AUTHORITIES arrested Wednesday early morning the Number 6 Most Wanted Person in Davao Oriental in

Barangay Badas, Mati City.The suspect was identified as Raul Cas-

tillano, 39, of sitio Pulang Pantad, Brgy. Ba-das.

Castillano was arrested by virtue of an arrest warrant dated August 29, 2008 and issued by Judge Niño A. Batingana of the Regional Trial Court Branch 6 in Mati City.

He was caught by surprise when oper-atives of the Provincial Intelligence Team-Davao Oriental of the Regional Intelligence Unit 11 led by SPO3 Noel Valdevieso and el-ements of the Mati City Police Office arrived at his house at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and effected the arrest.

The suspect was charged for a non-bail-able murder case, and for attempted mur-der which has recommended bail bond of P120,000.

In another development, one Leonard Chavez, 24, a motorcycle driver, single and resident of Bilawan 1, Brgy Central, Mati City was arrested Tuesday afternoon by personnel of PIT-Davao Oriental led by Val-devieso and the Davao Oriental Criminal Investigation Detection Team (DOCIDT) at the Madang public market.

The suspect was accused of attempted murder last August 30.

RIU 11 chief Supt. Leonardo Felonia said the series of operations is part of their relentless drive to neutralize wanted per-sons. [ASA]

THE NATIONAL TELECOMM-UNICATIONS COMMISSION (NTC) in Region 11 has

just finished making the rounds of the four provinces, six cities and more than 40 towns of the Davao Region to consult leaders of the government and the private sector, including ordinary folks, about the performance of telecommunication companies providing cellular or mobile phone services in their areas.

According to NTC 11 Regional Director Josue de Villa Go his report on his consultations is expected to be out first thing next week. The regionwide

consultation also conducted in other regions was ordered by the commission to evaluate complaints and suggestions from the people on such issues as disappearing loads, dropped calls and other excesses committed against consumers of Smart, Globe and other telcos against consumers.

Go said NTC 11 is collating the feedback from people during the consultations and send them to the commission in Manila.

So far, Go told Edge Davao most

of the suggestions centered on the registration of SIM (subscriber identity module) packs as good starting of introducing reforms aimed at protecting the rights of consumers.

The NTC official promised to brief the media on the findings of the series of consultations in the region once he is back next week.

Complainsts about disappearing loads, dropped calls and other excesses committed against consumers by the country’s telecommunication

companies led by prepaid market leader, Smart, persist despite much publicized recent efforts of the government to benchmark the services of the telcos against NTC standards.

The most glaring result of the NTC’s network quality tests is that Smart, with its completed system upgrading program, is not any better than Globe whose network modernization worth $700 million is still ongoing.

The situation has already prompted three lawmakers to file bills seeking to improve on service delivery to consumers. The bills

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NTC after telcos on ‘nakaw’ loadBy Antonio M. Ajero

CHEER DANCE. Grade 5 students of Fil-Asian Mission Acade-my show off their wares in cheer dancing during the school’s intramurals and foundation day celebration in Garcia Heights yesterday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

Davao Oriental’s No. 6 most wanted man fallsBy Anthony S. Allada

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MALACANANG is hopeful the Ex-ecutive Branch

and the Senate could soon agree on a compromise on the sin tax collection proposal for the benefit of Filipinos.

Citing the position of the Dept. of Finance, Pres-idential Spokesman Ed-win Lacierda told a news

briefing Thursday the administration is open to ironing out the sin tax is-sue as long as it addresses the health and trade is-sues wanted by the Aqui-no administration.

Lacierda said it would be a victory for the people if the government could get the P60-billion annual collection from sin taxes

since it will address the healthcare coverage in a particular number of years.

Lacierda also ex-plained the Dept. of Fi-nance prefers the original P60-billion version but the department is also willing to accept a low-er amount of P40-billion

ENDURING peace means investors will come and more

decent jobs will be gener-ated for people in Mind-anao.

That’s what Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) par-ty-list group said when it gave its full support to the framework agreement on peace in Mindanao be-tween the government and the Moro Islamic Lib-eration Front (MILF).

“If there is peace, there are jobs,” said pro-

fessor Mus Lidasan, TUCP consultant and director of Al-Qalam Institute of Ateneo de Davao Univer-sity, in a press conference at the ALU-TUCP Build-ing along Roxas Avenue in Davao City Wednesday morning.

Lidasan said there is an interrelationship be-tween peace and employ-ment, adding that war-torn and conflict-stricken places are not homes of investments hence lack employment generation.

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THE Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-

resentatives recently passed HB No. 286 estab-lishing the Schools Divi-sion of the Department of Education in Compostela Valley Province, and HB No. 5377 nationalizing Bango High School locat-ed in Sitio Bango, Baran-gay Ngan, Compostela.

Both measures are principally sponsored by Rep. Maria Carmen S. Zamora. “We welcome the successful passage of

the measures in the Com-mittee on Appropriations. We are now assured of the budgetary require-ments for the proposed laws,” said Rep. Zamora

She The legislator also expressed hope that with the Committee’s approval of the bill nationalizing Bango High School, the same will soon be calen-dared for plenary deliber-ation. “We hope that this important piece of legis-lation will be enacted into law before the 15th Con-gress adjourns,” she said.

House body okays 2 Zamora bills

RE-ROUTING. Ret. S/Insp. Manuel C. Española, opera-tions officer of the Traffic Management Center (TMC), holds a copy of Oplan Kaluluwa 2012 re-routing scheme

for McArthur Highway in Matina where the biggest pri-vate cemetery in the city is located during the weekly I-Speak media forum at City Hall yesterday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

TUCP says

Peace equals decent jobsBy Anthony S. Allada

UPWARDS of 700farmers, grow-ers and other play-

ers of the banana indus-try in Mindanao and other regions of the country are expected to participate in the first Mindanao Ba-nana Congress and Exhib-its 2012, November 7-8, at the SMX Convention Center of the SM Lanang Premier in Davao City.

This was learned from Ferdinand Y. Maranon,

president of the hosting PhilExport Davao.

Maranon said the event will showcase the banana industry com-modity and value chain, and allied services, through the industry ex-hibits.

“One of the major ob-jectives of the event is to federate the different ba-nana cooperatives and as-sociations in the various regions of the country and

to form the Banana Indus-try Development Council of the Philippines, with the purpose of crafting a strategic action agenda for the Philippine banana industry,” he said.

Expected to partic-ipate are chairpersons and presidents of coop-eratives and associations registered with the Co-operative Development Authority (CDA) or the Securities and Exchange

Commission (SEC) along with their officers and members.

The event is orga-nized by the PHILEX-PORT XI Davao Chapter in partnership with the Department of Agricul-ture RFU XI, and in co-operation with various private and public insti-tutions working towards advancing advocacies of the Mindanao banana in-dustry.

700 to join banana congress

CHRISTMAS will come early for em-ployees of the Davao

City government with the release this November of the remaining portions of their 13th month pay, half of which was already re-leased last June.

“We will start to re-lease the 13th month pay of the local govern-ment employees by No-vember,” Assistant City Administrator/Human Resource Management Office Department head Edwin Alparaque said yesterday.

Alparaque also as-sured the employees that they will be given their Social Ameliora-tion Bonus amounting to P15,000 for regular em-ployees and P10,000 for contractual employees and job orders.

“These benefits are already part of the 2012 annual appropriation so I do not see any reason why they won’t receive these benefits this year,” he said. The same Social Amelioration Pay had been given to the employ-ees last year, he added.

However, Alparaque clarified that this is not yet the signing bonus as both management and labor are still negotiat-ing the Collective Nego-tiation Agreement (CNA). The signing bonus, he added, is given the em-ployees whenever a new CNA has been negotiated and approved.

“Ginatuki pa man ang bag’ong CNA, so wala pa’y signing bonus (we are still negotiating the new CNA so there is as yet no signing bonus),” he said. [LOVELY A. CARILLO]

City gov’t workers assured of up to P15T X’mas bonus

THE shutdown of one of the biggest pow-er plants in Mind-

anao caused the power curtailment in many parts of the island, North Cota-bato among them, the Na-tional Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced yesterday.

Bambie Capulong, head of the communica-tions department of NG-CP-Mindanao, said that the STEAG State Power, Inc. (SPI) has shut down its coal-fired power plant based in Misamis Oriental since October 6.

The shutdown for preventive maintenance would continue until Oc-tober 24, the SPI earlier said.

Immediately after the SPI shut off one of its coal plants, the NGCP sched-uled power rationing in Mindanao.

“Because of the shut-down, the power defi-ciency in Mindanao has reached from 150MW to 200 megawatts on a daily basis, depending on the generation and

demand of local pow-er consumers,” said Capulong.

Another coal plant, also owned by the SPI, will shut off its system from October 24 until first week of November, she stressed.

Both coal-fired plants, each with a capacity of 105 megawatts, provide about 20 percent of the current power capacity of the entire Mindanao.

The Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco), which supplies electric-ity to some 98,000 pow-er consumers in North Cotabato, is one of those affected in the power ra-tioning.

Vincent Baguio, spokesperson for Cotelco, said their cooperative is again short of power sup-plym so they scheduled load curtailment, which lasts from 30 minutes to an hour daily.

Because of the shut-down of SPI’s plant, Cotel-co is short of at least 4MW of power daily, he added.

“For the month of Oc-

tober, Cotelco has con-tracted some 20 mega-watts of power from the NGCP. We had a contract with Therma Marine, Inc. for at least 8MW. Our to-tal daily demand is about 32MW so we’re short of 4MW,” said Baguio.

When Pulangi-4 hy-droelectric power plant in Bukidnon shut off its system on April this year, Cotelco implemented dai-ly brownouts that lasted eight hours, earning the ire of many power con-sumers.

This caused power consumers in Kidap-awan City to organize themselves where they demanded, among other things, to supply Cotelco at least 25 percent of the capacity of the geother-mal power plants from Mount Apo.

The plants are owned by Energy Development Corporation of the Lopez Group of Companies.

The demand, howev-er, fell on deaf ears. Malu Cadeliña-Manar/MindaN-ews

Coal plant shutdown causes brownouts

Malacañang hopes to settle issues with Senate over sin tax proposal

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A new face is chal-lenging for the mayoralty post of

Baganga, Davao Oriental against two political gi-ants – Roy Nazareno, the president of the Associa-tion of Barangay Captains (ABC), and Vice Mayor Ar-turo Monday.

Nazareno is already a third-generation scion of the Nazareno political clan. The incumbent may-or, Remigio Nazareno, is his grandfather. Monday has also been in politics for some time, his rela-tives having held elective positions.

But Ronie Sango Os-

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IN MEMORY OF. Parishioners and friends of slain Italian missionary Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME light candles at his grave at the compound of the Bishop’s Residence

in Barangay Balindog, Kidapawan City on Wednesday, October 17 to commemorate his first death anniversa-ry. [MINDANEws/ RubY ThuRsDAY MORE]

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DavOr businessman dares challenge 2 political giantsBy Anthony S. Allada

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A new face is chal-lenging for the mayoralty post of

Baganga, Davao Oriental against two political gi-ants – Roy Nazareno, the president of the Associa-tion of Barangay Captains (ABC), and Vice Mayor Ar-turo Monday.

Nazareno is already a third-generation scion of the Nazareno political clan. The incumbent may-or, Remigio Nazareno, is his grandfather. Monday has also been in politics for some time, his rela-tives having held elective positions.

But Ronie Sango Os-

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IN MEMORY OF. Parishioners and friends of slain Italian missionary Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME light candles at his grave at the compound of the Bishop’s Residence

in Barangay Balindog, Kidapawan City on Wednesday, October 17 to commemorate his first death anniversa-ry. [MINDANEws/ RubY ThuRsDAY MORE]

For town mayor

DavOr businessman dares challenge 2 political giantsBy Anthony S. Allada

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MORE than 70 e n v i r o n m e n t ministers meet

in India on Wednesday for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth’s natural resources, under pressure to put up mon-ey to match their political pledges.

The high-level gather-ing comes two years after UN countries agreed at a conference in Japan to reverse by 2020 the wor-rying decline in plant and animal species that hu-mans depend on for food, shelter and livelihoods.

The 2010 meeting came up with a 20-point plan which is being hamstrung by a lack of money for conservation programmes at a time of global financial austerity.

“The critical issue re-ally is how to mobilise the necessary financial, technical and human re-sources,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told delegates at a meeting in Hyderabad of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Tuesday.

The convention, to which 193 countries are signatories, marks its 20th anniversary this year.

In that time, it has

already missed one key deadline when it failed to meet the target set to halt biodiversity loss by 2010.

Nearly half of am-phibian species, a third of corals, a quarter of mammals, a fifth of all plants and 13 percent of the world’s birds are at risk of extinction, accord-ing to the “Red List” com-piled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which is due to be updated on Wednesday.

A three-day minister’s meeting from Wednes-day to Friday comes at the tail-end of two weeks of negotiations by senior bureaucrats from 184 CBD parties -- talks that delegates say have be-come stuck on the ques-tion of financing.

“Obviously to some extent a financial crisis in many of the tradition-al donor countries is playing into the negotia-tions,” UN Environment Programme executive di-rector Achim Steiner told AFP.

“Also there is still work that needs to be done on what exactly is the financial framework, the order of magni-tude that we are talking about.”

CORALS. Undated handout photo provided by the Australian Institute of Ma-rine Science shows coral at Halfway Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. More than 70 environment ministers meet in India on Wednesday for key

talks on halting the depletion of Earth’s natural resources, under pressure to put up money to match their political pledges. [AFP]

Ministers meet for crunch biodiversity talks

The next 48 hours of negotiations, he added, “will be on amounts of money”.

Sandrine Belier, one of three European Par-liament negotiators in Hyderabad, added: “The European Union has not succeeded in forming a common position (on fi-

nancing), and so it is si-lent.”

Estimates vary, but experts say hundreds of billions of dollars will be required to achieve the targets set in Japan.

These include halving the rate of habitat loss, expanding water and land areas under conser-

vation, preventing the extinction of species on the threatened list, and restoring at least 15 per-cent of degraded ecosys-tems by 2020.

Current conservation spending is estimated at about $10 billion per year.

“I urge the parties to

the CBD to agree to some measures, commitments and targets of resource mobilisation, even if on an interim basis, so as to infuse confidence in parties and also to gener-ate momentum,” India’s environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan told delegates on Tuesday.

THE Department of Science and Technol-ogy (DOST) is target-

ing to complete within the next three years the devel-opment of two more cam-puses of the Philippine Sci-ence High School (PSHS) in two regions in Mindanao.

Prof. Fortunato dela Peña, DOST undersec-retary for science and technology, said plans are underway for the estab-lishment of PSHS regional campuses in Regions 13 (Caraga) and 9 (Zamboan-ga Peninsula) following the scheduled opening of the Region 12 or Soccsksargen campus in nearby Koro-nadal City in June next year.

He said the PSHS sys-tem is presently working on the development plan of the campus in the Cara-ga Region, which will be established in Barangay Ampayon in Butuan City.

The five-hectare site was earlier donated by for-mer Vice President Teofis-to Guingona Jr.

“Once the Caraga cam-pus is completed, only Re-gion 9 will be left without a PSHS campus but hope-fully we can address that soon,” Dela Peña said.

The DOST and the PSHS system launched in June the development of the Soccsksargen or Region 12 campus in a 4.5-hectare lot in Barangay Paraiso in Koronadal City.

Science and Tech-

nology Secretary Mario Montejo earlier said the PSHS-Soccsksargen cam-pus, which will be built within the DOST regional complex, will cost around P200 million.

The provincial govern-ment earlier spent some P7.3 million for the acqui-sition of the school’s site, which is located near the site of the state-of-the-art Philippine National Halal Laboratory and Science Center of DOST-12.

The local government pledged another P5 mil-lion for the construction of the initial buildings while partylist groups Youth Against Corruption and Poverty or YACAP and AGHAM promised augmentation funds of P5 million and P2 million, re-spectively.

The PSHS, which oper-ates as an attached agency of the DOST, is a special-ized public high school system that focuses on high quality science-based education and training.

The PSHS system, which was initially pat-terned after the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, was estab-lished by the government “for the purpose of giv-ing an education highly enriched in science and mathematics to exception-ally gifted Filipino chil-dren,” its website said. [AL-LEN V. EsTAbILLO / MINDANEws]

TO provide on time information about the weather, the

Department of Science and Technology (DOST), together with Smart Communications, on Wednesday launched the mobile application of the on-time weather infor-mation on the agency’s Project Noah website.

The “Noah” or the Nationwide Operation Assessment of Hazards, is a responsive disaster mitigation program de-veloped by DOST in part-

nership with the Univer-sity of the Philippines.

The other govern-ment agencies in the forefront of project Noah include Philippine Atmospheric Geophys-ical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) and Philip-pine Institute of Volca-nology and Seismology (PHILVOCS) and oth-er collaborating DOST agencies such as the Advanced science and Technology Institute (ASTI) and the Science

and technology Infor-mation Institute (STII).

DOST Secretary Ma-rio Montejo said that the DOST’s Project Noah mobile app would ini-tially be available for Android devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.

Montejo said that the prototype of the mobile version was originally done in HTML5 which was developed by Rolly Rulete along his team-mates Pablito Veroy and Jay Albano during the

first HTML5 Hackathon organized by the Smart Developer Network in Davao City. The proto-type won the “Best Use of Smart APls”.

“We choose Rolly Rulete to develop the official mobile version of the DOST’s Project Noah website for An-droid devices because we want Davao and Min-danao to be represented in the nationwide effort to mitigate disasters,” the DOST secretary said. [PNA]

DOST to build 2 more Pisay campuses in Mindanao

DOST, Smart Com launch ‘Project Noah’ mobile app

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources

in Northern Mindanao revoked on Wednesday all of the Environment Clearance Certificates (ECCS) issued to all com-panies engaged in sand and gravel operations in Iponan River.

The regional environ-ment office also set up a task force to implement the order on the 20 af-fected companies whose operations have turned Iponan River from a Class A waterway into a heavi-

ly-silted and endangered stream of water.

The crackdown came after an environmental non-government organi-zation, the Sulog-One Sen-dong is Enough, presented evidence that the com-panies were engaged in mining for gold instead of quarrying sand or dredg-ing the Iponan River.

DENR Regional Di-rector Ruth Tawantawan said the ECCs issued to the companies were only for sand and gravel quarrying, not for mining gold.

“Apparently the com-

panies have engaged in some technical malversa-tion because their permits were for quarrying not for mining,” Tawantawan said during the meeting with Sulog leaders this morn-ing.

Engr. Daniel Belderol, of the DENR’s Mine Man-agement Division, said upon their inspection, they found the barges op-erated by the companies were disguised for quar-rying but were actually scooping the river bottom for gold.

“The barges have

chains of extractors that scoop the river bottom. These have a mesh of fil-tering nets to separate the gold from the soil,” he said.

A DENR presentation showed that for every gram of gold extracted from the Iponan River, at least a ton of soil or dirt have to be ex-tracted from the river bed.

Add it to the several hy-draulic mining also operat-ing in the area, the DENR said massive siltation has turned the farmlands along the Iponan River into a “wasteland.” [FROILAN GALLAR-DO / MINDANEws]

DENR revokes ECCs issued to sand and gravel companies in CDO’s Iponan River

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MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011)

Month 2012 2011 2010

Average 43.31 45.11December 43.64 43.95November 43.27 43.49October 43.45 43.44

September 43.02 44.31August 42.42 45.18

July 42.81 46.32June 43.37 46.30May 42.85 43.13 45.60April 42.70 43.24 44.63

March 42.86 43.52 45.74February 42.66 43.70 46.31January 43.62 44.17 46.03

Stat Watch5.8%

1st Qtr 2012

6.4 %1st Qtr 2012

USD 4,931million

May 2012USD 4,770

millionApr 2012USD -135

millionApr 2012USD -209

millionMar 2012

P 4,580,674 million

Apr 2012

4.1 %May 2012P131,403

millionMay 2012

P 5,075 billion

Apr 2012

P 42.78Jun 2012

5,091.2May 2012

130.1 Jun 2012

2.8 Jun 2012

3.7 Jun 2012

349,779Apr 2012

18.8 %Jan 2012

7.2 %Jan 2012

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/

Cebu Pacific Daily 5J961 / 5J962 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:15Zest Air Daily Z2390 / Z2390 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:25Cebu Pacific Daily 5J593 / 5J348 6:00 Cebu-Davao-Iloilo 6:30Philippine Airlines Daily PR809 / PR810 6:10 Manila-Davao-Manila 7:00Philippine Airlines Daily PR819 / PR820 7:50 Manila-Davao-Manila 8:50Cebu Pacific Daily 5J394 / 5J393 7:50 Zamboanga-Davao-Zamboanga 8:10Cebu Pacific Daily 5J599 / 5J594 8:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 8:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J347 / 5J596 9:10 Iloilo-Davao-Cebu 9:40Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun 5J963 / 5J964 9:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 10:10Philippine Airlines Daily PR811 / PR812 11:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 12:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5J595 / 5J966 12:00 Cebu-Davao-Manila 12:30Silk Air Mon/Wed/Sat MI588 / MI588 18:55 Davao-Cebu-Singapore 13:35Cebu Pacific Thu 5J965 / 5J968 12:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 13:25Cebu Pacific Tue/Wed//Sat 5J965 / 5J968 13:35 Manila-Davao-Manila 14:05

Silk Air Thu/Sun MI566 / MI566 18:55 Davao-Singapore 15:20Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri 5J507 / 5J598 15:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 15:30Philippine Airlines August 15:55 Mani2Mani 16:50Zest Air Daily Z2524 / Z2525 16:05 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 16:45Cebu Pacific Daily 5J967 / 5J600 16:35 Manila-Davao-Cebu 17:05Philippines Airlines Daily PR813 / PR814 16:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 17:45Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat 5J215 / 5J216 18:00 Cagayan de Oro-Davao-Cagayan de Oro 18:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5971 / 5J970 18:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 19:10Cebu Pacific Tue/Sat/Sun 5J973 / 5J974 20:00 Manila-Davao-Manila 20:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J969 / 5J972 20:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:00Airphil Express Daily 2P987 / 2P988 20:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:00Philippine Airlines Daily except Sunday PR821 / PR822 21:20 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:50Philippine Airlines Sunday PR821 / PR822 22:20 Manila-Davao-Manila 22:50

as of august 2010

THE ECONOMY

OF DOUGHNUTS AND COFFEE. Krispy Kreme’s Jim Fuentebella, chairman (rightmost), Carolyn Salud, managing director (2nd from left), board of directors Cristina Trota Garcia (leftmost), Robert Trota (center), and Jimmy Trota (2nd from right) grace the company’s

exclusive doughnuts and coffee gathering for members of local media at Abreeza Mall yesterday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

SEN. Manny Villar yester-day said the expansion of the list of basic necessities

under the law will ensure that more goods will be saved from price gouging during calami-ties.

Villar, in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on Trade and Commerce, spon-sored yesterday the committee report on the bill amending RA 7581 or the Price Act.

Committee Report 444 recommended the inclusion of locally-manufactured noodles

and bottled water in the list of basic necessities to protect con-sumers against undue price in-creases during calamity, emer-gency, widespread illegal price manipulation and other similar situations.

“Based on available data, the consumption of instant noodles in the country has risen steadily and in fact, has become a new staple of many poor Filipino families. The in-crease in popularity of instant noodles can be due to the fact that it is cheaper and easier to

prepare than rice,” Villar said in his sponsorship speech.

Villar also added that in the aftermath of the last five most disastrous storms and natu-ral calamities (Ondoy, Pepeng, Milenyo, Pedring and habagat), instant noodles and bottled water have become two of the most in-demand and have the biggest tendency to be over-priced to the detriment of the citizens.

He said the prevalent public consumption of instant noodles and bottled water has placed it

in the ranks of basic necessities such as rice, corn, bread, fish, pork, poultry, beef, etc. And even during relief operations in times of calamities and emer-gencies, these goods are the first ones to be distributed.

Villar noted that prices of goods tend to rise during peri-ods of disasters but reminded businessmen and parties with-in the chain of distribution of consumer goods to “consider the interest of the public and heed the call to treat customers fairly during times of need.”

Villar: No undue price increase for more goods during calamities

Coal plant shutdown causes brownoutsTHE shutdown of one of

the biggest power plants in Mindanao caused the

power curtailment in many parts of the island, North Cota-bato among them, the National Grid Corporation of the Philip-pines (NGCP) announced yes-terday.

Bambie Capulong, head of the communications depart-ment of NGCP-Mindanao, said that the STEAG State Power, Inc. (SPI) has shut down its coal-fired power plant based in Mis-amis Oriental since October 6.

The shutdown for preven-tive maintenance would con-tinue until October 24, the SPI earlier said.

Immediately after the SPI shut off one of its coal plants,

the NGCP scheduled power ra-tioning in Mindanao.

“Because of the shut down, the power deficiency in Mindan-ao has reached from 150MW up to 200 megawatts on a daily ba-sis, depending on the generation and demand of the local power consumers,” said Capulong.

Another coal plant, also owned by the SPI, would shut off its system from October 24 until first week of November, she stressed.

Both coal-fired plants, each with a capacity of 105 mega-watts, provide about 20 percent of the current power capacity of the entire Mindanao.

The Cotabato Electric Co-operative (Cotelco), which sup-plies electricity to some 98,000

power consumers in North Co-tabato, is one of those affected in the power rationing.

Vincent Baguio, spokesper-son for Cotelco, said that their cooperative is again short of power supply so they scheduled load curtailment, which lasts from 30 minutes to an hour dai-ly.

Because of the shutdown of SPI’s plant, Cotelco is short of at least 4MW of power daily, he added.

“For the month of October, Cotelco has contracted some 20 megawatts of power from the NGCP. We had a contract with Therma Marine, Inc. for at least 8MW. Our total daily demand is about 32MW so we’re short of 4MW,” said Baguio.

When Pulangi-4 hydroelec-tric power plant in Bukidnon shut off its system on April this year, Cotelco implemented dai-ly brownouts that lasted eight hours, earning the ire of many power consumers.

This caused power consum-ers in Kidapawan City to or-ganize themselves where they demanded, among other things, to supply Cotelco at least 25 percent of the capacity of the geothermal power plants from Mount Apo.

The plants are owned by En-ergy Development Corporation of the Lopez Group of Compa-nies.

The demand, however, has fell on deaf ears. [MALu CADE-LIñA-MANAR / MINDANEws]

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Bonanza and right connect

By Dean Tony La ViñaRIVERMAN’S VISTA

What’s next for the Peace Process?

THINGS are looking up for Davao City with huge budgets set aside from various sources.

Aside from the executive annual budget of P4.5-billion submitted by Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio which the Sangguniang Panlungsod approved, the city’s three congressional districts will get a P1.6 million allocation for infrastructure funds as share from the country’s General Appropriations Act. As Edge Davao reported yesterday, the 3rd district under Rep. Isidro T. Ungab will get the bulk, a whopping P742.7 million, or 46.21 percent, 32.83 percent (P527.7 million) goes to the 2nd district of Rep. Mylene Garcia and 20.94 percent (P336.6 million) to the 1st district represented by Rep. Karlo Nograles.

That Sid’s district got the biggest bonanza is explained by the fact that he was once the vice chairman of the House appropriations committee, and now chairman of the powerful ways and means committee. Ungab had to work double time, too, because his predecessor belonged to the opposition and failed to get allotment needed by his district. That he is a University of the Philippines graduate, an outstanding member of the UP Vanguard and had worked with the Asian Development Bank for years.

On top of the congressional allocations which they identified, the three House members will still have additional projects to be funded by certain

departments which would have surpluses or unused allocations the three lawmakers can lobby for with department secretaries.

In this case, Ungab will have an advantage over ordinary House members. As vice chairman of the appropriations committee, some department heads must have owed Sid certain favors they would only be glad to “pay back” in terms of surplus funds for some of his pet projects.

On the other hand, Rep. Mylene had worked with some of the Cabinet departments as assistant secretary, aside from being the chief of staff of her father, former Rep. Manuel “Nonoy” Garcia, and younger brother, former Rep. Vincent Garcia. These “connections” will be very useful when she lobbies for more allocations to fund additional projects. Part of Mylene’s right connect would be the friendship and relationship she had cultivated as law graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University and bar topnotcher. Rep. Karlo Nograles, as son of a former House speaker, also has “connections” that would go a long way in seeking additional funding for his projects.

On the other hand, the city government can still pass supplemental budgets for other projects not covered by the main appropriation.

Indeed, this is akin to good fortune for the city. It is no longer wishful thinking to aspire that projects that could not be started in the past for lack of funds, can now be implemented and completed.

FOLLOWING the signing of the Framework Agreement, the Pres-ident, with the support of Con-

gress, will issue an Executive Order calling for the creation of the Transition Commission. As stipulated, the Tran-sition Commission, to be composed of fifteen (15) members all of whom are Bangsamoro, seven (7) of whom shall be selected by the GPH and eight (8) members, including the Chairman, by the MILF, will draft the Bangsamoro Ba-sic Law. The draft Bangsamoro Basic Law to be passed by Congress shall be certified as an urgent bill by the Pres-ident.

Once the basic law, which provides for the creation of a Bangsamoro Tran-sition Authority, is promulgated and ratified in a plebiscite, the ARMM will be abolished. Until then the ARMM offi-cials will continue to govern the region.

Public consultation that is, in the words of chief negotiator Marvic Leonen - inclusive, people-driven and democratic, will be undertaken and fa-cilitated by the national government to inform stakeholders, gather comments and suggestions, and to rally support for the enactment of the law after the issues have been thoroughly consid-ered.

With the election and assumption into office of the members of the Bang-samoro Legislative Assembly in the 2016 and the formation of the Bang-samoro Government, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority will then be dis-solved.

Critical to the success of the Bangsamoro is to ensure that there is peace and order in the region; hence, a police service that is pro-fessional, effective and non-parti-san must be organized. As agreed, the MILF shall undergo a graduated pro-gram for decommissioning of its forces so that they are put beyond use. Even-tually, law enforcement functions will be transferred from the Armed forces to the police force of the Bangsamoro. A program for decommissioned MILF el-ements for their post-conflict life must be formulated and fully implemented with especial attention to the specif-ic needs of women, children, disabled, internally displaced persons and the like who were affected by the years of armed conflict. The region will remain a security nightmare unless and until law enforcement is able to dismantle private armies and arrest lawlessness, including the confiscation of hundreds of thousands of high-powered firearms.

Often, rebellion is borne out of des-peration. It is therefore important that the new government is able to inspire hope; and this can only be achieved if the people see that their leaders are sincere and capable of providing them their needs, even the most basic ones. Comprehensive socio-economic devel-opment plans and programs that will benefit not only the conflict-affect-ed areas but the whole Bangsamoro must be formulated and fully imple-mented at the earliest possible time. [MindaNews/ Dean Tony La Viña is a human rights and environmental law-yer from Cagayan de Oro City. He was a member of the Government of the Phil-ippines Peace Panel that negotiated with the MILF from January-June 2010. He is currently the Dean of the Ateneo School of Government. Dean Tony can be reached at Tonylavs@gmail.com. Fol-low him on Facebook: tlavina@yahoo.com and on Twitter: tonylavs]

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WHEN the 210-ega-w a t t

coal-fired power plant of STEAG in Villanueva, Mis-amis Oriental began its annual preventive main-tenance services, the Mindanao grid, already at least 140 megawatts (MW) short in supply, was again placed under rotational power interruptions.

Power outages of up to two hours in most parts of Mindanao reminded all residents that the temporary lull was – well – temporary.

On Wednesday, Geronimo Desesto of the South Cotabato II Electric Coopera-tive (Socoteco II) said these pesky and worrisome brownouts could last up to three hours a day following reports that water inflow into the Pulangi River has dropped to low levels.

Pulangi River is the main source of the underutilized, run-of-river 255MW Pulangi Hydroelectric Plant in Mara-mag, Bukidnon.

The combination of the STEAG shut-down and the critical water inflow of Pulangi brought the total power de-ficiency in Mindanao to 410MW as of Wednesday.

Mindanao has a total installed ca-pacity of 1,870MW but actual capaci-ty, before the shutdown of STEAG and reduced capacity of Pulangi, was just slightly over 1,150MW. The demand for capacity, then, was already down by 140MW, forcing the National Power Corporation to reduce power supply to electric cooperatives and private power distribution companies.

While the STEAG shutdown will last until November 4 only, power supply from hydroelectric plants in Mindanao are likely to go down as the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astro-nomical Services Administration (PA-GASA) is already forecasting a moder-ate El Niño occurrence beginning late in the last quarter this year up to the first quarter of 2013.

Mindanao gets 53 percent of its power supply from hydroelectric plants since the Agus Hydroelectric Power Plant complex began operating in the early 1950s, the first one being at the foot of Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan City.

The six hydro power plants along the Agus River have a combined capac-ity of a little more than 700MW. Some of these plants’ antiquated turbines however have reduced total com-bined actual capacity to slightly under 500MW.

In the 2009 Mindanao Business Conference in Koronadal City, the Phil-ippine Chamber of Commerce and In-dustry (PCCI) said Mindanao has to add 100MW of new capacity every year if it is to cope up with projected increase in demand curve alone. This required new capacity does not in-clude demands from big ticket invest-ments such as Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI). In effect, we are now already at least 300MW short of the ideal supply capacity.

PCCI also said Mindanao needs to maintain a reserve capacity equivalent to its single largest operating capacity. Industry sources pegged the reserve capacity to be at least equal to 13 per-cent of the total installed capacity in the island.

As it now stands, STEAG’s 210MW plant is the single biggest power plant running in full capacity. STEAG went on commercial stream in 2006.

MEDICAL tourism is a US$40-bil-lion industry worldwide annu-ally. In Asia, countries such as

Thailand, India and Singapore had al-ready gained foothold in this booming industry. While Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok alone receives more than 350,000 foreign patients every year, the Philippines has yet to make great strides in it.

Well, decades ago India led the BPO industry in the world, with only 10% of the market left for the Philippines. Our country is now the undisputed leader in the BPO sector worldwide.

The primary reason why foreigners seek medical treatment in select coun-tries in Asia is the comparatively lower cost of medical services. In the United States, for example, a coronary bypass surgery will cost an average American around US$50,000. At the current ex-change rate, that is roughly PhP2.05 million. A similar procedure in the Philippines will cost only US$25,000 (PhP1.03 million). Lasik eye surgery costs US$3,000 per eye abroad, while eye centers in the Philippines charge only one-third of that amount.

Medical tourism is not entirely new to the Philippines. As early as the mid-‘70s, when the conjugal dictatorship built the Philippine Heart Center and Philippine Lung Center, many foreign patients flocked to Manila and sought medical treatments there. At the time, the quality of medical services and fa-cilities were already at par with world standards. Medical practitioners even established residency and trainings in those two centers, just like what other Asian military students did at the Philip-pine Military Academy.

However, the Philippines never

made serious attempts at de-veloping the medical tour-ism industry then. It was only at the turn of the 21st cen-tury that the g o v e r n m e n t recognized the vast potentials to increase rev-enues of medical facilities in the country. And that is long after Thailand and India already gained significant shares of the market.

Four major niches have to be estab-lished if we are to make the country the new hub of wellness and medical care in Asia. First is medical-surgical care, which includes regular medical proce-dures, women’s health care, dental care, optometric care and rehabilitative treat-ment. Traditional and alternative health care should focus on acupuncture, alter-native massage therapies, herbal med-icine, naturopathy and detoxification. The remaining niches are wellness (such as spas, health and wellness farms, hilot, etc.) and international retirement center and villages. When fully implemented, the development plan translates into increased income for tourism sub-sec-tors specializing in medical tourism and higher tourist traffic for the country. Instead of foreigners coming into the country primarily for our sun, sea and sand, others will soon follow in search of medical treatments at par with global standards at much lower cost.

The industry will also provide more and better opportunities for medical professionals who continue to go abroad

in search of higher pay. Despite the no-ble objectives of the Doctors to the Bar-rio program then of the Health depart-ment, understandably, economics is still most basic. That’s your Maslow’s hierar-chy of needs at work.

So, what makes us a potential new hub of wellness care in Asia? Of course, Filipinos are known for being polite and hospitable. These are the reasons why Filipino nurses sit well abroad. They bring human form and substance to a rather drab and impersonal atmosphere in many hospitals and clinics in the West. We have excellent English profi-ciency comfortably spoken by high qual-ity medical labor force. Lest we forget, medical costs in the Philippines remain relatively competitive in the region.

Experts have identified a few con-straints, however. Foremost is our med-ico-legal system and insurance reliabil-ity. The malpractice bill is still pending in Congress after the Philippine Med-ical Association exerted strong lobby-ing against it. Many government and private hospitals lack proper accredita-tion at par with international standards. The government should come up with a working seal-of-excellence merit system acceptable to the world medical commu-nity.

The goal is to institutionalize an in-centive system that will encourage these medical and wellness centers to vie for such accreditation. In the process, med-ical facilities and services will be signifi-cantly enhanced.

What are at stake for our tour agen-cies and travel operators then? Imagine an organized group of Russians regularly coming to Davao City for teeth whitening with built in tours after the procedure? Just connect the dots.

APPLE and Samsung, you might have heard, have spent the last many months in a California courtroom

haggling over who violated whose patents. At the end of August, Apple was awarded more than a billion dollars in damages by a jury, and the Samsung is now claiming jury misconduct. Just last week a U.S. appeals court threw out the judge’s ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus phone. The whole situation is, really, turning into a bit of a confusing mess.

Also messy: a lesser-known but hugely important struggle among Samsung, Ap-ple, and those members of the press try-ing to write about the court battle. While otherwise adversaries, the two companies have joined forces to keep some of the ev-idence in the case off the public record. But how much secrecy in the Apple v. Sam-sung proceedings is too much for the public to tolerate? It’s a meta legal question, and one that might not have the same billions directly at stake as the main event. But the outcome of the dispute about the transpar-ency of our courts is central to understand-ing the future of these big tech trials. And there will likely be plenty more of those.

The question at stake is whether the tech firms will be allowed to tie up the courts with their business disputes while engineering it so they don’t face the full

scrutiny of a truly public trial.Apple and Samsung have again and

again asked the court to keep the financial documents they’ve filed during the trial off the public record. Searches for the tri-al’s documents on PACER.gov, the federal courts’ online public access system, often return this message: “This document is currently Under Seal and not available to the general public.” The concern here isn’t about paperwork. The resulting gaps in the record mean that the rest of us are seeing a fraction of the picture to which Apple, Sam-sung, and the lawyers, judge and jury on the case are privy.

Two themes are at work. First, U.S. courts are being asked to litigate the tech-nology industry’s “patent wars.” Second, companies are asking judges to handle the cases in a hush-hush manner. Some judges are pushing back. In the Oracle v. Google case that, like Apple v. Samsung, took place in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, last sum-mer, Judge William Alsup gave a bit of a whipping to the participants. “This is a

public proceeding,” railed the judge. “You lawyers and companies are not going to handcuff the court,” adding for extra clarity that his courtroom “is not a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corp.”

In July, Reuters objected to the repeated sealing of documents in the Apple-Samsung case. It led the effort to persuade Judge Lucy Koh to unseal the records but later dropped out, leaving the First Amendment Coalition to advocate during the appeals process. (That’s the extent of my disclosure—as a humble contributor to Reuters Opinion, I don’t have any insight into those delibera-tions.)

Judge Koh decided that indeed things had gone too far, citing the court’s established “strong presumption in favor of access.” Not everything was pushed into the public eye under Koh’s order. She thought it reasonable that things like proprietary source code, product schematics, produc-tion capacity information, licensing agree-ments with third parties, and raw market research data stay private. But many of the companies’ other filings were unsealed. The judge’s reasoning? That the details of things like market research reports on its customers’ buying and usage habits were central to understanding Apple’s argument that it was terribly damaged by Samsung’s alleged copying.

Apple and Samsung’s cone of silence

Brownouts are back, hopefully

not for good

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General Santos City

Maximizing our medical tourism potentials

By nancy ScoLaCoMMENTARy

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DO you know that in-door air can be more polluted than outdoor

air? Research shows that in-door air quality can be as much as nine times more polluted than outdoor air. Imagine that when you’re living in a condo building that’s been designed with-out careful consideration for the quality of its indoor air.

If the condo building you live in lacks an efficient air ventilation system, its indoor air quality could be compromised. This can lead to a warm environment that is conducive to the growth of mold and other contami-nants.

Those living in condo buildings without clear breeze pathways become prone to the sick building syndrome and will suffer from a range of symptoms, from shortness of breath, ir-ritated or runny nose, head-ache, nausea, skin irritation, among others.

The sick building syn-drome is mostly associated with buildings where its occupants become prone to one or a combination of these symptoms, which disappear when they leave their building.

This can happen to peo-ple who live in poorly de-signed condo structures that do not have good breeze pathways which allow the entry of fresh air. Worse,

it can aggravate existing conditions such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, and other respiratory problems.

Unit owners of Camella Northpoint will never fall victim to the sick building syndrome. With the green architecture of this British colonial themed condo com-munity, its occupants bene-fit from excellent indoor air quality.

As green buildings, Northpoint’s condo towers are designed to allow fresh air to enter and warm air to exit. The cool breeze the building design allows to enter it flows into the atri-um, indoor gardens, and hallways, cooling the interi-or and providing fresh air to the individual condo units.

Northpoint’s condo homes also have wide win-dows that can be opened to let the breeze in, as well as the verdant green landscape that Northpoint is known for. Enhancing its air quali-ty even further are the live plants found in the indoor gardens, providing fresh ox-ygen and a cool ambiance.

Camella Northpoint’s fourth and tallest tower, Liverpool, will have Sky Gar-dens that are not only filled with real, live plants, but will be wide openings in the building façade that freely allow the entry of cool wind and breeze.

It will also allow the

Excellent indoor air quality means healthful living in Camella Northpoint

freshness of hundreds of im-ported Caribbean pine trees planted all over Northpoint to waft into the building and the individual condo units.

These pine trees and other plant life that grow abundantly in Northpoint help to cleanse the air by

absorbing harmful toxins and producing life-giving oxygen. It also emits a won-derful aroma that makes the air in Northpoint pleasantly scented.

As these pine trees can grow to about a hundred feet tall, they also provide

shade that will protect the buildings and its units from the heat and harsh glare of the sun

With its excellent indoor air quality, Northpoint gives its homeowners a pleasant and cool ambiance as well as a safe environment for their

families. Camella Northpoint is

a landmark condo devel-opment of Camella Davao which holds office at 2/F Delgar Building, JP Laurel Ave., Bajada, Davao City, tele-phone numbers (082) 222-0963 and (082) 222-5221.

Camella Northpoint’s fourth tower, Liverpool, is de-signed to green architecture that allows cool breeze to enter and warm air to exit the condo buildings.

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Edge Davao hiring editor, 3 reportersEDGE DAVAO is in need of an editor and three staff-

writers/reporters for its expansion program.The reporters will be assigned to the business, sci-

ence/environment and political beats.On the other hand, the editor will supervise the re-

porters and do gate-keeping tasks.Applicant must be a graduate of a four- year college

course. For reporters, experience is not needed although preferable. The editor should have at least one-year ex-perience in editing.

Interested parties may send their application letter to Mr. Antonio M. Ajero, Edge Davao editor, thru email address ajero_antonio@yahoo.com. For inquiries, please call Mr. Ajero thru mobile phone 09052422686 or land-line 221-3601.

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Vicente Camilon Jr., TUCP secretary general, said now that the peace accord is in place in Min-danao, TUCP is working overtime to save and cre-ate more decent jobs and sustainable livelihood for Mindanaoans.

The only way to solve the endemic problem of poverty in Mindanao is for all able-bodied and industrious Mindanaoans to have full and decent employment in manu-facturing, agriculture,

services and industries, Camilon said.

He added that their group represents the in-terest of Mindanao since their representatives are all from Mindanao “who know exactly the issues and concerns of Mind-anaoans and will actively work for the interest of Mindanao.”

“For all our advoca-cies, we want all Mind-anaoans to have decent jobs as their deep longing to earn respect and per-

sonal dignity,” he said.TUCP has so far only

one representative in Congress, Raymond Dem-ocrito Mendoza, husband of North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendo-za.

In the May 13, 2013 mid-term elections the TUCO aims to win three seats, with Dabawenyos Anthony Sasin and Pana-bo City barangay cap-tain Mike Niez being the group’s second and third nominees. [ASA]

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nan, whose is engaged in selling heavy equipment and accessories, said that he is not afraid of the popularity of his two ri-vals as he is dead serious in effecting change and reforms once elected as mayor.

Osnan said that having been successful as a busi-

nessman in Davao City, it is high time that he serve his townfolks in Baganga, home of big-time logging companies.

He said this early, he has designed a mobile hospital to cater ro the health needs of the peo-ple of Baganga, especially those living in neglected

and remote areas.“It is now the time for

me to serve my kababay-ans,” he said.

However, Nazareno and Monday are confident of winning their resoec-tive bids, despite admit-ting that Osnan is a force to reckon with. [AsA]

provided that the other objectives of the bill such as the health and the WTO issues are addressed.

Asked if the adminis-tration got an assurance from the senators on a particular amount they could work on, Lacier-da said, legislators are

amenable in figures be-tween P40 billion and P60 billion.

The Senate Ways and Means Committee rec-ommended last week a measure that will raise P15 billion to P20 billion in additional tax revenues per year.

The House of Repre-sentatives, on the oth-er hand, approved last June its sin tax version, which is expected to raise P31.35 billion in the first year of implementation.

The Palace proposal is pegged at P60 billion a year. [PNA]

were filed separately by Reps. Lord Allan Jay Velasco of Marinduque, Joseph Victor G. Ejercito of San Juan and Davao City-born Teddy Casino of Bayan partylist, who has consistently attacked the telcos on poor service.

Ejercito, Velasco and Casino are not the first to raise hackles against what has come to be known as the “nakaw “load issue.

House Bill 6335 of Rep. Velasco seeks to “protect the welfare of end-users and shield them from deceptive, unfair and unconscionable acts and practices.”

Once passed, the Velasco bill will impose penalties on erring telcos caught not issuing daily billing report to subscribers. The bill seeks to penalizes a first-time offender with a fine of P500,000, second time offender with P1 million, and third time offender with P5 million.

The bulk of the discussions on the Velasco bill and other proposed laws in social networking

and mainstream media were sample complaints against Smart, telco arm of Philippine long Distance Company, Inc. (PLDT), which dominates 60 percent of the prepaid market.

Some of the numerous complaints thru Facebook and Twitter cited losses of as much as P10 worth of credits per day per subscriber.

While advocacy groups against nakaw load are beginning to surface in Cebu and other cities in the Visayas, Dabawenyos still have to put their act together to form a citizen watchdog on network issues.

Paciente “Boy” Cubillas, senior trade and industry development specialist of the Department of Trade and Industry 11, estimates that his office receives an average of three complaints a week. However, complaints against telecoms are passed on to the NTC, the proper agency to act on them,

according to Cubillas, who was a broadcast executive before joining DTI.

Only last Wednesday, the DTI received a complaint about non-action on wireless broadband, he said.

“I myself experienced lost load in the past,” Cubillas said.

Bong Lim, militant advocate of consumer rights against abuses of power companies, said Dabawenyos should now launch a consumer watchdog group against nakaw load.

Lim who acted an intervenor in power firm’s petitions for increase in rates and related matters, said there is no longer a creditable consumer rights advocate in Davao, like the defunct Konsumo Dabaw..

He said advocates in collaboration with concerned government agencies should start off with massive consumer education, as this is must in any form of consumer rights advocacy. [AMA]

TOY STORY. A sneaky boy tries out a toy that is being displayed by a toy kiosk while its sales ladies are busy entertain-ing other customers at SM Lanang Premier yesterday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

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Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the mortgagee Home Development Mutual Fund against Joel G. Mendoz married to Ma. Theresa S. Mendoza with postal address at B14 L30 Wellspring Village Catalu-nan Pequeño 8000 Davao City to satisfy the mortgage indebted-ness which as of December 3,2010 amounted to ( Php 303,774.67) Philippine Currency, inclusive of interest, penalty charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to TEN ( 10%) of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale; the un-dersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on November 15, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

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FOR these bikers, sitting still isn’t on the agenda when it comes to having fun.

JP Alipio, executive director of Baguio-based envi-ronmental NGO Cordillera Conservation Trust, has been bik-ing since he was a kid. Shares JP, “Biking opens you up to new adventures. Cycling is fast enough to bring you further yet slow enough so you are able to really take in what is around you—the local environment, every bump on the road, the people you pass, and even the weather. Biking was just really my preferred vehicle for getting out there.”

Charie Villa, media practitioner and biker, shares Alipio’s love affair with biking. “Biking gave me mobility as a kid. I even gave my prize money from playing Bingo to my dad so he could buy me an ‘Easy Rider’ bike when I was younger,” she recounted. “I also moved to biking from running to man-age my weight because it’s easier on the knees.”

Both Alipio and Villa have married their love for biking with their love for the environment and their personal advo-cacies. “Environment preservation is one of my advocacies. So is ‘Choose Philippines,’ a project I lead in ABS-CBN where you can share discoveries around the Philippines and I sup-port TaoPo.org, and online portal where people can contrib-ute solutions to social problems,” said Villa. TaoPo.org allows citizens to be “changeneers”, empowering them to articulate inefficiencies in government offices and solutions and in-sights on social problems through the Internet.

Designing Trails, Showcasing NatureAlipio, also a guide for the adventure travel company

Cordillera Expeditions, is the chief trail master for the Globe Cordillera Challenge, an annual biking event held in Baguio to promote the need to reforest the Cordilleras. The trail he de-signed for the third Globe Cordillera Challenge in May 2012, is by far the trickiest, Alipio shared. “It was quite challenging since for most of the trail, the riders were biking above 2000 meters, plus it had a lot of technical sections.”

Villa, who joined the Globe Cordillera Challenge 3, thought the trail was a welcome challenge. “It was uphill all the way! But it was fantastic. The sights [of the Cordillera mountains] were fabulous.” For Villa, the views along the trail was a re-minder why she believes in ‘Choose Philippines’.

The Globe Cordi 3 trail showcased the best views of the Lingayen Gulf, Mossy and Pine Forests of the Cordillera while the high-altitude 27 kilometer trail involved steep grades, loose rocks, and tricky descents with over one kilometer of vertical climbing. “We’ve always tried to design the challenge around showcasing the local environment of the Cordillera,” Alipio added. “I am hoping we can take the biking event one step further and really explore the mountains and showcase

the wilder side of the Cordillera.” Alipio’s team also recently received recognition from the United States Embassy for en-vironmental activism and enterprise.

Alipio, who grew up in Northern Luzon, thinks there will always be adventure for those who seek it. “One of our aims every year is to create new advocates for the environment and transform people to love the outdoors—the best way to do that is to get people outside to see some of the most beau-tiful environments we know. And in the mountains, there are opportunities for that.”

Globe Arakan XC: Globe’s first adventure challenge in the South

In October, Globe brings its first environmental challenge to the South via Globe Arakan XC (Cross Country). The event, slated for October 20, features a 55-kilometer trail which will start from the Philippine Eagle Center (PEF) in Davao and continue towards Arakan Valley in Cotabato City. Proceeds from the event will support the Forest Corridor Development Project of the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF).

“Globe is committed to the protection, preservation, and conservation of our environment and we are happy to extend our reach to the South,” said Rob I. Nazal, Globe Head for CSR. Nazal was also a first-time biker for the Globe Cordillera Challenge in May 2012. He added, “Biking to support a cause is a way for our employees, stakeholders, and our public to do their share in helping preserve the environment. We’re glad that aside from the Cordilleras, we have an opportunity to help conserve the home of the Philippine Eagle.”

Villa is also set to join the Globe Arakan XC on October 20. Shared Villa, “I am looking forward to seeing the sights [of Davao] and the gratification of hopefully, finishing the trail.”

Bikers are encouraged to donate P1,000 each as their reg-istration fee and the proceeds from the event will help pre-serve the remaining forest fragments which are biologically and ecologically important since they have been home to the

Philippine eagle since 1992. Globe’s partnership with the Philippine Eagle Foundation also aims to re-establish forest on grasslands along the forest corridor between the moun-tains of Mahuson, Sinaka, and Kabalantiian-Binoongan-Kula-man (KABIKU), rehabilitate degraded lands close to habitats of threatened wildlife and critical watersheds, and provide incentives to both indigenous and non-indigenous commu-nity partners.

Interested bikers may register through the Globe Ara-kan XC Facebook page or through the Everest Outdoor Shop in Wheels N More Drive Compound, Bajada, Davao City. For more information on Globe Arakan XC, bikers may check facebook.com/GlobeBridgeCom.

Globe Arakan XC is supported by leading global ICT solu-tions provider Huawei, Gerry’s Grill and the Ayala Business Club – Davao composed of about 30 members including Ayala Land, Avida, and Bank of the Philippine Islands.

Eco-bikers: Riding for Nature, Not Just For Leisure

When FitFlop launched their iconic flip flops a couple of years back, women rejoiced and sang praises to FitFlop’s leg toning effect thanks to their original microwobbleboard technology. Men on the other-hand were left by the sidelines with just two models, you can choose from either black, or brown. not good.

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FitFlops and the ‘Men Who Rule’

Fast forward to October 11at one of Taguig’s most happening hot-spots, the Skye Lounge. FitFlop and Rogue Magazine hosted a cocktail party and an awards function honoring five young men from vari-ous fields who embody the FitFlop philosophy: Wear the shoes. Rule the world. The event also served as the launch party for Fit-Flop men’s Autumn/Win-ter 2012 collection. Finally, men have more FitFlop choices to choose from. Staying true to their London roots, FitFlop has anchored their newly-launched Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection to the city’s architecture while still em-ploying their biomechani-cally optimized triple-den-sity midsole technology. The collection inspired by the rise of mixed-living en-gineering, by the multitude of urban regeneration proj-ects in and around London and the city’s fundamen-tal daily lifestyle fusion of force and support. Of course you can ex-pect every FitFlop sandal, sneaker, slide, and boot is engineered with their trademark microwobble-board technology that makes walking in them a

feel good experience every time. FitFlop honored Ivan Man Dy with the heritage and Culture Award. As one of the pioneers of Old Ma-nila Walks, Ivan is not only a tour guide but more of an ambassador whose work has continually promoted Manila and its rich culture. FitFlop’s Microwobble-board technology keeps Ivan’s feet comfortable throughout his long treks across the city. For Culinary Arts, it was two-time MBKRS Best Chef nominee, Chef Sau del Rosario who bagged the award. even after train-ing and opening a num-ber of restaurants abroad, Chef Sau still chose to come home and promote Filipino food. As a chef, he spends most of his working hours standing up so Fit-Flop’s foot pressure diffus-ing midsole really comes in handy for him. Rafa Alunan, digital advertising specialist and hands –on dad gets the

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When in Davao, do as the Davaoe-ños do—take a dip in pristine waters, go on a nature hike, and have a taste of the delicacies distinctive to the city. But hold on to that list as another must-experience is about to be added along with the many things you can delight in at the heart of the vibrant metropo-lis. Prep your palates and get ready to say “Maayong Pag-abot!” as Krispy Kreme turns its hotlight on at the Royal City of the South this October 20, 2012. Spanning more than 690 shops in 21 countries, Krispy Kreme has been ex-citing the world with a dis-tinct confectionery ex-perience brought by its delectable variety of offer-ings, piloted by the Origi-nal Glazed Doughnut, which has won the world over since 1937.  Since it first opened its doors in the Philippines six years ago, the world-famous doughnut and cof-fee brand has been making Filipinos fall in love with its range of signature treats. To date, Krispy Kreme Philippines now boasts of 31 stores in Luzon and two stores in Visayas—all con-stantly swelling with eager patrons who found that unrivaled delight brought by its products. hence, Krispy Kreme continues to bolster its sweet success in the coun-try through expanding with two stores down south. Located in Mindan-ao’s premier shopping des-tinations—Abreeza Mall and The Annex at SM City Davao, the newest branch-es further Krispy Kreme’s milestone in the country,

as well as the celebration of its 75th year of bringing delicious tastes and fond memories worldwide. “In whichever part of the country, you will find that Filipinos have a naturally soft spot for sweets,” notes Mark Gamboa, Marketing Manager of Krispy Kreme Philippines. “having al-ready satisfying our mar-kets in Luzon and Visayas, we decided that we couldn’t

leave Mindanao out, and so we are now finally bringing the confectionary goodness of our brand to the south as we expand in the region.” To complete the Krispy Kreme experience for Davaoeños, its Abreeza Mall branch will feature the Baked Kitchen, where the brand’s Baked Cre-ations are freshly rolled out every day. Meanwhile, its outlet at The Annex at

SM City Davao—its first 4th drive-thru store in the country set to operate in its own extended hours from 6am to 1am—will boast of the Doughnut Factory, where thousands of every-one’s much-loved Origi-nal Glazed Doughnuts are produced daily. And to satiate its Davao market’s tastes some more, Krispy Kreme assures that its range of offerings in both branches will be ha-lal-certified—veering away from flavors made with pork to appeal to the Mus-lim market. Also, in true Krispy Kreme tradition, the first people—one from each of the eight (8) neighbor-ing cities—to ring the cash register gets a year-long supply of the brand’s Origi-nal Glazed Doughnuts and Signature Coffee. Addition-ally, the second and third customers to fall in line will be rewarded six and three month’s worth of the same delights, respectively. The 4th to 100th purchasers are also in for treats, as they will be getting supplies of these Krispy Kreme favor-ites to last them a whole month. The eight neighboring cities in Mindanao in-cluded in this promo are Davao Oriental, Davao del norte, Davao del Sur, Zam-boanga del norte, Agusan del norte, General Santos, Lanao del norte, and Cota-bato City. With an extensive pas-try selection ranging from sweet to savory and espres-so drinks that go from hot to cold, Krispy Kreme is all set to thrill every Davaoe-ño’s taste buds with its one-of-a-kind goodness and distinct mouth-watering delight.

ArE you spending all of your nights sigh-ing in front of the TV and wishing you can see your favorite teleserye idols in person? Abreeza Mall may just grant your wish this weekend! Due to insistent public demand, Abreeza, along with ABS-CBN, joins forces to bring you a one-of-a-kind en-tertainment treat this Sunday. Catch Walang Hanggan stars Dawn Zulueta and richard Gomez this coming October 20, 2012, 4PM at the Abreeza open parking. Our super stars Dawn and richard (fondly referred to as Emily and Marco in ABS-CBN’s primetime gem, Walang Hanggan) will grace the live local variety show, Kapami-lya Winner Ka. The show will start off with the famous KWK game, Primerong Kiat. Comedy skits immediately follow and they will be capping off the first half with the game “Ano Ka Hilo?”. Afterwards, the hosts will call in our guests-of-honor, Emily and Marco and will be treating the audi-ence with a few performance numbers. Picture taking and souvenir giving will follow thereafter. For the benefit of everyone, the open parking area is located across Italianni’s restaurant, near the Palm Vil-lage exit road. Don’t miss the chance to see your primetime idols live! Tell (and bring) all your friends because entrance is ABSOLUTELY FrEE! Be early; see you!

The merry season of Christmas is just around the corner as we see win-dows now adorned with glitters and lights and the joyous sound of car-ols filling the air. It’s time to start off our holiday shopping, lest we get caught up in a gift-buy-ing frenzy with everyone else a week before Christ-mas. Whatever tickles your fancy, be it a best-selling book for dad,

the sumptuous food basket for the family next door, those matching shoes and purse for mom, or that sparkly pair of ear-rings for your special someone, you are sure to find it in one of more that 300 shops at Abreeza Mall. The Active Zone at the 2nd Floor is a haven for serious sports enthusiasts and fitness buffs with its selection of shoes, apparel and sports equipment available. If you’re a gadget geek, eat your heart out with the latest and coolest items at

the Techno Zone located at the 3rd Floor. Fashionistas won’t run out of great finds from shoes, bags and outfits in the various branded boutiques around the mall. Whether you’re shop-ping for yourself, your family or friends, there’s truly something for everyone at Abreeza Mall. Aside from the wide array of delightful items to choose from, Abreeza Mall rewards its shop-pers with the finest gifts one could wish for. From October 20, 2012 to January 31, 2013, shop-

pers get a chance to win excit-ing prizes and fabulous freebies with Abreeza Mall’s Premium re-wards promo. With a minimum single receipt purchase of P 500 from any Abreeza Mall store or P 1000 from robinsons Super-market, customers may redeem a raffle ticket for a chance to win an amazing Family Asian Cruise for 4, the new Iphone 5s or an Ipad 3! What’s more, if they shop early in the day from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, they get an early bird instant freebie from music CDs,

cinema passes, event passes and other special giveaways. There’s nothing more satisfy-ing that spending and being re-warded at the same time. Now you can take your family to that much-deserved vacation or get the gadget of your dreams, only by shopping at Abreeza Mall. So beat the holiday rush and be re-warded today! For more details on the Pre-mium rewards promo, see post-ers or print ads or check Abreeza Mall at Facebook or Twitter.

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ASHTON KUTCHEr, on his own, is worth way more than your average two and a half men put to-gether. The 33-year-old actor-producer-investor and his $24 million tops Forbes’ latest list of the highest-paid actors on TV over the last 12 months. And you get one guess as to who Kutcher displaced as No. 1. That’s right, former Two and a Half Men star Char-lie Sheen, who was the biggest money-maker pre-meltdown with $40 million but fell off the list entirely this year. Despite his absence from prime-time this year (yeah, we’re still not over it, either), Hugh Laurie comes in second on the list with $18 million, the British thesp obviously having collected a pretty penny for the final season of House.

Men of a Certain Age was canceled, but ray ro-mano’s Everybody Loves raymond is still pretty ubiquitous via syndica-tion, resulting in an $18 million payday for its star and coexecutive produc-er. Tied for third place are 30 rock standout Alec Baldwin and Mark Har-mon, whose NCIS is fre-

quently the most-watched scripted show on TV, with $15 million. Last Man Standing didn’t make any critic’s list of favorites last season but it did help Tim Allen secure fourth place with $14 mil-lion. And Jon Cryer, who just won his first lead-role Emmy for Two and a Half Men, rounds out the top five with $13 million.

NO wonder Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson didn’t re-veal their daughter’s name right away—they probably need-ed plenty of time to practice spelling it first! But they have finally filled us in: Meet rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson. Or Luna, as mom and dad call her for short, Thur-man’s rep confirms to E! News, adding, “Each name has a special reason and meaning to her mother and father.” Alas, they’re keeping those reasons to them-selves for now, but we at least applaud the very Shakespearean choice of rosalind. Luna was born July 15, Thurman’s first child with her financier fiancé, who grew up in France. The 42-year-old Kill Bill star also has two kids, daughter Maya ray and son Levon, with ex-hus-

band Ethan Hawke, while Busson, 49, has two sons,

Flynn and Cy, with ex Elle MacPherson.

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Uma Thurman reveals baby daughter’s very long name—and nickname!

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award for Business. Rafa hops from his business, to his endorsements deals and then to fatherhood without missing a beat. The FitFlop Men’s Core Contemporary embodies this kind of dedi-cation as it allows for both work and play. It is truly perfect for Rafa’s lifestyle as he juggles his professional and home life. A career as a practic-ing dentist who models on the side seems a bit far-fetched, but this is exactly what health and Wellness awardee, Dr. Gail Bitan-cor is. Aside from running La Clinica Dental with a group of colleagues in Cebu City, he has also ap-peared in a number of na-tional print ads and cam-paigns. his dedication to other people’s oral health as well as his own physi-cal wellness makes Fit-Flop’s smart, multi-tasking, multi-occasion footwear a good match for him. Quintin Pastrana can now add FitFlop awardee for Advocacy in his port-folio. he is a renewable energy executive who also builds libraries around the country through his nGO, and promote sustainable waterways and interna-tional rowing as President of the Manila Boat Club. With this much in his plate, he maximizes the use of FitFlop’s world-class ergo-

nomic technol-ogy and engi-neering, made to support and cushion the wearer, who in turn gets more accomplished each day. These five e nt e r pr i s i ng young men are definitely wear-ing the right shoes in their bid to rule the world. After the awards cer-emony, popular Pinoy soul band Sinosikat? en-tertained guests by belting out some of their hits. As a special touch and in keep-ing with the event’s theme, they chose “everybody Wants to Rule the World” as their first song. The night was also pep-pered with a lot of freebies as guests who RSVPed with their shoe sizes were given brand new pairs shoes from

FitFlop’s Autumn/Winter 2012 collection. One lucky guest walked away with a luggage from Victorinox after correctly guessing the number of shoes inside a big glass tank. Finally, the night closed off with an assortment of gadgets and shoes that were raffled off that night. The FitFlop Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection is now available at Chimes Specialty Store, ResToeRun Abreeza, and Bratpack SM City Davao.

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THE elite team of the SMART-Gilas Pilipi-nas program will be

composed from a revised PBA pool of 20 players for two international tourna-ments next year.

PBA commissioner Chito Salud said that he had met with SMART-Gi-las coach Chot Reyes, who suggested the revision in the team’s preparation for next year’s FIBA Asia Championship, which serves as qualifier for the 2014 FIBA World Cup.

According to Salud, SMART-Gilas will partic-ipate in the Dubai Inter-national Invitational from January 10 to 19 and the King’s Cup in Hong Kong from January 22 to 27.

SMART-Gilas, under coach Rajko Toroman, fin-ished third in the Dubai tournament in 2010 and runner-up last year.

“The conditions were also clear that there will be no disruption on the schedule of the PBA and all players will play in the PBA and walang ma-ga-absent because of the national team,” said Salud.

Even though the two tournaments were not part of the original agree-ment between the league and the national program, the PBA still chose to ac-comodate SMART-Gilas.

“That was not includ-ed in the proposal, but we’re bending backwards and since the PBA will be

on a break from January 23 to February 8, that’s a go,” said Salud.

“Chot understands that he cannot use these players as long as they’re playing in the PBA. Those players who will not be able the tournament are probably the teams that

are playing in the play-off.”

Reyes also asked Sa-lud to schedule regular Monday practice for the members of the pool, to be held at the Philsports Arena, with more train-ing sessions to be held as the tournaments near.

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TIGER WOODS hasn’t been this busy on the golf course in

seven years, a season that will wrap up in California with his annual World Challenge.

Still to be determined is whether he’ll keep play-ing that many events.

On Wednesday, Woods announced the 18-man field for the World Chal-lenge, to be played the week after Thanksgiv-ing at Sherwood Country Club. Woods is the de-fending champion, out-lasting Zach Johnson to end a two-year drought.

The field features 13 players from the Ryder

Cup — all but Phil Mick-elson from the United States, only Graeme Mc-Dowell and Ian Poulter from Europe — along with Hunter Mahan, Nick Watney, Bo Van Pelt, Rick-ie Fowler and Jason Day. All of them are among the top 30 in the world.

For Woods, the World Challenge will be his 24th tournament of the year, which includes the Ryder Cup and the exhibition he played last week in Turkey. That’s his busiest schedule since he played 25 times in 2005, not in-cluding the Skins Game and PGA Grand Slam of Golf.

“It was nice to be able to — other than one set-back at Doral this year — to be healthy enough to where I have the op-portunity to play as much as little as I want,” Woods said in a conference call. “It wasn’t something I was forced to sit on the sidelines, forced to rehab and get myself back into a position where I can com-pete. I was able to com-pete and play as many tournaments as I wanted to. So that was a positive.

“We’ll see going for-ward what that holds.”

Woods added four tournaments to his 2012 season that he had never

played as a pro — Abu Dhabi on t h e European Tour, t h e Honda Clas- s i c , the Greenbri- e r Classic and the C I M B Classic next w e e k in Malaysia, which is unofficial.

In his last full season — w i t h o u t c o p i n g with injury or chaos in his per-

sonal life — h e played 20 times in 2009.

Woods appeared to downplay the notion that he would consider taking up membership on the European Tour. The Euro-pean Tour is expected to NOBODY knows Man-

ny Pacquiao but Man-ny Pacquiao.

We’ll leave it all up to that now. Manny Pacquiao has decided to continue to train in his hometown in General Santos City and cut a programmed training reg-imen in Los Angeles. That is Manny speaking and decid-ing for himself.

The decision to stay in Gensan for two more weeks instead of leaving for Los Angeles to plunge into training raised a lot of howl of disagreement among the boxing circles. Manny could be out of his mind treating the fight against Juan Man-uel Marquez as just another walk in the park.

Manny has never come close to beating squarely his Mexican rival. In fact, two of those three fights could have gone either way. The last one I thought could have been Marquez’s.

Now, Manny is off from a loss that dented an other-wise legendary armour. He lost a controversial fight to Timothy Bradley in a fight everyone thought he won. Then again, this is boxing.

Manny knows.Boxing could be as bi-

zarre as it could get.But there are things you

can control. Like training for a fight. This is basic. You don’t go to a fight and expect to be at your best when you have not had enough train-ing. Most especially when you are starting to lose your mojo.

Sure Manny could still be in step with, say, Gangnam Style. However, it is different when you are fighting a tac-tical fight. Speed, Manny’s wicked offensive weapon, has never been that much of an advantage against the old-fashioned Marquez’s counterpunching style.

And then there’s the dis-tractions. Manny could not leave the country soon sim-ply because there are just too much commitments. Legislative work is weighing down on Manny and this part about him is the tedious

part. Manny, let’s accept it, was not born to be in poli-tics. He is an accidental poli-tician. It’s weighing down on him quite obviously.

I think that unless gets to surround himself with a powerful cast of political think-tanks and spin doc-tors, the weight of the po-litical task is just too much for Manny to take. Manny, at best, can afford to put up that team and have an easier political life.

Likewise, he can tell his wife Jinky to veer away from politics. Not this time. It is an added luggage and distrac-tion. I’ll be brutally frank. Jinky does not know. Who-ever told her to run should be crazy. A good heart, and good looks, are not all that you need to kick yourself into politics. Jinky is having the time of her life collecting Birkins when all of a sudden you ask her to run, and at a time when her husband Manny is going to a big fight and coming off a big loss, ain’t that crazy stuff?

So going back to Manny. So he is fighting Marquez and he is still holed up in Gensan? Oh boy. Knowing Marquez, he should be high on his training by now. He’d probably gulped down gal-lons of his own urine and danced the Gangnam an-tidote to perfection. He’s probably placed a memory chip on his arm for it to flick counterpunches automati-cally like a woodpecker.

December is not too far. Manny knows.Should know.Must know.Walang sisihan.

Manny Knows

Tiger to close out season

DIGOS City has earned the rights to host the biggest

annual spectacle of the Philippine Basketball As-sociation next year.

On Wednesday, PBA Commissioner Chito Sa-lud announced that Digos City will be the host of the PBA All-Star Weekend on May 1-6 next year.

The offer to host the All-Stars was broached by the local government of Davao del Sur led by

Governor Douglas Ca-gas and son Congressman Mark Cagas.

Digos thus becomes only the second Mind-anao venue to host the week-long PBA specta-

cle after Tubod in Lanao del Norte also hosted the event at the Mindanao Civic Center in 2012 be-fore Boracay had its turn in 2011.

This year’s All-Stars was hosted by Laoag City in Ilocos.

“We already have an agreement with Gov. Douglas Cagas, who made the announcement that they will host the PBA All-Stars during our pro-vincial game there last week,” said Salud.

“Because of that, we no longer entertain any offer until such time they say they cannot do it.”

Last season, the PBA All-Star Weekend was

held in Laoag City.Digos City is a regu-

lar venue for PBA out-of-town games. The most recent visit by the league came last Saturday, when the Meralco Bolts defeat-ed Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, 95-88.

Meantime, Salud re-vealed that with the con-tinued influx of top young talent into the PBA, the league has decided to re-tain the Rookies-Sopho-mores-Juniors versus Vet-erans format for the 2013 All-Star Weekend.

Salud announced the All-Stars details at a press conference Wednesday at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.

The league has also

decided to bring back the Legends Game, where top players from yesteryears are teamed with current stars as a treat prior to the main game.

In the Laoag All-Stars, top talents from the orig-inal incarnation of the SMART-Gilas Pilipinas national team made up most of the RSJ squad along with eventual Rookie of the Year win-ner Paul Lee. This year’s squad is expected to fea-ture top rookies June Mar Fajardo of Petron, Cliff Hodge of Meralco, Chris Ellis of Ginebra, and Cal-vin Abueva of Alaska. (With reports from wires)

Digos nails PBA All-Star hostingBy Neil Bravo

Chito Salud

PBA revises Gilas program

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