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NOT ENOUGHDAVAO CITY’S version of the so-called “Million People March” for the abolition of the pork barrel fund

drew a crowd of around 1,000, lasted for almost three hours, and convinced local organizers that it was not enough.

Undaunted by a relatively low turnout of participants, speakers in the anti-pork barrel rally in Davao City’s

ArOUnD 1,000 marchers walked from the Freedom Park on roxas Avenue to rizal Park fronting the Davao City hall demanding the abolition of the “pork”.

Even with that number, the total number of marchers all over the country was far from a million. Less than half-a-million people of that joined the Metro Manila edition of the Million People March yesterday to protest the alleged massive misuse by members of Congress of the priority de-velopment assistance fund (PDAF) a.k.a. “pork barrel”.

Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) president, Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J. in a subsequent speech, said the gathering was not defined by the alleged corruption blamed on (Janet Lim) napoles, but by “our love for one another.”

“We demand change, not just perfume on the stinking rat (pork barrel scam),” he said, adding that government spending must be based on intelligent foresight, detailed budgetary planning, integrity, transparency, control, and accountability.

“Integrity will prevail,” he said, while people applauded, inspired by the hope that Tabora’s words would result in a more transparent and honest government henceforth.

Organizers say anti-pork protest needs to be sustained BY THE EDGE DaVao STaFFFar from a million

BOAR. A boar named “Turjaker” which is com-missioned for stud service by its owner is one large beast resembling a namesake “pork barrel fund” representing the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allegedly abused by lawmakers. Anger over the pork barrel scam reached pitch-high yesterday with around 1,000 protesters, including the one covering a mask (left, inset) and another flashing a money sign during the Million People March in Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

AT A GLANCE:• Organizers convinced with turnout,

did not expect huge crowd

• Protest needs to be sustained

• Only one local official in attendance

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“SObrA na, tama na, Pork barrel i-abolish na (we

are fed up with it, abolish the pork barrel)!” was the demand of over 700 peo-ple who joined the Million People Protest Monday.

Edge Davao tried to contact the congressmen of Davao City on this de-mand, and only 1st dis-trict representative Karlo nograles replied, saying, “When the people speak, government should listen and abide by the wishes of the people.”

Last Saturday, 3rd dis-trict representative Isidro Ungab told Edge Davao

that he is in full support of President benigno Aqui-no’s decision to abolish the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and create a new system to financially provide for certain projects for the community.

Councilor Leo “Happy LA” Avila, who was at the rally, wore a big tag on his chest which said, “I am unhappy.”

He told Edge, “I am a taxpayer and I am not happy with what is going on in the government, especially the prok bar-rel scam,” adding that his wife is a businesswoman

works hard to pay her taxes, and that, as a gov-ernment official, he saw the lack of funds for cer-tain projects, only to find out that taxes end up in scams.

“People should engage in activities such as the March and the Freedom of Information bill should be passed so that the people and the media will have access to information about the way govern-ment works.

“If the PDAF is abol-ished, there will be a level playing field during elec-tion, where simple peo-ple with dreams for their

community have a chance to can win as candidates,” he said, adding that the people should also stop asking money from pol-iticians who tend to use money from PDAF to buy votes to win.”

Councilor Diosdado Mahipus, though he did not attend the protest, told Edge, “this is great, this is a revolution of the mind and an evolution of a once passive and gullible Filipi-no society towards being vigilant and activist, con-scious of their future.”

He urged the people to “Engage, don’t be indiffer-ent.”

FOUr persons, in-cluding a septua-genarian and his

granddaughter, 7, were killed outright in a head on collision between a van and a bachelor bus along the national High-way in brgy. Lasang, Davao City about 10:45 a.m. yesterday.

SPO1 Meltran Salva-dor, a traffic investigator of the bunawan police station identified the fa-talities as Anaklito Pe-droso Jr,72, driver of the van, his granddaughter Ana Marie Pedroso, Mir-iam Flores, and Marites Adtuon, all residents of San Juan Subdivision in Panacan, Davao City. Witnesses brought the victims to a hospital in Panabo city where they

were declared dead on arrival.

The bus driver, one restitoto Crodua Jr. is detained in the bunawan jail to wait for the com-pany’s lawyer, even as Crodua is facing a charge of reckless imprudence resulting to multiple ho-micide and damages to property before the city prosecution office.

Meanwhile, a Sino businessman whose car bumped a couple, re-sulting in the death of a man and injury to his girl friend last August 16 along Quimpo boule-vard has agreed to pay P225,000 as settlement instead of the amount of P500 thousand, as de-manded by the victim’s family.

In only seven months this year (as of July 31), fire incidents in

the Davao region have ex-ceeded last year’s record by 10.64 percent, while bureau of Fire (bOF) 11 remains undermanned.

bOF 11 Safety En-forcement Division chief F/Insp. nestor G Jimenez, in yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM Annex, Ecoland bared that there were 291 fire incidents in the region as of July 31 2013, com-pared to 263 in the same period of 2012.

He said that 75 to 80 percent of the incidents happened in Davao City, of which 50 to 60 per-cent were caused by electrical short circuits.

The recent fire in-cident in Km. 11 Sasa where 270 houses were

razed was the biggest fire in the past five years.

He said the Davao region bOF is under-manned; citing as exam-ple the ratio between the number of firemen and the population is 1 fire-man is to 6,000 people.

He said a firetruck needs 14 firemen, but out of the 80 firetrucks in the region, only 800 fire-men man 17 firetrucks, 200 of the firemen are in Davao City.

“Fortunately, we have the Central 911 and fire volunteers to assist us during fires,” he said, adding that state of the art Australian-made rosenbauer firetrucks were given to Davao City, Digos City, and Tagum City this year, while two more will be given to Panabo and Mati. EJF

THE Department of Energy (DOE) will conduct an audit to

determine how two war-ring management groups of the Davao

handled the money of the multi-million peso Davao del norte Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Dane-co).

This was bared by Energy Secretary Carlos Jerico Petilla during last Friday’s meeting he had with quarreling officers of the electric cooperative known as Daneco-nEA (national Electrification Administration) and Dan-eco-CDA (Cooperative

Development Authority), and government officials of Davao del norte led by Gov. rodolfo de rosario and Compostela Valley under Gov. Arthur “Chi-ongke” T. Uy and the cit-ies of Tagum and Samal Island.

At the same time, the more than 160,00O members of Daneco will finally be given a chance to choose under whose supervision their electric cooperative should be – remained with the nEA or now be the CDA, during a confirmatory referendum scheduled on January 2,

‘PABLO’ REHAB EFFORTS. Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD) 11 Director Priscilla N. Razon (left) says the agency has shifted its efforts in the rehabilitation and construction of the totally dam-aged houses in the areas devastated by typhoon Pablo to other forms of

intervention during yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao. With her is Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCos) city administrator Cleto B. Gales Jr. Lean Daval Jr.

ORNAMENTAL FISH. A seasoned pet fish dealer displays assorted ornamental fish which he sells for P50 apiece along the sidewalk of R. Magsaysay Avenue in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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VOL. 6 ISSUE 117 • TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 3OLAYCON, MONKAYO

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SOME 154 professional and non-professional farmer-beneficiaries

who are all Typhoon Pablo victims and whose liveli-hood was heavily affected gathered anew first week of August to mark the 2nd Harvest Festival of the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan (KSK) Farmers’ Training Program.

The 2nd Harvest Festival on August 2 served as the highlight during the obser-vance of the 59th Araw ng barangay Olaycon. The 1st Harvest Festival was held last May 2 right before the graduation rites on May 3 at SM Lanang Premier where they brought in and showcased their produce.

now on its 6th year, KSK is spearheaded by SM Foundation, Inc., this time, in partnership with LGU Monkayo, Harbest Agri-business Corp., DA and DSWD. The 48th batch of KSK started in February 2013 with participants coming from 10 barangays of Monkayo.

From February to May, the vegetable production course ran for 12 Tuesdays and covered one module per meeting. Celestino Alla of Harbest Agribusiness Corp. conducted the lec-tures in the morning while afternoons were slated for hands on sessions. Among the topics discussed were nursery Preparation, Seed Sowing, Land Preparation, Caring & nursing of Seed-ling, Pruning, Trellis Prepa-ration, Fruit Selection and Fruit Thinning, Pest and Disease Control, Irrigation

& Drainage, and Posthar-vest Technology.

Integrated in the train-ing course is the orienta-tion on the DSWD Sustain-able Livelihood Program (SLP) focused on Com-munity Driven Enterprise Development approach which covers Self Aware-ness, Time Management, Financial Literacy, Product Management, Participato-ry Livelihood Issue Analy-sis, and Value Chain Anal-ysis. DSWD and DA also taught participants Cost Analysis and return of In-vestment Analysis.

The one-hectare demonstration farm for the

high-value crop produc-tion in barangay Olaycon was donated by the bril-lantes family. Managed by the recent KSK graduates, the farm grows fruits and vegetables like watermel-on, corn, lettuce, stringed beans, ampalaya, kang-kong, eggplant, tomato, squash, honeydew, cucum-ber, gourd, cantaloupe, and bell pepper.

At least 50 Pantawid Pamilya families partici-pated in the training who also sold their fruit and vegetable produce at the barangay Market Market. Pantawid Parent Leaders rio Albit, Irelina Erhuela

and Juanita Gogo happi-ly joined other Pantawid grantees in selling their fresh crops during the annual barangay fair, say-ing, they feel good and renewed to be involved in this activity.

Meanwhile, a number of participants have al-ready started transferring the farming technology in their respective baran-gays. Alexander Ypil, 45, of barangay Tubo-tubo have taught 54 individuals and they are now harvesting their crops. Ypil proudly showed his farm to the or-ganizers and visitors and even offered them a taste

of his very sweet and lus-cious watermelon.

recipient Milagrosa Gogo said the program is a big help to her family and this was confirmed by fel-low participants rea Du-lay, Perlita Morala and Lea rim, adding, “We are trying to get back to our normal lives with our children at school and we are coping despite the hardships.”

In her message, Cristie S. Angeles, Asst. Vice Presi-dent for Outreach Program and Livelihood of SM Foun-dation, Inc. stressed that indeed public-private part-nership (PPP) is working and very much possible.

She said Olaycon is bless-ed because of good gover-nance. “I can see a better, healthier and happier to-morrow for your commu-nity.”

Training participant and Olaycon barangay Chair Janet b. Diel happily announced that the grad-uates have been recently organized into Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Vegetable Production Association. “We are overwhelmed with the support we are getting from different agencies and offices. We urged everyone to visit Olaycon and buy our products. ” [DSWD/Carmela Cadigal-Duron]

Fresh produce of ‘Pablo’ families.

‘Pablo’ families celebrate 2nd harvest festival

THE Koronadal City government is targeting to

generate around P28 million in additional rev-enues in an upcoming public auction sale of tax delinquent real proper-ties in the area.

Marloun Gumbao, Koronadal City treasurer, said they are now finaliz-ing the preparations for the city’s first-ever pub-lic auction sale, which is scheduled on Sept. 18 to 20.

He said they will ini-tially auction 100 tax delinquent properties, which comprise agricul-tural lands, commercial buildings, residential lands and buildings as well as machineries.

The said properties are located in barangays Zone III, Zone II, Zone I, Topland, Sto. nino, Sta. Cruz, Saravia, San roque,

San Jose, Paraiso, new Pangasinan, namnama, Morales, Mabini, Gen.Pau-lino Santos, Esperanza, Carpenter Hill, Cacub and Avancena.

The city government earlier said it will offer for auction a total of 1,571 real properties in the city that have already accu-mulated unpaid realty taxes worth around P65 million in the last several years.

Among those that will be offered for auction are real properties owned or registered to telephone company Pilipino Tele-phone Corporation (Pil-tel).

Piltel was listed to have owed the city gov-ernment a total of P19 million in unpaid realty taxes for its eight listed properties.

“We already issued the demand letters and

notices for the public auction as part of the process,” Gumbao said in a radio interview.

He said a list of tax de-linquent property own-ers will be published in a local daily for two con-secutive weeks before the scheduled public auc-tion.

Gumbao said proper-ty owners who want to file objections or want-ed to pay their dues will have until the end of the month to settle them.

He said the city trea-surer’s office is open to ne-gotiations with interested property owners who would want to pay their tax arrears on installment basis.

He said property own-ers will have one year to pay their tax arrearages in full and its 2 percent in-terest. [Allen V. Estabillo / Mindanews]

A simple yet meaningful cer-emony marked

Tagum City’s celebra-tion of the national Heroes Day last August 26, 2013 held at the city’s Freedom Park.

Mayor Allan rellon highlighted the impor-tance of paying tribute to heroes of genera-tions past as a vital gesture of gratitude to those who have offered their lives in pursuit of our country’s freedom.

The local chief ex-ecutive said this is the first time that the city staged a commemora-tion program honoring the country’s heroes with the active partic-ipation of the military, civic-society organiza-tions and the academe.

In his keynote

speech, Mayor rellon said the current gen-eration of Filipinos should emulate the deep love of national heroes for the country and thus challenging them to become he-roes in their own sim-ple ways.

During the event, the local government also recognized the World War II veterans who are also members of the Veterans Federa-tion of the Philippines based in Tagum City.

Showing support during the program are the men in uniform from the Philippine national Police, the Philippine Army, bu-reau of Fire Protection, bureau of Jail Manage-ment and Penelogy, the reservists enlist-

ed in the Philippine Army and Philippine Air Force, and civic society organizations like the UrGEnT, Inc., Sons and Daughters of Veterans Association, among others.

Patriotic songs and dances elaborated the celebration with per-formances rendered by students from Tagum City national High School, Tagum City national Compre-hensive High School and Magugpo Pilot Imelda Elementary School.

Aside from the for-mal wreath laying cere-mony, also highlighting the event were the re-leasing of balloons and white doves as sym-bols of freedom. [Louie Lapat/CIO Tagum]

LGU to auction tax delinquent real properties Tagum celebrates simple heroes day


BIGGER PICTURE

By Lean Daval Jr.

THE call was made on Facebook. And on these days of

social media interaction, the word quickly spread like wildfire.

Yesterday, the shout-outs, tweets and com-ments became a more reverberating shout of protest for Davao’s part of the Million People March at the rizal Park.

The mood was not all too serious. There were moments for some “sel-fie” photo sessions, and

some light moments with friends. Even the protest action became a fashion statement with customized shoutout shirts printed for the occasion and a pig on a cage named by organiz-ers “Porky” to represent the subject of the pro-test—pork barrel fund.

The protest mixed anti-pork slogans with song and dance per-formances from mem-bers of various militant groups.

The Million People March did not end at the streets and park of Davao. When the day was over, the shouts were back where it all began--on Facebook.

Shouts, ‘selfie’and a pig named Porky

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AS power shortage continues to hound Mindanao, it pays to

find ways to have an ener-gy-efficient lifestyle, reduc-ing demand from the pow-er grid to free up supply for those that direly need it, and giving you savings from your energy bill at the same time.

but what if you live in a home that allows you to do just that without dras-tic lifestyle changes and inconvenience on your part? That home is found in northpoint, Vista res-idence’s landmark condo development in Davao.

northpoint homeown-ers have the advantage of living in green condo build-ings designed to principles of green architecture. Its eco-design allows it to have minimal impact to human health and the environ-ment.

Those who wish to live green only need to move in to northpoint and im-mediately they can have an eco-friendly way of liv-ing. They just need to get in touch with Camella at Delgar bldg., JP Laurel Ave., bajada, telephone 295-3973.

With the environment facing many stressors, liv-ing green comes as a moral thing to do. but how exactly

does northpoint allow its homeowners to live green? by allowing them to con-sume less energy, thereby reducing impact to the en-vironment emanating from power generation, and re-ducing their individual car-bon footprint.

northpoint’s condos are designed to let natural air flow through the build-ings through the atriums, indoor gardens, wide win-dows in the stairwell, and other ventilation openings in the structures.

Liverpool, the 4th tower, will have Sky Gardens, wide openings from the building’s façade that allows cooler air to circulate freely around the hallways, corridors, common areas, indoor gardens, and individual condo units, providing fresh air to each unit.

With excellent venti-lation, northpoint’s build-ings are cooler. Unit own-ers can opt to keep their air-conditioner off in the morning and in the after-noon, and turn it on only during the hottest time of the day like lunch time.

They can even keep the aircon off at night, as northpoint has a refresh-ing environment with its verdant surroundings of profuse plant life and im-

ported Caribbean pine trees that also give off a fra-grant scent.

northpoint residents can also conserve energy through lesser demand for artificial lighting with the very same features that give the condo buildings excellent indoor air qual-ity. northpoint’s hallways are also naturally light-ed by sunlight stream-ing through the skylights found at the roof of each condo building.

The skylights illumi-nate the indoor garden and the landscaped atri-um. The condo’s wide win-dows also let natural light into the unit, lighting its interior. Homeowners will find no need for artificial lighting during the day.

With the electricity bill eating up an average of 25% of the budget of a common household, northpoint’s energy-sav-ing features is a boon to its homeowners. It’s a

win-win proposition for northpoint residents: sav-ing energy, reducing their carbon impact, and saving money from reduced pow-er bills.

northpoint is a show-case of Vista residences commitment to the envi-ronment, anchored on the commitment of its hold-ing company Vista Land & Lifescapes, the largest homebuilder in the coun-try.

northpoint units are

currently offered with remarkable discounts that can reach as much as P750,000, plus additional discounts for those who make spot payments. For the Kadayawan month, down payment terms have been stretched to 34 months at 15%.

More information is available at http://www.camella.com.ph/, like “Ca-mella Official” on Face-book and follow “@Camel-laOfficial” on Twitter.

Northpoint’s green features save energy

Northpoint’s fourth tower, Liverpool (center), has Sky Gardens, openings within its facade that allow cool air and sunlight to enter the building.

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PROPERTY

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It figures

1,175 22million pesos 12,842,250.00pesosVolunteers who responded immediately to the Depart-ment of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) call for help to repackage and load for transport thousands of family food packs for the victims of the floods brought about by tropical storm Maring and the enhanced south-west monsoon. If you want to join them, head over to the National Resource Operation Center at NAIA Chapel Road, Pasay City.

The combined worth of relief as-sistance the DSWD, local govern-ment units, and nongovernment organizations have provided vic-tims of the floods, as of August 22, 2013.

The amount of relief, in the form of food and non-food items, released by the DSWD alone, broken down as follows: NCR, P4,720,000.00; Region III, 6,250,000.00; and Region IV-A, P1,872,250.00. The items include family food packs, high-energy bis-cuits, plastic mats, and blankets.

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2012-April 2013)

Month 2013 2012 2011

Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45

September 41.75 43.02August 42.04 42.42

July 41.91 42.81June 42.78 43.37May 42.85 43.13April 42.70 43.24

March 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17

Stat Watch7.1

1st Qtr 2013

7.8 1st Qtr 2013

USD 3,741 million

Feb 2013USD 4,708

million Feb 2013USD -967

million Feb 2013USD -640

millionDec 2012

P 4,964,560 million

Feb 2013

2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609

million Mar 2013

P 5,281 billion

Mar 2013

P 41.14 Apr 2013

6,847.5 Mar 2013

132.8 Apr 2013

2.6 Apr 2013

3.1 Apr 2013

418,108 Feb 2013

20.9% Jan 2013

7.1% Jan 2013

1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

6 EDGEDAVAO

AbOITIZPOWEr sub-sidiaries, Hedcor, Inc. obtained recertifica-

tion anew of three Inter-national Organization for Standardization (ISO) certif-icates while Hedcor Sibulan, Inc. secured another three.

After extensive series of auditing and testing, Certifi-cation International Philip-pines, Inc (CIP), an ISO cer-tifying body in the country awarded the 90001:2008 or Quality Management System, 14001:2004 or Environmen-tal Management System and OHSAS 18001:2007 or Oc-cupational Health and Safety Management to Hedcor Sib-ulan, Inc.

Since the commission-ing of the hydropower plant last 2010, the plant had been supplying clean and renewable energy to Davao. Conforming to the compa-ny’s mission to operate and develop efficient plants, constant improvements and upgrading of assets and ser-vices are undertaken.

“We take pride in this in-ternational certification be-cause it is a manifestation on how we work integrating quality, safety and security in everything we do”, Hedcor’s Vice President for Mindan-ao Operations, rolando Pac-quiao, said.

Hedcor, Inc. on the other hand continues to meet and maintain standards as prov-en by its recertification of the same international cer-tificates. Keen to efficiency

and productivity, Hedcor, Inc. unfailingly commits to standard.

Since its first certifica-tion on QMS, last 2000, Hed-cor, Inc. continued and ex-plored more opportunities to improve prompting them to add more certifications reaching global standards. Last year, Hedcor added ISO 27001, the International standard for Information Se-curity Management Systems or ISMS. It is how the compa-ny manages the confidential-ity, integrity and availability of information.

”This is another achieve-ment that justifies how Hedcor works— at par with

global standards” Chris Fa-elnar, Hedcor’s Senior Vice President voiced.

Collectively known as Integrated Management Systems, these certificates showcase the companies’ adherence to continual en-hancement. It is how the company manages its pro-cesses to meet customer requirements and expecta-tions.

Quality Management System 90001:2008 exem-plifies the company’s sys-tematic control of activities to ensure that needs and expectations of customers are met or even exceeded. Environmental Management

System 14001:2004 pro-vide assurance to company management and employees as well as stakeholders that environmental impact is be-ing measured and improved. On the other hand, OHSAS 18001:2007 or Occupational Health and Safety Manage-ment is a representation of working health and safety management system that demonstrates commitment to welfare of employees..

Hedcor is the largest developer of run-of-river hydropower plants in the country operating 19 plants in benguet, Ilocos Sur and Davao with a total capacity of 155 megawatts.

HEDCOR IS INTERNATIONALLY CERTIFIED. Joselito Soler (right) of CIP formally handed over the award to Hedcor’s VP Mindanao Operations, Rolando Pacquiao (left). Attaining global standards to reach its vision of generating 2 billion kilowatt hours of Cleanergy by 2020.

AboitizPower subsidiaries get ISO certification

TWO more SM shopping malls will rise in bu-tuan City and Cagayan

de Oro City in Mindanao next year.

“The butuan mall will be (opened) around 2014 and Cagayan de Oro mall will fol-low suit...Construction has not yet started, we are still on the designing stage,” SM Su-permalls assistant vice presi-dent Debby Go told reporters.

Go said the Cagayan de Oro

City mall, a second SM shop-ping center in the area, will serve communities around the city as well as those from Iligan and Marawi cities.

She also sees a lot of growth potential in butuan City being the center of the Caraga region.

The two malls will bring to six the total number of SM shopping centers in Mindan-ao.

SM currently has four

malls in the island –the SM City Davao, the SM Lanang Premiere, SM City Cagayan de Oro and SM City General Santos City.

Go said the four shopping centers now account for four to five percent of SM Prime Holdings Inc.’s total reve-nues.

“We have a marching order to hit double-digit growth in terms of reve-nues and income (across all

chains). On the region’s tar-get, in terms of contribution to the entire SM Supermalls, it is just maintained at that rate,” she said.

SM Prime operates 47 malls all over the country with a total gross floor area of about six million square meters.

For the rest of 2013, it is scheduled to launch SM City bF Paranaque and five malls in China. [PnA]

SM malls to rise in two Mindanao cities

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SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

nEArLY 20 million people in China could be exposed

to water contaminated with arsenic, a study sug-gests.

Scientists used infor-mation about the geology of the country to predict the areas most likely to be affected by the poison.

The report is pub-lished in the journal Sci-ence.

Arsenic occurs natu-rally in the Earth’s crust, but if it leaches into groundwater, long-term exposure can cause seri-ous health risks.

These include skin problems and cancers of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney.

Geological mapsUntil now, estimating

the scale of arsenic con-tamination in large coun-tries has been difficult.

China is thought to have more than 10 million drinking wells, and each needs to be screened to establish whether any toxic com-pounds are present. This process could take de-cades.

Instead, researchers from Switzerland and China looked at geolog-ical maps of the country.

Dr Annette Johnson,

from the Swiss Feder-al Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) and a co-author of the study, explained: “In the last few years the amount of geospatial information - electron-ic maps - that’s become available is large. You have information such as climate data, land use, and distance to the river or elevation.”

Using this informa-tion, and by looking at the types of rocks pres-ent in the country, and in particular their age, the researchers pinpointed the regions where the toxic element is most likely to be found.

Their findings sug-gest that 19.6 million people in China could be exposed to unsafe levels in their drinking water, including some living in areas areas not previous-ly thought to be at risk.

Dr Johnson told the bbC World Service pro-gramme Science in Ac-tion: “They are areas along river basins where there is irrigation and ag-riculture, including areas that were known previ-ously such as the Huhhot basin in Inner Mongolia, but there are also new ar-eas in the central Sichuan

province and along the east coast.”

The researchers say the findings could help the Chinese authorities with their well-screening programmes.

Dr Johnson explained: “What it is very import-ant to do is to go to the areas that are hotspots and screen those first.

The chances are you will find more contaminated wells than wells that are not contaminated.

“And in the other ar-eas, you still have to make sure you do screening for arsenic, but it is probably not such a high priority.”

Wells that are con-taminated could be ei-ther treated or taken out

of use, she added.The researchers be-

lieve this new prediction method could used else-where around the world.

Arsenic contamina-tion of groundwater is found in central Europe, South America, parts of the US and Asia.

but one country that could benefit is ban-

gladesh, where arsenic poisoning has been de-scribed by the World Health Organization as a “public health emergen-cy”.

It is estimated that between 35 million and 77 million people there are at risk of drinking contaminated water. [bbC]

China’s exposure to arsenic water estimated

EARNING FROM ‘RECYCLABLES’. Young scavengers make business by picking plastics and other recyclable materials dumped by the recent monsoon rains along Manila Bay in Roxas Boulevard on Saturday, August 24, 2013. [PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan]

An unusual caterpil-lar uses the sun to navigate as it jumps

to safety, according to sci-entists.

The larva of Calindoea trifascialis, a species of moth native to Vietnam, wraps itself in a leaf be-fore dropping to the forest floor.

It then spends three days searching for a suit-able place to pupate, de-spite not being able to see out of its shelter.

Experts found the in-sect used a piston-like motion to jump away from strong sunlight.

“We believe the object of the jumping is to find

shade - to avoid over-heating and desiccation,” explained Mr Kim Hum-phreys from the royal Ontario Museum, Canada who conducted the re-search alongside Dr Chris-topher Darling.

Their findings are pub-lished in the royal Society journal biology Letters.

Although Mr Hum-phreys described the cat-erpillar as “non-descript” in appearance, he said its behaviour makes it unique in a number of ways.

“Caterpillars or larvae that jump are rare in them-selves,” he said. “[This] cat-erpillar is remarkable for its jumping, which no oth-

er insect does in this way. It also makes its own vehi-cle [or] shelter to jump in.”

“It is also the only one I know of that jumps in an oriented way.”

C. trifascialis is found throughout South East Asia and researchers were initially studying the cat-erpillar’s defence mecha-nism in Yok Don national Park, Vietnam.

It secretes a pun-gent-smelling toxic fluid from glands behind two arm-like protrusions to protect itself from ants.

After storing a num-ber of caterpillars under his bed, Mr Humphreys woke the next day to a

“thumping” sound as the leaf-wrapped larvae tried to jump out of their plas-tic container.

“I was absolutely struck speechless when I first saw this,” he said.

To understand why the caterpillars jumped, the researchers studied them in the lab. Con-structing transparent leaf rolls from plastic allowed them to see how the in-sects moved inside their shelters.

To jump, the caterpil-lar anchors its rear pro-legs to the floor of its shel-ter and lowers its head. Its front section then sud-denly moves backward, causing the animal to arch upwards.

Its back strikes the ‘ceiling’ of the shelter, causing the whole struc-ture to jump backwards.

Field studies showed the caterpillars moving in this way for around three days.

Previous studies have suggested that larvae jump to avoid predators, parasites or sunlight.

In their research, Mr Humphreys and Dr Dar-ling found that the jump-ing caterpillars were safer from predators when they fell to the ground but were then vulnerable to over-heating in sunlight. [bbC]

TRANSFORMATION. The caterpillars pupate to transform into moths.

Caterpillar does not look where it leapsErnest Shackleton’s fa-

mous ship, the Endurance, which he had to abandon in 1915 on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, is probably still in very good condition on the ocean floor.

This is one conclusion from research that stud-ied how sunken wood de-grades in southern polar waters.

Experiments that sub-merged planks for over a year found they returned to the surface in near-pris-tine condition.

Scientists point to the absence in the region of wood-boring “ship worms”.

Anywhere else in the world, these molluscs would normally devour sunken wood rapidly.

but Adrian Glover from London’s natural History Museum says the currents that circle the Antarctic likely prevent the organ-isms from getting any-where near the continent.

t means the remains of old wooden shipwrecks, such as the oak- and pine-constructed Endur-ance, which was pierced by ice, may be remarkably well preserved in their water graves at the bot-

tom of the sea.“I think it’s a reason-

able hypothesis to suggest Endurance is still in good condition, certainly based on our experiments and what we know about low microbial rates of degra-dation in the cold Antarc-tic deep sea,” Dr Glover told bbC news.

“Marine archaeolo-gists and historians have long dreamt of finding the wreck and recovering ar-tefacts from Shackleton’s expedition. but I’m inter-ested in how deep-sea ecosystems function and how they recycle large or-ganic inputs. All that oak and pinewood down there would be an amazing ex-periment in itself, and it would be fascinating to see it.”

Dr Glover’s interna-tional team reports its lat-est Antarctic research in this week’s edition of the royal Society journal Pro-ceedings b.

The scientists recount how they put samples of whale bone and wood on platforms and then low-ered them to the sea bed.

They wanted to study the activity of some of the strangest creatures in the deep ocean. [bbC]

Antarctic likely to preserve wrecks


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EDITORIALSolomonic?

EnErGY Secretary Carlos Jerico Petilla rendered what some people call a Solomonic decision on the long-running war between two boards of

directors over control of the Davao del norte Elec-tric Cooperative, Inc. (Daneco). The warring factions are the Daneco-CDA board, which favors the con-version of Daneco into a cooperative under the Co-operative Development Authority, and Daneco-nEA which wants the cooperative to remain under the oversight supervision of the national Electrifica-tions Administration. The controversy has reached the courts.

The squabble has caused confusion among mem-bers of the cooperative where they belong and to which of the two they should pay their light bills, even as still others have decided not to pay at all. no wonder, Daneco’s indebtedness to its creditors had ballooned. Daneco is indebted to one creditor alone – the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to the tune of close to P300 million. Expectedly, PSALM will soon serve a notice of discon-

nection to Daneco, threatening its service areas with very damaging continuing blackouts that would last until the cooperative is able to settle its unpaid bills.

The specter of disconnection has worried the eco-nomic and political leaders of Compostela Valley and Davao del norte who fear that, without power, they would have to kiss their development dreams good-bye.

However, hope springs from Secretary Petilla’s be-ing able to convince the warring factions to bow to whatever the cooperative’s 160,000 members decide in a referendum on January 2, 2014, as to which be-tween Daneco-nEA and Daneco-CDA they want to belong.

Meanwhile, Petilla has ordered an audit of the monies that were handled by both Daneco-nEA and Daneco-CDA.

Whether the agreements brokered by Petilla will work, considering the possible legal maneuvers that can throw a monkey wrench into the messy situation, only time can tell.

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On the way to my holiday in Italy this year, I had an epiphany about the state of the world economy. I stopped

for lunch in the truly miraculous Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, where Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped cannon-balls from the Lean-ing Tower to test his theories of motion. A few years later, Galileo invented the telescope to amass the detailed astronomical observations that were needed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the heliocentric theory of the universe — the idea that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way round, as the bi-ble implied. Galileo was famously tried by the Inquisition for this heresy and decided to re-cant, presumably inspired by what happened to his fellow-mathematician Giordano bruno, who was burnt at the stake for similar ideas. but after mechanically recanting, Galileo mut-tered under his breath the rebellious phrase for which he is still renowned: eppur si muove — “and yet it moves.”

As I enjoyed my lunch in Pisa, Galileo’s de-fiantly optimistic words echoed through my mind. “And yet it moves” seemed perfectly to describe what I had felt about the world econ-omy and financial markets since the crisis of 2008.

For the past five years, the media and fi-nancial markets have resounded with proph-ecies of doom. Economists have strained to prove why life would never be the same again; why bankruptcy was inevitable for great na-

tions such as Italy, France, britain and even the United States, Japan and China, and why the pre-crisis decades of prosperity would have to be followed by an era of repentance — or else a biblical Day of reckoning would be upon us.

Yet the world has continued to turn, even as the Last Trumpets were sounding. Since early 2009, economic conditions in most of the world have been steadily improving, em-ployment has rebounded in the United States, britain and Asia and recently even in parts of Europe. Corporate profits have been expand-ing everywhere and stock markets have risen almost without interruption.

The gap between dire predictions and real-ity is particularly striking today in southern Eu-rope — especially in Italy. With unprecedent-ed unemployment, governments falling like bowling pins and the euro project crumbling, for many pundits some kind of social collapse seemed inevitable. Yet there have been no rev-olutions, no breakdowns of democracy, no se-rious public revolts, even in countries such as Italy and Spain, with recent histories of terrible political violence. Part of the explanation lies in the big advances in genuine economic pros-

perity and welfare provision in the pre-crisis decades. As a result, the hardship today is no-where near as bad as it was in the 1970s and 1980s, except perhaps in Greece. Another part of the answer is that time itself is a great healer and a crisis postponed, as the euro crisis has been, eventually becomes a crisis resolved.

In Italy, it appears that nothing significant has been done to resolve the euro crisis. busi-nesses are still strangled by credit restrictions and new taxes. Many of the reforms imposed by former Prime Minister Mario Monti are be-ing reversed and the government is, as usual, on the brink of collapsing.

Despite all these problems, eppur si mu-ove, as Galileo said. Italy’s economic statistics are gradually improving and the mood among Italians this summer is palpably better than a year ago. The huge IKEA store just north of rome was thronging with customers, and the shopping mall it anchors — one of the biggest in Europe – was as busy as any I have seen in britain or the United States. Even Italy’s noto-riously decrepit infrastructure has improved impressively in the past two years, despite all the reported public spending cutbacks. After decades of delays, the rome and Flor-ence ring-roads have been completed; many miles of highways have been resurfaced with sound-barriers erected, and high-speed trains are racing along impressive new high-speed railways from Venice and Milan to rome and naples.

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THE organizers of the “Million People March” nationwide are right. President benigno “noynoy” Aquino heard but has

not listened. So, the March must go on even if he has declared the abolition of the PDAF (Pri-ority Development Assistance Fund) of the members of Congress. The “F” will remain in-tact in the 2014 budget. The “P”, the “D” and the “A” will be reformulated.

What is there to celebrate? none! not at this time. The people want the House of Cor-ruption named “PDAF” demolished. Mr. Aqui-no will only renovate it and change the name. Anybody who has lived through the Common-wealth to the present republic will testify that the same SOP or modus operandi has turned a clean bureaucracy into a nest of corruption – change the name after the renovation. Same dog, different collar!

Here’s the paradox. In the 1930s and up to the 1950s, there were fewer office positions compared to today. An office employee per-formed related functions. Later, positions were split to spread out functions. reasons: To have more efficiency and to prevent corruption. Yet, in those early years, one did not have to offer coffee or lunch to speed up the processing of papers.

Don’t get me wrong. Creating office po-sitions for specific functions – this is called “streamlining” – is the better system. but the system has been deformed to serve the “private good” rather than the “public”.

And, the greater paradox! The “people” and “public service” have always been the reasons for innovations called “reforms”. They are the reasons for entrenching the PDAF – in different names and modus operandi since the first Phil-ippine President. They are the same reasons for the institution and proliferation of the nGOs (non-government organizations) after EDSA I. now, it can be asked: Who are the people, the public? There’s the path to heaven detoured to hell.

When the multi-billion peso napoles scan-dal was exposed a month ago, the Palace said the President was against abolishing the PDAF. Then the President reconsidered his position as he conferred with congressional leaders. A week ago, the “Million People March” was launched in the web. As the “netizen” move-ment gathered momentum – like the LDA (low depressed area) intensifying into a storm -- the President, three days ago, announced, flanked by the Senate president and House speaker, to abolish the PDAF.

Speaker Feliciano belmonte urged the members of the House to accept the Presi-dent’s decision. That’s sheer drama. They, the majority, already had. Their concern for the people and public service will be taken care of. The executive and the legislative will meet to agree on how the PDAF will be renovated and renamed – to be engrafted into the resolutions to abolish already filed in both the House and the Senate.

Let’s wait to see the renovation and the new name – the new collar of the same dog. Then will be the time to celebrate or to take to the streets.

Let’s not forget the Marcos martial law. The first three months showed changes for the bet-ter only to turn into the worst in the next four-teen years.

Let’s not forget the EDSA I. The “people power” reverberated throughout the world and was replicated by some oppressed nations. Yet, the fruits rotted before they could ripen under the Cory Aquino and ramos governments.

Let’s not forget the EDSA II. Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her impromptu acceptance and inaugural speech as the new president made three promises that could have brought glorious days to the Philippines. Yet, she turned 180 degrees around and the 3,390 days after are remembered mostly for the nightmares.

Is President Aquino III really different? Yet, it should be asked: If it would suffice just to renovate and rename PDAF, why did he not do it on Day One of his administration in 2010? but if the same renovating and renaming by his predecessors did not work, will his doing the same be different?

The “Million People March” is right. The President heard but has not listened. The mil-lion “netizens” want him to listen. Will they not be disappointed like the million citizens in the People Power of EDSA I? [Patricio P. Diaz/Min-danews]

By AnAtole KAletSKyCOMMENTARY

PAtricio P. DiAz MIND DA NEWS

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AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent

Not the Timeto Celebrate

People’s logical effort

Let the great economy spin

UPHEAVAL AGAInST SAnCTIOnED PrIVILEGE AnD VESTED InTErEST – Our people have long felt the need for

national unity. Probably this was the compel-ling reason for launching the “Million People March” to strongly denounce widespread corruption embroiling the highly controver-sial Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) otherwise known as “pork-barrel” funds. The strength emanates from the col-lective will of our people and closer coopera-tion that resulted in greater participation by disgusted different groups not only in Metro Manila but likewise in all capital cities across the country.

Groups of diverse political inclinations, colors and stripes and people from all walks in life declared their desire to persuade Pres-ident benigno Aquino III to make true his assurance to abolish with finality the pork barrel funds granted to members of Con-gress, and of course, to the executive branch. However, political analysts raised doubts and noted with great interest if the just conclud-ed people’s march against PDAF can contrib-ute much to foster the spirit of solidarity, or if its voices will be heard or respected, coming as it does from the collective minds of street parliamentarians, persistent critics, political detractors and ordinary people.

What we are witnessing here – it seems to me – is a widespread uprising against sanc-tioned privilege and vested interest. People have now come to realize there are many roads to progress without the members of Congress devouring too much on pork barrel funds. And it is true that, to a poor and impa-tient people development should not merely depend more on the scandal-prone PDAF. be-yond that, economic experts reiterated that

g o v e r n m e n t funds intended for infrastruc-ture and agri-cultural projects and basic social services instead should be chan-neled through the appropri-ate implanting agencies to avoid irregular-ities. After all, the role of senators and con-gressmen is not to pinpoint and implement projects, but to enact and promulgate laws supposedly in gorgeous foundation.

The complimentarity of the people’s action hinges on the strength of their be-liefs, thus they need the commitment of ev-eryone from the different ranks to be more vigilant. President Pnoy may have officially pronounce the total abolishment of PDAF aimed at ending the lurid tales of corruption, but least people won’t forget there are be-hind-the-scene “political undercurrent” or-chestrated by some top leaders of Congress stealthily nudging the President to retain the pork barrel funds – at all cost. This time, though, reports have it they’re serious in their intent and determined not to squander the PDAF funds, and must be wide-ranging in its concept. Tell that to the Marines, gentle-men and ladies!

Having experience the advantages of PDAF, our political leaders treasure more the right to run their affair through a representa-tive system because for so many of our poor people, politicians – as unsavory as some of them may seem to the people are still neces-

sary and often beneficial influence in their never-ending struggle to obtain progress both in the urban and rural communities. This self-centered view is easy to understand but it is also a mistaken one, and the people therefore should be extra cautious to avoid falling into the trap. One reason is that the pork barrel scam proved to be an “eye-open-er” and still majority often associate repre-sentative institutions with political irrespon-sibility.

Today’s question is no longer whether people would swallow the president’s prom-ise to scrap the PDAF “hook, line and sinker,” but how far his guarantee should go. Adding my little voice, I for one think the pork bar-rel funds can go – it must go – far beyond the sanctimoniousness of Congress to the nuts and bolts of problems – and unluckiness that face the masses of our people. because as the experts have pointed out, the pork barrel distribution system has changed a great deal since it was initiated many years ago, since members of Congress became the direct project planners – in fact, since the whole concept of the distribution of funds were gleaming in the eyes of some enterprising and cash-oriented lawmakers.

now it’s up to the people to make their demand comes true. And the unrest is the most logical effort because it really speaks with the voice of our million-strong collec-tive constituency. The common initiative people have taken and shared against un-abated corruption recognizes their concern about the rising threat from the misuse of pork barrel and other government funds, and the urgency of involving the elderly and the young among our people to push an advoca-cy worth everybody’s support.

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rizal Park yesterday took turns in denouncing the government for failing to stop the abusive way law-makers spend their PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund).

Davao City conve-nor Jon Joaquin said the march is “successful” but needs to be sustained.

“Yes, I think it was suc-cessful because we gath-ered more people than we expected and in so short a time,” said Joaquin who walked and ran barefoot.

Joaquin said he be-lieves yesterday’s protest action was able to send the message across but he cautioned that it is important to sustain the movement.

“We didn’t expect a lot of people because it was short notice. We did not place a number but cer-tainly not 3,000 as they are reporting. We were happy that we got many groups and private indi-viduals to join,” Joaquin told Edge Davao in a pri-vate message on Face-book.

The protest action, a concerted nationwide ac-tion, had 682 confirmed attendees based on the invitations sent out by its Davao convenors on so-cial media site Facebook.

An hour before the rally started at 9 a.m., Joa-quin led the barefoot run with a few participants beginning and ending at rizal Park--the rally ven-ue. The gathering ended at 10:30 a.m.

While the rally was going on, a live pig named by organizers as “Porky”

inside a pen carried by a tricycle was placed just below the plaza stage.

Fr. Joel Tabora, Ate-neo de Davao president, read a statement of eight paragraphs of four to five sentences each paragraph which has a version in the ADDU website.

Tabora said the gath-ering was not defined by the alleged corruption of one Janet napoles, but by “our love for one another.”

“We demand change, not just perfume on the stinking rat (pork barrel scam),” he said, adding that government spend-ing must be based on intelligent foresight, de-tailed budgetary plan-ning, integrity, trans-parency, control, and accountability. “Integrity will prevail,” he said.

Aside from the Ateneo de Davao, other groups represented in the rally were the Holy Cross of Davao College, Assump-tion College of Davao, Sisters’ Association of Mindanao, Mother of Per-petual Help Community, Anakbayan, Sambayan, Makabayan Coalition, Migrante, Kadamay, Pag-babago! People’s Move-ment for Change, Kilu-sang Mayo Uno, Alliance of Concerned Teachers and KAMKEM.

only one local offi-cial in attendance

There was only one local official seen in yes-terday’s protest action in councilor Leo Avila who wore a shirt with the words “I AM UnHAPPY.”

“I am not happy how they spend the money,

gisuroy-suroy lang atong kwarta. I am a pro to abol-ish the pork barrel sys-tem,” Avila said.

How many attendedMediamen who cov-

ered the gathering, ral-ly veterans themselves, gave different estimates on the number of partic-ipants. ben Tesiorna of Solar news and Carmelito Q. Francisco of Mindan-ao Times and business World placed crowd esti-mate at 1,000. Judy Quiros of Mindanao Daily Mirror and Philippine Daily In-quirer at less than 1,000, E.J. Dominic Fernandez of Edge Davao at 700, Emi-lord Castromayor, also of Edge Davao, at more than 300, Tomas Avancena of Mindanao Journal at more than 600, bing Gonzales, photographer of Mind-anao Times and PDI at about 800, Kiking Quim-pan of radyo Ukay-dxUM at more than 600.

Mick basa, online re-porter and university professor, said the partic-ipants did not reach 800, saying he used a traffic counter to count the par-ticipants.

A few media persons however had more gen-erous estimates. Maymay benedicto of AbS-Cbn ra-dio said there were more than 1,000, where Waway Alcover, her fellow worker in the AbS-Cbn television said it was 3,000 plus, based on the estimate given by Sr. Supt. ronald “bato” dela rosa, Davao City Police Office (DCPO) director. Edith regalado of Philippine Star said she counted 3,000 to 3,500

people join the rally. Jeremy “bong” Eliab,

executive assistant to the president of the Ateneo de Davao University, said the participants reached more than 1,000 most of whom were Ateneo stu-dents, faculty members and alumni.

SuggestionsSome of those who

joined the protest sug-gested a “special body” representing different sectors in the allocation of budget.

Monica Ayala, con-venor of biker group Cy-cle for Life, said they are against the abolition of pork barrel system.

“Government must be transparent. I am here to learn more about this is-sue so that I can also share it to my co-bicyclists .Sana yung 10 billion nilaan na lang sa road development marami mga katulad ko naaksidente dahil sira yung daan,” Ayala said.

Militant Grace Gama-linda, coordinator of Mi-grante Davao, said that overseas Filipino work-ers who are also mem-bers of their alliance in Hongkong, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan also condemned the misused of fund by wearing black armbands last Sunday.

national debateThe Centrist Demo-

cratic Party (CDP) headed by Lito Monico Lorenzana, former Interior and Local Government Minister and deputy minister of the Ministry of Environment and natural resources, distributed leaflets wel-coming the national de-

bate on the pork barrels.“For reasons of fair-

ness we acknowledge that many Senators and Congressmen have used major parts of their pork barrels to address social problems, to help the poor and disadvantaged of the population and to develop health and ed-ucation infrastructure..” the CDP statement said.

“However, the results of the COA examina-tion for the years 2007-2009and the figures and facts presented to the public by whistleblowers about the frauds commit-ted through the use of the fake nGO schemes have clearly demonstrated that the misuse and abuse of the congressional pork barrels is a widespread reality,” it added.

The CDP said “the system is prone to cor-ruption and used by the unscrupulous to divert public funds for person-al gain; more specifical-ly using this money for doleouts and vote-buying for their election; recover their campaign expenses; and perpetuating and their families in power.”

Social media and ‘Selfie’

The Million People March which originated on Facebook also drew a deluge of mixed reac-tions on social media posted by Dabawenyos. Most of those who joined the march posted photo-graphs on their Facebook accounts.

Students took “sel-fie” photos from their smartphones and tablets

during yesterday’ march.Posted on the official

Fb page of the Million People March (Davao) in-clude this reaction from Icon Jen Chua, “sana pag-katapos ng nation-wide event na ito, we as a peo-ple continue to show that we want change. and the best place to start change is within ourselves. be-cause if we cannot be good citizens, how do we expect our government, our leaders, our country itself to be good as well? sana tuloy2 ang pagbaba-go, at sana magmula ito sa sarili natin. sample nalang: wag tumawid kung saan bawal tumaw-id. wag sumakay kung saan bawal sumakay. wag tumapon kung saan baw-al tumapon.”

Liza Lc Par also post-ed: “i want to be counted together with the others who are disgusted to say the least about how our leaders misuse the peo-ple’s hard-earned mon-ey.”

From Gylord Mason: “unti-unting pagbabago ay hindi masama..tulun-gan ntin ang bansang ibangun muli mula sa pagkakabaon sa putik na pinag-gulungan ng POrK bArrEL.”

Some pro-pork tooGary Hermohenes, 61,

a retired teacher, resid-ing in Calinan, Davao City that he is pro-pork barrel if it is for the services of the people.“ “Pork bar-rel is for poor people. Ipadayon kung makaayo kung usik-usikan lang may pa tanggalon,” he said.

Some of the march-ers were students from ADDU who constituted the chunk of the attendees, Holy Cross of Davao Col-lege (HCDC), Assumption College of Davao, redemp-torist Mission Communi-ty, Sisters Association in Mindanao (SAMin), The Centrist Democratic Par-ty (CDP), Statement of the Kahugpungan sa mga Magtutudlo ug Kawani sa Edukasyon sa Mindan-ao Alliance of Concerned Teachers (KAMKEM-ACT), Pagbabago People’s Move-ment for Change – South-ern Mindanao region, Makabayan and Anak-bayan.

Aside from Tabora,

other speakers included Davao Association of Cath-olic Schools’ (DACS) Jim-mie-Loe dela Vega, Samin executive secretary noemi Degala, CDP Davao head Ceasar billiones and Pag-babago convenor, lawyer Fatima Irene Adin.

Dela Vega, referring to the Catholic Educa-tional Association of the Philippines (CEAP) stand against the PDAF, entitled: Let the Truth Out, which said, “Let the truth finally come out relative to the PDAF, make its use totally transparent and account-able, or abolish it.”

Degala quoted the motto of their association: “So long as there are peo-

ple who are poor, Samin will continue to fight against the corrupt, espe-cially those who exploit the PDAF, until poverty is eradicated.

billiones said the stand of CDP which is for the ab-olition of the Congressional PDAF, and demanded that the Department of Finance should come up within 90 days with a complete, detailed and transparent list of all existing funds similar to the congressio-nal pork barrel not under the ordinary procurement and bidding procedure for public projects at different government units, local administrations and local elected officials.

2014.before the January

referendum, specifical-ly starting September 1, Daneco-nEA will have sole prerogative to collect electric bills of all Daneco members, Governor Uy told Edge Davao.

This is resorted to af-ter Daneco had incurred close to P300 million in-debtedness to the Power Sector Assets and Liabil-ities Management Corp. (PSALM).

UY said nEA and DOE

had urged Daneco con-sumers to pay their bills on time, other face the grim prospect of being disconnected from the grid and be thrown into darkness.

Among the local gov-ernment units (LGUs) af-fected, the Island Garden City of Samal is the most worrisome, IGaCoS City Administrator Cleto b. Gales Jr. said.

Gales said without electricity, IGaCos resi-dents can kiss their dream

of becoming a premiere tourist destination of the region goodbye.

If Samalnons have their way, however, they would rather have a power provider other than Daneco, one which is capable of putting the underwater power cable always in serviceable con-dition.

He said under Daneco, the submarine cable had broken down many times, thereby causing power interruption for weeks.

CITY Sports Of-fie coordinator William “butch”

ramirez says he would bring sports to the grassroots level starting with his comprehensive sports program.

Speaking in yester-day’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM Annex, Ecoland, ramirez told members of the media that there has never been a con-crete sports program foe the city.

He added that var-ious sectors organize their own respective tournaments and do not coordinate with each other, and he intends to change all that in such a way that everyone would know the correct schedule of games, their venues and what teams are involved.

When he was still head of the Philippine Sports Commission, the motto then was “sports for all.”

He said that this could only be realized if local government units (LGU) will bring sports programs to the grass-roots or barangay level, adding, “there are 182 city barangays, and if we organize a barangay sports council, we may find future Olympics tal-ents.”

Another benefit in creating a comprehen-sive sports program is the reintroduction of forgotten traditional Fil-ipino sports to the chil-dren, especially these days when so many kids are engroassed with their tabs and iPads.

At age 63, he says he

would like to leave a leg-acy through a compre-hensive sports program which also highlighta sports for street chil-dren, informal settlers, tribal sports, and com-munity sports.

He believes that this will help children from becoming wayward and get in conflict with the law by commiting pety crimes.

ramirez would also like to focus on specta-tor sports, like basket-ball and football as these tend to bring in large audiences and may even help boost the tourism industry.

He is particular about focusing on which do not require height to acquire excellence, such as archery, fencing and boxing.

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MILLION PEOPLE MARCH. Thousands gather against the alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel of lawmakers in front of the Quirino grandstand at Rizal Park, Manila on Monday (August 26, 2013). [PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan]

TEnS of thousands of people gathered in a central Manila

park on Monday to pro-test against embedded corruption in the Philip-pine political system af-ter a rallying call on Face-book and Twitter.

The so-called “million people march” is one of the largest public demon-strations since President benigno Aquino was elected in 2010 on an an-ti-corruption platform.

The protesters ranged from nuns and priests and students to business-men, middle-class fam-

ilies, lawyers and other professionals, showcas-ing the broad-based an-ger over graft in the im-poverished nation.

“The Filipino people are now modern. Proof is the million people march that we can’t be fooled by our leaders anymore,” a protester calling himself Gundam08 tweeted from the rally site.

Government officials’ misuse of funds has been long embedded and prac-tically accepted in the Philippine political sys-tem but a series of news-paper articles, like about

how government funds were allegedly diverted into private hands, have stirred new anger out-side of the usual protest groups.

The calls for the pro-test began circulating on Facebook and Twitter about two weeks ago af-ter reports in the popular Philippine Daily Inquirer of an alleged scam involv-ing legislators’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).

The PDAF is money allocated for lawmakers to be used in their pet de-velopment projects. Crit-

ics see it as funding “pork barrel” projects which have traditionally been a source of corruption.

At the centre of the controversy is a woman the newspapers report-ed to have allegedly con-nived with legislators to siphon off some 10 billion pesos ($230 mil-lion) from the fund.

Aquino had previous-ly expanded the PDAF under his 2014 budget so that each senator will re-ceive 200 million pesos ($4.5 million) while each member of the House of representatives gets 70

million pesos for their “pork barrel.”

but in the face of growing anger earlier this month, he had sus-pended the releases of money and vowed to re-form the PDAF system.

The protestors, car-rying signs saying “Abol-ish pork barrel” and “Change the culture of political patronage,” were peaceful even if they appeared to have no leader, said national police spokesman Senior Superintendent reuben Sindac.

“It’s a very respect-

able gathering. There are families here like a picnic. They are policing their own ranks. This is purely social-network propelled,” he told AFP while monitoring the rally.

Of the huge crowd at the Luneta Park, only a few hundred were from the leftist protest groups that usually lead such street protests, he said.

Similar rallies were being held in public parks throughout the country, Sindac said, adding they were also peaceful.[AFP]

MANILAMANILA

Facebook rallies thousands to protest

FOrMEr Chief Justice renato Corona, who was

impeached for unex-plained wealth, was one with the people in the Million People March in Luneta.

Welcomed with boos, thumbs down gestures and “epal”

chants, Corona raised his fist and sang “bayan Ko” with the crowd. His wife, Cris-tina roco, was teary-eyed while singing.

When prodded why Corona was at the ral-ly, a smile was all the former chief justice could give.

Corona was flanked by his wife and several friends, one of whom said their presence was voluntary and not politically-motivated.

“Here on our own, para makisama sa mga tao, no politics. We’re just here para makis-ama sa sambayanang

pilipino,” Corona’s friend said.

Corona also greet-ed his supporters in the area.

On May 29, 2012, the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, removed Coro-na from power. [Ya-hoo!]

Corona booed at Luneta Million March rally

SOME government websites were hacked Monday during the

“Million People March” against pork barrel ap-parently as part of protest against the alleged anoma-lous use of the Priority De-velopment Assistance Fund.

The protest march was triggered by the alleged P10-billion pork barrel and P900-million Malampaya fund scams allegedly com-mitted by businesswoman Janet Lim napoles involving some lawmakers.

Some of those who were victimized by the hack-ers are the websites of the national Historical Com-mission, national Telecom-munications Commission, Komisyon sa Wikang Fili-pino, Municipality of Pikit, north Cotabato, Optical Me-dia board, Autonomous re-gion in Muslim Mindanao, San Juan City, Talibon bohol, Philippine Economic Zone Authority and the Sugar regulatory Administration.

Some of the hacked websites have the mes-sage stating: “We are Pinoy

Vendetta. We Don’t Die, We Multiply. Abolish the Pork barrel, Hitman, Greetz to Darknight and Soulja Girl.”

The hackers also ex-pressed their gratitude to President benigno S. Aqui-no III for announcing the abolition of PDAF last Fri-day.

However, they noted the alternative package allow-ing congressmen and sen-ators to identify sponsored projects to be funded as line item in the annual budget is also paving the way for abuse by corrupt govern-ment officials in the public funds.

because of this, they said, it is clear that pork barrel will still remain.

Likewise, they also urged President Aquino to really abolish the pork barrel system and just let the lawmakers do their law-making function.

The hackers identified themselves as the “Anony-mous” who do not forgive, do not forget, feared by cor-rupt and supported by hon-est people. [PnA]

Gov’t websites hackedNapoles, Lim still in PHL -- immigrationWAnTED busi-

n e s s w o m a n Janet Lim na-

poles and her brother reynald “Jojo” Lim are still in the Philippines.

napoles is the al-leged “brains” behind the P10-billion pork barrel and P900-million Malam-paya fund scams.

She and her broth-er are the subjects of an intensified nationwide manhunt by law enforce-ment agencies by virtue of an arrest order issued by the Makati City re-

gional Trial Court branch 150 for the case of se-rious illegal detention allegedly committed on benhur Luy, the whis-tleblower in the pork barrel scam.

According to Acting bI Commissioner Sigfried Mison, based on the data-base of the travel records of the agency the siblings napoles and Lim are still in the country.

Mison said the two siblings will have difficul-ty in leaving the country as their passports have

been cancelled by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs.

nevertheless, he said they also have strict in-structions to immigra-tion officers in the in-ternational airports and seaports to be on alert once the wanted siblings are sighted in their re-spective areas.

He added the pictures of napoles and Lim are also posted in the air-ports to help in their cap-ture.

Meantime, Mison said the bI is also coordinat-

ing with the DFA so that the agency will be very careful in processing of new passports, especially for people who have “re-semblance” with napoles and Lim.

In so doing, he said, what happened to sib-lings former Palawan Gov. Joel reyes and Mario reyes who were able to leave the country despite the warrant of arrest against them after using a passport with a differ-ent name will not be re-peated. [PnA]

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DAVAO del norte rolls out its red carpet welcome

topped with its world-class sports facilities to some 3,000 athletes as it hosts the 2013 batang Pi-noy Mindanao Leg begin-ning today.

Governor rodolfo del rosario and his son rep. Anthony del rosario of the first district and rep. Anton Lagdameo of the second district will lead the reception of the host province. Also invited to the opening program are Philippine Olympic Com-mittee president Peping Cojuangco, Philippine Sports Commission chair-man richie Garcia, and

PSC commissioner Jolly Gomez.

The five-day event will serve as the qualify-ing school for the 2013 batang Pinoy Games set november this year in Zamboanga City.

The batang Pinoy Min-danao Leg is the biggest sports conclave staged at the newly-built Davao del norte Sports and Cultur-al Center which is set to host bigger events in the future beginning with the national Private Schools Athletic Association (PrI-SAA) Games in April 2014 and possibly, the 2015 Palarong Pambansa.

The 12-hectare Dn-SCC was inaugurated De-

cember 12 last year and hosted the Davao region-al Athletic Association (DAVrAA) Meet last Feb-ruary.

Davao City, one of Min-danao’s sports powers despite the handicap of having no decent sports facilities at home, will be parading a 200-man contingent taking part in 15 events. Davao City sports coordinator butch ramirez, once the man in charge of running the country’s sports affairs, this time will be taking that challenge of revers-ing the fortunes of the Dabawenyos.

The Davao City del-egation is composed

mostly of athletes from the ranks of the Depart-ment of Education and some national Sports As-sociations (nSAs) as well as non-nSAs in what is dubbed as a “Unity Team.”

According to the batang Pinoy 2013 calen-dar, the first leg or Min-danao Leg is scheduled in Tagum City, Davao del norte from Aug 27 to 31 while the second or Vi-sayas Leg will be held in Maasin City, Southern Leyte from September 24 to 28. The national championships have been tabbed in Zamboanga City from november 19 to 23.

The batang Pinoy is open to all young Filipi-

nos whether by birth or naturalization.

Filipinos of mixed par-entage may also join pro-vided they have fulfilled all requirements and are submitted by local gov-ernment units.

All participating ath-letes must present a cer-tified true copy of birth certificate and must be endorsed by one local government unit coming from eitherthe governor, municipal mayor, sports coordinator or barangay chairman.

The 22 events in Min-danao are arnis, athletics, badminton, billiards and snookers, boxing, chess ,dancesport, futsal, gym-nastics, judo, karatedo, lawn tennis, pencak silat, sepak takraw, soft ten-

nis, softball, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, wrestling, weightlifting and volleyball for girls and boys.

In the Visayas leg, to be contested are arnis athletics, badminton, bil-liards and snookers, box-ing, chess, dancesport, futsal, gymnastics (cheer-dance), judo, karatedo, lawn tennis, pencak silat, sepak takraw, soft ten-nis, softball, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, wrestling and volleyball.

The Luzon leg has 29 events with the addition of baseball, bowling, sail-ing, shooting and wushu.

The national champi-onship has added basket-ball 3-on-3 for boys and girls and triathlon. (with a report from PnA)

PArEnTS of arnis players belonging to the A.L. navarro na-

tional High School affiliat-ed with Arnis Philippines questioned the associa-tion’s regional commis-sioner Mario Palazuelo for the non-inclusion of their children to the batang Pi-noy Mindanao leg which opens today in Tagum City, Davao del norte.

Writing under the collective name “Mga Ginikanan sa mga Arnis Players sa AL navarro nHS,” the nine (9) parents are now asking Palazuelo why their children were not given the chance to be considered or to undergo in an eliminations for the arnis team of Davao City to

the batang Pinoy Mindan-ao leg.

The letter addressed to Palazuelo on August 9, 2013, read:

“Gusto lang namo ip-aabot nganha kanimo ang among dakong kadismaya ug reklamo sa nahitabo karon sa among mga anak ug kanamo mismo. Sakit palandungon nga luyo sa kahago ug paningkamot sa among mga anak sa pag-praktis sa kada adlaw nga training, ug sa among mga nagasto sa amo intawn nga pagsuporta kanila aron mahimo silang hanas sa dula nga arnis kay man lagi mitoo me sa inyong giingon nga ang mga bata makaapil sa elimination sa batang Pinoy.”

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eat, how the propagate, even on identifying which is male and which is fe-male. After dropping by the visitor centre it was a short climb up some stairs to the actual Butterfly Gar-den which is enclosed in nets to keep the butterflies from escaping, although there are butterflies who manage to escape and flut-ter about outside of the enclosure as well which made me more excited. Inside the garden, I was greeted by an explosion of wings for every step I took as there were butterflies of various kinds, colours and shapes. Some were literally so close I was able to touch them. The garden also had various colourful flow-ers that not only served as food for the butterflies, but also added to the beauty of

the garden. The resident entomolo-gist also pointed out that butterflies are not the only residents of the Butterfly Garden as he brought out some of the more shy resi-dents, a couple of stick in-sects, which blend perfect-ly into the surroundings by mimicking a plant’s twigs and branches. I was also introduced to a cou-ple of caterpillars and was finally able to see my first

butterfly chrysalis. Touch-ing it with my hand and feeling it actually pulsate was a magical experience so much different than just seeing it on a science or biology text book and I would totally recommend a visit. To get to Eden Nature Park’s Butterfly Park, you can just call the resorts office at +82.2960791 or visit their website at www.edennaturepark.com.ph.

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Exploring Eden Nature Park’s Butterfly Garden. Just one of the many species of butterfly at the garden.

Walking up the steps towards the butterfly enclosure.

The visitor center of the garden has various insect art as well as posters that educate the public on the lifecycles of insects and the kinds of insects who take residence at the Butterfly Garden.

Can you find the stick insect in the photo?

My first time to hold a butterfly chrysalis.

This brown stick insect mimics a piece of twig. A butterfly lands on my arms.

Butterfly art at the visitor center.

Eden Nature Park’sflight of butterfliesWhEN oNE thinks of Eden Nature Park, one has visions of lush greenery, picturesque rolling gardens of flowers, the cool breeze with a whiff of pine and a grand view of Davao Gulf. These were the same images I had in mind but when Eden’s Guada dropped me a call and invited me on a new Eden adventure, I took the chance and went with it. So there I was waiting for the new adventure but before that we had to make a detour to the resort’s But-terfly garden. I remember the guides before men-tioning this less-visited area of the resort. Maybe its because it is a short walk up or its tucked in a quiet corner of the resort that not many people tend to notice it but it had been there for years already. Eden’s Butterfly Garden

is a set of enclosures where they tend to various spe-cies of butterfly which the

late Jesus Ayala ang his wife Fe collected for the resort and this can be seen at the garden’s visitor cen-tre which has an exhibit of various preserved butter-flies as well as stick insects, beetles and other adorable creepy crawlies. The visitor centre also serves as an educational venue where visitors are educated in the life cycles of insects as well as fac-toids on what the insects

GRAmmy-winninG premier vocalist Patti Austin performs her mega hits like in my Life, Baby Come to me, Say you Love me, How Do you Keep the music Playing, Rhythm of the Street, All behind Us now, Smoke Gets in your Eyes, if i Believe, it might Be you, and many more, live in Davao. S h e per forms to g e t h e r with the f o r m e r lead vo-calist of S e r g i o m e n d e s , Joe Pizzulo who will serenade you with S e r g i o mendes’ biggest hits which he made popular such as never Gonna Let you Go, what Do we mean to Each Other, i’m nev-er Gonna Give you Up, Let’s Give it A Little more This Time, Rainbow’s End, and some of his solo hits Take This Love. Patti Austin and Joe Pizzulo Live is on September 9, 2013. 8 p.m. at the SmX Convention Center, Sm Lanang Premier, Lanang Davao City. Ticket Prices are at SViP 2,500, ViP 2,000 and GOLD 1,500. For ticket reservations you may call or text Ovation Productions at 09177007088, 09326376185, and 09434394995.

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LEADinG telecommunications company Globe Telecom won four major awards in the prestigious 10thAnnual international Business Awards (iBA) or widely known as the Stevie Awards which honor achievements and positive contributions of orga-nizations and individuals worldwide. T h e r e were a to-tal of 3,300 n o m i n a -tions glob-ally from over 50 countries. Globe received two Gold Awards, one for GCASH American Express Virtual Pay launch campaign for easy and secure online shopping under the new Product or Service introduction of the year, and another for Tattoo Broadband’s marked for Greatness drive which won the marketing Cam-paign of the year for Telecommunications through Harrison Communications, inc. The annual Tatts Awards which recognizes individuals and groups who use social media to make positive change in their community, bagged the Silver Stevie for Best Public Relations Event. On the other hand, the Globe my Fair Share Program grabbed the Bronze Stevie for Corporate Social Responsibil-ity Program of the year in Asia, Australia, and new Zealand. my Fair Share empowers the communities being aided by Globe through livelihood opportunities and market access. “we are deeply honored to be recognized for our market-ing and communication efforts by such a highly-respected organization. Once again, we have shown that Globe is a game changer and truly world class. Globe continues to drive innovation in the Philippines with its product offerings and services, consistently building a trusted global brand which our employees, subscribers, and various stakeholders are proud of,” said yoly C. Crisanto, Head of Globe Corporate Communications. winners were determined through two months of prelimi-nary judging and two weeks of final judging. in the prelimi-nary stage, judging was conducted by over 300 professionals worldwide. Their scores decided the entries eligible for final judging of members of the specialized committees which, on the other hand, determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements. The Stevie Awards, derived from the Greek word “crowned”, will be celebrated and the winners will be honored for their achievement at a gala banquet at the w Hotel in Barcelona, Spain on October 14, 2013.

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PHiLiPPinE showbiz’s teen queen and king “Got To Be-lieve” stars Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla were vot-ed ‘Hottest Filipino Stars Un-der 20’ for 2013 in an online poll conducted by popular entertainment blog Star-mometer, which was partici-pated by thousands of fans on Facebook and Twitter. Kathryn clinched the top spot with a total of 203,736 votes, followed by his love team partner Daniel who earned 148,415. incidentally, Kathryn and Daniel ranked 1 and 2, respectively, in the same online poll in 2011. meanwhile, the most romantic and highly antici-pated Primetime Bida series of ABS-CBn “Got To Believe” i set to premiere this mon-day (August 26). The Cathy Garcia-molina-directed TV masterpiece will air nightly after “Juan dela Cruz.” As a momentous treat to everyone who have been clamoring for Kathniel love team’s TV comeback, “Got To Believe” recently launched its special project: ‘G2B Army Color Fun Run.’ Due to bad weather, the run was re-

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OnLy a matter of weeks be-fore primetime television’s engrossing drama series comes to a close, mundo mo’y Akin’s Jerome and marilyn, played by Alden Richards and Louise de los Reyes respectively, leave the chaotic world of their romance and escape to the City of Golden Friendship to celebrate this year’s Kagay-An Festival. On August 27, Tuesday, Alden and Louise banner a Kapuso mall Show in the Atrium of Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro (CdeO) City. The on-screen star-crossed lovers are set to per-form before their supporters beginning at 4pm together with the voice behind my Husband’s Lover’s theme “Help me Get Over,” Jonalyn Viray. “we are looking forward to visiting CdeO and cel-ebrating the Kagay-An Fes-tival with the Kagay-anons. more than taking a breather, it means a lot to us that we can personally thank our fans for their overwhelm-ing support to mundo mo’y Akin,” shares Alden. Scheduled on the same day, Kapuso hunk JC Tiuseco of afternoon prime maghi-hintay Pa Rin will be part of the Kagay-an float parade, which will traverse the ma-

jor streets of CdeO. Said pa-rade starts at 6am alongside a live coverage brought by GmA news and Public Af-fairs of GmA TV CdeO. Come wednesday, Au-gust 28, Kagay-anons in Brgy. Balulang Covered Court, Cagayan de Oro City get a treat from with A Smile lead stars Christian Bautista, mikael Daez, and Andrea Torres in a Kapuso Baran-gayan at 2pm. Christian, mikael, and An-drea are to cap off the fes-tivities with a Kapuso night scheduled at 4pm of August 28 at Las Ramblas, Sm City CdeO. A number of Kapuso stars are also participating in the

annual Kagay-An Festival in-cluding Gabby Eigenmann and host Anna maris igpit who are to grace the miss Cagayan de Oro Coronation night in the Atrium of Lim-ketkai Center today, August 24, at 6pm. meanwhile, sultry actress michelle madrigal together with Jeric Gonzales, male lead of GmA’s premiering afternoon drama series Pyra, join in the colorful PE Rhythmic Dance Festival at the Pelaez Sports Center on monday, August 26, starting at 7am. The Kagay-An Festival is an annual feast in commem-oration of the city’s patron saint, Saint Augustine.

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ThrouGhouT August, Davao’s Abreeza Mall was the place to be as it held its cele-bration of the city’s most anticipated annual event, the Kadayawan Festival! Its fantastic flurry of events, sales, and promotions for the month helped locals and tourists alike get in the vibrant Kadayawan mood.

Stars, fruits, and crafts at Abreeza’s Kadayawan

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A major Kadayawan at-traction was the Mindanao Trade Expo 2013, held at the Abreeza Activity Cen-ter from August 5 to 18. The Mindanao Trade Expo was a massive gathering of local artisans, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs, with a total of 132 merchants exhibiting handicrafts, woodworks, accessories, furniture, food products, and health and wellness finds. Abreeza also teamed up with the Department of Tourism to present the first-ever Davao Fruit Craze, held at the ground floor Boardwalk from Au-gust 11 to 18. Shoppers feasted on durian, pomelo, mangosteen, jackfruit, wa-termelon, lanzones, man-go, and rambutan, buying these treats by the kilo, snacking on sliced fruits, and loading up on candy varieties. The height of Kaday-awan excitement from Au-gust 16 to 18 was marked by a parade of stars at Abreeza’s Activitiy Center. on August 16, ABS-CBN idols Xian Lim, Maja Sal-vador, and Banana Nite cast members Angelica Panganiban, John Prats, Jason Gainza, ryan Bang, Melai Cantiveros, and Alex Gonzaga graced the Salamat Kapamilya Mall Show. August 17 saw Co-ca-Cola ambassadors En-chong Dee, Julia Montes, Kathryn Bernardo, and Jo-seph Marco thrilling fans

through handog happi-ness ng Coca-Cola. Cap-ping off the Kadayawan weekend was the Kapuso Mall Show on August 18, featuring the stars of the upcoming GMA-7 pri-metime soap Akin Pa rin Ang Bukas, Lovi Poe, roc-co Nacino, Charee Pineda, Cesar Montano, and So-lenn heussaff. Kadayawan season at Abreeza also meant fantas-tic promos and discounts! In addition to the great Kadayawan Sale from Au-gust 12 to 18, Abreeza’s Fly Davao, Shop Abreeza promo gave travelers flying in for Kadayawan perks and freebies at participat-ing Abreeza restaurants and gifted four lucky raffle winners with an overnight stay for two at Seda Abree-za hotel and Pearl Farm Beach resort. Plus, the Shop Ayala Malls, Travel Asia promo, which gives customers a chance to visit the most breathtaking des-tinations in the region, is still ongoing until Septem-ber 30. Abreeza’s August hap-penings sure made Kad-awayan festivities even more fun! For updates and inquiries on Abreeza, please visit the official Aya-la Malls website at www.ayalamalls.com.ph, like Abreeza’s official Facebook page at www.facebook.com/AbreezaMall, and follow @abreezatweets on Twitter and @ilove-abreezamall on Instagram.

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nEW YOrK (AP) -- Ask rafael nadal how his famously

troublesome left knee is feeling on the eve of the U.S. Open, and he’ll balk a bit while formulating a re-sponse.

‘’I am ...’’ the 12-time major title winner began, haltingly, during an inter-view with The Associated Press.

‘’You know ...’’ he re-sumed, before smiling sheepishly and pausing again.

Eventually, nadal of-fered something of a com-plicated answer.

‘’I have to say that I am

very well, because the re-sults have been amazing since I came back,’’ he said. ‘’If I say something else, (it) will sound strange.’’

That’s because when the year’s last Grand Slam tournament begins Mon-day, none of the players setting foot on the blue hard courts of Flushing Meadows possesses as much momentum - or is in as fine form - as the no. 2-seeded nadal. He’s won his past 10 matches head-ing into the first round against the 97th-ranked ryan Harrison of the Unit-ed States.

Another past U.S.

Open champion on Mon-day afternoon’s schedule is 2000-01 winner Venus Williams, a former no. 1 now ranked 60th who will be taking on recent Wimbledon semifinalist and 12th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of belgium. At night, Williams’ young-er sister Serena, the de-fending champion, plays 2010 French Open winner Francesca Schiavone of It-aly, while 17-time major champion roger Federer faces 62nd-ranked Grega Zemlja of Slovenia.

The biggest curiosi-ty when it comes to na-dal these days is how

his knees will hold up. They’ve presented recur-ring problems for him over the years, particular-ly the left one, which kept him out of action from late June 2012 until February 2013. He missed the Lon-don Olympics, last year’s U.S. Open and this year’s Australian Open.

‘’I feel more comfort-able now than six months ago, that’s for sure,’’ nadal said, then quickly added: ‘’but I still have pain some days.’’

He was asked wheth-er he thinks that might be the case for the rest of his career.

nEW HAVEn, Conn. (AP) — Simona Ha-lep upset defend-

ing champion Petra Kvito-va 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to win the new Haven Open, the final WTA tuneup for next week’s U.S. Open.

The 21-year-old Ha-lep broke the 2011 Wim-bledon champion on four consecutive service games. The first break gave her a 3-2 lead in the first set. The fourth put her up 3-0 in the second as she took complete con-trol of the match.

She converted four of her five break points. Kvi-tova, ranked ninth in the

world, was 0-for-4 on her break chances.

It was Halep’s fourth career win, and all of them have come since June. The no. 23 ranked player in the world is now 29-5 in her last 34 matches (31-5 counting qualifying matches). She took home $117,000 for winning.

Halep doesn’t speak perfect English, but she knew what words to use when describing her game at the new Haven Open.

“I played very beau-tiful tennis today,” Halep said. “I was enjoying ev-ery moment.”

The red bull driver started second on the grid and was

beaten to the first corner by Hamilton, but Vettel used his KErS system to blast past his rival’s Mer-cedes going into the Les Combes chicane, just the fifth corner of the race.

Vettel never looked back, and there were no major on-track inci-dents or rain - despite grey skies and a gloomy forecast - to derail his procession to a fifth win of the season. The result stretches his champion-ship lead to 46 points.

“It was a fantastic race for us from start to finish really,” he said after his 31st career win.

red bull principal Christian Horner was overjoyed with the out-come.

“He (Vettel) had the momentum and was able to go around Lewis and that was the decisive mo-ment,” he said.

SUPER SIMONA!Halep tune up for US Open with win

Flawless Vettel wins Belgain GP

KNEE ‘DALNadal is surging but his knee is a question

EYES ON THE PRIZE. Simona Halep defeated defending champion Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-2 to win the WTA New Haven final.

SITTING ON THE THRONE. Rafael Nadal has his sights on the final slam of the year.

FLAWLESS. Sebastian Vettel at the finish of the Belgian Grand Prix.

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THE Lamb of God SPED Academy and University of

Immaculate Conception debuted on a high note in the 4th royal Mandaya Cup Inter-school basket-ball Tournament eking out wins in dominating fashion on Sunday at the Davao City recreation Center Almendras Gym.

LGSA routed Philip-pine Women’s College, 71 – 56, in Group A match while UIC clobbered Precious International School of Davao, 84 – 44 in Group b encounter in the resumption of the

tournament held in coop-eration with Mayor rody and Vice Mayor Pulong Duterte.

Angelo bagay led the charge for LGSA drilling in 17 points, including seven straight points mid-way of the second period.

Jones Zambrano and Christian Dave Caseria contributed 12 and 10 points respectively for Edwin Villarente Jr-men-tored LGSA which joins Ateneo de Davao Univer-sity in Group A win col-umn.

Jose Cabillan had 10 points for PWC.

UIC, one the other hand, leaned on to Shane Sim who top scored for the boy’s in white and pink with 16 baskets.

Faried Maguid and El-vin Castano chipped in 10 points respectively for UIC coached by Joel Mahilum.

Joshua reyes scored 10 for PISD.

In the lone mini di-vision match, Philippine Women’s College upset Assumption College of Davao, 88 - 39.

The tournament is sanctioned by the Samah-ang basketbol ng Pilipinas region XI. (rJb)

LGSA, UIC win in TRMH Cup

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. Anfernee Digamon, son of television broadcaster and basketball enthusiast Jun Digamon of GMA Davao, in action for Davao Jones in the Sante Barley Inter-High School Basketball Tournament. Lean Daval Jr.

OFFICIAL BALL. Karen Castro of Nike Athletic Club hands over the official Nike ball to Joey Marcelo, CEO of Sante International. Lean Daval Jr.

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