITH the opening of new school year, operating a board-

ing house mostly for students appears to be a lucrative busi-ness.

But the local government of Davao City has warned against the proliferation of poorly maintained, if not dilap-idated, boarding houses.

The Task Force Boarding House spearheaded by the Business Bureau is set to con-duct inspections on boarding houses starting Friday, June

14, according to an official of the City Health Office (CHO) which is a member of the spe-cial body that was originally activated during the term of former Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte.

CHO environmental san-itation division director rob-ert Oconer said the task force will particularly give focus on its monitoring and inspection of boarding houses located or adjacent to colleges and uni-versities.

He said that last year, the

task force found out a board-ing house which allocated a small, dimly lit area as a space for rent, accommodating up to 20 students who “look like pigs in a pig pen.”

With unsanitary and un-safe conditions, Oconer said the task force closed down the establishment and five more boarding houses last year.

He narrated that two months ago, the task force was also forced to close down a boarding house accommodat-ing eight students from a lo-

cal university after the owner failed to clean and fix its septic tank.

Oconer said the operators of boarding houses should ensure that their establish-ments are structurally-sound, well-ventilated, well-lit and with privacy especially for women occupants.

He said that establish-ments found out to have com-mitted sanitary and safety violations will face sanctions ranging from fines and penal-ties to outright closure.

City gov’t warns against proliferation of unsanitary, unsafe boarding housesBy DanIeL D. JoaQUIn

ability to pay its obligations to power suppliers reported-ly started when its board of directors split into two –one strongly proposing that Dan-eco be supervised by the Co-operative Development ad-ministration (CDa) no longer under the National electrifi-cation administration (Nea), but the group faction is fight-

ing that the electric coopera-tive sticks it out with Nea.

The bitter war between the two factions has resulted in inefficiency in the cooper-ative’s collection performance as thousands of consumers stop paying their bills, claim-ing they are confused to which Daneco faction to pay. The Nea and the DOe have both

failed to settle the controversy which has reached the courts.

even energy Secretary Carlos Jericho l. Petilla has intervened in the tug-of-war as the agency has provided the faction connected with the electrification agency to run the cooperative. However, the cooperative agency linked fac-tion has connected to collect

from the customers despite the order.

On Wednesday in a state-ment, emmanuel r. ledes-ma Jr., Psalm president, an-nounced that the company has exhausted all means to collect from the cooperative giving it no choice but to is-sue the disconnection notice. [AMA]

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PeSTICIDe use is “very alarming”, warns a study conducted by the Na-

tional Institutes of Health, Uni-versity of the Philippines (UP) Manila.

“The massive use of pesti-cide is an issue in Pangasinan and Benguet,” said Dr. Jinky lu, a research Professor at UP Manila who conducted the study about pesticide residues on eggplants. “Farmers don’t know it is unnecessary.”

“Pesticides affect farm-ers’ and community health; farming is a household work, a household-based economy, she said. “These farms are in-terspersed between homes, so families and children are affected.”

These are crops that are brought to the market and eventually on the table, so the health of consumers is affect-ed as well, she said during the launching of a the book, “Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt eggplant”.

The book was published by the International Service for the acquisiton of agri-Biotech applications (ISaaa) and the Southeast asian regional Cen-ter for Graduate Study and re-search in agriculture (Sear-Ca), which advocates for the wise utilization and cultivation of gene-modified crops by sci-

ence-based informed farmers. lu’s findings are included

in the book which promotes the positive aspects of the egg-plant whose genes contain Ba-cillus thuregensis (Bt). It looks at the Bt eggplant’s market prospects and potential eco-nomic, health and environ-mental impact.

The book includes stud-ies that show Bt eggplant will benefit small farmers and will lessen the use of pesticides to kill the fruit and shoot borer, the major pest that attacks eggplants, prompting the heavy use of chemical insec-ticides.

a third of all vegetables grown in the country are eggplants; the average yield is lower by half than that of other countries in asia and elsewhere. The cause: the eggplant fruit and shoot borer.

In 2003, research started in the development of an egg-plant whose gene has been modified with Bt and thus contains a built-in resistance to the fruit and shoot borer. Promising gene-modified va-rieties are under advanced stage evaluation for perfor-mance and safety.

Currently, heavy pesti-cides spraying is used to pre-vent borer infestation. “Cer-tain pesticides stay in the en-

vironment weeks after being sprayed,” lu said.

“It is important to reduce or eliminate the use of pesti-cides,” said lu who specializ-es in occupational health and has done pesticide research in Benguet.

Citing a study published by ISaaa and SearCa in

2009, lu observed the fruit and shoot borer damages any-where from 20 percent to 92 percent of eggplant harvests in the country.

The study, conducted by Sergio Francisco, formerly of the Philippine rice research Institute, shows that farmers resort to heavy spraying, any-

where from 60 to 80 times during a normal fruiting du-ration of at least four months.

lu’s own study on insec-ticide residues in soil, water and eggplant – conducted among 36 eggplant farmers from May 2010 to January 2011 in Sta. Maria, Pangasin-an – shows that farmers

sprayed pesticides at an aver-age of two hours a day.

residues of five insecti-cides were detected in the soil of 11 out of 26 farms studied; four of the farms had resi-dues above the acceptable limits. No water sample was positive with insecticide resi-dues. [SciPhil]

EDGEDAVAO

AGRITRENDSWarning out on ‘massive’ pesticides use

Forced labor in agricul-ture generates $ 150 billion in illegal profits a

year, the International labor Organization (IlO) reports.

It says the $150 bil-lion in illegal profits per year from forced labor in the pri-vate economy is about three times more than previously estimated.

The IlO report says two-thirds – or $99 billion – came from commercial sexu-al exploitation, while anoth-er $51 billion resulted from forced economic exploitation, including domestic work, ag-riculture and other economic activities.

“This new report takes our understanding of trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery to a new lev-el,” says IlO Director-General Guy ryder. “Forced labor is bad for business and devel-opment and especially for its victims. Our new report adds new urgency to our efforts to eradicate this fundamental-ly evil, but hugely profitable practice as soon as possible.”

The new figures are based on IlO data pub-lished in 2012 that estimated there were 21 million people in forced labor, trafficking and modern slavery.

Significantly, the new estimate indicated that more than half of the people in forced labor are women and girls, primarily in com-mercial sexual exploitation and domestic work, while men and boys were primarily in forced economic exploita-tion in agriculture, construc-tion and mining. [SciPhil]

Slavery in agriculture still common – ILO

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EDGEDAVAOEVENT

Aiming to fulfil their promise of providing affordable homes for ev-ery Dabawenyo, Kisan Lu Lands inc. formally opened their satellite of-fice located at the third floor of Sm City Davao main mall last June 6. Present for the mo-mentous occasion were the company’s top exec-utives Andrew Bautista Kisan Lu Lands’ sales and marketing director, Ramesis michael Lu, Kisan Lu Lands’ vice-president for opera-tions, Kristin Lu, Kisan Lu Lands’ president and CEO, as well as manag-ers, sellers, and guests.

By Kenneth Irving Ong

Left to right: Andrew Bautista, Kisan Lu Lands Inc., sales & marketing director, Karen Lu, Ramesis Michael Lu, KLLI vice-president for operations, Linda Lu, Atty. Maria Antonette De Guzman-Diaz, head of LOD housing HUB, Davao HDMF, Atty. Miguel Palma Gil, regional director, HLURB, Kristin Lu, KLLI president and CEO, Mindy Arquiza, Don Kisan Lu.FKINSAN LU, A4

Kisan Lu Lands Inc. has new satellite office at SM City Davao

WiTh a new school year on the way, Chalk magazine push-es its readers to start strong in its latest issue, headlined by no less than showbiz’s unstoppable youngbloods Nash Aguas, Diego Loyzaga, Jane Oineza, and Ella Cruz. These four person-alities who are rising at a surprising pace in the entertainment industry are present-ed on the June 2014 cover—serving as sources of inspiration for today’s youth. Get to know how they’re paving their way to stardom, ready to take on bigger and tougher challenges, and living life to the fullest at the same time. Chalk also knows how fresh experiences and new friends are on the way. The magazine welcomes yet another ad-venture in the life of a student—one that’s positive and fuss-free in the school year ahead. This month’s issue also makes things a lot easier when it comes to how to put those OOTD problems to rest. With this month’s fashion and beauty offerings, Chalk presents a guide on what to wear week-long with its features entitled “Back With A Bang” and “7 Days of Beauty”. Learn how to mix and match pastel-colored ensembles to turn into instant eye candy—a total essential when it comes to meeting fresh new faces on campus there’s defi-nitely one who will stand out. Get the scoop on how to get that good looking campus cutie and reel him in, as Chalk maps out strategies on how to get his attention. Aside from all these things, Chalk also dishes out differ-ent kinds of advice to set foot on campus again the most awesome way possible. Another thing to look out for is that big shift in the academic calendar. Read up on this pressing issue and the buzz it caused in the feature “Changes Are A-Comin’!” Make the most out of the school year that’s on the way with Chalk magazine’s back-to-school special and grab a copy of the June 2014 issue at all leading bookstores and magazine stands. For updates, visit Chalk magazine’s offi-cial Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/chalkmagazine ).

This June 15, treat Dad to a Father’s Day lunch buffet with all his meaty favorites! RBG is serving up a hearty feast fit for a king, all for only Php650 net per adult and Php325 net per child. Delight in an array of rich and flavorful choices for salad, soup, pasta, entrée and dessert, added with a variety of pork cuts on the carving station. All dads will be given a special gift, plus a raffle coupon for a chance to win gift certificates.Book your table early to get a free buffet pass for Dad! You can also win 4 buffet passes for your family by taking part in RBG’s photo contest on ins-tagram. To join, simply fol-low @parkinndavao on ins-tagram. Upload your photo with Dad and caption it with a personalized Father’s Day greeting. Make sure to tag @parkinndavao and mention #rbgdavao in your post. Photos must be submitted on or before 8 a.m. of June 13, 2014 (Friday). Winners will be noti-fied through private message and email. For reservations and inquiries, please call 272 7600. RBG (Restaurant, Bar & Grill) is located at the ground level of Park inn by Radisson Davao.

A2 INdulge! VOL. 7 ISSUE 60 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, JUNE 8-9, 2014EDGEDAVAOUP AND ABOUT EVENT

Showbiz’s unstoppable youngbloods kick off a new school year with Chalk

Park Inn’s RBG offers Father’s Day lunch buffet

CACS Davao moves to a new home

ThE Center of Asian Culinary Studies (CACS) finally opens its spanking new school located at the Don Dionisio Com-plex along J.P. Caba-gio Avenue. The new school was blessed and inaugurated in simple ceremonies last June 4 with the school’s founder Chef gene gon-zalez together with chef instructors from manila present for the occasion. A pioneering school for the culinary arts in Davao, the CACS offers various degree and certificate pro-grams in the culinary as well as pastry arts which prepares students for pro-fessional entry into the food service industry. The diploma courses are ac-credited by TESDA. Through the mentor-ship of Chef gene as well as by the other chef instruc-tors of the school, many of the school’s graduates have found themselves in vari-ous positions around the Philippines and around the world. The CACS also offers various lifestyle and rec-reational programs such

as Asian regional cook-ing and baking which are perfect for home makes, home business owners and professionals.

The classes at CACS Davao school start this June. More information on the Center for Asian Culinary

Studies Davao can be made through email cads.caba-guiodavao@gmail .com with telephone numbers 300.0126 or 0933.353.1117.

By Kenneth Irving Ong

GMA Records continues to make a mark in the Philip-pine music industry as it features a series of hit al-bum releases that will touch the hearts of the Filipinos nationwide. The self-titled debut al-bum of Kapuso actress/re-cording artist Julie Anne san Jose was recently awarded the 9x Platinum Record for combined digital and CD sales exceeding 135,000 units. This is now available on Deluxe Edition via iTunes and contains the song, “Ang Aking Puso,” which she sang with Kapuso star Der-rick Monasterio. her newest album, “Deeper,” which became available on digital format via iTunes last June 1, im-mediately landed on the first spot of the iTunes Top Albums Chart. This contains 10 all-OPM songs, six of which were composed by Julie Anne herself including “Right Where You Belong,” the love theme of GMA Net-work’s newest primetime Koreanovela, The Master’s sun. This will be available on CD format by the end of June. After the success of the phenomenal primetime series, My husband’s Lover, topbilled by Dennis Trillo and Tom Rodriguez, GMA Records released their first-ever album, “TomDen,” which became a certified hit. Dennis and Tom re-cently bagged the Plati-num Record award for

the outstanding sales of their album that exceeded 15,000 units in combined digital and CD sales. The album features the hit songs “Forever,”“ikaw Ang sagot,”“Kailan Man,” and their version of “One More Try.” Meanwhile, Kapuso sing-er/actress Jennylyn Merca-do’s newest album, “Never Alone,” marks her comeback to GMA Records as well as her 10th anniversary in the

industry and is expected to be released in July. she recently launched her newest single, “Basta’t Nan-dito Ka,” which was com-posed by Vehnee saturno, the same composer of her very first single, “Kahit san-dali” in 2004. The single was included in her first album entitled “Living the Dream”, which also earned a Gold re-cord award. Another Kapuso artist who is now ready to take

center stage as she shares her passion for music is Kylie Padilla. Following the success of her primetime series, Adar-na, Kylie just launched her single, “Gitara,” from her de-but album, “seasons,” which is already available on digital format via iTunes. her al-bum will be released on CD format on June 29. James Wright also show-cases his heartful voice through his self-titled debut

LiKE the rest of the “The Legal Wife” viewers worldwide, the ‘most exciting finale’ of the love story of Monica de Villa (played by Angel Locsin) is also a hot topic among some of the country’s most influential women. According to Queen of All Media Kris Aquino, she would love to see Monica and Adrian (Jericho Rosales) not end-ing up together. “i don’t like a happy ending. i prefer a realistic one. Because i believe that when you try to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship, you’ll be wound-ed. so, just sweep them away,” said Kris. Newspaper columnist Mons Ro-mulo, meanwhile, admires the brave storytelling of how a wife recovered from her ordeal after finding out that her husband was cheating on her with her best friend. “There lots of lessons that we can learn from the show. in fact, even though i’ve been cheated on before, i still learned something from the series. Thanks to ‘The Legal Wife’ because it is able to highlight the true strength of a

legal wife and the sanctity of marriage. Monica was right when she showed that she can be happy alone,” Mons shared about the hit primetime series that will air its ‘most exciting finale’ this Friday. TV host, producer, and business-woman Daphne Oseña-Paez further salutes the drama series that has em-powered a lot of women viewers. “Now, people on Facebook are ex-changing opinions about the show and how much they can relate with Monica. Because of ‘The Legal Wife,’ viewers now know that the concept of being a martyr wife is outdated and everyone should be a ‘strong wife’ like Monica,” said Daphne. Don’t miss the last two weeks of “The Legal Wife” every night after “ikaw Lamang” on ABs-CBN Prime-time Bida. For more updates about the show, simply visit its website www.the-legalwife.abs-cbn.com and its official social networking sites at Facebook.com/thelegalwife2013, instagram.com/iam_thelegalwife, and Twitter.com/iAmTheLegalWife.

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Kris Aquino, influential pinays salute ‘The Legal Wife’

GMA Records releases new albumsalbum, which contains five all-OPM songs composed by Vehnee saturno. his single “sana’y ikaw” was the theme song of the primetime series, Carmela, which made the viewers’ weeknights more romantic. James is set to have a mall show in sM Bicutan on June 28. Completing the roster of GMA Records’ remark-able releases is rap artist Franchize’s latest single “Yaka.” Jumpstarting his ca-

reer in the music industry, Franchize recently signed under GMA Records, his very first publishing deal in over a decade of pursuance. This partnership seems to be the start of a brighter fu-ture for this dream-chasing artist from Tacloban City. Be mesmerized by the ex-traordinary music brought by the hit albums of talent-ed Kapuso artists Julie Anne, Dennis and Tom, Jennylyn, Kylie, James, and Franchize under GMA Records.

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“Davao City has seen growth by leaps and bounds these past few years and we at Kisan Lu Lands decided to open a satellite office here at the mall to serve as a one-stop-shop for our clients” says Andrew Bautista “The location of this satellite office allows for more con-venient access as well as a more comfortable space for our buyers as well as sellers to trans-act their business other than the main office lo-cated at downtown San Pedro Street.” Andrew adds that the office also serves as a showcase for prospective buyers and sellers to touch base. Kisan Lu’s president and CEO Kristin says that the design and the construction of the sat-ellite office was done in-house and was done to the highest specifi-cations just like what Kisan Lu Lands impos-es on their projects. “We want prospective buyers to see and experience for themselves the qual-ity of our developments just by a quick visit.” says Kristin.

The impeccably de-signed 70-square me-ter satellite office has a lounge area, a wall fea-turing the many proj-ects Kisan Lu has as well as an audiovisual wall which gives viewers a quick glimpse of the various communities and projects of Kisan Lu Lands. in conjunction with the opening of the sat-ellite office, Andrew also revealed that Kisan Lu Lands will also be launching a new devel-opment called green-Woods within the month and a their first condominium project within the year.

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Address: Tionko Street, Davao City

Call: 09178739767

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VOL. 7 ISSUE 60 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, JUNE 8-9, 2014 CLASSIFIED 13rePUBlIC OF THe PHIlIPPINeS

reGIONal TrIal COUrT11TH JUDICIal reGION

oFFICe oF The CLeRK oF CoURT-SheRIFFDaVaO CITy

BalIKaTaN HOUSING FINaNCe INC.

Mortgagee/assignee, -versus- eJF-ReM CaSe no. 14570-14

SpS. GeRMan M. MaKILInG, JR. anDJoSeFIna L. MaKILInG Mortgagor/s.x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x noTICe oF eXTRa-JUDICIaL SaLeUpon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under act 3135,

as amended, filed by Balikatan property holdings, Inc. with post-al address at the 24th Floor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat avenue, Makati City against SpS. GeRMan M. MaKILInG, JR. anD JoSeFIna L. MaKILInG, with postal addresses at lot 22, Blk. 4, anahao St., NHa Ka-DayaWaN HOMeS HOUSING PrOJeCT, BO. TalOMO, DaVaO CITy, Davao del Sur, the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 25, 2010 amounts to Two Hundred Fifty Five Thousand Two Hundred Sixteen Pesos and 09/100 (255,216.098) ,Philippine Currency, exclusive of interest, penalties and charges, plus attorney’s fees equiva-lent to 25% of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale;the undersigned will sell at public auction on July 4, 2014 at 10:00 a.M.., or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MaNaGer’S CHeCK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate/s of Title no. T-188607 “ a parcel of land of the subdivision project(lot 22 ,Blk.04 xxx

situated in the Barangay of Talomo, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao. Xxx containing an area of eIGhTY eIGhT (88) SQUaRe MeTeRS, more or less”

all sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on august 01, 2014 without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances there-on, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines,May 27, 2014. 2010

FOr THe eX-OFFICIO SHerIFF: (SGD.) hIpoLITo a. BeLanGDaL Sheriff IV

6/2/9/16

rePUBlIC OF THe PHIlIPPINeSreGIONal TrIal COUrT11TH JUDICIal reGION

OFFICe OF THe ClerK OF COUrT-SHerIFFDaVaO CITy

hoMe DeVeLopMenT MUTUaL FUnD or paG-IBIG FUnD, Mortgagee -versus- eJF-ReM CaSe no. 14,644-14

FReDeL Z. MoMoMortgagor/s.x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x noTICe oF eXTRa-JUDICIaL SaLe

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135, as amended, filed by the above- mentioned morgagee

against FReDeL Z. MoMo single with postal address at Block 31 lot 30 Deca Homes Subd.Cabantian , Davao City to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of March 25, 2014 amounted to ( p 558,756.00 ) Philippine Currency, inclusive of interest, penalty charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to TeN ( 10%) of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of the regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 4 , 2014 at 10:00 a.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MaNaGer’S CHeCK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property mentioned and described below together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate of Title no. T- 146-2012001993 “ a parcel of land of the consolidation-division project (Lot 30, Blk.

31, of the consolidation plan (pCS-11-002129 being a portion of Lot B (LRC) pSD-130686 & Lot 1916-Davao CaD)situated in the Barangay of Cabantian , City of Davao, Island of Mindanao…xxx Containing an area of one hUn-DReD eIGhT (108) SQUaRe MeTeRS, more or less”

all sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated

time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on august 1, 2014 without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, May 28, 2014

FOr THe eX-OFFICIO SHerIFF: (SGD.) hIpoLITo a. BeLanGDaL Sheriff IVNoted by:

(SGD) aTTY. eDIpoLo p. SaRaBIa, JR.Clerk of Court VI & ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff

(edge 6/2,9/16)

rePUBlIC OF THe PHIlIPPINeS reGIONal TrIal COUrT 11TH JUDICIal reGION oFFICe oF The CLeRK oF CoURT-SheRIFF DaVaO CITy

hoMe DeVeLopMenT MUTUaL FUnD Mortgagee -versus- eJF-ReM CaSe no. 14,635-14

LoURDeS a. CaLLoT Mortgagor/s.x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x noTICe oF eXTRa-JUDICIaL SaLeUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135, as amended, filed

by the above- mentioned morgagee against LoURDeS a. CaLLoT widow with postal address at Block

73 lot 11 Phase 4 Deca Homes reSOrT reSIDeNCe SUBD., TUGBOK MINT-al Davao City to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of March 25, 2014 amounted to ( p 847,844.97 ) Philippine Currency, inclusive of interest, penalty charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to TeN ( 10%) of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of the regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 4 , 2014 at 10:00 a.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MaNaGer’S CHeCK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property mentioned and described below together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate of Title no. T- 146-2013006555 “ a parcel of land of the consolidation-division project (Lot 11,

Blk. 73, of the consolidation plan (pCS-11-003470),situated in the Ba-rangay TUGBoK, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao…xxx Containing an area of one hUnDReD TWenTY (120) SQUaRe MeTeRS, more or less”

all sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated

time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on august 1, 2014 without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, May 28, 2014

FOr THe eX-OFFICIO SHerIFF: (SGD.) hIpoLITo a. BeLanGDaL Sheriff IVNoted by:

(SGD) aTTY. eDIpoLo p. SaRaBIa, JR.Clerk of Court VI & ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff

(edge 6/2,9/16)

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ParIS, June 6 (reuters) - Defending champi-on rafa Nadal played

his best tennis to set up a much-awaited French Open showdown against Novak Djokovic with a 6-3 6-2 6-1 demolition of Wimbledon winner andy Murray in the semi-finals on Friday.

World number one Nadal, an eight-times roland Garros winner, did not concede a sin-gle break point in a one-sided encounter on Court Philippe Chatrier, sinking the seventh seed with a series of forehand winners.

Murray, looking to become the first British male to reach the Paris final since tennis went professional in 1968, was never in the contest and made too many unforced errors on

his usually reliable forehand.Nadal wrapped up victory

on his first match point with a smash on the Scot’s serve.

“I think I played some of my best tennis at roland Gar-ros today,” said Nadal after extending his French Open re-cord to 65 wins and one defeat.

“I’m very emotional to reach the final again,” he told reporters. “It’s a dream. Novak is an unbelievable opponent.”

World number two Djokovic, who earlier beat 18th-seeded latvian ernests Gulbis in the other semi-final, is one of three men who have beaten Nadal on his favoured red dirt this year.

Nadal slammed 24 win-ners, most of them with his forehand, against a helpless Murray and converted all six

break points he had.“He played a great match.

He missed hardly any balls. He served very well,” said the Scot.

“His forehand, especially with the conditions the way they were today, was incred-ibly hard to control. as soon as he was inside the court he was hitting the ball so close to the line.

Nadal’s uncle and coach Toni agreed with Murray.

“I think he played one of his best matches at roland Garros,” said Toni.

In hot weather that fa-voured the Spaniard’s top spin, Murray won only 10 points on his opponent’s serve.

Nadal raced into a 3-0 lead after breaking in the sec-

ond game when his opponent netted a forehand.

Murray held for the re-mainder of the set but could not trouble the Spaniard on his serve and Nadal bagged it with a casual forehand volley.

In the third game of the second set the man from Mal-lorca broke when Murray sent an easy forehand wide.

Nadal turned the screw in the seventh game, stealing Murray’s serve again as the world number eight made yet another unforced forehand error.

The top seed, who has an 88-1 record in best-of-five set matches on clay, quickly put the Scot out of his misery in the final set to reach his fifth consecutive roland Garros final.

ParIS (aP) -- - Might be easier said than done. Still, Maria Sharapova

offered a tidy aphorism to sum up the formula that’s car-ried her to a third consecutive French Open final.

‘’It’s not how you finish a first set,’’ Sharapova said, ‘’it’s how you finish the last set.’’

right now, no one is a better closer than she is on clay. Nearing a second cham-pionship at roland Garros, and fifth Grand Slam trophy overall, Sharapova gritted her way to yet another comeback victory, beating 18th-seeded eugenie Bouchard of Canada 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the semifinals Thursday.

‘’If some things are not working out, I don’t just want to quit in the middle. Because

when you lose the first set or a few games or you’re down a break, that’s not the end of the match,’’ Sharapova said. ‘’That’s the type of philosophy that I play with.’’

She famously described herself years ago as feeling like a ‘’cow on ice’’ on clay, but Sharapova now has won her past 19 matches that went to three sets on the demanding surface.

In Saturday’s final, the No. 7-seeded Sharapova will face No. 4 Simona Halep, a 22-year-old romanian who never before had been past the quarterfinals at a major. Halep turned in a much more straightforward victory than Sharapova, eliminating No. 28 andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-2, 7-6 (4).

WHO ROARS MORE? Rafael Nadal (left) guns for his 9th French Open crown against Novak Djokovic (right).

COW ON ICE. Maria Sharapova will try to shake off that tag as she goes for the title against Simona Halep.

10 of the executives twenty (20) third period points to give his team a double digit lead going to the final canto en route to victory.

It was a tight contest in the first two period with the village chiefs managed to keep pace with the executives who played throughout the opening period without Go.

But the complexion of the match changed in the pivotal third frame as the sweet-shooting Go found his rhythm and the executives got their acts together in the de-fensive end, limiting the aBC to only 10 points in the period.

lawyer Gil Norman Ci-udadano and Police Chief Inspector rhodelio Poliquit

added 12 and 10 points re-spectively for the executives who entered the pay off peri-od with a 54 – 40 advantage.

The village chiefs bat-tled hard in the final canto behind the efforts of arnulfo apostol and Jun labro but just couldn’t turn the table around.

apostol made 16 as labro had 14 for the aBC.

Behind Poliquit and Ciu-dadano, the executives took a 23 – 14 lead at the end of the opening period.

The village chiefs clawed back in the second frame, outscoring the executives, 16 – 11, to cut the deficit to 4, 30 – 34, at the break. [Rico Biliran]

City...FFROM 16

Nadal guns for 9th French Open title

Sharapova faces ‘Pocket Rocket’ in FinalsCAN SHE NAIL IT?

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SaN aNTONIO (aP) -- When the air condition-ing went out in San an-

tonio, many of the Spurs felt right at home - their native homelands.

They are a roster loaded with foreign players, accus-tomed to playing in places where air conditioning not only isn’t optional, it’s not even available.

‘’It gets crazy sometimes,’’ forward Boris Diaw from France said Friday. ‘’It goes to 95, 96.’’

It wasn’t quite that bad in-side the aT&T Center during Game 1 of the NBa Finals, where the temperature hov-ered around 90 degrees and the thermometer got as much attention as the scoreboard in the Spurs’ 110-95 victory.

The Spurs weren’t im-mune to the steamy arena, they just handled it better.

They have nine players born outside of the Unit-ed States, representing an NBa-record seven countries, and even Danny Green, one of their few americans, played in-ternationally earlier in his ca-reer when he couldn’t stick in the NBa. and while Diaw said it was the hottest NBa game he could remember, all the Spurs said they had faced worse.

They probably won’t have to endure it again, at least not in this series.

The teams were already scheduled to work out Friday and Saturday at the Spurs’ training facility, and Spurs of-ficials announced just before practice began that the air

conditioning system was ‘’fully operational.’’

Commissioner adam Sil-ver said a breaker about the size of a car battery failed and workers couldn’t replace it be-cause they didn’t know what effect that would have on the rest of the power to arena. Sil-ver said workers from the fa-cility and league, along with an outside expert, checked it out and are confident everything is repaired and will be fine for Game 2 on Sunday night.

and even if it isn’t, the Spurs would probably handle it.

They have developed a mental toughness, the kind it will take to bounce back from last year’s gut-wrenching NBa Finals loss to the Heat and get it done this year.

‘’Being a champion is not easy,’’ Green said. ‘’It’s not go-ing to come easy.’’

So no, the Spurs won’t be rattled by something like the conditions. The two-time de-fending champion Heat will have to do that themselves.

‘’anybody can be rattled, but this team is more difficult to rattle than others,’’ Heat for-ward Chris Bosh said. ‘’They have great poise, they’re al-ways a step ahead a little bit.’’

They were way ahead down the stretch, particular-ly after the demoralized Heat realized leBron James - side-lined with cramps - had been lost for good with about 4 min-utes remaining. and, as is of-ten the case for the Spurs, this game was won just as much with their minds.

SaN aNTONIO (aP) -- If the NBa Finals resumed Friday, there would be no way leB-

ron James could play.There’s no game until Sunday.and James plans to be ready

by then.With his gait still affected

by severe cramping and dehy-dration, and feeling the effects of a sleepless night brought on by several trips to the bathroom - an unavoidable drawback of having his body filled with fluids - James insisted he will play when the Mi-ami Heat and San antonio Spurs get together for Game 2 of the finals.

‘’I’ll be in uniform on Sun-day,’’ James said Friday. ‘’I should be 100 percent on Sunday. Ob-viously I’m going to take it light

today. Training staff said I should take it light today. Give the body another day to recover. Tomor-row I should be back on my feet full go - and I got all day Sunday to get ready for Sunday night.

When he was there on Thursday, the Heat were right there as well.

When he was done, so were the Heat.

Up by seven at one point in the fourth quarter, Miami fell apart in the final minutes and James’ ugly departure could have easily had something to do with that. San antonio’s lead was 94-92 after James scored with 4:09 left; he was out of the game for good and unable to move 10 sec-onds later. From that point, the Spurs finished on a 16-3 run.

POINTING TO THE TITLE? Tim Duncan (21) is happy to go 1-0 over the Heat and hopes to make it 2-0 after Game 2 which gives the Spurs a psychological edge going on the road.

GONE FOR GAME 1. Lebron James is carried to the bench after cramping in the furth quarter.

Arena AC repaired

Lebron ready for Game 2

DeSPITe the soaring price tags for NBa franchises of late,

telecommunications mogul Manuel V. Pangilinan con-firmed that he is still pur-suing plans of buying into a team in the world’s premier basketball league.

In the wake of the Clip-pers’ monumental $2 billion sale to former Microsoft CeO Steve Ballmer, Pangilinan said that things are still in motion although he refused to elaborate on the specifics.

“Mayroon. Pag naga-wa ko na, doon ko na lang sasabihin,” Pangilinan told Interaksyon.com on the sidelines of a PlDT event last night.

last month, former Mil-waukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl sold the team to a group

led by investment firm ex-ecutives Wesley edens and Marc lasry for a reported $550 million, then a record sum for the sale of an NBa franchise.

That number pales in comparison to the Clippers’ $2 billion (approximately P87 billion) price tag in a sale necessitated after the league compelled owner Donald Sterling to divest his owner-ship after being embroiled in a racism scandal.

Business and finance publication Forbes pegged the Clippers’ value at $575 million and the Bucks’ at $405 million in its annual valuations of NBa franchises, released earlier this year.

“Masyadong mahal yung $2 billion. Iba na siguro,” said the sports patron.

MVP still wants to buy an NBA team

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THe San antonio Spurs were able to deliver a crushing blow to the

Miami Heat in the waning moments of game one of the 2014 NBa Finals. Danny Green, Boris Diaw and sever-al others were able to pitch in buckets that help give San antonio the 110-95 win and the 1-0 series lead. The big story, though, is that leBron James was on the sideline as the Spurs put the game away.

In the air condition-ing-less arena that was over 90-degrees by game’s end, James’ old nemesis of leg cramps started hampering him. after trying to work it out, James drove in for a score and was then almost entirely debilitated by the cramps. He had to be helped off of the floor and then carried from the scorer’s table to the bench and didn’t return to action.

While there are plenty of narratives that will result from leBron’s cramps, the primary fact that lies in all of this is that the defending champs are now down a game in the series. Whether leBron should have fought through the pain at the end of game one or not, the Heat are now going to be involved in a pivot-al game two that they almost have to come away from with a win.

In almost any playoff se-ries, the task of the team with-out home-court advantage is to try and get a split in the first two games on the road. How-ever, that’s something that hasn’t been as vital for teams without home-court advan-tage when it comes to the Finals and the 2-3-2 format that has been used in years past. With the format switch-

ing to the way the rest of the postseason is at 2-2-1-1-1 this year, though, the Heat need game two.

Obviously the Heat proved last season that they can win big games in San an-tonio. all you have to do is ask ray allen or the Spurs about game six of the 2013 Finals to figure that out. you also can’t discount that the Heat have lost game one of the Fi-nals in each of their title runs. However, with this change in format, the dynamic changes and, subsequently, Miami’s approach has to as well.

The Heat have to come into game two with a chip on their shoulder and ready to even the momentum and score in this series. Playing against a hungrier and statis-tically better Spurs team this year, the last thing they want to do is to be in a big hole, even if they are heading back to Mi-ami—a place that they haven’t lost yet this postseason—for games three and four. as we came into this Finals series, it seemed like the best way for Miami to decisively take control of the series would be to take a 3-2 series lead into game six in South Beach. Going down 2-0 would make that near impossible.

There are plenty of things that the Heat must do better to grab game two. They need more consistent play from Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole. They need to defend the three-point line better and not let San antonio shoot 13-25 again. They need to do a better job of capitalizing off of Spurs’ turnovers. and yes, it would help them if James could be on the floor for the final minutes in a close game.

GAME 2 MATTERSOVERHEAT. Lebron James of the Miami Heat went down in severe exhaustion and carmps in Game 1. He is ready for Game 2 though, but will the ghost of Game 1 haunt him?

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City Hall Execs outduel ABC, 77-71CHrISTOPHer “Bong”

Go sparked a third quarter rally to propel

City Hall executives past as-sociation of Barangay Cap-tains (aBC) Davao City, 77 – 71, in a basketball exhibition

game at the Davao City rec-reation Center almendras Gym on Thursday night.

Go, who finished the game with 34 points in limit-ed minutes of action, scored

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